DOINGS OF THE
Tueaday, March 31.
WwhingtoD, March 31.-The alleged
tendency of the general government to
override the pjwers 0, th ttate ol the
Lnion and to Ignore the restrictions of
marka by Teller, ol Colorado, in the
senate today. Ma declared that there
had grown up a practice of atu.ror.ting
to justify any act by the Federal author,
jtlee, whether there wm authority for
"or not, so long aa it wa ascribed to
the public interest.
The remainder of the day was devot
ed to discussion of the Benton dam bill
on Ita merit. Heyburn and Borah,
both of Idaho, took opposing aides.
Heyburn oppoelng and Borah favoring.
Heyburn declared he would maintain
hii position, even if sat if fled that by to
doing he would imperil hii teat in the
senate. No vote had been reached
when the senate adjourned.
Washington, March 81 After hav-
ing undergone many changea, the para-
urn reiaung to tne bureau of forestry
waa Anally pissed by the bouae of rej-
caeuiauvea.
An amendment by Humphreys, of
Wisconsin, to increase by $163,480 the
apppropriation for soil investigations
provoked a long debate. After many
five-minute speeches had been made fur
and agaluat the proposition, it was car
ried, 100 to 88.
The bill was laid aside less than half
completed, and the house adjourned.
Monday, March 30.
Washington. March SO. The Oojec
tion of the president to the construc
tion of dams across navigable rivers by
private companies, eicept when the
publio Interest la fully guaranteed, fig
ured in the consideration of a house
bill in the senate today. This bill pro-
pott to authoria the Benton Water
oompany to construct .a dam across
Snake river, in the state of Washing
ton.
The urgent deficiency bill, appropri
ating $2,000,000 for armor, etc., for
vessels heretofore authorized, was
paused. On motion of Warren, $60,000
waa added for mileage of officers and
contract surgeons of the army when au
thorized by law.
A bill regulating the sale of liquor in
licensed Uveins in Alaska was passed.
It forbids gambling in places in which
liquor ia sold. Ferkins said that in
the dayi of prohibition in Alaska there
was much smuggling and illicit selling
of liquor.
Washington, March 30. Charge of
a serious nature against Gl fiord Pin
chot, chief of the forestry bureau, were
made today In the house by Smith, of
California, and Mondell, of Wyoming,
during consideration of the agricultural
bill. Smith accused htm of entering
into a secret understanding with the
city of Loa Angeles, with a view to se
curing to the city valuable water rights
In the Owens river valley, as against
the Interest! of private parties having
prior claims. Mondell denounced him
lor. as tie charged, illegally paying me
expenses of forest omclals in attending
conventions in me vv6ti, in wuicn me
government had no part, and alao for
spending government money to boost
bis bureau in the newspapers. Mr.
Pincbot was defended by Pollard, of
Nebraska, and Ncott, of Kansas.
Smith, of California, denounced the
forestry service for attempting to ac
quire the Owens valley in California.
Saturday, March 28.
Washington, March 28 But little
progress was made In the house today
in considerlngg the agricultural bill.
The dismission dwelt mainly ujKin the
proposed esahlishmentof Federal stand
ards of cotton grades and Fedeial in
spection of grains. Mr. Crumpacker
and others opposed a section providing
for the establishment of Federal labor
atories for examination of samples of
aeed or grain.
The clause of the section providing
that the report made as result of such
laboratorical examinations "shall aerve
an a basis for the fixing of definite
grades, aucn grades to become the offi
cial standards for the grading of grains'
was stricken out on a point of order
after a lively debate.
The section was then adopted as
amended.
Friday, March 27.
Washington, Mar.ih 27. The Aid
rich bill was paatd by the senate to
day by a vote of 42 to 16, in the main
rarty vote. Previous to the taking
of the vote on the Al.lrich bill, a vote
was taken on the Bailey substlute au
authorising the government, instead of
the national banks, to issue the emer
gency circulation for which the bill
provides. The vote on the substitute
stood 42 to 13, and thii vote was en
tirely pcrtisan, even I Follette east
ing his vote with the Republicans. The
till has been tefore the senate since
January 2. The vote was not reported
until after 6 p. in. anil the galleries
were practically empty.
As passed, the bill provides for not
more than $500,000,000 of emergency
ourrency to he issued to national banks
Fleet to Visit New Zealand.
Washington, April 1. It has prac
tically been decided by the Navy de
partment that the Atlantic battleship
fleet shall make a short visit to Auck
land, N. Z., on its way from Samoa to
Sydney, Australia. There is an ample
supply of good coal at the New Zealand
port, and a stop there would afford an
excellent oppoitnnlty to fill the bunk
ers of the ships for the long trip to the
Philippines and Japan, and also to
ahow the appreciation of the United
States government for the prompt and
cordial invitation received.
Test Commodity Clause.
Washington, April 1. The govern
ment will not prosecute for failure to
comply with the "commodity clause"
of the railroad rate law, ponding a de
cision of the Supreme court. The pres
ident has directed the Department of
Justice to bring a test case as soon as
possible after it become effective, the
law forbidding anyrailroad to transport
any article or commodity other than
timber produced by euch road, or in
which It is Interested.
SIXTIETH CONGRESS
upon the deposit by them of state,
oounty and municipal bonda to be an
"j um secretary of the treasury.
The ourretrv ia to ha Imhi -.ok .
view o: secaiing an equiublt distribn-
uu ul uim currency over the United
mates, ana In accordance with the nn
impaired capital and surplus of bsnks
in each slate. Hanks are to pav for
iuib emergency circulation oi.e-half of
one per cent a month during the brut
our months it is circulated and after
ward three-quarter of one per cent a
month.
The bill provides that national banks
nail not pay less than 1 per cent on
government funds deposited with them
am amenueu UKiay, me Mil carries
an important change in banking laws
relating to bank reserves. Ibis amend
merit pro? idee that of the IS percent
reaerve required to be kept by banks
not in reaerve cities, four-fifths Is to be
kept in the vaults it the banks, and of
that amount one-third oan be In the
form of securities of the kind required.
Wahington, March 27. The house
parsed 360 piivate pension bills, at the
rate of ten a minute.
An urgent deficiency appropriation
bill appropriating 13,000,000 for carry
ing on the work of the Washington
naval gun factory was passed.
Thursday, March 28.
Washington, March 28. Although
the senate met today with the Inten
tion of devoting the entire time of the
session to the ourrency bill, the cre
dentials of Senator-elect John Walter
8 nith, of Maryland, early became the
subject of a discussion that consumed
nearly four hours and destroyed all
bepe of disposing of the currency bill
before adjournment today.
The result of the delate on the pro
priety of swearing In Mr. Smith was a
vote of 34 to 39 in favor of receiving
his credentials and leaving the regu
larity of bis election to be considered
by the committee on privileges and
elections, and by the senate later.
Washington, March 26. More shafts
of sarcasm and invective were aimed at
President Roosevelt In the Ihouse of
representatives today. In one of the
most scathing arraignments of a public
officer ever heard in that chamber,
lieall, of Texas, charged the president
with having been guilty of "a disgust
ing usurpation of power," not only
toward the national legislature, but
the judiciary as well.
When the agricultural appropriation
bill was read for amendment today,
Macon, of Arkansas, endeavored to
have inserted as a new provision his
bill prohibiting the dealing in futures
in agricultural products, but the chair
sustained a point of order against it.
Scott, of Kansas, in charge of the bill,
expressed his entire sympathy with the
proposition which, however, he insist
ed should be acted on independently.
On a point of order the several new
stations were stricken from the bill.
These stations were proposed to be lo-
ciated in Texas, Ksneaa, Virginia,
Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Iodi-
Wednesday, March 25.
Washington, March 25. A good deal
of progress was made by the senate to
day in disposing of proposed amend
ments to the Aldrich currency bill. It
was evident throughout the tension that
the bill will be perfected in the form
approved by the finance committee, as
no proposition that failed to receive
the sanction of the committee received
any snlietantial support. The amend
ments repoitsd by the committee were
all adopted without opposition and
then one senator after another offeied
additional amendments which, except
in the canes of one proposed by Dupont
and one by Lodge, were voted down.
Washington, March 25. In the
course of a bitter denunciation of the
president, on the floor of the house of
representatives today, Stanley, of Ken
tucky, compared him with Alexander
Hamilton, whom he designated "an
obcnre adventurer," and both of
whom, be said, had profound con
tempt (or the constitution and display
ed everlasting impatience with its re
straints. The president was a man
who relished glamor and who liecame
intoxicated by applause. On the other
hand, he said, Mr. Bryan had the re
spect of the country as a statesman and
was trusted as a man.
When Scott, in charge of the agricul
tural appropriation bill, today sought
unanimous consent to limit to five
hour further debate on the bill, Sui
ter, of New York, objected. That ac
tion forced the house to a vote, and it
was agreed to confine general debate to
four hours instead of five.
The remainder of the session was de
voted to brief speeches by Griggs, of
Georgia, who gave notice of an amend
meont increasing by $100,000 the ap
propriation for the Investigation of
soils; by Bell, of Georgia, who favored
governmental aid to publio roads; K.I
lerlie, of South Carolnia, who also fa
vored i.vcreased appropriations for soil
investigation.
Bourne Awards Pnxe.
Washington, March 26. The prize
of 1, COO offered by Senator Bonrne, of
Oregon, to the author of the best writ
ten argument on the subject, "Why
Roosevelt Shnnld be Chosen for a Sec
ond Elective Term," has leen awarded
to Frank II. Notcrost, associate justice
of the Supreme court of Nevada. The
announcement that Justice Norcross
has won the big prixe was made to-lay.
Senator Bourne says that Justice Nor
cross' argument is an excellent piece of
work and tat it will be circulated and
widely published.
Favor Country's Ships.
Washington, March 26. The bouse
committee on Interstate and foreign
commerce agreed today to report favor
ably the senate resolutions to restrict
to vessels cf United Slates register the
transportation from the Unite.! Stale
to the Panama Canal tone of material
for the canal. The resolution author
itea the Isthmian Canal commission to
purchase or chart and operate vessels
of the United States for the transporta
tion d Cut Baotial and of canal mil.
.HELD FOR MURDER.
Formal Charge Filed Against Slayer
of Stevens.
San Francisco, March 27. In. Whan
Chang and Ming Wun Chun, the Co
rean patriots who elected to kill Dur
ham W. Slovene fur what they believed
to be treachery to the Hermit Kingdom,
were this morning charged with mur
der. They must face trial for their
,A In thi) fMl'tl oftHacltV. Held
in detention pending the struggle for
lile which the coursgeous diplomat
made, the two men were charged ou
the police blotter as soon as news of the
end waa conveyed to police headquar
ters. In Whan Chang, the Corean who
fired the shots which proved fatal to
Stevens, when Informed last night
st the jail of his victim's death, re-
eivJ the news without surprise and
with manifest delight. Since the day
of the shooting Chang has been ex
pressing the hope that Stevens' wounds
might prove fatal. Laet night, when
asked if be waa sorry for what he bad
done, Chang said: "No; I am glad.
He was no friend of Corea, and lie ia
better dead."
There ia a movement on foot among
the Japanese to erect a monument to
rttevens. Japanese commenced going
about among their fellow oountrymen
tbia morning broaching the idea and
suggesting that subscriptions be forth
coming. The proposition ia still in
the tentative stage, but, judging from
the feeling the Japanaee ahow toward
the dead American, there will be no
difficulty In bringing it to aooomplUh
ment. Whether the monument ahall
be elected in this city, in Tokio or in
Seoul, the theater of Stevens' services
to Japan, has not yet been decided.
CITY ROBBED WHOLESALE.
Immense Frauds Discovered In Chi
cago Water Department.
Chicago, March 27. An amating
system of robbery and graft, involving
city employes and big business firms,
and extending back through several
years, has been discovered in the water
department. Two employes, inoluding
a division bead, were removed, and 38
subordinate employes wtll be dis
charged. Some of them may be in
dicted.
Thinnuh tamnerint? with meters and
tr!e ooTinivance of city employes, seve
ral large corporations have defrauded
the rlty of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in water taxes. City employes
have sold meters to junk dealers and
bartered materials for drinks in sa
loons.
Supplies never used by the city were
purchased ostensibly for the water de
partment and then ueed by plumbers
in private hnsinesse.
The payrolls were padded with idlers
and incompetents. The force, which
originally numbered 200 men, was re
duced by Superintendent W. J. Mc-
Court, of the wster bureau, to 50.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Striking Alaaka Miners May Deatro)
Properly.
Seattle, Wash., March 27. Troops
have been ordered from Fort Seward,
at Haines, Alaaka, to preserve order at
the Treadwell mines, on Douglass
Island, where 800 miner have gone on
a strike. Tlte troops are due to arrive
at Treadwell early tomorrow morning,
and serious trouble is anticipated.
United States Marshal Shoup, who has
hist returned from Waiihington, lelt
for the scene of the trouble, on receipt
of dispatches from his chief deputy.
Tl e miners have threatened to blow
up the works If troops sre landed on
the island They stole 10 kegs of dy
namite today from the mine stores.
Colonel Grfen, In command ol one
company of the Tenth infantry, left
Haines tonight with a gatling gun, and
should reach the mines at an early hour
this morning. The other companies
stationed at Fort Seward have been or
dered to be in readiness lo reinforce the
first company if needed.
Just before his departure for Juneau
at 9 o'clock last night, Marshal Shoup
received a message from hia chief depu
ty that no serious disturbances have oc
curred, but trouble of a serious nature
is anticipated when the troops are land
ed on the island in the morning.
Bribery Charged.
San Francisco, March 27. Tonight
it was learned that the new grand jury
which today heard the testimony of
many of the witnesses who appeared
before the Oliver grand jury, when Pat
rick Calhoun, Tirey L. lord, George M
Abbott, ex-Mayor K. K. Scbmits and
Abraham Ruef were indicted on many
counts for bribery In the granting of
the United railroads trolley franchise,
have voted to bring three joint indict
ments for the same offenses against Cal
houn, Ford and Ruef. SchmlU is left
out of the new indictments."
Claims Right In Senate.
Pan Francisco, March 27. Superior
Judge Seawell today granted the Com
mercial Union Assurance company of
Great Britain a peremptory writ of
mandate against Insurance Commission
er E. Myron Wolfe, who has withheld
from the company a certificate authoris
ing It to transact fire and marine insur
ance business in this state. Mr. Wolfe
based his refusal on the ground that the
Commercial Union had illegally trans
ferred suite filed against the company
from the Superior court of this state to
the United Statea Circuit court.
Does Not Want Hill.
Berlin, March 27. The German gov
ernment has Informed President Roose
velt that Dr. David J. Hill, at present
American minister t The Hague, It
not acceptable to it aa ambassador at
Berlin. Charlemagne Tower, the pres
ent amhasaador, declined today to eith
er confirm or derv this statement.
From other sources ,t wa' learned that
the grounds are that Dr. Hill is not rep
reaentstive enough for the United States
to send to Germany.
More Wsrships to Haytl.
Washington, March 27. Two addi
tional war vessels were ordered to Hay
tl today following a conference of offi
cials of the State and Navy department.
The Des Moines already h 1 been sent
to the scene of the recent outbreak.
The two vessels dispatched today are
the gunboats Marietta and Paducah
toth of which have been at Guantana,
no, CnO, prtjio lor target practice.
CITY 18 DESTROYEDIHINTS TO CONGRESS
Heavy Earthquake Followed by
Fire la Mexico.
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Thirty-four Ehcck Recorded Within
Twenty-four Hmrs at Mexican
National Obitrvatory.
Mexico, City, Marrh 2S.-Chilapa, a
town of 16,000 inhabitants in the state
of Guerrero, ha leu shaken by an
earthquake and bcrued.
The shocks, two in number, occurred
early lant evening and were followed
by .fire, which originating in a doten
places among the tumbling buildings,
joined In a conflag'ttiou that iwept the
town.
Governor Pamlan Florea, chief exec
tit.e of the stats of (inerrero, lm t
at present in this city, bad at 9 o'clock
this evening just received the first offi
cial advo -s frm CI, i la pa. The mes
sage says that, althoigh a number of
the buildings of th town weie leveled
to the ground, no lives were lost. The
polioe quarters and the mayor's office
were destroyed and the jail badly dam
aged. Great fismres were made In the
streets and open fields.
In the neighboring town of Ometepec
the jail was destroyed and 30 prisoners
made their escape. Troops are guard
ing the public buildings that are stand
ing in Chi laps, but perfect order pre
vails. Later returns from Chllapa thow,
howevrr, that the dispatch received by
Governor Floret wai ultra conservative.
The town was practically destroyed,
though no lives were lost. Most of the
buildings that wert leveled were resi
dences.
Thirty-four shocks have been record
ed during the past 24 hours by the seis
mograph at the national observatory at
Tabuyaca. Most of these shockt, how
ever, were Imperceptible except to the
delicat needle of the instrument.
NORTH POLE IS SHIFTING.
Making America Warmer and Siberia
Colder.
Victoria, B. C, March 28. That the
north pole ia shifting and the climate
is changing, making the Northern terri
tories of this continent warmer and
Norther Asia colder, the theory to
support which Most B. Cotworth, of
York, England, nas been gathering evi
dence in Alaska, from where be has re
turned on his way to England.
A curious effect ' this change, it ia
said, may be a number of boundary
difficulties between Canada and the
United States, especially in the Eastern
port'on. This boundary is fixed by
latitude, and if the north pole is really
moving, the latitude change also, ten
dering it advlrable that the boundary
be speedily marked everywhere by
nermanent monuments, where it baa
not yet been so marked already.
The movement, Cotworth says, is
caused by the Immense accumulations
cf ice along the Canadian shore of the
Arctic ocean, and especially in Baffin'
land and Greenland.
MINERS HELD IN CHECK.
Peace Committee Restrain! Strikers
From Rioting.
Juneau, Alaska, March 28. Although
there has been no violence as yet at the
Treadwell mines, the 800 men on
strike are only prevented from making
an outbreak by the commission of 20
men from the union who have been
called the peace committee.
The tension is so bign that the least
word will bring about trouble. The
union leaders have tked the men to
refrain from drinking, but Idleness la
irksome and the men are chafing nnder
the delay of a settlement, especially in
view of the fact that the oompany has
declared that never again will there be
any of the present leaders employed by
tne company.
Cannot Deport Bignami.
San Francisco, March 28. Paul Big
nami, the anarchist arrested yesterday
for inciting to assassination and to de
structioo of the fleet, when examined
before Acting Commissioner of Immi
gration Crawford, stated hat he tame
to this country from Italy in 1904. If
thlc ii a fact it will plae him onteide
the Fedeial deportation laws relating to
anarchists. Mi. Crawford has wired to
Boston to see if there Is any record of
him there. More anarchists will be
arrested in the tint few dsys in the
Latin quarter ensrgea with vagrancy.
Find More Gold In Alaaka.
Seattle, Wash., March 28. A special
cable to the Times frm Valdet, Alas
ka, states that men just in from the
Gulkana diggings, towards which the
latest stampede i directed, report an
other big strike there. The claim own
ers have been working a tunnel all
winter, and they sre now In ground
said to be running 120 to the pan. On
the strength of this newt, Peter Mona
hsn, original locator of the New Gol
conda, and owner of Its best claims,
spent 11,500 for loe, treating, when
be herd the report.
Tourist Rates to the Coast.
6t. Paul, Minn., March 28. The
passenger ofTicislt of the Northern and
Pacific and Soo roads will make special
summer tourist ra'es of Q0 for the reg
ular trip from th Twin Cities to Seat
tle, Tacoma, Portland and other North
Pacific Coast points. This puts the
northern line on s par with the south
ern lines, which hate granted special
rates to California points. The regular
trip from Chir(r to North Coast cities
via the Twin Cities will be t72.60.
Great Strike it Ordered.
Kansas City. Mrh 28. Thirty five
thousand member of the United Mine
workers of Awerct, employed in dis
tricts Noe. 4. 21 I'l 25, comprising
Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, will go on strike April 1,
following a decin reached at meet
ings of division vice president held
bare today. 1
President Says Certain New Laws
Shrold Be Passed.
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Allow Traffic Agreements Among the
Railroads Amend Anti-Trust
Law Revise Tariff.
Washington, March 26. Insisting
that certain important measures should
tie passed by the present congiess, Pres
ident Kooeevelt Bent a special message
to both houses yesterday.
The message in part follows:
Chlid labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. At least a
model child labor bill should be passed
for the District of Columbia.
I renew my recommendation for the
erg' liability law, drawn to conform to
the recent decision of the Supreme
court. Within the limits Indicated by
the court the law tbould be made thor
ough and comprehensive, and the pro
tection it affords should affect every
clasa of employe to which the power ol
the congresa ran extend. In addition
to a liability law protecting the em
ployes of common carriers the govern
ment should show its faith by enacting
a further law giving compensation to
its own employes for injury or death
inourred in Its service.
I also nrge that action be taken along
the line of the recommendations I have
already made concerning injunctions in
labor disputes. No temporary restrain
ing order should be isaued by any court
without notices and the petition for a
permanent injunction upon which such
temporary injunction has been issued
should be heard by the court issuing
the same within a reasonable time
say not to exceed a week or thereabou
I again call attention to the urgent
need of amending the interstate com
merce law and especially the anti trust
law, along the linea indicated in my
last message. The Interstate commerce
law should be amended so aa to give
railroads the right to make traffic
agreements, subject to these agree
ments being approved by the Interstate
Com mere commission and published
In all details.
In addition to the reasons I have al
ready urged on your attention t has
now beome Important that there should
be an amendment of the anti-trust
law because of. the uncertainty aa to
how this law affects combinations
among laboring men and farmers, if the
combination hat agiy tendency to re
strict interstate commerce. All of
these combinations, If and while exist
ing for and engaged in the promotion
of innocent and proper purposes, should
be recognised as legal, as I have repeat
edly pointed out.
The time haa eome when we should
prepare for a revision of the tariff
This should be, and Indeed must be
preceded by careful Investigation. It
is peculiarly the province of the house
of representatives to originate a tariff
bill and to determine upon ila terms
and this I fully realise, yet it aeema to
me that before the close of this session
provision should be made for collecting
full material which will enable the
congress elected next fall to act iuanie
diately after it comes into existence.
Ample provision should be made for
a permanent waterway commission
with whatever power is required to
rrake it I ff active. The congress should
reali e in fullest fashion the fact that
the subject of the conservation of our
natuial resources with which this com
mission deals ia literally vital for the
future of the nation.
Numerous bills granting water power
rights on navigable stresms have been
introduced. None of them gives the
government the right to make a reason'
able charge for the valuable privilege
granted. Nor la any definite time limit
set, as should always be done In such
cases, and I shall be obliged therefore,
In accordance with the policy stated in
a recent message, to veto any water
power bill which doe not provide for
a time limit and the collection of a just
and reasonable charge.
Many Traitors In China.
Pekln, March 26. Seven men arrest
ed recently charged with trafficking in
governmental tecreta have been found
guilty and sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment. This punishment is
aenerallv considered to be worse than
death. It would appear that the con
spiracy against the government is fairly
widespread, and the revelations nave
considerably alarmed the court. No
lees than 30 important persons are now
being held in custody and it is reported
that the chief of police of the forbidden
tlty it among them.
Hayathi Explains Csse.
Tokio. March 26. Foreign Minister
HaTashl mad a atatement today in the
diet in reference to the Tatsu Maru in
cident. He wished to say emphatically
that the Chinese central government
bad shown a friendly attitude toward
Japan and a desire for the continuance
of friendly relation by conceding an
ample reparation. Concerning alleged
anti-Japanese feelnig by the central
government of China, he said he was
unable to discover the slightest evi
dence of unfriendliness and dcubted ita
existence.
Cannot Dsport an Anarchist.
San Francisco, March 26 Joseph
Zaboskl, an allege.! anarchist arrested
by Detective Goff recently, baa been
given liberty by the Immigration com
missioner. The Inability of the depart
ment to find the date of bis arrival In
this country was a bar to denortalton.
The poiice claim to have located the
headquarters of the foreign anarchist
in the Italian quarters snd sre contem
plating a raid that will cleanse the
place before the fleet arrives.
Kill OrT Anarchist Papers.
Trenton. N. J.. March 26. A bill
waa Introduced in the house today mak
ing it a misdemeanor to publish anar
chist newspapers. The bill is aimeo
at a Peterson paper recently excluded
from the mails.
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ville Livingston I-eipli, arlt-ntlst Hiul
luveHtlgator. of Aiil'iirn, 11. I. To ft
to tlila pluce, wtiL-Ii la u bind of grc.i'
u4ttUl, JfU li..tV I'Ui i' ft.ll IO .Hit' '.
the other of the polea. and quite w'l!t-
tut knowing It. your khlp uiiiy pi Into
an o'iiliig na If Into a tf.i-IiL'lit til"1'1'
and come upon a connive Inn, I. iiihv
tliere, It limy lie tlmt you'll iieer conic
back. The profi-Kor doesn't any much
about Unit.
Arctic explorera who have never re
turned from the bind of Ice, mil) Imp,
are now tailing around In the aea th it
llltea the luiu-r aide of the earth. Th-'Y
may have found a port und droin.l
nchor ami gone ONhore.
1'rof. I.euch la very sincere. lb-
talka earnestly and with eiitliuluMi.
"The powilhirttle of a land limlde
the earth waa first brought to my atten
tion when I picked up a gwxle on the
ahorea of the great hikes. The geode
3 Ti the?:!, it! .ftj.-pn"' !'. '
atone but when broken ia found to lie
hollow and coated with cryatala. The
earth la only a larger form of a geode
and the law that created the geode hi
Ita hollow form, undoAhtedly fnahloued
the earth In the same way.
MIr." Kane, the Arctic explorer,
found evldencea of animal life that
could not le accounted for. These, I
am convinced, came from the unex
plored country, reached only from tl-.r
polea, whence come the northern
lights."
Undergraduates of Brown Univer
sity, with a scientific turn of mind,
find time to drop In at Prof. I.eacb'a.
They are always cordially rc-elved and
sent away with something to think
about.
Aa a matter of fact, this Inner world
theory a exploited by Prof. I .each la
an old one. It came Into particular
prominence early in the present cen
tury, when a mau named Slum, or
Sliiima, a resident of Cincinnati, pub
llcly advocated It so peralatently that
It mine to be known and ridiculed nt
"Sims' Mole."
"The Crulae of the Port Kingston,'
by V. Kalph Hall ('nine, in addition to
describing the great earthquake and
tolling something of the history and
literature of Jamaica, deals emphatical
ly with such ijui-Htloua ns mixed mnr
rlages In the Weal Indies, the auggext
ed f jHton of white and black racea. the
negro marriage, the "goddesa In choco-
late," the pagan and Hiis-rtltioim be
I left of the negro, and the strong cast'
feeling annum the people.
In au article on "The Art of Conver
sation" In Ilarver'a Weekly the writer
tells this delicious anecdote of Carlyle
Slid Tennyson which nut never he told
too often. All those literary pUgi'liiM
who have wandered through the Car
lyle house on the Thames embankment
will remember with what pleasure the
old Scotch keeer retells day after day:
"In this room It waa that Mr. Carlyle
snd Mr. TennysoD spent a long even
ing, each ainoklti' his pipe and neither
of them HHitklu' a word. And after
tbreo hours, when Mr. Tennysouv rose
to go, Mr. Carlyle said to hltn. it's a
grand evenln' we've spent, Alfred, a
grand evenln',' mid Mr. Tennyson he
Just said, too, 'A grand evenln',' and
went out."
A book by Ir. John Imuran yuncW
euboa upon hypnotism ns an agent for
reforming character and curing certain
Ilia of ta' flesh Is to be published soon.
This Issik will recall an experiment
tried some year ago in one of the large
universities In which a erfe-tly lion
eat man was hypnotized nod the exeii
mentors tried In vain to -oiiisi him to
commit a forgery. This and other e
pertinent tend to confirm the view
which Ir. Qunckenlioa holds t lint the
determining factor In hypnotism la not
th will of the operator but the char
acter of the aiibJot. "It Is not the
111 of auother that rvfortna and regen
erate. It Is not ,K compelling wor
thy action. It la the free man come to
Ida own assistance."
'The Hoyal Family by Pen and Cant
era la a suinptiioua record or rue r.n-
gllsh reigning house extending over
period of forty-two years. One of the
prettiest portraits of the Queen Is that
In which she la holding the prevent
yuen of Norway In her anna aa a
baby, the cap the Queen I wearing In
accord with the customa of the day rul
ing ewiieclally lfomlng. The thing
that la esjieclally noticeable all through
the aeries of portraits Is that the
Queen has changed so little with the
year. Aa one of her bridesmaids de
scribed It, calling at Ma rlbo rough
House on the silver wedding day of th
then Prime snd Princess of Wales.
We were all middle-aged women, but
the Princess looked aa young and pret
ty aa ahe did on ber wedding day."
I had a really scientific man to aee
me tbe other day, snd In the course of
our Investigation of a point we hail
In common It wa necessary to waan
out a bottle. The bottle wa empty
It wa a round, wabbly vesel, and h
bad to hold It under the water a long
time so tflat It might get full enough
of wster to hold It down. I ssked him
why he did not fill It with water first,
and be laughed and a!d lie did not
think of It- And that (ears out my con
tention that It I not because a nun Is
as "clever ss paint" that he there
fore grasps "the common sene of com
mon things. " G. H. It. Iiabbs In Fry'i
Magaxln.
rsiMl la Lla.lt.
T purchased these sliow here lai
month, and I want to g-t them ex
changed," began the mau In the de
partment store. "You'll notice that fJ,
petent leather haa cracked."
"Oh, yea," exclaimed the clem woen
he bed xamlnfl tbe V-ee. "They r
old Stock. Tbe pstent fits prohub.
H-lreA" Harper Weeki.
A writT In the Atchison Globe tella
of his experience aa a tyiottcr to a
Mlasourlaii editor back In the sixth.
At first a circuit rlil. r In the bit. k
wissla, then a preacher who built mid
paid for his own church, tula unlntie
iiuu Una..) (Hiu.nt u p,'ij.!.:u '..!. r.
from which he issued a nit called the
L uou of States.
It waa to this establishment that I
ami Iny brother were taken one day, to
I made printers out of. for at '. and
I- we were gel ting too old to be longer
idle.
In the cirurse of time the one c-oiiim-
tent printer was ills, barged, the er.br
Is-lng of the oplu.on that he and we
two ho) a could niaiiiige the establish
ment very well. It waa a large, eight-
column paper, and for month we were
Irlveu to tyix-M-ltliig aa alave were
Irlveu to oottou picking. The 1'nloii of
States waa horribly printed, ami we
hoya blushed for Ita npxiirance.
Our regular tusk wita two column a
day. If we fulled to accomplish this,
wr er.ti.r-t rt v-,;:! -y It? it;?- tf two
niKllea. I luring the long summer,
when boy should have been In swim
ming bole instead of printing nffliv.
we frequently tolleil until midnight
with the weary task.
Jim, Is.lng an Industrious lad. gener
ally finished by (I, and then he I si I out
his lazy brother. Hornet I mea be would
read copy, at other keep away the
filea wllh a fan. and frequently he
would finish th work himself and al
low tin? laggard to go to tied.
Politic were very warm In those
dsys, and the editor often worked the
hand press with a pistol atrsiiwd to
bla person, tin several invasion shots
were tired Into the office by passing
deaperadoe. and the editor always ap
peared promptly at the front door to
return them.
line day a circus cnine to town, and
tho ed'tor refused a flfty-ilol'ar cash
advertisement, lie vigorously attacked
the allow', and advised Ills readers In
the name of decency to keeit away. Itnt
an linn se crowd greeted the -lrcus.
and among the most Interested -ta-twra
were the two young romiNtaitor
from the I'nlon of State ollh-o. The
clown iniide great sport of the pnHT
and Its editor, and when the audience
cheered loudly at bla fuu, we felt
crushed.
If It I a credit to a man to be a
slave to hard work, we rheerfuly hear
testlimiiiy to the greatnes of the editor
of the I'nlon of States. To our knowl
edge he never bad an amusement In
bla life, nor sn idle hour. In the fnll
he went to the tiinlMr and cut hla own
wts)d. lie alway bad a stable full of
horses, and more (s-k than many of
the farmer. These were fed by the
comsisltor of the pajier. If a sol
dier' widow needed help to husk her
rorir, he sent u lsy to do It Once or
twh-e a year he tisk us to camp meet-.
Ing to take care of the preacher'
horse and help him sing.
lnirlitg the busy seasons on his
farm we dropped corn or rode horse
on file th reshlng flisir. Hurliig these
time the I'nlon of State olfU-e wa
closed, and when the force returned
there was great crowding lo get the
paper out on time. It waa a busy life,
with is) leisure and no fun.
'I all anil Their t'ne.
cat never actually wag Its
tall.
Why should It when It can purr 7 Hut,
nevertheless, It seem to aerve the
same piirsise lu n-rmlltlng a tempor
ary expenditure of ex-esa nervous
energy l.en the animal is under great
almln. l-'or Instance, when carefully
stalking a bird or a man, aa In the case
of a kitten or a lion, the tip of the fnll
I never still for a nionieiit -ever curl
ing and uncurling. We may compare
thl to the nervous tapping of tbe foot
or fingers In a mint. When an angry
lion la roaring It loudest, bla tall will
frequently lash from aide to aide, giv
ing rle among the aliclenta to the ts
llef that he scourged bis body with a
hook or thorn which grew from the end
of the tall. When a Jaguar walka along
a slender hough, or a bouse cat ieram
hulntes the top of a hoard fence, we
perceive another Important function "f
the tall -that of an aid In balancing.
A a tight rope performer away hi
h., so the feline shifts It tall to pre
serve the center of gravity. The tall of
a sheep weins to lie of little use to Ita
owner, although In the breed which I
found In Asia Minor and on the table
lands of Tartary this organ function
a a storehouse of fat, and sometime
reachi-a a weight of ,10 pound. When
viewed from Is-blnd. the animal wern
all tall, and when this stiis-ndagrf
reaches Its full slr.e It Is eltlier fasten
ed between two sticks which drag on
th ground, or It Is suatieiided on two
small wheels.
Australian f 'arloaltle.
There are some nirloii thing In cen
tral Australia. Ike Ainadeiia In the
dry season la merely a tie-t of a:t.
Ayers rs k, alsuit five mile round,
rise abruptly from the deaert. For
merly vast rivers flowed here, snd the
(flprotodon, a wombat like creature
worthy of It name and four times a
large as s kangaroo, fhshrlahed on the
plain. Now there are hardly any ani
mals to be seen. The fish live In water
hole of the hills until the floods wash
them down to the valleys. At the end
of the wet aesaoo the water frog fill
theniaelve with water, roll themselves
In the mud and He low till the next
rains, which may not come for two
year Meanwhile the provident frog,
like the "iiiousie'' of Itols-rt Hums,
may have the misfortune to furnish a
drink to a thirsty black. The natives
also get water from the roota of tri-.
They sre In the "totem" stage and
revere certain plants or animals whl h
protect them. Men of one group can
only marry women from another single
group.
Esrllrairat.
"Hera," said the drsmatlst, "we here
a butband who love bla wife and a
wife who love her husband."
"Welir
"How am I to v,ntrtH't a drama
from (uch material!" LuIivUle Coif
rler-Juuraai.