CHAPTER lit—(Coktikubd.1
So soon as our first hearty greetings
' Were o.ver, I proceeded to ascertain how
the last year had treated Carriston. I
was both delighted and astonished at
the great change for the better which
had taken place in his manner, no less
than his appearance. He looked far
more robust; he seemed happier,bright
er—altogether more like ordinary hu
manity. Not only had he greeted me
with almost boisterous glee, but dur
ing our drive through the wonderful
scenery he was in the gayest spirits
and full of fun and anecdote. I con
gratulated him heartily upon the
marked improvement in his health,
both mentally and physically.
“Yes, I am much better,” he said.
“I followed a part of your advice—gave
up moping, tried constant change of
scene, interested myself in many more
. things. I am quite a different man.”
“No supernatural visitations?” I
asked, anxious to learn that hie cure in
that direction was complete.
• * His face fell. He hesitate^ a second
before answering.
“No—not now,” he said. "I fought
against the strange; feeling, and be
lieve have got rid of it—at least I hope
so.”
I said no more on the subject. Car
riston plunged into a series of vivid
and mimetic descriptions of the vari
eties of Scotch character which he had
met with during his stay. He depicted
his experiences so amusingly that I
laughed heartily for many a mile.
“But why the change in your name?”
I asked, when he paused for a moment
in his merry talk. ,
He blushed, and looked rather
ashamed. “I scarcely like to tell you;
you will think my reason so absurd.”
“Never mind. I don’t judge you by
♦the ordinary standard.”
“Well, the fact is, my cousin is also
in Scotland. I feared if I gave my true
name at the hotel at which I stayed on
my way here, he might by chance see
it, and look me up in these wild
■ regions.”
"Wen, ana what u ho dun"
‘‘I can’t tell you. I hate to know I
feel like it. But I have always, per
haps without cause, been afraid of him
—and this .place is horribly lonely.”
Now that I understood the meaning
of his words I thought the' boy must
be joking; but the grave look on his
face showed me he was never further
from merriment.
“Why, Carriston,” I cried, “you are
positively ridiculous about your cousin.
You can’t think the man wants to mur
f der you.”
“I don’t know what I think. I am
saying things to you which I ought not
to say; but every time I meet him I
feel he hates me, and wishes me out of
the world.”
“Between wishing and doing, there Is
a great difference. I dare say all this
is fancy on your part.”
“Perhaps so. Anyway, Cedi Carr is
as good a name up here as Charles Car
riston, so please humor my whim and
say no more about it.”
4s it made no difference to me by
what name be chose to call himself
I dropped tjie subject. I knew of old
that some of his strange prejudices
were proof against anything I could do
to remove them. At last we reached
our temporary abode. It was a sub
stantial, low-built house,' owned and
inhabited by a thrifty middle-aged
widow, who, although well-to-do so far
as the simple ideas of her neighbors
went, was nevertheless always willing
„to add to her resources by accommo
dating such stray tourists as wished to
bury themselves for a day or two in
solitude, or artists who, like .our
selves, preferred to enjoy the beauties
of nature undisturbed by the usual eb
bing and flowing stream of sight-seers.
As Carriston aoserted, the accommo
dation, if homely, was good enough for
two single men; the fare was plentiful
and our rooms were the picture of
cleanliness. After a cursory inspection
I felt sure that I could for a few weeks
make myself very happy in these quar
ters.
I had not been twenty-four hours in
the house before I found out one reason
for the great change in the better in
, Charles Carriston’s demeanor; knew
why his step was lighter, Sis eye
brighter, his voice gayer, and his
whole bearing altered. Whether the
reason was a subject for congratula
tion cr not I could not as yet say. .
The boy was in love; in love as only
- a passionate, romantic, imaginative
v nature can be; and even then only
once in a lifetime. Heedless, head
strong, impulsive, and entirely his’own
master, he had given his very heart
and soul into the keeping of a woman.
IV.
HAT a man of Car
r i s t o n’s rank,
breeding, and re
finement, should
meet his fate with
in the walls of a
lonely farm-house,
beyond the Trcs
sachs, seems fn
credible. One
would scarcely ex
pect to find among
•such humble surroundings a wife suit
able to a man of his stamp. And yet
when I saw the woman who had won
him, I neither wondered at the con
quest nor did I blame him for weak
ness.
I made the great discovery on the
morning after my arrival. Eager tc
taste the freshness of the morning aii
1 rose betimes and went tm a shorl
; stroll. I returned, and whilst standing
at the door of the house, was positively
startled by the beauty of a girl who
passed me and entered, as If she were
a regular inhabitant of the place. Not
a rosy Scotch lassie, such an one would
expect to And Indigenous to the eoil;
but a slim graceful girl with dedicate
classical features. A girl with a mass
of knotted light hair, yet with the ap
parent anomaly, dark eyes, eye-lashes
and eyebrbws—a combination which, to
my mind, makes a style of beauty rare;
irresistible, and dangerous above all
others. The features which filled the
exquisite oval of her face were refined
and faultless. Her complexion was
pale, but its pallor in no way suggested
anything save perfect health. To cut
my enthusiastic description short, I
may at once say it has never been my
good fortune to cast my eyes on a
lovelier creature than this young girl.
Although her dress was of the
plainest and simplest description, no
one could have mistaken her for a ser
vant; and much as I admire the bonny,
healthy Scotch country lassies, I felt
sure that the mountain air had never
reared a being of this ethereal typo.
As eho passed me, I raised my hat in
stinctively. ■ She gracefully bent her
golden head, and bade me a quiet but
unembarrassed good-morning. My eyes
followed her until she vanished at the
end of the dark passage which led to
the back of the house.
Even during the brief glimpse I en
joyed of this fair unknown, a strange
idea occurred to me. There was a re
markable likeness between her deli
cate features and those, scarcely less
delicate, of Carriston. This resem
blance may have added to the interest
the girl’s appearance awoke in my
mind. Anyway, I entered our sitting
room, and, a prey to curiosity and per
haps hunger, awaited with much .im
patience the appearance of Carriston—
and breakfast.
The former arrived first. Generally
speaking, he was afoot long before I
was, but this morning we had reversed
the usual'order of things. As soon as
I saw him I cried:
“Carrlston, tell me at once who is the
lovely girl I met outside. An angel,
with dark eyes and golden hair. Is
she staying here like ourselves?”
A look of pleasure flashed Into his
eyes—a look which pretty well told 'me
everything. Nevertheless, he answered
as carelessly as If such lovely women
were as common to the mountain side
as rocks and branches: v
“I expect you mean Miss Roiwan; a
niece of our worthy landlady. She lives
with her.”
“She cannot be Scotch with such a
face and eyes.”
“Half and half. Hei1 father was
called an Englishman; but was, I bei
lieve, of French extraction. They say
the name was originally Rohan."
Carrlston seemed to have made close
inquiries as to Miss Rowan's parent
age.
“But what brings her here?” I asked.
“She has nowhere else to go. -Rowan
was an artist. He married a sister ol
our hostess, and bore her away from
her native land. Some years ago she
died, leaving this one daughter. Last
year the father died, penniless, they
tell me, so the girl has since then lived
with her only relative, her aunt.”
“Well,” I said, “as you seem to know
all about her, you can introduce me by
and bye.”
“With the greatest pleasure, if Miss
Rowan permits,” said Carrlston. I was
glad to hear him give the conditional
promise with as much respect to the
lady’s wishes as it she had been a
duchess.
Then, with the li.berty a close friend
may take, I drew toward me a portfolio
full, I presumed, of sketches of sur
rounding scenery. To my surprise Car
riston jumped up hastily and snatched
it from me. “They are too bad to loot
at,” he said. As I struggled to regalr
possession, sundry strings broke, and
lo and behold! the floor was littered
not with delineations of rock, lake
and torrent, but with images of thi
fair young girl I had seen a few min
utes before. Full face, profile, three
quarter face, five, even seven-elghtl
face, all were there—each study per
fectly executed by Carrlston’s cleve;
pencil. I threw myself into a chair am
laughed aloud, whilst the young man
blushing and discomfited, quickly hud
died the portraits between the covers
just as a genuine Scotch lassie bore Ii
a plentiful and, to me, very welcomi
breakfast.
Carriston did favor me with hie com
pany during the whole of that day
but, in spite of my having come ti
Scotland to enjoy his society,.that day
from easily guessed reasons, was thi
only one in which I had undisputei
possession of my friend.
Of course I bantered him a great dea
on the portfolio episode. He took it ii
good part, attempted llttlCvgr no de
fense. Indeed, before night he hat
told me with all a boy’s fervor how hi
had loved Madeline Rowan at firs
sight, how in the short space of timi
which had elapsed since that meetin;
he had wooed her and won her; hov
good and beautiful she was; how hi
worshiped her; how happy he felt
how, when I went south he should ac
company toe, and, after making a fe\
necessary arrangements, return at one
and bear his bride away.
I could only listen to him, and con
gratulate him. It was not my plac
to act the elder, and advise him eithe
for or ^gainst the marriage. Carristo;
had only himself to please, and if h
made a rash step only himself to blame
for the 'consequences. And why should
I have dissuaded?—I, who In two days
envied the boy’s good fortune.
V.
SAW a great deal
of Madeline Rowan.
How strange and
out-of-place her
name and face
seemed amid our
surroundings. If at
first somewhat shy
and retiring, she
Boon, If only for
Carriston’s sake,
consented to look
upon me as a friend, and talked to me
freely and unreservedly. Then I found
that her nature was as sweet as her
face. Such a conquest did she make of
me that, save for one chimerical reason,
I should have felt quite certain that
Carrlston had chosen well, and would
be happy *n wedding the girl of his
choice; heedless of her humble position
in the world, and absence of befitting
wealth. When once his wife, I felt sure
that |f he cared for her to win social
success, her looks and bearing would
insure it, and from the great improve
ment which, as I have already said, I
noticed in his health and spirits, I be
lieved that his marriage would make
his life longer and happier.
Now for my objection, which seems
almost a laughable one. I objected on
the score of the extraordinary resem
blance, which, so far as a man may re
semble a woman, existed between.
Charlea Carriston and Madeline Row
an. The more I saw them together,
the more I was struck by it. A strang
er might well have taken them for twin
brother and sister. The same delicate
features, drawn jn the same lines; the
same soft, dark, dreamy eyes; even the
same shaped heads. Comparing the
two, it needed no phrenologist or phy
siognomist to tell you that where one
excelled the other excelled; where
one failed the other was . wanting.
Now, could I have selected a wife
for my friend, I would have chosen
one with habits and constitution
entirely different from his own.
She should have been a bright, bustling
woman, with lots of energy and com
mon sense—one who would have rattled
him about and kept him going—not a
lovely, dark-eyed, dreamy girl, who
could for hours at a stretch make her
self supremely happy if only sitting: at
her lover’s feet and speaking no word.
Yet they were a handsome couple, and
never have I seen two people so utterly
devoted to each other as those two
seemed to be during those autumn days
which I spent with them.
I soon had a clear proof of the close
ness of their mental resemblance. One
evening Carriston, Madeline, and I
were sitting out of doors, watching the
gray mist deepening in the valley at
our feet. Two of the party were, of
course, hand in hand, the third seated
at a discreet distance—not so far away
as to preclude conversation, but far
enough off to be able to pretend that
he saw and heard only what was In
tended for his eyes and ears.
How certain topics, which I would
have avoided discussing with Carriston,
were started, I hardly remember. Prob
ably some strange tale had been passed
down from wilder and even more soli
tary regions than ours—some ridicu
lous tale of Highland superstition, no
doubt embellished and augmented by
each one who repeated it to his fellows.
From her awed look, I soon found that
Madeline Rowan, perhaps by reason of
the Scotch blood In her veins, was as
firm a believer in things visionary and
beyond nature, as ever Charles Carris
ton, in his siliest moments, could be.
As soon as 1 could, I stopped the talk,
and the next day, finding the girl for a
few minutes alone, told her plainly that
subjects of this kind should be kept
as far as possible' from her future huB
band’s thoughts. She promised obedi
ence, with dreamy eyes which looked
as far away and full of visions as Car
riston’s.
“By the bye,” I said, "has he ever
spoken to you of seeing strange
things?”
“Yes; he has hinted at It."
“And you believe him?”
“Of course I do; he told me so.”
This was unanswerable. “A pretty
pair they will make,” I muttered, as
Madeline slipped from me to welcome
her lover, who was approaching. “They
.will see ghosts in every corner, and
goblins behind ever curtain.”
1 ;to bi nixrixuiu.)
> Sir Isaac Newton's Absence of Mind.
I Sir Isaac Newton, too, frequently for
, got whether he had dined or not. It
Is reported that on one occasion his
, friend, Dr. Stukely, being announced,
! Sir Isaac asked him to be seated, and
. he would join him shortly. The phi
losopher repaired to his laboratory,
and as time went on, it became evident
that the visit of his friend had entirely
| escaped him. The doctor was left Git
ting in the dining-room until the dln
[ ner was served. This consisted of a
j roast fowl. The host not even now
putting in an appearance, Dr. Stukely
seated himself at the table and demol
ished the fowl. When Sir Isaac entered
1 the room, and saw the remnants of the
' meal, he apologized and said: “Believe
[ me, I had quite forgotten I had dined.’*
( ‘ 'A Striking Likeness.
, Miss Susan is an exceedingly refined
’ young lady, who has seen some five
, summers. She is full of airs and of
graces, reserved, self-contained and de
[ cldedly uppish. She cut her uncle
r dead in the street one day, and when
j he reproached her for her extreme
hauteur, she said, with her most pro
nounced society manner:
“Oh, I saw you, uncle, but I thought
* it was auntie!”—Harper’s Round Table.
i Germany imports 800,000 tons of
: pickled herrings every year.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
FARM.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Bow Socccm.ful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm—A Few
Hlnte a. to the Care of Lire Stock
and Poultry.
ARDLY second In
importance ot plen
ty of good feed is
an abundant sup
ply of pure water
on the farm where
dairying la & lead
ing business, says
on exchange. B e
the rations ever so
plentiful and the
supply o f water
scanty or filthy, the cows cannot
do what is expected of them. Cows
giving milk need a large amount
of water, as any farmer will no-,
tice when undertaking to furnish
a supply, when from any cause there
is a scarcity. It is needed in the
pasture in warm weather and at the
barn or feed lot in winter. It is bad
to be short in supply in summer, but
much worse in cold weather, when it is
usually so much more difficult repairing
water mains and tanks or obtaining a
fresh supply, it will pay the farmer to
make some extra outlay in order to ob
tain an abundance of never-failing
water, good for all p^rts of the year.
In wet seasons ponds and creeks fur
nish all that is needed for cattle, but
in dry times windmills must be put in
operation to meet all the requirements,
as much loss comes to the dairyman
and stock raiser when * the water re
serve falls short. By all means have
a plentiful supply of water for winter.
The nearer to the barn this can be lo
cated the better it will be, especially
in blustering weather. Whether it shall
be in the stables will best be determined
by the owner. Since the tuberculosis
scare It is thought best by many to be
safer and better to have it outside the
stables,' but if out of doors, it should
be well protected from storms. Dairy
cows in particular should have as com
fortable place in which to drink in bad
weather as is possible to furnish. It
may sometimes be necessary to drive
quite a little distance for water, but If
the drinking place is well protected and
provided with plenty of good water, not
too cold, there will be little trouble or
loss, but to be obliged to go a long
way and then drink from an icy creek
in a beak place, any one can see would
be injurious for milch cows and must
materially diminish their profitable
ness, and the same rule would apply
in a lesser degree to fattening animals.
Half-watered and half-fed stock give no
returns, besides being inhuman.
Handicapped by Fraud.
"Honesty is the best policy”—so
the old saw runs, says New York Farm
er. It is not. a very enobllng motive
—hardly creditable to anyone, but
still, as It is better to be honest, if we
can only make men honest as a mat
ter of policy, let us do so, rather than
do nothing in that direction. It is not
many years since the United States was
a very much larger factor in the Euro
pean trade in dairy products than Is the
case to-day. The demand for our goods
was almost unlimited. To-day our
trade there Is a mere ghost of its
former greatness, and it will hardly
ever again reach the old high-water
mark. We have lost the trade by dis
honesty. We have labored with a zest
that is seldom equaled in honest trade,
\ to sell filled cheese for a genuine arti
cle and hog-butter for Its model, the
genuine product of the dairy. It is
hardly* fair to use the word “we" in
this matter. Nine-tenths cfall this
rascality and rottenness came from Il
linois, that home of hog-butter and
filled cheese, and it is there to-day that
the apologists for the frauds are found
in greatest abundance. The blot is
one which should be wiped out. Filled
cheese has recived its quietus—hog
butter needs the same legal status in
Illinois and some other states that it
has in New York and some of oui
neighbors. When these two swindle!
are so handicapped that their profitable
manufacture will be impossible, oui
trade abroad may be restored to us
and the consumption of genuine prod
ucts at home be largely Increased.
Probably Roup.
Please inform me through the Farm'
ers' Review what ails my chickens
They will swell up on one side of thi
head, usually the left eye will swell shm
with a sort of thick yellow matter 01
canker, the tongue, mouth and as fai
down the throat as you can see is cov
ered with thick chunks of yellow cank
er. They dump around for about threi
days and die. I have a good warn
hen-house well ventilated. 1 feed corn
oats, millet, ground barley and oats
Please Inform me what to do for them
Some of the hens are laying. I hav
fed them some Venetian red, which
thought helped them.—O. H.
• • •
From the description we would In
cline to the belief that the trouble 1
roup. You say the pen Is warm am
well-ventilated. That may be Just th
trouble. We are not in favor of vcn
tilators at all. We have seen too mucl
trouble arising from cold drafts of ai
In warm pens. We have known larg
numbers of fowls to die from no othe
apparent reason than this. Bette
have the pen cold and draftless tha:
warm and drafty. Here Is what on
authority says on roup: “Almost al
forms of chronic catarrh In fowls go b;
the name of roup. It usually begin
by a severe cold, caused by exposur
to cold, wet or damp. There Is dls
charge from the nostrils, at first c
thin mucous, and the entire cavity c
the nose may become filled up; frot
and mucous fill the Inner angle of th
eye, the lids are swelled and often th
eye-ball quite concealed, and In sever
cases the entire face is considerably j
swelled. It is said to be contagious,!
but is probably so only in severe and
virulent cases.*'
Prof. Law describes roup as follows;
"Dullness, sleepiness, neglect of food,
ruffled feathers, unsteady walk, quick
ened breathing, with a hoarse wheess
and an occasional crowing sound. Ob
the tongue, at the angle of union of the
beak, or in the throat appear yellow
ish white films (false membranes) firm-,
ly adherent to a reddened surface, and
raw sores where these have been de
tached. The nostrils may be completely
plugged with swelling and discharge so
that breath can only be drawn through
the open bill. The Inflammation may
extend along the windpipe to the aerial
cavities and lungs, or along the gullet
to the intestines. In the first place
death may take place from suffocation,
and in the latter from diarrhoea."
Treatment. — The same authority
says: "Disuse raw grain and feed on
vegetables and puddings made of well
boiled oats, barley and Indian pudding.
Dissolve carbonate or sulphate of soda,
or chlorate of potassla freely in the
water drunk. Remove the false mem
branes with a feather or forceps and
apply to the surface with a feather a
nitrate of silver lotion. If diarrhoea
supervenes, give a tehspoonful of quln
nia wine thrice a day. It is all-im
portant to change the run of the chick
ens for a time at least”
We ourselves have never had fowls
afflicted this way, for we have always
kept them in tight pens, but not too
warm, in fact in pens where a single
inch wall of boards is the only protec*
tlon from the cold.
Tha Pert Chicken.
There was once a pretty chtcken,
But his friends were vory few,
For he thought that there was nothing
In the world but what he knew.
So he always in the farmyard
Had a very forward way.
Telling all the hens and trukeys
| What they ought to do or say.
“lifts. Goose,” he said, "I wonder
That your goslings you should let .
Go out paddling in the water,
It will kill them to get wet.”
"I wish, my old Aunt Dorking,”
He began to her one day,
“That you wouldn't sit all summer
In your nest upon the hay.
Won’t you come into the meadow,
Where the grass with seeds is filled T"
“If I should,” said Mrs. Dorking,
“Then my eggs would all: get chilled.”
"No they won’t,” replied the chicken,
“And no matter if they do,
Eggs are really good for nothing,
What’s an egg to me or you”
“What’s an egg?” said Mrs. Dorking;
“Can it be you do not know,
You yourself were in an eggshell
But a little month ago
And if kind wingB had not warmed you,
You would not be out today,
Telling hens and geese and turkeys
What they ought to do and say,
To be very wise and shrewd
Is a pleasant thing no doubt,
But when young folks talk to old ones
They should know what they’re
about.” —Selected.
Cattle Feeding In England.—It la said
that the English breeders carefully note
at what age the steer Bhows the great
est gain, and for the largest profit feeds
accordingly. In a test a calf was
weaned at 12 days old and fed skimmed
milk and linseed meal, and later on
chopped roots, bran and hay with cut
grass in summer. He was weighed
every three months and it was found
that when two years old he gave a
profit, but after that he lost, which is
quite In accordance with our experience
In this country, that steers are most
profitably fed up to 18 to 24 months if
fed liberally from the start. The Scotch
breeders understand that, and besides
having well bred steers they never al
low them to lose their call’s flesh.
They are great feeders, and keep the
calves growing and fat by the best
feeding. They never allow them to lose
the cream or bloom so much prized
by the butchers which Invariably shows
if the animal has been stunted oi
starved at any time in its growth.
This bloom of the calf flesh can nevei
be regained if once lost, so the butchers
say—Ex.
Housing Hens.—It will not, do to
keep a lot of hens In a dark or un
comfortable building apd expect theln
to be busy and lay. They prefer a
light, dry, roomy place, where each ben
can exercise freely and without hin
drance from the others. They will nev
j er care to scratch, however, if they arc
fed every time they appear hungry.
[ They must be' compelled to scratch and
, work for their food. We do not ad
vise the limiting of the food. Give
’ them plenty, but only in the litter
j where they must work and scratch foi
i each grain. Throw the grain in leaves
cut straw, cut hay or any kind of lit
[ ter, and at night give them a gooc
‘ feed In the trough, composed of a mix
, ture, but during the day make then
[ work and work hard. At first they maj
not be Inclined to accept such condl
tions, but unless they scratch let then
. go hungry. Scratching means eggs, fo;
] it keeps them in health.—Ex.
I -
j Improve the Stock.—The only way t<
■ maintain the quality of our live stocl
k Is to constantly aim to Improve it
r Good beef never lacks demand, elthe:
9 at home or abroad. The Briton like:
r his American roast, and our expor
r trade has reached enormous propor
i tions; but we must be ready for com
s petition, and give heed to the healthl
1 ness and quality of our product—Ex.
r -
s Spray the Poultry House.—After fix
3 ing up the hen- house so that It will b
- secure and tidy for the winter, tak
f your spray pump and give it a goo:
f soaking with kerosene emulsion. Nex
i whitewash with a lime and carboli
s acid mixture. All this is necessary t
e get rid of the summer stock of lice am
a Just now is the time to be at It—Ex.
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PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT
FOR ALL DISPUTES. , : ^
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TO DO AWAY WITH WAR8.
Senator Bacon of Georgia Introduces
Such ■ Meat are In the Senate—The
tJnUcd State# to Take the load
and Invito All Civilised na
tions to Follow—Wash
ington NOWS. './.a- y;
life
Washington, Jan. 30.—In the Senate
to-day Mr. Baeon of Oeoigia intro
duced the following:
“Whereas, The United States depre
cates war and desires the maintenance
of peace and friendship with all the
world and that this desire is not lim
ited to the relations to any one nation,
but extends to their relations witu ail'
the nations of the earth, whether the'
same be great or small, strong- or
weak.
“Resolved that to the end that these
relations of peace and amity now hap
pily existing between them and all oar i
tions may be perpetually preserved
and that wars may be discouraged and
as far as practicable, made impossible,
the United States favors peace and the
practice of international arbitration
for the settlement of all questions in
difference between them and any
other nation which they may fail to
adjust by treaty or diplomatic nego
tiation.
“Resolved, further. That the United
States docs hereby avow it as their
future policy and intention whenever
there shall arise any question indlffw
cnce between them and any other na
tion, which they may fail to adjust by
treaty or diplomatic negotiations, that
they shall and will, so far as they can
consistently with the national shonor
and established nationul policies,'agree
with such other nations to submit
such question in difference to the arbi
trament and final decision of an inter
national court of arbitration. Such
court shall in the future, as in the
past, be constituted by agreement be
tween parties consenting thereto with
special reference and adaptation to the
particular question in difference and
to the conditions then existing.
“Resolved, further: That the United'
States hereby invites all civilized na
tions to make corresponding and re
ciprocal declarations to the end that
wars between nations may cease and
that an universal reign of peace may
be Inaugurated and perpetually main
tained.” .
Mr. liaoon spoke briefly on the reso
lution saying that a declaration by
Congress^, which is the war-making
power, would exert far greater influ
ence toward peace and against war
than any treaty. He expressed hope
that a favorable report would be
speedily made by the committee on
foreign relations and that Congresa
would make the declarations stated.
The resolutions were referred to tha
committee on foreign relations.
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CHINA’S NAVAL PLANS.
The Celestial Empire Propoeee to Bo* ; »
come Pint Close Bee Power.
Washington, Jan. 30.—Commander
F. M. Barber, U. 8. N. (retired) who ...
was invited to address the Chinese
Tsung-Li-Yemen, or imperial council, ; .
last fall upon the feasibility of secur
ing ships in the United States, reports ,
that he was informed that China pro
posed to reconstruct her navy and be
come a first class naval power in tea
years. Tho Bay of Kia Chow on the
south tilde of Sbangh Tung promontory
was to be thoroughly dredged and
fortified for a great naval
depot and the arsenal at Foo
Chow to be reorganized and
enlarged under French engineers so as .
to be capable of constructing modem
vessels of war of all types. Nine vea- 3
sels had already been ordered from
Europe, two of these unarmed cruisers
'of 4,300 tons and twenty-four knots .
speed from the Armstrongs in England
three unarmored cruisers of 3,500 tons
1 and twenty-three knots speed from the
Vulcan works in Germany, and . four
torpedo destroyers of 300 tons and
thirty-two knots speed from ‘the
Shichau works at Elbinir. Germany.
WILL FIGHT IN NEVADA
DUl to Legalise Glore Contests la Up
to the Governor.
Carson, Nev., Jan. 30 —The Corbett'
Fitzsimmons fi^ht will be pulled off in
Nevada, probably at Carson. The
state senate yesterday prssed the bili
to legalize glove contests and lastnight
Dan Stuart, the fight promoter, an—
nounced that the mill would occur in
the Silver State. The bill passed the
senate by a vote of 9 to 0, and the town
is all excitement in consequence. The
bill was not enrolled in time to be pre
sented to the governor, but it will
reach him to-day. There is no doubt
of his signing it.
Hurgs .Gets Only a Dram
Birmingham, Eng., Jan. 30.—The
fight between Dick Burge of England
and Eddie Connolly of America fot
85,000. which took place at the-Olym
pic club last night, was declared a
, draw in tr.e .eleventh round. Unusual .
excitement was caused, crowds flocked
to the doors of the club house and ex
tra police were required to preserve
order.
A Consul Fined (or Assault.
Berlin, Jan.- 30 —A dispatch from >:•
Mayence says that Perry Bartholow,
the United States consul there, has
been fined 200 marks for injuring last
summer an inmate of his borne by
striking him on the head with a re*
. Underground Trolleys for Gotham,
t New York, Jan. 3a—The Metropoll*
, tian Traction company has decided to
' equip three of its lines with the under
[ ground trolley system and has closed
1 contracts with a number of firms fa*
the materials needed. -