THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
J'N El LL. NEBRASKA
Raisins are the dried fruit of ihe
grape vine and are produced chiefly in
Spain, although vines ure oull'vated in
many other countries—Italy. California,
Australia, Greece. They are usually
partially dried on the vines, the stalk
being twisted or broken to prevent
moisture from reaching them, and tlie
drying is completed in a warm room.
They are packed for exportation cither
In bunches, like the muscatel raisins
from Malaga, or loose, as in the case
of the Valencia raisins. Sultanas are
a small, seedless variety of grape, ex
ported from Smyrna, and currants a
still smaller variety, exported from the
islands of the Grecian archipelago.
"If people would eat plenty of rh'e
they would noi need drugs to make
them sleep," said Ihe drug clerk, paus
ing for a moment in putting up a sleep
ing potion for a woman. "There is
much said just now about rice as u
strengthening #ood. but few Ameri
cans Know that it has soporific powers,
if properly cooked It has. Rice should
be washed many times, until the water
no longer appears milky, it should
then tie soaked a few hours, salted and
boiled rapidly about thirty minutes.
When cooked in this way it can be
eaten each day with relish, ami the per
son who eats it sleeps, and dreams not
at all.”
Ti has been stated recently that It
was in 1687. at the siege of Candia, In
Crete, that siege guns were first used.
This statement is contradicted, how
ever. by u writer who says that just
before the siege of Constantinople a
Hungarian or Wallachlan cannon
founder named ITurban cast, in 1452, at
Adrianople, a cannon “which remained
for many years the wonder of Europe
and marks an epoch In the continually
Increasing power of guns.” Urban's
cannon was dragged by sixty oxen to
Constantinople in 1842 and Ihrew a
eione ball of 1,200 pounds weight. It
whs fired seven times a day and once
each night.
In summer lime the air used for ven
tilating the house of commons in Lon
don passes through blocks of Ice. In
winter it Is heated. In fog the outer
air passes through layers of cotton wool
six Inches thick. During forty-eight
hours of fog. the cotton wool on one oc
casion was as black as llie back of a
chimney. Thanks to these precautions,
the house has been absolutely free from
mist and the atmosphere Is in normal
condition while a dense fog prevails
outside. The normal temperature of
the house of commons Is kept at the
level of 63, except In sultry weather, j
when It Is rulsedeto 65 degrees.
Graham Harvey, the composer i
of The Glory Kong," now being sung
at the Torrev-Alexander, is a young
man in the early thirties, and was edu
cated at Dulwich college and Cam
bridge. Of athletic build and happy
disposition, he la a great believer in ;
outdoor exercise. Perhaps the: only !
cheap musical composition, which i
gained so much notoriety as "The Glory
Kong" was "Crossing the Bar." the set- j
ting to music of Tennyson's famous !
words. This Is sold in hundreds of
thousands, although it is Graham Har
vey's boast that he wrote It in a few
minutes.
At Brookdate, Santa Crux county, j
Cal., a line specimen 01’ the sequoia, or 1
' redwood tree, was blown over in a re- t
cent storm. This tree is estimated to j
be over 330 years old. Ten feet from
the top of the tree, and a distance of j
over 165 feet from the ground, was
found a hole somewhat less than two
feet deep. It had once been the nest
of a woodpecker. In this hole had
grown a sturdy, three-stalked huckle
berry bush, two feet tall. Its roots ex
tending six feet Into the heart of the
tree, had absorbed the sap of the red
wood. The huckleberry had flourished
and borne fruit.
l here are severnl species of fish. :
reptiles anti insects which never sleep 1
in the whole of their existence. Among
tlBh it is positively known that pike, i
salmon and goldlish never sleep at all. j
also that there are several others in I
the flsh family that never sleep more |
than a few minutes a month. There
are dozens of species of flies which i
never Indulge in slumber, and front
three to five Hpecles of serpents which I
also never sleep.
The Chicago Kennel club has sent !
out notice for Its epmlug bench show I
that no dogs, other than those entered
In the show, will be allowed to visit
the building during the show, thus
spoiling fond hopes of many people
who have always liked to "just take
Kido to the show and let him see the
others doggies." Guards will see to it
that no practical joker smuggles any
cats Into the armory. '
What is said to have proved an ef
fective smoke consumer has been tried
in London. The Invention comprises a
screen of tubular Are bricks, made of
special material built up In the fur
nace in such a position that all the
products of the lire pass through the
screen. The latter quickly becomes In
ca descent and "flashes" the gases as
they pass through, thus preventing the
formation of carbon.
A New Jersey man lias Invented a to
bacco pipe, the stem and bowl of which
are made of asbestos. Strips of asbes
tos. of which the pipe is built, are
coated with a paste composed of con
densed milk and plaster of parts. In
order to burn out the paste the pipe is
baked. The inventor savs that any
color from light brown to ebony can
be obtained bv varying the heat.
The British mint has been busllv en
gaged in coining farthings. Unttl’very
recently the farthing lias been almost
an unknown coin in many, perhaps the
majority, of the British possessions.
They are only coined to encourage
thrift in the colonies. By introducing
the smallest coin of the realm a sav
ing can be effected on purchases of
small quantities of goods.
The undergraduates of the t'nlvep
sity of California have started a fund
for the establishment of a club house
and dormitory for the students of the
third government college at Kyoto iri
Japan. In tills way it is hoped to raise
the standard of morals in Japanese stu
dent life, and, at the same time, show
the character of California's interest
In the people of that empire.
Ftiomento Rossi, a St. Louis auti
quarian, has made a careful study of
the origin of the American Indians and
has gathered the results of important
researcher Into a book with an array of
facts which seem to substantiate" his
theory that aborigines sprang from
Etruseans and Phoenicians.
Thirty-five years ago W. H. Newman
was a brakeman on a southern rail
road at $2 a day; today he is presi
dent of the great Vanderbilt system,
with a salary of $120,000 a year a
palatial residence in New York and a
private car so sumptuously appointed
a king might erw it.
HUSBAND SKIPPED
WIFE AND HER LOVER
Auburn Man, a Respected Far.
mer, Thus Ends His Do
mestic Troubles.
STRANGLED WITH NECKTIE
Kearney Man Adopts a New Method ef
Going Over the Suicidal Route
in a Plum Orchard Near
Omaha.
Auburn, Neb., April 12.—A peculiar
slory of domestic infelicity comes from
Shubert. Hiram Stotts Is a highly re
spected farmer living in the vicinity of
Unit place. He moved there from this
county.
lie married a girl who is well known
here and whose parents are residents of
Colorado and are well connected.
Stotts had a hired man named Wilson
and recently he had reason to suspect
his wife of having intimate relations
with the man. He watched them and
found that they were making prepara- j
linns to elope. He confronted the pair
with the evidence of their plans and
instead of reproaching the wife for her
Infidelity and going after the hired man
with a shotgun for wrecking his home
and happiness, he gave them money
to go to some distant point where he
will never again come in contact with
them.
Tlie woman and her paramour were
driven to the depot at Falls City by
her son.
' Where they have gone is only known
to themselves. The sympathy of all the
people in ihe Shubert neighborhood is
with the wronged husband. He is a
man of line character and the tragedy
that lias been enacted in his life is
worse than if death Itself had entered.
STRANGLES WITH NECKTIE.
Kearney Man Suicides. Without an Ap
parent Cause, at Omaha,
(linuha. Neb.. April 12.—With a Ger
man Catholic: prayer book in bis hand
and the stem of a spray of plum blos
soms tucked between the leaves beside
a baby’s picture, Alvis Thiel was found
dead. He had knotted a percale neck
tie about his throat and had slipped one
end of the strong elolli in a noose
about a sapling plum tree that hud
begun to bloom. As lie lay back upon
tlie ground tlie little tree bent like a
how, and when his lifeless body was
discovered by boys, they thought lie
was merely asleep.
When the body was cut down by
the coroner the Ups of the man were l
purple from strangulation. In Thiel’s
pocket was an empty purse and a re- j
celpt of a labor agency. 11 is thought
lie failed to get the employment that I
in' was seeking and had ended his life ;
in a tit of despondency.
The body was discovered by 1 wo
boys win*, were'playlng and digging up
wild violets in the vicinity of the plum
t ree.
In a satchel which lay between Thiel’s
feel was an honorable discharge paper
from the Austrian army. 11 showed
that he had left the army October 8.
1882. it also showed that lie was born
in 1850. His naturalization papers,
taken out at Kearney, April 2. .1830,
were also In Ihe grip.
ARE AFTER MILITIAMEN.
Detectives Seeking Missing Fedori
Property at Norfolk.
Norfolk, Neb., April 12.—Indictments i
by a federal grand jury on the charge
>f appropriating government property
is a serious situation with which a
large number of men in Norfolk are
just now threatened and, according to
Adjutant General Culver, a situation
which they cannot escape. The trouble
lias arisen from the deplorable condi
tion in which the property of Company
U Second regiment, N. N. G., was
found by General Daggett, representing
the federal government on an inspec
tion tour. So widely scattered are tlie
guns, tents and other belongings of the
company that Adjutant General Cul
ver, in his state capacity, was at once
called to account and an order imme
diately followed from Ids office order
ing the company mustered out.
Detectives have been sent to Norfolk
to search out the missing property and
every person in whose possession a. sin
gle article is found must, according to i
the general, be indicted, as no one lias
a right to hold any federal property of '
this class, it is feared that more seri-’
ous trouble may follow for officers di
rectly accountable for the property. |
The West Point company has also
been ordered mustered out.
Arbor Day Proclamation.
Lincoln, Neb., April 12.—Governo :
Mickey has Issued ihe following Arbor
day proclamation, setting aside Satur- I
day. April 22. for the planting of trees: !
"Nebraska has profited much by the
institution and observance of Arbor i
day. The prolific planting of trees by
the pioneers and by those who came
after them has not only changed the
aspect of the plains as inherited from
nature, but has wrought an important
change in climate conditions as well.
Many parts of the state now present
the appearance of. a well-wooded coun
try. while other portions are responding
to the Inspiration of example and are
making rapid strides in the same good
cause. Through a wise enactment of
the legislature a day has been perma
nently set apart for the purpose'oT con
serving the Interests of forestry and
perpetuating the precept and example
of the early tree planters.
"In harmony with the statute referred
to. I, Joint H. Mickey, governor of the
state of Nebraska, do hereby designate
Saturday, April 22, 1905. as‘Arbor day
and do earnestly enjoin its proper ob
servance upon all citizens of the com
monwealth. Let the d \y be given over
to the setting of trees, plants and
shrubs, to the end that private and
public grounds may have intelligent
ornamentation and that present as well
as future generations may receive tlie
1 cnefit of our toil. John H. Mickey,
"Governor.”
OUTRAGER SENTENCED.
Pierce, Neb., April 12.—District court
adjourned after being in session a little
over a week. Last week Judge Boyd
heard a number of equity eases, and
this week was given to cases to be tried
! by jury. Paul Klawitter, living near
j Osmond, was convicted of assault on
.the pehson of Anna Blackwall. a 14
year-old girl living near Osmond.
Judge Boyd stated that hereafter the
I defendant's request for the appoint
ment of counsel in criminal cases would
be disregarded and that he would ap
point them, and that in no case could
an attorney collect more than SS5 fea
lot dtfendn-:g the criminal.
I FELL DEAD ON GRAVE.
I _
Had Flowers to Decorate Graves ot
Husband and Daughter.
Ainsworth. Neb., April 1 Feebly
currying un srntful of flowers from tier
little horniM" the cemetery at the edge
of town tot the purpose of decorating
the graves of her husband and her
.laughter, Mrs. 1.. Woodward of this
place, 6n years of age. Just as she had
leaned over to place the bouquet near
her husband's slab, was seized with a
pain in her breast, sank down and died.
Almost at the very spot where she
succumbed, the remains of Mrs. Wood
ward were today lowered into the
earth and the flowers which she had
carried in her last moment on earth
foi brightening the last resting place
of hei former mate were placed gently
•n her own casket.
QUEER SITUATION.
Have No Factory, but Nebraska Farm
ers Arc Raising More Sugar Beets.
Norfolk. Neb., April 12.— Now that
the plant of the American Meet Sugar
■ompany, which ran for thirteen un
lucky years in Norfolk, has been dis
mantled and shipped bodily to Colo
rado. removing from this point the
wheels into which they formerly were
able to pour their beets, the farmers
irolliul Norfolk and throughout norlh
?rn Nebraska have determined to raise
beets on a larger scale than ever, and
contracts have already been signed in
Ihls immediate vicinity for almost three
times the acreage that was produced
a year ago. The beets which shall be
grown in northern Nebraska during
the coming summer will all be shipped
to the l.eavltt factory at Ames, the
capacity of which bus been doubled
In order to handle the crop that comes
from the territory that naturally be
longed to the Norfolk plant.
One of the visible potent reasons for
this remarkable Increase in beet rais
ing now that a marketing point has
been made eighty miles distant is,
perhaps, the fact that the Ames fac
tory will this year pay 25 cents per ton
more for the roots than were paid by
ttie Norfolk factory in 1904. The Ames
people will pay $5 per ton flat for beets
delivered to them at Norfolk, and they
will themselves pay the freight from
here In Ames. In order to handle the
crop they have made arrangements to
establish in Norfolk a way station.
The Norfolk factory last year paid
$4.50 flat per ton, with 25 cents extra
for hauling to the factory. The Ames
people will pay 20 cents tier Ion extra
for siloed beets, which is the same rate
paid al Norfolk last year for that class
. . f’
Why Should Acreage Increase?
This, however, does not fully explain
just why the acreage should be in
creased threefold over the contracts
that the Norfolk factory was able to
secure for 1905, when the American peo
ple offered for the coming season $5
fiat, just as'the Ames people are do
ing. It is a fact, nevertheless, that the
American Beet Sugar company were
able to secure less than 400 acres of
beets from this vicinity last year,
while the Ames people has already se
cured t.000 from Norfolk alone, with
many hundreds of acres more in other
portions of this territory. And by in
creasing their price per ton over last
year’s contracts the Norfolk people
were unable to secure enough new con
tracts for this summer to guarantee a
three months’ campaign.
Factory to Colorado.
As a result of the lack of beets fo;
the Norfolk factory its machinery has
gone to Colorado; and now that it has
gone, on the same offer the Ames, Neb.,
factory has had to double its capacity
so that it can chop up beets from 13,
000 acres instead of 6,000 it had twelve
months ago. The ease with which con
tracts have been given to the Ames
factory Is shown by the fact that at
Wayne, Neb., in one day 150 acres were
secured.
Nothing definite has been done with
the 240 acres of land, the boilers and
the magnificent buildings abandoned
by the sugar plant here and given back
to the citizens who donated $150,000 for
a bonus to secure the institution here
in 1891. It is being offered as a prize
to some industry.
As a result of the peculiar situation,
the puzzle that Is confronting Norfolk
is, why weren't the beets raised for the
home plant? It is evident from the
tripling of acreage that under certain
conditions some farmers in this section
at least are willing to devote a portion
of their time to beet culture. What it
is that has wrought the change in so
short a time is quite an unknown
quantity. The question that has nat
urally arisen is, would it not pay to
start a new sugar factory here, or, if
managed along different lines during
its lifetime in Nebraska, could tlie Nor
folk plant have been made a success?
CEMENT BOX FOR DEAD.
Auburn Genius Invents a Novel Coffin
Wrich Will Not Decay.
Auburn, Neb., April 12.—Alfred V.
Williams, of this city, is an inventor.
After a winter spent in patient experi
menting, he inis succeeded in inventing
a mould for the purpose of casting air.
water and ghoul tight coffin boxes out
of cement.
He has made application of the com
missioner of patents at Washington, D.
to grant him a patent on Ills in
vention. In the manufacture of the
moulds it is the intention of the in
ventor to make a coffin vault of ce
ment, sand, clay, or any other material,
in which the remains .of any person
who may have passed away will lie
placed, and that it lakes the place of
tile rough pine box that is now used.
With this vault the corpses are pre
served from decay, the ravages of the
weather and from the depredations of
grave robbers.
The cement vault Is cast in sections,
the tops being arched so as to give the
necessary strength, and the tops and
lower parts are 'built separately and
tongued and grooved so that with the
application of a little fresh cement they
will solidify. The sections are easy to
handle and the vault can be made at
the grave.
After seasoning the vault becomes as
solid as rock and the grave robber who
seeks to penetrate it must blast his way
to the remains of the coffin therein. All
those who have examined the inven
tion admit that It fills a long felt want.
The vaults can be so cheaply and easily
made that they will be within the reach
of everyone.
Mr. Williams is one of the best car
penters and architects in this section
of the county. He left this city Tues
day night for Payette, Idaho, where
be has accepted a tine position. He was
accompanied by his daughter. Miss
Pearl.
WANTED INSURANCE POLICY.
Joe Robinson Gets Shower of Blows for
Simple Question.
Omaha. Neb.. April 12.—"Don't mind
the $20. but what are you going to do
with that insurance policy?" asked Joe
Robinson, of Harlan. Ia.. after lie had
been held up and beaten.
He had arrived in Omaha, and was
taking a look about the city when lie
was robbed. His pockets were rifled,
$20 iii cash taken, also an insurance
policy for $1,000.
Two negro suspects were arrested,
and were identified by Robinson as ihe
mfcn uho held him up.
STANDARD AGAIN
REPLIES TO LAWSON
Says It Never Had Anything to
Do With Him, and
He’s Bad.
DIDN’T ROB THE PUBLIC
Copper Stocks Just Went Down Be
cause of the Decline in the Mar
ket Value of Copper, and
That Was Explanation.
New York. April 12.—"We (lo not
know Lawson." This is the answer
Henry H. Rogers and his associates
make for Amalgamated Copper, and it
is their denial of the crimes that is
charged to it and the Standard Oil
clique by Thomas W. La wson. Follow
ing is Rogers' denial of the acquaint
ance and close business relation which
Lawson says existed between them at
i he lime ihe Amalgamated Copper was
conceived. It is published in this week's
Public Opionion as part of “The Stock
Market End of Amalgamated.” and
Lawson declares it is Rogers' and
Rockefeller's own reply to his charges.
Absolutely Fictitious.
.‘V—jm* nmsriiiRimuN v\iiu ivi I . ivug
era and others recorded at length by
Lawson are absolutely fictitious.
"B—Lawson was never intimately as
sociated, socially or in a business way,
with Mr. Rogers or the other gentle
men whose names he has made so free.
Only once in his whole life did he cross
the threshold of Mr. Rogers' home and
that was upon the occasion which he
mentions when he called there in 1895
to offer to betray his associate, Ad
dicks. Nor, though he assidiously
pressed himself upon him. did lie suc
ceed in seeing Mr. Rogers more than
a few times in the ten years, 1895 to
1905, for which he claims ( lose confi
dential intimacy.
“C—He does not possess and never
possessed a letter or scrap of writing
from'any of these gentlemen, with the
exception of Mr. Rogers, and from him
only a very few brief notes of a com
monplace character.
Has No Agreements.
"D—Mr. Lawson was never engaged
by the Amalgamated company or by
Air. Rogers to 'boom' Amalgamated
stock or to perform any service on be
half of tlie company. He does not pos
sess, and, accordingly, cannot produce
any agrement showing such employ
ment by anyone authorized to make it.
Mr. Rogers never saw Mr. Lawson be
tween the years 1895 and 1898 and in
the last named year he saved him
from bankruptcy in response to ids
pleading.
“When the Amalgamated company
was organized it was in the name of
Tames Burrage, and Burrage it was,
if anybody, who employed Mr. Lawson.
If the latter ever advances sufficiently
far in his story as to reach these prom
ised 'proofs’ which would be receivable
In a court of justice and produces a
contract of any kind, supposing he pos
sesses such a paper, it will be found
that Burrage. his partner in Tri-Moun
tain and sundry other schemes, is the
contracting party of the second part.
Was a Lawson Scheme.
"It is. of course, true that Mr. Law
son at his own expense, or at the ex
pense of Mr. Burrage and himself,
jointly advertised himself and Amalga
mated through the length and breadth
af New England and elsewhere and
iterated and reiterated the statement
that 'Standard Oil’ was back of it and
him; and also that the stock would go
to—the Lord alone knows what, and in
short, lavished the resources of his ex
urbent fancy in striving to sell Amal
gamated by the self same methods that
he has more recently used in the case
af Trinity Copper, and Is now using
In the case of copper range to the
openly expressed disgust of William A.
Paine, the president of that excellent
little company. True, it is also, that
Amalgamated Copper protested re
peatedly against these tactics and the
land booming methods lie was using
to advance tlie market price of the
stock."
The Losses Explained.
In this Rookefeller-Rogers story of
"The Stock Market End of Amalga
mated," Lawson’Ss statements are
I spoken of as "naked truths, clothed itt
exaggeration and misstatements, spe
cial appeals to class hatred, to the
I envenomed envoy of the laekwit, the
I ne’er do w ell and the prodigal." This
1 reply denies that the men who formed
' the Amalgamated paid only $39,000,000
I for the properties, which were after
j wards turned over to the company on
the valuation basis of $75,000,000. It Is
admitted, however, that these men
might have made $10,000,000 in the deal.
| The loss of millions, which the people
who invested in Amalgamated Copper
| stock suffered, are declared to be due
solely to the decrease in the market
value of copper and the unavoidable
j causes of market fluctuation.
FOR CONTROL OF PARTY
New York Bosses Platt and Black Saic.
to Have Formed an Offensive and
Defensive Alliance.
New York. April 12.—The Sun. which
for years has been friendly to Senator
Thomas C. l’latt and has supported him
in his efforts to lead the republican
party in the state, says today that an
offensive and defensive alliance has
been entered into between the senator
and former Governor Frank S. Black,
j with the object of contesting the con
trol of the party cit the next state con
vention.
Former Governor Black ,was Odell's
candidate for senator to succeed De
pew this winter, hut Depew won. hands
down, and the sincerity of Odell's sup
port was questioned by many of Black's
friends and others. An alliance with
I Black would probably give the anti
Odell forces control of the state, though
there would be a great tight, as Odell is
supposed to have the Harriman sup
port and a powerful element in finan
cial New York.
THEY’RE AFTER DIETZ.
Visconsin Lumbermen Propose to
Break Up His Control of a River
if It Is Possible.
Chippewa F'alls. Wis., April 12.—The
Mississippi Logging company this aft
ernoon sent a large crew of men to
Cameron dam on the Thorn Apple riv
er drive, where a lot of logs has been
held up by John*aDietz for a year. If
Dietz offers resistance the crew will
not attempt the drive until the federal
authorities send ample protection.
'
JAPAN’S VIEW OF IT.
Justice and the Cause of Future Peace
Dsmand Indemnity.
T*ondon, April 11.—Baron Suyematsu,
formerly Japanese minister of the in
terior. has written an article for Use
Outlook, "War and indemnity—the Jap
I am se Claim,”
The article is intended to show that
! Japan will carry on the war until Rus
sia consents to indemnity. The baron
I says:
A canon of the Japanese bushido is.
“One should not sheath the sword unless
| one is to totally overcome or has secured
I equitable satisfaction for one’s cause."
I This is our ideal in international inter
j course. The sword of Japan is drawn,
and the aim for which it was unsheathed
j has scarcely been attained. We warn a
; peace which will secure tranquility in the
; far east for at least a generation or two.
The world should know that in the pres
ent war Japan staked her very existence,
1 whereas with the enemy it was a mere
! wai of caprice. Why, men, in case of de
i feat, should not Russia be made responsi
I bk in equitable accordance with the na
| ture of the affair? 1 believe, therefore.
that In case of the adversary asking for
! peace the satisfaction which she would
have to make to Japan should include
making good the material loss of Japan
in other words, indemnity.
Japan has not formulated definite terms
of peace, because she might be accused
of skinning the bear before it is shoe. We
have, however, outlined our idea.
Japan s Righteous Position.
The article argues that the righteous
ness of Japan's position in demanding
indemnity U a basic condition and con
troverts the idea which, he says, he
finds prevalent outside of Japan that
Japan is willing to make peace at any
price.
“Some say,” the baron continues,
1 “that for humanity’s sake an armistice
! should he concluded with a view to ne
gotiating peace. It is all very well to
talk of humanity, but no injustice must
be perpetrated in the name of human
ity.” Baron Suyematsu says:
The public seems to have gauged the
relative value of Russia and Japan. They
are glad that the large bubble which has
befit causing a nightmare so long has
been pricked. They have seen that it was
no use to suppress Japan’s aspiration by
the combined force of western powers.
Yet there seems floating in the air some
«ort of comparison for our adversary. This
I deem an inconsistency, arising out of
some psychological ins .ability.
Russia Wanted Indemnity.
I Baron Suyematsu refers to the an
nouncement of St. Petersburg early in
the war that an enormous indemnity
would be demanded and that terms
would be dictated in Tokio.
“We are far from assuming such an
attitude,” the writer says, "but we be
lieve that justice ought to be done us.
No mere sentiment shall be allowed to
decide the merits of the case.”
I In conclusion Baron Suyematsu says:
I Some say that Japan might be induced
to forego a claim tor indemnity provided
England and America gave good assur
ance for future peace. We appreciate, of
course, the general sentiments of England
anti America. We aie anxious to main
tain the best friendship with these two
countries, more particularly than other
countries. We should therefore be very
sorry if we were to be told that we should
forego on account of that friendship any
claim to what we deem justice to demand.
This article is followed by one under
the heading, "Russia’s Alternative,” by
Archibald Ross Colquhon, author of
“Greater AnS*rica,” and who has trav
eled extensively and written volumin
ously regarding the far east. He scouts
the possibility of interv<*htion, and says
that the only possibility of peace is in
direct negotiation an dthe payment of
indemnity of at least $500,000,000, either
in money or in land, ar.d describes Sa
kahlin and Vladivostok as of small
money value to Japan.
RUSSIANS CLAIM A VICTORY.
Twelve Hour Fight on Friday Ended i»
Their Favor.
St. Petersburg. April 11.—General
Liinevitch telegraphs the emperor to
day:
“The battle at Tsin Tsatun on Friday
lasted twelve hours. The enemy's
losses were heavy from our artillery
and rifle tire. Our casualties in killed
were Captain Prince Marsalaky and
four Cossacks; wounded, two officers
and thirty-four Cossacks.,
“On Wednesday our outposts, after
a fusillade, pushed back the Japanese
outposts to Tai Pinlin. Our infantry
occupied the village of Koukouseki aft
er dislodging the enemy. The Japanese
re t rea ted prec ipi t a tel y. ”
Here's Another Naval Battle.
St. Petersburg, April S.—A sensa
tional sequel to the newspaper cam
paign inaugurated by Captain Clado,
formerly Admiral Rojestvensky’s chief
tactician, against Vice Admiral Avel
lan, head of the Russian admiralty and
: the,general staff of the admiralty, may
' be a duel i* morrow between Clado and
j Captain Zilotti, aide of Admiral Avel
I an.
WILL VISIT MOROCCO.
Report Is That King Edward Will Take
a Most Significant Diplo
matic Step.
Marseilles, April 11.—The king and
queen of England sailed this afternoon
on the royal yacht, accompanied by an
armored cruiser and a torpedo boat
destroyer. The first port will be Ma
liona. island of Mincora. All informa
tion of the ultimate destination of the
yacht is refused, but it is rumored the
king intends visiting Tangier, Morocco.
Should the foregoing Paris surmise
prove oorrect. that King Edward is to
visit Morocco, it will cause a huge in
ternational sensation. Some time ago
France assumed a general attitude of
dominance in Morocco, England resign
ing political pretensions there in con
sideration of France giving up all
claims ill Egypt. Germany was dis
pleased. mid a few days ago the kaiser
visited Morocco and made a significant
speech, which was taken as a protest
against the Anglo-French assumption
of primacy in the Mediterranean. This
invasion of the Mediterranean sphere
by Germany caused violent feeling in
both England and France, and imme
diately King Edward went to France
and had a significant private visit with
President I.oubet. It was assumed
that they discussed the Anglo-French
attitude toward the new German pre
tentions. Now. if Edward should visit
Morocco, it would he tantamount to an
nouncing England as the ally of France
in Moroccan policy, and would more
than ever Isolate Germany. The kaiser
this week sent President Roosevelt a
detailed explanation of Germany's Mo
roccan policy, apparently imping to en
list the support of this government:
but Mr. Roosevelt, it is said, will de
cline to interest himself in the matter.
HERE’S RAnYtREASON!
Russians Boycott Vodka, and Cut Off
Government Revenue, and Save
Money to Buy Bombs.
St. Petersburg, April 11—Polish work
men and revolutionists ha<jp found a
new way of trying to embarrass the
government, by organizing a boycott
of vodka and tobacco for the double
purpose of saving the money of the
poor and reducing the revenue of the
state.
A "BRUSHWOOD BOY”
TALE OF REAL LIFE
Wealthy New Yorker Likens.
His Romance to Kipling’s
Mysterious Story.
WILL WED A POOR GIRL
Scion of Aristocracy Chooses for His*
Bride a Poor Jewess, Who Has
Known the Poverty and t
Struggles of the Poor.
New York. April 11.—Not since Israel
Zangwlil, the author, married a Gentile,
has the orthodox Hast Side been so
stirred as by the announcement that
Rose Harriet Pastor, a Slfi i week
writer on the staff of tne Jewish Daily
News and a settlement worker In the
Guild house in Kivington street, was
to many J. G. Phelps Stokes, son of
a well known banker, Anson Phelps
Stokes, and a brother of the Rev. An
son Phelps Stokes, jr„ secretary of
Yale university.
Seated in his library in the univer
sity settlement yesterday. Mr. »*toke.s
discussed the remarkable romance
which is to end in his marriage in July
to Miss Pastor. Simply and modestly,
but with an enthusiasm almost boyish.
Mi. Stokes talked of the love affair that
lias set the whole city talking, from
the palaces of the four hundred to the
tenements of Cherry street.
He told how he had met Miss Pastor,
how they were drawn together, how
they had become one in soul and mind,
described tile girl's struggles with pov
erty in the past and their plans as man ,
and wife for the future. He spoke of
the "affinity" which makes their mar
riage inevitable, and drew some com
parisons between thier romance and
the story of Kipling's ' Brushwood
Boy."
Inevitable Has Happened.
"What has happened was inevitable.”
Mr. Stokes said. "It was to he. Ac
cording to the theory of unity of souls.
Miss Pastor and I have been married
since last October.
"I can imagine no more beautiful or
purer democratic union than that of
Miss Pastor and myself, although the
idea of social equality has never en
tered it. It has been from the be
ginning a union of mind and spirit.
She lias the same ideas, the same
ideals, the same thoughts as I. I have
objected to the word engagement be
ing applied to cur case. We are not
engaged; we never have been; how
could we be? We are one. have been
one for months past, as much as we
ever could be—that is, spiritually. ThV
marriage is merely to satisfy the world.
"We have never mentioned an en
gagement; there was never anything
in the nature of a proposal of mar
riage. I first met her when she came
to me for an interview for the Jewish
Daily News about two years ago. I
was deeply impressed by her deep in
sight, her understanding of life, her ap-.
predation of things as they are.
Atfair of the Soul.
"This is an affair of the soul; has
been from t lie very beginning.
"She was born in Russia, but left that
country when she was a mere child;
then moved to London, where she lived
with her family, I believe, irt Petticoat
alley, Whitechapel, when ‘Jack the
Ripper' and that sort of thing was go
ing on. Site suffered a lot. She had a
common school education there, but
her real education has been in the
school of life, as you might say. She
worked in a cigar factory in Cleveland,
trying to support her little step-sisters
on a salary of $7 or $8 a week; then she
came here and I met her.
"Unlike Kipling’s 'Brushwood Boy,' 1
had no forewarning of this. In fact,
my mind had been a blank as far as
that sort of thing was concerned.
"1 was attracted to her on the first
day, but might not have seen her again
had she not come down here to take
charge of a girls’ club in the settle
ment. Then the feeling of sameness
of our spirits grew rapidly. She lived
nearby for a time, but now she lias
moved to the Bronx.
"She lias gone back to work in a
cigar factory that she might get at the
life of tlie girls again before it was
too late. That was at my suggestion
a week ago. I wrote her Wednesday
night suggesting that she stay at
home yesterday, as the news has come
out sooner than we expected and the
publicity might be unpleasant for her.
KILLED IN A BLAST.
Eight Men Lose Theirs Lives in an Ac
dent in tthe Ardway Stone
Quarries.
Roanoke, Va., April 11.—A special from
AIL.sonia, Pulaski county. Va.. to the
Times says:
While tamping powder yesterday after
noon in a blast at the Ardway iimestum
quarry, about Amr miles west of Alli
sonia, the blast was accidentally dis
charged. This caused the explosion of
two other blasts that had been set nearby.
Eight men were instantly killed and two
others so badly injured as to leave bur
little hope of their recovery.
The dead:
JOHN FORTNER.
JOHN MILLER,
JOHN HARRIS.
TORE SUTTON.
O. DAVIS.
A. VAUGHN.
All the foregoing were negroes.
O. A. WALTON, white laborer.
ONE UNKNOWN MAN.
So far it is not certainly known if these
are all of the victims, and it is feared
that other bodies will be found in the
debris when it is removed. The quarry is
operated by the Virginia Iron, Coal ami
Coke company.
The explosion occurred on a bluff pro
jecting over the track of the Norfolk and
Western railway, and the whole mass of
earth and stone was precipitated upon it.
A wrecking car and 100 men have been
sent to clear the track, and the quarry
force is assisting in getting the line open.
An castbound passenger train wras be
hind the blockade, but the passengers and
null were transferred.
MEXICO ANP CANADA.
Steamship Line Soon Will Connect
Their Ports.
Mexico City, April 11.—Considerable
progress has been made towards the in
auguration of a steamship line between
Mexean gulf points and Canada, am!
it is probable that steamers of the new
line will begin their trips next month.
The question has arisen as to wheth
er steamers shall coll at Cuban ports as
first intended and afterwards changed.
The government objects to making
stops at Cuban ports, but it is hoped
to secure its consent to this.
