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    ROOSEVELT NOTIFIED Of NOMINATION
Speaker Cannon, Chairman of the National Corn
mittee, Makes the Address.
RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT THERETO
Chief Executive Touches Upon Some of the Issues
That Will Be Before the People in the
Coming Campaign.
July 27th President Roosevelt was
formally notified of his nomination for
the presidency by the national repub
lican convention. The ceremony took
place at his country home at Saga
more Hill. There was, first of all., an
informal reception, at the conclusion
of which Speaker Cannon, chairman
of the notification committee, deliver
ed his address, as follows:
Mr. President: The people of the
United States by bind, heredity, edu
cation and practice are a self-govern
ing people. We have sometimes been
subject to prejudice and embarrass
ment from harmful conditions, hut we
have outgrown prejudice and overcome
conditions as rapidly as possible, hav
ing due regard to law and the rights
of individuals. We have sometinms
made mistakes form a false sense >\*
security or from a desire to change
policies, instead of letting well enough
alone, merely to see what would hap
pen. hut we have always paid the pen
alty of unwise action at the ballot box
ami endured the suffering until under
the law', through the ballot box. we
have returned to correct policies.
Tested by experience no nation has so
successfully solved all problems and
chosen proper policies as our nation.
Under the lead of the republican party
for over forty years, the United States
from being a third-class power among
the nations has become in every re
spect first. The people rule. The peo
ple ruling it is necessary that they
should be competent to rule. Compe
tency requires not only patriotism, but
material well-being, education and
statecraft.
Liberal compensation for labor
makes liberal customers or our prod
ucts. Under this policy of protection
•ur home market affords all our people
A better market than has any other
fceople on earth, and this, too, even if
we did not sell any of our products
Abroad. In addition to this, we have
enme to he the greatest exporting na
tion in the world. For the year end
ing June 30. 1004. our exports to for
eign countries were valued at $1.4(50.
000.000. of which $450,000,000 were
products of the factory. The world
fell in our debt last year $470,000,000.
an Increase of $75,000,000 over the pre
ceding year.
Dilemma of Democracy.
This policy of protection lias always
been opposed by tiie opponents of the
republican party and is opposed by
them today. In their last national
platform, adopted at St. L»ouis, they
denounce protection as robbery. They
never have been given power, but they
proceed by word and act to destroy
the polioy of protection. Their plat
form is as silent as the grave touch
ing tiie gold standard and our cur
rency system. '1 heir chosen leader,
after his nomination, having been as
silent as the sphinx up to that time,
sent his telegram, saying in substance
that the gold standard is established
and that he will govern himself ac
cordingly if lie should be elected.
Correct revenue laws, protection or
free trade, the gold standard and our
currency system, all depend upon the
sentiment of tiie majority of our peo
ple as voiced at tiie ballot box. A ma
jority may change our revenue daws;
a majority may change our curreny
laws; a majority may destroy the gold
standard and establish the silver
standard, or. in lieu of either or (Kith,
make the treasury note, noninterest
bearing and irredeemable, the sole
standard of value.
Since tiie republican party was re
stored to power, ill 1S97. under the
lead of McKinley, our country has
prospered in production and in com
merce as it never prospered before.
In wealth we stand first among all tiie
nations. Under the lead of William
McKinley the war with Spain was
speedily brought to a successful con
clusion. Under tiie treaty of peace and
our »ction Cuba is free. and. under
guarantees writen in its constitution
and our legislation, it is assured that
it will ever remain free. We also nc
• tuired Porto Rico. Guam and the Phil
ippines by a treaty the ratification of
which was only possible by the votes
of democratic senators. Civil govern
ment has been established in Porto
Rico, and we are journeying toward
civil government in the Philippines as
rapidly as tiie people of the archipela
go are able to receive it; and this. too.
notwithstanding the false cry of "im
perialism'’ raised by tiie democratic
party and still insisted upon, whicli led
to insurrection in the Philippines and
tenda to lead to further insurrection
there. The record of the republican
party under the lead of William Mc
Kinley has passed into history. Who
dares assail it?
In pursuance of the usual custom the
conventon appointed a committee, of
which it honored me with the chair
manship. to wait upon you and Inform
you of its aetion. which duty, speaking
for the committee. I now cheerfuly per
form, with the hope and the confident
expectation that a majority of the peo
ple of the republic will in November
next approve the action of the conven
tion by choosing electors who will as
su"e your election to tiie presidency
as your own successor.
At the close of Mr. Cannon’s ad
dress. President Roosevelt, standing
on the veranda of his home, under a
festoon of American flags, spoke as
follows:
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee: 1 nai deeply
sensible for the high honor conferred
upon me by the representatives of the
republican party assembled in conven
tion, and I accept the nomination for
the presidency with solemn realiza
tion of the obligations I assume. 1
heartily approve the declaration of
principals which the republican nation
al committee has adopted, and at some
future day I shall communicate to you,
Mr. Chairman, more at length and In
detail a formal written acceptance of
the nomination.
Three years ago I became president
because of the death of my lamented
predecessor. 1 then stated that it was
my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the honor and the in
terest of the country. To the best of
my ability I have kept the promise
thus made. If next November my coun
trymen confirm at the polls the action
the convention you represent, 1
jhall. under Providence, continue tr
V'ork with an eye single to the welfare
If all our people.
A party is of wortli only Insofar as
1H promotes the national interest, ami
♦ very official, nigh or low, can serve
his party best by rendering to the peo
ple the best service of which he it
capable. Effective government comes
only as the result of the loyal co-oper
ation of many different persons. The
members of a legislative majority, the
officers in the various departments ol
the administration, and the legislative
and executive branches as toward eact
other, must work together with subor
dination of self to the common end ol
successful government. We who have
been entrusted with power as public
servants during the last seven years of
administration and legislation now
come before the people content to be
judged .by our record of achievement,
.n the years that have gone by we
, have made the deed square with the
| word; and if we are continued in power
! we shall unswervingly follow out the
great lines of public policy which' the
| republican party has already laid
I down: a public policy to which we are
giving, and shall give, a united, and
therefore an efficient, support.
t
More I'ortunalc Than Opponents.
in all of litis we are more fortunate
1 than our opponents, who now a'.'pea 1
| for confidence on the ground, which
: some express anti some seek to have
j confidentially understood, that if tri
j umphant they may lie trusted to prove
false to every principle which in the
j last eight years they have laid down
as vital, and to leave undisturbed
those very acts of the administration
because of which they ask that the
administration itself lie driven from
power. Seemingly their present atti
j tude as to their past record is that
; some of them " ere mistaken and oth
; eps insincere. We make our appeal in
: a wholly different spirit. We are not
! constrained to keep silent tm any vital
| question; our policy is continuous, and
is the same for all sections and locali
, ties. There is nothing experimental
about the government we ask the peo
I n!e to continue in power, for our per
formance in tiie past, our proved gov
ernmental efficiency, is a guarantee as
to our promises for-the future. Our
opponents, either openly or secretly,
according to their several tempera
ments. now ask the people to trust
their present promises in consideration
of the fact that they intend to treat
their past promises as null and void.
We know our own minds and we have
kept of tfie same mind for a sufficient
length of time to give to our policy
coherence and sanity. In such a fun
damental matter as the enforcement
of tlie law we do not have to depend
i upon promises, but merely to ask that
i our record he taken as an earnest of
i what we shall continue to do. In deal
ing with the great organizations
known as trusts, we do not have to
explain why the laws were not en
forced. hut to point out that they actu
ally have been enforced to increase
the effect!veness of their enforcement.
\\ e do not have to propose to “turn
tlie rascals out." for we have shown
in very deed that whenever by diligent
investigation a public official can b ■
found who lias betrayed his trust lie
will he punished to the full extent of
the law without regard to whether he
was appointed under a republican or
a democratic administration. This is
the efficient way to turn the rascals
out and to keep them out. and it has
tlie merit of sincerity. Moreover, the
betrayals of trust in the last seven
years have been insignificant in num
ber when compared with the extent of
the public service. Never lias the ad
ministration of the government been
on a cleaner and higher level; never
has the public work of the nation been
done more honestly and efficiently.
I uwUc Io Change 4.noil I’ulioln.
Assuredly it is unwise to change tlie
policies which have worked so well
and which are now working so well.
Prosperity has come at home. The na
tional honor anil interest have been
upheld abroad. We have placed the
finances of the nation upon a sound
gold basis. We have done this with
the aid of many who were formerly
our opponents, hut wlio would neither
openly support nor silently acquiesce
in the heresy of unsound finance, and
; we have done it against the convinced
; and violent opposition of the mass of
: our present opponents who still refuse
i to recant the unsound opinions which
for tlie moment they think it inexpe
dient to assert. We know what we
mean when we speak'of an honest and
| stable currency. We mean the same
thing from year to year. We do not
I have to avoid a definite and conclusive
| committal on the most important issue
■ which lias recently been before the
' people, and which may at any time in
i tlie near future be before them again.
. I'pon the principles which underlie
this issue the convictions of half of
our number do not clash with those
of the other half. So long as the re
publican party is in power the gold
standard Is settled, not as a matter
of temporary political expediency, not
because of shifting conditions in the
production of gold in certain mining
centers, but in accordance with what
we regard as the fundamental princi
ples of national morality and wisdom.
I'nder the financial legislation which
we have enacted there is now ample
circulation for every business need,
and every dollar of tills circulation is
worth a dollar in gold. We have re
duced the interest-bearing debt and in
still larger measure the Interest on
that debt. All of thg war taxes im
posed during the Spanish war have
been removed with a view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accumu
lation of an unnecessary surplus. The
result is that hardly ever before have
the expendtiures and Income of the
government so closely corresponded.
In the fiscal year that has Just closed
the excess of income over the ordinary
expenditures was $0,000,000. This does
not take account of $.">0,000,000 expend
ed out of the accumulated surplus for
the purchase of the isthmian canal. It
is an extraordinary proof of the sound
financial condition of the nation that
instead of following the usual course in
such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds,
we were able to make the payment
outright and yet after It to have in the
treasury n surplus of $160,000,000.
Moreover, we were able to pay $.">.000.
000 out of hand without causing the
slightest dsturbance to business con
ditions.
< oiiutrj on lllgb Plane.
We have enacted a tariff law under
which during the past Tew years the
country has attained a height of ma
terial well-being never before reached.
Wages are higher than ever before.
That whenever the need arises there
should be readjustment of the tariff
schedules is undoubted; but such
changes can with safety be made oniv
by those whose devotion to the princi
ple of a protective tarlfT is beyond
question: for otherwise the changes
would not amount to readjustment but
to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy
the protective principle. To the farm
er. the merchant, the manufacturer this
is vital; but perhaps no other man is
so much interested as the wage work
er in the maintenance of our present
economic system, both as regards the
finances and the tariff. The standard
of living of our wage workers is high
er than that of any other country, and
it cannot so remain unless we have a
protective tariff which will always
keep as a minimum a rate of duty suf
ficient to cover the difference between
the labor cost here and abroad. Those
who. like our opponents. "denounce
protection as robbery" thereby explic
itly commit themselves to the proposi
tion that if they were to revise the
tariff no heed would be paid to the
necessity of meeting this difference
between the standards of living for
wage workers here and in other coun
tries; and therefore on this point their
antagonism to our position is funda
mental. Here again we ask that their
promises and ours be judged by what
lias been done in the immediate past.
We ask that sober and sensible men
compare the workings of the present
tariff law. and the conditions which
obtain under it. with the workings of
the preceding tariff law of 1894 and
the conditions which that tariff of 1894
helped to bring about.
As to Reciprocity.
We believe in reciprocity with for
eign nations on the terms outlined in
President McKinley's last speech,
which urged tlie extension of our for
eign markets by reciprocal agree
ments whenever they could he made
without injury to American industry
and labor. It is a singular fact that
tlie only great reciprocity treaty re
cently adopted—that with Cuba—wm
finally opposed alone by the represen
tatives of the very party which now
states that St favors reciprocity. And
here again we ask that the worth of
our words be judged by comparing
their deeds with ours. On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were at the
outset grave differences of cpiniop
a i. long ourselves; and the notable
thing in the negotiation and ratifica
tion of the treaty, and in the legisla
tion which carried it into effect, was
the highly practically manner in which
without saerilce ot principle these dif
ferences of opinion were reconciled.
There was no rupture of a great party,
but an excellent practical outcome, the
result of the harmonious co-operation
of two successive presidents and two
successive congresses. This is an il
lustration of the governing capacity
which entitles us to the confidence of
the people not only in our purposes
but in our practical ability to achieve
those purposes. Judging by the history
of the last twelve years, down to this
very month, is there justification for
believing mat under simili&r circum
stances and w'tli similar initial differ
ences of opinion, our opponents would
have achieved any practical result?
We have already shown in actual
fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men. paying no
heed to whether a man is rich or poor;
paying no iieed to his race, his creed,
or his birthplace.
( :i|iiliil and l.nlior.
We recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomes of our industrial
system. Kach kind of organization is
to be favored so long as it acts in a
spirit of justice and of regard for the
rights of others. Kach is to be grant
ed the full protection of the law, and
each in turn is to be held to a strict
obedience to the law; for no man is
above it and no man below it. The
humblest individual is to have his
rights safeguarded as scrupulously as
those of the strongest organization,
for each is to receive Justice, no more
and no less. The problems with whiclt
we have to deal in our modern Indus
trial and social life are manifold; but
the spirit in which it is necessary to
approach their solution is simply the
spirit of honesty, of courage, and of
common sense.
Irrigation and Canal.
In inaugurating the great work of
irrigation in the west tlie administra
tion lias been enabled by congress to
take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our government toward
utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
Kver since this continent was dis
covered the need of the Isthmian canal
to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic
has been recognized; and ever since
the hirth of our nation such a canal
lias been planned. At last the dream
lias become a reality. The Isthmian
canal is now being built by the gov
ernment of the I'nited States. We
conducted tlie negotiation for its con
struction with the nicest and most
scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of
the largest generosity toward those
through whose territory it was to
run. Kvery sinister effort whiali could
be devised by the spirit of faction or
the spirit of self-interest was- made
in order to defeat the treaty with Pan
ama and thereby prevent the consum
mation of this work. The construc
tion of the canal is now an assured
fact; but most certainly it is unwise
to entrust the carrying out of so mo
mentous a policy to those who have
endeavored to defeat the whole under
taking •*
Our foreign policy has been so con
ducted that, while not oi#c of our just
claims lias been sacrificed, our relutoins
with all foreign nations are now of
the most peaceful kind; there is not
a cloud on the horizon. The last cause
of irritation between us and any other
nation was removed by the settlement
of tlie Alaskan boundary.
In the Oarribean sea we have made
good our promises of Independence to
Cuba, and have proved our assertion
that our mission in tlie island was
one of Justice and not of self-aggran
dizement; and thereby no less than by
our action in Venezuela and Panama
we have shown that the Monroe doc
trine is a living reality, designed for
the hurt of no nation, lint for the pro
tection of civilization on the western
continent, and for the peace of the
world. Our steady growth in power
has gone hand in hand with a strength
ening disposition to use this power
with strict regard for the rights of
others, and for the cause of interna
tional justice and good will.
Desire Friendship of World.
We earnestly desire friendship with
all the nations of the New and Old
Worlds; and we endeavor to place our
relations with them upon a basis of
reciprocal advantage instead of hos
tility. We hold that the prosperity of
each nation is an aid and not a hin
drance to the prosperity of other na
tions. We seek international amity for
the same reasons that make us be
lieve in peace within our own borders;
and we seek this peace not because we
are afraid or unready, but because we
think that peace is right as well as
advantageous.
American interests in the Pacific
have rapidly grown. American enter
prise has laid a cable across this, the
greatest of oceans. We have proved
in effective fashion that we wish the
Chinese empire well and desire its in
tegrity and independence.
Our foothold in the Philippines
greatly strengthens our position in the
competition for the- trade of the east;
but we are governing the Philippines
iu the Interest of the Philippine people
themselves. We have already given
them a large share in their govern
ment. and our purpose Is to increase
this share as rapidly as they give evi
dence of increasing fitness for the
task. The great majority of the oftl
clbls of the islands, where elective or
appointive, are already native Fili
pinos. We are now providing for a
legislative assembly. This is the first
step to be taken in the future, and
it wmilil hr pminrnt! v' unwi«A tn fir*.
-dare whut our next step will be until
this first step lifts been taken and th®
results are manifest. To have goQ®
faster than we have already goi/3 In
giving the islanders a constantly In
creasing measure of self-government
would have been disastrous. At the
present moment to give political inde
pendence to the Islands would result
in the Immediate loss of civil rights,
personal liberty and public order, ns
regards the mass of the Filipinos, for
the majority of the islanders liavo been
given these great boons by us, and
only keep them safe because we vigi
lantly safeguard and guarantee them.
To withdraw our government frotn th®
islands at tills time would mean to the
average native the loss of Ills barely
won cKdl freedom. We have estuu
lished in the islands a government by
Americans assisted by Filipinos. >Ve
are steadily striving to transform this
into self-government by th© Filipinos
assisted by Americans.
The principles which we uphold
should appeal to all countrymen. In
all portions of our country. Above all
they should give us strength with the
men and women who are the spiritual
heirs of those who upheld the hands
of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striv
ing to do our work in the spirit with
which Lincoln approached ills. During
the seven years that have just passed
there is no duty, domestic or foreign,
which we have shirked; no necessary
task which wc have not performed
with reasonable efficiency. We have
never pleaded impotence. We have
never sought refuge in criticism and
complaint Instead of action. We face
the future with our past and our pres
ent as guarantors of our promises, and
we are content to stand or to fail by
the record which we have made and
are making.
Sign of Fine Weather.
In early summer, when the weather
(s showery, you may perhaps notice
through breaks in the rain clouds an
appearance of densish white cloudlets
in small, irregular tufts brightly ir
radiated by sunshine. The childi-en
rail it mackerel sky. Its real name is
Cirro-cumulus, and it is a sure sign of
leat, and probably fine wetUicr.
When a man has reached the point
that he believes his own lies it is time
for him to reform.
Have Bareheaded Craze.
There is a craze for going bare
headed in parts of England. This ad
vertisement over an English hat store
is a sign of the times: “No hat cru
sade—A few good hats for sale,
cheap; hardly been worn; owners no
further use for them; best quality;
latest styles.”
A woman can twist her husband
around her finger as long as she feeds
him well and doesn’t try to reform
him.—Chicago News.
Killing Rare Birds.
Commenting on the craze for kill*
(ng rare birds wherever they may be
found, a writer in London Truth sa>s:
“I should have thought that the fact
that a bird is rare would be a reason
for not killing it. I suppose the Idea
is that, however rare a bird is. some
thing may still be done to make him
rarer.”
Nearly any .man is willing to spend
two dollars’ worth of time to get fifty
cents without work.
r STEAMSHIP MINNESOTA TO TRY |
TO LOWER OREGON’S TIME j
'-;-J
Great interest is manifested in the
long race against the time made by
the battleship Oregon, during the
Spanish-American war. by the mam
moth steamship Minnesota of the
Great Northern Steamship company.
In order to better the time made
by the Oregon, the Minnesota must
THE MINNESOTA
make the 14,000 miles to San Fran
cisco to Key West in sixty-five days.
Allowing for the time to New York
from Key West, seventy-two days
would beat the Oregon’s record.
The Minnesota is one or the two
largest ships ever built-in the United
States. Her gross tonnage is 20,718;
net tonnage, 13,323; length, 626 feet;
beam, 73 feet.
VALUE OF THE RAILROAD^.
Investment Placed at $12,000,000,000
by Interstate Commission.
Railway statistics for the year end
ed June 30, 1903, are announced by
the Interstate commerce commislson
They show that the par value of the
railway capital then outstanding was
$12,599,990,258, which represents a
capitalization of $63,186 a mile. The
number of passengers carried was
694,891.535, an Increase of 45.013.030
over the previous year; freight car
ried. 1,304.394.323 tons, an increase of
104,078,536 tons.
The gross earnings from the opera
tion of the total of 205.313 miles of
railway line, which is the aggregate
single-track mileage, were $1,900,846,
‘.07. an increase of $174,466,640: oper
ating expenses, $1,257,538,852, an in
crease of $174,466,640; operating ex
penses, $1,257,538,852. an increase of
jtf 41.290,105; net earnings. $643.
308,055, an increase of $33,176.
335; income from other sources than
jperation. $205,687,480; net income,
available for dividends or surplus,
$296,376,045.
Total casualties, 86.393, of which
9,840 represented the number of per
sons killed and 76,553 those injured.
Aggregate number of locomotives in
service. 43.S71, increase 2.646; cars in
service, 1.753.389. an increase of over
313,000 during the year.
AMERICA IN THE LEAD.
*
Educational Institutions of This Coun
try the Best.
United States Consul Diedrich at
Bremen. Germany, has been making a
close study of German universities as
compared with those of the United
States. Mr. Diedrich, who wa3 long
a college professor in this country, de
clares most emphatically that in his
Judgment the “United States offer to
day facilities for collegiate, academi
cal and postgraduate studies equal in
qnantity and quality to those offered
by any country in the old world."
American attendance at German uni
versities is growing smaller continu
ally. There is less potency to-day
than there used to* be in the expres
sion “He was educated abroad."
American students have learned to ap
preciate the advantages offered by
American educational institutions.
MADE THE AUDIENCE GASP.
Paper Favoring Vivisection Read Be
fore Its Opponents.
The British Anti-Vivisection society
was thrown into spasms at its recent
annual meeting through the indiscre
tion of Lord Liangattock, a member,
who asked permission to read an in
teresting letter from a military officer
whose name he did not give. In the
course of the communication the writ
er said: “My views as regards anti
vivisection are these; that all the ani
mals in God’s creation should sufTer
the excruciating torture of hell for
millions of years, provided that by do
ing this they saved humanity from a
pain in its little finger for five min
utes.” The paper was excluded from
the society’s report und lx>rd Liangat
tock was politely requested to famil
iarize himself with his correspondence
In future before laying It before the
august body.
Duchess Likes Fast Traveling.
The duchess of Marlborough is con
stantly In trouble over the rapid driv
ing of her automobile, Hhe is abso
lutely reckless about traveling at a
high speed, with the result that her
chaffour is nbonl half the time be
fore some English magistrate on
charges. She will not have a driver
unless he can get the top spend out
of the machine. The duchess con
tends that motors were made to run.
not to crawl. When the duke is
along, however, she has the car kept
at a moderate speed.
Will Cut Cardinal's Incomes.
Pius X. is introducing many econo
mies in the church administration. It
comes largely from his ideas based on
hii personal experience when he waB
a cardinal. At th'.t time, in Venice,
he lived on $200 a month and had
free use of a house and a gondola.
He now proposes to reduce the in
comes of all the cardinals in Rome,
allowing them by way of compensa
tion free residence in papal palaces.
The cardinals do not take kindly to
the suggestion,
i v ' v v x
COSTLINESS OF MODERN WAR.
Combatants Already Are Spending
$3,000,000 Every Day.
It comes pretty high for nations to
quarrel these days when implements
ol warfare have such tremendous pow
ers of destruction and so much deli
rate machinery plays such an import
ant-part in the game.
Military experts have figured out
that the war in the Far East is now
costing the belligerents just about
$3,000,000 a day. Of this sum it is es
timated that the cost to Russia is
$1,800,000 and to Japan $1,200,000.
That the war is proving more expen
sive to the Russians than to the Japa
nese is due to the fact that it is being
fought so far away from the main
1 ase.
If Great Britain should happen to
become involved in the struggle the
experts think it would mean the
waste of $5,000,000 a day. $35,000,000
for every week the struggle lasted.
And these figures take no account of
the initial cost of fitting out the
armies and fleets.
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CLEVER DEVICE OF HUSBAND.
j Bouquets of Parma Violets Put End to
Divorce Proceedings.
M. Porel. husband of Mme. Rejane.
the noted French actress. Anew how
to touch the tender chord in his wife's
nature when she was trying recently
to secure a divorce from him. She
was playing in London. Every morn
ing she received a royal bouquet of
Parma violets. Finally she became
curious and applied ‘o the florist to
tell her whom her aomirer was. He
cabled to M. Porel in Paris and se
cured permission to tell. When she
learned the identity of the sender of
the violets Mme. Rejane exclaimed
that he was a dear and that it w-ould
be wrong to discard so thoughtful a
man. Then she ordered her lawyer
to discontinue the suit and the
estranged couple made up. Parma vio
lets did the business. Foxy Porel.
Fads of Society Leaders.
Eastern society leaders have their
fads and superstitions. Mrs. George
Gould defies the old saying that
pearls typify tears and wears a col
lection that outdoes royalty. Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish's luck omen is a
small gold locket with her initials in
monogram. Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt is
never without a certain bracelet of
Turkish manufacture*. Mrs. Tommy
Hitchcock wears horseshoe diamonr
brooches. Mrs. Payne Whitney’s amu
let is a necklace composed of ever?
translucent precious stone known t(
lapidary art.
Where Balfour Rests.
Premier Balfour has his pleasant
sallies with members of parliament
now and then. John Morley took him
to task some weeks ago for lax at
tendance in the houre of commons.
Mr. Balfour denied that there was any
disinclination on his part to attend
the sittings or to listen to the debates.
On the contrary, he declared, some of
the momeuts of greatest repose that
he could snatch from a somewhat
strenuous and laborious official career
were those spent on the treasury
bench listening to his oratorical
friends.
Colors of the Campaign.
The current campaign is a sort of
rouge et nolr affair as far as the color
of the leaders’ hair to concerned. In
red the Democrats have it by a large
I majority. Judge Parker has red hair;
so also have Mr. Littleton of Brook
lyn. who nominated him; “Billy" Shee
han of New York. Gov. Montague of
Virginia. John Sharp Williams of Mis
sissippi and Senator Carmack of Ten
uensee. The Republicans are mostly
black from Roosevelt down, save
where time has silvered the locks of
the grave and reverend seniors.
•Writes Daily Letter to Brother.
There is one habit that Henry G.
Davis, candidate of the democracy for
vice president, has contracted with
which he will not let even the distrac
tions of a campaign interfere. He has
a brother named Tom to whom he has
all his life made it a practice to write
a letter daily. They have never had
a disagreement. No matter how many
engagements he has with politicians,
Mr. Davis goes to his room early, even
while in New York, to write his daily
letter to Tom.
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HAS CANCELED ALL TREATIES.
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Colombia Severs Diplomatic Relations
with United States.
The Colombian congress has sev
ered all diplomatic relations with the
United States after canceling all ex
isting treaties and withdrawing all
diplomatic and consular exequaturs.
The action created the greatest ex
citement in Colombia, but has the gen
eral support of the populace, which is
exceedingly bitter toward the United
Stat'-s.
Colombia has not been represented
diplomatically at Washington for more
than a year. Minister Cocha. who
took up the original canal r.egotia- ;
tious, was forced to retire from Wa^i
ington because of hi3 demands for a
personal consideration as a pre
requisite to any treaty. Dr. Herran,
/.?£>. 77*2143 Stfj3&4V
secretary of the legation, concluded
the canal treaty which the congress
of Colombia repudiated.
Then came the revolution of Nov. 3,
by which Panama declared its inde
pendence. Even Dr. Herran retired
from business then, and since that
time Colombia has never been regu
larly represented in this country, al
though Minister Concha has never
presented his recall.
SPECULATES IN QUIET WAY.
Oldest Wall Street Man Not a Mem
ber of the Stock Exchange.
Five days a week Edward B. Wes
ley goes to Wall street. For a man
who has lived ninety-three years he is
wonderfully sturdy. He is a million
aire many times over. but. although
he is the oldest speculator in Wall
street, if not in the world, he never
has been a member of the stock ex- i
change. The whirl, the rush and the
roar of the ‘•board" bother him. He
loves to play his part in the great
strife from outside the lines. With
the tape in his hand he sits in his
1 favorite chair in a commission house
at 7 Wall street, and there feels the
| pulse of the market and gives his or
ders to buy or sell. The old man is
proud of the fact that he has been a
' speculator all his life, and he confi- j
dently predicts he will live to be one
hundred and that he will be in the
speculative harness then. He has ro
thought of retiring. Old and feeble as
is Russell Sage. Mr. Wesley is older
and has been in Wall street twenty
five years longer.—New York Corres
pondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
NEW RULER OF ELKS.
William J. O’Brien, Jr., of Maryland,
Chosen for Position.
The election of William J. O’Brien,
Jr., of Baltimore, Md., as grand exalt'
WLltefT JOfi£¥£7/JP.
ed ruler of the Elks at the Cincinnati
con\ entlon is claimed as a victory for
the administration forces over the rad
icals in the order. The new ruler is a
prominent attorney in Maryland.
Scores the “Scorchers.’'
Wayne MacVeagli. ex-attorney gen
eral of the United States, has taken
up cudgels against automobile scorch
ers in his neighborhood in Pennsyl
vania. He wants them punished as
severely as the state law will permit
and declares that many of the drivers
of these machines are simply speed
crazy and seem to get no pleasure out
of them at a moderate gait. It is
along the country roads that most
harm is done. Mr. MacVeagh voices
a sentiment that is widespread and
rapidly intensifying.
Students From Africa and India.
Columbia University’s summer
school is clearly ahead of all its ri
vals, so far as the names of two of
its students are concerned. One is a
full-blooded African from the gold
coast, named James Euman Kodwo
Meusa Ostlwadu Humanpunsam Kweg
yir-Aggrey. The other. Srirangan
Desikachar Sheshadry Iyrngar, is an
East Indian. Both are said to be good
students. The former will be the flrBt
negro to receive the Ph. D. degree
| from Columbia.
' HEARS THE NEWS.
Emperor Told of Results of Bat* » :s
Fought with Japanese.
ST. PETERSBURG—The follow .
dispatch from General Kur ina’
dated, July 25, has been r* < * i\ i
the emperor:
■ Reconnaisances carried out da
of late between Kai Chou and S
tan showed the summits of
heights north of Kai Chou to
strongly occupied and fortified A
o’clock In the morning of July 2 :
enemy, two divisions strong, a -
the offensive. Along the lire- oi »
posts to the south the enemy d>->
ed a division of infar:frj. eon
ing the main body toward !>;. .
I twelve miles north of Kai ( horn ,
coneetnrating his cavalry on r,
flank near the railroad. Hi- ad
was effected slowly and ar inr
was accompanied by a heavy fire r
thirty guns, which our c-ar gnu
teries successfully answered
Japanese fire at first was direct*
the heights, which gradually a
evacuated by our outpost^. O
sharpshooters, with the rear g
opened fire upon the advancing
anese infantry, and at a favorat
meat Colonel Lesch withdrew o
guard to a new position a? Hat
and our batteries, which had •
times changed their positions <•••: •
tied the duel with the en* m -
iery, also firing in*o the in'an’r. *
limns. At about 9:30 o cloc . in *:.-»
morning the Japanese b*_an a *.
ward movement, at first, with *
battalions from the Tsmt.-mkie
In this direction our forces occup 1
a fortified advance position
wards 3 o'clock in the afternoon * ■
enemy had upwards of a division >f
infantry and almost a brigade of
fantry appeared west, of the railroad
At about 4 o'clock the enemy began
to advance and extend its main bod >
“Toward evening on July -23 our
troops, having left detachments to
hold the fortified position, bivouared
in the positions assigned to them
with the view to a possible r<*ar
guard engagement.
“Our losses have not been defin:***
ly ascertained, but according to *h«
advices at hand they were not c*u
siderable.
“Owing to the extreme heat th- •
were a number of cases of sunstr -
among our men. At nightfall our a
vanced posts reoccupied Tantch:
the southeast. The night pa — **!
quietly.
“At 5 o’clock on the morning of
July 24 an exchange of shots l»egan
between outposts in the vicinity of
Tantchi. All was quiet on the Kai
Chou side and there was no further
news.
“On July 21 the Japanese occupied
a height facing Phkan pass. Th ■
interfered considerably with our ob
servation outpost service, and conse
quently on the same day a Rus-ian
force occupied the pass. On the fol
lowing morning Lieutenant Colon-*’
Dementieff. commanding a detach
ment. determined to occupy the south
ern slope of the hill. This was done
about noon. That afternoon the Japa
nese attacked and turned our left
wing. Then taking advantage of th»
formation of the country they bega
to turn the right. Other companies
of Dementieff’s force hastened to his
assistance, to which several com pa
nies were also sent from the neare
pohits. These troops, as they arrived
helped to check the turning opera
tions of the enemy, who finally
brought into action, however, as much
as a brigade of infantry, with which
he pressed our troops and turned both
our flanks.
“Our men. exposed to a terrible fire,
retired step by step, but at the sam >
time offering a stubborn resistant*** t<>
the enemy, who ceased to attack a*
7 o’clock on the evening of July 22.
after occupying Phkan pass."
SIXTEEN HOURS OF FIGHTING.
Russians Forced from Their Position
by a Jap Coup.
LONDON—Cabling under date of
July 24. the Daily Mail’s Nulchwang
correspondent describes a fourteen
hours’ desperate battle with heavy
losses on both sides and which result
ed in the Russian position at Ta Tche
Kiao being rendered untenable, by rea
son of which they will be compelled
to retreat toward Ha! Cheng.
"The battle began at 6 o’clock in
the morning.” the correspondent says,
"the Russians resuming the attack on
the Japanese position on the height
east of Ta Tche Kiao. After a few
hours the Japanese left flank from Ta
Ping mountain captured the village of
Tanghudituan. compelling the Rus
sians to retreat to Tienghauituen, six
miles from thier base.
“The Russians, now reinforced,
maintained the position until 5 o’clock
in the afternoon, when the Japanese
right flank made a sudden appearance
on the hills south of Ta Tche Kia i
and by a tremendous fire forced the
Russians to retreat.
“The Japanese firing line extended
fifteen miles.
“After two more hours of an inces
sant storm of shot and shell they
swept the last hill and the plain clear
of Russians.”
Must Give Indemnity Bond.
PORTLAND, Ore.—According to ad
vices received art the local offices of
the Portland & Asiatic Steamship
company from New York, the steam
ship Aragonia. which is ownert by the
Harnburg-American company, will be
allowed to carry a cargo of Hour from
here to Japan, providing the Portland
& Asiatic company first file an Indem
nity bond to protect the owners in
case the steamship is seized by the
Russians. The amount of the bond
was not made public, but is believed
to be $275,000.
President May Visit Fair.
ST. LOUIS—Colonel Clarence R.
Edwards of the insular department,
who has arrived from Washington,
announces that President Roosevelt
will probably visit the World’s fair
in October. Colonel Edwards says
that the president is anxious to see
the exposition and the details of the
trip will soon be completed.
The most dreadful thing against
women is the character of the men
who praise them.—Harriet, Ladv Ash
burton.