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WAR WILL GO ON NO GOVERNMENT FRIENDLY TO RUSSIA CAN ADVISE. REPARE FOR SPRINC CAMPAIGN Kouropatkin will Have 700.G00 Men at His Command by that Time.—Jap anese Take Many Prisoners.—25,000 Are Surrendered at Fall of Port Arthur. BERLIN—The highest diplomatic opinion here is that the surrender of Port Arthur makes it impossible for any government friendly to Russia to advise rpace or to unite with any other government for mediation. The feel ing at the Russian court, it is assert ed here, is so absolutely for continuing the war that probably not one person who has access to the emperor of Russia could be found who, even pri vately, favors Russia accepting defeat. German military opinion, while ack nowledging the large moral effect of the fall of Port Arthur, inspiring the Japanese and depressing the Russians, regards it as only an incident and as having little relation to the immense field operations that will begin in the spring. General Kouropatkin, it is as serted in official circles, has 600,000 troops east of Baikal, of which more than 400,000 are already gathered at Mukden. It is impossible, the German military men aver, for the Russians to cease fighting with that army in being, which by spring, they add, is likely to number all told 700,000 men. The Japanese, being full informed of Russia's preparations, are putting forth every resource to surpass them. Field operations of a magnitude not before seen in the war it is believed will begin in a few weeks. PARIS—The official view here con tinues to regard mediation between Russia and Japan as impracticable. The Temps, semi-officially, in a lead ing article says: Russia will not consider mediation at a moment when its self-esteem is suf fering from the deepest wound, and will continue playing its strongest card, namely, the concentration of an overwhelming force under General Kouropatkin. The same opinion is held at the Foreign office and at the Russian embassy. TOKIO—The Japanese captured 25.000 prisoners at Port Arthur. The total number of the inhabitants is 35,000. of whom 20,000 are sick. General Nogi reports to the army department that on January 3 the com missioners of both the Japanese and Russian armies concluded their con ference and that from the morning of January 4 the actual transfer of war materials at Port Arthur a3 property of the Japanese government com menced. STOESSEL'S TERMS ACCEPTED. Japanese Legation at Washington No tified of the Surrender. WASHINGTON—The state depart ment received a cablegram from Mr. Griscom, the American minister in Japan, stating that the minister for foreign affairs of Japan notified him that General Stoessel surrendered Port Arthur at 5 o’clock Sunday even ing. The legation advices add that the Russians blew up Tunk Keewanshan and “Q" forts and confirm the press dispatches of the occupancy by the Japanese of the same forts and heights “N” and “M,” of the blowing up by the Russians of almost all their ships in the harbor entrance, and that hostilities had been suspended pend ing the conclusion of negotiations for the Russian surrender. The advices received at the Japan ese legation say that General Nogi ac cepted the terms of surrender pro posed by General Stoessel. Mr. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese minister, was asked whether, in his opinion, the fall of Port Arthur would hasten the end of the war with Rus sia. Without directly responding to the fact that while the fall of Port Arthur was impending and its capture by the Japanese inevitable, the Rus sians had dispatched the second Pa cific squadron to the fear east and notice had been given of the inten tion to send a third army to Manchu ria. The further prosecution of the war now, he said, rested with the Russians. If they should continue it Japan would be prepared to meet them on sea and land. “Will Japan now welcome any of fers of peace that may now be made by Russia?” he was asked. “Japan always has been for peace.” the minister replied. “The Japanese will always be for p*ace, if justice can be obtained for all concerned. Japan started in this war fighting for a principle and she will continue to fight for a recognition of that princi ple and the just attainment of her rights.” Three States Join Hands. SIOUX CITY, la.—Wholesalers of Iowa, Nebra&na and South Dakota have instituted an organized move ment to support Roosevelt in his ap peal for more railroad legislation. Ev ery jobber proposed to write to his congressman urging especially the passage of the Cooper-Quarles bill or legislation calculated to give much needed authority to the interstate commerce commission. The congress men are also asked to oppose the plan of legalizing pooling, declaring it will destroy competition. inspecting Foreign Ship Tars* LONDON—The Russian naval at tache here informs the Associated Press that Vice Admiral Doubasoff, who succeeds Kazankoff on the inter national commission to inquire into the North sea incident, is head of the technical commission appointed to make a tour of the shipbuilding yards and ordinance factories of Great Brit ain, France, Germany and other coun tries. The commission is to report on the capabilities of the various plants with the view of possible fu ture orders for ships. TEXT OF CAPITULATION. Conditions Under Whiuh Port Arthur Was Given Up. TOKIO—A telegram from General ^ogi, giving the text of the capitula tion convention, has been received. It is as follows: Article 1—All Russian soMiers, ma rines, volunteers, also government of ficials at the garrison and harbor of Port Arthur are taken prisoners. Art. 2.—All forts, batteries, wor ships, other ships and boats, arms, am munition, horses, all materials for hos tile use, government buildings and all objects belonging to the Russian gov ernment shall be transferred to the Japanese army in their existing condi tion. Art. 3—On the preceding two condi tions being assented to, as a guaran tee for the fulfillment thereof, the men garrisoning the forts and the bat teries on Etse mountain, Sunshu mountain, Antse mountain and the line of eminences southeast therefrom shall be removed by noon of January J and the same shall be transferred to the Japanese army. Art. 4—Should Russian military or naval men be deemed to have destroy ed objects named in article 2, or to have caused alteration in any way in their condition, at the time of the signing of this compact, the negotia tions shall be annulled and the Jap anese army will take free action. Art. 5—The Russian military and naval authorities shall prepare and transfer to the Japanese army a table showing the fortifications of Port Ar thur and their respective positions, and maps showing the location of mines, underground and submarine, and all other dangerous objects; also a table showing the composition and system of the army and naval serv ice* at Port Arthur; a list of army i and navy officers with names, rank and duties of said officers; a list of army steamers, warships and other ships, with the numbers of their re spective crews; a list of civilians, | showing the number of men and wo- | men. their race and occupations. Article 6—Arms, including those carried on the person: ammunition, war materials, government buildings, objects owned by the government, horses, warships and other ships, in cluding their contents, excepting pri vate property, shall be left in their present positions, and the commission ers of the Russian and Japanese armies shall decide upon the method of their transference. Article i—The Japanese army, con sidering the gallant resistance offered by the Russian army as being honor able, will permit the officers of the Russian army and navy, as well as officials belonging thereto, to carry swords and to take with them private property directly necessary for the maintenance of life. The previously mentioned officers, officials and volun teers. who will sign a written parole pledging that they will not take up arms and in nowise take action con trary to the interests of the Japanese army until the close, of the war, will receive the consent of the Japanese army to return to their country. Each army and navy officer will be allowed one servant, and such servant will be specially released on signing the par ole. Article 8—Non-commissioned officers and private of both army and navy and volunteers shall wear their uni forms, and, taking portable tents and necessary private property, and com manded by their respective officers, shall assemble at such places as may be indicated by the Japanese army. The Japanese commissioners will indi cate the necessary details therefor. Article 9—The sanitary corps and j the accountants belonging to the Rus sian army and navy shall be retained by the Japanese while their services are deemed necessary for the caring ; for the sick and wounded prisoners. During such time such corps shall be required to render service under the direction of th^ sanitary corps and accountants of the Japanese army. Article 10—The treatment to be ac corded to the residents, the transfer of books and documents relating to municipal administration and finance and also detailed files necessary for the enforcement of this compact shall be embodied in a supplementary com pact. The supplementary compact shall have the same force as this compact. OYAMA SENDS HIM A LETTER. Kuropatkin Notified of Fall of Port Arthur. “Continued and intense cannonad ing has been heard since dawn along the railroad near Sinehinpu and Shakhe. A resumption of the cannon ading is expected.” BERLIN—The Lokal Anzieger’s Mukden correspondent, in a dispatch dated January 6. says: “Field Marshal Oyama has sent a letter to General Kuropatkin contain ing the news of the capitulation of Port Arthur and praising the bravery of its defenders. The effect of the news was especially confounding, last reports anticipating a long resistance. It is believed it will influence the sit uation on the Shekhe. Warned Away, Account Mines. WEI HAI WEI—The British cruiser Andromeda, which sailed from here for Port Arthur with hospital stores and surgeons to assist the sick and wounded, returned, not having been { allowed to make a landing at Port Arthur. The cruiser proceeded to a small bay ten nr.iles north of Port Arthur where she met with some Jap anese. The latte; refused all offers of assistance or stores of any kind aad declined to allow the ship’s officers to approach closer, the reason given be ing the presence of unlocated mines. Find More Double Stare. BERKELEY, Cal.—More double stars have been discovered and meas ured at the Lick observatory. The latest bulletin issued by the univer sity contains an account of another hundred new double stars discovered and measured there. These new double stars are of the same char acter as those previously discovered at the Lick observatory. The distance between the two components in moat of them is very small and nearly all would be difficult objects to observe under conditions less favorable. WORK THIS WEEK CONGRESS WILL NOW GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. THE JOINT STATEHOOD MEASURE — t Will Have the Right of Way in the Senate, Though Friends Will Not Make an Effort to Push It at Present. WASHINGTON—The joint state hood bill will continue to be the prin cipal topic of discussion in the senate during the present week, but other measures will receive attention each day during the morning hour, includ ing the omnibus bill, for which Sen ator Waren stands sponsor. The bill comprises more than 200 pages, but the senator already has succeeded in having it read by utilizing odd hours and thus has put a large and import ant part of the work of consideration to the rear. There will be an effort made to get through the bill provid ing for the compensation of Ameri can fishermen whose vessels were seized previous to the arbitration of 1893. This measure is in the hands of Senator Fulton, who will press it as an act of justice to men who, he thinks, have been discriminated against. The pure food bill will remain in the background for the present, not because the friends of that measure have abandoned it, but because they consider its chances will be improved by not pressing for immediate con sideration. They have been assured by the republican leaders that the bill shall have first place on the calen dar, aside from appropriation bills, after the statehood bill is disposed of, and therefore they will not antagon ize the statehood bill for the present, if at all. Discussion of the statehood ques tion will begin on Monday with a speech by Senator Morgan, and he will be followed by other opposing senators. The presnt plan of the op position to keep the discussion going until some of the appropriation bills are reported and it becomes neces sary to take them up, or if his is postponed too long, to displace the bill with the pure food bill. Failing in all these expedients, they probably will seek a compromise. The only real fight is against the uniting of Arizona and New Mexico, and there is talk of eliminating those territories entirely from the statehood proposi tion. It is believed that if this were done the bill for admission of Indian Territory and Oklahoma wouia be passed. Thus far there has been no conference of opposing factions on the subject and possibly there would be little done to change the present status so long as the leaders are anx ious to keep other matters In the background, as appears to b« the case at present. PROGRAM OF JAPS. Naval Station Will Be Established at Port Arthur. TOKIO—The Japanese intend to es tablish a naval station at Port Ar thur. Vice Admiral Y. Shibayama will probably be placed in charge of it. The military administration will only retain a small garrison as soon as the prisoners are withdrawn and order is restored. The fleet is busily engaged in clearing mines, but owing to their great number navigation will be unsafe for a long time. Only gov ernment craft will be allowed to enter the harbor. It is probable that Dalny will soon be opened up to neutrals. Japanese companies are preparing to establish weekly services to that port. It is proposed shortly to float a fourth domestic war loan under the same conditions as the third was ne gotiated. The transfer of prisoners was com pleted yesterday afternoon. The total : number of officers transferred was 878; men. 23,491. General Stoessel and the other Russian officers who have been given their parole will be brought to Naga saki on a Japanese transport. It Is probable they will remain at Naga- | sakl for a few days and will then sail i for Russia on a French steamer via ! the Suez canal. MEMORIAL FOR DEAD LEADER Tribute of Chicago Orchestra to Theodore Thomas. CHICAGO—Thousands of persons, i eager to pay tributes of respect to the memory of Theodore Thomas, were turned away from the Audi torium theater Sunday night because every seat in the hall was occupied fully half an hour before the time set for the memorial concert by the Chicago orchestra for its dead leader. While the public memorial service was being held in the Auditorium a program of the dead musician’s fa vorite numbers was also being ren dered in many halls throughout the city. Sugar Bounty Law is Void. LINCOLN, Neb.—The supreme court of Nebraska has decided that the sugar beet bounty law. enacted at the legislative session of 1895, is void. The law provided a bounty on sugar manufactured from Nebraska grown beets, but subsequent legislatures re fused to make an appropriation for the payment. The Oxnard Beet Sugar company and the Norfolk company brought suit to collect $40,000 in pre miums from the state. The lower court decided against the companies, and the supreme court affirms. Homesteaders’ Leaves of Absence. WASHINGTON—Senator Hepburn has introduced a bill granting leaves of absence, not to exceed six months in any one year, to homesteaders on lands to be irrigated until water is turned Into the main irrigation canals on such lands. Chinaman Hanged for Murder. FOLSOM, Cal.—Sing Yow, a Chi naman, was hanged In the peniten tiary here tor the murder of Jeong Him. at Walnut Grove, Sacramento county. In October, 1902. SITUATION AT PORT ARTHUR Town Not as Badly Damaged as Re ported. LONDON—Special dispatches from Tokio say that the Port Arthur garri son was marshaled at 9 o’clock Thurs day morning at Yahutsui in accord ance with the terms of the supple mentary agreement. The Standard’s Port Arthur corre spondent reports that the town ap pears to have been little damaged by the bombardment. Carriages and rickshas, he says, are moving about with well dressed people, who appar ently are anything but starved. The ruined forts resemble hills shaken by a might convulsion, and in many cases every trace of the works has disappeared. According to the Daily Mail’s Wei Hai Wei correspondent the British cruiser Andromeda, which sailed from Wei Hai Wei Wednesday morning for Port Arthur with hospital stores and surgeons, and which was not allowed to make a landing at Port Arthur, had a narrow escape, having passed two floating mines. Japanese officials in London con sider that it was solely on account of the danger of the vessels taking mines that the Andromeda's offer was de clined. It is stated, however, that the British admiral omitted the formality of first asking whether assistance was acceptable to the Japanese author ities. RUSSIA’S FATE IN BALANCE. St. Petersburg Editor Discusses Pres ent Cor ion in East and Locally. ST. PETERSBURG—Regarding the peace talk abroad M. Souvorin, edi tor of the Novoe Vremya, in a signed editorial in that paper, passionately declares that the voice of the nation should give an answer, in order that the world might understand once for all Russia’s position. The emperor, he added, should consult with represent atives of the land as his predecessors did before the days of John the Ter rible. While papers abroad now say that peace could be concluded with out dishonor if peace were made, they would declare it disgraceful. What the people want, he (M. Souvorin) cannot affirm, but the idea of ending the war at this juncture is abhorent to him and, he believes, to the Rus sian people. If the inscriptions on the banners of demonstrators and the ac tion of some of the zemstvos in favor of peace, represented the voice of the nation, it would mean the collapse of all of Russia's aspirations and fare well to its position in the nations of the world. TAYLOR MAY LEAVE CASE Smoot Prosecutor Receives Federal Appointment and May Retire. WASHINGTON—Robert W. Tayler of Ohio, appointed to be judge of the United States district court of the northern district of Ohio, called on the president to pay hiv respects and to thank him for the appointment. Mr. Tayler expects to assume his new duties on February 1, on the retire ment of Judge Francis J. Wing, re signed. At present Mr. Tayler is the principal attorney for the protestants in the inquiry which is being made by the senate in the case of Senator Smoot of Utah. It is expected that the formal inquiry by the committee will have been concluded by February 1, but If it should not be Mr. Tayler will withdraw at that time. All Prisoners Turned Over. WASHINGTON—The Japanese le gation received the following cable gram from the foreign office at Tokio, under date of Jan. 8: “General Nog!, on Sunday, reports delivery of Rus sian prisoners under capitulation was completed on Saturday. The total cff the prisoners were 878 officers and 23,491 men, whereof 411 officers and 229 orderlies have given parole so far. General Smirnoff, General Fock, Gen eral Gobatovsky and Admiral Will mar-n preferred to be sent to Japan as prisoners. Russian Prisoners Jolly. HEADQUARTERS OF THE THIRD JAPANESE ARMY. VIA FUSAN— The Russian prisoners, while waiting at Changkingstu, a railway statioa, for transportation to Dalny celebrated Christmas. Religious services were held in the morning at 10 o’clock and the assemblage of prisoners was ad dressed by a Russian priest in full canonical dress. After the services there was music and dancing on the open ground in front of the station. An 8-year-old daughter of a Russian officer was among the prisoners. In Memory of Golden Rule Jones. NEW’ YORK—A memorial meeting in honor of the late Samuel M. Jones, who for several years was mayor of Toledo, O., was held Sunday night at Cooper Union. Nearly 2,000 persons attended. Over 24.000 Men Transferred. TOKIO—The transfer of prisoners was completed Sunday afternoon. The total number of officers transferred was 878; men, 23,491. Shoots Two House Breakers. CHICAGO—Sitting on guard each night for over a week for the re-ap pearance of burglars, who had enter ed his office on several previous oc casions, Thomas J. Campbell, a real estate dealer, reaped the reward for his long vigil when two robbers forced an entrance to the office and were both shot by Campbell before they could make their escape. Joseph Sicer was shot in the body and will die. The other robber, name unknown, managed to escape, but not before he had been shot in the leg. Stockholders Must Pay. AKRON, O.—Judge George Hayden rendered a decision in the state bank ruptcy case of the Aultman-Miller company, affecting over 11,000.000 worth of stock. Many stockholders de murred to paying the double liability obligation on the ground that the re cent amendment to the constitution in that connection absolved them be cause the failure occurred after the amendment was adopted. Judge Hay den held that stockholders must stand for double value of their sharea NO PEACE SOUGHT NEITHER RUSSIA NOR JAPAN ASKING FOR IT. THE WAR TO BE PROSECUTED The Mikado, it is said, Has Made No Overtures and Has Not Been Ap proached in Regard to the Matter of Intervention. WASHINGTON—Japan has made no overtures for peace to Russia, di rectly or indirectly, through the United States, or any other power, and contemplates no such action, and now that Port Arthur has fallen, pro poses to press the war in the north all the more vigorously by reinforcing the Japanese armies at Liao Yang with the greater part of the troops which have been besieging Port Ar thur. This, in brief, represents the views of Kogoro Takahira, the Jap anese minister, who has recently re sumed charge of the legation at Wash ington after a long illness at New York. “The fall of Port Arthur,” said the minister, “is but a step in the war which Japan is waging for a princi ple. Certainly it is an important step, but nothing could be further from the truth than the assumption that, be cause Japan has captured a strong hold, the fall of which had long been expected, the Japanese government will now make overtures for peace. Japan is too busy fighting. We are as much in earnest today as we were at the outset of the war. We have made no overtures for peace, either directly or indirectly, nor have the powers ap proached us with any idea of inter vention.” At the Russian embassy it was re iterated that Russia would fight all the harder in view of the temporary loss of Port Artnur. Europe, it is learned, is firmly of the conviction that, however dark the outlook for peace at this moment, when the prospect brightens it is to President Roosevelt that the neutrals as well as the belligerents will look for the intermediary through which ne gotiations can be made. As a Euro pean ambassador said today, the American government is practically the only government to which both belligerents will be willing to look for assistance in reaching a settlement, when the time comes, and aside from . this fact the high personal regard in which the president is held, both at St. Petersburg and Tokio, makes it all the more probable that through him, when Russia and Japan have fought their fight, the powers must hope for peace. AS TO FORESTRY. i Chief Executive Speaks Before the Congress. WASHINGTON— President Roose velt was the principal speaker at a special session of the American For est Congress held Thursday at the National theater. The president, ac companied by Secretary Loeb, arrived at the theater promptly at 3 o’clock. He was escorted to the stage entrance and as he appeared before the im mense audience, which filled every part of the house, the people received him standing, while the theater rang with applause and the orchestra play ed a patriotic air. President Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific presided at the morn- j ing session. The board of directors re- i ported action looking to the creation of an advisory board of the forest ; congress, to consist of representatives of various industrial bodies and to meet annually in Washington. Charles F. Manderson, general soli citor of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and former United States sen ator from Nebraska, characterized the preservation of the timber industry of the country as “the paramount is sue” and urged the planting and hus banding of timber wherever tr^es can be grown. He spoke of the enormous demands for ties. “Of the ties now on the railroad tracks of the country,” he said, “10 per cent have to be replaced annually; their average cost is 50 cents, making an annual expenditure for this purpose of $45,000,000, which is exclusive of the labor employed and the cost of local transportation. Nc feasible substitute has been found fof the wooden tie.” He urged the sub jugation of private rights to public necessity, the study of means for elim inating waste and mismanagement and the repeal of the timber and stone land sale act. Other addresses were made by J. T. Richards, chief engineer maintenance of way, Pennsylvania railroad; President L. E. Johnson ol the Norfolk & Western railroad, and Herman von Schrenk of the Bureau ot Forestry. The latter detailed the good' results already announced in the pres ervative treatment of railroad tim bers to prolong their durability. Mr. von Schrenk also gave some facts adduced in recent experiments by the government, showing that, con trary to many reports, the injection of creosote into wood brings about no brittle and weakened condition of the wood. Whipping Post Advocated. WASHINGTON—The local grand jury, in making its final report for the present term of the supreme court for the District of Columbia today rec ommended the establishment of the whipping post in the District. The question has been considerably agi tated ever since the president in his last annual message recommended corporal punishment for wife beaters in the District of Columbia. A rec ommendation that persons about to be married produce evidence of freedom from certain diseases also is made. Huge Bonfire of Cotton. DALLAS, Tex.—A special from Shawnee, Okla., says that several thousand dollars’ worth of cotton, es timated at 600 bales, gathered together in a huge pile in the little town of Asher, in the southern part of Potta wattamie county, furnished m huge bonfire with which to greet the new year. Inthe presence of a large cro«*"r the torch was applied and the sacy4**** lng smoke was a witness th farmers of this section are n outdone by those of other se* reduce the supply. , HOW SEA FIGHTING FORCES OF THE NATIONS COMPARE ENGLAND 164.400 Rt’5SIA M.730 GE^lA!m03.976 nV^NCE. 67.600 W3.J93.J60 •, TONNAGE op BATTLESHIP^ NOW BtOLDJNCj PARIS RESUMES OLD GLORY. Session of North Sea Tribunal Re vives Its Diplomatic Prestige. The tribunal which is dealing with the controversy relating to Russia's sinking of English fishing craft in the North sea has just opened at the French capital. Paris is resuming its old glory as the world’s political cen ter. It was at Paris that the repre sentatives of the United States and Spain met to settle the issues grow ing out of the war of 1898. It seemed jnst as appropriate a place for the United States and Spain to meet in that juncture as it did in 1856 for England, Russia. Prussia, Austria, Turkey and the rest of the European powers to deal with the issues grow ing out of the Crimean war. It was at a congress at Paris in 1783 that England recognized United States in dependence. Twenty years earlier a treaty of Paris brought the seven years’ war to an end. Between 1763 and 1904 more important internation al gatherings have been held at Paris than in all the rest of the world's cap itals.— St. Louis Globe Democrat. TO THE LAND OF THE FREE. Table of Immigration Shows Arrival of Millions. A recently published table shows that from 1821 to 1903 (both inclusive) the total number of immigrants was 21.265,723, of whom Europe furnished 93 per cent. Of the total immigra tion into the United States during eighty-five years Germany and the United Kingdorti furnished 56 per cent, as follows: Germany, 24 per cent; Ireland. 19 per cent, and England. Scot land and Wales, 13 per cent. During the same period Austria-Hungary, Italy and Russia and Poland furnished 21 per cent, as follows: Austria-Hun gary. 7 per cent; Italy, 8 per cent, and Rusisa and Poland. 6 per cent Of the total immigration in 1903, Ger many and the United Kingdom fur nished only 12 per cent, while Austria Hungary, Italy and Russia and Poland furnished 68 per cent. NEW COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. Charles P. Neill Soon to Succeed Car roll D. Wright. On Feb. 1 Charles P. Neill will suc ceed Carroll D. Wright as commis sioner of labor. Mr. Neill has ac quired a reputation as a statistician CIM5. &JVEZZJL and has the confidence of laboring men as well as the administration. Mr. Neill’s home is at the capital. He is thoroughly familiar with the work : of the bureau. Tuberculosis Infection. Tuberculosis is a house infection. We don't pick it up on the streets as we may pneumonia or smallpox; we never inherit it; seldom is it contract ed from diseased milk or meat. Occa sional contact with a consumptive en dangers no one; the disease is not contagious in that sense. But every house in which an ignorant or care less consumptive has lived and coughed up the deadly bacilli; every close and foul-aired workroom in which he has labored becomes a peri! ;o those who live or work with him or follow after him.—McClure's. Railroader to Take High Office. Isaac Thomas Parker, who will soon be inducted into office as lieutenant governor of Delaware, is conduc a passenger train running h Philadelphia and Delmar, already quartermaster gene staff of the present goverr is the first elective offlc ance to which he has Mr. Parker has no id^ his position on the P road, but declares the legislature ' found on his ol Czar Has V It is said all the pa* great r ing pa1 FADELE itherSje. One 10c IrttdwlNt ■•ilk. wool and cotton to Dm. Bleach end Mix Colon When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. COOLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA. World Waiting to See How Expert ment Turns Out. Not much has been published of late concerning the employment of coolies in the South African mines. Presum ably it did not prove a telling cause in English parliamentary elections, and there seems to be a general feel ing that, now that the coolies have been imported, people should wait and see how the experiment turns out be fore making further attacks on it. Up to the 1st of December more than 19. 300 Chinese had been landed in South Africa for work in the mines. The last shipment was of 2.249, 2.238 being landed, the remaining eleven having died on the voyage. That would ap pear to be a very large percentage of loss for coolies who are all carefully inspected before their shipment, and who are all men in the prime of life. Some of the tramp steamers that have been engaged in this work, while controlled by certain government reg ulations concerning the carrying of the coolies, must have, in bad weath er, presented a scene below decks that was somewhat reminiscent of the old days of the middle passage.— Boston Herald. IN AND OUT OF CABINET. Sensations of Members Well Described by Senator Foster. Postmaster General Wynne, who used to be a newspaper man in Wash ington. bears his honors with becom ing dignity, but does not in any way feel uppish over his advancement. The president one day asked him: “How does it feel to attend a cabinet meeting after having spent so much time on the outside trying to find out what occurred at similar gatherings?” “Oh, it is not so much how he feels.” said Secretary Wilson, “as how the rest of us feel.” Wynne has Irish blood in his veins and ready wit at the tip of his tongue. He came back in this fashion: “That reminds me of what Secretary Foster said when he took charge of the treasury de partment. I was his private secre tary. One day he remarked to me: ‘Wynne, when I first came to Wash ington as a member of the cabinet I gazed in awe at the distinguished men who were my colleagues and won dered how I got there. After I had been in the cabniet three months I wondered how my colleagues got there.’ ” GET FOOD TO PORT ARTHUR. How Chinese Junks Successfully Elude Blockaders. The medium-sized northern Chinese junks make first-class blockade run ners. They are built very low in the water, with the docks almost awash when loaded, so that only the bow and stern rise noticeably above the water line. They are strong, flat-bot tomed and of unpainted, dirty wood, with no bright colors about them. Pro pelled by from ten to twenty oarsmen, if the sails fail, they glide through the water with no noise or smoke, and are very difficult of detection. Dodging along the shore and among the nu merous islets, which extend from the Shan-Tung peninsula across the mouth of Pe-Chee-Lee gulf, they close ly resemble the low, brown rocks and during the past months hundreds of them have evaded the Japanese watchers and carried tons of fres’ provisions and vegetables to the t leaguered Port Arthur garrison. Simple Home of Rockefeller*. In Mr. Rockefeller’s home in N« York little effort is made at pret< tiousness. There are no elevators, elaborate system of electric bells, ni frills about anything. Mrs. Rocke feller laboriously climbs the stairs rather than have an elevator put in. Simplicity and economy sound the keynote. Mrs. Rockefeller s kitchen in her New York house would be con sidered extremely old-fashioned bj the standard of her rich neighbor She does not care much for the r ures of the table. Plain cooking her best. Her husband, of cou most careful of his diet. Th» dishes he is obliged to pass u* would make a SS DYES l OMCli CO., BEGGS* CHERRY COUGH SYRUP curat couftu and ceM*.
