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A SECRET clause in the testaments of Baron
Alfonse Rothschild and the ienna Roths
child was recently made public. A Paris cable
gram to the Buffalo Times says that this secret
clause warns the Rothschilds against permitting
marriages outside the family circle. It is pointed
out that the Countess of Rosebery (Baroness
Hanna Rothschild) and the Princess of Wagram,
another Rothschild, die '. very 'young, while Roths
child women married to cousins and uncles of
the talismanic name live to a ripe old age. The
Times cablegram further says: "All the Roths
childs now living, male and female, are descended
from the four sons of the original Amschel Roths
child, who flourished in the first part of the nine
teenth century. The late Baron Alfonse was the
son of Amschel's youngest boy, James, who mar
ried his own niece. Alfonso's daughter Bettina
married Baron Albert of the Vienna branch, and
two of his brothers, like himself, married Roths
child cousins. And the Frankfort, London and
Vienna Rothschilds followed suit. Despite these
inter-marriages, there has been no mental degen
eration so far, but many of the Rothschild women
have been attacked by cancer. Through inter
marriage with the Wagrams, the Rothschilds en
tered into relationship with the kaiser, who is a
cousin and nephew of the Bavarian royal family,
while the first Princess of Wagram was a Princess
of Bavaria."
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY BONAPARTE
has made another public statement with re
spect to his refusal to accept railroad transpor
tation. Mr. Bonaparte says: "My declining to
avail myself of the free passes sent me was not
intended in any wise as a reflection either on the
railroads whose officers tendered me this courtesy,
or on other public officials whose opinion on this
subject may differ from mine. I recog
nize fully that many highly estimable and alto
gether upright men in public life can see no objec
tion to the acceptance of free" passes. I think
otherwise, and without criticising others I must
act for myself and on my own convictions. I do
not care to discuss the subject further, except to
say that I have always thought it wise and right
for a public man in a government like ours to
seek the approval of public opinion when it does
not contradict the promptings of his own con
science, and I believe public opinion approves the
course I have taken in this respect."
CAPTAIN EVAN P. HOWELL, for many years
prominently identified with southern jour
nalism, die: at Atlanta, August 6. Captain Howell
was 65 years of age. Mrs. Howell and seven chil
dren survive him. In the early SO's Captain
Howell associated with Henry W. Grady and pur
CIl?8?id a controIlmS interest in the Atlanta Con
stitution. He was born in Georgia and during
the Civil war served as a member of the First
Georgia regiment, later commanding Howell's bat
tery of artillery. Captain Howell held many pub- '
lie offices, concluding a term as mayor of Atlanta
only last year.
JUDGE BRADY of the Kansas City police court,
J fined a citizen $1.50 for failing to cut down
weeds. The defense was that the objection
able growths were not weeds but sunflowers.
Judge Brady said: "Sunflowers may be flowers
in Kansas, but they are weeds in Missouri." The
defendant, Dr. J. L. Flanders, a prominent physi
cian, pointed out that the sunflower is the Kan
sas emblem and is not a weed. It is said he
will tako an appeal. Judge Brady says his ruling
Is upheld by a supreme court decision.
THE executive council of New York's Civic
Federation has appointed a committee to in
vestigate national and municipal ownership and
operation of public utilities. Among members of
the committee are the following named gentle
men: Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Big
Four railroad; Isaac N. Seligman, treasurer of
the Citizens' Union; Oscar S. Straus, Dr. Albert
Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews; Frank
lin MacVeagh of Chicago; Alexander H. Revell
president of the Chicago Civic Federation; Robert
W. Do Forest, Edward Rosowater, editor of the
Omaha Bee; Charles W. Knapp, editor of the St.
Louis Republic; Austen G. Fox, John G. Agar,
Frank A. Vanderlip, W. D. Mahon, president of the
Association of Street Railway Employes; John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers
of America; Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; E. E. Clark, grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors;
Professor F. W. Taussig of Harvard, Professor
Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia, Professor J.
W. Jenks of Cornell, Professor Henry W. Faraam
of Yale, Professor Frank" J. Goodnow of Colum
bia University, Professor Leo S. Rowe of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Walton Clark, vice presi
dent of the Traction company of Philadelphia;
Samuel Insull, president of the Edison company of
Chicago; Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independ
ent; Lawrence F. Abbott, editor of the Outlook;
Talcott Williams, editor of the Philadelphia
Press; Frank Parsons, president of the National
Public Ownership League of Boston; Charles A.
Conant, V. Everit, Macy and Marcus M. Marks of
New York.
THE Russian and Japanese peace envoys are
in session at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Ai the luncheon in hoaor of these distinguished
visitors President Roosevelt gave this sentiment:
"Gentlemen: I propose a toast to which there will
be no answer and to which I have the honor to
ask you to drink in silence, standing. I drink to
the welfare and prosperity of the sovereigns and
the people of the two great nations whose repret
sentatives have mot one another on this ship. It
is my most earnest hope and prayer, in the inter
est of not only these two great powers, but of all
civilized mankind, that a just and lasting peace
may speedily be concluded between them."
PORTSMOUTH dispatches say that the Rus
sian delegates are instructed not to con
sent to a war indemnity. Walter Wellman says
that Count Witte, the Russian representative, be
lieves that the Japanese are far more eager for
peace than they permit to become known, and
that he thinks he can force the Japanese to ac
cept a much smaller stake than they have set
their hearts upon. Mr. Wellman quotes the Japa
nese journalists as saying that the people of Japan
are more determined than the government upon
harsh demands, and that while the government
realizes the importance of not making "an eternal
blood enemy of Russia" it would not dare to make
a "weak peace." As Mr. Wellman says: "The
Japanesce government would not dare to make
such a peace as the United States made after the
Spanish American war, the conqueror paying the
vanquished for territory already , won."
IT WILL be remembered that in 1904 a New
York paper charged that J, Pierpont Morgan's
yacht had visited Oyster Bay and that the finan
cier had paid a visit to Mr. Roosevelt. The story
was bitterly denied. Oyster Bay dispatches under,
date of August 7 say that on that day Mr Morgan
took luncheon with Mr. Roosevelt and that it was
officially announced that the financier had called
to discuss the Canton-Hankow Chinese Railway
concession. The Oyster Bay correspondent for
the Chicago Record-Herald says that the Han
koy railway concession has passed from a finan
cial to a political question; that King Leopold
of Belgium, who was a large stock holder in the
company, has urged Mr. Morgan not to sell to
SftlnSn l1Q oncession China having offered $7,
000,000 for the same. It is now said that the sale
will be postponed, until the conclusion of the peace
conference at Portsmouth. l
A N EXTRAORDINARY case of the dead re
r turned to life is reported under dati nt
August 6 by the New Orleans correspondent6 f
the New York World. This correspondent says
"The supposed dead yellow-fever victim was Emii
Lopez, a young man, who was stricken with the
Plague some days ago. In spite of every effort
Lopez gradually sank and was at length decided
fnm 7PUW? Physician' Amfd t e wal
ngs of the bereft family the body was laid out
the bur t LfTralTt0day' A few hours bef
tne buiiar time -Mrs. Lopez went in to tako a last
look at her boy. She stooped -and kisi 1,1
and as her lips touched his she was ton nli?'
find that his face was warm and hi, u?
She summoned' the members o : toe bur lar n?f
and declared she believed her son was not K
She Tdssed him a second time and cr7ed ou? S
alive! My boy's, alive!' and then swooned a
call was made tor. the physician who pro ounceu7
Lopez dead, but he could not be found. Tn0t
doctor succeeded in bringing the youth hack to
life. He was unconscious for an hour or two
but he gradually regained his senses and is now
almost recovered." w
WASHINGTON dispatches say that William
1 ", Sn?erI f New York wil1 Probably bo
appointed first Assistant Secretary of State to
succeed Mr. Loomis, and that Mr. Loomis will be
given a post in the diplomatic service. It will bo
remembered that Mr. Loomis figured conspicuous.
ly and somewhat discreditably in the famous
Bowen-Loomis affair. The Washington corres-
pondent of the New York World says "Mr
Loomis is one of President Roosevelt's personal
friends, and it is the intention of the president
to transfer him to the diplomatic service, prob-
ably as ambassador to Mexico or Brazil. There
is a slight hitch because Ambassador Thompson,
the. American representative at Rio Janeiro, is
urging the president to transfer him to Mexico.
If this is done Mr. Loomis will go to Brazil."
AN INTERESTING STORY under date of Kan
sas City, Mo., August 8, is told by a corres
pondent for the Chicago Record-Herald in this
way: "'I tell you there is no vacancy,' said
United States Senator William Warner of Mis
souri, clad in his pajamas, in the lsmall hours of
the morning, as he stood in the aisle of a Pull
man car, sound asleep, and shook his finger at
the conductor. 'There is no vacancy,' he repeat
ed. 'I am sorry.' Just then the train lurched
and threw the senator against a berth, and ho
woke up. He rubbed his eyes, looked about 'him
and said, 'What was I saying? I beg your par
don, but I have walked and talked in my sleep for
years. The conductor told him what he had said.
'I ha-ve always held that the applicants for oflice
haven't worried me,' Major Warner said, 'but I
think they have begun to work on my brain, as
I have taken to talking of them in my sleep.'
Major Warner was on his way home from Wash
ington." CI OMMANDANT TAKESHITA, the Japanese
J naval attache at Washington recently re
ferred, according to a writer in the San Antonio
Express, to an officer who had broken his parole.
The commandant said: "He who once dishonors
himself will be always dishonorable. I do not
believe in repentance. I do not believe that wo
sin and become good again. Sin leaves us in
eradically soiled. Hence, ifis futile to try to re
form rascals and criminals. Covertly or openly,
as the mood strikes them, these men answer our
admonitions as the swindler answered the Yoko
hama judge. The swindler had come, footsore
and weary, to the cottage of a poor man. There
ho had been entertained a montli without pay
ment. Finally, departing, he had borrowed the
entire savings of the household that had sheltered
him, pretending that, with this money for lawyer
hire, he would be able to get an inheritance that
had been withheld from him. So the hospitaV.e
poor man gave the swindler all his savings, and
that was the end of the swindler, of course. But
he was caught by the police a few months later,
and at his trial he was proved guilty of having
swindled his benefactor of his modest hoard. The
judge, before sentencing the swindler, said to him.
reproachfully: 'How could you be so base as to
swindle those honest folk who put confidence in
you?' The swindler with a smile replied: 'Your
honor, I'll make it worth your while if you'll tell
me how to swindle those who don't put confidence
in me.' "
MRS. FANNY SAQUI, of 769 Tremont avenue,
New' York, is a widow and conducts a small
cigar store. The tobacco trust attempted to ob
tain possession of the Saqui storo and offered to
purchase it. Mrs. Saqui refused to sell. S.e
was then told -by the "trust's agent that the trust
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