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dren, and thacongress will close with a groat '
.dinner undertthe auspices of the New York Peace
;Societyt of which Mr. Carnegie is now president.
.The whole program promises to bo one of unusual
.Interest, and it-is expected that not only the peace
and arbitration associations, but niniiy organiz.i
tions interested in the intcrna'tlonal peace move
nient, such. as church societies, women's associa
tions, labor unions, colleges, etc., will send delegates."
VIDENTLY Senator Foraker is not to have it
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uuiuguuon to tne republican national convention.
The Ohio State Journal, one of the leading repub
, . ican newspapers quotes approvingly from the Co
. .luinbus, Ohio, Dispatch editorial entitled "The
.elimination of Foraker." Following is an extract
. from that editorial: "Joseph Benson Foraker is
.serving his last term in the senate and he will
.never be president of the United States. Were ho
j a candidate for the presidency, which his record
.and policies and the temper of the people render
a preposterous supposition, Ohio would go over
whelmingly democratic. If he persists in his cam
paign for re-election to the senate and succeeds
:- in weighting the republican party in this state
with the millstone of his candidacy, the people
.of Ohio will elect a democratic legislature and send
a democratic senator to Washington. Ohio Is don
. -with Foraker. No one outside the stale can uu
. .derstaud the intense feeling against him."
JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE died at Zion
City, near 'Chicago. About three hundred
and fifty of his original followers remained faith
ful to him to the end. The Associated Press de
scribes his career m this way:
Born May 25, 1847.
Entered commercial business in Australia in
18G0. - '
Returned to Scotland in 18G7 and studied theol
ogy and arte.
Forsook Christian church in 1878.
Established Divine Healing association in Aus
tralia in 1878. " '
Started to England in 1888 to extend his new
religion.
Arrived in Chicago In 1890.
Spent five years in working up his new faith.
. Zion City church established in 1890 with
Dowle as its head.
: -Declared-himself Elijah the restorer in 1900.
" First building erected iii Zion City in 1901.
Federal receivership placed over Zion City in -1903,
lasting a week.
Began new Zion City in Mexico in September,
1905. c.
Dowle stricken with paralysis In December,
1905.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva made acting overseer of
Zion in January, 190G.
Voliva deposed Dowle in April, 1900, denounc-1
Ing Dowle for mismanagement.
Mrs. Dowie joined Voliva's party and de
nounced her husband.
Matter taken to courts by Dowie in April, 1900.
Dowie died March 9, 1907.
SINCE George W. Perkins made restitution
to the New York Life Insurance company
of the $54,0000 which he had, out of that com
pany's funds, contributed to the republican na
tional committee, many newspapers are demand
ing that the officers of the republican organization
take action along the same lines. The New York
World says: "Although George W. Perkins has
made restitution to the New York Life Insurance
company, the republican national committee,
which was an accessory both before and after the
fact, has not made restitution. This committee
collected and disbursed nearly $150,000 of the
policy holders' money in the campaign of 1901.
Potentially the committee is much richer than
Perkins. All the resources of the republican party
are among its assets. A contribution of two cents
from every voter who supported Mr. Roosevelt In
1904 would wipe out this debt of dishonor to the
policy-holders. Yet no action has been taken.
Does the committee want the country to believe
that George W. Perkins has a finer and more sen
sitive conscience than the national organization of
the republican party"
PHILIP BRASHER, a New .York athlete, has
secured a patent on an invention, the pur
pose of which is stated to be "to calm the troubled
waters of the sea.'" It Is said to be a very simple
thing and is described by the New York World
in this way: "Brasher has succeeded in quieting
the waves of the sea with that .which agitates
them with air! Have you ever watched air bub
bles come to the surface of water from any cause?
Have you ever iidtJced as Brasher did that the
surface waves are disturbed, flattened out at the
point where these air bubbles rise? Right here is
Brasher's discovery. His invention is a simple
result. A long lino of air bubbles will act as a
dead line to oncoming waves. Beyond the lino of
bubbles the roughest water loses its surface action
and becomes comparatively calm. . When tins
.Manchuria went on the reef near Honolulu. ho
was not at first seriously damaged. If the soi
could have been quieted for even a short time,
until wrecking tugs had been rushed to the seen',
the big ship might have been saved; "But the nou
pounded and lifted and steadily undermined the
structure of the vessel, and in the end she became
all but a total loss. This situation Is repeated
many times every year. The restless sea, oven
when It Is not In the stress of a real storm, is an
enemy to engineering. Slowly but surely this
surface action of the water and it is only a
surface action wrenches and destroys. It hamp
ers construction and is a constant embarrassment
to repairing. In the event of a storm all the dlffi
cultles are multiplied. Watch the life-savers try
to launch their boat. Often the task is altogether
frustrated by the surface waves. Once the boat
is launched it is safe from the rough sea."
O
rpniS GOOD STORY comes from Pittsburg:
JL "Have man meet me, car Manhattan, Union
depot, 5:80 o'clock Thursday morning.
"It. S. MILLS."
This telegram was received at, the office of a
Pittsburg morning newspaper late last night.
Mills was not known, but there was a chance that
he might have a 'big story,' so a man was sent
and the. paper prepared for an extra jf the news
justified it. The train was an hour and a half
late. The porter after some trouble identified
Mills and got him out of his berth. Mills apolo
gized, said he was a cloak manufacturer from St.
Louis and was ery much interested in the Thaw
case. He explained that he argued with a friend
just before leaving New York that Stanford
White's son would not go on the stand yesterday
afternoon nor today. He hoped he had not oc
casioned Inconvenience, but could the reporter tell
him whether or not White's son had been on the
stand, or whether he was going on the stand?
The reporter did not wait to answer. He hurried
to a telephone and called off the extra."
A RICHMOND, Va., dispatch to the New York
World follows: "Information was received
in this city confirming the report oJ the engage
ment of Mrs. Gertrude Tucker Logan, of Virginia
and New York, and Former Secretary of the
Treasury John G. Carlisle, of Washington, D. C.
The date for the ceremony has not yet been an
nounced. Mrs. Logan, who is a daughter of the
late JoTIn Randolph Tucker, of Lexington, and a
sister of Harry St. George Tucker, president of
the Jamestown Exposition Company, is a very
charming woman. As Miss Gertrude Tucker she
was considered a great beauty, and was for many
years one of the reigning belles of the southern
states. The home of her father at Lexington was
the center as long as he lived of much typical old
fashioned Virginia hospitality. Mr. Carlisle's ele
gant home In Washington is one of the show places
of the national capital. It is there that he will
take his bride after their marriage."
IN HIS MESSAGE to congress last December
Mr. Roosevelt said: "This hostility is spo
radic and is limited to a very few 'places. Never
theless, it "is most discreditable to us as a people,
and it may be fraught with the gravest conse
quences to this nation. The growth of
Japan has been literally astounding. There is not
only nothing to parallel it but nothing to approach
it in the history of clvilizeTl mankind.
During (the last) fifty years the progress of the
country in every walk in life has been a marvel
to mankind, and she now stands as one of the
greatest of civilized nations; great in the arts of
war and in the arts of peace; great in military,
in industrial, in artistic development and achieve
ment. The Japanese have won in a
single generation the right to stand abreast of the
most foremost and enlightened peoples of Europe
and America; they have won on their own merits
and by their own exertions the right to treatment
on a basis of Cull and frank"equality. I
ask fair treatment for the Japanese as I would
ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen,
Frenchmen, Russians or Italians." Finally Presi
dent Roosevelt declared In express terms: "I rec
ommend to the congress that an act be. passed
specifically providing for the naturalization of
Japanese who come here intending to become
American citizens."
DIRECTING ATTENTION to the December
message, the New York World says: "Noth
ing has since0 been heard of a Japanese naturaliza
tion act. Instead, under agreement with Mayor
Schmitz of San Francisco, President Roosevelt has
forced through congress at the eleventh hour an
t amendment to the immigration bill giving him sole
power to Exclude Japanese Immigrants whenever
he may see lit, and Mayor Schmitz in a. public
statement previously- submitted to President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root announces' that
President Roosevelt has given us direct and posi
tive assurances that he will at once begin negotia
tions with Japan for a treaty that will exclude
Japanese laborers, skilled and unskilled.' Presi
dent Roosevelt's mind moves in a mysterious way,
and it is nearly ninety days since he wrote his mes
sage to congr-ss. But the Japanese still remem
ber his assurances of. fair treatment for them as
well as for 'Germans' or Englishmen, Frenchmen,
Russians or IHliaus.' It would be strange if their
confidence in. his intention to meet their views
should not change as rapidly as has his attitude
toward one of the greatest of civilized nations.'
A M?.!l.I."?T9VN New JerHC rGn,1er of the
JTX. Philadelphia Public Ledger gives to the
people of tlie Pennsylvania metropolis this re
minder: "When William Penn was contemplating.
In conjunction with the aid and advice of Sir
Algernon Sidney, the form of government for the
future colony of Pennsylvania he used these
words: 'Vice will vitiate every form (of govern
ment), and while men side with passions against
their reason, neither monarchy nor democracy
can preserve them from the destructive conse
quences.' if ,on ttro wjHL. aml vlrtn.
oils, the government under which they live must
also become wise and virtuous; it Is, therefore, es
sential to the stability of a state that the people
be educated in noble thoughts and virtuous actions.
Such a people making its own laws and obeying
them faithfully will be In reality a free people,
whatever be the name of the constitution.' Surely
such sentiments are Just as true today as when
uttered over iM years ago. Philadelphia, if she
Continues to ignore tlie.se truths, will surely reap
what she sows."
S
OMETIMES our New York friends "spiff a
webb Infernally fine" wlimi t wminu tn "mi.
iienng lo me law" and "maintaining the rules."
The New York World prints this story: "Ropo't-'
ing himself 'sick' to hurry homo to say a last good
by to his dying wife was a dereliction of duty for
which Police Sergeant Patrick Ward, of the Seventy-seventh
precinct, Long Island City, lias been
ordered to stand trial by his superiors. His wife
had' been ill for several weeks. Last week a
baby was born. Ifer brother rushed to the police
station, begging Sergt. Ward to. hurry home If lie
would see her alive. There is only way by which
a police sergeant at work at the desk can leave,
and that is by reporting himself 'sick.' Ward'
hurried home, arriving as his wife was losing con
sciousness and in time to whisper a farewell to
her. She died a few minutes later. It happened
that Police Surgeon Dr. W. J. Bonner dropped hi
the station a few hours later and asked the
roundsman Ward had left in charge if any one
was sick. The roundsman told that Ward had so
reported Jilmself. The police surgeon drove to
Ward's home and found the undertaker's wagon
standing In front. Inside was the grief-stricken
husband, the infant baby In his arms and ;dx
sobbing children about him. 'You are not 111,'
said the doctor. 'You are absent without leave.
I order you to report at once for duty.' Ward pro
tested in tears and declined to return to his dc.de,
though he later put In a formal request for leave
and It was granted. Dr. Bonner was forced to
report the occurrence with the result that Sergt.
Ward Is ordered up for trial."
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TWO SUITS were recently commenced against
the sugar tiust and Its officers. These suits
were filed in the United States court ac New York
and involve $30,000,000. It is claimed that the
trial of these suits will reveal the secrets that
ruined Adolph Segal, closed the doors of the Real
Estate Trust company of Philadelphia and drove
its president, Frank K. Hippie to suicide. The
New York World says: "Papers were filed In the
United States Circuit Court here demanding $30,
000,000 damages from the American Sugar Refin
ing company, Henry O. Havemeyer, its president;
John E. Parsons, Its general counsel; Gustav E.
Kissel, banker and society man, alleged to be the
trust's go-between in a gigantic conspiracy, and
Walter D. Robinson, George L. Trigg and Morris
J. Werner, who were clerks In Kissel's office in
1903. Summons was also servqd upon Mr. Kissel
last night in an action begun In the supreme court
for the recovery of more than $1,000,000 alleged
to have been extorted from Segal In the form of
bonuses for carrying a loan which Kissel had in
duced the Philadelphia promoter to accept, Segal
thought he was borrowing from the United States
Mortgage and Trust company despite the fact
that John E. Parsons 'the brains of the Sugar
Trust,' was the inan Kissel took him to and who
handed over to him $1,250,000."
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