The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
January 5, 1908

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dhe Was 1shingion 1 meg me Five Sections NUMBER 4052 WASHINGTON, SUNDAY. JANUAT NDAY, JANU ARY 5. 1 0. 1908. vpice FIVE CENTS

Fair and cooler today, Monday f 1all, BE FIND JEWEL OF VICHIM IN SWAMP CRIME Saloonkeeper Says Rings Were Given to Him by Husband of Woman. Man Put on Rack is Phys ical Wreck, Groaning Continually in His Cell. NEW YORK, Jan. 4—The jewelry that Mrs. Theodore 8. Whitmore, the Har rison, N. J., swamp murder victim, wore when last seen alive, was found tonight in a Brooklyn saloon.

Fred E. Radin, the saloonkeeper, says the rings, pins, locket, and silverware were left with him by Mrs. Whitmore's husband. Radin is not sure whether Whitmore turned the property over, to him December 30 or 31.

Several witnesses have testified to see ing Mrs, Whitmore with the jewelry on ths last day she was alive. Whitmore himself says she wore it when she left home Christmas Day, It was not found on the corpse, and Whitmore swore he had no idea what had become of it. Husband Put on Rack. Acting Prosecutor Vickars, at Har rison, demanded an explanation of the conflicting stories as soon as he received word that the jewelry had been found. Whitmore was on the grill for an our, He wept and wrung his hands when Ra din’s statement was repeated to him, but refused to deviate from his previous story. He did not take the jeweiry to. the saloon, he vowed, nor did he know how it came into Radin’s hands.

The find Included a diamond, a mar quise, a turquoise and a diamond, a garnet, and a plain geld ring, a lover's knot and a pearl breast pin, a gold locket with two children’s pictures in side, and a handful of silver knives and forks, All have been fully identified by eT VPIMEnOre s friends. from the Bruck, See detective sidered SE HE which is is almost directly across street from Whitmore aidig a likely place to look for clues and stuck to the trail until the saloonkeeper decided to tell them what he knew.

On Trail of “Man in Case.” The mysterious “Harry”—Harry Hen drickson ig his {ull name—of whom Whitmore was so jealous that frequent end violent quarrels occurred hetween husband and wife was also learned to be stopping with frierids at Roslyn, L. I., where detectives have gone to see him. Hendrickson lives with his mother in Manhattan. Prosecutor Vickars, of Harrison, wrested his address from Whitmore today and notified the New York police, who sought him at his home, learned that he was at Roslyn and started after him. Hendrickson once served in the navy, is a veteran of the battle of Santiago, and, according to his mother, spent Christmas Day at home, except for a short visit to nearby friends, and then went straight to Koslyn, where he some times visits. ‘Whitmore passed through fearful or deals with Presecutor Vickars this after noon and again tonight. At the latter session Charles Salter. the murdered woman's brother, was present. Telltale Handwriting. The prosecutor told the prisoner of Handwriting Expert Carvalho’s opinion that the letters written, after Mrs. Whit more's death, to her relatives to ex plain her delay in visiting them, looked to be in Whitmore’s own hand. But the captive’s only answer was a flood of tears and a rzpetition of hig denlals that he had anything to do with the crime. Whitmore ig almost in a condition of collapse. His legs literally refuse to carry him when he is taken to the prosecutor's office, and two detectives are forced to hoist him up the stairs and into the room. In his cell he spends all his time pacing the fioor, groaning and begging for whisky or drugs to soothe his nerves. Much Still Puzzles Detectives. Despite tonight's discovery the de tectives here as well as at Harrison gay the case is full of unsolved puzzles. In the first place they ask, how did Mrs, Whitmore's body get to the swamp? If the murderer led her there to kill her what was his pretext for taking her to such a place? If she was carried there after death how did her slayer escape observation? The cunning with Which the victim's clothes were ripped from her body, evidently to prevent identification, to gether with the stupidity of dropping the garments so near the spot where ,the corpse lay, seem to the detectives "almost inexplicable. Threatened Wife’s Life, ‘Man in Case’’ Asserts ROSLYN, L. I, Jan. 4—arry Hen drickson, who has figured largely in Theodoie Whitmore's story, has made a statement concerning his connection with the swamp murder case, He states that he was with his mother at home in Brooklyn at the time of the murder. He says he knows nothing of the crime, but admits he was well ac vainted with the Whitmores. The po ce have arrested him. Hendrickson says he did not see Mrs. Whitmore after the morning of Decem ber 21. His story is that he looked up Whitmore at the city hall station of the Third avenue “LIL and told the lat ter he wanted him to keep his wife away from him. At Whitinore's request he said he went to the latter's house, waited fcr Whitmore, and that wifen the motorman came in there was a quarrel in which V ore kis wife and struck’ Hendrickson,

HARTJE LOSES FINAL BATTLE AGAINST WIFE Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Millionaire’s Petition and Reopen Case. Pennsylvania Scandal Draws to a Close With Beautiful Wife Victor Over Husband. PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 5.—Augustus Hartje’'s world famous flight to securs a divorce is practically ended.

Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, the beauti ful respondent, wins.

The Pennsylvania supreme court reached a decision yesterday, refusing te consider Augustus Hartje's petition to have it pass on the superior court's decision which sustained the adverse finding of the lower court in his suit for divorce from his wife. i

This brings the millionaire's long, bit terly contested legal battle practically to an end. The Hartje counsel, after one of the most desperate fights ever waged In court, are beaten at every point, Attorney J. Bcott Ferguson, leading coursel for Hartje, has confirmed the report that the supreme court had de cided against his client.

Hartje hag run the legal course in Pennsylvania in his efforts to dissolve the marital knot which binds him to Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje. It is most unlikely that he will be able to get the case before the Supreme Court of the United States sc that it can be heard upon its merits,

Boni Enters Suit To Destroy Book That Attacks Him PITTSBURG, Jan. 4—Count Boni de Castellane, according to official notice received here today, has sued Baymond Gros, a French author of Pittsburg, for 2,00 francs and an injunction to pre vent further sale of his book, “L’'Uncle Sam.”

The book contains American news paper editorials on Boni's conduct, with caustic commenti by Gros, Boni also demands that his name be kept out of Gros’ forthcoming book, “The Land of Dollars,” which deals with titled for eigners who married American hetr esses. The Yarmouths are dealt with in the new book. QUASH CHARGES AGAINST MOYER DENVER, Col, Jan. 4.—A speclal from Boise tonight says the case against Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, charg ing him with the murder of former Gov ernor Steunenberg, has been dismissed. CLERGYMAN JILTED BY GIRL AT ALTAR TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 4 —After coming all the way from the Philippines to wed Miss Alice Thorne, prominent in local soclety, the Rev. Walter Clapp, of Bontoc, Luzon, wa= jilted almost at the altar of St. John's Episcopal Church here today. The couple had ai ready rehearsed the marriage ceremony at the church,

Miss Thorne, who is the daughter of one of Toledo's oldest surgeons, gives no reason for declaring the match off. After he was jilted the Rev. Mr. Clapp

left the city and declared he was going to retarn to the Philippines. The couple had planned a trip to the isiands next week and had made elegant preparations for a reception to be held at the bride's home today. TWICE DECLARED DEAD WOMAN OF 86 LIVES GALION, Ohio, Jan. 4.—After being twice deciared dead Mrs. Lucinda Car ruthers, «ighty-six years old, is alive snd in good health. She tell {ll and be came unconscious last Tuesday. Her doctor said she was dead, and or dered a post mortem to verify a sus picion that she had been poisoned. An unexpected noise in the room aroused her. Friday she became unconscious again and the same physician said at that cme she was surely dead.

As the watchers by her side awaited an undertaker's arrival today, she gat up and has since steadily gainea In strength. Printing as You Want It When you want it. Globe Printing Co. 14th and BE sts. aw.—Aldv, 8. 1 CHANCELLOR DISMISSED; A. T. STUART SUCCEEDS HIM PARTICIPANTS IN THE SCHOOL FIGHT Attorney for the Deposed Superintendent, Who Made a Strong Fight Against the Board of Education. Bitter School Clash Victory For Board After Legal Battle New Superintendent Says His Acceptance Will Be Temporary. Found guil:y on ten of the four teen charges preferred by Board of Education against him, Dr. Wil liam E. Chancellor was shortly be fore midnight last night dismissed by that body from the position of Superintendent of Public Schols for the District of (‘olumbia. ~The dismissal was ordered to take place at once. Immediately after the vote, which was unanimous, was an nounced, the board retired for a short executive s2ssion, and on re turning to the board room elected former Superintendent A. T. Stuart to succeed Dr. Chancellor. the Stuart Appreciates Honor. Superintendent Stuart, when told of his selection by a Times representative early this morning, expressed his grati fication at the honor accorded him, and said that he must yield to the unani mous wish of the Board of Education, but that his acceptance of the position would be temporary. He would gladly fill in and serve the board until it has time to give the selection of a perma nent superintendent long and careful consideration, he said, and he felt this a public duty. “I will say that I am greatly pleased at the manner in which my selection was made, and the mark of esteem be stowed upon me, but my position in re gard to the permanent superintendency of the local schools is the same as it was in 1908, when I resigned from that position. I have not yet heard officially of my selection, but I expect that I will in an early mail.” Informed of Dismissal. The information that he had been dismissed from the superintendency was conveyed to Dr. Chancellor by a Times reporter. It was sald at the superin tendent’s residence that he was quite sick and had retired for the night, members of the family declining to al low him to be seen. Mrs. Chancellor expressed no surprise at the news, say ing it was what they had anticipated. Closing Session Lively. The closing moments of the remark able trizl which had engaged the at tention of the board, with frequent in terruptions, during the past eight weeks were no less dramatic than sessions that have gone before. Contrary to his expressed determination not to again appear hefore the board, Attorney Ful ton decided at the last moment to ap pear for his client. Mr. Fulton re mained during the afternoon and even ing session, until the board acted upon his request for another postponément until Dr. Chancellor’s condition was im-~ proved. Whan it necame evident that the board inte led to conclude the trial last nignt despite the absence of the superintend J. H. Small Sons, Florists, Washington and New York.—Adv,

CREED M. FULTON. ent, who was unable to be present and teil his story, Mr. Fulton again left the board room and was not present wher the verdict was announced.

Pleads for Continuance. His departure was preceded by an eloquent argument in plea for a few days’ continuancy, in which he char. acterized the aciion of the board fin refusing to give a sick man a chance, as brutal and cowardly, and a disgrace to the Capital of the Nation.

Charges Against Chancellor, The charges upon which Dr, Chan cellor was found gulity by the board ‘were Incompetency and inefficiency as a superintendent, loss of influence, an tagonism to and loss ef confidgnce of the Eoard of idducation, unlawfully or dering the discard of 54000 text books.

He wus also found guilty of refusing to appear at the Bruce trial when or dered to do so, and of advising Assis tant Superintendent Bruce not to ap pear at the hearing. Also of having written an article for the Educational Review in February last libeling the schocl system of the District, and of afterward denying its authorship to the board. The board found him guilty again on the charge of crusing strife at the M street school in attempting to influence teachers to opposs the board, and, fur thermore, of having attempted to per suade Assistant Superintendent Hughes not to give certain information to board members. The superintendent was ad Judged guilty of criticising the board and various District officlals with the view of creating friction between them and of libeling District officials in the public press.

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“Not Guilty.” The superintendent wes “not guilty” by the board on the charges of having attempted the forma tion of an advisory committes among teachers, of having ordered certain studies for the seventh and eighth grades and then superseding with other studies before the original text books ordered were used, and on the charge of exceeding authority in introducing high school studies into graded schools. adjudged He was found not gulity of the charge of conniving at the passage of what is known as the “Smith bill,” having for its object the subverting of the board's powers, Prof. Evermann In explaining his vote of “not guilty” on these specifications announced that he so voted only on ac count of the fact that the charges had been ordered dropped by the board's atlorney and no evidence had been pre sented on them. After the monotonous “guilty” had been sounded ten times from each one of the nine members of the board, Cap tain Oyster asked for an expression of the wish of the board. His Dismissal in Motion. Mrs. Mussey arose and sald: “Superintendent William E. Chancellor having been found gullty of the charges named, after a fair hearing before the Board of Education, I move that he be dismissed from the service as superin tendent, according to law.” Mr. Hoover soconded the motion, and by a unanimous vote the nine members of the board ordered the Superinten dent's dismissal, “The ayes have it,” said Captain Oys {(Continusd on Second Page.) JR. W. LE. VCAADJULLILUK, Who Has Been Dismissed From the Superintendency of the City Schools. 1 DR. W. E. CHANCELLOR, BARTON W. EVERMANN, A. T. STUART, hairman of the Text Book Committee Wika Was Unanimously Elected to Suc of the Board of Education. ceed Dr. Chancellor, LOREY SEES WIFE HE GAT ADRIFT; MAY REJOIN HER

Steel Magnate and Act ress Said to Be Estranged. BRADDOCK, Pa.,, Jan 4-—It is broadly intimated here that William El lis Corey's wedded life with Mabelle Gil man, the former chorus girl, whom he wedded a year ago, after casting off his wife, has not been a huge success. The head of the Steel trust came on here to day to join a family gathering in the home of his father, Alfred A. Corey, where he met his former wife, and it is aid he has broken off with Mabelle, What transpired during the visit, the first which Corey has paid to the o'd family home here since the Fourth of July, 1805, may never be known, Neo member of the Corey family will discuss the matter. It was admitted today, however, that there had been a family gathering and that was all. That Ellis Corey met his former wife is without doubt. He has been anxious to do so for months, it is told here, since he was disillusioned with Mabeile Gilman. Anxious to See Boy. It is said that Ellis Corey has been particularly anxious since his wife se cured her divorce in Reno, Nev., over a year ago, to make some arrangement with her whereby he might have a chance to see their only living child, Allan Corey, and knew that he could only do this through the wife, for Allan, although only seventeen years oid, has been iis mother's strongest champion since the father and mother separated Corey offered the lad a half million dollars to leave his mother, but the youngster told his father when the di vorce was granted that he would remain true to her, and he has done so. Corey came here this morning, unat tended, from New York city. Allan (Continued on Second Page.) Seaboard Florida Limited. Offers best and most reliable service to Florida. Office, i€21 Pa, ave.—Adv, CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER, President of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia. DATES [RAIN KILLS MAN WALKING ON TRACK IN HEAYY STORM M. F. Martin Struck After Blasts of Whistle Fail ed to Warn Him. Millard Fillmore Martin, of Wash ington, was run down by a fast express train from New York yes terday afternoon and instantly killed. The man’s neck was broken, both arms were badly mangled, and the body buried into a ravine 100 feet from the tracks. Martin, who was an insurance solici tor for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insur ance Company, was making collections at Langdon, Md., and was returning to the city to catch an electric car when he was run down. Conductor T. T. Allen, Engineer V, T. Green, and Fire mar. A. J. Rubizeh, who were in charge of tae express, made a statement of the affair to George W. Martin, superin tendent of the Terminal company. Had Collar About Ears. According to the story of these three men, ad of whom live in Baltimore, a dense mist and a blinding rain made it diMcult to see more than thirty or forty feet in front of ihe engine. Just as the trgin rounded the sharp curve at the place where Martin was struck, En gineer Green said that he saw a man less than 200 feet in front with an um brella raised and his coat collar turned high about his ears. Evidently the beat of the heavy rain together with the coat collar about his head prevented Martin from hearing the approaching danger even after the whistle was blown sharply several times. After biowing his ‘whistie and seeing that the man on the tracks ahead made no move to get out of the way, Green applied the brakes and reversed his throttle, but it was too late, even to cause the speed of the train to slacken (Continued on Second Page.) Flowers Add Cheer to the Sick. Prices reasonable. Shaffer, 14th I. --Adv, Jan. 13th to 17th. Special rates via Sea board Air Line. Office, 1421 Pa. ave. —Adv, A i 4 TRICKY CUPID RE-TIES KNOT ONCE DERANGED Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cald well Remarry After Fight in the Divorce Courts. Second Marriage Another Chapter in Romance of “Tar Heel” Couple. Using the wedding ring which served in their marriage seven years ago and on the anniversary of their child's sixth birthday, Mrs. Addie Williams Caldwell married her divorced husband, J. P, Caldwell, editor and owner of the Chars 'lotte, N. C., Observer, at the Metro politan Hotel yesterday afternoon,

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Donald MacLeod, of the First Pres byterian Church, in the parlor of tha hotel, Only a few friends were wits nesses of the simple ceremony which Joined them as man and wife for the second time.

Caldwell Returns Home.

Immediately after the ceremony was performed, Mr, Caldwell left for Char. lotte. Mrs. Caldwell, the twice married wife, will leave for New York tonight, where she will remain long enough to gather her effects. She will leave New York to join her husband in the near future.

w The remarriage of the couple marks the culmination of a romance lasting nearly a decade, in which nearly all of the emotions known to the human heart played a part. Mrs. Caldwell, formerly Miss Addles Williams, is a native of Charlotte. She first met Mr. Caldwell on the Observer, where she was employed.

For many years they worked together on the paper. In 150 Mr. Caldwell and Miss Williams were married as the close of a remarkably pretty romance. i Wife Secured Divorce. Three vears later the first storm cloud showed above the horizon of their mar ried life, Marital differences that could not be overlooked sprang up and in 1%8 Mrs. Caldwell applied for an absciute divorce from her husband. Her peti. tion was granted and she was given the custody of their one child, which was born about a year after their marriage, Soon afterward Mrs. Caldwell severed all connections with the Observer and left the city. The breach between here self and her husband was apparently rreconcilable.

About three months ago the divorced couple met and come to an undesstande ing, which led up to thelr remarriage yesterday.

Two days ago while in New York, Mrs. Caldwell received a telezram from her husband requesting her to meet him in Washington. Bhe hastily packed and with her little child hastened to the appointed meeting place—the Metro politan Hotel. There the second ceremony was pers formed, reuniting the divorced couple as man and wife. Their daughter celebrated her sixth birthday, probably the happiest birth day she will ever have, yesterday. Says Natural Reconciliation. Asked whether she was taken by sure prise at her husband's telegram Mrs, ‘Caldwell answered in the negative. “He and I came to an understanding ‘several months ago,” she said, “and while, of course, I was not expecting ‘to receive his telegram I felt confident that soovner or later our differences would be jorgaties. Mrs. Caldwell is well known in North Carolina society. She was at one tims one of the belles of her native town, and was known socially throughout the South. She is a talented musician.

Mr. Caldwell is ¢ne of the best-known editors in the South. He is fifty-five years old, and is a native of Statesville,

Second Marriage Ends in Row for Sam Jones’ Child CARTERSVILLE, Jan. 4.—Domestia troubles between Mr. and Mrs. B. C. ‘Sloan, who were divorced a few years ago, but remarried, have broken out again. Mrs. Sloan is a daughter oi the lata Rev. Sam P. Jones, noted evange list, and her husband formerly lived at Pittsburg. New Year Day Mr. Sloan, under pre text of taking their three-year-old daughter to see a football game, fled with the child across country to Dallas, Ga., where it is supposed he intended taking a train for Pittsburg. Mrs. Sloan, however, learned of her hus band’s ruse, obtained the services of a deputy sheriff, and together with her sister, Mrs. Pyron, and the latter's hus band, hastened to Dallas in time to in tercept Mr. Sloan and take possession of the child. Sloan immediately swore out a war rant charging abdyction against Pyron and the deputy, who were later released upon $500 bond. In the meantime Sloan had again taken possession of the chiid and yesterday Mrs. Sloan obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Fizht, of Cartersville. Judge Fight gave the child into the custody of its grand mother, Mrs. Sam Jones, pending a hearing of the case, which he set for January 18. Pinehurst Golf Tournament.

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HEBREW TEMPLE 10 BE DEDICATED Adas Israel Will Open Its New Edifice Today With Ceremony. Prominent Speakers to Be Heard at Consecration of $90,000 Edifice. With ancient rites, the Adas Israel Synagogue, the new temple of the Or thodox Hebrew Congregation, at Sixth and 1 streets northwest, will be dedi cated at 2:30 this afternoon. The event is one of great importance to the Wash ington Hebrews as well as to those of other citles, Addresses will be made by prominent speakers from Baltimore and Mew York and delegations from the other congregations will assist in the ceremcnies, to which the public is in vited vet The Rev, Dr. Abram Simon, rabbi of the Eighth Street Temple, will offer the opening prayer and the dedicatory ser mon will be delivered by Dr, H. Pereria Mendes, of New York, an eminent Tal mudic scholar. The Rev. H. W. Schnee berger, of Baltimore, will make an ad dress, and the closing prayer will be said by the Rev. Louis Stern, of Wash fagton. Rabbi H. Glass, of Baltimore, an acknowledged authority on sacred Jewish songs, will direct the music, The ceremony of lighting the perpeat ual lamp will be performed by IL. Stear man, a member of Adas Israel. Other of the ancient ceremonies to be ob served are the carrying of the sacred rolls, the opening of the door, and the entering of the temple. The new temple is of white limestone with tile roof and stained glass win dows, and is considered from an archi tectural standpoint, one of the most beautiful! of the church buildings of the city. The building cost about 390,000. Until a few months ago, when they moved into the new synagogue, tempor arily using the basement for the divine services, Adas Israel worshiped gt the corner of Sixth and G streets. The officers of the congregation through whose unceasing efforts the new temple was made possible are: Simon Oppenheimer, president; Isaae Levy, vice president; I. Friedman, treasurer; Julius Baumgarten, secre tary; Gus Oppenheimer, financial secre tary. Bullding committee—Simon Oppen heimer, chairman; Julius Baumgarten, secretary; F. S. Gichner, treasurer; Isaac Levy, H. Blumenthal, D. Gold smith, N. Horn, 1. Small, Jacob Shapiro, Ben Schwartz, I. Rosenfeld. Reception committee—Jacob Schwartz, chairman; B. Schechter, Max Rosen thal, H. Schrott, Charles Stein, J. Schlossherg, Falk Harmel, Max Cohen, Elihu Horn, William Levy, George Levy. Ladies’ auxiliary—Mrs. Simon Oppen heimer, president; Mrs. H. Schlossberg, vice president; Miss Dora Steerman, secretary; Mrs. D. Rosen, financial sec retary; Mrs. W. Schlossberg, treasurer. Board of trustees—Isaac Levy, chair man®* H Blumenthal TT S8mall AS BRIDE PRAYS HER HUSBAND DIES English Engineer Loses Life From Work in Pennsy Tunnel. NEW YORK, Jan. 4—With his pretty bride of six months praying, just out side the door, that her husband's life be spared, George Harris, an English constructing engineer, employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad's East River tun nel, fought death for thirty hours in the Long Island City emergency alr lock. Harris finally succumbed. Harris formerly owned the Chicwie Iron Works in England, but recently sold out and came to America. He had bsen here but a week. Leavigg the Long Island City shaft yesterday morn ing he was taken with the bends. Physicians hurried to him in the air lock and sent for his wife when it was realized that his life was in danger. Until her husband's corpse was finally brought out Mrs. Harris refused to leave her post. “8ix months ago I was a bride, and We were 80 happy,” she sald. “Now 1 am a widow and alone. I don’t know what I shall do.” GIRLS LEAD RENT STRIKE IN GHETTO OF CHICAGD CHICAGO, Jan. 4--A mass meeting of Ghetto residents has heen called at working men’s hall tomorrow to emu late the New York rent strikers. Young girls this afternoon paraded the congested parts of the tenement district bearing banners with English and Yiddish inscriptions, inciting the tenants to “rise against the tyranny of landlords.”

Stella Cohen and Rossie Zeller, sweat shop workers, lead the parade carrying a banner reading “Rent is robbery.” The campaign is being conducted by socialists. Committees have been ap pointed to take care of preliminarias. Seymour Sredman, an attorney, has been selected to advise those whose zeal may bring them within the Juris diction of the police. It is expected the meeting will be attended by hundreds of the larger tenants. A. B. STEWART'S WILL FILED Mrs. Mary E. Adams, executrix of the will of Amos B. Stewart, has filed that document for probate. It is dated December 19, 1997. John Stewart, a brother, is given $190. The remainder of the estate is given to Mrs. Adams. Social Functions Demand Artistic floral designs. See Shafer, 14th L Dr. Chancellor “Dismissed; A. T. Stuart Succeeds Him ter, in announcing the vote, “and the ‘Superintendent is dismissed. The secre tary will so notify him, the dismissal being effective at cnce.” The board retired for a second con sultation, and it was upon their return that Mr. Stuart was nominated by Mr. Cox, who referred to him in most glow ing terms, as an educator greatly be loved by both teachers and the people at large. His election was met with a storm of applause by the teachers and spectators present, more than haif a hundred of whom had sat through the entire afternoon and evening session. Testimony Not Sensational, Beyond the emphatic protest voiced by Attorney Fulton at the manner in which the board was terminating the hearing, and the tense situation pre sented when the board voted upon Dr. Chancellor's fate, there was- little out of the ordinary in the testimony pre sented yesterday. In the main the witnesses were teachers or supervising principals, who testified that Dr. Chan cellor had not assisted them in the way expected, It was after Mr, MeNamara rested his case that Captain Oyster announced to Mr. Fulton that the board would now consider the proposition insisted upon by Dr. Chancellor's attorney, that the board appoint physicians to ascer tain whether or not the superintendent was really too ill to gppear, or to dle tate his story. Mr. Fulton had charged certain members of the hoard with ac cusing the superintendent of faking, and intimating that his physicians had perpetrated a professional fraud in pre senting certificates as to the doctor's illness.

Wouldn't Appoint Physicians. The board retired for a conference. On its return Mrs. Hili made the mo tion that the board should refuse to appoint physicians. The motion was seconded by Mr. Hoover and after ar gument by various board members why it should prevail, was unanimously car ried. Mr. Fulton then arose and as though in anticipation of the board's action, sald: “Word comes to me from Dr. Chan cellor’'s home that he is speechless on account of the disease which has over taken him, He was unable to talk when he appeared before you yester day. It is not his fault that he is so afflicted. “This board cannot commit a more brutal act, here in the Capital of this great nation, a place where every citi zen should of all other places have a right to speak in defense of his honor and reputation, than to deny to this man who is now struggling to be heard, the right which is accorded him under the Constitution and laws of our land. Because God has seen fit to lay this superintendent upon a bed of af fliction is no reason that this board should deny him the right to be heard. Blow at Nanking. “That is no example tor this board to set before the schools, before the chil dren, before the teachers and before a nation, for the people of every State are interested in the public schools of Wash ington. I say that you cannot strike a greater blow at manhood or woman hood or at this school system than to take Superintendent Chancellor nd be cause he is sick and speechless tonight, deprive him of the chance to speak when he wants to do so, ‘““Are you going to deny this man the right given him by the fundamental principles of the laws under which we have been born and reared and have our being? You may do so, but I want to tell you, gentlemen, that the day will come when you will rue the action you have taken and, like Banguo's ghost, your act will rise before you and re fuse to down. You had best let this matter rest a few days, best look at it as true men with hearts, and give this man an opportunity to tell his

SG PR ee. Mr. Fulton proceeded at some length along this line and called the attention of the board to the fact that the Bruce hearing, begun October 23 had never been completed and that «uch discrimn ination was unfair to his client, whe was a superior officer to Bruce. The position of the board in refusing to further prolong the hearing was defended by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Horner, and Mr. McNamara, who argued that the interests of the schools demanded that something be done regardless of the unfortunate position in which the board found itself. The numerous post ponements and delays were referred to and the attention of the board was called to the fact that the superinten dent had been able to write letters at tacking the board during the time he was supposed to be recuperating. The hoard members hold that inas much as the superintendent had at tempted to revoke the authority given to Assistant Superintendent Hughes, the schools wers practically without a head, ard that this condition could not go on indefinitely. Eight weeks, the board thought, was ample opportunity to present In some way the story of the superintendent. Mr. Fulton rejoined that the super intendent had appeared during the early stages of the trial and that it was no fault of his that he could not pe present tonight. “His appearance in his weak ened condition yesterday,” Mr. Fulton held, “was evidence that he wanted to be heard in his own behalf.” Before the board voted on the ques tion, Attorney McNamara informed tne body that inasmuch as they would act without hearing the superintendent, his denial of all the cherges would have to be assumed. The board then over ruled Mr, Fulton's protest toward pro ceeding further at this juncture and in formed Mr. Fulton that he might make the final argument in favor of his counsel.

“TI have no argument to make under the circumstances,” he replied, as he prepared to leave the room. He was not present when the board returned, and the vote was taken with no repre sentative of the Superintendent pres ent, the result béing guilty, as before stated.

Mr. Fulton, when he appeared at the board hearing yesterday afternoon, had evidently had a talk win some member of the board, for in explaining his rea ‘The beauty of the specimens furnishad bv Gude adds much to attracriveness. 1214 F. (Continued from First Page.) Charges Discrimination. Fulton’s Protest Overrulzd. Flowers for Receptions. night before, he said he misungerstood the attitude of the board. His under standing, he sald, was that the board had refused to act at all on his request that phgsiclans be appointed to see th= superintendent and report to the board. He was in ormed ha he board was willing o¢ ac upon he matter, and that action would be taken before the even ing wis over. This was done, the re suit »Puing adverse to Mr. Fulton, but, inasnsich as the vote on his suggestion was not taken until just before the close of the cose, he did nét have op portunit’ to again withdraw. son for the trial the Engagement to Lecture. Mr. McNamira opened the afternoon session by saying that the board had a program of a meeting of. the New Jer sey Teachers’ Association in Atlantic City, December 27. on which the name of Dr. Chancellor appeared as a lec turer. He wanted to know if Dr, Chan cellor filled the engagement while he ‘was presumed be recuperating. Mr. Fulton said ‘hat he did not, as Dr. Wright's certificate would show he was under treatment in a sanitarium on that date, T'ne subject was dropped. P. C. Patterson, city editor of The Washington Times, identified a letter sent by the superintendent just before the helidays to The Times, which en closed a copy of a letter addressed to the Commissioners. The superinten lent had suggested in this letter that the pa per usa as a heading for the article a wordin; which would charge that the board of education had been wafing the text books funds, Mr. Patterson explained that nas. much os it was Impossible to give the Superiniendent’'s heading, except in the body of (he story as carried, the entire suggestion of the Superintendent was publishec, and so became known to the public. The copy of the letter sent to the Con missioners, furnished the press by the Superintendent, was also identi fled as having been published Failed to Co-operate. “A number of supervising principals testified that Dr. Chancellor had not co-operated with the superyising prin cipals as he should. Supervising Prin cipal W, B. Patterson said that he had been disappointed in the superintendent in the administration of the schools Sometimes he said orders were not ex plicit and there was difficulty in obtain ing an audience with Dr, Chancellor, Superyising Principal Kimball, of the seventh division, said during his testi mony regarding Dr. Chancellor's inac cessibility, that he “deplored sny set *ing off of the superintendent from his Yeuterants,” which remarks brought applause from the teachers present, Captain Ovster rapping loudly for order. Tells of History Course. Dr, Kiriball told of Dr. Chancellor's having recommended a history course and of hi: later denying any knowledge of itt Mr. Hughes was called to thé stand to show that Dr. Chancellor had seen the manuscript and that he, after his denial of this, had remembered that he bad approved the history course, E. Kramer, supervising principal of the sixth divisionggold of unfruitful ef lorts to see the t regard ing changes mad an application for a new building for his division. He had asked for a six-room structure and an appropriation had been made for one of sixteen rooms, which was afterward corrected. Mr. Fulton drew out that this could not bas laid to the superin tendent alone as it passed through a number of hands, Mr. Kramer ssid on one occasion the superintendent called a meeting of supervising principals for 16 o'clock and kept the entire body waiting for two hours. {i

Others who testified that the Superin tendent had not asgisted the officers in their work as he should, and that he could not be easily seen, were Super vising Principal Black, of the third d4i vision, and- Ely, of the fifth division.

Miss Bessie E. Taylor, a teacher, was introduced by Mr. Tulton to identify two letters of praisa that she had writ ten the superintendent during the past year, which she said were entirely vol untary. Mr. Fulton then introduced several other letters from teachers of similar purport, paying tribute to the superintendent.

i i There was but one decided tilt during yesterday's session, this occurring be tween Dr. Evermann and Mr. Fulton. Mr. Evermann charged the attorney with having left out a word in reading the rules defining the duties of an as sistant superintendent. Mr. Fulton re joined that if Dr. Evermann desired to impugn Xis motives he told a false hood. The incident passed off by Dr.

Evermanr “explaining that he wished ihe record straight.

A few moments later the board be gan its balloting. COREY SEES WIFE HE CAST ADRIFT (Continued from First Page.) Corey was here, too, but reached his grandfather's home ahead of his father, while his mother and a sister, Mrs. Lillie Corey Bainbridge, wife of Robert B. Bainbridge, a steel man of Mingo Junction, Ohio, arrived at the old home stead just after 1 o'clock. Miss Ada Corey, his youngest sister, was not present as she has not become reconciled as has the rest of her family,

“I Told You So!” James B. Corey, the millionaire double cousin of Ellis Corey, who lives here, and who “roasted” Ellis unmerci’ully the night of the marriage, in an inter view today, said: “i have not seen Ellis for years; but, what did I tell you? He would soon tire of his play actress, and would be ready and willing In less than a year. I gave hirn a year to find eut what <hs was, to cry ior the ‘vife of his strug gling days.” The steel! king's aged father, crippled with rheumatism, refused to discuss the meeting of his son and the latter's for mer wife. He said, however, that Mr. Corey and his divor-ed wife were very determined people, and did not believe a reconcilittion would be effected.

“One thing is certain,” he said. “My son wiil see that she never wants for anything. Allan, their boy, is at Yale University. We all love him, ard that, if nothing else, creates a heart :nterest and is a tie that binds.” Baltimore and Return, $1.25, Baltimore Ohio R. R. every Saturday and Sun day. All trains both ways, both days, except Royal Limited. City offices, 1417 G st. and 619 Pennsylvenia ave. I THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1908. SLIENTIST TALKS TOG. W.U. STUDENTS Ruins of Crete and Relics Secured Described by Archaeologist. The members of the Classical Club, of George Washington University, together with 300 friends, among them being Am bassador and Mrs, Bryce, of the British embassy, who were present as invited guests, listened with deep interest last night to a stereopticon lecture on “The Aegean and Crete,” delivered by Pros. D. G. Hogarth, M. A., probably the most distinguished of the English arch aeological scholars. Prof. Hogarth was former director of the British school at Athens and is per sonally directing the archaeological re searches being made at Crete by the British Museum. He is a fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford. Prof, Hogarth sald that when the ex plorations of Crete were first started by the British Museum in 1800 it was theught, after the work had progressed to some depth, that what would be re vealed when the accumulated debris of centuries had been removed from the buried city would be to show a crude fcrm of civilization, with a religion more of a fettish nature than anything else, but subsequent discoveries showed that the civilization, which undoubtedly dated back 10,000 years B. C., was of a high order and compared with Medieval Evropean conditions in a favorable light, Among the treasures secured are a number of well preserved hieroglyphics on stone and bronzes that eontain much of value to the history of the times in which they were made. But so far none of the expert scholars have been able to decipher them. Prof. Hogarth will deliver his lecture before the faculty and student body of Princeton tomorrow night, after which he will return to Oxford end a little later resume his work of excavations at Crete. Miss Vanderbilt Will Wed Count On January 2:

NEW YORK, Jan, 4—Count Ledislas Bzechenyl, of Hungary, will marry Miss Gladys Vanderbilt at the home of the latter's mother, Mre., Cornelius Vander bilt, Fifth avenue and Fifty-eighth street, January 23. Ever since the engagement was an nounced there have been rumors that it bas been or was abou: to be broken. Several dates have also deen mentioned for the wedding. Once it {8 known to have been postponed. The date last named is definite. The count’s relatives are on thelr way across thegecean tc be present at the wedding. G. PHELPS STOKES WILL SPEAK TODAY J. G. Phelps Stokes and Mrs, Stokes, both of whom are well known as advo cates of the co-operative common wealth, will deliver addresses in Oda Fellows Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. Prof. Willlam Veditz, of George Washington University, will preside at the meeting. It is expected that the speakers will be greeted by a large audience, among whom, it is sald, will be a number of the professors of Washington's leading universities.

TRAIN KILLS MAN WALKING ON TRACK (Continued from First Page.) noticeably until it had gone several hundred yards after hitting Martin. A train brought the body to Washing ton, where it was taken in charge at Union Station by the Washington morgue officia's. Representatives of the company v sited the body at the morgue and mide all preliminary ar rangements for the burial.

Joseph Martin, a brother of the dead man, is said to work at the Washington Asvium. Leaves Two Children. ~The dead man was living with his two children, a boy and girl, at the home of his sister, Mrs. William M. Hodges, on O street. He has been separated from his wife for a number of years. When informed of their father's death by a reporter yesterday Bvening the chil. dren were prostrated with grief and were unable to give out any statement con cerning the dead man’s action= before his death. Mrs. Hodges and her hus band were also greatly overcome by news of the accident and were unable to tell a coherent story.

Martin was Jormerly engaged in the oil business with his father, Joseph Martin, with their place of business on Seventh street northwest, hetween E and F strcets. Upon the death of his father five years ago Martin became a life insurance solicitor for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company.

The Coroner was notified and will give a certificate of accidental death this morning. Died RICHEY—On Saturday, January 1908, at 6:40 p. m., WALTER T. RICHEY, beloved husband of Anna Richey (nee Gibson), aged 25 years.

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‘RIDING TEST ORDER MAY BE MODIFIED

4 Engineers Willing to Retire on Pensions and Lucra o! tive Private Pay. i

Compromise May Be Effect ed Exempting Staff From ull Provisions.

ememesttipeasebimp President Roosevelt, It is expected, will be forced to retire from the posi tion he has assumed relative to horse 3 manship in the army. Irom the present 3 outlook the army will lose some of its *pest engineer officers, who are not i$ Joath to go, for ihe reason that they ~have flattering offers and can draw high i salaries in civil life, in additos to the bay of a retired officer. This statement was made yesterday, following close upon the: publication by the War Department of .an order gov Terning the appointment of persons in scivil life to the grade of second lieu wtenant in the army, and the examining *of lieutenants for. transfer to the Ar 'stillery Corps, which included President «Roosevelt's horsemanship test as one of “the requirements. a Both the President and Secretary +Taft are wrestling with the problem, it ‘is said, in an endeavor to give justice Sto all, and to keep engineer officers who gare eminently capable of performing ‘othe duties assigned them, but who are “unable to ride thirty miles three con secutive days. There are a number of instances where officers are more than *willing to go.

Pension and $10,000 a Year. This is true of Major Crabbs, gquarter “master, who was in charge of the con struction on the Walter Meade Hospital Lat Brightwod, who forced his own re “tirement under the horsemanship order so as to accept a $10,000 a year position swith the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com «pany, and in addition draw threequar ‘ters of the full pay of a major in the Engineer Corps. There are many other esimilar cases, notably that of Chaplain “Pierce, at Washington Barracks, who ‘has had three offers to preach in vari sous parts of the country, including one “in an Eastern city which will pay him ‘as much as his present army pay. He will, in additon, have the pay of a re “tired officer. There are several prominent engineer Sfficers directing big enginering projects «for the army who would be lost to the “service should the original horseman Ship order be carried out to the lettter. «This is true in the case of Lieut. Col. “William L. Marshall, engineer officer at ‘New York, whose case has not been Jdaken up in detail because the President sand Secretary Taft are considering the ‘general principles of the order, and Jiave not begun to go over the indi vidual cases.

Likely to Modify Order. The general staff of the army is op posed to wholly exempting engineer of sficers, and it is probable a compromise Swill be reached, so that engineers on Aduty with troops in the field will have to take the ride. President Roosevelt and Secretary _ aft are considering a modification of “the original order so as to allow engi neers and other staff officers to remain on the active list without being ables “to ride. Careful consideration will bs given each proposed retirement. and if the officer examined is fully qualified to perform the duties assigned him he will probably be allowed to remain on the &ctive list without riding thirty miles

4hree consecutive days, as was origi yv ordered. Brigadier General Garlington, inspec «or general, has asked permission to al Jow officers in his department two even ings a week for practice ridine. Trains Stopped By the Southern To Cut Expenses By reason of a falling off of the gen eral passenger traffic over the Southern fallway, diminished earnings, and in <reased expenses, it has been found necessary by the management to dfs continue some of the passenger trains and change the running time of others.

Effective today these changes on the Southern system have been announced, which will affect the arrival and de parture of trains In this city. Train No. 122, leaving Bluemont at 11:20 a. m., arriving in Washington at 1:5 p. m., and train No. 13, leaving Washington 8t 1:30 p. m., arriving in Bluemont at 4:15 p. m., will be discontinued. Train No, 39, due to leave Washington at 6:15 m,, for Atlanta, and train No, 40 from Atlanta, due to arrive in Washington at 2:45 p. m., will be discontinued north ¢f Charlotte, N. C. Train Neo. 10, how ever, will be changed to leave Danville at 5:50 a. m., arriving at Washington gbout 2:30 p. m. The management in making these changes says retrenchment is the rule on all the big railroad systems, made necessary by the heavy decline of pusi mess, and that they have made the few est changes consistent with the neges sity for the reduction of expenses. THE REY. JOS. WGUIRE BEGINS TO IMPROVE The Rev. Joseph McGuire, pastor of the Church of the Holy Comforter, was petter last night than at any time since his lilness took a serious turn. Father McGuire: Is still in a eritical condition, but the improvement he has shown within the last few days is en gouraging not only to his attending physician but members of his congre gation and friends. While Father McGuire is not yet out of danger, nis physician believes that if he continues to improve as he has re gently, it will not be many days for¢ a more encouraging bulietin may issued,

GRIZZLED VET OF SEA REMEMBERS FARRACUT

CAPT. GEORGE WIGGIN, Veteran of Navy, Who Dislikes Sur geons Being Given Command of Ships. Captain Wiggin Found the Great Commander Both Brave and Gentle. RAE i

Grim and forbidding, apparently, with shaggy brows above deep-set, plercing eyes, Capt. George Wiggin, an eighty year-old veteran of the civil war, sat yesterday in his nephew's home at 2953 Tilden street, recounting his adventures during the great struggle. i Captain Wiggin is a sailor of the Far ragut school. Modest and retiring, low of volce and gentle of manner, only his seamed, scarred face, partly covered by a close-cropped beard and shoulders once tremendously powerful, proclaim him a sailor and a fighter.

He was relating his many experiences during the clvil war, and telling his im pressions of Admiral Farragut. Both Brave and Gentle. “My first glimpse of Admiral Far ragut,” he said, “was at the battle of Port Hudson. Afterwards I came to know him well, as I served under him on numerous occasions and I never changed my first opmion of him. A cooler, braver, gentle:- man I have never met.

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“When I first saw him he was direct ing one of his officers about some minor matter, He was a complete surprise to me. I supposed that the wonderful war rior of whom I heard would bs a gruff overbearing sea captain. Ins ead, I be held a modest quiet gentleman whose gentle voice I shall never forget.

i “In battle he was the perfection of courage. His orders, given in the heat of a raging battle, were delievered In a voice scarcely ralsed. He seemed never to appreclate the tremendous danger at tending naval encounters. He was al ways calm, always collected, always in control of the situation.”

The old captain spoke of Admiral Dewey in the highest terms. Admiral Dewey and he were shipmaros together during the war. Admiral Farragut seems to stand highest in the estimation of Captain Wiggin, who regards the famous clvil war leader as the greatest man that ever commanded an American

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In one fight a ship commanded hy Captain Wiggin received 107 ghots, seven of which were below the water line. That the ship did not instantly sink was due to the splendid discipline that prevailed on board.

Dislikes Rixey Plan. Captain Wiggin is strenuously opposed to the placing of a ship's surgeon in command of a vessel. “It is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of,” he aaid. “A doctor could be empowered with anything but the com mand of a ship. He raay be all right with his powders and his disinfectants, but it takes a navigator to know what to do in a heavy e.

“A sallor should glways be responsible for the safety of one of th'= country's vessels, To put a man te ‘gnorant ol naval matters in coin is the height of absurdity.” Jealous of Line Titles. Captain Wiggin ia also opposed to the conferring of the title of rear ad miral upon a surgeon. “That titla was and is intended for line men and for them alone,” he sald.” “it should never be given to staff men.” ‘the old officer is bitterly opposed to the abolition of the canteen in the navy “When liquor was furnished on shi board,” sald he, “many of the men 4d not use their ration at all. ey knew they could have {it if they wanted it and that sufficed. Now they become in toxicated when they go on shore.”

i 1 A Dertoit physician says that the cheap est and safest mixture a fat woman who wants to get thin can use is one-half ounce Marmola (get It in the original! half-ounce package), one-half ounce Fluid Extract Cas cara Ar :natlo and three and one-half ounces Syrup Simplex. The proper amount to take iz a teaspoonful after meals and at bedtime.

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Thess ingredients may be obtained from any druggist at small cost and make a combination that is not only excellent as a fat reducer, beimg able, it is claimed, to take off a pound a day without causing wrinkles, but is also a splendid help o the system as a whole, regulatirg irs stoinach and bowels (where the fat person's troubles begin), and clearing the skin of pimples and blotches. No exercise is required to help the reme tv in its work and, best of ail, no dieting is necessary while taking it—you can eat what vou like. i

THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1908. For the Woman That's Fat REBATE TEST CASE IN HIGHEST COURT Great Northern Appeal From ‘$15,000 Fine to Be Heard Tomorrow. The first appeal to the highest court in the land of a railroad, caught rebat ing and chastised in a tender spot its treasury—by the ‘big stick,” will be argued tomorrow in the Supreme Court of the United States. It is the sad story of the Great North ern Rallway Company, fined $15,000 on a charge of having granted rebates to the W. P. Devereaux Company, on property shipped from Minneapolis to Seattle. ‘While the amount Involved immediate ly is not to be compered with the 320, 000.000 Standard Ofl rebats fine, this is a test case, and the decision will govern the Government's action in prosecut ing a long list of railroads, and may even forecast the action of the courts in the famous oil fine. i

The fine In question was imposed by authority of t Elking act. The at torneys for the rallroad, already in the city, are prepared to thelr con tention that Congress by the Hepburn railroad rate law of 1806 manifested its intent that the penalties incurred under the Elkins law, for which prosecutions had not at the date of the passage of the Hepburn act, been i:stituted, should be remitted.

They will argue that Congress was convinced that the Elkins law was too harsh, and, therefore, it passed the gen tle, soothing Hepburn act.

The Department of Justice i# pre; to treat with scorn such argumen It will picture Congress’ dstermination to put an end b's the iniquitous practice of rebating, and to this end concluded to make the offense an infamous one bh adding an imprisonment clause, It wiil tell the court that the Intent of the Hepburn act was not to give immunity to rebaters of the past, but to send them io the penitentiaries. Business hours—8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Qur January Sale of Undermuslins bi

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dhe Washington Times 6 Published Evening and Sunday at THE MUNSEY BUILDING, Penn. Ave., between 13th and 14th Sts. RIE FOr OIG... rs vevervavsens 173 Fifth Ave Chicago OMce.... 1710 Commercial Bank Bldg Boston OBR. .......couirceree Journal Bullding ‘Daily, one year......ccovvenssee.83.00 Sunday, one year...........e...-$2.50 FRANK A. MUNSEY. The Times is served In the city of Wash ington and District of Columbia by newsboys, who deliver and collect for ths paper on their own account at the rate of cents a week for the Evening and 5 cents a copy for the Sunday edition. Entered at the postoffice at Washington, D. C.,as second class matter. A ————————————r ee eee ee AR A A SUNDAY, JANUARY 1908, Discredits the Law. Is it possible under our laws to do an innocent man gross injustice? Is it possible that under those same laws a guilty man may stay the hand of Justice? Caleb Powers, whether guilty or innocent, is again-asking justice of our laws at the hands of our courts. Eight years he has been a prisoner. Three times has he been found guilty and sentenced, and three times has he been granted a new trial. His fourth trial has now re sulted in a disagreement of the jury, ten men voting to aequit him, and two to convict. A fifth trial is now probable, with the possibility of a sixth, and a seventh, and still more until he may die a prisoner, with the world still ignorant of his guilt or innocence. f Are our laws adequate when such things can be? Is our jury system right? Should we still require thst twelve men, picked at hazard with out regard to their fitness by knowl edge, education, training or experi ence, must agree before a verdict can be rendered? Cases like this of Powers go far toward bringing discredit upon the law, the courts, and the jury syz tem, and cast doubt upon the justice of those cases which have prompily been brought to a close with a ver dict of either guilty or acquittal. Can it be that Time alone does ,bring us that exact justice for which we all pray? That the Jus. tice of the courts is of a truth a blind goddess? Speaking of Cannon. Rich is the inaterial ready at hand for the literary inflaters of the Cannon boom. By taking just a trifling liberty with a line from Byron's “Siege of Corinth,” we have this stirring declaration of war: The Canncn is pointed and ready to roar! Again taking advantage of the license allowed in all matters polit jcal what noble use can be made of this couplet from Longfellow’s “Courtship of Miles Standish:” Truly the only tongue that is under stood by the voter Must be the tongue of firs that speaks from the mouth of the Cannon! Of course, Shakespeare can al ways be drawn upon for anything in any emergency, and we do not find him wanting now. Bringing the wording up to date, as it were, a striking passage for use in letters and circulars to be addressed to the voter can be found in “As You Like It: Full of strange oathes and bearded like the pa Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in battle, Seeking ever the people's good— Even thus is Joe Cannon. Friends of the Illinois statesman will also now and then find a word of prophetic warning in their search of the classic pages of our common literature. They would do well to heed this from Praed's “School and School-Fellows:" Some lie beneath the churchvard stone And some before the Speaker. As the campaign advances the op ponents of the youngest oldest man of them all may find a discon solatory prophecy in Tennyson's “Charge of the Light Brigade:” Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them. Before that time, however, they may have occasion to recall in fear and terror the alarum from Byron's “Childe Harold:” Arm! Arm! It fs—it is—the Cannon’ openirg roar! The Duty of Children. Fathers and mothers. are having constantly impressed upon them in the pages of books, magazines, and papers the great duty they owe their children in the way of educa tion—mental, moral, physical, and business. It is pointed out to them that it is their duty to have chil dren, and then their duty to see to it that these children become good citizens. “Home training,” it is shouted from the pulpit, from the ‘platform and the press, is to blame for the incapable, the inefficient, the ‘degenerate, and the criminal. On the other hand, to the same cause is ascribed the presence in this world of great and good men and women, our philosophers and statesmen, philanthropists and men of affairs. But is there not something due to the parents? Have not the children also a duty not only to the common wealth and the human race, but to the parents themselves? ‘One duty surely is clear, the one laid upon 1 the children by the Good Book: “Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” y The sins of the fathers, we are told, are visited upon the children, even unto the third and fourth gen eration, but it is to be seen on every hand and almost daily how the sins of the children are visited upon the parents. The disgrace of a son or daughter is a double disgrace to the parent, for to him comes not only the disgrace of his child, but the disgrace of himself. Who can meas ure the depth of the anguish of that father or mother who sees a dearly beloved son or daughter sinking lower and lower in the esteem of the public, until no friend is left but those to whom the child owes its life? Conversely, who can meas ure the height of the joy derived from contemplating the honorable, useful, and respected life of one vou nourished in infaney, guided in youth, and protected in early man hood or womanhood? I

If a man owes it to himself to lead a life of honor, honesty, so briety, and self-respect, how much more does he owe it to those whose hairs may now be whitening with age, and whose happiness he holds in the hollow of his hand? Serving Two Masters. Charles Felton Pidgin, formerly chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, and a well known author, is named as the ben eficiary in a bill introduced last week in the Massachusetts Legisla ture, providing for compensation for the use of tabulating machines, of which Mr. Pidgin is the inventor, and which have been in use by the State since 1875. This bill does not provide for compensation for any period of time during which Mr. Pidgin was in the employ of the State. Since July 8, 1207, Mr. Pidgin has been a private citizen, and the relief contemplated by the bill is in tended to cover only the time since his official capacity terminated.

The temptation for publie officials to engage synchronously in private business enterprises has been wise ly lessened by stringent regulations of law in nearly all branches of the National Government. Under such regulations an examiner in the Pat ent Office is not permitted to use his expert knowledge of the inven tions already patented to devise new inventions; employes of the Pension Office are not permitted to make use of their knowledge in the prosecution of claims+before that bureau, and in some of the scien tific branches of the public service employes are not permitted to mo nopolize the opportunity in the di rection of providing the public with scientific literature through the al luring occupation of writing for magazines. ll

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Some years ago the line was close: ly drawn in one of the departments by the promulgation of an order prohibiting the employes who were by profession physicians from fol lowing this profession in vacation, and out of office hours.

The theory that it is impossible to serve two masters has been firmly and justly established for hundreds of years. It should become a mu nicipal as well as a national prin ciple. The employe making use of his official position to advance his private interests by engaging in business where the public irterest is at variance with private enterprise, and where his official knowledge gives him the advantage over citi: zens engaging in the same lines of occupation, is unfair to the publie, and to the business world.

Endurance Contest Fad.

Aside from the question of whether there is anything of real value in contests in which human endurance is tested, it cannot be denied that they are of peculiar in terest. Six-day bicycle races, when they were new in the land, were the most absorbing contests of the day, but like the six-day walking matches, they have passed into the sere and yellow leaf, and have de generated into purely commercial speculations, and are not ranked high in that class. There is or ought to be a certain amount of physiological interest taken in them, for they certainly go to show of ‘how much continual exertion the human body is capable. In this re ‘spect the long-time piano playing exhibitions and the novel display of continuous bowling, just given in this city, are of even more interest, although wholly lacking in competi. tive features.

In all contests of this sort if would seem that the test of their value is to be found in the answer to the questions: Do they reveal tc us any new thing regarding the ca pability of the human body to meet the requirements of life or to meet emergency demands? Do they tenc to give us stronger, healthier, hap. pier bodies?

Soldiers gain nothing from six day pedestrianism. Armies, even or forecd marches, advance by short stages at a rate no faster than the ordinary walk of a man in some peaceful pursuit. They take fre ‘quent and ample rests. There is nevef any call upon a -vorkingman to exert himself continuously through the nizht and day for even two days, let alone six. Policemen and firemen find no benefit in long time contests, whether on foot or awheel. a

Veston’s walk from Portland, Me., to Chicago is probably the most valu able display of strength and endur ance that has been shown for many vears, and this aside from the fact that Chicagoans are inclined to look upon it only as a demonstration of the clain® that anybody, no matter how poor. if they emulate Weston's example, can get out of New York and get into Chicago. This walk of this old man answers both the test questions in the afiirmative,

But what value is there in playirg the piano twenty-four hours? In bowling that long? In fasting six days? They do test endurance, not only of the contestants, but of the spectators, and of the patience of the public. If they possess the character of novelty, which must be conceded to our bowling friend, they then have their own reasons for being, and are immune to any criticism based upon utilitarianism. New York Democrats say they are going to have series of important dis cussions of important national issues and then give it out that one of tie subjects will be “Home Rule for New York!” If that isn't just like New York! Is Madame Anna Gould suilering from emotional strabismus that she should be contemplating marriage with Bonl's cousin? ‘Strange how evervhady feels it incum bent to add “who was ths Democratic nominees for President ‘n 1804," every time the name of Judge Alton B. Par ker is mentioned.

They want a struck jury in the latest Hearst-MceClellan case. Wheavir gets on that jury will just naturally f~el that fate has roruck him goad and hard.

Texas “dows are bai medicine. One of them fired flve shots at a too friend 1y politician down there and four of the shots nierced his body.

Philadelphians do not order soup the first thing for breakfast, says the sprightly Public Ledger of that place. They order scrapple, and then if that does not suffice, they may indulges In tripe stew. We accept your apology, Brother Ochs.

I ee e————————t Until further enlightened we shall re tain the opinion that the Earl of Yar mouth is a cad. The way the g=1eral public is inclined to stand back aad let the Castellane family nght it cut to the last diich must he very disconcerting to the prin mM la Some folks are apjarently more in terested In the people who may or may not be dwelling on Mars thap they are in the people who are undoubtedly dwelling right here among us. Tom Patterson can go Billy Patterson one better. Tom knows who struck him. Mrs. Jones writes that Flelder will play with the Chicagoes this season. Mrs, Jones having made the announce ment over her own signature, you can just gamble your last dollar on it that ¥ielder will play. ‘rhe Scrapper From Indiana,” by Booth Tarkington, is announced for publication early this spring. Woman's Page Editors ars giving warnings against the “five-minute dresa ing” habit. That's a habit that must be the peculiarity of the Fifi Island ladies Now we really don’t think Laura ought to worry for fear her plots will be stolen. New York papers claim that only one girl in that town popped the question just after the New Year began. O, well. those Manhattan girls always wera hackward.

The music for “Waiting at the Church” is now being rewritten for bass voices. Although the Senators sare cut off from buying manicure sets at cost, they may still be able tc worry along with the help of their mileage and fraiks.

Prohibitiomists should be on the alert. Tris talk about putting an end to Ben ning races is an insidious attempt to injure them. The whisky sold at Ben ning has ever been the strongest sort of argument for prohibition. Tom Lawson is the founder, the prophet, and the sole survivor of his nartv. It is remarkable how calm we are over the influx of Japanese in Vancouver and how excited the English are, and how they keep looking at us as if they thought that in some way we were to blame for it all

All Congressmen's remarks are of weight—in the Record. Bryan is just beginning to feel the old symptoms again, he says. Everybody else has noticed them for the last three Vears.

Pat Crowe's brother has just failed for $5,000; assets, $25. That's better than Pat did. Pill or pull-it's all the same in the Navy. Where lonely now 3camander flows And scattered lies the hero's pyre, The towers of Troy (saith song) arose Accordant to Apollo's lyre, When music, floating on the storm Of chords that cried infinite, Swept unto permanence of form The city of the Dardan sea. And 'neath an arch that Iris drew From headlands of celestial gola, Shone forth fron heaven's pacific blue The faces oi the gods of old. _ But when I list to music cry Her ecstacies of grief and ‘oy, Diviner visions Hhpbng my sk, And lordlier domes than those of Troy —George Sterling. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1908. THE CITY OF MUSIC. LORD YARMOUTH WILL FIGHT SUIT BROUGHT BY WIFE Earl Unwilling to Lose Income Though Fam ily Snubs Wife. LONDON, Jan. 4—~The Earl of Yar mouth is to contest the suit instituted against him by his wife, formerly Alice Thaw, for annulment of their marri age. The impression in London is that the husband would hardly fight the suit but for his unwillingness to lose the $i, 000,000 included in the settlement. This money must return to the haws in the event of a decree nullifying the mar riage. The countess’ $200,000 personal income will also be lost to him. As a compromise his $10,000 annuity would probably be ordored continued. Thaws Engage Famous Lawyer. The case will probably be delayed for some time as it is number 156 on the list and the hearing of the first one will not be begun until January 11. Sir George Lewis, the best known lawyer in England, wiii handle the countess’ side of the case. The Earl of Yarmouth's solicitors have given formal notice that they will defend the countess’ suit for annulment of her marriage to their client. Says Husband Neglected Her. The countess says her husband has neglected her. 'Wtkile the earl likes society life, his wife cares nothing for it. She has been constantly snubbeaq, too, by the Yarmouth family, especially since the first Thaw trigl. y The countess’ fortune is all under her own control. Her father in his will placed a part of it in the ha..as of trus tees, and when she was raarried the countess placed the rest in a private trust for her own use. She set aside an allowance for the earl, however, under the marriage settlement, and it is agreed here that should the marriage he annulled this allowance will imme diately stop. HIGHT ON TAFT TAKEN T0 GOURT Foraker Forces Seek Injunc tion Against Primary for Convention Delegates. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, Jan. 4.—Proof that Foraker leaders in the fight on Secre tary Taft's Presidential indorsement mean to seek the aid of the courts in balking the State primary to select State convention deleg#tes was hinted hers tonight.

A reques: came from Napoleon, Henry county, the ¥oraker stronghold of northwestern Chio, that an injunction against the primaries be asked in com mon pleas court Monday morning. The papers are already prepared nam ing the country treasurer and auditor and election supervisors as defendants on the assertion that the primaries will bu illegal and cannot be paid for. The Foraker contention is that the Eronson act makes the county commit tes authority for invoking the aid of the primary law and for fixing ‘he method by which ballots shall be cast. They assert the county election boards cannot obey the State committee call, Foraker Men Show Shift of Charles P. Taft's Paper COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. ¢—The head cuarters of Senator Foraker, who is fighting Secretary Taft's Presidential indorsement by Ohio Republicans, today exhibited a clipping from the Cincinnati Times Star, owned by Charles P. Taft, Secretary Taft's brother, under date cf March 14, 1965, which reads: “Senator Foraker will ba Ohio's can didate for the Presidency.” A headline clear across the first page attracted attention. The Times Star's Washington correspondent spoke of Taft as essentially a lawyer caring nothing for politics, and linking the smell of law courts and books, It con cluded with the deduction that ‘Ohio will have but a single candidate—For aker.” Reyburn’s Wife Scores Heavily In Social War PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4—Mrs. John E. Reyburn, wife of Mayor Reyburn, won an amazi victory in her war against society when she was named to day as one of the hostesses at the Acad emy of Fine Arts’ annual private view of the exhibition tonight. She will re ceive with eight women from the first families of Philadelphia. The action of the committee estab lishes a precedent, and is a decided vie tory for Mrs, Reyburn. METCALF SIGNS ORDER FOR STOKES’ COMMAND

Secretary of the Navy Metcalf yes terday afternoc:n signed the order ase signing Surgeon Stokes to command of the hospital ship Relief. The order has been lying on the Secretary's desk since Christmas Eve, when Admiral Brownson resigned as chief of the Bureau of Navigation, rather than at tach his signature to {he order, which he believed to be illegal, Secretary Met calf did not sign the order until he re ceived written instructions from the President yesterday to do so. CENTENARIAN DROPS DEAD. SEWARD, Pa., Jan, 4 Patrick Ker win, 111 years old, believed to be the oldest resident of Pernsylvania, dropped dead here today. He was horn in Ire land on St. Patrick's Day, 179. Hitchcock to Join Taft, But Waits on Cortelyou Secretary of Treasury May Yet Plunge Into Nomina tion Fight. First Assistant Postmaster General Hitcheock, to whom has been tendered an important managerial post with the Taft forces, has not yet made a final reply to Secretary Taft, but it is ex pected ha will ultimately accept the invitation to join the Teft movement.

The interesting statem2nt was made yesterday in informed quarters that Secretary Cortelyou has nct yet in dicated his entire assent to thig arrange ment. Mr Hitchcock and Jollector of Internal Revenue Capers have con sidered themselves, it is explained, as bound to stand by Secretary Cortelyou so long as he feels that tuelr services may be useful in furthering any chance of hig own nomination.

It is reported that the Secretary has not gone so far as to release them en tirely. Back of this, it is understood, is the fact that some New York ele ments have not consented that Mr. Cortelyou should yet take himself out of thas race. Cortelyou as the Key. With the Taft-Hughes contest for con trol of the State assuming a shape which seems to indicate that neither side can get anything like a sol'd dele gation, the possibility of again pressing Secretary Cortelyou has been consider ed, it is said, and the case has been stated so strongly that somc good poli ticians are impressed that the Secretary might yet become the key to the difficult situation ia the Empire State. Despite this aspect, the impression is that Hitchcock and Capers are both ready to enter the Taft ranks, and that they are likely finaliy to be given their release from any obligations to Secretary Cortelyou. It is learned that recent conferences between Secretary Taft and Mr. Hitch cock have related to the Taft plan of campaign, which will be put into effect very soon. This is to place the East, West, and South each in charge of a manager, apd to work systematically in each section for the delegates.

Vorys Resents Criticism. Arthur I. Vorys, 1ow manager in Ohio, has been asked to contirue in charge for that State. It is understood he has not given a firal reply, because he has not enjoyed the criticism which has been directed at his conduct of the campaign heretofore. Mr. Hiteheosk, if he will accept, will be placed in charge both East and South; if he de clines, then there will probably be a manager East and another one South. It is further stated that the Western manager has not been picked, and there fore no tender of the position has been made; but the expectation of the Taft managers is that within a very few days they will have determined wnom to Invite to take the Western campaign. Mr. Hitchcock is not hurrying about his decision. It develops that since the charges of an anti-Taft conspiracy were made against Hitchcock his Southern ¢riends have declarel in most positive terms their confidence in and willing ness to stand by him, so that the Taft peopls now regeird him as actually stronger in the South thar ever before. Government Jobs Used as Taft Whip, Charge Opponents Opponents of the Taft cahdidacy are crying aloud that the Administration is making unwarranted use of Federal patronage for the purpose of whipping into line support for the Secretary of War. They are mentioning a number of instances in which they assert that offices have been peddled out in return for delegates for Taft and threats are being made that the facts will be aired in Congress, The friends of other candidates are, as may be guessed, none the less perturbed over the patronage situation because they are convinced Frank H. Hitchcock is to manage the Taft campaign and to have so able a subordinate as John G, GIVE UP ALL HOPE FOR MISSING SHIP AND 404 PERSONS

MONTREAL, Jan. 4—Officials of the Canadian Pacific Rallway Company here tonight are holding out little hope to the crowds of anxious relatives and friends that besiege their offices for news of the missing Mount Royal and her 404 people. They firmly believe the big liner is lost.

Not one word has been heaxd from the steamer since she cleared from Ant werp, on December 7. Vessels that cov ered the route taken by her since her departure have seen no trace of her. Almost the last vestige of hope van ished today with the arrival of the steamer Hungarian, of the Allen line, at Portland, Me, It was thought she might be towing the Mount Royal, but her captain has telegraphed that he saw no trace of the Canadian vessel, although during its entire passage hig vessel encountered mountainous waves.

f the Mount Royal has gone to the “Port of Missing Ships,” her disap pearance probably will never be solved. Did she catch fire in mid-ocean, did she strike a sunken wreck and sink before boats could be lsunched, or did her hold ‘boilers give way under pressure of steam? are questions shipping men are asking here, but there is no one to answer. A peculiar fact is that the Mount Royal was in collision on December off Antwerp with the steamer Larinda. She was reported uninjur2d then, but now it is feared her plates may have been started and the divers didn't dls cover it. With weakened structure she might have proven easy prey for the hammering waves and it is feared she may have gone to the bottom during a ale. Sa ptain Purcell, commanding the Mount Royal, is an old-time ocean navi. gaior and a careful man. The steame! es of 4,593 tons and was built in 189%, a ic oe gl] 37 FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, First Assistant Postmaster General, and the Man of the Hour in the Re publican Ante-Convention Campaign. Ec Capers, Commissioner of Internal Revenues. From a member of the Senate comes the statement that when Congress meets a resolution will be introduced demand ing to know whether the civil service regulations against political activity are being violated by the First Assistant Postmaster General. Whether anything would come of such a resolution is a question, though it cannot be doubted it will cause discussion of 2 sensational sort.

In th: hands ot the First Postmaster General [s the personnel of the service. He controls the jobs of many thousands of persons, and he remains in the Postoffice Department and takes over the management of the Taft campaign it is almoe: a certainty thers will be an outcry from candidateg other than Taft that will be heard from Maine to Texas and then some. Even if Mr. Hitchcock resigns from the Postoffice Department for the pur pose of managing the Taft campaign, it {z= contended by the opponents of Taft that he will still have the say as to distribu‘ion of patronage, and that jobs will be given out a‘ his suggestion. As an instance of the use of Federal patronage in behalf of Secretary Taft, the Fairbanks people are citing the fact that William J. Vickery has been re moved from the job of head of the postoffice inspectors and sent to Kansas City. His place has been taken by a man who was formerly assistant post master at Boston. Vickery is a Falir banks supporter. Another instance is the job of auditor for the DPostoffice Department, now vacant. Politicians of several States are after it. Wisconsin wants it, Minne sota wants it, and Long Island wants it. Who will get it? Talk is that ft will be dispensed where it will do the most good. In Ohlo, Teft men alone are getting Federal jobs. ‘The Ohio Senators are being ignoreé. In New York, George Wanamaker, 1 Taft man, has been ap pointed appraiser of the port. Wan maker was the candidate of Herbert Parsons, chai-man of the New York county committee. Mr. Parsons is the man who is relied on to do adequate damage to the Hughes movement to cripple it completely in Manhattan.

Down in Tennesses recently, two In ternal revenue districts were consol dated, the “wo collectors ousted and A. G. Sharp appointed as head of the districts that were consolidated. Sharg is a Taft man. Another instance cited as showing how the Federal patronage whip is being used is in Louisville. where it is re ported the vacart collectorship of the port will be filled by a Taft supporter. though the four Republican members of Congress who ara interested favo? another candidate.

CUBA AGGEPTS DECREE REGULATING DRUGGISTS Brig. Gen. Clarence A. Edwards, chief of the Insular Bureau of the War De partment, yesterday received a telegram from Governor Magoon, of Cuba, in re sponse to a letter relative to numerous protests received from private parties in Cuba against the !{ssuance of a decree regulating the granting of pharmacists’ licenses. i

It was sald that trouble would fol low the issuance of such an order. Gov ernor Magoon's response sets at rest all fears of a disturbance and says the decree hog been issued. GOETHALS TO INSPECT THE WAUCHUSETTS DAM Colonel Coethals, engineer in chief, in charge of the construction of the Panama canal, who has been in this city for a week or more to lay before the President and Congress the project of replacing the locks on the Pacific end of the canal and putting them be hind Sosa Hill at Miraflores, will leave this evening for Clinton, Mass., where he will look over the work on and in spect the Wauchusetts dam. He will also {aspect the dam across the Charles river near Boston, which has horizontal rolling lock gates, with a view to examining into the practica bility and efficiency of this type of lock gates, and the possibilities for its use on the Panama canal. ADMIRAL MASON BACK Rear Admiral Newton W. Mason, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy, is back at his desk. Rear Aa miral Mason and his family went to Charleston, 8. C., for the holidays, and returned to Washington yesterday, TROOPS PATROL MUNCIE STREETS AGAINST STRIKERS Rumor of Theft of 800 Quarts of NitroGlyce rine Causes Stir. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 4.—After pro claiming martial law in Muncie today Governor Henly tonight temporarily rescinded his order at the request of leading citizens and of Major General McKee, The soldiers will not be withdrawn, but the governor will give the civil au thorities, with their re-enforcements of 200 prominent citizens, as deputy sher ifs, opportunity to control the situation without martial law. The difference between martial law and the condition prevailing tonight is slight. The military is assisting the civil authorities, and all streets are pa trolled by armed soldiers. Property of ‘the Union Traction Company is guarded by a strong force of soldiers. Excitement was created here late this afternoon by the announcement that Governor Hanly's declaration of mar tial law had been inspired hy Informa tion that 80 quarts of nitro-glycerine had been stolen last night from one of the magazines in the oil fields. The Du Pont Powder Company at once began taking an inventory in their storehouses of explesives, and while there have been rimors of the discov ery of the theft there has beer no of ficlal confirmation. No attempt was made today to run cars until 3 o'clock, and they were guarded by soldiers. The crowds which Bad been dispersed this afternoon were so taken by surprise that there was no time to check the car. With the crowds of men and boys eémployed during the week added to the throngs in the streets, Sunday will be a crisis in the situation, but General Mc Kee believes it will be possible to pre serve order. His men have forty rounds of ammunition to use in case of ne cessity. U. 3. NEEDS HELP OF LATIN AMERICA John Barrett Says Even Japan Is Reaching Out For Trade. That this country should make greater efforts to secure the commerce of South America by furnishing improved trans portation facilities was urged by John A. Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics, in his address be fore the University Club last night. In the topic assigned to him, “American Oprortunitiés and Responsibilities in Scuth America,” the speaker explained the many and diverse resources of South America and Central America and also the increased commercial activity exhibited there is the last few years. “In a short time,” he said, ‘the United States will be forced to go to the Latin-American countries with a cry of help, When we are almost at the part ing of the ways in our resources it is necessary that we should pay closer at tention to the growth and prosperity of the countries that are rich in natural rescurces, “Europe Is making far greater efforts in the direction of Latin-America,” said he, ‘than is this country. Ewen Japan is appreciating the great value of that country in commerce, and is outlstrip ping the United States.”

Ambessador Creel, who was also pres ent, gave a short address in which he described the recent improvements in Mexico. EXPLOSION IN BANK BAFFLES POLICE Unable to Find Motive for Dynamiting Kansas City Institution. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan. 4 —Detec tives detailed to ferret cut the mo tive behind the explosion today of a bomb in the basement of the First Na tional Bank building, are so far without a tangible clue. That the explosion was caused by dvnamite is regarded as certain, but whether the explosive was placed by some crank, a disgruntled depositor, or some one bent on rob bing the bank, is a mystery. The detectives are scarcely able two find any ground for the belief that rob bery was the motive. The bomb had been placed in a toilet room twenty feel from the main safety vault. There was no trace of the bomb thrower and there is arr inclination to believe a time fuse wassused. So great was the force of the explosion that the steel post supporting the partition of the room was bent outward a foot. Win dows a block away were shattered. Particles of glass from the bank's basement windows were blown across ‘the street, and Albert Ward, the porter, who was in the room, was hurled through a plaster partition by the force of the explosion. Logan Wilson, another of the injured, was blown across the basement. Particles of glass from the chandelier cut J. Donaldson, a bank clerk, the last of the three men injured. There were at least 250 people in the bank and the real estate and law of fices on tr: second and third floors when the dynamite let go. Immediately there was a wild rush for the exits. The building was of thoroughly modern construction and represents an invest ment of $1,000,000.

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PUBLISHERS OBJECT 10 POSTAL RULE ER Want Six Months to Re move Lapsed Subscrib ers’ Names. Regulation Will Cut Down Cost of Carrying Mails. President Henry B., Varner, of the National Editorial Association, saw Postmaster General Meyer and Third Assistant Lawshe yesterday to urge the department to postpone for six months the new ruling of the department in regard to lapsed subscriptions to na:ws papers and periodicals, President Varner sought to have the time extended, basing his objection to the date set, January 1, last, on the fact that but a few weeks’ notice had been allowed to prepare for a rule so sweeping, The new rule denies the publishers the privilege of sending copies to subscribers as such after a specified term following the expiration of the subscription. For each violation the publishers will be fined 1 cent for each four ounces. Not to Embarrass Publishers. Mr. Varner stated that mnewspaper publishers did not object to the law, but simply desired more time to pre pare themselves and thelr subscribers for its actual operation. He was as sured that the department had no de sire to embarrass the legitimate pub lisher, and that postmasters had been instructed to use discretion in the mat ter. With this assurance Mr. Varner gssured the officials that the publishers would do all in their power to uphold the new law. MP. Lawshe stated yesterday that the purpose of the new regulations is to correct real abuses and not to put into the hands of postmasters instruments with which to annoy and vex publish ers whose practices are proper. The postmasters have been advised of this purpose. Mr. Lawshe, who has not only had wide experience in postal matters, but was for sixteen years a newspaper pub lisher, has devoted much attention to the regulating of and throwing proper restrictions around the mailing of see cnd-class matter, Padded Subscription Lists. The objectionable publications by tak ing advantage of the sample copy priv fleze, which under the old regulations was 100 per cent of the paid circulation, and also by padding thelr lists with the names of subscribers whose subserip tions had long since expired, were able to send out mammoth editions at the pound postage rate. The officials do not attempt to dis guise the fact that the new regulations are designed primarily to stop the flood. ing of the mails with papers and peri odicals of the cheaper class, and by this means protect the postal revenues. It is expected that the country pub ilishers in the long run will be greatly benefited by the new rule REBUKE 1S ANSWER OF THE GOVERNMENT Rebate Fines Cause the Atchison to File Strong Protest. President Ripley and other officers of the Atchison, Topeka and Sinta Fe railroad had a volley of denunciation fired at them yesterday by the Depart ment of Justice under the direction of President Roosevelt. The rebuke was issued because of strictures made by the officers of the road against the Government and the court in the re bate cases which resulted in big fines being imposed on the road. The Attorney General made this statement: “I feel it my duty to say that the charges made by the officers and coun sel of this corporation against the United States attorney in connection with the matters in the present report appear to have been unfounded and unjustifiable, and the oaomments and suggestions contained in Mr. Ripley's letter regarding the judge who tried ard sentenced his corporation eonsti tute unwarrantable reflections upon a judicial officer, respecting the dis charge of his duties as such, which are wholly indefensible, both in form and substance, and deserve the condemna tion of all citizens solicitous to protect the dignity and independence of our courts.”

BIG BATTLESHIP MODEL ORDERED BY THE KAISER PERLIN, Jan. {—XKaiser Wilhelm has ordered the construction of the biggest and most elaborate model of a modern battleship ever made. The model, which will be twenty-five feet long and complete down to the minutest detail, is tc be presented to the Munich Museum, to serve as an object lesson on the German navy, for the benefit of an inland city which might otherwise forget that Germany pos sessed such great ships of war. The model will be in longitudinal section, so is to show the interior construction ot the vessel, with its bewildering com plexity of engines, fighting gear, and other appliances. “HORSEMANSHIP BOARD” TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY The Davis retiring board, better known as “The Horsemanship Board,” which was to have met last week for the final examinations of those officers who were not qualified for the horsemanship tests, will not meet at Washington Barracks until next Tuesday. This postponement was due to the fact that the medical board upon whose recommendations ae tion will be taken was not ready to Fepojt. ol. Walter 8S. Scott, who was ordered to report to the board for the first time yesterday, will also report Tuesday. Men Not Deteriorating, French Savants Declare German Physiologist Thinks Race Is Decay ing and Living Toe Fast—Too Much Meat Blamed by Another. PARIS, Jan. 4—"Is the human race deteriorating?” is a question which has been greatly occupying the attention of the scientific world since it was first mooted in Germany by the well-known physiologist, Dr, Koenig. This scientist is very pessimistic, re garding the present representatives of the human race as the decaying re sidue of a once fine and beautiful crea tion. Man, he says, is abusing his ener gles and using up his vital fire in ex cessive emotions and fatigues. He fore sees the time when the race will die out through suicides occasioned by physical suffering. His views are, how ever, not shared by all savants and French physicians especially are mostly opposed to the German doctor's opin ions. Dr. Elle Metehnikoff, the deputy di rector of the Pasteur Institute, in an {interview says: ''No, we are not in ferior to the men who lived nearer to WOMAN AERONAUT DESCRIBES HER TRIP Mother of Navigator Waist Deep in Sea When Rescued. ROME, Jan. 4—Princess Schakonskol, the mother of Prof. Helbig, owner of the Balloon Fides, has talked interest ingly on her aerial trip across the Adriatic. “Everything was well with the bal loon,” says the courageous woman, “when suddenly, when we were about three miles east of Arezz, we ran into a gale.. Forty minutes later we found ourselves et the shore of the Adriatic, a distance of fifty-one miles. Soon after the clouds enveloping us became so denss that it was impossible to dis tinguish otjects below. “At 3:30 o'clock the horizon cleared somewhat, and we surmised that we were floating above Fano, My son pulled the cord and dropped the trailing ‘rope. As the balloon descended, the ropes touched the water. The wind was then blowing from northwest to southeast, and we were near enough to earth to hear, occasionally, thc whist ling of locomotives. “We held a council and decided to fly along the coast of the Adriatic and, if possible, make a landing at Ravenna. Thus we sailed along for an hour with the trailing rope. When it was get ting dark we decided to make our ‘situation known to the first boat en countered. “After awhila we distinguished two fishing smacks and signaled to them. They understood and chased after the trailing rope, but the balloon, suddenly doubling its pace we soon left the boats behind. “Being afraid of losing control of the rapidly moving airship, we resolved upon a desperate measure. To cut down its pace we gradually lowered the basket, but not until the latter struck the surface of the water did the bal loon resume non-dangercus gait. When finally the bark St. Spiridion caught up with us and pulled us aboard we were all up to our waists in the Adriatic.” i

i Gd Nar? The princess {8 the widow of the fra mous German archeologist, Helbig; her son is a lecturer on chemistry at the University of Rome. The ascension Ge scribed was his twenty-sixth venture. Mother and son wers accompanied on the trip across the Adriatic by Count Botrinski and Captain Tcherkoff, the latter an attache of the Russian em hassy.

ot De Sagan’s Father Once Paris Dandy Almost in Wan PARIS, Jan. 4—One of the little trag edies of the High World lias in the pa thetic fate of Boson, the ex-Prince of Sagan, Duc de Talleyrand, and who must not ba ¢dnfounded with his son, the present wearer of the title and name and who was assaulted this week by his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. During the second half of the nine teenth century he was the arbiter of Parislan elegance—one may even say of European elegance, for, besides the Prince of Wales, who is now Xing Ed ward VII, he had no rival in this field. This great lord, who was for thirty years, at least,the cynosure of all eyes in tout Paris, is now utterly neglected and abandoned. He who was once so active and brilliant, now suffering from an in curable malady, drags on a miserable existence, almost in want. The Duchesse de Talleyrand, his wife, was able to and did—we must do her the justice to say—surround him during her lifetime with the utmost care and at tention. After her death his second son, who bears the title of Duc de Valencay, and who was some time husband of Miss Helen Morton, was appointed the guardian of his father. Why is it that since this time life has become more and more hard for the poor old man

who was once the gay Prince de Sagan? It is a mystery.

Investigysion shows that the Duc de Talleyra: still has the means to live ag befits his station in life. The settle ment of the affairs left him with $4,000 per annum. But, apparently, the court of settlement! does not trouble itself to see whether this amount is used for the purpose for which it was s»t aside. For 2 year or more, the duke's allowances for living expenses has been cut down to less than fifty frances per week.

This poor old man, who was one of the most refined in the world, is relegat ed to a tiny upstairs room in the big tamily mansion, 57 Rue St. Dominique, which was once the scene of so many fine fetes, among others the famous ball of the Beasts, which caused so much ink to flow in the press of the two hem ispheres. Often enough nc%adays, as one passes the door of the house, one hears people remark, ‘Yes, yes, what a lesson it is!”

THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1908. nature. Ws are able to fight better than ever against diseases. Longevity is increasing.” Dr. Lannelonguve, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, member of the Academy, and a senator, is also op timistic as to the future of the race. He says: “If maladies seem more nu merous nowadays than they used to be, it is because we have discovered and baptized a large number of hitherto un. known affections. But we were never better than we are today.” Dr. Henri Iiuchard, physician to ths Neckar Hospit=2l, and a member of the Medical Academy, considers that life is only abridged by one's own {mprudence, and that the race has only itself to blame if it is growing decrepit. Dr. Huchard adds that half our ailments are caused by over-indulgence in meat. Only Dr. Hany, a member of the Academy of Medicine, among leading French physicians, shares the gloomy views of Dr. Koenig. He says we of the present generatior are: much smaller in buiid than those of the past, and without going any further back, he adduces as an aliged proof of this state ment that no one now living could wear the suits of armor of Francis I or Henri II. On the other hind, he adds, our cranial capacity is much greater than it used to be.

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‘When, on December her engagement was announced, she left off the neat deaconess habit, but when she returned from the ceremonial of betrothal she again assumed the sister's dress and went out the same night to nurse a sick mother. The future Princess of Bulgaria is a half-sister of the late Prince Albert of Sarany and a niece of Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. During the Russo Japanese war she was chlef nurse of the sanitary train sent out by Grand Duchess Vladimir. She had never be fore done work of that kind, but soo grew accustomed to her new duties and,

bein; a woman of great will power, re. organized the whole expedition. TRUNK THIEVES SENTENCED. Nine months in jail was the penalty imposed on Michalay V'roten and EA ward Rabbitt in the Polina Court yester day for petit larceny, Detectives Fantiga and Evsns and Lena I /le alleged that on November 21 the defendants stole her trunk and a quantity of clothing from her home, CACKLE, CHIRP, AND COO, ALSO, COCKLE, DOODLE DO; ALL HAIL POULTRY CREW Cackling hens advertising the arrival of new eggs. Crowing roosters bidding defiance to one another. Clncking, anti-race suiciiie hens. Scrappy bantam cocks. Heavylegged buff cochin pullets and cockerels. Pouter pigeons strutting about like victorious gladiators, and trying to touch the North Pole with their fuzzy chests. Golden tongued and saffron coated canaties, Mimicking mocking birds.

Jabbering parrots. Chicks in the making. i Chicks just made, and fowls from for eign cliraes. This, in brief, is a census of the feath ered things that will be seen at the poultry show which begias in the Ma sonic Temple tomorrow morning, and continues until Saturday night. Some of the Stars. Ccaspicuous among the thousands of exhibits will be the Orpington fowls, and other well-known varieties from England. Beautiful black fowls from the island of Sumatra will also be seen, and many cage birds from Lan castershire, Belgium, and Yorkshire will have a place.

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outer pigeons to the young people dur ng the show week. Every child under sixteen who comes to the hail will have a voice each day in the distribution of the allotment for the dav.

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PROMOTION EXAMINATIONS The folowing officers have been or dered up for examination for promotion in the United States Army: Lieuts. Clarence N. Hones, Third Pleld Artillery; Robert Arnold, First Field Artillery. Second Lieuts. Henry I. Harris, jr., Sixth Field Artillery; Edwin E. Pritch ett, First Field Artillery, and Roy B. Staver, First Field Artillery. 1 i

LIKENS GREAT BRITAIN 10 DECLINING RONE 7 LONDON, Jan. 4.-—Major General Baden-Powell, the hero of the Boer war, has expressed himself concernisg the British empire. Speaking to. a large gathering of young men during the holidays, he said: “Great Britain is today just about the same as the Roman enpire was 2,000 years ago. We know the latter's his tory, aad all her faults, and we should take care that we do no: fall into the same errors. “Rome, too, had municipal councils which ran up the rates and were al ways making squabbles on party grounds, which seems to be just what is happening now in places not a thousand miles from Great Britain. Rome, too, had the question of free food. “Rome, too, played games, but gradu all ve ing the and Jd rb ao playin ey aid not 2nd killing a few jators, because they could quite easily buy a few more; but I do not suppose it could be done quite the same now, because I understand football players cost about $16,000. By giving up playing, the Romans became puny. “The foreign manning of their ships was another reason for their fall. I could keep on giving comparisons tween the Romans at thelr fall and Britons at the present time, “If every one Roes his duty as a geod citizen, nothing will go’ wrong, and tnat {8 what I want to instill into the rising generation.” FXAMINATION FOR LIEUT, PICEEL First Lieut. Arthur M. Pickel, Fif teenth Cavalry, has been ordered be fore the retiring Losrd at Governor's island for exammunation as to his fitness to continue in the service.

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