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I AN EMPEROR'S POEM. Every educated Japanese is supposed to be proticient in writing with his brush ill indm ink one of those charming little poems which gratify the national art) taste. jThe following poem was written for the I Peeresses' School of Tokio by the Km* ;peror of Japan. It waa translated by Arthur Lloyd for the Independent, by whose permission it is here used: WISDOM'S GOAL. BT MUT8DIIITO. ' Iiis Majesty the JSmperor ot Japan. . The water placed in goblet, .bowl or cup Changes its form to its receptacle; And so our plastic souls take various shapes 'And characters of good or ill. to St The good or evil in the friends we choose. .Therefore be ever careful in your choice of friends, And let your special love be given to those iWhose strength of character may prove the whip That drives you ever to fair wisdom's goal. AMELIA AND THE BABY. 2 By C. H. AKER-. -itOJC OHN JACKSON" uncon_ V sciously increased his pace O I O as his home came in sight He_walked quickly up the 0 ^(OYr little path, glancing in through the sitting-room window as lie passed. The warm red flicker of the firelight dancing on the walls looked cozy and inviting, in pleasing contrast to the cold and damp out of doors. ? "Ah! it is; good to'be home," thought John as he tapped at the door instead of ringing. "I expect Amelia is waiting for me?sitting in the firelight so that she can let me in the minute I knock." And he pictured to himself in cheerful anticipation his wife eagerly waiting his home-coming, sitting In the cozy firelit room. To his surprise there was to his twice-repcated ^knocking. "Where in the world can 'Amelia be? She always runs so quickly 10 let me in!" And John was forced reluctantly to ring the bell. "Where is Mrs. Jackson?" he asked the maid as he walked into the empty sitting-room. "Upstairs with the baby," answered Mary. "Is there anything wrong?'' demanded John a little anxiously. "Oh, r.o, sir. He's as merry as a Icing?the darling?I don't wonder Mrs. | Jackson can't tear herself away!" John was cold and tired and he could not help a feeling of disappointment stealing over him. He glanced at the fender?no slippers were there, and it twas the first time since their marriage that Amelia had not put them ready. He slowly fetched them, changed, and Hinging himself into an armchair en Joyed the pleasant -warmth of the fire. [Presently he got up. "I must go up and see what Amelia is doing.'' be said, "and give the little man a kiss before he goes to sleep." lAud he went upstairs. "Is that you. John?" called Amelia; *do come in here and look at baby. I>oesn't he look cherubV" John went into the night nursery Kvhcre his wife was standing near the little cot. "I thought you were lost," said he. Amelia was too engrossed in the frolics of her little son to notice her husband or the shade of disappointment which crossed his face when she did not turn to greet him. ; John put his arm around her waist. ? "Give me a Kiss, little woman? * * 'Amelia kissed liim hastily?then stooping over the cot she lifted out the little crowing bundle of humanity and kissed it passionately. "Now give daddy a kiss," she cried, and John solemnly saluted the little roseleaf cheek. "Now come and dress for dinrler. The little chap ought to be asleep by now." "In a minute," answered Amelia. "You go and get ready. I shall be down by the time cook is ready." A little later John was again waiting for Amelia downstairs. Dinner was ready waiting?getting cold, and John .was hungry. Presentiy Amelia called over the banisters: "I say. John dear, begin without me; I >hall be down in a minute or two, land don't want any soup." So John Dili. U*J\> u axuur aiiu uc^au UJC Iuc?u m solitary state. He was more than lialf through before Amelia put in an appearance. I ' ! wish MoIIie would come; I want fn tell Lor several things," thought John. But when she did come down, itho things were left unsaid. She cfcat. tered unceasingly about the baby, all Jie had done and looked that day. and ?s th"> little man had only had one ldrthday there was but little variety in his daily proceedings. John listened patiently. He was devoted to his little son. but he had a vague feeling that . 'Amelia might at least take some interest in his OAvn doings during the day. /'Baby can monopolize her all day," thought he. "I think it my turn in the evening!" ***###* t 1 During the next few months a curious change came over Amelia Jackson. Her whole life seemed wrapped up in iier little son. It was not that she Soved her husband less, but if it was a choice between John and the baby? l>aby was never the one to be left. John quickly noticed the change. .He liad been used to treat his wife as his>\ confident, talking his business affairs over with her. and often relying on her intuitive feminine judgment for a decision on debatable points. Gradually, Itowever. all this was changed. Amelia was too eager to talk of baby's little doings to listen to her husband, so iie almost unconsciously gave up the IU uumiut' in un ui IU U?K iitri opinion. Amelia was sitting on the sands at 'Atlantic City reading?a few yards off was baby with his devoted playmate and nurse. The latter was making sand pins for the little man to break down as <;V.ickiy as she turned them <r.it of his bucket. "I've never read John's letter," suddenly thought Amelia, with a sudden twinge <>? conscience. 'Toor old dear, I wonder how he's getting on in town all Vt himself. It will remind him of his bachelor days before wo were m.inv-i. Still. I simply couldn't leave bal.y here with nurse?I should 1 miss him loo dreadfully." In the earl? spring John Jackson's 1 littlf* linit* !ifnl !iii1 nn oi-tfir-V nf n-hnon- I ing conpii, a..u his recovery the <lcrtor had s'.scgpsted sen. air. Dr. Carr ! : was an oid friend of John's, and seeing thie direction of affairs in that house- j hold, had hoped to mend matters by j' his suggestion. He thought that once i nurse and baby were down at the sea- j ?iilo 4nmlin wmilil !?f? frofid from til? ' unconscious slavery into which she . 1 had slipped, and John would once j more enjoy his home life. What wasr ; 1 his dismay on calling a few days later , 1 to find the house deserted, except for j ! John and the cook! Amelia opened and read the letter, j 1 Its contents occasioned her no small surprise. They were as folows: < ' "My Darlinpr Wife?I'm sorry to in- j 1 terrupt your holiday. But. after the I ' first few days, cook's behavior ha? j 1 been, to say the least, mysterious. She ! always seems to be out, so you may 1 imagine that matters are not very sat- ' ! isfactory here. I have not said any- { I thing to her, as I *know you think very . : highly of. But I certainly think you had better come home as soon as you j i can and put matters right. I do not | think I had better interfere, as ior i i leaving babj. h- cannot be in better ; < hands than he is with Mary. j < ' Yours ever. I i "John." I I '"I cannot, possibly come home." said i i Amelia to herself. "How stupid John Is. I shall go in and write to him at I once, and tell him I cannot possibly I leave baby. He must square things I up with cook himself." i So she went indoors and wrote ti> | John, telling him of her decision. A L week later, what was her dismay on | ' receiving a wire from Dr. Gary: ' Come home. Your husband ill. j i Gary." was the curt message. I i Amelia was thoroughly frightened. I ' What can have happened?" she i said. "I hope it isn't some accident at i those horrid works. Some one is al- i ways getting hurt there." She hastily t packed, caught the first train back to i town, and drove home in a hansom, j A sensation of fear of the unknown I stole over her. What if John were 1 ? -II nriiA +A.JA/*i?nm frot'tt llCiT | CCl'lUUfilJ1 111. XUU labium t,w.? V . . no clue, and wrapped up as she was in I her little son. she had not allowed her- i self tints to think of the possible seriousness of affairs at home. On receiv- i ing the telegram, after her first alarm j her whole attention was given to j , baby's welfare in her absence. Dr. Cary met her at the door of the ; house. ' What has happened?" she asked : anxiously. J Dr. Cary took her quietly into the j little sitting-room. "I fear your husband is very serious- j ly ill." he said gravely. Then in a few j words he told her of all that happened : in her absence?of the advantage that had been taken by the cook of her mistress's absence. How she had gone out each night?often leaving John an ill-cooked dinner or none at all. How j she bail come home late and Iain in j bed the next morning, and let John go dowmtown to bis office without hia i breakfast. And bow she had put damp sheets on his bed. \ The result , of the month's discomfort and neglect j was that John was lying seriously ill j with double pneumonia. 4,And I am an old man," said the j doctor. "May I give you one word of advice?" i : Amelia looked up questioning^ ' What is it?" she asked. | "If your husband pulls through let j him see that he is first in your affec- I tions. Lately you have given your i whole being up to baby, and your hus> band has been left in the cold. Of course, I know it has not been so in reality, but appearances have been against you, and your husband has lately had a disappointed look that you , would be the first to resent." ******* j John Jackson's recovery was very (' slow. Thanks to v...e devoted nursing , of his wife and th<* skill of Dr. Cary j the lung attack did not prove fatal as it had threatened. j At last the day arrived when he was 1 pronounced sufficiently convalescent to I be allowed downstairs. He was lying ' in a sunny corner with Amelia sitting j sewing by his side. ,:It is indeed goad, dearest, to have you downstairs. It really look* liktf recovery to-day,*' she said. .Tohn smiled and then said: ; 'Do you know. Amelia. I am almos! sorry to be getting all right again!" "John dear.*' exclaimed Amelia, "whatever for? It must have been a horrid time." i | ' I thoroughly enjoyed it." said .T;>lu4 gravely. "I am such a selfish brute, Amelia, and never so thoroughly enjoy myself as when I feel [ am indisputably first in your eyes." '"John," she said at length, "you al- i ways wen? ami always win ue nunsputably first. I ilon't know wliy I got so stupid over baby just before you wore ill. It is over now. I don't love i baby any the less, but I shall be more sensible now. Will you forgive me for j -for ?" . ! "There is nothing to forgive." said John gently, as he drew lier toward j him and kissed her.?The American j Queen. XJii'orco. "A lawyer making a specialty of divorce cases was recently consulted by a woman desirous of bringing action j against her husband for separation. The lady related a harrowing stor.V of her ill-treatnient at the hands of her better half. Indeed, the lawyer wan , so impressed by her recital of woes i that for a moment lie was startled out ! of his usual professional composure, j "Madam!" lie exclaimed, "from what l you say, I gather that this man is a perfect brute!" Whereupon the applicant for divorce rose with dignity and said: "Sir, I shall consult another lawyer. [ came here to get your advice as to 1 a divorce, not to hear ?ny husband abused!"?Harper's Weekly. A Lock For Speech. History records sundry criminal proceedings reporting the affixing of pad^ locks to a human being's mouth. In Hungary this was the ecclesiastical punishment for uttering blasphemy. The same crime was punished in Spain by tearing out the culprit's tongue, in France by braiding the tongue, ii< Holland l?v niercins the tongue with nails, etc. In the ancient grave a j padlocked, human face was discovered | recently, and a few days ago it was? put on exhibition in the National Museum in Budapest. The staples were driven through the bony part of the face at both sides of the mouth.' Antiquarians say the lock is dated from the end of the sixteenth century. DOWN TO PERKINS*. Some Ground and Lofty Lyinq; Heard Around the Stove. The usual crowd of drcppers-in wa5 attting in Perkius' store, down Wil- i liamstown way. The extract of Gold j Rope and Hough and Ready was flow ing in streams that threatened tc j swamp tue t>ox or sawuusi uuil ?u swered for a cuspidor. Old Perkins ! svas busily engaged in soaking the j brown sugar in order that it might i weigh enough to satisfy his particulai trade. The cat had felt the effects of < the cold spell and was contentedly ' licking her paws as she lay beneath J the stove conniving how to steal o i sausage without old Perkins catching | lier. "Say. Mark," spoke old Jim Ar- j io, the weather forecaster for Williamstown district, "d'ye know this j lin't nuthin' like as cold as 'twas the | winter I moved here? Why, this ain't uuthiu'." "Why, I should say 'taint cold 'tall,'' ; replied Mark Brice, the roan from j Jowu East; "why, d'ye know, whar I j :um from this is like spring. Why, the thermometer's only 2 degrees below zero. Why, down in East thar it's ! sero in June. No, this ain't nuthin'." | Old Perkins looked up from his task j iind a frown bedecked his countenance; j but past experience had taught him i that a still tongue in a crowd like that j made a wise head. Jim Brown edged closer to the stove. "Why," said he, "I remember back in 79 that it was so cold right yer in wuuamsiowu uiat uit; sieum tuis ncic so frozed that every time the engineer slowed his whistle it made a icicle that long that it couldn't turn the curve lown thar by the edge of the woods, and me and Sam Bradley had to go lown. thar with saws and saw the ice !>ffen his whistle, and we got enough ice from that engine alone to supply Snyder's ice-cream factory with ice for a year. Naw, this ain't cold." A perceptible move toward the stove j by all hands followed this remark. "Cold?"' queried Hez Whartonby; "why, blamed ef I can't go back to '07, when it was so cold that I went out i to milk the cows, and the fust one that I started on got frozed to the bucket, j Just as soon as the milk would start to , flow, why. the thing would freeze, and ; there was nothin' but a icicle of milk, which froze the cow to the bucket I YVal, I was skeered, but me and Mandy gets the as and cuts it in strips and carries the icicle to the house. And : I don't care if you believe it or not, we had enough milk in that icicle td last all winter. When Mandy wanted milk for the table, she'd take a hatchrf Hiiu. cat a piece ou. wiiy, uuut was frozo so hard we kept it alongside thd stove all winter, and I think I got J piece of it home yet. Naw, this ain'i cold."?Philadelphia Press. ! The Art of Kating Properly. Pawlow has lately established th$ physiological importance of the ment:Jf state on digestion, having shown, for j instance, that delicacies produce se ' cretion of gastric juice as soon as thej are perceived by the eye. even beforf they are eaten. The food must not only be palatable, I but must be served in an attractive j manner (fine dishes, table decorations ' etc.). * In eating we must take time to chett , our food thoroughly. This serves a i double purpose: (11 Through the act o1 j mastication the coarser particles ol ! food are broken up; (2) more saliva is I secreted and is thoroughly mixed witli the food. The digestion of starch i! Lhus materially aided, and the proteidi ire made more easily accessible to th-j action of the gastric juice. Water should accompany each meal J it increases tue appeuie anu tue eujo;*' : raent of food. After eating we should rest a little cvhile before returning to our work.? ' Dr. Max Einhorn, in the Mediea! Hoc- i 3rd. Chnneed in TranfimUalon. At the beginning of the past sum mer a certain well-known literary woman in the West repaired to the shores of one of thi? lakes of Michigan, there to prepare her cottage for occupancy during the heated term. Before , going she had arranged with her bus band to cause a lot of household goods j to be packed and forwarded bj ; steamer. Pursuant to instructions, the husband I personally supervised the packing oJ I the various effects needed for the cot tage in Michigan, even going down tc the dock to see that they were dulj conveyed on board the steamer. More over, us requested u,y ins wue, iie ten; graphed what he had done. ''Lares ant penates on board," wired he; "will arrive to-morrow morning." When his wife received the telogxair she read: "Lard and peanuts on board. Wil." arrive to-morrow morning."?Harper's Weekly. "Booking" After-Dinner Oratory. Mr. Car! Hentschel calls my atten lion to an experiment tried the othei i day at the annual dinner of the Bar ! tholomew Club, and I think I canno1 do better than commend it to the atten tion of all' gentlemen who get up pub l : dinners. On this occasion all 11m I speeches were "taken as read"?that if ' to say. they were printed in a litth j book, which was distributed to th< i guests. This is nothing less thar j "epoch-making." If the idea is gen j erally adopted, as I sincerely hope i' may be. a public dinner may cease tc be a terror to the people who have tr make the speeches, and to the peopli U.. 4-^ Uc.fr nr% frr\ llinm 7 fr olc/ 1 WilU JUiltt; L\J uoiv.u 11/ 1uviu, jlv uiwi ] seems likely to tend to the elevatior j of after-dinner oratory. At any rate 1 tin- Bartholomew Club speeches, so fa>! as I have studied them, reach a muct higher standard than one is aceus tomed to on these occasions.?Londor Truth. lled-Cappecl Cdatum* Officials. According to a recent decision of the Treasury Department, the customs of ficials will wear a rod cap after Mnj 1. The reason of this is the difficult} experienced by travelers in findini these officials on the wharves in tiu crowds which arc usually present upoi the arrival of a vessel. The customs ; ni-nnntnri; oil U'AI P lillifoPlllS. but PYPt then it is difficult to pick thezn out but the appraisers are only desicfnated by means of a small badpe worn or the lapel of the coat. With a red cap these officials will all be readily discernible and the business of the office will be crently facilitated. WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS Severe Snow and Windstorm Sweeps Atlantic Coast. NEW YORK CITY BADLY TIED UP Kailroatl Train* Stalled on* Nearly Kvery Line Runiiinjr Into the Metropolis? Vessels Pnt Into Hnrhors AU Alone the Siiore From Maine to Haiupton Iloadf", Va. New York City.?What all records prove tn bo the severest winter storm that erer swept over the Atlantic seaboard?that is, the most extensive ever known in the territory affected and the damage done?reached the eud of its fury in the vicinity ot' Xew York City at 8 o'clock at night, and was followed immediately by a rapid fall in temperature, which at midnight was seven degrees above zero. The snowfall and the high winds, blowing from the northwest and then from the north, covered thousands of square miles, from beyond the great lakes to the ocean, and extending to the New England coast and the interior. New York City and its vicinity came in for the most furious swing of the storm's lash. So great was the snowfall and so liigb were piled the drifts that that city practically was isolated from outside communication by rail. The New York Central Railroad, with the exception of three local trains to White Plains, was tied up completely. The famous Twentieth Century, drawn by oue of the most powerful engines in the world, was stalled at Irvington on the Hudson. The New York, New Haven and Hartford was in the same condition as the Central. Not a wheel was turned on the Long T^lonrl Rfiilrnni1 It W:1K thp.mosfc Com plete tie-up of that system on both, its north and south branches ever known. The blocking was so complete that a mild famine in New York became imminent. The Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Jersey Central and the Lackawanna roads, while a little more fortunate than the roads whose tracks were covered with mountains of snow in New York State were hampered, and all their time schedules were disarranged greatly. The entir? coast line, from Hampton [loads north to the bleak shores of Maine, has been devastated. The crew 3f a schooner had a thrilling escape, l'wo British steamers were driven ishore in Chesapeake Bay. The wind was blowing at the rate of seventytwo miles an hoar off Cape Cod, and hundreds of craft were in peril. All harbors from the Delaware capes to Portland were filled with stormbound fleets. The storm extended inland through Mai^e, where the mercury fell to a point lower than is remembered in twenty years. On the Jersey coast the intense cold and the blinding, cutting snow made it impossible for the lite-saving guards to make their regular patrol, so that grave concern was felt for the safety of a score of craft that might have lost their bearings in the great white pall, which spread far out to sea and closed thorn in. HONDURAN REVOLT. Advices to Mobile Indicate Danger in Puerto Cortez; Mobile, A'.a.?Advices received here by the steamer Espana, from Honduras, declared that a revolution was imminent in Puerto Cortez and other portions of Spanish Honduras. The Government at Tegucigalpa has taken steps to forestall an outbreak. The revolution is of au internal nature, and trouble was feared. At Puerto Cortez natives continuously engaged in revolutionary talk, and it was the impression of many persons that they were organizimr for a revolt against the Government in the near future. Secretary of War Baraona, a week n:ro. issued an edict reauirine: all per sons, of whatever nationality, leaving the country to secure a permit from Ills department. When the steamer Espaua left tlie port of Cortez the order had been somewhat modified, in that Commander Bu'.nes had authority to ssii1.' the passports. GRIEF KILLS A RUSSIAN. Didn't Hear From His Family in St. Petersburg and Feared the Worst. Philadelphia, Pa.?The revolt in Russia sj preyed on the miud of Joseph Ivochenski, thirty-four yoars oiu, 01 23(50 Salmon street, as to undermine lis health and cause his death. Kochenski's wife and child ar? in St. Petersburg, andiin to two months ago he heard from then regularly. Reading the newspapers of the shooting down of women and children h? the Czar's soldiers in the streets of St. I Petersburg, caupled with the non-arrival of his usual letters, increased his fears for their safety. At ihe Coroner's inquest the tal-e of the 3'ouui; ! man's misery was told by fellow worktiiei:. WITHDRAWING PART OF ARMY. Itorce Hears That Some of Kuropat kin's Force is Being Sent Back. Rome, Italy.?A telegram received from Mukden said it was believed there that some of General IvuropatSin's best troops have been withdrawn inil were now on their way to European Russia, to be used in suppressing hhe revolution that was believed to be impending. St. Petersburg Besieged. St. Petersburg was practically in a state of ciege. General Trepoff issued i notice warning strikers to return to ivork under pain of deportation. One p.undred and sixty-seven bodies were buried in one cemetery in one day. Wouldn't Accept. Governor La Follette declared that ne would not accept his election a> Senator unless the railroad measures for which he has been working are entetfiri hv i hp Wisconsin Legislature. Gen ami Slocuni Indictment Quashed. Judge Thomas, of New York City, juushod the indictment against former inspector of Boilers John W. Fleming n connection with the Slocum disaster. A similar motion in behalf of Henry Lund berg. Assistant Inspector )f Hulls, was denied. Sentenced For Bribery. "William Duke, said to have sold appointments and promotions in the New Vork City Fire. Police and Health Departments, was sentenced to sis wintha in nvlcnn qii/1 fluprl S.lflft SEA SICKNESS KILLS TEN'j ' I Forty Other Passengers on the j Vaderiand in Hospital. j ,, ??? I 1 I > Sterurnhip Arrives in Sexr York City From ^ Antwerp With Sa<t Tule of Loggea j , on Her Trip. ( I] | New lork Citjr.?Ton person1? tned I 1 from seasickness during the voyage of 1 the Red. Star liner Vaderland. from i j Antwerp to this port, according to the i statement of Dr. YVaerser^er. the ship's J surgeon, which is supported by the : 1 stories of the passengers. * Forty more persons were so over- j come by the rolling and pitching of the I ( ship that they had to be removed to I s the steamer hospital. They responded j ^ to treatment, and but one was left in , A hospital when the vessel came in. H'.was able to walk ashore at Ellis Island. All who died were men?Hunga- j rian steerage passengers, and all from J the same province. i "Persons can die from seasickness.*' said-Dj. Waersenger. "While these;'*] men technically died from congestion * of the lungs, they really were the vie- j tims of seasickness. If we had made | the trip in fair weather none of these persons would have died." ?i Only two bodies were brought to the / port, the rest being buried at Sv>a either r at midnight or at 4 o'clock in the morning. Relatives were invited to witness j the ceremouy. but in no case did any j one accept, and the officers and men at- | tended to the simple rites of sea burial c observed in every case, a prayer being ? recited before the body was allowed to plunge over the rail. None of the cabin passengers, it was stated, had left their beds to witness the mournful scenes. The ship carried 955 steerage passengers, and those who died \vere quartered in the forward part of the vessel, where the motion was most severe. Those who succumbed were ill but a very short time as a rule. The fatal effect of the malady, according to the ship's officers and the doctor, was due to the half- Istarved condition in which the victims ; had left their native country. In spite j of ali the aids that medical science could bring to them they had not vitality enough to pull through. Despite the very unusual death rate, there was very little alarm, according to the officers and cabin passengers, shown by the more fortunate of the steerage passengers, who did not suf fer. Among the passengers on the Vaderland were two physicians, and they j aided the ship's surgeon, Dr. C. Waerseger, in every possible way. They frequently held consultations with him, and gave him their professional advice rreei.v, m rne lmeresw w. iuc v whole steerage. Just'before leaving c b? shin they drew up the following joint note: ^ "This is to certify that upon request j of the authorities on board this steam- j er we, the undersigned, made an e.t- { amination of many of the patients and an inspection of their quarters and . found the latter in the best condition. To'the best of our knowledge we be- ^ lieve the fatalities to be due to the exhaustion attending a rough voyage. ' and further wish to state that the patients received every attention possible "Dr. SIDNEY K. SIMON, J "New Orleans, La. f "Dr. WILLIAM ACKERMANN. e .1 "Milwaukee, Wis." Captain E. C. ISnoff, of the Vader-, c land, speaking of the sad trip, said: i i "Those who died had been poorly i e fed for many years, and on arriving on j e fhA ?hin shnwed it plainly. Further* | more, they were poorly clothed, and Jn j e no condition to stand the cold weather j f of the trip, or the rough weatlier wp I encountered." j j MIKADO SENDS THANKS. d Tells Minister Griscom He Appreciates Reception Given to Fushimi. ? * Tokio, Japan.?The Emperor gave au- * dience to Minister Griscom and the t-n- d tire staff of the American Legation. Through the Minister the Emperor 1 seut a message to President Roosevelt a expressing his appreciation of the cour- ? tesies shown Prince Fushimi by the J President and the people of America ! 1 upon the occasion of the Prince's re- j cent visit. Minister Griscom replied (hat Prince j Fushlml's spontaneously cordial recep- j ? Lion was the natural result of His Muj- " esty's felicitous expression of interest in tn& sr. Jjouis i^xpumliuu, iu >ion , which was one of the chief objects of t: the Prince's visit. j 8 JAPAN'S INTEREST KEEN. J r Believe Russian Disorder May Have ! a an Important Bearing on the War. j ^ Tokio, Japan.?The keenest interest a Is felt here in the revolutionary move* f, ment in Russia. The Japanese readily ,, understand what an important bearing a it may have upon the progress and duration of the war and of the r.cgo- , tiations that will iollow its close. SEVASTOPOL ARSENAL CLOSED. t Naval Department Entirely Destros'ed j fl by Monday's Fire. I ^ Sevastopol.?The fire at the Adinir- j nlty worki here was undoubtedly of :iu- J S j cendiary origin. The naval department j t was entirely destroyed. The arsenal has been closed to fine' j p stall a strike. |j Smoot Refuses to Testify. Senator Smoot, before the Sena're j j committee, at Washington, L). C.. r?- ^ fused to testify concerning the en daw- _ raent ceremony. ; i! For Big Game Preserve. b Rotten Pond and 2000 acres surrounding it, near .Ylidvaie, N. .T.. were ji sold by the Metropolitan Museum, ol' j New York City, tcv. Howard r. Froth- c in^'baui and Pliny Fisk as a game preserve. j. , t Mrs. Duke :n Prison. j j. Alice Webb Duke, wife of Brodie L. ! Duke, brother of the tobacco magnate, j j: was sent to the Tombs prison iu New | t York City on the charge of swindling t a bank in Texas. Schooner (Joes on Rocks. Th? three-masted schooner Rodney j n Parker, of Lynn. Mass., Captain Itau- I v (lall, from Stonington, Me., to New c York City, with a cargo of granite, a went on the rocks at Si ni on ton's Cove, Portland Harbor. A tug took off th*? c crew. j In Dominican Waters. As the result of a Cabinet meeting at ( !r> iVntlthiiHnn 1). , lilt1 Willie . nuuar. , , C.t and tiie arrangements of tl? Naval \ Board, the entire Caribbean squadron j has been detailed for duty in Dominican waters j . : - IINOREVENTSOFTHEra WASHINGTON. The trustees of the Peabody Func i'otcd to dissolve the trust. The fund :ow amounts, to about $2,200,000, ol vhieh ?1.000,000 will be given to the 'eabody School in Nashville. Tenn. Utah women were called in behalf o senator Reed Smoot in the investiga :ion oy me senate committee on friv leges and Elections. The Array Appropriation bill was massed, after an amendment providinj :hat retired officers above the rank o na.ior shall not receive the full pay ol heir grades when serving with Stat( nilitla. Mr. Degetau, the Commissioner froir ?orto Rico, made his first speech it Congress. President Roosevelt appointed Gov Tnor Brodie, of Arizona, Assistan1 ?hief of the Record and Pension Divi lion of the War Department, with irawing the nomination of Major Ed vard S. Fowler for the same place. John Flinn, Superintended^ of In lian Schools at Chamberlain, S. D. las presented the President with s Sioux war bonnet and a buckskin coat rhese articles were secured by Dakotf idmirers of the President and aent bj Lgent Flinn. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Sorrow was felt throughout the isl mds for the death of the Americai ^.rmy officers recently killed in skir wishes with the Moros. DOMESTIC. uapuain vao ware, pnoc 01 uie uen rai Slocum, and Supervising Steam oat Inspector Rodie were witnesses at he trial of In-spectors Lundberg and 'leming in New York City on Aargesi ? manslaughter. A lone robber entered the phctogra )hic studio of Rudolph Wilhelm on thi ;ighteenth .floor of the American Tract society Building, in New York City itruok Wilhelm unconscious with i randbag and escaped with a small rol >f bills. The (.iamonds and other jewels, val :ed at $33,(XK). which were stolen from dr. and Mrs. W. S. Edey. of New York jity, in their apartment In the Hotei Maryland, Pasadena, Cal., were fount >y the police. Carl Wilson, anothei iotel Maryland bellboy, was arrestee md told the police where the thieves md buried the gems. Twelve charges on which the im >eachment of Judge Lacombe, of the Jnited States District Court, is de nanded were sent to every RopCeaer, ative In Congress by the law firm o'l Vsitt & Dohan. of Philadelphia. The Rogers Locomotive Work, a I " aterson, N. J., have been sold to the American Locomotive Company. W. J. Bryan argued at New Haven 3onn., his appeal in the Bennett will ase. Judge George TV. Kay denied that h< vas respoLSible for the delay in bring ng George E. Green, of Binghamton sT. Y., to trial for complicity in posta rauds. Raids on .three storage warehouse.' n New York City yi^ld^d two large an loads and five wagon loads of gam tling instruments, the largest haul i: >ne day's work in -the history of the ity. Mr. Takahira, the Japanese Minister aid that one of the things .Japan was ighting for was China's administrative utity. Delegate Randall, of Wyoming, whe barged President Mitchell with hav ng sold out the Colorado miners, was spelled from the United Mine Work rs of America. S. C. T. Dodd, for thirty years geu ral solicitor of the Standard Oil Com iauv. resigned. In the cases of Policeman Frank Mc ^aughlin and Policeman Devanna, ol Jew York City, both on trial for mur ler, the juries found both guilty ol Gsnslaughter In the first degree. Widows and orphans of the General !locum disaster attended the trial in few York City of the inspectors hargecf with the responsibility for the disaster. Through Chancellor Whltelaw Reid petition was presented to the Regents f the University of the State of New iork, asking the removal of Me'vil )cwcy, State librarian. FOREIGN. The strikers, who numbered nearly 20,000, were simply awaiting the inluence of public opinion on the coal aine proprietors and the efforts of to Jerman Government to assist iu the ettlement. Finland can Lave all, the guns it rants wnen tne tune comes lor revuu gainst Russia, it was reported. These rms were partly procured in Englaud. irras will also be supplied to Poland. China's reply to Russia's charges of violation of neutrality was presented > Secretary Hay. It is a general de< ial. Counter charges against Russia re set up. Grand Duke Vladimir, of Russia, or ered 500 machine guns from a Geo ian factory. Three Austrian Army corps moving 0 the Galician frontier gave ground or the theory that half a dozen Rusian provinces may be "pacified" iuto Lustrian territory. American warships were sent to an to Domingo to enforce the protecarate upou the insurgents. Empress Eugenie, a special cable (lisatch stated, is making a tour in Egypt nd lias been welcomed by the Suez !anal administration. A special cable dispatch from Rome, taly, announced the d?ath cf Prince Jesclii, Grand Master of the Knights 1 Malta. The resignation of the Combes Mhv stry w?is accented by President Lounf r?f TTi*finnA Baron Gautcli.new Austrian Premier, n opening the lower house of the leiehsrath made an effort for reconillation of th* Germans and Czechs. Six persons were killed and nine seiously injured ir. a collision of three rains on the Midland IJaihvay, Ei:gand. Chancellor von Bneiow. in a speed) 11 the German Reichstag, referred to he action of President Roosevelt on he regulation of trusts. Itudolf Sicmeriug. the German sculpor, is dead. The controversy between the Cabinel ud court in Belgrade has becomc seere. It was expected that the regiide party would succeed in controlling i new Cabinet. In the fire at the Duodo Palace, a sue ial cable dispatch from Venice said, a >ortrait of the Dcge Francesco by Tin orettl was burned. Prince SvIatopoIk-.Mirsky induced thf Council of Ministers to vote to consul! vith representatives of the zemstvo; n regard to carrying out the reformf iromised by the Czar, and will prob ibly l'etain his portfolio for some tinu is ? rpsult of the victory. f I FIVE KILLED BY YAQUIS i Four Americans and One Mexican l Murdsrsd by Indians. j Three 15?c?po<l From Ambauli Near Cobaclii, Mexico?Two Chlca^oani and Ona Toledo Han Amouc Dead. ' J Nogales, Ariz.?Four Americans and ^ | one Mexican were ambushed and killed > j by Yaqui Indians four miles east of j CJobachi, thirty-five miles ^east of La / i Colorado, State of Sonora, Mexico. The 1 j dead are: i CJov. Dr. R. C.. of Chioflso. III. ? MacKenzie, John K.. of Chicago, III. Call, M. A., of Toledo. Ohio. < I , Stubinger, Walter, of Ivewanee, III. j v Mexican driver, nam* unknown. H. L. Miller, of Chicago. Ill;, and A. . ; W. Tolerton, of Salem. Ohio, and'a second Mexican, Cochero, escaped and t' made their way to Cobachi, and thencs to La Colorado. -; Miller was slightly, [ .wounded, but the others were unhurt. .i Dr. Coy and Mackeuie ieft Nogales : for Torres. From Torres, which is j south of Hermosillo, on the main line of the Benso'n Cuayamas Railroad. The two men named, accompanied by ' other members of the party, went to 1 Camp Toledo, seventy-five miles east ' i of La Colorado, to examine properties ' owned by a syndicate of Chicago men. The party left Camp Toledo in two four-horse stages, on their return trip . to La Colorado. Coy, Mackenzie and Miller were in the first stage, which : was driven by a Mexican. In the s?c[ ond stage were Call, Tolerton, Stublni ger and a Mexican driver. The party had just emerged from the hills and was entering into the flat [ country, when suddenly, without the j." least warning, a voljey of shots w'aa fired at the first coa.fch from behind a ! pile of rocks on the roadside. One'of \ [ the horses fell, toul the vehicle was , : brought to a sudden stop. Coy, Mackenzie and the driver were killed' almost instantly by the hail of bullets. I The Iudians fired another volley into [ the second vehicle, and Call and Stub. fnger were shot dead. Miller, Toler* ton and the driver of the second team ^ jumped to the grouud and fled, making a wide detour toward Cobachf, where they arrived about 7 p. m. ' 'j. Mackenzie was shot through the head [ and Coy through the body. A party was organized at CobachI, r composed of ranchers and vaqueros, \ who took the trail at once in pursuit of the Yaquis. They failed to overtake the Indians, however, and ret turned to Cobacbi, bringing the bodies f of the dead m.n. From Cobachltbey were conveyed to La Colorado} Miller and Tolerton were with the bodies. I' The Yaquis stripped two of the bod' ies of clothing, plundered the stages ? of all valuables, burned one of the ye- ' "f* - hides and fled to the mountains. Rings, ; 'watches and other jewelry worn by i Coy and Mackenzie were stolen,' but no mutilation was attempted. , After the bodies had been orougnt rc , ; Cobachi Miller rode to La Colorado, 1 secured an escort of forty well armed * i i inen, and bad the bodies of tbe Amor> icans taken by tbe party to La Colorado. Mackenzie. Coy and Call swere married men. and lived in Chicago, 111. J Mackenzie was about forty-three years ? old. .Coy was about forty. Stubiriger was twenty-seven years old. The'latter was well known in Nogales, but * bad recently been employed at the Hotel Arcadia, at Hermosillo. He accom* ' panied the mining men for an outing. ? . r The party when canted, | or.ly revolvers ?iad ihotguas. ,WitiT | these arms the survivors of the first volley managed to stand off the Yaquis, and made their escape. It is understood that the Mexiqan ' Government has ordered cavalry and infantry from Hermosillo to the scene ! of the killing, and it is understood General Torres will command the ' I troops in pursuit of the Indians. , I. EODIES DON'T FALL STRAIGHT! Experiments in Mije Shaft Show T^at ' Objects Are Deflected. i Lake Linden, Micb.?No object can I I fall from the top to the bottom of j one of the deep vertical mining snaus of the Lake Superior Copper district except in a skip or cage. This has been shomi by experiments, covering several weeks, conducted by United , :<58 States Government officiate at No. 5 shaft of the Tamarack Miue, 4930 feet deep. ... Steel bails were suspended over the exact centre of the shaft openings, brought to absolute quiet, dropped by burning with a candle flame the threads holding them, so that they started straight toward the centre of the earth in the line of the shaft.' ' In every case, however, the balls swerved and lodged on the timbering after falling from 1000 to 2000 feet. Various theories are propounded to explain the occurrence, the most plausible being that the deflection of the balls yis caused by the rotation of the earth. I -'jS ! WARSAW CALLED TO REVOLT. ' - :S People Urged to Rise and Arm Themi selves From the Arsenals. | i Warsaw.?The events at St. Tetersburg have agitated the whole land, ! for, in spite of official reticence and the * vigilance of the police, tiiey are uecoming known throughout Russia. ; A meeting of laborers here declared i for the solidarity of laborers everywhere. and demanded the immediate calling of a parliament. . , Handbills have been distributed i throughout the city preaching insurrection and calling upon the people to rise and arm themselves from the arsenals. JUMPS TO HER DEATH. Brooklyn "Woman, Crazed by Illness, Leaps From Bedroom Window.' New York City.?While suffering from temporary insanity following proi longed illness. Mrs. Eli?a Jane Gibbs, " r" ? ctrnftl- Rrnoltlvn. Ol ?5?J I lVWiriUaau ? ?, threw herself from the rear window of . l her room on the second floor. i She was picked up unconscious from i the effects of a fractured skull and other injuries, and on the arrival of a physician was pronounced dead. . i f i ' College Notes. ' A dairy school has been opened in. > connection with the University of California. Some additional features 01 the Yale t Summer School will soon be an- ' nounced. * - $> The squad from which the cast and - "lirtrns nf the annual Columbia 'Var t sity show are to bo sc'eei^d has beou 5 chosen. " ' Professor T. A. Jajrcrar, of Harvard, " Intends next summer to make a trip ' co Iceland for the purpose of studying volcanic phenomena. * . ..