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The Navy j By Charles H. ( TATED with severes sons of the two rec of the future shoul great classes or tyr should be speed an The more impc type, with strong S the use of a greater number of : thips. The latter would serve i to attack forts. I cannot see tha ships be 10 or 12 inch guns is gun. with its awkward accessor United States and Russia and J Therefore, ships of both typ mumber upon the battleship cf th coast defender." Ships of the fir fenders," because they could def and compelling the presence of t The importance of speed in so obvious as not to require discu The Minotaur class of ship, dence the Admiralty's faith in t struction is unassailable. In combination with these ix not overiook certain other craft I torpedo-boats, or, rather should and scouts. This is the point at real utility of the torpedo-boat. Work as E By the Rev. Nei EST of all, work is e out college. Some some become wise in shop and store, Education is not gi youth studies geol but Hugh Miller, tl over the red sandstone in which dering the picture of a field dai blossom as te ploughed the fiel astronomy by memo:izing the c watching his sheep in the early seven little ones held by strings cystem, and each night he mov Venus and Mercury and Jupiter. Herbert Spencer! '*nr answer is finest in quality and sweetest of solitude, where God's skies few-He is the God of all. Wi gates of His greatest university of Fame and Wisdom stands op( keeps the door whispers, "Let nC day World. The Man WI By the Editor oj HO of us has not ki W to like that best Y labeled, but must pedestal that o'ertc cast of it! Drop into his are progressive an five minutes' time he will cover you are a superannuated mossba By way of opening the cc bakespeare and the delight th: Night" adequately played. His lip will curl and he will "My dear fellow Shakespeare I go so far as to say that some him, but when I want to hear ti works of Ivan Stepnovitch. The meant to act, and that, after all meat, not milk for babes." Already you are beginning t< pabulum, and you wonder that think that if our friend felt that he would cease to hold it himsell Seizing the By O. S. Mardez T is a dan:gerous thi Ia habit. Energy a waiting. Opportuni nothing, or looking the man who is ale Some people b see chances anywl without noticing anything preci the most . barren and out-of-th Bedford jail to write the greates1 that bad been used to cork his b stone sees an opportunity to go boy sees an opening to his ambi or run errands, where another se to get an education in the odds which another throws away.-Su The Rights of a Newsboy. It is good to linow thnat all proceedings are not of the "Jarn versus 'arndy'ce" type, bound t efficiency by :ards of red tape that the ear of th,e law can sti hear the claims of a child, anc arm of the law protect with reat rectness yAe interests of a little s boy. The report of thne juvenile of Denver, Colorado, gives an stance that is wor:h quoting. One day in a busy civil sessio the court, which was trying a case involving two million dollars court room door opened and a poked in a tousled head and frei face. The court officer "shooed' out, but he returned secure in knowledge of his rights there. The bills were submitted for minutes. to the disgust of some o distinguished council, and the came to the bench. He was a newsboy. He said he was having trouble; that for years a policeman on the beat let him sell papers on a certain ner, and now, as he expressedi fiy guy" had taken his place, an< cause he was a "new cop, he th he owned the town." and had orc the boy off the favorite corner, t by making him lose fifty cents a The judge did a remarkable an usual thing. Considering thnat thE had a case as important as the on fore the bar concerning the miu that a dead man had left behin< surviving selfishness, he held u; proceedings while justice was dox the it:ie chap of the stree:s. Gets Gold Piece After Fifty cover thedoar Vu ial up. It w;ill be sent to him.-P the Future. 'ramp. brevity, in my opinion, based upon the 1e ent wars as I have learned them, the warship I be the battleship, and there should be two es. The principal difference in their make-up d coal endurance. rtant of the two classes should be the speedY un-power. A slower class. that would permit lcavy guns. would comprise the second type Admirably to defend harbors from within and t the question whether the armament of such important. Damage effected by the 12-inch es, during the wars between Spain and the apan hardly justifics its use. s should carry 10-inch guns. with a greater second type, which I would call "a seagoing st type also might be described as "coast de md our shores by attacking an enemy's coast lat enemy's vessels at home. onnection with the ships of the first type is ssion. that the British are now "laying down," evi he first type. The propriety of their con aportant fighting factors, of course, I would hat I consider necessary accessories, namely, [ say. torpedo-gunboats-swift despatch-boats which to say that we must not overlook the ducation. vel Dwight Hillis. lucation. There is a culture that comes with scholars gain wisdom through the university, :hrough their work. For wisdom can be found and field and factory, in kitchen and in offic-1. ven by others. but gained by one's self. Ore >gy by lingering over the picture of a rock. ie stone mason, Inasters geology by lingering he wrought. One boy studies botany by pon ;y, but Robert Burns mastered the sweet I and plucked the daisies. One boy studies hart of the sky, but the boy named Ferguson. evening, with one large top for the sun an I for the planets. make a chart of the cosmia his tops to correspond with the fight ot ':hat knowledge is of most worth? askel is, That which is self-gained. What culture n perfume? That which grows in the garde* give r ain and dew. God is not the God of a th disinterested love He has flung wide th -The University of Hard Work. The: Temple n by day and by night. But the Angel tha: drudge, no idler, think to enter here." ho Knows It All. the Atlantic. ow that type of man which is never content 'hich by a general concensus of opinion is so ever seek out the unknown, and place it on ps all others as the Sphinx o'ertops a,plaster -ooms some sunny afternoon, feeling that you I ever young in your own enthusiasms, and in you with cobwebs, and make you feel that ,%k. nversation make some chance reference to it you have lately had from seeing "Twelfth say: is all very well for the ordinary mind; indeed, very cultivated people find much to admire in e last word in drama I go to the unpublished y are dramas that will not act and were not is the highest form of dramatic art. I want feel that Shakespeare is pretty soppy mental ou have never heard of Stepnovitch. But I his opinion had already been shared by others Opportunity. ag to wait for opportunities until it becomes ad inclination for hard work ooze out in the ty becomes invisible to those who are doing somewhere else for it. It is the great worker, rt for chances, that sees them. ecome so opportunity-blind that they cannot tere-they would pass through a gold mine ous-while others Will find opportunities in -way places. Bunyan found opportunity in allegory in the world on the untwisted paper ottles of milk. A Theodore Parker or a Lucy to college in a chance to pick berries. One ion in a chance to chop wood, wait on table, es no chance at all. One sees an opportunity ad ends of time, evenings and half-holidays, cess. There is often a rich kernel of legal right in a little thing. A principle dyce of justice is no bigger when it applies in- to rich people's money than when it but concerns a poor boy's pennies. Injus >p to tice might have driven the boy out the of honest business. It might have .y di- imressed indelibly upon him a re treet sentment against the law and a con :ourt jtempt for it. That is one way bad in- citizens are made. of The Winter Palace's History. Will The Winter Palace of the Czar is a the fitting center from which to carry on boy the fell work of repression alotted to yk-led Trepoff. Almost every stone of the him Iwalls and every square yard of the the plaster lining cost a life. Nicholas had given the order that the palace cor- must be rebuilt in a year. and What ft was human life against the despot's boy* will? Six thousand men were kEpt at work day and night, with the pal that ace heated at 30 Reamur to dry the two~ walls rapidly, while the temperature had outs ide was of ten 30 degrees below cor- zero Reamur. The men could only t, "a work with ice packs on thieir heads, I be- and experiencing a daily change of OUgl 60 degrees, they died by the score tered every day. By the end of the year dere- the death roll was some thousands, day. jbu: the palace was finished. To un I un- derstand the full meaning of this -boy achievement, it should be remember e be- ed that the Winter Palace 1s as large fios as Buckinghamn Palace, Kensington )aPalace and the National Galler:. te to Faitha is both a revolution and evo lution 'ears. Canada's Advance in Farn-ing. .ti 5. A- u~ yer ag uch a- iing s i rope Canaa m nn n 'u are i tow been brought to great perfection hiladel and many of the most modern of then -rti i' use. KEIVEN TWO FIRES Admiral Togo Seemingly Getting Into Close Quarters VLADIVOSTOCK FLEET IS READY Three of the Four Powerful Armored Cruisers Are Seaworthy Again and Prepared to Act in the Japanese Ad. miral's Rear While He is Facing Rojestvensky. St. Petersburg, Special.-There is reason to believe that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's entrance into the China Sea has been followed by orders for the cruisers Gromoboi. Rossia and Bo gatir, which has been ready for some time at Vladivostock to put to sea. Whether it is the intention to send them south immediately or to hold them in the vicinity of Vladivostock is not known. Their appearance outside the roadstead of Vladivostock would constitute a potential threat against Admiral Togo's rear, which will com pel the retention in. or dispatch a num ber of heavy fighting ships to JapanesE waters. Thus Admiral Togo seems tc be virtually placed between two fires. The peace influences in the govern ment urge this favorable strategic po sition presents the psychological nmo ment for offering officially the olivE branch to Japan, reasoning that nc matter how confident the Japanes( government may be of Admiral Togo's victory, it will not overlook the possi bility of defeat or fail to appreciate the ccmplete disaster which would follow the transfer of the mastery of the se: to Russia. With so much depending up on the issue.,they argue. both countries have mutual interest in avoiding an ac tual test. and it is not impossible therefore, that a new movement in th direction of peace may come just as thE world expects to hear the call to quar 1 ters for the greatest naval battle 0a modern times. Certainly the spirits oJ the war party have been greatly raised by Rojestvensky's success in penetrat ing to the China Sea; and the prospeel of a naval battle, even with the odds against Russian victory. which would change the entire complexion of thE situation. has aroused something likE a flash of enthusiasm in many Russiar breasts. Some naval officers express the opin ion that Rojestvensky having now safe ly navigated the straits, instead ol sailing north to meet the Japanese, car afford to calmly await Vice Admiral Nebogatoff, with his division of squad ron. which could arrive there in about three 'weeks. The Russian Admiralty on Sunday received a long dispatch form Singa pore, but no intimation as to its con tents has been given to the newspa pers. The papers Sunday morning printed Singapore dispatches without comment. The Sviat being the only exception. This paper views the uews from Rojestvensky as an auspicious prelude to a decisive bat:le. "which may show that over Rojestlvensky still shines the happy star which helped him, when a -lieutenant, tc save the fragile Vesta in an unequal conflict with a Turkish battleship." The Svia' expresses the hope that Rojestvensky is destined to turn the tables, and that even in case of defeat, some of his vessels will be able to b rak through and reach the Sea of Jari, n. Eight Miners Killed. Roanoke. Va.. Special.--A specia from Ailisonia. Pulaski cot nty, Va.. tC The Times, says: "While tamping powder in a blast Satrvrday after noon at ,the Ardway limestone quarry ir. this cunty, about four miles west of' Allisonia, the blast avas; accidently discharged. This caused tl-e explosioi Iof two other blasts that had been sel near by and a fearful accident happen ed. Eight men were instantly killed anh two others wounded. The names oj the victims are: Killed-John Fort ner. colored laborer: Walter Miller colored laborer: John Harris, coloret laborer: Tobe Sutton. colored laborer: A. Vaugh, colored laborer: A. 0. Wal ton, white laborer. The injured-Ton Sampson colored laborer: Wilam Dal ton, white foreman. who was in chargi of the gang of workmen. Teiegraphic Briefs. The operators in the Central Penn sylvania bituminous coalfield havt signed the wage scale submitted by thE miners under protest. Nicholi Zavoisky. the adopted son 01 Maxim Gorkey, the Russian novelis1 and reformer. is in America and wil make a tour, preaching socialism. De Witt Smith,. president of thi Chesapeake Western Company, was charged 'in New York with grand lar ceny. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was grant ed a stay of execution by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals a Cincinnati. the decision being announ ced by Presiding Justice Lurton. J. G. Phelps Stokes, a miillionair and son of Anson Phelps Stokes, millionaire, will marry Miss Rose H Pastor, formerly a staff correspond er. of the Jewish Daily News. The Congregational ministers. 11 their protest against acceptan~ce of the Rockefeller gift of $100,000 for mi: Isions, are severe on the Standard 01 magnate. District Attorney Jerome hais receiv ed the "Nan" Patterson letters thal were taken from J. Morgan Smith and wife. It is now said that Vice-Pre~ident James Hazeni Hlyle. of the Equitable Li'' Assurance Society. wvill turn thE tables on President James WV. Alexan de- andE try to oust him. Messrs. HydE and Alexander~ gave out lette: s attack ing each other. ouit of the. Leiter nminc at Zirgler. llt P' ciuet Roosevelt was cord.iall.1 we omed to L ouisviile. K'y.. w'here hE adduress~ed a larg'e assemblage. and ther p'roceede on' hi trip1- to the Souith Jud r' Faar F.' 41. Du:c. the Demno erat- cadid:te. as lr' ted M.ayor 0i Chi.......v..r..oh" ". Hiarian. RN Manyv etas'"c of Russ'ian nobeme't are ad'vertised for sale, the' *vwners tbe ing unable to pay the interest on thi DAMAGE BY SEVERE STORNI Houses Demolished and Unroofed, Trees Uprooted and S:ock Killed Many Persons Injured, Though No Fatalities Are Reported-?ath of the Storm Three Miles Long-Woman and Child Carried to the Roof of a Neighboring House. Mooresville. Special.-A terrific rain ind wind storm passed over this sec 'ion of the county about 3 o'clock Wed 2esday afternoon, and assumed the fe rocity of a cyclone. Many homes are totally destroyed, while many others are left without covering. and other vise damaged. The clouds came from :he south and west, and as they came in contact a few miles below town hav ac began. The path of the storm cov ered a scope of about 300 yards in width, and it left destruction in its wake. The repcrt comes :hat on E. C. Deaton's farm at the Reid place, a barn that had been finished yester iay was blown away. The current was heading toward town, and ::he aext place it struck was the home of MNr. Lee Kistler, the roof of the dwell ing being blown off, and the chimney going down through the house. No >ne was seriously hurt, and the family )ccupied one room at the time. Mr. James White and Mr. Rod Kistler xere slightly hurt. The barn and out louses were totally demolished. Next wvas the home of Mr. Sherrill, which was. lifted from the pillars and carried some distance. Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill vere in the house, and it is rumored :hat Mrs. Sherrill's jaw bone was bro ken. The roof of the house of Mr. Bud Phillips was carried away. The small houses of Mrs. Walls, near the lower mill, was blown down. The storm then struck Frank Beatty's Jouse, on Cloaninger's Heights. This iouse was wrecked. It was occupied by three persons, a mother and two hildren. One girl crawled beneath a )ed and escaped unhurt, while the nother and another child were found :n top of the roof some distance from .he spot where the house had been. Xext was a cabin occupied by John Knox, whete the roof and everything in the house was blown away, includ ing a small child about 4 years old, who was found three hundred yards fromn the house unhurt. All the cabins 7n this section were unroafed and blown down. The next and most seri us loss of property was at the home :f Mr. J. H. Cloaninger. His big two story house was unroofed and every :hing in the upstairs of the building iroken to pieces. The ell was torn Erom the big house. and all his dining -oomn and kitzhen furniture was bro Ien. A crib. barn, blacksmith shop, )uggy shed. smoke-house and grainery and one tenement house were corn pletely demolished. The barn of Mrs. Crawford Johnston was blown off the )illars. The home of Mr. M ck Brown is a total wreck, having been blown from the pillars and moved about six -eet from the original site. This is a six-room house and was in the old picnic grounds east of town. The barn of Mr. Julius Kennerly was blown down and a horse was kille-d. Trees were uprooted and carried a great way and pieces of timber were cirried off. Derives $1,000,000 From Convicts IJacksonville, Fla.. Special.-The or ranization of the bi-ennial s;ession of :he Florida Legislature at Tatlahassee was completed at noon by the ratifica :ion of the caucus nominees: Park rrammel, of Polk county-, as President >f the Senate, and Albert Gilchrist, as Speaker of the House. Governor Broward's message treated largely of .-outine matters, but also re.commend ed the passage of a. uniform text-book aw. It also disc1.ssed the Question If the ieasfifg of ecnvicts. Under the p~ esent term of ti e lease :he State iil derive about ene millicn dollars rom this source during the four years ~f the life of the contract. The ses sion of the Legislature, by law, is limited to sixty days. -Killed Wife and Parents. Batesville, Ark.. Special-John Dow, a negro, went to Sulph.r Rock to see his wife, who was at her father's home, and because she refused to re turn with him, he drew a pistol and shot her dead. Then se shot and killed his wife's mother and another negress. His father-in-law secur-ed a shot gun and shot Dow. but not fa tally, the latter being able to return the fire, killing his father-in-law. Losses Number 107,000. Harbin, By Cable.--Complete returns received at headquarters give the total Russian losses in killed, wounded and prisoners at the battle of Mukden as 107,000. The wounded are being tak en away from here over the Siberian Railroad as rapidly as -possitle, in or der to free-the hospitals prepmratory to a renewal of the fighting. By General Linevitch's order, the bands play dailyI atalteRussian positizons. -CONDUCTOR WEAVER ARRESTED.I Placed Under $500 Bondl on Charge of Kickinig a Negro from H-s Train, With Serious Resalts. Durham, Special -Conductor Bob IWeaver, of the Scuthern road. was brought here by Police Officcr Patter son, of the Greensbor' police force.' He was arrested in thm.t tow' n on re quest of the Durha:n officers.. Imme diately after reaching here. Weaver gave bond in the sum of $500 for is; appearance before the mawyr. The charge against him is that of assau!: with ;ntent to kill. Weaver is charg ed with kicking a negro by the name of Samuel Bridges from the top of his traini while in motion. A Thieving Baggage Master. Jacksonville, Fia.. Spec .al.-Gus Enr '.nuel, baggagemaster of the Florida Ec:.. Shore Railroad. who was arrested twi days ago, charged with robbing the baggage of no-hounld trains. v: V d examination. and was release:1 $n, $2000 bond. Nlore than a thous and dollars' worth o:' jewelry has been recovered. and it is saidl that the ef fec ts .ill amount to fully $50.000. It is believed that Emael has been work ing with an organi:zed ga~ng of thieves. and sceeal detectives 1-ave been put en the case. No ladic ments. Richnmond,\ Va. S' 'ecial-Co Hcn' Hut( hings. of 'he ii: Txa Rei menUt, and five of his offiers. appear r- before the (. edrr l rand jury hr elarges-that 'ice h nHM lartics in the pay-ro ' ~ te' iment named du r'ng the ~f~5 Hnsrmaneo vres. Two grand juries have nor; passedl on the mnatter vwithout indic-t mecnt of any- one. 'The first jury was at Alexandria. and the seond here. the Richmond body finding no true bills liE DIDN'I PARADI The Czar of All the Russians Take No Risks THE IMPERIAL FAMILY LAY LOV For the First Time the Autocrat o All the Russians Did Not Ventur to Attend the Annual Parade of Hi Own Regiment, and Only the Younc er Grand Dukes Emerged Fror Their Palaces. St. Petersburg, By Cable-The annus parade of the Horse Guards. alway heretofore one of the most spectacula military ceremonies, as well as socis functions, of the year, was chiefly not able Friday by the absence of Empero Nicholas and the imperial family. Th Horse Guards is the Emperor's ow: regiment. and never before has he fail ed to attend its annual parade. Wit: the Empress, Dowager Empress and th entire court, the Emperor remained a Tsarskoe-Selo. The only Grand Dukes who venture out of their palaces were Nicholas Boris and Alexander Michaelovitch, th first named representing the Emperor Even Grand Duke Vladimir, com mander of the military district. was no present, the explanation being that h was detained at the palace on accoun of sickness. The danger to the imperia family was regarrled as especially great at It happened that this was the festi val of the Immaculate Conception, on of the strictest religous holidays. Al business was suspended. The entir population was in the streets and th fear of an untoward incident, in vies of the activity of the terrorists, in duced extraordinary precautions. Th police made a number of arrests, bu both military displays, happily, passe off without disturbances. invate Cemeteries. St. Petersburg, By Cable-The effort of the police to smother the politica agitation have led them even to invad( the cemeteries in their search for evi dence of treason. It has become th( practice of students to place on th graves of comrades who were active o who suffered in the cause of freedon wreaths bound with ribbons, on which political sentiments are inscribed. The other day a harmless inscriptio1 In Greek, simply expressive of sym pathy, was seized, and on Wednesda: a red ribbon attached to a wreath, al though upon the grave of a welf-known official, being interpreted by the polic as a revolutionary emblem, was no only cut off but created so much alarn that a general order was sent out t< all vendors of mortuary wreaths, pro hibiting the sale of red ribbons. Red Flags at Funeral. St. Petersburg, By Cable-The work men of the village of Smolensk made : demonstration Friday, the occasion be ing the burial of an employe of th Pahl factory, who was killed by Po licemen a few days ago. Six thousan: persons assembled early in the morn ing in a heavy snowstorm and awaite< the funeral procession. There wer( red flags everywhere, and a wreath dle posited by Socialists on the coffin wa: Inscribed: "Died an innocent victin in the struggle for victory." The wreath was seized by the polico and military, which later ar'ived 01 the scene. Had 6.000 Chinese Bandits. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Chief o Staff Karkevitch, in a dispatch to the general staff, says: "Yesterdlay our sharpshooters force< the Japanese cavalry to retire fron Erdaheze and Tsulushu. "One, of our detachments. on arriv ing in the morning of April 4 at the Santslung, engaged the enemy. whb had 6,000 Chinese bandits with thenm [ have not received a report of the re sult of the battle." Russians Resume Retreat. Tokio, Dy Cable.-The main force o the Russians. which was recently de eated in the neighborhood of Chin chiacheng, has deviated towards Shum encheng, and a part of it has retire' along the Fenghua road. On the even ing of April 5 no Russians were to bE seen south of Hsinlitun, eight mile: north of Chinchiatun. A small forc of Russians is occupying Talisvo, 21 miles east of Weiyuanpoamen. Obstacle to Peace. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-The Jap anese insistence upon indemnity. rath er than indisposition to include peac( at this time, later information mdi cates, wrecked the recent attemp t< bring the warring powers into nego tiations. Another effort on differeu lines to bring Russia and Japan to gether is believed to be under way, thE iovers now being French and Englisl anancial interests. 490 Entombed by Earthquake. Lahore, India. By Cable.-Four hun dred and seventy men, of Gurkha Reg iments, were buried alive as a resull f the earthquake at the hill statior f Dharrmsala, ecrording to the latest information from that p-lace. The re port adds that it is impossible to res cue the entombed men. The Kangra valley is believed tc have been devastated, and it is re ported that the town of Kang'ra was reduced to ruins with great loss o1 life. No confirmation of the report is obtainable, as the telegraph station al Kangra is wrecked. Turpentine Operators. Pensacola. Fla., Special.-Turpentin< perators held a meeting Thursday. bu the public was excluded1, and no defi pite information regarding their ace tios were made publiic. About th< only thing acomplished. it is stated was to ecmplete the capital stock fo: million dollars for the E::port Nava Stores ecm.'pany. About 200 operator: were in attendance. Most Expensive Private Car. Chicago, Special.-The most expen sive and luxurious privatcecar ere c~structed; is now. buildingatt Ciego v.':'ra of thle Puil lmian Com ~auy. for W. 1K. \Vanderiiit. The~ 1r :eiit $S.' ''. Nov: that it is wm p~e1 to 1er: e the \enalerbat lintw under one managemenft it. is said to i1 te intenition of 'A. K. Vanderbilt to de vote more time in traveling over tlb varios lines of the property he con trols and it is for this purpose tha th ne iplae nn wheels is building CiANGE IN CANAL COMMISSION The Other Four Were Named to Com 5 ply With the Law Requiring Ap pointment of Seven and Will Draw Much Lower Salaries Than the Oth ers. Washington, Special.-The President has carried out his plans for the re organization of the Isthmian canal commission, as to the personnel and business methods, generally on the line of the legislation he suggested to 1 Congress at the last session which fail ed in the crush of business in the closing hours. Monday, within half in hour after the President's departure rom Washington, Secreatry Taft, di 1 rectly in charge of canal matters, made s public the personnel of the new com r I mission and the division of duties among them. Only one member of the - old commission was reappointed, Ben r jamin M. Harrod. Otherwise the com e mission is new from top to bottom, for i there is a top and bottom and con - siderable difference between the func 1 tions and pay of the commissioners. 3 Finding he was obliged legally to ap t point seven commissioners, the Pres ident did so, but he carried out his I own plan by making three of them practically the commission. The other four, though bearing the title of com missioners, not only receive much low- i er compensation, but are assigned to much smaller fields of activity. The President has also carried out his scheme of dividing up the work of canal building among the commission ers, so that, nominally acting as a body on stated occasions, each individual member would operate in a special field. The head of the commssion is a trained railway president, chosen for his administrative ability in the finan- i cial and purchasing field; the new gov ernor of the zone. is a lawyer who also has had to do with state affairs; the engineer commissioner already is known for his ability in the execution I of the practical work of canal cutting. The other members of the commission are placed to comply with the law as to the number of commissioners, but are men of high ability as hydraulic engineers, Secretary Taft told them today that they were expected to show results and that is said to be the key note of- the President's action. The nersonnel of the new commis sion is as follows: Theodore P. Shonts, chairman; Charles E. Magoon, govern or of the canal zone: Rear Admiral M.. T. Endicott. U. S. N.; Brigadier Gen eral Feter C. Hians, U. S. A.. retired; Colonel Oswald M. Ernst. corps of en gineers, U. S. A.; Benjamin M. Harrod. Mob Threatens Saloon. Springfield. 0.. Special.-A mob very similar to one a year ago, which lynch ed the negro Dixon and burned several dives, is congregating with avowed pur pose of burning a resort run by Joseph Kempler. Nearly a dozen arersts of sus piciously acting persons have been made by detectives. The square in which Kempler's place Is located is be- i ing patrolled by police. At 11 o'clock Monday night the front and rear of the saloon are closely guarded by police, as are the entrances to Columbia street at Forest and Water streets. Every str.et corner in the vi c inity is filled by a motly crowd, await I ing the appearance of a mob to burn tthe saloon. In all, nearly a dozen ar rests have been made for "safe keep ing.' 'and at 11 o'clock, the polIce are confident they have complete control of the situation. The report that two large crowds Kfrom the West End are now congregat ing in up-town saloons with the avow ed purpose of setting fire to the saloon serves to keep the crowds as near the place as the police will permit. The movement at this time is admitted to Ibe almost identical with that of a year ago, although the police are betetr pre pared to prevent a disturbance than they were then. Mrs. Hill Reaches Washington. Washington. Special-The special car bearing James J. Hill. president of the Great Northern, and Mrs. Hill, who is ill, reached here Monday afternon from Jekyll's Island, Ga., attached to the regular Florida and New York limited, on the Seaboard Air Line. A special train was made up at once. and the ,car started to its destination. Lake wood, N. J., over the Pennsylvania road. Mr. Hill stated that Mrs. Hill had h.orn the trip well and was somewhat improved. An Assassination at Fort Smith, Ark. Fort Smith, Ark., Special.-The dead body of Samuel Spencer, a prominent contractor of this city, has been found between two buildings on Tomson ave nue, with a bullet hole through the body. The trouser pockets were turn ed inside out and a 38-calibre pistol was found lying about a toot from Ihis left hand. His watch and 65 cents in money in a hip poct.'t were undis turbed. There is no -lue to the as sassin. Girl Dies From Morphine. Norfolk. Va., Special.-Edith Turner, 22 years old, who came here from Sa vannah, Ga., and had been living un der the name of Edith Anderson, died suddenly from the effects of morphine. The girl had recently received a tel egram announcing the death of a sis ter in Savannah, and swallowed a mor phine powder. She vwas found uncon scious in her room but physicians re - vived her until she could talk. Her recovery seemed certain but as a pre caution, the girl was taken to St. Vin Icent's Hospital. While the doctors were working with her with seemingly good results, she died. The body is being held, pending instructions from her people in Savannah. RevolutionistsRad. Warsaw, Spedial.-A strong body of police, aided by two companies of in fantry, Monday night made a thorough search of Wola, a suburb of this city, Ichiefly inhabited by criminals, revolu tionaries ardi euspected persons. The police seized quantities of revolution ary pamphlets and manifestos and re volvers and cartridges, and arrested G3i persons. The search occupied the whole of the night. Shippers Want Relief. IWashington, Special.-Several im portant hecarings wiil be held by the inte-Stt commerce cormission in thc nealr futuro. Onec of the cases is that of Grcrge M. Spiegie & Company vs the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Perxnsylvania r-ailroads, alleging a I highr rate on oak lumber from Alton and Oordonsville, Va., to Philadelphia than from Staunton to Basic C-ty. Va., Iwhich will be heard Aoril 20 in Wasdi inoan PRESIDENT ON TRIP Reaches Louisville and Makes Go Speech to Large Crowd A GREAT OVATION IS GIVEN HIM The Stop Was Only For Two Hours, But Not a Moment Was Lost-Air Charged With Eenthusiasm as the Procession Traversed the City, and Around the Speaker's Stand. Where the Crowd Extended Two Blocks. Louisville, Ky., Special.-In the shadow of a magnificent bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, just in front of the architecturally imposing court. house of Jefferson county, President Roosevelt, in something less than fif teen minutes, delivered a notable ad dress to a crowd which extended for two blocks on the east and west side of the speaker's stand, which jammed into intersecting avenues and overran, the broad lawns w-ch skirt the # square. Not more than one-fifth of those who saw the President could hear what he said, but they cheered him heartily, nevertheless, interrup tions of applause occuring almost mo mentarily. The President's welcomeg to Kqntucky was typical of the State, and his reference in his speech to a "united country,"his greeting of the Confederate veterans as "my com rades," and his allusion to the wearer Df the gray who bore aloft at the head of the procession of ,escort the "flag of one united country," greatly pleas ed those who could hear him. The President was in Louisville but two hours. but not a moment was lost. His reception in the residence por:ion of the city was cordial; as he passed through the business section, it was thoroughly demonstrative of good will, nd at the speaking stand and on the short drive over the business section, t was an assured ovation. The wea ther was cool and threatening when the President arrived, but before the Jown town district had been reached, the sun broke through the clouds and ;hone gloriously. Everywhere the rowds were enormous, but orderly, nd barring a little confusion in front af the speakers' stand. the police ar rangements were excellent. The President was welcomed to Louisville by Acting Mayor Paul C. Barth, in the absence of Mayor Grain ger, who is ill, and by Hon. Logan C. hfurray, chairman of the general com mnittee. The president responded brief- -A y, and was then escorted to his car riage, a few (tceps away, where he was seated with Secretary Loeb, Governor Beckham and Mr. Murray. Preceded q by a detail of mounted police and by a mounted civilian escort. bearing the President's colors, the President's car riage moved forward, the procession being under way in a few moments, with Gen. John B. Castleman acting as grand marshal. The President was introduced by ;overnor Beckham in a few well :hosen words, in resppnse to which he maid: "Governor Beckham and you, my 'ellow-Americans (Applause): "Surely any man would, indeed, be ratified to find in this way such an udience, and be introduce'i as you ave introduced me, Governor Beck am. (Applause.) "As the Governor has sc well said, pn all the important questions, the iestions that infinitely transcend mere artsan differences, we are fundamien :ally one. (Applause.) "For in the question of foreign and nternal politics, the points upon which :here can be no proper division on arty lines, infinitely exceed in num er those upon whsich there can be mch division, and, Governor Beckhaml,. [shall do all that in~ me lies to justify :he hope to which you have given ex Dression, and to try to show myself' he President of all the people of the United States. (Prolonged applause.) "And naturally, I feel particularly ratified at seeing, here, joined in this procession, the men who wre the blue and the men who wore the gray. (Ap plause.) "In the dark days-now, keep just as. :uiet as you can; you won't be able to :1 anything any more than to see me.1 anyhow, (laughter and applause)-in the dark days eaoh of you fought for the right as it was given 'him to see the right (A voice, 'That's right.') and each of you has left us the right to feel pride not only in your valor, but in your devotion to what you conscien tiously believed your duty. (Great ap plause.) "And now we are all one (Cheers and long-continued applause) and as a united people, we have the right to feel the same pride in the valor of the man who conscientiously risked his life in the Confederate uniform, that. we have in the men who fought in the e. And as I Dassed by your ranks. oh.. my friends in the gray, and saluted the flag of our common country held up by a man In a gray uniform, I felt that we were one, and that we have been able to show mankind that the greatest war of the century can1 be followed by the most perfect union/'that any nation knows. (Applause.) "And in coming to this great and beautiful city of yours, I wish to con gratulate you upon the higtoric spirit that is found here." Pointing to the statute of Thomas Jefferson that stands in front of the court house, the Presi dent continued: "I am glad, as I say, of the spirit that makes you wish to dedinte statues like this of Jeferson and like the great statue of Clay inside of this court house. It is a fine thing to-" keep to a sense of historic continuity with the past and there ls one statute tat I wish the members in the na tional Congress from Kentucky to see is put up by the national government, and that is a national statute of An drew Jackson. and the victors of the battle of New Orleans. The fight at New Orleans was one in which the whole nation has a care, as far as the glory and the profit went, and the whole na tion. and not any one State, should join in puttng that statute up. "Now I am going to say good-bye because there is a little movement, there, and it will be better for the wo men and small people if I let you get away. Good-bye." Editor Dead. Cleveland. 0., Special.-Manly Tello,. former editor of the Catholic Universe,. oIicial organ of the Catholic Church for this diocese, died aged G3i years. Tello was widely known as a forceful writer. During the civil war Tello became a colonel in the Confedcrate army, serving under General Hardy Gilmore. Later, he was attached to the staff of Jefferson Davis. Upon one occasion he was captured by Un Ion troops and confined in Rock Island mprisn frm which he escaned. -.