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OPINIONS OF Parker and Bryan Expl Jeffersonian TWO NOTEWORTHY ADDRESSES' Former Nominee Parker, Mayor Mc Clelland, Senator Newlands and Oth ers Address 700 Democrats at the Waldori-Astoria, Parker Receiving an Enthusiastic Hearing. New York, Special.-Seven hundred Democrats attended the Jefferson day banqnet of the Democratic Club oi New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Thursday i'ight. There were many there of national reputation. and chief among these were Judge Alton B. Par ker. Democratic nominee for' President last November. In the banquet room portraits of Jefferson were conspicuous. In addi tion to Mr. Parker, the speakers were United States Senator Newlands, of Nebrasa, Mayor McClellan. of New York. Congressman Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois. and J. J. Willett, of Ala bama. Senator Carmack, of Tenessee, was the only one of those expected to speak who could not attend. Mr. Parker was the first speaker, and he was enthusically received. Frequently he was interrupted by ap plause. The speech was on the future of the Democratic party and was re plete with suggestions for harmony and urgent appeals against sectional ism. John Fox, president of the club, presided, and his brief speech intro ducing Judge Parker was applauded. Mr. Parker said: I do not come here to make excuse or explanation about the past, to pro mote any personal purpose or ambition for the future, or to further the ends of any section, faction or interest. I am moved solely by a desire to com mune freely with my countrymen who believe that the time-honored doctrines of the Democratic party, as deduced from the great policies defined by the man whose birth we here commemor ate, and established by the founders are still true, still alive, still worthy of acceptance and devotion, and still necessary, if our institutions are to be maintained in their early vigor and purity. It may be conceded that they are not new-fangled or hysterical. We can also justify the claim that they are not destructive to any legitimate political or industrial interests, or sub verse to those conceptions of liberty and free institutions for which our fathers suffered. They have approved themselves in peace and war. . Under their sway, our people increased in number, .wealth and power, the poor. and oppressed from other lands found refuge and welcome, population spread gradually over territories peacefully acquired, and industry was free, while taxes were low and so distributed as to discourage monopoly. When these principles dominated our policies there was no thought of conquest. or of protectorates over distant, alien, and turbulent peoples; there was no talk of alliance with the great; no question of making ourselves collectors of debts, good, bad, just or fraudulent; and no suspicion that anywhere in Lhe lexicon of free government there was to be found the word "subject." SOME ELEMENTS IN RECENT POLITICS. We meet after defeat which was easy to foresee and predicted. It was preceded by division and faction in our ranks over a period of eight years and they have done their worst. It was emphacized by the use of governmental power for partisan purposes, by the a reckless and unprecedented expendi ture of money and by demagogic ap peals to interests as wide apart as the poles. We have left to us only the smallest measure of power in either house of Congress; we have lost States whose confidence we had long By Wire and Cable. A large fleet of warships and col liers is reported to have been seen 250 miles northeast of Madagascar, steaming east. The allotments of the new Japanese !oan were oversubscribed many times in the various money centers of the world. Secretary Hay arrived at Gibraltar much improved in health. The House of Commons adopted a motion declaring that the Chamber lain fiscal program would be detrimen tal to the shipping interests. The situation in Macedonia is giv ing rise to some anxiety and notice has been served on the Cretan insurgents to disarm in 36 hours, on pain of inter national intervention. State Treasurer Lacy issues a circu lar advertising for' bids for $250,000 in 4 per cent. bonds authorized by the recent Legislature to run eight years. Bids must be submitted by noon May 20th and be accompanied by certified checks on a basis of $1,000 for bid for $50,000 in bonds. Pointed Paragraphs. A man could build a twenty-story office building while a woman is mak ing her plans to wash her hair. There Is no love where there are none to be loved. Manhood is always marred by being ever on the make. Many a man has to be broken up be fore he can be built up. You cannot kindle the fire of truth by w~hittlings from the Word. Divine strengoth is essential to divine servie Liberty is ouite different from hos pitalityt e.~ ReiP onot come in aswer to prayers ot ralr:. :ight. liul of the bread of life Some nien wculd rather argue about dietetics than eat tne:r uinner. Th ony good thing about post-mor tem prais :s taat no one believes it. A~ oint indictment was returned a: Cleveand against A. B. Spear. cashier of the closed Citizens' National bank, nan Mr.Casse L Chadwick. [O LEADERS ain Different Views of Democracy commanded. and the number of Gover nors and State legislatures under our control is surprisingly small. We may. however, recall that this is not the first time that the party has been in what seemed to be a hopeless minority. It was so from 1860 to 1867 when a great wrong which has been far-reaching in its effects upon mora s and justice, left it in a minority for another eight years. But when its con dition was least encouraging, it wc.s still the same consistent advocate of patriotic and manly policies as when it was in the full plentitude of power during the first sixty years of the last century. Rallying about its natural leaders-as courageous and patriotc as any known to our political history it was then, as always, its virtue to be a national party. These leaders kept themselves in touch with every que; tion of current interest in every ham let of the Union. Nothing American was alien to them. POWER OF THE PARTY AS A MINORITY. During the Civil War more than 500. 000 Democrats stood on each side of the firing lines of the two great a. mies which faced each other, all bWlier ing themselves right. On the morrow of Appomattox, they, the victors and the vanquished, had scattered to ther respective homes, all bent upon pro moting peace, all understanding each other in their trials, all facing the ame great problems. In the foulest of all days in our national l'fe-those of so-called reconstruction-inese soldiers largely recruited from other peaceful, patriotic men in the North, were found voting together. During this period there came to the front in our national councils the great historic figures of Thurman, Hendricks, Bayard, Seymour. Hancock. McClellapn and Tilden. In the face of prejudices and opposition, which might well have daunted the bravest, these men were able to combat and to overcome that sectional policy which at one time al most dominated the whole country. When, in spite of aggressions, fair.y divided between the misuse of military power, and deliberate, studied corru tion of the suffrage, these men h.d been successful, they were reinforced by Lamar, George. Hampton, Hi.1, Vance, Morgan. Vest and many other strong and patriotic men from the South. Added to these leaders, who, in the field of national politics, so nobly unit ed to combat human passion at its worst estate, were hundreds of thous ands of sturdy men in the North. who, as Governors, members of State Leg islatures, committeemen of every grade, and private citizens, carried the struggle of free government down into the smallest political divisions of the country. Everything was won except the presidency, in spite of which Dem ocracy was able from 186S to 1885 to keen at bay the enemies of good will. NO ROOM FOR SECTIONALISM. So, too. there is altogether too mu~ch talk about an Eastern, a 'Western, a Southern, or some other Democracy, when the essence of the party is its iational character and the entire ab ence of sectional features. The con trol of the party machine in one city 3r another, in this or that State, or even in the country, is not a matter either important or interesting to the great body of Democrats. THE KIND OF ORGANIZATION NEEDED. I would not for a moment convey an impression that organization is not important. It is even more-it is vital, if we are to give effect to the principle and policies which buttress our party aith. But. however necessary andci1 al. it may be useless-a mere emp:,7 bauble-if it is viewed as the end rat er than the means. We are confronte d by forces which. when not purely per mal, are almost wholly mechanical. They are represcnted by a party, well aanaged, indeed, in that two-third >f the Union to which it restricts its ativities. It has everything that pat onage can suggest. or imply. In re :urn for favors received it sells to the ighest bidder or freely gives the Big Deal in Oil. Beaumont, Tex., Special.--The larg est deal in oil ever made in the South took place Friday. Messrs. Carnes, Bass & Benckenstein, of Beaumont, purchasing from Messrs. Laertel & aerty, of Franklin, 1,750,000 barrels f oil in storage at Jennings. The sale gives the purchasers a total of 3,000,000 barrels in storage at Jen aings. Greenville, S. C.. To Have a Perman ent Fair-Strivinlg to Raise $15,000. Greenville. Special.-The people of :his city have for several weeks been striving hard for the organization of a permanet fair association. Subscrip :ions lists were circulated last week and at a meeting of the subscribers. eld in the council chamber last even .ng, a permanent organization was ef ected. The name of the association will ec the Piedmont Fair Association. The meeting last night was harmo 2ious and more than one hundred sub scribers were present. The total sub cription to date amounts to $10,250. It is the purpose of the directors to raise $15.000. It is thought the Greenville raction company will be called upon t assist in raising the remainder. News of the Day. Chariman Frick, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, has called upon President Alexander for a complete stateraent of all the affairs of the so0 The prudential committee of the for eign mission board of the Congrega tional church decided to hold on to Mr. Rokeeller's gift of $100,000. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, who opposed the acceptance of the gift, made a c'austic statement concerning the com-; mittee's action. The Pennsylvania legislature has ased a bill approprifting $100,003J for a display of the State's resources at the Jamestown fair. The H-ebrew Standard. of New York, in an editorial, severely criticises the~ aprahng marriage of Miss Rose S. Pastor to Mr. J. G. Phelps Stokes. The D?omoeratic Club of New York Thas withdrawvn form ner Mayor van W~ck as toast mastr at its Tfrson av dnner~ tonight and has suhcohtut el John :*ox. president of the .;ub. Pawnbrl'ker Stern failed to identif: J. Morgarn Smith as the man to whom he sold the pistol with which Caesar v oun wa killed. 1 powers of governnent. Nothng that Ce ingenuity of monopoly can sug st, wihin its scope or interest. is W we can control onec a amn thse trinn-sc s othe hii-igher polities, V.e shall have i ti' nel t0 troule ourselves overmn;h about _an didates for Presier.. bera:se we shall have laid, deep and strcng in the peo ple's will. the necessary foundations. Then. and cnly then. may we look with hopefulness and confidence to the coun try at large. Then we may go North. or South. East or West. for candidates, certain of their fitness for the work in hand, and of their acceptableness to our countr.men. Bryan at Chicago. Chicago. Special.-Subjects of na tional significance to the Democratic party were discussed by several lead ing orators of the party at a Jefferson club banquet held at the Sherman House in commemoration of the birth day of Th'omas Jefferson. The dinner in a measure resolved itself into a jolfi cation over the recent election of Mayor Edward F. Dunne, who is a director of the club. The mayor was among the speakers who responded to toasts. All the speakers referred to municipal own ership and to Mayor Dunne's election on a municipal ownership platform. William Jennings Bryan and George Fred Williams were the principal speakers from out of town. Mr. Bryan spoke on "Thomas Jefferson' 'and his remarks were greeted with unstinted applause. He responded to the toast "Thomas efferson." He said in part: We are told that when Moses, the first great law giver. had attained his majority, he looked upon the burdens of his countrymen and sympathized with them. Although he had been adopted by a princess and was heir to a throne his heart led him from the palace and the society of princes to companionship with his oppressed brethren. When a leader was needed to break the bondage of the Israel ites and guide them in the formation of a nation, this sympathy fitted him for his work. And no one. it may be added, does a great work whose heart does not beat in sympathy with the masses, ever struggling, ever in need of help. Thomas Jefferson, although not reared in the environment of royalty, was born and educated among the people who least sympathized with the rights and interests of the common man. His heart. too, was touched by the struggles of his countrymen, and he early became their champion, al though in so doing he alienated the landed aristocracy and educated class es. In wealth he was the equal of the wealthy, and his learning brought him into association with scholars. but heart kept him in touch with the plain peo ple. and he earned the right to be called the First Great Democrat. It was not that he was the first to onceive of Democratic principles or to preach the doctrine set forth in the Declaration of Independence. That doc trine was not a new one: but he gave fitting expression to the dectrine at the time of its greatest triumph. The aspiration for self-government was born with man. it has been the inspir ing cause which has led peoplb in all ages to struggle for freedom of con science, freedom of speech, individual liberty and the recognition of the rights f man. Some in all ages have found a eiefish reason for applauding monarchy. but at no time' has there been universal cquiescence in arbitrary power. He lived before the invention of the railroad, and before the country had witnessed the colossal centralization of wealth, but viewing as he did every uestion from the standpoint of the eole, and hating, as he did, every at tempt to divert the profits of industry from the producers to the "idle holders of idle capital." we have a right to nsume that he would today stand with the people for the regulation of railroads and the extermination of pri vate monopoly. No one can imagine Jefferson as tol erating the impudent claim of the rail road magnates that they have a right o determine abritrarily and without peal the rate to be charged for the ansportation of passengers or freight. hat an opportunity the present con test would give him for the arraign ment of human greed and for the de fense of human rights. Jefferson's love for mankind was his iont:olling passion, and it extended to eoneratins unborn. As we celebrate his memory on the anniversary 'of his birth, we can say as those coulc. say ho lived when he did. "We love him because he first loved us." Conspiracy Charge Dismassed. New York, Special.-The indictment charging Nan Patterson with conspi racy with J. Morgan Smith and Mrs. Smith, wrongfully to obtain money from Caesar Young was dismissed in he court of general sessions at the request of Assistant District Attorney The court reserved decision in the Smiths case. CARRIE MUST BEHAVE. Or She Wit Be Sent to Jail For Six Months, with a $250 Fine. Witchita, Kan., Special-Ia district ourt. Carrie Nation, Myra McHenry nd Mrs. Lucy Wilhoit were found guilty of destroying property. Mrs. Nation was fined $250 and four months in jail. Mrs. McHenry twc months and $150 and Mrs. 'Wilholt 25 days and $150. The sentences were suspended, pending good behavior. The offense was committed September last. when the women broke windows of a wholesale liquor house. Hay Improving. Nervi, Italy, By Cable.-The condi tion of Secretary Hay improves daily. He received a visit from Ambassador White, who stopped here on his way to Rome. Mr. Hay discussed principal y questions interesting Italy and America, chiefly _emigration matters and King Victor Emmanual's proposal for the establishment of an interna tional chamber of agriculture, giving verbal instructions to Mr. White on the~ subject. The latter expects to arrive in Rome Saturday. Statehood Convention Called. Oklahoma City. Okla.. Special-The single-Stathood exeutive committee of Oklahoma and Indian Territory Fri ay afternoon dlecided to hold a St ate hoed convention at Oltlahoma City .Julv 12. Representation is based or 5O delegates. 25' from each of th< Territories. A formal call will be is sed b:. the committee for the confVgid tifn. in which particular stress wil b0 laid on the rmatter of creating a a by which Oklahoma and Indiar Territory may he separated from an3 connection with New Mexico in th I omnibus Statehood bill. HER BNGEST S-HOW o-W, O 'lost Colossal Playhouse Opened to the Public ThE OPENING OF TF!E HIPPODRO.E Play House Unique in the Amusement World For Its Size and the Charac ter of Its Performances, is Christ ened by a Standing Room Audience. New York, Special.-The Hippo drome, New York's newest and largest place of amusement, was opened to the public Wednesday ;night, under the management of Thomrson & Dun dy, and every one of the 5,200 seats were taken, some of them having been bought at high premiums, and wher ever there was standing space, it was filled. The Hippodrome stage is remark ably large, and at times was crowded. Hundreds of persons and many zni mals, including elephants and horses, were in view at one time, making a very animated and picturesque stage Scene. The circus specialties intro duced were unusually good. The Hippodrome is unique in :he amusement world, both in the great size of the playhouse and in the char acter of the entertainment it offers. The management frankly admits that the whole great enterprise is ex perimental. It is an entirely new venture, in every way, and is about the most elaborate entertainment e;er attempted under one roof. combining as it does a dash of everything excapt grand opera and tragedy. It is a spec tacular drama, a circus, musical com edy, vaudeville and menagerie, and the highest priced seat is $1.50. An other feature is the reserving of ev ery seat in the house, from the 25 cents gallery to the boxes. The build Ing occupies the block on the east side of Sixth avenue between Forty third and Forty-fourth sereets, a dis tance of 200 feet, and extends back toward Fifth avenue 240 feet. It is of brick, marble and steel construction and architecturally ip. very handsome. It's capacity is 5,200 and its interior arrangements present many features novel in this country. Behitnd fourteen rows of orchestra seats are the stalls and then a line of boxes encircling the promenade, and in these smoking is permitted. The stage is 200 feet be tween walls and has a total depth of 110 feet. A better idea of its size may be obtained from the fact that the back drop curtain of the Hipperdrome is 85 by 200 feet, while the average play house curtain is 25 by 35 feet. President Has Fine Sport. Frederick, Okla., Special.-Wednes (lay was an ideal day for President Roosevelt and his party in the big Pas teur reserve. The weather has been cool and cloudy. The party goes out at 6:30 each morning and returns to camp about 11 o'clock for dinner. Fresh horses are saddled by attendants and a new start is made at 1:30 in the af ternoon, One of the diversions of the camp was a series of -foot races in which the President participated, The dogs are so accustomed to pur suing wolves that they left off chasing a wild cat when a wolf was scented. In one of the runs a wolf was chased over the hills and across creeks and through timber for ten miles. The pace was fast- and when the wolf was cap tured, there were only four of the par ty within sight of the animal-B3ob Burnett, Guy Wagner and John Aber nathy, three old cow-boys, and Pres Ident Roosevelt, Saves Others By Confession. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-Ish~am Edwards, who is confined here with two other negroes. unuer sentence of death for the murder of School Super intendlent N. W. Eppes, near Tallahas see last August, has corfessed the crime, declaring that Caldwell and Larkin, the other negroes. are innocent and were not connected with the kill ing, The trio were convicted of n-ur der in the first d.egree at the last term of the circuit court and received the death sentence. The confession was. made public and it is believed that it will result in the release of Larkin and Caldwell. Pension Board Delinquent. Washington, Special-Commissic ner of Pensions Warner has cited ten mem bers of the board of pension revievr to show cause why their services should not be dispensed with, This action was taken by the commissioner because of the discovery of serious delinquencies In the allowance of pensions to mem bers of a Pennsylvania regiment, or ganized in 1861, but which never par ticipated in the service. Applications from members of Mercer's brigade, New Jersey National Guard, in whi'ch the same circumstances control, have also been allowed. Many Reported Dead. Vicksburg. Mviss.. Special.-Many persons are reported to have been kill ed and u ,red in a wreck on the Ya zoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, fourteen miles north of here, at mid night, The northbound fast passenger. train and the southbound passenger arc reported to have collided. All physicians in the city have been call ed to the scene of the wreck, Harper Bankruptcy Hearing Post poned. Bristol, Va., Special.--The failure of counsel for the creditors to appear at Big Stone Gap. Va., caused the post ponement of the bankruptcy hearing of Edward L. Harper. former president of the wreckcd Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, until April 27th. H~ar per and his courasel were present. H-arper will remain at Big Stone Gap until the 27th inst. News of the Day. It is r-eporte:l the timely interference by Frenc-h troops savcd the Sultan's 1:,ces frora a rout by Mlorocean rebels, American AmbaSsador Josel h Choate was elec by English lawyers to the nostionl of mastcr of the bench of the Middle Temple. a rare honor ecnferred upon outsiders Couniter- prop)os2s affectinz the bill for the separationl of church and state in France were discussed by the Cha:n her ef Depoties. The British budget for the last fiscal year, shows a surplus of $15,000,000 and a yar of good business, Tn.felsai Virgh's-ps , id a Lo' Feast o Field of Battle CA!.'LINA MEM0RIAL UNVELtE Three Thousand Persons, Over Thr< Hundred of Them From North Car lina, Attend the Exercises Upon t Old Battlefield of Appomattox Cou House - Governor Montague E thusiastically Welcomes the T, Heel Visitorz. - Lynchburg, Va., Special.-The cel bration of the Appomattox anniversar and the dedication of North Carolina memorial to her gallant sons, who ct so great a fligure there, was in evez respect admirable, in conception an in execution. Genial as was th weather with all its spring softne i. was not more genial tha the welcome given by gIor cus old Virginia to our Governc and the veterans and the guests froi the Old North State. Nothing marre the symmetry of the affair, and was a love feast of Virginians an North Carolinians. Goverhor Glen and Governor Montague met here i the morning and at once estaulishe the entente rordiale and every on of the visitors and visited followe this example. Governor Montagu irade a charming impression on th North Carolinians, and as for Governc Glenn every Virginian who met hii sings his praise. All the speeches < the day were struck upon a high an clear note, full of devotion to bot States, and yet above all a deep an enduring loyalty to their countr: Virginia's daughters, in a most beaut ful way, manifested their sympath with the occasion and what it celebra ed. Mrs. Garland Jones and Mrs. f B. Hall, both of Raleigh, are the oni ladies who came over with the Gove: nor's party. They were met here by a notabl assemblage representing Virgini Danghters of the Confederacy, c which they are so prominent member at home. The Virginia Daughter were made guests on the Governor Pullman and were Mrs. A. F. Ande: son, Mrs. Benjamin Nowling, Mis Mollie J. Early, a niece of General Ji bal Early, Mrs. Herbert Watts, Mr Francis, Miss Lucy Langhorne, Mr James T. Carter, Mrs. Kirkwood Ote: who is the president of the Lync burg Ladies' Memorial Associatioi Mrs. Arthur L. Powell, Miss Katherin Horseley, and Mrs. Hettle Bowle: These ladies are members of bot Kirkwood Otey and Old Dominio Chapters, United Daughters of th Confederacy. It was 12:30 when the band crashe Into "Dixie," and after a burst c cheering the exercises began, the wai being rather tiresome and the sunshin hot amid close set trees. Every inch c space within hearing was filled. Chair man Henry A. London, as master c ceremonies, announced the openin prayer by Chaplain James A. Westox major of the late Thirty-third Regi ment, saying that Mr. Weston, fort years ago, was a faithful soldier in a: earthly war, but ever since has been faithful soldier of the cross. Chaplai: Weston's prayer was for blessing an peace for all parts of our common con try, for love of union of these State and readiness and willingness to devot our highest energies to the mainten ance of our union; for blessings upo: every Confederate grave. He said mos touchingly: "We commend to thee, 4 God, these survivors of our most wor thy cause." Chairman London, in a few admir ably phrased sentences. referred to th memorial which marks the closin scenes of the Confederacy, saying tha the veterans of the Stars and Bars ha endured four years of suffering an privatians which marked life in tha army, had been brave always, constan always, self-forgetting and exhibitin: the highest type of patriotism; that o: this last day they were found in battl array as if on dress parade and charg ed as enthusiastically, with the oli rebel yell, as they had done when the: fought at Manassas almost four year before. He told of how General Brya1 Grimes had with his troops, mainl: North Carolinians, some were Virgin lans, had a clear road to Lynchbura and so notified Gen. Lee; that Get Lee had to send three mesages to Get Grimes to withdraw before the.t gallan soldier did so. Asthe Confederates with drew the enemy rushed forward, whel Coxe's brigade charged up this hill an' at this very spot fired the last volley There is no disparagement of the bray ery Or the endurance of any Confeder ate soldier, but with the fortune of wa that North Carolina should be in a pa sition to do things that were done here and it has so come about that Grime planned the last fight; that last Fed eral battery was captured on yonde: hilll by Roberts' brigade: that last skir mish was fought on yonder side of olh Lynchburg road by the Fourteensh an< Twenty-f ourth North Carolina Regi, ments, or rather their fragments, ani the last charge made and the last vol ey fired by the organized infantry o Coxe's brigade. North Carolina is prou< of these things, but does not boast a them, as her sons only did their duty Governor Montague made a splendia address and was followed by CGoverno Glenn, whose oration was a master piece of impassioned eloquence. In closing, he told about what hap pened at Appomattox and what Nort1 Carolnans did there, His impassione< words and forceful gestures puttin; thb whole power of t~t scene on tha awful day forty years ago before hi hearers like a painting on a wall. bola and vivid in every particular. His eu logy or Jhat superb soldier, Gen. Brya' Grimes, was splendid. and his ~tribut to the gallant Generals Coxe and Rob erts 'brought general applause, as h turned to the latter, who sat upon th stage, the :-oungest Confederate bri gadier. Hie told how Ger~eral Lee, af ter Coxe's charge, had asked wha troops those were, and npon being tol be saidl: "God bless North Carolina. The Governor told P.hout the troop North Carolina furnished in the war and how the State had lost one-thira of all lost during the war by the Con federacy: of how sixty regiments o North Carolinians had been put int< Virginia. The Governor expressed hi pleasure that all Virginians here b; their smniles and words had made Norti Carolina welcome and declared thati ther e',or came to North Carolina t< m the ::rave of the humblest Vir ginia veteran buried there, he wou.' on to tham his ar'ms as wide as h could strc~h therai and his peop1 woud be with him in such a greeting Th" ode of Professor Stockard wa beautiful and was read with much feel inz and was hi;;hly complimented. The day was one to be long remem AN ARMY OF OVER A MILLION By Next Sprirg the Total Military Ot ganization Will Exceed that Number. Tokio. By Cable.-Japan is meeting :he Russian plan of reorganization ind reinforcements of its 'Manchuriaa trmies with extensive expeditions 'rom its own military organization. Irhe details and figures are carefully e :oncealed of what seems to be a plan >. o double the present army units, but :t is reliably estimated that by autumn aext the total military organization will exceed a million men actually em >loyed in the field. The fighting force tr is roughly estimated at 700.000 men, with increases largely in the infantry and artillery, although an enlargement 3. n the cavalry branch is also contem plated. As a result of the manufacture at the irsenals in Japan together with cap it :ures and purchases of guns. it is pre y licted that this year wili see a Japan d 2se artillery superior to that of the Russians in quality as well as numer e ically, and it is confidently believed s that the Russians will be incapable of overcoming those numerical disadvan tages. Wherever railway improvements are possible they will be carried out, a when Japan will be sufficiently strong d to take and hold Harbin and simulta t neously operate against .the Russian d forces to the eastward of that city. d Industrial Agents Meet. e Asheville, N. C., Special.-The e Southeastern Railway, Land and In e lustrial Agents' Association held its r semi-annual meeting at the Battery n Park Hotel here Tuesday. This associ ition is made up of the officers of the rarious railway systems, operating im a 'he territory south of the Ohio and Fo 7 :omac and east of the Mississippi ivers, having in charge the develop ment of the industrial, immigration and land interests along their respec Live lines. It is organized for the pur pose of enabling the various members to confer regarding general plans and methods for the upbuilding of the S South. The following raiIroads are represented in this organization: Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, s Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk & Wes s tern Railway, Illinois Central Railroad, s Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Ala - bama Great Southern Railway, Central s of Georgia Railway, Georgia South ern & Florida Railway, Florida East - Coast Railway, Nashville, Chattanooga - & St. Louis Railway, Atlanta % West Point Railway, Western & Atlantic Railroad, Macon, Dublin & Savanah 4 Railroad, Atlanta, Knoxvile & North e ern Railway, Atlantic & Birmingham - Railway. b The land, industrial and immigration a work of the South is a subject of vast e importance and is receiving most active attention at the hands of the road cor I porations interested in the general de f velopment of the country served. The t development of this work in connection e with railroads has only been within the f last few years, and railroads without - land grants had departments organized f expressly for the purpose of looking after the material development of the cities, towns and counties through -which they run. The Southern railroads Y were first to take up this work. aTunnel Under Lookout Mourntain. jKnoxville, Tenn., Special.-W. J. - Oliver & Company, railroad contrae s tcrs of this city, received advices from e President Samuel- Spencer, of the - Southern Railway, awarding to that i firm the contract to build the tuinnel t tinder Lookout Mountain, near Chatta ) nooga. on the Southern's extension - from Chattanooga, to Stevens. Ala. bama. The price involved in the con - tract is not mentioned, but it is sup B posed to be between two million and th-ree million dollars. Work is to be t begun at once. SAsked to Er.hibit at Jamestown. t Boston, Special.-A delegation of ;Virginia citizens called upon Governor 1 Douglas at the State house to urge a the desirability of having a Massachu - setts exhibit at the exposition to be i held at Jamestown, Va., in 1907, to t commemorate the settlement of 5 Jamestown. The delegation asked the i Governor to send a special message to r the Legislature, recommending parti - Capation. Wrecked by Dynamite. t Blossburg, Ala., Special.-an explo sion of dynamite wrecked the house of William Cate, colored, and a white miner named Alexander, both non-un ion miners. A 10-year old daughter of -Alexander was killed, and two other children in the same family were bad -ly injured. The explosive was placed on the front porch of the Alexander house. A strike of the union miners has been on since last summer. Safe Blowers in Georgia. Thomasville, Ga., Special. -Safe blowers did distructive work before Idaglight Sunday morning at Meigs. The postoffice was entered, the store of J. L. Johnston, postmaster, was rob bed, and the safe of the Atkinson Mer -cantile Company blown to pieces. It is suposed that the crime was com r mitted about 3 o'clock. Tools were taken from a near-by blacksmith shop. -An opening for explosives was made, and both safes were completely wreck ed. The job was an awkward one and was probably the work af amateurs. Local par ties are under suspicion, but no arrests have been made. _Telegraphic Briefs. 1~ It is reported that 470 soldiers of the Gurkha regiments were buried - alive and the town of Palampur wreck ed by the East Indian earthquake. * The British House of Commons ~ again passed the bill legalizing mar riage with a deceased wife's sister. tThe German Reichstag adjourned 'until May 10th. In the French Chamber of Deputies, Foreign Minister Delcasse made a statement on the Morrocan .situation. JTudge Edward F. Dunne, Mayor elect of Chicago, arrived in New York, and at a meeting. toid the Muniial Ownership League there how the WVes tern city expects to accomplish thie change from private to public controi of street railways. Some interesting figures on the cost of producing gas and electricity wee* produced at the investigation into tac lighting of New York City. The United States as a world pow er" is the topic of discussion at the annual meeting of the American Acad emy of eolitical and Social Science in iNilealnhia WON'T ARBITRATE Castr3 Declares !e Wili Not Come to Terms With the United States PRESIDENT DEFIANT IN ilS REPLY Vcnezuelan Secretary of Foreign Af fairs Says the Asphalt Case Will Not be Withdrawn From the Courts, and the Olcott Case Will Not be Re-Sub mitted to Arbitration "if the Whole American Army and Navy Come to Venezuela." Caracas, Venezuela, By Cable. "President Castro will not withdraw the New York & Bermudez Asphalt Company case from the Venezuelan courts and will not re-submit the .01 cott case to arbitration, if the whole American army and navy come to Ven ezuela." This emphatic statement of General Alejado y Barra, the Venezuelan Secretary of Foreign Affairs, reflects the spirit of the reply which President Castro made to the recent proposition of the American State Department for the arbitration of the Bermudez and 01 cott cases. It was generally rumored throughout Venezuela that the demand of the United States was ittle less than an ultimatum to General Castro, and the reply of the Venezuelan President was awaited with interest. Predictions of intervention from the refusal of Cas tro to yield were freely made and there was much uneasiness when it was an nounced that the Venezuelan govern ment had not only refused the demand to arbitrate the case, but had supple mented its refusal with a request that the United States declare whether it has any respect for the sovereignty and the courts of Venezuela. Nearly two weeks have passed since Castro made bis reply, and as no ac tion has been taken by the United States and no further demands have been made, the last demand of the United States has gone the way of many previous requests for arbitration, and the incident is practically closed as far as its discussion in Caracas is concerned. President Castro and his advisors claim that to re-open the Olcott case would be an insult to Holland, as Mr. Berge, who acted as umpire, is a well known Dutch diplomat. They also hold that as Venezuela was denied the right to have the arbitration of the Belgian waterworks case re-opened none of the other cases settled under the Washington protectols shall be re considered. It Is emphatically denied' in the reply of President Castro that there are any claims pending between the United States and Venezuela. He again reiterates that the New York & Bermudez Asphalt case now in the. Venezuelan courts, is a national and not an internation one. President Castro and the members 3f his cabinet take the ground that while the government stands for the general principle of arbitration, it will not have a case wrested from its' courts to be carried before a board of arbitration. The charges that Venezuela- Is not aying its obligations to creditor na tions under the Washington protectols are denied by administration officials. President of Ticket Agents. New Orleans, Specal.-F. S. Monte gomery, of Vincennes, In... was elect ed president of the International Asso. ciation of RSilroad Ticket Agents ther officers elected are-: J. H. Han nan, of Walden, Mass., first vice presi dent; C. G. Cadwallader, necretary, and Elwood Ramsey, treasurer The rssociation decided to, reduce the ini tiation fee to $10 and to make that include thG dues for the ffrSt year. 'Vessels Near Philippines. Manila, Special.-The British steam ex Empire, just arrived here from Aus tralia, reports that on the night of April 9 she sighted a large war vessel in Basilan Strait, between the islands of Mindanao and Basilan. The war vessel approached closely and then disappeared down the coast of Mindan ao. Her nationality could not be de termined, but it is believed that she was Japanese. Hargis Trial Begins. Lexington, KY., Special.- After sev-4 ral adjournments because of the ab sences of witnesses for the State, the rial of Judge James Hargis, Senator argis, Eibert Hargis and Sheriff Ed ward Callahan, for the murder of arshal Cockrell, was called. The >rosecution elected to try Judge James argis first. The work of emupanel ng the jury was at once begun, 500 en having been summoned as a spec al venire. Much excitement prevails ere over the trial. The court house was crowded. HAWK AN EASY VICTIM. Voman Captured Domestic Bird of Prey With Bonnet. Mrs. John Hart of near Tonleville ad an unusual experience with a arge hawk a few days ago. She went ut into the yard and saw a large awk on top of one fI her largest ~hickens, with its talons buried intc he chicken preparatory to carrying it, ff for a feast. But the chicken was too large for he hawk to carry away against its ~vill, and it was not inclined to be a arty at the hawk's dinner, with the awk master of ceremonies. Conse uently the hawk was unable to rise rom the ground with its victim, and drs. Hart went to the chicken's de ense. She first started to the house or the gun. but the hawk suddenly et go of the chicken, which ran away. md Mrs. Hart rpulled off her bonret and throwing it over the hawk. cap. uredl it andl carried it into the house and bound it with twine until her hus and came home. It was a very large awk and able to put up a good fight -Larue Herald.