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oil~ { Isn't Fit For Fatherhood { Until Past Forty & By C. L. Redfield, the Distinguished Civil Engineer. SVAGES marry savages in mere youth and other savages are born, while David war the eleventh son of his father, and David's son, Sojlomon. was born wnen the psalmist was fifty s two years old. Moses was born 1:-> wears after the birth of of his great-grandfather. while the modern Moses-Abrahami Lincoln-was thc- product of a grandmother and grandfather each the baby of their respective families ,and of a father and a mother each the youngest child in their families. Den jamin Franklin's ancestors in the male line on the Frantilin side were the youngest children for five generations back, while the father of Audubon was fifty-one years old at his boy's birth and himself was the twenty first child in his own family. Looking for reckless, adventurous, dissipated, aggressive types of men. I have found extreme youth in their parentage almost without exception, while the great thinkers and philosophers of the worli have been born of parents who have reached mental maturity. ^ No man should be allowed to marry before he is twenty-five years old, and no woman until she is twenty years 'at least. If no person in the United States were allowed to marry before the age of twent-five years, two genera tions of such marriages would wipe out virtually all the poverty, crime and viciousness of the country. When a parent, and especially a father. has passed fifty years old, he is at the maximum of his knowledge and experience. He is inclined to morality, philosophy and a greater tolerance of the world and its vagaries. He has time for thinking and for self-analysis. Shall one doubt for a moment that a .nan becomes a parent at such a time in life reflects his acquired nature in L:e child? Savages and Brutes By Prince Iropotkin of RZussia. -OR the -piL -,ve savage, animais are mysterious, problematIc beings, .powssed of a wide knowledge of the things of na ture. They know much more than they are ready to tell us IF In -some way or another, by the aid of senses much more re fined than ours, and by telling to each other all that they -notice in their rambles and flights, they know everything for miles round. And if a man has been "just" toward them, they will warn him of a coming danger, as they warn each other; but they will take no heed of him if he has not been straightforward in his -actions. Snakes and birds (the owl is a leader ,of the snakes), mammals and insects, lizards and fishes-all understand each other, and continually communicate their obsermtions to one another. Inside this -vast brothei-hood there are. of course, the still closer brother hoods of beings "ofone blood." The monkeys, the bears, the wolves, the ele phants and the rhinoceroses, most ruminants, the hares and most of the ro dents, the crocodiles, and so on, perfectly know their own kin, and they will not tolerate any one of their relatives to be slaughtered by man without tak ing, in one way 'or another, honest revenge. This conception must have had an extremely remote origin. Even now, when a savage is hunting, he is bound to respect certain rules of propriety toward the animals, and he must perform certain expiatorPy cere monies after his hunt. Most of these ceremonies are rigorously enacted, even nowadays in the savage clans, especially as regards those specieos considered the allies of mab. It is well known-that two men belonging to two different-clans or tribes can become brothers by mixing the blood of the two, Qbtained from small incisions mnade for that purpose. But it was also quite habitual for man to enter into brotherhood with some animal. The tales continually mentioned it. An ani mal asks a hunter to spare it. and if the hunter accedes to the demand the two become brothers. .And then the monkey, the berr, the doe, the bird, the croco dile, or the bee-any one of the sociable animals-will take all possible care of the man brother .in the critical circumstances of his life, -sending his or her .animal brothers of -different tribes to warn him or help him out of a difficulty. And if the warning -comes too late, or is misunderstood, and he loses his life, they all will try to bring him back to life, and they fail they wil:1 take due re& Tenge, just as if the man had been one of their own kin. When I journeyed to Siberia I was often struck, without -understanding it, -with the care which my Tunus or Mongol guide would take not to uselessly kill any animal. 'The fact is that every life is respected by a savage, or rather -it was before ie came in .contact with Europeans. If he kills an animal, it is for food or f-or clothing; 'but he does not destroy life, as the whites do, for the mere excitement of the slaughter. Of course, there -are rascals among the animals-the hyena, for instance, or the shrewmouse, or the man eating tiger; but these do not count; they are outlaws. As to the greal animal world as a whole, savage children are taught to respect it and see in it .an extensicn of their own kin. P Conerning Municipal:._.Ownership Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago.4 ~- jHE people at last are beginning to realize they have a vested property right in their streets and alleys, and that if the use of these streets .and alleys is a valuable commodity to the . corporations by the same token it is a valuable commodity jto thE .public. ~ I-cwever, the public service corporation is still so firmly entrenched in the possession and control of every utility worth possessing and controlling in American cities that the schemes for the rescue of the public is still in embryonic form. Indeed, a certain vague idea of a sanctity of rights seems to pervade the atmosphere in the average community, and the plain citizen enters upon the discussion of the ownership by the community of its own utilities with bated breath and with almost an air of bein-g caught in a felonious attempt to sub -vert a divinely established order of things. A similar sensation must have been experienced in -the decade before the revolution by our forefathers when first the idea of .throwing off the rule of England's sovereign was whispered with bated breaTh. For generations in all our 'zities pub~ic utilities have been in the hands of a favored few, and great families have been established and great fortunes .gathered at the expense -of the ordinary citizen. Ini all our cities the families of the owners of the gas plant, of the street railway company., c the electric lighting a:empany, of the telephone company .and o'.all the other :ublic utility companIet take precedence of ordinary folk by ret -on of the patent of nobility conferredi along with the franchises of the :oncerns. Abroad great deed1s and -a long hne of distinguished ancestry character ized the claim to aristocrracy.. With us wealth forms the keystone upon which great houses are heilt, and this wealth, in many instances, at least, is first fou-nded upon some grant or franchisE by which the right to taxe the people for their personal benefit wa-s transferred .from the .eommunity to an individual or group of individuals. SPINACH AND EGG SALAD. P'hr' ctc~ c Prevare andl mould th:e spinach1. u o~sc aotI r~ Og nd mayonnaise. T urn the spio- 'i(?:clfrmE l0 co fr-om toe moseids onl to ne of oc~ ~ i nfzc'<r shion.e -au e. Dpote ena-- ~ '~liino rings, aadz press a str of mayonnaise 0rv.~ -~~' 2nth cnt-- ~ 'r . Br~'ight ~'rerimtal acopne nOr Gorir ar specific against __ic abor ;his t~ "C~ ~"~ Oft~O The greatest sialiness of all time i ~li4.disease of the heart. . PROTEST 10 ThE PRESIDENT Delegation From the American Aatic Association P:-sent- a Mlemoriai to the Chief Exectitve. Washington, Speial.-A delegatin from the American Asiatic As - tion called' on President Roovt Monday and protested against the al leged severitics of the administraton of t resen n ls.On s. The ulziraate urpo- of the delegal on in v:hich North Ca-%Una vas lilerally represented. was to secure such condi tions as woud facilitate and enlaiire the trade of Ameri:an -ctton mills in the Orient. The claim was male that the present laws are altogether too rig idlenforcedi and Chinese capital and merchants are prevente(d from coming to .raeriea to trade. A MEMOLIAL PRESENTED. A memorial. adopted unanimonsly by the entire delegation was present ed to President Roosevelt by John Fo d of New York. secretary of the American Asiatic Association. The memorial recited not only that Chi nese merchants were barassed by the present exclusion statutes, but the law was beirug even more than literally ap piled. The legal regulations are now so stringently construed by the Depart ment that many influential Chinese who are entitled to visit America. are kept out of the country. The conse quence is that factories in the United States are placed at a disadvantage in the compet:tion for the trade of the Orient. The memorial admitted that there was warrant in the wording of the law for what is being done, but contended strongly that the enforce ment of the present statutes was in the hands of the labor union element and was not executed in the interest of the American citizens. The memorial closed in the followinlg words: "The members of this delegation feel confident that they will not appeal to you in vain in asking that remedy should be sought for the anomalous and unsatisfactury condition of the ex isting relations between this country and the Chinese Empire. The probable disastrous effects on their interests and the interests of industries for which they speak, of a longer contin uance of conditions must be their ex cuse for the urgency and emphasis which they have taken the liberty to use in inviting your attention to the subject." THE PRESIDENT'S VIEWS. President Roosevelt indicated that this was a matter which had to some extent, already engaged his thought. In fact. other cotton manufacturers who have rccently visited the White House. have made a somewhat similar complaint to the Chief Execu:ivc. The President told the delegation today that as he understood the matter, he was in accord with their purpose, but he wanted it clearly krown that he was opposed to the importation of coo lie labor into this councry. He was in favor, however, of allowing Chinese merchants to come to America for the purpiose of trading, and that he be lieved that the proper legislation could safelv discriminate between the class es of Chinese, This, though. was sim ply his personal view, for Congress was the pr'oper power to deal with the matter in hand and the President's only duty was to see that the law as it stands is faithfully executed. Big Financial Organization. INew York, Special.-The organiza tion of the largest trust company in the United States, and one of the largest financial institutions of the wvorld, was said to he a part of the plan of Thomas F. Ryan in negotiating the purchase of the stock of the Equitable Life Assur ance Society held by Jas. H. Hyde. Mr. Ryan's plan was reported to be to con solidate the Equitable Trust Company, the Mercantile Trust Company and the Morton Trust Company, all of this city, with the last-named in control. It is ex pected that this would result in creat ing a financial institution with deposits second only to those of the National City Bank, of this city. which has de posits of $185,000,000. The deposits of the proposed consolidated trust comn pany would amount to $169,000,000, the capital stock to $70,000.000 and the sur plus to $22,700,000. Mr. Ryan's plan was reported to contemplate also the elimi nation of the control of subsidiary com panies by the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Charges Not Sustained. son informed the President that he was pressinig his investigation of the charg es filed with him that a leak had occur red In the cotton crop reports issued by the Agricultural Department, but he yet had been unable to develop proof to sustain the charges. The agent of the secret service and others who are mak ing the investigation, have been in structed by Secretary Wilson to leave no stoue unturned in their inquiry. Prominent Man Murdered. Tampa, Fin., Special.-The body of Oscar Brahnan, a prominent citizen of Plant City, was found on the road three miles from that town Tuesday morn ing, riddled with buck-shot. No less than six loads had been fired into the body. Investigation showed where at least three men had waited in ambush alongside the road. Sheriff Jackson at once sent deputies with bloodhoundis to the scene and posses of excited citizens are scouring the country searching for the murderers. No clue has been found to the perpetrators, but the officers ex pect to locate them before they get far Premier Stabbed. Athens. By Cable.-Theodore P. Del yannis, the popular Premier of Greece. was stabbed and mortally wounded by a professional gambler named Gerakaris, at the main entrance of the Chamber of Deputies at 5 p. m Wdnesday. The Premier died withir three hours. The assassin, who was imiktely arrested. said he commit ted the deed in revenge for the strin gent measures taken by Premier Del annis against the gambling houses, all of which were recently 'losed. New Industry at Rook Hill. Rock Hill. S. C., Special.-A new in dstry in this place has just begun op erations. The concern is known as the Acac Manufacturin:: Company. with C. W. rew and Lee Diehi proprietors. It .,-I tun out suspenders5 for the whole sn- markt and has been fitted with f"s-eic' s facto:y appurtenances5. 'I e m rahine put out two hundred dozen a y.Teriant is runf by &-ectrir-ity fuise by Lx'Lle CaL;awxha Po-,yer C(?n ary. Th orcpriemsr will eniarge- the baciness as soon as everything is run IIIOSE WHO W( Great Gatherirg of the Cause" in Louisvl WERE TENDERED ROYAL RECEPTION T The Kentucky City Decorated to an e Extent Never Before Known, is Prepared to Extend Hospitality to p All the Old Soldiers Who Come. 0 . 0 Louisville. Ky., Special.-Louisville, decorated to an extent hitherto un known and smiled on by typical sum mer weather, ex:ended the hands of 1 hospitality to a never-ending stream of arriving veterans who have come to Kentucky to attend the fifteenth an- f nual reunion of the United Confeder ate Veterans. Ir. every hotel and at t almost every corner in the business c section of the city the men wearing e the gray are to be found. Q Among the prominent ex-Confeder ates here now are General Stephen D. c Lee, commander-in-chief; General Joe d Wheeler, General Andrew J. West, of Atlanta, commanding the North Geor- C gia Brigade, who came in at the head I of a large delegation of Georgians; r Lieutenant General C. Irvine Walker, of South Carolind; General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General 'William E. Mickle, of New Orleans, adjutant gen eral and chief of staff; Chaplain Gen eral Wm. Jones, of Richmond, and General Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta. the chairman of the history commit tee and the Battle Abbey. The Virginia and Maryland dele- i gates came in, and some of the great army of Texans arrived during the, afternoon. The Tennessceans began i arriving in force Tuesday evening, fol- 2 lowed closely by a detachment of the I Arkansas regiments. Much regret i has been expressed over the receipt I of a letter from Judge Emery Speer, I of Macon, Ga., announcing his inabil- c ity to be present. It had been ex pected that Judge Speer would ad- c dress the orphan brigade, of which t he is a member. Gen. W. E. Mickle, adjutant general and chief of staff, has completed his annual report, which is highly inter esting. It says: "It is a source of sincerest pleasure to me that I am - able to report that the debt which has been resting on the federation t Ior a number of years has been paid in full. That this matter has been liuidated is due to the extraordinary efforts put forth by you, and while the urgent appeal made by you to the wealthiest members of our order was sent to nearly three hundred people and should have had most generous responses, the amount realized was barely sufficient to wipe out the debt. 1 This 'lukewarmness on the part of those who were in a position to re spond most'liberally is a sad commen tary on the degeneracy of the times,i and displays a deplorable lack of in terest by men who were once so ready 'to share the dangers and dep'rivations that rendered the Confederate armiest famous throughout the world." I "There has been carried on the ros ter of the order for a number of years many camps who had made no pay ment of any kind since they were chartered; some of these were really never in existence, having 'died a-born ing.' After conferring with the adju tant general of the various dlivisions, these camps have been put on the 'dormant list,; and no mail matter will, for the present, be sent them. This means an annual saving to the order. There are still on the roster a number of camps who do not con tribute to the finances of the order, makes returns of any kind, or manifest the least interest in the federation. As soon as definite information can be secured regarding them they will be added to the 'dormant list.' "I am proud to be able to report that at no period in the history of the federation have the camps paid their dues with more promptness or in Memphis, Special. - Announcement was made tha consoldaion of the Memphis Trust Company and the Na tional Bank of Commerce, of this city, hsbeen decided on, the merger to take effect on July 15. Both concerns are well known and influential. The capi-, tistock of the comnbinied institutions, it is said, wvil be $2.000,000. John T: Fargason, a prominent local merchant .nd capitalist, will be president. Chairman Morton Waits. New York. Special.-The executive comiittee of the Equitable Life As surance Society met Wednesday, with Vice President Hyde presdiing, and elected Chairman Paul Morton a mem ber of the committee. There were no further resignations from the board, nor were the* resignations of officers: and directors already tendered acted :on. Chairman Morton said that he uld not outline his policy until he h: d1 received the report of Superintend ant Hendricks. On the report was to depend largely the organization of the society, of the directory and of its executive and finance committees. Knights of Honor in Session. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.--With more than 80 delegates in attendance. thEre I eing more than cne delegate for each I tate in the Union. the bi-ennial con ention of the Knights of Honor wasi .alld to order- here. Delegate Hudson. of Texas. offered a r-esolutionl provid ing for the admission of wvomen into the order. This was referred to the comn mittee on the~ good of the order. Thie convention will be in session several Move by Greene and Gaynor. Montreal. Specia.--T. Chase Cas grain, counsel for John F. Gaynor and B. D. Greene. has petitioned Judge Ball in the chambers to be allowed to furnish security for their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada from the de cision of King's Bench maintaining the judgment of JTudge Davidson. who de cared that Extradition Commissionl' I LaFontaine, had jurisdiction in the present case and who rejcted the writ of prohibition taken against the com emis.ioer by ousel for the accused. ] RETHE 6RAY~ Heroes of the "Lostl 1.e, Kentucky. :eater number. At the Nashville ceting only about 4r 2-3 per cent of IQ camps while at the present time 3-4 per cent of them are 'all pres at and accounted for.' The field -om which new camps are to be tthered is limited, and the material rapidly diminishing by the erosion time. Yet there are those who ace were units of our great armies -ho desire to associate themselves to. ether and connect themselves with ur 'social, literary, historical and enevolent' order. Since our reunion i Nashville last June, IS new camps ave been chartered. making the to I1 on the roster at the present timo ,583. "For the year 1903 the cash receipts ,om all sources amounted to $7,035, 7hile for the year 1904 the amount as $7,812. When it is borne in mind dat the sources from which this in ome is derived is greatly reduced ach year, this gain is the more mark d. The disbursements for the year 7.329. "The death rate among our asso iates has been exceptionally heavy uring the past year, owing to the ad anced age of the men and the unus ally severe winter. From all sections ome greatly increased mortuary re orts, to which must be added the ames of some of our most distin uished and zealous leaders: "George G. Vest, Matthew W. Ran om, John H. Reagan, Wm. B. Bate, no. H. Homer, Cullen A. Bates. Fitz ugh Lee, Thomas J. Churchill, and ur beloved Mildred Lee, all of whom a a way added lustre to our dear outhland and contributed to its great Less and renown." The reunion w.s officially opened Vednesday, shortly after the noon our, when General Bennett H. Young, ommander of the Kentucky division, alled the perspiring mass of humanity a the Horse Show building to orderl .nd introduced the chaplain general, ev. Dr. J. William Jones, of Rich aond. Va. Dr. Jones in his invocation, rayed that the blessing of the Al nighty God may rest upon the Presi ent of these United States, and "that e may be enabled to be the President f this whole country and every sec ion." A few moments later, Governor J. C. V. Beckham, in speaking Kentucky's vlcome to the old men in gray said: "It is fitting that you should meet .ere, on the borderland of the great truggle, where we were so torn asun er. The great contest has been set led for all times. Peace has her vie ories as well as war. "It is now gratifying to us all that here is .but one flag. In tender mem >ry we have laid away the Stars and 3ars, and we rejoice that we have the ame flag that floated over us before he war." A rousing reception was given the ommander-in-chief. General Stephen ). Lee, when he arose to respond for he veterans to the address of wel ome. The g'eneral was in splendid oce, despite the long wait in the eated building, and his speech. was nterrupted many times by cheering. t was one of the most appropriate peeches of the kind that has marked Lny similar occasion. It was estimated hat 25,000 veterans and sponsors were >resent at the opening. Guilty of Contempt. New York, Special.-Wm. H. McAl ister, secretary of the American To acco Company, was adjudged guilty of contempt in the 'United States Cir uit Court for having refused to an wer questions before the Federal -and jury in connection with the in restigation of the so-called tobacco rust. McAllister was asked questions. ~oncerning the affairs of his company, md was served with a subpoena re uiring him to produce papers and :ontracts covering the export business f the American Tobacco Company. Jpon the advice of his counsel he not nly declined to answer the question, but also to produce the papers asked* or, taking the ground that he was rotcted by his constitutional rights. F~e was sent to jail, but later was re eased on heavy bond. Fall River Cloth Markei. Fall River, Special.-The sales in he print cloth market for the week tre estimated at about 125,000 pieces. The bulk of the trading which has ~een of a light character, has been ~ofined principally to medium widths Lnd wide odds during the week. Most >f the mills are still short of help. Meeting Place Now the Question. Washington. Special.-Gradually the egotiations for peace in the Far East tre nearing a focus. The one point to vhich the energies of those directly :oncened in them now are being di ected is t'.e choice of a place for the olding of the conference of the pleni otentiaries of the beligerent pow It is known officially that three cit s are now under consideration by Russia and Japan. These cities. nam ad in order of the liklihood of their mal selection. are Washington, Tihe Eague and Geneva. Effort to Rob Postoffice. Durham. Special.-It was discovered ruesday that an effort was made to rob he postoffice in WVest Durham Monday ight. The robbers. the tracks show ng that there were more than one, en ered the building by breaking a pane f glass, but coujld not get back into he postoffice part on account of the trong lattice work. Thcre was a rain afte-r midnight and the tracks were rade after the r'ain. Up to this time here is no clew as to who attempted e robbery. Mexican Railroad to be Extended. Mexico City. -Special.-President Rob sins. of the Mexican Central railroad, ;ays that work will soon be begun on he extension of the Central's line to he Pacific coast via Calija. Work was toppdl on this extension two years tgo owing to the depreciation of sil rer. which caused railway earnings to 'all off. The Central's Pacific port will >e Mananzillo, where the government s spending millions of dollars to im CLOSE OF THE REUNION Nithcut uch Frete-se of Fermation So Far as the Veterans Were Con cerned, the Parade was None the Less a Stirrinn Spectacle, Battle Flags Recently Restorcd by the Gov ernment Playing a Part. Louisville. Ky.. SpeciaI.-Be-oneath he shot-ri-idied iati e flags that ioat r over many a sodjdeni feld. and to :he thrilliin strains of "Dixie" that >ft had cheered them on to victory or efeat. the Confederate veterans wgo xore the gray marched l-iday in ?roud review oefore thoosands of people gathered in Kentucky's chief :ity to (o them honor. There was not much in the way of crmation and order in the line as far Is thle '1! oys were concerned, but Lhe-,- marched with sparkling eye to the old itunes. and heard the same heers that have stirred their blood annually since the reunions became a part of life in the South. Many of the captured battle fiags, recently re turned by the government, were car ried in Friday's parade and were the objects of interest and veneration. Three Overcome by Heat. The temperature was near the 86 mark, and John Coke., of Lawrence. burg, Ky.. J. B. Allen, of Virginia and William Potter. aged 62 of Nashville, Tenn., were overcome and taken to hospitals. The parade which fermed at First and Main streets, was in three grand divisions, comprising the 'trans-Miss issippi department, the department of the Army of Northern Virginia and the department of the Army of Ten nessee. Col. Bennett H. Young, com mander of the Kentucky division, was chief marshal, and the fol lowing were in command of the three divisions: Gen. 'W. L. Cabell. Texas. the trans-Mississippi de partment; Gen. C. Irving Walker, South Carolina, the department of Northern Virginia; Gen. Clement A. Evans, the Army of Tennessee. Head of the Column. At the head of the column, as spe cial guests of the reunion, rode Gen Joe Wheeler, in citizen's dress, and Jefferson Hayes Davis, grandson of President Davis of the Confederacy They were escorted by Wheeler's cav alry. Next- came the eommandpr-in chief, General Stephen D. Lee, and staff. The distinguished leader was cheered at every turn. The commar' der's immediate escort was the ColuL. bus Rifles, from the General's homE city, Columbus, Miss., and then follow ed carriage containing Miss CarriE Peyton Wheeler, sporsor fcr the Soutl and her maids of honor. - General C. Irving Walker of Soutl Carolina occupied his familiar plac( as head of the department of the Arm3 of Northern Virginia. The West Vir ginia division, headed by the depart ment, with General S. S. Green in com mand. The R. E. Lee camp of Richmon had the place of honor in the Virgini: division. The marching of this caml was splendid and the men were cheer ed heartily. Then came the Tom Smitl Camp, of Suffolk, Va., and Stonewal Jackson's old brigade with several tat tered flags. These old men and theii flags aroused the crowds to much en thusiasm. The William Watts Camp of Roanoke, brought up the rear of thi Virginians. The- next reunion will be held al New Orleans. Text of Japan's Reply. Washington, Special.-The follow ing is the text of the Japanese repl: to President Roosevelt's identical not< to Japan and Russia on the subjec of negotiations for peace: "The imperial government has giv en to the suggestions of the Presiden of the United Staters embodied in thl note handed to the Minister of For eign Affairs by the United State: minister on the 9th inst., very seriou: consideration, to which, because of it source and import, it is justly entitled Desiring, in the interest of the world as well as in the interest of Japan the re-establishment of peace witl Russia on terms and conditions tha will fully guarantee its stability, thi imperial government will, in respons< to the suggestions of the President appoint plenipotentiaries of Japan t< meet plenipotentiaries of Russia a such time and place as may be foun< to be mutually agreeable and conven. ent, for the purpose of negotiating an< concluding terms of peace directl: and exclusively between the two bel ligerent powers." Booker Washington Sees President. Washington, Special.-Booker .'I Washington, president of Tuskege Institute at Tuskegee, Ala., called ol the president to talk with him abou his visit to Tuskegee next Octobei The president expects to pass th greater part of October 23 at Tusk< ge, and ~arrangements already ar making for a demonstration by th students of the institute in his honoi The president will review, a processio: and pay a visit to the institute an deliver an address. Prof. Washingto tonight delivered an address at th graduating exercises of the colore bich school. the colored noi-mal schoc and the Armstrong Training school. May be Another Great Advance. London, By Cable.--The practica certainty now that peace negotiation -cannot begin for another month lead to the conviction that another grea battle will be fought in the interval. According to the Daily Telegraph Tien Tsin correspondent a Japanes forward movement has already con menced in spite of the rainy season. Cloth Sale: Slow. Fall River, Mass., Special-The sale in print cloth market for the wee are estimated at 225,000 pieces.. much firmer tone has prevailed in th cloth market during the week, Buyer are active holders at present price! but manufacturers continue to be slo' sellers. The cause of the firmness o the part of the seller is the big pric-cs asked for the raw material an also the strong belief that cotton ma be marked up in the near future. 3 Lilled; -29 Injured. Albion. Ill., Special.-Three person were killed and 29 injured in the wrec of an east-hound passenger train o the Southern railway at Golden Gat< Ill. The train was a "cotton special, carrying Confederate veterans to tb reunion at Louisville, Ky. While rut ning at a speed of 50 miles an hot the engine struck a spread rail on trestle twenty feet high and the er gine and four coaches were overturne and fell to the bottom of the ravin< re engine comnieielv turned aver. WASHIINGTON CIOS, Agreeable to All Parties As Place foding Peace Meetin CZAR WITHDRAWS ALL OBJECTIO Envy and Jealousy of the Unite States Are so Unconcealed in So Quarters That There Was Alma Open Exultatien at the "Rebgiff' Roosevelt" by the Foreign Offi Prior to the Czar's :ntervention. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Rus has finally and definitel.' acce Washington as the meeting place o Russian and Japanese plenipoten ies, the foreign office having w V its request for reconsideration a persenal dicerection of the Em r whose desire to give the fullest. fairest opportunity to Presideit . velt's proposal -for a peace confere is hereby manifested. After his conference with Amb dor Meyer, Count Lamsdorff, thb eign minister went to Peterhoffe laid the matter before the E'mp who, en learning that ipsistenc The Hague might endanger the tions, -directed Count Lamsdo inform Ambassador Meyer that sia would accept Washington. 6 It was after midnight when thef eign minister returned from Peterho but Ambassador Meyer was fort~wi notified and a cipher dispatch: w prepared and sent to the state de ment at an early hour Monday fo ing. Count Lamsdorff Sunday aftern issued a public announcement of selection of Washington. The result is looked upon as a. cided triumph for American diplo cy. 150 Natives Massacred. San Francisco, Special.-Detalls terrible massacre by pirates of 150 tives on the Siberian coast has received in a letter from Petropav ski, on the coast of Kamchatka.' Morogravlenof, has written to s brother, a resident of San Frang, that in the early part of the year.the natives, in one of the small settlein down the coast, observed a yacht schooner, drop anchor in the and its coming was hailed with of rejoicing. Off the vessel came number of small boats. The could see the crew piling what the thought were supplies into the s craft. Then the men pulled fo shore, During that and the next there was heard firing of arms, later, smoke and fire were obse - This led to an investigation from tropavlovski and other towns on - coast, and a horrible tale of pillage massacre was brought to light. About the streets of the settlem writes Morogravenlof, were strewn bodies of 150 of the inhabitants, s and cut to pieces by the pirates, w under the pretense of friendship, gained a landing on the coast. 19 -bery was their motive, for everyh, had been ransacked, and anything Smarketable value had been taken.Wl the marauders were, those who marg -ed to make their escape could notsa beyond giving the informationth some Japanese were in the party. Whet tMorogravenlof sent his letter thepe Spie of Petropvolski feared an atc on that town. Maximno Gomez Dead. Havana, Special.-Gen. Maximo G6 mez died at 6 o'clock Saturday even ing. tGeneral Maximo Gomez, who comn manded the Cuban forces during te insurrection, which broke out in 1 and ended with the complete infe dence of the island, when on May 20 1902. the control of Cuba was f transferred to the new Cuban gove ment. was born at Bani, Santo Do go, in 1836, and -came of a Sp family. He began life as a cavalry cer in the Spanish' army in Santo mingo and served in the last OC tion of Santo Domingo by Spain. Going for Paul .Jones' Body. ~New York, Special.-Rear Admira Sigsbee's squadron, which was, detail ed from the North Atlantic fleet t bring the body of .Iohn Paul Jones, the first admiral of the American navy, t .this contry, started on its voyage France Si,-.day. The squadron is ma up of the flag.9hip Brooklyin ana cruisers Chattanoo3&, Tacogna and G veston. eCollision Sinks Vessel dSault Ste Marie. Mich., Special.-Du ing a thick fog which has prevaile on the upper lakes for a week,tr steel freight steamers Etruria and A aza collided ten miles off Prescue Isl .1light, in Lake Huron. The Etruria wa so damaged that she sank within a fe minutes, the crew narrowly escapi with their lives. The Etruria was str on the starboard side, abreast of t No. 9 hatch. Many of the crew/wer asleep in their berths, but were awak ened by the crash and reached the dec ein time to escape. The Etruria had cargo of soft coal. She was valueda $40,000. The Amaza escaped any ser ous damage. 95 Dead in Wreck. Baltimore, Special.-By far th worst wreck, in the history of tK Western Maryland railroad occurre Saturday evening at a point a quart - o a mile from Potapsco, a small st tion between Westminister and Fink burg. At least 25 people are believe to have been killed and a score o more injuredJ. The wreck was occ; dsioned by a head on collision with Yfreight d'ouble-header that was rumnf against orders. Caterpillars Kill Cotton. Houston, Texas., Special.-Through ut the eastern and southern setio> of Texas there is a pest of caterpTlart "Iand rerorts indicate they are doing great dlamage to fruit trees, cotton, corn and truck gardens. State Ento roogs Conrad says that while the aret are urually controlled by at ura eemisall specimens examined ~*jby him this ya are free from thy usual parasites.