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T A flew Province 1 Two Thousand Years Old J By Ellsworth Huntington 1 IMMtMM VBR two thousand years ago China, the dean ot natlo O" ' o spread her conquests tar westward to the Sea ot Aral, t | | so-called Lake of Cathay. Hordes qf barbarians soon drc , t her back a thousand miles, but she was able to malnti J | her authority to the east and South of the T1 an-Shan or < < tlHSIH i lestlal Mountains. With them as a julwark she organli || the New Province?commonly known as Chinese Turkesti < Oeeeeeeee ?which comprises the great Lob or Tarlm basin, togetl with the more northern regions ot Vurfan, 300 feet bel< aea-level, the fertile vale of 111, and the waste plains aid mountains of Dsi aria. Time and again the Chinese rule In Hsln Klang has been overthrow sometimes for centuries and sometimes for onlv a see re of veara: and tli and again China has re-conquered the province. With each conquest Chine officials and merchants have poured in. They have tal>an to themselves wit of the Aryan inhabitants, they have bulk governmeit houses, forts, a towns?largely of mud; and they have entirely dozr nated the mild Char natives. Then, whrn foreign invasion has driven the a out, they have disi peered, and Hsln Ktang, lapsing into its ancient apthy, has become though the Chinese were not, nor ever had been. Hmce, today, in spite two thousand ycirs of intermittent Chinese rule, Turkestan is still t "New Province." It le related to China much as UUh and Arlsona were the rest of the United States before the days of ralroads. It resembi those States in other ways also, especially in cllmite and topograpny, though in every respect its extremes are far greater tian theirs. Cut off from China by three or four hundred milra of the most rigorc desert, and frr m the rest of mankind by the greatest of mountains, this < New Province has pursued the tenor of its way alm?st uninfluenced by t wrold at large. During the two millenniums since the coming of the Chine the people ol Hsln Kiang have been converted from >aganism to Buddhls and then to Mohammedanism; they have been conq.ered by Utghurs, T tars, and Tibetans; a new language, Turhi, haw beei imposed upon thei and they have Buffered from famine, war, and pestlleice and their attend! ravages. Yet the character of the people appears to lave changed but litt The accounts of ancient Chinese pilgrims to India, aid the evidences fou in ruins, Indicate that the life of the past was not unlke that of today. T original Aryan stock remains dominant, though moe or less mixed w half a dozen other races.?Harper's Magazine. * * * 9 | California s 5 High Muck Ey Frances Jilbert Doughy '| 1 1 I HETHER or not there is a rainy seaso, there is always tl W capital stock in trade?the climate, tomewhere in Calif nia magnlflcant weather can be founc in any month of 1 year, but a person cannot sit in one sot for a twelvemoi and have it on tap. March, April and Aay are varied by fc on and near the coast; June, July ail August are blazi hot in the foothills and mountain valiys. Climate is the High Muck-a-Muc, the Grand Panj drum, the Dalai Lama, the foremost ii thought and talk sidewalk and portico, in parlor and bed cnamber. But he obvious fact tl l&e idol does not smile with uniform benignity night ad day, in the hoi and out of the house, an both sides of the street and at he corners, cause! loud-voiced dissatisfaction. Savage worshippers berati their god when falls to fulfill their expectations; and this species of lngatitude is very cc mon in California, where the weather is oftener perfet than in any otl of the United States. Visitors, after a few months of ;urprlse at me p longed stretch of magnificent days, begin to pick flaws n these "Daughti of Time," and end by becoming weather cranks like te rest, forgetful what came they away from in the east. Travelers may leave California with a feeling of (^satisfaction, diBi pointment, for one reason or another, but its grip Is uporthepn neverthelei some day they will return, If they can, and meanwhile hey will look ba regretfully to features of its life and climate that c&nnc be enjoyed in t ast. Primeval man knew nothing of houses; and his desend&nts retain si Jectively a leaning towards an out-of-door life and a climte that permits The artificial charms of civilization never wholly coureract this bias Putnam's. * * + * t _ _ 'TL - - -- f uuw-V" . . / fUt . . | Beginners of < - Opera = N By Rupert Hughes ( >?<><> * T is impossible in a sketchy synopsis even to lint the graj $ J lc portrayal of supernatural terror together with the lig X W senthnentai graces and rollicking good huior of "D lit Frleschutz." It sums up the inherent Germii delight in X X fairy story. The tuues of Weber have the nusual di Itllllllll grace of catching the ear at once and of fanning on t i*" ^ mind and heart for good and all. The orche. ration has illlllltlt dramatic power of characterization till then unDown. Spit is able to say: "In using the orchestra drama:;ally, Web surpasses any composer in the world." In his less successful lit more di matic opera, "Euryanthe," he shows the power still more won irfully. was this opera that Wagner called the ideal of muslco-dramat art, sin the orchestra "interpenetrates the recitatives as the blood does be veins the body." T1 rAk?. 41^ - - * - ? ncuci uicu ?l me age ut iu, an age ai wnicn Beethoven had ot finish his one opera, and Wagner had not even begun his greater wors. In t words of Henry T. Finck: "flad Weber lived longer, and had he possess Wagner's pugnacity and iron will, he might have been the man tomnlhih the old-fashioned opera and triumphantly establish the modern muic-dran But surely it is glory enough to have founded the national opei. of on< own country, to have been a hale and hearty influence in every binch one's chosen art, and to have been the father of many children of mmon youth.?From Smith's Magazine. * * + * I? ,p"rl t An Appalling Evil II Jt ^ By Mrs. William H. Taft ** w * >? ? ?', F it were in my power, divorce would be stopped entir 4 | J Of course, there are cases where separation might be 1c If ly granted, but there should be no remarriage allowed. ' ? laxity of our divorce law is a menace to the very moral fi J J o? our nation. It is an appalling evil, and It seems to be ? IffM???$ the increase Instead of diminishing. I remember the t < litfttilll when one read of persons one never knew who obtal < divorces, but now everyone comes In contact with divoi people?In every class of society?one's own pers< Mends on every hand. It Is countenanced by the so-called highest dee, and it is made light of, and a woman. In many lnstai ?i with as much favor after she Is d'--r she was before. t! \ mm shocking and are most demc /berever and w m do anything to lnfluenco leglslatoi more stringent . * would do It, and I believe that ?v?r .a America shoal i B STOP AT GIBRALTAR 2 Mr. Roosevelt Spends Several | Hours There | WOULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED. The ex-Preeident Steps Off For .a He Short Visit?Is Attendod by tho ,ve American Oonaol and Governor lln General of Gibraltar?Steamer Sails For Naples at 12:20 O'clock "ed ?Tells of the Alleged Assault. an, ? Gibraltar, By Cable.?The steamer DW Hamburg with Theodore Rooeevelt and the members of hia party on rn. board, came to Gibraltar a few minuTifl n x*_:j? m uciviv a riiuajr morning. OUT. Roosevelt came ashore with Richard r?8 L. Sprague, the American consul, nd and an aide-de-camp of General Sir ito Frederick Foreatier-Walker, GoverlP" nor of Gibraltar. as Accompanied by the Governor, an 01 aide, and Mr. Sprague. Mr. Roosevelt drove in the Governor's carriage out to along the North front and up to the 'es limit of British territory. With Mr. Sprague Mr. Roosevelt then visited the Mediterranean Club, ,us where his name was entered on the >ld visitors' book. he Mr. Sprague and Mr. Roosevelt ? men drove back to the pier, whence m* Mr. Roosevelt went off to the Hamar* burg shortly nfter half-past eleven. 31 The dock was crowded with people, int who gave Mr. Roosevelt an enthule siastic farewell. The Hamburg sailed nd for Naples at 12:20 o'clock. he Mr. Roosevelt refuesd to be photographed and declined every request for an interview. "Wednesday night at a dance on the Hamburg, Mr. Roosevelt danced with !Miss Ruth Draper. Before withdraw* ing for the night Mr. Roosevelt appeared in the smoking room and chatted with the passengers for twenty minutes. When asked directly concerning the rumor that an attack had been made upon him during the voyage, Mr. J Roosevelt said that the only basis for it was an "idiotic, excitable Italian" or. used angry expressions to him while he was on the bridge of the vessel talking to the Captain. He said this man made no attempt upon him wlintng ever and that he was promptly removed and confined below the remainder an- ?f the voyage. ?u ? ?? iat AS to Child Labor. use Now Orleans, Special.?The South3 a em child labor conference at its seshe sion here adopted resolutions ernbodyim ing a number of important recommenler dations for legislation on the subject ro- of child labor in the South, srs The following are the recommendaof tions in substance: The employment in factories of no ap- child under the ape of 14 years. ?a; The employment in a mine or qnar.ck ry of no child under the ape of 16 he years. ib- The employment of no child under the age of 16 years in any painful ?* occupation except agricultural and domestic service unless such child can read and write simple sentences in the English language. m That no boy under the ago of 16 nor girl under the age of 18 Jwsrs, Et except in agricultural or .domestic service, lie omnlnifA/l 1*^4. 11 , vu.f.ujcu ucuveen ine J hours of 1 p. m. and 6 a. m. 1 An eight-hour day law for children Y under 16 years of age and for all ?vo\ men. ( Employment under the certificate s plan. \ The employment by the State of J proper officials for the inspection of all mines and factories with the power to prosecute violations. ef Thorough sanitary and safety reguH lations. inl Making the conference a permaneot organization. In connection with the reeommenv,a dation for employment under the cerjer tiflcatc system, the provisions of the ra Kentucky law are indorsed. Xt At the morning session of the conice ference Oliver R. Lovejoy of New of York, general secretary of the National Labor committee, made an ad^ A lL ' " cu ucra nuuui); inai the South wants h? capital, but that capital must conform ed to reasonable statutes for the guardit? ing of the welfare of children. la. e's Thr?? Negroes Murdered. of Elizabeth City, Special.?Ono of ta' the bloodiest brawls that has ever been known in this section occurred Thursday night at Columbia, Tyrrell m county, in which three negroes were Jg killed and one terribly wounded. Nothing wns known of the trouble t until Friday morning when a white fr man passing heard someone say, % ii n? u ?' s xmih i, cui me any more." Upon investipation dead neproes with blood S still fiowinp, razors and pruns were Kl found on the pround, presentinp a ly. horrible spectacle. *1 ^ Adams-Butler Suit. til Greensboro, Special.?Friday's proln> ceedinps in the Adams-Butler libel net suit were rather dull and listless, the ced 8Te*ter part of the time beinp con>nal Rnmed in readinp a number of deposed. itions made by persons in Oklahoma ved and Waahinpton. the object beinp to Ions attempt to justify the publication by auld be defendants of articles in The rk> i taleigh Caucasian reflecting on the nrsonal and official integrity of Xdge Adams. r5^ it- ' ' i V WAR INJMRAS f| Qmt-iifi and Eondiat Again at tka Old Otaa of Wfci OMustlon ~ iswad With Alan In Kwdoo? w Fraaidants of Both Republics Asking Explanations of Bach Other. Mexico City, Special.?Privato telegraphic advices received here SI) Tuesday are to the effect that Guatemala has concentrated a large portion Fir of her army on the Uonduran fron- d tier. The Honduran minister to QuaI temala demanded an explanation and t was told that President Cabrera de- j sired to oheck the exiled Hondnran revolutionists from crossing the bor- ^ der and fomenting an uprising n against General Davila, President of Zr _ ecru Honduras. This concentration of troops has not been confirmed from ^ other quarters. The situation in Central America is regarded in Mexico City with pessim- f ism in spite of various denials of six hostile intention. The latest reported ^ move on the part of Cabrera is thought to have been taken to check- ^ mate President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, and President Davilia. who are said ^ ^ to contemplate a joint assault on Guatemala. ' ,p Servia Accepts Note. l 'UM wav Pu PsKln TUo ^rtwwinlo -r?- VMM.V. * "V AV/* ]f Q! agreed upon by the powers of Europe the and Austria-Hungaiy for the settle- ciflo ment of the dispute between the dual ^or monarchy and Servia, was accepted {| by the 8ervian government Tuesday. min The formula was presented to the A Austrian government to the following ^eeT effect: |*an "First, Servia declares that her l*00. rights have not been violated bv the lln> i... xi -m Her xiuvmuvu uy niisiiio-nunijliry Oi ^ Bosnia and Herzegovina, and accept* ^ ^ the powers' decision to annul paragraph 25 of the Berlin treaty; second, Servia will not protest against the an- arp nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; third. Servia will mnintain peaceful kee? relations with Austria-Hungary; ^ fourth, Servia will return her military |,an( forces to normal conditions by dis- ^ charging the reservists and volunteers and she will not permit the formation of irregular troops or bands." This note has been prepared at the ^0l suggestion of the powers and will be sent with the object of terminating all misunderstandings between Aus- jj, tria-Hungarv and Servia. ^ Woman Prevents Lynching. Chillicothe, Mo., Special.?Lynch- prj^ ing of two men accused of shooting wj and mortally wounding Marshal Cara- ^50 way at Jamesport Monday was pre- rajg( vented by Mrs. James Wood, the wife jj of a farmer living near Jamesport. ^ The men had been wounded by a "Pong posse of farmers. A rope had been ?(a( procured and the farmers were string- gnc^ ing up the prisoners in the yard of the Wood borne when Mrs. Wood jty c pleaded with the leader of the posse . . men to permit the law to take its course. |ag^ Her plea prevailed and the men were <<? taken to the jail at Gallitin, Mo. ?jvej Farmers have followed the third sus- |n pec ted man to the Grand river hot- C( toms, seven miles northwest of Chil- men| licothe. Th ~?????? ware M-ies Valuable Discovery. e|on( Minneapolis, Minn., Special.?Dean PnTp George D. Frankforter, of the College stoit of Chemistry of the University of nmo| Minnesota, savs he has made a dis- 84fu covery by which he claims that the United States will produce a hundred how< times as much wood pulp paper as men< was believed possible. It is causing then interested discussion here. It is cer- js n< tain that the discovery means thai adof: every cord of fibre will yield $10 on mers by-products alone, and that most of Thei the 60 per cent of a tree now ?i De c will be utilized. Mexican Mine Disaster. pj Eagle Pass, Tex., Special.?Thirty- ?rps eight Mexican miners are entombed in mor, the coal mine at Minor. Mnxico, of ] operated by the Conhuila Mining Johr Company, as the result of an explo- e(' b sion caused frm fire damp. Up to Tuesday none of the miners had been Qreg rescued and it is probable all are TV0U] dead. Thre Eight Killed by Explosion. Chillicothe, O., Special.?Eight h workmen were killed and eight other* and were injured Tuesday by an explosior sjH)( of several hundred pounds of dyna- by 1 mite at Indian Creek, near here; yers where the NnrfnlL- A w?* T, ;l blv - ? - ??/??v w n cniri (I I road is double tracking. A crew oi I ^y-1j men was unloading a ear of dyna- ors mite when it exploded. The dead in haul elude Charles Buchnnon. Columbus conductor in charge of the worl T"'1' train; M. Jonathan Floyd, Pride, 0. oV'1 and John Hayes, Antonio, 0. Hounds Track Mnrderer. whe Thomasville, Oa., Special.?After I X week of constant tracking ^ith blood- eriir hounds, Mink Morris, who shot Slier- ,Tnd; iff William Langston, of Leon county enti Florida, to death, was capture ! Coolidge, near here and is now ii at this j>lace. Rewards aggreg tl^OO were offered for the aire quick trial will be given the s. Morris shot Sheriff Langston it J the officer was trying to arrest h I RE AT FORT W0R1 jstroys $5,000,000 W? of Property, I LIVES WERE SACRIFIC Breaks Out in Fashionable & ence District, Gets Beyond C rol Within Fifteen Minute tynamite Effective ? Aasista i Boshed From Neighbor 'owns. \>rt Worth. Tex., Special.?F by a stiff wind, a fire in thern portion of this city Sat afternoon swept over an area blocks in length and seven th, destroyed property roug mated in value to be in excess >00,000, and caused the death persons. he fire, which broke out in a fa ?ble resident district, was bey< control witllin IS minnto. "O". lUdllllCO Ull VK ted, and was not cheeked ui nmite was resorted to, four ho r. he spread of the flames was ) :ked until they had eaten th to the Texas & Pacific Railrc vation on the east. On the soi fire was checked at the Texas 1 passenger station, this steel a le structure forming a bulwt ; saved the wholesale district city, which at one time was in i ent danger of destruction. patient whose identity has 1 i learned, perished in Walkc itarium and three men were el utcd and their bodies burned ers in the Sawyer electric pla bert Stncv wns fntnllv sndcavor to save liis dwelling, a reman fell from a house top a lulled. is estimated that 500 famil homeless. Many of these h? > to Dallas, where shelter 1: i offered. party of small boys careless lling eigraettes is believed i been the cause of the fire. SULLY'S PLAN. ild Save Great Sums to Cott irmers?The Warehouse Plan o Faith in it Say Augusta Cott rchange Men. tlanta, Ga.. Special.?Daniel v, the one-time great cotton b ipulator of New York was h< ay and set forth a scheme ih he claims $150,000,000 ,000,000 may be saved to t ?rs of cotton in the South, e said, "A minimum fund ?00,000, subscribed by the m< ervative financiers of the Unit es, is available to be invested iron-clad securities as shall i the ability and the responsifa ?f the plan's promoters to rede< promises and obligations to t detail. The people of the South will i the first opportunity to inv( lis project, if. upon receiving immenus itself to their ju? t." te piun contemplates a chain (houses across the South sul t to hold one-third of the cott and thereby enable farmers s their cotton and draw sm; unts upon it to enable them at will instead of by compulse Savannah special of Sund ;ver, says the plan does not co< 1 itself to the cotton facteri t. They claim that the schei it practical or it would have be ited already through the Fi i' Union without the aid of Sul f claim that no improvement m ixpected from this source. Sailed in Duel With Officers. itzgerald, Oa., Special.?Rob< ham was killed early Sund ling in a pistol duel with Chi Police Bmbakcr and Patrolm ison. The man was being hui y the officers and fired upon th( i a hiding plnce in a dark alh officers jointly opened fire a ihani fell with four bnl rids. se-Corncred Duel in Streets Georgia Town. azelliurst, (?a., Special.?Euge J. L. Williams, brothers, \v< rrd?mVn ,?" 11 S,reet ?f this v. T. Stowers, formerly of Cc . (In., J. T. Will inms being prol fatally hurt. Tlie brothers t ibers of the 11 rm of Jarman inms. It was stated that Sto had given this firm a check t c would not honor; that Euge nnded the money and a flcht ?d. J. I, Willion... * , null l() 1 her's rescue, it is alleged, \vb vers drew his pistol. >le Jury Panel Unfit For Servi< ew Orleans, Special.?In I linal district court Thurad are F. I). Chretien dismissed t re jury panel, on mofion of E Attorney Adams, who char? the panel as a whole had sho unfit for service; that althou State presented clear ca st a number of accused per* is unable to secure any eom s before the juror*. mrtrr H IKE NEWS IN BRtET _ , X 4 rth Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable CD GLEANINGS FROM BAY TO BAT ***" Uto Items Covering Events of Mora ?n" or Leas Interest at Homo and nee Abroad. ing - a The Chamber of Con. : o-ec oi^ Petersburg have secured option on the Index-Appeal of thut m<! an" will buy the paper in order*tj b-*mi the the city. ur- I The two and one-half enge-, , fcji of I rate on all railroads in "\ uginia JStf in ( cePt the Norfolk and W tern feotfrag j, . 1 into effect April 1st. o? Mrs. Mary Farmer was locuted at Auburn, N. Y., Mo- iu\ m.t ?* ing for the most brutal r? . r Mrs. Sarah Brannon, last \; i sh- William Brant Eyster, of McKee >nd Rocks, Pennsylvania, is now of the . opinion that he is the long lost .. Charlie Ross. He discovered that his 1 1 foster parents, who are now dead, urs were not his real parents. Charlie Ross was kidnapped 35 years ago. not Four persons were killed and five eir fatally wounded near Pittsburg, Pa., tad last Saturday by a head-on collision. ' 'tk Gunjiro Aoki, a Japanese, and Miss :^a~ Helen Gladys Emery, the daughter ind 0f Archdeacon Emery, of the EpislI"k copal Diocese of California, were married at the Trinity Church, ra_ Seattle, last Saturday. They came from California, where they could iot not be legally married. r 9 O ' w Three dry kilns just outside o? ec~ Norfolk burned Wednesday, consum? inp a fine lot of timber. The loss n. * is estimated at $20,000. >n n(j An offer for Willie Whitla to pro on n(| the vaudeville stape at $1,000 a week has been received by his father, who ies merely remarked: "They will have to ive po hiprher than that." ,as Lawrence R. Boyle, who had been for 20 years the staff of the Boston sly Gllobe, in a fit of despondency last to Saturday nipht. shot and killed his wife and himself. The State of Georpia has abandoned the former method of leasinp convicts from the penitentiary and on an order has been issued apainst i? puttinp chains on women convicted on of tfiisdemeanors. Dr. W. M. Ader, a North CaroJ. linian was shot and mortally wound- ^ ull ed in the late Indian uprisinp in ?re Oklahoma. by The Southern Life Insurance Comto pany of Fayetteville, N. C., which lie came so near beinp wrecked by the Seminole disaster, has been absorbed of by the Jefferson Life Tnsnmnee Pom )st pany of Raleigh, and policyholders ed are thereby secured and the stockin holders pet about 90 per cent of orig- ' in- inal investments. iil- In Raleiph, N. C.. the citizens Dem?m ocratic ticket won Tuesday in a very he exciting municipal primary, carrying all before it but one alderman, be At Cumberland. Maryland, last >st week, a woman dying of blood poison, it, in token of the intense love she bore !g_ for her nurse, requested a kiss. The nurse complied, but caught the disof ease and died a few days later. (Yi- The Confederate Veterans' Reon union will be held this year at Memto phis from June 8th to 10th. nil San Francisco is said to be putto ting $12,000,000 annually into slot )n- machines. ay The United States Commissioner at New York has decided that Jan Janies off Pouren was a revolutionist and is ne irot to be extradited to Russia for en crimes committed. ir_ A man said to have murdered ly# girl in Indiana 32 years ago, was ny recently found living in Texas, married and wealthy. Foreign Affairs. ?rt Six thousand persons were rendered homeless, and 30,000 domestic ie? animals were drowned by late heavy an floods in Southern Russia. it- The French bark, Jules Henry blew ?m UP at Marseilles Thursday and 12 ty men were killed. It was a petroleum nd carrier and being inspected when it jet is believed the fumes of empty tanks caught from the inspectors light. - The last batch of U. S. troops left Cuba Wednesday noon to return to America, leaving the islanders again ne to govern themselves. ?re Accused of embezzling upwards of ice $51,000 from the Russia tM >n- ment. a man believed to ja >n- Yakovlev Matsaenko was ; l in ^ tre Philadelphia Tuesday nigh ? Count Zeppelin nnd a si w_ ascended in liis airship a de- 1 h? ickslinpen. Germany, last wee V ?e were caught in a hurrica J |-e- motor refused to work and * hi* not safely land until lie en hours in the air. He then in a 35 mile gale. 1 3 Washington News Notes. V die April 1st was the first cheek is- J lay suing day for President Tsft and $5,- M he 625.01 is the snm M is- President Taft has approved The fl red Baltimore Sun's suggestion of a new wn system of accounting for the Governigh ment departments. 8*8 Aftor April 1st no opinm in any \na form whatever can be legally shipped rie~ into the United States except it be strictly for medical purposes. v