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NOW WHITE TERROR! -v, Russia Must fight Peasantry as Well as Anarchists. <.r\ .. , * PROLETARIAT IS AROUSED Hr Empire's Poor Ready to Join Fortunes wm With the "Reds" in Attempt to J Throw Off Oppression's I ' j Yoke. t Latest advices from St Petersburg [ state that a shudder of horror has U convulsed Russia. The government | claims it has given battle only to the | "red" revolutionists, but the populace I - generally believes that "white terror" I has returned. Already the leaders of the prole* tariat. organization, who escaped capture Saturday night at the Economic $ Society, and even men of the iank of Professor ^Iilukoff, are in hiding from the police, who are hunting them down. The government evidently anticipates a battle royal and has made its dispositions' accordingly. It fully . understands that the proletariat will give blow for blow in answer to the ' wholesale arrests. 1 ^ The workmen's council and the i League of Leagues Saturday night 'issued a declaration of a general Ca - strike to begin immediately. As most of the provincial authori- 1 !. ties are reactionary officials of the *3; old regime, the advantage they will J take of such power to terrorize the i'.-: populace can be easily imagined, 1 pr. they being in position to become Tt* petty tyrants, and wage war each 1 in his own'particular fashion against 1 the revolutionists. Sfe&f ' Martial Law Ukase Issued. An jmrwria] nkase issued hv the czar Sunday empowers ail governors I v v and municipal authorities* in the event of railway, postal cr telegraph communication being interfered with to (Sv * proclaim martial law. Under the i ! ukase, military commanders will au- ! tomatically become governors general' Martial law may be ended only by order of the ministers of the interior at . St Petersburg. The provisions al: " ready made to enforce compliance with the communication remain in 1?^' force. The government has issued a communication stating that it considers the demands and complaints of the . railway employees to a largf extent ?? justified, and the minister of ways and ; communications is therefore drafting measures for the amelioration for these condition of the service. " A report that Count Wlitte has re* . signed is in circulation in St Petersburg, bpt it is false. It may, however, become true at any moment, as s "General Count Alexis Ignateig, is oev ing held ?n reserve. A close friend of the premier tells ' *'_* - the Associated Press that Count Wltte , had so faith in the policy oi Minister of the Interior Durnovo and only x consented to it on the condition that 1 it should be confined to legal means. It is the opinion of many liberals . as weil as revolutionaries, that "with t the first discharge of cannon. Count , Witte will go." They say it matters Httle whether the premier is or is not in sympathy with the policy of $ reacts he cannot shirk responsibil- ( ity for it A prominent personage said to the Associated Press: "The step taken towards reaction , marks the beginning of the end and \ the policy which has been inaugurated ( is bound to fail. The government'3 task will not merely be the arrest of ^ a small group of leaders, but that of the whole population. The powers conferred on the proTincial authorities by the imperial ukase is tantamount ^ $ to a declaration of martial law , throughout the country and the irre- , Sponsihilities of repression which the ^ officers of the old regime may commit ( when let' loose can only serve to fan ^ the fames." . HOWARD IS MADE REGENT. I ff.'Vy.. . I' "% 4 ??? Two Georgians Now on Board of the I Smithsonian Institute. ^ Hon. William M. Howard, represen tative from the eighth Georgia district, has been honored by Speaker , Cannonx with appointment as one of i the regents of the Smithsonian Institute. The board of regents of this great institution has upon it three senators and three members of the house. But two of them are democrats?Sena tor Bacon and Representative How % ard. FOR PHILIPPINE ROADS ?-? Bids Are Opened at Insular Bureau of War Department. Bids were opened at the insular buieau of tho war department Friday for concessionary grants by the , cessionary grants to be made by the L- N Philippine government for the con 1 struction, maintenance and opera tior of railroads in the Philippine Island* as provided by act of congress. {? . SUv* Sg? , HARRIMAN AS A JOKER. | . I Railroad Magnate Enlivens Proceed- j ings of Insurance Investigators ki J Reply to Ryan's Testimony. Before the legislative insurance investigating committee at New York, another chapter was added Friday to the chronicles of what Thomas F. Ryan called "strenuous" interviews ViotTL'i^.on htmspilf nnri R TT Karri man. j Mr. Ryan gave his version of the j conversations to the committee a few ! days ago, when he said that Mr. Harriman at the time of the acquisition of the James H. Hyde stock in the Equitable Life Assurance Society, demanded an equal share, and threatened to use his political influence against him if he did not surrender it. Friday Mr. Karriman recited to tne committee his version, and added some interesting statements affecting , his relations with former Governor B. B. Odell, Jr., chairman of the New York state republican committee, and also as to a request to watch legislation affecting the Equitable Society which he had made on Governor Francis W. Hi?gins and the late 3. Fred Nixon, speaker of the New York state assembly. In substance Mr. Hnrriman testified that when Mr. Ryan bought the Hyde stock carrying control of the i Kjidtable Society he asked Mr. Har- | riman to cooperate with him in savins the property; that Mr. Harriman agreed to do it if satisfied that Mr. Ryan was acting from pure and unselfish motives; that Mr. Ryan did not satisfy him as to the purity of liis motives, and that Mr. Harriman notified him that he would use his Infinonce against him. The test, which Mr. Harriman said he applied to determine Mr. Ryan's purity of motives, was an offer to take one-half of the Hyde stock and to name t.v-o trustees of the society. Mr. Ryan refused to agree to that. Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the committee, informed Mr. Harriman that it had bean charged that he got his political influence through his relations with former Governor R. B. Odell, Jr. Mr. Harriman said: "Well, I should think Mr. Odell had political influence because of his relations with me." Laughter followed the remark, inter Mr. Harriman said to the Associated Press that the remark was meant in a jocular sense. HOTEL MAN DEALS DEATH. * - i Tragedy Follows Alleged Attempt to Enter Woman's Room. Milan Bennett, musical director of the ".Notnmg sut i*uiie,y . was shot and killed in Gaffney, S. C., Friday morning, by George Hasty, one of the proprietors of the Piedmont Inn, where the shooting oo cmrred. Abbott Davison, leading man and partner of the same company, wa3 also shot and is perhaps seriously wounded. The shooting is said to have been the result of Hsasty's attempting to enter the room of one of the women of the company. When Bennett remonstrated he was shot and Davison coming up was also shot Davison was shot in the abdomen and Bennett through the heart An inquest was held and the testimony of Verne Sheridan and May Bishop, was to the effect that George Hasty, after repeatedly Insulting the jroung woman, going so far as to endeavor to break into Miss Sheridan's room Thursday night, was ubraided for his conduct by Davison Friday morning and responded by shooting Davison in the abdomen and sending a bullet through Bennett's heart George Hasty Is under arrest and has made no statement. Many Indictments for Rebating. Fourteen indictments were returned by the federal grand jury at ivansas City Friday against common carriers, railway officials, shippers and freight agents, charging the giving >f rebates and conspiracy to gain rebates. MOW UP TO NAVY DEPARTMENT. Courtmartia! In Meriwether Case End ed at Annapolis. The courtmartial in the case of Mid shipman Miner Meriwether, Jr.. ai Annapolis, Md., who was tried on the 1 charge of mansluaghter, for causing the death of Midshipman James R. 1 Branch, Jr.. in n fist fight... of ed its work late Friday afternoon and 1 adjourned. No Information was given out a* to the findings of the court. i The proceedings and record in thfc case will he forwarded to the navy department f~r review, and the verdlcl will be announced f' HYDE TO LEAVE AMERICA. Ex-President of Equitable Will Make His Home in Paris. With ?&1 busines sties severed and assured that there will be no further call for him by the insurance investigation committee, James H. Hyde will sail from New York for France on the 1'curaine on December 28, to make his home in Paris. " f. A BITTER COLLOQUY Occurs in the House Between Williams and Lamar. DIRTY LINEN IS WASHED ? it- ? !*.. I A ymA Democratic rvi inui i?./ umu^i nwvnku for Barring Lamar and Shackelford from Committee Places. A Washington special says: The "washing of democratic linen for tne amusement of republicans," as Mr. ! Williams, the minority leader, put it a few days ago, occupied the attention of the house for more than four hour3 Wednesday. The result accomplished was a den thrown at the minority leader by .Representative Lamar of Florida and another by Representative Shackleford of Missouri. The complaint of both resulted from the failure of Mr. Williams to recommend their rea pointmexrt as members of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Both made long speeches in which Mr. Williams' leadership was assailed from many points. Mr. Williams replied to Mr. Lamar at some length and briefly to Mr. Shackleford. His defense was that last session the democrats on this committee were di vided and lie demed it necessary lor the good of the party and the country that a united minority report should be made on the subject of railroad rate legislation. Speaking of the leadership of MrWilliams, Mr. Lamar said ne would recognize h:in as tne party leader, but not personally "until he relieves mo of an unjust charge on his part." Mr. Lamar concluded with the statement that he considered his removal from the commerce committee an act absolutely untenable and an as-^ persion upon his private * character. He secured the reading of correspondence on the matter between himself and Mi*. Williams. Mr. Lamar said it had gone to the country through the press that the minority leader would not tolerate followers of Mr. Hearst. He admitted he felt friendly toward Mt. Hearst and regarded his bill a gbod one. He then charged Mr. Williams with contributing more in one minute to democratic inharmony than he (Lamar) had in a year. He admitted that on Monday he was in the heat of anger and glad that he had been stopped. However, his personal friendship for Mr. Williams had ceased. Mr. Williams was at once recognized to reply. "I am," he said, "'about to perform a very unpleasant duty and one the wisdom of which I have serious doubt. The gentleman takes himself too seriously. He thinks he can make a national issue out ot a committee assignment, but he cant do it. He thinks he was removed, but he was not There was no committee." Mr. Waillams asked if he would not have been lacking in moral courage ana in every essential of a floor leader if he had made up a minority membership of the commerce committee which would have been divided four to two on the question of railroad rates. Long applause followed the statement of Mr. Williams that he should ignore the personalities of Mr. Lamar. Applause again followed Mr. Williams when he said he had not allowed personalities to influence his transaction of public business. And what he hau done, he said, had been approved by "almost the unanimous opinion of the members of the minority side of tne house." (Applause.) v He referred to the committee appointments of Mr. Hearst; labor and irrigation of arid lands, and admitted that he did not love Mr. Hearst "Why should I love a millionaire who owns many newspapers which he seems to be devoting to tearing# me dp wo?" he said. MANY WORK FOR UNCLE SAM. Cfhciai Register Shows 25,461 Employes in Washington. The ofGcial register of the United States, "The Blue Book," which is about to be issued, gives a recapitulation of the employes in the different departments, the government prin ting offices and the departments or the District of Columbia, showing a total of 25,451 persons in the service . in the city of Washington receiving an aggregate compensation of $27,14!; 7nu MITCHELL'S SEAT TO DEMOCRAT. Governor of Oregon Fills Unexpired Term in United States Senate. Governor Chamberlain of Oregon, Wednesday, announced the appointment of John M. Gearin of Portland, to succeed the late John H. Mitchell, as United States senator from Oregon. Gearin Is a democrat, but had the indorsement of not only the democratic party in the state, but also that of some of the staunchest republicans. ' . . *" V " r >; HAZING TO BE STOPPED. Recsr.t Disclosures at Naval Academy Arouses Officials and Rigid Inquiry is Gotten Undor Way. .Hazing of every kind, it was announctu in W'asuingtou muroday,wuJ ue stamped out or tne navai acauemy, regai dle^a of tao nu^cer Of dismissals from tne brigaue ot midshipmen necessary to auut this result. Two midshipmen will be dismissed from the acauemy within a ie\y days by the secretary of the navy, tne one for hazing and tne other tor countenancing it by failure wn.le on duty to report its occurrence. Other dismissals will follow as oiten as midshipmen are found guilty of hazing, or countenancing' it Aroused by the condition of affairs, which reports show to exist at the academy, so far as the treatment of fourth classmen are concerned, Secretaiy Bonaparte late Thursday afternoon telephoned to Rear Admiral J as. H. sanas, superintendent 01 tne academy, a request to come to Washington as soon as possible for a conference. It will be the initial step in a new and vigorous campaign to be waged at Annapolis against hazing. Congressional investigation of the conditions at the academy has already been proposed in a resolution introduced in the house Thursday afternoon by Representative Loud of Michigan. Briefly, these are the developments in the movement.against hazing at ihe naval academy. When Secretary Bonaparte reached navy department Thursday he received an official report from Admiral Sands, announcing the svspension of Midshipman Trenmor Coffin, Jr., third classman, for hazing Midshipman Jerdone P. Kimbrough, fourth classman, by forcing him to stand on his head until he became unconscious, and of Midshipman Warren A. Vandever, second classman, because while on duty he observed the occurrence and failed to report it The superintendent called attention to the fact that Midshipman Coffin and "Vandever were guiity of violating a well known rule of the academy, and recommended their summary dismissal, in accordance with an act of congress approved Marcn s, isua. THIS BfLL AIMED AT SOUTH. Measure Introduced in House to Cut v Down Representation. ' In the house Thursday Representative Bennett of New York introduced a bill to cut down the representation of southern states in congress because of the disfranchisement ofttso negro Vote. The bill reduces the entire number of representatives. from 38 to 351. ;< The several states would have their delegatipns reduced as fellows: Alabama from nine to five; Arkansas from seven to five; Florida from three to two; Georgia from eleven to six; Louisiana from seven to four; Mississippi from eight to three; North Carolina from seven to three;. Tennessee from ten to eight; Texas from ten to eight; Virginia from ten to seven. ROOSEVELT FOR WHIPPING POST Heartily In Favor of Congress Passing Such a Measure. A whipping post for the District of Columbia will be established *1 congress should enact a measure which Representative Adams of Pennsylvania has introduced. Mr. Adams talked to the president about the bill ?.nd at the conclusion of his interview quoted the president as being heartily In favor of the measure. HOCH ROASTS STANDARD OIL. Kansas Governor Says State is Robbed of $60,000 Every Day. Governor Koch, speaking at Ottawa, Kas., Tuesday night at a mefeting of republicans, said: "At this time the Kansas oil held is yielding 60,000 barrels a day, and for this oil the Standard Oil company, which sets the price, is paying less than cne-third what it paid a year ago. I believe it 'could pay $1 per barrel for this oil more than it is paying, and still make a large profit. In other words, it is robbing this people of $60,000 a day, or $20,000,000 a year.* , ? 7 "We sit supinely down while we are being robbed of enough money every 6ay by -this corporation to build a hundred homes for the homeless, or to rear a great educational institution or pay all the expenses of the state tor 6ve years." EACH CITIZEN ASKED TO AID. Every Mar in Atlanta Expected to j Donate Cash for Exposition. A subscription of one week's income each year for four years from every man in Atlanta and from every statiou of life, is tbe plan adopted by the committee of twenty five for rhe securing of $500,000 in cash lor th# 1010 exposition. This is the plan reported by the sub-committee of fire and adopted. THE TOOTH OF BUDDHA. A Relic Sacred to All Who Follow the Religion He Founded. CERTAIN tooth is to the ? -rr-Jfc Buddhists what the Holy ? Z\ O Sepulchre at Jerusalem is % to the Christians, and what the birthplace at Mecca of the greatest of Arabian prophets is to the Mahometans. This tooth is believed by the pilgrims to its shrine to have come from the sacred mouth of Gautama Buddha, the found - A CPK/\ cllovan Kn ka tjr Ol. lllfil lUllii. aul- ou.i i iu, krui^footed priests who watch over the relic, say that it was taken from tlie ashes of his funeral p;-ro five centuries before Christ was born. As a matter of fact, this profoundly venerated object looks suspiciously like the tooth of a wild boar or a monkey. The "holy tooth" is enshriied in Kandy, a mountain town on tie island of Ceylon, and thither it Iraws pilgrims from about one-third tie entire population of the world. Vherever Ihiddhism has spread, the nine of this bit of bone has gone, so th t it is regarded as sacred by more tan four hundred and fifty million liuaau beings. In the streets of Kandy me may meet votaries from a hundred afferent countries and provinces, frin nearby Siam and faraway Sibem. from Nepal, Tibet, China, Korea ad Japan. Indeed, many an aged native +/\ KA fiorr? -fhnrn I vi ^ippuii is IU utf sr;ii?iulil, m. 1u, gone to pray that his son will not b slain by the Russians. A few pilgrim gHpBfiy Ji ill THE ALLEGED TO Sacred relic enshrined at Kandy, Ceyl of de journey to Kandy even from Lapland, and all come to worship an .enshrined tocrth. i Although even the most intelligent priests of Buddhism assert solemnly that the tooth they guard was once a part of the body of the founder of their religion, in their heart they must know that if Buddha ever carried this tooth in his head ;and the rest of his teeth were of proportionate size his mouth must have been as large and ferocious as that of a gorilla. On the other hand, if this tooth was an excep| tion to the rest it must have protruded from his lips like the tusk of a wild boar. According to the priests the sacred relic is an eye tooth from the left side of Buddha's mouth. The eye teeth of an adult man are about three quarters of ail inch long. The "holy tooth" is more than two inches long. The early records of Buddhism tell of a tooth of a great teacher which figured in the state ceremonies of many Eastern potentates. For a time it remained in India, the native country of the prophet, and traveled in state from one court to another. It was the marriage dower of many princesses ' of the royal blood, and its possession was believed to insure happiness both in this and after existences. As a matter of fact it was the cause of endless dissensions and not a few murders. With the wane of Buddhism In India?for India turned .away from its greatest native teircher, even as Palestine did from Christ?the "holy tooth" was removed to the adjoining island of Ceylon, that there it might abide in a secure shrine. But it found no rest. It was captured by one conqueror, to be wrested away from him i Home-Mxdn Coats of Tan. "It is a new idea," said the perfumer. "I began it by way of a joke. It is selling like hot cakes." He rubbed a little of the odd cream on the back of his hand and his white, soft hand became brown as a sailor's. "We have become such an out-ofdoor people," he said, "that a fine gold-brown sunburn is more highly prized by us than the most delicate rose and lily bloom. With this idea in mind, I experimented -till I found a -&. > r,. -w1 i'. r&.-KW! by another. At one time the Malabar* had it, at another the Portuguese, and in the sixteenth century, according to the most authentic records, it was publicly destroyed. In the presence of the Viceroy of India and his suite it was burned in 1560 by the Catholic Archbishop of Goa, who thus hoped tt> end forever "a most abominable idolatry,'" as he called it. Although the "holy tooth" was thus reduced to ashes and thrown to the / winds, it did not cease to exist in the minds of the faithful. Six years later the tooth was wanted toeonclude an international marriage, and in order that the ceremony should be conducted with all due solemnity the tooth was produced In some way. A short time af?. terward this piece of bone was taken to Ivandy, a town in the centre of Ceylon, situated on the top of a hill, and a magnificent temple, called the Dalada Malagawa, was built over It It is not exhibited save on rare occasions, when a few high peonages are permitted in secret to see it. When the Duke and Duchess of York visited Kandy they were allowed to gaze for /M a moment on the ^holy tooth." A X replica of the relic and its setting are I on exhibition at the Museum of Colombo, the capital of Ceylon.?New York ''+* Tribune. Ated Iuhabltant*.' , Hubbardtown, Mass., with a population of a little over 1200, has twenty* five people that are eighty/years old 01 .'rlM over. The average age of these peopli ts Aiirhtv-fivA VA?rs. OTH OF BUDDL on; an object of Oration to millions FKEH5H WVby TRAIHIN6. Cavalry Gaining the French army . is a very thorcfo business, the. ^ -ffijS school -work being a most practical a^/vk Tbn Pq - OaVi/w\1 A n_ ' -i - ciiaittvici. owuwi v/k *xir ' -T'tiyiM plication at Saumur^ plenty of The horses used ? generally of aVi^oSg C AVAL BY HO BSE TBAHTBlT J BEAB. high class, and some of \ them are :M trained to rear or to buck ii order tlialf the students may acquire >racticc in the roughest kind of ridir.fi ihe accompanying illustration, ^produced from Harper's Weekly, givessomo idea . ta of the daily routine in this sdool. harmless cream that would give the effect perfectly of a gold-brcsvn sunburn and would disappear gadually in a week or two."?New Yoit Press. ? A New Underground. The Strand Theatre, Londai, has been bought by the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railroad Company, which intends- to use the lite as a "tube" station. In London tie underground railroads have to buy their station and entrance and exit aites. ' * ' ' *lf