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PI* y V' ^ ?V“V •' vu'^y LEGISLATION IN ALASKA ■E Public Sentiment as to Best _ Form of Government. MACEDONIAN SITUATION TWO PAOTIOIiS IN A MERE! WAR Oik~ Want* Territorial Government; the Other. Headed hy Governor Urady, Oppose* It—He Delleve* the Distriet Should Be More Thickly Settled Before It Become* a Terri tory or Doom Garb of Statehood. A special dispatch from Sitka, Alas- Greek Editor’s Explanation of the Eastern Trouble. BEGINNING OF THE INSURRECTION CRUSADE ON FEUDISTS EX PUGILIST EXHORTER i HE LATEST IN DANCES TROLLEY SLEEPING CAR Salvation Army’s Experience In How Ba .tarn Billy Smith Now Kentucky and Virginia. Fights Satan. Most Popular Ones Selected by Dancing Masters. Unique Build of Vehicle Design ed For Night and Day Use. SPECIAL LINE OF WORK PLANNED NIGHTLY PLEADS WITH CROWDS. MAXIM GLIDE EASILY LEARNED. EASILY TURNED INTO PARLOR OAR Con*tantlne D. PbasBonlarlde* Say* Reliance on RnNaia 1* ReHponnlble For the Revolution and That Mae- i edoniana Are Satiafied With Turk ish Rale—Greek Population and In- tereata Far Exceed BalRurian. “The New York newspapers do not to the New York Tribune says: Room to understand the Macedonian Tiie spectacle of a horde of statehood btomers urging the claims of their ter ritory to sovereign rights in the I'niou is common enough, but Alaska pre sents the anomaly of not being quite sure that she even wants to be a terri tory. Agitation there is and of a vocif erous kind that the territorial form of government should be conferred by congress at once. But there is a strong party, headed by Governor John G. Brady himself, which believes that the district is a mere infant still and shouid be left for a time longer in its present swaddling elotbos. The knee breeches of territorial government and the manly garb of statehood should not situation,” said Constantine D. Phas- soularides, the editor of Thermopylae, the Greek newspaper, recently to a reporter of the New York Commercial Advertiser. “The trouble in Macedonia began about two years ago, when the Bui- j garian revolutionary committee of ■ Sofia was organized. Its object was to expel the Greeks from Macedonia. To carry on the conflict they obtained from wealthy Greeks, by force and blackmail, revolutionary funds. To quote from a pamphlet issued last May 1 by the Society of Hellenism of Athens. ; •From December, PJ01, to the end of PJ02 the Bulgarian committee assas- bo donned, they say, until their huge ginatod ;hout (100 Greek merchants and land is more thickly settled. The committee of the United States senate which has been looking into the legislative needs of Alaska this sum mer lias heard a great deal on this particular subject, and its recommen dation on ibis point will bo received with groat interest. The senators have traveled many thousand miles in the interior and along the coast and have had an exceptional opportunity to learn public sentiment and to examine the facts at first hand. Meanwhile the meiry war between the boomers and the let well enough alone party goes briskly on. The terri- torialisfs had a field day at the trans- mississlppi congress which was recent ly held in Seattle. Poor Governor Bra dy had no one to back him up. while a dozen or more men identified with Alaska wont in hammer and tongs for the change of government. A. P. Swineford, ex-governor of the district, pointed out some of the abuses of having the laws all made in Wash ington. “Why,” he said, “a woman dressmaker lias got to pay a license of $21) a year. I heard of one case where a man who kept a general store sold an official a bottle of arnica liniment. The merchant was thereupon compelled to take out a druggist’s license at $500 a year.” ' John -O. Green, for twenty-eight years a resident of Alaska, made these points: “We feel that we know what laws are best for us and are capable of making them. We don't want io be saddled any longer witli the laws of Oregon, which now govern us. We want to elect our own territorial legis lature instead of being ruled by cast off politicians.” pon Fletcher of Seattle told how a her in the interior was attack-' .1 with malaria and after much trouble man aged to get u bottle of whisky. lie paid $5 for it. Information of this com ing to a government official, be laid complaint, and the camp of miners which had sold the stuff had to take out a liquor license and to forfeit h whole outfit. It was further pointed out that Alas ka now produced $25,000,000 a year in metals, fish, furs, etc., while it con sumed an equal amount of goods from the parent country. If the district were allowed to collect its own revenues of. say, $200,000 a year, half would suffice for expenses and the rest could be used in the internal improvements which • were so much needed. Governor Brady of course believes that Alaska needs more money, but be thinks congress should appropriate it. He pointed out at the Seattle gathering that by the census of 1000 the popula tion was only 03,502, of whom only 30,507 were white. These were scatter ed over 000,000 square miles. Most ot them were In a measure sojourners, as W ould the total number of families was hard- tporo.’ ly more than 500 or GOO. “The only gain,” the governor went on, “would be a delegate in congress. The expense would he much greater, and Alaska is not yet prepared to meet It. Besides, the territorial form of gov ernment is unsatisfactory to many of those who live under it.” It must be said that there is consid erable support for Mr. Brady among business men. One of them, who has been in Sitka many years, said: “Of course we should like a delegate at Washington. He would have no vote, but we should feel that we were a little more u part of the country If there were some one entitled to express our needs and wishes. But this we might have without becoming a ter rltory. The merchants generally want to have things continue as at present. We believe that in a few years Alaska will have grown so in people and wealth that congress will gladly take us into statehood without making us pass through the purgatory of terri torial government. Some would be pol iticians are anxious to get offices, and they want the change. “Just see how difficult it would be to get representative men to go to the leg islature. Some of them would have to ^travel thousands of miles to the capi- r^tal. The substantial citizens are too much occupied to be able to leave their business for so long. Then Alaska has little taxable property. A simply ruin ous tax rate would be necessary to raise the money to run the govern ment. No; we are well satisfied to re main entirely In the hands of con gress. especially ns the committee of ■ehators has studied the situation for 1t*Hf this summer.” other wealthy Greeks of Macedonia, and from oifters by threat and black mail they raised from £50 to £1,000 ($250 to $5,000) each.' •By the latest statistics which the Greek government sent to the powers about the racial population of Mace donia, as reported in the Nea Hemera of Triest, Austria, on Aug. 29, the total population in the vilayet of Mon- astir. which consists of the districts of Koriza, Dibra, Seres and Elbasan. is 859,109, of whom there are 309.782 Greeks, 174.011 Bulgarians, 14,000 Ser vians. 12,000 Roumanians, 344,700 Mussulmans and 4.5)50 Jews. “The vilayet of Salonika, which con sists of the districts of Serra and Dramc. has a population of 1,040.220, of which number there are 348,050 Greeks, 205,8->G Bulgarians, 225,514 Mussulmans and 00,770 of other na tionality s. of which number there are 51,000 Jews. Thus it is seen that al though the Bulgarians lay claim to Macedonia they are decidedly in the minority. “According to the statistics of the Bulgarian exarchate itself, there are 55,033 Greek pupils attending the schools in Macedonia and 19,244 Bul garians. According to the statistics of the Turkish government, fifty-three Greeks jo one Bulgarian pay taxes. “Tiie Greek population is not only the largest, but the most progressive. The British consul in Salonika, writ ing to iiis government, said: ‘Generally 1 the Greek population in Macedonia is higher in numbers and education than the Bulgarians. They also surpass the Bulgarians in business and commerce. The Greeks, however, are quiet and avoid trouble, hoping that they will get benefit by peace, while the Bul garian-: are always ready to commit any crime for their own benefit “Of the Bulgarians fighting in Mace donia today not one has been born in .Macedonia. They all make inroads from over the frontier. The people generally are peacefully inclined and prefi r to remain under the Turkish protection rather than under the crim inal rule of the Bulgarians. “ ‘Of course behind Bulgaria is Rus sia, who wants to grab everything,’ to quote from an article written by Prince Mestsersky in the GrascUdaum of St. Petersburg. ‘If there were not Uus- >»ian consuls In Macedonia there never would have happened these pitiful things. I am very sure that the revo lutionary movement would never have risen so strong in the absence of Bus sian consuls. We must not forget that . Macedonia. Albania and Bulgaria arc using every means to force Russia to go to arms against Turkey. 1 am ask ing our government, when things are In tins condition, what is the use for us to have consuls in Macedonia. If I hud the power in the government 1 recall all our consuls from “When the actual revolution began about a month ago In Krushevo, ac cording to the Acropolis of Athens and other Greek newspapers, 400 Greeks were slain and the city was ruined. According to the same paper, about thirty Greek villages were destroyed in tiie vilayet of Monastir. During the conflict of course some of these vil lages were destroyed by the Turks, who found It necessary to bombard tbem in order to drive out tbe Bul garian revolutionists who were defend iug themselves there. “According to tiie papers published In Philippopolis, none of the Greek merchants there can easily escape the blackmail of the Bulgarians who are practicing the ‘money or your life’ game. “We tind, then, that tbe Bulgarians have no right to Macedonia by either numbers or commercial interest. The real wealth of the country is with the Greeks.” Tin* “Mountain Brigade,’’ Which H-jn Been Dialmnded. Will Be Succeeded by a Xetv Retail, Says a Salvatlon- iat Who liaa Toured tbe Troubled Uiatriet—lloatile Reception Slot In Only One Town. The mountain brigade of the Salva tion Army bus completed its tour of the feud district and recently disband ed in Cincinnati after having been ab sent from that city since Sept. 15, trav eling through the mountains of Ken tucky, Tennessee and Virginia, says a Knoxville (Tenn.) dispatch to the St. Louis Republic. The party reached Knoxville on the afternoon of Sept. 29 and included Colonel R. E. IIolz. Major William O. Hunter, Staff Captain Boyd of Cleve land, Stall Captain Escott of Cincin nati, William Bassett of Cincinnati, Staff Captain Edy White of Pittsburg and Envoy E. A. Zcall of Pittsburg. Two hundred miles were traveled on | horseback from Jackson, Breathitt county, Ky„ to Norton, Va.; 15,000 per sons were addressed, 250 conversions . took place, aud the conditions of the j people of tins section were studied ! from the standpoint of their moral, re ligious and peculiar beliefs as to feuds, so that a remedy can be recommended. On leaving Cincinnati the party took a train for Winchester, Ky., where Services were hold in the street. Jack- sou was reached the same evening. Jackson has no street lumps, and there was no sign of animation. Captain Longmeir of the-provost guard, the town being under martial law. accom panied the party to the courthouse; where the soldiers were camped, and they went into the courthouse and prayed for the success of Hie work and their safety. The spot on which they knelt in prayer was the one where J. II. Marcum fell with his aoari pier:'• ! by an assassin’s bulle'- 'i he next day the brigade went into the streets and held an open air serv ice. ( itizens turned out < n masse, but -’lood off some d -lu;ic<\ until the sol diers asked Diem to gome nearer. Mi.ay joined in the services. After ti.e open air s rvicc the Salvation ists held service in the public hali of the courlliouse, where there were Leu conversions, 'i he town folk treat ed the party with every deference and hospitalny. At • the soivirvs bold in Jm i on not the slightest mention wa made of the recent troubles in the town. The start for Salyersville, Magoffin county, was made on pt. 19, and the trip was a hard one. The party crossed ,‘i - . ■ rnnui^di'i.* jnai reached the town in ' the', The start for Preston* burg, Floyd county-, was made on Sept, jo. and as ii was Sunday the party traveled slowly and stopped at half a dozen mountain towns and held serv ices. In Prestonburg, which was reach ed in the evening, the party was treat ed coldly. The meetings would have b’ on broken tip but for Die interference of the sheriff. The preachers of the town joined in the night service in the Methodist church and entertain'd Die members of the party at night. This caused the citizens to show the men more consideration. . Un the way to Whitesburg, Letcher county, the party got separated, and four of the men under Captain Escott were lost in the mountains for a day. Whitesburg received the men with great hospitality, and a large number of conversions took place. Going to Plkeville, Pike county, the night was spent at Die home of Adam Craft, a wealthy farmer. He gave four of Die men beds in the house aud, not having room for all. let three others go to the barn, which he locked after Diey had retired. They were told by Mr. Craft that be had recently lost a horse and did not want to take a further risk. Wise Court House. Wise county, Va., 1 was reached Sept. 24. and the follow ing day Bruce Branham, who had killed his wife and Dien married an eighteen-year-old girl, was hanged. Colonel IIolz went upon the gallows and addressed the crowd of 4,000 spec- | tutors. When asked for a statement as to the trip Colonel IIolz said: “Wo found the people of high in-1 tellJgonce, though with their education greatly neglected, but of high moral character and ready to fight for the female population and their honor, j They believe it is justifiable to kill in revenge, and this belief has extended to many of the officials. “The only remedy is development of religion from tbe-cradlc, and for this reason we will send an army into the mountains to work permanently. The people are brave and patriotic, and I ; I think these feuds started in the civil war. Prominent families became di vided and carried others with tbem.” Sfr-laa Guard For Servian KIuk. King Peter of Servia does not feel that he Is in security at the kouak (royal palace) and intends to establish a Swiss guard on the model of that ex- | isting In Prance at the time of tbe French revolution, says the Vienna correspondent of tbe New York World. This project is criticised by the In habitants of Belgrade, but as a meas ure of precaution it appears to be justi fied. Unflattering rumors circulate on the conduct of tbe army. The officers of the school of war have had some secret meetings lately, and General Lazarevitcb. the most popular chief of tbe army, Is said to be on tbe eve of making n pronunrininento. Mat* to Prevent Buldnea*. Tiie chamber of commerce of Toledo, O., is interested in promoting a com pany for the manufacture of hats aud i caps so ventilated that they will pre vent baldness, says the Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Luther Stlrewalt, a Toledo man. Is the inventor, and for years he lias made a study of the cause of bald ness, which he claims is unventilated hats. The hats are so constructed that the wind can whistle through freely or by means of a roller slide those who fear colds can close the ventilator at will. The chamber and the inventor have taken up the scheme In good faith and are organizing a company to manufacture the hats. WeuriiiK the Salvation Army Ini- ! form. Former Clinniplon Fishier Work* For ReMeion m* He Fought In the RiiiK—Incident That l.ed to Hia Conversion. “God called me, and 1 stood up. God bid me work among you, aud 1 am here.” Night after night Billy Smith, the undisputed bantam champion of seven states, the participant in 108 credita ble ring battles and one time the very best in his class, stauds ou a stool in the center of a motley crowd at Forti eth street and Lancaster avenue, in Philadelphia, and thus explains his presence in tiie ranks of tiie Salvation Army. He works for religion as he fought in tiie ring, says the New York World. With his frowsy hair waving in the breeze, his fists clinched, his head low ered aud his lithe body swaying to and fro. Smith, in the language of the streets, urges his hearers lo repent and be saved. Before Brother Smith begins his "tes timony” lie looks the erov.d over “just like 1 used lo size up a pen Ullage house.” as he puts it. and then in a clear, penetrating voice he tells Ids story. “You all know me.” lie begins. "I need not tell you that 1 gambled, that I lied, that I cursed, that 1 fought, that l hud a good time. You all know that 1 went ail the way down the line. You all saw me play every game and oaeh one to Di' limit. \ou all saw me on the highroad to hell, and some ot you were jealous of me Yi*u envied me the good time, the good eiotlies. the diamonds, the cheers of those who paid to see me light. Not one of you had sense enough to be sorry lor me I was pushing the paee that kills. "Every vice had its hold on me but ruin. I was f ttiiig to tli<- place where I no longer r. spooled my family, cared for my friends or thought of myself. 1 was bilk'd for eternal torture. Then God spoke, it was right here ou this corner. The army was here. I heard the testimony of a dozen saved souls, and each one seemed to tell the story of my file. My wife said. ‘Biily, they mean us.’ it was the word of God. We follow I'd tin- ar.ey over there to the hail, and i:. -n •• <i rail «i' m'. ami ! stood up. God bid me work among you. and 1 am here. "Your soul is worth saving. We are here to help you save it. None of you is so far gone that you can’t be saved, i know that it lakes a brave man to shake his bummer friends, and come out strong for Jesus, but it pays, i know all about the sneers aud the smiles that you will have to bear, but they are only for today, and salvation is forever. No coward can be a Chris tian. “A coward can’t be anything that Is manly. I’d sooner wear this uniform and stand on the street in the snow begging pennies for the poor than live in a palace with a guilty conscience. You people are afraid to come out for Christ. You think it is smart to sin. it’s cowardly. Some day you will wake up. it may he a day too late. Come to Jesus now.” A Salvation Army hymn sung to the air of the everlasting “Hiawatha” cut short his harangue, and the clear so prano voice of Mrs. Billy Smith, some time star of the Fairy Female Min strels. sounds high above all the* other voices, and Billy pushes around in the crowd with a tambourine begging pon- nies for the Salvation Army Rescue home, which is the institution he re gards with especial favor. “1 simply had to take up the army work.” Billy said the other night. "It was God's will, not mine. My wife ran away from her home in Illinois twice to go on the stage. General Joe Wheeler is her uncle. Her people are all right. They would not stand for any female minstrel business. Her brothers, who kept the Leland hotel at Shellyville, HI., got a crowd togeth er and went to Jana, where the Fairy Female Minstrels were to show, and surrounded the hall, aud It was a toss up whether they would shoot tbe show men or only lynch them. “My wife (wo were not married then, you know) went home with her brothers and, bless you. ran away again. 1 met her In Chicago the day after I fought McGovern, and the next time 1 went to Chicago we were mar ried. She was converted first and had much to do with my salvation. “We Just turned our diamonds and such things into cash, established this home, and while I give 10 per cent of all I earn to the work my wife sells the War Cry and helps at the barracks. We are both trying to learn to play in struments. so that we can get Into the band. We have come into the army to stay.” “Are you as happy now as you were when boxing?” “I never knew wbat It meant to be happy before.” •t'nlfiue Fanernl Ceremony. George Heudel, aged eigbty-tbree years, of Royal Center, near Wabash. Ind.. has made arrangements for his cremation in order to prevent his being buried alive, says the Chicago Tribune. He has a coffin of hardwood lined with iron and has directed that his body be placed in this and set upon a pyre of dry wood soakef In kerosene and burned until the body Is reduced to •ishes. It la lo Ri» the Fnahionable Dance Tlila Winter—The Manhattan, n New l*»Ika, anil the Trovnta. Are Two of the Beat Snhmltted—Many Other Good Ones ( nnsidered. The Maxim glide is to be the fash ionable dance this winter, says a New York special to tiie IMiiladelphiu Pub lic Ledger. It is the creation of Oskar Duenweg of Terre Haute, Ind. The new dance has to recommend it sim plicity of movement. It was presented to Die American Society <>f Professors of Dancing and was given Die sanction of that laxly. The Maxim glide is so easy, indeed, that upon seeing it exe cuted once the ordinary observer with little knowledge of Die graceful art can duplicate it successfully. Tiie dance, as illustrated by its author, Professor Duenweg, begins with a military schottiseh position—that is, the man and the girl facing tin* same direction, the man's arm just touching the girl's waist, while her left hand res.s on his shoulder. Her free hand grasps her train, while Die man’s disengag' d loft rests on ids hit). In the first part of the dance count four to each liar of music; in the second part, only two. The man witli left foot balances for ward and back, starting in tiflh posi tion. while the lady counterparts with right. They take three walking step forward, then repeal the first step, th • man witli the right, tiie lady witli the left foot. In the second pan, counting two In each bar of music, they dame the tw.i step to schottiseh time. Prol'e.-sor Do.env.eg, after illustratir.g his d.UR'O, said that fie based ids hop' • of success for the Mavini glide on its extreme simplicity. “People, society people especially, lie said, “won'I take tlx.* trouble learn now dances they are at all dil- ficult. This they can get up and dan after seeing it gone t'nrouv.n otic . II; Ilend of a lioaton Railway Syndicate Believe* That Two Year* Will See Service Between the Hub and New York—The Ran Will Be Made In Ahont Ten Hour*. A through electric service between New York and Boston, in parlor, din ing and sleeping cars, will be in opera tion within two years. This is the con fident prediction of James F. Shaw, president of the Boston and Worcester Electric railway, says the New York Herald. Tracks ou land owned by a railway corporation are now being built from Worcester to Hartford, a distance of sixty miles. From Hartford this line will be continued to New Haven, forty miles farther. From City Hall square, in New York, a four track line is to run to Port Chester. The line between Poit Chester and New Haven will com plete tiie system that will give Boston through service to Gotham. With the completion of this line it Is stated that residents of New York and Boston will be able to take the trip between the two cities in only twice the running time of the present steam railroads at half the expense and in modern sleeping and parlor cars. Finishing touches have already been put by a Boston syndicate on the first two trolley sleepers ever built, which are to make their first trips during tbe present month between Indianapolis, Ind . and Columbus, O. Twenty-four more of these cars are in process of c<>ti-D , m tion Over Du* D r.ton and New York line wtifi run n ..niticeut cars not unlike (1 ' -c Don are to be put in operation in ii*" v The ears are being built by a enr cmnpmi.v in Indiana which will ov i and operate those just as the Pullman company owns and operates Its unrs over the steam roads. T.. si ..tilom of the sleeping cars will ■ •on;.:1m tunny beitlis. The* compart- men s tor eveh pair of berths are made by droptnig mahogany shutters similar dance is roallv just a walk and a two to tC -u used in roll lop desks. The: not wait: trouble, they t v- meos n say that soxiety doe- are drawn, ou r of the sides and floor liH) t'i\ if won't lalo * Do' and dovet '! into e aeli other when up. :l V\ 'iiz incsie is p! ay od making a poiTi •ot ly rigid and firm wall am 1 wl ten a twosb ■;> is with a doorwi 1 v. Tbe upper berth is mu ic tl joy roni:>. This let down from the ceiling on the same /oni ; <m aud soicetio u of principle as is used in the Pullman. o <• IIS V matters, lot • we Comfortable upholstered chairs, used \v< ■a', know :lint peopn chosen by in difficult to learn." The Manhattan, the new p«di;a by Professor George Prutting. .Ir.. of Hart ford, begins witli tin* couple in a prom enade posiUon. Polka one step for ward witli Jefi foot, then one forward witli right foot, make a-conmiu!'* turn and polka: then (lance the glide polka, ending wit h three ha if turns and re peat first movement. The trovnta. tin* third dance, utib- mittod by T. A. Holland of Springfield, Mass., is danced to polka-maznurka time. Taking a promenade position, the couple varsovionne—three steps aud point—forward. Gentleman then var oviennes back of ids partner to the right and then repeats movement to left. The couple then varsovionne forward together, take a waltz posi tion tind complete Die dance with a plain mazourka. Besides these three, the convention has considered the Columbian three- stop. by Frederick \Y. L’Amouroux of Binghamton. X. Y.: the wayside gav- ot. by Helen C. Way of Hartford; the gavot waltz, by D. B. Brennoke of Indianapolis; follow on. a charm ing dance for children, by Adolph Newberger of New York, and new Ger man figures by George Prutting, Jr.; Walter Curtes of Utica, Henry Kra mer of Los Angeles and William Pitt Rivers of Brooklyn. HAWAII’S TRADE IN FROGS. Imported to Ent Inacota, 'Miry Are Now Exported Tor Money. Hawaii lias commenced exporting frogs to the mainland, says the Hono lulu correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. The industry, which was start ed at first to rid the islands of pests, has now become a paying one. Frogs wore introduced Into Hawaii only a f(Av years ago by the agricultu ral department to get rid of insect pests which were injurious to vegetation. Later a Hilo man imported six dozen for breeding purposes. From the latter stock the frogs now exported lave come. Shipments of 1.000 frogs a month sire now being made to San Francisco and will be increased, for tbe supply does not now equal the demand. Many of tue frogs are also sent to Honolulu for hotel use. They sell for $1 a dozen In Hilo. in tlx* day parlor car. • , e-nibined tu make the lower be- "wo of these chairs are put lo l .ce. By pre>\sing a spring the arms spread out. the chairs then becoming one box spring mattress bed. four feet wide and seven feet long. Every modern conveniene-' is to be provided for the passen.. >r-. even electric hair curlers for women and electric cigar lighters for men. Each compartment will be ventilated eparately. and windows will be raised and lowered by pressing a button. When the night’s ride is over the framework of the compartments will be rolled into the walls and into tlx* floor, the beds will be folded into chairs, and the ear will be transformed into a vestibulcd coach within half an hour. The combination sleeping and dining cars will have a ten foot apartment added between the berths and the rear dressing room. Temporary tables will be placed between chairs. It is claim ed for the sleepers that the sleeping conveniences will be superior to those used in tb<* ordinary Pullman. The cost of riding will be far less than the rates charged in the others. During a night’s run from Boston to New York it will be possible to obtain an entire compartment for $2. Single berths will cost $2. but two travelers occu pying the same compartment can get it for $1. Owing to the fact that there will be no cinders and dust will be ojbviated. the car windows of the sleeper may be left open ail night. Over the Boston and New York electric line the cars will be run at about half the speed at tained by the steam roads. Each car will be fifty to sixty-five feet long and will cost $21,000. It will be about two-thirds as heavy as the regulation Pullman sleeper. The power under those sleepers will be four mo tors. one to each axle, generating GOO horse power and capable of an ordi nary rate of sixty miles an hour. This new development of the trolley is only a natural step in the wonderful progress of electric transportation, and. in fact, lias been foreshadowed by ex periments in botli this country aud abroad. Few persons realize that it is only sixteen years since the first “broomstick” car was given a trial. A War Memorial at Plevna. It is announced, according to the Odessa correspondent of the London Standard, that the house at Plevna in which the czar-liberator temporarily resided has been purchased by the gov ernment of the principality and will be converted into a memorial war mu seum. bearing the name of Alexander II. The Bulgarian government has also bought the house at Sistovo In which General Count D. A. Miliutin, the Rus sian war minister, resided during the struggle for the liberation of the Bal kan Slavs. The grounds around both houses are to be laid out in handcome parks and ornamented each with 1D0 guns captured from the Turks at Plev na, the Shlpka pass and Rustcbuk. Thirty-five Russian generals, headed by Count Miliutin. will next year be pres ent at the opening of the memorial museum at Plevna and Sistovo. An Kdutrutor’s Exploring Trip. President Harper of the University of Chicago has succeeded In securing from the sultan the right to explore the ruins of ancient Babylon. The uni versity has now obtained permission to excavate in Tel Ibrahim. Application was made to tbe sultan for permission to explore the mins of Babylon and Its neighIwrhood in 1900, and after long delays it was granted. But further de lays occurred, and the Irade was not issued. Then It was discovered that the Germans had received permission to explore the same territory. It Is be lieved that the mins of the temple in which Nebuchadnezzar offered sacri fices in 580 B. C. and also an extensive library of clay tablets will be uncov ered. She Was Wlae. Miss Romantz—Yes, we are engaged to be married. Ah. he is my ideal! Mrs. Oldon—Oh, he’ll outgrow that.— Toronto Moon.