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HRn's Heart? BBS By Nixola Greeley-Smi can look into the heart t I^BHBHF before Christ and had th m W%MF This utterance was m VI lflr eritig of 200 New Euglan WW of ancient Chinese liter; II but it might have been i I $????? ing that we find the sa Iftftff we find. For the trouble with hard to look into that h U ilres them knows how to label as varied and as difficult of analyst Me boarding-house hash. Though women have been trying t d lovers ever since the lurking moir Bfes. they have actually found out ver Hazed wonder are apt to conclude th, Fman than the real man knows about 1 least There are some women, of course, 1 open book to them, without realizing tb they have mastered only the primer. From the primer they may have 1 handed down from grandmother to gra tud^ concerning his love of the unatti his inconstancy and his epicurianism i comforts of life. But from actual c woman has not realized that her husba she does not understand, a hundred mo ing which she can only display the little cnouth shut? If any woman has ever really seen heart, she has not given her anxious s And meantime, like her prototypes of 1 York Evening World. J The Newly N Woman*! f-y the Editor of Scrlbi r-' m m HE basis of a newly-n She feels that the ref W T good the manly qualt I and because of which m I Occasionally during tt I f I Constance laughed to m M to solve the riddle oi searching of the mysb in her becoming an < brush, and the wife of one who, to all young man. But her laugh savored of \ because she had faith that his energy, pathetic hatred of shams would distin herd of men and vindicate her infatuat sides, because he loved her?a delightf closed herself In the web of happiness ? * v .1 ,1, rauuut uer, auu wut up ui-r uuujc*ii*. ui Nevertheless, no woman emerges 1 same estimate of her lover as before. ] and moral characteristics in their undr< to their snblimity. We may oe no less & N grown familiar to us, and analogously i qualities merely because they have lo: itrary, she is apt to continue to adore th free to scrutinize them closely and?un< the test of her own silent Judgment. S aides and Idiosyncrasies the existence c Uy she finds to her surprise that his ai has shifted perceptibly since marriage, ardent, as the case may be, he has be< his attitude. Hence, she divines that1 pinions and tendencies have been kep: A Poetry For Gi By Dr. Henry Van4)yk r is a great mistake, in j| I especially good poetry ? m ,^1 tion and scholastic or I Ql dise Lost'' is to lose I teacher, or parent, wi MP W "The May Queen" to H 2 should be most severe memory several reporl yf-. * tend the sessions of aix successive years. One reason why so manj; young poetry is because at the beginning the; should be treated always as "a dear a K man," welcomed for the pleasure that . and Joy that it throws on the world in ments of the human heart. I do not say that everybody is capn kinds of poetry. There are mental liini I certain fibre can never be woven into L uses, and will hold good money. I d< normal human being is capable of lea: antiy, to enjoy some kind of good poeti | When a girl tells me, "But, you kn< ; to answer: "Poor thing! Who cripple It is not well to stay too long in th books of poetry. The'freedom of a re* f .cation. And if it be objected that the ras things good, the answer is that in 1 world. I still would send my girl into il tion and had learned self-reverence, si poetry in which she found the most pie In "Comus" were sure of their sister, t cence.?Harper's Bazar. ? .. |r * The American By T. P. O'Connor ^ HE American woman lovely, but rarely clas 1 perhaps, does she pos: ? , " I I for pose. With her th< |"<* III under certain conditio! I |f I points physically and I a JL re^e'? An American worn; | thing can be in this a adapting herself to her environment tt I accident of birth as the one which giv maker for her father is no drawback to E One secret of the American womni always original and gay and merry, g l net good-tempered. All American won the faculty of interesting their listeners P to the milliner's or "Momma's" love < I American may be capricious, Inconslde I tk>n to her children all the nobler qualit I" she forgets egotism and is ready for sel ft ahe becomes more and more disciplined I claestioningly obedient. In this phase t B (curious spectacle.?Jtondon World. ^ What's m It? th )f a husband or a lover 400 or S00 years ie same things that we ilo now." tade by Mrs. Philip Carpenter at a gatbid women last week during a discussion ituro. The statement was interesting, nucli more so if the speaker, after sayme things, had proceeded to tell what the average man's heart is that it is so alf the time neither he nor the woman 1 his emotions, which, taken altogether, s as a French entree or the less delectao see into the hearts of their husbands lory of Lilitii snadowea tnc nrst man s y little about them, and in moments of at they know no more about the real ;hein, which is discouraging, to say the a lio believe that masculine nature is an at it is a thing of many books, of which learned a few things which have been ind-daughter in a series of galling p'.atilinable, his indifference to the attained, n regard to food and the various other bservation of the man himself, what nd or lover has a hundred feelings that iods which she cannot fathom, and dur wisdom she has learned by keeping her into the innnermost recesses of a man's isters the benefit of her beatific vision. 800 B. C., they are still guessing.?New & 3T larried s Peace of Soul ier's Magazine larried woman's peace of soul is trust. \ iponsibility is on her husband to make I ties with which she has endowed him, she has consented to become his mate, te first few months of her married life think that all her maidenly eagerness f life brilliantly, ana all ner proiounu eries of the universe should, have ended everyday housewife with dustpan and outward appearances, was an everyday gladness. She had given herself to him self-reliance, fearless humor and symguish him presently from the common ion. She had given herself to him, beul consciousness. Accordingly, she enwhich her confidence in him had spun ities with light-hearted devotion, from her honeymoon with exactly the if nothing else, she has seen his mental ?ss, so to speak, and become habituated fond of a person whose anecdotes have ei wife does not weary of her husband's >t the glamor of novelty. On the conem because they are bis. Still she feels consciously, at least?to submit them to he discovers, too, of course, that he has ?f which she never suspected. Ordinarttitude in regard to this or that matter so that, instead of being lukewarm or come almost strenuous or indifferent in during their courtship some of his real t in retreat. 9 i?*f Lft lO e my opinion, at least, to use poetry, and , as a medium of grammatical instrucdomestic discipline. To parse "Parait again, and probably forever. The 10 gives out "The Ancient Mariner" or be learned by heart as a punishment, fly dealt with?compelled to commit to ts of the Bureau of Education, or to ata summer school of metaphysics for readers conceive a lasting dislike for y are forced to put it to base uses. It nd genuine inmate of the household of it brings, read for the light of wonder which we live and on the secret moveble of finding an equal enjoyment in all itations, no doubt; and intelligence of a silken purses. But leather also has its > say, and I firmly believe, that every rniug easily, naturally, and very pleasy. )w, I don't like poetry," I feel inclined I you?" ^ "aot'iaw Af AAmnUaHnns nnrl hniicohnlil c 1 VftiVU VI WUiFUUi?VU? ? d library is necessary to a liberal edulibrary may contain things evil as well this respect it does not differ from the t, after she had come to years of discre?lf-knowledge, self-control, to read the asure; confident of her, as the brothers hat no evil thing conld harm her inuo& Woman Is delightfully pretty, often extremely isically beautiful. Beyond all women, jess the gifts of expression and genius ? conto nf brmwlnir what la nroner to do is seldom falls. She knows her strong how to throw them into most striking an's taste in dress is as perfect as anyimperfect world. Of her genius for lere can be no question. Such a mere es her a pork butcher or a patent pill > her ultimate career. i's charm is her individuality. She is enerally amiable, and more often than len are born talkers, and they possess in subjects no more occult than a visit of "tomaytoes." To her husband the rate, selfish, exacting, but in her relaies of her character come out. In them f-sacriflce. As years lay hold upon her by her children, and more and more unhe American is at once a pathetic and liuitidin I m ' ' \ CARNEGIE'S HERO FUND Olves Five Million Dollars to Reward Bravery. Pittsburg, Special.?It was made known here Friday that Andrew Carnegie has created a fund of $5,000,000 lor the benefit of "the dependents of those losing their lives in heroic effort t/i mvo +hoir fallow men nr for the he roes themselves If injured only." Provision is also made for medals to be given in commemoration of heroic .acts. The endowment is to be known as the hero fund and ^consists of $3,000,000 of first collaier 5 per cent, bonds of the United States Steel Corporation. | The trust is placed in the hands of a commission of which Chas. L. Taylor is chairman. The scheme was coinceived by Mr. Carnegie immediately after the Kardwick mine disaster, when he summoned to New York Chas. L. Taylor, chairman, and F. Wilinot.. manager, of the Andrew Carnegie relief fund, to discuss with them plans for the relief of the sufferers from this catastrophe. In a letter to the hero fund committee, Mr. Carnegie outlines the general scheme of the fund which, in his own words, is "to place those following peaceful vacation who have been injured in heroic effort to save human life in somewhat better positions pecuniarily than before, until again able to work. In case of death, the widow and children or other dependents, to be provided for?the widow until she is re-married and the children until they reach a self-supporting age. For exceptional children, exceptional grants may be also made to heroes or heroines, as the commission think advisable?each case to be the judge on its merits. It is provided that no grant is to be continued unless it be soberly and properly used, and the recipient remains respectable, well-behaved members of the community^ A medal shall be given to the hero, widow or next of km, which shall recite the heroic oeea it commemorates. The medal shall be given for the heroic act, even if the deer be uninjured, and also a sum of money should the commission deem such gift desirable. The field embraced by the fund is the United States and Canada, and the waters thereof. "The sea is the scene of many heroic acts," says Mr. Carnegie's letter, "and nc action more heroic than that of doctors and nurses volunteering their services in the case of epidemics. Railroad employes are remarkable for heroism. Whenever heroism is displayed by man or woman, in saving human life, the fund applies." Official Version. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The Associated Press has obtained what is practically the official version of the sinking of the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur, and it clears up to a great extent the mysterious features of that vessel's destruction. This version is as follows: "Retiring before the advance of a su perior Japanese fleet, which was not fighting its progress, the Russian rquadron approached the entrance to the harbor. It was shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning, and most of the officers and crew were at breakfast on the flagship. Vice Admiral Makaroff was eat'ng breakfast in his cabin and the ward room was crowded with officers surrounding the tables. On the bridge Grand Duke Cyril, his friend, Lieut. Von Kobe, Capt. Jakovleff. commanding the vessel, and two other officers were on watch, examining the narrow entrance preparatory to entering It. "At about 2 o'clock there was a terrific explosion of the boilers, followed - connnria in tor hv a detonation a IC rr ?... from the well-stored magazines. Huge gaps were torn in the hull of the ship and the water rushed In. The center of gravity having gone, the ship rolled on her side and sank. "All information tends to prove that a mine was responsible for the destruction of the battleship. "The scene below will never be described. as. so far as is known, not a single person between decks succeeded in escaping. The hot steam which scalded the men on deck indicated what must have been the character of the death met by those in the engine room. The men on deck were thrown In all directions, those falling into the water swimming and grasping the wreckage, to which some of them were able to cling. "The remainder of the squadron immediately stopped and lowered small boats, and the torpedo boats steamed as quickly as possible to the rescue of the survivors. The escape of Grand Duke Cyril and Lieut. Von Kobe was nothing short of miraculous. The force of the explosion sent Grand Duke Cyril flying across the bridge, and the base of his skull struck on an iron stanchion Fortunately he did not lose con sciousness. Believing that the ship was about to sink, he clambered hastily down its side and boldly plunged into the water. He succeedde in reaching a piece of wreckage, to which he clung eqi uj ssah eqna puejQ aqj, about twenty minutes before he was picked up by a torpedo boat. Lieut. Von Kobe was also found swimming and was picked up. Capt. Jacovleff was thrown against a stanchion with such force that he was killed. "Grand Duke Cyril's injuries were severe. Besides receiving a blow on the neck, his legs were burned and he suffered a serious shock. He was taken immediately to a hospital, where his injuries were attended to. He will remain there for three days, and then will be brought to St. Petersburg. The Tibetans, whose exeluslvenMs' the British seem to have set themselves to break down, do not exclude Chinamen, Japanese, Hindoos, or other Asiatics, announces the Indianapolis Journal. They draw the line on white men only, for they do not draw It for religious reasons, but only because they are thoroughly convinced that as soon as they admit the European, with his arms, his opium, and his rum, their independence as a nation would be doomed. THE RUSSIAN ! J f Torpedo Boat Destroyers Execute Good Work i i i ONE LOSS FOLLOWS ANOTHER , | , The Russians Seem to Be Still I Getting Worsted in the Eastern ! Struggle?The Latest News. - ? r. . rt.l.l. t,l I St. fetersuurg, ny v^aunr.?n.cui .iuiuiral Prince Ouktomsky wired from ] Port Arthur Thursday that the Bez-' ( stricshini, one of the Russian torpedo i boat destroyers, sent out during the ' night to reconnoitre, became separated i from the rest of the fleet, owing to the ' bad weather prevailing, was surround- ' ed by Japanese torpedo boat destroyers I and was sunk in the fight. Five men ' were saved. Admiral Ouktomsky adds: I "I have taken command provision- 1 ally of the fleet since the disaster to : the Petropavlovsk." i "During some manoeuvering of the < battleship squadron a small mine was 1 exploded under her. the Pobieda. She I I was able to regain port by herself. No ^ < one on board her was killed or wound- j 1 ed." 11 ( The Pobieda is a battleship of 12.674 tons displacement and of 14,500 horse power. She is 40114 feet long, has 7114 1 feet beam and draws 26 feet of wa- < ter and is heavily armored with steel, j She was completed in 1901. has a complement of 732 men. her estimated speed is 18 knots. The steel armor of ' the battleship varies in thickness from 1 4 to 914 inches along her belt. The , armament of the Pobieda consists of | four 10-inch guns, eleven 6-inch guns. , sixteen 3-inch guns, ten 1.8-inch guns i ( and seventeen 1.4-inch guns. She has j ( MA IU1 i^uu luuvw, I Russia Again Plunged in Grief. j j The official bulletin conveying the 1 intelligence of the loss of another tor- 1 pcdo boat destroyer and the accidental crippling of another battleship was al- 1 most as severe a blow as the loss of | 1 the Petropavlovsk yesterday and j 1 plunged the whole town anew into ' ( grief. The Russian word in the text | of the official dispatch describing the j accident to the Pobeida means either 1 "mine" or "torpedo," but the qualify- j * ing verb indicates something moving j i toward the ship. This dispatch puts ' an end to the idea prevailing here ' that there had been an engagement 1 following the disaster to the Petro- 8 pavlovsk. 1 Forty-five officers and men perished on board the torpedo boat destroyer Bezstrashini. I Newspaper Man Goes Down. Up to the present hour not a single news dispatch has come from Port Arthur, although several newspaper cor- , respondents arethcre. Vassili Verestch- j egin. the Russian painter, was Vice ( Admiral Makaroff's guest on the , Petropavlovsk. It is reported that he was lost with the ship. Nicholas T. Kravtchenko, the well- ( known Russian literary man, who was ( acting as correspondent for the Asso- j elated Press at Port Arthur, it is De lieved, went down with the Petrop- < avlovsk. Telegrams "to him remain un- 1 answered. The Petropavlovsk Struck a Mine. Che Foo, By Cable.?It has been J ( learned from Japanese sources here ] that the attack on the Russian Port . Arthur fleet Wednesday morning was : ( planned and put into effect in the fol- , lowing manner: , At daylight the Japanese torpedo 1 boats made a demonstration before the j ' port and at the same time laid mines ; j across the water entrance to the har-; ( bor. They then retired and joined the ; main squadron. The squadron then : 1 advanced and as.it drew near the Rus- I > sian ships were seen coming out. The t battleship Petropavlovsk struck one of 1 ] the mines laid by the Japanese torpedo i i boats and was destroyed. i Four Injured By Explosion. Baltimore, Special.?'Information just received here reports the explosion of I 'a locomotive near Marriottsvllle. on j the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It is ! said that the conductor, a fireman and i two brakemen and the engineer are 1 reported to be seriously injured. Am- < bulances have been summoned to meet 1 a relief train at Camden station to < take the injured to the City Hospital, t Work of Sharpshooters. St. Petersburg. By Cable.?General Kuropatkin, in a dispatch to the Em- ' peror bearing Tuesday's date, says that 1 General Krasnalinski, on the night of i April 8th, ordered a detachment of < sharp shooters to cross to the left ' Lank of the Yalu opposite Wiju. The i sharp shooters landed on the island of 1 Samalind and surprised a patrol of 1 fifty Japanese scouts just as the latter I were approaching the east side of the , island in three boats. The Russians allowed the Japanese to land and then f fired on them. Nearly all the Japanese < were shot, bayoneted or drowned and i their boats sunk. The Russians sus- < talned no losses. i A Double Tragedy. Water Valley, Miss., Special.? A double tragedy occurred near this town i Thursday. Ed. Gammon, a young far- 1 mer, had made arrangements to elope ? with Miss Fanny Kimsey, when her ( father, Jake Kimsey, appeared on the t scene. Gammon shot and killed him. I The daughter endeavored to escape, I but Gammon shot her and then made j1 hi? escape. A posse is in pursuit. I j 4NANESE WAR I. Japan's Statement. Washington, Special.?The Japanese legation received the following cablegram, dated Tokio, April 16: "Admiral Togo reports that the rombinrd fleet, as previously planned, commenced on April 11th the eighth attack cn Port Arthur. The fourth and the fifth destroyer flotilla and the fourteenth torpedo flotilla and the Koryomaru reached the mouth of Port Arthur at midnight of the 12th, and effected the laying of mines at several points outside the port, defying the enemy's searchlights. The second destroyer flotilla discovered at dawn of the 13th one Russian destroyer trying to enter the harbor, and after ten minutes' attack, sunk her. Another Russian destroyer was discovered coming from the direction of Laotishan and was attacked, but she managed to flee Into the harbor. On our side no casualties. except two seamen on the Ikajuchi slightly wounded. There was no time to rescue the enemy's drowning crew as the Bayan approached. The third fleet reached outside of Port Arthur at 8 a. m., when the Bayan came out and opened fire. Immediately afterward the Novik, Askold, Blana, Petropavlovsk, Pobieda and Poltava came out and made an offensive attack. Our third fleet, hardily answering, enticed the enemy fifteen miles southsast of the port, when our first fleet, informed through wireless telegraphy fiom the third fleet, suddenly appeared oefore the enemy and attacked them. While the enemy was trying to regain the port, a battleship struck mines laid by us the previous evening, and sunk it 10:32 a. m. Although the ship was observed to be sinking, she finally maniged to regain the port. Our third fleet suffered no damage, and the enemy's damage, besides that above mentioned, is probably slight also. Our first fleet did not reach firing distances. Our fleets at 1 p. m., prepared for another attack. They re-sailed April 14 , toward Port Arthur. The second, the * fourth and fifth destroyer flotillas md the ninth torpedo flotilla also joined us at 3 a. m., and at 7 a. m. No ?nemy's ships were found outside of :he pert. Our first fleet arrived at the 1 port at 9 a. ra.. and discovered three r nines laid by the enemy and destroy- C irs. The Kasagu and Nissin were dis- t patched to the west of Laotishan, and a made . indirect bombardment for two t iiours. it being their first action. The j lew forts on Laotishan were finally ? silenced. Our forces retired at 1:30 r i>. m." t Petropavlovsk Was Torpedoed. a London, By Cable.?No further news 6 from Japanese sources concerning the Port Arthur disasters has reached Lon Ion. a The Daily Mail's Chee Foo corre- t 5pondent declares that advices from 3 aoth Russian and Japanese sources iniicate that the battleship Petropa- c irlovsk was torpedoed. By a pretence s if an attack on the harbor by the ( =nemy, Admiral MakarofT, says the correspondent, was enticed outside of s :he Japanese torpedo boats, which crept c jehind him and awaited his return, and c lealt the blow as he was nearing the * larbor on the return.'. I Character of the Petropavlovsk. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The Pe- z ropavlovsk, which had twice previous- t v been reported damaged by Japanese c itlacks on Port Arthur, was a first- j1 lass battleship of 10,960 tons displace- g uent and 14,213 Indicated horse-power. a She was 267% feet long, had 69 feet f j<-ara and her armored belt was of c ibout 16 inches of steel, with 10 inches f :i steel armor on her turrets. Her ar- ^ nament consisted of 4 12-inch, 12 6- c j.eh, 34 smaller guns and 6 torpedo 1 :ubes. The complement of the Petro- I .aviovsk, when fully manned, was 700 ^ nen. She was built at St. Petersburg ? ind was completed in 1898. ' ? c Mow He Was Saved. j St. Petersburg, Special.?It is con- t li med that the Grand Duke Curil's in- I luries consist of burns on the neck and ^ egs. A private dispatch to his father * cports that the wounded officer is bet- r :er. A life buoy was thrown to the c Jraiid Duke by which he sustained ^ umseif in the water until picked up by n: of the boats which were lowered g cm the other warships. I The Pope Visits St. Peters. s Rome, By Cable.?For the first c f ime since his coronation the Pope j ivent Monday to St. Peter's to say nass in celebration of the thirteenth ? ' * -a n- C eiuenniai ui 01. criegury me urt-nu The immense basilica of St. Peter's ivas filled, more than 70,000 people jelng present. The Pope was in the jest of health. He appeared in the Sedia Gestatorio, although the modon of this chair, carried on the shoulders of bearers, makes him ill. Dn his express recommendation the ludience refrained from applause or :rying out, contenting themselves vith the waving of handkerchiefs. Senator Dietrich Not Guilty. Washington, Special.?Senator Diet och, of Nebraska, has been declared >y a special committee of Congress to je not guilty of any violation of the itatues of the United States or of any orrupt or unworthy conduct relating sither to the appointment of Jacob 'isher as postmaster at Hastings, *eb., or the leasing of the building in hat city to the United States for a K>?toffice. OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS What the House and Senate Have* Been Doing. The Senate Tuesday was the scene of a. sharp colloquy between Senators Teller and Hopkins, growing out of the 1? reading by Mr. Teller, of a letter written by the late General H. II. Thomas, of Chicago, attacking the civil service administration of the Treasury Department. Mr. Hopkins took exception to the quoting of the letter and declared that the Colorado Senator will' 5e willing to accept "authority from the slums, whereupon Mr. Teller declined to yield further, declaring Mr. Hopkins' reference to the slums to be nsulting. The incident occurred in connection with the discussion of the ostoffice appropriation bill. That measire was under discussion during the irst half of the session and was passed, ill amendments offered by the Democrats being voted down. Mr. Gorman's amendment providing or the appointment of a commission 0 investigate the affairs of the Postiffice Department was, on motion of dr. Lodge, laid on the table. 40 to9. The division was on strictly poitical lines. Mr. Teller presented an imendment for an investigating comnission composed entirely of Senators. Ie charged that Republican Senators vere unwilling to have an investigaion when Mr. Aldrich interrupted with 1 denial and Teller repeated his statenent that no investigation was wanted. "The Senator can speak for himself. >ut not for anyone else," Mr. Aldrich ep'.ied sharply, and Mr. Teller reponded by saying that every resolution coking to an inquiry had been voted / ' lown. "Can the Senator of his own knowledge make a specific charge of malfeaance in office that has not been investigated?" Mr. Aldrich asked. Mr. Teller replied that it was evilent to all that there was corruption Tn he Postoffice Department that had lot been uncovered and that the Remblicans were afraid to let in the lght. The conference report on the Indian tppropriation bill was agreed to. The till providing a form of government for he Panama Canal zone was taken up ,nd read and amended, but the debate :pon it had not begun when the Semite adjourned. House Proceedings. The House Wednesday passed the till reported by the committee on ivers and harbors appropriating $3.(00,000 for the restoration or mainenance of channels, or of other river ind harbor improvements. Mr. Buron. chairman of the committee, exdained its provisions and urged the idoption of settled principles with egard to river and harbor work with he view to considering each project iccording to its merits. Mr. Burton ;aid that the amounts expended for Ivers and harbors when the vast exent of our waterways was considersd was very small. He favored the idoption of a policy of pushing maters to completion as rapidly as posilble, and declared that Congress hould not undertake anything which lould not be completed within a reasinably short time. The system purged in the United States, he thought, contrasted most unfavorably with hose of foreign countries. The one treat defect in our system was the inefficiency of the engineering corps >f the army. He favored the policy >f requiring communities interested n river and harbor improvements to >articipate in the expense and said hat preference should be given to hannels and harbors which benefit i great area. Discussing the quesion of inland waterways, Mr. Burton called attention to the vast sums, imounting to many millions of dolars, which would be required to conitruct them, and declared that the idoption of any one of them would nrnJsh a nrecedent for the adoption (fair** In favoring broad and liberal treatnent of rivers and harbors. Mr. Ranslell. of Louisiana, a member of the oramittee, said he would support a >111 carrying $100,000,000 because the teople now are ready for it and vould applaud its passage. He regretted the present measure simply eas an emergency one. The Amerian people, he said, are not afraid of arge sums, but rather liked them, le charged that the Republicans had teen lavish and even reckless of extense in all matters except river and larbor improvement and called atention to the hundreds of millions rhich, he said, had been spent in conlection with the war with Spain and in "criminal aggression and passive rarfare." Mr HumDhreys. of Mississippi, also i member of the committee, spoke of he fallacy of the levee system of imiroving the Mississippi river, and aid it was not possible for a levee >r a system of levees to withstand loods such as occurred in 1897 and 903. General debate was closed by Mr, Small, of North Carolina, who spoke if the necessity for an Inland waterpay between Chesapeake Bay and Joaufort Inlet, N. C. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, called atentlon to the fact that the river and larbor committee was made up enirely of members living on the Gulf :oast. the Great Lakes or the ocean. Seven great States through which he Missouri river flows or passes are vlthout a single representative. He dluded to the acquisition by the Jnlted States of the Sandwich Isands. the Philippines, Guam and Poro Rico, "on the pretext .that homes ire wanted for our children," and yet te said, there is more farming land mt of which to make such homes hat is overflowed and destroyed and nade barren by the floods of the Mlsouri river than could be found in all hose islands. "Instead^" he vigorlusly declared, amid applause, "of quanderlng money to hold the Flliilnos in subjection, and educate the iawailns, and to carry the mail at .n exorbitant price to the cannibals if the FIJI Islands, you better be takng care of this land you have got at Lome."