Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 April 1897 — Page 2

Von Der Goltz, a German officer "loaned" to Turkey by Emperor William. This officer is said to unit© in himself all the qualities of a most"gifted schollar and an experienced soldier. He participated in the war •with Denmark, in the Franco-Prussian war and in the Austro-Prussian war, and in addition he is the author of three military books that are regarded almost as text books ia the service. It is reported her? Kbat Baron Von Der Goltz is really the author of the plan of campaign under which the Turkish army is now fighting.

The war department is preparing to collect all of the technical information that may be derived from the war. Captain. Scriven, the military attache of the United, States embassy at Rome, has already telegraphed the department for permission to go to Turkey to watch the progress of the war, and the necessary permission will be given 'him. If he finds it desirable that some one should act 'in a like capacity with the Greek army, the department probably will send Major Dorst, our military attache at Vienna, to the scene.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT

Minister Terrell's Dispatch to the State Department. Washington, D. C., April 19,—After much effort, awing, probably, to some confusion In wire transmission, the state department officials have succeeded in translating the cipher dispatch received by Secretary Sherman last night from United States Minister Terrell, at Constantinople. The result was the following official statement: "The department of state has received a dispatch from the United' States minister to Turkey concerning tra .rupture of relations between that country and Greece and the Turkish declaration of war. Mr. Terrell states What the minister from Greece has been' informed that he must leave before next Wednesday. He is not permitted to communicate by telegraph with the Greek government. There are, "perhaps, 40,000 men subjects to Greece in Turkey, and all subjects of Greece are required to leave Constantinople within fifteen days. The note of the porte to the foreign powers disclaims any desire for territorial acquisition The Greek minister informs Mr. Terrell that the Greek government ^requires all subjects of Greece of military age to be required for military duty. The Turkish government claims that regular Greek troops seized1 and were fortifying Anolipsis, da violation of agreement prohibiting it, lienice an attack there by theTurksone tth bence ap attack there by the Turks on the 16th. Turkish troops are scattered along the border of Thessaly, and! can not quickly concentrate for a decisive battle. This may enable the Greek army to fight them In detail."

The Turkish minister, Moustapha Bey, (has -communicated with Secretary Sherman on the status of the Turko-Grecian conflict. He officially informed the Ameficani secretary of state of the termination of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Greece, and of the attitude of offense which Turkey had been compelled to take by reason of the aggressive course of Greece. It wks expressly made known, however, that no declaration of war had been issued. Until "this official step is taken, the hostilities along the frontier are regarded in the light of preliminary movements, designed to secure stragetic positions, but not constituting war as contemplated by a formal declaration of war.

THE TURKS AS FIGHTERS

They Were Good Soldiers In the RussoTurkish War. New York, April 19.—Colonel Francis) V. Greene, U. S. A., retired, who was sent by this government to Russia during the last Turkish war to represent t'he war department at Washington, last night told of his observations of the Turkish army while am battle. "The Turks are individually good fighters," said Colonel Greene. "They are fine soldiers, very obedient and fanatic in their religion. The Turk fights up to a certain •point, and when he thinks matters.^re going against him he will run. Not for any lack of courage, but because he thinks fate 3s against him. The Turkish soldiers are well aumed. ..During the Russo-Turkish. war the Turks were better armed than the Russians. iThey are well clothed, but'the commissary and transportation systems were fatally defective. "In numbers the peace strength is 125,000 Greeks and 150,000 Turks, and these- can probably be increased to three times as many on each side. In 1877 the Turks put over 300,000 men in the field in Europe, and over 100,000 in Asia, and they made a very much stronger resistance than the Russians anticipated. I think Russia put nearly half a million men in the field before the war .was over. "Turkey is bankrupt, but so she was in 1877, and! that will not stop her from fight Ing. They will protoabSy manage to borrow enough money to buy guns and ammuni fiion, and they will get food out of their own. country. '.'The Turks twenty years ago fought an entirely defensive campaign. There is no reason why they should not do so now Thedr plan was -to seize some important point and throw up fortification, which they constructed with remarkable skill, and then wait to be attacked behind their breastworks. They collected large amounts of ammunition and provisions in these forts and) awaited attack. Sometimes their position® were turned. They were compelled to retreat, and then they would abandon all their ammunition and stores and fall back on another tine of fortifications twenty or fifty miles in the rear."

Colonel Greene was asked his opinion as to the relative strength of the armies of Greece and Surkey. "There is no question," he said, "that the Turks are more than a roaisch for the Greeks, but the whole question is what stand the great powers will take. They are all extremely anxious to keep peace, because if the war is once •tarted among the great powers it is impossible to say when- it will end."

ILL OPPORTUNITY FOR GREECE

At an Earlier Period She Would Have Had Much Aid. Philadelphia. April 19.—Ex-Minisrer to Greece Snowden, stated today that he had recently received the following reply to a •message sent to King George, approving the attitude assumed by thai monarch: "Hearty thanks for your approval. Precious to me. Have six powers against us George."

Continuing, Mr. Snowden said: "There never was so ill au opportunity as the present for Greece to have "a conflict with Turkey. Up to two years ago, an advance of Cite Greeks into Thessaly would have meant a general unrising of Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia and Macedonia, and the overpower lug of the Turks, for Roumania alone has a larger and better equipped army than the sultan. "Now, however, the situation is very difJlcult. Roumania has practically established an allegiance to Germany by having a Hcfhenzollern upon her throne Bulgaria has almost become a Russian province, and Slervia's king is the son of a daughter of

Russian colonel so that, unless the peoWe of these countries kci contrary to the (Influence of their leaders, there is not likely to be any combination against Tur f*ey. "The Turks can, and ns doubt will, drive the Greeks1 back over the frontier. *Tbe fc Turkish army ournii^ftters :M of Greece \ivo one, and bMt*P- oq"dipped,. JiM

entire army vt Greece, including reserves, consists of about 80,000 troops, and I do not think it has been possible for them to have been equipped with the most modern munitions of war. Greece* has a deplorable financial condition, and can not stand a protracted conflict. I very much fear she will be badly whipped, but I do not .believe the powers will allow the sultan to overrun Greece, or to take possession of Athens."

THE GREEK CHURCH IN CHICAGO

The Priest Tells His Congregation What

Their Uaty

Then the priest told other tidings—tiddings that had come during the night, and that told not of peace, but of war. H© told his people their country was threatened with the gravest danger that their King called to them, and they must answer according' to their circumstances. Those who were young and strong, and who hadi no families depending on them, might back and fight in the ranks against their5 country's enemies, but to those who can not go back there was an important work to. do. It was for them to show by deed and by word that the love they bore the land of their birth, still burned' strong and bright.

At the close of the service the worshipers passed out of the church and down to the street, where, with the palm crosses still in their hands and pinned in their coats, they stood in, groups and talked of War.

Before the congregation went away from the church the priest announced that the committee appointed at the Central Music Hall 'mass meeting had called another mass meeting to be held tonight in the Greek' church Immediately after the service of prayer. Definite action will be taken there toward sending additional men to Greece, and more money wtili be raised to send to the Greek War fund.

BUTLER WILL NOT ATTEND

Populist Nation: I Chairman Hurls Defiance at tbe Kecalcitranti. Washington, April 19.—If the Populist party, or any portion of it, assembles in convention at Nashville on the 4th of July, as is now proposed, Senator Butler, the national chairman, will not be present. "And you may quote me as saying," lie remarked today, "that any Populist who does attend defies the regular organization of the party."

Mr. Butler said that he had received the resolutions adopted at the Memphis conference suggesting that a convention he held, and had submitted it by mail to each of the 145 members of the national committee. The responses had been overwhelmingly in favor of non-action, no less than seventy-five, taking the adverse position, while six straddled, and only fourteen were in favor of the convention." 'If the national committee," said Senator Butler, "had been in faVor of a convention, I should have certainly called' one. I have no desire to do anything except what a majority of recognized leaders of our party ask. In this case, however, a certain, faction of Populists who in the last campaign wanted a separate electoral ticket in every state have banded together, andl they think that the party wants reorganising.. I cannot see what i^ to be gained1, toy a convention at this titijfe, aiict I have said so very plainly.'

Senator Butler has sent to the committee of the National Reform Press Association which, demanded he issue a call, a letter refusing to do so end giving his reasons for his refusal.

STRUCK A BROKEN RAIL

TWO Engines Plunge Down an Embankment But Nobody Was Killed. Kalispel, Mont., April 19.—At 5 o'clock this morning east-bound passenger train No. 4 on the Great Northern struck a broken rail two miles east of Bear Creek. The train was .being pulled by two engines and as it struck the broken rail both locomotives broke loose from the train and were hurled down a steep embankment. The helper was in charge of Engineer Silas Schutt and John Barr firman, and the regular was in charge of W. H. Smith, engineer and Arnet Hogan, fireman. None of thfem were killed, but all were badly hurt.» As the engines started to leave the track the air brake were set anil the train came to a sudden stqp.

Jim Corbett Greeted With Cheers. New York, April 19.—The Academy of Music was filled' to its utmost capacity tonight when James J. Corbett appeared for the first time in public since his defeat by FiUsimmoos- The ex-champion was greeted with^ cheers that lasted for fully two minutes 'when he appeared in the first act of the "Naval Cadet."

At the end of the second act he made a speech in response to repeated calls. He said that he would force Fitzsiramons to light him again. ,.,,,

Celebrated Trotting Hone. Globe, Dead. Baltimore, April 19.—Globe, the celebrated trotting horse, owned by «A. Fennermah of this city, died here today. This hofs6 holds a world's record. He was 16 years old. He had a single mark of 2:14%, double mark 2:12, and Ed Geers drove him, Belle Hamlin and Justina to the present world's record, three-abreast of 2:14 at Cleveland, July, 1S91.

Mexico's New Extradition law. City of Mexico,. April 19—The house of deputies has passed the new extradition law substantially as reported to that body by the commission representing the departments of foreign relations and justice. The law defines a basis on which extradition may be granted and. will form a complete scheme for new treaties, the existing treaties being imperfect.

tii Death In a Snow Slide. Brigham City, Utah, April it*.—A snow slide occurred yesterday at the mines of the Consolidated Mining Company, four miles north of Brigham City, resulting in the death of Fred Wolhaupter. Ed Maw and William Turner. David Russell, and John Dalxon were also snowed under by the slide, but were taken out alive.

Presbyterian General Assembly Indianapolis, Ind., April ID.—A conference of the representatives of the Presbyterian churches of the city was held today to arrange for entertaining the Presbyterian general assembly in Winona, in May. General Benjamin Harrison will preside and present a historic gavel to the moderator. General Mount will also attend.

Judge Hoi man's Condition Is Critical. Washing toil, April 19.—Representative Holman,, of Indiana, who is suffering from serious*compllcations following a fJll from a street car, is better today, but s*11 ih a dangerous condition.

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Chicago, April 19.—Peaice and war were strangely mingled in the Services of the lit-' tie Greek Church in Kinsie street San-i day. It was Falm Sunday by the Greek calendar, and the priest told his.people of. the tidings of peace, of the entry of- the Lord into Jerusalem, not by violence and force but with love, and the people met Him not with the sword, but waving palm branches and singing.

Washington (Ind.) School Build In, I Boriied Washington, Ind.. April"19.—The Washington graded school building (was detsroyed with its entire contents til is afternoon. Loss? $55,000 iasuranee' $25,009. Causa unknown.

MILITARY AND NAVAU-STRENGTH

A omparlson of the Forcgj of the Oppos ins The strength Greek army, on a peace footing Is estimfftfdiat about zv,-1 000 men, blassffled as follfl*^ Infantry, 14,700 cavalry, 2,648 artiff??|T, 3 42Q engineers^ etc., 1,234. In the¥r^t reserve there are 59,500 men, and in tfcf #ecoad reserve, 125,000} making" & total*djfar strength of nearly 210,000.

Tbe total* peaTurkish regular ar-my is je6tto$iipdjfa,tl

144»3)(tmen„

divided as follows infaatw 9S.OO# .* cavalry,

{23,200

iftilfery1, Iff.SO&f Sngineeri, etc!

8,600! 'In thfef *JWt"r«eTW*tlifere' ire "23,600 officers aid Aei, 'iif&'ih^the* Second^' reserve/ 21,300 offlcerspftiftt' 392,000' tneii, making a "total war fcrtrefi&tft of 867,300 toefi.*

The Grecian navy consists' of five ei*-' mored vessels. The bide!* two, built respectively In 1867 and 1869,' are the Basileus Georgios, 1,770 tons, carrying two 10-ton' Krupp guns on the upper deck, four light and two machine guns, with a speed of twelve knots and the Tffasilissa Olga, a wooden vessel of 2,600 tois and «. speed of ten knots, carrying four 5^£-ton and two 3%-ton Krupp guns. This steel ship Hydra, of 4,885 tons, arid her sister ships, the Spestai and Psara, were built in France in 1889-90. Each is protected by an over-all steel belt 11.8 inches thick at water-line and surmounted by another steel "belt 2.9 inches thick. Each cairrles three 10.6-inch guns, four 5.9-inch gdns, seven Six-pounders and eighteen smaller and machine guns. There are seventeen torpedo boats more than eighty-six feet long, one torpedo depot and two Nordenfeldt submarine torpedo boats. There are two respectively olspy boats. There are two unarmored corvettes of 1,300 and 1,800 tons respectively two cruisers of 1,000 tons each, launched in 1884-5 •twelve gun boats of which six were built in i881-84, and three -revenue vessels. The navy is manned by 185 officers and cadets, 247 employes, 587 petty officers, 1,643 sailors and 503 stokers, etc., total, 3,165 men.

The Turkish navy is weak on account of the {act that moat of its best vessels have been sold to other governments. There are only three sea-going armored sWps of fighting value. The others are so small orA old that they are fit only for use as convoys. The best vessel is the Abdul Kader, a firstclass modern cruiser of 8,000 tons, armor ed with fourteen-inch plates -and carrying tfei? 10.2-dnch and two 6jfi-iueh Krupp guns, witih a possible speed-of seventeen knots. The Hamidiyeb, built in 1885, is of 6}700 tons, with a speed1' of thirteen knots aod carries ten 10.2-incft arid two 6.6-Inch Krupp guns and a central battery. The Mesondiyeb, built in 187*, Id of 8,990 tbns, has a speed of thirteen knots, is protected by twelve-inch armot*,-and carries tea 10.2inch arid two 6.6-inch Krupp guns and a central battery. There are four barbetted cruisers—the Azijjyeb, the Mahomondiyeb, the Osmaniyeb anfd^the Orkaniyab—whiqfc were built in 1864l,,£*and. are each of 6,400 tons, with a speech^%f twelve knots. They each carry two ll'-flibh, eight 5.9-inch and six 3.9-inch Krupp gun#. The Assar-i-Shefket and the Nedjim-i-Sbefket, built in 1868, are of 2,050 tons each, with a speed of eleven knots, and each carries one 9inch and four 7-iiich Armstrong gups. The Asser-l-Tevfik, built in 1868, is of 4,600 tons, with a speed of thirteen knots, and carries eight 9.4-indh and two 8.2 inch Krupp guns. The Hufzi-i-Rahman,' built in 1868, is of 2,500 tons, with a speed of fourteen knots carries two 9-inch and two 7-inch Armstrong guns and one 6-inch Krupp guns. The Feth-i-Boulend, built in 1870 ,i& of 2,aild carries four 9-inch Armstrong guns. 720 tons, with a speed of ourteen knots,

TThe Turkish navy is manned by six viceadtajirals, eleven rear admirals, 208 captains, 289' coitaiaatade??,"5^ lieutenants 187 en^ signs, 30,000 siiilbrs and 9,000 marines. am

THE LIE WAS PASSED

Operator Dearmlt Wants Investigation of United Mine Wprkers* Officials. Pittsburg, April 19.—Today's session of the legislative committee appointed to 'nvestigate tbe condition of the miners in this district was devoted to hearing the operators. W. P./Dearmit,. president of the New York & Cleveland Gas and Ooal company, was on the sJtandUall morning. He said the miners wer#Pge&ting 54 cents per ton and men were paW?far all coal mined. He created a sensatiflbMjy asking that the officials of the' Unit^ra Mine Workers, whom he charged with 'b»lng largely responsible for the conditio#1'Of the miners, be investigated. htJii loiter in Shfc Afternoon G. W. Schluerdevberg, generW lifenager and stockholder in the L. Robinson Coal company, was called.

Mr. Schluerderberg was a member of the sub-committl&^'which worked among the operators in the Panhandle district, regarding uniforiSt^1 and during the course of his testim5il¥, he stated that thiat if Mr. Dearmit branditi as a lie the report of the committee,.'•He^as a member 'of that com mittee, br^ngedj Dearmit as a liar. jjs,'

The two Di^n approached each other In a threatening manner and the greatest ex citement reigned for a time. Just before the close of the meeting Mr. Dearmit, in hot words, assailed William Warner, sec retary of the United Mine Workers.

MR. BRYAN IN BOURBONDOM

Great Crowd Bears the Nebraska Man at Frankfort. Frankfort, Ky., April 19.—Tho speech of the Hon. William Bryan to the legislature here this afternoon was delivered at the opera house to which was admitted, besides the legislators, a remarkable crowd of 1,200, representing every party and faction in Kentucky politics. The speech was a/ masterpiece of oratory. He pleased all and delivered one of his strongest arguments for silver. He was the guest of the legislature all day and left tonight via St. Louis for his home. He is stM suffering from the effects of the fall in Florida, and while he shows no signs of it when speaking, is a mass of bandages. On the stage, among the capital's distinguished citizens, was Governor Bradley, who was introduced to Mr. Bryan by Senator Blackburn, amid the cheering of the crowd. After the speech Governor- Bradley was among the first to grasp the speaker's hand and to tell him he made the best speech for his side he had ever heard.

ALL ONE WAY

Spanish Official Reports Tell of Nothing But Victories. Havana. April 19.—Colonel Aldea. with tne oattaliori and a detachment of local ^ul^rillas, has been engaged in the woods:n Jacas, province of Matanzas, with th^t remainder pf the re-united insurgent 'Iferces commanded by Regina Alfonso,, Cfepvatitee and Benito Socorro. The troops c|p,tured the insurgent camp, killed eleven of the enemy and captured the insurgent Major, Alvarez.- Later, the troops pursued the insurgents to the Cienaga Do Zapata, where in another engagement, the insurg^nW captains. Fernando Sanabria and Julian Sanabria, Sergeant Chavez and Lieu-tenant-Colonel Socorro were killed and several others were wounded an dare believed to have einee died. In a skirmish between the Maria Cristim battalion and aw insurgent force commanded by Aguilera, the latter was killed with six of his men.

In numerous small skirmishes recently the insurgents lost forty-one killed and

tea prisoners ud &e troops lost two men killed and had* twelve wounded.. Meesns. Cornelius Mell, Harson and Evas Bvaros, American citizens, wtho have been imprisoned on the charge of disorderly conduct have be da placed at- the disposal of Consul General Lee.

There have been 621 deaths from smallpox at Guinea from April 1 to April 15. A demonstration has been- had at Santa Clara, capital of the province of that naane, to celebrate the pacification of that part of the country and to do honor to Captain General Weyler. The mayor and aldermen presided over the demonstration. There was a large meeting of the inhabitants in front of General Weyler's residence'. The latter, through his adjutant, reitfr^ed thanks for the ovation which he received-.

HIS LIFE FOR A, PENNY

Little Newsboy's Fate on One of New York's Broadway Cable Curves** It was not a good day for selling the papers, but the Wessas were so very poor, and every penny counted.

Out into the storm and wet went Cosomo, says the New York World. He was 14 years old, but he did not look more than 11, thanks to small rations. He got his, armful of evening papers from a passing wagon and stared up to see what gleanings of small coins he could get out of Broadway. The street cars were barred to him and the sidewalks were so empty. It was dreadfully discouraging, but little Casomo did not stop to worry. He had no tiqje for that. 'I#

An hour afterWard a' policeman went around from Mulberry street station house and knocked at the door of a sorry looking third back tenement. "Entrate," called out Mother Wessa cordially. But when the door opened and a policeman's form appeared, she started up in affright, and little Guglietta began to cry. "Casomo?" cried, ths woman, her mother's instinct bringing the name unconsciously to her lips. "Yes, that's the name," said the policeman, glancing at a slip he held in his fingers. "Casomo Wessa is .the name he gave. He's dy—he's hurted, badly hurted, up at the New York hospital. You'd better hurry up if you want to see him that's what the doctors say.'\

A little later father and mother were ^neellng at the bedside of their dying boy, while the goed priest who had administered extreme unction bowed his head and went away.

It was the old story. The little paper merchant had reached Madison Square, where he found others whom he knew engaged in like occupation. Thsy hung around the corner, where now and then they found a customer on board a halted car, whom they could sell to .without boarding it'.

A guest of the Hotel Bartholdi came out on the doorstep and waved his Hand for a newsboy. Instantly there was a scurrying of youngsters toward him. Littfe Casomo was among them. In the excitement' of the chase he forgot all about the junior Dead Man's curve, around which swing the Lexington avenue cars. Before he knew it a down town cap was on him.

It bore him down. It pushed him on before it. When Broadway was reached the gripman stopped the car. Spectators aay he never offered to do so while.on that curve of death.

Policeman Davis took the gripman' in .charge. Then the parents were sent for and went up to see their boy die, while little Guglietta stayed at home and cried.

QIVIL LISTS AND SALARIES

The Proportionate Scale of Fay Largest as a. ltule iu Small Countries. There is a marked disparity in the salaries of executive officials paid in monarchical and under republican- governments. In the former liberal payments for little actual service are the rule in the smaller kingdoms, whereas the larger ones make payments on a more moderate scale, says the New York Sun. Under republican governments the pay of the executive rulers Is materially less, and In some tbe rate of compensation is frugal even to the verge of parsimony.

The United States pays, it is known, fBO.OOO a year to the president of a republic c£ 75,0o0,Q00 people. The king of Portugal, the ruler of a country having a population of only 4,600,000 people, receives each* year $635,000. The president of the fedteral council of Switzerland receives for his more or less valuable services in that historic republic of 3,000.000 inhabitants $3,000 a year, whereas the king of Saxony, who is, in fact, a king in na|ne only, tbe more important affairs of Saxony being controlled and directed from Berlin, receives a salary o£ $735,000. The population (.f Saxony is not materially larger than that of Switzerland. In area. Saxony covers 5,700 square miles, and Switzerland nearly 10,000. The president of the republic of France receives an annual allowance of 600,000 francs, which is equivalent to $250,000, and he has, moreover, an additional allowance of $250,000 for expenses. France ia a nation of nearly 60,000,000 inhabitants, colonies included, and the president of the French republic c-xervises legal jurisdiction of over 3,600,000 square miles of territory. The emperor of Austria, vrho rules over territory one-eighteenth as large, receives in a year $3,875,00(^ The king of Sweden and Norway, within whose domains 6,700,000 inhabitants reside, baa $575,000 a year salary. The king of Belgium, who ostensibly directs the destiny of the people of that ropulous and prosperous country, receives $6b0,ouo, while the ruler of the Netherlands receives only $300,000, though the population of the Dutch colonies in various parts of the world is nearly 30,000,000. It Is a somewhat peculiar fact that Germany, now one of the three great empires of the Vrorld, England and RUSSIA being the two others, pays its kaiser no salary. The German emperor draws pay only as king of Prussia. The empire gives him annually $375,000 to be spent in presents for needy subjects, and $22,000 for the salaries of his adjutants. The rest comes from Prussia. The Russian emperor has a state income of almost $9 000 000 a year, besides drawing several millions more as chief of the house of Romanoff. The king of Italy receives $2,858,000. One of the most favored of the monarchs of Europe is the king of Greece, who, though the ruler over a country of only 2,000,000 inhabitants, receives a salary of $260,000 a year. The king of Roumania gets $230,000, and the king of Servia $240,000. Great Brirain pays to Queen Victoria $1,925,000, exclusive of the payments made to the members of the royal family and their relatives, and exclusive of the queen's revenue from the duchy of Lancaster. It is not known definitely what the sultan of Turkey receives, and he has r.o stated or regular time for receiviu it, the condition of the Ottoman exchequer not a ways being plethoric.

LORD SALISBURY'S ROUTINE

In Spite of Bis Arduous

StXhe

Work

He,Keep# in

Good Health.

It is a marvel that one who does so much mental work and 'takes so little exercise as Lord Salisbury, should be so seldom 111. "I never meet a well known brougham," remarked Earl Granville some ten years ago, "but I say, ""See, he has not time to walk even from Arlington street to Downing

blue brougham was Lord Salisbury's. It has been steadily in use this year. Ijord Salisbury enjoys a saunter in !t. James park or along the Embankment, but for pleasures of this sort he has not had much time during the Cretan crisis. Xor at any tina-3 does he care for sport or sports. To these he is as

Indifferent as Mr. Chamberlain. He has played a few strokes at golf to humor Mr. Balfcur, but if he entered the parliamentary tournament he would require a specially high handicap. It is only in his chemical laboratory that he finds any congenial recreation. During his visit to the south of France, the prime minister wilt fortnightly escape the domestio worries of Downing street!, but the burden of foreign affairs will always be with him at such a critical time as the present.— Sketch. & vy

Stole a Barrel of Sosrar.

A car containing granulated sugar waa broken open Saturday or Sunday nights and one barrel of the sweet stuff was carried off. The head was ma&bed in and all But a few pounds of the sugar was taken out.

To C'nre a CoM In One Day

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if fails to cure. .s&"s

FRESH SUMMER ORAPERl€S

Chintz and Bfoaliit to jbitth the Wall Far per—The New Mgd Curtains.

Of course, haadsome laoe window hangings, if they are gfenuine and in good repair, are forever in atyle, though it is no longer considered la good taste to use lace curtains in summer, says the New York Sun. They are meant exclusively lor winter and the city. For the hot weather and the country bead hangings, new tambour muslin, Dutch madras, French Louis XVI. lawn, Delhi net and Persian gauze are all or any one entirely appropriate, if you have not made up your mfnd to drape your windows in chintz or muslin to match your new Vail papers'exactly.

Thia/last is a method 'vefy^much in'Vogue with'3he women who are teveliug id the Joys of entire renovation of 'their 'summer homes* and have' taken a hint -vtrom the decorator's. It is a nice idea If not repeated in too many rooms, as then "the house reflects a most moiotonoua scheme of color. Yet It is hard to resist falling into the enticing trap. If a room is to have its walls covered in delicate mimosa flowered paper the mimosa sprayed French Louis XVI muslin, that comes to match it exactly, is an almost irresistible temptation. There are exquisite musling besides to coincide absolutely, in color and figuring, with the papers sprayed in morning glories of every tint and solid toned ashes of roses, robin's egg blue and dove gray papers sold with muslin hangings to correspond.

Of course, if yon don't care to oarry out this plan dn more than a room or two there are the Delhi nets and new tambour muslins to fall back on for the other windows, that may be crying out for fresh dresses Tt net referred to is woven of an-Indian grass in two tones of green or gray, with a strand as large and a mesh almost as coarse as that employed in making Mesican grass hammocks. The vast difference is that Delhi net is exceedingly soft, and interwoven with the vegetable fiber are bright silks or colored beads to give brilliancy and show when the material is stretched that quaint Oriental figures are formed by the introduction of color. At windows or doors the net must hang quite straight from small brass rings encircling a slender brass pole. At the "bottom of every net curtain is a finishing frill of grass or silk fringe, or may be the big gfoss beads are strung along the lower edge, tinkling musically together whenever the drapery ia disturbed. It may be well to assure the owners of country homes that for summer use the bead draperies are absolutely usurping every doorway, shutting out the ugly view of the fireplace and hang very close against the sashes of wimfows, to take the place of Holland shades.

Decorators have come to employ them lavishly,, first because a bead curtain is the coolest and cleanest of all 'hangings, they are not costly, they outlafci any woven goods, and as they are now manufactured' are pretty beyond words. One of tbe most" delightful .possible effects to arrive at in draping a back hall door or a long French window is to suspend, .there a portiere of blue beads. Pale blue up near the pole, hut a rich dark Iblue near the bottom, labile across this azure background a flight of swifts or swallows wing their way. Such a portiere is made of beads solidly, with no joints of bamboo introduced, and while it shuts out a view of the interior completely from a person outside the dqor or window to one within, it merely reveals the road, street or garden through a blue mist.

With few exceptions the bead curtains so eagerly sought for are not strung to imitate Oriental designs, tout display in blue white the most lovely delft views, giant paim and fern leaves against a yellog background and white bead lilies amid a surronuding sky of greenery. At intervals during the summer a soft cloth passed over the beads cleanses them thoroughly. In many cases the beads are hung inside tho window casing and muslin is draped over them This is where linen shades are not in use.

Decorators, however, this season have given their whole allegiance to the theory and practice of draping windows in green. Greerr, they boldly assert, is the one and only tone to use for hangings intended to shade one from the light, for reasons not only of beauty, but of hygiene as1well. Persons who can afford to followwhat old fashioned folk may call a fad therefore are having one, of three things done. The lower sashes of nursery and bed room windows are being glazed with green |lass or draped in green Persian gauze, or having fixed to theim carved Indian window screens of wood stained a shade of dull soft green.

Equally as high a point of taste and precaution is to have a window all in green. Here the leaded panes are pale green, the. flounce curtains of Persian gauze and the drapery above of green Dutch madras. Scarce a handsome house this summer but will ,in the process of its spring doing over, have a green window, turned toward the sea or the garden, which will be the choice spot to read and sew and lounge in.

But whether a window be green or not its pane curtains are very sure to be of Persian gauze, a shew silkeu material that must be made up perfectly plain, with a hem,'and perhaps a narrow green ribbon border on every breadth. It is far more fashionable a window decoration, not to say vastly prettier, than the white muslin ones in vogue and, like muslin, it shuts out prying eyes but not the light. An oddity in window drapery, especially when the tambour muslin or imadras is used, is the sew- potiere pole. It is either a white enameled rod, with braBS rings and big brass spear heads at either end, or of glass, with brass rings.

The glass poles are slender, have a. greenish tinge of color and, when a curtain is pushed back or drawti forward, they give out a very musical jingle. Some of the glass poles are finished with a tassel of little lusters, that also ring out every ti-ae the curtain is moved, while the majority show cut .ball ends, or brass warrior heads for knobs.,

NEW COLLARS AND CUFFS.

Novelties In the Way of Neckwear Seen In the Shops This Spring. The wearer of the ever-popular shirtwaist teas an unusually large number of becoming collars and cuffs to choose froin this season. The straight standing throat band, which came in just at the close of the past season is one of the most popular shapes. The cuffs that match should be fastened with the regulation button,* not links, nor those of the dumbbell order. The next collar in popularity and somewhat newer and more generally becoming is called the two-inch turnover. It consists of a high standing portion with two turnover sections having "square sections opened both back and front. This is to be worn with one of the most fashionable of all cravats at present, the new Windsor, tie. This cravat i3 straight, not bias, as was the Windsor of time past. It is about three inches wide and two yards long. It is carried around this collar from the front to the back, where it is crossed, then brought to the front again and tied in a wide opened bow. The effect is not as stiff as the stock. Other neck bands to be worn with this new cravat are those that flare around the throat. The most novel one, which is suited only to faces both pretty and fresh, is the Portia. This consists of a band of medium height, closed in front with two studs and has an outstanding portion Of three decided points. The 'guffs to match are similar in shape, but instead of flaring lie neatly against the outside „of tbe slepve.

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thorn mado qp tune lamas? Ixwtaotie* tufuwr* feesatUcfeeA points. An admirable ekample baa two dotifele points in froat, while others hm* many ax eight or tea put on all raund til* neck baad ami fatting just the least bit belowi its'tower edge. The new Mgrh. turnover coityr, which Should alwfeya be worn with a stiff bow, opens in the bade aa well aa th« front. This is an improvement on the old style in convenience at least, since it 14 modi easier to slip the tie la place.

OoHars suitable for sMrt waista of silk, which, by the wajv to be strictly up-to-date, neok, are dainty little strips of muslin o# must have high cruntied banda, at ths fine linen, hemstitched and edged with deli* cate rtifflcB of lice.* T^ie cuffs are ts maticfa. The seU are to be had not only in white, but in cardinal, navy blue, black and all the delicate tints.

INDIAN BM.L PASSED.

8e»ate AmeadaMnt PnvidM For Opening the tjneompahgre Reservation. Washington, April 19.—T&e senate passed the Indian appropriation biM today. It is substantially the same as it passed tho house and can occasion little division, savfl on the amendment opening the TJncompahgre Indian reservation. RasolwCions of inqury were agreed to, asking the secretary of state as to the operation of the reciprocity treaties made under the MoKinley act. •Mr. Vest introduced hia 'resolution declare ing illegal the recent order of the secretary of the treasury relative to imports arriving after April 1st. The senator gave notice of pressing the resolution tomorrow and it may afford another test on tbe tariff.

After the executive session the senaite adjourned as a mark of respect to Representative Milliken, deceased.

The Rev. Htigh J6hnsonc in his opening prayer, invoked' Divine blessing on those nations struggling for civil and religious liberty and prayed for the speedy termination of all wars. He referred also to that suffering along the Mississippi river.

A resolution! for a committee of five sens"-' tors to inquire into the Issuance of land patents to the Pacific railroads and to the California & Oregon Railroad, and the amounts of subsidies paid to tbe Pacific mail steamship companies was favorably reported, but on suggestion of Mr. Stewart of Nevada went over.

During the debate on the Indian bill, Mr. Allen of Nebraska offered an amendment for the establishment of an Indian supply warehouse at Omaha. Mr. Gear of Iowa said this was designed to take tho warehouse away from Chloago. If this was te be Ane he wmild propose Sioux City, Ia., as well as Omaha, as aa Indian supply point. It led to extended de/bate &s to tbe relative merits of various cities as supply points for the Indians, which resulted iat the Allen amendment being agreed to.

An amendment by Mt. Hoar of Massachusetts for tw*o additional federal judges in Indiana Territory was adopted.

After a contest an amendment 6y Mi*. Berry of Arkansas was agreed to limiting the rolls of tribes to certain designated classes.

A resolution introduced by Mr. Pettigrew of'South Dakota was agreed to by the senate today calling on the postmaster general for information as to amounts paid the Southern Railroad for carrying the mails, andv what steps were taken to prevent fa-lae weighing.

At 1:50 p. oq., on motion of Mr. Davis, the senate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty, and at 2:15 ad-* journed.

HAGGARD'S WASHINGTON TRIP

He Will Urge the Charges Agalnit Spencer -.-Against Civil Service. Lieutenant Governor Haggard has gone to Washington to assist In the effort to have Pension Agent Spencer removed,, says the Indianapolis News, He told some of hit Republican friends before he went awaj that he would not neglect to speak a word •in favor of the repeal of the civil servico law. The Republicans who are pushing tho charges against Mr. Spencer have asked I. N. Walker to go to Washington and use his influence with Commissioner of Pensions Evans. The charges were sent to Senator Fairbanks, who showed them to the president and aftepward filed them with the commissioner of pensions. The two specific charges are that Mr. Spencer discharged.' worthy old soldiers to make places for Democrats, and that he and some of his employes neglected their duties to work for Bryan and free silver. The men who are behind the charges will not be satisfied with the removal of Spencer it is the clerkships 'in the office they are after. As soon as the new agent is appointed they will insist that the Democratic clerks be discharged, notwithstanding they are all under the protection of the civil servics law. 'i .J

MATTHEWS STILL IN POLITICS

Will Probably Us a Candidate to Sacceed Turple. Ex-Governor Matthews and family are now comfortably settled on tbe Matthews farm near Clinton, Vermillion county, comments the Indianapolis Nervs. The term for which the farm was leased will expire May 1st, and from that date on Mr. Matthews will be in charge. Persons who have talked with the ex-governor since he returned from California say he has not lost interest in politics by any means, H« believes tbe Democrats will win in the state election next year, and his friends understand that he will be a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Turpie.

Chairman Martin of the Democratic stats committee and the ex-governor met here last week and talked over the situation. Mr. Martin says there wilt not be a meeting of the state committee soon. "There is nothing for the committae to do," said he, "anj I do not see why it should be called together. You may depend upon it that wears* not sleeping. Tbe party organisation is bs--ing strengthened all along the line. Yes, we shall carry Indiana next year. That'a settled now."

DENOMINATIONS TO UNITE

National Movement to Bring Abont Cnien of CoagrecatlonaMst: ChrUtiftfiK St. Louis, April 19.—There is national movement on foot looking to the union flC the Congregational and Christian denominations. Some months ago, in addition to steps taken in Ohio anil ths East, a unisn meeting of the ministers of the two bodies was held in St. Louis.. This meeting resuited in a second hehi today at which three committees composed in the main of prominent ministers, wore appointed to consider suggestions madfe for co-operations in educational, evaflgelio and benevolent purposes, and from late plum to be presents* et the next meeting.

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