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Favors free silver. SENATOR VOORHEES READY FOR FREE COINAGE. fie Avers the •• Arrogant Apostles of Gold” Mean 11l to the People? and Demands White Metal at 16 to 1— Says We Should Not Wait for England Wants No Straddling. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, in an interview on the silver question said: I do not regret the agitation of the silver Question. Soohei or later it had to be definitely settled whether the labor producing people of this country can be bullied out of half of their debt paying money er that they will stand up like free men and protect and defend the money named and provided in the Constitution -gold and silver, or both—not one of the precious metals alone, but both, and on terms and conditions As to coinage and use of absolute equality. That is the question immediately before us, and no better time than now will ever be found for its settlement. The Sherman act. which was conceived in rancorous hostility to silver and brought forth into a law by an inlquitious betrayal of silver free coinage, has been buried in an unhonored grave, over which po lament will ever be heard. I have never been willing to admit that our system of currency should be dictated by England and other foreign countries, and I repel that idea now. The real and vital issue now presented to the American people is the proposed elimination of silver from our currency. This movement means the destruction of half of the debt-paying money of the united States and of the world. If it should be successful it will double the burdens on every debtor and multiply the gains and income of every creditor wherever the sun shines.

The debts of the American people at this time, both public and private, are appalling in amount. They have been contracted on a bimetallic basis and it. is now proposed to make them payable on a basis of gold alone. Tbe two metals also constitute the specie basis for such paper currency as may be put In circulation. If silver money Is destroyed paper circulation must be contracted In that proportion. Every form and kind of money incst become that much scarcer and harder to get in exchange for labor and the products of labor. Such a policy is to my mind •imply horrible. I have not a particle of d<>ubt as to the result of the contest now going on. The enemies of silver will be driven to the wall. Silver money will not only survive but it will be fully restored to its old place as a leading and controlling factor in the development and the progress of the country. Danger from the coinage and use of silver a* money In this country never occurred t<> the sane mind until greed, avarice, unholy •peculation reared its serpent head and aimed a vicious, deadly blow at the honored dollar of the fathers in 1573. Since that us JL J SENATOR VOORHEES. time we have had nothing but financial vexation. distrusts, business depression, ruinous panics, and confiscation. If I am told on this question that silver bullion as a marketable commodity at this time commands a low price, my answer is that if gold had bi-eu conspired against, persistently assailed by foul means as well as fair, stabbed in the dark and in the daylight, and in the back and under the fifth rib. and wherever else a dagger could be planted for nearly a quarter of a century past, it would be in a far worse crippled condition than silver. No other form of money on the face of the earth qould have withstood as silver has done such a malignant, unsparing crusade as the last twenty-two years have witnessed in this country. It still holds Its place in the affections and confidence of the f>eople. Battered, bruised, aud tattered as t has been, yet it will buy to-day all that gold will buy. and pay all the debts* that gold will pay, unless a special contract has been made for gold. The American people will never g.ve it up. and the sooner the minions of aggressive, indolent, consolidated wealth and the arrogant apostles of gold monometallism realize ami act upon this fact the better end safer it will be for them in the future of this country. The need of the white metal In the hands of the people is even greater now than ever before. There Is scarcely a speck of gold in sight of the laboring classes. In round numbers there are nearly four thousand millions of gold money in the world and about the same amount of silver. With sliver demonetized the plain people, the wage workers, and those who raise and sell the produce of the soil will handle specie money no more forever, and will catch even a glimpse of it bul seldom. I wish to impugn the motives of no one and to avoid hard words in discussion as much as possible; but the time has come when speech, though temperate, should be very plain. Party platforms from tbi , time forward will not bp framed to cheat on this subject, whatever may have been done heretofore. If the free and unlimited coinage of silver as full legal tender money and as a standard of statutes and the unit of account and payment, without a word of international agreement on the subject, will put this country on a silver basis, then we were on such a basis every day and hour from the passage of the first coinage act in April, 1792, until the demonetization act of February, 1873. a period of eighty-one years, during which we rose from weakness to the foremost rank among the nations of the earth. I commend to all croakers in regard to a silver basis a careful reading of th** act of April 2, 1792, formulated l>v Hamilton ind Jefferson and approved by Washington. ALLISON FOR SOUND MONEY. lowa Man So Expresses Himself to a Chicago Newspaper Interviewer. Senator William B. Allison, of lowa, passed through Chicago the other day on his way to Washington. In response to

the quiries of an interviewer he said: “I am in favor of sound monev. Gold and silver have been the money of nations for centuries, and all that is needed is to establish the relative value of the two metals. The question now is how can we place silver in circu-

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lation and pass it current with gold? It is gratifying, is it not, to know that a few men can save our country by loaning us gold to pay our current expenses?" Proposed Republican Policy, Washington dispatch: Certain elements in the Republican party will endeavor to obtain a definite declaration regarding silver at the national convention. They think it useless to attempt to commit the party to free and unlimited coinage, but they will try to secure insertion in the platform of a provision for coinage of silver to a considerable amount. They are even willing to change the ratio and make it 18 to 1. or thereabouts, but they want the Republican party to commit 1

itself to the coinage o* $460,000,000 In silver. There are Republicans in the East who call themselves friends of silver, and this is the kind of policy they are counseling. FOR FREE COINAGE. Ex-Speaker Crisp Says the IS(>6 Democratic Convention Should So Declare. In an interview at Atlanta ex-Speaker Crisp gives his views of the coming presidential campaign and the politics which will enter into it. lie says: “From the time of the tariff commission of ISBO down to a year ago tariff reform had its varying fortunes, resulting at last in a revision £ ceptable to the people. The silver question is going through the same course of public discussion. Just as in that fight the silver men will have their battle royal, when the American people EX-SPEAKER CRISP. will award the victory. The majority of people in both parties are in favor of the free coinage of silver. They are today behind the free silver movement, and they will push it on to success and have silver re-established to its old equality with gold. In the next campaign the rehabilitation of silver will be the controlling issue upon which Democracy will appeal to the people. Tarty platforms should always be plain and direct. Whatever reason existed for different constructions of the platform of 1892 should no longer exist, and for this purpose that to be adopted in 1896 should be so plain that even a school boy can understand it. The platform should declare for the free coinage of silver. “Os course,” said Mr. Crisp, “there is a contingency in which the people might not bo called upon to settle the question—that is the probable action of an international conference. That would be the best and easiest method of re-establishing silver, and with less of the element of experiment in it. If such a conference should be called, and it took action restoring silver so that the people would be satisfied, we would have no financial issue for 1896. I am in favor of its free coinage, as I have always been." SECRETARY MORTON’S VIEWS.

Declares Himself for Gold Supply ant Demand Regulates Value. Secretary Morton, in an interview on the silver question, said: “I do not believe that an international conference can establish permanently a commercial ratio between gold and silver any more than it can establish a permanent commercial ratio between rye and wheat. But if an international conference can fix the price

of gold and silver it can also fix the price of wheat or any commodity, and thereby avoid all possible shrinkages in value j which tend to caus« » panics. i “My own judgment is that we must sooner or later declare that the United

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States recognizes gold as the best ana least fluctuating measure of value and medium of exchange which the commerce of civilization has thus far utilized. The time for straddlers is passed. Those who are for sound currency on a gold basis ought to have the courage to say so and abide by the resuits of their convictions. I have no hesitation in declaring myself opposed to all free coinage fallacies. My judgment is that silver cannot be restored to its former monetary place in the commerce of the world, because the supply of silver has outgrown the demand for silver in the exchanges of civilization. The relation of supply to demand is the regulator of value. This axiom applies alike to salt, silver, sugar and soap. All the legislation of the law-making bodies on the face of the globe cnn neither mitigate nor annul the operation of the inexorable law. The relation of supply and demand is the sole regulator of value.” Tennessee Bimetallic League. The first movement of the friends ot free silver coinage in Tennessee to organize was made when, in response to a call, a gathering of the supporters of the white metal was held in Memphis, at which the nucleus of a Bimetallic League to embrace the entire State was formed. Before organization was perfected the meeting declared its principles in a brief resolution favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent of the action of other countries. Trials of the New Party. Washington dispatch: When the Blmetallic League, which has headquarters in Washington, organized the new silver league on a 16 to 1 basis, it was with the expectation that both Populists and free coinage Democrats would go into it. The Democrats refused to have anything to do with a new party movement, and now the League people have been informed that the Populists will decline to join them. Sixteen to One Move in Texas. At a caucus in Austin, Tex., of ths members of the Legislature, at which Hon. John H. Reagan. ex-State Comptrollers Brown and Swain and other prominent citizens were present, resolutions were adopted looking to the organization of the free silverites in Texas on the 16 to 1 basis. Carlisle to Speak at Memphis. Secretary Carlisle has confirmed the report that he is to address the soundmoney convention at Memphis. He sent a formal acceptance and will at once begin the preparation of what he is to say. The eyeball is white because the blood vessels that feed its substance are so small that they do not admit the re-» corpuscles. Some men would rather not pray than to have their trousers bag at the knees.

WHY PROTECT THEM? MANUFACTURERS CAN UNDERSELL ENGLISH COMPETITORS. A Conclusive Tariff Argument—Protectionists Now Afraid of Chinese Labor -Immigration and the Tariff —Don’t Sell Yonr Sheep Now. As to Certain Tariff Duties. For some time past in almost every weekly issue of the American and the English trade journals of the iron and steel industry reference has been made to sales of American iron or steel products in England or in neutral markets which were formerly supplied by English manufacturers. We have directed attention to many of these sales during the last twelve months. They show that our manufacturers are selling in the English market wrought iron tul>es, cast iron pipes, hoop iron, files, shears, saws, and wire for the English makers of screws. They also show that in Canada and some other neutral markets our manufacturers are overcoming or already have overcome the competition of the English in several important branches of the industry. All of the products thus sold abroad —in England, the British colonies, or neutral markets—without the help of any protective duty, and sometimes under a considerable handleap of ocean freight charges, are protected here at home by duties which are higi, even in the new tariff. These duties are needed, the followers of McKinley say, for the defense of the domestic manufacturer against sales in this country of English goods which the domestic manufacturer undersells In England itself. Our neighbor, the New York Tribune, published a few days ago an article showing “how the groat Pittsburg pipe mills are underbidding their competitors across the ocean." The transaction in question was the reported sale of 250 tons of wrought ir- < tubing in Ixmdon by Pennsylvania manufacturers. Our neighbor should explain why the present duties on wrought iron pipes (25 per cent.) and cast iron pipe ($13.44 per ton) are too low to afford adequate protection to the American manufacturer as against importations of wrought iron tubes and cast iron pipes into this country, and why the American manufacturer, who undersells his English competitor in South America. Canada. France, and England itself, needs to be protected here by any duty whatever. We should like to know whether Gov. McKinley and those who agree with him would now. if they had the power to do so. increase the present duties cu wrought iron tubes, cast iron pipe, hoop iron, galvanized iron, saws, tiles, boiler plate, tank plate, wire, and other iron or steel products which our manufacturers are selling abroad at prices which the English manufacturers cannot meet, as in Canada, where the English have already lost the greater part of their old trade, and even in England, with respect to some of these products. A glance at the statute will show that the present duties on these goods are high. Would Gov. McKinley and his party make them higher, and if so, why? Would they reduce them? Why not? Why is any part of them required, even from the point of view of the McKinley protectionist? — NeuYork Times.

Afraid of Chinese Labor. Great lamentations are going up now from the protectionists all over the land; 400,000,000 of slaves, they say. are to compete with our workingmen. China is to have open commerce with the rest of the world. Unless we increase the protection duties on Chinese products our workingmen will be forced to work for Chinese wages. The future looks blue to all disbelievers in trade and commerce. It is true that according to the terms of peace with Japan five Chinese ports are to be opened to commerce and that Japan and other nations will be permitted to open cotton factories and other industries in China. But what will happen? Is modern progress and invention unable to compete with hand labor and antiquated methods? Not much! European and American goods will find big markets in China as soon as the Chinese have learned to make something to exchange for our goods—for, of course, it would be impossible for the Chinese to take our goods unless they had something to offer us that we desired in exchange. We must take some product of theirs or they cannot take our goods. In any case, both we and they would benefit by an exchange of products. The Chinese would produce such articles as 'hey are by nature best fitted to produce and we w ould do the same. They can produce rice very cheaply. We can produce machine-made goods more cheaply. We will exchange our sewing machines, clocks, stoves, shoes, tools, etc., for their rice, tea. silks, ete. Our mechanic will produce goods in one day that will exchange for as much rice or tea as will be represented by ten days' labor in China. He can by exchanging with the Chinese get more rice for one day’s labor than he could get in any other way. The more rice he will taae from the Chinese the more of his goods can the Chinese buy. This will make trade. It is not unlikely that our exports to China will increase from $5,000,000 a year, as at present, to $25,000,000 or $50,000,000 in ten or fifteen years. Even supposing that after twenty or thirty years the Chinese should be able to manufacture a considerable portion of the cotton goods of the world, would we Americans be better or worse off because of the change? Would we not get our cotton fabrics much cheaper than now? Would not many more be emnloved in making something to ex-

change for these Chinese goods than were thrown out of employment because a part of our cotton industry had left us? We would certainly gair. more than we would lose by sueh a change. It is natural and well that each individual and each nation shouli produce those things which he or it can most cheaply produce and get by exchange those things which be or it cannot produce most cheaply, lienee ail barriers to commerce and trade — whether mountain ranges, Chinese walls, or tariff walls—are an obstruction to civilization and progress. The removal of any of these barriers makes life easier to millions of people on this globe. We need have no fear of competition with Chinese labor. Immigration and the Tariff, The New York Press is doing some tall calamity howling. It says that “two years of tariff reform have reversed the tide of immigration into the United States, which in one year had reached 730,000, and now our net gain in population from abroad for the last year is only 1.696. Our outgoing refugees from bad industrial conditions last year were 312,771 and our incom ing immigrants were only 314.467.” Tills Is indeed a bad showing, for which some party is responsible. It occurred, however, not under Democratic. but under Republican laws—the McKinley bill being in full force during the last fiscal year. Since the Wilson bill has been operative, wages have begun to rise—at first slowly, but now more rapidly and the tide has turned toward this country. Canadian mill operatives who left New England by thousands during the dull McKinley-Sherman period of 1893-1 are now coming back in flocks. The Press is correct in saying that “Nothing more clearly indicates the relative superiority of countries than the tide of immigration. It always flows toward the place of best opportunities for getting a living. A little more of tariff reform and the United States will be reduced below the water mark of Europe.” The fact that so many people were leaving this country for Europe in 1893-4 shows that, all things considered. wages readied the European level during the McKinley period. When wage earners considered the rate of wages, cost of living and opix>rtunities for employment and enjoyment in Europe and America, they concluded that it was. in 1893-4. about “six of one to a half dozen of the other.” There being no duty on either emigration or immigration in any country. labor Is free to flow back and forth at will — which it lias been doing. This faet serves to show what a farce tariffs are as a means of "protection to American labor.” American labor has absolutely no protection (except the trouble and expense of crossing the ocean) from foreign labor; for. as the Press explains, the moment the “opportunities for getting a living" are better hero than abroad, foreitfh labor begins to flow this way. Tariff duties are on goods and ail the “protection” there is for any class goes to the manufacturers or producers of these goods. The ease is very clear.

Women in Pittsburg Rolling Mills. Protectionists who have found delight iu pointing out the superior condition of American workingmen and iu emphasizing the barbarity of employing women and children in the coal mines and iron works of Great Britain may be Interested in this item, which has recently come from Pittsburg: "Women as operatives in tinplate mills iu America have proved a success in the large new plant of the Monongahela Tinplate Company, at South 15th street, the past week. Two weeks ago Mrs. Hattie Williams came to the manager of the Monongahela mill and asked for work because her husband was ill and could not support the family. Mrs. Williams was put to work separating plates as they came from the rolls, ami so proficient was she that five young girls were given her as assistants, and she was made forewoman of that department. The company now proposes to put 100 girls ami women at work iu the mill within the next few weeks."

The Impossibility of competing with Welsh tinplate manufacturers, with their low-priced labor and their women and children operatives, has been one of the stock arguments by which American manufacturers have supported their demand for a highly protective tariff on tinplate. With a duty that is equal to nearly 60 per cent, of the foreign cost of ordinary grades of tinplate and nearly 30 per cent, of the price in this country, the manufacture of tinplate has proved so alluring to protectionists with money to invest that already the cry of over-production is heard in the land. Now comes the descent to the lower plane of the muchdespised Welsh manufacturers, and the employment of children in the mills is followed by the introduction of women in the sheet rolling mills. The Monongahela mill referred to in the paragraph above is essentially a protectionist enterprise, of which Henry W. Oliver is the president.—Philadelphia Record. Don’t Sell Your Sheet. Now. Educated by events, some of the protectionist journals are now advising the farmers to bold on to their sheep. But we do not observe that they make any apology for their misleading ami panic-breeding articles last year in which they advised the farmers to send their sheep post-haste to the shambles. The farmer who edits his farm on the strength of what he reads in the Republican newspapers is a man much to be pitied. —Philadelphia Record. It is believed by microscopists that the highest power* of;their instruments have not yet revthled the most minute forms of animal :ife.

TEACHERS TOGO WEST A HOST WILL ATTEND THE DENVER CONVENTION. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association. July 5-12—Many* Eminent Educators on the Program. Thirty Thousand Expected. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held in Denver. July 5 to 12. The association goes so far \\ eat this year for the second time in its history, lu the session was held in San T rancisco, the president of the association for ’SS was Aaron Gore, then and now superintendent of the Denver schools. The San I ranciaco meeting was the largest the association has ever held, before or since that

time, aud such enthusiasm as was manifested in ISSS has not been known until 1895. when the fame cf Denver has called fortj), three mouths before the time set for the July meeting, an enthusiasm on the part of educators throughout the country.

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which assures an attendance of between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The San Francisco attendance was 12,000. The National Educational Association was established in 1557 in Philadelphia; its object, as stated iu the preamble to the constitution, is “To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education iu the United States.”

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia College, professor of philosophy and education, and State university examiner for New York, is president of the association. Dr. Butler is one of the young men who Lave of late years come to the front in educational lines. He is 33 years of age and is recognized as one of the BQ DENVER <TTY HALL. most advanced thinkers, and among the most progressive educators in the world. Superintendent A. G. Lane, of Chicago schools, is vice-piesident; Irwin Shepard, State superintendent of Minnesota, is secretary; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of the Kansas City schools, is treasurer, and Superintendent N. A. Calkins, of the New York schools, is chairman of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the association. The membership is composed of men and women eminent in educational lines in the United States and Canada, and numbered last year over 5,000. Convention Program. The National Educational Association his eleven departments, each of which has a meeting place and holds sessions of its own, in addition to those of the general convention. The departments are: Kindergarten. Elementary. Secondary. Higher. Normal, Manual Training, Art. Music, Business Education, Child Study; and a National Council of Education.

Among the noted educators who will read papers and take part in the discussions of the convention and its departments are: President De Ga r mo, of Swarthmore; Commissioner Harris, of the United States Bureau of Education ; Hon. Hoke

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Smith, Secretary of the Interior: Prof. Jackman, of the Cook County Normal School, Illinois; Chancellor IV, H. Payne, of Nashville University; George H. Martin. Supervisor of Boston Schools; Prof. William Carey Jones, of the University of California: James L. Hughes. Inspector of Schools, Toronto; Dr. J. M. Rice, of New York; Mrs. Mary Hunt, of Boston; Prof. Richard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin; N. C. Shaeffer. Pennsylvania State Superintendent; Halsey C. Ives, Chief of the Art Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Convention City.

Not only has Denver become famous as a city of conventions, some sixty organizations having met there in convention last year, but no city of the age and size of Denver is so well known throughout the country for the superior excellence of its school system and for the educational advantages it affords. Ever since the Knight Templar Conclave, of August, 1892. when 100 000 COLORADO STATE CAPITOL. DENVER, guests were so royally entertained in Denver, that city has always been considered in choosing a place for large conventions. Several other cities, east and west, fought hard for the ’95 convention of the National Educational Association, but Denver prevailed. From all points in the East, railroads will sell tickets to Denver and return at one fare, plus $2 for membership in the association. These tickets will read, “good returning July 15 or 16." but if deposited with tb< Union Ticket Agent in Denver the return coupons will be expanded to any time up to Sept. 1.

CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE. Fine Hhewiog of M inter Wheat—Cora Planting Well Under Way. Reports as to the conditions of crops throughout the country and the general in. fluence of weather on cultivation and growth of crops made by the directors of the different State weather services and telegraphed to Chicago are as follows: Winter wheat is reported as in excellent condition in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and over the greater part us Illinois; Nebraska reports good condition in extreme southeast, elsewhere mostly winther killed; lowa reports good condition; Ohio much improved and iu fair condition except in northern portion; a good crop is promised in Indiana, except on clay soil; Arkansas and Oregon report crop much improved; Michigan fair condition. except in some central counties, where winter killed; in Wisconsin it has been largely winter killed; in Kansas the crop is improved in western portions of the State, but in ventral counties much has been plowed up and the ground sown in other grain. Spring wheat is coming up and growing nicely in the Dakotas and Minnesota, but in the southern portion of the last samed State the late sown is needing rain. Corn planting has begun in Minnesota and is progressing in Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and South Dakota: some damage is being done by cut worms in Mississippi and Kentucky. Cotton planting is nearly completed in South Carolina. Alabama and Arkansas and will be finished in Louisiana the coming week. Indiana—Warm weather and few showers were beneficial, but rain is needed: wheat on favorable soil promises good crop, on clay ground it stands thip and spotted; plowing for corn nearly ended; planting begun in most counties. Wisconsin—Weather too cold and dry for crop growth: grass and oats making slow progress; winter wheat largely killed and land sown to other grain; about 50 per cent, of the crop saved in east portion; planting begun. lowa—The week ended warm and favorable; a fair start has been made in corn planting: all small grain crops doing well; winter wheat in good condition. North Dakota—Favorable weather, wheat seeding about finished; oats, rye and flax being sown; grain coming up nicely. Minnesota—Good rains in northern and central portions and light showers in southern portion; warm sunshiny days, with frosty nights; early sown grain good stand and sprouting nicely; potato planting well advanced and corn planting begun; grass and late sown grain need more rain in southern portion. * South Dakota Above an average temperature. with about average rainfall and sufficient sunshine caused satisfactory progress in all vegetation; wheat, oats, gardens and grass growing nicely: flax seeding progressing; potato planting advanced; corn planting becoming general. Michigan Warm. dry woA has greatly advanced farm work, but held back vegetation. which is badly in need of raia; all winter wheat in fair condition except in eastern third of central counties, where it is poor and winter killed in spots.

PYTHIANS ON PARADE. Delegates from All Over the World Meet at Indianapolis. Twenty-four States were represented at the first meeting of Supreme Council Uniformed Rank. Knights of Pythias of the World, which began in Castle Hall at Indianapolis. Tuesday. There were in attendance the supreme chancellor and other officials, many representatives of supreme lodges, the brigade commanders of the various States and the members of supreme tribunals. The supreme council is the legislative power of the rank. This is the first meeting since the uniformed rank was authorized to be under control of its own members. James Carnahan, who is at the head of the rank, welcomed the delegates to the convention, and Supreme Chancellor Rich, of Ohio, responded. The report of General Carnahan was then read. It called attention to the rapid growth of the uniform rank and made recommendations for the future government of the rank. The report was referred to a committee. Committees were then appointed on rules and regulations. finance, revenue, a|>peals and grievan <-s. mileage and per diem and law The convention fixed a basis on mileage and per diem for the representatives and accepted and approved the bond of William J. McKee, of Indianapolis, adjutant general of the rank, who will hereafter handle all the funds of the uniform rank. In the afternoon there was a magnificent parade, commanded by Gen. J. R. Ross. At night the delegates to the convention witnessed the exemplification of the proposed ritual of the uniform rank at tha Olvera house. Mr. John W. Foster is well pleased with the peace treaty between Japan and China. He gets SIOO,OOO out of it. The Princess of Wales is a lover and collector of fine and rare laces and has $150,000 worth locked up in her cabinets. John Ruskin can play chess and indulge in other similar recreations, but it is not thought that he will ever be able to resume literary work. Mr. I vote has been elected president of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club, borne years ago Mr. Foote was walking on his uppers, but now he is well heeled. Chief Clarence of the Mosquito Reservation is still at Kingston. Jamaica, under British protection, and is allowed $22 a day for living expenses. Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, has been made a commander of the Order of the Ernestine House of Saxony in recognition of his services to science. Mrs. Potts, the woman suffrage leader of Topeka, has applied for divorce for the reason that Mr. Potts has accorded her. among other rights, the one of earning her daily bread. L. Clark. Jr., who recently resigned his position as general freight agent of the New York Central Railroad, had been.forty-seven consecutive years in the service of the company. E. St. John, vice-president of the Seaboard Air Line, was recently presented with a magnificent gold watch from tbs locomotive engineers of the Chicago. Ro. k Island and Pacific Railroad as a token ol their appreciation of the kind treatment they received from him while he wai general manager of the Rock Island road.