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•weaker nation against the stronger is very humanitarian, but does not work in practice. Spain. El Liberal adds, must bring ■matters to an issue herself, and, should the fortune of war be against her, though defeated. she need not blush. El Liberal lays stress upon the Tears of the United States of action in Mexico. should war occur, lest the Latin races in America make a united stand against tho Anglo-Saxon domination. The Imparoial (independent) says: “Never did a nation pursue a policy mote contemptible than that of America to-day. So false and low are tho pretexts for war that the stomach, as well as the heart, of Europe is moved. Three parts of the original scheme are now blended In one. The Cubans, unless they are blind, must see the, fete that the liberators reserve for them./ ■Hence the rumors of Maximo Gomez’s Wile ingnees to accept the existing legality. These rumors are unconfirmed, but Senors Glberga, Dolz and Vtondi are about to start for the' rebel quarters. Gen. Calixto Garcia’s attitude, the New York Junto's disgust and the foreign bourses' rise ail give hope that the rebels will resist annexation; and we will shortly see whether American greed dare face the opposition of the whole of Cuba and Europe unless Cuba has lost her common sense, Spain her courage and the old world its self-interest. TWO SPANISH FLEETS. One Said to Be in the British Channel and Another Near St. Thomas. SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.—A vessel which arrived here to-day reports having Been a Spanish torpedo flotilla in the British channel. Investigation of the report, however, leads to the belief that It Is untrue. An officer, who has since left town, reported having seen the flotilla, which he thought Wjis escorting a vessel that had been purchased by Spain. FALMOUTH, England, April IG.-The skippers of all the vessels which have arrived here during the day discredit the Southampton report of a Spanish torpedo flotilla having been seen in the channel. Tugs which have been cruising in the channel for the past twenty-four hours have not seen any Spanish vessels. ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS, West Indies, April 16.—A report Is current here that five war ships passed this island yesterday to tile northward. They are said to have been going in a westerly direction. Don Carlos May Return. _ VENICE, April 16.—The Gazette of this city to-day publishes a letter from Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, to Senor Mella, the deputy to the Spanish Cortes from Estella. \He wiltes: “On the borders of Navarre, which sends us as deputy to the Cortes, I experienced pain in separating myself J'.-om Spain, and I said I would return. Perhaps the hour of accomplishment of my promise approaches. I wish you, as deputy, to announce this to my unforgettable Estella.” Then follows the bulk of tho manifesto of Don Carlos, as already , cabled. Fled from Spain. NEW YORK, April 16.—The HamburgAmerican line steamer Hispania, which sailed from Havre on March 31 and arrived here to-day, brought as steerage passengers twenty-nine Spanish peasants, twentyeight men and boys and one woman. The men are sheep herders, who left Spain to evade military duty and try their fortunes among the sheep ranches of California. Returning: to America. CHERBOURG, April 16.—The family of J. R. McArthur, second secretary of the United States legation at Madrid, sailed from this port to-day on the steamer Fkierst Bismarck. The vessel was detained for an hour awaiting the arrival of Mr. McArthur’s family. Spaniards Culled Home. PARIS, April 16.—A dispatch from Cette, department of Herault, to the Petit Journal says all able-bodied Spaniards there havf been ordered to return to Spain as early as possible. Torpedoes Laid in the Harbor. LONDON. April 16.—Lloyds’ agent at Algiers telegraphs that torpedoes have been laid at Port Maaeoh, Balearic Islands, and r+hat, entry to the port is forbidden except during daylight.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Alaskan Rate Trouble—EastBound Freight Shipments. CHICAGO. April 16.—1 t was intimated today that no further effort would be made to settle the controversy between the Canadian Pacific and the American roads until W. H. Newman severs his connection with the Great Northern road and assumes the presidency of the Hake Shore. It is the Great Northern that stands in the way of a submission of the questions in dispute to arbitration, and Mr.-Newman is understood to ba the author of that policy. His successor, it is thought, may not maintain such an unyielding position, and an agreement may then be reached to refer the whole dispute to tho Interstate-commerce Commission as arbitrators. Notice has been given by the Southern Pacific road that it will cease for tiie season fast trains to Southern California over the Sunset route. The last trip of the Sunset limited in connection Ojlth this service from Chicago over the Alton tracks will leave hero Tuesday, May 3. The sale of the Hit tie Rock & Memphis road under a foreclosure decree will t ike place at Little Rock Monday afternoon next. Tho Cotton Belt, the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf, the Illinois Central and the Louisville & Nashville have all been epoken of as possible purchasers. East-bound freight shipments for the week amounted to 73,093 tons, against 113,233 lor the week previous and 56,974 last year, divided among the different roads as follows: Lake Shore. 11,163 tons; Michigan Central, 6.253; Wabash, 3,476; Fort Wayne, S.N7I; Panhandle, 6,560; Baltimore & Ohio, 31.233; Grand Trunk, 5,231; Nickel-plate. 4,S7D; Erie. 10.598; Big Four, 1,838. Lake lines carried 188,533 tons. Interesting but Doubtful. New York Evening Sun. The news that Paul Dunbar. James Whitcomb Riley and Will Cook, of Washington, are writing a negro comic opera is interesting. Properly produced, this opera, if it proves to be worth its salt at all. ought to make a success. Young Mr. Dunbar, in •speaking of this matter on Saturday, said: "1 want to have the opera played entirely by colored singers. Whether, under those circumstances, it would he taken seriously or not I don't know, but then, you know, it is just as well for the authors when a comic opera is not taken too seriously. However, our opera tells a legitimate story and ics songs arc taken from those sung by the Southern people and have nothing in common with the fake negro songs which one hears so much of in the music halls just now*. "The heroine is the daughter of a waiter who has become so rich from the tips which Jic has received at a winter hotel In St. Augustine that he determines to go North urul introduce his daughter to colored society in New York. •‘The first act takes place in the courtyard of the hotel and will make a very pretty spectacle. The other act is laid in Thompson street, where the heroine meets an African King, who is traveling incognito. Now that the public has grown tired of Chinese and Japanese operas, 1 really think that the negro opera ought to have Us day.” Fiction nod the Grip. W. It. Alden, in New York Times. Tho spring promises well for novel writers and publishers of novels, for we are now in the thick of an epidemic of influenza, and the influenza always gives a fillip to Jie sale of novels. This does not mean that, when a man's brain is weakened by illness he. instinctively buys "The Christian” or "Quo Vadls,” but it does mean that thousands of men ar.d women who have little time to read when they are well beguile the weary hours of lying in bed and waiting for the influenza to release its grip by reading novels. The really astute author who wishes for a large sale of hts new book would do well to wait for an Influenza epideml , and then publish it at once. It is safe to say that the present epidemic will be worth the sale e! thousands of novels that would have remained unsold If the influenza had not Islted us. So l’ar as can be ascertained, influenza Ifc the only disease that promotes the sale of novels. Consumption probably stimulates the sale of semi-religious stories, and It is possible that prolonged indigestion, accompanied by nausea, tempts people of the homeopathic faith to read Mme. Sarah Grand’s physiological novels, but as an aid to the spread of genetal novel reading Uiare Is nothing to Im compared to influenza.

ATTACKS ON GEN. LEE CONSUL GENERAL WOULD NOT BE WELCOME IN HAVANA NOW. eSpanish Papers Shouting: for War and Calling; Us Cowards—Anti-Bread-Tax Riot in Matnnzas, HAVANA, April 16, 9:30 p. m.—The evening papers continue their attacks on Consul General Lee in most violent terms. They comment on the “lictitious riches’’ of the United States and say that there is $1,100,030 in circulation in that country and a debt of $1,000,000,000. In the event of war it will be necessary to raise in Europe immense loans of $2,000,000,000, as war will prevent the raising of funds in the United States, where the financial system is a poor and dangerous one. The mere announcement of a threatened conflict with a maritime nation, these journals declare, will produce a financial crisis throughout the country. Several of the evening papers publish articles ridiculing the editorial in this morning’s issue of the Diario de la Marina declaring that Spain has won the first victory from the United States by making them come upon the ground desired by the Spanish. The Spanish steamer Pio IX, Captain Ugarto, sailed to-day for Cienfuegos and other Cuban ports to load sugar. After loading sho will proceed for New Orleans. The British consul certified her manifests. To-morrow Is the day appointed by law for the elections. El Correo in an editorial this evening speaks of the elections tomorrow, intimating that it is understood that a large majority of the committees is not disposed to collaborate in the “unpopular work prepared behind the scenes,” and says that many of the candidates of the party have no recognized merits for representing it. Men should be chosen, El Correo says, who have a political history and are of known convictions, not setting aside prominent persons. Otherwise, it declares, disaster will come, producing the effect now being witnessed, meaning the war in Cuba. On the st imer Montserrat's trip from Spain she stopped at the Island of Martinique, where two American war ships were having their bottoms cleaned. The Colon, a steamer of 5,003 tons, Is in the dry dock here. The dock worked perfectly. Dr. Arostegui, the British vice consul here, and Senor Carlos Fonts left to-day on the steamer Versailles. El Correo, speaking of an American newspaper correspondent throwing pennies to beggars “like dogs” on the streets, says the authorities should see that this disgusting spectacle is stopped and declares that the correspondent should be expelled. El Conlmercio this afternoon publishes an editorial in which it declares there will be no war between Spain and the United States owing to the hesitancy of the "Yankee government and people” and desires of both governments to exhaust all means of averting a conliict before beginning hostilities,, and also to the attitude ol’ Spanish statesmen since 1895. The increasing of the defenses, El Commercio asserts, means that if the United States were sure of overpowering Spain they would have found a pretext many times before now. They should bamade to understand that the actual situation must cease. Europe, representing the universal embodiment of commerce in American waters, is inviting the United States to contribute to the pacification of Cuba. The Junto in New York, it says, must disappear. Its members should be expelled from North America. The Spanish and American governments know that the Junto is a focus of rebellion and comprises an assembly of dynamiters dangerous everywhere. El Commercio also says that, despising Consul General Lee, it yet does him honor. Vico Admiral Pastor, captain of the port, who commanded the cruisers Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo, returned to Havana today. The Spanish steamer Montevideo arrived here to-day from Barcelona. She had on board three hundred soldier 4 to reinforce the troops here and fourteen 'I- parted men. The Segurance left here to with fiftynine passengers. The Legalidad Nadonal remarks editorially that it prefers honor to peace. The Union Constitution lias become a decided partisan for war. The value of Spanish money is going down and tho prices of provisions are going up. There is more and * v anxiety expiessed to know the rest. of the crisis. Business is slow, and tht state of uncertainty causes depression among all classes. Everybody here seen..-; eager for a quick solution of the question one way or the other. Spaniards say war with the United States will bo popular, adding, referring to the United States: “Why crow' so much instead of acting immediately?” La Lucha, in an editorial to-day, says: “War is the only solution to clear off the situation between Spain and the United States, the former being a winner even if she loses. It is the best chance for Spain, and will mean the ending forever of the Cuban insurrection, which has always been supported by the United States. Autonomy cannot be effective unless the United States shows neutrality.” Advices received here from Matnnzas say there was much alarm in that city yesterday owing to anew tax on provisions. The stores wera all closed and the bakers w'ero not working. There was no bread in town. In addition, there was a scarcity of other food of all descriptions, 'lads aroused the people, and groups of the inhabitants paraded the streets shouting against the tax. The police eventually charged the rioters and made several arrests among the merchants of the town.

Garcia Suggests Finn of Campaign. KINGSTON, Jamica. April 16.—President Octava Law, of the Jamaican Junto, has received dispatches from General Calixto Garcia, which will be forwarded from Jamaica by the next steamer. The dispatch suggests a plan of operation in eastern in conjunction with America. A Cuban government courier, with other dispatches, was caught by Spaniards a few days ago at Cristo, near Santiago de Cuba, and killed. His body w r as left in the road, but the letters he bore were taken. Cuba Is “Tranquil” Officially. MADRID, April 16.—An official dispatch from Havana says: "Perfect tranquillity prevails on the island. All political parties are more united than ever and are rallying around the government and the flag. The newspapers are printing patriotic articles.” OBITUARY. Robert McLnnr, Minister to France Intler President Cleveland. WASHINGTON. April 16.—A telegram received by the State Department this morning from Ambassador Porter stilted that the Hon. Robert M. McLane. former minister to France, died at Paris at 6 o’clock this morning. He had been ill for some time, and passed quietly away. Robert Milligan McLanc was born in Wilmington, Del., June 23, ISIS. His father took part in the war of 1812 and his grandfather was a celebrated fighter in the revolution:.ry war. His father, Louis McLane, was twice minister to England, served in the United States Senate, and was for years president of tho Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The subject of this sketch attended college in this country and In Paris, afterwards entering tho United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1837 and was assigned to artillery duty. He took part in the Seminole war. and served later under General Scott and General Taylor against the Indians. He took part in the survey of the great lakes, and was sent to Europe in 1841 to inspect dikes and drainage in Holland and Italy. He returned home, left the army and began the practice of law. His home was in Baltimore, and in 1845 he was elected to Congress, being reelected twice. After his three terms in Congress he was appointed United States commissioner to China, with power as minister, being at the same time accredited to Japan. Corea, Siam and Cochin-China. He arrived In Hong Kong with a naval force in 1554. and returned in two years, after completing the object of his mission. He was prominent in Maryland politics during Buchanan’s campaign, and was appointed minister to Mexico, where he negotiated a treuty for protection to American citizens and property. He returned home qnd took a prominent part in the Maryland 1 contest that resulted in that State deciding not to

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secede from the Union. He retired to private life and was counsel for the Western Pacific Railroad, spending much time in Paris. New York and San Francisco. He was a Maryland delegate to the convention that nominated Tilden. and in 1874 fas made a state senator. In 1878 he was erected to the Maryland House of Representatives, being re-elected in 1880, and in 1883 was elected Governor, resigning in 1885 to accept the appointment as minister to France under Cleveland. Charles W. Hackett. PALATKA, Fla., April 16.-Charles ,W. Hackett, of Utica, N. Y., chairman of the New York Republican state committee, died here to-day. He was a director in the Savage Arms Company, director and manager of the Utica Herald Publishing Company, a member of the coal firm of Hackett & Atwood, of Stittvilie. and interested in other business enterprises. Col. Farron Olmstead. TUCKERTON, N. J., April 16.—C01. Farron Olmstead, late colonel of the Fiftyninth Ohio Regiment, and formerly commander of the lowa state militia, died here to-day, aged sixty-seven years. Vlcount Oxenbriilge. LONDON, April 16.—Viscount Oxenbridge is dead. He was born in 1829, and was a liberal “Whip” in the House of Lords. NULL AND VOID. (Conelnded front First Page.) and intervention talk gives small concern to the administration. • * * In the face of overwhelming evidence of the near approach of war, at a time when Congress and the administration have apparently abandoned hope of a peaceful solution, and when the dir. of martial preparations deafens the ear of two hemispheres, there still exists in certain exceptionally well informed quarters a quiet sustained faith that an actual conflict will yet be averted by the surrender of Cuba by Spain. A member of the diplomatic corp, who Is exceptionally level-headed, and who has the best sources of information, made this significant statement to-night: “The United States may make a naval demonstration and there may be an exchange of shots at Havana, but there will be no real war. The Spanish Cortes will meet next Wednesday, and after a time will give consent to a plan for the relinquishment of the island. Don Carlos, In anticipation of such a conclusion, has issued a revolutionary manifesto, but the throne of Spain will bo protected by Austrian and French arms. If necessary, and the Queen Regent and her Ministry have small fears on that account. It may take an actual movement by the navy against Spanish Cuba to effect an adjustment, but we will be spared the experience of a bloody war.” * * * Gen. William McKee and Capt. James B. Curtis, of Indianapolis, representing the National Guard *of Indiana, arrived . in Washington this morning and were in consultation all day with members of military committees of Congress, Secretary of War Alger and other officials of the War Department. Invitations had been sent to officers of State militia of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia to meet in ■Washington to-day and discuss the features of the reconstructed bill for the reorganization of the army on the threebattalion plan. The reorganization bill which was defeated in the House last week was objectionable to the State militia, and the object of the conference to-day was to frame a bill which would meet these objections. A measure which, it is believed, will bo satisfactory to the State soldiers will bo reintroduced and probably passed.

WHAT THE PRESIDENT MAY DO. The Resolution May- Be Returned Without His Approval. WASHINGTON, April 16.—Members of the administration arc watching with much interest the progress of events at the Capitol. No one, so far, has any clear idea of the exact character of the resolution which will finally bo adopted and sent to tho President, but there is a chance at least that the resolution as it comes from the conference committee may contain a clause recognizing the independence of the Cuban republic. What action will be taken by the President in that event cannot be stated with any degree of certainty, but the indications are that the resolution may be returned t,o Congress without executive approval or allowed to become a law without his signature. The right to recognize the independence of anew power, it is contended, under the Constitution, is clearly and conclusively the privilege of the President. This prerogative, it is asserted, has never yet, in the history of the government, been waved or surrendered by the executive to the legislative branch of the government. Attention is called in administration circles to the fact that in January,' 1877, Congress passed tw T o joint resolutions, one "relating to congratulations from the Argentine republic,” and the other “relating to congratulations from the republic of Pretoria, South Africa,” on the completion of our first centennial of national independence. Both of these resolutions were returned to Congress by President Grant without his approval. In his message returning them the President said: “Sympathizing, as I do, iri the spirit of courtesy and friendly recognition which has prompted the passage of these resolutions, I cannot escape the conviction that their adoption has inadvertently involved the exercise of a power which infringes on the constitutional rights of the executive. * * * The Constitution of the United States, following the established usage of nations, has indicated the President as the agent to represent the national sovereignty in its intercourse with foreign powers.” In concluding his message President Grant said: “As regards the resolution relating to the republic of Pretoria, I cannot learn that any state or government of that name exists.” In the event of the President allowing the resolution to become a law without his signature opinion is expressed in official circles that the objectionable part would be inoperative because unlawful under the Constitution. Representatives Grosvenor and Dingley were in conference with the President tonight. The visit of the former is understood to have been with reference to the course to be pursued in the House on Monday when the Cuban resolutions as passed by the Senate w r ill come up. Mr. Grosvenor, when he left the President, stated he was not certain as to what form the resolutions would take when they finally came up for the President’s approval or veto, and that any prediction as to their ultimate form just now would be mere speculation. Representative Dingley had a long conference with the President over the necessary war revenue legislation. The Republicans of the ways and means committee have already blocked out a bill ready to be expedited in committee or in open House whenever the necessity for immediate action Is made apparent. Some of the provisions already agreed on were reviewed in a general way to-night and proposed additions discussed. What the result of the conference was Mr. Dingley declined to state beyond the fact that the bill will not be brought up in the ways and means committee next Monday. There will be other conferences with the President and the treasury authorities before the final touches are given the measure. The announcement of the action of the Senate was read with great interest at the Spanish legation to-night, but there was no disposition to comment on it. While the Spanish minister is preserving a discree: reticence, it is known that he will remain here until at least the resolutions, of whatever form they may ultimately be, are signed by the President. Bryan \\au*s a Unban Flag. BOSTON, April 16.—Fifteen thousand people crowded Into Mechanics’ Hall to-night to hear William Jennings Bryan discuss the question of bimetallism. While he was speaking he was handed a press bulletin announcing the passage of the Turple Cuban resolution by the Senate. This announcement, which was read, caused the

wildest enthusiasm, and as Mr. Bryan waved a shken Cuban flag which had been thrown to him, men and women all over the hall cheered and yelled their indorsement of the Senate's action. Mr. Bryan expressed the hope that the spirit of the famous Boston tea party and the courage of Lexington and Concord were still alive in the people who live within the shadow of Bunker Hill to drive a foreign foe from off our shores. In answer the audience again rcse to its feet and wildly cheered. After further remarks in a patriotic strain, Mr. Bryan proceeded to a lengthy discussion of financial questions. MAY INVADE TEXAS. Hot-Headed Spaniards in Mexico Undertake u Serious Proposition. MEXICO CITY, April IG.-The correspondent of the Associated Press called tonight cn Minister of War General Berriozabel, who says that so far from increasing the troop3 on the border there are fewer soldiers on the Rio Grande than for some months. Troops have been moved about lately and that probably gave rise to rumors of increased military operations. The minister of war showed great interest in the war news, and he requested to be fully informed on everything. Many hot-headed and impetuous resident Spaniards fully believe that If they were allowed to enlist a few regiments among their own countrymen and invade Texas the Southern States would welcome them and begin a rebellion against the federal government, and that the Southern leaders would agree to give Mexico back her territory lost in the war of the American invasion. Some time ago at a dinner at a Spanish club in this city it is reported that this quixotic plan was broached to a general in the Mexican army, a veteran of several wars, who tried to reason his Spanish hosts out of their absurd notion, while they tried to persuade him to head a little army of invasion which they would form. He llatly refused, but it was boasted that the Spanish colony would make a rear attack on the United States while war was in progress. Moderate and sensible Spaniards here have discouraged these absurd notions, but it is impossible to convince a majority of their fellow-coun-trymen that the United States would not be quickly whipped. They boast that within three weeks tho Spanish flag will float over New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston and Boston. The lower elassas here bitterly hate the Spaniards, and when war breaks out there may be some trouble, but the government will give ample protection to resident Spaniards. A Mexican politician of eminence said to-night that Spain had made a tremendous blunder in not recognizing the independence of Cuba before asked to do so by the action of the United States. Mexico "Will Guard the Border. LAREDO, Tex., April 1G. —In view of the impending war between the United States and Spain the Mexican government has ordered the Eleventh Regiment of Infantry and one regiment of cavalry to proceed to the United States border, to be stationed at Matamoras, Nueva Laredo, Poriirio Diaz and Juarez to prevent any uprising in Mexico against the United States. Dr. Marti, the Spanish leader of a plan to invade Texas, is still confined with several accomplices in jail in Neuva Laredo. Most of his followers now under arrest are Mexicans, and this fact has caused some apprehension lest many ignorant Mexicans on this side of the Rio Grande might forcibly aid the Spaniards in case of an invasion, although many Mexicans who have expressed an opinion will support the Americans.

WILL SEARCH FOR ANDREE. I’rof. Startling Intends to Begin His Quest in tlie Klondike. STOCKHOLM. April 16.—Professor Stadling, who has been appointed to conduct the search for Professor Andree, the balloonist, who started last year in an attempt to cross the arctic region in & balloon, has deckled to proceed to the Klondike, owing, it is said, to the fact that geographers give credence to the report that Andree has been heard from in those latitudes. He will start on April 21. Emperor William Jealous. BERLIN, April 16.—Herr Poschlnger, the author of several books about Prince Bismarck, has been formally debarred from searching the royal or other-public archives for material, by order of Emperor William. The reason for this unusual measure is said to be the fact that Herr Posehinger has not accorded what his Majesty considers to be the full measure of praise to his grandfather, Emperor Wjlliam J, and also because the author has given Prince Bismarck too great prominence in the events of 1870-71. Attempt to Kill the Navrab. LONDON, April 16.—A special dispatch from Simla says a nephew of the nawab of a division in the Swat district, and not far from Chitral, with two accomplices, has attempted to take the nawab's life. The latter, however, was not severely wounded, and his assailants have been captured and killed. Mr. Giadst one's < end if inn Unchanged. LONDON, April 16.—The condition of Mr. Gladstone remains unchanged. A wellknown oculist has been summoned to lluwardcii. SUICIDE IN COURTROOM. Roadmaster Kills Himself on His Sentence Being Affirmed. JACKSON. Tenth, April 36.—A. R. Reynolds shot himself through the head in the Supremo Court room to-day just after Judge McAllister had affirmed the sentence of the lower court—six years for embezzlement. Reynolds left a letter saying he was innocent and that the railroad had killed him. He leaves a wife and child at Brownstown, W. Va. He had been roadmaster for the Louisville & Nashville at Paris, Tenn. A KENTUCKY FEUD. Ten Men Alleged to Have Been Killed in a “Pitched Battle.’’ PINEVILLE, Ky., April 16.-lt is reported by a man who has just arrived here from Clay county that the Howards and Bakers engaged in a pitched battle yesterday, and ten men were killed and three wounded. FOR ALL LANGUAGES. How an Obliging: Agent Sold a Gerinii i>-English Telephone. Milwaukee Telephone. J. G. Nolen, who is an old-timer in the electrical construction business, tells a story on "V&-1” Blatz, the millionaire brewer of Milwaukee. “Our company hud had some correspondence with Mr. Blatz regarding the putting in of a telephone plant in his big brewery establishment and I was sent up to try to close a deal. “I took a couple of our ’phones with me in order to make a practical demonstration should one be required, and I went with the intention of making a sale. “I got to talking with Mr. Blatz and showed him the advantage of putting in our intercommunicative system throughout his establishment. He listened attentively and finally said: “ ’Yes, that is all so; very true. But,’ and ho spoke with the conviction of one who was putting a poser, 'but my men down in the malthouse and the warehouses and cold storage are all Dutchmen. " ‘I myself, though a German and a graduate of Leipsic and Heidelburg, can speak English, but v/hat would your telephones be to my Dutch workmen, who cannot talk English at all?’ “Well. I saw how the land lay. Old Val could not get it through his head that the telephone would transmit anything but the language of America. I was pound to make tho deal, as I said before, so remarked to Mr. Blatz: " ‘I can put on some German receivers if you so desire. 1 have some with me.’ “I connected up the ’phones, made a show of changing the receivers, and in half an hour Mr. Blatz was talking to one of his Dutchmen down in the malthouse. He was delighted. “ ‘You may put them in.’ he said, ’and I shall want one German one in the malthouse, one German one in each warehouse, English ones in my office and the business office and a German one in tho cold storage house.’ “We closed the deal and Mr. Blatz was glad to pay $2 extra for each German enunciator we put in. When the 'phones were shipped from the factory I had them labeled Gorman and English, respectively, and the big brewer was perfectly satisfied. “It was five years before I saw Blatz again,” concluded Mr. Nolen. "He recognized mo at once, and said with a hearty Gorman laugh: ‘You are the aecommodatng gentleman who put In the German and English telephones for me. Well, you are a good one.' ”

THE WOMEN OF THE NAVY OFFICERS’ WIVES REALIZE A DARK HOI R IS APPROACHING. - • . Glrli Rather Be In the \avy than the Amiy on Account of the Social Advantages and the Authority. New York Press. “This is a sad time for us,” said the wife of a famous naval officer to the writer. “All we can do is to wait and hope. None of the ‘women of the navy’ wants war. Its opportunities for promotion and the winning of glory do not compensate for the terrible suspense and anxiety which we have to endure. Three of my family are in the navy, and my earnest desire is to hear news of peace, although I am trying to be prepared for whatever happens.” While her husband is looking for war orders from Washington, she and her children await the issue of events in the little New Jersey town which is their present home. This is the attitude of all the women whose fathers, brothers, husbands or lovers are in the navy. Their interest in the chances of war is more keen and personal than that of any other class of people, for a declaration of war with Spain means immediate naval action. Those who are with the Southern squadron are in especial danger. Ever since the blowing up of the Maine and the subsequent mobilizing of the fleet in Southern waters, the crying of every “war extra” on the street, the receipt of every letter and telegram, and the circulation of each new rumor of conflict have caused quickened heart beats and increased nervous tension in officers’ families. The suspense which the whole Nation has found it hard to endure has been most cruel to them. “But if war comes we w’ill bear it as bravely as any one,” asserted a little woman who has a husband on a war ship and a son at Annapolis. “All of us that marry into the navy know that we have to take such risks, and we wouldn’t be true officers’ wives if we were not willing to bear them with courage.” There is a peculiarly strong bond of sympathy and interest uniting all naval families, and those women whose husbands are not in danger of being called into immediate action are solicitous for their friends who are in critical positions as well as apprehensive of the time when they will be called upon to face a similar danger. This is the seamy side of a life that has many alluring features. There are other seams, such as frequent and prolonged separations, the perils that an officer encounters in unhealthy ports, and the ever present inconvenience of small pay. But with all of these drawbacks a naval officer is considered a desirable husband, and is petted and feted and flattered by womankind from the time he enters the naval academy as a stripling until he becomes a pompous old admiral. The army and the navy are both attractive to women—the uniforms, the manner of authority, the deference paid by subordinates, the respectful recognition everywhere accorded to officers in both imbuing them with a fascination that the plain man of the business or professional world woefully lacks. But the navy is even more desirable than the army, matrimonially considered. Why? Well, that is hard to say. It seems to be a sort of “I cannot tell you, Dr. Fell” reason. There is, however, a prestige that belongs to the navy which the sister branch of service lacks, and which more than compensates for the fact that the pay of naval officers is less, compared with what he has to spend, than that of the men in the army. That is a grievance to navy women. It is unfair, they say, because army officers are usually quartered in their own country. Their families are almost always with them, and thus they escape the necessity of keeping up two establishments, as the navy officer frequently has to do. When a naval officer is sent abroad on detached service he may send for his wife and let her enjoy the advantages of the place with him, but this expense has to be paid for out of bis own pocket. Officers are often the recipients of delightful hospitality in foreign ports, and etiquette demands that Ihey make some return for the attentions they receive, and this entails considerable private outlay. “But. all the same,” as one woman explained, “I had rather be in the navy than in the army. The army women so often are dumped in some desolate, out-of-the-way spot, and there they have to stay for years, seeing nothing of what goes on. They have to send their children away to school, and when they are through school they have to send them to stay with Eastern relatives where they may see something of society, unless they want them buried alive on the Western frontier. We have our troubles, too, about having to live where we don't, want to, and being separated from our children, but our chances of seeing the world and of having social advantages are far better than those of the army women.” It has been suggested that the necessity for frequent separations heightens the fascination of married life in the navy, but that is probably a jealous slander, since officers’ wives join their husbands whenever circumstances make it possible. Those who are stationed at the navy yards or in other government positions are considered fortunate, as this insures a certain degree of permanency. The oflieers’ quarters in these places are partially furnished. so that it is necessary only to provide the lighter and more personal sort of furnishings, but there is no guarantee that one may settle down here for any length of time, especially in war times, when an officer Is likely to be called upon at any moment to report elsewhere for duty and his family must give up their quarters to his successor and find anew home for themselves. The same thing is true of a commander of a war ship. Sometimes he is assigned to a place in which there is every apparent likelihood of his remaining for a year at least. In anticipation of this event he hires a house in the neighborhood and moves his family into it. Forthwith the mandate comes for him to sail for some other port and his domestic plans fall to pieces. It is said that some officers seem to be marked for misfortune in this particular, not by the intention of the government, but merely by their own unlucky stars. As soon as their wives appear and they propose to settle down to the life of an ordinary landsman the policelike order to “move on” arrives. “I believe that Mrs. is a hoodoo,” remarked one officer's wife to another. “Whenever she appeared, we knew that we should have to pack our belongings, for the order to move port was sure to follow. Poor woman, we all felt sorry for her, for her life is largely spent in pursuing her husband’s ship from one port to another, but we dreaded her arrival.” Hops and all forms of gayety which enliven life on shipboard and make one proud and happy to be in the navy have, of course, been given up since the Maine was destroyed. The whole navy promptly went into mourning and grieved as a family for the loss of one of its members.

PECULIAR SCHOOL SYSTEM. The Cleveland, 0., Plan, Which Concentrates Responsibility. New England Magazine The Cleveland system, which concentrates power and responsibility in a higher degree perhaps than any other school system in the country, is peculiar in the place which it gives to its “scholar director,” who, elected by the people for a term of two years, devoting all his time to the duties of his office, with a salary of $5,000 a year, is the executive officer of the schools, performing all the duties usually assigned to the various executive committees of a school board. The school board, which consists of seven members, elected by the people for a term of two years, four members being elected one year and three the next, is a purely legislative body like the trustees of a collge. The director may veto any act of tho board, which then fails unless passed by a two-thirds vote of the board. The director appoints the superintendent of schools, this appointment, however, requiring the approval of the board. The superintendent serves during good behavior and may be removed for cause by the director. The superintendent has sole power to appoint and dischaige all assistants and teachers. All other employes of the board are appointed by the director. The school board is entirely independent of the city hall financially, having sole control of all money raised for school purposes. It makes an estimate each year of the amount of money required for the conduct of the schools and certifies the same to the proper county officers, who must' levy and collect the full amount required, provided it does not exceed seven mills on the dollar of ussessed valuation. Such is the famous Cleveland system: and this is substantially what is recommended by President Draper and his associates on the subcommittee of the committee of flf-

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teen, in their report on the organization of city schools. We observe only two important variations. The committee recommends that, instead of providing that the superintendent of schools shall serve “during good behavior,” as in Cleveland, subject to removal for cause by the director, his term should be fixed at' from five to ten years. “It should be determinate, so that there may be a time for public examination, but it should be sufficiently long to enable one to lay foundations and show results without being carried under by the prejudices which always follow the first operation of efficient or drastic plans.” The second important point of variation from the Cleveland system is in the recommendation that the school board should be appointed by the mayor instead of elected by popular vote. “We are strongly of the opinion that in view of the well-known difficulty about securing the attendance of the mo6t interested and intelligent electors at school elections, as well as because of the apparent impossibility of freeing school elections from political or municipal issues, the better manner of selection is by appointment.” CENTENARIANS AND THEIR AVALS. Not All of Them Lived Livea of Sobriety and Morality. Langdon Kain, M. D., in North American Review. Not all the centenarians were paragons of all the virtues. Thomas Whittington, for example, who lived to be 104, was an habitual drunkard, drinking only London gin, of which he consumed from a pint to a pint and a half daily. Philip Baroque went to bed drunk at least two nights in the week until he was one hundred. At ninety-two he cut four new teeth. John De ia Somet, 130 years old, was an inveterate smoker. Several famous old people were extremely addicated to matrimony. Owen Duffy, who lived to be 122, married his third wife at 116, “bv whom he had a son and a daughter.” Francis Hongo, a Venetian, was five times married and was the father of forty-nine children. At the age of one hundred his white hair fell out and anew crop of the original color came it. At the age of 112 he had two new teeth. Margaret Krasiowna, a Pole, married her third husband at ninety-four. “She bore to him two sons and a daughter, as proved by the parish register.” Margaret McDowal, 106 years old, married and survived thirteen husbands. Among the recorded centenarians ape two dw'arfs—Mary Jones, one hundred years, who was two feet eight Inches in height and terribly deformed, and Elspeth Watson, 115 years old, who was two feet nine inches in height. Among the most agile were Mrs. Barrett, who, at the age of 116, climbed a ladder to repair the roof of her cottage; and Elizabeth Alexander who was particular about her dress at 10S, and was used to a daily walk of two miles. Several had peculiar habits. Mrs. Lewson, 117 years old. never washed her face for fear of taking cold, but greased it with hog’s lard. John Hussey, 116 years, drank only balm tta as a beverage. John Wilson, the same age. supped always off roasted turnips. Judith Banister, one hundred, lived entirely on biscuit, bread .and apples during the last sixty years of her life. Old Lord Scarsdale and Lord Combermere. both of whom lived to a ripe age. thought the wearing of a tight belt habitually about the waist, had much to do with their excellent health. Macklin, the centenarian actor, abandoned regular hours of eating in ttye last sixty-seven years of his life, taking food when he was hungry. Two interesting married couples are reported. Mr. and Mrs. Cotterell. aged respectively 120 and 115 years, were married ninety-eight years and “never had a quarrel.” They died within a few hours of each other. John Rovin, a Hungarian, and his wife, aged 172 and 164 years, lived together 148 years. At the time of the husband's death the youngest son was 116 years old.

The Blonde Got Even. Chicago Post. Small as was Lord Chesterfield’s opinion of woman’s understanding and social adroitness, he would have smiled guardedly but with zest at an encounter recently witnessed. A sallow little blonde entered an electric car and sat down effusively by a very handsome blonde with brown eyes. “O Harriet! I am so glad to see you! I’ve had so many engagements lately that I see nothing of you. How have you been?” “Much as usual,” answered the browneyed blonde. “Are you going to the ’s little lenten dance?” “No.” “You aren’t! Why everybody is going.” “It will be a very populous dance.” “But why aren’t you going?” A shade of annoyance passed over the brown-eyed blonde’s face, but she answered simply, “Because I’m not invited.” “Oh, that’s too bad! I’m so sorry you were left out. And they seemed to have gone into the highways and hedges, too, from what I can hear. Midlent will allow some very pretty dresses. I'm going to wear violet silk.” “I think you might wear violet silk,” said the brown-eyed blonde gently but distinctly, turning a searching gaze upon her companion’s complexion, “if you put on plenty of powder. You are determined to wear violet silk?” “I thought—l tliink—” stammered the other woman reddening through her sallowness. “Then be sure to remember my advice, and put on plenty of powder—yes. I think in that case you might venture to wear violet silk.” The sallow blonde did not say another word, but sat over ostentatiously and gave a newcomer a seat. Perhaps she had not meant to be rude, with her sorrow, and her highways and hedges. But people were smiling around her, secretly glad, as we cannot help being, of witnessing the neat pat with, which a skilled fencer drops a roystering and bullying antagonist. How to Publish. Andrew Lang. “The young author who seriously alms at fame and pelf should first cultivate a serious frame of mind. This is indispensable. Then he may practice writing tracts. ‘The Bad Squire Saved,’ ‘How I Became an Agnostic,’ and so forth. Then he may ‘rise to higher things,’ and rant, through 500 pages, about society in which he never moved, and subjects of which he is exhaustively ignorant. Any medical student will tell him what ‘life’ is like, and he can scarcely be too squalid if he steadily avoids being amusing. But this is advice as to how to write a successful book, not advice as to ‘how to publish.’ Having achieved the initial labor of writing a book, the search for a publisher offers no difficulty. Even a very dull person can see that Messrs. Bacon never publish books about •problems’ involving the breach of the more domestic legislation of the Decalogue, while Messrs. Bungay never publish .anything else. Some firms deluge the town with third-rate ladies’ novels: others abstain. But, if our author’s own soaring intelligence cannot master these facts, he may give his MS. to an author’s agent, who will hawk it about. The hawker must be paid for doing this, we presume, but he saves a great deal of trouble. To a. young author under the domestic roof the constant reappearance of a MS. is a trial. Brothers ore unfeeling wretches, especially, and do not spare their ‘idle chaff.’ ’lntroductions’ are all nonsense. Bacon will not publish your hook because he knows a man who has met your cousin at a garden party. Personal visits to publishers only irritate. If the visitor has not been invited to call, and is not superlatively beautiful.” The Snrpiises of Science. Collier’s Weekly. Mr. Szczepanik is a gentleman who deserves attention and who presumably will get It. He has invented an Instrument the principle of which is similar to that of the telephone, with the difference, however, that it is not for the ear but for the eye. It is called the Fernseher, which, being translated. means farlooker. It enables one to ste round the corner. Editors of the local press won’t need It. They are sufficiently omniscient as it Is. But the chiefs in the War Department may. It is a pleasure and a duty to signal It to them. Mr. Charles Windsor is another gentleman who deserves attention. He, also Is an Inventor. He has

7,500 Miles<> STANDARD RA 1 -ROAD Connect 1,175 towns and cities directly with St. Loyis and Chicago. Several thousand Bother points North, Northwest and West are reached via St. Paul, Minneapolis, ■— ——* Billings, Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph. An ample arrangement of standard train service. discovered and patented a device wherewith bicycle tires become self-inflating. The rider has but to turn a screw, hop on, ride away; the action of the wheel does the rest. Mr. Szczepanik is an Austrian subject. Mr. Windsor is an Englishman. The invention of the first may add new terrors to private life, but the invention of the second will render escape delightfully expeditious. Moveiuentu of Steamers. NEW YORK, April 16.—Arrived: Nomadic and Campania, from Liverpool; St. Paul, from Southampton: Patria, from Hamburg. Sailed; Etruria, from Liverpool; La Gascogne, for Havre; Saale. for Bremen; Obdam, for Rotterdam; Aller, for Naples; Ethiopia, for Glasgow; Pretoria, for Hamburg; Island, tpr Copenhagen; Minnewaska, for London. SOUTHAMPTON. April 16. Arrived: Friedrich der Grosse, from New York, for Bremen. Sailed; St. Louis and New York, for New York. LIVERPOOL. April 16.—Arrived: Tauric, from New York. Sailed: Bovic, for New York. HAMBURG, April 16.—Arflved: Augusta Victoria, from New York. PHILADELPHIA, April 16. Arrived: Kensington, from London. PHILADELPHIA, April 16.—Sailed: Fennland, for Liverpool. HAVRE. April 16.—Sailed: La Normandie, for New York. A Telephonic Mistake. Argonaut. A San Franciscan who has recently returned from Honolulu, relates that while there he had occasion to inquire about two ladies who, he understood, were stopping at the Chapin House, and accordingly used the telephone. "Let me have the Chapin House,” lie said to central, and, when the connection was made he inquired if the two ladies were there. “No,” came the answer. “But they were there last night, weren’t they?” “Yes,” was the hesitatingly reply, “but we had to let them go this morning.” “Had to let them go,” echoed the San Franciscan: "why, what sort of a hotel are you running?” “This isn't a hotel,” replied the voice at the other end. “Isn’t that the Chapin House?” demanded the mystified San Franciscan. “No.” was the reply, “it’s the station, house.” Amiable Mr. Hope. The Criterion. Robert Barr, who has just arrived in New York from London, says that the stories about Anthony Hope’s comments on American women are the most ridiculous newspaper fabrications of the year, which Is certainly putting the assertion In a strong form. Hope—as his friends call him, just as if it were his name—is so perpetually amiable in action and conversation that the thing is a joke among his acquaintances. The tradition is that he was once entrapped by an unscrupulous person who had put up money on the result—into saying that he thought Dr. Jamieson, in the matter of the famous raid, was indiscreet: this was considered such a strong piece of detraction, when coming from Hope, that the man who had bet he could not be made to attack anyone, paid on the nail. General Lee Goes to Virginia. WASHINGTON, April 16.-Consul General Lee, who has been m the city for several days since his return from Havana, left here this afternoon for Virginia for a stay of some days. Secretary Sherman has directed that General Lee shall stay in Washington after his return from Virginia. He has been assigned a room in the State Department.

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