Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 September 1898 — Page 6

t..= the f ike Counts democrat «L Met'. STOOPS. Mllor »nd Proprietor. PETE R^BU EG, : : INDIANA. Tib arbitration commissioners assembled for their first joint business meeting at the parliament buildings in Quebec, Can., on the 25th. The meet* ing was absolutely private. Atmtiuat. Miller, who was sent to Hawaii to raise the American flag, 9 notified the navy department, on the tad, that the ceremony occurred on the 12th, and was both imposing and beneficial. ___ George Engelke and Peter Edmiston, *ho left Riverside, CaL, via San Diego, 'over a year ago, to prospect on the Colorado desert, have not since been heard from. The belief is general that both men have perished. Tun president, on the 22d, answered the aspersions cast upon Capt. Sigsbee of the ill-fated Maine by Capt Moreu of the late Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon by advancing Capt Sigsbee three numbers for “extraordinary heroism.” Spanish will be added to the list of studies taught in the Chicago public schools if Dr. K. Benjamin Andrews, the new superintendent, has his way. Chicago's new educational chief also favors the annexation of the Philippines. A triennial convention of weather bureau meteorologists will be held at Omaha in the middle of October. The convention will be opened by Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson may attend.

Dr. W. D. Carmichael, in charge of the Cleveland (0.) marine hospital, has been appointed superintendent of the marine hospital service of the Hawaiian islands. He will be stationed at Honolulu, and from that point will direct the work. The navj department has ordered the cruisers St. Louis and St. Paul to the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, where they will be restored to their condition as liners and returned to the American line, from which they were chartered. Havana papers express considerable doubt, based upon a re-reading of President McKinley’s message to congress last April in the light of recent events, whether the United States government has definitely pledged itself to declare Cuba's independence. All the principal officers of the Burlington's Missouri lines have been presented with gold-mounted canes and umbrellas by the members of the Missouri Press association, who/ were given an excursion to the OmahqT exposition a few weeks ago. Aocohdinq to unofficial returns the Choctaws have, by their vote, ratified the agreement made between the Choctaw and Dawes commissioners. The negro freedmen were allowed to cast their vote and no disturbances took place, as was at first expected. AniniiL Schlky is confined to his summer home in Westport. Conn., by Illness, and no one except his attendants are allowed to see him or have any conversation with him. The illness is pronounced a fever, the character of which is not yet known. Tun secretary of fctate has appointed Henry Turner Bailey, of Massachusetts, and Thomas H. Wood, of New York, delegates on the part of the United States to the international congress of public art,0 which is to meet at Brussels from September 34 to 28. All the newspapers in London are ' publishing and commenting on an apv parently authortative article to the effect that the vice royalty of Ireland is likely, next year, to be made a non-po-litical and permanent office, and to be conferred upon the queen’s third son, the duke of Connaught. Caft. Rubler D. Evans of the battleship Iowa was taken ill, on the 22d, just after seeing his vessel safely to her dock, and was removed to Boose▼ell hospital. New York city. The gallant captain had not been feeling well for a week, but didn't give up until he was compelled to.

0*0. X. Ccrzox will start from London for Calcutta, with Mrs. Curson, in December, to relieve Lord Elgin, the returning viceroy, at the beginning of neat year. In the meantime Mr. Cor* •on will recuperate bis health, now somewhat delicate, a fact that was regarded as the chief drawback to hit appointment. The cabinet, on the 36th, discussed various questions concerning Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines It was decided to admit butter and butterine to Porto Rico and Cuba, when stamped as such, at two cents a pound. This is a material reduction, the Spanish rate having been six cents on butter, while bntterinc was not admitted. Sot Johx BraXSTOx, former assistant Under secretary of state for the colonies, and at one time attorney general for Queensland, and Admiral Sir James Eiphiustoue Erskine, commander-in-chief of the British squadrons on the North American and West Indians „ stations, have been appointed commissioners to investigate the French treaty rights in Newfoundland. Ox the 35th the pension office granted a pension to Ah Chum, a Chinese subject and widow of Pascal Martin, a sailor of the United States navy, to whom she was married in Shanghai in 1895. Three children were born to the couple. The widow will receive, |8 per month and the children S3 a month each. Almost every other country furnishes one or more pensioners for Uncle Sam, bat until now China Mr as without u re ©resents ti to

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS H BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The captains-general of Cuba and the Philippines hare been ordered to act in accord with the Americans, but if the Americans shoold prove unable to make the insurgents respect the armistice, the instructions were to re* pel an attack upon the Spaniards. A company headed by Henry A. Everett, a well-kffown capitalist of Cleveland, O., has been organized and incorporated to cover Ohio with a cheap-rate long-distance telephone system. It will be known as the Union Suburban Telephone and Telegraph Co. Hour. Moody Census, former governor of New Hampshire, died at his residence in Manchester, N. BL, on the 23d. A. G. MENociL,civil engineer in the navy, who was court-martialed some months ago and sentenced to suspension from dutv on furlough pay for three years,for neglect of duty in connection with the construction of the Brooklyn dry dock, has been pardoned by the president, which restores him to hi» former status in the navy. He will retire from active service on September 1. All tbe Madrid papers announce the reassembling of the cortes between the 6th and 10th of September. Illness among the American troops at Ponce, Porto Rico, is on the increase, and there are now nearly a thousand cases of malaria and dysentery, with a few of typhoid fever. There is absolutely no recuperating property in the climate, and SurgeonGeneral Greenleaf has urgently recommended that the sick be sent north as rapidly as possible.

A dispatch from Copenhagen, Den* mark, says: “A terrible storm swept the whole Jutland peninsula on the 23d. Manj outbuildings were struck by lightning and six persons were killed and 33 farm buildings and 13 houses were burned.” Ox the 22d Dr. Cleon M. Hibbard, house physician at the Planters' hotel in St. Louis, fell through'the passenger elevator shaft from the seventh floor of the hotel, a distance of 80 feet, to the granitoid pavement, and was in* stamtly killed. 4 Admiral Sampson will probably leave for Cuba about September 1. Admiral Sampson left Washington, on the 23d, for New York, to join his flagship, the New York, which is in dry dock for repairs. Assistant Secretary Mkikkljohn, of the war department, is contempla* ting the establishment of a line of transports from New York to Havana, Santiago, Ponce and return. It is expected that the line will be ready for operation next week. Havana will not be on the route at present, but as soon as that port is open the war department's line of transports will touch there. The poital system now in operation in the Hawaiian islands will be retained pending the recommendations of the Hawaiian commission, which has already begun its labors there. The statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 23d, showed: Available cash balance, 1277,- • 868,851; gold reserve, *205.439,254. * At the Spanish cabinet council held on the night of the 23d, Qen. Correa, minister of war. read a telegram from Capt.-0en. Blanco,in which he informed the government that the Cuban insurgents continued attacking the Spanish everywhere. In consequence of this report, the council instructed Qen. Ulanco to resume an offensive attitude toward the insurgents Only. Thk second day's session of the twen-ty-fourth annual convention of the American Bankers' association at Denver, CoL, on the 24th, was called to order by President Hendrix with practically a full attendance of delegates. The day's session was devoted to the discussion of practical banking questions. Dr Edmund J. James, professor of political science in the University of Chicago, has been appointed dean of the new teachers' college, organised by the university on the foundation created by Mrs. Emmons Blaine. Lieut. Wm. H. Osborn, of the First cavalry, died at Moutaak Point, L. I., on the 24th, of yellow fever. This officer had been selected Tor assignment to duty at the military academy. The tugboat Marian, of the Pennsylvania railroad, sunk at South Amboy, N. J., on the 24th. All the crew escaped except the pilot, James Hennessey; who was drowned. The statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 24th,

showed: Available cash balance, $2m*,933.814; fold reserve, $206,375,049. The queen regent of Spain haa signed the royal decree convening the cortea for September 5. Rear-Admiral Schlet, completely recovered from his late illnesa, rejoined his flagship, the Brooklyn, at New York on the 25th. The gross earnings from operation of the Baltimore Jfc Ohio railroad for the month of July, 1898, were $2,305,991, an increase of $69,499. The statement of the condition of tthe treasury, issued on the 25th, showed: Available cash balance. $264,250.806; gold reserve. $208,006,063. The four big monitors. Terror, Puritan, Miantonoraah and Amphitrite, and the cruiser Montgomery, have been ordered by the navy department to Newport, R. I. It had been thought the monitors would be used in the large ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, but it has now been decided to hold them north. A Madrid dispatch says; “Everyone is now anxious that a peace treaty be signed at once, and there is some apprehension lest the government hamper the peace commissioners with ridiculous instruction^. Referring to the proposal t'uat the government demand compensation for the piers and public buildings in Cuba, El National says: ‘We might as well claim the roads.mountains and barren fields.’"

At & meeting' of the Women’s Na* tional War Belief association at the Windsor hotel, in New York, on the 23d, it was announced that Miss Helen M. Gould had given *25,o00 to purchase food and delicacies for the ill and wounded soldiers at Camp Wikoff. One of the results of the sojourn of the Spanish officers, prisoners of war, at Annapolis, -uld., will be a double wedding. Lieut. Enrique Laceervawill wed Miss Clara W. Huff, of Baltimore, and Lieut. Juan Cavanelles will lead Miss Mamie Hayes, of Annapolis, to the altar. Ex-Secretary John Sherman ia quoted as saying: “Gen. Miles is a soldier, and, like soldiers, is a straightforward, truthful man. He is no more afraid of an issue than he is of an Indian, and when he comes back to Washington and tells what he knows an investigation of the war department will be inevitable.1* The president is seriously thinking of asking the senior Massachusetts senator. George F. Hoar, to take the place which will soon be vacated by Ambassador Hay, and he is restrained only by his reluctance to remove Senator Hoar from the position he now holds., ^ The authorities of Dover, Del., believe they have wound a »veb around Mrs. Ada Botkin, charged with having sent the poisoned candy, from which she can not disentangle aerself. They are now patiently awaiting her arrival from San Francisco. Rev. Thompson Rowland, a Baptist preacher for 50 years, died at his home near Eddyville, Ky., on the 25th, of hydrophobia. He was almost chewed to death by a mad dog several weeks ago. The victim died in great agony. He was 75 years of age. A statement prepared by direction of the commissioner of internal revenue shows that for July the average daily shipment of internvl revenue stac-ra aggregated, in numbers, 2J,7?f..52“. Counting 2? days to the month, tne total is show nto have been 614,939,129. Japan wants to buy the Lad rone islands from the United States or Spiai*. and is willing to pay a go xl price for them, according to late Japanese papers received. Japan wants to extend her “fishing” industry in that dilution.

The San Francisco Merchants' ex* change received news, on the ?6th, from Unalaska confirming the report of the wreck of the bark Guardian. The captain and crew landed at Un* alaska. The Guardian was bound from Kotzebu Sound for Seattle and rah aground during a fog on Tegalda island. Mrs. Ada Botkin, under arrest in San Francisco on the charge of sending the box of poisoned candy which, caused the death of Mrs. J. P. Dunning and her sister, Mrs. J. R. Deane, of Dover, Del., lived in Kansas City, Mo., 12 or 15 years ago. Tke family was prominent in social and financial circles there for a number of years. The Spanish transports San Francisco, San Augustin and Colon left San* tiago, in the 25th, for Spain, with 4,568 Spaniards, including 15 officers and their families and four priests. Eight men died on the way to the ships. Their corpses were “checked off” as passengers. An order has been issued by the war department extending the furlough of volunteers on leave of absence from 3f days to 60 days The United Typothetw of America will hold its next annual convention at New Haven, Conn. LATE NEWS ITEMS. ( News has been received of the big party of Germans who made a spectacular departure from New York last winter for Alaska. Peter Schramm,, one of the party who was recently at Juneau, reports that the party did not go to Dawson, but drifted down to Lake Atlin. opposite Pine creek, where they found gold in paying quantities, and all bad staked out claims. The success of the Transmississippi exposition, at Omaha, Neb., is meetiug the highest expectations of stockholders and managers. Total attendance for the week ended on the 2?th, was 115,840, or 12,000 increase over the week previous. The managers have j reduced the price of admission to 25 1 cents for Sundays, and also for Mon- ! day and Thursday evenings. Preparations making at Kansas City, Mo., for a peace jubilee this fall projnise to evolve the greatest demonstration that city has ever seen. The movement is already under way, and a universal desire is shown to express in a fitting manner the satisfaction felt over the achievements of the army and navy and the culmination of peace. The torpedo boat Davis, which is being constructed at tbeWolff <fc Sewicker iron works, at Portland, Ore., was given a preliminary trial on the Wiiliamette river on the 27th. No effort was made to force the craft up to the required speed, 22% knots, but it is announced that the trial was satisfactory in every respect.

The state meat of the associated banka of New York city for the week ended ou the 27th showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease, 17,494,950; loans, increase, 15,343,400; specie, decrease, 93,604,500; legal tenders, decrease, 336,300; deposits, decrease, 94,779.400; circulation, decrease, 97S.7UU. Minister Angel 1, at Constantinople, | has informed the state department that a note from the porte announces that, I on account of local needs, the exportation of wheat from the province of Scutari, in Albania, European Turkey, is forbidden an til further notice. lieu. Merritt sailed from Manila on the steamship China, on the 30th, on his way to Paris to attend the sessions of the peace conference. On the 37th the associated banks of the city of New York held 931,343,300 in excess of the requirements of the 35-per-cent. role. President and Mrs. McKinley spent a pleasant hour at Camp Meade, on the 37th, es route to Somerset, Pa, for » short vacation.

WITHIN OUR LIMITS News by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. For Benefit of Heron. Elkhart, Ind., Aug. 26.—Under the auspices of the Soldiers’ Aid society of this city a doll carnival will be held in connection with the tri-state fair which opens Monday, September 25. All funds derived from the exhibition and sale of the contributions will be used in relieving the suffering soldiers and sailors. The officers of the fair association have tendered the use of a booth to the aid society. A large sum is expected to be secured for it from the proceeds of the carnival. Ilobsoa for President. New Albany, ind., Aug. 26.—The populists of Floyd county held a mass convention in this city to nominate a county ticket, but before they finished they launched a boom of Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson the hero of the Merrimae, for president in 1900. Resolutions were adopted describing Hobson’s heroism and Americanism, and indorsing him as a candidate for the •chief executive cf the nation. ■dopes with a Child. Logansport, Ind.. Aug 26. — Milt Wilson and Lula Hancock eloped from Monon and were married at St. Joseph, Mich. Wilson is 50 years old, and the girl 13. A warrant was out for Wilson’s arrest on the charge of decoying the girl from home, and they were arf rested here. Wilson is the father of four children, one almost as old as the Hancock girl, who comes from an excellent family. Sew Orphans* Home. La port*, Ind., Aug. 26.—The contract for the erection of the buildings for the new Northern Indiana Orphans’ home at Plymouth has been let. The building will be a commodious structure with modern conveniences and. will comfortably accommodate 100 children. The structure will be ready to be occupied January 1. --

Birthday Celebration. Redkey, Ind, Aug. 26. — Nancy Ridgeway, an oid pioneer of Jay county, celebrated her 97th birthday at Bowen’s grove, in the north part of Redkey, with a big dinner, in which 8-1 of her relatives took part. There were five sons, two daughters, 16 grnndchil* dren and 16 great-grandchildren among the number. Fears Return of Epidemic. Clinton, Ind., Aug. 26.—Diphtheria has broken out in this city and there sre grave fears of an epidemic similar to the one of a year ago. There are now several cases, two of the victims beiug in a critical condition. The physicians are cooperating with the health board in an effort to prevent an epidemic. Street Car Blown tip. Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 26. — Some person unknown placed a stick of dynamite on the curve in the tracks of the College avenue, line, and ,it exploded under a car carrying 60 passengers. A wheel of the car was torn off and a part of the floor blown up to the roof. No one was seriously hurt. Killed HU Brother-In-Law. Sullivan, Ind.. Aug. 26.—Alonzo Mattox, better known as “Cooney” Mattox, a saloon keeper of New Pittsburg, fatally stabbed bis brother-in-law, Ted Britton, a coal miner, at New Pittsburg. Britton and Mattox married sisters, and their relations had never been congenial. Died Away from Home. Kokomo. Ind., Aug. 26.—Word was received here of the sudden death of Frederick Leeds at Kansas City. Mr. Leeds, who is a prominent pioneer, was for many years agent for the Lake Erie & Western railway here. The remains were brought here for interment. Valued for Consreu. Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 26. — Tht democrats of the Eleventh district met »t Wabash and nominated Prof. George W. Michael, of Cass county, for congress. The prohibitionists of the same district also met at Kokomo afiuHiominated Charles O. Fenton of Logansport. Soldiers* Wife Asks Divorce. Martinsville, Ind., Aug. 26.—Mrs. Hattie Williams, of Green township has filed suit in the circuit court for divorce from her husband, Emmett Williams. a private in company K. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana. She alleges desertion.

Fire at Hammond. Hammond. Jnd.. Anp. 26.—Damage to the extent of $15,000 was caused to ♦he building and machinery of the Simplex Railway-Appliance company by a fire which originated from an explosion of benzine in the paintroom. Fell oa a Saw. Richmond. Ind.. Aug. 26. —Alonzo G. Bousman. while working with a movable saw near this city, fell on the saw. His left hand was cut off and portions of his skull torn away. Bousman resides at Green«fork. Oil Goes a l>. Hartford City. Ind.. Aug. 26.—An advance of two cents a barrel in Indiana crude oil has taken place, and it is now quoted at 6$ cents, and Tiona. the best quality, at $1.10. Trouble Causes Suicide. Warsaw. Ind. Aug. 26. — Charles Miller, of this city, committed suicide. He took some carbolic acid and died in great agony. The cause was domestic trouble. __ Attains* the Canteen. Valparaiso. Ind.. Aug. 26.—The First Methodist church of this city has adopted resolutions In opposition tc the armv canteen.

SENOR SAGASTA TALKS. taipoitursutelnMta Mad* by the Spaa* (ah Fnatw la tha Coana at an Interview. Madrid, Aug. 38.—Senor Sagasta, tha premier, is quoted as having, in the course of an interview, made some im> portant statements, declaring1 that it was the government’s intention to re* press the discussion of war topics in the ccirtes. He said that as soon as tha cortes met the government would sub* mita bill authorising peace negotiae tions, and next a measure relating to the suspension of the constitutional guarantees. Although Senor Sagasta did not state the nature of this measure, it is supposed that it will provide for the continuation of the suspension. Katlroly Lacking In Material Necessary for Discussion. ‘‘The government,” said the premier, “will not discuss in any form the ques* tions of peace and war. Indeed, the deputies would be entirely lacking in the material necessary for a discussion. The debate could not be based on concrete, positive facts, founded on undis* puted documents, since the necessary information has not yet arrived. I believe that no discussion of the surrender of Santiago and Manila will occur nor of the destruction of the Spanish fleet. Unless trustworthy data and exact proofs are at hand. No Discussion la Permissible. “Moreover, no discussion is permissible of matters at present under consideration of the supreme councils ol war and marine. “Mistakes or blunders may have been committed, but thus far we have not sufficient material to judge. Why Quest Ions of Peace and War Should Not Be Discussed.

* Another reason why questions of peace and war should not be discussed is that diplomatic negotiations are now being carried on, and a debate on these subjects might be provocative of unde* sirable complications. It must not be said that peace is sigued and discussion is now allowable. Peace is not signed. Spain is still at war with the United States. The two nations have merely Concluded a suspension of hostilities in order to negotiate peace. These negotiations may be brought to a successful issue, but it might happen that hostilities will be recommenced. “That is why I think the cortes will only be able to discuss strictly necessary questions—that is, to make itself acquainted with the situation of the interests now at stake, which are so important for the nation, but not to engage in debate, which would assume some such proportions as to infringe upon the discretion which the gravity of the circumstance requires of the cortes. Would Accede to the Request. “Should they ask to have presented the documents concerning the surrender of Santiago and Manila and the destruction of the fleet now in the government’s possession, the government would accede to the request. These papers are in the hands of the supreme councils which alone, before the proclamation of peace, can conduct inquiries and establish responsibilities. The inquiries may result in acquittals or severe sentences, even the capital penalty. ” UNSATISFACTORY SITUATION. Agulualdo to Remove His Headquarters Immediately to the Large Town of Btalotos. London, Aug. 29.—The Manila correspondent of the Times says: “The situation, although undoubtedly unsatisfactory, remains unchanged pending a final settlement. Agninaldo proposes to remove shis headquarters immediately to the large town of Malolos, provin a of Bulacan, situated on the railway line 20 miles north of Manila. There he will shortly assemble a congress chosen from the leading Filipinos, who favor the insurgent cause. He further intends to send a representative to Paris to argue his claims for the establishment of an insurgent republic. Mololos is an excellent strategic point, covering a rice and tobacco distrieubesides the route to Biacnabato, where the Spaniards were formerly obliged to make a treaty by which they purchased a cessation of hostilities. “The movement was probably necessary partly because Agninaldo was fast losing his influence in the province of Cavite, wnere the insurgents evidently expected to be permitted to occupy Manila conjointly with the Americans. Considerable dissatisfaetion is ap-" parent among the insurgent troops, and after a frank expression of opinion is frequently heard that Aguinaldo is again selling the cause.”

Quu Merritt Going to Pori*—No Agreement with Afalneldo. Manila, Aug. 29. —Steamers are entering the river as usual. The Americans are temporarily maintaining the former Spanish tariff, Gen. Merritt will sail on the steamship China on Tuesday on his way to Paris to attend the sessions of the peace conference. No agreement has yet been reached with Aguinaldo upon any subject, although circumstantial rumors are current that everything has been settled to the mutual satisfaction of those concerned. A LITTLE TOWN'S LOSS. Sorkras-Inroad bj Flro Among the Bn I 1MB Houses of the Little Town of Pataskala. O. Columbus, 0., Aug. 28.—A special to the Dispatch gives details of the most destructive fire which ever visited Pataakala, 18 miles east of here. Business blocks and stores on Depot street in the center of the town were entirely destroyed with nearly all their oontents, entailing a loss of 885,000; insurance 818,0001 Pataskala had no fire department._

An International Conference for thfr Purpose of Securing Real and Lasting Peace. EVIDENTLY SINCERE IN HIS PURPOSE* The Continually Enlarging Military uA Naval Establishment) Have Vailed la the Desired Object of .Preventing War* WblloProvlng a Tax on Material Progress and Wealth. j London, Aug. 29.—The exar’a proposition for an international conference for the purpose of securing real and lasting peace among the powers and the termination of the progressive increase in armaments, aa conveyed in a note from Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign minister, to the foreign diplomats at St. Petersbuag, is likely to> produce a sensation throughout Europe, aud, coming from such a quarter,, and with such evident sincerity of purpose, it is likely to have important effects. There is no doubt that withRussia taking the lead in snch a step, Germany, France and the other nations will be ready to follow. -Text of the Note. The text of the note follows: “The maintenance of general peace) and the possible reduction of the excessive armaments, which weigh upon all nations, present themselves in existing conditions to the whole world as-. an ideal toward which the endeavors of all governments should be directed. Humanitarian and Magnanimous Ideas. “The humanitarian and magnanimous ideas of his majesty, the emporer, my august master, have been won over to this view in conviction that this lofty aim is in conformity With the most essential interests and legitimate views of all the powers, and the imperial government thinks the present moment would be very favorable to seeking the means.

A Real, Durable Peace, “In the course of the last 20 years, the longing' for general appeasement, haa grown especially pronounced in the consciences of civilized nations, and the preservation of peace has been put forward as an object of International policy. It is in its name that great states have concluded among themselves powerful alliances. The Better to Guarantee Peace. “It is the better to guarantee peace that they have developed in proportions hitherto unprecedented their military forces and still continue to increasetliem without shrinking from any sacrifice. “Nevertheless all these efforts havenot yet been able to bring about the beneficent result desired—pacification. Strike at tha Very Root of Popular Pros* parity. “The financial charges following the upward march strike at the very root of public prosperity. The intellectual and physical strength of the nations* labor and capital are most diverted from their natural application and are unproductively consumed. Hundredsof millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though to-day regarded as the last work of science, are destined to-mor-row to lose all their value in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field. National culture, economic1 progress and the production of wealth are either paralyzed or Checked in development. Moreover, in proportion as the armaments of each power increase, they less and less fulfill the object the governments have set before themselves. The Economic Crisis. “The economic crisis, due in great part to the system of armaments, I’outrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing blow which the peoples’ have more difficulty* in bearing. “It appears evident that if this state of things were to be prolonged it would inevitably lead to the very cataclysm it is desired to avert, and tho horrors whereof make. every thinking being shudder in advance. To Pat an End to Incessant Armaments. “To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which are threatening the whole world—such lathe supreme duty to-day imposed upon all states. “Filled with this idea, his majesty has been pleased to command me topropose to all the governments whoaerepresen tati ves are accredited to the imperial coart, the assembling of a conference which shall occupy itself with this grave problem. A Happy Presage for the Century About toOpen.

“This conference will be, by the helpof God, the happy presage for the century which is about to open. It would, converge into one powerful focus the efforts of all states si ncerely seek ing U> make the great conception of universal peace triumph over tbe elements of trouble and discard, and it would at the same time cement their agreement by a corporate consecration of the 1 principles of equity and right,whereon. rest the security of states and the wel j fare of peoples.” * — *-7-—* ' The London Press oa the Proposal of the Cur. London, Aug. 2».—The Daily Graphic * j this morniog, after referred to the pro* ; posal of Emperor Nicholas says: “It would be idle to attempt tc ■'•■3 j ignore the many and grave difficulties. standing in the way of the attainment ; of the czar’s wishes, but it can not b^ 1 possible to doubt the sincerity of the magnanimous proposal.” The Standard says, speaking editorially, of the czar’s proposal: ! “In Edgland at least respect andt sympathy will be felt lor the Czar proposal.