Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1900, Page 2

eae 2 THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MARCH. 12, 1900-14 PAGES, WISE ORDERED OUT In the House While Brother’s Contest Was Pending. CHARGED WITH ABUSING PRIVILEGE Senator Rawlins Opposes the Spooner Bill. SENATE MEETS EARLY At the opening of the session of the House today the Speaker announced the appoint- ment of Mr. McCleary (Minn.) as chairman of the committee on Mbrary, vice Mr. Har- mer (Pa.), deceased. Mr. Powers (Vt.) was appointed to the vacancy on the committee. A bill was passed to authorize a term of the Untted States court for the western dis- trict of Virginia, to be held at Charlottes- ville, Va. A resolution was adopted to print 75,u00 copies of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Vice President Hobart. An Important bill reported last week from he public lands committee, to extend the placer mining laws of the United States with certain modifications to shore rights, beach workings, etc. in Alaska, was passed. This Dill is designed to meet the conditions obtaining at Cape Nome. Mr. Lacey (lowa), chairman of the committee, sald the bill was indorsed by the Alas- kan authorities and the miners generally. An amendment was adopted prohibiting ¢orporations from locating clatms. A bill was also passed to attach the county of Board to the Fort Worth di- ston of the northern district of Texas. The Wise-Young Case. The Wise-Young contested election case from the second Virginia district, which was debated for two days last week, was then called up under the agreement to vote at 2:30 p.m. today. Mr. Driggs (N. ¥.) ad- dressed the House in support of the claims of the sitting member—Mr. Young. Mr. Driggs expressed his opinion that contested election cases should be adjudi- cated by the courts and not by partisan ma- jorities In the House. Mr. Hay (Va.) closed for Mr. Young. He reviewed the situation in the district upon the occasion of the election, concluding that there was no equitable ground upon which the sitting member could be deprived of his seat. If he was unseated, he sald, it would be by an arbitrary exercise of power, unwarranted by facts, law or evidence. Charge Against Joho S. Wise. During the progress of the remarks of Mr. Weeks (Mich.), who closed the debate for the contestant, some excitement was caused by Mr. Clayton (Ala), who arose abruptly and protested that the contest- ant's brother, John S. Wise, who is an ex- member of the #fouse, was abusing the privileges of the floor, to which he was en- titled as a member, by interfering with the debate, Mr. Wise was s' Weeks at the t! goon as the point was made Mr. Wis dl. e, handed M withdrew bac Richardson, dup eclared th: reeord fn his brother's case, that he was ing the privilege accorded him by prompting gentlemen in debate and inter- ng generally. He adverted to the fact « remark interjected by Mr. Wise in of the debate last Saturday forth a protest from Mr. Burke who was on the floor at the time. nm said it was bad enough to out of the House without ‘ome on the floor and It was unfair, he declared, appealed to fair-minded men on the de to protect the House from such ing by the side of Mr. He was writing. As @ hur- ir. Weeks the note of the rafling. the minority leader, "3 point of order. He Axi persecu' and he Weeks replied that a good deal of ise and confusion was being engendered out nothing. He said that the note writ+ n by Mr. Wise related in no manner te one debate. dnres Wise ts man concede that Mr, Tney of record?” inquired he Speaker. “He was the attorney before the commit- " reqlied Mr. Weeks. Speaker called attention to the rules e privilege of the in any claim or Mr. Wise Excluded. It was cw ‘yin cases of such al- vd offenses, the Speaker said, to refer vase to a special committee for investt- fon, b it was admitted that Mr. Wise was the attorney of record {t became the duty of the chair to act, especially s the pendency of the case. Tetection of the dignity of the of fair play re- fF should act,” said the + “and the chair holds that the man shall not occupy a place on this 1 doorkeeper is directed to ex- Wise i the case is disposed ause.) un ecordance with the agree- fous question was ordered was taken by yeas and nays, f bstituie resolutions declaring i member, Mr. Young, entitled to ate esolution was adopted, 130 and the recapitu In Favor of Wine recapitulation the of M to 1 Minority Resolution De peaker an- Wise, thus = convened before the be consumed in civil code bill. the two hours & only two or three ¢ chamber. The clerks pages of the bill the following t the xt incompatible to inform the Sen- communication has eting t at Pretoria em- of the presidents of m republics for mediation m with a view to ending the progress between these re- reat Britain, as reported in and, if not incompatible interest, he furnish the Sen- of such communication or Among the bills passed were the follow- Approving a revision and adjustment of certain sales of and Missouria lands in the states of Nebraska and Kansas. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treas- ury to pay certain claims of the state of Indtana. To provide for necessary repairs to the steamer Theus for service as a revenue euttor. Routine business having been concluded, Mr. Rawlins (Utah) addressed the Senate on our relations with the Philippines. He had read the bill of Mr. Spooner, confer- % authority upon the President to gov- ‘rn the Philippines until Congress other- wise provided. Mr. Rawlins Opposes the Spooner Bill. “That bill,” said he, “is but the prologue of the swelling act in the imperial theme.” He had read the act of 1903, conferring upon the President power to govern the territory of Louisiana. Mr. Rawlins read some opinions of Kent and other English publicists as a basis for his argument. “Those people—the Filipinos—never ac- knowledged their allegiance to this govern- ment.” said he. “Hence they are not in insurrection against the United States. A war of aggression is being waged against them. The purpose, I believe, in the draft- ing of the bill proposed by the senator (Spooner) is to secure a recognition by Congress of a state of war in the Philip- pines. It comes to us in disguise and for the purpose I have stated, and to relieve the administration from its present anoma- lous situation.” After saying he presumed that the speeches of Mr. Beveridge and Mr. Lodge voiced the sentiments and presented the program of the administration, Mr. Raw- lins said: “I am opposed to the carrying out of this program. No yote of mine will aid in the carrying into effect of the policy outlined by those senators. I oppose the program because it is in violation of the fundamental principles upon which our free institutions are erected, because {t fs in opposition to the Constitution, because it proposes to rule by a despotic power and net by rights secured under the Consti- tution, because {it is not expansion, but retrogression of all that we have held high- est, and because it is unjust, immoral and a breach of the plighted faith of this nation.”” In response to an inquiry by Mr, Spooner Mr. Rawlins said, in the course of his con- stitutlonal argument upon the rights of in- habitants of the insular possessions, that the treaty of Paris conferred upon Congress the authority to determine the civil rights and political status of the inhabitants of the Islands derived from Spain by the United States in accordance with the treaty. It did not, however, he said, confer that authority upon Congress with regard to other than native inhabitants of the Islands. He maintained, therefore, that the Con tution must necessarily extend over the outlying territory, and the Americans, Ger- mans, Frenchmen and others on these islands could be governed by Congress only under the limitations of the Constitution. + 2+ HARRASSED BY THE REBELS. Attack on Detachment of 16th In- fantry at Apurri. MANILA, March 12, 5:55 p.m.—Advices received from Aparri, province of Cagayan, say that while Maj. Ward and a company of the 16th regiment were leaving that place they were attacked on the landing on the river bank opposite the town. A persistent fight followed, resulting in elght Americans, Including Maj. Ward, being wounded. The natives in the Cagayan valley presumably instigated the attack. The dispatch adds that the Tagalogs are harassing the America ++ JEALOUS CAT KILLED RIVAL. Did Not Like the Attentions the New Arrival Was Receiving. From the Minneapolis Tribune. The “fury of a woman scorned” Is often spoken of as something to be feared, but, judging from a tragedy enacted In an East Side resideace yesterday, It {s not in {t with the anger of a common cat when it realizes that the place It once filled in the affections of its owner has been taken by another and perhaps prettier cat. Old Dick, a big yellow cat, is the property of an East Side young woman, and fur a number of months past has been the whole thing around the house. so far as pets were concerned. He had his own dish for milk, his own rug, and wag a pretty lucky feline, take it any way you would. His favorite resting place was in the lap of his mistress, and when she recently brought home a little gray kitten, of which she made much, Old Dick manifested his displeasure in a variety of ways. His disposition seemed to change, and in- stead of following his mistress around the house, as he had been in the habit of do- ing, he simply turned his back upon her. Several times the young woman caught the old fellow in tke act of cuffing the new ar- rival, and ‘or this she reproved him sharp- y. Finally the Httle Kitten was unmo- lested when the mistress was around, but the old cat manifested his anger In other directions. Yesterday morning the young woman had the kitten in her lap, petting it and calling it endearing names, when Old Dick entered the reom. He began to growl when he saw the tenderness with which the kitten was treated. and then tried to induce the young woman to pet him instead of the kitten. Hi attempt was a failure, however, and then the old cat went almost. wild with rage. With a single bound he was in the lap of the young woman, who lost her presence of mind and began to scream, fearing the old cat was sbout to attack her. Seizing the Kitten by the back, Old Dick jumped to the floor. and, holding the kitten down ty his front paws, deliberately tore open the little animal's neck, killing it in a few seconds, As soon as the kitten was dead the old cat looked at the body for a moment and then disappeared through the open door, and has not been seen since. ‘The tragedy was clearly the result of an- ger on the part of Old Dick, who up to the present time had never been known to get into a quarrel with another cat. In fact, he was so gentle that his name was a syn- onym for all that was gentle and mild, and his behav! jined on no other driven insane by cee Lives Lost Through Fear. From the New York Tribune. “Presence of mind when confronted by danger,” said N. P. Berry of New Orleans, recently, “has saved many lives, while the account has been more than balanced by the loss of life through loss of nerve in critical emergencies. Any member of a fire department or other person familiar with such things can give you numerous in- stances of lives lost solely on this account, and this rule holds true fn other cases as well. I remember once walking with a girl and thoughtlessly speaking of a harmless green snake I saw in the grass behind her. She became paralyzed with fear, and, be- fore 1 could prevent her, backed directly on the snake. A friend of mine, who was in a fire, toid me that his wife became so frightened that she insisted on going Into a from which, screaming and strug- he had to rescue her by main gth. On the other hand, I once knew a woman who, driven with her sister and two children to take refuge on the fourth floor of her burning home, first threw her children, then compelled her sister to jump into the walting net, and then calmly and uninjured made the descent herself, only to go into hysterics when it was all over. A friend of mine. who lives in Charleston, told me that just after the earthquake there seme years ago he met the sister of a alking down the str brother’s dress coz in the |. although at the time, no one seemed to think her costume out of the ordinary. Presence of mind can to a great extent be cultivated, but it ts large- ly inherited. My brother, who Is as brave a man as I ever knew, has an unalterable and unconquerable fear of a thunderstorm, which, try as he will, he has never been able to overcome.” How He Sold Two Pictures. From the New O-leans Thnes- Democrat, “Dirt Is a great promotor of picture sales, remarked a New Orleans dealer rather cynically, the other morning. “For over a year I had a couple of small can- s here in the store, and although they were really works of art I couldn't get rid of them at any figure. They were studies in oil by a young French painter—one an ideal head and the other a landscape, and they were well worth my original price of $100 apiece. There were no customers for them, however, and after a few months I cut that down to $50, and then dropped a notch at a time until I finally ticketed them at $8.49 for the pair. I put on the tag part- ly as a joke and partly because I was mad, but I must confess I was considerably su: prised when nobody took up the proposi- ion. Then I had a bright idea. I took the two ptetures out of their handsome ‘shadow boxes,” slapped them into a couple of shab- by gilt frames, put back the first price and Sayre over be cpt timeepeme store in the Old Quarter. The place I am speakii of is beyond doubt the dirtiest den In town ic ts cluttered up with broken furniture and hasn't been swept since the year 1, but nevertheless it 1s a great resort for north- ern curio hunters, They imagine they make ‘discoveries’ there, and sure enough, in less than a week, one of them discovered my paintings and almost dislocated his arm in getting out his pocket book before any- body could rush in ahead of him. My con- science is easy, for he got a as it was, but the episode is discouraging. I'm thinking of discharging our scrubwoman and emptying a few trash 1s around the store. Then maybe I'll be able to con- vinee people I have works of art on the premises.” AMERICA’S GOOD OFFICES A Beliof That They Are Now Being Exerted for Peace, Quiet Indications That This Govern- ment in Seeking to End the African War. ‘There is reason to believe that the United States government is using its good offices to restore peace between Great Britain and the South African republics. This has not taken the shape of a proffer of mediation. That would be distinctly repugnant to Great Britain and, according to the rule of international law, which has, without ex- ception, governed the State Department m the past, could not be volunteered by us until it was known to be acceptable to both parties to the war. But the United States might very proper- ly serve as an intermediary to transmit an appeal for peace and the terms upon which Peace can be secured. The United States has succ2ssfully served in that capacity in the past, notably in the termination of the Chino-Japanese war, and it is believed fts good offices {i™ that line are now being extended. If this beli2f is well founded then Mr. Adelbert Hay, United States consul to Pretoria, has been the instrument for transmitting to the Brit- Ish governmant, through the double inter- vention of the Department of State and Ambassador Choate, an application from Presidents Kruger and Steyn to bs in- formed as to the terms upon which the war can be ended. The facts in the case will be fully developed in a day or two. —_—____+«+___ FIGHT WITH A FEROCIOUS WOLF. Au Hlinots Hunter Kills the Animal After a Struggle. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. For several weeks a wolf scare has been in full force in the neighborhood of Red Bud, UL It culminated Wednesday after- noon in a desperate fight between a hunter and a wolf, and the killing of the wolf. ‘There are believed to be three or four more of them, however. The wolves were first seen in the vicinity of Waterloo. There were five full-grown mountain wolves in the pack then. They were seen by many farmers, but they were so fleet of foot that nobody could get near enough to take a shot at them. They ranged through the woods and at night came near the farm houses and killed sheep and poultry. Their depreda- tions became so great that the authorities of Monroe county offered a reward of $10 for every wolf skin brought in. A farmer near Waterloo lay In wait for the pack and brought down one of them. The rest took the hint and disappeared from those parts. For several weeks they were not seen. About two weeks ago they appeared in the Okaw bottoms, near here. Only one was seen at a time around there, though. The first one was seen by Magistrate Daniel Fullmer, who lives northwest of New Athens. He was driving home when one of the animals ran across the road in front of him and made for the woods. He was sure it was not a dog, because It traveled by bounds. A wolf was also seen by Fred Ahlheim, by Fred W. Duckworth, the sta- tion agent, who took a shot at it; Matt Potter, who used to be a plainsman, and others. A few days ago the wolves disap- peared from around New Athens and then they were seen in Monroe county, in the Vicinity of Saxtown, which fs a rural com- munity, near Millstadt. Wednesday afternoon Jacob Eckert, a brother of John Eckert of Belleville, was hunting in the woods near Saxtown when he saw an animal some distance away in the underbrush, which looked at a distance like a dog. He heard the wolf stories-and crept around the side of a hill until he was! near enough to see that the animal was cer- tainly not a dog, whatever else it might be Getting up as close as he could without by ing discovered by the animal, he, arose about fifty yards from it, took careful aim and fired. The wolf leaped into the air and howled, showing that it had been wounded; but instead of dying or running away, it bounded, with distended jaws and glaring eyes, in the direction of Eckert. He did not have time to reload his rifle. He clab- bed the weapon, and as the wolf came within reach he swung it at the animal's head. The wolf was wary, though. It crouched back out of the sweep of the gun and, before Eckert could raise {t for an- other blow, the antmal leaped upon him and tried to sink his teeth in his throat. He still held his gun in both hands, and was able to use it in warding off the fero- cious atacks of the animal to the extent of keeping it from his throat. He wore heavy clothing, through which the claws and teeth of the wolf could scarcely penetrate. The struggle lasted several minutes. Ec ert’s hands and face were lacerated by th claws of the animal. but escaped its teeth. He finally succeeded in throwing the ant- mal off of him and. before it could spring on him again, struck it a blow on the head with the butt of his gun, which stunned {t. Quickly slipping a bullet in his rifle he shot the animal through the head and ended the fight. Mr. Eckert took the hide of the ani- ™mal to Waterloo and was given the prize of $10 without question. Encouraged by Eck- ert’s success the farmers of the vicinity or- ganized a wolf hunt, and are now scouring the woods for the other three wolves, which are believed"to be in the woods. 2 —____ How to Keep Warm. From the Pall Mall Gazette. How to keep warm fs so pressing a sub- ject with many at this moment that it tempts me to give the advice of the well- known scientific writer, M. Gabri21 Prevost, on this point. Much, he thinks, can be done by practice, and he fs clearly of opin- fon that if we could break ourselves {n to do without clothing at an early age we should suffer less from a cold snap in after Mfe. This apart, his advice is almost a s2rles of “don'ts.” Don't, he says, wear heavy clothes which expose you to the risk of a sudden check of perspiration. Rather Wear one or two extra layers of light cloth- ing, with the “chimneys,” as he calls them, of the wrists and ankles scientifically plugg2d. Don’t beat your rooms overmuch, for to really prevent radiation, and conse- quent loss of heat by this means, you would have to sit in a temperature of 85 degrees, | which would infallibly give you a chili when you went into the present arctic air. Don't drink too much alcohol, which has hardly any warming properties, but eat an increased quantity of sugar and fat. Final- ly, don’t take violent, by which he means exhausting, exercise, but do something that keeps your hands and feet moving. To which may be added the Canadian plan of putting on your outer garments a littl> be- fore you go out of doors, so as to take as much warmth as possible out with you. ——_+ 00 Wounds Bravely Borne. Writing of the scenes. after the battle of Colenso, the special correspondent of South Africa says: “Some of the shell wounds were terrible and ghastly, and many men wounded by the Mauser bullets were ‘hit In several places at once, so that it be- came very difficult in some cases to find an unwounded part of a man’s body where he could be safely handled. Not a word of complaint was heard, and very little groan- ing or grieving over the wounds. Those who were able puffed away at their pipes and wa{ted their turn for the opereting tent in cold pluck. I asked several men if they wanted anything immediate, and al- Ways got the same answer: ‘I'm all right, sir; the orderly ts getting me some. soup.’ “When did you have your last food? I asked. ‘Two o'clock this morning, sir; but I'm all right.’ I saw one man standing looking at the stump of his trigger finger, which had been carried away by a bullet. “You'll be all right,’ said I; ‘cheer up! It will soon heal.’ ‘It wasn't that, sor,’ he re+ plied: ‘I'm wondering how soon I'll be able to get back to pay out the mon what did that, sor.’ Such was the spirit shown after the battle of Colenso, after about six hours’ desperate fighting against a hail of bullets fired by an enemy that not a single infan. tryman had a chance of aiming at. I ques- toned Hohe of = wounded, and they all stated that they not seen a single Boer the whole day.” = oe The American.—“You have no idea of the immense wealth of this country until you've traveled over it.” The foreignei lived in Europe.’ “Oh, yes, I have. I'v '—Life. - “SAPHO" INTERDICTED AT* FLINT. NO FIGHT YESTERDAY Gen, RoWirtsContiones His March Withéat Opposition, MAY REACH ~BLOBMFONTEIN SOO Not Known Definitely as to What th Boers Intend. Mayor and Council of Michigan Town - Act Accord, FLINT, Mich., March 12.—At a special meeting of the city councll today a resolu- tion was adopted in support of Mayor Crawford's determination to prevent a pro- ‘posed presentation of “Sapho” tonight. The Tesolution instructs the city marshal to prevent the performance. —~+2+—___ POSTAL SUBSTATIONS And What They Mean to the Service =, and the P ie. “A few years ago,” said a high postal of- ficial to a Star reporter, “the subpostal sta- tions in New York were counted by the letters of the alphabet. Now the metropo- att 58 = Us has 169 fin all. mae - “These stations are now indispensable to E S ADDITIONAL _- CASUALTIES | yoctat operations. But few of the patrons ms Zs of the mails in the different large cities realize their number and tmportance. When the Manila troops were in San Francisco a substation did a larger business in money ordérs than the main office. “Washington has 53 stations and substa- tions, Baltimore, 115; Phiiadelphit, 113; Brooklyn, 93; Boston, 91; Chicago, 160; St. Louis, 75, and New Orleans, 15. San Fran- ciseso has 25, and is the general office upon which postal money orders are drawn for ‘payment in the Philippines; Jolo, San Fer- nando, Cavite and lloili being ‘military sta- tions’ of that office. “Most of the substations are numbered. ‘The stations are usually designated by the letters of the alphabet, and the independent stations are the names of the towns and cities which have been absorbed by the greater city, as, for instance, ‘Roxbury Crossing’ of Boston. In St. Louis, however, all of the 75 stations are designated by LONDON, March 12—The war office this 1 Morning fssuef the following dispatch from ‘Aasvogel Kop, under date of March 12, 533am.: - ~5 * “We were unopposed ‘during the march yesterday. The/officers I left at the last camp to record the list of casualties have not yet arrived.‘ The following additional casualties are known, however: “Killed—Lieuts, F, N, Parsons gnd A. B. Coddington of the Essex Regiment. .. 5 Wounded—Lieuts. :C. Berkeley (severely), Lloyd Arm and @, H. Raleigh. ‘ “Gen. Gatacre reports that he was within a mile of the Bethulle railway bridge yes- terday. The bridge was partially destroyed and the enemy was holding the opposite bank.” name. a “But it is the great city of London that leaves us way behind in the matter of pos- tal stations. Its postal facilities are, in many respects, admirable. It is divided into eight postal districts, as ‘E. C.’ for eastern center “W. C.’ for western cen- ter, etc. Washington has four postal dis- tricts, and is one of the very few cities thus geographically quartered. A letter dropped in one of these London postal districts 1s transmitted to an adjoining or adjacent dis- trict without going to the central office in surprisingly quick time. “There are no less than about 707 sub- Stations In London, almost as many as in the cities named above combined. In Lon- don there are 15 Fulhams, 16 Forest Gates. 14 Batterseas, 7 St. John’s Woods, 14 Walthamstows and Hammersmiths, and scores of other places bearing an identical name. How do they distinguish? Oh, they have a way, many, in fact, most of these places being preceded by an affix or fol- wed by a suffix of some sort, as ‘Lower or ‘Upper,’ etc. Paris, France, has but 105 subpost office stations—less than Balti- more. “The substations are very largely pat- ronized by ladies, and to the fair sex they Anent Peace Proposals. In the house of commons. today Mr. Bal- four, the first lord of the treasury and gov- ernment leader, ‘replying’ to a question as to whether, consistently with public inter- ests, he could state the essential condi- tions on-which alone the government would entertain peace proposais from the South African republics, promised that papers in this connection would shortly be presented to the house. “ Leyds Thanks John Clancy. The letter-of Dr. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the Transvaal, to Mr. John Clan- cy, Irish natlonajist, member of parliament for the north division of County Dublin, thanking the Dublin corporation for their resolution of sympathy for the South Afri- can republics says: “The resolution is greatly appreciated by me. I know how keenly it will be prized by our much suffering country, still strug- gling for independence and liberty. It is a satisfaction to know that a considerable part of the Irish population In the united kingdom, mindful of the blood being shed | are an immeasurable benefit and conver, in South Africa, continues to extend sym- | tence. They are great educators, T think, end to our people. May this sympathy | in their way. If this is doubted, step in | by numbers of your country- | one some day when you have an hour to spare and listen to the questions propound- ed the clerk. Even though you are not a student of human nature you will be edified and amused.” men.” KRUGER ASKS INTERVEN'ION. Appeals to Great Powers and to the Smailer, Too. THE HAGUE, March 12.—It 1s learned from a rellable source that President Kru- ger, through the consuls at Pretoria, has appealed for the intervention of the great powers in the Transvaal war, and has also appealed to the governments of Belgium, Holland and, Switzerland. —_.___. COSTLY: JEWELED PURSES. Monumental Prices Asked for Trifi in the Goldsmith's art. “Tho style in ladies’ purses,” said a clerk in a fashionable jeweler’s to a Star reporter, “and by that I mean ladies who can afford such luxuries, is extravagant now. It is of gold and jewels, and gold and jewels, a combination ever dear to the fem- inine heart, are possessed only by those whose bank balances are ample and elestic. “Here is the most expensive purse we have. Its price ts $225. Quite a difference, 1s there not, between this little money holder and an 89-cent, reduced, ‘solid ster- ling silver mounting’ bargain in leather. “You observe that st is the old style of closely woven chain link, semi-circular clasp purse, with a delicate chain handle, of a style in vogue in the days of hoops and flowing skirts, nly then they were made of steel. The front of the clasp is set in diamonds, amethysts, garnets and sap- phires. The matrizg turquoise, cut in the fashionable charbonneaux, round carbuncle form, {fs very popular.in this class. of jew- elry. The setting is often a matter of choice with the fair wearer. Do we sell many at this price? Certainly, and in the daintily gloved hand of a fine lady it is an exquisite ornament, “Here is one a little less—only $50. It is a perfectly plain, closely knit chain purse of solid gold. Even this ought to satisfy any Woman: except the most exacting so- elety beauty.. They are so expensive for two reasons: First, they are of solid gold set In jewels—we will make you up one for $40 or more if you wish half-carat or larger stones; and, second, because each of these tiny links of fine gold is made by hand and so'dered by girls in the factory. Yes, a magnifying glass is necessary to detect where they are joined together. “The square or round leather purse with raised silver initial or monogram is the fa- vorite in the leather goods. I wish I had a patent on that style. Women, having no pockets, or, having pockets, not knowing what to do with them, must necessarily carry their money in purses held in the hand. Men stuff their bills in their pock- ets. The folding style of pocket book for men’s wear wi'l never go out of fashion, and the only difference will be in the modi- fication of the shape—long, short, or wide or narrow. Redmond Threatens to Resign. DUBLIN, March 12.—William Redmond, M. P., has written to the clerk of the cor- poration protesting against the proposed address of welcome’to Queen Victoria and expressing his intention to resign his scat in the counojl if the address 1s presented. ——>2+s__ Tribute to Irish Valor. LONDON} Marth 12.—The lord mayor, A. J. Newton, has directed that the Irish flag be hoisted éver the Mansion house on St. Patrick's day, In Fecagnition of the braver: of the Iris! mio in South Africa. if ——_room—__—_ Fox > HUNTING: IN- GREAT BRITAIN. An’ Expénslye Sport When Pursued as the Englishmen Follow It,” From Forest and Stream. Ban Some of the fox-hunting statistics will give a partial idea of the magnitude of the sport in Great Britain at the present day. Of staghounds there are in Engtand 487 couples, and of these the Devon and Som- erset Hunt have fifty couples, the greatest number used by one hunt. The master cf them {s the Earl of Coventry. To Ireland 111 are credited, while Scotland has none. In foxhounds the greatest numerical strength appears, there being 6,215 couples owned by the different hunts in England, and of these the Blackmore Vale Hunt leads {n the number owned, ninety couples being ‘credited to it. Scotland has rela tively the insignificant number of 365 couples, fifty-seven of which belong to the hunt of the Duke of Buccleugh. Ireland has 805 couples, the Meath Hunt owning the greatest number of couples—sixty-four. Harriers are also strong in numbers, but they vary a great deal in size and “sorti- “I saw an article in The Star recently as to the probable future cost of diamonds. 1 think the estimate was too conservative on strictly high-class grades. The general public do not see ‘blue-white’ stones. The kind they buy are what are known to us in the trade as ‘pure white’ stones. Pur- chasers think, and are often told by deal- ers, that they are getting ‘blue-white’ stones. We sell as many as any dealer in Washington, and we do not display in our ness,” as a general resemblance in type and breed characteristics is termed. They ars classified as Stud Book, cross-bred, pure, modern, Welsh, mixed and old English har- riers, and dwarf foxhound and Southern cross, harriers with foxhound cross, har- riers aad beagle cross, black and tan and Old Southern, harriers and small foxhounds, the extreme variation in height of the packs enumerated being from sixteen to twenty- eight inches. ‘Of this very variable lot, trays ‘blue-white’ diamonds at all. They are kept in the safe and are exhibited and sold on request. This grade of stone is worth today $200 and upward a carat. The probable future stringency in the diamond market may have a tendency to retire this grade from general sale, as the price will be all but prohibitory. The ‘pure white’ diamond, however, can always be had in quantities. I have seen a ‘blue-white’ stone worth $1,500 a carat. I have heard of one valued at %,000 a carat. This beautifully perfect diamond was used for ‘judging’ pur- poses—that is, an expert used it as a top- notcher to determine the ‘color’ of other diamonds he bought 2nd sold. “A few months hence, if the diamond market does not ease up, an engagement ring will be accompanied by a magnifying glass, or he may be compelled to give her his IO U. Do you think she would take the IO U as readily and with as much grace as the ring?” Se A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. classed as harriers, England has 2,025 couples; Scotland the small number of six- ty-seven couples, and JFreland has 201 couples. As to the beagles, they seemingly are out of favor in Ireland and Scotland, no packs being credited to those countries, though England has of them 746 couples. Thus the list gives the large total of 11,- 202 couples of all kinds of hounds used in pucks, and affords data from which to gain au: idea of the magnitude of the fox-hunting interests which are maintained by the sportsmen of Great BMtain. These packs ure hunted from two to four days a week in proper season, as a general rule, and this in turn necessitates the maintenance of large stables of horses to properly mount the master, huntsmen and whips of the various packs. Frequentty, when hunting, one or two horses are held in reserve for them. Mary such stables have from fifty to 100 horses. . 4 A notable feature of the sport fs the sus- tained and enthusiastic interest and active participation Init by its devotees from youth to advanced age. The passing of the years neither fessens their hugpting ardor nor impairs their stamina and dash in the dificult cross ry riding after the swift hounds. A case fn point, one of many, is that of Mrto Jobs Crozier, master of the Biencathra Hunttat present, as he has been for the last sixty years. He succeeded his father as master in 1839. At his ege Men are more prone to the telling of what they have; done than to be up and doing with the bést in the activities of sport. Wire feneing iQ a. number of sections of Great Britain effegs a serious modern prob- lem for the hunters, for it interferes to a sertous extéat WR ‘the riding ‘and best enjoyment éf‘th@ sport. A long purse, how- ever, 1s a great-a®i in such matters, and it is suggested that-the hunts pay for the tak- ing down ofsthe.nmire fences in the fall and the putting: up-sof them -in the spring. ‘There is lesszof frietion between farmer and hunter in England than there is between the same classes in America, though when crops are ri@&@en over in the former country, which is nét @ common incident, there is |* likely to be dissatisfaction at the act. Still no class is more opposed to unnecessary damage to the “farmers' interests than are the hunters ves. The foregoing will give the American fox hunter a general idea of the high degree to which fox hunting is organized and spe- clalized in Great Britain, and the distinct manner in which it is conducted as com- pared with fox hunting in America. From the breeding and weeding out of the packs, with a view to sécure good Voice, uniform speed and “sortiness,” to the breeding of hunters whieh are’weight carriers, jumpers and good runners, every detall of it has strict attention; ‘but -while, England may surpass ‘American the matter of Tent as it ms fo fox hunting, it can- not surpass us in thé matter of enjoyment. F. C. Lehman Drinks Carbolic Acid at Lancaster, Pa. LANCASTER, Pa., March 12.—Freeland C. Lehman, a wholesale flour dealer, com- mitted suicide today, under sensational cir- cumstances. He boarded at the American House, and shortly before noon walked up to the room of J. A. C. Knoop, a traveling salesman, holding a glass in his hand. He sald: “Here's looking at you, Jack; I'll meet you in heaven,” and drank the contents, which were afterward ascertained to be car- bolic acid. He died twenty minutes later, He was thirty-nine years of age, and had been despondent because of ill-health. —_—_2<--___ REV. SHELDON TAKES CHARGE. Gave Oat Instructions to “Topeka Capital” Force This Morning. TOPEKA, Kan., March 12—Rev. C. M. Sheldon, who edits the Topeka Capital, this week was at the office of the’paper at 8:30 o'clock this morning and made a hurried inspection of the various departments. At 10 o'clock he had a conference with the visiting correspondents, promising to give them such information as he could during the week. At 11 o'clock he met the work- ing force of the paper and gave out in- structions for the day. ‘ —_>+>—_ Detained by Illness. Mre. E. M. Whittemore of New York, founder of the Door of Hope Rescue Homes throughout the country, who was expected to speak at the Central Union Mission to; . night, is detained at her home by 1Il1 ce vaccination was made compulsory | and will therefore not be able to be here. in German cities; im 1874, only a few cases Se of smal} no} ‘ed, and most | In Mexico school: children are allowed smoke in school hours when their iessons are well prepared. a DR. GREENE CHOSEN. FINANCE ANB TRADE Short Covering Again Makes Better Demand for Stocks. Becomes the Temporary President of Colambian University. At a meeting of the board of trustees of Columbian University Saturday Rev. Dr. Greene was chosen president pro tem. in place of Rev. Dr. Whitman, whose resigna- Uon as president of the university has been accepted, to take effect at the close of the present scholastic year. The board also elected Prof. Howard L. Hodgkins univer- sity dean, thereby creating a new office. Prof. Hodgkin will look after the affairs of the university during the vacancy in the office of president, which is to be filled as soon as the board can find a suitable man. The choice, however, may not be made for several months. but in the interim the busi- ness of the unfversity will be attended to and the affairs of the several departments will not be neglected. SUGAR TAKES A JUMP Godd Buying of Railroad Bonds for Long Account, ANOTHER LAUNDRY ROBBED. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Charles Chung This Time the Victim of a Burglar. Complaint was received at police head- quarters today that another Chinese laun- dryman had been robbed. Charles Chung, whose place of business Is at No. 2223 14th street, was the victim. He stated that his place was entered between 11 o'clock last night and 6 o'clock this morning. About $5 in cash and two knives were stolen. An en- trance was effected by forcing the blinds from the rear window. The Chinaman was asleep at the time the robbery was com- taitted, and the police have no clue to the perpetrator of the crime. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, March 12—The covering of short contracts which was noted in a few specialties on Saturday was r2sumed in the early trading this morning. London sent over @ range of prices from & to % above the local parity, the suocess of the war loan having had a beneficial Influence on specu- Jative sentiment at that enter. This change in conditions made some Impression on the local market later in the day, com- mission houses bringing in more business and the room receding from its pessimistic position. The vote to be taken on the currency bill tomorrow was used as an inducement to the new demand, but authorities differ widely on the-immediate outcome of this legisla- tion. That a substantial increase will be made to the present supply of available funds is certain, but whether the increase will extend to the Inflation point is Goubt- ful. The treasury must release, in payment of premiums, a considerable sum, and this amount slone would help the present de- pleted reserve condition of the local banks. The extent to which new circulation will be taken !s not easily determined, but the recent demand for government bonds would indicate that it will be very large. The only reason for the high premiums on the issues included in the refunding scheme is that a cheap circulation is guaranteed to ie the new twos. 5 to the money market come within a few days from a t! ry otter to #nticipate interest. This action is at least hoped for in banking circles. The call money rate today advanced to 5 per cent during the period of the best de- mand for the railway shares. This action may be taken to indicate the more general Knowledge of the temporary character of any scarcity of borrowable funds. Railroad bonds were all strong, and the preferred stocks showed signs of an awak- ening Investment interest. The first mort- gage bonds of the reorganized properties Were active at advancing prices. The stocks of the same roads, Atchison, Unton Pacific, Northern Pacific and South- ern, were all in better demand. The breadth of the market lacks enduring qualities, but the abandoning of the short account may be taken as a straw indicating the main movement. American Sugar was strong, as the result of the better tone of the general market, and under Its leaderstilp the entire indus- trial st moved up sympathetically. The stocks reflected some covering also, but the common shares responded more easily than did the preferred. While the demand centered tn the spe- clalties to a considerable degree the buy- ing of the first-class investment group was of a character to Inspire hope in the future of all well-managed properties. Pennsyi- vania, Burlington and all the dividend-pay- ing grangers were taken by conservative houses representing a strictly investment clientele. The atmosphere of the street is more hopeful than last week, but the move- ment today may be a trifle premature, SS ELEPHANT AND LOCOMOTIVE. Fate of a Beast That Tried to Push an Engine Backward. From the London Standart. It is not only in South Africa, and by statesmen who ought to know better, that the march of civilization is opposed and ob- stinacy pitted against progress. The ele- phant has many human qualities, and if the story that comes to us from Perak, one of the Straits settlements, be well founded, occasionally shares with politicians hardly less intelligent their prejudice against the spirit of the age. It appears that a big tusker, which had Ieng been an object of pursuit to the sportsmen of that remote district, wandered on to the railway line and tried conclusions with the engine of a goods train, charging it repeatedly, and keeping up the contest for nearly an hour. The engine was reversed in the hope that the beast would quit the field and allow the train to proceed, but as soon as there was any attempt to renew the journey the ele- phant returned to the encounter -and re- sumed its obstructive tactics. The driver was afraid to charge the brute, lest the train should be thrown off the metals, and the contest might have gone on much longer had not the elephant backed into the engine, and, setting its fore fect firmly between the rails, endeavored to shove the train backward with its hind quarters. The driver took advantage of the opportu- nity and put on steam, gradually forcing the beast off the line. In this maneuver one of the wheels of the engine went over the hind legs of the animal, which was put out of its misery by the guard of a follow- ing passenger train. This is not the first time that the engine in question has en- countered an elephant on the Ine. Just about five years ago, while it was drawing @ passenger train on a dark night through the heavy tropical forest, a sudden shock was felt, and the train came to a stand- still. The engine and tender were thrown off the metals and half way down the em- bankment, though, fortunately, they did not drag the carriages after them. When the driver, who had been pitched off, went back to ascertain the cause of the accident, he saw a large bull elephant at the bottom of the embankment on the other side of the line. It died a few minutes after the col- lision from the violent sheck and loss of blood, its off fore leg having been shattered and a piece of the trunk torn off. Beyond the fright and shock caused by the sudden stopping of the train, which, luckily, was traveling at only fifteen miles an hour, no injury resulted to any of the passengers. In the same month of the same year a simi- lar accident occurred on the Bengal-Nagpur railway in India. ¥ On a pitch dark night a mail train was running at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour through very thick jungle which was known to hold wild elephants. The driver felt an obstruction and attempted to reverse, but the engine left the metals, re Gragging with it a brake van, the carriage | ¢ of the locomotive superintendent and some other carriages, but without causing in- jury to any of the passengers or officials. At first it was thought that the accident had been brought about by cattle straying on the line, but the officials soon found a | Chic. dead elephant Apparently the animal had | {° been crossing the line just as the ‘train came up, and had been struck by the en- gine and hurled dbwn the bank. The agent of the company sent home one of the tusks to be put up in the board room as a mem- orial of the occurrence. These instances of a train being thrown off the line through collision with an elephant show that, while such accidents are pretty sure to be “bad for the elephant,” they are also attended with considerable danger to.rolling stock, and even to human life. The latter consid- eration completes the analogy we have al- ready drawn. ——_——+e-——______ CHICAGO LAKE FRONT. —— FISANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, New York Stock Market. American Cotton 07. .S. Wire. American Tobacco... Atchison Atchison, pfd__. o Bultimore & Ohio, pfd_ Baltimore & Ohio,w 1. BrooklynRapid Transit. chesapeake & Ohio... CC. & St Louis. + hicago, B. & Q.... Chic & Northwestern. chicago Ges... CM. and St. Pagi ‘hicago K. 1. & Pacific. St PM. £ 0... General Electric. Winois Centra’ Louisvilie & Nashville Metropolitan Traction. Mannattan Elevated.__ re Pacitic. New Jersey Centra: NewYork Central. Northern Pacitic. Northern Pacific, Pacific Mais. United States Supreme Court Affirms Decision Against Illinois Central. The United States Supreme Court today decided the contention between thé city of Chicago and the IUinois Central Railroad Company over certain lands on the front of Lake Michigan. The decision of the Mli- nois state supreme court, which was against the railroad company, was aflirmed. The case was a bill in equity instituted by Union Pacitic San Pac’ Colorado Fuel and the Illinois Central to obtain an injunction | Leather. = 1isy restraining the city of Chicago from inter- | Ontario & Westera. 2 2354 fering with the exercise of the right of the SS . railway company to fill in for railroad pur- : peses certain lands submerged by the shal- Washington Steck Exchange. low waters of Lake Michigan in front of property owned by the railroad company an@ situated between 25th and 27th streets in Chicago, the purpose of the railroad company in reclaiming the land being to erect an engine house upon it, The opinion of the court was handed @own by Justice Brown. eg Pearl Harbor Naval Station. The Secretary of the Navy has uppointed a board to arrange for the establishment of the proposed naval station at Pearl harbor, Hawaii. The board consists of Rear Ad- miral A. S. Barker, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard; Captain Henry C. Tay- lor, commanding th> receiving ship Ve: Salesregular call, 12 o'clock m Deposit and Trust, 10 at 1314 10 at 132. Capit ‘ae W 11%. 100 at t at 4, at 3 . City aud Suburban Raiiros series A. mont; Commander C. C. Todd, chief hy- Series KOs, 115 Grographer, and Civil Engineer H. H. Rous- tmp. Gs, "110" Wa seau, with Lieutenant F. L. Chapin as re- - 7 7 corder. American Security ai ington ‘ashinet Market » Washington Markt Co, extn. 6s, 112 bid. Masonic Hall Association -a, 107 bid.” American Graphophone deb, a Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, Merch 12.—Flour inactive: western i do. extra, $2.40$2.90; do. fam- | Anacostia and Potomac 58, 100 bid. Winter wheat patent, $3.83. National Bauk Stocks.—Rank of Washi ) Sa$s: 5 whent straight, $3. id, 400 asked. Metropulitan. 550 bid, receipts, 44.901 barrels: exports, 155 ‘barrels. tral, 195 bid. Farmers and Mechanics’ firmer; spot-and March, 723ja72%: May, 73) ond. bid, Citizens’. 160 bid. Coluinb Sy stonmice: No.2 ret, Sensei, recelpte, (141 Capital, 140 bid. West End. 117 bid. vushels; southern wheat by sample, G7a74; do. on | ers’, 125 bid, 135 asked. Lincoln, 120 bid, grade, “Qyn73%4. 3 spot and’ March, : strong: ia il, 40%ea1; May. 4ltca tity: steamer mix hit Inga; do. fellow. aasiie. Outs eteadse white ‘corn, 41n42: do. yellow, a1adi4. Outs steady: No. 2 white, 30%931; N¢ fo Re jo. 2 mixed, 28a28%4. nominal; No. 2 nearby of ‘Hay firm; N ea. . Mafe Deposit and Trust Compantes. National Saf Deposit, and ‘Trust, 131% bid. 182 asked. Wa! ington Lonn and ‘Trust, ia, cau Security and Trust, 197% bid, 2 Did, 80 asked. ington Safe Deposit, Tosurance Stock: 30 Did. «. Firemen 40 bid. Metropolitan, 50 bid. ‘Ss 60 bid. Potomac, 73% bid, 145 bid. German-American, 2 Vulen, 11 bid, 13 axked. 124 bid, > fancy | asked: . § bid, Sig asked. People’s, 6% iid, le, 19 | 7 asked. refal, 4 bid, 5 asked. Colonial, 111 bid. 115 asked. je Insurance Stocks.—Real Estare Title, &3 wid, SS asked. Columbia Tithe, 4% bid. 5 asked. Wash: ington Title, 314 bid. District Tithe, Bz big. road scant Traction. at bid. 97% Py "3 medium, 13t%ei3i; a . Butter nensy: & do, imitation, 21423; do. 18419; store packed, 17a! Tiado. Grain, Provision: and Cotton Markets. bi i bid, TA Georgetown apd Ten- Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1419 F st., members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. La- denburg, Thalmann & Co., New York. CHICAGO, March 12 ota: High. Low. Close. ‘aaked. a ted Someeme Sek 18Bis bid, 1954 asked. asked. Sus tie Gun Low. Close. cpa 0.90 1.1” 1.00 11.10 Ser ae 2 | 2 per cents, B97 6.05 cente, G00 Gor | 5 Per cone 4 per cents, Low: Close. | 4 per cents, O22 9.83 14 per conte, 9.19 -9.26 |4 per cents, 8.07 9.12 & per cents, 790 7.04 LB per conta,