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4 k& 'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1902. WANTS A WIFE WITH A DOWRY English Marquis Arrives With Hs Title but Little Money. TARIFF BILL FOR CUBA-IN ABEYANGE Qutlock for Passage of the Measure Is Not Bright, It May Be “Talked to Death” Nephew of the Duke of Fife Is Looking for a Future Marchioness. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Aprit 13.—It is possible that s i the future Marchioness of Townshend by Its Opponents in lives in Chicago. Her identity may be | Y made known to herseif as well as to the| the House. world within a few days, for Jobn James | AR Dudley Stuart’Townshend, a marquis of | nephew of the Duke | ng for her. apcient lineage and of Fife, is here look h th ate in Se Reach the. fenste Iate § Townshend has letters of identification | sion and if Passed Will Again to Mrs. Potter Palmer and’lgt)‘c-t&nflres‘s- i man George E., Adams. e Marquis, Be Fought Over in who weighs about 100 pounds, is accom- Conference. panied by a private secretary and has a suite of rooms at the Auditorium. e has — - an estate in Norfolk, near Sandrifigham. He would like to have improvements made on the place and desires also a London home, and if any Chicago millionaire has to The A BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N.|, Gaichter to whom he would be willing WASHINGTON, April 13.—Cuba’s | 1o give a dowry sufficient-for these pur- i al water again, and delay | poses the Marguis would_be plegsed to communicate with him. . “l do admire American girls,’ admitted his lordship. Now, I wiil not #ay that nment less than two months set for a vote in |1 un" eliberately seeking an American stlll being adced | wife I will say this, however, 1 would speakers, already very JOng, | not run away from a handsome, well-bred \€ 1o trust the Democrats, Lo | young American woman. 1 am 35 years must look for heip, the Ways | 0ld and’have never been married. t dare at present —_— debate. His Inexpensive Campaign. e when that A ciean and incorruptible standard- e throes of another Philippine | hearer, Seymour Van Santvoord's chafac- will be followed by long | ter is undimmed by defeat, says the Troy isthmian canal bisl. | Pry Brilliantly he exemplified an ord- amittee finally as« | torical power and. a. mastery of logic > calendar Sen- his fellow obstraction- that the contest is pros few men even in this great onwealth, and his po- s well as supporters cqualed by and populous com litical opponents S { give him credit for a high order of abil- | at the bill pass the Senate, | 57 1"ig better to gu"down gloriously | ell on toward Jume 1, and it | \\(h 4 good cause than to win by the ab- out in such forfa that its|porrent methods which darkened the re- b se will never be able 10 | cont election at many poiing places. _will follow another | “The following has b ti.ed with the committee, which | county Clerk by Mr. Van Santvoord: y will win, {\ ", “the matter of the,_ s post ight must be fought | nioriem of election expenses of Seymour House over the con- | Van santvoord, ‘The Peopie’s Candidate’ to @il this an ungdis- Mayor of the city of Lroy, deceased. | the part of the Demo- | Laer County, Seymour Van ublicans go before the | guntvoora of - Troy, N. Y., being duly hout having relieved | cyorn, says that he was a candidate for ahead only mulli- | 1pe office of. Mayor of the city of Lroy, v ted for at a public eteetion heid in Troy, Y., on the 5th day of November, 191, and that the following itemized state- ment, which is in all respects full and true, shows all the moneys contributed or expended by him, directly or indirectly, | either by himself or through any othef person, in aid of his election, to wi “Paid United Traction Company for returning car fare of deponent and Candidate James H. Caiwdwell, de- H more defiant | still laboring with | may be compelled to services of the Presi- g the contest with re is thrown open un- on ‘the night of the mass | a great number g when deponent “captured | offered by the ers of South Troy $0 10 | ited Traction Company for | view of opening up a - e on an ocecasion when de- the schedules of the It is known in ad-| ponent boarded a car of said com- mendments will be | Peny to avoid meeting the Republi- I n to the bill, whose | can candidate for member of Assem- with Cuba,| bly in the Second district, who de- | ments raising or low ponent had reason to bglieve expect- | the proposed conces- | € ask him (deponen.) to vote for | be in order. Appeals| Mayor Conway ... 05 ‘Contribution, voluntar: | y election or other committee 0| ntribution to any party worker 0 “*Subscription to soclal organi including ‘Cheer Up’ C ® “Paid 1o certain enthusiastic ge) men who respeetfully controlied va- squads, compani and regi- of yoters differential off admitted on_ beth sides of hat the real fight will come :dment. A number of Re- | are opposing the bill have | amber t hey will vote to overruie L8015 | at proposition, and the | cath that | to be able to cast a ! of 15 cents { y ended | of the position of the |.b in aid | on is that the test on the amendm f the chair. If a me: ith instructions to re- dment, is made, it order, under the mentary law that ct the committee do. aforesaid. R VA SANTVOORD. is deposition made, subscribed and n to by depoment on a somewhat frosty morning, to wit, November 6, 191, | before me, the undersigned notary public, | being & companion in the joys and sor. rows of said deponent, to wit: “W. C. D. WILSO! “Notary Public, Rensselaer County p Z e L e i ngth of the Opposition. i Op] b on to the bill, as | the mation to go | of the whole, is in" the the forty. Added to Fire From Friction. Fire produced from the friction of two sticks of wood in twenty seconds with tue methods similar to those used by primi- tive peoples is at last a newly acquired accomplishment of modern- eivilized man, f ¥ | This seem! v simple operation has elud ants will go to| ed the ingenuity of the white man for | erride the chair | years. In ~complishment of Dr. Waiter H National Museum at | | Washingtor, just made public, is consid- ered practicaily unique. Dr. Hough thus cribes the new-old way of producing fire: “A soft and easily inflammable wood is | | required. Soft and dry white maple is | | ood. If wood can be obtained that is | dry-rotten and wormeaten it will make ation much easier. | ck that is laid on the ground is | A _small hole is cut near the edge not germain, CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL. Senste Will Vote on the, Measure | Next Wednesday. fiat. | WASHINGTON, =3 _| of it and a miniature trough is made from. | WASHINGT _\'W-:p:‘; rl‘f ’Ij’ accord- | the hole to the edge of the stick to allow | g ent reaclied an Fri- | the powdered wood to drop in a pile to te on Wednesday will | the floor. e exclusion bill, and | “The second stick is round and one end ling is that the| in the hole in the first. To give this bill will be taken | Stick sufficient pressure and speed to pro 1 by It Quce heat is where the knack is required, “The operator kneels, holding the round | stick between his palms. To give speed and force the hands are run down the stick while working backward and for- { ward. As they reach the bottom they | | must be jumped quickly to the top, and od I haye | the operation continued with as lttie in- e aontes further | lerruption as possible. vy viag e B In half a minute more, if this is done rightly, a small quantity of dust will be ground off the lower stick and will collect in a pile on the floor. Soon the dust wiil | become darker. Then a cur, of smoke W.1i rise from the pile and the fire will begin to spread through it ge that it glows. “The little heap must not be disturbed, but some tinder or small chips applied. They will soon begin to blaze.” —_———— Mrs. Long, wife of the Secretary, is about the only woman in the Cabinet con- | tingert who goes in for walking. Nearly every morning she accompanies the Secre- ta to his office, and not infrequently meets him there and walks home with him lin the afternoon. will ollow not be ng the substi- r of short | nd 1 HOW IS YOUR LIVER e ) For Bilious and Nervous Disorders, such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Sick mn-. Fuiness and Swelling after meals, Dizziness and Drowsiness, Chills, lnpo’fl‘lkmflk , Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, on the Skin, Beturbed Sieep. bri and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, &c. Dose will lnrm flumnm-n. Every bh:'?';" r“Ay nvn.:x- onc Box of :lm.mthey-ulie T OV Py foy s d of the system. Fora i Weak Stomack:; Impaired Digestion; Disordered Liver ther act like magic—a few doses will work wonders upon the Vital Organs ; Strengthen- the muscular system ; restoring the long-lost Cog:‘ lexion ; bris back the keen e of appetite, and &rousing with the ¥ the human frame. These are “facts” admitted by thousands, i ailc society, and one of the best es to the Nervous and Debilitated is that “'ilmb:uh e: Sale of any Patent Medioine In the Prepared only by THOMAS BEECHAM, St. Helens, Eng.,and 365 Canal St., New York. | Louts, | kissed her. [RATEMAKERS OF THE RAILROADS | TO HOLD I‘MPORTANT CONFERENCE Prominent Officials Representing More Than a Score of Companies Will Meet in San ‘Diego and Revise. Schedules. fi o alifit il 1 L ),/// i it i JorzK SEPASTIA GEN THSS %7, AT Foen IsIAne — AN DIEGO, April 13.—J, Charlton, for many years chief pf the pas- senger department.of the Chicago and’ Alton Railroad and now pres- ident of the Transcontinental Pas- senger Association; arrived this after- noon at Hotel del Coropado, with ‘H, L. Bevington, the secretary. Sessions of the association will be’ held on Tuesday and days following until the business is d's- posed of. The association has jurisiictiog over the country west of Chicago, St. Memphis and New Orleans, and representatives of all railroads west of that line are expected to participate dn the discussions. There are about thiffy: sueh lines iInterested, and. a rcpresenta tion of at lcast twen pected. From some roads three, four or | five representatives are ‘entitled -to seats and are, expected. ~Many will: be aceqm- panied by thcir wives and familles, S0 that the entire del¢gation,wiH be quite large. % 3 The docket for the consideration of the association is large, there being some- [ ] S a2 e e o Kisses Cost Many Lives. Fatal kisses are not mere figures of cech. In many a case they have liter- ally been the cause not of one death, but a succesion of them. Perhaps the most fatal kiss ever known was that given by a young Spanish sallor to his fiancee nine years ago, for it brought about the decimation of a town. A Spanish vessel put into the little sea- port of Candalo, on the coast of Fiorida, flying the yellow flag, and was accord- ingly ordered to remain in quarantine, for more than one member of the crew ex- hibited symptams of bubonic plague, But the sailor disobeyed orders:and put | oft in a boat for the shore one evening, { where, having sought out his fancee, whom- be had not seen for some years, he' A few ‘days later the effects of the kiss became painfully. evident, ¥ thotgh the culprit returned to his ship by stealth the same night. The girl suc- cumbed to the plague, which spread through the town so rapidly that more than twb hundred persons died out of a total population of 1500. Kisses once cost the lives of many brave soldiers in the British army. The beautiful Duchess of Gordon in 1794 raised the famous Gordon Highlanders by giving a thousand recruits a kiss and a golden guinea apiece. The regiment was raised to its full strength In a.few days. The men were then sent out against the French, and in the very first battle ,n which they took part more than 250 fell either killed or wounded. Previous to this, in 1718, a war was brought about by a thoughtless kiss en the part of a young Bavarian prince of somewhat reckiess character, named Fer- dinand. During a visit to 2 neighborin, state he inadvertently kissed a beaut ful member of the royal household, Prin- cess Thyra, ignorant of the fact that she was already affianced. = Her . betrothed happened to be standing near, and wit- nessed the incident. ¥ High words ensued, followed by blows, and a duel was arranged which led to the diseontinuance of diplomatic rela- tions. between the two countries. A war broke out ultimatelyy and resulted in thousands of deaths 'before there was g declaration of peace. ———————— 0dd Bits of Information. Ping-pong balls are made of xylonite. The output of minerals in Japan smounted to 324,677,446 in 190, ow that the The final census Teturns sh population of India is 294,266,701 Honolulu maintains a public committee whose sole business is to exterminate rats. The ‘automobile mail cart is gradyall displacing the horse-driven ~ vehicle iy France. ¥ This sign hangg in a side street in Ne York, eat market; also all kinds Q‘; ages.” The Indians of Minnesota and Wi Up Lo 0,00 o year, BN . ¢ German naval budget this year calls for about $50,000,000, while G);eat Britain asks for about $155.000,000. . The molasses which is left as a residue from beet sugar manufacture is utillzed in (}eArrn!uny to n;algel alcohol, : armer of Glentwood, Susqueh:; County, Pennsylvania, will Start .:?;': farm, designing to sell w. milliners. Patrolman John M. Pennimean of the Boston “foorce’” has retired on a pension of 3600 a vear, after a service of flny?fwr vears. ‘He was born in 1822 . ¥ An Ottawa message says the census‘of the sexes ih Canada shows that thére arc: Single males, I,747,842; femaies, 163450, married males,’ 920,915; females, Savorgnan de Brazza, the African ex- plorer, whose energy gave Francea sh: in the Congo basin, has just been reward- ed with a pension of $2000 a year by éze manufacture of soap. . , Illinois selects twenty-five the House next fall, a gain of the former ae?oljtlonmen!. In - P ‘equally. divided between the fwo.partie . Two Babies of Washington. Repregentative Lever of South Carolina is the Youngest member of the. lower House of Congress, being but 27 years old. ‘When he made his-first call at the White House President Roesevelt greeted him. with the remark, “I am glad to meet the ve roads.is ex-" ings and headsito | K o RAILROAD MEN WHO WILL ATTEND THE SAN DIEGO CONFERENCE. - He Is a Walking Clock. Even in these days of scientific miracles few cities can boast a clock that walks, talks, laughs and sings. Yet among the curios of Portsmouth, Va., is a lad who has truly won the sobriquet *Walking Clock.” He ean measure the fleeting sec- onds ‘of time without the ald of a dial, clock, watch, sun, moon or stars. This human timeplece is Albert Watkins, a colored youth, 15 years old. He was re- cently asked how he first found out that he could tell time without the aid of a watch or clock. To this he replied that a little. over a year ago some one asked a clerk in a grocery store the time of day. Before the clerk could get out his watcl he (Albert) said sixteen minutes past 10, which was veritied by the watch. To as- certain whether it ~was an accidental guess or a power of intuition that en- abled him to perform the feat the neigh- bors gave him hundreds of tests. At each' trial Albert answered with the ex- actness of a chronometer. The grocery store is his favorite theater for exhibit- ing his wonderful power. Travelers, po- licemen and men of all classes with ‘waches in their hands crowd around him. Some one asks: ‘“Albert, what's the time?” He gazes heavenward, hiding all parts of his eyes except the white, then drops his head and answers. In no case has he been a second at varlance with the best ‘watch in the crowd. The "cult of traditional superstition is naturally suggested when it Is remem- bered that he is the seventh .child of his pateénts. To Abolish “Hello.” The word “hello,” which has been used 20 universally since the invention of the telephone, has been stricken from. the lexicon of Evanston society. By a die-’ tum of the cultured suburbanites only such phrases as “Good morning” or “How do_you do?’ are allowed. The telephone girls have been apprised of the move- ment to make the word obsolescent and have been asked not to say “hello” when answering. Mrs. H. H. Kingsley, president of the Woman'’s Club, spoke of the reformation in telephone parlance last night. When called to the telephone she said: ‘“‘Good evening. is 1t2" When asked about the movement ta adopt a new telephone greeting she said: ‘‘Yes, there is such a movenient on foot, ,and T am glad to say that it Is rapidly gaining ground. The word ‘hello’ is not1 a good werd, and most Evanstonians have dropped it. 1 do not belleve the word to be the best we can find. ‘We would not use it if ‘we greeted a person on the street. Why e%n'z Wwe be ag courteous when talking y telephone?'—Chicago Inter Ocean. ————————— . No More Hogs Were Left. . President Tucker of Dartmouth Culhagoi ‘with his family, has spent a number o summers on a tarm in New Hampshire. During the past year, however, the peda- Bogue was srew;(, 'nmoyad by tv'g_- ; n:- —the _proximity ind_ t] manners of the “hired gl 'nm.tguf te to him o o o N L e thing “like forty-three cases, none of whiclt is of publie interest, besides several questions which are. ‘All questions whick: arise as to rates which cannot be settled by correspondence between the railroads interested are referred to.this association to settle at its quarterly gatherings. These cases ;make up what is called the private docket. Public matters to be considered include the matter of interchangeable mileage || tickets on railroads west of Denver. Other public matters are the fixing of rates to the Trans-Mississippi Congress at St. Paul {n August, when fiftcen to twenty thousand people are expected there, and the gathering of the Young People's 4 Christian, Union of the United Presbyte- rian church, which is to meet in Los An- geles in 1903. There are also seyeral other Pacific Coast gatherings next year to which special rates will he. asked. The Chamber of Commerce is planning to give the visitors-all the entertalnment ossible in the time they are here, and as invited the ratemalkers te an exeur- sion qn the bay .and ocean on the steam- er Spokane, which has been placed at the disposal of the Chamber,’ on Tuesday afternoon. L e o o e i o e e o] ) Items of Interest. According to the Medical Record receit experiments at the Fuisen Institute have led to the important discovery that iron electrodes used in place of the ordinary carbon ones give an arc unusually rich in chemical rays but almost devoid of heat rays. Utilizing this fact, hollow iron elec- trodes have been used, cooled by water circulating inside of them and results obtained after two minutes’ action with the resulting arc which required an hour with carbon electrodes. A continuous cur- rent of five amperes at forty volts was used. No lens was required. The Detroit woman who was robbed and then married the robber probably figures on getting it out of his pockets.—Indian- apolis Sentinel. Mrs, John Cross, who died in Clinton county, Missouri, not long ugo, asked that when her body came to be buried the old family cupboard, which she had dwned for forty-one years, and which was made under her directions, should be taken apart and the boards put over her coffin box in the grave and buried therein. She also requested that her shawl, which had been in the family for 104 years, should be wrapped around her body when it was placed in the casket.—Philadelphia Times. The Baroness von Ketteler, widow of the eGrman Minister killed at Peking, has sent invitations to several friends in De- troit, her former home, to attend the un- veiling of the monument to her husband in Berlin. She has personally superin- tended t‘he erection of the shaft.—Chicago e uls Richter has been expelled from the ministry and excommunicated from the church by 'the Minneapolis Presbytery for opposing the church's po- sition In Tegard to temperance and total abstinence. He was accused of carrying his opposition to the point of publishing matter for a local brewery and taking pay for it. In defense of himseif he quoted seripture.—Springfield Republican. 3 The Union veterans of German birth are to raise a_fund for a monument to Gene- eral Freidrich_ Wilhelm von Steuben of the American_Revolution, to be erected in ‘Washington: D. C.—Chicago Chronicle. Carmontelle’s portrait from the Chan- hellogravure and published ih one volume s of the eighteenth century and :{pryeennel;lt %1 Brinces, nobles, philoso- phers, authors, actors, fine ladies and other persons of note at’the time that im- mediately preceded the revolution.—Phila- delphia ‘;‘lmel. e death of Mohammed Rechad, the Sultan’s brother and presumptive sue- cessor, is rather sudden. It looks as If his taking off might be due to an over- dose of brotherly solicitude.—Boston Her- ald. Two Manon; young men from Turkey in Asia Khidichian, an Armenian, and Yani Macrides, a Greek, will enter’ Roa- noke College, Salem, Va., next autumn, and after thelr graduation from that in- stitution will take a theological course In this country with a view to becoming mis. sionaries in their own land.—Indianapolis Sentinel. ‘Mammoth Hat. » Carlyle wrote the prose epic of clothes, but the exponent of the hat has not yet appeared. When he does he will have awaiting him ‘in a hat recently built in London his ideal type. This “Behemoth biggest born on earth,” as Milton s, i near elfit feet in diameter, ‘and con- sequently about twemrhva feet in cir- cumference. Its depth is eighteen inches, and it was trimmed and lined before the brim was sewn on. - It required four men to shape the brim of this monster h , Which might haye done service to one of the Vi la ‘h ., It required many weeks to make this hat, machine work’ alternating hand work throughout, and more than 300 yards of plait were used in its °°n"m“'"~';fh° t;;nt onvdm)llitor actors and others atfiicted with what George Ade calls i, tion of the coco,’ but as yet there have been no negotiations for pur- ‘when the owner of the farm wra recently, asking whether he would again have the president of Dartmouth as his boarder, the latter sent back a decided n ve, stating his reasons for not wish- "’c’ifi'" return. )l]; few days he received following p A ere ain't been no hogs o ¢ r r: ‘since you left, Hunnah has went.” ‘Baby of »the House,' " . Lever re- #po! ““The Baby of the House is hon- ored in being greeted by the Baby Pres- ident.”” The President enjoyed it so mych that he Tepeated it. Mg A chase. 3 of the Shirt" has been im- W gy Hood, but the song of the t yet awaits 1ts laureate. ca ‘| obtain one in a Raines law hotel. tilly _collection 'has been reproduced in} in Paris. They were made in the last for- | HOTELS PROFIT BY EXGISE LAW Dispense Sunday Drinks ‘While Saloons Are Closed. ; New York’s Thirsty Procure Liquor by Purchasing Sandwiches. NEW YORK, April 13.~The New Yorker who wanted a drink of intoxicating liquor to-day discovered that the enforcement of the excise law, through the combined ef- forts of the uniformed police and °the members of the State Liquor Dealers’ As- sociation, had assumed several.new as- pects. The first was that while it was much harder than heretofora to get a drink in a saloon holding mereiy a liquor tax or a certificate, it was much eas!ea‘;b e buyer also found that while last Sunday bhe was served either with a plate of cheese and crackers with His drink or was given a sandwich, to eat or not, as he "choose, to-day he could not buy a drink without also buying a sandwich. Saloon men who were seen during the day seemed to believe that the police ac- tivity had much to do with the saloons being kept tightly closed, for the most part, and argued that the hotel men were doing more business ~because they had been studying what they could and could not. do with impunity. The Raines law hotels throughout the city were, as a rule, exceedingly well patronized. In the tenderloin district there were very few places without a hotel license that mrade any attempt to do buginess. The district,.it was said, was closes er than had been known in years. The plan of selling In rooms overhead the sa- loon and similar ruses were done away with, seemingly for the reason that the dealers thought the trouble too great and the compensation-too small. ‘The police of this district were very ac- tive as well, and there was but a small attempt to do business. Up to 8 o'elock in the evening there had not been an ar- rest in this precinct for violation of the excise law, In the West Thirty-seventh distriet, ‘where the trouble started two weeks ago, the same condition prevalled. The police were active, the saloons closed and the Raines law hotels doing a big business. There was but one arrest in daylight hours. In the other parts of the city somewnat similar conditions prevailed. S VIRGINIA JUDGE WHO SHOT ZANZIBAR QUEEN Gazing upon the benign countenance and listening to the eloquent and polished lan- guage of Judge William Riley of Acomac County, Va., one would never think that this famous son of the Old Dominion was in bygone days the hero of as thrilling and sanguinary a scene as modern annals reveal. The Judge, when seen at the New Wi lard recently and asked to tell the story. smiled, but courteously declined giving the details of his-firing upon the Queen of Zanzibar and the subsequent killing of three of her Majesty’s minions when they tried to invade the American Consulate for the purpose of murdering him. reseritative in that out-of-the-way part of creation, To enforce respeet for his official posi- tion Judge Riley had been under the un- leasant necessity ‘of shooting a native. 'his roused the resentment of the Queen and she undertook, In person, to cut down the pole from which waved the United States flag. Repeatedly she was warned by Consul Riley to desist. With female pertinacity she kept right on, and in or- der to make his remonstrance effective the Consul fired upon ‘the scantily clad sovereign. She ran to her palace screaming with vain and anger, and native medical men extracted numerous small shot from her august person.” After that her Royal Highness had it in for the Judge, and one very dark night sent three of her bravest bolo men to encompass nis murder. But the wily Virginian was not to be caught off his guard. He had surmised some such treachery, and when the vil- lains burst in his door he got his Win- chester into action with such effective- ress that a trio of very dead darkies lay upon his threshold. The archives of the State Department tell the episode at length. No censure of Judge Riley was forthcoming. because he acted strictly In obedience of nature’s first law, and the first lesson he taught was so impressive that no succeeding Consuls of Zanzibar were ever called on to do any shootin, e Benjamin Franklin’s “Res.” The recent observance of anniversaries of Revolutionary events recalls a quaint answer of Benjamin Franklin to one of the Ministry of England, who inquired of him as to what would satisfy the colonies. Dr. Franklin said that it might be com- -prised in a few “Res,” and sat down and wrote as follows: —call your troops, store Castle Willlam, pair the damage done to Boston, peal your unconstitutional acts, nounce your pretensions to taxation, an RE] _ sund the duties you have extorted. Afterward __quire and —ceive pay for tea de- stroyed; and then —joice in a happy reconeiliation. PRESIDENT DECIDES 10 DUST MILES General Brooke Will Be- come Army’s Rank- ing Officer. Authoritative Statement Is Made by a Friend of Roosevelt. Gives Reasons for the Propossd Action and Enumerates the Promotions That Are tight- | It all | happened:when he was Uncle Sam’s rep- | to Follow. WASHINGTON, April 13.—The issues are fairly joined between the lieutenant general and the Secretary of War. The troubles which began long agd under-the Cleveland administration have finally reached so critical a stage that a com- pulsory retirement of General Miles at an early date is an open secret, and it 18 not denied at the White House. In expla- nation of President Roosevelt's position, one of his close friends, who unquestion- ably speaks by authority, sald: The question is not a personal one between Geveral Miles and Secretary Root. At pres- ent Secretary Root has on his shoulders a heavier burden -than any other member of the administration. No man less strong could carry it at all, and now, at the very time when he requires the most loyal support of every subordinate wWho -wishes well to the army and the nation, he Has to spend muech of his strength in meeting the opposition of the commanding general. If General Miles is yetired it will be simply because, after a pa- tient trial, President Roosevelt feels that om the highest ethical grounds his retention would work grave and lasting Injury to the army a whole. As some of General Miles' friends have sald that it would be unfair to retire him, it should be said in the first piace that he se- cured his promotion to a brigadier general- ship only through the similar forced retire- ment of General Ord, he himself being jumped over by & number of his senior officers in the vacancy thus created; and, in the second place, that the only action of the kind taken by President. Roosevelt since he has been in office was in the case of Colonel Noyes, who was compulsorily retired after reaching the age. of 62, on the recommendation of Gemeral Miles. In other words, the general has himself rec- ommended and profited by the very action which his friends now fear may be taken at his expense. If he should go out before Gen- eral Brooke is retired, General Brooke. who Is General Miles' semior both in serviee and in age, and who did gallant and distinguished work as a volunteer in the Civil War. would undoubtedly be put in his place as lleutenant general, as it is known that the administra- tion has been very desirous of recognizing General Brooke's long and faithtul service. General Brooke, during the Civil War ren- dered cqually meritorious service with Gen- eral Miles; General Brooke was the first to ohtain & commission and throughout the Civil War he retained his advantage, ending the war as General Miles’ sonfor. After peace came, Gemeral Miles was promoted over Gen- eral Brooke's head. As General Brooke will necessarily hold the position but a brief period before his retire- ment for age, General 8. B. M, Young is lke- Iy to succeed General Brooke and General Chaffee’s promotion will follow two years | hence. ‘When Postage Was High. Young men who Were. courting sweet- hearts in the year 1520 either had ‘to be content with writing only a few letters or take thé risk of running up large bills for postage. According to Poor Will's Al- manac for that year, the rates of post- age at that time were: On single letters, carried any distance not exceeding thirty mbes, § cents r thirty and not over _eighty, 10 cents; over eighty and not over 150 miles, 12% cents; over 150 and not over 400 miles, 18% cents; over 400 miles, 25 cents. Double letters, or those composed of two pieces of paper, double those rates. riple letters, or those composed of three pieces of paper, triple those rates, Packets or letters composed of four or more pleces of paper, or one or more other articles, and weighing one ounce avoirdupois, quadruple those rates, and in that proportion for all greater weight. Ship letters not carried by mall, 8 cents. The rate for newspapers was: Carried 100 miles, 1 cent; over 100 milgs, 134 cents. But if carried to any place within the State where printed, whatever be the dis. tance, the rate is only 1 cent. It was evidently cheaper at that time to get married than to keep on writing long let- ters. Besides, there was not much room for sentimental gush, for § cents a day for & letter to go thirty miles meant that the young lady concerned had to do with- out fee éream and soda water, providing those luxuries were known to young men and malidens of eighty-two years ago. —_———————— The Big Leak in the Postoffice. The second-class mail matter which the pound rate amounted for the last fis- cal year to 429,444,678 . At5 cents a pound it cost $21,472,233 to carry it. It paid in postage 34,204,445, leaving a net loss to the Government of $17,277,783 on transpor- tation alone. ————— The metropolitan police of London look after §200 miles of roads and streets. as been accused of making everything from a I . o and regarding every- ‘Yfi 2 wide and glowing pe: e TSpec- {b geusing, hewaner Bava m% Gollath °:i.luumn\l v;f}".: FREEHELP FoR WEAK MEN “CALTHOS” Prof. Laborde’s Marvelous French Cure for Lost Manhood. IVE DAYS’ TRIAL TREATMENT Sent Absolutely Free By Sealed Mail, TO ALL‘SUFF!RERS-