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THE MATHEWS JOURPaM
VOL. II. MATHEWS C. H., VA., THURSDAY JULY (J, i!K)5. * ?tssHRH
THE ANSWERING CHORO.
BT HkStiir. R?RD TOSSES.
The city's tumult surges hi?<h
Here in this noisy, struggling street;
With fretful voice an?! hurried feet
The restless morning march goen by.
A thousand sounds are horn and die.
But one, that will not faint nor fail,.
Keep? up its alow monotony?
An old street-organ's plaintive wail.
A beggar, tremulous and blind,
la playing dreary airs (hat must
Earn from the world a daily ?rust
Aa long as weary hands cm grind;
But scant the wanes thai ihey hud.
For nowhere in the jostling throng
Are lives with leisure left to beed
The crude petition of a song.
Clatter and rush and dust and grime
And the hot. tired morning done.
But not a listener liad tliey won?
The faulty tune, the halting time:
When with the sudden noonday chime
From out the jingling mcdlev come.
Like words of comfort healing i?ain.
The tender notes of "Home, Sweet Home.
"There is no place like home." he says.
The old, forsaken, homeless man,
With soul loo worn nn?I wsrpsd to span
The pathos ot the thing he plays?
And sosaewhere in the crowded ways
Men hear old. silent voices sing.
And, spite the current's onward sweep.
Falter a while, rememberinji
"No place, no place like home"- t lie word
Grows faint and fainter down the street.
And somewhere slower pas?; the feet.
And somewhere sudden tears are stirred,
And dim, far whisperinsa arc heard
In hearts that ?leemed them surely dead;
And one petitioner has -misted
The penny for hi? daily bread.
?Youth's Companion.
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.?stOJiC ) \ 'Ml mean lO tell me
? .-^ Jf that's the third tonight?"
0 I?I risked in a iua/<'incnt of
ry ?*"* JR Miss Raveline. She nod
VOW ttad, and looked steadfast?
ly at til?- p'.r'raU ~l>eforc
lier. "I knew lie ?rss one."' I went
on. "It was evident His case he
t ray el Itself. Fie was as If moon
? strm-k."
*1 Ihink you're a little unkind," re?
marked Miss {{aveline, scrutinizing Issaj
pOrtraM with interest. "lie's he's
?lllite nice."
"It nuisl he a (resI nuisance to you,"
1 Mkt
"It's horrid." she declared, moving
to the next portrait. "One doesn't like
to?1<> hurt people's reelings, don't you
know; and besides, it's embarrassing."
"Do sll ?lowii and lei's talk about
It," I urged her. "It's really \ery in?
ter, sting (o interview a girl who's been
proposed to so often."
MtM Kaveline reluc?antly SSi down,
and glanced apprehensively down the
picture gallery. "Ont' can't talk about
such things," she sai?l tirinly.
'Oh, we needn't name names.'' I
said, with my eyes on the rose in lier
cheeks. "I think I pretty well know
who?"
"Ob, no, you mustn't" she inter?
rupted, hastily. "I've no right to
hear you. I won't say anything."
"Very well, then," I conceded. "But
I know all the same; sod I'm sorry
for them, of course, but I'm sorrier
for you."
She sighed and Opened her fan. "Ves.
I wish I wasn't so rieh. It's all that
money."
I said nothing; she glanced at me.
and repeated with another sigh, "It's
all the money."
Still. I made no answer, because, as a
matter of fact, I was interested in a
picture on th.- ?all, and the light was
none too good. We had come up to see
some picture. Which was it V
"I tiling we must go back," said
Miss Raveline in a cold voice, as she
rose.
"f)h," I said, getting on my feet.
"But you haven't s?e*n that picture
yei. We'll just go round and find
it."
Miss tinvcliiic hesitated, and then
followed me, and we moved along
under the low light. "We couldn't see
it by this light." she observed, still
coldly.
"Oli, by this light it looks so much
better," I explained. "I'm afraid
there's no help for you," I went on.
Miss Raveline looked at me. "No
help!" she echoed.
"No; 3-ou see, your hearty draws
them as flames the moth."
She avertinJ her bend slightly to ex?
amine a picture. "Von can't blame
them," I added.
"Of course, no one blames people
like that." she replied, evidently from
far away. "It's a compliment that
any one should want you to?" she
paused, "unless, or course, it's the mon?
ey, and then?"
"Oh, if isn't I he money," I said de?
cidedly.
"Don't you think so?" she asked, lin?
gering her fan again 1 sat down.
Miss Raveline sat down.
"Of course, yon are aware you are
beautiful?" I said.
"Oh, no," deprecated Miss Raveline.
"I know?I suppose -I've got certain
good points," She was deeply later?
d in her fan. I gazed at her, and
the low light enhanced bW beauty.
rood points!" ] said reflectively,
mid very coolly. "Yes; you have cer?
tainly good.poiti; sample, your
biad is set on prettily. Some women
hive meager ne?
8|ouid be column?1";
loulrl tthi
llUttMUtll
"Do you think so? How Interest- '
ing!" said Miss Raveline.
"Then, for another filing, your eyes
are good In shape and color, but?"
Miss Raveline, whose eyes had been
dropped, raised them quickly at the
"but."
"But what?" she asked hesitatingly.
"Oh, well, I've no right to criticise,"
I said, apologetically.
"You have, if I ask you," she re?
plied somewhat abruptly.
"But still?" I said, and passed on
hurriedly. "Your nose is really fine In
line and molding, though of course it
would be better if it didn't turn up
just a?"
"It doesn't," protested Miss Ravel?
ine. crossly.
"No. of course," I hurried on. "But
your hair?"
"Yes; is there anything the matter
with my hair?" she asked with lofty
sarcasm.
"It's color is good," I said, "and as
for your complexion -" 1 hesitated.
Miss Raveline was drumming on her
fan impatiently.
"Well?" she said, almost <t?-fiantly.
"I can't see well enough in this light
to give a definite opinion," I said.
"Before deciding I should like to in?
spect it more closely and more thor?
ough ly. Sii to speak."
"You're right. The light is bad,"
she said abruptly, and got op rcso
lutely.? I rose after her.
"1 was afraid you uo.ildn't like me
to?to five my opinions so bluntly." I
said timidly. "Of ?-ourse, I'm sorry if
I have hurt?"
"What an absurdity!" she said, with
hauteur. "I don't in the least mind
what you say. And you've been quite
complimentary, I suppose. Pray go
on." She reseated herself, a monu?
ment of statuesque reserve and frigid
civility. "It's nothing to mc what you
think." she said, icily.
"Well, there is your mouth." I went
on v? v\ nervously. She turned slightly
toward DBS with a lofty inclination of
her head, as though giving mc gra?
cious permission to take liberties with
her mouth. I wished that T could.
"The lips are perfect in color ami de?
sign?so far as I can judge from a dis?
tance." I explained, "but here again a
more thorough examination would be
necessary before?"
"Hare you nearly finished?" she
askcil in her scornful voice.
"I think there's only >onr waist left,"
I ran on precipitately.
"'?h, \ ,.s mj w.-iist. of course." she
said with irony, "what are you going
to do to my waist?"
"I wasn't going to do anything." I
replied, but I wished I was. "It only
has always strick me as being well
proportioned and jimp, as they say in
Scotland. The stature is sufficient,
and the modeling is just?always pro?
viding that it is natural and not?"
Miss Raveline rose for the last time,
magnificently angry. "Thank you so
much for your candor," she said loft?
ily.
"But but we haven't seen this pic?
ture," I urged. She paused, and then,
ignoring my remark, took one step tow
srd me. "You'd better take nie down
again. I think!" she said, almost under
her breath, and her face quite near
me. "Why but why?" she asked al?
most tearfully, "but you said I was
beautiful!"
"So you are." I answered prompt?
ly; "the most beautiful woman in the
world." She was silent, as if aston?
ished. "There is no beauty but has
some strangeness in the proportion," I
quoted from Bacon. "The slight tilt
of your nose--"
"It isn't." she said feebly.
"The faint irregularities of your face
only enhance your beauty. You are
not icily, regularly, splendidly null.
And, personally. I happen to adore all
tin- defects in you.'
"I don't see how you could do that."
said Miss Raveline in a tremulous,
half-laughing voice. 'Rut you said
my waist?" She stopped.
"Well, you see. I I >n't know from
personal experience." I replied. "I
dare say it is -if I only knew."
"It is?it is really."
I made the experiment Ixddly. "It is,"
I whispered, and added. "I'm sorry to
make the fourth to-night.
"Yen might have been the first. Why
weren't you?" she asked.
"Well, you see. it was all that mon?
ey," I quoted.
"You said?you said that my lips?"
"Yes, I must make sure I was right
there." I declared, and I did so.?IT.
B. Marriott Watson. ?n London Mail.
Bottled Money Thrown Away.
"While walking through the West
cluster County hills looking for dog?
wood last Sunday," said a Harlem
grocer, "I came upon an acquaintance
who was with a party picknieking on
a shady hillside. Introductions were In
order and I was asked to have a bottle
of soda. Five of us clinked bottles
ami disposed of their contents without
the aid of glasses. As each man fin?
ished his bottle he threw it down the
hill into a clump of bushes. They were
good, sound, patent-stopper bottles
that it costs live cents each to manu?
facture.
" 'Don't yon take the bottles home
with you?' I inquired.
"My host looked at me in amazement.
?| should say not,' he .-.aid; 'it is hard
enough to curry three dozen out here,
without lugging the bottles all the way
back. I never knew anybody to do
that.'
"I lose on an average a gross of
bottles each week during the .summer
from Bay two stores, for which I have
to make good to the wholes?irr. We
make a pretense of asking for a de?
posit OB the bottles when we deliver
a case. Hut when a woman makes
a fuss about it the boy on the wagon
waives the deposit rather than bring
the bottles back to the store and risk
losiug a customer. Verily, if a mar
wants to find ont the ii
>wn business
froi-sfR."
WILL ARRANGE PEACE
The President Announces the Names of
the Plenipotentiaries.
JAPAN GAINS A STRONG POINT.
Russia's Representatives Arc Empowered to
Coaclnde s Peace Treaty?Japan Would
Net Stand for Any Tentative Agreement?
Diplomats View Arrangement as Diplomatic
Triumph lor President Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special).?Offi?
cial announcement was made by Presi?
dent Roosevelt of the names of the Rus?
sian and Japanese envoys to the Wash?
ington Peace Conference. The charac?
ter and ability of the men selected by
both belligerents is an earnest ol the
desire of their respective governments
to conclude, if possible, the tragedy be?
ing enacted in the Far Kast. The pleni?
potentiaries are:
Russian?Ambassadors MuraviefF. for?
merly minister of justice and now am?
bassador to Italy, and Baron Rosen, re?
cently appointed as ambassador to the
United States to succeed Count Cassini.
Japanese?Baron Koinura, minister of
foreign affairs, and Kogoro Takahira,
minister to the United States.
By direction of the President, Secre?
tary Loch made the formal announce?
ment in the following statement :
"The President announces that the
Russian and Japanese governments have
notified him that they have appointed"
the plenipotentiaries, to meet here II
soon after the first of August as p
ble. The two Russian plenipotentiaries
are Ambassador MuravieiT. formerly
minister of justice and now ambassador
at Rome, and Ambassador Rosen. The
Japanese plenipotentiaries are Baron K?>
mura, now minister of foreign affairs.
and Minister Takahira.
Negotiations For An Armistice.
St Petersburg (By Cable).?Neg
tions for an armistice between the armies
of Russia and Tapan, it can he definitely
stated, arc now m progress, presumably
at Washington; bul they have not readi?
ed I stage where any further announce?
ment can be made.
The decision seems to rest with Japan,
which country is weighing the relin
quishment of the prospcCU of bettering
her present advantageous positionagainsi
the enormous cost in lives and money
of another great battle.
The chances for a decisive final Japa?
nese victory, it is believed here, arc no
better now than before Liaoyang and
Mukden, and it is pointed out that it is
idle talk of Vladivostok falling like a
ripe apple into Japan's hands before the
peace conference meets
TEN MILLIONS BY MR. ROCKEFELLEP.
Large Endowment For Higher Education?
Oil King ia Generous.
New York (Special).?Ten million
dollars as an endowment for higher ed
UCation in the United States has been
given the General Education Board by
John D. Rockefeller. The announcc
ment was made by Pr. Wallace But trick.
of the board, at a meeting here. The
following letter to ?M secretaries and
executive officers of the board from F.
T. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's representa?
tive, was given out :
26 Broadway. New- York, June JO, IQ05
To Messrs. Wallace Butt rick and Starr
J. Murphy, Secretaries, and Execu?
tive Officers, General Education Board.
New York :
Dear Sirs :?I am authorized by Mr.
John D. Rockefeller to say thai he will
contribute to the General Education
Roard the sum of ten million dollars
($10,000,000) to be paid October 1 next,
in cash, or, at his option, in income-pro?
ducing securities, at their market value,
the principal to be held in perpetuity as
a foundation for education, the income,
above expenses and administration to be
distributed to, or used for the benefit
of, such institutions of learning, at such
times, in such amounts, for such pur?
poses and under such conditions, or em?
ployed in such other way-, as the board
may deem best adapted to promote a
comprehensive system of higher educa?
tion in the United States,
Yours verv truly,
F. T. GAlES.
COST OF BIO WRECK.
That at Mentor, Oblo, Will Foot Up Nearly
$1.000,000.
Chicago (Special).?As a result of
the wreck of the Twentieth Century
Limited at Mentor, Ohio, two insurance
companies have disbursed to heirs <>f
the dead $226,000. Of this $100,000 was
paid on life policies and $166,000 on ac?
cident policies. This brings the total
up to nearly $1,000,000.
How much the railway company af?
fected by the wreck must pay is a ques?
tion, but the figures on the street today
show that $95,000 will be paid for 10
deaths without litigation; injury claims
are estimated to represent at the present
time without litigation $200,000; the loss
of the engine stands for $25,000, and the
loss of the library car for $10.000. To
these figures is to be added for inci?
dental losses not enumerated, such as de?
lay of trains, track repairs, investiga?
tion expenses, etc., $25,000.
18 Lives Lost In Floods.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Tie Latest Happenings Condensed fer Rapid
Reading.
Domestic;
Meyer Rutenberg, who was sued in
New York by Mi-s Annie Sternberg
for $10,000 damages for breach of prom
ise, in his answer said he was willing
to marry the girl if she would advance
him the promised $300 to secure a di?
vorce from his present wife.
Despite the protests of her mother.
Miss Beatrice Mildred Gunter, heiress
of Dr. Adolphus Byum Gunter, of
Brookline. was married to John Pome
roy Dsbney second, who was defendant
in a sensational breach-of-promisc suit
for $10.000.
Virginia Heinisch, of Irvington. N. J.,
I half-sister of the late Jacob S. Rog?
er?, the millionaire locomotive manu?
facturer, nf Paterspn, began suit for
$100,000 against the executors ?>f Mr.
Rogers and the Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Official messages Of condolence from
all nations were received at the State
Department, the diplomats conveying
them also expressing their high admi?
ration of the late Secretary Hay.
Lee Reynolds was instantly killed and
Mrs. Rose Manninc and Mrs. Charles
Brown were severely injured in an acci?
dent in a scenic railway at the White
City, in Chicago.
William W. Sewell, who was Presi?
dent Roosevelt's guide many years ago
in Maine, is to be appointed collector of
internal revenue m the Aroostook dis?
trict.
Rev. Henry H. Warner, of Denver,
has three living wives, of whom one has
secured a divorce Ho mnrried the third,
believing the second dead.
Miss Floy Donaldson, o? l.a Porte
City, Ind.. has started tor Korea, where
she will marry Rev. E. Wade Coons, a
missionary.
Bj I wire-tapping swindle Larry Sum
merfield and John StTOSnider got $15.
000 from John A. Harris, a Wall Street
broker.
One hundred and sixty-one corpora?
tions were chartered in New Jersey in
June and paid $4.=...^2<).So as filing ft
Frank Suit/cr was reunited tO his
sister. Mrs. Voungblut, of Cincinnati,
after an absence of 4?) years.
Charles K. Magoon, the governor of
the Panama Canal, was appointed to be
minister to Panama.
Secretary of War Taft says he dus
not expect to be appointed to succeed
retary Hay.
Liddon Flick, a capitalist, died at his
home, in Wilkcsbarre, Pa.
Nine prisoners were taken from the
tail at vYstkmsville, Ga-, and eight of
them shot to death by a mob. the ninth
escaping serious injury and being left
for dead by the lynchers.
r\l the request of President McCurdy,
Superintendent ?if Insurance Hcndricks
is to make a thorough investigation of
the Mutual Life Insurance Compam of
New York.
The "California Limited.'' of the San?
ta Fe Railroad, collided with a stock
tram in Kansas City. Two men were
killed and several injured.
The executive committee of the Su?
preme Council of the Royal Arcanum is?
sued a statement declaring the higher
rates a necessity.
Samuel F. Parrot! was elected gen?
eral manager of the Georgia Southern
and Florida, succeeding William Check
lev Shaw.
James I.ec Furman and John O'Brien
were hanged in Lancaster. Pa., for the
murder of Samuel Rcssler.
One man was killed and three were
injured in a head-on collision of freight
trains at Punxsutawncy, Pa.
The resignation of Chief Engineer
Wallace, of the Isthmian Canal Com?
mission, has been accepted.
Lorenzo Lemongclli and Pietro Bru
nomota had a duel with stilettos in
Scranton. Both were killed.
The Industrial Unionists are in Chi?
cago forming a labor body in opposition
the Federation of Labor.
Six persons were killed and twenty in?
jured in a storm that struck Phillips
burg, Kan.
At the Vale commencement exercises
President Eiadley announced that Mr.
John D. Rockefeller had made a gift of
$1.000.000 to the university, and the
alumni had raised another million.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven?
tion nominated John M. Pattison, of
Cincinnati, for governor, and State Sen?
ator I,ouis B. Houck for lieutenant gov?
ernor.
Edward t?. Bellows, former United
States consul general in Japan, explain?
ed, in San Francisco, how the Chinese
were boycotting American goods.
I oreigo?
Assistant Secretary of State I.oomis.
as special American envoy to the trans?
it r of the remains of Paul Jones to
Admiral Sigsbee's tleet, arrived in Paris.
The Swedish government has issued
a proclamation declaring Stockholm and
three other ports ?o be war ports and ex?
cluding* all foreign boats.
The Czar has ordered the transfer of
the headquarters of the Russian Ortho?
dox ClnWh in America from San Fran?
cisco to New York.
Through the energetic measures of
tlie'.l'uited States health authorities all
dassger of the spread of bubonic plague
in Panasaj has passed.
The American correspondent in Lon?
don has obtained a digest of the Ger?
man note to Franco about Morocco. It
is llot as conciliatory as has been re?
ported, and important concessions will
have 4o be made on both sides to effect
a settlement.
Friends of Gen. Candelario de la Ro?
sa, o? Santo Domingo, who was a politi?
cal prisoner, have released him by force.
T?hc United State, cruiser Des Moines
bu gone t<> Barattons to protect the
custom-house.
The Chinese government has taken
steps to stop the anti-American agitation
ind boycott against American goods.
The Swedish and Norwegian govern?
ments are keeping their L-mergency prep?
arations secret. <
Seuors Ferrara and Andrej Cuban
F~^Hjgn$, fought a duel and boWrt were
SECRETARY OF STATE
JOHNJIAY DEAD
tnlooked For Termination of His Long
Struggle For Life.
RELAPSE CAME AS A SURPRISE.
The Secretary Waa Thought to Be on the
Road to Speedy Recovery and Was Sleeping
Quietly at Eleven o'Clock ?At Midnight He
Called the Nurse and in Half An Hour
He Was Dead.
N'cwbury, N. H. ( Special).?Secre?
tary of State John Hay died at 12.2;
Saturday morning. The signs immedi?
ately preceding his death were those of
pulmonarv embolism. Mr. Hay's condi?
tion during all of Friday had been en?
tirely satisfactory.
The bulletin of Secretary Hay's death
was signed by Charles L. Scudder, M.
D., and Fred. T. Murphy, M. D.
Pulmonary embolism is the clotting of
blood in the lungs and blocking up of
the air passages.
Secretary Hay was prostrated by an
attack of anemia at his summer home
at this place last Sunday evening, but
had so?ui been relieved by a local phy.-i
cian and two specialists whojfeul come
from Boston by special train! and it
was expected that the Secretary would
soon l>e in his usual health.
The attack, which was similar to oth?
ers experienced by Secretary Hay dur?
ing recent years, was attributed to a
cold contracted on his journey from
Washington to Xewbcrry last Saturday.
From Tuesday Secretary Hay'- con?
dition continued apparently to improve,
and no danger was apprehended as late
a- early Friday evening.
Mrs. Hay ami Drs. Scudder and Mur?
phy were at the Secretary's bedside
? when the end came. The Secretary
i hade good night to his wife and to his
attending physicians about 10 o'clock,
at the close of one of the best days he
had had since his illness. The local
trouble was clearing up satisfactory, ac
! cording to Dr. Scudder.
The Secretary suffered none of the
old pains in his chest which character?
ized his earlier illness. He had been
perfectly comfortable all day and happy
in the anticipation of leaving his bed
for the greater freedom and comfort of
a couch.
u o'clock he was sleeping quietly.
A few minutes after 12 he called the
nurse, who at once summoned Dr. Scud?
der.
Both Dr. Scudder and Dr. Murphy
hastened to the bedside. The Secretary
was breathing with difficulty, and ex
pin d almost immediately afterward, at
12.25.
Dlstlnqulshed Career.
John Hay was horn in Salem. Ind.,
>er 8, 1838. He was graduated at
Brown University in 1858 and Studied
law in Springfield. 111.; was admitted
to practice bet?re the Supreme Court of
Illinois in 1861, but soon went to Wash?
ington as Assistant Secretary ;o Presi?
dent Lincoln, remaining with him un?
til his death.
Mr. Hay acted also at President Lin?
coln's Adjutant and Aide-de-Camn,
served under Generals Hunter and Gill
more and was brevctted colonel. He
was appointed Secretary of Legation to
France March 22, 1805. and retired
March 18. 1807. In 1867 he was ap?
pointed Secretary of Legation to Aus?
tria-Hungary, where he acted as Charge
d'Affaires until August j_\ 1S08.
He was appointed Secretary oi Lega?
tion to Spain June 28, 1869, and re?
tired October 1. 1870.
As an editorial writer on the New
York Tribune he was well known, re?
maining five years, during seven months
o? which he was editor-in-chief. He re?
moved to Cleveland in 1875 and took an
active part in the Preidential canvasses
of 1876, 1880 ami 1884. Mr. Hay was
appointed Assistant Secretary of State
November i, 187?;. but retired from the
?on May .}. 1881. In the same year
lie represented the United States at the
International Sanitary Congress in
Washington, of which he was president.
Mr. nay was appointed Ambassador
to Great Britain March fo, 1807. and re?
tired on September 19, i8q8, to become
Secretary of State, which office he had
held since. He succeeded Judge Wil?
liam R. Day.
With this varied experience in public
affairs at home and abroad Mr. Hay
was exceptionally qualified for the im?
portant tasks which President McKin?
ley committed to his charge, first as
Ambassador at London and later as
Secretary of State and head of the Cabi?
net.
When Mr. McKinley close him for
his Secretary of State it was not be?
cause of pressure; on the contrary, Mr.
Hay shrank from the responsibility. Mr.
McKinley turned to him because he
believed him to be upright, capable,
courageous and devoted to him as his
chief without thought of any private
end.
Some of Mr. Hay's notable diplomatic
triumphs were the peace negotiations
with Spain, the negotiations following
the Boxer outbreak in China and his
outlining the war zone in the Russo
Japanese War.
Mr. Hay has been called the greatest
of American Secretaries of State, and
by some the greatest living diplomatist.
In literature Mr. Hay attained a high
place by his histor of Lincoln and other
works. His poetical and humorous
works are of a high order.
His eulogy of President McKinley
marked him as an orator of the first
rank, and C.mgress passed a vote of
thanks to him on that occasion.
Gold Under Ststa House.
Carson, Ncv. ( Special). ? Several
weeks ago the State of Nevada com?
menced boring an artesian well in the
capital square. A depth of over 200
feet has been attained. Gold has been
found in the sands that arc being raised
with the machinery, and A. Cohen, a
merchant of this city, has filed a mining
location notice on the grounds, setting
forth that he claims all of the ground
now occupied by Nevada's chief execu?
tive building.
_ ?S^ssBsTnftfffisffl?f^^ 1 ?
A PROCLAMATION BY Tflj PRESIDENT.
Secretary Hay's Death? a Loss to AU
Mankind.
Qyster Bay. N. V. (Special).?P
dent Roo>cvclt has issued the following
proclamation announcing the death of
John Hay, Secretary of S'atc.
The proclamation will Ik- forwarded
by mail to all ambassadors and minis?
ters of the United States in foreign
countries and also will be transmitted
officially to the diplomatic representa?
tives at Washington of foreign nations:
Folloving is the full text of the an?
nouncement :
A Proclamation by the President of the
United 5l
John Hay. secretary of -t?te of the
United States, died on July I. His
death, a crushing sorrow to his fnenH-c,
is to the pe?>ple of this country a n.i
tional bereavement, and, in addition, it
is a serious loss to mankind, for to him
it was given to stand as a !ca?ler in the
effort to better world conditions by
striving to advance the cause of interna?
tional peace and justice.
"He entered the public service as the
trusted and intimate companion of Abra?
ham Lincoln, and for well nigh 40 years
he served his c?nintry with loyal devo
tion and high ability in many position
>nor and trust, and finally he crown?
ed his life work by serving as Secretary
of the Stale with such fsrsightednes
the future and such loyalty to lofty
ideas as to confer lasting benefits not
only upon our own country, but upon
all the nations of the earth. A= a suit?
able expression ?>f national mourning. I
direct that the diplomatic representa?
- of the United States in all foreign
countries display the (lags over their
embassies and legations at half mast for
10 days; that for a like period the day
of the United States be displayed at half
mast at all forts and military posts and
at all naval stations and on all v.
of the United States.
"I further order that on the day of
the funeral the executive departments
in the city of Washington be closed, and
that on all public buildings throughout
the United States the national flag be
displayed at half-mast.
"Done at the city of Washington this
third flay of July. A. D. 190$, and of
the independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and twenty
ninth.
irned) Theodore Roosevelt
By the President. Herbert D. Pierce
Acting Secretary of State.
SHAKE-UP IN CABINET.
Cortelyou May Succeed Shaw?Taft Por
Secretary of State.
Washington, I). cial).?Before
he left Washington for his snmmcr so?
journ at Oyster Bay the President is
-aid to have given out some "tip-" as
to Cabinet changes contemplated.
It is reported that George B. Cortel?
you, the Postmaster-General, will be the
next Secretary of the Treasury. It is
the Presidents purpose now to make
this transfer early in the winter. This
will necessitate, of course, the appoint?
ment of a new IVstma-ter-Cicncral. I'n
Ihe President lias reason to change
his mind, Mr. Charles J. Bonapart?
Maryland, recentlj i for Secre?
tary of the Navy, will succeed Attorney
General Moody when the latter retires
a year hence.
Secretary Hay is very solcitous o? his
own health, and the fear in the White
House circle is that lie will soon go
into retirement. The President has
thought oi asking Elihu Root, former
Secretary oi War, to return tit the Cabi?
net as Secreiary of State, but from
what was learned Thursday he has about
concluded no; r.> do so. The President,
therefore, i- turning to his remarkably
versatile Secretary of War. and the in?
dications are now that Mr. Taft will
be the next Secretary of State.
LORENZ TO Q? TO PRISON.
Sentenced To Two Years Confinement and
Fined $10,000.
Washington, P. C. (Special).?George
K. L?^renz, of Toledo, Ohio, who was
convicted in the courts hero over a year
ago of conspiracy to defraud the gov?
ernment in connection with the sale of
letter-box fasteners, was remanded to
the custody of Ihe Warden of the Dis?
trict Jail for removal to the State prison
at Moundsville, W. Va.
August W. Machen and the Groff
brothers, who were convicted at the same
time, began serving their sentences some
months ago. Lorenz's sentence is two
years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,
000.
When COUrt convened District Attor?
ney Beach announced that Lorenz was
present, and at the same time asked that
an order be issued turning Lorenz over
to the Warden of the jail here until such
time as the next batch of prisoner shall
be sent to Moundsville, which was done.
Henderson Paralyzed.
Dubuque, la. (Special).?D. B. Hen?
derson, formerly speaker of the Na?
tional House oi Representatives, is con
fined to his hotel apartments, suffering
from a slight primary stroke of paraly
sis. His right side is affected. Hope
are entertained that he will be able to
leave his apartments in a few days.
Flyer Derailed in Ohio.
Cleveland. Ohio (Special).? \ fast
easthound passenger train ov, the Cleve?
land and Pittshurg branch of the Perm
sylvania Railroad was derailed and
wrecked near Atwater. causing the death
of at least one passenger, while sixteen
persons were more or less injured.
FINANCIAL
"I expect to get 11 cents a pouml for
all the cotton I own." says T. 11. Price.
Lehigh Valley has earned in the year.
just clo-ed .-ver 15 per cent, net on its
stock. Reading has earned 10 percent
The weakening of pig iron prices dur?
ing June is regarded by some steel men
as a fair sign of a coming slack in the
steel trade.
That the Southern in the Soulji and
the Erie in the North are two railroads
that will bear watching, i ?union
of ?^nanrvativ? haxtVe ,
1008 y*
fireat Floods
A CITY
Reporta sf Esst
Mountains sf
the Way Fr?
bat s Dispatct
the Fijore ?? *!
Mexico City,]
ports are currei
sons upward,
even i.ooo, havj
flood at Guanai
the u
eraj_
liantes.
Sunday
No news
reports sre cu
were killed, another s
were drowned.
Late tidings arc th
letely flood?ed, aridAtau-r'
ling the higher fTVts ?if t|
wivde there is fear thatJLaolIa
give way. which woula mean c
an?! general ruin. ^^^^^^^^^
Tin- city is built m a great got
1
up tin mountainside in picturesque
ion.
A storm began furi-- the
of June 30. aud after midnight
of the inhabitants
tremendous was the fury
ments. The water rose in t!
business streets, flooding sl?
aving thousands of dollars' w<
merchandise. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
The lower -n>t!- became ragi
rents as the water poured in rivcj
the upper streets. ]> * {-_
in by the fore?- of the water an?!
were no protection against t!
Hood. A dispatch to President R
son. of the Mexican Central
says there are 1,000 dead at Guana
The town of Marartlo. fUSl
anajuato, was completely wiped oat.
The racing w
through ever;. | Guan?'
GAINS BY THE DISPUTE.
(
A Better Feeling Between France and (icrmi
Produced. ^^^^^^^^^
Paris (By Cable).?The Fi
German c<implications havi l fat
overcome that a complete agreement ;.
c?uisidered only a matter.of time,
improvement in the situation was fur?
ther manifested in official and dipto
niatie quarters, and the Bui:
showed a marke?! advanccSrl Hh.i .11^
a general firmness throughout. The
nervous public sentiment his cm
disappeared ami there is 110 further
of the possibility of a rupture v
many.
The officials say that the 1
now are largely a qu<
ties and the fra [ an wrri<
ing within the limits of the two note
and the attendant conversations air?
exchanged. t
Therefore, it is not likely that
will send^another note, as her po
was fully defined iii the firs muid
cation to which Germany* Ira: _
plied. The tone of these not?
indicates that the final und?
will be on the basis of holding s Ol9
ference.
The officials call attention to the]^kjj
that Premier Rouvier's first note did 1
decline a conference, but on the c
trary accepted it in principle, seek
only to have its limits defi-rrrdr
Germany has not been ?lis;
fine the limits ye?, verbal exc
have entirely removed the apprehen
which ofTLials previously entertained
concerning ulterior designs behind the
C inference.
Thus the sharp diplomatic ersi
has had the effect of producing a
'general state of
and Germany, as
had been more ?r^^^^^^^^^^^_
picion on both sides for the
years. It is considered, a
for France that during the nee niat
Germany has been fully advised
cerning the Anglo-French and An
Spanish understanding aff?
co and had not directly dissent
from, although contending that thej
t?eet her position.
While not acquiscing in tlitfi^j^sJ
not openly "brought them Tnto que ^^
This is regarded a- materially -trct**^H
ening the French position. The Ger
officials say an accord has practi
been completed, as there only rei.
to decide the wording and go through
the protocolar .formalities.
?I
r of
Sues Jffiascsm For $100.000.
Trenton, fS. J. : y-?
Heinisch, of Irvington, X^/*-!
s?-:er of the late million
Rogers. <>t Paterson. who left m^|
his wealth to the Metropolitan Mu?
of \r!- oi New York, brought suit ii
oi chancery against the mttS4
for $100.000 with interest fn
claims t'...- because of a p;-?->nt
by her brother, her father
000 less than he intended shi
have.
Drowped Where He Fished 4? Years.
King wood, W. \
Jackson, aged 75 r\Tfiv .
was drowned in Cheat river \ti ^^^^
ing at Fairfax ferry, a point where he
had fished every summer for the last 40
years. He was a retired mer.
a widely known citizen, a:
?by his widow and six grown
Oriel Casses Salclde.
New York < Spe>
Foster, until recently a
cago, commute :
in apartments ?
Mrs. Alice Snea 1, m 1
dent street, Brook
iajsjgl
She had be<wV
