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EDWARD EVERETT HALE Considered the Most Notable American Living Today. i r- r%r\ a t l i itw a f i i i o PTIIHIO VtttbMNLMi ur nio ucimiuo Called by the President the Timoleon cf the D&y. PATRIOT AND PHILANTHROPIST Tributes of Affection and Appreciation Expressed by the Late Senator George Frisbie Hoar. Vnder whatever heading ho bo considered, end it is found necessary in tho range of his versatility to appraise him. among other things, as philanthropist, editor, man ot letters, educator, orator, historian, as well as pastor of a church, the dominant note of the character of I">r. Edward Everett Hale, shown as unmistakably in his lirst literary production as in his recent "Tarry At Horn'- Travels," is his militant patriotIsm. According to Milton. "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." and upon that principle Dr. Hale must, according to common consent. b*> heralded as one of th? se victory-compelling leaders, a conqueror in peace. In no activity of his long and crowded life has he ever had his eyes for a moment off the flag of his country. Not Walt Whitman himself, it is now believed. more potently recognized the privilege of Americanism. Throughout his work as a Christian minister tDr. Hale dislikes to be called 'a clergymanin ail nis | t'UIH'll IIMIill, MX." I it I, jmii iiiiUMii , iii-hm Hint other varied activities. to help the peo- J pie 4>f liis country to a dear understanding of tlx ir birthrights has been his constant J aim It is most appropriate that in his i ripe eighty-fifth year, while exercising with 1 fe?,\ wo/a V i - ^ Hg LZTruVf^LJuriTO-. ^ * ^3 Ay^rSi^?^ DR. EDWARD E"1 unprecedented dignity tlit: high offire of | chaplain ??f 11 l"nit?d btate^* Senate, he should 1 ? - coming t?? 1m* generaHy known as tl?' greatest of living Americans. . It was in the trying years of the civil war. in December of tha* tin* Atlantic "Mrfv.it hlv brought out "The Man Without a j Country." in which with ;tll that power ! of verisimilitude v. i. !? has n.ad?- his fi< t on j carry weight as if indubitable fact. Dr. j liaU' made his first irresistible appeal to, patriot sm. sin appeal wirrh. it has often ! 1>. en saM did more for the l"nion than many successful battles. A classic now \ known in all lan is. win e ft lias moved j thousands to tear* and where it has built j lip adequate concoctions of devotion to ! country, not m* rely loyalty to a leader, the ! "Man Without a Countrx" is regarded, j say sill edli at<>rs. as o: ? of the most effee- j five means ?f awakening the voting:. He- ; for** and dining tin Spanish-Am?*ricaji war it was in constant demand, a national Jieed. Hnt Dr. 11 a l? did not begin his American I?: opagatnlsi with that touching story. it was natmal. perhaps, that one of his family should be more than ordinarily alive to ' 4 : v The founder of i the mern ??i iur? ! In Hal? s in America l ad been that R?v. John Hal* who as early as 1 ?i!?7. with the kci-n s? ns<- and possibly the characteristic humor of thf ra? gav?- up thf principles ! hf ail expressed in a publication railed "A j Modest Ithiu j y Ii. o the Nature of Witch craft. It was more than good sense that j eausfd t i- rnart\r-spy Nat! an lln.e, when ; brought to execution by the Hritish. to say: j ".M\ only regret is that I !..tvf but one ! liff to losf for my country." There is patriotism i11 t lie blood. A Literary Home. The father of In Hale was also a Nathan Hale, and n? phew to the revolutionary patriot. his mother was a sister of the renow.'.eil orator . Kuward Kveretf. Hoth pai? i ts w? re actively engaged in literary work, the fatUer as the publisher of the Hoston A?1 \eitiser and the mother as a translator from the German. The atmosI?h? r? in which the ? hildr* n. and there were several. j?rew up. was one of culture liquidated with orintera* ink. it la related of the \outhful Howard that at leven he translated from tho French an article on 'Excavat] ?iis at Nineveh.*' and before ent iiri*4 Harvard, for which he was prepared at thirteen and from which he was Kraduatfd at seventeen, he had served as typesetter, and. sooner or later, acted in ev< i > ?apacii\ for his father's paper, from reporter i?> edin>r-in-chief. It was Samuel Howies of the Springfield Republican who once said ol' him. "Th? v lia?l only one good journalist in all Huston and they were ?tvaIHiiw ?ilr?i ill ! 11*? lillloit!" C|-"" ? r |)r. Hal*' savs of himself that lie was I cradled In 111* sh< ?-ts of a dailv newspaper, | and to that fai r has been attributed the 1 peculiar nower and skill of his Knglish ! style. Characterized hy nervous, colloquial simplicity. full of life and human ciuality. in addition to a mastership of direct. vivid words, it bears evidence, the critics sav. that he has a keen scent for news, a clean-cut. tenacious memory that has been provided with numberless impressions by a vigilant eye and a sensitive ear. I)r. I lal? has formulated his own rules for writing, which he evolved from the rigid requirement of his own experience. Briefl\ summarised the\ are: Know what you want to say; say it; use your own language; leave out tine passages; a short word is better than a long; the fewer worn*, other things being equal, the better; ?t Till 'in II i" ??!?-? ?-rv These practical working laws he early enforced, ami they are Indicative of that straightforwardness of spirit which In wlun he was graduated. made him plunge at once into the issues whi\'h were agitating the country. For a few vears he was u ministerial free lance, hut in 'Hi was located at Worcester, where (ieorge Krisbie Hoar soon became For Throat Troubles, Coughs and Hon mene**. KUOWN'S HKONCIIIA1. TltOCHES ari' nn effective remedy. Kecnimnemlrtl by ,'liv Irian* ami kmm u all over the uorlri for ttver llfty yenra ?.? ? ?t?p!e t uunb remedy, free from a member of his narish. At once the young minister became a member of the board of overseers of the iwor. and. already eager In the cause of ameliorating the conditions of human slavery, published his "Emigration to Texas." The clan he suggested was not carried out and Texas was not saved as a free state, but he had the satisfaction of belne one of the builders of the commonwealth of Kansas, as tlie guiding spirit in the New England Emigrant Aid Company. At South Congregational Church. I FVnm fh<? timo u-hpn oallPri to the South Congregational (I'nitarian) Church in Boston In IKTrfl to I'.XHI, when he became pastor emeritus. Dr. Hale has been engaged always In carrying out one purpose. His aim has never been to impress himself on his country as a speculative thinker, or upon his congregation as a metaphysical theologian. His has been the theology of the heart. With a constant consideration of contemporaneous themes, without emulating the oratory of Channing, Hedge or even Phillips Brooks, but irradiated with a practical spirit of brotherly love, absolutely democratic, with sincerity, common sense and wit, with wealth of reminiscence ana felicity of phrase, he has set himself to expound the nature, not of the Jehovah of Israel, but the God of America. He has maintained always that It is his chief function to overcome inertia and get the j masses under way in the right direction, and in his reiteration of his belief in God as an ally, in his motto, "Live, learn, teach with God for men," Boston is said to have come to regard l.irn as its St. Christopher, whose Christianity exists to leaven the civic lump ami to be a preservative salt for society. Almost before the guns of Fort Sumter I had ceased booming, the ladies of his conI ; ?H'li nnl rlofhinc ?1 t-Ktiiauii uici . ? ! for the regiments, which. In accordance i with the orders of Gov. Andrews, were to j be sent south within twenty-four hours. I Throughout the war his people worked. It was its women who at the end in "t55 brought coffee to the tattered remnants returning with their torn flags to the state house. From his congregation went out the first teachers to the freedmen at Fort Royal, and members of his congregation were constant ministrants in camp and Held and hospital. Senator Iloar once said of him: "I do not know another living man who ' " ' ? ? 1 inHnonoo . j nas fxcrnst'ii ;i uiuii' i??nn tui hm.Uv..w on the practical life of his generation. He I has taught us the truth, very simp>e, but 1 somehow nobody ever got ho d of it till he I did, that virtue and brave living and helping other men can be made to grow by geometrical progression. 1 am told that J l>r. Male has more correspondents in Asia than the London Times. I can.iot tell how ITEEETT HALE. many persons are enrolled in the clubs of which lie was the founder and inspirer." Practical Philanthropy. The extent of Dr. Hale's correspondence has naturally grown out of the breadth of his philanthropy. Few men have been able to write a hook which lias become the occasion of a doctrinal propaginda. Rousseau did it in "Le t'ontrat Social," and Henry <5eorge <n "Progress and Poverty." 1'r I I; i 1 . hi Mlllll'l'l! niKsihU ?rbll mm A ..... found a movement when in 1870 lie published "Ten Times One Is Ten." Throughout the land, and later all over the world, there sprang up wh it were called "Harry Wadsworth Clubs." named after the hero of that story whose motto was: "Look up und not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; lend a hand." The growth of the "Lend a Hand" movement is but one indication of the executive skill of Dr. Hale which those who have been associated with him have always revered. While he has been able to astound them with his mastery of the details of administration. it has always been a deliberate aim with him to arouse cooperative effort. His was the first successful attempt to enlist young people in Christian work, and his "Lend a Hand" clubs expressed the basic idea of such subsequent organizations as (lie Young People's Christian Endeavor and thf Ivino-'c n-mnrhtftro t- 4.-1. ? . ^<.ubnivio, w liieii iias caicen for its motto the title of another of his hooks, "In His Name." In addition to these, sueli organizations as the I.ook \'\i Legions. Hands of Hope, Junior Societies and Boys' Brigades all rest upon the idea that I)r. Halt- lirst expressed, that lornmtion is better than reformation. But it is not merely as a minister, as a preacher, hut as a practical altruist that I)r. Hale has endeared himself to his countrymen. Not a small part of his extraordinary equipment is a creative imagination of the first order, which has made him a master of fiction and a skilled Interpreter of history. His unqutnehed.optimism has as an ally a Joyous and ever-bubbling spirit of humor, and his working philosophy express ?u in tup brief triplet, 'To observe, to picture, to be prompt," has made him an un| flagging worker. His Literary Work. 11 is production Is enormous. At the Harvard library more than a hundred and I thlrtv titles are listed under his name. He I once said of Walt Whitman. "What he has once seen, he has seen forever," and that comment has been applied as equally true I of himself. His mind seems to have been lubricated with indelible ink. and what he lias once learned for himself he seems compelled to transmit to his countrymen. | He has made important contributions to historic knowledge. In the "Original Docuj ments From the State Papers" he first made known the true liistorv of Sir Walter Raleigh's initial attempt at American colonisation. and lie also first told the story of ! how California came to be so named. In [ his fiction, particularly his shorter stories | "My Double and How He Undid Me" and I 'The Skeleton in the Closet." he displays j that whimsicality which indulged would I easily have placed him in the first rank of i American humorists, and vet i? has such Defoe-like plausibility as to make the most improbable circumstances seem credible. That a hooosklrt should have destroyed the southern Confederacy Is believable only In his pages. Critics who. considering his creative work, his editorial energy. his antiquarian researches, the dignity and usefulness of his pastorate, the stimulus he has given to. education, the reach of his charity, have called him the l greatest of living Americans, have been practically unanimous in ascribing to two i facts the hold which he has upon the peoples' hearts. It is not merely the length | his Ret vicP. but th*? nhi?nnm.vnal 1 of that service and its breadth of sympathy. In addition to this quality of intuitive knowledge of human emotion, there is the fact of the individuality of his methods and his words. He ts so completely himself, large-hearted and independent. His Mfelong friend. Senator Hoar, several years ago said of him: "I have never known anybody in all my Ion* life who seemed to me to be joined by the heartstrings with so many men and women wherever hp toes as Dr. Hale. 1 know In Worcester, where he used to live; I know In Washington, where he comes too seldom and where for the last thlrty-flvc years I have *one too often, poor women, men whose lives have prone wrong or who are crippled in body or in mind, whose eyes watch for Dr. Hale's coming- and going and seem to make his coming and going. If they get a glimpse of him, the event they date from till he comes again. To me and mv little household there. In which we never count more than two or three, his coming Is the event of every winter." The Nation's Guest. At a Harvard banquet in this city a y.ear or so ago Dr. Hale, speaking with almost naive modesty, said: "The great value of a college course is the comradeship of the men. Throughout the land has Brown up an association or workers wnose loyalty was ardused In their college days. Why. it is not possible for me to go into a city of any size in the length and breadth of the United States and attempt to register at a hotel without some friend coming up and insisting that my bag be sent up to his house, and taking me there himself with the care and affection of a brother." No doul/t the fraternal spirit among the alumni of Harvard is powerful as in other colleges, but the tribute of universal affection to Dr. Hale rests upon other grounds than fidelity to alma mater and comes from a wider band of loyalists, the people of the United States. As has been pointed out by countless readers, it is characteristic of Dr. Hale that in his work he should often have taken himself as a theme. Such writers as Charles i?Lmb and Robert Louis Stevenson are dependent for half their charm upon their personality. Whatever may be the subject matter, it Is self that is rerealed. Mr. Hale courageously speaks of mow i \\ as Educated, or Keconections of a New Kngland Boyhood," of "My College Days,'' of "Formative Influences," of "Family Flights," of "Memories of a Hundred Years." and yet no one is less an egoist. His theme serves to reveal conditions applicable not to himself merely, but to his period; lie exposes, describes and teaches through the medium of a personal j figure. Always didactic, never prosy, his whole philosophy of life is revealed in his ] 'papers, not that one may regard him, but come genially and gi od-naturedly to practice what he believes to be wholesome. .Again, to quote the senator: "He has done work of the first quality and in a great variety of fields. In each he has done work enough to fill the life and to fill the measure of fame of a busy and successful man. 1 have learned of him the great virtue of hope; to judge of mankind by their merits and not their faults; to understand that the groat currents of history. especially in a republic, more especially in our republic, are determined by great and noble motives, and not by mean and base motives. "In his very l>est work Dr. Hale seems always to be doing and saying what he does and says ex tempore, without premeditation. Where he pets the time to acquire his vast stores of knowledge or to think the thoughts we all like to hear nobody can tell. When he speaks or preaches or writes he opens his intellectual box and takes the first appropriate tiling that comes to hand." In Pursuit of Peace. In his capacity of "professor of America" Dr. Hale has not labored merely in the expression of generalities. The son of an ardent whig, and a free-soi'.er in his youth, he ha-s always been a republican. Repeatedly he lias said: "The people is sovereign here; the people is the fountain of honor here; the President is the servant of the people." But in the broad field of his writings and his lectures at Harvard, at Antiooh PnlU^e at Chautauqua, at Hampton. Tuskegee and the local industrial school at Manassas, Dr. Hale has never ceased to be a loyal supporter of the government. When Boston grew restive during the Spanish war he waited, silently trusting in the greater knowledge, as he expressed it. of the authorities. Good, gentle, virile and aggressive in spirit lie has never been a scold or a maligner of public officials. He has his heart set upon large issues. He is an originator of great ideas. He sets In action germinal forces. As early as 1SM1 in a sermon in this city he suggested a plan for an international arbitration tribunal. That idea was almost completely carried out in the purposes of the Hague conventii n of 181)0. It is said Dr. Hale ardently expects to see some great cause peaceably settled by some such tri bunal. His prescience of coming greatness of his country, his range, his indefatigable energy in the cause of brotherly love make him almost the prophet of his race. A Boston Tribute. In Boston April 3, 1002, upon the occasion of his reaching the age of four score, a great public demonstration was made in his honor. In his "Autobiography of Seventy Years" Senator Hoar says: "When Dr. Hale was eighty years old his countrymen manifested their affection for him in a manner which I think no other living man could have commanded. It was my great privilege to be asked to say to him what all men were thinking, at a great meeting in Boston. The la rare and beautiful I hall was thronged with a wry Small portion of liis friends. If they had all gathered the eity itself would have been thronged. I am glad to associate my name with that of my beloved teacher and friend bypreserving here what I said, it is a feeble and inadequate tribute." The president of the I'nited States spoke for the whole country in the message which lie sent: White House. Washington. March 1!5. 1002. My Dear Senator Hoar: I very earnestly wish that I could be at the meeting over which you are to preside in honor of the eightieth birthday of Edward Everett Hale. A classical allusion or comparison is always very trite; but I suppose all of us who have read the simpler classical books think of Timoleon in his last days at Syracuse, loved and honored in his old age by the felloft citizens in whose service lie had spent the strength of his best years as one 01 mi; uuuii'Ni una must attractive figures In all liistory. Dr. Hale is just such a ligure now. We love him and we revere him. We are prouder of our citizenship because lie is our fellow citizen; and we feel that his life and Ills writings, both alike, spur us ste.idily to fresh effort toward high thinking and right living. To have written "The Man Without a Country" by itself would be quite enough to make all the nation his debtor. I belong to the innumerable army of those who owe him much, and through you 1 wish him Godspeed now. Ever faithfully yours. THEODORE ROOSEVE1YT. Speaking on that occasion Senator Hoar said: i "Dr. Hale has done a good many tilings in his own matchless fashion. He would hovo loft n rpmarlfahlo noma on/1 fomo behind him If he had been nothing but a student and narrator of history, as ho has studied and told of it; if he had been nothing but a writer of fiction?author of 'The Man Without a Country,' or 'Ten Times One Is Ten.' or 'In His Name'?if he had done nothing but organize the lendu-hand clubs now found in the four quarters of the world: if he had been nothing but an eloquent Christian preacher; if he had been nothing but a beloved pastor; if he had been only a voice which lifted to heaven in prayer the souls of great congregations; if he had been only a publicspirited citizen, active and powerful In every good word and work for the benefit of this people; if he had been only the man who devised the plan that might have saved Texas from slavery and thereby pre vented the civil war. and which did thereafter save Kansas: If he had been only remembered as the spiritual friend and comforter of large numbers of men and women who jyere desolate and stricken by poverty and sorrow: if he had been only a zealous lover of his country, comprehending. as scarcely any other man has comprehended. the true spirit of the American people; if he had been only one of these things. as he has been, it would be enough to satisfy the most generous aspiration of any man, enough to mnke his life worth living for himself and his race. And yet rtnu jri, ?" * moi uiic n urn 1 say that Dr. Hale lias been all these and more ? Of Daily Living. "Edward Everett Hale has been the interpreter of a pure, pimple, loving and living faith of thousands of souls. He has taught us that the fatherhood and tenderness of God are manifested here and now in tliif world, as thev will be hereafter; that the religion of Christ is a religion of daily living; that salvation Is the purifying of the soul from sin. ndt Its escape from the LUXlcru UCii<-?:o KJM. OIH. Iiv ic uic IC|UCBrllld- I tive and the Incarnation of the best and I loftiest Americanism. He knows the his- | tory of his country and knows his countrymen through and through. He doe; not fancy that he loves his country, while he dislikes and despises his countrymen and everything they have done and are doing. The history he loves and has helped to write and "to make is not the history of a base and mean people who have drifted by accident Into empire. It Is the history of such a nation as Milton conceived, led and guided by men whom Milton would have loved. He wll+ hnve a high and permanent place in niiTature. whlcn none but ueroe shares. He possesses the two rarest of gifts?that to give history the fascination of Action and that to Rive fiction the verisimilitude of history. He. has been the minister of comfort in sorrow and of joy in common life to countless persons to whom.his friendship Is among their most preciqus blessings, or by whose fireside he sits, personally unknown, yet a perpetual and welcome guest." GENERAL AND PERSONAL XTTTTTC AT? /IT* nTJ/irTATTTIlT Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Amanda Hurdle, who died last Thursday morning at 8:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara Demar, 3012 O street northwest, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at her late residence. Rev. Alfred Harding, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, conducted the services. The interment was in Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs. Hurdle, who was eighty-nine years of age, was one of the oldest lcsidents of Georgetown, having resided in the West End nearly all of her life. Three daughters, Mrs. Clara Demar. Mrs. Talbot Lanston and Mrs. Josephine Kteinschmidt, and one son, Albert Hurdle o-f Philadelphia. Pa., survive her. Mrs. Maria A. Reilly, wife of Dennis D. Reilly, died at 7:15 o'clock yesterday morning at her home. 3418 O street. Her husband, a son and two daughters survive her. The death of Michael McKenna. at the Georgetown University Hospital several [ iiajra rtgw, iii iei- ii lingering niness, marKea the passing away of the family. During the past eleven years Mr. and Mrs. McKenna and ten children died. Henry Clay, colored, fifty-five years of age, was found in an unconscious condition yesterday on Massachusetts avenue near the United States naval observatory, suffering from overindulgence in intoxicants. He was taken to the Georgetown University Hospital in the seventh precinct patrol wagon. ^ Matthew E. Donahue of 3-lth and P streets has gone to Springfield, Mass.. on account of the illness of his mother. Traffic on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal has closed for the winter, and the waterway will not be reopened until next spring. It is stated that the season Just closed was one of the busiest in the history of the canal. I r.ousands or tons of coal and grain were received during the year at Georgetown, whence a large quantity was shipped to northern j>orts. Owing to the deatli of the son of the Sunday school superintendent the regular Christmas entertainment of the West Washington Baptist Church was omitted and other services were substituted. The services were concluded by the distribution of presents among teachers and scholars. Samuel Johnson, colored, seventy-eight years of age. residing in the rear of 10T>7 ISlst street, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon about 1 o'clock at his home. At a recent meeting of the Grand Council, Independent Order Sons of Jonadabs, the following members of Georgetown Council, No. 3. were appointed officers of the Grand I-odge: J. J. Spellan. grand secretary; John V. Moore, grand chaplain; Frank Moore, grand sentinel; O. W. Bradt, i trustee; J. I\1 Hanss. grantl ueputy-atlarge. and W. T. Golden, grand deputy for -Georgetown Council. Harry Hoffman of Denver, Col., who recently visited his parents at 1009 35th street, has returned west. GALE CAUSES DAMAGE. Vessels Filled With Water and Delayed En Route. When the southerly winds of yesterday morning whipped around to the northwest in the afternoon he advance guard of the northwester cagie with a rush, and for aucuL i*>n Jiuuis <v n*'a* .> gaic w <* * uii. In tlie vicinity of this city it was particularly heavy, and a heavy sea was caused by the force of the gale. Several minor marine accidents are reported in consequence. The steam lighter Daniel K. Jackson, which was coming up the river heavily laden with cordwood. met the gale between this city and Alexandria. The heavy seas made a clean sweep over her deck, and so great was the volume of water that found its way into her hold that Captain Owens ran the vessel ashore on the mud flats to keep her from sinking. Aft<'r the gale moderated the Jackson was pumped out and floated, and resumed her trip to this city. When the gale began to blow the little schooner J. C\ Cunningham, which was coming to this city with a cargo of lumber, went to anchor between this city and Shepherd's. During the blow she dragged her anchor and was carried ashore on the flats on Hit* Kisirict sme or me river, where she remained until high water last night, when she was floated and resumed her triy to this city. The power launch Southerner, lying at the pier of the new sleel plant, was tiiled with water from the sea washing over her < as she swung* at tier mooring lines. No harm was done the little craft and she was pumped out hy her owners yesterday a.'ter110011 and returned, it is suited, to this city. While the blow was at its height the little tug James Jackson, jr.. of Alexandria was on liar tv:? v t ft th<i Haaforn lu-on.ili i nn-ino Dean's mud dredging machine and two scow.". The force of the gale was so heavy that, it stated, the tug had all she could do to hold her tow against the wind and keep it from going ashore. Another tug came to her aid. and the two steamers succeeded in carrying the dredging machine to its destination in the branch. INTERRED IN ARLINGTON. Disposition of Remains of Lieut. Wm. P. Pumphrev The funeral of William P. Humphrey, son of Charles B. ami Mollie 11. Pumphrey, who died suddenly at noon last Tuesday, occurred at 1 o'clock yesterday from .his late residence. 418 7th street southeast. The interment was in Arlington. Rev. A. S. Bean of Baltimore, Md., conducted the services. The members of the Spanish War Veterans and of Company M, 2J Regiment, National Guard of the District of Columbia, attended the funeral. A detail of Company M. under the command of Capt. Tol null, iru me iviuaiuo iv? iuc giavc, ttuu fired a volley over the grave. The pallbe;trers were Sergt. J. H. Cole. Frank Gennari and Frank Joyne of Company M, 2nd Regiment, and Capt. Ferree, Oliver Sears and Peler Duffy of the Spanish War Veterans. BRITISH SABBATH PLEA. . Prelates Unite in a Message to the People. I-ONDON, January 5.?The archbishop of Canterbury, Mgr. Bourne, Catholic- archbishop of Westminster, and the Rev. J. S. I.Idgett have issued a joint message to ttie nation calling attention to the efforts to promote Sunday observance. They say: "We believe It to be literally impossible to exaggerate the importance of this matter to the wellbeing of the nation. It is not merely that one day's rest in seven contributes vastly to the physical and mental efficiency of men, women and children, and xenas 10 iii<i?ve uui numc me inure iruiy what English home life ought to he. There Is more than this under the sacred sanction which is attached to the I?ord's day. 'It is intended inat all should have the opportunity in the worship of Almighty God to escape the grip of their ordinary cares and occupations into regions of higher thought and nobler aspiration. We are convinced that on an adequate and reasonable Sunday observance depends in no small measure the possibility of promoting in England the deeper, more sacred and more enduring interests of our common life." i ne municipal eiw:iiun ai nomney, \\. Va., yesterday resulted in a complete victory for the "drys," the present administration being Indorsed by about sixty majority. There were two tickets?"anti-saloon" or administration ticket and the "young men's tlck?t." CUBA LIKKTHE IDEA Project of a Protectorate Growing in Favor. V t MANY THREATS ARE MADE Prominent Planter Declares the Island Unfit to Live In. NO LOANS NOW FROM BANKERS Sugar Men Cannot Get Funds and the Poor Face Starvation. HAVANA, January 5.?At the palace the protectorate idea meets with unqualified but confidentially expressed approval. Th >se under the provisional government say: "All of us, from the governor down, know we cannot withdraw from Cuba without being forced to come right back to preserve order, but we are preparing for the elections because President Roosevelt must keep faith with Cuba by giving it one more trial as a republic. That is the pledge. The Vnlted States and other nations must not be given a chance to question the honesty of our intentions, or suspect, as they might, that the I'nited States fomented the late revolu tion to seize Cuba. We must hand it over to certain revolution, bloodshed and temporary anarchy before we finaJly assume control of it, as we will be forced to by foreign powers. Congress Only Has Power. Meantime the work preparatory to the withdrawal of American control continues. The election law commission is making every effort to increase the chances of the stability of the law and the republic by considering: a proposition allowing all prop erty owning: foreigners to vote and restricting the franchise of natives to property owners or to those who can read or write. Casting about for some scheme to cause the more intelligent but indifferent Cubans to take an interest in politics, taxation on real property, as in the I'nited States, which is practically unknown here, is one means which is being considered. The industry of this commission and Gov. Magoon's speech to the diplomatic corps on New Year dayhave convinced commercial Havana that the Americans really mean to set up a new republic and withdraw Planters Can Get Mo Money. As a result of the terrible tightening of money the banks have practically ceased loaning. A planter from Santa Clara, owning three thousand acres of sugjr cane, told me today that he came here to settle a loan of $2iUX)0 by paying half and asking an extension, as the revolution, the hurri cane, tup tiry weawier ami ine snuriage ni labor had made the harvest late. He never had had any trouble with the hank In twenty years. He was told he would have to pay all. on account of the uncertainty of the American occupation, as the bank had decided to collect all the money possible and make no new loans. Other bankers and brokers told him the same story. He men- I tioned three other planters similarly treated. I visited the banks and ascertained th it the planter had told the truth and also learned of one Russian and English house whose branch has many millions loaned here that had notified the agent here to draw in and rr.fnco oil until f V-.o A inorlr>-i n nri i gram in Cuba became more certain. j Planters sr.y thnt this action of the banks, if continued, will prevent making a full crop of sugar and living want to the country people in two months. Dynamite is Threatened. ^ "And." said one planter from Santa Clara, "I have a ton of dynamite on my plantation. If the Americans go I shall sav to niv men, 'You know what to do with . *1 it.' They will blow up the English railway J bridge and property near my estate. 1 will go to Key West until England, or the < 1'nited States, forced by England, makes ] Cuba a tit country to live in. This game is played out. I might as well settle it in this way as to suffer from further revolution. You smile. So did Gen. Bell, who has gone back to Washington. When he visited my estate last week I gave him my word of honor I would destroy that English railroad, and he and President Roosevelt know 1 don't lie. You Yankees can't get away." In treasury* receipts Cuba is looking up. t Its revenues, that f"|l nearly $<>00,000 in , September, show an increase for December of $2."(,o0". making Sri.iiOj.'HXi for the list six months, against $14.8*0,01)0 in the first I h:)lf of the year. Americon economy is tell- t ing. The cash on hand is more than S.4.- ( IMK),<<(K> and available cash above all is nearly y<KXl.<hK). The expected shortage is no longer ' feared. The provisional government has ' cut the budget In four months by Sl.tiOO.OilO ' oiw) cnnniul umirnnriaJinn : :i lumt 5i'A IKKI ikKI and hopes to leave the balances on July 1 . at ${,500,000. BROOKLAND CITIZENS MEET. J Variety of Business Matters Consider- J ed by Association. t The Brookland Citizens' Association held \ a meeting last night at the town hall. !Uh i street and Bunker Hill road northeast. Following: the reading of the minutes of the ' last meeting a resolution was adopted ' thanking the Brookland lire department for j the gallant service given last Sunday even- i ing at the Terra Cotta wreck. The asso- 1 ciation took up the question of gas and ' spoke in favor of 75 cents per 1,<HK) feet 1 gas. There was a discussion of the condition of Girard street northeast between 12th street ( aiul Brentwood road. It was stated that at i the last session of Congress Senator Till- t man presented a bill to secure an appropria- ( tion of $10,<K>0 for the purpose of grading l the street and that after having passed the Senate the. House turned it down and only ( allov.eu for the work. After it was < finished, it was stated, the roadway was in t a worse condition than before. Ry a vote of the majority of the members it was de- , eided to ask Senator Tillman to present an- ' other bill to Congress asking for $5,500 to 1 finish the work of grading the street. Sev- 3 eral of the members told of the bad condition of the street, saying that during the 1 rainy weather it was impossible to walk along the street arid that a horse and wagon t could not pass through the deep mud and C clay. t A communication was received and read t ln\ \T I* \\T oohtno'Irtn P it i t r. i i?' A L-on ? eiation asking the Brookland association to c join with it in protesting against the Instal- s lation of water bos meters on the front s lawns. The invitation was accepted. In the matter of changing the hours of < the schools of the first grade, the secretary s of the association was instructed to com- c municate with Superintendent Chancellor \ and request that the first grade at Brook- c land be not changed. It was stated that a the proposed system would be all right in 1 the city, where there are good sidewalks, c but in Rrookland. where so many of the c little children had so far to go to school, they could not get home and back in the (3 one hour and a half recess, especially in t rainy weather; and further that they were a so young that it was unsafe to let them go alone to school. By the present system they can come and go with older scholars. William H. I,ewls was elected a member r of the association. c Threat of "Black Hand." ' NEW DURHAM, X. Y.. January 5.? y "Unless you leave $25 at the gate of the s cemetery today without fail we will kidnap c your little Gussie. and you will never see v him again," was the threat contained In a * letter which Henry Attel, a grocer of Six , Corners, near here, received yesterday fc from a Black Hand gang. Attel was frantic, and immediately took the letter to the r police, who advised him to pay no attention i: to it. as they said several other persons S in the vicinity had also received letters g from the same gang- fl Fads Iw Fril Sw New 1 jl Public S j)q yOU know tha, you'd get "licked" for d school are just what the bidden to do ff sides?cool 11 making, bakir I'l iron work, and so on. I'l "frills" go to make Jol jll Sadie a more useful 1 1 mother can afford to mi: testing article, handson bpo\ MAG/ FOR JANUAI ALSO: Salome?the most ever heen written on the s II sented at the Metropolitan I'l beautifully illustrated. Th /,/ the story of lavish beauty a / illustrated from photographs. 'I John Oliver Hobbes' last sto ,| Gilbert. Eight Sparkling S I Just what's worth while in tl * . _ J Dt A 1 / m? L una r noiograpus v \\ wh? are do All Meu BROA HUGHES WILL PROBE hie is About to Investigate the State Offices. GUARDING PEOPLE'S MONEY Declares That He Has No Animus, but Wants to Know. ro LET THE DEMOCRATS ALONE No Trouble About the Elective Offices?Rumor of Col. Dunn's Retirement. ALBANY. N. Y.. January 5.?Just as soon is he can find the time Governor Hughes is ;oing to learn the inside workings of all the tppointive offices and botrds in the state government. He will take them one at a ime, familiarize himself with the duties of :he department or board, see how those Juties are performed, go into the finances. see how the people's money is spent and ivhat checks and other protections are prodded for the public interest. Recommenda:ions and changes are likfly to follow in some instances. This general inquiry cannot je done :n a day or a month. Neither can as liuch of it be done during the session of the egisiature as can be done after the lawnakers go home, but before the end of the irst year of his administration the governor ivill have a very thorough idea of every department for which he is responsible. This general investigation is not to be ictuated by any animus, but merely so that the governor may learn a 1 that is taking nlace under him and see that the. officials perform their duties properly. He promised :he people of the state before election that le would make investigations of his own nto the different state departments and he tieans to keep his word. Much Criticism Heard. Some of the state departments have been apenly criticised for years. Probably these nill come in for Investigation first, but in lime the governor expects to examine Into ?very one of the appointive departments ina uourus. ue nus nu pieseiiL iiiieiiunn 01 'arrying this investigation Into any of tiie elective offices which were recently filled ->y democrats. Among the different state departments ind boards which undoubtedly will feel the jrobe of the governor before the present rear has expirf d are these: Insurance department, of which Otto Celsey is the superintendent. Banking department, from which FredTick D. Kilburn will resign as soon as j 'haries IL Keep of Buffalo Is ready to ' ake his place. , The office of the forest, fish and game ommissioner, James S. Whipple, who has harge of the big Adirondack forest preierve, with its valuable lumber and water iupply. The office of Hie commissioner of agTi ulture, the department of health, the itate prison department, the state tax ommission. the office of the fiscal super- , ^isor, the office of the commissioner of ex- | ise, the education department, the state /l^nurtmonf the dpnarfmonf of Liciiucut a IO'V.I, v.v, ... ? abor, the commission in lunacy, the state harities board and the state water supply commission. , There are many minor commissions and lepartments which may afterward receive he attention of the governor, but those tbove named are the most important. Governor Gives Reasons. "I shall take up the matters of each de- J artment of the state government and beome thoroughly acquainted with the vork," said Governor Hughes this after- ( toon. "One or two heads of departments lave already communicated with ?ne. and < alji thev would be glad to have me be ome familiar with their work. My Investigations will be confined to the aiplointlve departments. I am going to make ' liese Investigations to acquaint mypelf pith the facts "in each department and not tecause of any animus." The governor said that he received the esignatlon of Frederick D. Kilburn, superntendent of banks, a couple of days ago. Jr. Keep. Mr. Kilburn's successor, cannot :et here before January JO. as he has to Inieh up certain work In-connection with and mA {ork Mjfi JjP ey ITT? T M t the very things oing when you went to : children nowadays are ? Dancing is en that; be- 'V ting, dress1 g, carpentry, wL; Will these so-called Unny a better man ? Or 11 woman? No father or I! ss this remarkably inter- I f lely illustrated, in the /'/ am kZINE f IY- 15 CENTS I informative article that has * ensational oi>era to be pre- n i Opera House this winter; \\ ie New York FUJI of Records? \\ nd municipal incompetency ; tt Tho Differing Star*?the late \l ry, with drawings by C. Allan I'l tones. Beautiful Illustrations. 11 ne I heatret. Intimate aietcnei I1 >f men and women II ing things. // js'stands ^ dway day His position as assistant secretary of th? treasury at Washington. Before the close of the Higglns adminlstration It was reported that George W. Dunn, state railroad commissioner, would resign soon after Governor Hughes took office. The governor said today that h? had not yet received the resignation. He refused to say whether or not he would appoint a successor to Col. Dunn at the end of the latter's term. It was made clear today tlvat any talk of .1 modification of the recommendations made by Governor Hughes In his messaire to the legislature comes from u so urea outside the executive chamber. The governor says he has not discussed that point with Chairman Woodruff of the republican state committee, or any one else. EXCLUDED BY JAPAN. California Socialist Paper Has Been Seized in Tokio. TOKIO, January 5.?The Offlc ial Gazette announces today the seizure of several epics and prohibition of the circulation here of the Japanese socialist journal, Kokumo (the Revolution), published at Berkeley, Oal. It advocated the assassination of President Roosevelt. The Revolution Is. or was. published at Berkeley by Japanese, and the editor, T. Takenehi. is a house servant In the intervals of his journalistic labors Tip wuo radical in his views always, but the other day surpassed himself by publishing an editorial advocating the removal of President Roosevelt, the mikado and ail rulers. J.Ir. Moffat t, sfceret servlie agent at San Francisco. whi? li is just across the bay from Berkeley, received orders to look a.fter Mr. Takenehi. When Takenehi was Interviewed by the Sin Francisco re|Mirter? he announced himself a disciple of Jack London and a:i admiring reader of I1I3 works and said he had moved over to Berkeley to be nearer to Mr. l.ondnn. He said that often he had beaten carpets with one hand while he had read a copy of the People of the Abyss held In the other. WILL CHOOSE IHMSEN AGAIN. Independence League to Repudiate Snap Meeting Action. NEW YORK. January 6.?Following a meeting of the county committee of tho Independence League at the Gilsey House last nieht a call was issued for a meeting ciqtA nrimmii too *? - ? 'I*. V>1 me oiuir V vm.inicc iu ur iinu mi 1UCS" day night next. At that meeting the action of Timothy Driscoll and about a score of his followers In holding a snap meeting of the state committee on New Year night and ousting Max F. lhmscn from the chairmanship will be repudiated. At next Tuesday's meeting Mr. Ihmsen will be re-elected, and if Mr. Driscoll Is dissatisfied he will be told that he can carry the matter to the courts. There were twenty-five of the thirty-fire members of the county committee at the meeting last night, and it was stated that all these men had renewed their allegiance to Mr. Hearst. While some were among those who met at the Driscoll meeting a few days ago it was explained that they had asked to be taken back I Lives on 10 Cents a Day. OMAHA, Nob.. January 5.?A. J. Seaman, a wealthy Omaha man. who for many years has been buying: tax titles ami living on 10 cents a (lay. yesterday purchased an overcoat for 25 cents and fished a cap out of a rubbish heap, and, putting them on. came down town today and went about his daily business. Seaman, who is one of the wealthy men of the city, boasts of hla meanness and niggardliness, and laughH heartily over his own eccentricities. Ha says he has not spent more than 10 cents a day to live since lie began accumulating hla large fortune years ago. 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