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' 0 ^ II %\)t pxmdvxiy ptaf. EfTl WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1907. KILL SCALE_CLAIMS Creditors of Sanlo Domingo Consent to a Big Cut. MONFY TO RF FORTHCOMING Kulin, Loeb & Co. Will Advance $20,000,000. NEW TREATY TO BE NEGOTIATED This Country Relieved From All Responsibility, but Americans Will Continue to Collect Customs. BY WILLIAM E CVRTIS. Written for The ?tar rim! tbe Chicago Rocordlleratii. Thero has been a very important chango in the Santo Domingo situation during the last few dajs which necessitates the negotiation of a new treaty to tithe the place of that now pending before the Senate committee on foreign relations. Mr. Velasquez, finance minister of Santo Domingo, assisted * - - 1 * * r\ f Tnhnt Hnn. I>y Dr. .lilCUU H. Hu lauuci y,M. UV....U kins University, who has been acting as a diplomatic agent and financial expert for tho United States in Santo Domingo for several months, has sucoeeded in making an amicable settlement of both the foreign ami domestic debts, and the banking "house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York has agreed to finance the scheme. All of the foreign bondholders and other creditors of Santo Domingo, representing a total of ? in claims, have agreed to s> ;11 them down to $17.<KK>,000, and Kuhn, " * * x I.oeb & Co. will loan tnat government 4XWHHH) in 4U per cent thirty-year bonds, which the ereditors agree t?> accept in payment of all outstanding obligations of the lv?mlniean republic. This settlement will be mad?i by Kuhn, Loeb & i'o.t and leaves a balance of cash, which will be retained as the nucleus of a sinking fund to redeem them as they mature. This is the result of several months' negotiations and relieves the government <>f the United States of all responsibility of the distribution of the revenues which have already l? en collected b.v its agents. or may be collected in the future, and the adjustment of the conflicting claims of tile subjects of half u dozen Kuropi in nations. Relieved of Responsibility. Tie have nothing ti> do with the loan except thHt It has been made npon tlie condition that we continue to exercise a supervision over tin- collection of the customs < i.i> .a Tliii i ,3r?i priwHtnro n crp iin willing to sc?.ie dowi their claims aud accept the new bonds unless such n guarantee was given them, but the President and Sfvretary Root declined to go any farther ' tlian to nominate --\inerlcan citizens to handle the money. We do not a?fum? -any further responsibility. We do not Rgtee to send fleet or troops 01 undertake to jiregej-ye the peace or sustain the present administration in power. The old treaty provided for tin arbitrary settlement of the debts of S.i;1111 IJuminen bv the Ignited States. It al.--o provided that wt- should furnish that govt rnrnent with the machinery to collect the revenues for that purpose, and that there should be no change in the tariff duties without our consent The settlement of the debt by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. relieves us from a great deal of this responsibility and necessitates the negotiation of a new treaty. 'I he text lias b'cen nerved up 1>> S' -retary Root and the minister of Santo Domingo, and Mr. .Dawson, until recently our minister to that republic, sailed fur San Domineo dav before ves terday to secure tin? signature Of Aetfns President Cacercs. He will return Immediately so that the new convention may be laid before the Senate for action before the close of the present session. Mr. Dawson was recently appointe 1 minister to Colombia and Mr. Kenton McCreary, now secret ry of embassy at tlie City of Mexico, was appointed in his place, but the latter has not yet been relieved of his present duties, and Mr. iMwson, who has been in Washington preparing for his departure to l:is new post, was hurried down to Santo Domingo on tins important errand. Lpon ) is return lie will proceed to Bogota. Extra Session May Ba Necessary. In lils speech at tli* banquet of the foreign commerce convention at the Arlington Hotel the other night the President announced tha: he wuld I" coinieiled to call mi extra si .-.-ion of the Senate after March 4 unless the treaty with Santo JJomingo was ratitii S. tary Root said the same thing to the committee en foreign relations the other day. He explained that unless t i.ited Stat<- government was willing to - irai ? - ipervision over the collect:??n j' i n vt'iMi. as a protection to fort-ifc bondholders some Kuropean power wo lid b? asktd to do so. This. h?* declared, could not )>v |mtih:: t?d. but t ir n? \s treaty would be dlv? >t? d of all tht ; lures that had boon obj* *t? 1 to by th? Striate and re1 \?r lb.. rnlted States of the appearance < #-x? i ?sin& a protectorate over our rest i? >> I!? IjLyliUUl Our flnt, which haa been lying in Santo Dominican wains for two years or more, h;;s N cn withdrawn The Marietta, under C man< ei Fulh 11 and a small gunboat ? tlV<l I)on Jiiii'i ?i? Au.- ii.i a:e all the vesIs wo h;jv?- left '!??vvn ther? . and they art* ii"t doing i dr\. :>i!t an remaining simply to bo ar '. .hi*' in th* event tha* the Ano ri? an citizen.* - .nuld require prot**.tion. Kt?r st-veral inon: - we have done nothing t ? maintain th ^ i : ment of Acting Preside: t < ere?. Collector of Customs. Hi-rt after he will have to take rare of i . - ?v i i .,.. i ,....,*t ... i*. Iii : uiii* iu? \ii i?i* i nmu toward Santo Domingo will be limited tu the nomination of American clliz> lis as collectors of customs at the chief ports of the Dominican republic. They are to collect the duties and pay Xi per cent of their receipts to Kunn, Loeb & Co. for the interest and sinking fund of the new loan. hikI 4."> per cent to the secretary of the treasury at Santo Domingo City. This ttrrungomeni is the same an at present, mill Col. Colton, the < ollector at Santo Domingo, lias on deposit in the banks of. New York more than $2,600.0W, which can be applied to that purpose He lia* also tumid over to the local government S6 per Cent of the customs, which Is more than It line ever received before, because, until now. collectors have not always been uble to distinguish between the public and their nrivate funds This money has been dis bursed among the soldiers, policemen and ot uT employes of the government on the regular pay days, which Is a gratifying Ini.ovation, and the moat effective influence that could be devised to insure their loyally to the present administration. Heretofore it has been the habit of the higher officials to help themselves to the public revenues so far as their necessities required. and expend the remainder for arms and ammunition to defend their claims upon their offices. As the army Is the main dependence of the administration i*hich happens to be in power one would suppose that the president would be wise enough to have it well fed and paid promptly, but, strange to say, that has not been the case until recently. Conditions on the Island. Conditions in Santo Domingo are more satisfactory now than for several years. Ramon faceres, who now occupies the office, is making a fairly good president. The old parties are still in existence, and there is no telling- when they may organize another revolution. But within the last few months several of the chronic revolutionary leaders have been killed or executed and the probabilities of a successful insurrection are being gradually diminished. Kx-I'resldent Morales is either at San Juan, Porto Rico, or at St. Thomas. He is dividing hi;: time between those two places, and. while he has not given up his ambition to recover power, he has recently refused overtures from ex-President Jimenez, one of Ins former rivals, to pool their issues and make a combined assault upon the present government. The difficulty seems to have been that neither of these amiable gentlemen would trust the othor. Morales has been lying low ever since his expulsion from the country. He has been doing nothing, but is believed to be waiting for an opportunity. A Foozled Revolution. Ocn Jimenez visited New York last summer and succeeded in obtaining a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the agents of the Cuban revolutionists, who had no further use for them. These supplies were shipped by steamer to Turks Island, where Gen. Enrique Jimenez, a nephew of the ex-president, and a boy only?twenty-six years old?and (Jen. Pedro T.asala, another of Jimenez's lieutenants, received them, loaded them upon a little schooner and landed them upon the Dominican coast near the city of Sanitago de las Cabalieros, where Gen. basala had a planta tion. It seems to have been the intention of the j-.art> to conceal the arms and ammunition upon his premises until tr.ey oouli! organize a force to use them, but within a few days after their arrival they were bet rayed anil the house of (Jen. Insula was attacked by a large body of government troops. He sas killed and voting Enrique Jimenez ami one of the other leaders are reported to have been hanged to a tree in the neighborhood. The remainder of the party, fifteen or sixteen in number, were all killed or captured. This episode has i ;?d a very discouraging effect upon the revolutionary leaders, and since its occurrence in November last they have been unusually quiet. Ex-President Jimenez is supposed to be in New York city. The funding of the debt of San Domingo into long-time bonds and the assurance that Its revenues, which amount to more than Sl'.OOO.OOo a year, will be honestly collected and applied to legitimate purposes ought to bring about permanent peace an 1 permit the development of th2 marvelous resources of that island. So long as the co'ketion of tlie revenue is intrusted to agent> appointed by the United States government (le principal incentive for rcvolutrorary movements will be removed. Aspirants for th<- presidential elflci' have not been actuated by ambition so much as by avarice. When they become convinced that the revenues are out of their reach they will not be so anxious to organize revolutions. Ths Island's Resources. 'I 1 nurirultiiral resources of the island arc incalculable. The soil is as rich as that of any land on earth and is capable of producing: a 1 unlimited amount of sugar, coffee. coc m, tobacco and other tropical staples and fruits. The highlands in the interior are covered with rich pasturage capable of sustaining millions of cattle and sheep; the forests are rich in rosewood, satinsvood, cedar, lignum vitae and other valuable, cabinet wo ads. while experts believe that the mountains are full of minG 1 *1 T ?*-> i n m \ nra c 1?.1 E-Sflfcst settled section of the American hemisphere; although millions of dollars l-.Hve already been taken from the mines, and the enslavement of the natives to dig for gold, and silver was the chief cause of the troubles ol '."o;nmbus. ye-t the Island Is practically unexplored. No one knows what is concealed in the mountains in the interior, arid prospectors who have been mousing around believe that the deposits of gold, silver and copper are very rich. It has been demonstrated that H ere is plenty of coal and petroleum. There is already a "gusher" fill well on the southern coast, and.samples of tin and platinum ore. two of the most-sought-for minerals, have re v^cui i,> ucvj, aiiu?n iu nuiici aiugtsio ill i>ow Yolk, who me amazed at their richness. The prospectors who exhibited these .samples claim to have found tliem in a convenient locality, but are not willing to give their secret away. They are waiting for lK-ace and a stable government, because every perr-on and company which has shown feigns "f prosperity lias been the object of disagreeable attention both on the part of the government and the revolutionary leaders. AT FIIEDERICKSBTJRG, VA. Man Accidentally Shoots Himself and T\ "XT* U AJVU.L11 XVC9UIIB. Spot'Ial Correspondence of Tbe Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., January ID, l'J07. Mr. C. It. Collins, a son of Mr. C. L. Collins of Bowling Green, Caroline county, shot himself last Wednesday night by i.ie accidental discharge of a (tun which he was using' as a club on a negro with whom he had had an altercation near Keysville, Charlotte county. His death resulted almost immediately, ilr. Collins was engaged In railroading and the man he struck was on" of the laborers on the road. Mr. Collin- leaves a widow and two small children, who reside at Bowling Green. Ills body wt.s taken to that place for interment. Mr. A. P Dempsey of this city has purchased of AY. Ii. Baylor of this city <..ie old Baylor property near 7th and Main streets. Miss Ellen Adie. aged seventy years, died last Thursday al the home of her brother. Mr. Hugh Adie. near Garrisonville, Stafford county, after an illness of one year. One brut her survives lier. Mr Jan\?? T. Thornton has purchased of Mr. John M. Thompson the liberty Hill stock farm, situated near Port Royal, Caroline county, '..n the Rappahannock river. There are 1.22i) a. res of land in the farm. At the meeting of the city council last night the salary of the judge of the corporation court, beginning February X, was iixed at $1 'X)0 per annum. Mr. B. F. Bullock of Norfolk was elected superintendent of the city gas works at a salary of iillU IUU. A monument will be erected In the near future to the memory of the members of the 15th New Jersey Regiment, who fell In the charge of Marye's Heights. May 3, lstut. The proposed site Is near Salem Church, in Spottsylv&nia county, where a large number of the same regiment fell in battle. The one hundredth anniversary of Gen. Robert E. l,ce's birthday was celebrated in this city today in the St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, where Gen. Lee attended services when visiting this place. The exercises were participated in by the J,adies' Confederate Memorial Society, the Sons of Veterans and the Maury Camp of Confederate Veterans. Following the services at the church the old veterans repaired to the Exchange Ho tel. where a banquet was tendered them, music for the occasion being furnished by the Franklin Orchestra of this city. All of the grades in the pUDllc schools of this city today spent the evening In exercises to the memory of Gen. I^ee. Willie H. Cloe, formerly of Garrisonviile, Stafford county, now jf Charlottesville, and Miss iClnora Blanche Woodward, daughter of Air. A. B. Woodward of lx>uisa county, were married In the Methodist Church at Louisa C. H. Wednesday. Man and Woman. From the London Chronicle. "Man. comDosed of clay, is silent and non derous," preached Jean Raulln In the fifteenth e?ntury, "but woman gives evidence of her osseous origin by the rattle she keeps up. Move a sack of earth and it makes no noise; touch a bag of bones and you are deafened with the olitter-clattor." Ok J OicAKLR^ / 1 ? yJ^jjk Written for tb?' Star. (Copyright, HIU7, t?y Frederick K<ivd Stevciihon.) There is a long tunnel-like passageway leading -down to Senator Foraker's committee room?the Senate committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico. Strung along this passage, and blocking the way to the door of the committee room, the other day were a half score of Ohio politicians. They were waiting to see Senator Foraker. They had just heard him deliver?perhaps "tire" would be the better word?his philippic against thf; President of the United States in the Brownsville affair. They had seen him in the Senate chamber, with the law books and the army records and letters and data stacked upon nts uesK ana aooui ( I his desk. They had heard each caustic 1 word accentuated oratorical'}' with a cool, deliberate, distinct, stinging voice and they had seen each word punctuated gesticulatorlly with hands and aim? wielded with 1 pugilistic precision. In anotli?-r minute Foraker himself bobbed Into the tunnel. rie 11U1 I ICU llliuugn lUC f,auiun I \J i. vn.uuno j and half burst, half fell into his room. His face was white, his gray hair was in strings and his collar was wilted. "Give me a drink of water," he whispered. The Ohloans crowded around him "That was a great speech," said one. Foraker drained the water from the glass. Then he sprang to his feet and began shaking hands right and left. "Glad to see you! Glad to see you!" he cried tirst to this one and then to that one, calling each by name. One man drew him aside and whispered earnestly into his ear. "Yes, yes," said Foraker aloud. Another man drew him gently to another corner. And the other man whispered into the other senatorial ear. "Yes, yes," said Koraker again, and he nodded vigorously. Then three athletic sons of Ohio captured him. Foraker smiled the smile of pleasure, but the deep lines on his face told the tale of the Jaded man. "Tomorrow, tomorrow," he said faintly to all. Then to his secretary: "Did you call a cab?" And again to the Ohioans: "Gentlemen, I'll Bee you tomorrow. I must go home." nf +Vtp Men "Who Wnrkfl. And on the morrow there was Foraker as brisk and as vigorous as if sixty-one years had not been crowded into his busy life. Foraker is one of the men in the Senate who works. His enemies may sayhe is bitter; they may say he is revengeful; | they may even say he is vindictive, but I Annnnt Unit llO (c PV/?rla fit in ffl V incessantly biu=y. He is up every morning before daylight, and it is after midnight nearly every night before he retires. During tin most active sessions of the Senateno matter 'what fight he may have on hand?he never neglects to keep up his extensive line of reading. Without exception, he is undoubtedly one of the best I^atln and Greek scholars in public life. But busy as he Is in Washington with the affairs of the nation and the affairs of his state?which state, by the way, keeps its senators fullv occupied?he remains in close touch with the law, and does more legal practice when In Cincinnati than any other man in the United States Senate. That he is one of the hardest workers In Congress is an established fact; but, despite his hard work, he maintains his health. Once a friend asked him how he did it. "By riding, driving and walking," said Foraker. , As to the political side of Foraker? well, some say there are several political sides; at any rate, there are many views by the outsiders?no man tuu un accurate diagnosis. "I believe that Foraker lias been honest in this Brownsville fight," said one close to the administration to me the other evening in Washington. "I believe he is sincere in the stand he has taken and is doing what he believes is right." "Foraker and Brownsville!" reiterated another. "His position in anti-admlnistratlori?that's all. Watch Foraker from now on. Foraker is playing politics. Nobody knows the game better than Foraker. waicn mm. Was Always a Fighter. Here, tfien, is the old story of Foraker the fighter. He began that fighting career of his way back In the eighteen fifties, In HUlsboro, when, although so slender that his playmates dubbed him "Skinny." he could lick any boy in school. Following up this line of physical aggressiveness, he enlisted with the 80th Ohio Volunteers when only sixteen years old, and was the youngest soldier from that state to fight In the civil war. In three years he was a brevet captain, went all through the Atlanta campaign, and when he was mustered out was an aid-de-r.amp on Gen. Slocum's staff. The late W. T. Sherman onae said to him. In referring to the battle of Bentonville: "Well, I remember you, my young friend, as you came through the pine woods that day" on your horse, covered with lather. You came up like a soldier and reported to me the message from your general, Slocum. A knight errant with steel cuirass, h's lance in hand, was a beautiful thing, and you are his legitimate successor. I wish you all honor, all glory, all fame. X wish IA A gvr or you may rfce to the highest position this American people can give to you." And it is for tills highest position that Foraker is now said to be engaged in t lie greatest tight of his life. If you ask him point blank if lie is a candidate for thepresidency, lie will smile good naturedly and?well, he may talk about the weather. "But make no mistake about Foraker." said one who has followed the senator's career in Washington and Ohio, "for tie ilitin'' wmo rnacinie wen in nana. Ana not only has lie the Ohio machine, but he has a pood chance of controlling msjiy of the members of the national republican machine. lie is going to be one of the factors in 1!!08. Roosevelt name his successor? N'o. Roosevelt, since he has been in office, has done nothing to build up a machine. He will not cut any figure in the convention. The men who stand the best chance today for the republican nomination are Foraker and Fairbanks." Concerning the Presidency. When a lull came on the second day following Senator Foraker's speech he entered his committee room after the session and threw himself into a big armchair. "No. no," he said in answer to my pointed question; "1 am not a presidential candidate. Why, man, I don't want the place!" And he raised his hands deprecatlngly. Then he continued, slowly: "There is too grav- a responsibility connected with that position." "But. supposing the convention should nominate you." I began. "No, no." said he. "I don't want it; X am not seeking it." He was silent for a moment. Then he vided with a smile: "I'm thinking of Brownsville just now." "Your friends in Ohio, however " "I am doing- the best I can do for Ohio right here in the Senate," and he. "Hut certain issuer will arise in 1908? have arisen now?and they must he met by a forceful candidate in the republican parly," 1 said. "Let us meet them in liHi*," he said with a smile. A moment later an Ohionn said: "Out in Ohio we all want Foraker for T> ? >.. 1, ^ , t. .. n - I- ? ? it x ic-uuriii, uv> aurr nr: Burn ci ligliLtJr. t Foiakor. the lighter! Always Foraker, the fighter! The expression takes one back to the Cleveland administration, when Foraker was governor of Ohio. President Cleveland expressed the desire that the governors of all the northern states would return to the confederate states the liags captured in tlio south by union soldiers. When this request came to Foraker. he said: "No rebel flag .shall be returned while I am governor of Ohio." Fought His Way as a Lawyer. Prom this reference to the flags he received the pseudonym "Fire Alarm" Foraker. But his career as a lighter began long before that. After the war Foraker fought his way as a lawyer in Cincinnati, and that, he has often said, was one of the hardest fights he ever had. But he made so good in that light that he was appointed judge of the superior court of Hamilton county, where he remained for tlircA voors u-httn 111 VioaltVi fnvr'aH t r\ resign. Then politics crossed his path, and I with this first entrance into politics the . fight In him was brought out, for during that gubernatorial campaign of 1883, In which lie was the republican candidate, he was dubbed "Fighting Joe" Foraker, and the slogan of the battle was "Vim, vigor and victory!" There was vim and vigor, but not victory, for the democratic nominee. Jutlge Huadly, also of Cincinnati, and a close personal friend of Foraker, was the winner. "Foraker had no intention of going into nnlit If c hofnro Vici tViat oomrioiirn " said a friend of the senator's the other day. "His whole bent was with the law; but once he entered the game, it completely captivated him. It had the elements of battle that appealed to him. He has often told nie how the first news of his boom for governor of Ohio startled him. He bought a paper In Cincinnati one evening and boarded a street car for home. On taking a seat in the car he opened the paper and there he saw staring him in the face in great 'scare' heads, 'Foraker for Governor!' He was frightened and hasitily ? V,? rvnnot. nnt ( In VU nnn1r<? iviucu iiic |jaj?r i auu yui u in ina 1'uv.rci lest some acquaintance should see the telltale type over his shoulder. 'I felt as If I had committed a crime,' said he, 'and that my guilt was published to all the world But still there was the fascination. I could not keep my eyes oft the paper. I took it out of my pocket and then, despite the risk of being caught red handed, I devoured every word of the article.' But Senator Foraker is not so modest now," added the friend with a laugh. Not Deterred by Defeat. The defeat of Foraker for governor did not deter him from staying in the political race, xns uiuuu w<m warmeu, una ne was all the more eager to make a second attempt. So, two years later, he and Hoadly were again opponents for gubernatorial honors in Ohio. Forakor had learned a few things during the two years In which he brooded over his defeat. He had learned how to make a bitter speech^ to pick out the weak spot In his enemy's armor and to stab him there. It was this very knowledge that he had acquired and become an adept In that won him that second political battle In Ohio. It la that same knowledge BiL^ATE that lie uses so skillfully today. He used It In the Senate in his speech against the President. It is his most powerful weapon. I n that RPcnnrt Hhin f?amrw?io-?i l?o ?ico?1 it against Judge Hoadly, ills former friend and associate. Hoadly and Foraker wet': not only close friends at one time, but they were also close neighbors, depositing their votes in the same ballot box. As the second campaign waxed warm, however, the former friends became very bitter toward one another. Finally, Foraker challenged Hoadly to a joint debate, the main issue in Ohio at that time t >ing the temperance question. It was arranged that the tw? candidates .should meet, tirst in Toledo and then in Cincinnati. Both men were excellently equipped for such a meeting. Both were fine orators. Both were well Informed as to all the details of the political history of their state. Both wi re quick at repartee. It was natural that the meeting places were crowded to overflowing Gerrymandering was one of the early sciences practiced to perfection In Ohio by both tho- grea* polltfcal parties. In former days the republicans had gerrymandered Columbus, so that a political map of the city looked like cracks in a Satsuma vase. Then the democrats got into power and gen; mandered it all over again. Foraker took lloadly to ta^k for this latest political Job. Hoadly defended himself by saying that the democratic, party simply corrected a great republican wrong. A Foraker Story. "That," said Foraker, "reminds me of the man who had the reputation of being a constitutional liar. The habit grew upon him and he agreed with Ills friends that he ought to stop it. So they arranged that when one of them heard him begin to tell an unlikely story it should be cut short ?i Miifloo Snrtn aftar tViiu fi ffrninnnnl he and one of these friends were traveling together, and one night.In the bar room of the hotel the constitutional liar said to the proprietor: " '.Landlord, what is that big house they are building back here on the road?' " 'I know of no big house," said the landlord. "Why,' said the liar, 'it's the biggest nuus? i ever w IL ia itjtL u:gn and ' "Here his frien,d gave him a nudge. He stopped short and then quickly added: " 'And two feet wide.' " For many years Foraker waved the "bloody shirt," and, when good occasion offers, he does not object to wave it now. During the debate with Hoadly the latter, who was noted for the mistakes he male, stated that the republican party had degenerated. Hoadly, himself, had left the republican ranks, he said, because of this degeneration. He charged the republicans in that campaign with dodging the tem perance issue. "In the days," said he, "when Salmon P. Chase, who died a democrat, and Abraham Lincoln, who died a democrat, and Charles Sumner, whose last wish was that the emblems of victory should be removed from our flag, and Horace Greeley, who died a democrat, and a thousand other leaders of the republican party, who came within the r>f t Vinartv thov 'U1>1 .. wv, . ^ - 'J ~ ^ ~ - ' " '?J died, were the leaders of tliat party, tliat party would never go before the people and present itself for tlielr favor, dodging an important Issue." "Another Hoadly mistake!" thundered Foraker when his turn came to speak. The meeting quickly responded to him with a roar. Foraker grasped the situation in a second. Coming to the front of the platform, with his hands upraised, he said in his penetrating voice: Scored a Strong Point. "Gov. Hoadly has given to me surprising Information. He has told me that Lincoln died a democrat. I want to tell you that the mistake he made was that Lincoln died by the hand of a democrat!" Hoadly denied the statement. The stenographer was appealed to, and the notes showed that he .ad made the renvark. Then he admitted he had made a mistake. The house was Foraker's, and the state aiso, unu iu 11119 one muiueiiL it 10 ?uiu 110 owed his victory. Those who heard Seaator Foraker make his Brownsville speech In the Senate the other day, und who knew him in the fights with Hoadly, recognised in him the same old "Fire Alarm" Foiaker of the Cleveland flag Incident. They recognized In him the same quick spirit of repartee?the same eager sarcasm?the same alertness to recover a lost point. This was well illustrated when he was reciting the Gen. Lee case. Senator Lodge Interrupted him. "The senator from Ohio must recollect that there were two Gen. Lee cases," said l?uge. , "Oh, i know," said Foraker Instantly, "but I can't talk about them both at once." And thus he avoided an attempt to confuse him. The years have whitened his hairs, but they have not dampened the enthusiasm and fighting spark which have been with him since these school days when he "licked" his playmates. Chinese Amazons. From the Indian Patriot. Women In China have the privilege of fighting in the wars, in the rebellion of itWrtrrtmpn' as much, fierhtinar as men. At Nankin In 1863 500,000 women from various parts of the country were formed Into brigades of 18,000 each, under female officers. Of these soldiers 10,000 were picked woman, drilled and garrisoned in the city. $ CL.' Authorities on X Correct Dress. | Annual Mar 1 Won I Wearing i Prior to Sto v J This is an all-inclus | Women's Gowi j Wraps, W | % Its object is to c;pa?nn fr?r .wVimli n-if ! The Re V Y ? range in many insta | per cent. I A | Shoe CI | All Odd and A 1\ T pn'p inrl \ \, I JLTiv,n o anu \ \ \ X ? Men's $3.50 and $4 Shoes, during this sale, 1 $2.95. X Patent colt and gunmetal, in Blucher and X button styles. V , It's a splendid opportunit X Parker-Bridget "Teck" Shoes v ? $ Women's $3 I* r? i 1 * ^noes, during t | sale Fashioned of patent colt. X Blucher, lace and button : Not a pair of shoes in tl <! men's, but what's new this se; I " 1 :?: IHIeaLd=to=Foot Outfitters, j it >mS"X"XhK,v*;,<"K":*,:,,X'*:,\":"X*'W' > Jingles an By LYMAN F (Copyright, 1903-05, by the Ge^i LJ S ? THE RABBI" ^ ^ GRASSh ' - -. ^ j "" ^==aSfei?&. 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