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ALL FAVOR PEACE
OBJECTS OF THE PEACE CON
GRESS HEARTILY INDORSED
BL DIPLOMATS.
CLOSING DAY IS NOTABLE
Wu Ting Fang Tells the Chicago Oath
ring of China's Traditional Op
position to War Great Ban
quet In Evening.
Chicago, May 6. The second na
Uonal Peace congress closed this af
ttarnobn In a blaze of glory, with the
most spectacular ol Its many sessions.
The final meeting was devoted to "In
ternational Greetings," and brought to
gether a decidedly Interesting and
picturesque group of diplomats from
foreign lands, who all told how deslr
oni they and their countries were to
see the establishment of a world
peace. .
Richard Bartholdt congressman
from Missouri, was In the chair, and
th first speaker on the program wai
Count Johann Helnrlch yon Bern
torff, the German ambassador. He
was followed by Herman de Lager
rants, minister from Sweden,
Address by Wu Ting Fang.
Then Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the pop
lar Chinese minister, In his gnr;-ous
native costume, took the fiir, and
Wu Ting Fang. Mlnlater from China.
told the gathering how much the Chi
nese loved peace, Dr. Wu said:
"I am very happy to bring to you
to-day the greetings of tne oldest em
pire In the world, of which I have the
honor to be the official representative.
Especially proud am I to stand before
you this afternoon, beause the na
tion I represent Is famed for Its love
lor peace. When It Is remembered
that China has a population of 400,
00,000, you will agree . with me
that Its attitude on the subject of war
and peace Is of some Importance to
the world at large, and I can assure
rou that whatever other changes,
political, educational and social, may
take place in my country, her tradi
tional policy of setting disputes by
discussion and amicable means will
not be departed from. China has no
schemes of self-aggrandizement at the
expense of others so often the cause
and pretext of beSicose Action. Even
In her days of past conservatism and
seclusion from the nations of the
west, her only desire was to be left
alone and be permitted to enjoy peace.
Her motto has been and Is: 'Live and
let live.'
Not Afraid to Fight.
"It la not, however, that the Chinese
are afraid to fight. When compelled
by necessity they make a good record
tor themselves. It Is their disposi
tion, their education, which has made
them peace loving people.
"In recent years the reorganisation
of the army occuplea a prominent
place on our program of reform,
.and the excellent ahowing made by
. our troops of the northern and south-
Herman de Lagorerenta, Swedish Min
ister. . era armlet at the maneuvers of the
past two years, witnessed and favor
ably reported by correspondents and
nmtiTT exDerts of different nations,
that tfcar la mnnA malarial In
yiV'C. hw., H.W.W (
our people for the making of soldiers.
The reorganisation of our army neea
sot, however, create the least alarm,
aor Is It la conflict with the objects
of this society. China never has
w. an sever will be agrresslve In
a military way he Is too fond of(
peace and realises too fully tha ko
KjiJsj?
ft J00 W'- 1
rors of war. If general disarmament
should be proposed you will not And
China Indisposed to accept It.
Thinks Right Makes Might.
"In conclusion I would add that our
attitude on this question cannot be
better expressed, I think, than by a
quotation from Sir Robert Hart, who
has been half a century in China. He
says: 'The Chinese believe In right
so firmly that tbey scorn to think It
requires to be supported or enforced
by might' In short, we believe that
right makes might, and not might
makes right; and I am sanguine
anninrh la believe that the whole
world la coming around to aaopi inai
view, which Is eminently the' right
one.
Representing as I do, thererore, a
n.tinn noQAni.iA bv nature and choice,
taught from our Infancy to abhor vio
lence, and reverence for right and rea
son, to worship literary and industrial
. ,,.it,, anil in nezlect and despise
martial vain-glory, I am very happy,
I repeat, to bring to you wis au"
the greeting of my countrymen."
tativftn of the British,
French and Japanese embassies and
of the Turkish legation aeuvww
.aiintra frnm their countries, and
the session came to an end with a
speech by Richard A. Bawnger, seo
retarv of the Interior, representing the
American government.
In the morning a business session
and conference of peace workers was
held, over which Joseph B. Moore, Jus
tice of the supreme court oi jmumeau,
..m Rrinf addresses were made
by H. C. Phillips of Lake Mohonk, N.
Y.' Henry C. Nlles of York, Pa.; W.
H. Short of New York; Robert C. Hoot
. A,7ie- George Fulk of Cerro
-Gordo, 111.; Rev. J. L. Tryon of Bos
ton; Mrs. Fannie rem Murt
Boston; Miss Mary J. Plerson of New
York, and Alfred H. Love of Philadel
phia. .
tm. ovoninir there will be a great
banquet given by the Chicago Associa
tion of Commerce, ana tne aemaua im
,.i.. n, i a n lnrirn that It was neces-
Minute n mw . a -
sary to secure banquet halls In botn
the Auditorium and the Annex ho
tels. The list of those who will re
spond to toasts includes Mr. Ballinger,
Mr. Martholdt, Congressman Tawney
of Minnesota and several of the for
eign diplomats.
NEBRASKA'S CAPITAL "DRY."
Proposition to Abolish Saloon Carried
by Large Majority.
I.lnroln. Neb.. May 6. A "dry"
capital city for the next year was the
verdict rendered In the municipal elec
tion veaterdav. The proposition to
abolish the saloon carried by a major
ity placed at not less than 600 ana
possibly as high as 700 in a total vote
nf noariv 9(iii(i, The vote' Is a marked
reversal of that of a year ago when
license carried by a majority or aooui
unn Afier next Tuesday, when the
municipal year expires, there will be
ao more saloons In Lincoln, ine re
fill! in su rurlslna- only In the size of
the majority piled up by the temper
ance forces. The outcome tnrougnout
has been regarded as doubtful, with
ihonrPK favorlm the no license sioe
but it was everywhere expected the
result would be close. The prohibi
tion forces have conducted an aggres-
ilve campaign, importing speakers
Irom other states, while tne liquor
forces have been on the defense.
Tho Rcnnhlicana succeeded In secur
ing control of the municpal govern
ment by electing Don L. Love mayor
over Rust Malone, Democrat by a ma-
lorlty estimated at 300 ana wun toe
mayor most of the other city officials,
.Idermen and councllmen. For tour
years the city has had a Democratic
mayor.
Omaha Mav K. Late returns Indi
cate that the plurality of Mayor Dahl
man will exceed 3,000 with the rest
)t the Demorcatlc ticket Including the
entire city council running a few
hundred votes behind.
Iowa Hometyatha Meet
Waterloo, la., May 6. The Hahne
mann Medical asspclatlon of Iowa wu
.n4 to oritur In annual session to
day by Its president, Dr. R. W. Homan
of Webster City, rne meeunga a
hoi., haM in th Bills hotel and will
close to-morrow evening with a ban
quet. The attendanoe Is large, all
,rta of tha atata belna- represented,
and the program of essays and clinics
li excellent.
Famous Trowel en Journey.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 5. In a
hannanma medal train and escorted
by a large delegation of Masons, the
famous traveling trowel or tne Ma
sonic order started to-day on Its way
io tha ntv of Mexico. It will be
brought back on the same line, and
then will be started on a trip to an
the Masonic lodges of the world by
the Justlno lodge of New Yora city.
Laval Ltalon of Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., May 8. The Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of Ne
hraaka la holdtnc Its annual stats
meeting here to-day There was little
on the nroa-ram except the election ol
officers, but the old army soldiers who
held commissions during the Civil wai
are enjoying the reunion.
01 atom, tea. I. Earl McCourtacy,
tl years old. local representative of
Harding. Whiting Co, of New Tort,
committed filicide la his office Friday
Bight by shooting klmaelt la the head.
The Bavle Trial Festooned.
Mercer, Pa, May S. The thlat of
Jaxaa n Bovl. the alleged abdoctot
of "Billy Wtltle ot Sharon. Pa, set
to begin to-day wai again conuawo
aatll Thursday (toning.
WILL HE CHANGE HIS SEAT?
THANKSGIVING
AN ANXIOUS
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DAY IN TURKEY.
FOMENT.
Ths Face cn tLs
Wall Paper
Br H. fORRBST
(CopyVlght, by Daily Btory Pub. CoJ
Kelly was 111. He lay on hla back,
Ms eyes half shut, his Angers pulling
weakly at the white spread.
It seemed to him as though he had
lain so for years; yet It had been only
a matter of a month.
He had almost died. He wished he
t)d. Then he wondered why he strug
gled to live when he wanted to die;
and he thought so much about It that
bli head felt as though It were going
around In wide circles, until he closed
nil eyes to shut out the swaying
room. When he opened them again
he saw the Face.
He laughed loudly, although a chill
shuddered through hli body.
Glancing upward he law It again,
grinning at him. He twisted his head
and stared to the left It was there,
too. And to the rightall around.
Well, he would have to gate at the
ceiling. It wasn't there, anyway.
After a while he glanced back.
He thought the Face wai laughing.
It Jigged up and down and the laugh
twisted Into a sneer. Kelly shut his
eyes, but he could not keep them
closed. During his Illness he had
watched that Face until he held his
mouth to keep from screaming. Some
times It seemed a grotesque mask;
sometimes a somber-eyed monk with
a crimson hood; and mostly a hideous,
smirking clown.
Why on earth had they hung such
abominable paper on the wall?
Casually glancing at it, Kelly had
first seen row on row of red rose
wreaths with a cluster of red and
white roses In the middle ot the
wreath. One night he noticed that the
cluster of roses formed a face a long,
thin, clownish face with a hint of sor
row In the twist of Its taunting Hps.
He had tried' to pick out other faces,
but only a harlequin mocked him
from the wall columns and columns
of plerrots rising one above the other,
stretching right and left, and all the
same and all staring at him. Once he
Hie Eyes Were Rolling In Their
Sockets.
thought he saw the sharp-lined,
sunken-cheeked face of a woman leer
ing at him not a lovely face with a
blotch of red where the mouth should
be. but he never saw It again.
Kelly groaned and, rolling over, lay
on his stomach. There was something
queer about that paper. He would
peak to the nurse about It.
However, he thought the nurse
might think he was crazy, and night
after night and day after day he
watched the Face, so that Us Image
was stamped on his brain, and he even
saw it In his aleep. Then he began
to fidget, and he got Into the habit of
dacklai under the blankets; but when
over ho peeped out, there It was,
grimacing, drawn with sorrow, pale,
anA ana mn soulnted un aa though an
muH hodv writhed In agony. He
thought the Face looked like that of
anmanna he had known. Mighty fa
mlllar-looklnc. Confound it, where
had ho seen that smile before?
So ha got still more uneasy as he
watched that smirking thing those
splotches on the wall, each exactly
Ilka the other. It was always grin
ning, and he felt his own lips curling
' Into a similar smile; frightened yet
he was fascinated and his imagination
wore a fantastic mess in his brain.
Tka . rat tima ha woke and found
the nurse out of the room, he got np
and tottered across tne noor anu pui
hla fana oloaa lo the WSlL HO Saw a
wreath of red rosea with a cluster of
red and white roses In tha middle oi
tk. m.(Ii whan ha crawled back to
bed, he saw a ghoul sneering at him
with pallid, laughing lips ana nouow
area.
Ana nlrht somewhere about 11
o'clock, Kelly threw back the coven
nil aa nr. Hla evea were rolling in
their sockets. Ho stared at the wall.
ami than ha bexaa to talk.
a --v n liaht frnm a nelEhborina
window odged through the aide ot the
eartalaa and cast a wan giow on ih
wall-paper so that tha down face
whitened Into a sknll wavering in the
aaeartala naso. with a smear of oo
agalatod blood as a back-ground. The
knll had a Jaunty air and Its Jaws
ware haaglng apart in a wide smile.
Kelly fancied he heard the thread ot
a a ,Ma Hnaia of laiuhter. tike
lelclei dropping on a alab of gTalt
ooMtnl from taat upieea mowa
S "All right!" said KUf, "iut kuh
ail 70a want Shm m I' y :
joke, too. Nothlpg like a Joke.
The ikuu noaaea.
. uui ink on my wife.
w- ' . .
..m tr.ii f im't BiTflrr one tut
can carry out a thing like that. Shut
np In a greenhouse wim aor i -
-1.1.1 an.1 thai niatit tha most wonder-
ful flower on earth bloomed a flower
containing a strange juice, a niar-
.... .nBAarnaMo ThAT Wfirfl UffO-
cated. Had a Joke on me, though, for
they smashed the plant ana inai wa
alf I lived for, the fame that plant
might have brought to me."
The skull looked expectant ana &
ry looked sorrowful.
"But I didn't mean to kill the other
woman. Tou see, I was to blame, in
a measure. Picked her up In the red
light district You know, when I mar
ried I thought I had plucked a little
white flower from a garden of lurid
beauties. I grasped a loathesome net
iia an whan I had destroyed the net
tle, I said, 'I shall search among nox
ious growths and the thing l pun can
no ha a itiaannolntment .because I
will know it' Well, I transplanted
the weed a sorry one 11 waa auu uu-
A.. .... It anmnr Into a rarelT
Ut71 11 V a y --D
beautiful blossom, lovely beyond my
wildest desire.
"Than a man a aor. of mOWOr of
weeds, who had known the weed,
pulled it from tne sou ana neia 11 no
fora mtf aval BO that ItS distorted.
earthy roots were dangling there.
Since he had tinea tne nower, 1 m
him hava If. hnt tha aeonv and the
humor of It wrangled in my brain and
held my heart in a tempi? grip, a
plaything of fate, I had been. Oh,
It was bitter and funny. Say, It
makes me laugh even now. Why even
you are grinning!"
The skull seemed to crinkle up wun
llant lauxhter. and it looked gray-
faced like Kelly.
"The reBt ot It was in tne papers.
a man and a woman and a bottle ot
beer. Great mystery! Murderer es
caped. Police gave it up as a bad Job.
A lot of trouble that bottle of beer cost
me. It taxed my nerves and my clev
erness. In the first place the man and
woman WArA hnM to trace, for they
had pretty well covered up their
tracks. I thlnK tney were airaia o
ma T round them Afl T had madO
such a ripping success of my wife, I
knew I could handle the game.
"After I bought the beer, It took mo
days to copy the seal and label of an
other firm. Then I went way on ana
honvht tha noieon and went to an
other place to dope the beer, and to
yet another to have the package, sent.
From a dlBtant western town I wrote
a letter to the coroner, that suspicion
mii-ht not fall on an. Innocent person,
and by the time he got the letter, I
wag In Mexico.
"Tn orHor to dona tha bottle. I had
to open it, and that took the life out
of the beer somewhat; so I wrote a
letter explaining that this was a new
brand of beer especially put on the
market for medicinal purposes and the
nnmnanv Vflfl RPndlnlF OUt trial OOttlel
to the leading physicians of the coun
try. Would tne esteemea aocior ue o
bind aa to onmnle the beer and favor
us with a criticism? ' I knew he would
bite at 'leading physicians' egotisti
cal chump!
"It was a very good test fie gave
that beer as the papers stated.
"I am sorry she died. I did not
mean that she should. She was too
anxious to help him test it. I shall
always be sorry for that. As I say, I
wrote to the coroner, stating the clr-
mmdlonMi avan to the firm names
and towns and my motive. I told him
I was sorry for the woman, as 1
, Ki.m. for har hnt It was OTObablr
the best thing for her after aU. As for
the man, I wished I could nave auaea
m. with mv hands. That was ten
yean ago. I am a clever man for I
am still free. Tne aeaa aeep me a
cret for me. They are kind the dead.
"I shall pluck no more flowers. They
all spring from filth. I am done, and
1 ha tha satisfaction of knowing I
did It well. It Is but a strange mem
ory that you have maae more ciear.
won r am ton niaver for even yon.
for to-morrow I am going to leave this
room and tne next one wui
.lml.d walla walla without Id
roses and white, that look like my own
face mocking me with a grin ue
gaping wound. Damn yon!"
He fell back exhausted; then ho
raised his eyes to the white face of
the nurse, who had been sleeping oa
the couch back of the screen.
Bavarian Distances.
In the Bavarian highlands ligtt
posts along the roads, instead of stat
ing the number of miles or kilometer
to the various Tillages, give the
amount of time which the average
pedestrian will supposedly take to
traverse the distance. This Is merely
an official expression of the very gen
eral custom of the peasants in the re
gion, who invariably tell Inquirer! oa
the roads not how far It la to a place,
but how long it taxes to get there. Not
only that, but they make the system
still more unsatisfactory to th
itranger by a little additional eccen
tricity of their own. -
For lnstanco, on askar "How far
la It to Oberammerganr -
"A email half hour," win be the an
wer, or perhaps "a good half hour,"
or "a big half boar."
Which Is pusxling unto the stranger
learni that a "small half hour" mesa
It minute, "a good half hour" 10 mln
atae, " big half boor" St minutes, "a
amall three-quarter of aa hour" 4S
minutes, aad aoon.
Nv York Hotels Busy.
New York city hotel! are now enter
htlaiBC IS per cent more cuatomer
Oaw ttsy m on rav aft.