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6 THE WASHINGTON POST THUBSDAY DECEMBER 27 1906 ver or Munchausen Read it and ask yourself if It is so satisfying a certlflcats of the business Integrity and ability of toe general government as to calh for straining the Constitution in order to extend the powers and responsibilities of that business agency In the matter of revenues the rascall eHe6 bt carrier in TOiibtnjten nb tita tnat nave marked the management WMWl I ot tj Indians and the nubile lands have Daily Sunday included one month hown up in the operation of the whisky uiij ounaij locjuura one vtu to Daily Sunday excepted one month 50 Zbc Maebinaton post puMiotUn eOce I rennsytraBia Avenne near Fourteenth Street Cerms or Subscription impatiently waiting to shed their gore for them The five Japanese apprehended jtt Havana have been overheard The cat 1 out of the bag An official named Pardinas a loyal Cuban heard the quintet ot Asiatics unfolding the plot to capture simultaneously and at one fell swoop Cuba Hawaii and the Philippnes Pardinas carried the news at once to Gov Magoon He did not stop to hear more BOOT FOB SENATOR THE BASEST TITLE Dally Sunday excepted one week ij JB ftill pottage prcpa Daily Sunday excepted one year 6 eo Daily Sunday included one year 750 Daily Sunday excepted one month 50 Daily Sunday included one month 70 gross and dangerous defects of which Sunday one year 1 jo are not denied anywhere but the reform of which Is admitted by the statesmen In ring and customs frauds Akin with or possibly Ms ears mignt nave Deen these were the Credit Mobiller and the stunned by the Intelligence that th Pacific mall subsidy pot to mention many Japanese included Guam Midway Pago othef memorable depredations on the public purse And as a final test of the business capacity of the national government look at our so called currency system tne Remittance should be made by drafts checks post office orders registered letters or express orders payable to Cbe XQasbfngton post Co OTajMnjton BC PenniylTtnia Avenue sear Fourteenth Street Enured at the pou oce at VYuMngtea I tcoad clus mall mtttr New Tork Omce FlatLos Building TAXI BLOCK Wanager Cblensa OBee tlnhr Building PUX BLOCK Manager THURSDAY DECEMBER 27 1906 Congress to be beyond their power True we are the richest nation on earth and Pago Pojla Rico and Alaska in ther programme of mutilation The loyal Pardinas however heard enough The plan Is to incite uprsings In tb colonies mentioned some time during February With the fires of rebellion once started the Japanese will do the rest and in a twinkling the once arrogant Amercan nation will be bereft of her proud over have an Immense accumulation of gold sea possessions It must be so The news but all that comes from nature and it comes not by reason of but In spite of our financial legislation and general business management AMERICA EXGtAXD AND JAP There Is no doubt of the Intense hoscil lty of the people of the Pacific Slope to Japanese tne alarm i orari tVi Tnnanese and there 11 be a il 1 demand for an exclusion act slml ar to that relating to the Chinese This makes the situation grave for the Japs arcs ft comes straight from Havana which even more than Des Moines enjoys renown as the hatchery of International news It Is a fortunate thing that there Is always at Havana a sleepless press wh ch never falls to learn of these worldwide plots just as they are about to culmnate Forewarned of the machnations of the now be sent to the colonies of the Insurrections that fester in their midst And yet what good wil that do Of what avail is it to be forewarned if the Inevitable lstto occur Ignorance would have been better than the hideous knowl SEXATOR BAILEYS CASK warlike people now gorged wlthv ctory Senator Tillman is among those who jn the event of war this country would oeneve mat oenmor xaney is an nonem be at great msaavamage 11 edge that our colonies the blazing gems man The admirers of the Senator from stages The Philippines and Hawiil Qf the natlonal dadem are t0 be ripped Texas will read with pleasure the I would faii before hostilities iad pro off ag spoU by the AgIatc horde It rough but effective comment of Senator greMed very far but we have the longest badj baJ newg that eome3 TOm Havan Tillman on Baileys attitude during the pge and the strongest arm of any na The agt strand parts and hope falls railroad rate fight the opportunity of tion on earth and ours is as pronouncedly kersplash into the morass of despair all others which would have been selz warlike population as there is in tne ed by a dishonest Senator to line his world We would lick Japan all brown pocket That was the time when some I but It would be at a frghtful cost thing more than a few beggarly thou The Pacific States California Oregon sands may have been the reward of Washington Nevada and a fringe of perfidy to public trust Of Senator Bal I states nesjt to them on the east are all leys part In that fight Senator Tillman Republican and all anti Jap Each of says tbejn has two Senators In Congress and I do not believe that Senator Bailey from one to half a dozen Representatives is crooked I watched him like a hawk in the national branch of that body The Federation of Labor has resolved that there is not enough democracy in Chicago but there seems to be enough in that town to prevent the Republicans from electing their candidate for mayor The postage stamps that were wasted on letters to Santa Claus will help some in wiping out our postal deficit Unless we soon hear that the Pulaianes in the Senate I watched every Senator I vhen these gentlemen say to the are again exterminated we shall come to Ilka a hawk when I had charge of that I Jt iim hv or th rv the conclusion that the hands in the aA hi Ttl a I vw crooked or ronld have Kn bribed elusion act for your average would have shown it Senator Bailey statesman thinks defeat for party a worked shoulder to shoulder with me greater calamity to the naton and to civ for that rate bill and I will not believe 1 nization than a big war would be and in that he is crooked until they prove it tnls respeet vour Democrat Is exactly beyond a doubt Mke youp RepU0iican To make the Pa Thls is testimony of the greatest val Llfi Democratic vour Democrat merican Philippines are also loafing on their job Before Walter Wellman again starts for the north pole we should like to know where he will obtan another supply of hot air if hs balloon should become deflated in the arctic reg ons Some of the men who laugh when a ue as bearing upon Senator Baileys real wouid go to war with Japan at the dron I woman gets off a car backward would character If he was proof against of a hat To reta the Pac fie States in Pu11 theu muzzle a Joade toward temptation In that matter It is reason the Republican column your Republican them hen cranS through a fence acne to presume that he has been proof woujd K0 to war with Japan like shot oft I Giving away libraries may help Bi ouiauer icmpiauons Jir Bai a sliovel loy has won sucli respect in the Senate However England must be consult and out of it for high abilities and has before Japan fightg The Killg of Eng SUL a oriiuant prospect or and ls the foremost politician of this Carregie to die poor but it is not much help to those people who seem doomed to both live and die poor usefulness to his State and to the coun 1 that no mere partisanship or factional feud should be permitted to drive turn from the Senate Nothing short of proved betiayal of trust should weigh generation Japan is his ally so is France and for practical purposes England and America are in alliance We can do whatever we choose to do In the premises and Japan will have to porket Even that special message from the President advocating the passage of a ship subsidy measure is not likely to make it smooth sailing against a record that has been free of it unless Ensrland permits her to fight uspk ion Fortunately the fact appears There 1fnay be war and there may not tobe established that Senator Bailey is be war within a decade but as surely innocent of any wrongdoing in spite as to morrows sun shall run Its course the sensational 1 harges made against in the heavens there will be war between blin The Houston Post a paper of America and Japan if jr flag shall stay hulIi courage and character that its put in the Philippines until the middle of it anmony is worthy of entire accept the century an declares that Mr Bailey has at I A future generation will do the fighting ne orst been guilty of indiscretion and foot the bills But a few Dread 11 insists that nothing has been brought In addition to Informing us that he sleeps only five hours a ght John Wesley Gaines might have told us whether he sleeps with his mouth ope When the bills begin to come in we would appreciate a smplifled arithmetic A New York domestic fainted and fell against a policeman knocking down stairs Seems strange to hear of a policeman who cannot hold his own it that i ould be construed as a reflec tion upon his integrity Its conclusion is that Senator Bailey is too good a man to be sacrificed because of the mis ikes lie may have made I ha temperament of Senator Bailey noughts at this time might help Senator Morgan should not forget to wish liis spurring partner William Nelson Cromwell a Happy New Year IQriSITIVE A YD IRRITATING Opposition to an income tax by Democratic newspaper that advocates fre trade Is one of the many political phe nomena of these peculiar times The xuh and the politics of Texas Is so I newspaper that ls doing this queer thin Every time the other colored troops in ailge in a riot they are simply putting atifthpr TrtU An the Twentv flfih ln fartrys door of hope If there is any truth in the rumor that James Brvce is reluctant to come to instituted that the fight against him is the Ph ladelphia Record and needless America cs the British Ambassador it 1 exceedingly bitter No ordinary man to say it is doing the work with its cus ouia have withstood the skillful and tomary zeal and tact British free trade persistent attacks that have been made would put the government of Great Brit against him in the face of evidence ain in a most distressful situation were apable or being misinterpreted Into the income lax law abolished And Brit liroof of guilt The Post trusts for isli fee trade if transplanted to this the sake of Texas that Senator Bailey will be re elected to the Iirlted States Senate There is a possibility In thP must be because he is afraid the Presi dent will soon be calling hm Jimmy The real heght of prosperity will never reached in this country until every vcikingman feels that he can afford to lut on a substitute days or indignant feeling against men who do go wronr that men may be sacrificed who are not only innocent hut eapable of achieving great things for their State and country THE GOVEHSHEXT I BUSINESS Has the Federal government during the HI yeais of its existence so conducted the various kinds of business for the purpose of which ft was created as to warrant the belief that the sphere of Its business activities should be enlarged by legitimate methods If possible and if that be Impossible by such irregular means a forced construction and evasion of tonstitutional provisions Does the record of the Federal authority as a busl nss agency commend It to such confidence that the people generally would feel friendly to any encroachment by It on the powers reserved to the States Is not the simple fact that for more tlrjn a century every proposition presented under normal conditions for a surrender by the Slates to the nation of any power or authority has been rejected a sufficiently Impressive indication of popular feeling country would imperatively demand t10 imposition of a tax and a heavy one on Incomes But the Record ignores all that Marie Corelli says a casual study should convince the most optimistic that modern oman is not readv for the suffrage Half and while hankering after the Britisi 1 the time she isnt ready for dinner model as to tariff lambasts its indispensable accompaniment the Income tax Notng the fact that South Carolina has an Income tax the Record says that the returns need not surprise any one but they are not encouraging to advocates of that Inquisitive and Irritating Impost The figures of this South Carolina expedient as reproduced by the Record from official sources are interesting In eigiit years the State has collected only JlG23u The comptroller geneial in deep disgust over such a pitiful showing such paucity of game for a large expenditure of candle asks the legislature to repeal the tax or back it up with such legislation as will enable him to collect it The lepot shows that in the first year JI229 was collected and Charleston paid more than half of 11 But In 1900 1902 1903 and 19JI no one in Charleston pad the tax In the last two yeais the collections have b5en a little bt tter and it ls hoped to collect more than JCOOO this year The Record speaks by the card when it says of tha income tax that of all taxes It is vij ore that arouses the most opposition and is the most easily evaded The experi of the 1 mted States government In spite of the assurance of physicians tr at we can accustom ourselves to almost any degree of cold we await the verdict of Gen Grosvenor who seems to be out in it for an Indefinite period Said to Bi Choice of the President for Piatts Shoes Waahtacton Ccmmvogitne of New Tork Prwi Many explanations have been sought for the reluctance of Senatr Thomas Piatt to resign his seat in the Senate whlcn both physically and mentally by 1 the best testimony of his friends he no i longer is able to fill Superficially it has looked to political observers that the only thing a man In Piatts advanced age would consider would be his own convenience and pleas ure But beyond and behind this change In the personnel of a United States Seu ator from New York lies an interesting I chapter of high finance The final page will not be written until the battle of two great contending financial forces which seek to dominate the election of Piatts successor has been fought out decisively There are of course two great financial combinations contending for control not only in the field of railroad suprem 1 acy In the United States but also in relation to the financial domination of various other extensive industrial and commercial enterprises as well as the majority Influence in the next Republican National I Convention What mayb3 described as premature reports of President Roose velts aspirations after he shall leave the I White House have a material influence In this regard There is no doubt that a movement has already begun to render impossible the election of Mr Roosevelt as a Senator from New York when his term in the White House has expired It ls not necessary In this connection to narrate the varlousv question of controversy which have arisen between Mr Roosevelt as Chief Executive and not only the corporations and trusts on the other hand but the combined individualities of various candidates for the Republican nomination to succeed him It is easily imaginable that If Mr Roosevelt as President can defy Congress to a standstill can assert unequivocally that he will refuse to enforce laws enacted by the Congress If not In accord with his own ideas of right and public welfare in this course he as a political Individual has stored up for himself trouble Immeasurable In the future Recent reports of HHarrlmans alleged willingness to rehabilitate Eenj3 min Odell in supremacy In New York politics Is regarded here as only one factor in the great game of the political financial giants which will become mory apparent as the months develop between the present time and the next Republican National Convention There ls high authority for the statement that the Rocke feller Harriman interests In the financial world which just now are seeking to throttle the Morgan Hill interests In the taJlroad world are determined to force the nomination of Charles Fairbanks the present Vice President as the next Chief Executive of the nation Politics to day as all readers know depends largely upon the game of finance as played between the moneyed kings Piatt and Depew are Morgan pawns In the United States Senate Root also would be a Morgan pawn Cortelyou who Is to be the Secretary of the Treasury on March 4 if confirmed by the Senate will be another Morgan pawn Long months ago the Republican national organization cut loose from the Rockefeller Harrlman outfit and made Its political bed with that of the Morgan Hill interests There is In this statement perhaps an Intimation of why Leslie Shaw will retire from the Cabinet on March 4 Mr Roosevelt who believes in his own right that he ls the leader of the Republican organization of New York has determined that EHhu Root shall be the next United States Senator from New York that is to say according to advisers of the President who of course wish it to be understood that the President shall not be quoted Timothy Woodruff Frank Black Sloat Fas sett and all the others who had believed that they might be In the running for Senator when Old Man Piatt should quit will have their trouble for their pains of the administration programme is carried out Roosevelt Insists again It is said that Root shall be the next Senator from New York If Piatt Is to give up his toga There ls the hitch In the problem of Piatts resignation from the Senate Piatt personally does not prefer Root Many Republicans will remember the night of the Amen Corner dinner when Plattwas the guest of honor and Root as Secretary of War made an effusive response to a toast in Piatts honor Root for years had been Piatts fac tional enemy In the Republican organization in New York He had been a reformer in organization politics When after making his flattering speech In Piatts honor Piatt was asked what he thought of Roots effort and he replied In vino Veritas but Piatt has not long to serve In public or private life I 1 Story of the Garter the Most Valued Order in the World I From th London Mall i Knights of the Garter is the rarest title that can be conferred by the King of i England About one third of the Knights at Hie present time are reigning kings or em perors the Shah of Persia the Emperor of Japan the Kaiser and the King of 1 Spain being among other members of tha Most Noble Order I It was founded far back in Edward Ills I reign the date being ascribed to New I Year Day 1344 but authorities differ 1 The legend which even the romantic Froissarf contradicts runs to this pur pos A certain Countess of Salisbury having lost her garter at a ball His Majesty Edward III picked it up and restored it When the courtiers failed to hide their smiles the King reproved them with the words Hdnl soit qui mal pense which ls still the motto of the order That is the legend The word3 are also ascribed in the motto which Edward III selected for his second French campaign But It ls said that the Garter existed still earlier though not under royal decree King Richard I having a select band of Knights at Acre who wore a leathern band round the left leg The famous garter Itself is a band of blue velvet an Inch broad heavily encrusted with gold and bearing the motto Honl solt qui mal pense In letters of solid gold Charles I wore a garter with a blazing array of 412 diamonds and these he did not shrink from wearing on the scaffold At Windsor Castle after the new Knight has been elected by the chapter of theorder a ceremony which is possibly allowed to lapse the two Junior Knights proceed to the door of the chapter room and preceded by the Garter King of Arms who carries the insigna on a cushion conducts the newly elected Knight to the sovereign With the assistance of the two Junior Knights present the King buckles It on then while the new Knight kneels the King puts the ribbon over his shoulders The collar which like the collar of all orders by the way Is a badge of servitude Js of gold and weighs nearly thirty ounces It ls made in twenty six peces corresponding to the statute number of members and is to be worn when flie Knight Is not In hs form of a garter enameled blue with the motto In gofd and In the center of each garter is a rose enameled red seeded gold and green The George a figure of the saint encountering the dragon hangs pendent in the center The star with its brilliant red cross was founded by Charles I and ls intended to be worn when the Knight Is not in his robes This star which ha altered gradually In shape In the last 300 years was restored by King Edward to its original shape last year Tho insignia are all presented to the Knlgnt by the King but on his death they have to be returned to the soveregn The mantle is of purple velvet lined with white silk with the badge of the order on the left shoulder The neck is closed by a cordon of purple silk and gold in equal parts Queen Victorias mantle was nine feet in length tho Knights have mantles slightly shorter than the sovereign The garter ls worn on the left leg over a white silk stocking and ls balanced on the right leg by a plain band of white silk ribbon lady Knights wear it on the left arm The hood and surcoat ar of crimson velvet lined with white taffeta The admission of a Knight of the Garter Is one of the most gorgeous ceremonies in the world LADYLOuhA LODEFL 1 THEY SIMPLY DB0P OUT AND HER ANCESTR Lady Louisa Loder who has just arrived in this country and who after spending the Christmas holidays with her uncle the governor general of Canada at Ottawa will travel extensively in the United States for the purpose of studying the womans rights movement of which she is one of the leaders in England is a sister of the present Duke of St Albans and a very pretty and clever woman This Is nothing but what one would ex The Mysterious Disappearance of Many People and Why Editorial In th New Tork Trtban What becomes of the persons who mysteriously disappear There are hundreds PEOPLE MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES Along the Cumberland and Tenness rivers In Tennessee railroad ties are con sklered as much articles of produce as aracT butter cheese eggs and poultry In Illi tots Missouri and other States said of them A few whose cases are striking or unusual are mentioned in the news Holcombof Chicago who is one papers but the majority who disappear of tbe most extensive dealers in railway in a routine way ior mere js a routine tes jn the Unjted States On Saturday of disappearance go out of the world afternoons the farmers there load twel a and yet remain hi it without their mys or fifteen ties on their wagons place their tery being mentioned A disappearance families on top and go to town to do their Is always a mystery A criminal cannot trading rh tt are Trhmrni for flour inmg out wnat one wouiu vt jnu im 7 1 7 pect in a lineal descendant of King VZaZZZ fg looacco ca tco ana wnav es Charles IT nrt Melt fiwvnne the lovely I it is neeaea in wen reguiatea nousenoias bVt frail ancestress of theducal house Uf hS take a far l01 i The chants later sell the ties to th Dutrrail ancestress or tne aucai nouse and never be seen again Death is al I ratlmari or tn Mntrrtnr ways the explanation of the mystery pre Mr Holcomb arrived In Washingtot ferred by the friends and the family of yesterday accompanied by his daughter the disappeared for any other theory is They are at the Ebbitt House and less kind and a broad charity treats the remain for several days while Mr Hoi dlsappeared and the vdead alike and of comb attends to business matters them says only good Every year there are more than 1K But there are other explanations one or oooOOO railway ties consumed in the Unite the strangest being that in the case of the i states for renewal purposes alone A Middletown Conn man who disappeared iarss percentage of the oak ties whi thirty six years ago and has Just re are more extensively used than any others turned home He went away a stripling come frora Tennessee and Arkansas The qost of ties has Increased in recent years just as the cost of many other things in the United States has increased Mr Holcomb continued This is attributed principally to the increased cost of labor although the scarcity of available timber may have had something to do with it Recently there has been considerable talk of going into the Northwest section of the country for ties but it ls not probable that the supplv Now thlt our prosperity is getting so great as to be almot dangerous the Democrats may as well beg looking i forward to getting blamed for it A Pennsylvania prophet says all the rivers of the world will be dried up in two years We never expect to see the day when all the prophets will dry up THANKFULNESS The people who are complaining that the President did not tell everything he knew about Panama in his message must have a suspicion that lie knows when the canal will be finished A Modesto Cal man has invented in appliance In the shape of a pump by which he can milk two cows simultaneously Other dairymen are content to use a pump after the cows are milked Speaking of Christmas cheer that Nevada woman who presented her husband with triplets must have felt like giving three cheers on that subject Is it wise to confront that sentiment with the suggestion thatjwltn lhiv scheme for raising revenues in inasmuch as greater authority for the time of urgent need was anything but central government cannot be attained i encouraging It was a prolific source of bv amending the fundamental law it frauds accomplished by what looked very bands for permission to talk must be secured by other means The fi like neriuiv Nevertheless if the government as a DeoDle earnestly desire to repeat that ex In her application for a divorce a Kalamazoo woman alleges that her husband would not allow her to talk at all Do Kalamazoo women ask thIr hus tor of the Federal business agency of Incle Sam as a busi peHment if they persist In that desire House typewriters ness man tould not be told in detail In without any let up for some years thev Uulr macnmes The holiday recess also gives the White chance to lubricate it thousand piges of The Post but a glance at some of Hi principal features wemg in order just now ir ever Let us begin with the Indian problem which this republic Inherited Would It will have it through a reversal of the Supreme Courts decision adverse to its constitutionality be possible to name any folly fraud or It has been clear fror attocitv an wrong or outrage that ls not course that trouble was OW WE KXOW THE AVOIST the first of brewing between conspicuous in our governments dealing the United States and Japan Ever tin with the aborigines Every citizen who that son of Mars the Hon John A knows anything of he shameful story is i Hull sent word from Des Moines that the ashamed to face Its facts The course of Japanese were about to seize the Phllip our government was as conspicuously pines hope of peace has been clinging to deficient In sound business sense as in a frazzled at thread Instinctively it was moral decicy In fact it was simply i felt that the story was true There were abho rent for many decades the Philippines there was Japan and The public lands were a sacred trust a there above all was Des Moines the ust that challenged the highest integi lty seed bed of warlike inte ligence and the and the purest patriotism How has that habitat of the Hon John A Hull obligation been met The answer is that Everything conspired to make the story it has not been met at all but has been true Even Mr Hulls denial seemed to grossly outrtgeQusly and continuously i be Pickwickian if not Machiavellian repudiated There is not in the history The contemptuous statement of tha the woild uhapter tliat compares in Japanese that they would not take the lascality with our governments management of the public lands Right here at the seat of government undei the ee of Congress and the executive department gigantic outrageous frauds were Democrats with Roosevelt Washington Diipttch to the New Tork World Tlia rtrTtinn nf the Pnrfltr rAsnlntirtn iuiippuits vrj i wuiii for a congressional Investigation of a everybody that Des Moines knew what it ay at Brownsville which resulted in the Dr Dwight Hillis says we need more poetry And Eili Wheeler Wilcox is already working two eight hour shifts a day That Alabama man who claims to have found a way of making lmburger cheese that doesnt emit any smell must be on the wrong scent If John Wesley Gaines attempts to speak on all the subjects mentioned in the Presidents message Congress might as well begin holding night sessions as soon as it reconvenes Auto to Run with Clock Works From the New Tork American It will be but a short time before the whirr of the engine and the smell of gasoline will be things unknown In the automobile world Two men from Schenectady have recently applied for a patent on a machine that has no engine but is propelled by means of springs like a clock The inventors are Joseph Raes of 827 Albany street and Moose of 1006 Albany street Both are machinists employed by the General Electric Company in Schenectady The machine In outward appearance will resemble an ordinary automobile bJi there will be no place reserved for the engine The power will be produced by means of a series of springs operated on the same principle as those in a clock The springs will be each fifty feet long three inches in diameter and one sixteenthsixteenth of an inch In thickness They will be fastened to a shaft every turn of which by means of gearing will cause the rear wheels of the machine to revolve 648 times and will drive the vehicle 4TC3 feet The springs will be kept constantly wound up by a device that will cause them to tighten outside as they tend to unwind near the center It is estimated that a spring the size of the one to be used will produce one half horsepower so with that as a basis the number of springs for certain horse power can be determined The inventors are now at work upon a model and if the invention proves to be a practical one a stock company will be formed for the manufacture of the machines From the Atlanti Constitution Lets sing a song thankfulness for all our blessings past Though the morning found the twil ght and the blossoms met the blast Lets say that on the way We were happy for a day And though we mourned the wnter we knew the flowers of May Lets sing a song thankfulness tor hearts that truly beat Even If we missed the mountain top the valleys shades were sweet Lets dream that God does best Though the thorn be at the breast We shall dream His dreams of silence reap the roses jf His rest Japs Could Lick John Bull San Francisco Dispatch to the Denver Fot MaJ Playne an officer of the Eritish army and a veteran of the Boer war who arrived en the Sonoma from Australia on the way to London stated to night that he believed Japan could not only give he United States a severe drubbing at the beginning of hostilities in the event war would be declared within a year but that she was able to defeat the vaunted navy of Great Britain It looks to me as though Japan has an ambition to become such another Island empire as Great Britain said Ma Playne BventuallyvJ think she will extend her domain to the Philippine and Malay archipelagoes and some day possibly not far distant will perhaps gobble up Australia and New Zealand At present I think the Japanese government does not want war War is a great expense and she is only beginning to recover from the shock of the war with Russia But should war be declared with in a year or two Japan would have tho of Beauclerk Lady Louisa was brought up by her stepmother the now widowed Duchess of St Albans her own mother a sister of Lord Grey having died In her infantry She is married to Gerald Loder member of Parliament for Brighton and brother of MaJ Eustace Loder who won the Derby with Pretty Polly Gerald Loder and his brothers are the sons of Sir Robert Loder whose father and mother were both members of tha English mercantile colony at St Petersburg Sir Roberts father Giles Loder amassing a colossal fortune In Russian tallow There are some who insist that the Loders are of Russian JewishJewish origin But this Is denied by themselves and they claim that their family origlnated in Dorsetshire several hundred years ago The present head of the family is Sir Edmund Loder elder brother of Gerald one of the champion sporting rifle shots in England and who at Leonardslee his place in Sussex one of the most beautiful and largest parks in the south of England has acclimatized all sorts of foreign animals There kangaroos emus Pata gonian hares Chinese deer and prairie dogs roam at large In a portion of the huge park devoted to their existence and which is known as Paradise A feature of it Is the large and thriving colony of North American beavers whose clever engineering works are a source of never ending interest Claim to Throne Rejected Germanys Supreme Court of Appeal has now rendered a final decision definitely disposing of the claims of Count Alexander Welsburg to the rank of a prince of the blood of the reigning house of Wurttemberg and as such in line of succession to the regency and to the throne The count Is the twenty impelled by an odd notion He iiad quarrel with his family He wa mourned by them as dead and funeral service was held by them because they conjectured that he had been drowned tn a shipwreck All the while he was working on a farm only twelve short miles away Thirty six years slipped by without his revisiting his nearby home and when he returns he Is shocked to learn that his parents are dead Here Is a disappearance in its acutest form for I in Tennessee will be exhausted for soma mere was no known reason in fact no time to come conceivable motive and all the while a What are the railroads going to do return home was easy but family ties wnen the timber used In making ties ls and all the sentiments which attract men g0Tey Mr Holcomb was asked homeward from all the quarters of the an not allowing myself to worry earth were unequal to drawing this man i about that ne replied for such a iweive mnes nat again alter me pas thinir not oecur untu long after my sage of thirty six years impelled him thither In the examination of human motives there are things past comprehension Is there some sort of disease something like aphasia or amnesia which breaks a man from his mental past except that this disease breaks a man from his emotional past and snaps that continuity of sentiment which binds him to his surroundings human and material What ls the odd notion which drives a man to do what this Connecticut man did The normal man has roots Just as much as a tree has He lives by his sentimental attachment to persons and Dlaces Hawthorne tells nf disnnnir seven year old son of the late Duke Eli ance which he opines will never be re mar of Oldenburg by that princes mar i peated Wakefield left his wife mvtri nage In 185 with the Baroness Natalie ousiVi took up his domicile within sight I at Muscogee by President McKlnley time Every resident of Muscogee ls a Mus cogeeite asserted Judge John Thomas a prominent citizen of the Indian Territory city who ls at the Raleigh We tolerate no knockers there We have no room for them we are too busy to reform them and we simply give them notice to move alang Judge Thomas has the distinction of having once refused a position in the Presidents Cabinet having turned down an offer of the navy portfolio during the Harrison administration For several terms he was a representative in Con gress from Illinois and later was appointed judge of the United States Court Vogel von Fricsenhof Duke Elimar al ways Insisted that his marriage was a perfectly legal one and exacted that his wife should be addressed by those who frequented his charming home in Austria as the Duchess of Oldenburg But his half brother the late Grand duke of Oldenburg declined to recognize her as such or to look upon the union as other than one of a morganatic character There was a son born of this marriage and after his fathers death he remained content with the title of Count Welsburg conferred upon him by thd Grand Duke of 51denburg and under that name became an officer of the Prussian Garde du Corps When however the supreme court of the German Empire decided in favor of the claims of Count Leopold of lippe to the throne of the principality of Lippe in spite of his morganatic origin and of his American maternal grandmother Count Welsburg became encouraged thereby to put forward pre tensions of his own to full fledged membership in the reigning house of tha Grand Duchy of Oldenburg This of course necessitated the resignation of his commission in the Prussian army as naturally Emperor William could not afford to keep in his bodyguard an officer who was in conflict of a dynastic character with one of his allied brother sovereign of the German confederation Importance of the Decision Count Welsburg placed his interests in the hand of the most Important and influential law firms of Germany through whom he made demand upon the reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg for recognition as a prince of the blood and as such entitled to a large Income from the family property to a civil list from the national treasury and to a place in the line of succession to the crown He called attention to the fact that at the time when his father married his mother there was nothing In the laws of the grand duchy and there ls to day nothing in the code of the German empire which prohibits marriages betweerT members of the house of Oldenburg and members of the lesser nobility from wedding with women of more humble origin The defense was that the statutes forbidding mesalliances of this kind to members of the house of Oldenburg formed part and parcel of the so calred family la and tha question before the court was to what extent the family slatuts of the house of Oldenburg could be regarded as laws of the land The courts of Oldenburg decided against Count Welsburg and their Judgment has been confirmed by the supreme court of the empire which leaves the count without any further redress The importance of the case lay in the fact that the reigning grand duke ls In extremely delicate health his only son is a frail chUd of seven his only brother ls a confirmed Invalid and that had Count Welsburgs claims been admitted he would be next after them In the line of succession thus standing in the way of the Emperors two brothers in law Duke Ernest Gunther and Duke Frederick Ferdinand of Schleswig Hol steln as well as the Czars brother in of hers in a great city and twenty years later returned It Is nearly of a piece with this Connecticut case Hawthorne analyzes the dlsappearers motives It was an odd notion in the first place which prompted Wakefield and there was no definite purpose of a prolonged stay Habit and the unwatched slipping away of time and a certain absurd vanitv I am a native of Illinois said Judge Thomas but I always feel at home In Washington My grandfather lived on the spot where the main entrance to the State War and Navy building is located and there is where my father was born The judge said his visit in Washington at this time has no connection with and wrongheadedness accounted for all the investigation In progress in the In ine rest ine Connecticut man gives tae terior Department In reference to cer same explanation of his vagary excep or course there Is no acknowledgment of vanity and wrongheadedness If willful disappearance is not a disease It is a marvel of human oddity It is a grievous experiment at best Hawthorne observes Amid the seeming confusion or our mysterious world individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system and systems to one another and to a whole that by stepping aside for a moment a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever Like Wakefield he may become as it were the Outcast of the Universe A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE JUL In the New Tork Sun Perhaps In 1320 Though fogies sneer and scoff The nations will accredit Ambassadors to Golf Ambassadors to Tennis In Washington will tent And Ministers to Football Credentials will present Charges Affaires of Baseball Will each make stately bow While high Envoys to Boxing Will show the nations how Ambassadors to Running In hlghflown terms will josh And all will be located As near the Court of Squah A Monkey Afire From the New York Worll Sweetwilllam is the clown monk of Prof Wormwoods educated simian troupe at Proctors Fifty eighth Street Theater He is at his best afternoons and evenings when In a brick red surtout with cat fur trimmings he holds the mirror up to the audience The audience invariably appreciatively shrieks and holds its sides Sweetwilllam is almost human Ordinarily a fine steel chain and loin strap serve to remind Sweetwilllam that he is a monk but Monday at the close of ms afternoon performance he found that he had a free foot and so decided to explore the property rooms On all fours therefore he slunk down the left stage and out by the wings He got first in the costume room where the two front rows dress He perceived a row of hanging things but observing that tain officials of the Territory I came chiefly to see my relatives but will transact some business of a minor nature before the department he said He grew eloquent In speaking of the development of Indian Territory saying the Anglo Saxon race with an avarlclous ness and heartlessness which has scarcely been equaled drove the Indians west to that portion of the great American desert now known as Indian Territory thinking it unfit for civilized man to live upon But when the red man arrived there after his long pathetic Journey the Judge said he stood upon the banks of the Arkansas River shaded his eyes under a sunset more beautiful than that of any country and looked out upon a modern paradise IWe have everything In Muskogee to make us happy he continued In two week3 the city will be connected witn the natural ga3 region and we are constructing a dam in Grand River which empties into the Arkansas at Muskogee at a cost of J1000000 which will furnish 50000 horsepower and can when necessary be Increased to twice that at a small expense Thousands ot bushels of fruit of all kinds have gone to waste on the trees and on the ground in Southern California and the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys during the past season for want of pickers In the orchards This condition was brought about by the demand for laborers in San Francisco declared Hensen Moore of Los Angeles who ls at tne New Wlllard The liberality of the wages paid i the work of rebuilding the city Is what attracted the pickers continued Moore They flocked Into the city fro every quarter and many of them immediately with no previous training became skilled mechanics and draw from J10 to 15 a day Inlted States at a disadvantage It would be a naval struggle of course and I amj iaw Duke Peter of Oldenburg convinced Japan navy is stronger at present in equipment and number of vesesls than that of the United States The Philippines could be taken with but slight cost The Hawaiian Islands would also fall a prey to Japan but in another way I understand that there ara now in those lslards 23000 Japanese most Duke Author of Farces Duke Elimar his father was a mot gifted man There are many Germans in this country who have laughed to tieir hearts content at those popular farces which are constantly being represent on the Teutonic stage here as written by ot them trained to arms If war was A Quenther or by I Maler thr pen The fruit of the unwiltten law Is line of unpunished criminals FRIDAY LUCK While we were hugging the steam radiator the last few days we could not help wondering whether Mark Twain ls still promenading in his white flannel suit was talking about Since that ne events have moved With resistless majesty toward the ultimate planned and executed This rascality con collision San Fianclseo has barred ninety locrat as uaulit would not neglect an tlnued tand grew year by year during three Japanese youtns from the wt i many administrations When at last the i schools American authorities have shot prenent Secretary of the InUrior under down Jaoanese seal poachers Proi took to wrestle with It he did not at once jOnioris silk hat has been knocked off enlist the active sympathy of Congress by a tomato can hurled by an American If any citizen desires to learn what i Five Japanese have been ciught in thJ business man Uncle Sam is let him read act of sketching the fortifications of Secretary Hijchcocks last annual report Havana And finally the whoe plot It Is studded with truths that seem i comes to light with sufficient detail to stranger than fiction crammed with facts send shudders down the back of all that appear as wild as the tales of GullI Americans who lore our colonies and aru dismissal of 16S negro soldiers by President Roosevelt appears to be endangered bv the unexpected attitude of the Demo cratic Senators It was believed the Dem opportunity to embarrass the administra tion and rebuke the President but on the contrary all the Democratic Senators except Tillman approve the dismissal of the troops The Democrats are willing to see the President rebuked by his own party but they do not care to Interfere They consider the attitude of the President correct and if necessary will vote to sustain him In fact the Democrats nope Mr Tillman will hold his peace and not seek to defend the negro soldiers in the Centurr was Friday when Columbus first Set foot upon our soil was Friday when the rivers gleam Rewarded Hudsons toll was Friday when the Pilgrim Dads On Plymouth sat them down The Mayflower on a Friday morn Sailed Into Provincetown And Friday was the natal day Of our George Washington Of Martin Luther Wlnfleld Swrttfc And famous Stephenson Of Gladstone and Disraeli too Of Isabel and me Oh Friday seemed the lucky tfag Of days jn history And yet though backed by sober fact I cant believ it so For was on Friday eve likewise That Isabel said No POINTED PARAGRAPHS declared these would Immediately inau gurate a revolution seize the present inadequate artillery and turn It againt the United States It would be a long drawn out contest and the United States would have to build many battle ships and win by sheer force of numbers if she won at all From the Chicago News And tha mlftletoe It often under itood The Chrlttmas present difficulty will soon be Remember the poor the rich nerer forget thern elree Heres hoping you will be able to tide orer the Tuletlde Hanging np atockinga ia also a part ot the washerwomans dntes Some men ear that they enjoy Christmas ahop plag but men were llara erer At present there are more cheerful flyers than chcarful forglTera Of course it la mot right if ou are left without a Christmas pretest The Animals in the Zoo From the New York Herald If other animals In the Central Park Zoo celebrated Christmas in a more jovial manner than Jethro one of the most valuable monkeys in the cage Bill Snyder keeper is not aware of the fact Jethro was hilariously intoxicated and he didnt care who knew it In some wav unknown to the attendants a flask of whisky got Into the cage In which Jethro lives Jethro saw it first and seeing came and conquered Unscrewing the cap in human manner he quickly drained the bottle of it half pint of what did not make Milwaukee famous Ten minutes later Jethros fellow monkeys were treated to one of the most effective exhibitions of rough house that ever occurred In their cage For twenty minutes it looked like the execution of a football tackle back formation Snyder heard the noise and hurrying to the scene of trouble soon put an end to it by having Jethro removed to a small cage where ail by himself jie war left to sleep off what those who have descended from him vulgarly cafl a jag Jule one of the big elephants ushered in the day by swallowing the key to the door over the hydrant from which the pachyderms get their drinking water It was necessary for Bob Horton assistant to Snyder to force oft the cover so that the elephants might not go thirsty throughout the day In honor of Christmas all the lions tigers and bears were given an extra portion of meat Many of the visitors at the Zoo brought with them presents for the animals these chiefly taking the form of peahuts and sugar The monkeys profited most and the cracklns of peanut shells throughout the afternoon sounded like the rattle ot fax distant musketry names under which the duke was accus tomed to conceal his identity He served with distinction In the wars of ISSfc and 3870 but was so horror struck by the scenes which he witnessed on the fields of battle that he took a very prominent part In the international peace societies several letters and pamphlets bearing his name having appeared in print on the subject Through his mother Princess Ceclla of Sweden qf the house of Vasa he naa in his veins tBe Dtoo or Gustaus Adolphus the famous reformer King of Sweden and hero of tne Tnirty Years War who is thererore an ancestor of Count Welsburg Court vs Kaiser It is to the supreme court of the empire that the Duke of Cumberland now proposes to submit his claims to the throne of Brunswick The cable dispatches received here during the last few days have brought the news that he has communicated to the legislature of the Duchy of Brunswick his refusal to abandon his pretensions to the throne of the Kingdom of Hanover as the price of the succession of his younger son Ernest to the throne of Brunswick which belongs to him the Duke of Cumberland by right of Inheritance It cannot be denied that the supreme court of the empire is gradually assuming an extraordinary decree of independence toward the various sovereigns of Germany even toward the Kaiser and that it ls by degrees acquiring the same authority as the Supreme Court of the United States In determining the validity of the legislative acts of the laws and of the powers of the executive It placed Count Leopold Lippe on the throne of Lippe in spite of the opposition of Prussia and of several other of the German governments and there is no knowing what it may not do in the case of the Duke of Jumoeriand with his rights such as they are to the throne of Brunswick Marquise de Foxtenot The Point of View From the Atkail Ere i We hev Just ben readin where a Kentucky moonshiner killed another duck fer openin a kag when he was not present and we wish ter go on record as bein dead agin such doins A man aint got no business openin no kag all by his self The confidence in Senator Warren Is so great in Wyoming that when accusations were made against his integrl they were simply brushed aside as of no consequence said GDavIs a ranchman of Saratoga Wyo at the New Willard last night i This confidence will be demonstrated in January when the legislature meets there was nothing in them he went far I lect hls successor There are about five ther and began on the stage carpenters Democrats in the legislature on a Joint coat It contained in the upper pocket an baIlot and a11 the rest are Republicans orris scented kerchief and a box of I The Republicans will vote for the re elee matches I tlon of Senator arren to a man MatnhPO are Rweetwilliams fo bdlen Mr uavis is prominent joining fruit He lighted thiee or four andwith one set fire to the carpenters handkerchief Presently he was on fire himself Then he dashed out on the stage Lis brick red cat fur surtout a crackle The house was full of women and children and they rose like a sea Quick witted Kapellmeister Carl Reck well or the orchestra threw his baton at Sweetwilljm Sweetwilllam dodged and lay and writhed and crackled John Casey and William Chambers who were of the audience sprang to Me stage and in impassioned sentences besought the women and innocent children to sit tight But the terrified audience surged for the exits and refused to believe Tney were milling badly when two things happened Kappellmeister Reckwell recovered his baton and struck up his band Also Fireman Attredge of engine company No who was passing in the street dashed in and from one of the stage boxes hurled a philippic at the mul politics and was formerly a member of the State legislature Miss Margaret Davey daughter of Representative Davey of New Orleans has arrived in Washington and will remain until after the holidays with her father it tie Riggs House Mr and Mrs A Stallings the latter a sister of Mr Davey are also guests at the Riggs House George Wellington of Cumberland former United States Senator from Maryland arrived in Washington yesterday and is at the Ebbitt Pet Dog to Get Artificial Leg From the Ne York Herald If mony and mechanical skill can pro vide it Ilanco a splendid Russian wolfhound the pet of Sidney Breese and his fiancee Miss Betty Morton will have titude that taken with ins blue uniform an artificial leg which will softer little brought it to its senses It calmed cool I jn comparison with his other three legs ed and sat down to get the rest of us was about a month ago that the moneys worth keeper of the Suffolk hounds fired a shot Prof Wormwood and Attredge roiled un t0 scare Ulanco out of the paddock Sweetwilliam in a coat and then allayed where the pack is kept Ulanco had been him with unguents Last night it was re a freauent intruder Some of the shot ported that he was resting nicely A Baby Linguist St liOaU Dispatch to the New Yo 1 Pre Born with the gift of gab its a girl of course Possessing the one and being the other Miss Eugenie Barbara Jaques apparently Is merely normal with the slight excep tlon that she ls only nine months old and i already has talked her father out of the house and several fosslPscientists into it In an effort to discover where all the words come from Eugenie first gave her parents heart failure on September 25 when she was placed at the table in a high chair The ycung lady atthat time six months old flatly remarked I dont like this dinner Never having made a noise before that except Just baby the parents were thunderstruck Mrs Jaques recovered her self possession first and said she had heard i that remark before but from Mr Jaques Meats scorched added Eugenie cof fees muddy From th Xew Tork Pnts Mrs Jaques looked at Mr Jaques and Frequently 7 mn4 he went out to finish his meal in a res MMBt thtt iiKOttrttM vUw taurant tnt Since the unbridling of her tongue the 0n of nat aw in die 1 te marry baby has improved so steadily It ls dan raon7 tnd not get lu gerous to say anything In her presence as women would earn loti of money if they she will promptly repeat it to anv person working for anybody but their husband who drops in to ask Mrs Jaques how I It women went on north pole expeditions prok much she paid for her window curtains ably they wouldnt admit that their feet wera aaleV truck the Russian hound In the left leg He was tenderly removed to the barn on the Breese estate and with a silk pillow for a head rest and Miss Morton and other members of the fashionable colony for nurses was operated on The wound began to heal but a few days ago Ulanca unmuzzled himself gnawed away the bandage and reopened the wound wrlth the result that poisoning set in During the next few days Ulanco received the be3t possible medical attendance and was overrun with callers But despite the expert care the wound grew worse A consultation was held am it was decided to send him to a dog hospital to have his leg amputated Many tears were shed as he was borne away and bulletins were received from the hospital with as much frequency as if a member of the family were under tht knife The leg was taken off and he ii recovering REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.