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Boston. A A 31, 1914. TODAY'S ROLL CALL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The President requested the Congress to repeal the tolls exemption law, and he believed he had reasons for asking for action dia- i a opposed to the platform of his a bat i has been made i a convinces the experienced leaders of his party that such request was i i by existing conditions. The majority of the rank and file of his party i be found standing by pla'form.

Sensational statements as to war- i a i of foreign countries call- I for the repeal will not be accepted as good reason for that repeal. If those statements were confirmed hy the President himself, they would but rouse the i of the country In even stronger and more stalwart resistance to foreign interference with our domestic commerce. N'o patriotic American will ever consent to claim, never concede the existence of such right. There exists no Jingoism in our country; there Is not the slightest sent i for aggressive movements against a single nation; but the claim of any a i to have our domestic commerce, our coastwise trade, made subject to the slightest interference by tt i be resisted to the very limit by the great majority of the American people, and If our people shoflld hWe to face a world in arms to maintain Inviolate their Independence they would neither fail nor quail In doing It. If the statements made yesterday In the Senate -as to foreign relations are In any manner correct, it surely seems a the President owes It to the country to confirm them.

The i Is justified by such i i in a i the country into his confidence. If our foreign relations are In tho deplorable and dangerous conditions depicted in the United States Senate yesterday, the country ought to know it. It would be no argument for concessions to foreign nations If those statements were true. If are not true, not be. In any attempt to alarm the American people in order to carry influence in passing the repeal legislation.

That the President thinks he has weighty reasons for requesting repeal certainly maintains, else he would not have It necessary to inject an Issue at this time that splits his party while it arouses the entire Union In favor of the tolls exemption, which the people of all parties had already declared for. The votes of the members of the House of Representatives today will remain as records to be used every day between March 31 and the elections In November. They i be used at the primaries, creed, and It IB the voters at home upon whom the members must rely ftfr their support in future years of public life. A CRUSHING RESPONSIBILITY. The House of Representatives Is to vote today on the bill proposing to repeal the provision granting free passage through the Panama Canal to American ships In the coastwise trade.

The President has asked Congress to repeal this provision on several grounds, but he does not lay stress upon any of these grounds but one-that of embarrassment In dealing with foreign affairs unless Great Britain's contention is admitted and the American position abandoned. The President asks for this action whether the United States is right or wrong. He suggests that all the rest of the world thinks we are wrong, and that this is sufficient to Induce the United States to. surrender for the sake of showing that it is not trying to take advantage of doubtful reading of treaties. The political parties are against the President's position, and some of the most eminent and experienced men in the United States, without regard to party, believe that the President Is wrong.

His own party is on record against him, the platform upon which he was elected squarely against him, and the leaders his in the House are against him. The chief weakness of the President's position is that he has not taken Congress or the country into his confidence as to the embarrassment that would result in case the United States should refuse to surrender control of the- Panama Canal. It Is generally assumed that there is a powerful reason which impels the President to disregard his party platform pledge and place his party In danger of disruption, but he has' steadfastly declined to make this reason known. In the absence of this desired Information, Democrats are divided as to their duty in the premises. The more independent thinking Democrats cling to their party's pledge and the traditional American position.

Others show signs of yielding to the President's wishes, without regard to thip merits of the question, and they rely upon tho popularity of the President to shield them from any popular pression of resentment against their course. From all parts of the country are pouring In protests against the proposed surrender of control of the Panama Canal. If the House Democrats should support the President, notwithstanding this popular protest, It is clear that the President will be loaded with crushing responsibilities In the next campaign in the effort to prevent the defeat of Democrats who will have defied the people. dire "possibilities, he said, were behind President's request for the, repeal of the free tolls provision. Wasn't It 'In Massachusetts that Senator Lewis made a similar speech some time ago, telling hofr the same foreign nations might leap at our throat unless a Democrat were elected governor of that State? THE ATTITUDE TOWARD CLARK.

"If the next House is Democratic, as I think it will be, and Clark lives, he will be reelected to the Speakershlp, and ought to be," writes Senator Stone, of Missouri, to The Post, in reply to critics who have hinted at a split the Missouri delegation and threats of reprisal against Speaker Clark by the President's friends. Senator Stone makes it very clear that there is no personal feeling against Speaker Clark for his vigorous opposition to repeal of the tolls exemption -clause. The Missouri senator also adds a word against the injection of personalities into the debate, which is worth the attention of all members ASQUITH'S COUP. By the simple expedient of resigning from the house of commons and going before his own safe constituency In East Fife, Scotland, for vindication, Premier Asquith has made a coup d'etat which will cost him nothing and which may gain much for the liberal party, of which he Is the leader. It Is no wonder that the action of Asquith has brought confusion to the unionists who have been trying to force the dissolution of parliament and a general election.

If Asquith had resigned the office of premier, it would have meant the fall of the ministry. If he had refused to take any action whatsoever, in face of the assaults on the government, he would have been charged with dodging the issue. resignation of Col. Seely, secretary of state for war, opened the way for Mr. Asquith to announce that he would accept that office himself, In addition to the premiership, thus ac- 'cptlng the responsibility of bringing order out of the present army chaos, and at the same time meeting the issue, in a test before his own constituency.

Under the peculiar custom of England, it cannot be held that Asquith Is picking hjs own ground for the test of public sentiment. His appeal to bis own constituency is forced by his acceptance of the portfolio of war, the law being that when a position of profit, stjch aa secretary of state for war, is accepted by a member of the house of commons he mttst seek the approval of his own people. Asquith is killing two birds with one stone. His acceptance of the war portfolio will placate those in his own party who have been criticising the manner in which the bargained with the officers of the army as to their duty in Ulster, and the result of h-is acceptance, which is that he must go before his own constituency for approval, will give the government a chance to say that it has met the home-rule issue as well as the army issue in an election. At the last election in Bast Fife, Asquith received 5,149 votes against the 3,350 of his opponent, a clear majority of 1,799.

The Scotland district is far enough away from the scene of strife to assure little difference of sentiment as a result of recent developments. The tottering liberal government has been benefited politically by some of the recent developments, and dissatisfaction with some of Lloyd George's fiscal policies, has been overshadowed by the more sensational aspects of home rule and army insubordination. Asquith's coup has put new life and hope into his party, and already the laborites are giving proof that they intend to work with the liberals to keep the premier's party in power. ERLIN" i BARRED HIM Sir Rennell Rodd, 'now British Ambassador at Rome, has always been regarded as destined to wind up his career as representative of the British empire at Berlin, owing to his former particularly intimate relations with the imperial family. It be remembered that it was to him that Empress Frederick and her son, the kaiser, confided the extremely task of writing a monograph of the monarch who lives In German history under the name of Unser Fritz.

He produced the most charming and altogether sympathetic portrait of that unhappy sovereign that has ever appeared. It was printed In several languages, the proceeds being devoted charities designated by the imperial widow. But something has occurred of late to render It practically impossible that he should ever fill the position of British Ambassador at Berlin. The other day, during the course of the discussion In the chamber of deputies at Rome on the subject of the expenses incurred by the Italian government In connection with the conquest of Tripoli, the story which I have already mentioned on several occasions as a rumor In these letters was confirmed, to the effect that If the Italian government had suddenly determined upon hasty Invasion of Tripoli, for which It had made no preparations whatsoever, it was because It had received but confidential, information from Sir Rennell Kodd. the British Ambassador, that Germany' had concluded a secret arrangement with the sublime porte for the acquisition of the Important Tripoli- tan harbor of Tabruk.

Indeed, Germany was actually preparing an expedition to take possession of Tabruk, with the object of the economic and political of the hinterland-- that Is to say, of Libya. Italy Stirred to Action. The foreign minister, the Marquis of San Giuliano, and Prime Minister Glo- llttl, were so much stirred up by this confidential communication on the pnrt pf. Sir Rennell, Rodd that they Insisted on his gojng with them from Rome to the Piedmonteso palace of Pasconigl, in the northern part of the, kingdom, to lay the matter before the king; and It was at the conference which took place with the latter that the Immediate Invasion by Italy of Tripoli, which gave such deep offense to Ocrrnany, was determined upon. Although Italy belongs nominally to the triple alliance, yet her relations with England have always been so Intimate and friendly Great Britain should prefer to have her in Tripoli, rather than Germany.

For the (power In possession of Tripoli Is in a position to very seriously menace England's line of communication with her huge Indian and Australian dependencies. That Is why Sir Rennell Rodd practically originated the Italian seizure of Tripoli, namely, to prevent Its occupation by Germany. All this was laid bare the other day In the chamber of deputies at Rome, without any attempt at denial by the Italian government. That Sir Rennell should have thus frustrated Germany's long-cherished designs to obtain a foothold on the shores of the Mediterranean, one moreover which would enable her to menace the English position In Egypt, and thus bring pressure to bear upon Great Britain, has not contributed to render him any longer persona grata at Berlin. Term at Rome Extended.

It Is curious that almost Immediately after the debate In the Italian legislature at the Monte Clterio, the foreign office In London made public the fact that Sir Rennell Rodd's tenure of the embassy at Rome, which was about to expire, has just been extended for a couple years. It will therefore be necessary to find some one else to succeed Sir William Goschert at Berlin on his Impending retirement; and In this connec- Senate. Senator Lewis' spoke at length in support of the administration's canal policy, and urged a compromise amendment Introduced by him. Senator Gallinger spoke briefly in opposition to the administration's policy, and declared! for the American doctrine of noninterference by other powers. i Bill to lease Montana coal lands defeated last week, recalled and placed on the calendar.

Leaders discussed probable action on tolls' and decided to await action in the House. Nominations were considered in executive session. Adjourned at 5:15 until noon today. House. General debate was continued on the bill to repeal the provision of the Panama Canal act exempting American coastwise vessels from payment of tolls.

At adjournment time 5 hours and 32 minutes of the time agreed upon for discussion remained. Allowing for loss of time between speeches this would Indicate 7 this evening as the approximate time for a vote to be taken. Independent oil operators opposed the present form of the bill to lease mineral and oil lands before the public lands committee. Representative Burke, who won the Republican primary nomination for senator in South was cheered when he returned to his seat. Adjourned at 6 p.

m. to 11:30 p. m. today. HAS DUG 7,000 (JBAVES.

Old Prussian Has Wielded Spade in Topeka for Sixteen Years. From the Kansas City star. Thp cheeriest man in Topeka, and a (philosopher of the soil, is Richard Fritz, an old Prussian, who has been employed In the Topeka Cemetery for sixteen years and has dug 7,000 graves. you visit the cemetery on a March afternoon when the wind Is flying over JQ.YS OF A COGS HUNT. Reports Say That Ambassador Will Be Transferred iko Lofcdoa.

Well-defined rep6rts5 In diplomatic circles yesterday said that Ambassador Jus-. who has been the representative of France In this country for the past eleven years, and who is the dean of the diplomatic corps here, may be transferred to London. It la understood that the BrlttelL-TJOEt was the only one which the Ambassador willing to accept after his government expressed the desire to advance him to another Important post on account of his long service here. While not officially confirmed, the rumor which the diplomatists are discussing came from sources that led to its being widely "credited. Ambassador Jusserand, who has been very in the diplomatic world here, is a scholar as well as a and has made a deep study" of English history and literature, having written several volumes on the subject.

His wife is an American woman. The Ambassador was a very close friend' of former President Roosevelt, and made frequent visits to the White House either to discuss literature or to play tennis with the former President. Inquiry at the French embassy elicited the Information that nothing was known of the proposed change and no report concerning It had been received EXPECT 1TEW TURKISH ENVOY Diplomats Learn That Youssouf Zia Pacha Will Soon Leave Here. Youssouf Zia Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador, who has represented his government in Washington since June 14, 191H, is to be transferred soon to another capital, It was sai'd here yesterday on excellent authority. The name of his successor Is said to have been submitted to the United States- government some weeks ago.

Who this successor will be could not be and the State Department denied any of- flcIsA knowledge of the proposed change. The report current in diplomatic circles, however, was said to have come from the hill and expect to see a Gabriel Grub I such an authoritative source that no tlon has the name of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice been mentioned; not because he Coxey's army and the I. W. W. should go South and blow up with the country.

(Now that Zelaya has been fired at, Alfonso will begin to think there's something in the man. From all appearances, the tolls plank seems to have been dropped into the molasses barrel. If Gov. Glynn Is read out of the party, he'll be so close to Murphy that there'll be no occasion to send for him. The Georgia youth who climbed a tree to propose may have been merely getting into practice for what would follow.

A Chicago policewoman has won out over all competitors in a pistol contest. Wonder what she was shooting at? When every other road to fame Is closed, an English lord seems always able to break Into bankruptcy proceedings. Missionaries to China must be beginning to think that the tale of Little Red Rldlnghood and the wolf is no fairy story. of Congress: In the discussion of the canal tolls question there is absolutely no occasion for bitterness or asperity, although something of that kind has and the Issue created at the request i been in ected lnt the controversy. We have already more than enough of that, and I hope hereafter the debate will be conducted upon a plane of such dignity as to eliminate offensive and useless personalities.

of the President i go to the polls i the members when they seek reelection. The other great political parties are practically a i on this now national Issue. AWFUL FOREIGN DANGERS. On the floor of the Senate yesterday Senator Lewis, of Illinois, one of the The Democratic party is split wide most eloquent debaters in Congress, Prince Henr3''s Argentine visit Is expected to produce as much commotion as a summer zephyr in the wake of a cyclone. With Senator Vardaman standing against repeal we can feel assured that the controversy is without any really dark side.

The suffragists who are demanding a place In history have evidently overlooked the fact that they are nuiiing it every day. Scientists announce that it's safest to spoon with telephone girls In the spring; if so, they're the only ones of which this can be said. It is hoped that the threatened free and easy observance of Easter will not lead Ollie James and Nick Longworth to masquerade as eggs. The New York coffinmakers who have struck ori account of the high cost of living are really worse off in that respect than their customers. open, and its representatives in Congress are forced to choose between the request of the President for repeal and described hypothetical conditions which he said might follow our failure to repeal the exemption clause of the (he a of their party, indorsed canal act.

1 by more a 6.000,000 of the voters. As the vc tes are recorded by the members the die will be cast for many a man's political future. Their in the great ma- i of instances will adhere to the The senator suggested that Russia might seize Alaska, and Japan the Philippines and Hawaii, besides at- tacking the Pacific while the United States would be trying to prevent the occupation of Mexico by Eng- they will stand by the party land, France. These In advance of a statement of what he would- charge to come here, perhaps the Rev. "Billy" Sunday would consider a generous bid to stay away.

Clergymen in high society are now wrestling with the knotty ecclesiastical problem of whether it ia right to continue divorce plans during the Lenten season. Of course, Champ's idea of the relative braininess of Presidents and congressmen doesn't necessarily mean that the Baltimore convention didn't have plenty of material to choose from. wishes to leave Washington, where he Is doing such, excellent work, and where he has so many friends, but because he enjoys in a special degree the confidence and good will of the kaiser, acquired during the years that he was connected with the British embassy at Berlin, as first secretary and charge d'affaires. Lady Spring-Rice, too, Is well known at Berlin, where after the death of her mother she did the honors of the embassy of her father, Sir Frank Lascelles, Who so long and successfully represented British interests in Germany. Once Guest of Secretary Meyer.

Sir Rennell Rodd spent some months on this side of the Atlantic In 1903, being- entertained by former Postmaster General and Secretary of the Navy Meyer, and by Mrs. Meyer, among others. And he is wel) known In the New World aa the author of at least half a dozen volumes of verse, of a monograph on Sir Walter Raleigh, and of a very remarkable work on the Princes of Achaia, the material of which he gathered while attached to the legation at Athens. The Princes of Achaia were those Norman, Provencal, and Khgllsh knights and nobles taking part in the various crusades who settled down in Greece, especially Morea, Bplrus, and Albania, instead of returning, home, building stately castles, according to the fashion then prevailing Jn the west of Europe, and thus transplanting to the East the existence of the feudal barons of the Occident. For two centuries they flourished and played an active role In the affairs that corner the world, influencing local art and literature, but eventually most of them died out.

Uuinn of Castles Remain. A few of their descendants are still to be found In northern Greece, and especially In Albania, among the number being the present Albanian generalissimo, Essad Pasha. Many picturesque ruins of their castles and strongholds, however, remain. But even the very existence of their former owners had been forgotten alike by the people of the country, by students, and by novelists, until Sir Rennell Rodd took the "trouble to peer Into this so long forgotten aftermath of the crusades, and to bring to light one of the most fascinating romances of history. The book betrays an Immense amount of research, as well as skill In choosing from the Immense amount of material at his disposal In what may be described as an altogether virgin field.

Sir Rennell, as British Ambassador at Rome, enjoys a salary of $40,000 a year, besides the possession of a palace In the Via Ventra Settembro, superbly furnished and equipped with everything 1 necessary, Including a $30,000 service of silver plate, the embassy having moreover a large and beautiful garden. MARQUISE DE FONTBNOY. (Copyright, 19H, by the Brentwoud Company.) TOBACCO TEUST IN EGYPT. who. as Mr.

Wardle told the Pickwick Club, "consorted with nobody but himself and an old wicker bottle," you will be disappointed. Richard Fritz, leaning on his spade, looks like a Prussian peasant digging a garden. He greets you cheerily. He has worn out twelve shovels, he tells you, burying men when clouds of snow whistle into the grave pits and on summer nights when a white mist sails over the moon. "Dere iss nothing sad in dls," he declares, "a healthy person iss never sad.

We all go back to Mudder Earth. Every man must earn his daily bread" he plunges his spade in the dirt "so I earn mine." He was born in Prussia in 1849 and was a frightened little chap who shivered on his father's knee In the firelight when he heard tales of goblins and elves. "Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" Richard Fritz digs deep with his shovel. His blue eyes twinkle above his cheeks bronzed by the blow of the wind. "Dere ain't such a t'lng like a spook," he says.

AEMY ORDEKS. Leaves of absence: MaJ. JAMES A. SHIPTON, coast artillery corps, extended ten days; First Lieut. FRANZ A.

DONIAT, ordnance department, three months. Col. FREDERICK VON SCHRADER, quartermaster corps, IB retired from active service. Boards of medloal officers as hereinafter constituted are appointed to meet places designated to examine applicants for appointment aa acting dental surgeons: At West Point, N. Y.

--Lieut. Col. FRANK R. KEEPER, medical corps; First Lieut. S.

DAVIS DOAK. dental surgeon, and First Lieut. ALDEN CARPENTER, dental surgeon. At Fort Slocum. N.

P. BIRMINGHAM, medical corps; First Lieut. EDWARD P. R. RYAN, dental surgeon, and First FRANK L.

K. LAFLAMME, dental surgeon. At Columbus barracks, Col. A WILLCOX, medical corps; First Lieut. CLARENCE E.

LAU- DKRDALE. dental surgeon, and First Liaut. GEORGE I. GUNCKEL, dental surgeon. At Jefferson barracks.

JAMES M. KENNEDY, medical corps; First Lieut. JOHN A. McALISTER, dental surgeon, and First Lieut. MINOT E.

SCOTT, dental surgeon. At the Letterman General Hospital, the Presidio of San 'Francisco, Lieut. Col. EUCLID B. FRICK.

medical corps; First Lieut. WILLIAM H. CHAMBERS, dental surgeon, and First Lieut. GEORQE H. CASADAY.

dental surgeon. At Fort Logan, JAY RALPH SHOOK, medical corps; First Lieut. JU- L1EN n. BE.RNHEIM, dental surgeon, and First Lieut. ROBERT H.

MILLS, dental surgeon. Capt. JAMES M. LOUD, Twenty-sixth I a Is relieved as a member of the boi-d of officers appointed to meet at Fort Logan H. Roots, fur the examination of candidates for the United States Military Academy.

First Lieut. LEO.V H. PARTRIDGE, cavalry, recruiting is detailed as a member of the board officers appointed to meet at Fort Logan, for examination of candidates for the United States Military Academy. First Lieut. HARRY H.

SOUTH WICK, medical reserve corps, Is ordered to duty, and -will proceed to Fort Sheridan, 111., -and report to the commanding officer for duty. NAVAL OBDEKS. Seeing that a performance by Mme. Pavlowa was delayed In Chicago by a lack of clothes, we are forced to conclude that she is not entitled to rank in the same class with Mary Gardon. Commander II.

H. HOUGH, detached office of naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, C. to wait orders. Lieut. Comdr.

W. M. FALCONER, detached receiving ship at Philadelphia, to connection fitting out Leonidas and duty In command when commissioned. Lieut. H.

B. WELTJ3. detached to receiving ship at Philadelphia, Pa. ENSIGN H. H.

POSTER, detached Idaho; to Tennessee. Medical Inspector G. T. SMITH, detached navy yard, Washington. D.

C. to wait orders. Surgeon C. E. RIGGS, detached Louisiana; to home, wait orders.

Surgeon F. C. COOK, detached Naval Hospital, Puget Sound. to Louisiana. 3urg.

n. BARBER, to navy yard, Washington. D. C. Pay Inspector T.

S. O'LEARY, detached naval training, station, R. I. to nary yard. Puget Sound, Wash.

Pay Inspector G. G. SEIBEL3, detached fleet paymaster, Paclflc fleet; to home, waft orders. Paymaster GEORGE BROWN, detached navy yard. Puget Sound.

Wash. to fleet paymaster, Paclflc fleet. Paymaster G. W. PIGMAN, detached navy yard, Philadelphia.

to -naval training station. Newport. R. I. P.

A. Paymaster W. S. ZANE, to navy yard, Philadelphia, April 25, 1914. Pay Clerk E.

A. TARPLEY, appointment revoked. to Americans About Conclude Plans Launch Concern. Special Cable to The Washington Post. Cairo, March capitalists have been endeavoring to form a tobacco trust in Egypt with a capital of $5,000,000.

Mr. Mattossian refused to join. The Gamsaragan Bros, were approached, and are about to conclude an agreement for five years at a sum named at 51,250,000. Movements of Naval Vessels. Arrived Raleigh, at La Paz, Lower Nereus, at Hampton Roads; Tankton, at southern drill grounds; Brutus, at Boston; Worden, at southern drill grounds; Slerett and Terry, at Dry Tortugas; Worden, Tallahassee, and Uncas, at Norfolk; Annapolis, at San Francisco; Burrows, McCall, Warrlngton, Trlppc, Patterson, Jarvls.

Henley. Paulding, Drayton. Jenkins, and Fanning, at Guantanamo; Ammen, at Santiago; Tonopah, V-l, O-2. D-3, E-I, and E-2, at Key West. Sailed-- Tonopah, D-l, D-J.

D-3, E-l, and E-2. from St. Petersburg, for Key West; Nereus, from Norfolk for Hampton Roads; Yankton, from Norfolk tor southern drill Uncas, from Newport for Norfolk; AJax, 'from Olongapo for Guam; Worden, from Hampton Roads for southern drill grounds; Rhode Island, from Hampton Roads for Boston Sterett and Terry, from Key I Wast for Dry Tortugas; Patterson, Denham. Aylwln. Drayton.

Jenkins, Mayrant, and Henley, from Guaoanayabo Bay for Ouautanamo; Ammen, from Guacanayabo Bay for Santiago do Cuba; Vulcan, from Portsmouth for Hampton Roa.ds; Dolphin, from Vera Cruz for Tamplco; Worden. from southern drill grounds for Norfolk: Jouett and Jarvls, from Guacanayabo Bay for Guantanamo; Buffalo and Annapolis, from Mare Island for San Francisco; Faducah, from Clenfuegos for survey grounds; Petrel, from Guantanamo for Fort au Prince. doubt existed as to the fact. It was eald that -the Ambassador was slated for a European post. NO PROTEST AT OIL MONOPOLY President Explains Gerard's Work Regarding German Bill.

President Wilson today described the recent Instructions to Ambassador Gerard, at Berlin, in connection with the German oil monopoly bill pending In the reich- stag, as merely in the nature of an Inquiry and not a protest. He told callers that the Ambassador had been instructed to ascertain if there was any discrimination against American industry and to report his findings to Washington. The attitude of this government has been that the German government was within Its rights in creating an oil monopoly and that the controversy -was largely between American concerns--the Standard Oil Company and Independent corporations. It Is believed that the Instructions to Mr. Gerard were to learn particularly if any American property were to be confiscated as the result of the bill without due compensation.

Recent reports that the bill might be killed in the reichstag on account of socialist opposition have been noted with Interest here. Night's Chase Ends at Tree, Where Game Is Shot at Daylight L. Hall, In Forest and Stream. Was that faint splash in the brook or had our Imagination tricked us? Usually a coon slides In noiselessly, -but this fellow was sure in a hurry, and may have blundered. A little later there was a commotion from the brook, as if a couple of washtubs had been thrown Into the river, the musics shutting off abruptly as the dogs" heads went under water for an Instant.

Again came the fierce, cry of the dogs from tne valley, and we knew the coon was running on the flats, turning and twisting through the thick underbrush, in an endeavor to gain a little leeway. No thought now, Bugle, old boy, of the sharp briars; no waiting for Rove to rout out the game. Your blood's aflre; you don't even feel the needlelike points, but lead the march, with your best foot first. Select quickly now your tree, you cooney man. "You've 'eard the bugle blowed.

There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk road: With Its best foot first And the road a-slldln' past. An' every bloomin' campin' ground Exactly Hke the last. While the Big Drum says, With 'is row-dy, dow-dy dow." A sharp turn of the chase in our direction, and then splash--splash--splash! The coon has doubled, and is climbing for the ro.cks above, not stopping to make a fight in the water, as a coon often will. With all that racket behind him he surely must have thought there was a "regiment a-comln'." No use, little man! You've made a splendid run, with so short a start and your sawed-off legs. That small body of yours packs a stout heart.

Silence for a moment, and then came the tree cry of the dogs. We crossed two branches of the stream before reaching the tree, a big hemlock, towering above a tangle of laurel, on a steep, springy hillside. We could not see the coon, even with the aid of a strong flas-hlight, so It was touild a fire, and stay till morning. It was one long and cold stay. Bugle curled up near the fire, and close to the tree; Rove selected a dry spot a bit up the hill.

Every half hour or so Bugle got up, smelled around the trunk of the tree, and made a short circuit, to see if the coon had come down; good work for a dog green at the business. Once during the night a bear mouse, foraging in some dry leaves up the hill- caused a diversion. Both dogs appeared sound asleep, but in a flash they charged up (he hill, making: such a commotiorf as to awake even Herman, who, I think, belongs to the race of cave men, but was born some thousands of years too late to grace that strenuous epoch. He curled up on about enough twigs to make a good-sized bird's nest, and slept all night. We shot the coon at daylight.

It was a male, weighing close to 18 pounds. What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. INTERVIEWS WITH CAPITAL'S VISITORS WILL IIELP O'SHAUGHNESSY. D. Robbins Chosen Second Assistant at U.

S. Mexico City Embassy. Continued ill health of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge d'affaires, has made some assistance necessary at the American embassy in Mexico City, and Warren D. Robbins, of Massachusetts, has been selected to act as second secretary. His nomination will be sent to the Senate soon, and then Mr.

Robbins, now in this country on vacation from his post at the embassy at Paris, will be ordered to the City of Mexico. Mr. Robbins was attached to the legation at Lisbon and the embassy at Buenos Aires before his services at Paris. NATIONALISM IN INDIA. Recent Congress at Karachi Designed to Compose Racial Differences.

From the Outleolt. The recent national congress held at Karachi, in the northern part of India, the twenty-eighth assembly of its kind. Is one of the many Indications of growing feeling of nationalism among the people of India, These congresses were started by Allan of the civil service, who recently died--the son of Joseph Hume, the economist; by Sir William Wedderburn, who Is still living, and by the late W. C. Bon- nerjee, a wealthy anfl g-enerous Bengal Brahmin, who put the congress on a proper substantial foundation, though much of the support came because of Mr.

Hume's journeys throughout India. As the existence of these congresses was also due to the policy of Lord Dufferin, the viceroy of India, it will be seen that the rise of nationalism in India has been fostered both by Englishmen and by natives. While there has always been a certain sentiment nationality, there has never been any predominant note of what one might call nationhood in India. Throughout the ages certain national ideals have ministered more or less to the imagination and culture of the people. But they have never made a "practical" nation of India, one desirous of occupying a prominent place in the realm of commerce and material things, nor have they ever brought about any real sentiment of unity among the various races.

Some incitement these things came doubtless with the Mohammedans, whose prophet of the desert was received among the tolerant Hindus. But as a whole the Mohammedans have stood outside the congress movement, though their own social and political movement is increasingly friendly to it. Then came European civilization, culminating in the cpnquest of India by the British. After the introduction of a common language, of a system of education and regularized administration, probably the most striking contribution made by the British toward the social and political unification of India was when Queen Victoria proclaimed that there should be no difference between race and race or color and color, and that her subjects should equal opportunities. This proclamation appealed to the popular mind, but, according to Indian complaints, its 'fulfillment has been slow.

This has disturbed not only the people of India," but many Englishmen as well. It found expression in 1S85 in the summons to a national cong.ress. The congress petitioned for the appointment of a royal commission to inquire concerning urgent reforms; in for the expansion of the opportunities for legislation; for simultaneous civil service examinations In England and India; for a military college; for economic reform; for the' separation of. the executive and judicial functipns, and later for self-government "for India on colonial lines. ALOXG THE ROADS OF FRA.XCE.

Wilfrid Harley, in the London Academy. Along the roads of France The lean polled aspens stand, Each i a fellow tree before And one on either hand. They march through rock, through Band, Straight as an arrow's flight, Unbending as the iron -will That wrought them in its night. Stanch as his men in fight The tall trees still abide. Gone are the brave that bled for him, And gone Napoleon's pride.

The ghosts of those that died, They stand in disarray; Their plumes, their stars, their epaulettes, The wind has blown away. For them no trumpets neigh For slayers or for slain, Only the unrelenting wind Goads, and the rooks complain. Over and over again Poor maimed, a words do you say? Like a stunned man that drones Old prayers with wits a-stray. TODAY'S SUN AND TIDE TABLE A.M. P.M Sun rises 6:34 i i 1 1 2 5 Sun sets 5:53 Low i 4:55 3 45 WEATHER CONDITIONS.

S. Dept. of A i "Weather Bureau. Washington, Monday, March SO--S p. m.

The weather remains cloudy over nearly all parts of the country, and i the last 24 hours a i a were general in the Mississippi, Missouri, a i valleys, the region the great lakes, the i A a i and New a States, the States, and on the Pacific slope. Temperatures have a in the middle i sissippi and Ohio valleys and the lower lake region, and they have risen somewhat in the i A a i States and the Carolines. The pressure Is high and rising over the great lakes and it Is relatively low off the A a i coast and over the Rocky Mountain and plateau regions. i the exception of local rains in the States and nn the eastern slope of the Rocky tains, the "weather i be generally a i Tuesday and Wednesday, but with considerable i over the country. a -wTI be a lower Tuosdar in the Ohio valley, Tennessee.

Arkansas, and southern Missouri and i i change i eUewhere during the next 4S hours. i along a i A a i coasts -will be moderate on the south At- a i and east coasts i a i a on the west coast moderate on Lake i i gan moderate variable, mostly east. Local Weather Report. a i i 42; 2 a. 4 1 i a.

40; 6 a. 39: 8 a. 40; 10 a. 4-1; 12 44; 2 p. 4S; 4 p.

49: 6 50; p. 50; 10 p. 49. a i 60; i i 33 Relative i i 8 a. 95; 2 p.

ST; p. 91. a i a (S p. m. to 8 p.

i O.OS. Hours of i 0. Temperature same date last j-oar-- Majtimum, 60; i i SS. Temperatures In Cities. Temperatures Monday other cities, i a i fall tor "4 hours ended at p.

a i a 0.3.1 0..10 0 1 4 Gov. Cole Blease, of South Carolina, is In Washington on a holiday. He Is accompanied by Mrs. Blease and will spend several days here. The governor is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School, which he attended more than twenty years ago.

He began his day by paroling ten more convicts in the South Carolina penitentiary. The South Carolina governor expressed the utmost confidence in the outcome of the senatoriaJ primary fight next August, in i he will be a candidate against Senator Smith. "It's a cinch," said Gov. Blease, at the Willard. "I do not think there will be more than two candidates in the i a Senator Smith and myself.

There was talk that former Governor a i run, but after a canvass of the State, he has concluded that he doesn't a to enter the contest. The opposition to me might conclude to put up a candidate In an a to i i my strength, but Inasmuch as there is none of my supporters who would oppose me, another candidate would have the of weakening my opponer.t and not me. I am i satisfied with the i a i and am sure of i i "I have pardoned and paroled about 1,200 convicts. There are a left in the i i a I believe in giving prisoners a a for their lives. If a man sent to prison by his conduct a he has taken a i view of i i he to have an i to prove it.

I he faiis, he be sent back U) prison. Out of the of I have pardoned or paroled, not a 2 in 100 have failed to observe i This i ten convicts were let out of the i i a I would r.ot think of letting a man out of prison who has committed an assault on a a nor will I bother i negroes who a i with a i man or a i man's property Asked his views on the Panama Canal i governor a i "I'll talk about a I rather be i and go lo defeat a to be and i "As for Mexico, I a not 1 my mind, although 1 a been for my views. I saiG six a a so long as the i a a to i i their is ness ours i i assault or i A i a a for us to act. I I had my way I v. KO down a i a a Villa.

We would a to do a i flghting, but there would be no a result." ''Spirit of '76 Is Aroused." "I a been In several rr-c James J. of I at the Ebbui, "and I em i i against of bill. The i i of '76 a a cuses of the a i i a i arr. weak. To say a all the is a a i us Is nonsense.

And if i a i back "Mr. Bryan caused i i a i he stated a i a a a i a a a i a i a i a chose t.i heave i at us. th-- i a taste of the "Id A a spirit. There is a vlesire i a a a i a in time of war. It was the a of Oregon around the cape a led to i desire to i the a a i Tho a i i-i i to hold it at all a a "The French i the I a a England came in and seizod it.

She Is i tu seize a a i Canal. But she a do it. and woe to i aid her in the a The a a ia American, and i so a i Praises "Billy" Sunday's Work. i a the a i is i work in a a a i John R. a of Scranton i i a a i three weeks he has a to SfO.OOO peop.o, and last a 2.000 persons i the a i total i i weeks were a 7,000.

his weeks are. up he i a 20.000 Some of these may a i i gious spirit, the a i i a i steadfast. "Sunday's i is no; i (o a i converts. a a more i orous moral a i i a a i gives a i a new a stronger a a i Of is a a i and a a a part of -his power and a more tive hl.3 He has his i i to 4 sure. A case in point is the stateir.o--.'.

of a New paper, i was i i in a a i paper, a 3,107 converts in the a campaign i i i at a cost of $90.000. or $30 a is, were nearl 1 30,000 conversions at i i be i oven to i a to I saving of souls at so i Ashevllle, N. A a a Qa A a i i N. -Bismarck. Dak Boston, Mass Buffalo, K.

Chicago, 111 i i a i Ohio Cheyenne, Wyo Davenport, Iowa a 74 74 40 38 SS 44 40 68 46 44 Des Moines. Iowa. i Galveston, Tex He'ena. I i a a i I Jacksonville. Kansas City, i Roi-h, A Los Angeles.

Marquette. Mich 34 i Tenn 74 New Orleans, La 84 New York. N. 38 North Platte, Nebr 40 Omaha, Nebr 44 Pa 44 Pittsburgh. Pa 68 a Me 34 Portland, Oreg 46 Salt Lake i a 54 St.

Louis, Mo 56 St. Paul. i 44 San Francisco. Cal 56 Springfield, 111 46 Tampa, Fla 82 Toledo, Oltlo 52 Vicksburg. Miss 82 Vifehington.

D. 50 Mln. 54 ffl 36 32 36 38 60 32 5K 36 40 28 64 38 54 64 48 60 44 Si 5S 70 34 36 40 34 4S 32 42 40 56 34 4S 46 64 40 70 34 p.m. 64 60 40 3S 34 36 40 6U 42 44 64 46 45 60 30 70 74 36 38 4" 44 50 32 44 52 50 44 56 46 72 42 78 50 0.36 0.40 0.01 0.10 0.12 0 IS 0 01 0.03 0.26 0.06 0.50 0 04 0.04 0.10 0.10 0.31' 0.84 0.01 o.oc O.OS Solid Behind Clark, He Says. "Some persons i impression a the i in a I a congressional i i on i i a i a a i i i Bell, the editor of the a printed in a a i a I said Joseph W.

Adams, of i at the Raleigh. "This telegram, dated Mexico, i i a i the people of a a a are 1 i the Speaker In i position tolls. The a is that are aln.oi-t solidly i i i Bell is not among his supporters, b--- cause Mr. Bell wants to be a i postmaster Fulton i i a i term postmaster not expire for three years. I a i the SpeaKer i to i i expired and Mr.

Bell appoir. eminence the i pique." Mr, A a who is a i of Bowling Green, served i i Senator Cockrell in the a y. a a i Cockrell at whi-ch i to su'csist on a "I do not i a to say a a is most popular i i of -s i today. i a i lion taken by members of House, the people are back of the a er in his a i i stand against the of the American a i to Britain. There can be no i a i a i of the Missourians.

a a i i a by the mass i i st Louis, i called to Hep e- eentative Igoe and Speaker a around and indorsed them, and i derlined the members of the i souri delegation." The Moral. Prom the Kansas Citr Star. The Teacher--What good lesson do we learn from the story of Samson and Delilah? The Kid--That we ought to keep away from the lady barber. ITnblissful Ignorance. From the Kansas i Star.

Hank--Tes; Kelley's been under bonds to keep the peace for some time. Bill--I wish I'd known. I've rnissci several fine chances to call him a liar iNEWSPAPERl MEWSPAPERI.