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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 190G. Klondike that Mrs. Hitchcock is said to MATVEI R0SZN0IT GIVING MONEY TO BEGGARS authorized In the province of Chiriqui for cutting necessary to the ports of Agallito SARRIEN TO BE PREMIER Noted Radical-Is -To Head New-French Cabinet. MODERN SOCIETY SCORED Bishop Gore Delivers Sweeping Indictment On Extravagance. NEEDLESS WASTE AT DINNERS AMERICA'S BEST PRODUCT Woman, Says "John Oliver Hob-bes, Occupies This Position.

A COMBINATION OF RACES HOW PANAMA USES GIFT Part Of $10,000,000 Gold Going Into Improvements. HAS EXPENDED ONLY $643,332 BwwiiiinwnrwwmMWrmisw ft A From the London Sketch. A MILLIONAIRE WHO HAS CHARITABLE ACTS PHOTOGRAPHED. Matvei Rosznoff, tho eccentric Siberian millionaire, is a self-made man, and lotes to advertise his generosity, a trait perhaps not quite so uncommon as it seems, in these days of over-taragraphed benevolence, even though it is seldom shown in so obvious a form. According to the Viestnik, M.

Rosznoff's favorite pastime is to pose to the photographer while he is distributing alms. WEEK'S CHAT OF LONDON and Aguadulce, for road from Los Santos to the new Port Amador, for new road from Aguadulce to Santiago, and there have been, contracts for an iron bridge over Rio La Villa and eeven Bchoolhouses for the province of Chlrlqul. MANY FELL IN BATTLE Women Anil Children Killed In The Taking Of Mount Dnjo. Manila, March 10. It is now estimated that, fully 000 persons were killed or wounded in the fight between Americans and Moros for possession of Mount Dajo, near Jolo, capital of the Sulu Islands.

The fight continued vigorously for four days. Americans returning from Jolo allege the whole trouble was due to the Governor, Major Hugh Scott, permitting the outlaws to fortify themselves within sight of the city of Jolo. The military authorities at Zamboanga have refused since then to give any information to the press. Brigadier-General Bliss made a recon nalssance toward Mount Dajo during the week previous to the attack of the Amerl can forces, but it had no effect upon the hostile attitude of the outlaws. An unofficial report says that the families of Moros remained in the village lo cated In the center of the crater of the mountain and the women and children mingled with the warriors during the bat tle to such an extent that it was Impossible to discriminate, and all were killed In the fierce onslaught.

Constabulary detachments are now engaged in the mountains of Northern Luzon rounding up the bands of savages and head hunters who are on the warpath. The wounds received by First Lieutenant Gordon Johnston during the recent battle are severe, a slug having passed through his right shoulder. He performed a gallant deed when he scaled the wall of the Uio crater and was blown off the parapet by the force of exploding artillery. ine Moro constabulary commanded by Colonel Scott Is receiving much praise. The Federal troops and constabulary formed three columns and 'assaulted the Moro stronghold, advancing by three trails to the mountain top.

The constabulary were placed at the head of the column. Congratulated By Roosevelt. TVashlnetOn. March 1 0. President Tinnaa.

velt today sent the following cablegram of congratulation to Major-General Wood, at Manila, regarding the recent encounters witn tne Moros near Jolo Washington, March 10. Wood, Manila I congratulate you and the Officers and men of vour rnmmnnfl nnnn the brilliant feat of arms wherein you and tney so wen upheia the honor of the American flag. Theodoee Roosevelt. Lieutenant Johnston Known Here. First Lieutenant Gordon Johnston, who distinguished himself by his daring dash up Mount Dajo, near Jolo, is a son-in-law of Doctor and Mrs.

Robert W. Johnston, Cathedral and Franklin streets. They received a cable message from him yesterday morning saying that his wound was not serious. He was married to Miss Julia Johnston two years ago, and she has been making her home in the Philippines since his regiment has been stationed there. Mr.

Bartlett S. Johnston, a stockbroker, is an uncle of theyoune officer. Ri-finv Thymus Johnston, of Alabama, is another of his uncies. Transports At Port Said. Port Said, Egypt, March 10.

The United States transports Kilpatrick and McClel-lan, having on board the First Infantry, bound for the Philippine Islands, arrived today from Valetta, Island of Malta, March 0. General Smith Coming: Home. Manila, March 10. Gen. J.

F. Smith, the future Governor-General of the Philippines, has sailed for Hongkong, on his way to San Francisco. lie will leave Hongkong March 17. CENSORSHIP ON ACTORS Paintings, Too, Under The Dan In Russia. St.

Petersburg, March 10. Actors have been forbidden to represent royal personages or Ministers on the stage, and censorship ha3 been imposed upon pictures and even statuary exposed in public. A number of paintings at the annual art exhibition dealing with political subjects have been excluded. M. Amphltrlatroff, formerly of the Itosg-ya, who gained fame in January, 1902, through the publication of a pamphlet reflecting upon the Imperial family, and who wa exiled to Siberia and subsequently amnestied, has undertaken to publish copies of the prohibited pictures In Paris.

The negotiations of Minister of Finance Shipoff with the bankers of Moscow and St. Petersburg have reached a point where it is practically certain that the bankers will agree to take $50,000,000 of 5 per cent, bonds at 93. MUTINOUS SOLDIERS TO DIE Thirteen Of Them Sentenced At Russia. Bobruisk, Russia, March 10. Thirteen soldiers of the local garrison have been sentenced to death for mutiny.

needy For An Emergency, Moscow, March 10. A military train with machine guns is held in constant readiness at the railroad station In case of emergency to suppress troubles In the country and neighboring cities. Finnish Socialists At Work. Helslngfors, Finland, March 10. The Socialists of Finland are agitating for a general strike to show the discontent of the people at the existing conditions.

Herr Mendelssohn Threatened. St. Petersburg, March 10. Herr Mendelssohn, head of the banking firm of Mendelssohn of Berlin, has received a number of letters since his arrival here, threatening him with death if he negotiated a loan with Russia. Six detectives have been assigned to guard him.

GERMANY YIELDS MORE Further Indication Of An Agreement At Algeclras. Algeclras, March 10. The spirit of conciliation was most marked at today's session of the conference on Moroccan reform and produced a general impression that a settlement of the issues is only a matter of time and the adjustment of details. Germany has materially modified the conditions on which she conceded a Franco-Spanish police force, but France still hesitates to accept these conditions. The indications are, however, that an acceptable middle ground will be found.

The day's debate covered both the questions of police and the bank. Concerning the bank Germany declared her willingness to concede three shares to France, whereas France claimed four but this difference promises to be readily adjusted. Concerning the police, the German, French Austrian delegates made speeches. Herr von Radowitz, head of the German delegation, said that he accepted the Austrian proposition. Count Welshershetmb, the Austrian delegate, explained his project as offering a fair middle ground.

M. Itevoil, the French delegate, maintained that the ports ought to have the same administration and that, therefore, it was inadvisable to divide them according to the Austrian plan. M. Revolt's remarks indicated that he expected a speedy adjustment of the police question, which was then submitted to a committee with a view of reconciling the few remaining differences. The conference adjourned until Tuesday, when it is hoped the work of the committee will be concluded.

Ralsuli In Another Figrht. Paris, March 10. The Petit Journal's correspondent at Tangiers reports that the bandit Ralsuli fought the Anjera tribe outside tho town Friday morning and that 10 men were killed and 40 wounded. STEAMER NELSON SINKS All Of Her Crew Of 21 Men Rescued By Fishermen. Brest, France, March 10.

The British steamer Nelson, Captain Wilkinson, hailing from London, having a crew of 21 men and bound from PorhTalbot, Wales, with 3,000 tons of coal for St. Nazaire, France, grounded on the Plerres Vertes, near the Island of Molene, this morning. After having refloated herself the Nelson drifted away and sank shortly afterward in the Fromveur passage, between Molene Island and the Island of Ushant, 27 miles west by north of this port. 'The crew was saved by fishing boats. Ships Oft To Egypt.

Beirut, Syria, March ,10. The American cruiser squadron, commanded by Rear-Ad-mlral Sigsbee, sailed today for Alexandria, have accidentally run across the valuable papers and maps relating to the Island of Cocos. It happened that she was able to do a good turn for a miner, who through gratitude for her assistance revealed to her the fact that he had in his possession information showing the exact location of the gold. TO INQUIRE INTO HER SANITY Former Countess Charussi Accnsed By Her Husband. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

New York, March 10. Mrs. Virginia K. Patterson, formerly the Countess Charussi and a niece of Senator P. C.

Knox, of Pennsylvania, is in Bellevue's psychopathic ward, where a inquire Into her sanity. She was arrested on a warrant obtained by her husband, Joseph N. Patterson, a wealthy Philadelphia manu facturer, who alleges her condition is due to the execessive use of liquor. Mr. Patterson has twice married his wife.

After the first marriage, in 1887, they were divorced, she subsequently marry ing the Count Charussi, of Italy. After his death a reconciliation was effected between the Countess and her first and they were remarried in February, 1902. Mrs. Patterson is handsome and about 40 years old. She formerly lived In Philadelphia, and as Virginia K.

Knox was one of the most popular of the younger set In that city. Mr. Patterson said his wife began to show signs of insanity about three years ago, after they came to live In this city. There were days, he nlleges, when his wife would drink two quarts of whisky. Two expert alienists.

Dr. Hamilton and Dr. MacDonald, were called in by Mr. Patterson and they said Mrs. Patterson was suffering from dipsomania.

Of late Mrs. Patterson's condition has been worse, and at times she has become so violent that she had to be restrained. Regarding his wife's mania, Mr. Patterson said her principal delusion was that she was receiving wireless messages from Heaven. She also declared she hears voices and was in constant fear of an enemy who, she said, was following her about.

ROCKEFELLER MAY ALP CAUSE Interested In Movement To Nationalize Juvenile Work. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Denver, March 10. It Is probable that John D. Rockefeller will provide a large sum of money, possibly as much as to nationalize the juvenile work which Judge B.

B. LIndsey has been doing, and which is restricted largely at present to Colorado. Judge Lindsey said tonight that his plans for a national organization would be presented to Mr. Rockefeller at the latter's request. The Judge has been assured that if there is a practical way in which Mr.

Rockefeller can aid In- such a movement he will do so. Under Judge Lindsey's plan a board of directors will be named In the larger cities to be known as the Juvenile Improvement Association. Its purpose will be to secure better conditions for city children, playgrounds and industrial education. Boys will be taught useful trades and girls trained in domestic accomplishments. TREATY ABOVE CONSTITUTION Pact With Foreign Nation Stands First, Says Bay State Court.

Boston, March 10. Declaring that the treaty between the United States and a foreign country Is paramount to the Constitution and laws of a State which conflict with it the full bench of the Supreme Court today decided that by a treaty between this country and Russia of 1S32, containing the most-favored-nation clause, the Russian Vice-Consul was entitled to be appointed administrator of an intestate Russian subject dying here. The subject had property but no relatives, except his widow and children, who live In Russia. The right of the Vice-Con-sul under the treaty is held supreme over the right of a public administrator who would be appointed ordinarily under the laws of the State. This decision was sent down In the case of Charles Wyman, the Russian Vice-Consul, who sought, but was refused by the Middlesex Probate Court, administration upon the estate of Julius Saposnick, a Russian subject.

That court appointed John W. McEvoy public administrator of the estate and the Vice-Consul took an appeal, claiming a prior right to administer the estate by the virtue of the treaty of 1832. The Supreme Court upholds this claim, reversing the decree of the Probate Court. N0RDICA HAS NARROW ESCAPE Heavy Drop Crashes On Stagre Just Behind Singer. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

New York, March 10. Mme. Lillian Xor-dlca had another narrow escape from death or serious Injury on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House this afternoon. At the close of the tower scene in "111 Trovatore" the accident occurred. The damask drop curtains had closed on the scene and had parted again to permit Mme.

Nordica, with Mr. Campanari, to acknowledge the applause, when a heavy "drop" above the front of the platform tore loose from its fastenings and crashed to the stage. Prolonged applause at this moment undoubtedly saved Mme. Nordlca's life and that of Mr. Campanari.

They had started to advance for the second time between the curtains when the heavy fra'-ne dropped Immediately behind them. Mme. Nordica half turned at the sound of the break aloft, and as she did so the bouquet in her hand was dashed to the stage and a flying splinter lodged in her arm. Mme. Nordica reappeared between the curtains, which had closed again, evidently much unnerved.

It was realized then by the audience that a serious accident had been narrowly averted, and the applause was redoubled and mingled with cheers. EDWARD J. MORGAN DEAD Well-Known Actor A "Victim Of Heart Disease. New York, March 10. Edward J.

Morgan, an actor, was found dead in his bed at the Hotel Belleclalre here today from an attack of heart disease. Ill health recently compelled Mr. Morgan to go to a sanitarium in the West, but last night he returned to New York from Chicago. Almost his first remark when he arrived at the hotel was that he hoped soon to return to active work in his profession. Death seemingly had taken- place, some hours before his body was found.

Mr. Morgan was married less than two years ago to Helen Bertram, a comic-opera prima donna, who Is now assuming the leading role In "The Gingerbread Man." Mr. Morgan created the part of John Storm in "The Christian" and also the role of David Rossi In "The Eternal City," both dramas by Hall Caine. He also appeared In Booth Tarklngton's "The Gentleman From Indiana," and his last engagement was begun early this season in another Hall Calne play, "The Prodigal Son." In this cast Mr. Morgan took the part of Magnus.

BISHOP'S DAUGHTER TO WED Miss Mackay-Smith Encaged To Charles Lester Marlatt. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Philadelphia, March 10. Bishop and Mrs. Mackay-Smith announce the engagement "of their daughter, Miss Helen Mackay-Smith, to Charles Lester Marlatt, of Washington. Mr.

Marlatt is well known in Washington society, being a member of the Cosmos Club. He is the first assistant In the National Bureau of Entomology, and is a scientist of reputation. He Is especially noted in connection with the protection of fruit trees from insect life. In this line he has made important discoveries, which have often saved orchards, particularly In the South and West, from destruction. The wedding will probably take place In the summer at the Bishop's summer residence, at Mount Desert.

TO MARRY HER PHYSICIAN Mrs. Coxe, Widow Of Coal Operator, Sixty Years Old. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Philadelphia, March 10. Society in Philadelphia and New York has been set agog by the news that Mrs.

Isabel B. Coxe, the widow of Henry Brinton Coxe, the millionaire coal operator, is soon to marry again. In letters to friends In this city Mrs. Coxe has. announced her engagement to a Dr.

Hill, 'of London, England, whom she says she has known for more than 30 years. The wedding is expected to take place in this country, probably In Philadelphia, about Easter. The news caused much surprise, not only because Mrs. Coxe Is about 60 years old, but also because she has not enjoyed good health for some years. It is thought she became attached to her fiance through his being called to give her medical treatment.

Edward Carpenter, A Poet, Blames The Blind Habit Of Acquisitiveness For Social Whirlpool. Copyright by New York Herald Company, 1906. Spec's! to the Baltimore Sun.1 London, March 10. Mayfair is In quite a flutter about two sweeping indictments which have been hurled against society and Its manner of living this week. One was by the Bishop, of Birmingham In a criticising statement on the extravagance of modern social life, and the other a condemnation of modern civilization as a whole by Mr.

Edward Carpenter, a poet and lec turer at Trinity Hall. Why was it, asked Bishop Gore, that the requirements of income were so very mucli smaller In Germany and France than in England It was in a very large measure because the English scale of expenditure on entertainment was absurdly and needlessly. higher. There was no reason why a man, should not have a dinner with his friends without that amount of expenditure that was et present considered necessary in high circles on costly wines and other matters. This applied to the women as much as to the men.

Referring to this, the Daily Mail adds "A casual glance around the restaurants of London and the luncheon and dinner tables of modern country houses and a brief study of the dressmakers' bills which are revealed periodically In law court cases will certainly confirm Bishop Gore's statements." The Mail then proceeds to add what may, be Interesting to Americans with the ap proach of the tourist season, a remarkable feature which has not yet received its due meed of notice the increasing number of costly and luxurious restaurants which are attached to the new hotels in provincial cities. Life at the modern hotels In Liverpool and Manchester has no terrors for the most fastidious gourmet. Its bills might cause a millionaire to look twice at them if. In the slang of the day, he had been "doing himself well." In the English country houses it is the same tale, with the additional cost by the enormous waste of catering for a dozen persons Instead of for 100, and the higher prices paid for a small quantity of food. The late Duchess of Rutland once al leged that the men and women in a Scotch house where she was staying during the shooting season ate 11 meals a day.

It is, of course, notorious that the chefs in several private houses today receive salaries of $4,000, $6,000, $7,500 and, in one case. $10,000 a year, and would think a dinner only for a workhouse feast If its material, Including fruit and wine, cost much less than $175 or $200 for a score of guests. One of the best-known young English peeresses, whose husband has an income of $1,500,000 a year, was so disgusted with the waste of rich food with which she was confronted in the principal of her new homes that she dismissed the chef and engaged a woman cook for $325 a year, and she now alleges that she, her husband and her guests are all much better fed for a third of the former cost. Turning now to Mr. Carpenter's indict" ment, which is preluded by an appeal for a simple life, he said "There has arisen a mass of the most futile society that probably the world has ever seen.

I do TTot say the most wicked nor the most criminal, for it has not sufficient spirit to be either but the most aimless, the most vulgar and, perhaps, the most dull society the world has ever seen, and this society Is founded on enormous human waste." GEN. O'BEIRNE ON THE STAND Force Of Life Company President Says He Remedied Objections. New York, March 10. Geh. James R.

O'Beirne was called today at the beginning of the taking of testimony for the defense of the Force of Life Chemical Company. Several officers of the company are charged with conspiracy to defraud through the use of the mails, and their hearing was begun several weeks ago. General O'Beirne is not one of the defendants. He testified that he was president of the Force of Life Chemical Company at the time when the present proceedings were instituted, and that after he became president he learned that for several years previously the postofflce authorities had found some fault with the literature of the company. He immediately took steps to have the matter changed to meet with legal requirements.

"When I became president I gave orders that everything should be conducted in an honest and straightforward business way," said General O'Beirne. "Do yu know what the effects of the Force of Life remedies are?" asked Assistant District Attorney Houghton. "I have tried them myself and found them efficacious," said General O'Beirne. "I also learned about cures through letters and through our medical Miss Anna Kellar said she had worked la the shipping department of the company. She filled bottles or packages from boxes, barrels or cans, according to the medicine called for.

The Force of Life was kept in barrels or demijohns In four colors. Miss Kittle Malter, who also was employed In the shipping department, said five other girls were similarly employed. "Did you ever hear Mrs. Wilson or Dr. Hadley refer to the medicine as 'dope? she was asked.

"No, sir," she replied. "Did you ever use water in filling the bottles?" "We used distilled water, with some drug. I would put one-tenth of the drug in a bottle and fill It with distilled water." "How did you measure the one-tenth?" "Just guessed at It. More testimony will be taken. INTERRUPTS DUBOIS' SPEECH Friend Of Mormoni Told By Senato He Ought To Be In Jail.

Philadelphia, March 10. While United States Senator Fred T. Dubois, of Idaho, was delivering an address here tonight under the auspices of the Congress of Mothers he was interrupted by a man in the audience who said he was V. S. Peet, of Utah, and who scored the speaker for his reference to Mormonism.

Senator Dubois subject was the Philippine problem, but during his discourse he spoke of the Mormon Church and its alleged interference in politics. At this point Mr. Peet arose from his seat and after announcing his name said to Senator Dubois "I am the authorized representative of the responsible business men of Salt Lake City and the entire State. I'm here for the specific purpose of offering you a reward of $1,000 for each and every case of Mormon interference in politics that you can prove. I am backed with $500,000 and a guarantee that my offer is made In good faith.

"I refer you to C. E. Loose, State Senator and Utah's member of the Republican National Committee. May I recall to your mind, Senator, the fact that In 1898 you said, in direct contradiction of your statement tonight, that Mormonism did not interfere in politics?" "You ought to be in jail," replied Senator Dubois. "You are a Jack Mormon or worse." "I represent honest business men," retorted Mr.

Peet. "I am a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Bradford county, and am a member of the Methodist Church. I represent men who are tired of being slandered by such men as you. I also have $1,000 to give you for every case of plural marriage you can prove since the manifesto of 1890." This ended the incident, and Senator Dubois finished his speech with the declaration that Secretary Taft's Philippine policy was not practicable. The solution of the problem, he said, was In the annexation of the Philippines to Japan.

A PLEBEIAN MUSE I sing not of the merry bird Nor yet the lambkin gay The stalwart ox my muse Invites Unto a joyous lay. Tls not his gentleness nor strength! -That doth my lyre awake. He stirs my soul to song because I Tis he that gives us steak. I sing not of the flow'ret fair FORMS TENTATIVE MINISTRY M. Bourgeois Is To Assume The Foreign Affairs Portfolio Poincnre Probably Minister Of Finance.

Paris, March 10. Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien today notified President Fallleres of his acceptance of the task of forming a ministry. Previously M. Sarrien conferred with MM. Bourgeois and Polncare, the former agreeing to take the portfolio of foreign affairs and the latter that of finance or of justice.

M. Sarrien preferred to take the post of Minister of Justice, but owing to the importance of the approaching elections he decided to take that of the Ministry of the Interior, which he will administer until the elections. Later M. Sarrien obtained the co-opera tion of M. Leygues, former Minister of Public Instruction Aristide Brland, the Socialist Deputy from St.

Etlenhe, who was chairman of the committee reporting on the law for the separation of church and state, and MM. Ruau and Thomson, respectively Ministers of Agriculture and of Marine In the cabinet of M. Rouvler. He also consulted Senator Clemenceau, who- may take a portfolio. Although no definite apportionment of portfolios has yet been made, the following la an approximate arrangement Premier and Minister of the Interior M.

SARRIEN. Minister of Foreign Affairs M. BOURGEOIS. Ministr of Finance-M. POINCARE or M.

CAILLACX. Minister of War ADOLPHE MAUJAN or possibly M. POINCAJtE. Minister of Marine THOMSON. Minister of Justice NEAN CRUPPI or M.

POINCARE. Minister of Instruction M. BRIAND. Minister of Commerce AN LOUIS BARTHOU or M. TROUILLOT.

Minister of Works PIERRE PAUL GDIEXSSE or M. DESSAIGNE. Minister of Colonies M. DUMERGTTE. Minister of Agriculture M.

RUAU. Named The French Warwick. Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien Is a member of the French Parliament whom the people seldom see, and whom even those who attend to politics seldom hear of. It is only when those queer Governmental crises which are peculiar to Parliamentary rule break out that M. Sarrien is found working in a mysterious way in the background.

When Senator Clemenceau was a Deputy, he was noted as a Ministry-smasher, but that was done in the open, carrying off a hostile vote In full Parliamentary session. M. Sarrien is a consulting power. For 20 years there has not been a Radical Ministry formed without some place often the first place-belng offered him. Four times he accepted a place In various Cabinets, but during the.

storm and stress of the last seven years, the term of President Loubet, he has contented himself with the offer of place, strengthening his Parliamentary position in the shadow, saying nothing, like Br'er Fox. M. Sarrien is now 66 years old, with that professional haleness which is so often found among French lawyers of modest, frugal, temperate, absolutely regular habits of living. He is nearly at the end of his thirtieth year In Parliament, where he has represented continuously his native district of the central department of Saone-et-Lolre. He is a type of the middle-class provincial family of immemorial standing In their part of France.

After- his classical studies at Moulins, he went to Paris to study law at the university, and then practiced as a member of the. Lyons bar until the downfall of the Second Empire. He was a captain of the troops mobilized from his native department in the war with Prussia, and wears the ribbon of the Legion of Honor "by" military right." When the war was over he went back to his country town, where he took his father's place as Mayor. February 20, 1876, he was elected to Parliament. In Parliament he began modestly, made himself an authority on budget matters, and was one of the 363 Deputies who held out against Marshal MacMahon's attempt to exercise Presidential control over the Administration.

Then, like so many of the Republicans of his time, he began a slow but steady evolution toward the-left, as they say; that Is, toward Radicalism, and now toward Radical Socialism, although M. Sarrien has never adopted the name. He went in with Jules Ferry for the colonial extension policy and for secularizing and universalizing the state schools. He did his best, in a report on the budget, to secure the continuance of French intervention with England In Egypt, and he tried to clip the wings of the Senate In budget matters. M.

Sarrien was called to a Cabinet position for the first time by the veteran Radical, M. Brlsson, who made him Minister of Posts and Telegraphs in 1885. The next year he became Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Freyclnet, aided In expelling the Orleans Prince Due d'Aumale and before the year was out was Minister of Justice In the Goblet Cabinet. It was the time of frequent crises, and at the end of 1887 he was Minister of the Interior again under M. Tirard.

He held his seat in 18S9 against a Boulangist colonel, and for the next two elections, 1893 and 1898, he was returned without any opposing candidate. At the last election, 1902, the, Nationalist agitation, following on the Dreyfus affair, broke this unity, but he triumphed once more with nearly 12,000 out of 17,000 votes. His whole career has been that of a consistent Radical, but without noise or perturbation. He is an active member of the tariff commission and is a convinced freetrader, yet France has become more and more protectionist all through his time. It was In the fateful year 1898 that M.

Sarrlen's time of trial came. The Dreyfus affair was at its hottest, and, at the request of Prime Minister Brlsson, his first chief, he gave up the important post of Vice-President of the Chamber, to which the Deputies had twice elected him, to be come Minister of Justice, in the new Cabinet. Here it fell to, him, in the teeth of the hostile committee named by Parlia ment, to institute the proceedings in the Court of Cassation which resulted in the revision of the first trial of Captain Drey fus. His decision was the occasion of the resignation of Cavalgnac, who was Minister of War and considered a probable President of tho republic at some future day, but who died after a severe" relegation to obscurity. On the other hand, he ordered the courts to protect the heads of the French army against the attacks of the press.

The Ministry fell on' this Dreyfus question. WOMAN TO SEEK TREASURE Mrs. Hitchcock Will Try To Solve The Cocos Island Mystery. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l New York, March 10. What Lord Fltz- william, of London, one of England's wealthiest men of title, failed to do just 12 months ago, namely, unearth vast burled wealth In the Island of Cocos, in Southern Pacific waters, romantically known as Treasure Island, Mrs.

Roswell D. Hitch cock, of this city, now essays. Since her return from a successful min ing venture in the Klondike Mrs. Hitch cock has been in possession of papers and maps showing, she, believes, the exact location of the treasure, variously estimated at from $30,000,000 to $100,000,000, and from time to time she has been approached to form expeditions to recover some of the bullion, plate and jewels supposed to have been burled there during the war between Peru and Chile. But at no time had she seriously consid ered the matter until now, when a Boston millionaire has come forward with a nro- posal that he will fit out an expedition if she will consent to, take.

the lead and make np the party. Mrs. Hitchcock assured the Boston enthusiast that only upon one con dition would she consider such an enter prise and that was, it should be of a distinctly scientific nature. That the expedition should consist of a selection of scientists from the various col leges of the country, and that naturalists, botanists and others should be among the number and pursue their in vestigations along the different lines-and that the result of their scientific discoveries be published for this wonderful Jittle is land-is said to be filled with a rare tropical growth, having many-strange birds, orchids and other plant life that have never been classified constituted her plan. This plan was agreed to, and on March 20 the Boston financier will come to this city, accompanied by his lawyer, to lay his plans before Mrs.

Hitchcock for her approval. Admiral Palliser, of London, who accompanied Lord Fitzwililam on his ill-fated ex pedition to Cocos, will be of the party. To carry the expediton a steam yacht, costing $300,000 fully equipped, has been promised, fitted with the latest improved hydraulic machinery for digging for the buried treasure. This Sum Has lleen Paid Out For K.tppne DiirlnK Two And A lunrter Venn. lOwriirlit by New York Herald Company, 190C Special to the Baltimore Sun.l Panama, March 5 (by mall).

In all that has been said about the Tanama canal treaty and the canal proper little or no In quiry has been made about the baby Repnb 11c of Panama and 'what she has done with the $10,000,000 of good United States gold and the independence gained by reason of her understanding with Uncle Sam. Fanama Is the youngest In the slow growing family of republics, and In the Bchool of nations the experiment of the combination of a lot of money, a virgin poll and a people untried In looking entirely after their own affairs will be carefully watched. Just as It Is in the United States, the "outs" are stating that the Government Is Incapable, extravagant and Is rapidly spending tho nice little gift of the United States. The political situation is still somewhat mixed in this republic, and a word or two ns to how the thing stands now may be Interesting. When the present Government was formed there were two parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives.

The offices were divided abont equally between the two parties. For some reason tho Liberals have become dissatisfied and state that they are not getting a fair show that the affairs of the country are mismanaged, and they call for a new deal throughout. Every energy Is being lent to carry the elections for a majority of the Assembly that will be elected In June next. Political Pot Boiling. Now some of the Conservatives say that too much patronage has been given the Liberals, and, togethr with a wing of the latter party, have formed a new political division, called the Constitutionalists.

There Is, as near as your correspondent can ascertain, a wide difference in opinion between the ultra-Conservatives and the Liberals forming the new party, particularly In the matter of the part the church should piny In the affairs of the country, but, waiving this, they have formed and have named Mr. Fredorico Boyd as their candidate for President. While no declaration has been made, it Is accepted that Mr. Santiago de la Guar-dla, the present Secretary of State, will be the Conservative candidate for President, while Mr. Pablo Arozemena, now Vice-Pres-dent, will lead the Liberals.

There are lots of good meu In each of the parties, and the country will be safe no matter who is elected. The coming Congress will be asked to pass a bonded warehouse law, new school laws, a law giving security to land titles, new mining laws, liberal Immigration laws and other needed Improvements of the antiquated statutes that now apply. Money In The Hunk. F.ut to revert to the money. Here follows an official statement as to what Is left: SECURITIES IN UNITED STATES.

First class mortgages, New York city $3,080,000 Tanama Railroad bonds 919,843 CASH. With Morton Trust Company, at 3 percent. 673,000 With New York Security and Trust Company, at 3 per cent 575,000 With the Comptoir National d'Escompte, London 634,825 Deixsit made to guarantee parity of new currency 300,000 In cash with J. P. Morgan New York 422.000 Adranced Panama National Mortgago Bank 123,000 Balanee of money loaned to Panama bankers at Call, 2 per cent 75,000 Presented to Gen.

Bstaban Iluertas by special act of the National Assembly EO.OOO Total $8,756,608 All of this, with the exception of the Iluertas gift, is on band. The last National Assembly set aside $1,500,000 for public improvements, and of that amount $000,000 has been spent, which, added to the money totaled above, gives the sum of leaving of the orlgtnal $10,000,000 to cover the expense of government for two and one-quarter years. The revenues' of the country are sufficient for the ordinary expenses of the Government, but under the necessity of having had to build up from the ground they have not been enough. Attention To Ilonds. The party in power points with pride to what has already been done with the spent, and says that all of the work contracted Is within the $1,500,000 appropriated.

The Interior of the country has had special attention In the matter of roads, bridges, port improvements, school-houses and public buildings. The whole country Is well policed, and If good Irrtd and Immigration laws are passed there no reason why, after the money that the canal construction brings is no longer the country's chief Income, the interior, with Its mines, forests and agricultural products, should not support an extensive government system. Here is a list of the public" works that have been completed and in nearly every Instance paid for Sea wall and drainage system at Bocas del Toro, wharf at tho port of Chorrera, ferryboat In KIo Ran Pablo, in the Province of Veraguns rond six miles in length in the district or Chorrera, ferry In Rio Santa Maria, In the Province of Veraguas three big bridges and six small ones in the dis trlct of Chorrera, road through the swamps of Chorrera, roads of access to a big iron bridge in Chorrera, road and bridge near a con aero, in Chorrera two big clocks in the church towers of Panama, wacon road in Chepo, four miles of road from the present zone road to the Savanas, extending to Juan Diaz, including 14 bridges bridge over Rio Martin Chlqulto, in Veraguas suppenston bridge over Uio Conaca, in Veraguas; three public schools In the district of Soua, one public school In the district of Las Tablas, schoolhouse in Bocas del -loro, orioges in the rrovince of Chlrlqul, about 20 miles of wagon road In th TrnJ. ince of Chiriqui, a narrow road from David to Pinola, repairs of the road from David to Boquete, road from the nort of dulce. In the Rio Grande, to the district of Arraijan, 10 bridges la the Province of Code, wagon road In the district of Aguadulce, Including the big undertaking of putting a road through the swamp; a wharf at Port Posada and making an an- vuoiuge mat port.

Draining The Marshes. Great stretches of ditching through the marshes of Port Posada, sea to. wix mc uanu or l'ort Posada, repairs to the seawalls of the cltvnf Pnn.m,, wall In the plaza of Chlrlqul, a wagon road irwm me pore or Agatmito to Chitre, with three bridges, Including work on the rM through the marsh; road from Chitre to Arena, a road from Pese to the ravine or Ajrua Caliente, including the expense of cutting through some hills near Pese bridge over Rio Pajaro, Province of Los Santos, including a road from Las Tablas to uie port or Aiensabe. These works are now under wav Roads in Bocas del Toro, federal building In Bocas del Toro, a Jail and police station In Bocas del Toro, federal building in David, jail and police station in David, government palace and national theatre in Panama, two bridges in district of Choi- rera, a cjock for the federal building In Colon, seven public fountains for the plazas of Panama, wharf at the port of Chame ana roaa irom tname passing Beluco. com pletlon of a road to Juan Diaz, with two bridges; two suspension bridges over Rio ssan i'eoro in I'rovlnce of Verasrua a bridge over La Pita, in same province a wnarr ac l'ort Aiirus ana road to Santiago, Including two big bridges and six small ones a wharf at Red Bluff and road to Kona, two bridges over Rios Trlblaue and Tolerlque, district of Sona eight school-houses in the Province of Veraguas, eight In the Province of Los Santos, two In the of Bocas del Toro, and a third floor to the general postofflce building in Panama.

Bridge Builder Busy. Government buildlug la Colon, one In Penonome, one in Los Santos, a jail ana police station in each of the two foregoing cities, a steei priage over mo tsanta Maria, a bridge over Rio Cublvora, four bridges in the Provlnco of Chlrlqul, repairing the etrcets of David, maternity hospital for Panama, a wharf at the port of Aguadulce, an addition to the Asylum of the Aged In Panama, extensive additions to Santo Tom-as Hospital in Panama, a cemetery for the city of Santiago de Veraguas, au Iron bridge over Rio Plnrlta on road from Chitre to Parlta, and School of Arts and Trades in Panama. Lighthouse at Old Bank also for provld Ing water for Bocas del Toro, for work During Her Visit, The Authoress States, She Saw Persons Like Rembrandt's Portraits. Copyright by New York Herald Company, 1906. Special to the Baltimore Sun.

London, March 10. Craigle, whose pen name is John Oliver Ilobbes, is the first woman, and she is American born, who has ever lectured to the members of the National Liberal The other night she gave her impressions of America and Ameri cans. "While society," she said, "had one. or two points In common With society all over the world, there are fewer idle persons in New York and Chicago than any other capital in the world. Nearly every man has an occupation.

Idleness Is unpopular in the United States. No man, however rich, would gladly retire from work. lie dies, as a rule, of overwork or overworry. "The temperament of the American people la of the past age, their faces and features belong to another period. They suggest the old masters.

"I saw people constantly who might have been the originals of portraits by Rembrandt or Jan Steen girls with types of countenances associated with the French before the Revolution, with the same combinations of delicacy, vivacity and frailty. Among modern Europeans these types are very rare. "Perhaps the most interesting of the products of America Is its women. While they take little or no interest in political affairs, while they seldom, if ever, show the least interest in the business or professional work of their male relatives, they show an extraordinary activity in club life and in organizations of every description, philanthropic, social or educational. "America, the combination of so many races, has produced a woman having something in common with all the races, and which still remains something which can only be defined as American.

"American men spend their maney on their wives and daughters, but with the tacit understanding that their wives and daughters shall ask no questions and, above all. offer no advice. "The prospects of art and literature in America seem more than considerable, the American painters working out by degrees a style of paintings which is as much American as Japanese art is Japanese. In literature Americans seem to be uninfluenced by English sentimentality or French psych-. ology.

They do not like the thinking parts of ndvels they want something to happen or somebody to do something. In a slow, determined, dogged way they seem to be working out a national literature. "I see. in America the reincarnation of old Europe, In a younger and more energetic people, relieving the past, in a state of liberty unknown to us even in the present day They combine the temperament of the past with all the advantages of the present." i LONDON'S TUBE IS OPEN Underground Railway Links Waterloo Station With Other Roads. Copyright by New York Herald Company, 19C6.

Special to the Baltimore Sun. London, March 10. London has now an other underground tube which was opened to the public today, Waterloo station, on the south side of the river, being linked with the great railways of thi west and the north, and when the line has been extended a little further east, as it shortly will be, it willgiveaconectlon with 12 other railway systems, when it will be poslble to travel under cover to within a few hundred yards of any point in London. One of the chief consideration1? in the construction of the new line has been the avoidance of all possibility of fire or collision, the former risk' having been practically obviated by the use, as far as possible, of non-inflammable materials both at the station and on the trains. By the use of a number of new signaling appliances the chances of collision are rendered equally remote.

Up and down rails are laid in separate tunnels, and the signals are worked automatically. The tunnels are whitewashed and lighted, and the ventilation Is controlled by great fans. Kx-cellent stations have their own color scheme to identify them. It may be Interesting to recall the origin of this new tube. Fifteen years or 60 ago some business men in Westminster who liked cricket, found that they could never indulge their liking by paying a visit to Lords unless they gave up work for a full half-day.

Why not an underground railway some one suggested. First there was laughter, but as the Idea came to be discussed It was found that there was more In it than merely the satisfaction of the cricket lovers' whim. The more the idea was examined the more rosy appeared the prospect of financial success, and in 1S98 the project was begun, and four years later, when it came under the influence of the late Mr. Yerkes, success was assured. Runs Under Thames' Bed.

By the Associated Press. London, March 10. The Baker street-Waterloo "tube," one of the late Charles T. Yerkes' group of railroads, is 54 miles in length, runs north and south, traversing all the older lines, with which it is connected by subways, thus enabling passengers to reach within a short distance of any point In the metropolis. The construction was under the late Whitaker Wright's group of roads and subsequently was purchased by the Yerkes-Speyer Interests.

Speaking at the luncheon in celebration of the opening Of the road, Edgar Speyer, the successor of Mr. Yerkes in the chairmanship of the system, said that he hoped by the spring of 1907 the entire underground system would be working satisfactorily. In some places the new "tube" is 155 feet below the surface of the ground and 35 feet beneath the bed of the river Thames. BY RAIL UNDER BERING SEA Baron De T.oliel's Scheme Seems To Be Gaining In Favor, St. Petersburg.

March 10. A more fav orable attitude Is being taken here toward the dazzling scheme for a tunnel under Bering Strait, and an all-rail route from the United States to Europe. Baron Lolcq de Lobel, representing the American Trans-Alaska-Siberian company, is again pressing the project vigorously, and has made considerable progress toward securing a desired concession from Russia. The company, which believes the Siberian side is as rich in gold as the Alaskan side, offers to construct the tunnel and build a road 3,000 miles In length from East Cape to Kansk, In the Government of Yeniseisk, where It will join the Siberian railway, on condition that alternate sections of eight miles on each side of the line, together with the1 mining concessions covered, be granted the company. Reports concerning the engineering difficulties, the financial responsibility of the promoters, have been submitted, and were generally favorably received by the ministers.

Emperor Nicholas has created a mixed commission, before which Baron de Lobel will make final argument March 15, and ask for 18 months In which to complete arrangements, and 10 years to finish the road. Should Russia, for strategic reasons, ask that the road, Instead of following the Lena river, ego directly eastward from Kansk to the point whence connection will be made with Khabaroska, involving a de tour of 1,200 miles, the company is willing to accept this on condition that American materials be admitted free. Generally speaking, the activity of Americans in seeking to secure concessions has aroused the ire of the radical papers, which see therein an attempt on the part of tho old bureaucracy "to sell Russia to foreigners on the eve of the convocation of the Douma. FATAL qUAKE IN INDIA Dentil And Damage To Property- In Punjab District. Lahore, India, March 10.

An alarming earthquake has occurred in Bashahr, one of the Simla tributary hill states of the Punjab. Considerable damage has been caused at Rampur, the capital of Bashahr, and at Kakoola, Eight are known to have been killed and 26 injured. Scene Of The Damage. Rampur Is the capital city of Bussahr, which is a tributary Rajpoot state of India, bounded on the east by Tibet and fur ther inclosed by Guhrwai and various hill states. Bussahr is traversed by the Sutlej river, is very mountainous, and has a pop ulation of -about 100,000.

The city Rampur, the capital of the state, stands on the south bank of the Sutlej, 50 miles north northeast of Belaspur. It is a favorite place of Hindu and has sqme commercial importance. The city's popu lation exceeds EUGEN RICHTER IS DEAD Ho Was An Implacable Foe Of Prince Bismarck. CHANCELLOR WANTED A DUEL Always left The Reichstag When The Radical Leader Appeared Richter's Follovrlng Dwindled. Berlin, March 10.

Eugen Richter, Radical leader In the Reichstag since its foundation, Bismarck's old opponent and a longtime editor of the Freisinnige Zeitung, died of heart disease at 4 o'clock this morning. He was born in Dusseldorf and in his sixty-eighth year. Near the close of 1904 Herr Richter suddenly retired from the Freisinnige Zeitung, which he founded, and at the same time ceased to appear at the Reichstag. He was then in feeble health an threatened with the loss of his sight. He subsequently became blind.

He was the last notable parliamentary-journalistic figure of the formative period of the empire. As the leader of one of the free-minded or radical parties he once numbered Professors Virchow and Momm-een among his lieutenants, but owing to the drift of political opinion and the growth of socialism the party sank from 1,000,000 votes and 67 seats in the Reichstag in 1885 to 21 seats. It was always a surprise to his admirers that Herr Richter's immense talents as an organizer, parliamentary tactician, popular agitator, debater and inexorable analyst or public questions had not raised him to greater influence in the country. Those who opposed Herr Richter said he was a man of chimeras and negations, seeking to attain for Germany the British responsible ministerial system while attacking every constructive measure. He wTas Prince Bismarck's passionate opponent.

The great Chancellor felt so sensitively Herr Richter's attacks on him In the Reichstag that he wanted to fight a duel with his tormentor, and finally the Chancellor always left the House when Richter rose to speak. His opposition to the Naval bill of 1893 caused Professor Mommsen, Herr Barth, editor of the Nation, and about a third of the others of the party to secede from the Moderate Radical group. PARIS GAY IN SUNSHINE Bright Days Follow Months Of Rain And Gloom. Copyright by New York Herald Company, 1906. Special to the Baltimore Sun.

Paris, March 10. Parisians this week are In a trance, a sort of transitory, half-intoxicated trance, as a result of several days of fine weather in succession. Not even the oldest inhabitant has escaped the Influence, as he has been rendered almost speechless by the phenomenon. Yes, the strange fact of bright, sunny days has been stronger than the fiction that such a condition could happen after months of rain that threatened to destroy forever the "gay" in the proverbial qualification of the Parisian capital. The result has been that people came forth from their palaces and courtyard flats, from the Avenue du Bois and the cellars of La Villette, seemingly to the neglect of their business or occupation to sun themselves like so many happy lizards.

After a long winter of damp and discontent, a winter that plunged souls into mediaeval broodlngs, it was really as if a new renaissance had come to the land of the Outdoor recreation for fashionable Parisians has been mostly confined to the races at Auteuil. That chic rendezvous is resuming its wonted gaiety. Automobile promenades and excursions are, of course, so popular as to become almost too democratic for the social world, up to the present so pent-up, but now so determined to plunge into the unlimited field of outdoor pleasure. SPRING STYLES BUDDING Novelties Shown In The Shops Of Fasbion-Lovln Paris. Copyright by New York Herald Company.

1906. Special to tho Baltimore Sun. Paris, March 10. Heads and hands of the Rue de la Paix have been at work during the long, dull days of winter on' the daintiest taffetas and mousselines, designated in advance by fashion experts. Now the realization is In sight, with its array of empire, princess and corselet styles of boleros and of tailor costumes.

Even sunshades have been smitten by the empire style. They are dainty little creations, with a wide flounce of lace gathered, at the top and descending over the border, also with a flounce. They are too slender for walking or even for automobile rides, for automobiles did not exist in the Empire days, but they are of the true note for carriages, or to be carried In the paddock at the races. It has been recently noticed on the streets of Paris that the new dresses, In styles made for American custom, cause more women to turn their heads for a close scrutiny than those designed specially for Parl-siennes. This is particularly the case with the charming tailor costumes, fancy boleros and short walking skirts.

LONDON GOES MAUVE MAD Shop "Windows Filled With Things Of The Prevailing: line. Oopjiight by New Xoik Herald Company, 1906. Special to tho Baltimore Sun. London, March 10. A week ago your correspondent referred to the celebration of th jubilee of Dr.

Perkin, who 50 years ago discovered mauve, and now London would seem to be smitten with mauve madness. Everything is mauve mauve blinds In every shop window and on every boarding; it is impossible to escape from this overpowering mauve, if mauve it can be called. It matters not where one observes these mauves, they shriek aloud from Burlington Arcade to Whitechapel, where the entire plate-glass shop front is devoted to neckties of a staggering tint, heralded as the very latest thing. The same applies to the woman, only more so. At least 70 per cent, of the hats displayed in Regent street shop windows are mauve in color.

The most pronounced hues in walking costumes and evening wear are mauve. The craze is rapidly spreading to chatelaines, purses, shoes, gloves, waist belts, even prayer books are mauve, and one cannot see the end of it. Mauve Is now becoming the fashionable color in soap and tooth powders, and mauve is being used almost exclusively for the ribbons which bind up the programs at the theatres. No box of sweetmeats is complete without a mauve ribbon, and mauve is even spreading to the linings of automobiles. Princess Ena In London.

London, March 10. Princess Ena of Battenberg, the future Queen of Spain, arrived here this evening and was met at the railroad station by the Spanish Ambassador Land other members of the embassy. The Princess proceeded to Kensington Palace. The Considerate Joker. "His jokes have no point to them." "I always know when to laugh." "You dot" "Yes, he always gives me a poke in the ribs when it is time." Houston PosU Rev.

H. R. Gamble Lectures On Christian Science. STRAW HATS AEE IN BLOOM Daring: Londoners Have Picked Some Before They Were Ripe-Paper Handkerchiefs Sanitary. Copyright by New York Herald Company, 1906.

Special to the Baltimore Sun. London, March 10. The announcement that a lecture on Christian Science was delivered in Holy Trinity Church Hall, Sloane Square, on Tuesday last has created some criticism of the rector of the church, Rev. H. R.

Gamble, whose view of Christian Science is that, while there i3 a great deal in it that a churchman can accept, it Is impossible for a man to be a Christian Scientist and a member of the Anglican Church. Archdeacon Sinclair informed a reporter, in answer to a question as to the Church of England's relationship to Christian Science, that he had recently preached a sermon on that subject, in which he pointed out that Christian Science, under appearance of an agreement with Christianity, was really full of perversions. There was one good point in the doctrine, he said, and that was the insistence on the power of faith. In connection with this question, it may be noted that a new "Church of Christ, Scientist," is in course of erection In Sloane Terrace, just off Sloane street. The building, part of which is already far advanced, is of white stone and includes a spacious reading room replete with books on the subject of Christian A new religious sect, the Millennial Dawn-ists, has been formed In Wharfedale, Yorkshire.

The adherents believe that man will not be endowed with a soul until the general resurrection, which is timed for 1915. Costly Palace Improvements. Some curious facts in relation to the maintenance of royal palaces have been revealed in the report of the auditors-general on the civil service and revenue accounts of the year 1904-5, Just issued. The extension of the electric lighting In the state rooms and other apartments of St. James' Palace, which is partly in the occupation of the King, cost Wine cellars were constructed which cost $5,400.

Almost $20,000 has now been expended installing the electric light at Windsor Castle. Laying down india-rubber under the arches of the main entrances of Buckingham Palace so as to obviate the noise of vehicles driving through cost $1,725. At Hampton Court Palace $3,240 has been expended on altering and enlarging the famous vinery. Altogether $16,725 less than Parliament voted was spent on the royal palaces, the total outlay being $294,745. A Week Of Fine Weather.

London has been wearing an air of positive gayety this week, because of the glorious weather. It has shaken off its winter-worn appearance and Is all day long In floods of warm sunshine under skies of cobalt blue. It is not a foretaste of spring, but of summer. Even Father Thames is smiling the whole length of London, and it is delightful to see the sunlight play once more where fog, gloom, cold and dismalness have been all too frequent. The parks now present such a spectacle of beauty and pleasure as is rarely seen at this time of the year, thousands of spring flowers having burst Into bloom.

The men have been discarding even the lightest of overcoats in the daytime, some being. even brave enough to don straw hats, creating something of a sensation and occasional cheers for their temerity as they strolled through Hyde Park. But if the men seemed glad to slip the somber garb imposed by winter, the women have left no doubt as to their sentiments. In Bond street, Pall Mall, in the parks, everywhere they can be seen wearing exquisite creations of the milliner's art, silks and other delicate dress fabrics, the effect of spring's Joyous opening. There seems to be a distinct revival among Londoners of the worship of color, nearly every other woman wearing flowers in her hat another return to the old custom not affected to any great extent of late years.

In the restaurants spring vegetables figure prominently on the bills of fare, and the garnishments of the table tell of the sudden change to ever-welcome spring. Alarmed About Petrol. Now that automobillng Is proceeding so rapidly, the petrol problem is beginning to create no little alarm. It is certainly going up in price, and It is anticipated that as time goes on it will increase more and more. Unless new sources are discovered, the available supply cannot prove equal to the enormous and ever-growing demand now made upon it.

America has hitherto supplied the bulk of the petrol, but as the demand on that side has grown so rapidly the fear is expressed here that America will soon cease to export it in any considerable quantity. A writer in the Daily Mail suggests that It is now time for all the organizations Interested In automobillng to make careful experiments with industrial alcohol, petro leum and those coal-tar derivatives which can be employed as fuels. It Is computed at present that close to 15,000,000 gallons of petrol are consumed annually In this country, and In the near future the consumption will Increase enormously. This estimation is based, among other things, on the fact that 500 motor omnibuses will shortly be In commission, and that they will run 100 miles a day for 300 days a year and use a gallon of petrol every five miles. The consumption under this head alone would amount to 3,000.000 gallons a year.

Paper Handkerchiefs For Health. Several leading London physicians are now-advocating the-use of a handkerchief made of This Is not only with the idea of preventing the spread of consump tion, but a myriad of other diseases. It is argued that a linen handkerchief which la carried in the pocket and becomes heated is necessarily a disseminator of undesirable germs, and, with the aid of the laundries, a constant circulation of deadly organisms is kept up. It is customary In many English sana- toriums to provide the patients with paper handkerchiefs, which after nse are placed in receptacles where they are immediately cremated. Most of the handkerchiefs used In these sanatoriums are of Japanese make, as the English made have not come into great favor on account of their being much harder in texture than the Japanese.

TAKE PUNISHMENT MILDLY African Chiefs Pined For Rising Against The British. Mapumulo, 'Natal, March 10. An Impressive spectacle was witnessed here today when, the chiefs of the district and scores of tribesmen came in to hear the decision of the military commander with regard to the rising of natives in February. The commander fined Chief Gobizembe and his tribe 1,200 cattle, 3,500 sheep and goats and dispossessed the tribe from a portion of their territory. The chiefs admitted that the punishment was Just, but requested a lessening of their taxes.

Large Sum For Quake Sufferers. Rome, March 10. Premier Sonnino today introduced a bill in the Chamber of Deputies for an appropriation of $1,200,000 for the sufferers from the earthquakes in Calabria, thus completing measures looking to regeneration in the south which are without precedent since the kingdom of tha two Sicilies Joined United Italy. That blossoms in the lea. "Ij The sturdy onion is the plant That seemeth good to me.

And when these two with proper skill Are daintily combined What higher, more ecstatic joy Can mortal hope to find -Washington Star, It was hile engaged in mining la the.