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BOSTON EVENING TBANSOKIPT. FBIDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1904 12 Cfrarittrs SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ALL HEAVY SHIPS SUNK corrmuEo reom pauz one The American embassy at SL Petersburg promptly notified the Washington authorities of the manner In which appeal should be lodged but the papers for the appeal only arrived after the decision of the Admiralty Court had been rendered last Saturday. The British owner of 3500 rack of flour, leg than half the amount In dispute, had regularly entered an appeal, and in accordance with a decision of the Foreign Office, reached some time ago, and communicated to the United State, there being no evidence that this flour wag destined for the use of the enemy forces, the decision of the Vladivostock Court was versed.

North Adams, presented the statue to the college In the name of the students of Itkil. Rev. Joseph F. Hanselman president of the college, accepted It. In evening the reception of members Into tr.u society of tlie Immaculate Conception won held.

Rev. John II. O'Rourke delivered the reception uddress. Literary and musical exercises followed. Among the speakers was David IL Hoar.

liKli. of Springfield, whoso subject was "Sixty Years Ago at Holy Ciosa." Civil Service Reform Literature for Schools The Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Auxiliary offers, free of all expense, pamphlet on civil service reform to all the high school, normal school and colleges willing to make these pamphlets the subject of a lesson in thetr civics course. During the past three years over 70.1100 of tlie Itamphlet huve born distributed to about liNm school und eolkge scattered through-tint every State and Territory of the I'nitcd States. Thn titles of the two pamphlet wlios? educational value liu been so widely recognised by our teachers are "The Merit System Tlie Spoil System." by Edward Cary, and The Merit System In Municipalities" by Clinton Rogers Woodruff. As the cir-rulution of this offer directly to the head of the college and school must of necessity be gruduul, the Massachusetts Auxiliary take pleasure in announcing to teachers and other Interested In the subject thnt copies of tlie above pamphlet together with other of It publications may be obtained free on application to the assistant secretary.

Miss Marian C. Nichols, 35 Mount Vernon street. Boston, Mass. Princeton Professor Resigns The quarterly meeting of the trustees of Princeton Lnlverslly was held yesterday. Archibald D.

Russell of Princeton was elected a life member of the board in the place of J. K. Cowan of Baltimore, and Professor John Dewitt. HI. of Princeton Seminary, was elected a life member In place of the late Rev.

Dr. William M. Paxton. A gift of $2anu was announced from Philip N. Jackson of Newark, to establish a scholarship In memory of his son.

Ten l3n scholarship for needy men who succeed In getting the highest standing in their studies anil thirty $123 scholarships for men getting second place were created from the Income derived from scholarship founded prior to The most Important action of the board, however, wa to accept the resignation of Charles A. Young, professor of astronomy In the university to take effect at the end of the academic year. He was made professor (Vneritu. Professor Young, or Twinkle," a lie 1 affectionately called by the student, has held the chair in astronomy at Princeton since 177. Medical Scholars Receive The three upper classes of the Tufts College Medical and Dental School tendered a very pleasant reception to the freshmen class at Exeter Chambers.

Thursday evening. A choice miscellaneous programme was given, which included a violin solo by Miss Fiske. songs by Mr. Barber of Worcester, a reading by Miss Capcn, daughter of President Capon of Tufts; a group of piano selections by Miss Brigham of tills city, nnd a duet by Mrs. Shirley of Allston and Mr.

Barber. There also was an address by Mis Morse of Tuft College. Xolre Dame tulversltys Jubilee The celebration of the golden Jubilee of the Immaculate conception, at Notre Dame IT.iversIty at South Bend. was presided over yesterday by Arrhbithiip Agin, apostolic delegate to the Philippines. In addressing the students the archbishop declared that hi mission to the archipelago wa "to restore peace, to assist the Filipinos in their legitimate aspirations, and to encourage them to be loyal to the present Government.

He said the pope told him to go not as a politician, but a an apostle." womens sodality of the Immaculate Conception Church. Thaddeoa H. Vpearer Mr. Thaddeua H. Spencer died at his home in Rufileld.

Conn. Wednesday. He was horn In July. IHL'i. He was graduated at the Oonnectkml Literary Institution In 112.

In bit he was elected a representative from SufflrliL He also represented the town in the lieneral Assembly In 1S77 and 17. He was first selectman of the town for five terms, beginning in 171. lie was elected county commissioner In 17 and served for thirteen year. For thirty-three consecutive terms he waa treasurer of the CMineclicut Literary Institution, and for twenty-focr years trustee of the Suf-ftetd Savngs Hank. Mr.

ami Mrs. Spencer celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 1I. Samuel S. Mitchell.

Artist Mr. Samuel S. Mitchell, an artist, who tv turned from Europe last Saturday, died In St. Vincents Hospital. Now York.

Wednesday. A graduate of Williams Od-Um nnd fducnlfd fr thf ministry Mr. Mitchell ssent the larger part his life abroad in artistic pursuits. His painting dealt largely with architectural subjects. aa.J has been much admired, particularly his work In Egypt.

Two Veteran af Civil War Mr. Hugh Lovett, a Civil War veteran, who had been an Inmate of the Soldiers Home. Chelsea. for almost the longest time of any there now. la dead.

Mr. Lovett served as a seaman on board the Sacramento and other ships of the United States Nary during the war. He was a native of Charlestown, and was sixty-nine years old. He entered the home on June 1SW, and had been there continuously ever since. Mareheaa fasts asm Pareto Marchess Costanxa Pareto has Just died In tlenoa at the age of eighty-three.

She was Mtdiaed by the followers of Max-Tini owing to the protection she afforded in sr.7 to Joseph Masxlnl. whom she onrealed from the police when he came tieno.i to organise the revolutionary movement. She was a Miss Fitzgerald. Captain Kraarls Jahasaa Captain Francis Johnson of East Boston -lied yesterday morning at his home. 217 Paris street, lie was born in Norway sixty-five year ago.

but when young ramc to iboton. lie was employed on the East Boston ferries about thirty-four year. Mr. Charles 8. Hites, thirty-seven year hi.

a wealthy rlulunnn and polo player, lie! at his home in Upper New Itochelle. vesterdny. Like his rousin. Pally" Bates. was a great lover of horses, and owne I i large number of high steppers anti c-taeh horse whirh won ribbon at the New York tii.

Westchester shows. Mr. Bates was a of the Westchester Country Club, in I ployed pilo with the elu'o team until a years ng-. He was a member of the Kcollwnnd. Lart'hmont Yacht.

Racquet and -tl-er rlults. Mr. Dana -I P. Ilsley. an old nnd well-known retired business man of Chelsea.

Is lend at his home. 1 t.ardner street, that -ity. Mr. Ilsley was horn in Portland. -ixty-seven years ag-.

and came to Chelsea when a young man. Formerly he was engaged in the manufacture of harnesses in this city. I Hiring the Civil War l-e served a sergeant in Company H. Forty-Third Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. After a checkered career from the roped irena to the vautlcvilie stage.

Waiter fameisnn. best known as Sam Collyer, of the List of tlie old-time pugilists, died heart disease Wednesday at his home Brooklyn. Passed Assistant Engineer Elwin T. Plill-lippi. I.

A retired, died of phthisis pul-ait rat Is. in Harrisburg. P.i.. Prr. 4.

He was sixty-five year old. Iev. Father Wlltiam Krueger, a famous pries: physician, died at home In Epiphany. A of apoplexy. He had been note! in this country and Europe for wondeiful cures.

JOSEPH W. COLLINS DEAD He Waa Chairman af the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission and Waa an Expert oa Matters Pertaining to Pisca-cnltare Bad Received Many Honors from Abroad Captain Joseph V. ColUna. chairman of Uie MiwurhiwIU Ftsih anti Gam C'om-nlMhm. died at hi home in Brighton at MU oclock this morning.

lie waa horn In Ileborot Auk. IVW. being (he aon of DnviJ and Elisa R. (Sawyer) Collin, lie received hia primary education In the a null country achoola. but ntnklnK up hia mind to learn more, he received the renter part of his education on ahlpbnurd.

studying by himself. Ever since the aee of ten. he had been associated with the aca. At hen tail a smaii by he workctl on achottner. and early in his manhood commanded ves-s la aa Hints out of (ilnawtm In March I.

he was married in hi native town to Itiullne Coomb. Bh died ii ivt. A IVM. lie waa acain married, on April II. WT.

to Aillie Atkinson, at lVaV lie was appointed to make inquiries Into the fisheries of New Knaiuihl fr the tenth census. and for tlie Inlletl States Kish fommission. wllli which he remalnel until December. IWi lie waa on the alJlf or the 1niied State Commander of Fisheries at She Exposition in Iter-tin In 1 ami In London in I. lie was the United State commlsaioner to the Bergen Exposition In Norway.

Wt He received the appointment of chief of the Division of Klsherie of the Initcd States Fisk Commission in lv. and waa chir ol the Department of Fisherle at the or.d Columbian Exposition. He had been secretary of the Naval Aich-tecture anti Initetl State National Mu seum; was one of the contributors to tht Century ifictionary. anJ at one time the ed'tor of the Fishing Outvie, lie was made president of the Commercl il cries Asstwiatlon In and of St. Olaf by the Norwegian Government in IMS.

At the time of his death he was a memi-er or numerous foreign fishery anti scientiH-melt ties. In I' he was a ward a til plt.nia for an inventbn at Ibrlin. In Ijti dtm he was tslven two silver melals ftu different intentions and other vices rendered the I.rilish Government Captain Collins was presented with a ape rial gold for his service in Germany an I a medal of honor in a one of flours mixers of the Worlds Columbian Exposition." He waa the author of mart papers and report on various fish millets. Since Captain Collins appointment as chairman of the Fish and iSamc Comm- slop, the output of flail fry. lias increased seven or rich! time over, -many and yearling.

Ref-n his appointment the distribution was roti fined to fry of trout an I I.n.!lckel salmon, but since, there has been a great lncrea--In the capacity of the hatcheries. man new varieties have teen Ir.t minced, incln I inr three species of trout; the "tul system of rearing trout and salmon fry to linger liiics kif been inaugurated: the firs, lime l.indlockej salmon have artwn nmrl tv maturity In the water of the State; Ifco policy of examining ponds for procure, merit of data necessary for rto-khc them Intelligently haa been established: the enforcement of the law again! stream polu Lon has begun; a a result of the enforce ment of the game to came lias become more plentiful than for many years. Captain Collins secured the introduction of power-driven vessels for fish ing; improved methods for tucking Rsb on vessel: an improvement in the herring trpde; and the enlargement of the market for cod roe in Europe. In December. hi salary was raise I from INo to He had an office at the State House, and performed the duties of chief game warden of the State.

In-specter general of flsh. secretary, auditor and statistician of the board. His work Included the writing of two thousand rages of letter annually, ami the distribution of from l'W to page of printed documents. The board of which he was I now has ch irge of nil questions of Ash culture; the erection of fishways; examination of streams and ponds; breeding, rearing and distribution of game, birds and animals; the enforcement of the Ash and game laws by a well-organized force of deputies; the rol-Ici-tion of statistics; supervision of the In-spcctloa of Ash; anti study of fans in relation to sea fisheries. The board controls four fish hatcheries, two stations for breel-ing game birds and one lor breeding game animals.

THE HECT.ISK OK THE PROFESSOR Salaries la Collettes Less Than Thirty Years Ago A Corresponding Polling Off In the Rnallty of the Teaehlng The college chair Is no longer the attractive nnd remunerative position that It was thirty years ngo, is the conclusion of Iro-fessor John J. Stevenson of New York lnl-vcrslty. writing in the December Popular Science Monthly. In' spite of the great Increase In gifts to colleges during that time, salaries have actually decreased. The Increase In the number of new buildings and new courrcs to meet the demands of tlie stMullly rising dood of students tins nat been accompanied by a commensurate Increase In the mount of money to he devote I to the payment of salaries.

"It is by no means for a college, on the retircme.it of professor, to divide Hie chair, employing young men at salaries which, amount to little more than tlie single safftry fixed many years before." Professor Stevenson says: The time lias come to Impress upon the community the necessity for endowment, that qualified instructor may lie obtained so a to utilize properly the building and equipment already provided so generously. The college Is not here to cultivate public taste In urrhltecture or even to restore the Grecian games; primarily. It purimse is to train men for lifes struggle; secondarily. to advance the world wclfure by Investigation. Without a thoroughly efficient staff of Instructors the college is a farce, no matter how magnificent Its plant may b-f.

how numerous the students or the victories in athletic contests. prolonged effort to otitaln building has obscured this fact, and now, with Increased cost of maintaining ground and building, with Increased and Increasing numlier of Instructor to satisfy Incessant demands for now courses which those in authority have rot the moral courage to deny with constantly Increasing number of students and with practically no compensating Increase of income from endowments. the ability of colleges to pay salaries deserving of the name ha disappeared. Nowhere in the Inlted States nre there salaries which mean more titan a very modet living. The result of this condition of affairs ha been the bringing forward of Incompetent men or of men wist arc not entirely dependent on their salaries: The proiect of spending seven year in preparation, of working afterward a an assistant for several year at a salary of $7oo or no.

for several year more at a small advance, and of attaining by middle age a salary not much greater titan the wage a switchman In an Eastern railway yard, with at the end little hope of a pension. Is by no mean alluring to a man unwilling to remain celibate tliroughoaf llie. Though fal young men In tlie higher classes of our colleges recognize till condition nnd recognize also that the compensating privileges of social standing nnd leisure for research have been reduced to the minimum. Till feeling respecting tlie status of American professors Is widespread that, unless the condition arc modilh'-l the next generation will see a notable t-hunge In type of professors: some will lie teacher because unwilling to be anything else; some will be men of independent means desiring a not to burdensome occupation; a large projrt ion will consist of men carried along on scholarship and fellowships Into a profession for which they have neither fltnes nor Inclination-perfunctory teachers, lamenting their fate In being compelled to "waste themselves on a parrel of loys." Harvard I alverslty Xofea Ireshli-nt Eliot left Cambridge this morning for New York, where lie will give tliri-e addresses. This evening he will nthlress the Round Table, a society eomimsed largely of principals and teachers to the New York school, on "College Entrance Examinations and the Ccrtlfl-ate Method as Related to the Educational Ideal." Tomorrow morning he I to speak before the New York Schoolmasters Assoelathm.

and In the evening. In Cooper 1'nlon. he will speak under the auspice of the New York department of education, on "The Cliurar-teristlc American Faith In Education. The programme announced for commemorative exercise In the Fogg lecture-room. on the afternoon of Jan.

the one hundredth anniversary of tlie birthday of Schiller. President Eliot will preside. V. It. Thayer.

SI. will speak on Tlie International Position of Schiller. and Professor Francke on "The Message of Schiller to the Modern Life. Professor Munster-herg will draw a comparison lictween Schiller and Goethe, and will close the exercise by rending the epilogue written by Goethe for the representation of Schiller "Glocke. which waa given In Weimar In 1M3.

at the tenth anniversary hi death. ITofessor Borden Tarker Bowne of Boston Inlvcrslty is to eak under the auspices of the Philosophical Club, on the evening of Friday. Dec. 1A. on "A Report from the Philosophical Field." Tlie History Club announces a lecture by 'Jnul Milyoukov of the Inlverslty of St.

ivt-rburg. to he given In Sander Theatre on Wednesday afternoon. Dec. 21. at 4.a.

on "The Origin of Rulan Socialism." Through tlie kindness of A. F. Sweet of Malden the IVabody Museum has received a valuable collection of implement and it capons from a number of Islunds in the lariflr. Dr. J.

S. Mlxter bus presented tlie Museum with an Interesting collection of chopped Jaler Instrument from Grand Lake. Washington County. Me. l.labt la Darkest Africa Twenty-live years ago there w.i not a single school in Central Africa.

Today there are nearly 17o in Hie I.lvingstonia Mission alone. Twenty-five years ago no one in Central Africa knew a letter of the alphabet. Today then- are more Ilian 1.1111 scholars In tlie schools. Twenty-live years ago there was no liristlnn in nil the country. Today native teachers preach Christ tn the villages every Sabbath day.

Twenty year ngo there was hut one Inquirer after Christ. loist year there were more than catechumens In the baptism classes, and In a single day at one of the stations more than Bun adult were received by baptism Into the Church or God. Ip to 1B slave caravan were an numerous a ever. Today a strong ltrltisa protectorate has made slave raiding impossible. and this much Is certain thnt if Christianity lind not entered Nyasaland there would he no British administration there today, nnd Central Africa would still he a land of darkness, of spoliation, ami of blood.

Each week volunteer evangelist go out two by two from the mission. No ay I given them, but a few bend are usually famished to enable them to buy food at the distant sVHlons. To reach these tlie evangel lt have leave on Saturday afternoon. descend some feel to tlie sluire and walk tram five to ten miles along rough broken path to tlielr destination. They return on Monday In time for afti-r-ronn school.

In till way sometimes not less than forty-four village services are held in a day. Southern Workman. Ilnlv I'rntt Celebration The faculty and students of Holy Crass College observed yesterday the fiftieth in-nlvtrsary of the prot-kimatton of the dogma of the immaculate conception of the rgu Mary. A new statue of the Virgin. Just outside the entrance, to the college, was dedicated.

The sermon was by Rev. Michael A. O'Kanc. a former president of Hie rollege. James P.

Campbell. Hl. of cck flaektf A splendid variety in port and metal ranging in price frem yc upwards. Thorp Martin Co. 64 FRANKLIN 5T.

BOSTON ARTLCX AND FAUX SCHOOL mw INDIGENT BOYS. (Legal THIa) NstaolunvO In 1M4 incuiui tad la 1835, This private industrial school, popular! known as Farm School, sltuntod on Thomo-on'a Island. Boston Harbor. Ota worthy or- Shan boys (or useful occupations. Detailed In-irmation will be gludly furnished by Charles H.

Bradley. P. O. Box 148K. Boston, and bequest and donations which nre much needed for current expense and increasing demands may be sent to Arthur Adams, Treasurer Adams Trust Company.

Congress Bos ton. Mass. to Jy The Xassachutett General Hospital (Xezal title), hatabiianei In lall. The reputation of Mil noble Institution 1 that It opportunities for aiding suffering human. Ity are limited only by Its facilities and financial resources.

Bequests and Donations for n-ar bnildlnos. or as funds for speciel purposes, or for the dally needs of Its hospltsls. sre much nsedsd. and can be made to FRANKLIN HAVEN. Merchants Natlannl Rank.

Boston. HOME FOR AGED COUPLES (Legal Title) Incorporated In 184. The importance of this first Home for Aged Couples In Massachusetts la well known. Requests and donations are solicited. All Information can be obtained by addressing ELIZABETH ABBOTT CARLETUN.

President. 30 Union Park. Boston. Mass. 7t transfer to Russia of Argentine and Chilean warships.

Japanese Officers Casualty List Tokio, Dec. 9 Imperial army headquarter has published the list of thirty-six officers killed and fifty-eight wounded. No mentfon Is made of where these casualties occurred, but it was presumably at Port Arthur. DIVERS GOOD CAUSES Bnolcer Washington Offers To ths Editor of ths Transcript: For a number of years It has been a privilege and a satisfaction at about this season to say to the readers of your paper that I shall be very glad to serve as a medium to distribute Christmas cards or other Christmas remembrances among the class of colored children In the South who will have little to brighten the holiday season. The response to this suggestion in the past has been most satisfactory.

Address as below: Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. DR. TEl'SLER OF ST. Ll'KE'S HOSPITAL, TOKIO To the Editor of the Transcript: After all our emotional sympathy for the brave Japaneae during these last months.

It come a a relief that a practical way is to be offered us next week of proving that sympathy genuine. Dr. Teualer of St. Lukes Hospital, Tok! comes to Boston hoping to receive a part of the which he needs to enlarge the hospital, the demands on It having far outgrown its capacity. The results obtained have clearly demonstrated that the work will be self-supporting; but it would take a long time to save enough money to purchase the necessary land and erect new buildings.

The city contains many small hospitals managed as private enterprises by individual physicians. These are, aa a rule, poorly equipped and indifferently conducted. There are a few larger Institution, but SL Luke's I the only hospital in the empire equipped for the proper care of foreigners. It is the only mission hospital in the whole of the Tokio diocese, in a population of nearly B.dftO.nilii. Dr.

Teuslt-r will tell about his work in Trinity Chapel on Wednesday, the 14th of December, at 8 P. M. It is hoped that as the meeting I In the evening, men as well as women Interested in missions will come, and learn more In detail of the good work and the needs of the present time. Last March the hospital was tendered the Japanese Government for use in the present war. should the military hospital become overcrowded.

Genera Yoranki. head of the War Office In Tokio, accepted the offer in case the need should arise. H. L. Scudder 230 Newbury street.

Boston. THE AGE OK A CROW A Tag Would Indicate That One Lived More Than Twenty Years Orrvilie Correspondence Toror.tj Globe A farmer living near Orrvilie. lias just received a much prised little aluminum plate marked as follows: "Return to George McCarren. Orrvilie, Ohio. with which an Interesting story is connected.

George McCarren. father of the man who received the little billet of aluminum, wa an eccentric naturalist, and spent much time in the study of birds und insects. During McCarren's youth, about twenty years ago, he says he remembers being told by his father, the elder McCarren, of a dispute the latter had had with a fellow naturalist of Akron. Ohio, as to the age to be attained by a common crow, and finally to settle th? matter McCarren attached an aluminum tag to a crow captured In the fields and sent the bird forth with the plate securely fastened to Its neck by wires. The legend on the plate requested the finder to return it to McCarren in case anything should happen to the bird.

As McCarren. remembers it. the two men made a bet as to whether the plate would be returned within twenty years. If the crow were kilied or died they counted on the little billet being found and returned to the address on the plate. If this were not returned they belleved it would be sufficient evidence that tlie bird would be still alive.

McCarren bet that the plate would not he returned within that time; lienee he won the bet. The crow was killed by a farmer boy named Angers ia Holmes County last week, and the billot returned to the son ol the better, the elder McCarren having died before he could realise the proceeds and the satisfaction of winning his wager. The little billet is highly prized by the McCar-rens as a memento of the father's eccentricity. THE USEFUL CARPENTER IFnnn the Baltimore Sun During the inspection of the Hospital Corps of the Fourth Maryland Regiment recently, one of the members was asked his occupation. I am a carpenter, the man replied.

Why. what can you do for the corps? inquired the inspector, as the hospital corps of a regiment Is generally composed of pharmacists and medical students." "I can make coffins, was the eply, and It was eminently satisfactory. Samples of the Finest Glassware Porcelain and BKIC-A-BRAC tho produces are on sale for a limited time at 172 TREMONT ST having been brought direct from the St. Louis Exposition, where the exhibit received 3 Grand Prizes and Gold Medal. EXQUISITE GIFTS tfimaixii Olxsswxr.

Sock Crystal Txbl. ware, showing over 60 different tint and enamels. Xoyal Dux Ivory Porcelains, Salvator and Amphora Art Porcelains, etc do Before Port Arthur, via Fusan, Dec. On the night of Nov. 2U ths Japanese established Infantry trenches inside the parapets of the two Rihlung and the North Keekwen forte, but on the following day they were compelled to retire beyond the moats.

8la then there has been practically no fighting done along the Incline of the i-nxtrru ridge of forte, the mein strength of the Japanese troops having been concentrated to effect the capture of 203-Metre Hill. The battleship Pobleda haa keeled over la the harbor and Is now burning. The battleship Retvl-xnn and the turret ship Poltava have been sunk. The armored cruiser Bayan ha beached. The other vessels are making no effort to escape.

On the morning of Dec. 2 the KussUtna granted iicrmlsaion to the Japanese to gather their dtad and wounded from the eastern fort ridge fight of Nov. 20. Last Tuesday the same concession waa asked for by the Russians concerning JKLMetre Hill. The request was granted, but the privilege was with drawn today.

In the fighting of Nov. Bo the second aon of General Nogl was killed on 203-Metre Hill. General Nogi'e eldest aon was killed In the battle of Nanshan, and he Is now chlldlew. In effecting the capture of 3Kt-Me'tre Hill the Japanese drenched the tlmberwork of the trenches with kerosene and started a furious fire, which was fanned by a strong gale. The Japanese advance was very slow; they were obliged to make roads pith bags earth.

It waa a sudden decision to make a night attack that brought victory to the Japanese. Nothing Is yet officially given ou 1 the extent of the Japanese casualties. TOGOS FLEET OFF PORT ARTHVRI Lightship from NewChwang Heports ege Ships Oatalde Hussion Harbor Che Foo, Dec. 9' The lightship which was stationed at NewChwang arrived here yesterday. having left the station In anticipation of the immediate closing of the Liao River by Ice- Her commander reports having seen four Japanese battleships, three cruisers and ten torpedo boats outside of Port Arthur.

He believe the entire Japanese fleet is now there. NOT TO SEND BLACK PEA FLEET Russias Decision Authoritatively Announced Will Pend Third Battle Squadron St. Petersburg. Dec. 9' The authorised announcement is made that Russia has no Intention of sending the Black Sea fleet to reinforce Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron.

It Is. however, Russias purpose to despatch a third squadron from the Baltic a soon us It can be made ready. This decision was taken at the aame time that It was decided to send out the second Pacific squadron. The third squadron will consist of five armorclads, four cruisers, ten torpedo boats, two transport and two hospital ships. ALL HEAVY PHI HP DESTROYED Only Hussion Torpedo Bouts and Transport Now Left About at Port Arthsr Ir.don, Dec.

9 The Daily Telegraphs correspondent before Port Arthur telegraph that all of tlie Russian battleship and crulner. together with the gunboat Giliak and Fusudencck were sunk or destroyed. and that only the torpedo boat destroyer remain intact. According lu special despatches from Tokio via Shanghai. giving unofficial reports, the crews of all the Russian war vessel in the harbor of rort Arthur were landed, and apparently no effort wa made to move the vessel.

The Japanese will now turn tlielr attention to the torpedo boat destroyer and when thene have been destroyed, the gun will be directed against steamers and transport In the harbor. A despatch to the Japanese legation from Tokio, dated today, says: "The naval staff at Port Arthur reports that on Thursday evening the Pallniln (protected cruiser) was set on fire and heeled to port with her stern sunk. Eleven shot hit the Giliak (gur.hoaO. Tlie Bayan (armored cruiser) took fire at 11.30 and is still ablaze at 4.13 P. M.

The Amur (transport) wa hit fourteen times and sank. Many shut greatly damaged the warehouse and other building near Pclyu mountain and the arsenal." COLD TROUBLES JAPANESE? Prisoners Taken Along the Shskhe Are, However, Well Fed Russian Shrapnel Causes Much Trouble from Defective Construction Many Shells Fail to Explode Moukden. Dec. 9 Numerous Japanese prisoners are being brought in as a result of constant night sorties. The Siberian especially delight In tills sort of work, and seem to regard the stalking and capturing of picket and sentries as exhilarating sport.

Some of the prisoner declare that the prevailing inactivity Is having a. greatly depressing Influence oa the masses of the Japanese troops. Other of the captive refuse to answer questions. The Japanese evidently are not short of food, but the cold I extremely trying to them. Lieutenant General Unvltch had a narrow escape from death recently.

He had approached within a thousand yards of a Japanese battery when a shell dropped near his siaff and killed an enlisted man. The Russians continue to bombard the Japanese position with both heavy and light artillery. The Japanese response 1 feeble. The Russian have experienced much difficulty with their shrapnel, which should have effectually checked the Japanese attack during the battle of Sliakhe, but failed In many case. Some of the consignment of shrapne sent to the front appear to have been almost worthless, not from any radical defect In the Russian time fuse, as that has proved throughout the war to bo a very satisfactory device, but from poor construction of the shells.

One Instance was particularly nosed. When the correspondent was with PhllemoncfTa battery the Japanese Infantry advanced to attack a Russian position and came under the battery' range a numlier of time while crossing a tract of broken ground. The battery had the range and sent five shells over the column, all timed to burnt above the rank. But they flew harmlessly overhead and buried themselves In the ground beyond without exploding. The time fuse was set for shorter and shorter intervals with no better results, only one aliell in several dozen exploding.

The weather Is turning much colder. Japanese prisoners report that the prolongation of the war is exhausting Japan and causing much discontent. the censorship of the prass being so strict thnt the papers do not voice the sentiments of the people. AMERICAN CHANCE LOST Revision of Russian Contraband Rules on Railway Material Missed by Delay ia Appeal Papers ia Arabia Case Decision Unlikely, It Is Said, to Be Reopened on This Case St. Petersburg.

Dee. Through the failure of the Americans Interested in the cargo of the German steamer Arabia, confiscated by the Vladivnsiock Prize Court, to lodge an appeal, their case not only went by default before the Admiralty Appeal Court, but the Inited States Government lost an opportunity to obtain a decision on the question of railway material, which might hnve formed a basis for a renewal by the Inlted States of diplomatic representation regarding such article no conditional contraband. The cargo originally confiscated consisted of about pounds of flour and railway material and machinery bound for Japanese ports. Mr. Berllne.

who represents some of the American claimants, think there la still a possibility of reopening tho case on account of the unavoidable delay incident to the preparation and forwarding of the papers because of the great distance. Rteblln Kaiminsky, procurator of the admiralty, considers that tho case I permanently closed on the ground that the Americans with due notice, failed to enter an appeal. The flour would, of course, have been released. he says, and also the machinery; hut he expresses the positive con- Ictlon that the court would not have reversed the decision ot the lower court tn the case of the railroad material, the Russian view being that railroad material, whether consigned direct to the Government or not. would be used In building railroads, which would be employed for the transportation of troops and munitions of war.

The impression also exists official circles that the Americans having failed to exhort legal remedies In the Russian courts, the United States Government is estopped from reopening the case through diplomatic channels. M. Kalminsky say that neither the Knight Commanded nor the Chlchas case, in both of which American are Interested, will come up on appeal until after the middle of January. The News for Twenty-Four Hours Summary of War Despatches from the Far East It Is reported that all the heavy Russian warships at Port Arthur hnve been destroyed or sunk by the Japanese bombard- ment, which is now cencentrated on the torpedo craft, transports and other unarmed vessels In the harbor. There has been no fighting-at the northeast forts since the night of Nov.

2ft, when the Japanese Infantry penetrated the parapets at Rihlung and North Keekwan forts and threw up trenches on the inside: they were forced to withdraw, and the concentration of the Japanese forces for the attack on Metre Hill ended the attacks on the east for the time being. In the attack on Metre Hill the Japanese snaked the timber structures with kerosene nnd set them afire. Captured Japanese belonging to the Shakhe forces are said to show suffering from the cold, though evidently well fed. The Russian batteries are said to be troubled with defective shrapnel shells which for the most part fail to explode. It Is reported that all of Togos heavy warship are on watch outside the harbor of Port Arthur.

It Is reported that Charles R. Flint of New York is about to sell fourteen dynamite guns to Turkey. The British Foreign Office repudiates the St. Petersburg story of a plan to secure from Turkey right to erect a great fortification opposite Perltn Island, to command the Red Sea. It has been decided not to attempt to send the Black Sea fleet to he Far East, but It Is expected that a third Baltic squadron will be started as soon as the necessary ships can be got ready.

Delay In the forwarding of an appeal to the Russian Admiralty court has lost to America the chance of raising the status of railway materials, under the Russian seizure of the German steamer Arabia. GERMANY IS SATISFIED British and Japaneae Action Concerning German Ship Held Entirely Correct Berlin. Dec. 9 Germany Is not taking cognisance of the British Government's action in refusing to permit the German steamer Captain IV. Monll to sail from Cardiff with for the Russian fleet.

The Foreign Office says Germany has no cause for complaint. Great Britain's step being Justifiable from the standpoint of the foreign enlistment act, which explicitly declares that coaling a neutral vessel In British waters to "follow'' a belligerent fleet is unlawful. Germany recognizes that the Japanese prize court at Sasebo correctly decided that the German steamer Veteran, captured by the Japanese while trying to run the blockade of Port Arthur, is a lawful prize. The German position Is that the vessel was trying to run the blockade, and that she must take the consequences if captured. CHANGE IN JAPAN'S BUDGET? Certain Proponed Tnxe Likely to Be Abandoned Giving to Popular Opposition Tokio.

Dec. 9 The ministers of state and party leaders today Informally dilcunned tlie budget. It Is rrobabla that a compromise arrangement will reached, the proposed Increase of certain taxes not meeting with popular approval and the new loan will be floated to meet the consequent deficit. THE AMERICA A JAPANESE CRUISER Steamer of Paelfle Line from San Francisco Token by Tokio Government San Francisco. Dec.

9 News was received here today that the Japanese liner America of the Toyo Kisen Kais'na Company has been commandeered by the Japanese Government and will be placed In commission a an auxiliary cruiser. She was scheduled to leave Yokohama today for this city. As a result of the liner being taken from the route no vessel of the line will sail from here for the Orient on Jan. fl, as lias boon scheduled. NO "RED SEA GIBRALTAR" British Foreign Office Denies Story of Strnoge Compact with Turkey Dec.

9 The Foreign Office says there i no foundation for the story that Great Britain has offered Turkey money to buy Argentine and Chilean warships in return for concessions which would permit Great Britain to erect a second Gibraltar on the coast of Yemen, which would give Great Britain control of the lower entrance to the Red Sea. I.oonii to Went Point with Faablml Washington. Dee. 9 The assiHiant secretary of state. Mr.

Loomis, left with Colonel Thomas Symons of the army for New York today to escort Prince Fushimi to West Point on Saturday, when the prince will again be the nation's guest. Mr. Immi will respond to the toast "The President of the United States." at the request of. the American Asiastlc Association dinner in New York on the evening of Dec. 12.

In honor of Prince Fushimi. C'nr Receive Persian Gift St. Petersburg. Dec. 9 At nn audience with the emperor yesterday Mirza Riza Khan, former minister of Persia to St.

Petersburg, and at present Iersian ambassador at Constantinople, handed to the emperor an autograph letter from the Shah of Persia and a pearl necklace for the empress, together with the shah's portrait set In diamonds for the czarevitch. Turkey, to Buy Dynamite Gun? Constantinople, Dec. 9 Charles K. Flint of New York Is here completing negotiations for the sale of fourteen pneumatic gun to Turkey. He denies that he haa arranged to use the Turkish flag for the A STORM EVERY 271-3 DAYS And the Sun Spots An Responsible, Sxya an Astronomer A Stream of Magnetic Particles Sent to the Earth at These Recurring Periods From the New Tork Sun Tlie discovery of E.

W. Maunder, superintendent of tlie solar department of Greenwich Observatory, who announced pt week before tlie Royal Astronomical Society thnt it waa hia belief that the familiar magnetic disturbances which derange the mariner's compass are directly related to sun spots, has created the deepest Interest In astronomical circle. In connection with magnetic storms some kind of solar activity lias never been denied. Tlie real point of Mr. Maunder' discovery Is the fact that these storms recur nt regular fixed Intervals.

After marking out the lime that hundred of storm were found, some of which corresponded to big sun spots and others which did not. he tried vainly to find a correspondence with the faculie or flecks of boiling Are on the suns surface nnd with the prominences. At last lie noticed that there was frequently ii series of magnetic storms at interval of exactly 27 1-B days. Sometimes there was no storm at the end of thin period. but the Rtnrm wa repeated after exactly two or three such intervals.

Now. 27 1-B day I the exact time for a point on the sun to an once around nnd appear opposite thn earth again. The storm arrives generally twenty-aix hours after the sun spot points directly toward the earth. It Is presumed that that time is taken In rushing up particle to rench tlie earth, though the storm comes again nnd again after the sun spot ha vanished. It Is generally Just at the time when the place where the sun spot was.

In passing; that. Is. tlie gun spot lias gone, but a stream of magnetic commotion is still proceeding at the same point. Still more remarkable the discovery that there are certain favorite points on the sun for sun spots and magnetic streams which continue after the sun spot have vanished. One centre of such disturbances is a ioint on tlie twenty-second degree of the suns longitude.

It has lieen pointed out Hint it I strange that this repetition of storm nt interval ol 27 1 diy ha not been noticed lie-fnre. as Hornsteln long ngo announced that he detected a minute regular swing of the magnetic iieedles hiving the same period. 1IE KAEW THE TRAIN From the Katinas I'lry Times A traveller went into it Inion avenue barber shop yesterday morning to get a shine, and decided to inquire almut his train. Say. he said, addressing the Negro bootblack.

"wltnl time tines the Missouri Pacific leave for 8t. lotuls this morning?" "Ynh mean the one that makes tlie dny-lieht run?" qtirltl the Negro. Yes. that's the one." said the man. "It all the train that collier's wlf the one frum Lcavens-wuth.

ain't St?" asked the unit Mack as he brushed away. "Yes. Runs fru Wahns-Imgli?" "Yes. An Jeffahson City?" "Yes. "Ah knows the train yoh means, nil right.

Sians on the seeo.a er thud track, donn It?" "I tlilnk It does." "Change ingine I.es see. Wha do that train change InglnesT' "I don't know." came from the man. "What I want to know Is its leaving time. All knows Jen wlrit yoh wants, an Ah knows Jes-'xactly what train ynh means. "Well, when does it leave?" "oh.

yes. when do it Ah's suuh Ah divtn know 'bout that, was the Negro's reply. Steamer Solveig Found Seaworthy llnllfax. N. Dec.

fl The steamer Sol-vrlg. ram New York, for Newport. England. a mi Havre, which put In here yesterday with a cargo shifted, wa surveyed today and found to he tn a good condition. It is expected that she will he able to proceed tomorrow night.

TEACHING OYAHA TO SHOOT An American Gare the Japanese General His First Lesuni in Snap-Shooting I tor-arc writes in Hie December Worlds Work: Twenty-five years ago I va an exp-riencrj rifle-slmt. anil could lilt a moving wlijett cv-ry time. The twenty-two calibre ride and machine-made cartridge. which eame into genrral use in the seventies, rnude extensive rlile practice possible. wrote nnl published at the time a Itamphlet on how to shoot with a rifle, entitled "The A.

B. C. of Siiap-Shnotlng." which ramc to the attenthm of regular army ofllcer attached to the department of the Pacific at San Francisco, and was used for a manual Ity the regulars. It happened that copies of the itamphlet reached Japan, where I spent some time soon after. Japan lia-1 Just begun to make a military organisation on the most modern line.

ttnJ Msr-tula Oyama was minister of war. He invited me to visit Itim in his home at Tokio. -i ml siotwet great interest in the method of learning to shoot at a moving object with a rifle. He had already seen the pamphlet. I had a number of American rifles and ample ammunition with me in Japan, and Marquis Oyama.

ami the then t'olonel Mu-rala (inventor of the Japanese military riflei Joined me afternoon at target practice. They entered enthusiastically into the spirit. Oyama. in particular, showing the enthusiasm of a hoy. I shall never forget Id keen Joy tlie first time he hit a moving ohjeet with a bullet.

It was a teapot thrown in the air. I believe, and when it came down in dust ami piece he rapt-rd about and screamed hi delight like an excited schoolboy. After several afternoon at prartire Mar-qid Oyama and CYdonel Mu rat a became nearly a skilful a I was. They could hit the rent re of the target eighty per cent of Hie time tried, an.l that w.i only twenty per rent Ie titan my own avenge at that lime. They were full of confidence that they could close flu- gap of difference between us in a few more afternoons of practice in spite of the fart that I told them twenty per cent of practice readily brought eighty per rent of skill, hut that it required sat per rent of habituation to acquire tit last ten per rent of absolute sureness.

1 had expended hundred of thousand of cartridge to learn this. But the significant feature of the practice on this ami other occasions was that Marquis Oyama became firmly convinced that a surprisingly high percentage In hit I possible with strict attenthm to practice in snap-shooting. THE IIHPPKARIH llIG-POtlT Its Use Being Discountenanced in All Countries I St I -aw Nntesf Notwithstanding the advocacy now and then of the rehabilitation of the whipping post, that form of punishment I losing rather than gaining ground In civilized countries. It I is now inflicted in England and in only a few of the Continental countries of Europe. In tlie Init-d State It Is used only In Delaware ami Maryland.

And perhaps It still obtain to some extent In Australia. The punishment i not inflicted upon women In England. H-Uware nr Maryland. In England there I an increasing reluctance on Hie part of the Judge to Inflict the punishment. A Late return show that this form of punishment was ordered only in sixteen cases In lafi Seven of these sen ten ec were passed at the Central Criminal Court, live by Judge Rentoul and two by the Common Sergeant.

It is Interesting to notice that Mr. Justice Wills. Mr. Justice lat-rencr ami Mr. Justice Darling are the only three High Court Judges who ordered tlie use of the "cat." Flogging has bc-n practically disc rdf In English m.ivlct prison ss a means of prison discipline; and a few years ago a bill to extend the whipping post tn a number of offences not punishable In that manner was refused a second read-lag by the decisive vote of 193 to 72.

1 co site Pawl Vioomte ran! d'Abaae. ex-French i'nn-ul General at New Orleans nnd New Tork. is dead tn Pari. M. dAbzae's carer in the French consular service was a long and iistingulsheil one.

He entered the service tri Jsy as an attach in the administrative (fire in Paris, and in IWK be was appointed attach at the Consulate lieneral in New Tork. The same year he became an under I'onsui. In Nm th- vicomte was placed in rliarge of the Consulate in Philadelphia, and a year titer he went to lauidon as an under Consul. Afterward lie was sent to laragjay. and then, in 171.

he assumed charge of I lie Consulate at New Orleans, remaining 17. After three years at Riga. Russia. lie returned to New Orleans. In 1VVJ he was apintfd Consul lieneral at tiial city, and in 1 he Is-came Consul tienera! at New York.

M. d'Abzac took pari in founding the French Lhamlter of i'oinmr rce In N-w Orleans, and was resiibnt of the Kocit d- lirif. lisa nee. organized in New York city to provide t-It-r f. tieserving French immigrants.

Old Time Slack Broker Mr. Ienry Chapman Wainwright. for many years intimately id' nt 1:11 with tle-et'H-k brokerage l.tisiritss in this city, died Thursday at his home in Milton. He was txira Dec. ISM.

in inis -ity. Ili fitter was Henry Wair.wrlght and his mother a Miss Parker, whose family was writ known in the earlier days. For a I. umber of years Mr. Wainwright male his home in Reacon street, this city, hut when he tired from business life, some two years ago.

lie took up his residem-e at Milton. He Is survivetl by a widow who was Sarah Rlake I tax tar). a daughter. Mrs. Henry A Howe, and four sons.

Charles IX. who reside in Seattle. Arthur and lloitert Wainwright. of this city. The funera twill be hel dtomorrow at two oeNn-k at lie Arlington Street Church.

Is Old Pales Newsdealer Mr. la-wis Ii Moody, the veteran news, de tier of Salem, di I yestrrdiy. lie wnt horn In Salem April Z. Immediately after graduating from school he entered the employ of his father. William II Moody, who kept a newstand.

This was In IWi. and on the deatli of his father he took charge of the store. His newsstand was the oldest In Aib-m. He was a mem-licr of numrrou fraternal organization. At the time of bis deutil he held the following position from the d.it named: CnRoetor of galem Council.

Royal Arcanum. Get. 1N77; collector of John Endirott Ci-ony of Pilgrim Father. March D. Ivsi.

an. for many years fide. I a similar position In Nanmkeag Council. legion of Honor. Catharine F.

Mtaw, Teaeber Miss fatharlne F. Hlmw tile I at her home In Salem, hist evening, aged about sevanty. five. IP he was born In lertulon. and came to this country when a girl.

She was educated In Ft. Mary's Fvhool anti later by private tutors. In the autumn of PXi she was elected first Instructress of Si. Marys School for Hoy, serving for a long period. Subsequently she was elected assistant Instructor under Master Kiernan of the Roys Parochial School on Warren street, serving until the dissolution of the school.

Site wrote numerous dramas for commencement exercises In St. Marys and other schools. She was the first prefect of the young.