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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
America and Germany in samoa.


ttrOm the independently
That peace reigns in American Samoa
is manifest from the fact that the very
capable administrator of the island de-
tendency. Commander Tilley, finds this a
fit opportunity to return to Washington
to give account of his stewardship. 1t is
the first time in thirty-odd years that
any portion of Samoa has been left, in
fact could be safely left, without a re-
sponsibie superior white ofhciaL In es-
tablishing fixed government In the Amert-
can islands Commander Tiiley has wisely
refrained from meddling with ancient Gus
| toms which have been in force among the
Samoans from their earliest history.
Manua has its own native administrator,
who carries out the orders from the naval
officer. Tutuila is divided, as II has ever
been, into the eastern and western fale-
limas'-a term which may be loosely de-
fined as provinces or districts, although
10 the Samoan 1t conveys an idea of au-
thority. Instead of irregular war parties
and bushwhacl1ers sneaking through the
jungle. there is now seen a small contin-
gent of native troops properly uniformed
and regularly drilled. for the Samoan
readily assumes the outward show of the
soldier. A boarding school for girls has
just been built by the Samoans themselves
at Pago-Pago, and opened by the London
Mission; it has capacity of one hundred
girls, and the limit was exhausted before
the school was opened 1t is intended to
teach English and the high school studies
in English, and from the start the insti-
tuition promises TO be self-supporting.
L
part of the American Islands by a formal
re-enactInent of the Ten Commandments,
and additions to this simple code are
made as need arises. Indeed, the prnci-
pie of self-government has been the key
note of this interesting experiment in the
assimilation of a lower race, and Com
mander Tiil,y exercises a mild supervis-
ion to point out mistakes when made and
to suggest the means for their correction.
German Samoa, on the contrary, is in q
ferment. The Samoans are made to work
by official taskmasters, chiefs of the nigh
est rank are set at degrading tasks Ma
taafa has retired to his own Cave of
Adullam. and every broken man lies out
In the bush awaiting the hour to rebel.
Letters received In this country from
prominent natives speak of the great dis
content and the fear OF hopeless revolt
German rule is of the mastcrful sort and
under il there is growing discomfort In
Tutuila and the islands of Manua there
is American rule, and with it such peace
happiness and prosperity as the vexed
islands have never known. German CO.
loniaI officials behold the boatloads of Sa-
means crossing the strait eastward by
night to visit their kin and their friends
in the American island. and 10 view with
their own eyes the novelty of Samoa in
concord; they have essayed to prevent
this migra ton by a tax OF a shilling a
head which each must pay to cross the
strait and shilling IS much money to
the Samoan, but still the exodus con-
tinues.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
BRADSTREET'S ON THE WEEK.
Satisfactory Trade Reports Aside
From the Weather Conditions.

NEW YORK, April 19.-Bradstreets re-
view tomorrow will say:
Cold rainy weather, with concomitant
OF bad roads, has been unfavorable to
distributive trade this week some COM
plant coming from the Central West
and parts of the Northwest. similar re-
tarding effect on crop planting is noted at
the South. where cotton and corn culti-
walton and termination are reported from
one to two weeks late. With these ex-
ceptions, however, trade developments of
the week have been in the main favorable
Wheat crop reports are unusually good.
and less is heard of Hessan fly damage.
"A distinctive satisfactory feature has
been the apparent avertfng of what babe
fair to be a most disastrous strike in the
country's leading industries-iron and
steel. This would have been particularly
hurtful because demand in those indus
tries is active ind prices show aggressive
strength.
The current large volume of general
business and the enormous size of the
| financial operations now proceeding are
reflected in ecord-breaking clearings not
confined, however, to speculative centres,
but reported from all sections of the
country. Current gross railway earnings
continue favorable, though the ratio of
gains is not as great as in recently pre-
ceding weeks. Net earnings are very
good. and furnish ample basis for some
excited movements in securities.
In foreign trade the feature is the
relative better position occupied by the
agricultural than the manufacturing in
dustries, as compared with a year ago.
Practically all of the SS7 000, 600 increase in
exports for nine months over a year ago
is accounted for by increased shipments
OF breadstuffs. cattle, provisions, and cot
ton, but manufactured goods, though
going abroad in smaller volume than a
year ago, still maintain an active move
ment.
There are few notable chances in
prices this week, cereals having fluctu-
ated within a narrow range. Cold wealth
er and continued good export demand
steadied wheat while active manipulation
at Chicago strengthened corn slightly
Refined sugar is again higher in sym
PATTY with the further gain in raws and
cotton has also gotten back a small por-
ton of its recent loss. Pork products
are rather lower on the week, and the
same is true of dairy products
Business failures for the week number
Zl2, as against 225 last week 161 in this
week year ago, 1SI in 1899 22f in 1895 and
PIG in 1884,"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
RUSSIA AFTER MORE TRADE.
A New Line of Steamers Between
Odessa and the Persian Gulf.

Herbert W. Bower, the American Con-
sui General at Teheran. Persia, in a
communication to the State Department,
reports the establishment of a Russian
line Of steamers between Odessa and the
Persian Gulf. The trade with southern
Persia, says the Consul General has
hitherto been so 7conspicuously in the
hands of the English that their influence
was considered to be practically unri-
vailed. 1t seems, however, that Russia
has decided to enter into competition with
Great Britain in this sphere, although at
first she will labor under serious .disad-
vantage, as Russian goods are generally
inferior to those of Great Britain.
In order to overcome this drawback,
Russia, 1t is said, will substitute the new
line and grant bounty concessions to all
goods carried. a. f-1-
1t is intended, Mr. Bowen adds, that the
new line of steamers shall supply the Per-
sian market with snesesr, cotton goods, and
petroleum, out, as Persia has-IIeitIIrr pro
duce nor goods that are needed in Rus
STA. the return csrgoes will be very small,
and it is doubtful whether the line will
ever be self-supporting.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
The Chinese See-Suyv.

Our latest reports from China yes
terday were more pacific, although
there was a hint of an outbreak OF
trouble in the statement that Japan
had treated new and specific proposals
from Russia with indifference. But u
was also said that the Emperor had
ordered General Liu, on the Shansl-
Chi Lii border, to withdraw westward,
so as TO prevent collision with the
Franco German expedition, now en-
route to take the mountain passes held
by the Chinese, and that he had ordered
other native forces to keep outside Of
the Great Wall to avoid contact with
the foreign contingents. On the strength
of these alleged movements our Pekin
correspondent considered it probable
that the Paoting-fu column would be
ordered back by Count Won Waldersee,
and. therefore, that a resumption Of
hostilities would be obviated.
This sounds encouraging. as do other
reports tending TO show that Germany
and her following in the Concert are
more inclined than hitherto to abate
their demands for indemnity. But 1t
is necessary to remember that while
there is no question among the other
Powers which could not probably be
amicably disposed of through diplo-
macy. the same condition does not seem
to apply to the relations between Japan
and Russia. Those two States, in the
serious differences which exist between
them, still constitute serious source
of danger to the peace of the world.
Since the others are not at present too
far apart from one another to hope for
q peaceable solution of whatever Ques-
tons may separate them, they are
hand-free to a certain extent to use
their good offices in trying to avert
Russo-Japanese collision, which would
be generally deplorable. And we have
no doubt that their diplomatists are
endeavoring to bring about an accom-
mediation Whether such a movement
has any chance of success or not we
do not pretend to know; but one thing
is asrtain, which is, that the Chinese
prohlem will be puzzle to all OBJ
SERVERS until the hand of Japan shall
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
A PALACE ON WHEELS.
The President selects n Sleeping Car
for His Wsstern Trip.

The President yesterday approved the
transportation programme for the pro-
posed Western tripoas arranged by the
officials of the Southern Railroad. The
special train will consist of seven cars,
selected from the finest productions of the
Pullman shops The train will be Officially
known as the Presidential Special and
will be made up in the Pennsylvania Rail-
road yards here as soon as the cars Sc
lected can be brought to this city.
The cars chosen are the combination
baggage and smoking car Atlantic, the
dining car st. James. the compartment
car Omona. the compartment car
Guiana, the drawing-room sleeping car
Pelion, and the drawing-room sleeper
Charmion. The President has selected
the private car Olympia for his own
use on the outgoing trip to San Francisco
and will occupy the private car Lucania
on the return trip.
The Olympia is one of the finest cars
ever built and is a verltable palace on
wheels 1t is seventy feet long and con-
tains five private rooms and sofa sec
ton. with accommodations for nine peo-
pie. The two larger private rooms are
fitted up with brass beds, dressers, mir
rors, and wardrobes, and have private
toilet rooms. Mrs. Mckinley will occupy
one of the larger private rooms and the
President the other. The car also con-
tains private dining and observation
rooms, each sixteen feet long, and fitted
up in magnificent style.
The Omona and Guiana have each
seven staterooms and two drawing
rooms. The cars are deliberately fur
nished in gold and the upholstery is of
the finest. The Pelion and Charmion
have each twelve sections and drawing
room. The dining car st. James is by
far the handsomest ever built by the
Pullman Company. 1t has a capacity for
serving meals to forty people and is
seventy feet long. Cut glass, with ele-
CANT silver, will be used on the trip and
a large corps of chefs and walters will
be carried.
The combination car Atlantic is the
most expensive bachelor car ever built
in America. 1t is seventy feet long and
contains smoking compartment twenty
one feet in length. with chairs. lounges,
cabinets and a we'll stocked library.
handsome buffet is also provided. Else
where in the car is a barber shop and
bathroom with shower and needle baths.
The Lucania is fully as elegant in
appointment as the Olympia and is the
largest car of its kind ever constructed,
being seventy-six feet six inches in
length, fourteen feet two and a half
inches high and ten feet four and quar-
ter inches wide.
The Presidential special will be made
up and will run to San Francisco in the
following order:
Special LOCOMOTIVES; Atlantic st. James,
Omona, Guiana Pelion. Charmion, and
the Presidents car, Olympia.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
THE SUGAR DUTY UPHELD.
Secretary Gage Sustained in the
Russian bounty Cnse,

NEW YORK, April 19.-The case of
Robert f. Downes, of Baltimore. against
the collector of the port of New York,
was decided in favor of the collector by
the Board of Classification of United
States General Appraisers today.
This case is better known as the Rus
sian sugar bounty case, and the decision
uphoids the action of the Secretary Of the
Treasury in Ievying a countervailing duty
on Russian sugar. The board stood two
TO one in favor Of sustaining the Secre-
tary.
The prevailing opinion was written by
Judge Henderson NJ. Sommerville. Israel
F. Fisher, of Brooklyn. concurring. A
dissenting opinion was written by George
G. Tichenor
1t was said today that the decision of
the appraisers would undoubtedly be ap-
pealed from, and the case carried to the
United States Supreme Court. Ii was
said in Wall Street that the decision
would have little immediate effect, since
the only persons who would be affected by
1t were those importers who had Russian
sugar in transportation.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
Germ Distributors.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES: A recent
order of General Sternberg DEGREES that:
Medical officers taking care of yellow fever
patients need not be isolated; they attend
other patients and associate with non-immunes
with perfect safety to the garrison. Nurses and
attendants taking care OF yellow fever patients
shall remain isolated so as to avoid any posi-
BILE danger Of their conveying mosquitoes from
patients to non-immunes."
This reveals q hitherto unsupported
intelligence in the mosquitoes which con-
vey yellow fever. They avoid doctors
and cleave to nurses and attendants, Per
haps, like bees, they seek the more attrac-
tive human flowers, but how do they dis
tinguish between doctors and attendants?
To scientific minds this is a new prob
lem. Does the mosquito also discriminate
between puacks and doctors? Does he
know the regular practitioner from a
follower of Hahnemann? Suppose a young
physician with diploma in his pocket
were to become an attendant, would the
mosquito leave him unbitten and turn
his attention TO the trained nurses? Are
female doctors immunes too? Like Rosa
Dartle: Il ask for information. Facts
are so curious. HELEN BANKS.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
MRS. MAVERICKS CASE.
Harm May Come From Agitation Ac-
cordinR to Henry White.

Among the President,s callers vester-
dav was Henry White tho sacra,arv NJ
the United states embassy at London
He went to the White House in comnanv
with Secretary Hay. and paid his re-
snects TO the President inst nrior ,o the
r,.,a,t., 30 a.. Ca,,to. NJ vt-h,,. :.
'"'e'"e VI '"e Caoine'' MI "n.'e 10
upon his annual visit to the United States
for the purpose OF keeping in touch with
American Affairs nv, which means he de-
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the duties OF his office.
In discussing the case of Mrs. Maybrick,
the American woman now sarvtnp son.
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Gu ne piisoh toi inc hhu'
ue' VI het husoanu' MT. White express
ed the belief that she would ultimately
he released. The question of her liberia
- Wy ieaso'i
Oh the ascension 10 the throne OF King
Edward VII. Mr. White stated. however.
that the American Embassy in London
had ,,ever loa, siobt Of tho oasa and had
-. ,.,, :, -. - -. -
Always taken advantage Oh every oppor-
tunity to press the matter before the Eng
lish authority whenever ANYTHING could
h.. do,,a T., 30, fa,,or
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MT. White mas IoiloWeu the case very
closely, from its inception, and there is
no one better informed upon IL than him
re u -I...,eI -. 80 ,,,i,t, ,,,x,,,
sen. II. nae piea"eu me- cause W." -,
rome secretary since her conVlctioh- ne
stated yesterday that it was impossible
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
COMPLAINS OF CONVENT BELLS
a New Orleans Lawyer Says Their
Ringing AnnOys His Family.

NEW ORLEANS, April 19.-Henry Den
is. a prominent lawyer of this city and
professor of civil law In the Tulane Un!-
versity, brought suit today against the
Convent of the Barefoot Carmelite Nuns.
The nuns have a convent at Rampant and
Barracks Streets, in which are two high
open towers surmounted by immense bells.
These are rung every hour.
Mr.. Denis, who lives nearby, declares
that the bells are a nuisance TO him and
his family, destroying the quiet and COM
fort of home. The nuns, he further says,
live in the convent in perfect seclusion
and solitude receiving no visitors. Ac-
cording to the rules of the order there is
no reasonable motive for the ringing of
these large bells They are only intended
for their own private use, and not for
any purpose concerning the outside world.
Many other neighbors have complained
before Of the Carmelite bells.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

is no discernible and scarcely any imag-
drain upon our national resources
caused by the most calamitous enter
prise in which England has ever been
engaged
The British Government must now
address itself to the task of getting its
paper cashed for three hundred million
dollars. and it is not improbable that
Sir Michael Hicks Beach had an eye
on the United States when he caused
Speaker Gully to invite ]. p Morgan to
attend the budget sitting as his guest.
Indeed, there is a rumOr to the effect
been consulted previously concerning
the feasibility of floating the loan in
America. There is no doubt, of course,
that so moderate a loan could be taken
by a few of our trust magnates with
out the smallest difficulty. were they
satisfied with the security and the in
terest; but whether or not they would
be is an open question.
The decadence of British Industrial
prosperity, the impossibility of future
successful competition with the United
States in the production of coal, iron
ore, and manufactures of steel, and in
shipbuilding, combined with the con-
stantly increasing British public debt,
and the as constantly decreasing ability
of the United Kingdom to provide for
its ultimate extinguishment, all tend to
diminish the credit standing of the
Kingdom in the markets of the world.
In connection with this unfavorable
situation, it is necessary to consider
Great Britain's loss of prestige as
military power in the eyes of Europe,
and the dangers which threaten on the
frontier of India. and perhaps in
Egypt Mr.. Morgan and his friends
might perhaps think the new British
loan a good investment. If so, we
should be obliged to conclude that their
judgment needed the tightening Of
loose screw.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
TO TRAIN NAVAL CADETS.
The Indiana and Chesapeake Detail
ed for the PurpOse.

Orders have been issued by the Navy
Department assigning officers TO the bat
tleship indiana and the practice sailing
ship Chesapeake, which are to be placed
in commission for training naval cadets
in practical gunnery and seamanship.
These officers now at the Naval Academy
will go to the Indiana: Commander c. E.
Callahan, to command; Lieutenant Com
mander A. w. Grant. executive; Lieut..
John Hood navigator; Lieutenant Com
mander E. T. Warburton. in charge of
machinery, and Lieuts J. w. Oman, l.. 5.
Van Duzer w. V. Pratt, ]. ]. Raby, r. u.
Johnston, F. T. Baldwin. +. w. Bartlett,
and w. p. WincheIl, and Chaplain H. II.
Clark.
The following officers will go to the
Chesapeake: Lieutenant Commander T B.
Howard to command; Lieut.. J. r. era
win, executive; Lieut.. j. A Hoogewerfi,
navigator; Lieuts II. Laning, f. II.
Brumby. J. McC. Luby, NJ. h Signor,
H. c. Gates, and II. c. kuenzlu.
The cadets will be divided into two
classes, one going on the Indiana and the
other on the Chesapeake. At the con-
cIusion Of half the course the classes
will exchange ships
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

The customary evidence that the Brit
ish are driving everything before them in
South Africa is furnished by a message
to the War Office from Lord Kitchener
in which he says: Il regret to report
that party of the Ninth Lancers has been
ambushed, and Lieutenant A. Mcdonald
and three men killed and five wounded
If there be any practicable way for the
Salisbury Government TO settle the war,
by offering really liberal terms, it would
better be trying it on. These persistent
indications that the Beers are still in a
position to keep a quarter of million
Britons busy, and often at a disadVan-
tage, are not promoting the interests OF
the Empire anywhere to any alarming
extent
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

All efforts to make Mr.. Mckinley adopt
the ways of the parvenu nabob have sig
nally failed He has no taste for MIL
lion dollar cottage" at Newport. and he
would be bored to a standstill If he had
to hold himself up against the plusocratic
provincialism of half dozen millionaire
colonies which could be mentioned. His
modest home in Canton is good enough
for him, and there he will spend his sum
mer holiday among his old friends and
neighbors, like a simple and sensible
American citizen not at all afflicted with
macrocephalis.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
Russia.


(From the Boston Transcript)
II Is matter of great importance that the
Russian character be better understood. For in
no nation is there fucb latent strength Many
judgments Of the past will have to be modified.
We have discovered OF late years that there is
FAR more of bene6cence in certain Russian insti-
buttons than had been supposed. And il will not
be surprising II the future shall show that real
progress has been constant in Russia as in
those nations which have imagined themselves
the only centres Of enlightenment.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

The gunboat Eagle has arrived at Key
West The collier Alexander has sailed
from Baltimore for Barbados on her way
to the Unitca States coaling station on
the Gulf of California, where she will de-
post nearly 5000 tons of coal. The bat
tIeship Alabama will be repaired at the
New York Navy Yard instead of at Phila-
delphia as previously ordered. The gun
boat Newport has been ordered into COM
mission at Annapolis, and will be used as
a training ship for naval apprentices at
Newport.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
Strengthen the Democracy.


There need not be-indeed there should not
be-any violent process of Reorganization" so
called. Let us have an end of heresy trials and
open the party gates TO all who are willing TO
act with us. And let us have an end of that
dangerous working arrangement with Populism
and organized discomfort. in which the Demo-
cratic party furnishes the capital and gets-the
experience.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
Let the Future Tell.



Has a trust attorney reformed and become the
attorney general has the Office Of attorney
general been given to a trust attorney Judging
By Mr.. Griggs, who has just retired from the
office and who a sort OF guardian angel for
trusts trust leopards don't change their spots
when they gain places in the Cabinet.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20
worthy of the Old Dominion.


(From the Richmond Dispatch.)
II Is becoming more and more evident every
day that virginia's constitutional convention is
going to be body in every way worthy Of the
glorious old State and OF the occasion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

Another big British firm has decided
to abandon the effort to meet American
competition at home, and will move over
here and erect a large steel plant at
Washington, Pennsylvania. Thus tax
able values are being withdrawn from
the United Kingdom and added to the
Empire of Uncle Sam.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

(From the St Paul Dispatch.)
Sundry Congreasmen being invited to take
q trip on a Government transport next month to
the Philippines. The idea il that they should
know something about that country We cannot
see the need Of IL. Congressman legislate year
nothing.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

From the Dallas News.)
The Car of all the RussiBs is only FIVE feet four
inches high but every inch Of him in these times
is neNousncss
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-20

Ebenezer Sharpe, manager of the New
York Life Insurance Company's business
In Montana, died in Helena on. Thursday
night from paralysis. He was a native of
indianapolis, where the body will be taken
for burial