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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
CALLS RUSSIA DOWN
General Belief That Japan Has Sent
an Ultimatum.
MUST GET OUT OF MANCHURIA
Active Military Preparations Going
on in Mikado's Empire.
GET OUT OF MANCHURIA
BRITISH VIEW OF SUBJECT

YOKOHAMA, April 6-The japanese gov
ernment is maintaining great secrecy re-
garding its policy, but it is said on good
authority that the cabinet, at a meeting
held Friday. resolved to communicate with
Russia in firm tones respecting Manchuria.
There is extraordinary activity in naval
and military circles.
The News In London.
LONDON, April 6.-'Russia's reply con-
cerning Manchuria being unsatisfactory, the
Japanese government has decided says
the Yokohama correspondent of the Daily
Mail, wiring Thursday, after a conference
with the heads of the army and navy and
of the departments of finance and foreign
affairs, to address a second and more per-
emptOry remonStrance, demanding a reply
within a stated period. This remonStrance,
communicated through the Japanese min
lister in st. Petersburg, almost amounts to
ultimatum.
Japan is taking measures with a view
to hostlities with Russia" says the Pekin
correspondent of the Daily Express. "She
has entered into an arrangement with Liu
Kun vi, viceroy of Nankin. who is acting
on behalf of the other friendly ViceroyS and
governors, regarding the course they will
pursue in the way of aiding Japan against
Russia. 1t is understood that they have
promised to place the Geographic commu-
nicatinns and transport facilities at the
service of Japan
Views to Russia's Policy.
Russia's attitude toward Manchuria, as
outlined yesterday by the Official 1Iessen-
ser of ST. Petersburg, is interpreted almost
unanimously By the British press as capa-
BILE of being condensed into the single sem
tence. "J'y suit; jy reste'' (''I am here:
remain here') and there IS no disposition
to believe the matter is thus ended. The
Standard. which throughout has taken
moderate stand. declares that if Russia
goes back on her promise now given as to
the integrity of China and proceeds to as
sumo in Manchuria the authority denied
her by formal stipulation she viii have
to confront not only the protest but the
armed might of the energetic nation which.
under the rule of The mikado, is conscious
Of its strength TO aid the greatness of its
destinies.
Japan, the paper aids. viii have The
sympathy and support of nearly all the
powers interested in the far east
The Daily Chronicle makes similar COM
Inents. interpreting Russia 8 policy, and
says that of the powers which really count
Japan is the only one which is at all
likely to back her protest with force.
Daily News Comment.
The Daily News maintains that Russia s
policy is as clear as Daylight, and simply
means no shred of independence for Man.
churia. The paper continues:
Russia has a firm friend and ally in the
lost no time in publishing the plausible pa
c!flc assurances received by Secretary Hay
from Count Cassini, Russian ambassador
at Washington But the United States has
long been anxious 10 get out of the Chi
nese imbToglio altogether
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
THREE HURT IN COLLISION
Freight Crashes Into Rear PuIImon
at Wayne, Mich

DETROIT, Mich, April 6.-While lying at
wayne junction early today Michigan Cen
laI passenger train No. 36, which left Chi
easo at 1i;3o last night, was run Into by a
freight train which was following it, The
rear end of the last Pullman car Of the
passenger train was badly crushed by the
ireight locomotive. Three people We're in
Jured Their names are as follows: Con
Fao Noigt: New York. conductor of Pull
recover; Louis Mendelssohn. Detroit mas
senser, head cut: j. n. Mackin, Detroit
passenger, badly bruised The pronartv
damage Is not large p'S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
HAVANA PAPER SUPPRESSED
Later Gen. Wood Allowed Publication
to BE Continued

HAVANA, April 6.-The Discussion has
been suppressed by order of Governor Cen
eral Wood and its offices have been closed
and sealed. This action was due to the
publication in the Discussion yesterday OF
an illustration having the title of ..The
cuban Calvary, representing the Cuban
public personified In Cuban soldier he
ing cruciffed between two thieves. General
Wood being represented as ONE thiey and
president Mckinley as the other, both be-
ing labeled with their names. Senator Platt
was represented as a Roman soldier giving
vinegar and gan in the form of the Platt
amendment. while Public Opinion, as Mary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
COL. HEIsTAND,s REPLY.
1t Will BE Sent to the Senate Mill.
tary Committee.

Lieutenant Colonel Heistand has for
warded to the Secretary of War his reply
to the charges made by Major Hawkes.
with regard to the organization of a hemp
company in Manila. The reply will not
be made public at this time but will be
forwarded to the committee on military
affairs of the Senate, which has the mat
ter under investigation. The Secretary Of
War will not take the matter up for action
at this time, because of the pending inves-
tigation. Colonel Heistand has been Or
dered to report to Washington for the pur-
pose Of appearing before the committee.
He is expected to arrive in this country
about the middle of next month, when the
investigation will proceed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
Personal Mention.

DR.. Samuel H. Greene. jr, of the Uni
versity Hospital (Columbian) and DR.. Ed
gar P. Copeland of the Children's Hospttal
sailed on the Cunard steamship Lucania for
Liverpool this morning, for extended study
and observation in European hospitals.
Mr.. ]. Fred. Gatchel of Washington is
registered at the st. Denis, in New York
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
The Mcclellan Statue Site.

General Corbin. adjutant general, will
serve on the committee appointed to select
site and erect a statue to General Nc
Clellan at the meeting to be held at the
War Department Monday afternoon in
place Of General James Barnett of New
York. who will not be able to be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06

Meeting of Exposition Commissioners.
The first meeting Of the government COM
missioners to the Louisiana purchase ex-
position win be held at the Southern Ho-
tel. st. Louis. AprN l6 The call was is
sued today by Secretary Hay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06

j. M. abbott was today appointed post
master at Looney, Craig county, Va, vice
James Croft removed :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06

Ex-Mayor Berretss Condition.
Former Mayor James @. Berret was re-
ported to be resting quietly this afternoon.
There had been no change for the worse
In his condition apparent during the past
tWenty-four houra
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06
THE ROAD TO FORTUNE.

The Road TO Fortune is
through Printers Ink.-P.
7. Barnum.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
1T WAS A RARE R

Prank Played by Mark Twain Upon
His Father and tho O~rnIthoiO-
sists.
Even in his youth Mark Twain was
prone to an indulgence in joking. His
father was greatly interested at one
time in ornithology and constantly on
the lookout for rare specimens of the
bird creation. He had several friends
who were also enthusiasts on the sub
ject of birds. Whenever any one OF
them discovered a rare avis it was the
custom to have a consultation. Mark
had been a witness of several OF these
bird inquests and had noted the de-
light the old man took in discussing a
%new-found specimen. One day it &C.
Cured to him to provide the Hannibal
ornithologists with a real circus in the
form of a bird. He killed a crow and
also a barnyard rooster. Plucking out
the tail feathers of both the crow and
the rooster he substituted the ROSTERS
tail feathers for those of the crow, pro-
ducing a unique effect. When he had
the specimen nicely prepared he went
to his father and, handing it to him,
said:
Here, father, is a very curious bird
/ shot. l thought you would be inter-
ested in it."
The old gentleman gazed upon the
specimen with amazement. That even
ing the ornithologists Of Hannibal were
assembled in Mr.. Clemens parlor. The
rare specimen was put before them.
The opinions expressed were various.
One thought the bird was an offshot of
the bird of paradise family; others had
equally ridiculous notions as to it's an
cestry. But there was n who refused
to be swerved by the popularity of the
birds tail from the judgement that it
was of the crow family.
"Why just look here" he said, lift
ing the bird by its tail feathers. He
got no further. The feathers came out.
There was quick closing Of the door.
Mr.. Clemens started to leave the room.
Gentlemen" he said, please excuse
me for a few moments. ! will see
Samuel first and explain later"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
HERE'S A NEW RELIGION.

Brooklyn has a brand new religious
sect called the Far Offers" At least
that is what the neighbors have called
it because judging from the noise of
the exercises of it's devotees they must
believe that the Lord is very far away
out of ordinary hearing distance, at
least.
The leading characteristic of the be-
lief of the Far Offers Is that pain
hard. grinding physical paints neces-
sary to thorough baptism by the Holy
scribes n scene at last Sundays meet
ing of the congregations:
Lord! Lord Don't spare her! Give 1t
to 'er, Lord, Break inter 'er hearth
A little woman sat in a straight-backed
chair, with her eyes shut. her head
pressed over the top of the chair in a
painful position. Great beads of perspira-
ton stood out on her face.
over her stood two men, one with a
Bible in one hand. the other hand pushing
down on her forehead. The second man
also bore down on her forehead with one
hand while he shook the other fist in the
air.
Goth r1en were shouting. A crowd of
excited persons Il the room were crying
HISTORICALLY. and outside on Maujer street,
near Lorimer street. Brooklyn, yesterday
urchins and curious neighbors were lis
tening to the uproar with serious faces.
The little woman in the chair was being
baptized. She was also fast losing con
soousness. But she continued to scream.
Come. o God! Break in. Cleanse me!
Cleanse me-" At last she ceased to scream
and only muttered. grooming now and
then and showing every sign of pain.
The two leaders pressed harder on the
audience cried wildly. rocking back and
forth and screaming: Clear out her
heart! Come down In this room and hear
u.s.
One woman stood up and waved her
arms frantically at the ceiling and then
sank on the chair, rigid. No one paid
any attention to her.
The little woman in the chair ceased to
rove. and the chair was lifted bodily
to q corner beside the organ, and the lead
ers OF the meeting paid no further atten-
ton to her. Her head hung loosely on
one side, and she only showed life by her
breathing.
Religious freedom is one Of Americas
proudest boasts, but when religion
takes this form it seems high time to
ring up the patrol and cart the corgre-
cation off to the insane ward for ex-
animation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14

but slow smoking Is a habit which II IL
hard for some people to acquire. IN
some cases pipe smokers have tried for
years to check their smoking speed
without success. they begin toe late,
and the habit of rapid smoking is shak-
en- off with difficulty when it is once ac-
quired.
Rapid smoking is as bad as rapid
eating-or worse. 1t is also bad form.
Whether 1t is a cigar, pipe or cigarette
the smoking should be deliberate in
order to get the fullest enjoyment. 1t
is especially 80 with a pipe. Many per-
sons have smoked all their lives, and
yet 40 not know how 10 smoke. IL Is
as painful to watch some people smoke
as ii is to sit at the table with a mn
who "goebles" and georges" his food
on the observation-disclosures
ments" plan.
The deliberate pipe smoker gets out
of his pipe an enjoyment OF which the
rapid smoker has o an linking. "A
cigar which has once gone out has It's
Aavor ruined forever, for nothing Is
more obnoxious to the sense OF smell
thar a newly e~xtinguished putt. Inc
beastly persons who take their beastly
butts" h%alf-lighted or newly extin-
guished, into the elevator and surface
cars should have some new punishment
devised for them-"something humor-
Gus, with boiling oil"
But it makes no difference to the fla
o Of a pipe how many times 1t goes
out. Fastidious pipe smokers always
have at least two pipes on hand and
never refill one until it is entirely cool
ed off. This is a help toward good
smoking, and a reasonable life in a
pipe. A good way to tell II you are
smoking too fast is to he'd the bowl
of the pipe in your hand. II 1t is too
hot to be held with comfort, then you
may know that you smoking speed is
too great. Good tobacco. a good pipe
and de~liberateness are the prime es-
s~entials in pipe smoking. Eat slowly,
smoke slowly, drink seldom; so shall
you live long in the land and enjoy the
fullness thereof.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
TRUSTEES SALE.

MERGE PROPERTY. ON MAIN ST,
BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH
STREETS, WHEELING.
BY virtue of a deed of trust made by
Joseph v. Merge, Agnes r. Merge. j. Ber-
ton Merge. Gertrude D.. CLANCY and
Gertrude s. Merge, wife of said j. Berton
Merge, to me as trustee, dated the sd
day of June, 1899. and recorded in the Of
flee of the Clerk of the County Court of
Ohio County, West Virginia, in Deed of
Trust Book No. Sc, page S74, l will sell, at
the north front door of the Court House
of Ohio County, West Virginia, on
Saturday, the 7th Day of September,
1901,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. M, the fol-
lowing described real estate, that is to
say: All of the north half of lot num-
bered twelve Q2), fronting on the west
Fourth streets, in the City of Wheeling,
Ohio County. West Virginia. Said half
lot is the same property conveyed to John
B.. Merge during his life time by James
Sweeney and Thomas Johnston by deed
dated the 18th day of February, 1S45, and
recorded In the office of the Clerk of the
County Cour of said Ohio County in Deed
Book No. q, page 4S.
TERMS OF SALE:-One-third of the
purchase money, or so much more as the
purchaser may elect to pay in cash on
the day of sale, and the residue in two
equal installments payable respectively in
six and twelve months from the day of
sale, with interest, the purchaser giving
his negotiable promissory notes for the
deferred payments. and the legal title be-
ing retained until all the purchase money
shall lave been paid.
GEO. e. BOYD,
jy31oawt Trustee.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
This IL the very core Of Americanism.
This is the teaching. positive and clear, of

This 10 the very core of Americanism.
This is the teaching. positive and clear, Of
natural and OF Christian ethics. -
This must be ever emphatIcaily asserted
and maintained as an invioiable principle
that, however much labor unions may
have reason to widen their muster roll
and however much they may have the le-
gal and moral right to do this through
pacific and persuasive methods, they must
not attempt to wrest from men outside
their ranks the right to work, or seek
TO coer.e them into inactivity by illegal
or unjust attacks upon their civil and
moral freedom"
Another and equally important con-
sideration In connection with acts OF
violence and attacks upon the property
of the trust is the re-actionary effect,
o only upon the strikers but upon
the community in general. The Regis
ter has already pointed III the i'm
mense power of this great corporation.
1t Is absolute master OF the destiny OF
many industrial communities, some OF
which 1t could wipe of the map sim
ply by removing its great industrial
plants, whose employees and their fami-
lies constitute the major portion and
the bread-winners of the population.
Wheeling and especially our n%eighbors
on both sides of the river would be in
a bad predicament II the powers OF the
billion trust should decide that they
could get along with less trouble by re-
moving their plants.
This would be a disaster to the
entire community and would be worse
for the thousands OF workingmen who
have their homes and associations here
than utter defeat in any number of
strikes.
The trusts are the result Of present
policies Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, by
the way, with the aid of labor's votes
by and for favored interests, whose
power has been increasing with tre-
mendous strides OF late. 1t is a power
that is made the stronger when oppos-
ed by violence.
The strikers in this locality are con-
graduated on their moderation and ev-
ident appreciation of important fact.
fact.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14

consumer who Is p%lundered by at
tempts to control production and put
up prices. Combinations Of capital are
made to put up the prices OF products
combinations of labor to increase or
maintain wages. Employers have
sought the aid OF the government to
keep up the prices of their products on
the ground that this was necessary to
enable them to pay the American scale
of wages In doing this they have in
effect invited the workingmen to COM
bine to see that the a are paid
And Editor Watterson proceeds to
give to the working man, who for the
past generation has been steadily cast
ing his ballot for protection to Amer
lean labor" the following plain talk,
which is interesting at this juncture
when American labor is reaping the
harvest of its own political cultivation.
III the laboring men were fully en-
listed in an effort to break down conf
prices and the creation Of monopolies
they would doubtless. succeed, FOR they
would have the support OF the numer-
GUS Class Of the people who look with
disfavor on what are commonly called
trusts. But usually they embark In
this work only to the extent necessary
to get satisfactory wages and to secure
the supremacy Of their organizations.
In this latter particular they expose
themselves to the charge that they are
seeking to create a monopoly of their
own-a monopoly Of employment. 1t Is
only fair to say that they deny this
charge, but it is not easy to see what
chance a non-union man has when all
the plants are unionized. For this rea-
son their attacks upon combinations
obtain less sympathy than they would
do IL they had a broader scope. In the
States that are doubtful the mass of the
employees OF trusts support by their
votes the policy that upholds the com-
binations. SC long as this continues
they cannot be accepted as the enemies
of Objectionable combinations
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14

same as elsewhere, and that the sort
of romance he expected to find in the
west is missing. II he is a bright
young man he will find plenty of 10
nance and color, but of a kind different
from what he expected.
Pending the discovery, however, he
satisfies his soul by writing stories of
wild adventure and descriptions of the
life as he expected to find it. He sends
all this in the form of letters to his
friends in the east and prepares to
smoke up even harder when he gets
back there in the fall. II he remains
in Montana he becomes a good citizen
and takes a huge delight in watching
the education Of other tenderfeet.-An-
aconda Standard.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
LABOR AND THE TRUSTs.

Organized labor in its battle with the
steel trust is meeting its most serious
backset not in the east where one might
suppose aggregated capital was strong
est, but In the west. In some OF the
largest mills in Illinois the members Of
the Amalgamated Association fatty re-
fused to obey President Skaters strike
ordg.
Now we are furnished more evidence
of the trusts power in the middle west
by the announcement from indianapolis
that the Attorney General of Indiana
has peremptorily turned down the
Amalgamated Associations application
for a mandamus against the United
States Steel Corporation under the anti
trust law passed by the last Indiana leg
islature. The Attorney General Of In
diana %pronounces the Billion Trust an
entirely legal corporation. Deputy At
torney General Moores says:
THE United States Steel Corporation is
a perfectly lawful corporation, and as
long as 1t obeys the laws it has the same
right to exist as is possessed by any other
corporation"
Mr.. Moores holds that the law recog-
nizes the right OF the stee! COOPERATION
to exist just as it does the RICH. Of any
college or church or any ordinary mar
ufacturing corporation or railroad COM
pany, and it is declared tina combina-
tons Of capital in the form OF ordinary
corporations are not legally trusts, and
such corporations are not ia themselves
unlawful.
Now we know that when a trust is
not a trust is when it is a big corpora
Ation-especially if it have a big polit:-
cal pull.
The experience Of the Amalgamated
Association in Indiana has been dupli.
Gated at Washington time and again
Speaking OF the fiat failure of the Sher.
man antitrust law the Louisville Cour.
~ier-Journal voices a general suspicior
when it says: 1T has long been be.
lieued that the act Of 1890 had its in.
spiration from the trusts themselves
1t was felt that the public sentiment
against these combinations required
some show Of action, and the law wa!
SO framed as to inspire hope but not Il
hurt the trusts. Whatever may hav,
been the intent, it Is certain that thi
was the effect"
Legislation against the trusts, con
tinues the Kentuckian, has been large
Y done Tor the alleged benefit of tn
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14
THE NECESSITY FOR ORDER.

l6E NEtESShIn OHNlJEUs
The strikers in this city and vicinity
are commended for their moderation
and temperance Of speech and action.
Although the situation is more or less
trying and thousands are idle there has
been absolutely no disorder. The mem
bers of the Amalgamated Association
show their keen appreciation OF the facs
that the worst enemy Of their cause Is
violence, which at once enlists against
them the authority and power of the
government. the court injunction and
the army, not to mention the most pow
erful force Of all-public sentiment.
The latter is thus voiced by Archbish-
op Ireland, proposed as a mediator in
the present strike:
But, while the right to enter upon a
strike is and must be conceded as a
right belonging to the personal freedom of
workingmen. thus much must ever be de-
manded-and in the name of the same
principle OF personal freedom under which
men act who refuse TO ~work-that they
VIM 1tdSc "Oih ii1Sl III HO way ilteIItIe
with the liberty OF others who may wish
to work. The personal freedom Of the in
dividual citizen is the most sacred and
precious inheritance of Americans. The
Constitution and the laws authorize 1t;
the spirit Of the country proclaims 1t; the
prosperity Of the people, the very life OF
the nation. require 1t. Whatever the 9TH
er interests at stake. that of the individ-
ual outranks them all, and this must be
| sustained ever If those are to be sacri-
| feed. Neither State nor fellow-citizen
| may interfere with my personal liberty