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be left to one person representing
Germany and another representing
Venezuela, with an umpire to be ap-
pointed by the president of the United
States A similar method of arbitra-
tion was accepted by Italy. The ques-
tion of preferential treatment of Ger
many, Great Britain and Italy is left
to The Hague court. 1t is TO be re-
GREETED that Mr.. Hollis, who is one of
the foremost living authorities on in
ternational law and one of the found
ers of The Hague court, declined to
accept the post of umpire, which has
subsequently been bestowed upon Gen.
Henry Martin Duffield, of Detroit,
Mich, also an authority on interna-
tional law and soldier with fine
record
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FREDERICK w. HOLLIS.
Famous New York Lawyer and Pub
Iicist Who Has Declined "a PosS
of Great Honor.

President Roosevelt has happy fac
ulty of delighting to honor the really
great and brainy men of the nation.
Not long ago he rendered to Frederick
w. Hollis, of New York, the position of
umpire in the settlement of the claims
of Germany and Italy against Venez-
uela. Under the terms of the settle
ment effected by Minister Bowen the
fixing of damages for Germany has to
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Keen AWAY from Tran.vn.I.

The number of Americans who may
enter the Transyaal or Orange River
colony is limited to so month and
each must have permit, the blank ap-
plication for which can be had of any
British consul And, too, an affidavit
must be made that the applicant has
sufficient means to support himself
and family after arriving.
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MANY ch,idreu are sickIy.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children,
used by Mother Gray, nurse Ia Cnildren
Home, New York, Break up Colds In ~ houIs'
cure Feverishness. Headache, stomach Trouble,
TeethBg Disorders, and Destroy. worms AZ
all druggists CSC sample mailed FREE hu-
dress, Allen 5. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y. OH aC
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WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, June az, 1903.

VdohIhStoil, J uhS &C, iVOJ'
Fourth Assistant Post master Cen
eral Bristows reply to the ruiloch
charges has finally been given to the
press and it is hardly surprising that
Postmaster General Payne was reluct.
ant to make the report public. 1t
demonstrates beyond peradventure
that during the regime OF Postmaster
General Smith and First Assistant.
Heath the utmost corruption prevailed
in the Postoffice Department and in
the Washington Postoffice, which was
used as sort of asylum for the per
sonal and political friends and proteges
of Hanna, Heath and others, In his
letter to Payne, Brlstow says that as
long ago as 1900 Beavers warned him
against any investigation of Heath's
actions and further warned him that
certain appointments noted as irregu-
lar were the personal actions of Post
master General Smith. Bristow fur
ther says that at The time he called the
attention of Postmaster General Smith
to "certaln glarlng irregularities"
which he believed called for immedI-
ate correction. OF course Smith
made no move to correct them. Not
withstanding these facts, Beavers has
been permitted to remain in the serv-
ice until month or two ago.
XXX
1t is further shown that one O. II.
Smith, personal friend OF Perry
Heath, from Indiana, was illegally
appointed, that he drew several salar-
les simultaneously for services which
it would have been physically impos-
slble for him to perform at the same
time, that he was paid eXorbitant
expense accounts contrary to law, etc.
He was also paid a per1iem allow
ance contrary to law, when he was for
considerable period, absent from
Washington participating In the Indl-
ana campaign. This same Smith is
still in the service and is mentioned in
Civil Service Commissioner Proctor's
report as holding his present pos ton
illegally, and as drawing the salary OF
finance clerk when he is actually in
charge Of labogers. According to
Postmaster General Payne the abuses
reported at that time were corrected by
Postmaster General Smith. An in
stance of Smiths methods of correction
Is found IN the case of eight "char-
women whom the inspectors found
were performing no services, but were
drawing aggregate salaries of $500
a year. Postmaster General Smith
correcls this abuse by writing the
postmaster at Washington that these
women were regularly appointed and
it was the postmaster's business to
find employment for them. This,
Notwithstanding the fact, as shown by
Commissioner Proctor, that so many
unnecessary employees were forced on
the Washington postmaster that 1t was
impossible for hun to find work for
all. Another instance is given in the
case of +. O. Fowler who was unable
to perform amy satisfactory service
but who was appointed assistant to
the time keeper, who needed no as
sistant, at salary of $I,7oo year
although the tlme-keeper himself re-
ceved but $1,000 year. These
are but very few samples of several
hundred similar cases reported.
XIX
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PHILADELPHIA & READING
RAILWAY.
In effect November IL, 1902.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURY

TRAINS LEAVE BLooMsBURG
For New YORK, Philadelphia, Reading, Potts
Vile, Tamaqua, weekdays 7.S ll.3O IN, 5:3
p, m.
For Williamsport, weekdays, 7.37 IA m 1888 m
For u D4nviile ana Miiton, weekdays, 1877 IN
For Uatawissa weekdays 7.s7, 1880 IN
For rupert weekdays 7.37, II, 80 q. III. 1920
TRAINS FOR BLUuMsBURG
Leave New York via Philadelphia SEQ p
m. and via Easton y.iOa. m.
Leave Philadelphia l0.2la m.
Leave Reading IL. 10 y. IN.
Leave PJttsvillel2.h5 p. m.
Leave Tamaqua APP, M,
Leave Williamsport weekdays 1000 NJ, a.
p. III.
Leave Cotawissa weekdays, 636, $40 a. M.
1.3O, 33B pm
Leave Rupert, weekdays, 6,44, s.2s, 1l.SO a.
m. i.3S, 346 o. n. -
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1t is evident that there will be ser
ious curtailment of the land settle
ment act at the next session of Con-
gress. President Roosevelt urged a
revision of the land laws in his last
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Runs daily. Flag station.
e. NJ RINE, L, w; LEE,
Supt. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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The President has filled two vac
ancies in the Civil Service Commits
sion this week. He has appointed
Alvord W. Cooley Of New York, vice
William Dudley Foulke, resigned, and
Harry F. Greene Of Minnesota, vice
James r. Garfield who resigned to
take the position of Chief of the
bureau of corporations in the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
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The most lively contest for appoint
ments in the Navy ended to-day in the
selection of Captain Charles w. Rae,
chief engineer, to be engineer in chief
and chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering Pay Director Henry I.
B. Harris to be paymaster general
and chief of the Bureau of Supplies
and Accounts, and Colonel George
f. Elliot of the marine corps TO be
brigadier general, commandant Of
marines. In the selection of an
engineer officer to succeed Admiral
George w. Melville, the members Of
the naval general board have been
disappointed in pet project. They
have been urging the selection OF a
line officer for engineer in chief.
Captain Rae had the support of Sena-
tor Hale of Maine who as chairman
of the committee on naval affairs ex-
erclsed great influence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-04
A BUSINESS EMPEROR
All About the Kaiser as an
International Drummer. :
M TAXING A SUCCESS
INTERESTED IN THE ADVANCE
MENT OF HIS COUNTRY.
How He Compares With Our President
German Views of Ameri-
cas- Future.
MAKING A SUCCESS
Copyright. 1908, by Frank G.. Carpenter)
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Copyright. 1908. by Frank C. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
BERLIN.
The Emperor of Germany is the greatest
trade drummer on earth. He is the man.
ager of that vast department store known
as the German empire and his customers
are all the world. He has his commercial
couriers on every road, his travelling sales
men on every sea. He begs trade in one
country with the oleaginous smile Of the
diplomat, and in another-China, for In
stance-bluffs his way at the mouth of the
cannon. He not only makes the smaller
nations buy, but with his b,ockading fleets
makes them pay. measuring the world, as
it were, with his international yardstick
and the pfenng. thaler and mark. He took
charge of the business on the 18th of June,
1883. and since then, very dynamo in
breeches, he has been tramping over the
earth in his seven-league boots. cajoing
and commanding. blufiing and retreating-
all things and everything for trade.
He is succeeding, too. and under him Ger
many is fast becoming the commercial
giant of Continental Europe. She began TO
push out only a few years before his ac-
cessoD to the throne and she has already
eighth of the foreign trade Of the
world. He has trebled the trade since he
took hold, and he now buys from US for his
factories more than three times as much
raw materials as he did at the start Ger
many's foreign trade now amounts to about
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loon sword had been twisted bodily out OF
his hand. and while he stood idly wonder
ing what had happened, Billy, with the
chair thrown aside and the blade glitterins
in his hand, was asking for orders from
his master: "Wull 1 stick him.?
But the desires of Maurice Raith were
not so murderous as Billy's speech might
have portended. Instead he ordered Billy
to gather up his belongings and follow him
I'm thinkin',' said the gypsy, shrewdiy
that Billy Marshall had better, maybes
come alang wi ye a bittock, an gang
after. Bet will bide where she Is till 1
bid her stir. to see that nocht Is stown
ava. An are We sure, ma. that We are
only wantin' yin O. the lasses?'
Being assured on this point. and indeed
it was great relief to Maurice to reach a
state of assurance himself. Billy abruptly
bade his master to Gang on, then. WI the
wumman!' while he himself. with the cap
tured Walloon ''poking-stick' kept at bay
the master of the auberge of the Bon
Chretien and (what was considerably
more difficulty his daughter also.
Now SO far, Maurice had not felt the
weight of the slight girlish form while the
excitement was upon him, but now as he
descended the narrow, winding stairs of the
inn, and still more when he found himself
out facing the full burst of the storm over
beads of perspiration burst from his brow
and he faced the headlong rush OF the
tempest with kind of fear lest he should
prove unequal to the task he had taken
upon him.
But the very bitterness of the blast drove
the oxygen into his lungs, as 1t were, In a
compressed state, and so far, at least, re-
covered him.
At the same time he began to feel slight
STRINGS and shiftings of position in the
burden which he had set himself to carry.
And with these came Maurice's first Qualm
of doubt as to his action, quickly mounting
into fear and shame, that in the bitter
Arctic cold of the Larzac night, with the
ground white with frozen snow, the blood
rushed warm and red to his brow.
In his first indignation against Yvette
Foy he had taken Frances Wildwood from
what might be her only home. But might
he not have been deprivfng the girl of her
natural friend and protector, one of the
same age and sex? What had he to offer
her in exchange especially In such place
Moreover-the vision of how she had seen
them last together came back to him
through the triple armor of the excellence
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he often visits the industrial centers.
He had close connections with the Krupps
and frequently studied the gun factory.
He makes the crown prince go to such
places and plans tours for him by which
he is acquiring practical view of indus
trial and commercial as well as military
Germany.
The kaiser has visited all the flg
factories about Berlin. He attends every
exposition and during the past year has
several times hoRored the Dusseldorf
position with his presence. At the same
time he keeps track of the various COM
mercial and manufacturing conventions.
and apparently looks upon the whole en-
pire his business field, regarding it his
duty to push it in every possible way.
The Kaiser and Our President.
Indeed. the Emperor of Germany and
President Roosevelt are much alike. They
are of about the same age and of the same
intense nervous organization. Roosevelt
has iron jaw; so has the kaiser Roose
welt is brown from exposure to the air and
sun: Is the kaiser Our President has a
piercing eye, and so has the Emperor of
Germany.
Each man is full of self-confldence On
his way to Washington from Buffalo imme-
diately after the assassination of President
Mckinley Mr.. Roosevelt was asked If he
was not afraid of the responsibility which
that death had thrust upon him. He re-
piled: Not a bit" And he was not. The
self-confidence of the German emperor is
notorious. He has frequently said that he
believes himself divinely appointed and is
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Splitting in London.


From the London Chronicle.
The filming Of a Battersea man for spit
ting in London county council tram car
marks a beginning. DR.. Cooper, chairman
Of the public health committee of the Lon
don county council, informs correspondent
that the home secretary will not confirm a
general bylaw against splitting, but is will
ing to confirm one against the practice in
buses, trans. halls and railway carriages.
The committee of the local government
board is now considering such a bylaw,
says DR.. Cooper, and will shortly bring 1t
up to the council to pass. In this relation it
may be noted that the discovery Of the
cause Of tuberculosis comes of age in ten
days. and that Professor Koch, the discov-
erer, has just been elected to succeed Vir-
chow as foreign associate of the French
Academy Of Sciences
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thin black dress {hd-driven clipped her

thin black dress khd-driven clipped her
This is my fathers house-my house, "
she said with an air of relief. II will go in.
MOL thank your she added as Maurice ap-
preached to assist or warn her.
She raped, first tfTnidly and then louder
upon the door. The ewicket flew open, and
such a torrent of abuse and evil language
poured out upon the night that Flower-o'-
stinctive horror. ands fairly turned and ran
out upon the waste. "a sentinel started for
ward. Boo
do not fire! / bid your cried Maurice
loudly in French. Hezran after the girl, but
she turned upon him with all the despera-
ton of gentle thing cornered and fighting
for its life. She drew a skean dhu from her
garter and threatened herself with it as he
approached ID
do you hear? Do. you hear?' she cried
1T swear it-by my fathers God. who will
forgive mel If you touch me or much
as make one step forward nearer to me, 1
will kill myself with this knife
He hesitated. and then in a moment
Flower the Corn had turned and fled
away across the glooming wastes. toward
the barren crater-like ridge where Maurice
had made his first camp.
The young man stood petrified. Billy Mar
shall at his back whispering. Aye, maybes
moo yen attend to what / say the neist
time! Had We geen her KNAPP wi the rung
in time, there wad haze been name o. this
trikin an gallivant aneath the flower winds
O. heaven!"
In the meantime Maurice stood at the
town gate Billy Marshall at his right hand
an amazed sentry watching events with
black doubts of his commanders honesty
rising in his heart.
ITO he confInuedN
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CHAPTER XIX,
The Market Rate of Folly.

And at the sight all suddenly the being
of Maurice Raith was changed within him.
An animal made comfortable, purring and
arch1ng Its back with content, was sud
denly changed to a man who knows that
he has been duped.
Letting go the girl he had kissed the
moment before, he ran to Flower-o' the
Corn, who had fallen chill and limp upon
the floor. Yvette followed him.
No, you shall not touch her-I dare
you to touch her!' he cried. starting up
suddenly-why he knew not.
He was holding the slender form in his
own strong arms. determinediy almost
possessively. The black dress scarce held
her more jealousy.
Yvette Foy, who never fought so well
as in a losing cause. affected to believe
that he had suddenly gone mad, which
was perhaps true.
Better lay the preachers daughter
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The Telephoto Lens.
From Pearson's Magazine

from Pearson's Magazine.
The up-to-date explorer now takes bio
graph or cinematograph with him. One of
the first to do this was Prof. Haddon of
Cambridge, who has also included pho
nograph among his outfit. With these in
struments combined the scientific trav-
eler can bring back an extraordinary vivid
record OF manners and customs and cause
the remotest savages to dance cancans and
Shrek their songs in the decorous
theater or the London University More
over, there Is the telephoto lens, combi-
nation OF telescope and camera, with
which all kinds of extraordinary subjects
can be taken, such as lion attacking an
antelope secret ceremonies of savages and
other functions at which the immediate
proximity of the explorer is highly unde-
slrable in the opinion Of all parties.
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warmly stoCkinged and slippered. in act
to console his sister Yvette-to kiss her
tears away'-Flower-o % -theCorn had en-
tered unseen and unheard to ask a ques-
ton of her hostess. She stood a moment
watching them, with her throat swelling,
her eyes dilating, the furniture of the
room and the figures of the man and the
woman in 1t slowly spinning round like
puppets in a show. She had some knitting
in her hand which she held out with a dim
idea of asking some question about it, and
so getting away.
Then there was the roaring of g. great
ocean in her ears, and the next moment
ower-o'-the-Corn dropped insensible upon
the floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-04
How Is WuP

rom the New Orleans Times Democrat.
Chen Tung Liang Cheng benign, ali,
Cheerily We welcome you!
we expect to take shine,
Liking to you Sir we do,
II you'll only drop a line,
Reassuring word or two
Dealing with the Pearl Of China
Ieli the latest news of WI!
Never mind the beastly vicious
boxers and their yellow tricks
Never mind the sneretricious
compliments of politics
mat prosperity you wish us
We will take for granted, too,
III you'll only quickly dish us
out the latest news Of WI!
Never stood for more of learning,
wisdom, quaintness and, as well,
observation most discerning,
Just monosyllable.
Humors flame was always burning
Meath his skulfcap, bright and true.
10 you wonder We are yearn1ng
For the latest news of WI?
Is he resting? Is he fighting?
Is he raising rice and yam?
Or, mayhap, Is he inditing
History Of Uncle Samf''
Is he by revision Fighting
Ancient laws, and making newt
Or is he in prison, sighting
Death and cracking jokes our Wuf
Well, the queer extravaganza
We entitle Life. he knew.
And he played big part sans
Single awkward error through.
To the papers, bonanza,
Golden wit in heaps he threw.
Wherefore. as end the stanza;
WHAT'S THE LATEST NEWS OF WI,
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comes to the watering places near Frankfort
for a vacation. At such times he gets up
at 6 o'clock and goes to work He keeps at
it all day and often far into the night. The
next day he is up again at 6, as bright as a
dollar"
In many of the factories 1 visited
throughout Germany 1 have been told tina t
the kaiser knows all about them and that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-01

ready made. Like sensible business man
ne seizeds the opportunity of giving his
ships good coating of tar and SET ont
again. bent on fresh conquests. In the CEN
turtles that have elapsed since Raleigh first
landed In Trinidad the Pitch lake has prov
ed something like gold mine to the COL
ony or all mineral products the shipment
OF asphalt is the most important and lu-
crative. During the last seven years II
has nearly doubled in value. Yielding CON.
siderable sums in relief of taxation, it con-
tributes to financial position sound at
all points. While the revenue of Trinidad
Is steadily going up. its expenditure is
frmly but discreetly cut down. The pub
nc debt OF the colony, which amounts to
ABOUT t1,UOVOO. is to the extent of rs
per cent represented by remunerat tive works
me railway built out of loan. not only
pays Jus working expenses. but finds near
~ the whole of the interest paid by the
colony in respect of its cost The exnendi.
lure on harbor works finds equally ga tis
Factory return. No wonder that taxatton
nke expenditure. is decreasing. It stands
at the rate of fl las 61xd a head, much
Tess imam was exacted a quarter of a CEN
fury ago, when the comforts and conyen-
fences OF railways, telegraphs and good
ROADS were only partially developed.
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COCOA IN TRINIDAD.
Acreage Under Cultivation Exceeds
That Of Sugar.
From the London Times.

FROM tne LONDON
1t is cocoa that has proved the salvation
OF Trinidad. At the present time the area
OF the island under cocoa cultivation IS
twice that under sugar and is steadily ex-
year was something like 100000 below the
average of the preceding quarter of a CEN
fury Cocoa exceeded the average of the
same period by nearly f400. 600 For the
peasant proprietor. with his infinitesimal
capital, the cultivation OF cocoa is much
more conformable to circumstances than IS
the growth of the sugar cane. Unlike sugar
cocoa, having been gathered from the tree
and dried in the sun. does not REQUIRE a
process OF manufacture. There is therefore
no capital expenditure on plant nor any
bloated wages sheet The new recruits to
the ranks of peasant proprietors are, ac-
cordingly, giving their preference to grow
ing cocoa. The result appears in the latest
available return. In 1895 the export OF su-
gar amounted In value to E596,415 In 1900
II was reduced to 1852, 15S- In 1895 the ex-
port value of cocoa was f62O. 1874. In 1900 II
was f97S,632. an increase of considerably
over 90 per cent. During the same term OF
years the total value Of exports has in
spite OF depression In the sugar market. In
creased In the same ratio. IN lSp5 II WAS
fl,f9l .S6I. In 300 II was f2Sll 500 There
are L FANCY, few communities of larger
growth that can show within the same
space OF time an increase OF 20 per cent on
the value OF their exports
W hen Sir Walter Raleigh frst 1,,o,ted
yIihioad he was greatly struck by the
oiscovery OF lake that supplied pitch