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the central competitive 'regioh. sfixed
their signatures to tie articles OF
agreement which, provide for two
years wage contract between the In
dusrial and the capitalistic inta.ests
OF the coal industry of the United
States, No change was, made in tie
compromise proposal of the operators
which, was accepted by a referendum
vote OF the miners, t-'.t
A rehabilitation of the interstate
Joint conference was effected by fixing
January %, 1906. as the date for the
next, joint conference. of the operators
and miners. of: the central competitive
region. S's
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"THE NEGRO: THE SOUTHERN.
ER'S PROBLEM"

MR.. Thomas NELSON PAGE, who is
President r osEvELT's adviser with
reference to political matters relating to
Virginia in particular and the South
land in general has made some sur
prising statements in his article in Nc
CLURE's MAGAZINE for March, ,apd at
the same time displayed an antagonism
to the New Negro that betokens i'll for
us, if his advice is hee led by the dis
tinguished occupant of the White
House.
Already, fewer colored men hold of
fee under his administration than at
any time since the induction Of Gen. u.
:. GRANT into the presidential chair at
Washington and tie confirmation of
Dr. w. d. CRUM. as Collector of the
Port at Oh ,rleston, South Carolina de-
spite the back king of the administration
is as yet hanging fire.
In an extraet cited from this disserto-
ton of Mr.. PACE, and published in our
issue of last week, he declared that the
expenditure Of vast sums of money by
philanthropists in behalf of the Negro
was failpre inasnuch as the only re-
turn therefortwas g sad experience.
IL is Uncomfortable that gentleman.
of Mr.. PAGES ability, with the Stats
tics and the facts within easy reach of
him in the archives at Washington
should have given away to this out
burst of pessimism and that he should
sing:
'Hark from the tomb doleful sound
To a, believers ear. y
Negro suffrage has proven failure
only because the southerners, backed up
by the national government decreed
that it should be failure.
But what has been tie result of the
enactment of liberal laws and the ex-
penditures of millions of dollars by
philanthropists?
History furnishes nc example of such
a radical and surprising change from
slavery to freedom as is afforded in the
case of the much abused blacks of the
Southland.
Forty years ago, they were illiterate,
ignorant, poverty stricken, relying up
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Earthquake In New ENGLAND States

Boston, Dec. 81 - An earthquake
this morning caused a tremor through
out the entire eastern section of. New
England. Beginning at ST. John. N. B.,
the seismic vibrations traversed the
state OF Maine, causing some slight
damage to buildings In Augusta,
Bangor and Portland. The shock was
felt plainly as far south as Taunton
in this state At Augusta, Me-, lamp
chimneys were broken and crockery
was smashed. The vibrations, lasted
several seconds.
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PRICE OF COAL COMES DOWN
Reading to Follow Lead and Make
Usual Sprinu Reduc ton.


Philadelphia, March 22--Anuounce-
ment is expected at an early date that
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
iron company will make the usual
spring reduction in the price of domes-
tic coal on April. II. Under this reduc-
ton the price of anthracite fuel.
which is now S6.25 ton. will be $5.75
a ton. Ten cents ton will be added
to the price each month until the reg
ular rate is reached on October l.
All the larger anthracite companies.
excepting the Reading, sent out circu-
lars announcing the spring reduction.
The rates on April VIII be: Broken
coal $I.25; egg. $3.50 a ton: stove,
$3.50 ton; chestnut, $3.50 q ton; pea
So ton, and buckwheat, $3.50 a ton.
The Reading company. it is said.
was opposed to making the Customary
reduction this spring.
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Postmast Annointed.

Washington, March 23.-The presi-
dent sent to the senate the following
non nations of postmasters: New Jer.
sey- George B. Jacobus. Caldwell;
Charles w. Russell, New Brunswick :;
Pennsylvania - Daniel M. Bennett
Brio geville.
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MRS. POWELL HELD FOR COURT
Delaware Woman, Accused of Murder.
Natives a Hearinn

Dover, Del. March 23.-The prelim-
inary hearing of Mrs Mary A. Powell.
alleged murderess of Estelle Albin.
which was scheduled for yesterday, was
held late on Monday evening in the cell
OF MS Powell at the county jail.
Accompanied by the prisoners coun-
sci, Magistrate Wood went to the Jail.
Mrs. Powell waived a hearing and was
held without bail to await the action
Of the grand jury at the April term of
court.
Tho advanced hearing proved a great
surprise to great crowd of persons
who had assembled in the hope of lis
tening to evidence in the case.
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TERMS IN ADVANCE

DsF'P0STAGB STAMPS OF A HIGHER DE
. ESTIMATION THAN TWO CENTS NOT
gZgIE4VED ON SUBSCRIPTIONS
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MINERS SCALE SIGNED

Operators and Men Affx Their sigma.
lures to the Agreement.
indianapolis, March 22.-Eight coal
operators and eight miners, compos-
Ing the joint sub-scale committee of
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Wednesday, March %.

The Ohio Republican state conven-
ton will be held May II and Is at Co.
lumbuS.
BY the collapse OF a brick builGing
being erected at Houston, Tex, eight
persons were injured. three fatally.
The National Hardware Dealers AS
ISOLATION held its annual convention
at Indianapolis, Ind
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you AVE SPOKEN. Is VulS the Ialr Dl "
for which you stand?
And then, as If to minimize the force
of his assertions and to qualify the
strong language he had uttered, he con-
tinued:
The inference that has been drawn
from this is u ually one which is wholly
in favor of the colored race. 1t Is, how
ever rather u tribute TO both races Had
slavery at the South been the frightful
institution that it has ordinarily ben
p'ctured, with the slave driver and the
bloodhound always III the foreground.
it is hardly credible that the lure OF
the Negroes TO avail themselves of the
oppo; tunities for free dom so frequently
offered them would have been SO general
and the loyalty co their masters would
have been so voled.
''One other reason Is commonly over
looked. The instinct for command of
he white iace at least, of that section
GO which the whites of this count be.
ione-iS wonderful thing: the serene
self .confidt nee which reckons no oppo-
sltion, but drives straight for the high
EST place, is impressive. lie made the race
in the past; II has preserved it in our
stancy and courage of their masters.
They had had abundant proof of il for
generations, and their masters We're now
IN arms. The failure of servile popu-
lation to rise against their masters in
time of war Is no new 5hiDg His
tory furnishes many illustrations. Piu-
tarch tells how the besiegers of q certain
city offered, not only freedom to the
slaves, but added to it the promise If
their masters property and wives if
they would desert them. Yet the offer
was rejected with scorn. During the
REVOLUTION, freedom on the same terms
was offered the slaves in Virginia and
the Carolinas by { he British General, but
with little effect, except to infiame the
masters to bitterer resistance. The re-
suit was the same during the Civil
War"
But the tender memories of the past
caused the race prejudice within his
bosom to retreat once more, for he said:
THE exactions of the War possibly
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 well, but would take it into the house, open the box and insert the ring. But this explanation involves enormous inn probabilities, while it is unlikely, again, that the conjurer managed to insert a duplicate ring into the dispatch box be- forehand. Lord Lytton then asked the juggler if he could repeat the trick. He answered in the affirmative, and wo- man lent another ring. Another officer took it, with the seeds, as before, and dropped the ring into the well. The countenance of the juggler altered in the pause which followed. Something, he said, had gone wrong, and he seem ed agitated Turning to the second off, cer he said, Did you arrange the seeds as I bade you?'' No" said the officer, 'I thought that was all non- sense, and I threw them away" The juggler seemed mortified. Do you think I do this by myself?" he said, and, packing up, he departed.
 The well was carefully dragged, and at last the woman's ring was brought to the surface. That ring, at least, had been in the water. But had the first ring been as faithfully consigned to the depths? Experts will be of various opinions as to that, yet the hypothesis of confederacy and of duplicate key to the dispatch box is difficult Long mans Magazine.
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!. s. MARINES LANDED
fcontinued from First Page.l


 sions, and hopes that her proposals will prove acceptable to Japan.
 There are strong hopes in many cir cles that on Thursday next, the Rus sian Christmas. the czar may be able to announce that peace is assured.
 The Foreign Office informed the Asso- ciated Press to-day that instructions had been sent to Viceroy Alexief, on which the reply was based. The latter was drawn up in the most conciliatory spirit Some of the Japanese proposals were accepted, while others were made the subject of extended observations and were met by counter-proposals.
 The furry on the Bourse yesterday is explained by bankers as being due to the annual settlement operations, and they add that it was wholly uninfu- enced by the Far Eastern situation.
 Paris, Jan. 6.-The Che Foo core spondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald cables as follows:
 Flight thousand Japanese troops are ready to land at Masampho and their landing will probably mean war.
 "A regiment of cossacks is expected at Port Arthur.
 Reserves are being moved from Blagovyeshchensk (the capital of the Amur Province in Eastern Siberia), to Tsitsihar Gin Manchuria).
 s'The position of the troops in Man churia is being re-arranged but their location is kept secret
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STORY OF INDIAN MAGIC.
Tricks That Defy Detection and Mys
 tify All Who Behold Them.

Tricks That Defy Detection and Mys-
 tify All Who Behold Them.
 The following story of Indian magic was told me by the person to whom it was told by the late Lord Lytton. I give it in my own words, for the excel lent though humiliating reason that I have mislaid the manuscript When in India Lord Lytton often sought out conjurers, but never saw any but the usual feats, such as the mango tree trick and the basket trick. The meth cd in each case is known. or at all events plausible explanations have been given by MT Maskelyne and other experts. On one occasion Lord Lytton liked something in the looks of the con- jurer who was performing in an open space before his house. After the ordi- nary exhibition his lordship asked the magician if he could not do something more out of the common way. The men said he would try, and asked for ring, which Lord Lytton gave him. He then requested an officer to take in either hand a handful of seeds;one sort was sesame: the name of the other sort my informant did not know. Holding these seeds and having the ring be- <, tween his finger and thumb, the officer was to go to a well in the corner of the compound. He was to dispose of the seeds in a certain way-I think on the low wall around the well, into the depths of which he was to throw the ring
 All this was done, and then the ma gician asked Lord Lytton where he would like the ring to reappear. He answered fin his dispatch box" of which the key was attached to his watch chain, or at all events he had it with him on the spot The dispatch box was brought out Lord Lytton | opened it, and there was the ring. This trick would be easy if the Brit ish officer was a confederate of the jug gler's, and if he possessed duplicate key to the dispatch box. In that case he would not throw the ring into the
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Rev. Dr. Daniel Merriman. of Worces- ter and Boston, and his son, Roger Mer- riman, a graduate of Oxford, England, and now instructor in Harvard univer- sity, were of the party. Dr. Merrinan preached an especially effective and in- spring sermon to the faculty and stu dents of Atlanta university in Ware chapel from the text: Behold, set before you an open door
 The American Economic association and the American Historical association together formed one of the most distin- guished companies which has visited Atlanta this year Among them were the following eminent men and women: Professor Williston Walker and Henry W. Farnam of Yale university, Profess sor William A. Cunning of Columbia university, Miss Conan of Wellesley college, and Clarence Winthrop Bowen of the New York Independent.
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The chief in his report recommended the purchase of 150 tons of coal, as the supply is running short, and the pur- chase of a combination hose and chem ieal wagon for the new Fourth ward engine house. These matters were re- ferred to the proper committees. The petition of H. c. Rowe & Go. for the renewal of fire protection was granted
 On motion of Commissioner Gierding the board extended vote of thanks to the neighbors in the vicinity of St. Mi chaePs church for the assistance they had rendered during the fire.
 The following grade increases were made: M. s. Carroll, of 7's house, to first-grade hoseman and T. F. Maloney. of Hook and Ladder No. 2, to second grade hoseman.
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HOUSES MAY NEVER REOPEN
tcontinued from First Page.)

Then I found the lights tied with wire inside, and broke two panes of glass to get at the wires to unite them. final ly got the wires off and opened the lights
 Jones was asked why he went to the roof of the theater, and replied that he had been told that the north wall had been cracked in the fire and went to see if it was true. He declared he had loosened the skylights because he fear Cd they might fall through and injure somebody on the stage.
 ''Why did you take three iron work CTS with you to inspect a brick wall 2" asked Attorney Fulkerson, of the fire department.
 Jones was confused, but finally an swered that the men went with him through curiosity. He admitted that the iron workers helped him to open the skylights and worked with him about the roof for half an hour.
 Although~Ae Said he went to the the .atans his own accord and without or 1ggfs from the Fuller Construction conn pany. he admitted that he should at \ the time have been in another building where he had been working. When asked how he was going to explain to the company that employed him why he had taken three of it's employees and kept them with him for practically an hour in order to satisfy his curiosity, Jones could make no satisfactory re- ply.
 When pressed for an answer Jones said that the men were not employees of the Fuller company, but men he had met on the street.
 Jones denied that he had used any tools in forcing open the skylights, but this statement was denied by George Mueller, who witnessed the breaking onsn of the skylights from an adjoin- | Ing building. Mueller declared that the men carried and made use of a crow bar and hammer.
 Numerous witnesses who were in ad- Joining buildings overlooking the thea ter testified that the skylights were not open during the fire.
 Coroner Traeger said tonight that the he was almost ready for the in- quest, which will commence Thursday morning. q wish it understood" he said. sthat this is not a trial, but sim ply an inquiry to determine the facts of the fire as far as we can. The cor oner's jury will not attempt to fix the blame of the fire upon anybody, nor will 1t recommend the punishment of anybody. It will simply report on the facts as 1t has been able to gather them and the rest of the work wirll be left for the states attorney.'
 According to the managers of the local theaters the closing of the play houses in this city has disarranged the theatrical business of the entire coun- try. Companies that have been booked for this city for the next fortnight are either suspended or they are being sent to other cities, thus forcing other conl- panies to change their routes.
 Life insurance companies object to the statement Of the coroner that nc verdict will rendered nfter the inquest claiming that large sums of money in insurance on the lives If those who per- ished in the heater fire depend for thejl payment on the verdict of the coroner's jury.
 Attorneys for the relatives who died declare that verdict should be given in each particular case of death in order that collection of insurance may be possible.
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ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.

The American Economic association and the American Historical assoccia- ton on their recent trip south to at tend the annual meeting at New Or leans, La, stopped over at Atlanta, Ga, to visit Atlanta university, where they made special investigation into the methods of Professor W. E. B. DuBois the eminent professor of economies and sociology in that institution, whose re- searches in connection with statistics oi the negro race are of such invaluable assistance to students of sociology the world over: Dr. Dubois being recog- nized as the highest authority on this branch of the subject in this country and in Europe
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Warming u.susa in r.niy,

Rome, Jan. 5.--The ministry of the interior has issued circular addressed to all the projects throughout the king dom in which attention is called to the disaster at the Iroquos theater in Chi cago. It urges the prefects to compel the managers of theaters within their jurisdiction to strictly observe the rules which have been established for the safety of the public. The chief of po- lice of Milan has issued an order com peling the public to use the theater emergency exits for several evenings so that they may become familiar with them.
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Panama niinl.ssr Resigns.

Washington, Jan. 5.M. Philippe
 Bunu-Varilla, the minister fronas Pana- ma and the joint signer with Secretary
 Hay of the Hay -Bunau-varilla treaty,
 will resign his office after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty between the Washington and Panama govern ments. It is said his successor will be
 MT. Arozemana, a prominent lawyer
 of Panama, whose son is now secretary
 of the legation here. M. Bunau-varilla probably win go to Paris after his resignation.