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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
The Cause of the Miners Compro-
missed.

The intimation from Washington that
the President will not interfere in the
anthracite coal strike $50 long as no one
suffers but the operators and the miners,
the parties to the strike, /" is what might
have been expected by observers Of the
drift of things. On March 10 the opera
tors proposed an extension for three
years Of the award Of the anthracite
strike commission appointed by Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT. They reminded JOHN
MITCHELL and his committee that under
that award the miners had prospered,
were earning higher wages proper
~tionately than men in other industries,
had accumulated money in the savings
banks and were averse to q strike.
A week later Mr.. MITCHELL replied to
Mr.. GEORGE F. BAER of the operators
committee, suggesting that he UNDER
stood the door to negotiation was still
open, and proposing another meeting
to consider the wage scale. Mr.. MITCH
III admitted that a strike would be a
very serious thing, but intimated that
the miners would not be satisfied to
continue the award of the commission
for another three years. We believe that
this was a pure assumption on JOHN
MITCHELL's part. The reluctance of
the men in the anthracite region to en-
gage in another strike when they might
remain at work under the reasonable
wage scale of 1903 amounts almost to a
protest against his methods.
The operators were willing to meet
the miners committee half way as usual.
Mr.. BAER agreed that the door was still
open; but on March % came the remark
able order to the miners to quit work
on the night of the 31st, c~oincidently
with JOHN MITCHELL'B telegram to Mr..
BAER asking for a meeting in New York
on Tuesday, April 3, for the purpose Of
further considering the wage scale in
the anthracite field" Always for peace
il war could be prevented, Mr.. BAER
granted the request In behalf OF the
operators, although" said he, your
order to quit work pending negotiations
is most extraordinary. The operators
had been ready for ten days to confer
about the wage scale, but the miners
committee seemed to have lost interest
in the meeting, 1t was a council of folly
and desperation to order the strike first
and name the time Of conference after
ward. There is no doubt that the cause
of the miners has been compromised by
the action of their convention.
The Intervention in 1902 occurred
only when the public was being ground
between the upper and the neither mill
stone. Itshould be remembered that the
President has already used his good offices
to prevent a strike in the bituminous
industry. If the miners have alienated
his sympathy, who is to blame for it but
the c~onspirators at Indianapolis?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

We are requested by Archbishop
IRELAND, who is now in Rome, to con-
tradict positively the report published on
Friday that he is there to represent the
American Government in the settlement
OF Philippine affairs with the Vatican.
The Archbishop informs THE SUN that
statements connecting him with this
diplomatic or semi-diplomatio business
are utterly unfounded, and that his visit
to Rome is purely personal.
We gladly give publicity to this I'M
qualified contradiction, on the highest
authority possible, of the report in
question.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

To THE EDITOR OF THE uN-Sf The Church
has learned a good many things, TO Its advantage
and attractiveness, from the theatre. II has
adapted and adopted a good many tunes supposed
formerly to belong 10 the devil and his devotees.
Now. why can't IL 20 q step further and adopt
another laudable theatre custom. making women
remove their hats during worshipf
Isn't there a minister with sufncient drawing
power and ~sufncient sand 10 say the wordi Or
are the churches so grateful for attendance that
the male portion is TO be made miserable to the
end of thlngsf
ask this with a head still diszy and q neck still
aching from trying 10 nnd q Vista through which
! could get a sight Of the preacher and be able q
little moro closely 10 follow his sermon.
NEW YORK, March rs. ERHEsT II. MoRdAN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Police Legislation.

Assemblyman DoNoHUE, moved thereto
by the hard fate Of the unfortunate men
who compose the New York police force,
has introduced in the Legislature a bill
to amend the charter by prohibiting
the Police Commissioner from assigning
any patrolman Or roundsman to more
than eight hours duty in any n day,
except in case Of emergency. Nothing
more likely to destroy discipline in the
department than such legislation could
be imagined. Already the responsible
head of the department is hampered in
the performance of his duties by many
improper legislative enactments, and to
cripple him still further would be to
invite worse conditions than have ever
heretofore existed in the department.
1t is not improbable that within a
comparatively short time a strong public
sentiment for the repeal of numerous
statutes protecting policemen in their
grades and jobs will be shown. For a
good many years the Legislature has
treated the situation as if the city ex-
listed for the benefit of its employees.
The result of this system has not been
an applause compelling success. Soon
it may seem expedient to reverse it and
try treating the policemen Is il they
were servants Of the taxpayers.
The Legislature should give the Mayor
and Police Commissioner an opportunity
to.run the Police Department for a while,
and such legislation as that proposed
by Mr.. DoNoHUE should not be permitted
to get beyond the stage indicated by
a simple group Of numerals at the top
OF the printed bill.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

The British Cotton Growing Association
a it has proved that cotton Of every
variety may be grown In the British colonies,
and 1t predicts q crop Of %, 1000 bales this
year, grown under it's auspices. This is
very encouraging. but II we scan the whole
field, observing not only the widening area
of cotton cultivation, but also the enormous
new regions OF cotton consumption that are
rapidly opening and are capable Of great
development, we are convinced that there
is no glut of production in prospect. For
many years to come, and perhaps always,
a short crop in the United States will be a
calamity severely felt in the spinning and
weaving centres Of Europe.
Some Of the British colonies, notably
parts OF Rhodesia, Uganda, the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan and northern Australia,
are likely to make an impression on the
cotton markets in the course of the next
quarter Of a century; but the outlook in
many other quarters, especially in many
OF the regions where the French and Ger
mans are experimenting with as much i'm
~telligence and energy as the British are
showing in their territories, is not quite 80
encouraging. Most OF the results in West
Africa have thus far been disappointing,
because the hopes OF rapid progress rave
not been realized.
The Germans are the only ones who hove
as yet introduced a few spindles and looms
30 that they may test the hbres in the very
fields where they are grown; but the total
crop in the German possessions last year
was less than 5000 bales. while the British
crop, outside Of India, was less than rs 900
bales, and as the worlds consumption is
now increasing at the rate Of about 400, 900
bales a year. 1t is certain to be a long time
yet before the new sources Of supply and
larger production in the present areas Of
cultivation will balance the steadily in
oreasing demand.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sfr: Probably
j. A. Bensel thinks Esq" more seemly than the
Hon" customarly applied to all big and some
small officials. Every Ginpump John Stun Alder
man is styled Honorable" for the rest OF his life.
The "obedicnt servant" is superluous here. very
respectfully" means as much-or as little-and 10
the proper form in Federal correspondence.
BY the way. the Standard Dictionary's dehni.
alton OF esquire" Is not correct. In England COM
missloned officers are esqulres as well as eldest sons
OF knights. &c, Younver sons OF peers are Honor
able" not esqulres. As to Mister" II Is too, too
awfully beastly bourgeois. II. N.
NRW YORK. March 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

From the yarmouth tMdssl REGISTER.
Mr.. G. p. Howes and Mr.. J. W. SmAlley Of Ia"
Dennis have been treating themselves 10 a new
COW.
We understand Mr.. B. N, Kelley OF East Dennis
has purchased a new horse TO be used in his hen
business.
Mr.. D.. H. Sears, East Dennis. Is making an add
ton on his store to make room for an Ice cream
saloon and barber shop.
Miss Agnes Howes returned Monday evening
from her visit to Woonsocket and New Bedford
Confused by the binding snowstorm Mr.. David
Love brought up In two other door yards before
landing her at the desired shelter, for which ne
has now 10 endure some good natured chahins'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Indian Proverbs

From Sturm's Statehood Magazine.
The coward shoots with shut eyes.
No Indian ever sold his daughter for a name.
Before the paleface came there was no poison ID
the Indians corn.
Small things talk loud TO the Indians eye.
When a fox walks lame old rabbit Jumps.
The paleface's arm is longer than his word,
A squaw's tongue runs faster than the winds
legs.
There is nothing so eloquent as & rAttlcsnske'i
tall.
The Indian scalps his enemy, the paletace skin,
his friends.
There will be hungry ~palefaces 90 long as there
IL any Indian land to swallow.
When a man prays one day and steals six The
Great spirit thunders and the evil one laughs,
There are three things 1t takes a strong man Ia
hold-a young warrior. a wild horse and a hand
some eouaw.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
No April Fool.

There lay upon the pavement
A bulging pocketbook:
He sidestepped when he saw IL
With wise and crafty look.
Upon the phone they asked him
To call up Twenty three"
He hung up the receiver
And smiled in cunning glec.
All efforts 10 cntrap him
He met with manner cool
And pardonably boosted
He was no April fool.
But like the rest OF mankind,
when all was said and done,
He showed himself Gli.e plainly
A January, February. March, May. June, July,
August, September, October, November and
December one.
McLANpBuRoH WILSON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
DR.. L,eber,s Portrait Of a Gentleman.

To THR fpIroR OF THE SUS--Str: Permit me 10
refer your correspondents 10 DR.. Francis Lieber's
"The Character Of the Gentleman" Philadelphia.
1854, p. lei.
Your correspondents might try whether the
following definition is universally valid, from Adam
TO Beau Brummel; a gentleman is a man who re.
spects himself and others, from q kind and true
heart and from a sound intelligence and who con.
forms u the customs o fhis class"
Does this definition include any one who should
be left OUT Docs II exclude any one who should
be left inf q. r z.
WEST POINT, March 30.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Appeal tn the Marrying.
From the indian Patriot.

From he indian Pdtriof.
MARRIAGE M~ARRIAGEii MARRIAGE m
To
The Hindu Gentlemen OF Southern India who
will spend hundreds and thousands OF rupees on
Marriages during the next six months a respectful
appeal is made for a small gift TO the National
Fund Madras established October. 1905, by
G. SuBRAMAHIA IYRR,
,SerFffaru
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
when the News Reached Honolulu.

From Tie HdpdHdn ST1T,
The cable as II comes here Is abbreviated. For
example the name OF John J. Smith comes 10
"jjsmith." II was this custom that led a local
paper one day TO announce that Mrs, ialogaa
had been elected president OF the Red Cross So
eiety." Mrs. J. A. Logan Is stlll the president.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

To THE EDITOR OF tt SUH-Sir: l heard this
question asked last night In a company OF parents
aud teachers: VIII a mind OF great capacity be
reduced TO mediocrity by the Ill choice OF a pro.
feasiont" IL was not answered satisfactorily.
NEW YORK. March -. PARENT.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

Count witte In MeC1ure's Magazine for April lie
the subject OF q character sketch by Mr.. Perceval
Gibbon. Carl SchurL tells the story OF the Kinkel
rescue. Clara Morris relates more memories, and
DR.. W. Hutchinson discourses on diet. There are
seven short stories, among the authors being Mr..
Stewart Edward White and Mr.. Joseph c. Lincoln.
and some veroA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

II our friends toho fdror Us Nth nldnuSerfpts for
publication wfsh TO haze re,eetsd articles returned nsv
n1uSs IN all cases send stamps for that purposs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
To He Good and Ready.

From he Topeka Capital.
]. NJ. Mcfarland was downtown yesterday on
his way 10 thepark for the opening OF the baseball
season on May -.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

Published by The Sun Printing and Publishing
Association at ITO Nassau street. In the Borough Of
sAenh attain. New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
The Great Political Elixir Of Life.

To THE EDITOR OF THB SuN--sir: In o.day's
issue you expend some sarcasm on the initiative
and referendum. This puts 1t UP to you" TO give
a valid reason for your apparent objection to It.
NEW YORK, March 70. ]. r. r.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

We believe in representative government.
and that the people are competent to elect
competent representatives. We also believe
that there Is Sufficient tumultuary putting
in" of cranks already,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Didn't Work.

The Senior-So your old man has struck?
The Sophomore-Yep: when I asked him to dig
up he said he guessed he'd 60 out with the rest OF
the miners. a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

Seeing New York.
But vanity the world is:
For this In counted fame
When from a bubble wagon
They maxi your bubble name.
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
PEN|NSULAR
HAPPENINGS
FLINT MANS ATTEMPT TO KILL
HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF
FAILS.
PINE BARRENS" BLOOM
Coal Mines Idle Two Weeks More
The M. N. G. Shooting contest-The
Plethoric Treasury.
Both Escaped.

After firing four shots at his wife
Adora and leaving her for dead, Chas.
Alexander, OF Flint, attempted to end
his own life by firing a bullet into his
temple. His wife escaped injury; he
sustained a flesh wound above his
right eye. He is in Jail, facing a
charge of assault with intent to com.
nit murder. Alexander opened fire
with 32-caliber revolver on his wife
at her home when she returned from
work at the cigar factory. She sought
refuge in the house, but ran out when
two bullets crashed through the door.
Running toward a neighbours house.
she tripped, fell and tainted. Alexan.
der ran toward the Flint river and on
its bank shot himself, and was arrest
ed soon after.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
Farming "The Rarrens."

The pine barrens," so often decried
in state papers, are enjoying a decided
boom in Roscommon county this sum-
mer. Many Russian, Danish, Swedish
and Polish emigrants have bought
farms near Houghton and Higgins
lakes. Railroads are already project.
ed TO reach these fine sheets of water.
Thousands of lots have been plated
and hundreds sold around Higgins
lake. A fine hotel is being built. Cot
tages already dot its shores. Special
trains are run to Roscommon twice
a week to accommodate intending pur-
chasers. Higgins lake seems destined
to become well known summer re-
sort.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
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SYSTEM
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Low Rates Par1er Cars
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over new short line.
Lv Port Huron (waitinV room 76a m 3:3O m.
Arrive at Detroit IN. 9 Depot lO:O2a M. 6:o2 IN
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Arrive at Port Huron (wating roOm) 1910 a. m.
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Time between Port Huron and Detroit Cit,
Hail. two hours and thirty minutes.
Regular ears leave Fort Huron waiting room)
for St Clair. Marine CITY. AlgOnac, Mt Clemens,
Detroit and all Intermediate points at 6:10 a. m.
and every hour thereafter until 500 D. m. cars
running over old route via AlgOnac
Direct connections are made In Port Huron
with Pere Marquette trains to and from the
north Rad Axe CrOSwell All all WAY stations
Also ations on the Port Huron. saginaw and
Bay City Division
Fare, Port Huron to Detroit one wav orc.
Round trip tickets can be purchased at Waiting
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Harry Bullen. Gen. Supt. Detroit, Mich, or
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
SUMMARY OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts Of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

The conference report of the pure
food bill was favorably acted on in
the senate and house. The agricultural
bill containing the meat inspection
provision also passed.
The house passed under a special
rule the bill to aid the Alaska rail-
road in the construction of railroad
and telegraph and telephone line from
Cordova bay to Eagle and the Yukon
river.
The total amouat carried by the sun
dry civil bill as finally agreed to is
$9S,257,1S4.
The house adopted the conference
report on the general deficiency bill,
which carries $11 10000
The president approved the bill for
the control and regulation of waters OF
Niagara river and for preservation of
Niagara falls, and the act granting a
pension to Edward S. Bragg.
The house passed a bill to extend the
time for the construction Of a bridge
and approaches across the Missouri
river near South Omaha Neb.
The jamestown tercentennial expo
sition will receive government aid
amounting to $1,235,OOO in addition to
$250,OO0 appropriated a year ago, as
the result of the agreement by the SEN
ate and house on the sundry civil bill.
President Roosevelt vetoed the bills
''to provide for the annual pro rata
distribution of the annuities of the Sac
and Fox Indians of the Mississippi be-
tween the two branches of the tribe
and ito servey the limits of the Black
feet Indian reservation and to open
the surplus to settlement"
Representative Lafean (Pa.) pre-
sented a resolution providing for a
committee of FIVE to make an investiga-
tion of a shoe contract recently
awarded by the secretary of the navy.
The senate passed the bill authoriz-
ing the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault
Ste. Marie Railroad company to con-
struct bridge across Red river.
Mr.. Wadsworth called up the partial
conference report on the appropria-
ton bill in the house and it was agreed
20 without discussion. Mr.. Wads-
worth's motion that the house further
insist on its disagreement was adopted
on a division, IT'S to AZ.
President Roosevelt has approved
the joint resolution of congress ex
pressing the horror of the people OF
the United States as the result of the
reports of the massacre of Hebrews in
Russia and expressing sympathy with
those bereaved.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
BITS OF NEWS.

The finding of s23 and his watch on
the body of Clesime Allarie, pulled out
of the river at Bay City, disposes of
the theory of foul play. 1t is now be-
lieved that he either fell or jumped
into the water.
Suit for heavy damages has been
started against the Plainwell Water
Power Co by parties who claim that
their land has been rendered useless
through the overflow of water caused
by the company's dam.
Fire of unknown origin. but sup
posed to be from spontaneous combus-
tion, started in the attic of Croswell
cottage at the Industrial Home for
Girls. IL was confined to the attic, but
water damaged the entire building.
The damage is estimated by author
tiles at $4,000.
Because they robbed the residence
of Millionaire James b. Laughlin as a
"'ark." Frank s. Galev, son of Pitts
burg millionaire, is locked up in Jail,
$40 Jusepn BOYD, another millionaire's
son, is being searched for. The two
fellows were in a cafe near by when
the experiment was proposed.
Minneapolis millers are receiving
pitiful, tear-stained letters from San
Francisco, protesting against Gen.
GTeeley's distribution of -four. 1t is
evident that the refugees are in a state
of terror, for fear that they cannot get
supplies enough to keep them from
starving. Pitiful tales of weak women
standing in line all day for a cupful Of
-four are contained in these letters.
Wiesbaden is the richest town in
Prussia. There are 20S residents worth
a million marks or more. Sixty of these
are worth more than three million
marks. Frankfort, Charlottenburg,
Bonn and Dusseldorf follow Wiesbaden
in the order named The mark is worth
about 25 cents in American money.
Immense wealth, according to the
American standard, is rare in Ger
many.
A. B. Richmond, a Grand Rapids au-
to dealer, was arrested for fast driving
at Cooper and fined $10.S5. He was
hurrying to escape a rain storm.
Andrew McCreary, an aged resident
of Royal Oak, once wealthy, is in Jail
for working too hard. He had a mania
for working until completely exhaust
ed, and his friends wish to have him
examined as to his sanity.
Mrs. Elmer vanstee, of Traverse
City, who was recently made blind
from tack striking her in the eye:
missed the key to the little safe in
which she kept about 800. A hardware
man opened the safe and the money
was gone.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ten thousand people were thrown
into wild panic during the perform
ance of Ringing Bros circus in
Aurora, ILL.,, when a violent and sud-
den windstorm partly wrecked the
main tent. One man was instantly
kiIled-a cripple, who was unable to
save himself-another man died of
fright, and seven persons were injured,
at least one of them fatally.
Detectives disguised as workmen
were denounced and nearly battered to
death with "knuckle-dusters" at a
workmen's meeting at st. Petersburg.
They were removed to the hospital in
a dying condition.
Phoenix National, full brother to
Major Dangerfield, winner of 100000,
sold for $500 at Sheepshead Bay. He
is a chestnut colt by Handspring-Mon
Droit, and was bought by j. w. May.
Rev. DIR. Judson Smith. one of the
most prominent figures in the Congre-
gational church of this country, died
at Roxbury, Mass, after a long illness.
After living for "a days without eat
ing or drinking a thing, Mrs. Albert II.
Thompson died at Binghamton, N. Y,
from cancer of the stomach.
A census bureau bulletin shows the
number of paint manufacturing estab-
lishments in the United States in 1904
70 have been 449, an increase OF seven
per cent over 1900. The capital invest
ed was s55, 7S3,259, increase 81 per
cent, and value of products $67, 277 $40
increase of 80 perc ent.
The differences which have existed
between the coal operators and miners
of the Michigan district since March
have been settled
On invitation of Emperor William
Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth took tea with him on board his
American built yacht Meteor at Kiel.
Commander Charles A. Cove. now on
duty in the bureau of equipment al
the navy department, has been as
signed to the command of the new
cruiser Milwaukee.
Pope Plus x. appointed the Rev. f.
]. Mccarthy, of Halifax, N, s., TO be
archbishop of Halifax