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PROSPECTS OF PEACE
PROPOSITION OF FRENCH BIsH-
OPS MAY SATISFY FRANCE.

PARIS, January 29.-The proposition
which the French bishops, with the ap-
prevail Of the pope, have now submitted to
the government seems to offer the first
real prospect Of an adjustment Of the con-
f1ict between church and state under the
separation regime. While it involves a ma
terial modification Of the position taken in
the last papal encyclical the proposition put
forward has all the appearance Of an ulti-
matum. Wheti.> the government, in spite
OF the concessions made and making, in the
interest Of religious peace. will accept a
settlement based upon the absolute recog-
milton Of the Roman hierarchy remains to
be seen.
The model contract which the bishops
have submitted provides for t. virtual
lease OF the churches in perpetuity to the
parish priests by the mayors, the leases be-
ing Tor eighteen years, and renewable by
their successors. The leases, which carry q
stipulation engaging the communal, munic-
lpal and state authorities not to interfere
with the administration of the church and
parish, are invalid without the express rati-
ncation of the bishop, and become null the
moment the parish priest loses the bishops
authorization The bishops must act to-
gether to insure the acceptance of the con-
tracts everywhere or nowhere.
1t developed today that the report that
Cardinal Richard, the archbishop Of Paris,
had summoned another meeting of the
episcopate was not correct. The cardinal
only summoned meetings of the regional as
sembiages of bishops, to which the popes
decision was communicated.
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DRYDEN AT TRENTON.
Arranges Conference to Answer OBJ
jections to Him.


TRENTON, N. j., January 29.-United
States Senator Dryden came to Trenton
yesterday afternoon, following up his letter
to the republican members of the legis-
lature, in which he asked for conference
been made to his reelection. Mr. Dryden
had a conference with Senator Hilery and
Assemblyman Barber, the republican lead
ers in the two houses and as a result a
conference was arranged to take place next
Monday afternoon at o'clock.
All of the republicans who have voted
against Mr.. Dryden's reelection will prob
ably be present. Just what will be the ma
ture Of the conference has not yet been
developed. Mr.. Dryden's idea is to have
his opponents explain why they object to
his reelection, and then meet these objec-
tons in his own way.
There was an entire absence last night of
republican leaders about the corridors of
the state house. The voting in joint meet
ing today is not expected to differ from
the results of last week. when those repub-
licans refused to vote for Senator Dryden.
The eight men are just as firm in their op-
position as ever, and there is no likelihood
that their views will be changed by any
thing that may occur at next Mondays
conference.
There continues to be good deal of talk
of other names in connection with the SEN
atorship. Among those mentioned are Gov
Stokes, former Gov. Griggs, Justice Pitney,
State Senator Bradley and State Treasurer
Frank o. Briggs. None of these men, how
ever, has come out as candidate.
1t has been expected in anti-Dryden circles
that Mr.. Dryden would eventually with
draw. This is secuted by his supporters
One thing is quite evident, and that is no.
move will be made in advance of the con-
ference
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THAw's cHUM DEsERTER..
Malcolm B. Parkin, Of Prominent
Family, Quits Marine Corps.

PITTSBURG, January 29-Malcolm B..
Parkin. a former chum of Harry X. Thaw
and scion of one of the most prominent
families Of Pittsburg. is prisoner at the
League Island navy yard, Philadelphia,
charged with deserving from the marine
corps. He was returned there Saturday by
his brother Dr. E. Harris Parkin. and it
Is feared that the last and most serious
escapade Of the young man will involve
him in great trouble.
Young Parlin, who is the son of the late
Charles B. ParlNn of the old iron manufac-
turing firm of Miller. Metcalf & Parkin
and personal friend of Andrew Carnegie
was for years a moving spirit in the crowd
of Pittsburg young bloods who gave their
families continual anxiety
Last May Parkin, it Is alleged, became
involved with a young woman of beauty
but no wealth or social prominence. The
young man then ran away from home and
enlisted in the marine corps. For time
greatly surprised a week ago when he sud-
denly appeared at the Parkin residence at
Stanton and North Negley avenues and de-
clared that he had deserted and was done
with the marine service for all time.
His stepmother and brother could not see
the affair In the same light and demanded
that he bring no further disgrace on the
family. Finally they prevailed upon the
young man to return to his duty with the
used to prevent punishment and that an eff
fort would also be made to secure for him
an honorable discharge from the service
Accompanied by his brother, the young man
went to Philadelphia Saturday and gave
himself up.
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OPPOSITION TO SUBSIDY.
Democrats Assail Hill, Hartman and
Protection


J. ]. Hill, E. H. Hartman and the repub-
lican policy of protection are assailed in
the minority adverse report on the Littauer
compromise ship subsidy bill, which was
filed in the House yesterday by Representa-
tive Spight of Mississippi, and bears his sig
nature as we'll as that of three other demo-
cratic members Of the House committee on
Goulden, Sherley and Patterson After re-
viewing the proposed subsidies to South
American and oriental lines, the report
says: 1T is not pretended that the pro-
posed appropriations are intended merely to
compensate for services rendered but ad-
mittedly the larger part is pure gratuity.
amount of sophistry or volume of specious
argument can secure it. Were 1t limited
simply to payments for new mail routes it
might be acceptable for that purpose
though not as real aid to merchant
marine"
The report discusses the two proposed
lines which are to be subsidized between
But when 1t is recalled that at Seattle,
north of Cape Mendocino, is the existing
steamship line owned by ]. J. HILL and
south of 1t at San Francisco is the Harri-
man line, the Pacific Mail, we may begin to
suspect that there is a niger in the wood
pile Who are ]. ]. Hill and E. H. Harri-
man? The former Is the great railway mag
tried to merge vast interests in violation of
the law, and was only prevented by proceed
tngs in court. Hartman Is another leader
of corporate wealth who controls more rail-
way trackage than any other man in the
world. Is 1t hard to guess who under this
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BANK TELLER DRINKS POISON.
Body of J. T. Williams Found in
Bronx Park.

NEW YORK, January 29-John T. Will
liams, paying teller Of the Lincoln National
Bank for the last six years, was found
dead in the bushes near the southern bou-
levard end of Bronx Park yesterday after
noon. Beside him lay an empty two-ounce
bottle marked "chloroform." Williams had
been away from the office since last Thurs
day, i'll with pneumonia. AS Is the custom
at the bank, his cash was counted on the
day he reported sick and was found to be
correct
After the finding of the body had been
reported at the station house the bank was
notified and Detectives Rooney and Nuss-
neither saw Mrs. Williams at her home.
She told them that her husband left the
house on Saturday afternoon and hadn't
been heard from since. except late that
same afternoon, when she received a tele-
phone message from him that he would be
home within an hour.
James D. Laying, vice president of the
bank, said that Mrs. Williams called at
the bank yesterday morning and told the
president, Gen. Thomas L. James, that her
husband was still sick, but that he was i'm
proving rapidly and would be able to re-
turn to work in few days.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with
I'VE examined them carefully, the first
day he complained Of feeling i'll, and found
that his cash balanced to a cent. We
heard from him every day up to today.
when Mrs. Williams came herself and had
talk with General James Williams
started In at the bank when boy, twenty
years ago, and was thoroughly trusted"
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GENERAL AND PERSONAL
NEWS OF GEORGETOWN

Funeral services over the remains of Miss
Mary Agnes Knowles were held at 8 o'clock
this morning in Holy Trinity Catholic
Church, 36th and o streets northwest In
terment was made in Holy Rood cemetery,
on Georgetown Heights Miss Knowles was
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David o.
Knowles.
The first of a series Of three lectures I'M
der the direction of the women of Christ
Church, Georgetown. for the benefit of the
choir fund was delivered last night In the
chapel adjoining the church. Rev. W. R.
Turner. formerly pastor of the Church Of
St. Michael and All Angels Of this city, was
the lecturer. The subject was "A Trip
Through Scotland" The lecture was Illus
trated with stereopticon views. The second
lecture will be given Monday, February 4.
by Angus M. Crawford whose subject. viii
be THE Spirit of the Renaissance"
Musical services will be held tomorrow
evening in St. Johns Parish Hall. on o
street northwest. under the auspices of st.
Johns Episcopal Church. Several we'll
known vocalists, including w. C. Mills and
Erskine Porter, will be heard.
A milk wagon owned and driven by John
Horrigan of Ridge road colided with car
No. sos of the Washington Railway and
Electric line at 35th and N streets north
west about 9:45 o'clock this morning. The
wagon was damaged about SIS. No one
was injured.
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Caught wedding Fever.

ANNAPOLIS. Nd. January 29-The we'd
ding of Miss Catherine Bright of Annap-
oils to Mr.. Charles Lynch of New York,
assigned to the United States monitor
Nevada, at the Naval Academy which took
place here on Friday last, resulted in the
wedding of the brides sister, Miss Bertha
Bright. to Mr.. C. Charles Eaton. also Of
the monitor Nevada.
At the wedding on Friday Miss Bertha
Bright attended her sister as maid of honor
and Mr. Eaton, a friend of the groom, was
the best man. The happiness of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lynch SO impressed the best man
that he Immediately proposed to the maid
of honor. The proposal was accepted and
Mr.. Eaton and Miss Bertha Bright went
to Baltimore quietly on Saturday and were
married by the Rev. Mr.. Beeman, pastor
OF Presbyterian church of that city. The
plans of the wedding were unknown to the
brides parents, who, however, offered no
objection to the wedding.
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TRUSTEES SAL. OF VALUABLE UNIMPROVED
REAL ESTATE OPPOSITE EPISCOPAL Ca

TRUSTEES SAL. OF VALUABLE UNIMPROVED
REAL ESTATE OPPOSITE EPISCOPAL Ca
THEDRAL.
By virtue Of certain deed Of trust. duly re-
corded in Liber No. 2SO2 folio PSI ct seq. Of the
land records Of the District of Columbia. and at
UNDERSIGNED trustees will sell. at public auction
In front of the premises. on SATURDAY, THE
NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, AID. 1907, AT
HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK Pm, the follow
Ing described land and premises situate in the
District Of Columbia and designated and being
Of the subdivision known Fairview Heights as
per plat thereof recorded In County Subdivision
Book 8, page H. of the records of the Office Of
the surveyor of the District of Columbia. Sub
ject to the conditions that when q building Is
erected upon said lot 1t shall not he within thirty
for manufacturing mechanical purposes, nor
shall spirituous liquors be sold therein and 1t
shall not cost less than three thousand dollars
49, 0OO and the conditions to the building line
shall with the land.
Terms Of sale: One third of the purchase money
installments payable in one and two years, with
interest at per centum per annum, payable semi
annually. from day Of sale said balance to be
secured by deed Of trust upon the property sold.
or all cash. at the option Of the purchaser.
deposit of 500 will be required Of tha purchaser
cOrdng and nOtarial fees at the cost of the pur-
chaser. Terms Of sale 10 be complied with within
fifteen days from day of sale. otherwise the trus-
tees reserve the right to resell the property the
risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after
five days advertisement of such resale in The
Evening Star a newspaper published in the city
Of Washington. D. c.
HARRY G. BIRGE.
HERMAN E. GASCH,
1a2S- dts Trustees.
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MAN FROZEN TO A THWART.
Picked Up in Zero Weather After SO
Hours in q Dory,

NEW YORK, January 29-The schooner
Susan NJ. Pickering, in yesterday by way
of the sound from Stonngton, Me-, with a
cargo of stone, brought George Williams, a
young Gloucester fisherman, and his dory,
that she picked up off Thatcher's Island
light on Wednesday morning. Williams had
seen the lights of the schooner dimly and
had headed for her, shouting as Justify as
his weakened condition would permit. His
hands were badly frostbitten, the Their
mometer when he was hauled aboard by
the Pickering's crew being 10 degrees be-
low zero. The dory was badly down by
the head with thick sheathing of ice and
Williams was frozen to thwart.
He said he had left the Georgiana, fish
ing schooner of Gloucester, in the dory
thirty-six hours before the Pickering picked
him up. He had been out only few hours
when a thick fog set in A heavy gale out
Of the southeast followed with zero
weather. He feared to give way to the i'm
pulse to sleep that almost overcame him,
and he kept on battling for life with his
oars, alternating smashing ice and rowing.
He had nothing to eat.
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arranging to give . reception and dance to

arranging to give . reception and dance to
the graduates at the Government House on
that night. 1t IL the desire of the gov
ernor and Mrs. Warf1eld to entertain the
graduates in the evening. but from present
indications this will be impossible, as on
Thursday evening the play Carmen will
be produced at the Colonial Theater by
local amateurs. and the governor with q
party will attend the performance.
The midshipmen Of the class Of 1908 and
those Of that part of the first class who will
not graduate until June are wrangiing over
the question as to whether the 1908 men
have the right to wear the class ring. The
undergraduates assert their right in the
premises. but the seniors, although the ma
5ority Of them will have left the institution
after February IL, discredit the claim. The
second-class men are bent on wearing the
ring, and some bitter feeling may follow.
Midshipman Robert p. Waters of st.
Joseph, Mo-, has resigned. He was a men,
Der Of the second class.
Lieut.. Walter ]. Manion Of the navy has
reported for duty at the academy Lieut.,
Manion was graduated with the class Of
1904.
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CONTINENTAL BEEF TRUST.
It Hopes to Knock Out the Chicago
Stock Yards

CHICAGO, January 29.-Information has
just reached the packers of the proposed
organization of a continental beef trust,
which hQpes-to. deal tremendous blow to
the stockyards trust. 1t Is no less than a
combination of experienced and successful
men in England, Germany, Canada, Aus
tralia and Argentine to develop and con-
troll the meat supplies of Argentine, Can
ada and Australia for the purpose of COM
peting with the Chicago trust in England
and Germany.
The irritation in Germany over the tariff
and the handling of Chicago meats, and the
same feeling which was developed in Eng
land during the packing inquiry, has Of
fered a field for the new concern from
which 1t believes it can drive the Ameri-
cans. A 100000 abattoir at Southampton
is plant which the European company
may take over.
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PAY SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Omaha Plans to Provide Little Folk
With Wages.

OMAHA, January 29.-A plan Of paying
children to attend school Is being agitated
by the Omaha juvenile court. Regular
weekly appropriations are taken from
churches. friendly societies. women's clubs
and other organizations. The plan is in
tended to make it unnecessary for chill
dren to work for the support of their par
ents or younger brothers or sisters. Work
Ing children are to be placed in school and
the exact amount Of their earnings will be
paid to them by the court. Thousands of
dollars a year. 1t is estimated, will be dis
pensed by the court officers.
One large insurance order has already in
umated its willingness to pay weekly sti-
Ponds to children of living and deceased
members of the order. All the funds 1t
Is intended, shall be at the disposal of the
Juvenile court. At present hundreds Of
children are forced to forego an education
in order to earn a living. Most of them
earn $3.50 to 81 a week. Other cities are
expected to adopt the plan If it proves the
success which is expected in Omaha.
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DRYDEN Or NOBODY"
His Friends Say They'll Deadlock the
Legislature.

TRENTON, N. J., January 29.-"Dryden
or nobody" sums up the position taken by
the friends of New Jerseys retiring United
States senator when the legislature re-
convened last night. This was the last
word given out from the Dryden head
quarters in final effort to drive into the
Dryden ranks and recalcitrant legislators
who might have hopes that in the downfall
of Mr.. Dryden there would be an oppor-
tunity to elect some more favored candi-
date.
1t was openly asserted that If Mr.. Dry
denis election should become an irnposs-
bility there will be sufficient votes among
his present adherents to prevent the cleo
ton of any else at the present session. This
threat. while repeated time and again
throughout the state house, failed utterly
in its purpose.
Instead of causing any weakening Of the
anti-Dryden forces, 1t served rather to
strengthen the already well-grounded be-
lief that John Dryden Is down and out
1t was practically arranged that the pub
lie conference for which Senator Dryden
has asked should take place at 2 o'clock
next Monday afternoon. and, with this con-
ference in view, 1t is not considered prob
able that there will be any serious break
in the Dryden ranks until he has had an
opportunity to meet his opponents face to
face in public debate.
MORRISTOWN, N. J., January 20
Former Assemblyman Charles R. White
head of Washington valley, who was a
member of the legislature when United
States Senator Dryden was a candidate to
f1ll the vacancy caused by the death Of
Gen. Sewell, made an affidavit yesterday
that he was approached by Tom Palmer,
the legislative agent of the Erie railroad,
the session Of 1901 and that 81, 500 was Of
fered him to vote for Dryden.
Whitehead further AYERS in his affidavit
that he spurned the offer and cast his vote
alternately for Stokes and ex-Gov. Griggs.
Whitehead has letter sent him by Palmer
in which the latter requests Whitehead not
to commit himself on the senatorial ques-
ton without seeing him.
The other Morris member of the 1egisla-
ture, William T. H. Brown, now dead
voted for Mr.. Dryden. The present repre-
sentatives, Senator Hillery and Assembly
men Chaplin and Buxton, are supporting
Senator Dryden, although many petitions
have been sent to the men signed by hun
dreds Of prominent citizens throughout the
Mahlon Pitney of this city.
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COSTLY COAL FOR ENGINES.
Hartman Lines Forced to Import Sup
Div From Australia.

OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 29.-Coal from AUS
tralia, costing $40 ton at the docks in
that country. is what the locomotives Of
the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and
other lines of the Hartman railroads are
now burning. Because of the famine in
coal cars and motive power on the Harri-
man roads, it has been found necessary to
purchase coal at high prices in Melbourne,
Australia. pay freight to San Francisco
and use it on the locomotives.
Three freight steamers are now -en route
from Australia with cargoes of coal for
the Hartman system. Out in Wyoming the
great coal camps of the Union Pacific are
almost at standstill. Fire in the Cumber-
land mines prevents work and the mine at
Rock Springs, Wyoming. which produced
LOCO daily. is closed because of bad ma
chinery.
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WORST In MANY YEARS
OFFICIAL REPORTS RELATING TO
THE CHINESE FAMINE.

Mail reports from American consular Of
hcers In China, which have reached the
State Department, regarding the famine
and resulting conditions, still further con-
firm the stories Of suffering and hardship
among the people in the districts affected.
In fact, Consul Haynes, at Marking, says
that the famine 10 ten times worse than
anything known In that part Of the empire
for the past forty years. The Chinese Of
fcials, he says, upon information given Kim
by the viceroy, admit their inability to cope
with the situation. The government Is try
ing to help the starving people to keep their
cattle, and to this end is taking their oxen
and buffaloes in pawn for two taels each,
keeping them thus until next spring, when
1t will return them. Consul Haynes de-
clares that whatever aid may be extended
by this government in the present crisis
will certainly do much to dispel the ILL
feeling recently ,roused by the boycott, the
exclusion act, etc.
Consul General Rodgers, at Shanghai, ad-
vises the department that the reports as to
the conditions appearing in the newspapers,
both foreign and Chinese, are for the most
part sustained by the investigations made
by American naval officers. Furthermore,
he says, an inquiry, which he has made
through entirely private sources, gives the
general conclusion that the famine will, by
March 1, be regarded as severe, and per-
haps more SO than that Of 1878. by which
it is thought 1O, OOOO 600 lives were lost.
The report of Mr.. Rodgers Is accom-
panied by statement by DR.. Henry M.
Woods of the Southern Presbyterian Mis-
sion at Hwai-an-fu, who estimates that TO-
100000 people are affected by the famine,
100000 Of whom are starving. He says
there are at present more than 5OO,OOO
refugees at Tsingkiangpu huddled in mat
sheds, and that the pitiful sight is daily
witnessed of parents offering their children
for sale at from 81 to 81 each. Brigandage
and robbery, he adds, are everywhere rife.
1.-THE subject Of this famine" says Mr.. Rod
gers, lis now being made the basis of procla-
nations from all classes Of Chinese o,Acials,
and If there has ever been good ground for
any skepticism as to the severity of the af-
Fiction, of the danger Of the condition, 1t
has now vanished
He declares that the influence of the fam
inc conditions upon current affairs can now
be plainly seen in the unrest and discon-
tent of the people. From many places, he
says, comes news of riots of greater or less
degree, while in Kiangsi, state bordering
on actual rebellion ia on, and so serious
has the situation become that goodly por-
ton Of the available military force of the
LANG Kiang yamen is now in the field.
Mr.. Rodgers concludes: my deliberate
opinion is that the next few months will see
the development of dangerous things in this
part of China, and that such conditions and
circumstances will have great effect upon
foreign interests, political as well as COM
mercial. China New Year, which luckily
falls late mis- year, being in the second
week of February, is watched with no small
degree of uneasiness."