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 iv his life in Newport"
 What are they doin' to him?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 What aint they doin' to him?' said MT Dooley "Tis tn lucky boy he is. Ye see his grandfather, that's tn old King iv Sweden, sint him over here to study our dimmycratic institutions. Tn old boy wanted him to look at thim near by so that he'd know how to act if anything happened thatd sind him back to wurruk at his great-great- grandfather's thrade. Willum's great great-grandfather was lawyer, Frinch lawyer, at that, an not much good, be tn name iy Barney Dot" have tn whole story firm Hogan. Will lum's at-great-grandfathe was lawyer, an he wanted to make Will lum's great-grandfather lawyer, too, like himsilf an if it hadn't been that Willum's great-grandfather was wild tn beauchous ladies iv Newport wud no more be haulin' at Willum's coat tail this blessed day thin at Counsellor Noonan's. But Willums great-grand father was a tough; he was tn dis grace iv a dacint family; he listed in tn army an got to be wan iv tn gin'- rals iv Napolyon, lmpror iv tn Frinch By an by Napolyon got so he cuddent bear tn sight iv his face an it was a thousand to wan that he'd ayether kill him or make a king iv him. About this time tn Swedes come around lookin' fir a kind. tn king they had havin' givin notice. In thim days Ma polyon was kind iy intilligence office fr kings. If amy proud nation wanted
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boom, which Egypt is now having, has added greatly to his wealth. He .. said to be investing largely in Cairo itself. and among other things is build Ing some apartment houses which have elevators t telephones, electric lights bathrooms and all other modern improve ments. He has a brick factory on one of his estates near here, and his profits from his cotton and other crops must be great.
 I have made some inquiries about the daily life of the khedive. It is a quiet one, but full of business and hard work from daylight to dark. His hghness is an early riser He is usually out of bed by 6, and his prayers are over shortly afterwards He eats a light meal upon rising and then takes a carriage and drives over his farm for an hour or so. After this he goes to the palace of Ras el Tin if he is in Alexandria, or of Abdn if he is at Cairo, and looks over his off
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as we'll as reading writing and arith- metic. The course of study lasts five years, and at the end the graduate is pretty sure of a good position as steward or oyerseer on one of the khedive farms.
 I have already written something about the khedives railroad. This begins on his estate near Alexandria, having con nection with that city by the state rail roads system, and thence runs for sixty miles or more westward one idea being that 1t may be extended to Tripoli. Much of the land along the road has been redeemed and a large part of this belong to his nighness. He has put up a number of villages here and there ill this region; and l am told that the road is paying so well that the track, which was originally narrow gauge, has had to be widened. His highness is much interested in the road and it is said that he sometimes mounts the locomotive and manages the engine as the train goes
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and full lips. He is, I judge. about five feet six inches in height, but his tall red fez cap makes him look taller. The fath- CT had a full beard, but the son Is satls- fed with brown mustache. Both men dressed simply The father wore a black coat, vest and trousers, with the coat cut rather high and preacher-like. His only iewelry consisted of three gold studs the size of bird shot and watch
 chain of thin golden links. His neclItie
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for draft animals. His highness believes in scientific farming. He wants good stock and good seed, and he works to some extent with the agricultural de- partment here. He has q school on his estate near Cairo where 200 boys are be- ing educated to take places on his vari- ous properties. This school is run on his own expense, and the boys are taught about stock, farming and surveying,
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In speaking about the road he told me that he was well satisfied with it's pres ent condition. and that he thought that 1t might be extended along the cost of the Mediterranean as far as Tripoli and be made to pay.
 am told that the khedive has made a great deal of money within the past three or four years. His farm lands have doudled in value and the great
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The present khedive drinSs nothing but pure water. and he is I am told quite as religious as was his father. He says his prayers immediately upon rising and goes to the mosque every day Tewhk Pasha was devout He told me that he knew the Koran from one end to the oth- CT. and that he could begin at the back and quote almost every paragraph from there to the front. He had as much faith in his religion as we have in ours,
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Dreams.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson. who writes fully and entertainingly of sleep in the September American Magazine, says, Tn part, of reams:
 some of our common dreams seem
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Proof to the Contrary.

Stern UncIe-What you lack, my boy, B initiative.
 Scapegrace Nephew-Oh, I don't know. uncle I once had job for two weeks as an elevator starter.
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Copyright, 1907, by Frank G. carpente-9
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The present khedive is undoubtedly of much the same opinion. He has been married thirteen years. and that to single wife who is the mother of his six children
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YELL, sir" said MT. Dooley,
 N/ they're givin' that there w Prince iv Sweden tn time
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
WRECKINC OF TRAIN DELIBERATELY PLANNED
DERATLMENT OF THE CHICAGO LIMITED ON PENN. R. R. AT
 STEWART, PA.

Work That of One With q Knowledge
 of Tracks and Signals-BOnd Wire
 Which Completes the Electrical Sig
 nal Circuit Carefully Kept Intact
 Had It Broken in the Turning of One
 of Rails Inward the Signal Would
 Have shown 'Danger" Instead of
 "Safe"-"Tom" Johnson in Wreck.
 Plttsburg, March 22.-A committee representing the Pennsylvania railroad which has been Investigating the cause of the derailment of the Chicago linn tied to-day at Stewart, Pa, near here, train crew and the crews which passed the accident, authorized the following statement tonight:
 "The wreck was caused by some per son or persons removing the bolts and tie plates joining two rails, and turn ing one of them inward, so as to throw the train off the track. The work was evidently that of one with knowledge of tracks and signals as the bond wire, which completes the electric sig nal circuit was carefully kept intact, thereby causing the signals to show safe instead of danger as they would have shown had this contact been broken.
 'The tools found near the scene of the accident were such as are used in laying track, but were not the standard tools used by the Pennsylvania railroad company; nor were they the property of the company. The place selected for the derailment seems to have been chosen with view of throwing the train off the track, and at the same time guarding, as far as possible, against the loss of life, as the point where the train ran off the track is one of the few on the Pittsburg division where there is no embankment over which the train could plunge. The rails were disconnected between the time of 2;44 o'clock and 3:52, giving but an hour and eight minutes in which that work was done"
 The investigation will probably be concluded tomorrow.
 Among the passengers were Tom l.. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, and Hol- land c. Webster, assistant district at torney of Cleveland, o. No one was injured.
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ALSO DEFEATS HARVARD.
Princeton Debaters Take Other Side in
 Contest With Crimson.

Princeton Debaters Take Other Side in
 Contest With Crimson.
 Princeton, March 22,-Princeton de- feated Harvard In their thirteenth ans nual debate here tonight. The de- cision was unanimous. Princeton's winning argument consisted of an at tack on the present divorcs laws, the inadaptabiIity of the states in dealing with the child-laIbor question and the absolute necessity for federal control of interstate commerce. The question was:
 Resolved, That the present distrib- ution of power between the federal and state governments is not adapted to modern conditions, and calls for re- adjustment in the direction of further standardization"
 The speakers for Harvard, in the neg etive, were E. R. Lewis, of Tndianapo- lis, and I. l.. Scharrman, of Roxbury. Mass. Princeton's debaters were R. J. Sterrit, of Philadelphia M. H. Fry, of Ephrata, Pa., and R. S. Sidebotham, of Lake City, Mich.
 The judges were Professor B. B. Clark, of Columbia university, and Frederick c. Trueblood, of the Untver- sity of Michigan. Hon. John L. Cad- walader, of New York, presided.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
MYSTERY DEEPENS.
Doubt ns to Whether Certain Rifles
 were Under Lock and Key.

Washington. March 22.- Secretary Taft to-day transmitted to the senate committee on military affairs a report of Brigadier- General Crozier, chief of ordnance, with reference to the num- bers of the guns assigned to the negro soldiers of Companies B, c and D, of the Twenty-flfth infantry, on the night of August IS last, when Brownsville, Tex, was "shot up.
 It appears from the letter of General Crozier that, on the face of the lists of guns as forwarded by the officers of the companies, there were certain errors, arising probably from mistakes in transcribing from the property books of the companies.
 The effect of this is to raise a roubt whether two of the guns, supposed, aft CT expert examination at the Spring field arsenal of shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville, to have been used in the affray, were in the arms chests of Company B under lock and key, and not issued to soldiers, as was indicated by the former report sent to the committee by the ordnance depart ment of the army.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
PRINCETON ORATORS YIN
 DEBATE WITH YALENgANS
GARRY OFF HONORS BEFORE 4 LARGE AUDIENCE AT WOOL
 SEY HALL.

Question Involved State and National
 Rights-Yale Argues That a Redis- tribution of Power in Favor of the National Government Is Necessary
 Princeton Shows Present System is
 Based on Sound Principles and that States are Using Powers weII--,The Judges.
 "The decision of the judges is that the negative has shown the better mat ter and form" Such was the announce ment made last night by Prof. Frank Johnson Goodnow for the judges at the close of the fourteenth annual debate between Princeton and Yale. This is the first Princeton victory for num- Der of years.
 The great interest shown in this an- nual event was well demonstrated by the large audience which filled Woolsey hall. President Hamley presided and introduced the various speakers. The judges were Dean James Barr Annes of the Harvard law school, Prof. Frank Johnson Goodnow of Columbia univer- sity and Alexander Bacon of New York city.
 The work of the debaters individual ly and as a whole was very good. The Yale debaters presented a very strong constructive argument but they were much weaker than their opponents in summing LID and In rebuttal The uues- l tion was:
 Resolved, That the present distribu- tion of power between the federal and state governments is not adapted to modern conditions and calls for read Justment in the direction for further centralization."
 The victorious Princeton debaters were Kenneth Hemmenway Lansing, James Arthur Mullen and Thomas Street Clark. The Yale debaters were Robert Ralph Lockwood '07. Roger Benton Hull '07, and Saul German '08 |. s.
 The contention of the affirmative was that the present conditions in the in l dustrial world, life insurance compan- ies and the divorce question showed many evils which involved the moral standing of the country. The states are helpless to obtain good and uniform l laws in these matters because of selfish views of their own interests and each state legislates without regard to the. interests of its neighbors. Tn some states the laws regarding incorpofa- tion are very lax and the only object is to fill the government coffers with the fees obtained Pennsylvania, for instance, has granted articles of fncor- poration to one company provided it does not do business within the state in which it incorporated. Even If a state is so fortunate as to have enacted efficient laws they are nullified by the waywardness of another state, They showed that New York insurance com- panies control one-half of the assets of all the insurance companies in the. country. President Roosevelt has de clared insurance to be a national rather than state question. These insurance companies do business in every state of the union. It is therefore unjust that | New York should have so large a coil- trol in matters of national importance.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
ROOSEVELT, JR., APPOINTED.
Assistant Manager of Harvard Crew.
 Crane Succeeds Reed.

Cambridge, Mass, March 22.-Theo- dore Roosevelt, jr., was appointed sec- ond assistant manager of the Harvard university crew by the university ath- letic committee tonight. The appoint ment was made from a list of a dozen candidates, all of whom have been competing for the place since last De- tober by activity in securing subscrip- tions for the crew, and doing other work for the management. If the usu- al order of succession in the crew man. agement is followed, young Roosevelt will probably be assistant manager next year, and manager in his senior year.
 The athletic committee tonight con- firmed the appointment of Joshua Crane of Boston as head coach of the university baseball team, and announce ed that MT. Crane will succeed Coach Reed as the Harvard representative on the intercollegiate football rules com mittee.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
PRESIDENT SUSTAINS
 WOOD IN KOEHLER CASE
CURTLY DISAPPROVES FINDINGS OF THE LAST COURT
 MARTIAL.

COncurs Entirely in All That Secre-
 tary Taft Says of the Captain-Re-
 fers to the Poor Showing of the
 Court Which Dismissed the Charges
 of Conduct Unbecoming an Officer
 and Gentleman and Malicious State-
 ments Regarding General Wood.
 Washington, March 22.-President Roosevelt tonight announced his dis- approval of the findings of acquittal in the case of Captain Lewis M. Koehler, Fourth cavalry, United States army cavalry commander at Jolo, Philippine Islands. Captain Koetller was charged with using disrespectful language in an appeal from the action of General Wood, the division commander, who reprimanded Captain Koehler for mak- ing charges against Major Scott, com- manding officer at the Jolo military post and civil governor of Jolo, and was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, in making unfounded and malicious statements re- garding his commanding officer, and with insubordination. The first court martial sentenced him to be reprimand- ed and the second court-martial, on which to-day's action was based, ac- quilted him, The presidents order fol- lows;
 "The White House,
 Washington, D. C., March 22, 1907.
 "The proceedings, findings and ac- quittal in the case of Captain Lewis M. Koehler Fourth cavalry, United States army are disapproved. I entirely con- cur in all that the secretary of war says of Captain Koehler and of General Wood and of the poor showing made by the court which last passed on the case Theodore Roosevelt"
 Secretary Taft in his letter says;
 Captain Koehler is an officer with an excellent record for courageous ser vice in the field and for attention to duty generally. He distinguished him- self at the battle of Mount Dajo Cap- tain Koehler made himself very annoy ing to Major Scott by captious insist ence that Major Scott should be in his office at certain times and should dis charge his duties as military post com mander with the same degree of promptness that he would have done had he not the additional duties of civil governor The friction between the two officers became so great that Captain Koehler filed charges against Major Scott"
 Major Scott later filed charges against Captain KoeGller A court-martial found Captain Koehler guilty of pre- ferring captious and unnecessary charges against his commanding off, cer, and in reprimanding him under the sentence of the court-martial General Wood declared that Captain Koehlers conception of the standard of conduct and uprightness as they exist in the army were distorted to degree not found in the just and fair-minded; and that he should cultivate those habits of true soldierly subordination which the evidence in the case showed him to lack"
 Captain Koehler appealed, though the law does not specifically provide
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MISSING MARVIN BOY.
Child Held in Portsmouth, England
 Answering Description.

Child Held in Portsmouth, England,
 Answering Description.
 Washington, March 22.-Third Assist ant Secretary of State Wilson tonight received a cablegram from the Amer ican consul at Portsmouth, England, saying that the authorities there have a boy who answers to the description of the Kidnapped boy for whom gen. eral search is being made in this coun- try. MT. Wilson immediately conferred with Mr. Roosevelt regarding the mat ter, and acting on the presidents in- structions, forwarded the message to Governor Lea of Delaware. MT. Will son stated tonight that this govern ment stands ready to cooperate with the state officials in every possible way in the efforts to obtain informa- ton in the Kidnapping case.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
PRESIDENT TUTrLE OPTIMISTIC
Does Not Endorse Belief That Boston
 is Losing Export Trade.

Boston. March 22.-The belief that Boston is losing her export trade is not endorsed by President Lucius Futile, of the Boston and Maine railroad. In a statement given out to-day President Futile said:
 ''The export trade of Boston always has been and always will be subject to fluctuations according to general traffic conditions. If the calamity howlers would cease their croakings and seek to show the outside world that New England is still doing business, that oursmills are humming as never before, that our labor is the highest priced la bor in the world, and never more ac- lively engaged, I think good would be accomplished
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
ANTI-JEWISH OUTBREAKS
 NOT AT ALL EXAGGERATED
FOUR HUNDRED FARMS IN MOL DATA HAVE BEEN ALREADY
 DEVASTATED.

Eight Thousand Fugitives Have Fled
 Over the Roumanlan Frontier Into
 Austria and Total of 1O,000 Jews
 Are Homelcss--Number of Dead
 Given as Eighty-ive and the Wound
 More Agrarian Than Anti-SeInitic.
 Vienna, March 22-The seriousness of the situation in northern Moldavia growing out of the agrarian disorders has not been exaggerated, according to the latest telegraphic reports reaching here from Czernowitz, on the border.
 From the estimates of the damages made tonight it appears that 400 farms in Moldavia have been devasted, 5000 fugitives have fled over the Roumanian frontier into Austria, and a total of 10000 Jews are homeless.
 The number of dead and wounded cannot be given accurately, butthe re- ports of to-day give a total of about eighty-five killed and about 150 wound- ed
 The outbreak seems to-day to have been partially suppressed in the dis trict of Botosahni, but the latest re- ports are that the movement is spread ing southward into Wallachia, and even into the Austrian crown land of Boko- wina"
 The movement is really more agrari- an than anti-Semitic. The peasants are in revolt against the great farm ing trust, which has leased half the cultivable land in Moldavia,. The ab- sentee landlords who control the trust happen to be Jews, and this fact brings the ire of the peasants down on any and all Jews that they meet, and to this antipathy is added strong racial feeling arising from other causes.
 On Thursday 800 peasants tried to in- wade Michaileni. Despite the fact that there was a sufficient number of Ru-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-23
BURNED TO THE GROUND.
F. M. Terrill, of New Hartford, Remov-
 ed From Sick Bed.

Winsted, March 22.-The residence of F. M. Terrill, retired business man, at New Hartford, was burned to the ground tonight with it's contents. Mr. Terrill was in bed i'll, but was remov- ed from the house in safety,and with his family was taken to neighbor- ing hotel. The house was near the home of Clara Louise Kellogg Strak- osch. The loss is placed at $100O0 with insurance.
 The fire started in the second story of the house, and it Is said was the ac- cidental result of MT. Terrill's young daughter, Catherine, playing with matches in bed.
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VICTORY OYER ARMoR PLATE
Hudson Maxim Announces New and
 Important Discoveries.

Hudson Maxim Announces New and
 Important Discoveries.
 New York March 22,Hudson Max i'm, inventor of high explosives, made the dinner rendered Sir Percy Sander son by the Canadian club, to-ngiht, the occasion of his first announcement con- corning new safety detonating fuse, which he has invented after ten years of experimenting, and which, he de- clares, had been the aim of inventors for years. By it, he said it is at last possible to send an armor piercing shell through armor and cause it to explode, at exactly the distance be- hind the armor desired by the gunner. It will not matter whether the armor Is one inch or twelve inches in thickness, the inventor said It was another step in war mechanics and meant the final victory over armor as at present hard ened, by armor piercing shells.
 Besides the new safety detonating fuse, MT. Maxim said he could tell the diners about a new smokeless powder, stabilize, which he had just begun to manufacture, but which is still in the process of experimentation
 This new weapon of modern warfare, MT. Maxim declared, would wipe out, he was convinced. many or most of the dangers attaching to the use of sanokeless powder. Ordinary smokeless powder decomposed after time, vary ing from three months to a year and a half, declared he, according to the size of the powder and the ordinary powder then began to decompose more or less rapidly. In the stage of decomposition, he said, and as that process advanced, the powder was liable to explode and cause such accident as that which hap pened on the French battleship lena.