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MARINES TO ouELL ANARCHY.
American Warships Prepare to Land
Troops at Port-au-PrIncs.

Paris. Apr. "A special dispatch
received here Wednesday from Port
au-Prince, Haiti, says that the situa-
ton there is extremely grave and that
complete anarchy prevails. A dispute
is said to have arisen between Gen.
Jules Coicou, chief Of the military dis
trict Of Port-au-Prince, and Camille
Gabriel, nephew of President Nord,
as to their respective powers in coping
with the situation. The dispatch
further declares that American war.
ships are preparing to land troops.
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Bomb Follows Demand.

New York, Apr. 2.-Following the
sending Of letters demanding money,
bomb was thrown Wednesday at
the home Of Joseph Scullitto in
Beaver street, Brooklyn. The explo-
sion broke all the windows in the
house, blew down the front door and
wrecked the vestibule, but the occu-
pants escaped uniniured.
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centers In the state Wednesday show
that nearly 466 mines throughout the
state are idle and that about $4,000
people employed in the mines as min
ers, drivers and in other capacities did
not go to work Wednesday and will re-.
main out until the questions before the
operators and miners are settled. It is
said here that the operators are not
averse to having the mines idle for
some time as they have thousands Of
tons Of coal at the docks on the lakes
which the mild winter prevented them
selling, and this is to be disposed Of
before they will agree to any scale or
other question before the joint con-
ventions for settlement. The general
belief among the miners representa-
tives here is that the lay-off will not
last long, but that some sort of COM
promise agreement will be reached
within few weeks.
Celebrate In Hour Of Strike.
Dies Moines, Ia, Apr. 2.--Every coal
mine in Iowa was closed Wednesday.
Fifteen thousand men were idle. Min.
ers Wednesday celebrated the tenth
anniversary Of the eight-hour law.
They held meeting at the Trades
Assembly hall Wednesday.
Look for Early Peace.
Kansas City. Mo-, Apr. 2-The 49,
900 coal miners in Missouri, Kansas.
Oklahoma and Arkansas, who enjoyed
a holiday Wednesday, will return to
work pending settlement Of the diff
aculties with the officials Of the South.
western Interstate Coal Operators as.
ISOLATION. The operators and miners
convention met separately Wednesday,
each to take steps looking to an early
conference. James Elliott, president
of the operators association, met with
the other omcials Of that association.
The operators would not discuss their
plans in advance. but said that in all
probability a committee from the Gem
mission would be appointed to meet
with the mine workers conference
when the subject of a conference to
settle upon a new contract would be
taken up.
illinois Mines Stay Closed.
Springfield, ILL.,, Apr. All the coal
mines in Illinois were closed Wednes-
day while the miners celebrated the
anniversary Of the eight-hour day law
going into effect They will remain
closed until an agreement between
the operators and miners is reached,
the operators having voted to suspend
A1tN tho scale = signo1
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Rsspltes for Condemned Mon.

RespItes for CONDEMNED Men.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Apr. 1.-Gov.
Polk Monday granted respites as fol.
lows: To A. c. Biles. stay of go days;
William Jeffries, stay of 30 days.
Biles was under sentence to be exc
cuted in st. Louis April 8, and JEFF.
fries was to have been executed at st.
Charles on April 3. The governor
committed the death sentence of John
Baker, colored, Of Boone county, to
life Imprisonment.
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Steamer Captain Drowned,

Huntington. W. Va, Apr. 2.-Cap-
tain Daniels of the steamer Guyan-
dotte was swept to death by the swift
current of the Big Sandy river while
alone on the steamer. While trying
more securely to fasten the small
steamer to the shore Daniels was
swept into the river.
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May Have Confidence Mon.

San Francisco, Apr. 2.-In the Or.
rest Of Earl Accola, which was effect.
ed by United States Post Office In
spector O'Connell here, the federal au.
thorities believe that they have cap.
tured one Of the two men who feeced
several large business houses in diff
ferent sections Of the United States
during the last year.
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DECIDES IN ROADS FAVOR.
Judge Mcpherson In Missouri Over
rules the Jurisdiction Of State.

Kansas City, Mo-, Apr. 1.-Judge
Smith Mcpherson in the federal
court here Tuesday decided that he
has full Jurisdiction over both the maxi.
mum freight rate and the two.cent
passenger fare cases In Missouri. In
other words, he holds in favor Of the
railroads and against the state on the
question of jurisdiction.
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Ten Overcome by Gas.

South Omaha, Neb.. Apr. 2.-Ten
men were overcome by ammonia gas
In the Cudahy Packing Company's
plant in this city Wednesday. when a
tank of ammonia gas exploded. Eight
Of the men were taken to a hospital
q q serious condition.
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Futile Attempt to Rob Bank,

Buckner, Mo-, Apr. IAN unsuc.
cessful attempt to rob the bank OF
Buckner was made here early Monday.
The robbers blew of the outer door OF
the vault with nitroglycerin but were
unable to open the inner door and Sc
cured nothing.
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Capture Two Robbers.

Cherryvale. Kan. Apr. 1.-Two rob.
bers escaping from Independence,
near Cherryvale. where they had dy-
namited and looted safe in drug
store, were captured here Wednesday
after being wounded In an exchange
Of shots with Night Marshal Watson
and . deputy.
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Three Children Burn to Death.

Scranton, Pa, Apr. LOCKED In
their home at Hughestown, near here.
Tuesday while their mother. Mrs.
Dominick Jimitio, went to the butcher
shop the house caught fire and three
children, Mary, John and Joseph, were
burned to death. They were all under
six years of age.
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Riley Grammar Fatally iii.

San Francisco, Apr. Riley Gran.
nan, the famous rack.track follower,
is Ill with pneumonia at hospital in
Rawhide. New. and physicians say he
cannot recover.
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FLAMES Cause $4,000 Loss,

Providence, r. l., Apr. damage
estimated at upwards Of $4,000 was
caused by fire Tuesday which COM
pletely Quilted the Billings block on
Washington street. occupied largely
by jewelry and liquor firms.
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Nebra.ka Post ONCE Robbed.

NSU' 0sN~ vt S''S0 b6VVVCUs
Lincoln. Neb., Apr. 1.-The post
Office at the town of Valley. was
broken into Sunday night, the safe
blown to pieces and 5000 in cash and
many stamps taken. Tho Lincoln
bloodhounds were sent to the scene.
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Newspaper Man Fatally Hurt.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Apr. by an
explosion Of gasoline stove at his
home Tuesday James F. Barnes. a re-
porter on the News, was perhaps fatal.
ly and his little daughter badly burned.
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Gomez Fills Own Vacancy.

Manila, Apr. 1.-Senor Gomez has
been reelected to the assembly from
the First district Of Manila to fill the
seat vacated by his recent expulsion
from the house.
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Five Hurt In Car Crash.

Omaha. Neb., Apr. LIN dense fog
Tuesday two street cars on the Hans.
com park line collided and five pas.
sengers were injured. uoas of them
fatally.
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Falling Walls XIII Two Boys

Falling Walls XIII Two Boys.
Provincetown. Mass, Apr. H.
While inside the shaky walls of the
helf-burned Centenary Methodist
church late Monday, in search Of fire.
wood. two boys were killed by the COL
lapse of portion of the ruins and q
man was seriously injured.
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Shoots His Wife and Himself.

New York, Apr. 1.-Edward r.
Randall, an expert accountant who had
a home in the exclusive Bedford sec.
ton of Brooklyn, shot and it Is be.
lieved fatally wounded his wife and
then killed himself Monday night.
Randall was Sc years of age. and Mrs.
Randall is Al.
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Indiana Peace Reached.

Terre Haute. Ind, Apr. lit was
agreed Tuesday by the joint confer
ence of Indiana miners and operators
that present wages shall continue
after Tuesday pending settlement Of
a scale. This means there will be
no suspension in this state Wednes-
day.
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Near Peace In Texas.

Fort Worth, Tex. Apr. AFTER a
conference between operators and
miners in the Texas soft coal fields
1t was economically stated by men,
bers Of both sides that an agreement
whereby temporary suspension or
lockout will be averted in Texas had
been reached. Unless something I'M.
foreseen occurs Texas will not be in.
volved in any trouble In the Twenty
frat diaf riot
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Animals and savages.

The interior is inhabited by those
CHEEKY savages and by tigers. pan
theirs. rhinos, elephants, and as many
kinds Of snakes as were ever discov-
cred. There are 90 miles Of railroad.
and there is need Of 5000. Timber of
the Suest kind, petroleum. gold. silver.
and OF. er metals are to be had almost
for the asking, but the mainstay Of
the islands, when all Is counted up,
is tobacco
Wild and neglected as the island is.
a small part Of the north coast pro-
duces 100000 pounds of fine tobacco
annually. Imagine the net production
Of Sumatra with 32,O00. 900 acres under
tobacco cultivation. The owners Of
such a plantation would have the
world of smokers and chewers paying
tribute. while the Cubans would be
smothered and the tobacco farmers Of
American beaten to a whisper.
Sumatra tobacco properly so-called
is a peculiar weed of great and vii
famous bitterness. When planted in
America it has grown slowly and very
poorly It's sole use has been for
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TWO NATIVE sUMATRANs.

geography are in their +. -Or. and
armies of 5000 soldiers have been
frittered away In VAIN attempts to
overthrow the Moslem rulers.
Holland is an economical nation.
Java. one Of the best colonies in the
world, pays a big revenue; Sumatra Is
a source Of trouble and expense. and
tho thrifty putchmen are quite willing
to let go of their island empire The
purchase price, il Is said, will be $780,,
100000 cash and royalty on all the
tobacco md minerals produced for
fifty years to come.
Few people. without close study OF
the map, can realize what a place the
mighty island is, and how large IS
the Job ahead of the tobacco compHny-
Sumatra is 1850 miles from east to
west-ong enough to reach from New
Haven to Chicago, or from Milwau-
kee 10 New Orleans. 1t is from ninety
To 24O miles in width its area is
161. 00o square miles, and its population
about 100000 Of whom half would
rather Kill a white man than go 20
banquet.
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eve Are An Imltators.s

Look" and Mr.. Herbert, walking
10 the window, pointed TO the Hud-
son river flowing past in the moon
light. Read Omar Kayyam,' he
went on. land see how the Persian
poet. away back in the dim and
shadowy past, looked at the stars,
the moonlight. OF upon a beautiful
woman, and expressed himself IN
about the way the poets of today do.
We are all imitators, more or less,
in everything. Why should a MI
stefan De expected to be the only one
exempt from this? Why. years be-
fore Edison made the monograph talk
back. a Frenchman had made q cyl
inder that would record the human
voice Edison improved on this, that's
all Nothing new under the sun, was
said Of old. Why is it not true to
day?''
Prof William c. Carl the noted
organist Of the Old First Presbyterian
Church on Fifth avenue. was seen in
the organ loft OF his church at the
close OF a lesson to one Of his pupils
gan recitaIs for years In the Old
First. and through them has won
fame abroad as we'll az in America.
When GuilmanJ Of France. the great
est of all living orEanists. was ia the
United States recently he gave his
recital IN New York on Prof.
CarIs organ in compliment, he said,
to the one who had done so much
for high-class music in the Western
Hemisphere.
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IS POPULAR MERRY WIDOW" WALTZ
4 PLAGIARISM FROM NIENDELSSOHN

waltz. If not that opening OF the sa-
cred chorus, that has made 1t popu-
lar2 Mention the waltz 10 anybody,
and what viii he or she begin to hum?
The part suggesting MendeIssohn;
that and nothing else, for that Is what
gives the swing 10 the whole thing"
1T is quite probable that the per-
son you speak to about it can't re-
member another part OF IT. In fact.
tGe other part is not danceabIe. II I
may use the word. People like to
dance 90 the waltz Just because Of
the easy flow Of the opening air. You
see, I am discussing the waltz now
not from the viewpoint of the stu
dent OF sacred music, but as the
dancer would estimate it. I am sub
hitting It TO the conditions for which
II was written. Outside Of the melodi-
Gus opening, the waltz cannot com
pare for a moment with The Blue
danube Of Strauss. which catches tbe
Feet in every part
But Handel"
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Surnrlsed at Similarity.

II am. Aren't you? p was the reply.
Yes" said the Organist. 1t looks
like a steal; there's no doubt of it,
but YOU cannot prove it. Therefore 1
won't say it is I was witness once
in a case where the similarity was
even more striking, but It could not
be established. When a composer
swears he never heard the music in
question, how can you prove he did2
that is why I do not presume to
charge theft. All I know how the re-
semblance affects me. and what 1
should think Of my own work If any
such charge were brought against IT.
IF the composer Of The Merry
Widow Waltz were an Euglishman, I
should have little hesitation in say
ing ne cribbed the waltz, because the
English are an oratorio-loving people.
Not so with the Yiennese. OF whom
Lehar is one Tbs do not 60 in for
ratorios at all. bur favor opera, espe-
oiauy ''ght opera. Therefore, / should
be ready 10 believe T.ehar never heard
st Paul he is a bandmaster not
an organist- Naturally his training
and profession would not bring him
into touch with oratorio.
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How many times these keys have
sent that tune from st. Paup through
the stately atsles Of this old church"
and lie looked affectionately down up
on the deserted pews where were only
three wayfaTeTs who had drifted in
from the noise Of Fifth avenue for a
few minutes of repose.
Then his visitor sang TO the organist
the opening Of the waltz. without any
suggestion OF changing the tune. In
stantly Prof. Carl exclaimed: You're
not singing It right tbs time. You
have changed the rhythm"
Does II remand you Of anything?'
asked the interviewer.
"A moment of thought and then the
musician said: "Certaiuly-Jhe 'Mcrry
Widow waltz. didn't notice It at first
because the Nendelssohn chorus has
be-. associated for years in my mind
with that air. How much they are
alike"
The organist tool, the two pieces Of
music, beat the time through eight
measures and then said: Il suppose
you are startled at the similarity"
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are equally colossal. For zoe years the
Dutch have fought in vain to conq,;er
Sumatra. They brought the shore line
under nominal control, but the inter
tor with its savages and wild animals.
was too much for them. At one snd
Of the island, the Sultan OF Acheen.
a Moslem pOtentate. lOrd Of a million
fighting MOhammedans, has ever held
his own unconquered. The fighters Of
Acheen have defeated perhaps 20O
Dutch expeditions and are as free
today as when the Netherlanders first
stepped upon the island shores
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Handel and Shekesneare-

Excuse me for interrupring sa,s
Prof. Carl. but I know what vo,, a.
gong TO say. You are going TO accuse
the greatest OF all oratorio composars
or plagiarism. Wen. / fancy he 7,-sz
somewhat like Shakespeare in ma
The Bard Of Avon appropriate5 ,,sh,
and left. IN The Messiah, in 80 -
the instrumental parts there is a SIS.
Iihc1 snatch from the old English
song. sally in Our Alley Even If
the song was written before the ora
torio. II would be absurd to saw that
the master mind OF Handel built that
Demonstrated part on the song But
note this difference. IN the same ora
torio there is a part. taken. think,
by the clarinets, which is exactly the
opening Of the refrain of the song,
Say Au Revolr. But Not Goodbye
written by Monroe Resented, some
years ago.
"One can conceive OF that part from
Handel suggesting the song Of Rosen-
field, for It IS the lesser, the Insignificant.
If I may be pardoned the word. appro-
priating from the or e5ater. So Lehar.
If consciously or smcoIsCiOusly he
used this opening from Mendelssohn
was by no means initiating Handel or
Shakespeare, He was rather A Rosen-
field Even though there are only half
a dozen notes in The Messiah oart
that I referred to, they were enough
TO serve as the foundation of the
popularity OF Rosenfeld's song tnat
won so much favor more than a dec
ade ago"
''Is the change In the -hvfhr suf-
hcient TO show there was no theft in
the case of the waltz?" Prof. Carl was
asked.
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VIII Import Plants.

Continued from Fourth Page.l
the common church tune o Happy
Day TO which are often sung the
ribald words, How Dry I Am. 30
"Well, there you are" said Mr..
Herbert. THAT is an example That
was a haphazard random arrange
menJ. never heard the tune. I
assure you. yet II 7 had used il IN
any production I suppose someone
would have accused me OF theft.
Iehar's change Of rhythm eXonerates
him in my mind. The Rhythm ~
everything. Listen" and Mr.. Har-
bert ran over some notes-uMpily
umpity, um. um, UNI
Recognize that2" he asked ''I
see you shake your head. ''Weu.
that's Yankee Doodle. Just
changed the rhythm, that's all.
Same intervals, though, exactly; 10;
char ged a particle.
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A T LEAST SEQ square miles Of
~ the island. it is computed. can
n be converted into tobacco
fields without harming or
busting anyone except monkeys. ele-
plants and wandering savages. With
S2000Oo0 acres planted in tobacco what
competition could be made the whole
world around against the American
company
The tobacco growers of Connecticut
and the wide South. and the fierce
night riders Of Kentucky and Tennes-
see would be left high and dry-the
smokers world would be supplied from
a new field and the big trust would
manage TO wriggle along without
them.
The project is a colossal one. but
the difficulties attending the enterprise
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Likeness Is Strange.

"I4owever-Vsell, it's strange that
the most popular waltz that ever hit
this country or Europe should be so
powerfully suggestive Of one of the
standard classical choruses. Take
the chorus part out OF the waltz and
il viii die. Indeed. it is quite likely
that without it. it would never have
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but the huge stretches OF the island.
SO the Hollanders have learned by
experiment. viii grow the finest kinds
of Cuban American and Philippine
tobacco. The tobacco company, pre-
sumabIv with 100000 acres 10 uIiI-
lie. viii grow every kind OF tobacco
leaf known 10 commerce. and thus
be in position &c compete in every
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Big Task for Company.

The tobacco company. therefore, has
4 job ahead something like that of
driving out the Apaches Of Arizona.
only more so, as the Achiness number
some 100000 lighting men and are ele-
santly armed while the climitte and
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market and to supply every kind OF
smoking fancy.
Heavy duties, now assessed against
outside tobacco. may or may not
keep the Tobacco trust from moving
down the American leaf-growers.
With $500 square miles at hand. and
the cheap labor OF the Orient. the
company could probably meet the
present duties cheerfully II IS
thought. however. that the field Of
the new tobacco empire viii be main
~ Asiatic and European. while the
exploiting Of the timber and mineral
possibilities OF the island will doubt
less become almost as material an
issue as the tobacco interests of the
firm.
Two agents of the company. after
spending six months in Sumatra, have
established headquarters in YokO-
hama, and a sub-agency in Hong
kong. A third office is 10 be opened
in singapore. and it is thought that
Chinese. japanese and English capital
will be interested In The huge project.
as well as the millions at the COM
mand Of the American company
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SCAA~~f " &LA4ELN44NA VI nOLLANA
will attempt to colonize, conquer,
and administer the big estate &c
cording to up-to-date ideas.
The Dutch government is
weary of the island and the annual
drain it demands of both life and
treasure, and is heartily glad to
transfer the burden to the shoulders
of a private corporation. The COM
pany in turn will acquire a realm
which is practically one gigantic
tobacco farm, but what will il cost
to make the purchase workable?
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Dinerence of Rhrthm.

As Prof Carl approached. the in
teryiewer hummed the air Of the
MeLdelssohn chorus DO you reeog-
nize that?" he was asked
That's o Re Gracious " he said.
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March %, I9@3
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wrappers Of cigars. as even one cigar
SLED with this stuff would make the
strongest devotee IF smoking an eX-
tremely sick man.
- ~
VIII Import Plants.
The native tobacco OF Sumatra,
therefore. has not much Of a future.
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of the tropic SeaS-iS soon to pass
into the hands of an American
corporation. and a huge American
trust will be sole owners of the
mightest realm single company
has swayed since the East India
corporation ruled Hindustan, and
the Hudson bay furriers governed
the trackless wastes of the Great
Lone Land.
Moreover, the giant island will
be owned by the company and the
company alone, without tribute of
suzerainty-the companys agent
viii be master of an empire the size
of California and with the riches
of fifty Ell DoradoS hidden among
its mountains and its tropic valleys.
The American Tobacco Com
pany has, according to late advices
from both Holland and the East
purchased the Island Of SumatTa-
bought it outright, mountains, har-
bors, SavageS,s Ourang-outangS and
all-and within the next few years
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