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Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
INVITE SNUBBED TAF1S
AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE WILL
BE LET OUT.
Story of Taft Honeymoon-Whits
Refused Honeymooners Ticket
to Court Function.

Observation-Disclosures White is to
step down and out automatically, and
another is to have his place at the French
capital. There is "a moral in this pass.
ing of Mr.. White, and the story thereof
| should teach the reader to he careful OF
the stranger within his gates, lest in
that stranger he entertain all unaware
an angel or one who is s~prouting suisse
quent wings to become an angel.
1t was in 1886. Mr.. and Mrs. Taft
had just been married and were travel.
ing through Europe, wrapped in those
rainbow folds of sentiment folk call Z
honeymoon"
The Tafts in the course of their en-
raptured rambies came to Vienna. There
they found Mr.. White. The latter gen
tleman was secretary of the legation TO,
the United States.
There was some function, whereof roy
atty would be the center, coming of
upon a near afternoon. Mr.. Taft asked
Mr.. White to see about an invitation
To procure such invitations was not
among things impossible. Mr.. White
could have had them at a merest hint,
Upon the morning of the royal func
ton Mr.. White sent a note to Mr.. TAFT
1t ran in practically these words:
Il am sorry to inform you that !
was unable to accomplish what you
asked. The affair is very exclusive. The
number of invitations is limited and
they have been ordered sent only to per
SONS of Importance and distinction. ]
enclose, however, tickets to the museum
and trust that Mrs. Taft and yourself
will spend a pleasant afternoon"
Mr.. Taft still has that White letter
1t has become, although not filed, the
big document in what might be called
the case of Ambassador White"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
TRUST SLASHES PRICES
EFFORT TO CRUSH INDEPEND-
EMIT STEEL MAKERS.
John W. Gates Will Probably Head
the Independents in Fight
on the Trust.

New York.-In its rate war on the in.
dependent steel makers, the Steel Trust
Thursday made further reductions in the
price of its products. 1t cut the quota
lions for tin plate from 25 cents to 80
cents a box, or S. to Sc a ton, and for
steel plates it made concessions of 81
to 81 a ton on the reduced price Of SIS
a ton. In brief, it put the prices to y
level OIL which it was said few indie
pendent manufacturers could exist.
The reason for the extra reduction,
an official of the trust said, was ito
get business" The cut to Sc q ton for
structural pieces and steel plates had
brought out some orders, but the indie
pendents had met that cut and were
getting their usual proportion of bust
ness. Similar conditions obtained, it
was added, in other branches of the
trade.
Under these circumstances, the trust
decided to make further reductions and
to carry on a relentless WAY against the
independents, undertaking them wher-
ever possible.
With all these threats in the air, u
rumor was circulated that the independ-
ents could combine under the leadership
of John ". Gates in an organization for
self-defense, if not for aggression.
Gates, it is known, has never for
given the Steel Trust men for the man.
ner in which they forced him to sur
render his holdings in Tennessee Coal
and Iron at the time of the recent none.
tary panic.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
PLAN BIG LAND SALE.
Government to Hold Applications
Until Next Fall,

Westinghouse the present plans Of
the department of the interior carry,
there will be one of the biggest land
sales in Oklahoma next October that the
new state has ever witnessed. The new
plan of the department is to hold up
all applications for sale of the surplus
lands of the allottees until that time,
and bunch them for a big land opening
sale. The present system of selling the
lands of the restricted Indians has never
been satisfactory to the government. 1t
is believed the l%and.opening idea, coupled
with the payment plan of four annual
payments, will draw thousands of farm
ers who want to make homes in the new
state, and will make the lands bring
higher prices.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
DONAGHEY'S MESSAGE.
Arkansas Governor Quickly Acts After

Arkansas Governor quickly ACTS After
Visit.
Little Rock, Ark.-Little Rock parties
returning from Brinkley say they never
witnessed a more desolate scene in their
lives than what hey beheld there. 1t is
impossible to describe the havoc caused
by the storm. At the request of Gov.
Donaghey the legislature viii at once
appropriate $4,000 for the relief of the
sufferers. Gov. Donaghey's message ask
ing for the appropriation follows:
go the Thirty-seventh General Assem-
bly,:
Il have just returned from Brinkley,
where the recent cyclone has caused so
much loss of life and property, and |
find there is urgent need for immediate
relief to those who were MANNED and
crippled, together with the remaining IN
habitants, who are suffering for lack
of food and shelter.
81 therefore recommend that you make
an appropriation to be Immediately avail
able to those entitled to the same Of the
sum of $4,000"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
PLEADS FOR RACE SUICIDE
Ohio Leader of W. g. T. q. Wants
Quality Not Quantity in Children.

Cleveland, O.-"Let's quit raising chill
dren till we can take care of those we
have. Let's abolish se~ntimentalism and
substitute common sense. In race sui
eide, s~o-called, lies the salvation Of the
race"
Such is the plea of Mrs. Sarah X.
Meredith, recording secretary Of the
Ohio w. C. 7. u, who has stepped to
the front as an advocate of race sui.
eide.
equality, not quantity" is the key
note on which Mrs. Meredith bases her
arguments. Il believe it is next to
criminal" she says, "to scatter the doc
trine, Marry and raise a family with
out taking into consideration whether
the man and woman are fit to marry,
and whether the future of the children
at least in a measures assured"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
WAR CLOUD IS LOWERING.
Nicaragua and Salvador Assume
Bellicose Attitude.

Neutrality-suspicious. hundred marines
from Panama and 200 from Guantanamo
are held in readiness to be rushed to
Honduras and Nicaragua borders in case,
as is threatened, Nicaragua should at
tack Costa RIGA or use the Honduran
territory, which is neutral, for the trans
port of troops. The state department
holds that the treaties existing between
Mexico and the United States and the
Central American republics demand that
there shall always be peace between
these republics" therefore it is the func.
ton of Mexico and the United States
and it is their right to forcibly prevent
Nicaragua from making war.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
BISHOP H0SS HAS RELAPSE
Wound From Operation Gives Him
Trouble.

Baltimore, Md.-It will be likely sew
eral days, and it may be a week Or two
before Bishop +. f. Hoss, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, is able to
leave the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The
bishop underwent an operation for an
internal trouble a month ago and it was
said that he would leave the hospital at
least ten days ago, but new compiled.
tons set i'll last Saturday and since that
day he has had u high temperature and
considerable pain from the wound which
was made at the time of the operation.
The bishop takes his relapse very much
to heart and it grieves him quite a bit
to know that he has received this sudden
setback. e
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20

caught the attention. But only mo
mentarily. The master himself VA
there, sitting in a high-backed old
chair which might have come from =
Forentine palace; an erect figure
gracefully carrying its weight Of years!
The personality of the man filled the
room, the personality Of the master.
One felt that whatever other person
might happen to be there, Carolus
Duran would still be the one toward
whom all eyes would be turned. And
one felt that II he gave an order, II
would not be disobeyed. One could
readily imagine his pupil. John Sar.
gent, great enough himself to be-
ranked among the masters, bowling his
head before Carolus Duran and doing
as he was told.
But Duran does not want to be al
ways obeyed. He insists upon his pu.
pills following their own initiative.
Each person must march alone II
he is to accomplish anything" he said.
In painting, the most difficult Of all
arts, he must learn how to take his
steps, Of course; he must study long
and patiently and learn how to walk,
and he must learn this from others.
Then he must go his own way as he
sees it most clearly.
Il come to Paris often, although l
have been in Rome over 40 years. I
do not think Paris is better for an ar.
fist than Rome, or Rome better than
Paris. Each gives its own.
Paris is better for the beginner. He
learns in Paris how to feel, and no one
can paint Or write Or do anything in
art who has not learned to feel, to
have sensations. | came to Paris for
it's sensations, for the new world OF
thought and activity centered here, for
the plays at the theater, for the books
that are being written, for the men
and mi that make Paris what
It is.
But in Paris there is too much bus.
tie and business for me as a mature
artist, too much electric light, tele-
graphs, telephones, hurrying trains
and rushing people.
Il go back to Rome to reflect upon
what Paris has given me. Rome *
tranquil, with the peace of ages rest.
ing upon it, and a message from its
stores OF antiquity that falls upon
the soul sweetly, soothingly. One has
time and chance to think.
But certainly n must not be calm
and tranquil too long. One must not
stay too long in Rome. There are the
voices of the present.
Let the artist learn his grammar
in Paris, let him come then to Rome
and learn how to speak. Then let hia:
give his message to the world stamped
with his own individuality. Something
so much his own that he got it neither
from Paris, nor from Rome, nor from
any other place, but from the depths
Of his own soul"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
DICKINSON TO GO TO CANAL.
New War Secretary Will Familiarize
Himself With Work.

Washington.-Secretary Dickinson, it
is expected, will o be sent to Panama
to familiarize himself with the canal and
all conditions surrounding it. This
statement is made by a high admins
tration official. Soon after he comes
here President Taft, Col. Goethals and
Secretary Dickinson will confer about
the canal. Some changes in the organi.
zatiln are expected.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
laps Return Home.

New York;, Yamasaki, acting con.
sui general of Japan, nounc that the
report of the department of foreign af.
fairs of Japan, which has just been
cabIed to him, shows that during the
month of February, 1909, n%inety-four
more japanese returned home than en-
tered the mainland OF the United States,
and ffty-two more japanese returned
home than entered Hawaii. Mr.. Yama.
saki said the mode of travel showed that
the largest proportion of those japanese
returning home were Of the working
class.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
BOUND, GAGGED AND ROBBED
Former Hotel Keeper Roughly
Treated by Masked Men.

Galesburg, Ill.-W. L. Bennett, a for
mer hotel keeper of Hot Springs, was
taken from his boarding house here
Thursday night by three men who pro
fessed to be United States deputy mar
shals. Placing loaded revolvers at his
head, they forced him to go to a shanty
in the outskirts of the town, where
they bound him with copper wire and
made this fast to screws in the floor.
They then robbed him of diamonds val
uel at $500 and a large sum of money.
Left there, it wa some time before he
could break loose and make his way to
the nearest house, still partly bound
with wire.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
Would Boom Country Life.

Guthrie, Okla.-The Southwest Inter.
state Commission on Country Life, called
at the suggestion of the National Com.
mission. ito create new interest in farm
life and to improve social conditions in
the country" began a two-days' meet.
ing here today. Missouri, Kansas, Ar.
kansas, Texas and Louisiana are repre-.
sented. Great interest ha, been mani.
tested by the people Of Oklahoma in the
meeting, and farmers from surrounding
counties and towns are here to discuss
their affairs and to formulate some
scheme to better their conditions.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
FRANCE FACES DEFICIT.

Paris.-France, like the United States,
is confronted with a big deficit in her
revenues. The situation is rendered the
more serious by the large number Of
socialistic projects involving heavy drafts
on the treasury. The budget of 1909
necessitated the issue Of $12 1000, 900 IN
treasury bonds, while the regular esti-
mates for. 1910 show a deficit of $45,.
soc, 900. and this without taking into
consideration the proposed workmen's
old age and state railroad employees
pension proposals, which together involve
the sum of $37, 100000 more.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
Women Still Missing,

New Orleans, La.-in their efforts to
find three women, the wives of well
known men, who have been missing for
days from their homes in New Orleans
and one of its suburbs, the police admit
that they have been unable to obtain
the slightest clue That would lead to
the solution of any OF the mysterious
cases.
The women are Mrs. L. w. Baker,
Mrs. p. II. ThibeauX and Mrs. John s,
Edmonds. Mrs. Thiebeaux's husband
himself disappeared from home Thurs.
day.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
TO RESTORE 3.cENT RATE
Representatives Of Eighteen Rail-
roads Meet in st. Louis.

st. Louis, Misrepresentation of the
passenger departments of eighteen rail
roads met here Thursday to consider the
advisability of restoring the old 3 cents
a mile rate, made legal by the decision
against the Missouri 2.cent fare law
rendered by Judge Mcpherson i'll Kan.
sas City Oh Monday.
J. NJ. Johnson, vice president of the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway, who was chairman of the con.
ference, said that the railroad men had
received a communication from Attor.
ney General Major of Missouri, asking
them to appoint a committee to confer
with him before definite action was
taken.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
DEATH CLAIMS GEN. L
Founder Of Colorado Springs. His Es,
tate is Worth 5000, 900.

Colorado Springs.-Gen VIM. J.. Palm.
er, founder of Colorado Springs, died at
his country seat, Glen Eyrie, west Of the
city, late Sunday, Death came as a
result of a fall from a horse in October,
1906, which resulted in breaking his
back. Gen. Palmer often has been called
the foremost citizen of Colorado. He
leaves an estate valued at 49, QO, 600.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20

journalist, 'look like the deuce be-
side you men! You men have a regu-
lation golf suit, just as you have a
regulation evening dress. But We
women disigure the links in an old
skirt and a sweater. Where is the
future Worth or Paquin who will In
vent for women a golf dress at once
neat and elegant"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
WILL BUILD FOUR DREADNoUGHrs

London.-The eagerly awaited British
naval estimates were issued Friday. A
compromise won the day for Ns csti-
mates provide for a total expenditure Of
$175,7l3,5OO, an increase of STA, l16,0 900
over the estimate of 10000.
The new building program provides
for four Dreadnoughts, six protected
cruisers, twenty torpedo boat destroy
ers and a number of submarines, the lat
ter to cost s. 200, 900.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
SCHOOL CHILDREN WORK.
Prizes Offered Result in Cleaning Streets.

Charlotte, N. Cover 1000 school
children worked like Trojans gathering
up every stray bit of trash, broken glass,
pottery and brick bats that could be
found high and low, in a contest for
prizes offered by the Woman's Club to
the child raising the largest heap Of
rubbish. As a result many OF the
streets Of the city have trash piled
waist and head high along the cutters
ready for the city wagons to convey
to the crematory.
The chief of the sanitary department
states that it may require a week Cor
his department, working with the full
street force, to get rid of the accumu.
lated rubbish.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
Misunderstood.

The Hobo-'Scuze me, ma'am, but
I'm orful hungry, an If yousell gimme
a chanst t work
The Lady-Certainly. There's the
woodpile and an ak.
The Hobo-'Scuze me ergin, ma am,
but / was erbout t say If youse'll gim-
me a chanst t work youse fer me
breakfast, I'd be much erbliged.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
The ungainly Woman Golfer.

The men, seated before the fire in
a hall Of the country club, looked
very smart in the soft green's and
grays and browns Of their golf suits.
The shapely coats lent to their waists
an added suppleness and to their
chests a greater girth. The Knockers,
cut like riding breeches. gave their
owners prosaic Of legs, bank clerks and
stenographera, the dashing elegance
OF the legs Of the cavalrymen. But
the women!
!. We women said a young LADY
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
BISHOP HosS WORSE.
Unexpected Complications Causing Great
Pain Set Up.

Baltimore, Md.-The official state
ment is made that Bishop E. E. Hoss,
who was operated on at the Johns Hop
kins hospital more than a month ago,
has for several days not been resting
so well, owing to the fact that an un-
expected complication has arisen. While
this will delay his convalescence and
entails a great deal of pain, his physi-
clans consider it Of q temporary ma.
ture.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
Popular There.

"Is he a man of any great conse-
quence?" Well, yss-to himself
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
Co at Task cheerfuliy.

There is nothing so easy but It be-
comes difficult when you do it with re-
luctance.-Terence.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-03-20
POINTEALA:HACHE, la. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1909.

Searching parties were organized, and
at 1890 o'clock a myriad of Pickering,
haring, itful lights danced about over
the scene of unspeakable desolation and
ruin which unfolded itself to the eye
for brief moments as the brilliant and
vivid flashes of lightning pierced the
sombre, heavens.
The rain was pouring in torrents,
lashing the face and hands with sting.
ING force.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-17
CONGREGATION SEEKS PASTOR
One Which Seeded from Luther
Place Church Mnnts a Head.

Efforts are being made by the trustees
OF the Independent Lutheran Church.
which congregation seeded from the
Luther Place Memorial Church. 20 obtain
q permanent Lutheran minister. and are
making no efforts 70 enter the Maryland
synod
For the present az least said a mem
OF the congregation last night. the on
GERS Of the church have no idea OF trying
20 enter the synod. After a good pastor
has been obtained. If It was considered
best for the interests OF TIE church, an
attempt would be made 70 enter the
synod when II meet in October
Il is declared the congregation may
procure a Lutheran minister and wor-
ship as Lutheran church without en-
tering the synod and this IS the course
that will be pursued II is pointed out
that the pastor OF Concordia Lutheran
Church is not enrolled in the Maryland
synod and yet the church Is considered a
Lutheran church in good standing
Rev J. Luther FrantZ. pastor OF St
Marks Lutheran Church. preached for
the independent congregation yesterday
and arrangements have been perfected
10 have Dr. Charles s. Steck. president Of
the Maryland synod. de..ver an address
tonight before the Mems Club OF the
church The meeting VII be OPEN 10 the
public, and VIII be held il the quarters
OF the church, 1S22 Vermont avenue
northwest.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-17

News from Havana that the Cuban
government Is to send Gen. Loinaz del
Castillo on a two years tour IN South
America indicates that the Cubans are
following the method used by Gov. Ma
COON during the American occupation in
ridding the island Of men with revolu-
tionsry tendencies.
Gov. Magoon sent Gen. Pho Guerra.
now commander OF the regular army in
Cuba. on a long tour Of the United States
and Europe. Gen. Guerra started Just as
the election periods were coming on. and
Re did not get back 20 Havana until the
elections are over. despite the fact that he
begged TO be permitted 10 return before
them Gov Magoon regarded Gen Guer-
"a rs a dangerous man TO have around.
sc he made him a major general gave
him a couple OF aids. and sent him on TO
study foreign military establishments.
Gen. Castillo a TrOubIemaker.
Gen. Loinaz del CostfIlo. hero OF eighty
odd military engagements. Is another such
as Guerra De is credited with making
much trouble and has the letter-wrftlng
habit. which is sometimes annoying 70
the powers that be. Now 1t is proposed
that he should tour South America He
Is Guerra's greatest rival in military
way. lie, too. is 10 have a couple OF
aids. according 10 reports
Il viii be interesting 20 follow Lo!nsz
del Castillo through Latin America. He
IS not particular friendly 70 the United
States. and az times has shown a decided
dislike for Americans AS an Official
representative OF the Cuban government
be viii be received with interest in ali
I.atiR-A-nericap republics. and his attitude
toward the United States will be OF i'm
portance IN It's bearing upon the relations
OF this country and Latin-Araerican re-
publics. particularly as III all Latin Amer
lea this governments Cuban policy has
always excited the keenest interest and.
often alarm.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-17

motor was made by Texas manufactur-
ing jeweler The field magnets are Of the
finest sheet steel. and SO small that they
can scarcely be seen. The power IS taken
Of BY a brush of nearly the same fnvis-
-ible dimensions. ana the finest silk COW
cred wire Is used in winding the arrna-
ture The motor IS driven by tiny sil-
yer chloride battery. The Jeweler wears
it as q scarf pin. and can make the little
thing buzz as bUsily as the biggest motor
one ever saw.
II has been well that denatured alco-
hol has come upon the scene as cheap
fuel and motive power for small estab-
Hshments which have hitherto used oil.
II is estimated that in the past half cen
tury the oil fields Of North America have
produced enough petroleum TO I'll the
entire Panama Canal when completed.
But the Eastern oil fields are expected
70 cease 70 flow IN important quantity
within the next decade Denatured alCO-
hoI. dependent not upon a stOred-up sup
ply which can never be added 20. but
upon mans power 10 make II, IS one OF
the examples OF what The world may ex-
pect as the great resources near extinc-
ton. Concrete comes along as the sub
stitute for wood. and II is expected by
one school Of economic thought that no
resource viii ever become exhausted. but
that man viii have q working substitute
for il.
Copyright. 1903. by Frederic J. Haskin.)
To-morrow-Gas Productions.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-17
SAENGERBUKD IN OUTING.
German Singers spend the Day at
Chesapeake Beach

Although the rain poured az intervals
az Chesapeake Beach yesterday. 4oo9
persons went 20 that resorr. as. guests OF
the Saengerbund
The active members under the leader
ship OF Prof. Henry Xander. musical d.
rector. gave chorus selections which viii
be sung at the prize competition al the
New York saengerfest. Just as the
singers had taken their position n the
music shell on the boardwalk. the rain
fall increased and drove them 20 the
rear, where they found shelter.
A tUg-of-war between the fat men was
contested and won by Adolph Levy's
team. which was awarded the medal the
presentation speech being made by Harold
Minister. Nj Levy won the wheelbarrOE
race On account o. vet grounds, the
baseball game was not played. The con-
test for the most attractive baby. the
most attractive woman. and the hand
soonest man was participated n by NUM-
bers- The judges viii not be able 20 an
nounce the result for some time
The ATion GesanS Verein visited voigI's
farm. Tennallytown. and celebrated the
May fest
The Germauia Mae1nerchor entertain
e5 its members and guests a. a concert
haH last night, Prof Emil Christianni
presiding