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New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

effect of representative institutions the whole
course OF his narrative logically tends
He everywhere lays stress upon the rule OF
the foreigner through the greater part of the
last century-the history of that century. he
points out, is the history OF the slow and
gradual revolt Of the Russian people against
the alien court" How alien has been that
court is graphically set forth in this anec dote;
The poet Puskin used to say that the amount
Of Russian blood possessed by the Emperors
Of Russia was negligible quantity. and he
would illustrate his atarnent By parable He
would fill a wine glass with Ciaret and water in
equal proportions, then he would pour out half
its contents and refill il with water. repeating
the process as many times as there had been
generations in the Russian imperial family,
until the color of the liquid in the glass re-
aembIed that of pure water" Since the days of
Iivonian Catherine the imperial spouses have
all been Germans until now the poets parable
would surely not seem unjust when applied TO
the present occupant of the throne Alexander
l. the first Russian sovereign to be treated in
detail by the author, wore the aspect Of hero
OF German mythology. His figure was majestic.
his features beautifully chiselled. his locks were
gold his eyes were deep blue. II can hardly
be said that he had German force OF character,
but he had German sentimentality- Naturally
amiable he readily imbfbed the social ideas OF
Rousseau and dreamed Of impossible things
when Providence" he wrote to his tutor La
Harpe shall have by its blessing enabled me
to raise Russia TO the degree Of welfare which
I desire the first thing 1 shall do will be to
cast aside the burthen of administration and to
retire into sore quiet corner of Europe where
may peacefully enjoy the happiness secured
for my country" He was full Of good inten-
tions but rainfully elf-distrustful. There is a
tragic element in the failure of the plans for
governmental reform framed by a ruler at
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

once so weIl-meaning and weak But with
that weakness went also a feeling for order
method hard work. and the discipline incui-
Gated in his youth by the half-crazy tatner
whose sole delight was the drilling of soldiers.
Mr.. Hodgetts says that Alexander was want
ing in that rare quality, sympathetic tnag1-
nation. "an eminently Slavonic characteristic,
which is so epigrammaticaIly defined by the
French proverb: to understand everything Is
to forgive everything Alexander never un-
derstood his subjects. and consequently could
not forgive them for their failure to understand
him" The author thinks it excusable that they
should net have understood their ruler. the Rus
slams and the Germans having, though next
door neighbors, never found it possible to ar
rive at such understanding. "The German
pedantic sentimentalist. the autocratic ruler or
sixty millions, could establish no bond Of sym
pathy between himself and his subjects, VINO
conspired to murder him because they could
not understand him" If he was not happy as
a sovereign he was no happier in his married
life He was fifteen and the little Baden prin-
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

Mr.. j. ]. Bell, having chrunicled IN Wee Mac
gregor' the amusing ways OF 8 little Scoten Oo!'
intends TO describe in a volume called ChriS
tina the ways of a little Scotch girl No dolot
she will be "Christy or ''Kirsty, and Il Is gI-S7
likely that her story WILL like that OF W ee Ms~
gregor" go forth into the world 70 the tune o1
quarter of q million copies.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

The author of these volumes mOdeStiy de-
cIares that his main object in producing them
has been to entertain his readers. In that
effort he is certainly successful-he has put
together a tissue of personal sketches. gossip
anecdote and lively comment such as the taste
of the day demands and welcomes. But he has
done something than that; he has man
aged to give a sufficiently Illuminating though
not impeccabie story of the influences which
have moulded the Russian agtocracy since the
death of Catherine II. To his conclusion that
autocracy is an anacnronsm and that the only
remedy for Russian troubles is the sanitary
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
TO A GIRL.

TO GIRL.
BY NEWMAN HOWARD.
.,;so, near those freshets of your smiles
Bloom winged Iris, meadow-s"ee' ike
foam -, 49,,
And p9nsies shy amid the Enchanted Isles
Where no ghost walks, no ruefuI phahtoinS
roam.
A White Bird flutes beside that singing river
Fark to its notes. Be glad, be oraVe' oOey
themi r. -
THE CAV hearts and the true are fair Tor ever
Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they
array them.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
SOME RUSSIAN RULERS.
Sketches of the Court IN the Last
Century.

THE COURT OF RUSSIA IN THE NINE
TEENTH CENTURY. BY E. A Brayley Hod-
getts Illustrated In two volumes. Syo, pp.
303-S12 Charles Scribner's Sons.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

MI Kipl;ng we are told. has written reg
long novel, following in the wake OF other au-
thors who, projecting Imagination into the
future see a world full of material wonders
greater than any yet achieved. The aeroplane
seems to be an object peculiarly tempting TO
the modern writer and no doubt it is easier
TO play in fancy about mechanic maryes than
to treat with equal effect the intricacies of
human character and human motive. 1t will
be amusing to compare Mr.. Kipling's novel, If
indeed il is to deal with the performances of
flying machines, with the recent production of
Mr.. II. q. Wells Thus far these powers Of the
air seem to suggest to the story tellers nothing
but atrOcioUS war and cruel destruction, the
results of an apparent conviction that all the
peoples Of the civilized world are straining to
fly at one anotherS throat 1t is not u doe
trnc that makes for Righteousness Why not
reverse the medal and conjure up some beneli-
cent consequences from the development of the
neroDlane? It would need to be sure, more
Imagination and Imagination Of a higher type
than that required for tales of annihilltion.
Perhaps Mr.. Kpling will capture the unusual
as he has in other instances, It is always
Interesting to compare his work with that from
which it Is possible that consciously or un-
consciously, he has taken a hint. Did he, for
Example, find in Poes Murder in the Rue
Morgue" a suggestion for his "Bertran and
Bimi"? It is hard TO say which Of these two
nightmare tales of Orang ng-outang ferocity is the
slore instinct with horror
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
CABINET BUILDING
 A COMPLETED TASK
But the President Elect Will No' Verify the Report.

New York. Feb. 24.-President-ele elect Taft completed his cabinet today with the offer of the treasury portfolio and it's acceptance. That the offer was made to and accepted by Franklin McVeagh of Chicago, is as near a positive statement of what is believed to be the fact as may be made in the face of the absolute refusal by MT. Taft to throw any light on the situation.
 MT. Taft justifies his silence on the ground that he declared some time ago that he would give no informa- ton out regarding the makeup or the cabinet until he was ready to announce it in its entirety.
 In /spfte of a strong belief that MacVeagh accepted the portfolio, It was reported that the name of A. B. Hepburn of New York, former of the currency, figured largely in the conference. It is as- stunned that should anything eliminate MacVeagh, Hepburn will be selected.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
.ON MONDAY
 F AT ALL The Statehood Bill May Be K
 pected to Emerge OBJECTION ID LAND GRANTS Holding It in the Senate Committee the Republican Senators Voting Down a Proposal to Strike Out Sec tions Referring to Them.
OBJECTION ID LAND GRANTS

Washington, D. C.. Feb. 24.-(Spe- ciaD-Another meeting of the senate committee on territories was held to- day at which a test vote was taken on the motion Of Senator Clark of Arkansas to have the bill reported with all reference to all sections referring to land grants stricken out, and that land matters be attended to by fur ther legislation. This was lost by a strictly party vote of to 4.
 The committee adjourned to meet again on Saturday. There is no like lihood of the bill being reported before Monday, should it come from the com mittee at all Saturday has been set apart for eulogies.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
HOUSE IN
 WAR PAINT Rejection Of Senate Amend ments to Legislative Bill SALARY APPROPRIATIONS The Raises Made by the Sem ate for the Benefit of the Nations Chief Digni- taries Failed to Meet Approval.
SALARY APPROPRIATIONS

Washington, Feb. 24.-With it's war paint on, the house of representatives defied the senate today by rejecting it's amendments to the legislative ap- propriation bill, providing for salary increases for the president, the vice president, the speaker and the judi ciary and for the creation of the of fices of under secretary and fourth assistant secretary of state. Party lines were obliterated completely.
 Not before during the present con- gross has the speaker been compelled to wield his gavel with such force to bring about order as today. Of parliamentary tangles there were many, but the veteran presiding of ficer emerged with his decisions un- disputed.
 After six hours discussion the bill was sent back to conference. So much time was consumed that a night session was made necessary for the discussion of the civil appropria- tion bill.
 In the house the debate on the sal ary increase was interfered with twice today by a meeting of the house com mittee on post offices and post roads to consider the senate ocean mail subsidy bill. A meeting will be held tomorrow morning and it is believed the bill will be reported. The mem bers are said to stand 10 to in its favor It is planned to bring in a special rule for the passage of the bill if it is favorably reported.
 Washington, Feb. 24.-Upon Mir. FOraker of Ohio and Mir. Clark of Arkansas depends whether the judi ciary committee of the senate will declare that the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the United States Steel Corpora tion was in violation of the Sherman anti-tru law and whether President Roosevelt had a right to sanction the merger. The committee today con sidered the report of the majority of the subcommittee which investigated the merger and by vote of to 2 condemned the merger and the pres idents action in permitting it Fin ally it was agreed to meet again on Monday and vote on the report.
 Messrs. Kittredge, Culberson and OverTnan, who signed the majority re- port, declare that the vote of the committee will be at least to 6 for it's adoption. This claim is Op- posed by Clark of Wyoming and Dill lingham, the minority of the sub committee, and by Knox, who is working to uphold the presidents course. Other members do not pro fess to know how Senators Clark of Arkansas and Foraker will vote.
 Those known to be for the report are Nelson and Kittredge, republi- cans, and Bacon, Culberson, Overman and Rayner. democrats. Against it are Clark of Wyoming, Depew, Dill lingham, Knox and Fulton, all re- publicans.
 At the suggestion of Overman, the report was modified to declare that the deal appears to the committee" to be a violation of the law. It was contended by a number of republican
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

waged with such bitterness in the Car olinas from 1775 to 17S2, thought that even Scotland at the times of the bor- der and religious wars did not afford a better field for fiction and the drama. My subject, however. does not relate to one of these romantic incl dents. but yet to the serious student of history it is nevertheless full of dramatic incident.
 Forgotten for nearly forty years the publication in 1919 of the fact that there had been, if not in terms yet in effect, a declaration of independence over a year before that of the Fourth of July, 1776, was met with incredulity and derision. The evidence, however, accumulated until it was established for all time that such was the fact What was this declaration and when and by whom made? On some date in May. 1775, in the town of Charlotte, Mechlenburg county. North Carolina, a small company of patriots met to take measures looking to the conduct of their local affairs, pending some general action of the provincial con- gross of North Carolina then called to meet in August of the same year. News of the battle of Lexington had but recently reached the Carolinas and this had stirred the men of the south with ardor and enthusiasm in the cause of liberty. They even seemed to have had clearer vision of the meaning and inevitable result of this first conflict of arms than the men of Massachusetts. It was a small con- vention composed of thirty one mem bers. but these were representative of the best citizenship of their section. The convention was called by Colonel
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
GOVERNMENT RESTED
Case of the American Sugar Refining
 Company for Fraudulent Weighing

New York, Feb. 24.-The govern ment rested it's case today in the suit against the American Sugar Re- lining company to recover back dues for alleged fraudulent weighing. Judge Holt denied a motion by the defense to dismiss the indictment. U. s. Assistant Attorney Dennison an nounced that the government would claim forfeiture and action No. 2 which is the legal designation for the cargo of the Strathyre, that was ord cred re-weighed by special agents at the time of the raid on the com pany's docks. This reduces the gov ernment damage claim from S25O,OOO to $150,000.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
REDEMPTION OF CITIES
The Purpose For Which the Nationa
 Leaque of Justice Was Created

Pittsburg, Feb. 24.-Plans have been perfected for an organization to be called the National League Of Justice under the direction of Rev. Dr. William H. Rader of Calvary Presbyterian church of San Francisco The matter will be brought to the attention of the Presbyterian Broth erhood of America, now in national convention here.
 The graft exposures in San F'ran- cisco and Pittsburg are responsible for the organization, the purpose of which is the redemption of all large cities from dishonest hands.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

senators who opposed the report that the motive of the president should not be analysed now in a judicial manner unless the subject were treated as an act performed during the stress of a business panic.
 The agricultural appropriation bill was discussed in the senate most of the day. MT. McCumber of North Dakota spoke on the right to fix standards for grain and declared that the present practices make impossi- ble the sale of western grain at prices to which it is really entitled.
 MT. Hepburn denounced the meth ods of administering the forest ser vice. The consideration of the bill was not concluded and the senate ad- jOurned at $40.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
RAILROAD SPEED RECORDS.

Pueblo, Feb. 24-After being block aded by heavy snow for two weeks. Marshall Pass was opened for traffic today. The Denver and Rio Grande train No. 315 arrived here today. mak- ing the seventy-two miles from Gun nison in five days. Another train ar irving today travelled thirteen miles in twelve hours. Trainmen say the snow is from five to twenty feet deep.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
JAPANESE CENSUS.
The California Bill Awaits Only the
 Governors Signature.

Sacramento. Feb. 24.-The senate has passed the bill providing for census of the Japanese in the state to deter mine whether or not California shall ask for general Asiatic exclusion act. The bill has already passed the assem- bly, and it will be signed by the gover- nor at once.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
RELATING FINES.
Sixteen Thousand Dollars Was Paid
 Yesterday.

Springfield, Feb 24.-After pleading guilty today to rebating case ship- ment of glass to California, the lill- nois Terminal association was fined s4, 1000 and costs, and the Illinois Glass company was fined s12,O00 and costs. Both fines were paid.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
FELL ONE HUNDRED FEET.
Twenty-Five Passengers on an Ecua-
 dorean Railroad Killed.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 24-A pas senger train on the main line, bound north, was today thrown over cliff 100 feet high at a point near Rio Bam- ba and crashed to the bottom of the ravine. Twenty-Five persons were killed and forty injured.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
BALKAN CRISIS.
The Situation Is Disquieting and Get
 ting Worse.

St. Petersburg, Feb. 24.-Pessimism with regard to the Balkan crisis is steadily deepening in diplomatic cir cles. where it is believed Austrian ac- tion against Servia may be expected within a fortnight unless a solution of the present grave problem is soon arranged.
 The foreign office feeling is that Russia will not consider the invasion of Servia alone as a casus bill. The beginning of hostilities would throw 1000 Russian volunteers into the Ser vian ranks.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
PICKED UP ENROUTE
The Chinese Found in a Bonded Car
 At San Louis Obispo.

New Orleans, Feb. 24.-A. P. Schell, a special U. s. inspector who recently ran down the alleged Chinese snug gling conspiracy on the gulf coast declared his disbelief in the report that the Chinese were sent in a gov ernment bonded car from Algiers, Louisiana to San Luis Obispo, Cali fornia. A close investigation will be made.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
SOCIALIST INTERESTED
In Behalf of an Imprisoned Mexican RevoIutionist.

San Antonio, Feb. 24.-The national socialist organization has launched a movement for the release of Antonio P. Aruajo, sentenced to the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for being the leader of the recent Mexican revolutionary outbreak The effort is similar to that conducted in behalf of Mover and Haywood dur ing their trial in Idaho.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
MRS. TEAL JAILED.

New York, Feb. 24.-Mrs. Margaret Teal, charged with attempted subor- nation of perjury in the Frank J. Gould divorce suit, was committed to the Tombs prison today by Judge Foster Heretofore she has been out on $5,000 bail.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
ANIL ALIEN ACT

Carson, Feb. 24.-The senate of the Nevada legislature passed today an anti-alien act which had already been adopted by the assembly. It is in the form of a joint concurrent resolution providing that all aliens and foreign CTS be excluded from federal and state grazing lands.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
GOING AFTER ORDERS.
Sperry Wants to Know What to Dc
 With His Boats.

Fort Monroe, Feb 24.-Rear Ad- miral Sperry leaves for Washington tomorrow afternoon to consult the navy department as to further plans for the fleet. and nothing in the way of inspection or detaching any or the ships will be done until he returns.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
NEVADA ASSEMBLY
 JOLTED GAMBLING
The State Also Puts Its Foot Down On Aliens.

Carson, Feb. 24.-The anti-gambling bill passed the assembly today by a vote of 27 to 20. Dodge of Washoe and Raycroft og Ormsby, gave notice of motions to reconsider this, making the final vote 29 to IS. The bill car ries an amendment which extends the time when it shall become operative from September, 1909 to January 1st, 1910.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
KAISER WILHELM AGROUND

New York, Feb. 24.-The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Will helm went aground in dense fog early this morning at the entrance to the lower bay. The ship was bound in from Bremen. It is ex- pected it will float at high tide.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
THE COUNCIL SESSION.
The o'NeilI Classification Bill Brought
 to Life.

There was a revival of railroad leg islation in the council when the committee on corporations report ed the Hunt three-cent fare bill recommending it's indefinite postpone ment. That was agreed to.
 Next came a report on the O'Neill bill making classification of the rail-
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
ANOTHER PITTseURe OUTBREAK.

Pittsburg, Feb. 24.-Another white girl was the victim of an attempted assault by a negro last night. The police today arrested fifteen negroes.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
A THREE MONTHS

Special course in Bookkeeping and Shorthand has been arranged for at the HANSON BUSINESS COLLEGE, beginning at the opening Of the Spring Term, March l.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

Continued on page 30
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

SAN DIEGO HOME FOR Ex- CHANGE-I have nice IF story frame dwelling, fine location. rooms, furnished, bath, large lot, barn, 50 chickens, to trade for Phoenix prop erty. E. E. PAScoE, 110 N. Center.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-25

20 ACRES ALFALFA AT s10o per acre, less than three miles out. Con- sidering the distance from town, this is the cheapest alfalfa land listed this winter.
 E. E. PAScoE, 11o North Center St.
The Detroit times., 1909-01-14
Naffon S Tuberculosis
Tribute Is S36.OOO,OO0
Each 3xveipe Months

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Jan. 14.-Dr.
c. c. Vaughan. in giving the closing
address at the Northern State Medical
convention here, said statistics show
that the lake region Is less affected by
tuberculosis and consequently this SEQ
ton should be the first to be free from
the disease. DR.. Vaughan declared
that one business place In Ann Arbor
had furnished him with six teubercul.
osis patients and that one house in the
city had infected Ia people where there
was no history of the disease being
prevalent,. illustrating the need for
isolation Of those afflicted with con-
sumption.
DR.. Glover, expert accountant OF the
university, compiled figures which
show that tuberculosis costs the Unit.
ed States $50 900, 900 each year: the
people OF Michigan Sl.000,0OO and the
people OF Detroit $250.OOO.
The following officers were elected
President, DR.. W. A. Dickey, Toledo
o.; vice president, c. b. Nancrede
Ann Arbor; secretary. DR.. George
Spohn. Elkhart, Ind; treasurer, DR.. j
A. Weity, Montpelier, o.
The next meeting will be held in
Toledo In July.
The Detroit times., 1909-01-14
SCANNELL HEADS
FEDERATION OF LABOR

BY only one vote was John j. Scan
nell of Boot and Shoe Workers local
No 30. elected president OF the De.
troit Federation of Labor, Wednesday
evening. His opponent was Fred
Knott, OF the Machinists. Miss Kate
Ryrie. of the Garmentmakers, was
elected vice president.
The other officers elected are: Re
cording secretary, Alfred J. Exton
Painters and Decorators, No. 81; finan
cial secretary, Otto Zimmerman, Brew
ers. No. 3; treasurer, William j. EN-
cry. Boot and Shoe Workers, No. 80;
librarian. Miss Rose McBrearty, Bak
ers. No 20; assistant librarian. Mrs
Jennie Cleveland. Garment Workers
No. IA sergeant-at-arms, George Red
man. Brewers, No. 3; trustees, Alpheus
A. Poole. Steam Engineers, No 3;
John Hancock, Horse Shoers, No. 10;
George Harriss, Metal Polshers No. |
executive board. Edward Lee, Machin
lists. No. So: William Burns. Painters
No. 81 David S. Jones, Cigarmakers
No. %: William X. Benson, Steam and
Hot Water Filters. No. g.; David Wa
terbury, Carpenters. No. 10.
The Detroit times., 1909-01-14
ENGLISHMAN TAKEN
HAD AMERICAN SECRETS

NEW YORK. Jan. 14-Robert II,
Lobbett, an Englishman, formerly a
daughtsman in the employ of the K.
W. Bliss q Co. was arrested yester-
day in Long Island City as he was
about TO sail for Europe with the full
plans OF the newest and not yet man
ufactured form of the Bliss-Leavitt tor
pedo. one of the chief weapons on
which the United States would depend
in a naval war.
In addition. he had the plans OF sew
eral other important mechanical inven-
tons owned exclusively by big Ameri-
can manufacturers
Lobbett's room was broken into and
the plans were found In his grip sack.
He admitted before Magistrate Smith
that he had the plans,
But | took them only as specimens
of my work to show TO others when
might ask for employment" he said.
He made no defense against the
statement that these plans were sup
posed to be kept secret and that they
should never be taken from the fac
tory.
Lobbett was first arraigned on the
charge OF being suspicious charac-
ter, and as there was nothing to prove
IL. the magistrate let him go. He was
Immediately rearrested on charge of
larceny.