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Bv GORON.

Johannes left the conservatory by. a
little doOr which communicated with the
servants staircase. When he reached
the street he looked ND and down to see
IL there was any one watching him.
Then hr hailed n cab.
Ths old fiiLsre ratified along, swaying
from one side Of the street to the other
The Spaniard told the cocher to stop In
the middle Uf the Boulevard Henri ~ +,
he got out and walked down one desert
cd street and then another, until ne
arrived at the house occupied by the
Hernandez
lie climbed the foul-smelling stair
case. and knocked at the ccor.
Who is thcrn?" said voice.
Jose Clrn,'
The door opened, and Jose stood
face to face with Mother HernandeE
in her night robo. 1t would be i'm
possible to paint a more revolving
picture. Her dirty gray hair fell IN
a tangled mass around her wrinkied
neck. She looked like a mummy. She
held the little lamp above her head
so as to see II 1t were really Jose.
Then she said:
"Enter, Jose, and may the good Vir-
gin protect you If the father comes
home"
mo danger"
"Inesllle was lying on a couch. She
sprang up when the Spaniard entered.
II the mother looked ugly the daugh-
ter looked really beautiful. Her glor-
iouS black hair made splendid frame
to set off her brilliant young face.
"Is 1t you, mon JOSEF" she said In
| low, caressing voice.
"Yes, cherie. ] have come to talk
over the final arrangements for our
departure"
why did you come in the middle
of the night?" said the old woman.
81 had no time to come before, and
tomorrow / might meet Hernandez. m
"He knows you are going with usE
Eyes, but / wanted to speak with
Inesille."
A little cry and a kissing noise
made the Spaniard turn around quick
| ly. He could not repress move
ment of repulsion.
In n corner of the room on'a heap
of filthy rags tho two little boys were
sitting up and looking curiously at
the stranger. One of them hugged
the white cat. their only friend Be
| hind the children on the same bed
| the monkeys showed their quasi hui
man heads and twinkling eyes, full
of mischief
In an old basket the serpents, drawn
from their torpor by the sound OF
voices, stretched toward the ceiling
their spiral bodies, while making a
horrible kissing sound.
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Census Experts Dine
At New FredOnia Hotel

A smoker attended by thirty-five
Census Office statisticians engaged
in compiling financial statistics in
cities OF over 10000 population was
held at the New Fredonia Saturday
night. Refreshments were served at
o'clock. Morris j. Hole acting as
toastmaster.
Addresses were made by w. J. Bar
rows. Bowen Crandall, George c.
Bryant, c. c. White, Harry Olcott
and ]. Penn Morris. A technical de-
bate on the relative merits of ac-
counting devices employed In Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania was held
afterward by NJ +. Mckinley and
Jules G. Casey
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Vehicle Tags Must
Now Be Displayed

BY order of the Commissioners. the
police regulation requiring the display
OF numbered tags on horSe-drawn busi-
ness vehicles went into effect today. A
consignment of 5000 tags was received
recently and are on sale at so cents
each in the office of II. NJ. Woodward,
permit clerk, District building. Orders
to enforce the regulation have been
given the police. The penalty for nom
compliance is a fine of not less than 81
nor more than $40.
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CORTELYOU,MADDEN
TILT IN LEWIS CASE,
ENLNENS HEARING
Former Postmaster General
and Assistant Revive Old
Disagreement.

verbal tilt between former Post
master General Cortelyou and Edwin
c. Madden, attorney for the Lewis
Publishing Company, and an extern
poraneous discussion of Presidential
politics marked the hearing before the
House committee investigating the
Lewis case and the Postoffice Depart
ment today.
Mr.. Madden was Third Assistant Post
master General under Mr.. Cortelyou,
and his disagreement with Mr.. Cortel-
you about the Lewis case was held re-
sponsible for the fact that Mr.. Madden
left the service and afterward became
attorney for the Lewis Publishing Com
pany, whose publications were debar-
red from the mails by Mr.. Cortelyou's
order.
Mr.. Madden told Mr. Cortelyou today
that he was satisfied the department
6ad 6ns, intGmdGI 70 give Lewis raw
fused to represent the department at
Mr.. Cortelyou's direction before the
Overstreet commission. Mr.. Cortelyou
had just testified that during the last
he became convinced that the office of
the third assistant was not in harmony
with mine"
Believed 1t "Raw Deal"
Didn't / ask that this Lewis con-
demanded Mr.. Madden.
Il think So" said Mr.. Cortelyou.
Il made that request because l fell
it was intended to give Lewis a raw
DEAL sai1 Madden. Il could not do
the thing you wanted done. l could
not tell YOU to your face l Thought
raw deal was intended. 1 made excuses
department before the Overstreet COM
mission. and you held the thing open
so as to force my hand"
That's your opinion only" said Mr..
Cortelyou.
Yes that's my opinion" Tetorted the
former C0rtclyOu subordinate.
Mr.. Cortclyou said he lelt for some
time before the Lewis case was set
Mr.. Madden was working at odds with
him. and that there was q lack Of
frunkncss on the part Of the Third AS
sistant
During IL discussion of the advertising
carried in Lewis magazines. which tho
department alleges WIS largely adYnr-
Using relating to Lewis other enterpr-
prises," Congressman Austin, a Repub-
lican, asked CONGRESSMAN Mccoy,
democrat.
Question of Advertising.
'"Vas the advertising Of Governor
Wilson in Harper's Weekly, raid for?'
IF YOU can answer that you will set
tie mooted question: said MIR. Mccoy
who paid for it?''
Il don't know anything about it, said
Mr.. Mccoy.
well, he's your man and I thought
YOU ought to know" said Austin.
II should dislike to have 1t go into
the record that Mr.. Mccoy is for Will
SON." said Chairman Ashbrook. laugh
ingly.
You wouldn't dislike it any more
than I should" interjected Mr.. Mccoy
who is not a Wisonite.
Mr.. Austin is for Champ Clark.
said Congressman Alexander OF MIS-
souri,.
II am for Taft said Mr.. Austin.
clark is my first choice among the
Democrats" he explained.
After this Interchange the Cross-eXSn-
ination of Mr. Cortelyou proceeded. The
committee probably will conclude the
examination of Mr.. Cortelyou this after
noon.
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CLOCK REPAIRING

SEND fol the prompt and reliable clock re-
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PLUMBING AND REPAIRS

Have your bathroom remodeled with "STAN-
DARD" sanitary fixtures. Prices, sac up,
S. STREB, APT NV. Ph. n. 5O64.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT
Washington 6 Per Cent Permanent
Building Association
February LIST. 1912.
RECEIPTS.

February lst. 1912.
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand February l. 1911. ...... sss. .ssOOs
Payments on gock........ 1859. 099 90
Payments on loans........ 449, 1910
Interest loans. rents.
sundries ................... ll3,0S5.G0
RepaYments on tax loan
account ................... 22i6s2
Real estate ,................ 5,036.00
Bills receivable ............. 100000
1851. .SS4.5 50
l,olS,S2I.5S
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BEAUTY CULTURE

HAIRDREsSING and scalp treatment; man
touring, shampooing. and children's hair
cutting done. Try my Gold Seal Massage
Cream. MISS LAURA CADMAN 72s llth st.
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Local EXCHANGE

GOVERNMENT BONDS.
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Female.

HOUSEKEEPING for one, by gentlewoman.
BOX 2S7, Times office
WANTED-By first-class laundress DAYS
work and washing to take home. 426 Eye
ST. n. w.
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FINE LINE OF ranges and heating stoves.
Cash or credit. Repair work a speciality
". L. COGSWELL. 6l5 ~ st. S. W NJ. e9T
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CHAPTER xxxIII.
In Society.

TN a sumptuous house in the Rue dc
Longchamps NJ. and Nine. Barnet
Dufour were holding reception
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WANTED-AGENTS

AGENTs-Start earning IS a day; easy, prof
table work. A new article. Sample free
Write today. An interesting proposition
- D. norman, 1884 w. Albert St, Phila., Pa
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diminishing by half the demand Of the
union men, means an increased expend-
iture Of $10,000,000 by the employers
They cannot afford it, they say, be-
cause the public would rebel against an
increase in the price of their coal. One
operator declared that coal would be
mined at loss If the asked increase
of 20 per cent were granted.
From the time Of the settling of the
great strike, ten years ago, until the
present recrudescence of the trouble.
there has been peace in the anthracite
regions. There would be peace there
still, say the operators. were it not for
the corporation Of the bituminous
workers, much more numerous, with
their hard coal brethren. Their con-
tention Is that they should not be call
ed upon to do anything which would
tend to strengthen the United Mine
Workers, since the latter Is a soft coal
region product, and between the soft
coal operators and the hard coal mine
owners there is the bar of competition.
Naturally the men retort with the
claim Of a common cause among the
coal workers without regard to the
hardness or softness Of the thing they
help to produce.
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granted to company men and an eight
hour day to engineers, pump men and
dremen.
The miners demanded pay by weight
for coal mined. This was rejected.
The miners demanded recognition of
the United Mine Workers Of America.
This was also rejected.
The operators this year have EXPRESS
ed their willingness to make another
three year agreement with their men
on the old basis, but this has been re-
5ected by the miners. The latter as-
sert that under the present scale the
average wage paid is $543.8S and ray
that miners raising large families can
not live upon that sum. The cost OF
living. that scapegoat upon which 10
many burdens are cast nowadays. ID
brought in again to justify the de-
mands Of the men for increases. It il
used by the miners in support Of their
demand. and it in paraded before the
public by the operators, who say that
even q 10 per cent increase Of wages.
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Doc OUGHT To Share HONOR WITH AMuNDSEN AND PEARl

rule, they are as affectionate and obedi-
emit to their masters as our own dogs at
home Their food is meat, and meat
only. That they cannot live on any
other food know. for have made the
experiment. For water they eat snow.
'The dogs are not housed at any sea-
son Of the year, but summer and win
ter they are tied somewhere near the
tent or igloo. They are never allowed
to roam at large lest they be lost.
Sometimes a special pet or a female
that has young puppies will be taken
into an igloo for time. but Eskimo
puppies only month old are SO hardy
that they can stand the severe winter
weather." 1000 81
To these testimonies Of men who
have had the best Of opportunities for
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from the miners. (This IL called n
legal by the operators.)
At the New York conference between
the operators, headed by George F..
Baer, president Of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey, the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway company and the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company. and the miners. repre-
scented by John r. White, president of
the United Mine Workers Of America,
and others, these demands were reject
ed. The operators suggested the adj
visibility Of renewing the present
agreement for three, years without
change. but to this the men would not
agree. And so the matter rested.
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NAL lovers were shocked to read that
he had repaid the devotion and assist
ance Of his dogs by eating some OF
them. OF course this was done only in
time Of need. OF the ffty-two dogs
which went with him and his four COM
panions to the pole eleven got back.
Not all of the forty-one were eaten,
however. Some died Of other causes,
and three strayed away. II think what
touched US most keenly on the whole
journey was the unavoidable killing Of
dogs which had shared our dangers and
had done such splendid work. The kill
ing went to the heart of every one"
says the south pole finder.
There are two principal varieties of
dog used In polar work. The more
popular kind, II the term may be al
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ton that either the present king or his
rather, Chulalongkorn, who died in 1910,
visited this country and left us with
the usual words Of praise for our en-
terprise and hospitality. But trade be-
tween the United States and Siam IL
small, and it is OF tho main travelled
roads OF tourists, 50 that Americans
either do not know or forget that there
are about 100000 Siamese rapidly
advancing In civilization with an ag-
gregate amount Of trade which is worth
reaching out for instead Of leaving to
the British. the Chinese and others.
In international affairs Siam plays
BILE role Of buffer state. 1t lies between
French Indo- China on the east and
British Burma on the west, and both
Great Britain and France have cast en-
vious eyes upon it But the late Chula-
longkorn was man Of energy and
|statesmanlike abilities, and the new
king, who Is thirty-one years old, is
following In his footsteps In the matter
OF working hard to keep his country
from the hands Of foreigners. No long
er ago than 1909 Siam coded to Great
Britain important parts Of its territory
into which British influence had been
|extended
In 1907 Siam ceded to France certain
regions adjoining Cambodia, 1890
square miles in area and containing q
population Of about 100000. In return
France restored to Siam the port Of
Krat and tho Dansai region In Laos, in
the north Of Siam. -.,..
Siam IN country rich In agricultural
possibilities and In minerals, but its
growth in importance has been retard-
ed by the unwillingness Of it's people
Of aboriginal stock, mingled with Chi
nese MalAya, Hindus ana other races.
to exert themselves. They ere nat
urally indolsnt and have left the de-
velopment Of their trade largely to the
Chinese. Tho climate 10 tropical and
subtropieal and not healthful to Euro
(peans because Of it, humidity. The
people are generally Buddhists and
lpeaceable and pleasure loving. Mis-
sionaries have been at work in Siam
for many years, but have not succeed
ed In converting large bodies Of the ma
tives. Education has been primitive
until recent years, whom the influence
OF the late king, liberal minded and
well informed man with almost abso-
lutte power. helped greatly In the estab-
lishment Of schools. .,." .r., .
The present king was educated In
England and has travelled extensively.
He visited the United States in 1902.
King Maha vatiravudh is unmarried.
although it was reported some years
ago that he would be united to a
daughter Of the imperial house Of ia
PAN His heir IL one Of his brothers, OF
whom there are many. Several years
ago the world was amused by the pubs
LEGATION Of an English photograph
showing tho late king. then alive, al
the head Of long line Of his sons, all
dressed alike In English schoo1hoy
garb. Tho king himself was clothed IN
Europsan Style Il
4 BERNARD Z. ELLIS.
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The Agreement Of Ton Years AGO.

The Agreement Of Ton Years Ago.
The agreement under which the an
thracite (hard coal) trade is now car
ried on Is that which was made be-
tween the miners and the operators az
q result of the labors Of the Roosevelt
strike commission. At that time the
four main questions at issue and the
lows:
The miners demanded an advance OF
20 per cent in rates of pay for contract
mine workers. An advance Of 10 Del
cent was granted.
The miners demanded an eight hour
day for employees paid by the hour.
day or week. A nine hour day was
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p INeTo are ever 10 Do monuments
to the first living beings to set
foot at the north and south poles
Of the earth they won't be OF
Peary or Amundsen, the negro or Eski-
mo companions Of the former, or the
Norwegian assistants Of the latter. On
the top Of the memorials will be the
figures Of dogs, rough coated, savage
CANNES. They got to the poles first, in
advance OF their human companions,
and the honors should be theirs.
Both Peary and Amundsen have &C.
knowledged their obligations to the
haulers Of the sledges which made pole
finding possible. The antarctic hero
voices hts feelings thus. in his copy
righted story Of his dash to % degrees
south:
II attribute my success to my splen-
did comrades and to the magnificent
work Of the dogs. and next to them to
our Skis
Speaking Of one days work on his
triumphal procession to- the pole, with
four human companions, four sledsea
and. hfty-two dogs, Amundsen wrote: 6
1.-THE glacier was very much broken
In this comparatively narrow pass. The
mighty crevices seemed to stop u from
going farther; but 1t was not 10 serious
az it appeared. Our dogs. whish up to
this tins had covered q distance Of
about 700 kilometers. the last day'5very
hard work. ran this day; thirty-Ave ktlo-
meters. the ascent being $500 feet. an
almost Incredible record"
Turning to the northern end 81 the
world, we ma Nanssn, the famous tel
low countryman Of Amundsen. paying
tribute to the polar dogs in the follow
ing terms: - e x r =.
II kept an anxious eye upon tho dog1
Tor fear anything should happen to
them, also to see that they continued In
good condition, for all my hopes CEN
tered in them" ~,
In Peary's book, ''I'he North Pole" he
pays this tribute to his dogs:
"They are sturdy. magnificent ami
mails. There may be larger dogs than
these, there may be handsomer dogs.
but doubt It other dogs may work
AZ we'll or travel as fast and tar when
fully fed, but there Ii no dog In the
world that can work % long Id the
lowest temperatures on practically
nothing to eat. The male dogs average
in weight from eighty to q hundred
pounds, though I had one which weikh1-
ed LES pounds. The females are soiae-
what smaller. Their special physical
characteristics are q pointed muzzle
great breadth between eyes; slarr
pointed ears. very heavy coat under
laid with a thick, soft fur, powerful
heavily museled legs aud bushy tail
or brush sirnilAr to tast OF fox There
Is only one breed cf Eskimo dogs. but
they are variously marked and OF ar
ferent colors black white. gray gel
low. brown and notified Some scieE-
lists believe that they are direct do
tscendants of the arctio wolf vt. . I
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BY CHARLES N. LURE.

0y Of7Ah.ES N. LUKE.
@HERE is no known substitute
for coal. Not wood or peat
or Ignite or any other form Of
combustible material can take
the place Of the black prime necessity
OF civilization. None of them contains
the requisite number of Galleries to be
given out and converted into power and
heat Nothing, unless it be the white
coal" of water power. now in its in
fancy of development. will ever replace
in all likelihood the carbonized wood on
which all modern life and industry and
civilization are founded. This it Is that
makes the strikes and rumors of strikes
among coal miners a matter of so much
interest to the public. This statement
does not take into account the vast coal
industry itself, in which so many men
and 80 much capital are engaged.
Probably to a greater extent than in
the case Of any other industry the pub
lie Is an interested and deeply affected
third party whenever the Disagree
ments between mine workers and mine
owners cause or threaten a stoppage Of
the digging and marketing of coal 1t
was this factor which lent authority to
President Roosevelt to intervene in the
coal strike Of 1902, which was settled
by means Of his commission.
Many Upheavals In tho Past.
This years difference between the
workers and their employers Is only the
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latest Of long series Of disturbances.
1t was hoped in 1903 and predicted by
the optimist that it would be the last,
but it seems that that was not to be-
So frequent In the olden days were
strikes and lockouts In the coal regions
that 1t seemed as though war and
not peace was the normal condition
among the shafts and breakers and
carriers In which the coal Is manipu-
lated before it reaches the cars and
boats which take 1t to the consumer.
AS recent writer put 1t, There were
occasional years between 1849 and 1902
when quiet prevailed for the most part
throughout the region, but as a gen.
eral thing disputes. threats and strikes
occurred in one locality or another.
How many hundreds or thousands Of
such strikes took place will never be
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UST how soon the United States
of America, its southern neigh
a bors, France. Switzerland and
~ the rest of the worlds republics
will be called upon to extend the hand
Of fellowship to the Republic Of Siam
cannot Of course be told with accuracy.
but the report that the ancient coun-
try in the southeastern corner Of Asia
10 contemplating handing his crown
to its young king, Maha Vajiravudh,
with the remark: Heres your hat.
What's your hurry?" has aroused In
terest In all the lands blessed with
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known, for until comparatively recent
times no adequate data had been pre-
served"
Demands Of the Miners.
These are this years demands of the
miners, submitted to the operators in
recent conferences:
Twenty per cent increase in wages.
Recognition Of the union.
An eight hour day.
A one year contract.
A minimum daily wage Of $3.50 for
miners, $2.75 for laborers.
No interference with check weigh
men and check docking bosses.
Payment by the ton and not by the
carload.
Abandonment Of the Cancellation
board.
That the operators collect union dues
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restless under British rule. nonarchism
In Asia might well feel uneasy.
Unless Americans have had their at
tention directed especially toward Siam
they know little or nothing about the
country. They have 4 faint recollec.
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that the writings toward freedom Of
the Chinese dragon had communicated
themselves to the rest Of the worlds
biggest continent. With China and
Siam al republics, Persia struggling to-
ward constitution freedom and India
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F. eaer PRESIDENT Of and READING eehn
Goal so6eas tho coal miners union he marked BY