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News Summarized.
Peace in war, war in peace, let
the heathen rage. Though not
surprised at what was to be expec
ted, we wish it were possible to be
more than amused because of late
news from Washington. We mean
the conference alleged to have stir
red diplomats by a supposed.though
premature, pointing towards peace
proposals That is, the Japanese
Minister Mr. Takahira followed by
Count Cassini Russian ambassador
who was also subsequently followed
by Sir Mortimer Durand, English
diplomat somehow made" to read
like a "Mr. Spring-Rice," signifi
cantly bound for Russia, talked
over the Russian situation with
Secretary Hay, but without diplo
matic result. Our diplomatic corps
was represented though not iil
humoredly as contemplating a step
towards intervention.
This good news is the best for
months, because it shows a dispo
sition in those leading the world's
thought in favor of the great hu
mane side or party.
It is thus that Russia and Japan
are already for peace, soon to be
restored. This, plso because of
the former's less hold on Manchu
ria after loss of Port Arthur, the
key of the situation, Russia's ina
bility without a navy to retake the
same.her internal conditions, while
both sides have apparantly little
but decimation to gain. Russia's
hold on Manchuria against China's
autonomy, to be yet settled by the
powers should probably give away
to Kuropatkin's retreat North.
With a devasttaed region valiant
Cossacks could starve and ambush
Oyam then another Bonaparte.
Meanwhile Grippenberg was re
lieved because defeated, though
ostensibly reponsible for his men
killed. Kuropatkin was excused
because Grippenberg did not do
at Sandepas as Caesar did at the
Rubicon.
The assassination of Soisalon
Soinen, procurator general of Fin
land, is indirectly, though other
wise, pei haps, wrongly laid on the
active resistance party recruited
horn the passiveists, also upon the
Polish Nat. League and Russian
emancipationists. This assassina
tion, like that of Prince BobrikoS
was the crime of some unbalanced
idealist, opposed to Finland's Rus
sification. This incident added to
the other published sensations will
hardly terrorize St. Petersburg.
Military and strike conflicts Ka
lisz and at the Feiner factory of
Dodz are reported.
The Noble's address to the Czar
aiming at a limited monarchy and
some popular representation Is
worthy of more extended notice
In its beari g upon the peace move
ment. K.
News Summarized, Etc.
Let as have ' peaee. We know
when these words were fraught
with meaning, more meaning in
deed than if spoken concerning the
Israelites entering the Promised
land and looking towards coming
peace - j ubilees, or even all the
world's peace after Waterloo. Yea
even more so than when proclaimed
In X75 or l9i4or prooaoiy m toyy
The president assnrea ui. . mw
tholdi and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union of the second Hague
conference t afier hostilities shall
cease, and not before. That stolid
indemnity or solid war costs are
less than pleasing to ; Czar Nieko
las for reasons obvious. One like
ly reasons is plethoric inability to
pay while delayed abilijy is not
reassuring. The good Czar does
not like to present his tranqnil
slows with these innocent claims of
the Japanese, not if he values his
devoted crown.V Nor is the sum
total calculated to ; engender peace
tf-f :"c!:5 to the avers je r.nssian.
T ' " 3 t'-rcrs is s::rc3 t! a to f?-'
s
ure out growing costs on the war'
prolongation. The war party may
"nil debit" Japan's incisive items
by staving off day of payment. For
it some more than second Kuro
patkin like an improbable Nicko
la'ievitch would soon give the Japs
one sound all around thrashing
then the balance would be on the
other side in the ledger. In keep
ing future peace insignificant then
would appear concessions concern
ing Saghalian Island as amilitary
hjase and Vladvstock. But these
together with Port Arthur, the
great Polar Bear would generously
share with the Yellow peril provid
ed always, etc. Desirous of giving
an at home for his triumphant
levies he has 110 ulterior intentions
on the Socialists, though for even
then he would have an old-fasl'-ioned
house warming. Mr. Witte
Amercanized "Sergins" would be
lavish for peace sake. Zemstvos
might pay as to bushwhack. Time
will tell what bouyant shares on
the Berlin bourse has to do with
peace, so too, army supples coun
ter manded, trans-Siberiau tele
grams monopolized by Bussian
government. On the whole the
peace sintiment seriously consid
ered is encouraging. As to the
outlook much depends on the Rus
sian people, of a peace-longing
spirit. K
A Whining Corpse.
A corpse came up on the Sea
board last night to be shipped on
over the Southern. The transfer
people had a new negro driver in
charge. There was loaded on his
wagon a crate of hounds, besides
the corpse, but the negro failed to
make any mental note of the
hounds, so engrossed washe with
his gruesome freight.
With all his nerves tingling, he I
drove on until he got between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Here the dogs began whining, but
the negro had forgotten that he
had any dogs along, and attribu
ted the pitiful besearchments to
the dead man. "Whoa!'' he cried,
instinctively, leapt from h wagon,
and tore it up to the Seaboard
depot. ,
The transfer people got messages
from several sources, reporting the
presence of the driver at the depot
and the presence of the corpse and
hounds between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, where the horses
had halted. Thev thought that
the dead man had slid from his
conveyence or that the wagon had
bogged or the team balked. So
they sent to the depot to inquire of
the negro, but, "Lawd,'' said he,
"how c'n you expec' me to keep
on drivin' a, whinin' daid man?"
The driver was not imprevious
to reason, however, and when; he
was convinced that the hounds,
and not the dead man, had done
the whining, he climbed to bis
perch again, and made it in safety
hie terminus at the Southern.
Charlotte Oberver.
It Is Every Day. 1
. We are beginning to wonder
these days what climate we live in
whether in New England or 'at
the foot of the hills in the . Sunny
South. I', seems to be, the easiest
thing imaginable now for a bliz
zard to stnke us. We . have bad
snow for two weeks, more or less,
and the worst is yet to come.
, - Dr. Itomar Heard From.
Colombia, S. C.'Feb. I a A
special to The State from Spartan
bnrg saji that Rev. E E Bomaf,
assistant secretary of the' Baptist
foreign' mission board, who was
reported missing in a dispatch yes
terday from Richmond, -is quite
sick in Pensacola, Fia. Ills rela-i
tives have received telegrams from
him to that effect, and his brother,
John Eomar, left today to b at
his bedside. - -' - . 1 , ' ,'
At the corner of. Wall street and
Broadway the other ;day I was stop-
oea by an acquaintance, Who Dut
tonholed me and was endeavoring to
demonstrate how 1 could make my
everlasting fortune by buying cop
per or sometbingvA' rapidly .mov
ing stream of men, with eager, con
strained faces, jostled us about until
we found a precarious footing in the
gutter. Messenger boys were bolt
ing here and there among -the legs
of the pedestrians, taotonnan was
banging his gong like all possessed
to scare a truckman off the track;
newsboys were yelling: "Extree!"
"Extree !" and presently a big auto
bowled along the . street snorting
like a dragon, while the chauffeur's"
warning trumpet gave forth numer
ous horrible snorts. In the mean
while a huckster' on the opposite
corner, with a pile of paper covered
books, was yelling: Here, gents!
'The Simple Life!' Only 10 cents!
Head 'The Simple Life,' by Wag
ner. Brooklyn Life.
Doctor Knew It Could Not Be.
Dr. W. W. Keen, the Philadelphia
surgeon, has a number of scrapbooks
rilled with anecdotes about physi
cians. These anecdotes are odd
from the fact that they all throw
upon physicians a most unflattering
light. To illustrate their character
Dr. Keen quoted one of them recent-
"A physician was driving through
the street, he said. A friend stop
ped him.
"'Doctor,' said the friend anx
iously, 'have you heard that horrible
story about Williamson ?'
'3fo,' said the doctor. 'What
story is that ?'
"'A story to the effect that he was
buried alive'
"'Buried alive?' said the doctor.
Impossible. He was one of my pa
tients.' " Collier's Weekly.
An Australian Telegraph.
It is not generally known, accord
ing to the Indianapolis New.s, that
there is a telegraph across the south
ern desert land of the Australian
continent 2,000 miles in "length. It
runs partially through an uninhabit-'
ed country and long tracts of water
less desert. While it was being con
structed more than 2,000 tons of
materials had to be carried far into
the interior, and many of the iron
and wood poles were conveyed 400
miles. A recent report says that
the wear and tear of this telegraph
construction has been inconsidera
ble, but there is great difficulty
found in supplying the stations
across the desert with operators.
jSilkworm Weavers.
Some ambitious silkworms of the
neighborhood of Venice have woven
by themselves a ribbon three yards
long and three inches wide. When
they reached the chrysalis stage, ac
cording to the Indianapolis News,
instead of weaving round cocoons
on the twigs prepared for them they
preferred to travel up and down the
smooth upper side of a strip of wood
nine feet long and three inches wide.
Back and forth they went, spinning
their silken web until at last they
made a beautiful ribbon, transparent
in its center and golden yellow at
the heavier edges. The scarf is amaz
ingly strong for a fabric so delicate
ly, woven.
Ewisicasa.
America has retaliated upon Sir
Edward Clarke and his proposal to
call the great republic "Usona."
"You're another," says the United
States of North America to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland and all the British do
minions beyond the seas. "Ewisica
sa! Yah!" For we are England,
Wales, Ireland, Scotland, India,
Canada, Australia and South Afri
ca, though we may not all approve
of the order of the initials. But if
we address our letters to "UsonV'i
the reply will come to "Ewisicasa." i
London Chronicle.
Sella Love Potion. "
A woman , who has been arrested
in Berlin for fortune telling is said
to be skilled in the preparation of
love potions. According to : her
recipes, a granulated substance must
be brewed with parchments contain
ing charms, and the concoction
must be worn seven days on the
breast, -a Equally effective are three
blurs of the loved one and three
drops of the lover's own blood on a
slice of quince. This must be eaten
when the moon "is full and with'
one's eyes steadily .fixed on that
luminary. '
V. Raising Qmn For tha Paathar. . '
: On a certain goose farm in .the
middle west there is an incubator
with a capacity for 10,000 eggs.
' These eggs 1 are not, ' however,
laced in the incubator at one time,
nt are so arranged that one section
will hatch each day, being refilled aa
soon as the goslings are taken out
The geese are raised on this farm for
their feathers alone, which are used
in the upholstering business.- Conn--trv
Life In America. , , j - , 0-
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a simple cough syrup. It is a
strong medicine, a doctor's
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severe and desperate cases,
chronic cases of asthma.pleu
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Ask your doctor about this.
" I hire nied l great dMl of Ayort Cherry
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Foreign News, Etc., Summarized.
Instead of piping times of peace
when Peneroso played and Sappho
sung, , we are reminded wnen
casting our mortal ken Russian-
ward of the dark-days during our
crucial Civil war. At times the
factories were still, while Demons-
tbenes shouted from nigh every
hill-topNorth andSouth the doleful
cry "to arms!" and Janu's doors
ou rusty hinges swung. Skies
lurid with cities aflame, striker's
frantic manifestos, nags red as
blood or black as death, long and
already pall on the imagination
lively or dud. And yet news of
events actually transpiring by cable
oi;ly twenty-four hours distant ex
cite emotions above so much mere
curiosity.
When news of Spain's war with
us burst over the land some little
giant inCapetown pointed to omens
in Sol's fierce rays and now the
man with the ft z sees a myriad
shadow-dance attuned to Aquillian
blasts from old Borea s icy breast,
also myth. One likes to turn from
scenes grusome as Cartez in Mex
ico, or the Spaniards at Amsterdam
to the Noble's address to the Czar.
One likes to hear the word repre
sentative and elective quoted by
way of precedent, this too, though
Russia looks like a living picture
of one-man power, or else factions
iously directing a great war.
With all the olden prestige of
Rome as a republic the Caesars
waxed mighty long before Rome's
fall. From the tribal relation Rus
sia, under absolute monarchy, am
eliorated by more generous sover
eigns, grew in greatness. Napoleon
i onaparet with an army aggregat
ing a half million veterans who
anqulshed combined armies of
Russians, Prussians and Austrians
on numerous hard-fought battles
lost his legions; he thus demon
strated Russia's distance or magni
tude and consequent isolation.
From bearing so much about
matters to date we turn to a great
country whose rulers and people
are presently stirred as by a reflex
progress from America and Engl
land Also in view of naiiona
military disasters and internal ca
lamities people, nigh everywhere,
ask, what next? Here the great
events really exceed the news put
in every possible light. For Earth's
most autocratic ruler now for once
and at long, last, to have to meet
the peoples just demands, ' more
than half way seems good to be'
true.
Unsupported by an armed guard
at every hearthstone Vladimir
Nickola's did not discount such
contingency at the war's beginning
but boasted like htm who putteth
on his armor and swipes his vyel
low peril into the sea This threat,
too, was generally believed as quite
likely at the time-
' The Imperialists cling with one
hand to stern old methods while
different factions clutch after the,
tb them, new because untried con
ditions. A limited monarchy or
constitutional government : ma)
have to be instituted by the nobles
though the Universities turn out
many earnest men.; But a House
of Lords or Senate without a pop
ular branch or house of commons
would perpetuate aristoracy. Noth
ing short of representation . will,
eventually avail in Russia. ' The
aim and bent of one' great faction
radically imbued with the-war
spii'it, is rampant for ? nniting Jar
ring" interests against alt foes be
cause foreign. This particular
fihase is not unlike the Boxer ris
ng of China, though tbey call
Manchuria and Korea their distant
Eroviices. , Czar and Dukes thus
rought face to face With the hours
demands contemplate war and more
war while no one of all the, . Rus
sia! seem to care for, peace. - '
Peare is impossible, they say be
fore heca tomes of human . victims
are offered Mars to proprlate Pan.
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