sunday battle crowd in texas disappointed Villa and Carranza Forces at Matamoros Refuse to Fight to Please Spectators. NIGHT ATTACK IS FEEBLE Sortie Party Tries to Capture Aeroplane, But Easily is Driven Off. Brownsville, Tex., April 11.— American sightseers who lined the northern bank of the Bio Grande today in hope of seeing the long-deferred attack on the city of Matamoros, opposite here, retired at dusk, disappointed. There was no sign of activity, eithei in the Carranza trenches before Matamoros, or. in the Villa outposts, and no shots were tired on either side throughout tlie day. But oue casualty has been reported during the last week. A Villa cavalryman was brushed off his horse, the accident opening an old wound sustained in a previous campaign. Several members of tlie Carranza garrison were killed late Saturday night in a sortie attempted against the Villa positions, it was reported today by officers of the Villa command. They said the Carranza troops attempted to capture the Villa biplane, but added that tlie advance was stopped and the Garrauza detachment repulsed before the lield in which the machine is quartered was reached. General Jose Rodriguez, commander uf tlie Villa forces, said tonight he would move his headquarters from Las Ki.suis, four miles from Matamoros, to a point within about half a mile ot iuu Carranza trenches and near the railroad over which it is expected the 'the Carranza monoplane, taken across urn river trom Brownsville a lew uuja ago, was wrecked today .men, in rising tot a trial flight, it dipped suuuemy, suiasinug one wing and M askmglon, u. C., April 11.— General Ainu telegraphed his agency here Hon lUrougll roreigu consuls to General open country uurtii ot Celuya to hghi tuat cay to withdraw betore ne begins \ ina's headquarters at Irapuato today, v u.o wbregons column at celaya. re suiteu unsiscrousiy for the enemy, who r have ueuru from reliable sources tluu six trainloaus ol Carrauzisia wouhdeu as a consequence of this engagemem have left Celaya for (Jucretaro. The enemy is completely demoralized, and my troops in toe vicinity of Celaya ano Queretaro inform me that U Oregon':men arc constantly deserting him in groups of from 100 to 200, throwing away their arms, which are being gathered up by our soldiers. The enemy has destroyed two kilometres of railroad to the north of Celaya, which shows that they will try to retreat or reorganize their troops, who are in a most critical condition. "This morning the French, American, English and German Consuls left Guanajuato for Celaya to interview Obregon, suggesting that he go out in tlie open and light, or permit the resident families to leave Celaya, inasmuch as my forces will attack that place within two or three days and bombard it with CO pieces of artillery. The Consuls take with them a communication of mine to Alvaro Obregon in which I have invited him to submit the possession of Celaya to open battle or permit the inhabitants to leave until my bombardment ceases. I expect a reply tomorVilla Claims Victory. Another message relayed from General Villa by Diez Lombardo, Villa's Secretary of State at Chihuahua, was given out by the agency here, as follows: "We have defeated the enemy. The situation could not be better. The forces if Obregon are leaving Celaya to avoid further tiglit. The annihilation of the enemy is now certain. Our troops are pursuing the enemy incessantly." tollowiug from Munzanillo concerning the situation at Irapuato and vicinity: "Reports from Michoacan and Jalisco confirm previous news of Viilista defeats, in vicinity of Irapuato. General Dieguez and General Sanchez, who were at Lnpiedad, in the State of Michoacan, have recently engaged the Villa troops near Irapuato with sueA message characterizing General Villa as a "monster" and expressing the hope that he might be arrested iu the United Stales was telegrajihed to i'resident Wilson today by Senor Denegri, described by Mexicans here as the Carranza consul general at San Francisco. The message charged Hucrtn with being the murderer of I'resident Madero and other Mexicans.

A LOOK AT THE EXCHANGES Varied Gleanings From the Columns of Our Contemporaries. The Democratic Way the Best. Congress at Its past two sessions has harbor bill, but It has nevertheless appropriated the total sum of $50,000,000 for the work— $20,000,000 ot the long esslon and $30,000,000 at the short sesJon. Now the allotments for the $30,iKJO.OOO have been made by the Secretary

■of War, and it is found that due and proper consideration has been given to rhe Columbia River and other Northwest projects. So it was with the distribution if the $20,000,000 last year. Now what- shall be said by anybody lor the malodorous pork-barrel V A year ests, mostly political, to stir up a panic in Oregon because The Oregonian protested against the corrupt practice of loading down the river and harbor measure with mere vicious schemes, and declared that the log-rolling method of barter and trade between pork-bunting Congressmen must and would break down. heap, us it was inevitable it should, but happily Oregon does not suffer. Pork-barrellsm deserves exposure and reprobation because it is essentially crooked. Besides, it does not pay. Oregon has what it is entitled to have without giving to others what they are not entitled to have. Yet there are people here who have feared to take the honest way of getting appropriations from Congress, because the old-time practice in Congress was different. They are against graft only when they are uot in on it. Selling Arms. If there is a manufacturer in the United States who tbluks It wrong to sell arms to any of the nations now at war he can stop doing so. But the case Is one with which the Government has nothing to do. The German Government has made no complaint, nor indeed is it in any position to do so, even were it so disposed. C. M. Conrndson, writing In the New York Evening Post, reminds as of the fact "that Bnssia. during the war with Japan, received the major portion of her military supplies from Germany, the Krupp factory alone employing 28,000 German officers both helped the Turks In their recent war with Greece. And Germany was entirely within ber rights—^ Nor can we suppose that we have forever left the possibility of war behind us. On tills point another writer in The Post An ordinary humnne man would hesitate to adopt a rule which prevented an a neutral market, for that would force every peaceable nation to lay In a stock of ammunition, build Krupp factories, etc. If the United States, for example, hot allowed to buy military supplies from :Lie American Legion, the Army and Navy League are right, and the United States must Ueglu to prepare at once. No Government can afford to shut Itself sort in the hour of its need. The real remedy is to exert every possible influence against war. In the present struggle we owe nothing but neutrality to the iclligereut powers, and that obligation we have fully uiet. Every one knows that if the situation were reversed, the complaints would come from the English, while the Germans would think it very hard if we refused to sell to them— and they would be right. It is not a question solely of fldunce, but of neutral rights.

These may, as we have said, be surrendered by individuals, if they choose voluntarily to relinquish them. But the GovBetter man a Bullfight. The gate receipts at Oriental Park Havana, where "Jess" Willard whipped "Jack" Johnson before an admiring crowd, were $110,000. The Cubans, who .uaue up a considerable proportion of the audience, although the American sporting fraternity was much in evidence, are su.ll to hare been delighted with the exhibition of iistic skill. The survival of the bull flgbt in LatinAmerican countries where it was implanted by the Spanish coiiquistadores suggests the need of a better national sport. The United Stutcs, although it does not look kindly upon championship lights between pugilists, and although its bloodguiltiness in the matter of allowing aviation exhibitions that are unnecessarily dangerous might make any advice it has to give seem Inconsistent and absurd to a Cuban or u Spaniard, could conscientiously recommend pugilistic contests us being a great deal cleaner sport for any country than bull lights. The square deal is uot denied in prizefighting. Its deuiul is the essential principle in bull-lighting. Every bull Is a rank amateur in the ring, in addition to being a mere dumb brute. Every bulllighter is a professional and even if he has no more brains than a bull the rules laid down for him are suflicient to confuse the four-legged antagonist and give the two-legged brute many and certain advantages. Every prize-fighter must have "grit." A famous bull-fighter need not buve suflicient courage to play college football, for the casualties to man iu tbe bull ring are fewer tban on tlie gridiron and the physical strain far less. These facts should recommend the prize 'ring as against tlie hull ring, to say nothing of the habitual aud horrible murder of the horses whose melancholy role in the bull ring is that of the innocent byThe G. O. P. Spirit of Reaction. Many New York Legislatures have stubbornly resisted the enactment of progressive legislation, but this is the first time in the memory of living men that a New York Legislature has deliberately pro eeeded to rip whole codes of progressive legislation out of the statute books at tbe instigation of private interests. Tills whom rest no charges of bribery and corruption. What they arc doing they are doing iu the name of political reaction, but money never succeeded in buying iu Albany during any single session so much harm to the public welfare as reaction has obtained as a gift. The most corrupt Legislature that the State has had In u generation was less inimical to the common good than this legislature steeped in Bourhonism and consecrated to the almighty dollar. It is a sorry thing to say. but it is tbe truth. What Is worse, the conduct of this Legislature is thoroughly In harmony with the new spirit of the Republican party. Albany is carrying into effect the Root-Penrose-Cannon political theory that Government must be the servant of bust-

legislation is torn and mangled in order to promote private profits at tbe expense of public progress, and Governor - Whit man sits silent. There have been many sad exhibitions of misgovern iaeu r . In Albany, but nothing else so contemptible as the exhibition m ido by an Administration and a Legislature that .-ere cliosen as a rebuke to Tammany Hall In the School of Journalism. Prom The Kansas City Star. A young woman In the journalism class at K. U. was asked how she would go about it to get the news of a fire in a distant part of town, lute at night, after the street cars had stooped running. "Well," she replied, "I suppose I'd have to call a taxi and go. to the thing, but personally I don't think any editor who is ii gentleman would make a girl go to a fire at such a time in the night." An April Adoration. Sang the sunrise on an amber morn "Earth, be glad! An April day is born. "Winter's done, and April's in the skies. Earth, look up with laughter tn your Putting off her dumb dismay of snow. Earth bade all her unseen children grow. Then the sonnd of growing in the air Rose to God a liturgy of prayer; Aud the thronged succession of the days Uttered up to God a song of praise. Laughed the running sap in every vein. Laughed the running flurries of warm Laughed the life iu every wandering root, I-augbed the tingling cells of bod and God in all the concord «f their mirth Heard the adoration song of Earth. -CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS. WL.Y T i) DUTCH PROTEST Germany Affirms Legality of De struction, But Makes Concessions. Amsterdam, April 11.— Replying to '.he Dutch note protesting against the sinking of tlie Dutch steamer Medea by a German submarine, and the seizure by a submarine of the Dutch steamers Batavier V and Zaaustroom. Germany has expressed the opinion that the action of her submarines was in accordance with tlie terms of the Declaration of London. Germany announces, however, that she has decided to submit the question of jurisdiction to a Prize Court as soon as possible. Assurances are given in the German reply that there is no question of any change in the political attitude of Germany toward Holland. Holland, in her protest, had said that international law did not recognize the destruction of neutral prizes, us in the case of the Medea, and tbut, moreover, the destruction of this ship was not proportionate to the strategic aim of preventing her cargo of oranges reaching a hostile country. "Lady," said Weary Willie, "dat dog of yours come mighty near biting me.' "Well," repiied the lady of the house, "Ceasar is getting old an' kind of careless. Every once in a while he miBees somebody."

DUTCH STEAMER UNMOLESTED AFTEH SURPRISE DT SEA TERROR Submarine Comes to Surface Alongside Amsteldyk, But No Effort Made to Injure Her. After ber lifeboats bad been swung out on tbe davits and fully provisioned the Dutch steamship Amsteldyk, which arrived in port yesterday, was left unmolested by a German submarine which paralleled the steamer's course for some time. "When we were two days out in l lie North Sea," said Captain Braun, of the Amsteldyk, yesteruay. "I was much surprised to see a submarine rise from under the surface of the sea right near by us and proceed ot a ten-knot speed alongside us. "The appearance of the submarine was first regarded with more or less apprehension. When it was first seen the crew of the Amsteldyk regarded It as a sporting event Both vessels proceeded alongside of each other for considerable distance, running parallel courses. The ship's lifeboats were swung out from the davits and provisioned, bnt this was afterward found Captain Braun said that he was unable to learn the name of the submarine, but it was evidently prepared for business, as the only member of the crew who appeared was the man in the conning tower. Captain Braun declared that there were other dangers besides submarines which came in sight after the undersea tester disappeared below the water. Many floating mines were sighted and the ship's "ourse hud to be changed frequently i) avoid them. CHARTER COSTLY AS VESSEL Freight on Lumber to Argentine Almost Equals Schooner's Value. Ocean freight rates hove been forqed ■;o liigh by the war that the charges on a cargo of lumber which the schooner Tohn Twohy will carry from Pliiladel■liia to Buenos Aires will nearly equal the value of the vessel. The money will be paid before the Twohy starts on iher voyage next week. The charter, which lias just been negotiated, stipulates a rate of $18 a thousand feet. The total is the largest sum paid for the charter of a sailing vessel since the civil war. at which time steam vessels were comparatively Demand for all kinds of ocean carriers continues keen. Vessels which used to wait a week or more for business load and put to sea again as quickly as stevedores can fill their holds. The brisk trade has banished from the port the familiar sight of towering nasts along the water front. A great volume of business is being transacted nd a largo fleet of mcrchantment are bound to the Delaware Breakwater for outward cargoes. They are on their way here in ballast, without being chartered, their owners being confident that they will be snapped up at high figures as soon as they arrive.

PUN FOR WORLD PEACE Private Delegates From 9 Countries Discuss It at The Hague. The Hague, April 11.— For three days there lias been a private discussion of peace here, by a conference consisting of about 30 delegates from the United

States, Holland, Germany, Austriat -.angary, Sweden, Norway, England, Lelgium and Switzerland. The conference ended today with the drafting of a program for action in the' various countries. Only a short record of the conference has been issued as follows: "Tlie object of the meeting was not to suggest steps to bring the war to an eml, bnt to consider by what principles ihe future peace of the worm worn- ..est ue guaranteed. After a full u.sciission a minimum program was unanimously adopted. "Tbe action to be initiated iu the dif- • ereiit countries ultimately will be sup-

piementea by an international propuable peace has been created us a bun en, Supplemented by members from ouier countries, wili serve u§ the execuMis. Fubuy F. Andrews, of Boston, LATiN-AMERICA RESAOlNDb aix.een Republics Mccept Invitation to financial Conference. Washington, D. G., April 11.— Sixteen Republics of Central and South America tonight bad formally accepted the invitation extended them by President Wilson to attend the I'au-Aineri-to "establish wider and closer financial and trade relations among the ArneriSecretary McAdoo, of the Treasury, today received acceptances from tlie Governments of Colombia, Paraguay, Costa ltica and Venezuela. Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Cuba and Salvadoi had previously accepted. The remaining Governments are expected to make known their intentions to attend the conference within a few days. FRANCE CLOSER TO VATICAN Negotiations Believed Pending With View to Influence on Russia. Rome, April 11. — The presence in Rome of Gabriel Hanotaux, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France and a member of the French Academy, ■s causing much comment here. He had audiences with Pope Benedict and Papal Secretary of State Gasparri. and subsequently was visited by a prominent prelate of the Papal Secretaryship of State. A feeling exists in Rome that negotiations, perhaps totally unofficial, are preceding with tlie object of bringing about an understanding between France and the Holy See, which is considered more necessary as Russia's sueThrough France, the Vatican, it is understood, hopes to bring influence to bear on Russia in connection with her treatment of Polish Catholics. Another queslion which has attracted the attention of tlie Holy See authorities is contained in a report published in Rome to the effect that Russia, iu the event of victory, "would not be satislied with Constantinople, but would claim possession of the Holy Land, because it is visited by 50,000 Russians yearly." HOW TO BECOME CROESUS ON $1 Calculator Uses Four Pencils and Sells Secret for Dollar. Newport, Pa., April 11.— On a wager with Assistant Principal G. W. Barnitz, Edwin Souie, a freshman, discovered that $1 at 5 per cent, compound interest for 1000 years would amount to $104, 009, 020, 917, 985, 083.302. Young Souie worked until midnight, consuming two tablets and four lead pencils in working for the result. The wager was for $1.

museum trade report far from optimistic Business Conditions in South America Are Pretty Bad, Expert Says. CHINA ALSO SUFFERS This Country Standing Shock of War Better Than Any Other Neutral. Trade all over the world is pretty bad, according to tlie weekly bulletin of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. In South America, particularly, business is in poor condition, and American manufacturers are warned not to extend credit without thorough investigation. Tlie Far East is also in tbe grip of a general depression. Dr. William I'. Wilson, director of tlie Museum, issued a Statement yesterday supplementary to tbe bulletin, speaking of the South American situation. He said: English Dubious About Trade. "Everyone hopes for a revival of prosperity in South America, but basic conditions of credit have been so radically disturbed that it must not be expected to come with a rush. It is our judgment that just now it might be advisable to investigate' South American conditions from tlie London viewtoint, and this is borne out by reports from our Mr. Bartlett, who has been for some time iu London for that pur"Mr. Bartlett reports a very pessimistic feeling there regarding South | American trade. Numerous firms heretofore engaged principally in South American business are now seeking other connections because of the serious failing off in business. There is by no means the hopefulness among English the United States. Even the optimistic reports coining from the Argentine are discounted by English exporters as not wholly disinterested. "As a siugie instance, Mr. Bartlett speaks of one firm in a staple line which has had for many years a South American trade never less than $25,UUU per year, which has skippeu less than ,-,2oUU worth during the last eight months, and lias no outstanding orders. Credit with South American firms has oeen practically suspendeu, except in the euse ol a lew controileu it.. English capital, aud it seems to be the general opinion ill England that there is no prospect of improvement for some time to corner except possibly in the Argentine Republic. "Mr. Bartlett has observed a very decided feeling of irritation regarding tbe uusiness situation .in Mexico, on the ground that it woulu not have become so bad if a more vigorous policy bad been pursued by tlie American GovernEnglish Coal Situation Bad. Mr. Bartlett sends a report from Loudon on tlie coal situation in England, which says: 1 find the situation in the coal trade uere very unsatisfactory in so tar as it affects English business. Although the claim is made that the railroads are handling coal traffic as well as usual. I am informed by the representative of a large mining company that there is a very great shortage of cars. There has been prices, amounting to 6 shillings to 7 shillings per ton to the dealer; the prices at the mine are approximately 18 shillings for an inferior grade of domestic Coal. paying from 34 shillings to 3(i shillings and the demand continues greater tban the supply, the cause said to be the difficulty of land transport combined with a shortage of supply. The railway systems are at times closed .o trallic for days at a time, and some collieries have been obliged to cease work temporarily because no means of transportation were available. In one case 500 cars which were waiting at the mine to be loaded were suddenly taken away for military purposes. Added to these difficulties is the possibility of a labor strike. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain will hold a meeting on March 17 to consider the advisability of asking for an advance iu wages. The coal miners In the United Kingdom are, therefore, confronted with a most serious problem, and ihe probability of resuming turned shipments to any considerable extent seem ..It Is the general Impression that these renditions are not temporary and that it will be a long time before oversea trade can be renewed, even if transportation is not still seriously " interfered with. The opportunities for developing business with Continental countries, as well as with South America, seem to be especially favorable, not only for temporary permanent relations. 6 me" ° Japan Eager for Trade. The Museum, speaking of trade in China, publishes a market report of Noel Murray & Co., of. Shanghai, as fellows: Trade generally does not show any itrotig evidences of improvement, and the money difficulty is still the stumbling block to any revival; also freight space is hard to procure in almost every direction, which retards the outflow of exports,^ in whose favor exchange is now making themselves more keenly felt, ami, so far, Japan is probably the only conntry that Is laying out plans for capturing any new trade that may be developed in Shantung, although Tsingtae is now- open to anybody who wishes to go there, the late defenders excepted. Some of the new goods that Japan is introducing threaten to come very seriously into competition with old cloths formerly handled ; especially tioticeable are drills, jeans and white shirtings, while some of the gray goods are put up against English anil American fabrics, and even compete in the matter of price with local-ly-woven cloths. Whether this Is permanently to be the ease, which we should doubt very much, or a phase of the methods of introduction, remains to be seen, but at the moment it is certainly disconcerting to the Importers of old snops.

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