vinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzas and Santa Clara. After a preamble which sets forth that the pacification of these provinces has been considerably advanced and directing that steps be taken to assist those reconcentrados who are without resources, the order continues: Article I.— After the publication of this order, the reconcentrados and their families will be allowed to return home in the four provinces given above. Article II. Orders all relief committees and military authorities to facilitate the workings of the decree, and also to aid the reconcentrados in selling and securing new houses. Article III.-Directs the Colonial Government, through its secretary and ministerial officers, to prepare to execute all necessary orders to secure for the country people work on public improvements, and also to give food, by economical kitchens, to all the suffering. attention being called to those on the small country estates. Article IV.All the expenses over and above the funds now in the hands of the committee are to be provided for under the head of an extraordinary war credit. Article V.-All former orders of reconcentration are abrogated.

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April 1st: Today the Uncompahgre reservation is open for settlement, the joint resolution postponing the opening for six months having failed to pass the house of representatives yesterday. The Queen Regent of Spain has sent an autograph letter to the Queen of England, the New York World correspondent learns from a high source, imploring help. Queen Maria Christina begs Queen Victoria to use her influence to prevail upon the British government to support Austria and France in an attempt to secure European mediation. The World's informant added: "Queen Victoria simply forwarded a copy of the Queen Regent's letter to Lord Salisbury, whose policy will not in any way be affected by it. England will tolerate no policy of bolstering up Spanish rule in Cuba."

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3rd: This afternoon the levee at Shawneetown, Illinois, broke a mile above the town and the place is flooded with from ten to twenty feet of water. Many lives were lost and a vast amount of property destroyed. The Spanish minister at Washington has received a telegram from Havana stating that the Autonomist Cabinet has addressed an appeal to the insurgents asking them to adjust an armistice to fix terms of peace. The insurgents are appealed to on the ground that they are all Cubans and should unite for peace and liberty, which all want. The appeal also states that Spain is willing to enlarge the present scope of autonomy and will suggest such a plan to the cortes, which is soon to meet * It is announced in China that charges have been filed against the entire Chinese foreign office to the effect that it has been bribed by Russia, and an investigation and the beheading of Li Hung Chang is demanded. 5th: The twenty-fourth infantry, stationed at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, received orders today to be in readiness to march at a moment's notice. * The United States government dispatched a fleet of six vessels to Havana today to transport Consul-General Lee and all the United States consular officers, together with all Americans now in Havana and vicinity who desire to leave the island of Cuba.

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6th: The sixty-eighth annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in Salt Lake City today. Mrs. Woodford, wife of the United States minister, accompanied by her niece and Lieut. G. L. Dyer, the United States naval attache, left Madrid by the 8 o'clock train for Biarritz. Gen. Woodford bade them farewell at the station. The staff of the United States legation have left Madrid' and will probably remain in Paris for the present.

7th: The representatives of the six great European powers, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy, today waited upon President McKinley and presented a joint note appealing to feelings of humanity and moderation of the president and the American people in the differences with Spain. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British embassador

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presented the note. A special dispatch from Madrid says the embassadors of France, Germany, Russia and Italy waited together this evening upon Senor Gullon, the foreign minister of Spain, and presented a joint note in the interests of peace. Senor Gullon, replying, declared that the Spanish cabinet were unanimous that Spain "had reached the limit of international policy in conceding the demands and allowing the pretensions of the United States." * A dispatch to the New York World from Madrid says the text of a message, cabled to President McKinley by the pope is given in a dispatch from Rome as follows: "As the head of the religion of fraternity, I will solicit Spain to grant an armistice in the name of humanity. I pray you pending the result of this step, to deign to suspend all extreme measures." The Rome correspondent of the World obtained at the Vatican the text of the president's reply, in the following words: "An armistice is a question which concerns Spain and Cuba alone. But between Spain and the United States another question is pending, and I must receive a distinctively submissive and conciliatory answer from Spain."

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8th: A frightful avalanche occurred on the Chilcoot trail to the Klondike country, in which many prospectors were killed and their outfits destroyed. Seventy bodies have been recovered and many more are still under the immense body of ice and snow. United States Consul-General Lee and his staff, with Consuls Springer and Barker, left Havana at 6 o'clock tonight on the lighthouse tender "Fern." United States Minister Woodford has been officially informed that the Spanish government today telegraphed to the pope that in view of his urgent request, fortified today by a visit from the representatives in Madrid of the great powers, they (the Spanish government) have telegraphed to Gen. Blanco in Cuba, instructing him to issue an armistice proclamation tomorrow, the duration of the armistice to be as he decides.

1oth: Senor Polo, the Spanish minister at Washington, sent a note today to the state department in which he stated that the armistice was proclaimed in Cuba yesterday without conditions, and that General Blanco will determine later the duration and conditions of it. Public opinion in this country, he declared, seems to ignore the fact that Spain has frequently expressed condolence for the loss of the "Maine," horror at the disaster and sympathy for the nation. The cause of the ship's destruction, he said, can be determined only by submitting the question to the maritime powers, and this Spain is willing to do. This document was the official notification of the Spanish government to the United States, of the granting of an armistice and its essential terms. * * Senor Gonzalo de Quesada, the diplomatic representative of the Cuban junta in Washington, today issued a signed statement to show that the insurgents have a regularly organized civil government, whose independence can be recognized.

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11th: The president has forwarded to congress his long expected message on the relations existing between Spain and the United States. traces the history of the Cuban war, calls attention to the condition of anarchy existing on the island, which he says is responsible for the destruction of the "Maine" and declares that the state of affairs is no longer endurable. He submits Spain's decree for the suspension of hostilities with the observation that if it attains a successful result, "Then our aspirations as a peaceloving people will be realized. If it fails, it will be only another justification of our contemplated action." He states that the only hope of relief from the condition is the enforced pacification of the island and asks congress to authorize the executive to take measures to secure the termination of hostilities and to use the military and naval forces of the United States to accomplish it. While boasting of the ability of Spain to overcome the United States in a war, the former Spanish minister of marine stated that all the Cuban ports are defended by electric and automatic torpedoes with a large radius of action.

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Could we think without a language? That question has not as yet been definitely settled. What is thought? Some

say that it is language minus sound. But who knows that it is? Does the dog think? Prof. Max Muller and others say that the dog does not, and why? Because they say that the dog has no language. What is language? We are told that it is thought plus sound. Granting that it is, is there not sound in the bark of a dog? The answer is, yes; but is it of such a character which conveys any kind of intelligence? The dog might answer that question much better than we could ourselves.

Language is again defined as articulated words; and if so, who knows but that the neighing of the horse, the lowing of the ox, and the barking of the dog are not articulated words to the ears of the horse, the ox, and the dog families? Who can say but that each type of the brute creation does not recognize with its own kind a distinction of vocal sounds? And if each type of such creation does, may there not be in the neighing of a horse, the lowing of an ox, and the barking of a dog, not only a sound, but articulated words? If there are, certainly then the brute creation thinks as well as man.