Show gratification over a peaceful solution oyster bay aug president roosevelt received tho news that the peace envoys at portsmouth had reached an agreement in his library at sagamore hill he was engaged at the time on some matters with secretary loeb regarding the peace negotiations tiati ons the intimation of the agreement came to him from the associated press in the tor mot a bulletin announcing noun cing that the envoys had agreed on all points which hitherto had been the subject of difference while the president had been hopeful that such an agreement would be reached he was surprised had come today his belief had been that the arrangement it made at all would not bo made before tomorrow he expressed to his family his gratification that a peaceful solution ot the differences had been reached he excused himself however any statement formal in nature regarding the action of the conferees until be should have been informed officially of that action president roosevelt received official confirmation of the associated press bulletin concerning the peace agreement at tha official confirmation reached him in the form of an official cipher despatch from portsmouth it was sent at the instance of baron komura the telegram said that the plenipotentiaries of japan had withdrawn their claim for reimbursement of war expenses and that an agreement had been reached as to a partition of the island of sakhalin Sak halin that all main points had been definitely settled and that the envoys will now proceed with a discussion of details WOMEN OF shakespeare chicago aug 29 the rev william quayle addressed over teachers at the session yesterday of the cook county teachers institute in his address the rev mr quayle said that shakespeare was the greatest portrayer of comans womans character that ever lived tae women of shakespeare the speaker said are as true in this age as the one in which he wrote about them and are yet the truest women that ever existed cither in real life or fiction Shake women were the greatest of intellectual women yet they were distinctly feminine |