Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1894 — Page 2

THE JKIHAA'APOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, ltJttt

duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay thm cut of any money in the treasury not otherwl appropriate-!!, and the Secretaryof the Interior makes a requisition on the Treasury Department for money to pay pensions. The Secretary of the Treasury finds no money in the treasury not otherwise ajTropriate!, except the money that has been realized from the sale of bonds, lie will be confronted with the question whether he will stop the payment of pensions, whether he will stop payment for work on public buildings, whether he will stop pavmont for work on rivers and harbors, whether he will withhold salaries or u?e the money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Mr. Uoatner Wouli you consHer it Improper to prive your opinion as to the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury. Fecretarv Carlisle I will give it very plainly. I bellev It 13 my duty to pay pensions and ail other public obligations, and unless ConKT"SS stops me I shall do so. V.T.I!? I stay there I shall endeavor to maintain the credit of the government by paying Its obligations. Mr. Iloatner Out of the proceeds of the bonds which you now propose to s?ll? Socretary Carl!le I would not us? the proceeds of bonds if it were possible to avoli it, but I would not let the obligations of the government go to protest and fall to pay the appropriations mad? by Congress for legitimate purposes and for carrying oa th? expenses of the government as long as there is a dollar in the treasury. Mr. Carlisle further stated his reluctance In resorting to bonds. As to the kind of a bond which Mr. Carlisle thinks Congress should authorize there was the following discussion: Mr. Doatner The plan that you suggest to remedy this trouble would be for the Secretary to issue bonds for a specific purpose. Is that the point? Secretary Carlisle I think a short-time bond should be authorized, bearing a low rate of interest, to be issued in small denominations, which I think would be taken largely by the people who have money in pavings banks, and the Secretary could sell them or use the proceeds in the payment of expenditures and redeem them out of the further revenues. That was my recommendation on the subject, simply because I saw it was impossible for Congress to provide by taxation any revenue which could be collected in time for this fiscal year. Mf. Stone And you did not see a disposition on the part of Conpres to da it? Secretary Carlisle I concluded to Issue bonds under the existing authority, a thing I disliked as much as any gentleman upon thi3 committee, for I did not want to see the public debt of the country Increased In any way whatever or for any purpose whatever. The gold clause In Mr. Carlisle's pro-posed-for bonds, brought out the following explanation from the Secretary: Mr. Bailey How are you to be paid for the bonds now advertised for sale? Do you demand gold coin? Secretary Carlisle Yes, sir. The proposal calls for gold coin. Mr. Palley This is the first time there has been any discrimination. Secretary Carlisle No. Secretary Sherman sold bonds for gold coin. Mr. Bailey I mean this Is the first time Blnco the act of 187S was passed. When Mr. Sherman sold those bonds gold was the only legal tender. Secretary Carlisle What the Secretary of the Treasury says is substantially this: Congress has Invested me with authority to issue bonds and sell them for coin. I will not issue bonds and sell them unless the purchaser will give gold coin for them, because gold coin is what 13 needed to maintain resumption and the parity of two metals. Mr. Oates The bonds are made payable In coin? Secretary Carlisle Xot gold coin, but in coin. When Congress compelled the Secretary of the Treasury by law to buy J15V 000.000 worth of silver It specified In definite terms the buying of sliver, and he did It. Mr. Carlisle's views were then secured on the plan of another lsue of greenbacks, lie was asked if it would not be feasible end practicable to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury notes sufficient to relieve the wants and necessities of the treasury. The Secretary said: "Why, of course. Congress could do that and the Secretary of the Treasury would use them. If you ask me, as a financial question, whether I think It wise in Congress to authorize the issue of $200,000,000 In greenbacks I should say no, because I believe, in the llrst place, there is an ample supply of money In the country for the business that is being transacted, and a great deal more than is being used." In conculdlng the hearing, Mr. Carlisle expressed himself vigorously as to the validity of the present bond issue. He was asked by Mr. Stone if the bonds would be hurt by legal questions, and replied: "No; because If the Secretary of the Treasury should issue these bonds and take the gold and dump it in the middle of the Atlantic ocean it would not vitiate the bonds."

TO BE FOUGHT OVKU ACAIX. Sllverilcs Will Renew the Battle for Free Colnne. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. The strength develop by Mr. Bland's seigniorage bill Iead3 to the belief that another movement will be made for limited silver coinage, aa a sequil to the passage of the seigniorage bill. Mr. Bland has already introduced a bill "for the free coinage of standard silver dollars." It went to the coinage committee, and was about to be discussed when Mr. Bland asked that it be temporarily laid aside In order that the seigniorage bill might first be acted on. As to the free silver bill, Mr. Bland said to-day: "It has been put aside for the present, but will probably be taken up later. No definite plans have been made, but It 13 evident that many members want the opportunity of again voting on the silver question." Representative Williams, who was one of Mr. Bland's lieutenants, says he has no doubt the free silver question, pure and simple, will again be presented to this Congress. Quite a number of members who voted for the repeal of the purchase- clause of the Sherman law have told Mr. Williams that they would like to have free silver brought to an is-sue again in order to reverse their former position. These expressions, together with the strength developed by the seigniorage bill. Incline Messrs. Bland, Williams and their cilver associates to give Congress one more chance to vote for unlimited .silver coinage. In this connection the fact is being noted that about twenty-five Republican members are counted in favor of the seigniorage bill. Some of them are outspoken in favor of following up the measure with a free coinage bill. They reconcile this with their vote to repeal the silver-purchase clause of the Sherman act by saying that the latter law hoarded silver in the treasury, while a free-silver bill would seek to put the metal, or certificates based on It, In actual Circulation. Representative Tracey, of New York, one Df the anti-silver leaders, says that a bill for unlimited coinage of silver could not pass the House. He points out that quite . number of anti-silver Democrats, Ilka Mr. Rellly, of Pennsylvania, favor the ftelgnlorage bill because they think it will flispose of the silver question for the next live years nt least. lie thinks the feeling that Congress is getting rid of the frelilver question is one of the main reasons tor the strength of the seigniorage bill, DIAMONDS RECOVERED. Six of the 301 Stolen at Honolulu Found in Arkansas. FORT SMITH, Ark., Feb. 10. Six of ths SSI diamonds stolen at Honolulu have been recovered In this city by the chief of police, who got them from Mrs. Hattle McGinnis, a sister of Preston Horner, alias George Ryan, the man convicted of stealing them. He sent the jewel3 here last S-?!-tenjber, but refused to tell to ..whom. Tiwiay it was discovered that Hattie McGinnls waa his sister. This clew was worked up and the jewels recovered. They were sent to Honolulu. Oxierntor Bound nnd Stntlnn Robbed. SPARTA. III., Feb. 10. At 2 o'clock this morning, while night operator Church was eating his lunch in the Mobile & Ohio station, six men suddenly entered, seized, bound and gargt-d him, and then threw him into an adjoining freight room. They then drilled into the station pafe. blew it or-en, and. taking the valuables within, decamped. Church wa-s not released until the irit-n on train No. 6 entered the station. The robbers, however, got but Ofiicers are In pursuit. Prtaoners Mnt Work fin Iloek Pile. TOPKKA. Kan., Feb. 10. The Supreme Court to-day decided the Boutwell case, declaring the iHiIicv; authorities have a right to tet prisoners to work on the rock piles. Allen, Populist Judge, dissented. The decision als ts forth that the authorities have no right to abuse prisoners unnecessarily; if they do, damages can be recovered. Snicotd of Destroy Iiijf Records. LANSING, Mich., Feb. 10. Attorney-general Kills, George Russey and County Clerk May are under suspicion of being the j.ereoiis who torv the Detroit election records from May's bnok Thursday night. Rills and May both admit that Rills visited May's room earlier tn th evening before the theft occurred, but a woman says she saw Ellis g3 UD to Maar's rocixa later alone.

A PERILOUS JOURNEY

Dr. Johnston Tells of Some of His Adventures in Africa. A Narrow Escape from Death in t!ie 31atabele Country at tho Hands of Treacherous Natives. Dr. James Johnston, whose recent Journcyinsa through the south central part cf Africa have excited so much interest, 13 stepping with the family of Mr., and Mrs. Joseph It. Robinson, at No. Si East Michigan street. Four years ago this fall Dr. Johnston was In the city, and after receiving financial aid from his many friends bore he went almost directly to the scene of hij journeyings. Dr. Johnston removed his home from Scotland years ago on account of ill health to Ills plantation in Jamaica, on which he resided for several years. During all this time he was greatly Interested in the field of the medical missionaries, and he finally conceived the idea of engaging a number of native Jamaicans and entering the field for himself. Thus, In tho fall, three year3 ago, with these natives and without the companionship of a white man, he started on his journeyings and adventure, which have attracted the attention of all the world, and which he has narrated in a book of recent publication. It was not the intention of Dr. Johnston to force Ms way through the country of the hostile tribes, as did Stanley and others, or to make his way along gradually as a religious missionary, as did Dr. Livingston, but he went there intent on seeing the country and to ofTer his medical skill, unknown to any of the Interior tribes. With this plan of action always before him, he succeeded in covering territory that no white man had ever set foot on before. He found that it was much easier for him to progress through previously unvlslted countries, lie was suspicious of every one. One thing indicative of this fact is that he had his guns so arranged that no one knew how to use them but himself, for fear of an uprising of his followers who, while carrying them, would use them against him. During his travels he experienced many hazardous adventures, but his suspicion of every one and his presence of mind carried him safely through them all. An adventure experienced In the Matabele country illustrates the common danger to which he was exposed. He was lying in the doorway of his tent one evening when he noticed certain unusual actions of the natives, which continued unlil after he had retired. He had noticed that they had looked repeatedly at his much spread out on one side of his tent, and apparently were very rrrich concerned as to its exact location. Such was his experience that he knew at once that they were intending to treacherously kill him during the night. He removed his bsd to tne other side of the tent and retired for the night. Along about midnight he heard the descent of a spear as it crashed through the tent and struck hard and fast in the ground where his couch had been before it3 removal. He waited and soon another crashed through and stuck close beside. Another and a fourth followed, and all was still. He waited for some few minutes, heard nothing and calmly turned himself over oa his side and went to sleep. In the morning, on his appearance, the natives were paralyzed with fair. He explained to them that he was charmed. The story had its force and he was assisted many miles along hl3 route by the fearing natives. Tb's is but one of the many experiences that Dr. Johnston has so interestingly told in his book. Dr. Jon:sion Is tncrougnly acquainted with the territory in which war is bsing waged between ths English and the Matab?le under their renowned king. Lobengula. He says that the Matabele are a desperate people, and will continue to stir up war as long r.s they exist in numbers sulilcient to be called a tribe. Dr. Johnston Is an expert photographer, and he has with him many views of celebrated spots in central Africa, including the falLs of the Zambezi, which are likened to Niagara. On returning from Africa, Dr. Johnston brought with him the Jamaicans, who are now at their homes on their island. The Jamaicans are enthusiastic over the countries of Africa, and are desirous of returning. It is the Intention of Dr. Johnston to remain in this city until the latter part of this week. This evening he will be heard from the pulpit of the S?cond Presbyterian Church. He will lecture at Plymouth Church on Tuesday nlirht. His lecture will b? illustrated by a number of the views, all of his own tailing'. JUSTICE TO CHAMBERLAIN. Mr. Paisley Withdraws His Suit Against the Western rromotcr. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Joseph E. Paisley, In a letter addressed to H. B. Chamberlain, Drexel building, saya that he has vlthdrawn voluntarily and unconditionally the suit ho brought against Mr. 'Chamberlain In connection with the affairs of the Fort Worth Park Place Land Company. Mr. Paisley says that he is convinced that great Injustice was clone Mr. Chamberlain by the statement made in the affidavits and complaint In the suit brought against him for tho amount of the Investment made by him (Mr. Paisley) In the stock of the company. Mr. Paisley says further that he is satisfied that the Interests of the Park Place company have had complete protection at Mr. Chamberlain's hands and that hl3 management as president has been, in every way, faithful and honorable. He Is satisfied that the title of the land is vested In the Park Place company and. In conclusion, says: "I 'ook on you again, a3 I have for years, as a man of high character and unimpeachable integrity." The suit referred to by Mr. Paisley was brought by htm about the 1st Inst. He aJIojhI that Mr. Chamberlain had obtained by fraud for one hundred shares of stock in the Fort Worth Park Place Land Company. Mr. Paisley asserted that the company did not hold an undisputed title to the property which it assumed to own. Mr. Chamberlain" said at the time that there was no time when the company did not have possession and title to the land under the deed of trust or when the rights of any shareholder were impeached for an instant. The whole affair Is thus ended amicably. ANNIE PIXLEY'S PROPERTY. It Is All in Possession of Robert Fulford, Husband of the Actress. NEW YORK. Feb. 10. Legal step3 have been besom to compel Robert Fulford, husband of the late Annie Pixlcy, to explain what has become of the property of the actress, and how he became possessed of property that was alw?ys thought to have belonged to her. Col. P.obert J. Ilaire, of No. 215 Hroadway, couusel for Mis3. Plxlcy's mrther and other relatives, has ju$t returned from Philadelphia, where he made an examination into the affairs of the dead actress'. estate. Colonel Ilaire developed the fact that no property or mortgages are registered in Philadelphia in the nam? of Annie Fulford, but that sixteen mortgages, aggregating JOvSO), are recorded in the name of Robert Fulford. One of these ir.ortgaic?s, J.3,O0 in amount, is on the Park Theater, of Philadelphia. Colonel Ilaire tiled In the courts what Is known as a bill of discovery. He also began leal proceedings to prevent the payment to Fulford of Interest on certain mortgages registered in the record of deeds ofllce in Philadelphia in his name. Quartermaster Killed. VALLE.IO, Cal.. Feb. 10. J. W. Gering, quartermaster in charge? of stearn engineering on the monitor Monadnock, was fatallv inured in the ship hold at Mre islund yards this morning by the breaking of a chain tackle. A heavy steam cylinder weighing six and a half tons fell upen him. A two-and-a-half inch bolt passed through his hip and groin. The deceased leaves a widow and one child. Insulin Merely Iii!orel JoncH. A". Tenn.. Feb. 10. Hon. J. J. NASH VIM Ingalls said patches sent conversation was news to Jons, and. last night In reference to disout from here referring to his with Uov. Sam Jone. that it him. lie had gone to hear Mr. after his discourse, had expressed r.l p itorsed his so k-asure at meeting him and inrmon. That was all there was in it. Oil Scooped l'j ly Farmer. ROSTOX. X. Y.. Feb. 10. The Standard Oil Company's pipe line from Uradford. I 'a., to Uuffalo burst in this village last niirht. For hours a rtream or oil as large as a man's list shot ln the aid a distance of thirty feet, llooJing the surrounding territory for acres. Tue farmer resl-

dents far into the night scooping up the crude petroleum in buckets and tubs and carrying it home for fuel. Great terror was exhibited by mighbors lest the oil take fire, but no such accident ha3 occurred.

ALLEGED TRAIN WRECKERS. Only One Arrest Made at Houston Lynching" Stories Denied. HOUSTON, Tex.. Feb. 10. -Sensational telegrams have been published in Chicago and other papers, under Houston date, telling of the lynching of train robbers here. No lynching has taken place. The only arrest ha3 been that of Jack Dillingham, whos? shoe tracks fitted those at the wreck and led to his house, and whose shotgun contained wads corresponding to those foanl at the wreck. He Is still in Jail, and continues, although telling conflicting stories, to contend that he is Innocent. Officials are very reticent as to clews, but are. working diligently. The Mexican boy who is said to have made a written statement Is kept under surveillance. His statement is said to be that he was employed to carry the crowbar to remove the spikes, but took no part In the wrecking. It Is said his statement is to the effect that the plot was concocted by two Mexicans. Their expectation was that the whole train would roll down the thirtyfoot embankment and that all hands on board would be killed. They were there to rob the dead bodies. As the passenger coaches remained on the track they feared an attack from them and abandoned the plan of robbery, running away as soon as ths mail and express and baggage cars crashed into the basin. This theory now Is accepted, as the express safe was unmolested and no attempt was made to steal the registered mail. Ofiicers have several clews they are working on. and arrests may at any time occur. The day before tho wreck a negro boy went M Joseph Devine's pawnshop and tried, to buy large slugs for a muzzle-loading shotgun. lie has not been found since, and it is thought he might throw some light on the case. EIRE BUGS. AT WOBK Four Attempts Friday Niglit to Burn World's Fair Buildings. Oily Ragrs and Kindling Wood Used by the Incendiaries to Start the Fires Junk Dealers Blamed. CHICAGO, Feb. 10. Soma miscreants are making determined efforts to fire the world's fair buildings. Four attempts were frustrated last night by , the vigilance of the Columbian Guard3. About 9 o'clock last night guard Iioyd discovered a blaze under the fioor of the soutiwest cornor of Machinery Hall. The woodwork was burning briskly, with every c!gn of incendiary origin. The guard was alone In the great building and no water at hand, so he climbed under the floor and smothered the flames with handfuls of dirt. About 3 o'clock In th2 morning guard Tloyd again found a small fire at thy cast end of the Manufactures liuilding. It was burningits vay under a window sill. This fire was extinguished with a liabcock. Guard Kinsell, going oft duty at 10 o'clock, found an Incipient fire in the engine room of the Waukesha hygeia building It was Just paining headway, and when put out quantities of ohed rags were taken from the hole. Pine wood had also been piled up between tr.e staff shells of th;? Inner and cuter wall3. At 3 o'clock in the morning guard Shaunnaman located a fourth fire in the frame building used as a staff manufactory in the southwestern comer of the grounds. The fire was scon under control, and h?re again kindling wood had been plied up and set ablaze. "I am inclined to think." said Colonel ltice, commander of the Columbian guards, "that these attempts to burn the fair buildings might b? traced to the junk dealers, who are in for the money behind it. Almost daily efforts are made by scores of them to buy it at bargains. Dut they have had poor encouragement, and now It looks as if they were scheming to be successful. While the iron in none of the buildings is being sold to the Junk dealers, they uerhais think it cjnld v? had for a s-nj if il underwent the flames and ashes." Ohio Town Ablnie. WAPAKOSLTA, O.. Fab. 10. Fire Ftartod about midnight in the Mechanics' Block, ' the principal business block of the town, and at 1 a. m. is raging furiously, sweeping eastward, and at present threatening tho entire northern half of Auqlalze street. The wind is increasing. It i3 impossible to predict the extent of tho lo.ss. The Lima lire department has been telephoned for. The following stores are in llimss: First National Hank, I-.ee Snowdi'3 wholesaie whisky house, Fisher & Co.'s clothing store, J. G. Smith's cheap Etore, Moser & Kaysers drug store. K. T. Murton's photograph gallery, Kahn's two dry-goods stores and half a dozen dwellings. Other Fires. GUTHRIE. O. T.. Feb. 10. The Presbyterian mission house and schools at Anadarko. in the Cheyenne reservation, have been destroyed by fire. The teachers and Indian scholars barely escaped with their lives. All clothing, furniture, books, etc., were destroyed. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 10. The livery stabies of "W. O. Jones on Forsythe street, covering a square, were burned to the ground last night. It is feared several employes lost their lives. The property, destroyed was worth $100, 0C0. CALUMKT, Mich.. Feb. 10. The large planing mill and carpenter shop owned by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company burned last niht. The loss on stock, machinery and building3 amounts to about PBS MOINES, la.. Feb. 10. The drygoods establishment of E. J. Hhs:r burned to-ght. Loss estimated at JO.u-X); partially insured. Reporting nnd Literature. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Some years ago, at a press club dinner, ons of the speakers, an editorial man, and a very bright one. made the remark: "Reporter are not literary men." If he had said "Deviled lobster is not orange ice" he would not have uttered a more obvious or more inoffensive truism. It jefiected as little on literary men a3 it did on reporters. But it was said In a big city where there were very many reporters', some of whom were young and new to the business, and mere of whom were pretty poor reporters for other reasons. All these took umbrage at the remark, and prat was the disturbance In that press club for a lontr time. It was ail very foolish. The rpcakcr simply meant that a reporter writing for the. news columns of Aa naper is not writing what H generally understood as literature, and that, if he knows his business, he will not attempt to. There is no reason why the same man may not be a first-rate reporter and a very competent literary man, but it is not desirable that he should do both at once. The man who thinks that he can successfully cornbin? the two characters is apt to be rather a nuisance in the news room. Uut the mental qualities that enable a reporter to "cover an assignment" thoroughly and "write it up" in good newspaper English, which is the test sort of English, are a help rather than a hindrance to him when, outsiJe the office, he sits down to write literature: whereas, the literary man's distinctive qualifications for success will never, unsupplemented. make even a passable reporter of him. The Chronicler has seen many good poems. eroo- Fhort stori??, good maitazine articles and good books that were written by reporters, but he has never seen an article, not even an announcement fiv? lines long, written by a iterary man that had not to be practically rewritten before it was fit for admission to the news column cf a newspaper. If there is any fair comparison at all between men engaged in lines of work so essentially different, it Is in favor of the reporter. Tli Venly Season. Detroit Tribune. It was a pastoral scene. The red beams of the sinking sun kissed the tree tons fondly as If the king of day were fain to linger and rejoice In the beauties of nature. A cow with brass knobs on her horns and furrows of care upon her countenance reeMr.ed at ease amid the droopinir daisies. To her came her last born, gaily. "Mamma." he excl.Umed, joyously, "the oil man has taken to giving me all the milk I can drink." The cow shook her head. "Such ling th? fact," she rejoined, "with the commencement season rear at hand, it behooves you to be abstemious." At the MuKicnle. Brooklyn Eagle. "What do you think of Mr. Hardhlfs execution?" said Miss Gushley at the milflcale. "I hadn't heard of it,", said Old Growley. "but I think it's a good idea. "When does the hanging take vIslqqT

THE INDIAN MESSIAH

This "Son of the Great Spirit" Will Be at the Midwinter Fair. Thonqrh He Is a Dirty Piute He Had 3Iuch Influence with Red Men and Taught Them the Ghost Dance. San Francisco Chronicle. That Indian who. in late years, was regarded by the tribes as the son of the Great Spirit descended to earth, will be at the midwinter fair before long. He will not come from his home in the sagebrush over the mountains to feast his eyes on the marvels and beauties of the place. He, will come simply as an attraction and to make money, for this copper-colored Messiah has an eye to the main chance. In hl3 own native language his name Is a quaint unpronounceability, with some beautiful significance. But In English the Messiah is plain "Wilson Jack." He Is a Flute a short, fat, dirty Piute. He wears a flannel shirt and ragged Jeans trousersdoes the Messiah, and smells bad; and all about him is a big gaudy blanket. He is about forty years old. His face Is cast In the ordinary Indian mold, but thereJs more mobility, more animation, more fire and sDirit than in the face of the average Indian. On the whole, there is little in his appearance which at a glance would set him apart from those squalid tribesmen of hi3 whom one sees begging at the car windows at almost every station from tho Sierra to Ogden. Yet Wilson Jack is a very remarkable Indian. It was he who, In the fall of 1S03, by the wild shores of Walker lake rreached to the tribe a new and strange religion. It was he who taught them to dance tho ghost dance. It was he who spread amoufr tb.ejn that religious fury and fierce fanaticism which culminated finally in the outbreak of the Sioux, the death of old Sitting Bull and the battle of Wounded Knee. The glry of a supposed orator Is gone from him now, even amcng the untutored people who once regarded him as heavensent. They know that he was born of a squaw mother in a smoky little tepee on a Nevada reservation. His gospel has become no more than a story, to be told over bowls of tobacco by wigwam fires. No longer do circling moecasined feet stamp the weird measures of the ghost dance. All the tribes are at peace. Tneir Messiah is forgotten. Wilson Jack Is now chopping wood at $1 a day for old Billy Wilson, whose ranch is not far from I'ine Grove, Cev. If Oliver ltoberts hadn't secured that Job for him he might be living out in ihe sage brush somewhere cn a jack rabbit diet. Roberts has secured the privilege to exhibit a village of Indians at the ir.idvvlnt?r fair. He met the Messiah just after the battel's mission was supposed to have begun. He has recognized his value as an object of exhibition, and h-.s set him to wood-chop-Ing, eo that he may be within -visy reach when wanted. He will bring him to San Francisco for the fair. THE CREED'S GROWTH. How the strange creed which the Indian Messiah taught had its genesis, how it crew and spread from tribe to tribe and how, finally, it went up in deadly smoke at Wounded Knee Is a tale of more than usual Interest. In the autumn of 1800 a rumor began to be circulated among the Indians that somewhere out In the wilds cf Nevada the Christ had appeared on earth, the one of all who was to be the savior cf the rcdmcn. According to his teachings the white race was to be destroyed utterly. Foresta full of game were to grow again upon the sites of the white man's cities; prairiea black with buffalo were to stretch where white men now have farms and villages. Primeval nature was to be restored. The Indian was to be lord of the continent from sea to sea. Such doctrines were naturally attractive to the Indians. Delegations from the remotrst eastern tribes came to the Messiah at Walker's lake. The Sioux, Crows. Arapahoes, Ulackfeet, Shoshones, Bannocks and the n?3t sent their sachems to visit him. They listened to his counsel and learned from him a new dance the dance of ghosts. Upon tr.eir return to their homes they became arostles of th3 new go?pel among their people. Tney b?IIeved or affected to blievo in the Piute teacher's real divinity; but whether this belief was true or feigned, it is certain that never before in history was theri such a gen?ral or dangerous fervor of religious excitement among the Indian nations. All autumn long the Indians danced the ghost dance, fasted, prayed, kept long vigils and dreamed strange dreams bcrn of exhaustion and morbid enthusiasm. All autumn long they were firm in the conviction that with the coming of the new Christ a glorious era for them would begin. But tho autumn passed and tho old year became the new, and still the white man's cities smoked through all the land and the white man's soldiers held the tribes in check. Then came the fatal field of Wounded Knee, sialneil with the blocd of whites and reds. The Messiah's prophecies were unfulfilled. Then the Indians ceased to dance end began to think less of the new Christ iind more of the government rations. Oliver Roberts says that Wilson Jack was never an impostor, but merely a spiritualist. It Is a well-known fact that there are mediums, so called, among the Indians. In the latter part of the summer of lSJO Wilson Jack left his home near Pizen Switch, twelve miles from the Carson & Colorado railroad, and went alone into the mountains about Walker lake. There 1 something suggestive in the very topograph: of that region. The lake is deep and still. The bare mountains tower wild and high above it. The levels are desolately barren. In the HOlitude and silence of those shores the Indian spiritualist lived for a month and saw no human face save Ids own rejected in the waters when he stooped to drink. He slept unblanketcd through the chilly nights. His only food was grasshoppers. He wandered all day along the margins of the lake, shouting to the mountains, calling upon the Great Spirit. A little after he came from his sojourn In that wild region ltoberts saw him at Sears Station on the Virginia & Truckee railroad. He had Just begun to spread among his own superstitious people the doctrines which ho claimed had come to him through divine Inspiration while he stayed by tho lake. Roberts asked him of his solitary trip to the mountains and the impressions which had come to him there. THE MESSIAH'S STORY. This is the way the Messiah told his own story to his questioner: "Me go to lake all ione. L!ve -there one moon. No shoot 'cm, nothing. No fish. Eat grasshopper. All time walk by lake; holler heap much; Jump up and down and dance all time. "Bong time no see 'em. Bym-by heap see 'em. Great, big Injun, been dead long time, he come s?e me. He say bym-by all white man lie die and he all buffnlo when he die. Injun rhoot 'cm all he want. Plenty game, plenty , fish, plenty btver when white man all gone. "Great big Injun teach me dance. He tell me, you go teach dance. Nice dance for Injun. Heap dance It puttv soon. '.' All the dignity, nobility, divinity with which the white man's mind Invests the red man pas: away before such a statement in awkward pigeon English. The vaunted Messiah becomes at once a poor, crazy Indian, raving there along the beaches of the lake. Half-starved upon his diet of grasshoppers, exhausted by his frantic dances, disordered in mind and body, it is no wonder that shadowy beings visit his diseased imagination and speak to him. A new light falls upon the shabby figure dancing and crying by the lake when a famous chief tells of tho new Messiah in his own language. Porcupine, the Shoshone chieftain, speaking through an interpreter, described his visit to the Messiah: "In the tenth mcon of the year I came to the lake, and there were with me Bannocks and Crows and the sachems of my own tribe. And there were gathered there scores of Indians from r.any nations. As we sat together in a circle in the morning, smoking the pipe of peace, suddenly the Christ appeared in cur midst. He spoke to us words of wisdom &11 day long, speaking to each tribe in the tribe's own tongue. And at the setting of the sun he said to us: " 'My children.. I want you to listen. I will teach you a new dance, and I want you to dance it. It i3 better than the sun dance. It is better than th? war dance. It is the dance of the spirits In the happy hunting grounds. If you keep my counsels and danc? the dance, before two moons have waned my propheci?a will be fulfilled.' "And we danced till the dawn, and till the sunset, and then the Christ brought us Into the field where a cabin was, anU there he showed each man the dead kinsmen who wore dearest to him; and we shook hands and talked with the departed. "A few more days we danced the dance of spirits, and then the Christ bade us depart, each to his own nation, and preach the new gospel which he had taught us." Though Wilson Jack has lost prestige

the Iiute Indians still look upon him with something like awe. East srring a buck offended him. Wilson Jack shook his finger at the offender and said: "Blmeby you die." And within a few weeks the buck was in his grave. j Johnson Sides, the head man of the Piute3 ; about Reno, who himself posed for a while i as the Messiah in order to further his schemes of medlcancy, has felt the proph- j et's wrath. He was told last fall that, j

because of his imposture, he would sicken ard die within a year. And he was taken down during the hcp-plcking season. But he is still live enough to beg pennies from anyone who comes his way. SLOSSON BEATS IYES The Student Wins the Boston Billiard Tournament. Ives Got in the Highest Ran, but SIossou Played Like a Racehorse Toward the Close and Won. BOSTON, Feb. 10. The unexpected has happened, ami Slosson, the student, has beaten Schaefer, the wizard, and Ives, the Napoleon, In the big triangular billiard match In Boston. He will carry away $730 of the fifteen-hundred-dollar stake, Schaefer will pocket $500 and Ives gets $250. The final game to-night between Ives and Slosson was rather ordinary, and only twice or three times was there any brilliant work. Ives did good work with Schaefer masses, but the careful work of the student was too much for him, and the game ended after three hours duration, Slosson winning by a score of 600 to 457. The contest wag witnessed by about seven hundred ppectators. Murphy acted as referee, and Instructor Hendricks, of the B. A. A., was marker. Ives won the bank for lead and made nothing. Slosson made one and slipped on an easy one. Ives made 11, and went down for no reason whatever, and the student pounded out one more. Then the young fellow got 53 and Slosson strung 31, and a run of luck followed, until, in the twenty-third inning, Ives was ninety-one points behind. Then Ives made a string of 146 buttons. He went down on a simple one, and Slosson scored 115. Ives did clever work in the next inning, but was too late in the game, and the New Yorker finished hira with a run of 96. Score. Slosson-l, 1, 31, 1, 8, 0, 6, 61, 0, 41, 0, 7, 5. 3, 38, 39. 0. 1:9, 0, 0. 60, 2. 16. 3, 6. 115, 96 m. Average, 21 12-1'S; high run, 115. Ives 0, 11, 55, 0, 5, 8, 9, 41, 0, 0, 0, 51, 1, 1, C2. 3, 1, 0, 2. 0, 0, 0, 146, 4. 0. 4S, 25-467. Average, 1G19-2S; high fun, KG. STOUV OF SAI.VT UmtXAUD. The Famou "Legend of the Church Told I- lrof. David Stnrr Jordan. San Francisco Chronicle. Prof. David Starr Jordan read a paper last evening before the Geographical Society in the hail of the Academy of Sciences upon the Great St. Bernard. Tns l'roicsor described the little cold lake la the Alps, on the edge of which were the hospiots of St. Bernard. On ail sideu were snow-capped mountains, cold and rugged, indicating anything but life. The builumgs are of stone, plain and uncompromising. As one approaches the hospices of the Great St. Bernard he is met by a legion of barking St. Bernard dogs ready to rescue him irom the snow. These dogs are yellow and white and rcsemPie in some particulars those of the some name found in largo cities. But they are not so lare nor ko well kept. The hospice Is entered through triple doors, and within all are welcome. There are pictures on the wall of the mam room, and a large open fire at which one may warm hliiiailf. All are welcome for a day, and are supplied with a plain and nourishing meal. 'iae next day all, whether prince or peasant, are askeu to move on unless they are sick or otherwise disabled. Bverything is free, but those who wish may contribute any aum, large or email, to be used for the entertainment of subsequent wayfarers. At the time Professor Jordan visited the hospice there were twelve monks there, all young and vigorous men, for the severity of the climate makes those living there become prematurely old. There is snow the ear round in the pass where the hospices arj situated, and irom November to May there is a whirling gale, and the snow pilej up in billows. Professor Jordan related the legend of St. Bernard, as chronicled by the ecclesiastic historians?. He was born in Savoy, and in early youth he showed that he was destined for saintship. In his seventh year he began to practice s-elf-punishment, which he kept up for tho remainder of his life. He was sent to Paris, where, to please hi3 father, he studied law, and to please himself he studied theology. It was at this time he took upon himself the oath of celibacy. His fatner called him home, where he found that arrangements had been made for hl3 marriago with the daughter of a noble and wealthy family. He astonished his parents by his avoidance of this marriage. But finally tho day was set and the guests began to arrive. Bernard locked himself in his room and engaged in prayer. The chronicle relates how a vision appeare to Bernard in la dream and summoned Bernard to the service of the church Leaving the castle he hurried over obscure mountain passes to a village one hundred miles distant. A later chronicle explains that he made his escape by a window, and that the marks cf his hand3 are still upon the le.lge, and the Imprint of his feet in the rock below upon which he alighted. The legend proceeds that B?rnard was most abstemious in his habits, drinking no wine and but little water, slaking his thirst with the juice of bitter herbs. When he died he regretted that he was resting upon a bed instead of upon the board he had been accustomed to lie upon. As a preacher he was most eloquent and all Italy liocked to hear him. Professor Jordan quoted from the chronicle relating how Bernard, banished the demon who nad commanded the pass where the hospices of St. Bernard are now located. This he did by throwing his stole about the neck of the demon, and the stole quickly resolved Itself into a chain, and the demon was thus placed In the power of the saint and quickly destroyed. Thus it was that over nine hundred years ago the first hospice of St. Bernard was built. One day an old man and his wife came to pay their respects to the founder of hospice. They were the father and mother of Bernard, and to him they related the story of the los3 cf their son. He made himself known to them, and before they departed they contributed sufficient money to erect a chapel to each. In Jt7 IJernard died at the age of eighty-three. In the end his bones were divided among the churches which claimed hirn as their i atron soint. A LOCOMOTIVE Flit EM AX. The Man Who Munt Feed the Engine it Pound of Conl n Minute. Harper's Young People. At least even- thirty seconds he throws open the furnace door, and, without a false motion or tne slightest delay, hurls exactly three shovelfuls of coal on the lire. He known just how to spill and spread It with p. dexterous turn of the wrist. Before Albanv in reached he must throw 6.375 iounds of that coal into the lire, or nearly forty pounds a minute, or an average of fortyfour pounds a mile. Then, ,too, he must know exactly where he is along the road, and when to drop his KhoVcI and seize the bell cord. He must ring the bell in passing through all towns and villages. He must know the proper instant to vault into his eeat when important curves are reached to watch for signals. He must see that the steam doesn't vary, and he is proud to shout in your ear when you near Albany, "She hasn't varied three pounds s!nce we left New York." He must watch the water gauge of the boiler, and is constantly kept changing the pumps and jeing that they do their work properly. All the time he must keep throwing his forty-four iounds of coal on the fire every mile. It l?n't long before he surprises you with another motion. He throws open the furnace door and thrusts a long, doublepronged fork into the fire. "With a twist he prods the glowing mass, and when he pulls his fork out Its teeth are cherry red. Then comes the whir of the shovel again, and the sound of the hammer as Tompkins breaks up the larger lumps of coal. Wlun you approach Montrose, near Peekskli'., the engine begins to olow down. If you look ahead you will see a narrow trough between the rails filled with water. The engine is going to -ake cn water at a flying leap. Tompkins stands at the side of the tender with his hands on a lever. Bngineer Foyle suddenly startles you with a shrill whistle between his teeth that would put to shame the warning signal a New York newsboy gives to his gambling mates when a loliccmun comes in f;lgnt. Instantly the lever flies back, and as you look at the wheel3 of the tender you see surging up among the trucks a torrent of water. It splashes and roars, and as you wonder If you won't be carried away, two whistles from Foyle. sharper and shrllier than tho first, warn Tompkins to pull up the scoop, and that the end of the water trough is near. Then Tompkins goes back to his coal, hl.i pumps. Ids pipe, his water-gauge, his bell, his watch for signals, nnd you wonder what new work he will do next. Before you are aware of It he touched you upon the knee, and motions for you to

raise your feet while he turns on a hoso and wets the floor of the cab to keep down the dust, after whicn he svve?p3 up with a stubby broom. Next he is shaking down the grates "vith a big sted lever that looks like the tiller of a large sail boat. You now brpin to take in what i means to be a fireman. Toward the end of the trip you tap his shoulder and shout to him: "This seems to keep you pretty busy." "I tell you there is no funnv business about this work." is his response. AVIinf In a uinc. Y'outh's Companion. Tho schoolmistress was showing off her pupils to some visiting friends. She had been over the same ground a day or two before and thought she could trust them to do her credit. "Who known what useful article is furnished to us by the clerhant?" she asked. "Ivory," was the prompt reply of threo boys at once. "Very good. And what do we get from tho whale?" "Whalebone." iticht again. And what from the seaT "Sealing wax." answered Peter Sand. whose inventiveness was better than his memory. Locked in the limine nntl Ilurnrd. BONNE TEBI1B. Mo.. Feb. 10. Thlt morning Mrs. Paul Herrot. living foui miles east of here, locked her two llttU children, aged three and five years, in the house while she went to the spring for water. On her return the room was In flames nnd the two little ones were burned to death. Dear, Denr. Philadelphia Timss. One of the things the fashionable girl denies heiself in Lent Is ros:s anJ Mower and the flower season may be said to be practically over until they bloom out of doors. It is considered very bad form in fashionable circles to wear or use flowera during Bent.

llcnllh Hoard Ilrturun. The returns to the city Health Board last wek shorn a total of fifty-one births and forty-six deaths. There were reported to the board nine cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever seven, and measles two. A SUR5E0?rS milFE gives you a feeling of horror find dread. There is no longer necessity for its uso in many discuses formerly regarded as incurable without cutting. Tfca Triamph cf Oonssnfatira Surgery in well illustrated by the fact that D! I DTI 1 9 or Iircach, i3 noir rod( nUl I UIIU C(in,j curcd without tha knife and without pain. Clumpy, chaf ing trusses can bo thrown away 1 They never euro but often induce inuam nrntion. BtranRUlation and de ath. TIIMflpe Ovarian. Fibroid (Uterine) lUtSIUilO and many others, are now removed without tho perils of cuttinx operations. PILE TUMORS, ftESi; "sr other diseases of tho lower bowel, or permanently cured without pain or resort to the knife. QTflJJfT in tho Bladder, no mattir Olulth. how large, is crushed, pulverized, 'washed out and perfectly removed without cutting. QTRIPTIIttP of Urinary rassage vs O i 11 3 U 1 UllU also removed without cutting in hundreds of cases. For fampalet, references and all purticuars, send 10 cents (in stamps) to World's Dispensary Medical Association, CGi Main bu, Buffalo, N. Y. BIG 4 ROUTE SPECIAL LOW HATES TO Boston, Mass.. and Return ACCOUNT or National Builders' Convention. With or without fide trip to New York an may he rirfttrrd Ticket good iroiu; on rou: hwt'slem Llniitri!, huvirn: linllutupolh at 11:15 r. M. Saturday, umlny and Moiici.iy, IVh. in, H and 12, nlso on pedal New Knclaiid Kxpre. lrav ins; litdiaunpwiU ht 4 A. M. Stindur and Mombir. IVh 11 and 12. tor ticket nnd tall information cull tit Uirf Four (.111 c No. 1 Jnt UhL1iitoii atrect. II. M. lii:oNox, A. U, 1. A. Monon Route. Tilt ILSTIIULLD PllI.JllY CAR LIE. LEAVE INDIAXAPOUS. No. CO Chicago I-.hr.ited. Pullman vestlbuled coaches. Parlor and Dining curs, daily, 12:01 p. m. Arrive Chicago, 11 p. in. No. 3C Chicago Night Kxpress. Pullman vestibuled coaches and sleepers, daily, 1:10 a. m. Arrive Chicago, 7:5i a. m. No. 10 Monon accommodation, dally except Sunday. 3:30 p. m. AHRIVE AT INDIANAPOLIS. No. 23 Vestibule, daily, p. m. No. 35 Vestibule, daily, 3:5 a. m. No. 9 Monon accommodation, daliy except Sunday, 10:30 a. m. Pullman vestibule sleeper for Chicago stands at west end Union Station, and can be taken at Sl p. m. dally. Ticket Olfices, corner Illinois street and Kentucky avenue and Union Station and Massachusetts avenue. Cincinnati, Hamilton& DaytonR.R. Best Line for Cincinnati, Dayton:, Toledo, Detroit, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, and nil points South. Ticket Office Corner Kentucky avenue and Illinois street, nnd Union Station. n A 1 1 A V A Y TIM K-TA II L 12 3. indiannpolis Union Station ennsylvania Lines. TtUjbi KjrriCX nt Station an 4 nt corar IUinoUad train nvx t. roLLw: iMilr. Lily. cept Miandnr. Krom Twdianapoli to Lkatk As BITS Culuiubii. tiiiL, 11U14 iju:kiu 'j.jj . j . w ji'i imJVou au.lori.iael i. M.jj.i.i tlO.Lt,ai AlurU. a villwiiu i v'uioouiio.... .4 it " o.i jmu Klcliiuuuii Oil.i.uuat, O.... In.OJ i f.i..pni l J.M I I L 1 i J -il I J I I '. . . ... ... 1 !.- m VANDALIA LINE. Dally. f V-iy eiceyt bj inlay. From Inli.inajoliB T-avc. Arrive, St. Inis AcoiiirnMl.itl n..... t7.:()am t":4 im M. IutH Kant lano all:Oam : i o j.ih Train '21 a'l li,:r: ,m -'J io iiu lenv JInto Aicomtuo'tatlon. : p n tH' U iHiu KvaimvilW Kx;irri ! iM t j,m .v:i5 nut M. Iyinl Kxj'ffM 1 ni 4 4Dm 'fiam roiiiKCt at Terr lUntn for K i T. IL loin!n. Kvanvi l !ecr cn n pht tr.ln. Met pine ninl imrlor cars are run cn through trains. Dining earn cn Train io nntl Ul. Ifcst Line to Cwnminti. For any iiirurinatl.Hi call at Ticket tjtfice, ccnu-r UliuuU :n-ct an. I Kmtui ky rtvciiiiu. Train urrive Hint tit ;irt fruiU Union Station as full Iravf. ...::4o am ..'1:".0 alii .tlo.r.o am . ; " inn Arrive. l'U .lltt Jim f 7:4(1 fill ll.iOam 'J:.o aiu Cincinnati Kxjhcvs , Cln.. Tolctloan t Detroit. . "ln.. Ijytn ami li-troit.. Cln. Vetiniie l.tniitetL... Cm- Toledo aid ietrlt. WkM 1!U .Daily, t Daily. cxrcjt Sunday. I FINANCIAL.. 20 PER CENT. PER MONTH

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