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lions of subjects. Her kingdom is vast, and those versed in the aflairs ot the Orient say, destined to be one of the coming powers of the world. Here is the story of the Empress dowager's life: One night about sixty-four years ago there was great disappointment in a little bamboo hut in one of the interior provinces of China. A faint cry could be heard. It was the wailing of a poor little girl baby who had just come into a worid where girls were not wanted. In her feeble way she was pretesting against it. "Oh, it’s nothing but a girl. Drown the little wretch and get it out of the way!” It w*as a kind neighbor standing over the mother who said this to the father. Her tone was one of deep disgust. "No, no, it is my baby, let her live,” pleaded the mo’her, and with a contemptuous shrug of his shoulders her husband consented. Rice was scarce. There vas hardly enough to go around now, and all this meant there would soon be another mouth to feed. The father was a practical man. He remembered this, but the girl was not drowned. "We will call her Tuen Tson Hsi.” said the mother. "It Is a name that means good fortune.” GREW TO BE A PRETTY GIRL* No one would be a girl in China If she could help it. Tuen found that out after she got older. There were plenty of people to tell her she was a nuisance, so it was no wonder that she was a sad, earnest child. Her life was uneventful enough at this period. The changes would come rapidly enough in the years afterward. Now she did cheerfully the daily drudgery that fell to her lot and lived the life of any other humble Chinese maiden. All the time, however, she was growing into a pretty girl with great soft, dark, bias eyes, a sweet little mouth with lips as red as the cherry blossoms that come with the spring n> China, and a soft, olive complexion. When she laughed, which was seldom, she was positively beautiful. She might have one day been wedded to some neignboring farmer through the kindly offices of one of the "go betweens,” who arrange such things in China, for there was not a prettier girl to be found in the province. But Tuen was destined for other things. Obscurity and monotony were not to be her portion. The Taiping rebellion was then stirring the usually peaceful empire to its very center. Tuen's father was one of the sufferers at the hands of the rebels. His little patch of ground was destroyed. Day by day the future Empress of China stood with her mother and father at the gates of the temple of Buddha begging for a little rice. Ofttimes they had nothing to eat all day. At night they slept in tne open space in front of the temple. But she was not a girl to tamely starve. Even then she was a determined little individual, and she showed some of the ability to get out of a bad predicament that has since characterized her actions. She knew that girls, especially if they were young and pretty, brought a good price in China. It was no uncommon thine for them to be sold. When she suggested to her father that this would be a good way to retrieve his fallen fortunes he quite liked the idea. He was desperately in need of cash, but not in need of a daughter, just at that time. So he managed to sell her to the Viceroy of Lu Chang. Being a man of business ability he struck a good bargain, too. and went back to his native province loaded with strings of cash. His daughter he left as a kitchen slave in the yamen of the viceroy. Fortune now befriended lonely little Tuen Tson Hsi. She grew plump and pretty again, and soon her beauty and her bright mind attracted the attention of the wist of the Viceroy. She was promoted from her position as scullion to a stool before the embroidery frame and her life flowed on in a very pleasant channel. It was about this time that she electrified that august official, the Viceroy, by begging to be allowed to learn to read. Who had ever heard of such a thing as a woman learning to read? Chinese women as a rule don’t care anything about an education, they wouldn’t f;et it if they did. Knowledge is reserved or men—they think. The Viceroy of Du Chang tried to explain this to little Tuen Tson Hsi. The end of it all was that she gained her point. She has had a way of doing this all her life. beautiful girl, w r ho is also smart and ammtious, can cause a gieat deal of trouble In a quiet, well-regulated yamen. The Viceroy was a man who loved peace. He was even willing to part with his pretty favorite to secure it. THE EMPEROR’S SDAVE. It happened that the Emperor now sent him a peacock feather, and it is a custom in China for a subject to make a presV ent to his ruler in return for any promo/ tion. The Emperors have found it a pretty fashion, and waxed rich on presents. The Viceroy of Lu Chang now sent Tuen Tson Hsi to the Emperor in return for the peacock feather. The Emperor was pleased with the exchange. Doubtless the Viceroy thought he paid a very high price for his little plume. Peking is a three-walled city, and it is in the mysterious depths of the inner city, shut off from all the world, that the Son of Heaven, as the Emperor of China styles himself, has his palaces. Here he lives In superb Isolation. But few of his subjects ever see his sacred person. Those who enter the Prohibited City go out no more. It was here they brought Tuen Tson Hsi one day in autumn forty-four years ago. She was dressed in gorgeous robes of yellow satin, for yellow is the imperial color, and her sedan was hung w r ith yellow silk, and festooned with golder\, flow'ers. She looked every inch a queen, this onetime beggar maid. It had been her father's boast that the blood of the Tartars flowed In his veins, and the Tartars are the true aristocrats of China. His daughter did not disgrace her ancestry. With great honor and beating of tom-toms she was carried within the secluded inclosure of the Palace of Earth’s Repose—which Is the imperial harem. Many, many women have gone in there before her and many since that time. Not one of them has ever been heard of since. They are dead to all the world after those portals close behind them. But not even the Impenetrable seclusion of the Palace of Earth’s Repose could keep the fame of the wisdom and beauty of Tuen Tson Hsi from creeping abroad. She was not born to live and die “unhonored and unsung.” Not even the majesty and power of the socalled Son of Heaven could accomplish that. There in her gilded prison she went on working out her destiny. Never did her courage fail or her purjKi.se falter. The _ Emperor soon discovered that she was not only a very pretty woman, after the Chinese fashion, but a very clever one. She liked to hear about affairs of state, and he found to his surprise that her advice was always good. Gifted with a clear head and remarkable foresight, by the time she had been in the harem a year she had made herself invaluable to him. The Tsung Id Yamen began to find out that the Emperor was wiser than they had thought. Finally the Empress of China died. Probably no one grieved very much for her, though she was reported to have been a very estimable old lady. Her death removed the obstacle that stood between the favorite of the Emperor and the realization of her dearest dream. She was not slow to avail herself of the situation. "HEAVEN’S CONSORT.” Scarcely had the mourning for the Empress demanded by court etiquette been laid aside when the Emperor caused it to be announced throughout his kingdom that one Tuen Tson Hsi was now "heaven's consort.” That high-sounding title is the particular property of the Emoress of China. It meant that Tuen had been espoused by the son of heaven. The Emperor was getting old und childish. It soon became evident that he denended entirely upon his pretty young wife and was letting her run the affairs of the Flowery Kingdom to suit her own sweet will. This knowledge was a great shock to the wily Mongolian statesmen. They were sometimes brave enough to protest against some of her decrees, and promptly had their heads cut off—not figuratively speaking at all. This quickly put an end to any criticism of her policy, and also made for a time a seal city of royal counselors. Those who came afterward profited by the fate of their predecessors and refrained from questioning the rulings of the autocratic heaven's consort. They grew' in time accustomed to being governed by a woman. Her tact, magnetism and shrewdness won a sullen kind of admiration from a nation that despised women, and when the Emperor died no one questioned her right to be the ruler of the land during the infancy of the Emperor’s son. That was twenty years ago. During this time the Empress Dowager has ruled her vast kingdom with an iron hand. Li Hung Chang has been her or.iy favorite—the only one to whose counsel she would condescend to listen. She is now a wrinkled old woman, ugly and despotic. Sometimes she has tiffs with the suave and humble Li Hung Chang, for the old lady is high-tempered and exacting, but they don’t last long. Three times has he lost his yellow Jacket and his peacock feather—honors most dear to his Oriental heart—but they have always been given back. Tuen Tson Hsi loves power. She will brook no interference. Li has learned that and is careful now not to offend. A* told in the beginning of this story, the Empress has now virtually dethroned her stepson. He has always been under her thumb, and he has had but little joy of his kingdom. He is delicate and weak. It has been reported that his stepmother has purposely brought him up that way. She has surrounded him with harem beauties, dissipation. Idleness and luxury. From his boyhood she has seen to it that he led an enervating life. She has crushed his will and

made him a spiritless weakling, so rumor says. This may not be true. Scandal is always busy with the names of the great. But it is true that the most remarkable woman of to-day is Tuen Tson Hsi, Empress of China. She has overcome difficulties that would have discouraged the bravest. She has molded men and events to her will. She has fought and won, alone and unnoticed, the greatest battle for her sex that has ever been waged. She has triumphed over custom, and she has conquered prejudice and overcome the narrowness and bigotry that cause her countrymen to scoff at women. She has even had to surmount the religious teaching of her land. Buddhism tells the Chinese women that the greatest bliss they can hope for after death is to be reborn a man. Women, they are told, are only made to be slaves or toys. The Empress Dowager is the new woman of the Orient. No one outside of the palace, save the ehancelor, is ever allow r cd to see her sacred person. She lives in the strictest privacy, surrounded only by eunuchs and ladles in wmiting. The few ambassadors who obtain audience with her must fall down at her feet in an attitude of adoration and perform the kotow, which is to knock the head nine times upon the ground. For her airings she goes out in the palace gardens, which are marvels of landscape gardening, with artificial hills, lakes, streams, cool grottoes, beautiful flowers and grotesque shrubs. It is the custom of the Emperor once a year to go into a field within the walls of the forbidden city and plow a furrow with his own immaculate hands, with the idea of showing his subjects how honorable Is husbandry. But the Empress Dowager has never been outside the palace grounds since the gate of extensive peace closed behind the little slave girl in the sedan. And she probably never will go out until she goes on that last journey. GRAB GAME IX CHIXA. Russian* Trying to Checkmate Engliuhnien liy Seizing- Land. VANCOUVER, Sept. ?2.—Advices received by steamer from the Orient say that news has come from New-Chwang that the Russians have been acquiring large tracts of land In the vicinity to make capital of the proposed British railway enterprise in that region, as it seems that the land on the proposed route of the Russian railway has been purchased by the British, who demanded exorbitant prices for the same. Russians. by w r ay of checkmating their rivals, have commenced building in the north of New-Chwang without the necessary formality of purchasing or leasing the land from Its owners, practically grabbing lots they required, arguing that, as they had only built on the land, its owners could not help themselves, and could be amenable to any terms offered by the Russians. By these means they would hold the whip hand over the railway in eastern China, which is to run from Petuna to Port Arthur via Kirin, Loudkin and Naiching. with a branch from Port Arthur to New-Chwang. A serious mutinous conspiracy has occurred on the German ship Christine, lying in Kobe harbor. Assistance was sent from the Gefion, and the men accused were eventually brought before the German acting consul, and the accused will be sent to the vessel’s port of entry, Bremen, to be tried for the offense. The prisoners consist of four Dutchmen, one Englishman and one German. The Belgian contract for the construction of the Luhan Railway has been ratified. There are rumors of British and Japanese concessions on the islands of Nantai, at Foo-Chow. One of the members of the crew r of H. M. S. Linnett has been making a svrvey in the neighborhood, it. is thought, for the information of Sir Claude MacDonald. A Secret Convention. LONDON, Sept. 22.—A dispatch to the Globe from Hong-Kong, published this afternoon, purports to give details of the secret convention signed at Peking March 27. It appears that Hhsu Ying K'Ouoi. of the Chinese Foreign Office, thereby concluded an agreement with St. Petersburg by which China ceded Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan, stipulating that only Russian and Chinese war ships enter or dock at Port Arthur. Russia, it also appears, gets the exclusive use of the inner harbor of Ta-Lien-Wan, the sole administration of the ceded territories and a tract of land north of Ta-Lien-Wan is designed as a buffer belt.

SPEECH BY CHAMBERLAIN. Say* He Hope* to See a Federation of the Anglo-Saxon Knee. DANVERS. Mass., Sept. 22.—The Danvers Historical Society gave an informal reception to Hon. und Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain and other guests in its rooms to-day. The English and American flags were intertwined over a picture of the battle of Lexington. Rev. A. P. Putnam, D. P., made an address of welcome, and Hon. Mr. Chamberlain responded. The distinguished guests were made honorary members of the society. In replying to Dr. Putnam’s welcome Mr. Chamberlain said, in part: “I thank you very much for the warm welcome by the Historical Society and by the town. In England it is customary to think that Americans take more interest in historic matters than Englishmen, and we are often surprised to have our American friends who visit us tell us about things of which we have forgotten. I attach much importance to this interest, as it serves to draw us closer together. "I desire to see a federation of the AngloSaxon race. It is coming nearer and nearer. We are bound by common ties, but we are continually misunderstanding each other. The press, statesmen and others have—l will not say maliciously, but by persistent misunderstanding— kept us apart. Recent events have changed all that and we are feeling better than ever towards each other. I am pleased to see the flags of England and America intertwined over a picture of that historic scene, the battle of Lexington. I desire to see them always floating together.” AMERICAN HONORED. Dr. W. A. P. Martin Made President of the University of China. WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.—The State Department has received from Minister Conger, at Peking, information that Dr. Wm. A. P. Martin has been appointed to the important post of president of the Imperial University of China, recently established by imperial decree. Dr. Martin is a citizen of the United States, but went to China as a missionary about forty years ago, and has passed most of his time since then in that country. In his knowledge of the people, their language, folk-lore and customs, Minister Conger says, Dr. Martin is considered to have no equal. He was president of the Peking University for nearly thirty years, and is the author of several works on China and her people. The doctor’s appointment, the minister adds, carries with it Chinese official rank, and promotes him from the blue to the red button—that is, from the third to the second class. There was at first considerable opposition to his appointment, but particularly owing to tne efforts of Li Hung Chang the matter was compromised by the appointment of two presidents. Dr. Martin’s colleague being Hsu Ming Cheng, now minister to Russia. The selection of the corps of professors, some twenty, not including fifty native tutors, is left entirely in the hands of Dr. Martin. SHERMAN HOAR ILL Suffering from Typhoid Fever That Followed Pneumonia. CONCORD. Mass., Sept. 22.—Hon. Sherman Hoar is ill at home here with typhoid fever. He had been sick a few days with pneumonia and was improving until yesterday, when typhoid fever developed. It is thought he contracted the disease while visiting the camps of the United States army in the South when traveling in the interests of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association. Carriage Builder* Will Meet Here. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22.—The Carriage Builders' Association concluded its convention to-day and adjourned with the selection of Indianapolis as the next meeting place. Thomas Cratty, of Chicago, read an Interesting paper upon “Credits and Failures.” the paper being pronounced one of the most imjiortant before the convention In years. The gentlemen held a banquet at the Southern Hotel to-night. Donation of s<>o,o4lo. CINCINNATI. Sept. 22.~Briggs Cunningham to-day presented the University of Cincinnati $60,000 for an additional wdng to the main building, corresponding to the Hanna hail TO LIVE WEI L AVP HUTILV UN "Garland” Stoves and Range*.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1898

OWEN AND CARSTENSEN CHAPLAIN SCORED BY SECRETARY OF STATE AT FRANKFORT. 1 Standard Oil Company Supposed to Be Back of a Syndicate Buying Indiana Oil Wells. ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT. Ind., Sept. 22.—Hon. W. D. Owen opened the campaign here to-night to a large and enthusiastic audience. He recounted the history of issues in late years, discussed the history of coinage and the tariff and eloquently alluded to the victories of the United States on land and sea. His discussion of the issues growing out of the late war was listened to with keenest interest. He administered to Chaplain Carstensen a severe and cutting rebuke, saying that while he complained of lack of tents for sick soldiers all the regimental officers In his regiment gave up their tents for hospital purposes except himself and that inpital purposes except himself and that three dying soldiers on one occasion w r ere left to the care of a Catholic chaplain of a Wisconsin regiment. The meeting was in every sense satisfactory to the managers and to the Republicans of the county was the best evidence of victory this fall. Mr. Owen’s speech was void of bitterness and objectional matter. He dealt fairly with the new questions. The speech will do good anywhere. Webster Davi* Speak* at Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION DEPOT Ind., Sept 22.—The campaign in Grant county was opened tonight by the Hon. Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the interior. He spoke in the Grant Club room, and it was not large enough to accommodate the crowd. Many old soldiers were in the audience and cheered loudly his references to the work of the "boys of ’9B, worthy sons of the heroes of ’61.” From Marion Mr. Davis goes to Terre Haute and Evansville. He is in great demand all over the West, and will speak in Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and California. Making: ’1 rouble for Democrat*. Special to the Indlanajiolis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind. Sept. 22.-Hon. J. Frank Hanly opened the Republican campaign in this county to-night at the City Hall. The band was out and considerable anthusiasm was manifested. The hall was filled to its capacity, and Hanly held his audience to the last. WESTERN YEARLY MEETIXG. Remodeling of Meeting House Goes Over Until Next Year. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLAINFIELD, Ind., Sept. 22.—Yesterday wis the last session of the Yearly Meeting,' the attendance being larger and the interest better than was expected. At 10 o’clock Rev. Elvvood O. Ellis, pastor of Eighthstreet Friends’ Church in Richmond, and clerk of the Indian Yearly Meeting preached a strong sermon in the meeting house. In the tent at the same hour the Malones preached, and religious enthusiasm rose to a high pitch. The question of remodeling the Yearly Meeting house, which had been passed on the day before was reopened, and after a heated discussion, a vote was taken resulting 53 to 50 in favor of going ahead with the work, the trustees said they w T ere not willing to proceed with the plans without more unity of feeling, and the w'hole matter was referred back to the committee another year. The trouble is that many became dissatisfied with the plans, after they had studied them carefully. Frank H. King, of Carmel, Ind., has been reappointed superintendent of home missions and temperance work, and Hannah Furness was made superintendent of social purity work. Drusilla Wilson, William Furnas and Amos Holloweil were appointed trustees of the building fund of the Friends’ Boarding Home for Girls in Indianapolis. S. E. Nicholson and Milton Hanson were appointed delegates to the American Antisaloon league convention at Cleveland, 0., next January. Thomas C. Brown was reappointed chairman of the programme committee. S. E. Nicholson wa3 continued as chairman of the press committee. Memorials were read for Laura S. Haviland. cf Chicago, and William G. Hubbard, of Plainfield, ministers deceased. The meeting decided not to reunite with the American Peace Association of Friends. The book, tract and peace committees reported through the superintendent, Ephraim Doan, that 100,416 pages of tracts had been distributed, fifty peace sermons preached, thirty-two Bibles sold and eighty-three Bibles donated. The treasurer’s report shows that $7,212 has been received and that $4,778 has been expended during the year. Joseph R. Evans, of Indianapolis, was reappointed treasurer, and Mary T. Pyle, of the same city, treasurer of money received by women. The delegates reported that appropriations be made as follows for the coming year: Books and tracts $300.00 Home missions and temjierance 400.00 W. F. M. S 100.00 Bible schools and education 200.00 Evangelistic work 6(K>.00 Christian Endeavor 50.00 Associated Indian committee 300.00 Girls’ Boarding Home, of Indianapolis 200.00 Earlham Bible Conference 150.00 Asociated Foreign Mission Board 40.00 It was directed to raise $5,000 for all purposes the coming year. A good deal of routine business was worked off during the afternoon. Benjamin Vestal resigned as trustee of the Yearly Meeting and a committee with Milton Hanson as chairman tvas appointed to fill the vacancy. The session last night was mostly devotional, being the last of the Yearly Meeting.

Luther LenKue Adjourns, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Sept. 22. The Luther League of Indiana and Kentucky held, at Whitestown, this county, has adjourned. Yesterday afternoon Rev. F. C. Oberly, of Decatur, 111., discussed “The Young Lutheran as a Spiritual Force.” Rev. Mr. Huber, of Richmond, presented a paper on “What are Our Opportunities?” In the evening an address was made by Prof. G. H. Gerberding, of Chicago, on “Who Should Educate our Youth in the Higher Grades?” * A KINAWAY WITNESS. Mrs. Forkner Is Radiy Wanted in Court at Anderson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., Sept. 22.-The spiriting away of Mrs. Alice Forkner, prosecuting witness against John Armstrong and Fred Wertner, charged with assaulting her, promises to bloom into a big sensation. Mrs. Armstrong, wife of one of the prisoners, is now charged with bribing the witness. Mrs. Forkner was on the stand yesterday morning, and was giving very damaging testimony against Armstrong. At noon she disappeared as if the ground had opened and swallowed her. She Ims not been seen since, though Bertha Caliis, her sister and attendant, who disappeared w'ith her. was overtaken at Elwood, and to-night made a confession which is said to implicate Mrs. Armstrong. She claims Mrs. Armstrong paid them $lO to get out. She does not know where Mrs. Forkner has gone. The ease grew out of the assault on Mrs. Forkner in the suburbs of Alexandria by two men several months ago. ♦ A MYSTERIOtS “SYNDICATE.” Standard Oil Company Supposed to Be Buying; Ip Indiana Wells. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CiTY, Ind., Sept. 22.—An Eastern syndicate is purchasing all the available oil property in the Indiana field. Much mystery surrounds the name of the real owners of the property, but it is believed to be the Standard Company. Whenever a purchase is made the buyer requests that his identity be withheld, as well as that of the concern for which it is bought. At the recorder's office the property is transferred to the agent. The Akron, Ludwig & McDonald and American Oil Companies have recently disposed of their holdings to this same mysterious “Eastern syndicate.” Old producers who are acquainted with the methods of the octopus state that

instead of advancing the price of Indiana oil they are taking toe money' and purchasing the oil holdings which are most productive. At the present rate all the productive leases held by Individuals will soon be absorbed by the Standard. Yesterday the American Oil Company sold its holdings, consisting of twenty-six producing wells and a large amount of leases to this Eastern concern for 120.000. Eastern oil has advanced 2 cents and Tiona is now quoted at $1.12 a barrel. Indiana, which is 68 cents, is expected to follow* to-morrow. DR. JOHN L. ROE’S CAXE. It Played an Important Part in Indiana’* War Time History. Sjiecial to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Sept. 22.—Referring to the lamented John L. Roe, the Journal correspondent is reminded of other incidents in his life worthy of reproduction. The doctor was highly successful as a medical practitioner while a resident of North Madison in the days when that was a flourishing village, and was prominent in a lodge of Good Templars then existing there with a membership approximating two hundred. He 'was a pleasant speaker and a most agreeable gentleman, and his name was suggested for legislative honors. There were two other worthy aspirants, but at an opportune moment in the proceedings of the convention his friend, Holly Austin, who was a delegate from North Madison, urged the claims of Dr. Roe and he was nominated and elected. Serving as a representative in 18t>3, when the Democratic leaders threatened to pass revolutionary measures to cripple Governor Morton and hinder the progress of the war, Dr. Roe proved himself an able ally of David C. Branham and other loyal men. The Democrats tried to lock the Republicans inside of the Statehouse to keep them from bolting and breaking a quorum, but just as they were closing the main door to lock it Dr. Roe thrust in his cane and prevented it. The doors were then forced dpen and the Republican members, under the lead of Mr. Branham and Dr. Roe, secured a special train and came down to Madison, making their headquarters at the Madison Hotel. Here they received a grand reception, speeches w’ere made and the loyal people tendered them a banquet. Dr. Roe subsequently served with distinction as a member of the Senate. * FRAXKLIX COLLEGE OPENS. Work on the New Athletic Park '.Vlll Begin at Once. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. 22.—Franklin College opened to-day with nearly 100 new students enrolled, bringing the total attendance above the average. The prospects are that the institution will see an unusually prosperous year. The opening address was delivered this afternoon by Dr. D. H. Cooper, of Peru. Everything has been placed in excellent shape and a number of improvements made. The old Athenian hall will be occupied by the music department, which is hereafter to be under the direction of C. R. Parker, who recently returned from Boston, w'here he was pursuing his studies. Mrs. Minnie Bruner will instruct in instrumental music. Prof. C. E. Goodell w r ill be absent during the year at Chicago University doing advanced work, and the chair in history will be under the direction of A. R. Hatton. The chair in chemistry, made vacant by the resignation of Professor Johnson, is soon to be filled. Miss Collins, of Fort Wayne, has been elected to the chair in art. Work on the new athletic park will begin early next week. The grounds will be inclosed at once.

LOGANSPORT CYCLISTS ABROAD. Mi** Magee Led a Party on a Tour of Europe. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. 22.—Miss Margaret Magee, daughter of the Hon. Rufus Magee, of this city, ex-minister to Norway and Sweden, arrived home yesterday, after a three months’ tour of Europe awheel. Miss Magee sailed from Montreal last summer, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Hazlltt A. Cuppy, Frederick McCormick and Harold E. Hammond. Mr. Cuppy Is from the University of Chicago faculty, Mr. Hammond a Chicago banker and Mr. McCormick a magazine illustrnlor and artist. All w’ere linguists, which added much to the enjoyment of their bicycle tour of the continent. Arriving at Liverpool, they mounted their W’heels at the custom-house door and w’ere scarcely separated from their steel steeds during the remainder of their tour through England, Holland, Germany and France. From Liverpool a run of 250 miles to London was begun. The party reached Ha warden when Gladstone’s remains were lying in state, and they also visited Strat-ford-on-Avon. At London a ston of two weeks was made. Thence the party crossed to Rotterdam and a tour through the land of windmills w*as begun. The party w r as routed through Delft. Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam and Arnheim. At Amsterdam, when the party arrived, the preparations for the coronation were being made. The party, then crossing the frontier, toured up the Rhine from Cologne to Mayenee, thence to Heidelberg arid Strassburg. The frontier of Prance was reached at Nancy, and the party was on one of the famous highways to Paris built by Napoleon. A “coast" of three miles without taking their feet from the coasters was one of the delightful experiences of the trip. When Paris was reached the party broke up and Miss Magee remained seven weeks with friends in the gay capital before resuming her homeward journey. During the trip the party covered about one thousand miles. Joint Convention of Dentists. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 22.-The joint meeting of the Northern Indiana and the Southwestern Michigan Dental Societies at this place came to a close this afternoon. The next meetings will not be joint, the Hoosiers having decided to meet at Warsaw at a date yet to be named, and the Michigan society at Cassopolis, in April. The Indiana society elected the following officers: President, Dr. C. G. Keehn. of Ligonier; vice president, Dr. A. T. Goodwin, of Warsaw*; secretary and treasurer, Dr. W. O. Vallette, of Goshen; executive committee, Dr. Vallette, Dr. Waugh, of Fort Wayne, and Dr. Durr, of Plymouth. The Michigan society elected the following officers: President, Dr. F. H. Essig, of Dowagiac; vice president, Dr. C. P. Hanson, of Niles: secretary, Dr. C. E. Burchfield, of St. Joseph: treasurer, Dr. A. C. Run5 r an, of South Haven. The different sessions were devoted to papers and discussions of interest to the profession. Nearly one hundred dentists from towns in the territory indicated by the names of the societies were in attendance. Last night an informal but largely attended reception was tendered the visitors at Hotel Bucklen by local citizens. Emancipation Day at Muneic. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 22.—Emancipation day was celebrated in this city to-day on a more extensive plan than has been the custom in eastern Indiana for some time. Excursions were run to Muncie from Greenville and Celina, 0., Indianapolis, Elwood, Marion. New Castle and other places in this State, and a great many colored people came from all directions to enjoy the festivities. There was a big street parade, led by the Eagle colored brass hand, of this city, ending at the fair grounds, wiiere addresses were made bv Mayor Tuhey, exMayor Cromer, Hon. Joseph G. Leflier. Dr. E. J. Puckett and others. There was a big basket picnic and athletic sports on the race track. The bicycle races were indulged in by colored riders only, and colored men drove the horses. One floor at the opera house was jiurehased to-night by the colored people to witness the Murray & Mack show in “Finnegan's 400.” Handball Becoming Popular. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Sept. 22.-The Belgian handball game has taken a firm hold on the glassw’orkers of the gas belt, and is proving popular. To-day Camille' Dewez, of this city, and Isido Mieheaux, of Muncie, played a contest of ten sets at the latter city for SIOO a side. Friday two teams from Dunkirk, two from Muncie, one from Alexandria and two from this city will begin a tournament at Alexandria. The team winning the most games aside from the Hartford Citys will play the Hartford City team here Oct. 5 for the championship of Indiana. A Bit of -Madl*on History. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON. Ind., Sept. 22.-Early in the century Rev. Dr. Joseph Oglesby, a Virginian by birth, and the first preacher in Cincinnati, was called to this place to organize the first Masonic lodge. He was so impressed with the beauty of the place that

in 1815 he moved here with his wife, son and an infant daughter, Elizabeth, who died immediately on their arrival. On June 24, 1820, while the preacher was marching at the head of a procession of Masons, his open Bible in his hands, his daughter America was born. Now after an absence of more than sixty years this daughter, now Mrs. Joseph Hubbs, and mother of Mrs. Bessie H. Woolford, returns to the old place she left as a bride of seventeen. She expects to live here the rest of her life. Reunion of the Twenty-Fourth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 22.—The nineteenth annual reunion of the Firty-fourth Indiana Regiment of Volunteer Infantry began in this city to-day. The Forty-fourth was organized in the counties of Elkhart, Lagrange, Steuben, De Kalb. Noble, Kosciusko, Whitley and Allen. - was mustered into service on Nov. 22, IS6I, and mustered out on Sept. 14, 1865, after having seen some of the most serious fighting of the war. During its campaigning it traveled a total of five thousand miles, of which 1,500 wrere marched on foot. It was commanded by Cols. Hugh R. Reed. William C. Williams, Simon C. Aldrich and James F. Curtiss, in the order named. Wilhnr Royne Takes lam dan uni. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CLINTON, Ind.. Sept. 22.—Wilbur Royse, bachelor brother of Rev. James iiloyse, pastor of the Methodist Church of this city, is thought to be dying, the result of an overdose of laudanum. The Royses arrived in Clinton last evening and the brother took the death-dealing drug this afternoon. Dr. Aikman. with a force of assistants, is at the unfortunate man’s bedside. The fami y claims the man had been sick and took too much of the drug by mistake. Wilbur, however, refuses to tell how much he took, where he got the drug, or where he hid the bottle. The man is highly educated and has just returned from a tour of foreign countries. Slinfter Believes He Is Indorsed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 22.—Three thousand people assembled at the depot to-night and tendered an ovation to General Shaftsr when he changed cars en route from Constantine, Mich., to New York. He made a brief speech, thanking the people for the tribute to "the army he had commanded" and expressed his gratification at being "the commander of such a magnificent army” and also of “the indorsement of his countrymen.” District W. 11. C. Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sopt. 22.—The annual convention of the Fifth District Indiana Women’s Relief Corps was held here to-day. Mrs. Hitt, the national president, delivered an address, as did Mrs. Hadley, the department president. Reports were made by the corps presidents. Mrs- Mary Wimer, of this city, w r as elected president for the ensuing year, and Rockville selected for the meeting place next year. Grand Clinneellor Hunt Present. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MILAN, Ind., Sept. 22.—The fourth annual K. of P. county convention was held here to-day. Public services were held in the afternoon at the M. E. Church. Addresses were delivered by Grand Chancellor Union B. Hunt, John F. Griffith and MaJ. C. W. Lee. The afternccn session closed with a patriotic demonstration, the audience singing "America.” The night session w r as devoted to rank work. He Fontol tlie IVnr Tai. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., Sept. 22.—Frank Brown, of Belleville, 111., was arrested at Bedford, Ind., to-day, on a charge of running a show at the Bedford fair without paying the war revenue tax. He was brought to this city to-night by Deputy United States Marshal Brenham, arraigned before United States Commissioner Cardwill and will stand trial.

C. & E. I. Conductor Arrested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ird.. Sept. 22.-Conduc-tor Spear, of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road, was arrested to-day and bound over to the federal grand jury on a charge of failure to affix a revenue stamp on a receipt check given to a passenger who had paid cash fare. Hnndreds Dying: in Dawson City. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. Sept. 22.—A letter received from Willis Frivitt to-night states that he has made a good strike in the Klondike. He is fourteen miles from Dawson City, and says in Dawson City hundreds are dying. I Waste of Natural Gas. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The Journal to-day contains a special from this city which quotes me as saying that “there is no gas being wasted in Indiana at present;” that ‘‘not an ounce of the fluid is going to waste,” etc. Your correspondent certainly misunderstood me, as I did not say that no gas is being wasted. What I did say was published in the Kokomo Tribune yesterday, and is given below: "1 do not anticipate a shortage of gas in the gas field or pipe-line towns! this" year. The larger gas companies are ail making extensive preparations for the coming winter by extending their lines and drilling additional wells. The large waste that was so discouraging at this time last year has been stopped. Not fewer than twenty-five wells that were open then are now closed. Some of them have been connected with pipe lines and are supplying gas to factories. It is necessary to keep a constant woitch to keep these wells closed, hut wnere a well is found leaking a notice to the owner has been sufficient so far. The oil companies are endeavoring to obey the law and show no disposition to evade it in any manner. The leakage that has been found at some places was the result of the imperfect fittings used and the crude way in which some of the w T ells have been, closed.” The above differs materially from the statement in the Journal. I aimed to say that the large waste that existed last year, caused by drilling for oil in gas territory, had been stopped, but wherever there are gas wells and pipe lines, or where gas is being used, there is some waste—that is, conditions are such that it is impossible to utilize every ounce of gas that? comes from the wells J. C. LEACH. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 22. Indiana Notes. The Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society of Elkhart. assisted by the Elmer W. R. C., tendered a public reception to Company E, of the One-hundred-and-fifty-seveath at Elkhart Tuesday night. Daniel Webster, Charles Snider and John Lyons, well-known Mum ie business men, who left last January for the Klondike, came home last night with a sad story of their experience. They are said to be* 4thoroughly disgusted with the whole affair and glad to get back. , The Rev. Father Victor A. Schnell, of St. Patrick's Terre Haute Church, celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood yesterday. Fatl er Schnell was for many years in a district on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road, with Columbus as his principal point. He was born in Lorraine, France, in 1842, of German parents He left St. Meinrad’s Benedictine Abbey, In Spencer county, to go to the civil war. and finished his education after the war. TREATY ANNULLED. All Relations Between Colombia and Ituly Said to Be Severed. COIX>N, Colombia, Sept. 22.—Advices received here from Bogota, the capital of Colombia, say that all relations between Colombia and Italy have been severed, owing to the action of the Italian government in the Cerruti affair, which the Colombian officials considered arbitrary and in violation of the treaty of 1892, which was thereby annulled. News received here from Carthagena says it is rumored there that Colombia agrees to pay the claim of Punehard, McTaggart Cos., of ten million francs as a result of a breach of the Antiguian Railroad contract. Negro Rioter Killed. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 22.-The Mallory steamship line labor troubles broke out afresh here to-night by the striking negro ’longshoremen, masked and armed with pistols. making an attack on the guard at the wharf. The police repelled the attack with pistols. One of the attacking negroes was killed and one of the negroes employed on the wharf got a scalp wound. The police captured one of the mobbers.

CUBANS AT SANTA CRUZ SEAT OF GOVERNMENT CHANGED TO A DESOLATE VILLAGE. Affairs of the “Republic” Df*et***el by Vice President Capote— Hl Visit to A\ aahinftton. ■ ♦ SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Sept. 22—Two hundred miles west of Santiago is the desolate fishing village of Santa Cruz, consisting of a single straggling street along the shore, surrounded by vast swamps. Here the Cuban government has established headquarters and during the past month has held sessions for the conduct of affairs of the several towns in complete charge of the Cubans. The administration building, an old store fronting on the sea, is poorly furnished with chairs and tables only. When the Associated Press correspondent arrived at Santa Cruz, tw r o nights ago, he was conducted into the office of Vice President Capote where, around a table lighted only by a candle in a bottle, the officials of the embryo government were engaged in writing orders and other legislative documents. The reason for the change of the seat of government from Camaguey is the facilitation of travel of the delegates and officials by boats. With reference to Cuban affairs. Vice President Capote said to the correspondent: "When war between the United States and Spain was declared the government decided unanimously to assist and co-operate with the Americans to secure the independence of Cuba, designating me to act as a special envoy to see President McKinley with regard to the best methods to make the cooperation most effective. Though I w r as not received officially, with the President's consent I saw several members of his Cabinet, and my efforts for the establishment of friendly relations and regular communication with the United States resulted favorably. I had no difficulty in arranging the necessary particulars of this relation. Although formal recognition of the Cuban government was not given me, nevertheless the President and other officials in Washington realized that the body of men which I represented constituted the government in the minds of thousands of Cubans, and was the real official voice of thousands of men then under arms and of practically all those who were in sympathy with the revolution. The result of this conference was that I was assured that the United States would cooperate dircctiy with those at the head of auairs in Cuba for the attainment of the objects of the war. This contented me, as I felt that the Cubans would receive all the necessary assistance from the Americans to establish a permanent and stable government. whether the Cuban government was recognized or not. ”\\ hen Ii turned to Cuba I found that my compatriots were perfectly willing to help in any way to carry out the policy which the United States set forth in the act of Congress relative to the war. The Cubans under arms have been obedient to the Cuban government as constituted, and the government has felt that it not only owes a duty to the army, but to the Cuban people who have upheld its supremacy, and that it should not dissolve, now that the American government has achieved a noble victory, without leaving to the a’my that for three years has been obedient to it the property distrusted to it. The purpose of the government since peace has been practically declared has been to settle the questions as to the maintenance of the army, to give opportunity for all who desire to lay down their arms and seek v/otk, end to resolve into proper form the laws existing among the Cubans. In relation to the necessities. arising under the somewhat peculiar circumstances, as far as possible the Cuban people through this government are endeavoring to settle justly all the questions pertaining to the relations between them and the Americans. "The United States government has taken complete control of affairs in this province, and is, I believe, conducting them in the right spirit. My own fear is that if the Cuban government, as it is now constituted, is left out of all consideration, and if authority is taken away from it, the American government, by ignoring its authority before its own people, may, perhaps, find it more difficult to settle the problem of establishing a permanent government among the people, who. for three years, have looked to the Cuban government as the controlling power.”

SPANISH SOLDIERS WEEP. Tearful Farewell so Wive* and Sweetheart* at San Juan. SAN JUAN. Island of Porto Rico, Sept. 22.—The Spanish transport San Francisco sailed for Spain yesterday. There was a repetition of Tuesday’s scene, when the Asturias battalion of Spanish troops marched to the wharf for embarkation. Captain General Macias and staff reviewed the departing soldiers, who bade farewell to their sweethearts and wives. Some of the soldiers wept profusely, and there was quite a pathetic aspect to the affair. As the ship swung away from the pier the soldiers on board of her raised a raint cheer, and the women proceeded to the sea wall, where they stood for hours, waving their handkerchiefs until the San Francisco was only a speck on the horizon. The Spaniards, at the meetings of the military commissions, are raising matvy questions regarding the civil administration of the island and the disposition of public property, but the American commissioners refuse to discuss them as being beyond their jurisdiction. Our commissioners* are disposed to allow the Spaniards to carry off a lot of useless old material rather than make a tight to retain it. The United States steamer Supply is bound for Santiago. The Porto Tllean Postal Service. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Information received to-day by acting Postmaster General Heath indicates that the temporary organization of the postal system in the important cities and towns in Porto Rico under United States auspices will be in operation almost as soon as the evacuation of the islands by the Spaniards is complete. Chairman James K. Stewart, of the postal committee now in the island, has telegraphed that he has established military postoffices a£ San Juan and Mayaguez. the two largest places in the island besides Ponce. Mr. Stewart asked for fifteen additional clerks for assignment to the offices which yet remain to be taken possession of, but acting Postmaster General Heath says this need will be tilled by the installment of clerks which left New York last week and whose arrival at Ponce was reported to the department to-day. Chairman Stewart has recommended that a depot of postal supplies be established at Ponce, and this will lie done. An Indication of the amount of business being done and in prospect is shown in the request by Mr. Stewart for SS,CXX) worth of postage supplies for the island. 'Death* at Ponee. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The adjutant general of the army has received a cable message from Major General Brooke, dated at Ponce, Porto Rico, Sept. 21, announcing deaths, as follows: Private E. H. Farrell, Company L, Eleventh Infantry, typhoid; Private Ralph Polk. Company N, Fifth Infantry. gastritis; Corporal Bernard Bohn and Private Morris, both of the Eleventh Infantry, kiiled by lightning; James M. Gamble, Company F, Third Wisconsin, and John E. Riley. Company F, Sixth Massachusetts. Pensions for Veteran*. Certificates have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indianians: Increase—William G. B. Findley, Zanesviiie, $8 to sl2; Samuel C. Trueblood, Huron, $24 to S3O. Original Widows, etc.—(Special Sept. 12). Mary A. Moad, Washington. SS; (special Sept. 13), Hannah Moziugo, Wintersviile, SS; Mahala Griffith, Worthington, SB. Belt* for Amateur*. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 -Herman Oelrichs, of New York, has offered f number of championship belts for all weights to amateur boxers of the Olympic Club, and preparations for an athletic tournament under the auspices of this organization are now in progress. The Soldier* Escaped. New York Evening Sun. Not all the sotdiers who come to town are in need of hospital treatment. *>w of the well-meaning women, who are more than anxious to do what they can to help the tick and suffering, realize this, however.

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Tlie Lnxnry of Wnr. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. The general passenger agent of one of the great trunk lines was growling around the corridors of the Waldorf in New York the other night. ‘T have been called upon to furnish thirty-eight Pullman sleepers,’' said he, “to take soldiers home, and I think it is ail wrong. I don’t see how war and luxury can be reconciled, and if General Grant were alive be would be very much astonished to see volunteers going home in sleepers. “I served four years in the war of the rebellion.” he continued. "I entered as a private and was mustered out with a major's commission. I did not see a sleeping car during the entire time of my service. and very seldom an ordinary cushioned coach, except when I went home on a furlough. My regiment was hauled back and forth from the Atlantic States to the Mississippi valley several times, and we traveled several thousand miles altogether, most of it on foot, and when we got a chance to ride on a railroad we thought we were in great luck. Gondolas, or gravel ears with planks put across them for seats, were considered luxurious accommodations for the enlisted men; rude bunks three deep, in box cars, were eagerly seized by the regimental officers, while if the general and his staff managed to get hold of a freight caboose they thought they were traveling with the very highest degree of luxury.” SarKent Seeking Rr-Elee(lon. TORONTO, Sept. 22.-F. P Sargent, grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, stated to-day to the Grand Lodge convention, now in session here, that he would again be a candidate for the position of grand master. He stated further that If elected he would resign from the position of the recently-created nonpartisan industrial commission to which he was appointed by President McKinley. His announcement was received by the convention with tremtndous applause, and his reelection by acclamation is a certainty. Different. Chicago Tribune. “A woman, madam, votes through her sons.” “Yes. sir. I’ve heard that argument a thousand times. But when she’s the mother, as I am. of live grown daughters, all unmarried, and has no sons, how does she vote? Answer me that!' IVo Exception* to the Rale. Chicago Times-Heraid. Li Hung Chang is no exception to th general rule; it never is an easy job for anyone to hold on to a yellow jacket. WELL FED, WELL BRED Proper Fond Make* Ilrntnr Men itnd lieu util til Women. To know just what to eat is a problem for many people who find their strength and health not keeping up to a proper stage. From food we must expect our bodily nourishment and not from drugs. True, a physician’s care is required at times, but the true physician will always seek to put his patient on properly selected food and drink. A food expert has discovered Grape Nuts by experimenting on the treatment of grains to artifically predigest the starches (the principal part.) Grape Nuts as now made by the Postum Cereal Company, limited, of Battle Creek, Mich., and sold by grocers generally is a delicious dainty suitable particularly for the brain worker, as it quickly supplies the parts of food the body needs to supply the duily loss produced by brain work. Unless the right food be furnished and properly digested the individual discovers a gradual failing and some form of disease sets up. User* of Grape Nuts discover that they assist in the digestion of cream and other food and that a “well-fed feeling” follow* their use,