Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 2, .1859.

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It was not a question of wages which caused the raid upon a mine In Idaho, resulting In destroying a plant worth 50,000, but th; ref Mat. of the company to require the two hundred, men In Its employ to Join a unionv,Now that troops have been called for by. the Governor It Is well to understand the Issue. The men who raided the mine were employed In mines miles distant. It may be suggested that the man who was found guilty !n a Circuit Court In the southern part of the State of calling ths woman who had been his wife to the door and shooting her. to death should not be sent to the Reformatory under the system of Indeterminate sentence. The man who Is guilty of deliberate murder should, at least, be sent to prison for life, and In prison that class of criminals should bfe kept by themselves. It has been announced that a convention Of prominent citizens of Georgia will soon be held in Atlanta to consider the evils which have resulted In so many lynchlngs In that and other States. There is no doubt that the more Influential men of the South aro orposed to such lawlessness, both on the grounds of humanity and of the industrial welfare of the South. One prominent lawyer in Georgia attributes the assaults and lynchlngs to the law's delay. If a man Is arrested for assault and rut in Jail months pass before indictment, followed by a further delay of six months before trial. The case , is then carried to the Supreme Court, so that more than a year passoa between the commission of the crime and the action of the Supreme Court, by which time public sentiment has so dlmlnlihcd that the accused secures a commutation. The law's delay in punishing criminals is an evil In most States. There Is reason to fear that the disbanding of the Cuban army will not bring to the Island the good results which many hoped, since every man will have a certificate that he Is entitled to J30 a month for three years whenever the Island has an Independent government and can negotiate bonds to ray the claim, while every general has a certificate that $000 a month is due him. The Cuban army, so invincible since the United States brought peace to Cufoa and so invisible when our army went to the Island to drlvr off the Spaniards, seems now the element which will retard the progress and prosperity of the island. Americans have hoped that the patriots would rise to the occasion, but as months pass hope has vanished. It may yet be easier to establish good government in Luzon than In Cuba, with thirty or forty thousand men holding the promise of reward to resist efforts to build up a stable government. One of the mugwump papers of the East demands that the administration turn Its attention to the outrages upon negroes in Ihe South and give that race security against murdering mobs instead of going to the Philippine with professions of a purpose of establishing beneficent government. It goes on to say that the injustice and cruelty which have been manifested In the South in regard to the negro are calculated to cause the people of the Philippines to suspect our profession of good will toward them. This imputation ta simply malignant. The mugwump paper knows that the federal government cannot interpose to suppress mobs and protect blacks or whites in tha States. Further than that, when the Republican party was doing its utmost to ctcura the colored peopls fair chance in the Couth, tha causwumy press was among t3 t'.:urc;t c.l trzzt pcrclsttnt assailants Z nzH ZizZ'dzza curc:a It fsucit all

federal election laws; It defended rather than opposed the policy by which the negro vote was suppressed; it was silent in regard to the election assassinations in Louisiana and other States, and it has not opposed the latest scheme of disfranchising colored voters by constitutional amendments which have never been submitted to the people. In fact, those who are responsible for the conditions In the South had no more zealous allies than the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and the New York Evening Post. Now the first named of those papers intimates that the President fails to do his duty because he does not In some manner Interfere with local outrages In States. THi: i:.D OP THE WAR. All Indications tend to confirm the opinion that Aguinaldo's war Is rearing Its end. While there may be skirmishes. It does not seem probable that the enemy will attempt to make as much of a stand a he did at Calumplt. The army which fled In dismay from Its Internchments before a handful of Americans has no fighting spirit left. If the leaders thought their army could be relied upon to fight they would not have asked for an armistice and t-rms of peace.

The leaders may seek delay, but there Is' the most positive evidence that Aguinaldo's men are not only fear-stricken, but are in a state of mutiny and are deserting In large numbers. Filipino soldiers now know that they can receive full amnesty as soon as they enter our lines. Fear has been expressed that Agulnlado will take advantage. of the present quiet to fall back to the mountains and from his strongholds carry on a guerrilla war. There Is little danger of this, even If General Otis were not preparing to prevent such a movement. In fact, it Is doubtful if Agulnaldo can fall back much farther, since a powerful tribe of Filipinos hostile to the Tagals have risen in the north to fight them. It was this fact which led General Luna to declare that there seemed no other way open for the rebels but to surrender. After the severe chastisement the Tagals have received they will not be led Into another insurrection if peace shall bring to them a liberty and security such as they have never known Heretofore government and oppression have been synonymous terms. When they shall discover that they are not to be the victims of plundering tax gatherers there Is reason to believe that the United States will have no more difficulty in dealing with the Filipinos than with the Cubans. Both are Ignorant regarding government, but it is possible to teach them, now that they realize the superiority of Americans In war. m misrepresentation of the agulnaldo press. It now seems to be the purpose of the newspapers which have opposed the establishment of our authority in the Philippines to make it appear that the administration is welcoming with much fervor the renewal of the requests of Agulnaldo for a cessation of hostilities looking to peace after it had rejected his early proffers in that direction. The Pittsburg Dispatch, one of the papers referred to. In order to establish a basis for its assumption of a change of sentiment on the part of the President gives the following as history: Both to recognize facts and to estimate the bearing of this change in the situation on future events It is necessary to recall that this is not the first attempt of the natives to secure iace. They sought the friendship of the United States by rising and shutting up the Spaniards in Manila when we wanted their aid. After we had secured Manila with their assistance ? they sent a mission to Washington and Paris to ask for peace and the friendship of the United States and got only rebuffs for their pains. After the outbreak of hostilities there have been direct newspaper assertions passed by the censor, though unofficial, that they have sought to negotiate peace, but have been refused the opportunity. The Filipinos, if Admiral Dewey, Generals Merritt, Otis and other leaders are to be believed, began to chow their hostility to the United States soon after Agulnaldo appeared. True, while our war ships were where they could have shelled Manila the Filipinos who took the occasion of the presence of our navy to rise had forced the Spanish army within the fortifications of that city, which was the natural place for it to go. Agulnaldo did not seek the friendship of the United States, but issued a bombastic proclamation declaring himself. the head of the Filipino government. In his report General Merritt says that, after his arrival. Agulnaldo did not communicate with him nor in any other manner show his friendship for the United States. It is not a fact that "we secured Manila with the assistance of Aguinaldo's army." He could not have taken Manila alone, and not a man of his assisted our army in taking the town. Nor is it true that Agulnaldo sent a mission to Washington and to Paris to ask fcr peace and the friendship of the United States. There was no occasion for Agulnaldo to ask peace, because there was then no war, and would have been none if he had not begun it. The "friendship" which ho asked of the United States was an agreement to recognize his proclaimed government as the government of the Philippines. At the time that Aguinaldo's. eager ambassadors visited Washington and Paris the President was not in position to negotiate with Agulnaldo for the reason that the terms of the treaty had not been agreed upon when his messengers first appeared at the cities named. Even after the treaty had been negotiated the President could not enter into negotiations with Agulnaldo until it had been ratified both by the United States Senate and the Spanish government. Before the Senate had ratified tho treaty Agulnaldo attacked the American army, and, as has since been made clear, planned the assassination of every white person in the city. If at any time since Agulnaldo uogan hostilities he has sued for peace Gen. Otis and the President's commission have not regarded his suit as sincere. In fact, there Is no probability that the Filipino dictator and plotter of assassination made any proffer of peace until his flag of truce a few days since. It is quite remarkable that all of the naval and army officers who have had close communication with Agulnaldo have declared that he cannot be trusted. It would seem that men like Admiral Dewey and Generals Merritt, Otis and other commanders should know more of the man's character than those men in this country who have never been within thousands of miles of him some of whom furnihed Agonclllo msney while In Washington, which he used. In part, to inform his chief of the prospects of defeating the treaty and finally to advise him to attack the Americans before the vote was taken In the Senate. The meeting of the element in Chicago on Sunday which is silent when the name of Dewey Is mentioned, which hisses the President and cheers Agulnaldo, disclosed both its spirit and its weakness. In their speeches the leaders substituted slanders for fact and vituperation for argument, and thus provoked a protest from, a consld

erable part of the audience. The meeting came after the war Is practically ended, and as a demonstration hostile to the President can do Agulnaldo no good. But, while It failed In its purpose, it went to show the weakness of those who assail the Pres

ident's policy, sanctioned by Congress when it created a provisional army of 23,000 men establish the authority of the United to States. If a series of meetings to oppose the resolutions of the Agulnaldo meeting in Chicago should be caFed, it would be made very clear that the masses sustain the policy of the President in defeating Agulnaldo In a war which he began against the United States. The terrible blunder of the Montreal surgeon in removing the wrong eye of a patient in his care will react more or less upon all surgeons by lessening confidence in their accuracy and carefulness. Harsh things are being-said of him, but It must be remembered that where one man makes a mistake like this a thousand others perform wonderful feats of skill and save many lives. What could be more heroic, for Instance, than the act of the young Chicago surgeon in taking the knife from his father's hand when the latter was stricken with heart disease in the midst of a critical surgical operation and going on with it In order to save the patient's life. To leave his father to the care of others at that final moment of his life for the sake of the hospital patient required as much courage and self-sacrifice as soldier ever showed in battle. The announcement In the, Journal of April 30 that Hon. George W. Farls would recommend Mr. J. J. Hlggins for supervisor of census of the Fifth congressional district was erroneous. Mr. Hlgglns writes the Journal that he Is not an applicant end does not desire the appointment. DIDDLES IN THE A I It, Financial. The Old Friend And have you succeeded In laying up anything? The Unsuccessful Merchant Nothing but a lot of fln grudges. Educational. Old-fashioned Uncle Weil, my boy, what hava you 'earned at school to-day? Undutiful Nephew I don't think you would understand, even If I told you. Sociological. The Seeker-Really. is there such a thing as honor among thieves? Tho Sage Er well Instances have occurred where a member of the profession has been entitled to "Hon." before his name. Theological. The Antl But you are mistaken in calling them heathens. Most of them have been long ago converted to Christianity. The Expansionist Then why ain't they got better weapons than bows and arrows? Answer me that. The Fiery Funston. Philadelphia North American. Funston. of the Twentieth Kansas, Is like one of the soldiers one reads about. He's a rough rider afoot a figure snatched from tho pages of romance and put at the head of a regiment of lighing men, whom he can lead wherever he will. All men read with pleasure how, during the Malolos campaign, tunston, with twenty men, swam a swiftly flowing stream and led the victorious column into Marilao. Tuesday's feat eclipsed even this, when, with live men, he crept half way across a bridge, then dropped into the river below and swam, under neavy fire, straight into the face of the foe. Small wonder the rebels lied and left Funston and his five to the enjoyment of their trench. The Filipinos must know Funston by this time, and they seem to defer to him on all occasions. He's the true type of an American soldier, braving everything fearing nothing. So long as the Nation can produce men like Funston to light her battles, there need be no fears as to the future of the Republic. Samoa Not "Worth Flfrhtlngr Over. Leslie's Weekly. No one believes that the Samoan islands are worth fighting over. They are 2,000 miles south of the Hawaiian islands and consist of ten Inhabited and two uninhabited islands, with an area of l.TVX) square miles and an aggregate iwpulatlon of 3b0OO people; or less than the population of a single ward in the city of New York. The principal export is dried cocoanut, and the total valuation of this exported product in ls:t was only $231,Ouo. The chief value of the group to the United States lies in its location on the direct steamship lino connecting the Philippines with the proposed Nlcaraguan canal. As a coaling and repair station, the gToup would have great value to u greater value than to any other nation. Can't Keep Up vrltli the Tornado., Boston Herald. The new destructive weapons of war do not aeem to do much destroying, after all. We are told of savagely-fought battles, in which Maxim ami Gatling guns are used; of tremendous bombardments, of desperate storms of shot hurled against the enemy, and then read that the loss of life on the part of the foe aggregates from thirty to fifty men. And the old-fashioned tornado goes on its way, and mows down hundreds in its path In a few peconds, to say nothing of wiping two or three towns off the face of the earth at the same time. Notice. Edinburg (Ind.) Call. Whereas. I married Joseph Saddler, of Bartholomew county, a little over a year ago, and found that I could not consistently live with him, and on the 17th day of April, 1SV9. left him. and Instead of my leaving his bed I brought my bed with me and left him without one. therefore, as he refused to clothe and support me I had a Just cause for leaving, and the public are hereby notified not to credit or trust him on my account, as I will pay none of his debts. ART! MAC Y SADDLER, Only New York Taper that Cheep. New York Sun. Tho divorce obtained by Mr. Henry T. Sloane from his wife was secured by practices of dangerous secrecy, by some extraordinary mitigation, if not. Indeed, by an actual defiance of those rules of legal procedure which experience has shown to be necessary for the maintenance of Justice and the preservation of individual rights, and with which all ordinary litigants In court are forced to comply. The ofllclals concerned in the Sloane divorce deserve public condemnation. Sngrtcentlon to Bryan. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan says it makes but little difference as to the nominee. How would Hon. Wharton Barker strike him? Wharton has been nominated on a red-hot Bryan platform, and his adoption would save tho expense of holding another convention. The Only Question. Pittsburg Dispatch. While Mrs. George cannot quite appreciate the idea of appearing on the stage, she thinks she might go as far as to lecture upon woman's rights. The only question remaining is whether the public will stand It. Resrreta Modified. Kansas City Journal. The bicycle rider is not hardhearted. He sincerely regrets collision with pedestrians, though his regret Is not as keen as it used to be when wheels were higher In price. Condemn Them. Philadelphia North American. After smoking one of the cigars stamped by the counterfeit, we 'are convinced that the guilty persons deserve life sentences. Dnt Will It? Washington Post. The country should be considerate enough to omit the poetry on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's return. In Mlaaourl. Kansas City Journal. Uneasy lies the dead that doesn't know of a convenient cyclone cellar at this season of the year. 'Likely Caongh. Washington Post. Admiral Kautz probably has a copy of tha "lioch der Ilalser" on his person.

COLONEL FRED FUNSTON

INCIDENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE LITTLE MAX WHO FIGHTS SO WELL. He Waa a Lamentable Fallnre at School and College, but Never 3Ilned a Chance for a Fight. New York Sun. , In the entire army there is probably no man who has seen more fighting In proportion to his age than Col. Fred Funston. He Is a born soldier and has generally contrived to be in the vicinity where bullets were flying thickest, and although he has been wounded a number of times he has always escaped serious Injury. His friends say that this Is partly because there is so little of him to hit, for he is only five feet five Inches tall and his top weight is about 115 pounds. His latest exploit, when he ,took his Kansans across the Rio Grande de la Pampanga on a raft hastily constructed for the purpose, under a heavy fire from the Filipinos, formed them on the other side and took the fortifications at the charge, adds one more heroic service to a record already long. From his boyhood days Fred Funston has been a fighter. He was born In Ohio in ISM, but his father, E. H. Funston, soon moved to Kansas, where he became a congressman and was known as Foghorn Funston. His first public appearance was made when he was about sixteen years old, at a political meeting at Fort Scott, Kan. The political meeting happened to be opposed to his father's candidacy, but that made no difference to young Fred. In fact, It was the reason for his being there. After all the speaking was over and Foghorn Funston had been pretty well torn to pieces the young fellow got up, look the stage and said that he had a few remarks to make. He proceeded to make them In the face of strenuous opposition, but when the audience presently discovered that he was telling a good story on his father it quitcd down. He finished that story and then another, and then began to tell what kind of a man Foghorn Funston, who had been the butt of so much ridicule, really was. In vain did the organizers of the meeting howl for adjournment, the boy now had his audience with him, and by the time he had finished a brief but well put statement of the political situation it was a Funston audience, and the effect of his oratory was very evident on election day. Two years later Fred Funston entered the Kansas State University, where he was a classmate of William Henry White, who made himself famous by Ms inquiry, "What's the matter with Kansas?" White says that if It hadn't been for hlmwlf Funston would have stood at the foot of the class, and even as It was it was a close race. He tells this story of the young fellow's colt lege career: "He is not afraid of anything that can walk. Once the town's 'bad coon tried to run over Funston. The darky weighed pretty nearly DW) pounds and was a 'scrapper' with a razor record. Funston was five feet three and weighed about ninety-five. He bluffed' the colored brother to a 'standstill' and went for a warrant and marched the boss bully through the main streets of Lawrence at the point of a gun." EXPERIENCE AS EDITOR. Owing to difficulty which he experienced with some of the text-books he didn't graduate, but In 18S7 became city editor of the Fort Smith Tribune, a stanch upholder of the local Democracy. A few days before the election the editor-in-chief went away, leaving the paper In Funston's hands. He had been getting pretty weary of the Democrats, who had been conducting their campaign on a basis of bribery and intimidation, and his first act when he was put In control was to write an editorial stating-his opinions with a degree of franknRS JwbJcb, e,fL,nn. room for misunderstanding. This engaging optnmlndedness did not appeal to the worthy citizens of Fort Smith, who set about showing the young editor the error of his ways by burning down the Tribune building. Funston gathered his staff about him and prepared to defend the place, but the edltor-ln-chlef hastily returned in answer to urgent telegraphic summon from his friends and appeased the wrath of the Dmeocrats by a hasty issue, explaining editorially what had happened. Naturally, yojrg Funston did not retain his Job. There was talk of tarring and feathering him before he could get away from town, but he didn't evince any haste in leaving. Instead, he wandered around the 'place with his nose In the air, looking for some of the alleged ringleaders in the proposed scheme. When he did finally leave there were no feathers attached to hint, except the feather in his cap at having bluffed practically the whole town. When a friend asked him why he had so foolishly thrown away his situation by printing such an editorial the young man said briefly: "I was tired of the rotten politics and tired of the rotten town and tired of the rotten sheet and ready to go, anyway; so I thought I might Just as well wake the place up and let 'em know I was alive before I lctt." For a time Funston was out of a Job. Then he drifted Into the railroad business and became a conductor on the Santa Fe line. One day a cowboy full of rum became rampageous In his car and lying down on his back in the aisle began to shoot holes In the ceiling. The little conductor kicked the revolver out of his hand, yanked him along the aisle and threw him off the back platform. The cowboy got up and hurled a piece of ballast, which broke an end window, then started and ran down the track, with Funston in hot pursuit, flinging ballast as he ran, until the fugitive distanced him. By the time he got back to his trait sweating and breathless half an hour had been dropped on the schedule. The superintendent made inquiry about it and the conductor explained. "It was all right to throw him off." said the superintendent, "but what did you go and chase him for?" "I suppose I was mad." said Funston. "Wouldn't you be mad If a man threw a rock through your window?" "Probably: but don't do it again," said the superintendent. Whether because of this restriction or for other causes the young man soon left the railroad's employ and cast about him for something else to do. The chance came In an expedition to Dakota, followed by one to Death Valley. From this latter half of the travelers came back permanently disabled, but it seemed to agree with Funston and he liked so well the exploring of unknown countries that- he looked around for something else In the same line. The Agricultural Department wanted some one to collect botanical specimens in the Interior of Alaska and a friend got an offer of the place for Funston, at the same time warning him that it was a perilous Job. "That's all right," Bald the young- man, "but as my botanical knowledge doesn't extend much further than knowing a violet from a sunflower, I don't think I'd be a valuable collector." HIS LATER CAREER. Nevertheless the prospect was so alluring that he set to work to learn practical botany, and In 1S32 was in Alaska. He went over Chllkoot pass In a late blizzard, struck for the Interior, reached the spot where Dawson City now Is and started down the Yukon alone In a canoe which he had built. His canoe was caught in rapids, split on a rock, and that would have been the end of Fred Funston but for a missionary who chanced to be going along with some Indians and who saved him That winter he spent with Indians, hunting and exploring, and when he returned it was with a store of highly comprehensive and valuable botanical material. His one criticism of Alaska was that It was a magnificent country but pretty lonely. Ills next venture was In Cuba, where he went filibustering. Gomez gave him a commission and he became second In command of artillery under Osgood, the famous Cornell football half back, lie made a record for bravery at Guimaro in October, ISM, where his chief was killed, and he took command. At the head of his artillerymen and with a dynamite bomb In his hand he charged the Spanuh works In the assault which terminated In their surrender. At liayamo ho became a cavalry officer temporarily because there was more for cavalry than for artillery to do there, and was shot three times, but such was his endurance and physique that he was ready for more fighting In a' short time. At Las Tunas he managed the Cuban dynamite guns which wrought such havoc among" the Spanish troops, and was again wounded. At the same time his horse was shot and fell upon him. badly injuring his hips. Wounded as he was he hobbted to headquarters on learning that fifty prisoners, guerrillas who fought on the Spanish side, were to be executed and begged tor their lives. The petition was refused. Enraged at the barbarity of the Cubans. Funston swors that he would never strike

another blow In a cause that permitted sucn an outrage, and thereupon resigned his commission, having tought In twenty-two battles. With a letter from General Garcia ordering transportation to this country for rum he went to the coast and fell in with a number of Spaniards. As it didn't seem advisable to be found with papers signed ty Garcia upon him. Funston ate tho letter. u gave him indigestion, which, added to the malaria and the effects of his wounds, left hlra in a very bad condition when he landed here, the Spaniards having treated him well and put him aboard a ship. For three weeks he was in a hospital here and when he came ouou e ,wel&hed but ninety pounds. Shortly after he had recovered his normal health and energy the war with Spain broke out and he offered his services. An opportunity. waa given him to go on Gen. Miles's staff, but he chose rather to accept the comroand of the Twentieth Kansas, after he had failed of recognition in his project to raise a regiment of rough riders. It was a great disappointment to him that his regiment did not get to Cuba, but his chance came later when they were ordered to the Philippines. On the way there was a long wait In San Francisco, where Colonel Funston met, wooed and married a young music teacher, all in two weeks, and she accompanied him to Manila. Since the fighting began he snd his Kansans have been promiV? n.1 ,In ""y battles. In the fighting before Malolos he found himself with part of his command on one side of the muddy Marilao river and a force of Filipinos on the other who had a &00d Position and were galling our troops by their constant fire. Calling for volunteers who could swim. Col. Funs-ton selected twenty men, told them to follow him, and, holding his revolver up, swam the stream. The men put their guns on logs and followed, pushing the logs. On the other side the little force charged and captured eighty Filipinos. He was the first man to enter Malolos after the capture. Those who have seen Colonel Funston in action say that he has inspired his men with unbounded confidence in him and that he has only to call for volunteers and they will be at his side ready to follow wherever he may lead. The temper of his men is shown by tho feat reported in yesterday's Sun, where two of them, on his call for volunteers, swam the river towing a heavy rope and fastened the rope to a tree on the further bank while the Filipinos were firing at them all the time, the rope being used as guidance for the raft on which Colonel runston transported his command in successive trips. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. A Clipping: 188 Year Old That Contains the Idea. London Letter. Somebody has dug up from a copy of the Spectator 188 years old a curious bit of prophecy or prophetic imagination that gives the idea of wireless telegraphy in a guise which, while not scientific, does approach marvelously close to the present fact when it is considered that in 1711 electricity and magnetism wero practically unknown. This is the passage: "Strada, in one of his Prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it that if it touched two several nevdles, when one of the needles so touched began to move tho other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time and in the fame manner. Ho tells us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles, made a kind of dial plate, inscribing it with the four and twenty-letters in the same manner as tho hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial plate. They then fixed ono of the needles on each of these plates in such manner that it could move round without Impediment so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters. Upon their separating from one another Into distant countries they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day and to converse with ono another by means of this, their invention. Accordingly, when they were 6ome hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed and immediately cast his eye upon the dial plate. If he had a mind to write anything to his friend he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence to avoid confusion. The friend. In the meanwhile, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an Instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts. In the meanwhile, if ever this invention should be revived or put In practice, I would propose that upon the lover's dial plate there should be written, not only the four and twenty letters, but several entire words which have always a place in passionate epistles, as flames, darts, die, languish, absence, Cupid, heart, eyes, hang, drown and the like. Thte would very much abridge the lover's pains in this way of writing a letter as it would enable him to express the most useful and significant words with a single touch of the needle." PENSIONS FOR EVERYBODY.

Poaalhllltlen of Cltlfenalilp In Ann. tralla und New Zealand. II. De R. W'alker, in May Atlantic So many criticisms are made against the governments of Australia and New Zealand that I have thought it well to answer at some length tho?e which seem to be most current upon the subject. As tc the benefits which are obtained by the general population, they may be summarized in a few words. Let me assume that I am a New Zealander. In that case, 1 live in a country which is governed In the Interests of the people, and not in the Interests of monopolists, as England is largely governed In the interests of the ground landlords. I live under an equitable system of taxation, the burden of which is in proportion, as far as possible, to tho payable capacity of the taxpayer. If I am anxious to settle upon the land I can rent or buy land on favorable terms from the government. Owing to the existence cf a vast number of freehold properties, I can be certain that no revolutionary measures will have any chance of acceptance, because so large a section of the population has a direct interest In the soli and is likely to be conservative In the best sense of the word. As the owner of land or a leaseholder assuming that I have carried out Improvements upon my property I can borrow money from the government at a low rate of interest. If I sm an urban worker I have the benefit of stringent laws which protect me from abuses, whether I work In a factory or In a shop. Whether I am an employer or a workingman, I feel confident that there are not likely to bo any violent disturbances in trade, because I am in a country In which, owing to the compulsory arbitration law, there has been no strike or lockout for u period of four years, and all Indus-trial disputes have been amicably settled. If I want to insure my life I go to the government, and I know that they can givo me the best security. When I make ray will, if I have no friend whom I can trust or no friend whom I wish to trouble, I can put my property, with entire confidence. In the hands of the public trustee. Finally, if 1 am living as an upright citizen of my country, though a poor man, I need have no fear of a miserable old age, because, when I have reached sixty-five, the government will give me a pension of 7 shillings a week, and in the meanwhile I shall save as much as possible In order that my own modest means, as a supplement to the allowance which I shall receive, may enable me to obtain something beyond the mere necessaries of life. What Liquid Air Can De t'scd For. Prof. EUhu Thomson, In Engineering Magazine. It would seem that certain uses may be found for liquid aid in which considerations of cost are not so Important as is tho ability to obtain the effects in view. In warfare, for example, the possession of highly concentrated energy-stores under control is very important. Liquid air can be rapidly converted Into compressed air at six tons per square inch. This would probably be useful in tho projection of high explosives. Compressed air is now used lor propelling mobilo torpedoes, or fish-torpedoes, as they are called. Dirigible torpedoes either depend for power upon compressed air or the electric energy of a storage battery. Compressed air requires high pressures and very strong and heavy containing vessels. Liquid air can be stored without pressure or at low pressures, and can be evaporated at any desired pressure, while its bulk represents that of air under SuO atmospheres. A storage battery would probably be from five to ten times as heavy as liquefied air In a receptacle, for equal available energy. But no storage battery could be dischargtd at an equivalent rate. Submarinw boats a:?d flying machines may yet rind use for liquid air. In the subrr.arino boat it could be avaporated by the heat of the surrounding water, and after furnishing power it would ventilato the boat. Before the final discharge It could be burnt with oil in a fuel engine for further power. We may find use for it in the flying machine. For emergency work it could in evaporating cool the cylinders of a fuel engine and yield power as a result. Moreover, control of the submergence of a loat could be effected by the use of liquid air. so easily gasified, to add to the displacement. The great feature of the application of such a power as liquid air would be Its emergency value. By this Is meant the ability to obtain at will a sudden output far beyond the normal. Animal power notably possesses this emergency value, and the success of electric trolley systems largely depends upon the fact that, when needed, the station can be called upon for a temporary delivery to any single car or train, of a power greatly in excess of the rated output of the motors

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CAUSES OF PREJUDICE AGAINST THE TRANSPORTATION LINES. Anions: Them Are Overcapitalisation, Vexation Litigation and Unfairness .Remedy SuKReated. Special to the Irdlanapolls Journal. LAFAYETTE Ind., May 1. Hon. Daniel P. Baldwin delivered an address to-day before the studsnts of Purdue University, his topic being "Prejudices Against Railways." Judge Baldwin said there was much prejudice against railways, particularly among farmers. "The present prejudice," said the speaker, "against railways in Indiana is largely hereditary, for to-day their tracks are mostly fenced and their finances so far settled that debts against them are fairly collectible. Forty years ago this was . directly the reverse. Just as It is to-day in the farther West. One of the most fruitful sources of the existing prejudices against railways is the scandalous fraud connected with their construction, the memory of which still rankles in the memories of grayheaded men and women, and which prejudice they have religiously handed down to their children and their children's children. Forty years ago, when the railway building mania was upon us, farmers exchanged land for stock. True, they got big prices for very poor acres, but the railways, when they issued the stock, never intended it to have any value. In early days, rights of way were to be had for the asking. Towns, townships and cities voted aid with prodigal recklessness. Often these donations and exchanges for stock were sufficient to build the road. All the same it was heavily bonded and overstocked. The construction contractors were often the directors themselves, operating m the name of stoolpigeons. The road was built In the shammlest possible manner; the bridges and trestles were of wood, and the rails of the cheapest Iron and Intended to last only a couple of years. For the first two years all the earnings went to pay big dividends on the stock, which, In consequence, rose rapidly above par. Meantime the ring inside unloaded. Accidents begun to occur, debts were unpaid: the result wa bankruptcy. After enriching themselves the directors turned the half-built, worthless property over to their creditors and everybody was defrauded. As the road had never been fenced, farmers' stock was dally killed. Judgments for accidents were uncollectible. In a word, the new-fangled railroad was an organized swindle from start to finish. Now a swindled creditor has a most unreasonable memory. He not only does not forget himself, but his wife and children are built In the same way and we all know that the roots of prejudice are very long indeed." Tha speaker then entered upon the question of overcapitalization, saying that this did not now prevail In Indiana, but citing figures showing its prevalence elsewhere, particularly in the case of the street railways of Chicago and Indianapolis. This overcapitalization, pooling and rebating were, the speaker continued, causes of prejudice and railway wrecking and vexatious litigation were prolific sources of opposition to railways. On the topic of taxation Judge Baldwin s&id "In our State railway taxes are admirably handled. No county is allowed to levy them. It is all done by the State Board of Equalization and the result is that upon the whole railways pay upon a just valuation. But In the newer States railways scandalously avoid their Just taxes. Some years ago I was employed in a tax litigation against the great Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Arizona and New Mexico. I found that in neither of these great Territories did they pay any taxes to speak of and resorted to all sorts of shameful frauds to avoid them. "And in the State of Indiana the Pullman Sleeping-car Company has been guilty of the like shameless misconduct taking every possible advantage and using every conceivable loophole to avoid Just contributions to the State and to that extent Increase Mr. Pullman's millions. This same Pullman Sleepingcar Company ha3 created a vast amount of prejudice against railroads by their policy of compelling the public to pay their porters by tips and by other petty abuses. It would be money In railroads' pockets if the payment of tips to sleeping car porters were prohibited by a rule of the company. UNMERITED PREJUDICES. "I gladly turn to the othor branch of the question unmerited prejudices. It is a queer trait in human nature that there axe two or three occasions when public opinion Justifies theft. One of these is avoiding United States revenue laws and the other, railroad transportation. Delicate ladies whose conscience in everything else is as sensitive as a rose leaf will unblushingly defraud the United States, by smuggling in through the custom house gloves, dresses, Jewelry, etc., bought abroad, and 'like wife and sister, like husband and brother,' they will all He when it comes to signing the declaration of dutiable articles. And so in paying railroad fares for transportation: The highest test of human honesty that I know of is, 'will you. man or woman, voluntarily surrender to a conductor a railroad ticket that he has by oversight failed to take up? Or will they say nothing and steal the ride?' 'They all dj it,' even down to preachers, who justify themselves by saying, 'If the railroad don't ask for my ticket I am not lound to surrender it. am I?' Now, this disposition to cheat a railroad company is a part of that unevoluted communism which lies at the bottom of every human heart, and which Is a remnant of our animal ancestry out of which perhaps the human race originally sprang. The presence of great masses of property always arouses prejudices against its owners, which it must be said that railway magnates are not careful to avoid. A track hand working ten hours a day at 9 cents the hour is not likely to look with favor upon a railroad-pampered favorite riding in a J10.0U0 private palace car; neither does he stop and take out of his pocket these railway statistics which tell him that they spend iip.O00O per year upon roadbeds in the Lnited States, ray forty million per year injaxes and employ 800,000 men. of whom l.a.000 are these same track hands. "Men of unimpeachable character, conscientious and correct in all their relations In life-, will, as Jurors, make railroads pay double what othr folks pay, merely because It is a railroad. They will decide against a railroad all the time from no other reason than they are able to pay It; or in other words, because there exists a preiudice against great masses of property and corporations generally. SOFTENING PREJUDICES. "This Is the most Important part of my subject. In a general way the answer is, 'By fair treatment;' by employing courteous men; by a persistent policy of prompt and fair settlements. I have a prejudice against the Wabash Railway Company which I shall never be able to overcome. Once at Washington I purchased a ticket home. I did not take time to examine it, for I was late at the train. It turned out to be a forty-eight-hour limited ticket. In Pennsylvania there was a wreck, so that when I arrived at Fort Wayne the limit had expired. There was barely time to change trains, and the conductor on the Wabash would not hear my explanation of the facts, but compelled me to pay full fare and 10 cents penalty in addition. I was too busy to resist, but should have let the company put me off and then sued for damages. Worse than that, when the company's attention was called to the fact they failed to refund and still have my $2. as well as my lifelong 111 will. Now, railroads are not particular in these small matters. They say, 'Help yourself if you can.' They invariably put a lot of mean clauses in their through tickets, ind few travelers have the courage, like the late deceased Mr. Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, to refuse to sign such contracts. Railroads In such cases take advantage of the fact that the terminus of the railroad making the sale Is reached at a late hour at night and refuse to Fell any .ther than the stuffed through ticket. Then their freight bills" are as full as- insurance policies are of dishonest and disreputable conditions, which the railways will take advantage of to the last farthing In case of loss. Then, in the matter of freights, railways will not furnish elevator men with car when they are needed, but give them to favorite shippers and issue rebates and drawbacks to their pets, which put the general public to great disadvantage. To eom-r-M passengers to take seats In chair cars the New York Central and other great railw only attach a single day coach to their through trains, which is always disgustingly dirty. This Is done to increase the Vanderbilt millions. AH' these things create prejudice and Irritation, which any far-seeing railway will do its best to avoid. No wonder people get down upon them. Then,

railway manners are not always either polite or gracious. To their credit be It said that they will not knowingly employ an illmannered conductor, but this rule is often disregarded among the higher officials. "Fiee passes are mleralle investments for railroads. Some State legislatures have prohibited them, and In this they are right. A common carrier has no moral right to give away transportation to influential people. Overcapitalization should be inhibited by rigid laws. No railroad stock or bond should be Issued without tli permit of some state otflcer whose duty It is to see that none but paid-up stock is issued, and no more than the statute allows." In conclusion. Judge Baldwin argued in favor of state boards of control for railways.

SCURVY AND FROST. Victim of Both Tell Storlea of Death and Privation In Alaska. SEATTLE, Wash., May L-SIxty prospectors arrived here to-day from Copper river, Alaska, on the steamer Excelsior. They brought with them a repetition of the stories of privation and death, and many bore evidence on their bodies of the ravages of scurvy and frost. A man namedY'oung hobbled off the vessel on the stumps of two legs. Another named Alex. Powell had but one foot. F. C. Goodwin, of Oakland, Cal., whose legs are black with scurvy and whose knees are bruised by contact with the Ice, tells an Interesting story of his experiences, which were similar to that of others. While camped in the interior his partner, Wesley Scheldecker, of Grand Ridge, 111., fell sick with scurvy and soon became unable to travel. Goodwin strapped him on a sled and started to the coasL After four days of almost herculean labor he arrived at the mouth of the Chltna river, but his partner was frozen stark and stiff to the sled. He burled him in the snow. Continuing his Journey to the coast, he came across a tent in which there were two men sick with scurvy. They were Dixon Hunt, of Memphis. Tenn., and T. B. Rawlings, of Little Rock, Ark. Another man happened along at the same time and he and Goodwin put Rawlings and Hunt on sleds and dragged them to the coast. Others reported sick, but their names are lack it before the Excelsior left Valdez a big was reported on the glacier, but no PLticulars were learned. It was rumored that a party of prospectors were coming out from the interior, and it was feared they might have been caught in the slide. A letter from Skaguay, dated April 21 says: "The Chilkat Indians are on the warpath. Last Sunday twenty bucks armed with rifles gathered from their several villages along the .Chilkat river and marched to Rocky Point, eight miles from Haines Mission, where eight white men were blasting rock for a trail to Klukwan, a distance of twenty-five miles. The Indians drove ths whites away. Word was immediately sent to the United States marshal and the com mlssioncr at Skaguay and to Captain Cheatman. in command of the troops at Dyea. Sixteen soldiers, under command of a er geant, were at once sent to Haines Mission. It is understood that persons who are opposed to the construction of the new trnlj have Incited the Indians to make trouble The Dominion Telegraph Company is m.i kIng rapid progress with its line from Lake Bennett to Dawson. The line has been lo cated fifteen miles down Lake Bennett, ant Foles have been distributed almost to Whltu lorse rapids." Memasre from Ahereromlile. WASHINGTON, May L Acting Secretary Melklejohn has received a report from CanAocjv.ioujuic, w i is eujumanmng ins expedition Investigating the Copper river route to the Yukon country. The report comes through Captain Robinson, quartermaster at Seattle, Wash., who says that the following message, signed by Abercromble, was handed him by the purser of the steamer Excelsior, which arrived yesterday from Valdez, Alaska: "My expedition disembarked to-day, April 23. Hospital organized for the care of destitute miners, who are now coming out of the Interior by the route you contemplate opening as a military road. While the conditions are distressing so far as the destitution Is concerned, the worst is over. A full report follows." MONEY IS PAID" rcent In every channel. Iater. Mr. Itath? bone. In an interview, said: "From the crude, disrupted, old autonomist Spanish postal scheme we have built up a completely equipped organized system, with the same domestic service enjoyed in this country, with a similar policy of modern methods and facilities. While we have 130 Americans as acting postmasters to train the t.atives along modern lines, we are retaining the old employes very largely and are making removals only for cause. We are now equipping the service with distinctive uniforms, and all carriers at all delivery postofilces will wear them." - Luis Munoz Rivera, former premier ofPorto Rico, has arrived here to discuss with the authorities the condition of affairs on the island, particularly the depressed commercial conditions, accompanied by Senor Gonzala de Quesada. He called to-day on General Davis, who Is about to assume the governor generalship of Porto Rico, and conferred on the remedies to be adopted. Senor Rivera belongs to the liberal element In Porto itican politics, who support the authority of the Lnited States snd are seeking to improve commercial conditions. Senor Rivera pointed out the various forms of distress and depression and the anomalous political condition of the Porto III cans in being without citizenship In any country. The royal commission of Insurance appointed by the Prussian minister of the Interior to visit the United States and settle the long pending and vexatious controversy over admitting life Insurance companies to do business in Germany and German companies in the United States has arrived here. The members of the commission, Herr Knbel-Doeberltz and Marschail Von Blebersteln, paid their respects to the German ambassador to-day, and, accompanied by him, were presented to Secretary Hay. The officials, diplomatic and governmental, are giving tho commission every assistance and encouragement, although the work will be largely of a private nature, consisting of negotiations with the large institutions in this country. After making their official calls to-day the commission will go to New York and there begin their conference, which it Is expected will bring about some form of reciprocity In admitting insurance companies to foreign business. Secretary Gage has gone to Hot Springs, Va., for a two weeks vacation. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gage. Col. Samuel M. Mansfield, corps of engineers; Capt Harry C. Benson, Fourth United States Cavalry, and Mr. J. R. Price, of the department of highways of the State of California, have been appointed a commission to examine and report upon the condition, cost of construction, value, cost of maintenance, annual tolls collected and the length of season open to travel of various so-called roads in and about the Yosemite National Park. California. The commission is also directed to report the best attainable routes from Yosemite valley to various points in the surrounding country. The remains of the late Capt. William O'Neill, of the ljough Riders, were Interred at Arlington Cemetery to-day after impressive funeral services. He was buried ju.u in front of the grave of the late Capt. Allyn Caprun, who. like Captain O'Neill, lost his li'e in the Santiago campaign. Captain O'Neill was well known In the Southwest. A memorandum has been prepared at the War Department comparing the losses in the Spanish war with the first year of the civil war. The aggregate strength of troops employed during the war with Spain waa approximately 275,01)0, covering the period from May. 1 to April. lSif9. inclusive.' During this time there were 6.1JO deaths, or 2!i per cent. The mean strength of the first year of the civil war was 2.',37l with an aggregate loss by deaths of H,1U. being a percentage of CS. There was no material change in the condition of Vice President Hobart to-day. The patient sat up, as usual, but Is still too weak: to move about. The circulation of the antl-lmperlallstlc documents admitted to have been sent out by Edward Atkinson, of Boston, was officially called to the attention of Postmaster General Kraorj' Smith to-day, and the matter Is now awaiting official action. In all probability It will 1m taken up for discussion at to-morrow's Cabinet ses.-ion. Howard Gould to Make Lonfr CraUr. NEW YORK. May L-Howard Goul i s steam yacht Niagara is at quarantine, propared for a Ion:; foreign cruise. She 1 to visit the Azores, ports in England. Scotland and Norway and possibly fcJvttzhvrgen. The Niagara Is expected to be back In time for the international races for the America's cup In the fail.