Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1899 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAYr JUNE 13, 1699.

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INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK A tor House. CIUCAGO Palmer House. P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley tc Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerinj:. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Loul3ville Bock Co., ZA Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rlggs House. Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel. W have heard so little of "the great crime of 1S73" the past year that It will be Quite new when Allen Clark traverses Indiana forming l$-to-l Bryan clubs. The resignation of the French Ministry yesterday teemed necessary in order that the sensational newspapers might have a fresh topic for the evening editions. Enterprising exchanges are already parceling out the chairmanships of House committees, but it will be safe to wager that General Henderson will not ratify all of them. 'it 13 probable that the postmaster general will Interfere to prevent the contribution of a dollar each to maintain a lobby in Washington to work for an increase of salary of postal clerks. The nations which are watching the Sunday performances in Paris will come to the conclusion that such an emotional and sensational people will rt be a principal factor la controlling the world's destiny. A few prompt trials and convictions of those who take life without apparent pretext, as in two recent cases, would lead a large number of persons Intent on murder to drop the custom for fear of the penalty. Those politicians who imagine that Mayor Jones, of Toledo, may be of use to them will be disgusted when they learn that he fcas declared that "a campaign against trusts is la the nature of criminal retrogression." While an abundance of money is reported throughout the country investors are not purchasing the stocks of trusts. As selling the watered stock was the main purpose of those who have promoted many trusts, tho. business is more or less a failure. In an exhaustive statement in the New York Mail and Express ex-Secretary Bliss chows that more than two-thirds of the changes In the civil-service rules recommended by him were approved by the Civil-service Commission. He further shows that the removing- from the classified service local examining boards, where the fees are over 1300 a year, was actually recommended by the" Civil-service Commission, whereas the Civil-service League cites this change as tending to demoralize the service. It appears that Mr. Lyman, who was a civil-service commissioner under Presidents Cleveland and Harrison and chief examiner before he was commissioner, drafted the civil service order of President McKinley. lie has had fifteen years' experience and was asked to suggest a way out of the difficulty which Mr. Cleveland's sweeping extension of the civil-service rule made so embarrassing to members of the Cabinet. Heretofore Mr. Lyman has been regarded by civll-ervtce reformers as the best informed expert. Hereafter they will consider him a spoilsman. . At a recent conference in Detroit between a committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and representatives of Iron and steel manufacturers, an agreement was made by which wages are to be advanced 25 per cent. As this will affect 43.000 men It is the most remarkable advance in wages ever made in any industry. And, yet. there are alleged statesmen, who will tell this army- that their condition cannot be improved until 43 cents' worth of silver bullion shall be stamped one dollar. Some of them believed that assertion in 1S0C, but they will not in irea Whatever vitality there may have been in the cause of these who call themselves anti-imperialists was destroyed by Edward Atkinson in the issue of bis pamphlet, the Anti-Imperialist, dated June 3. Incompre hens Ible as It miy seem. Mr. Atkinson has published a lot of absurd reports about the killing of native women and children by our aoldlcrs in the Philippines and of the issuing cf crders by our officers not to take prison era. There has never been a particle of basis for such stories, yet Mr. Atkinson asks hi3 readers to believe that General Wheaton issued orders to "kill every native la sight" at Titatia; that at Caloocan the order was issued to take no prisoners; that women were killed while cooking, and that a.t Taguig it was decided by a. council held la General Wheaton's headquarters "at once to kill or drive into the lake every native possible," in a district twelve miles long. Alt ihtf scandalous stories have been refuted by the best authority, yet Edward Atkinson publishes and circulates them in his weekly paper. Indianapolis citizens interested in the subject of the postoffice site seem hardly to have got their breath and their bearings fince the intimation from the 'government architect's office that the block south of "University Fark might be chosen and on such port of it as would not be needed for the public building business blacks might be erected. This scheme not only makes summary disposal of the notion fondly cher ished by certain uninformed persons that the government would make the unused part cf the square Into a park for the benefit cf the Indianapolis people, but does away trlth that delightful picture at forth by the I-;3tive Commercial Club of a beauti

ful building set in the middle -of a square

and far removed from the noise of traffic and the pressure of the madding crowd. Moreover. It presents the government in the light of a land speculator a role In which it has not hitherto figured. If the government does not want to use the entire square. why buy more ground than it needs? The probabilities are that it will not. and that all .rumors to the contrary are erroneous. A number of property owners in the square named are by no means anxious to sell, and if the government does not insist on having their ground they will willingly have the postoffice for a neighbor and build their own business blocks. DANGER OF OVER CONFIDENCE. One of the commercial papers warns busi ness men against the danger of overtrading. It is the warning of experience. Good times In the past have ended In the evil of overtrading or overstocking. Retailers see prices rising and are led to consider what they would have made had they laid In large stocks before the advance. Now, with prices already advanced, they assume that the -advance will continue and lay In large stocks at the higher price;. By so doing they create an unnatural demand, which stimulates production. In a short time producers find their gooc3 accumulating in their warehouses and the retailers do not find the large sales on which they counted. The retailer finds it difficult to meet his obligations for the goods which are on his shelves and the producer offers his accumulating stock at lower prices. Such a result may not follow the pres ent flush times and advancing prices, but such extensive production and overtrading have preceded and put an end to a period of" activity. It is fair to assume that such will bo the case now if business men are imprudent and forget tnat there is such a thing as overproduction and over trading. When such matters are under consideration it should not be forgotten that the price has much to do with the volume of purchases. If two or three cents on an article do not Influence purchasers, it is not probable that so many articles would be displayed with 9S-cent tags.' Men defer building and making improvements very often on the ground that prices of materials have advanced. The advance in the prices of a thousand articles has a tendency to lead purchasers to get along for a time until what they wunt may cost less. These are matters which should not be lost sight of when trade appears to be booming and prices are advancing. AX OLD STORY. The report from Washington to the effect that a few men have organized to overthrew the civil-service law will not attract much attention. The law has been in operation fifteen yers. During that period it has been assailed many times, but without success. All those who have Informed themselves and who prefer efficient and experienced service to inefficiency favor the law, even if they do not say much about it. The number of intelligent citizens who would have every railway postal clerk changed every time there Is a change in administration, to the utter demoralization of the service, is not large. Those who would have the tenure of every postal clerk and letter carrier dependent upon a change in party are few In number, or would be when they consider the confusion and loss It would bring to the public. Those who demand such change consider the advantage of the few rather than the convenience of the many. They ignore the fact that in fifteen years the mail service and other branches of the public service have so changed that experience counts for as much as it does In a factory, a railroad service or a business house. Much of the hostility to a competitive system comes from those who covet publio employment when no valid reasons can be given for so doing, since the same talent which enables a man to be advanced In the public service will meet with better reward in the end in some private employment. But, while the abolition of the competitive system would be a great misfortune, the present law or rules need radical. modification. The present rules are designed to put employes under the cover of the civilservice law. More men are in the service without examination than with it. When the rules are extended to cover a lot of employes provision should be made for their rigid examination, to the end that the inefficients should be dismissed. There should be a rigid limit to the term of service of all those who have not been advanced because of ascertained fitness. To insure an efficient service there should be an age limit in order that the service shall not be burdened with mcri who are unable to earn the money which is paid them. The law should give the heads of departments entire control over those under the civil service in Washington, so that they can compel them to work full hours and so that the protest of employes against the head of the Treasury Department keeping record of malingerers should not have weight with Congress as it has. All the argument is in favor of a sensible civil-service system such as secures efficiency In successful private enterprises. "We could not build a ship in a navy yard," said a well-known naval officer, "until after the order of President Harrison was enforced by Secretary Tracy, by which skill and faithfulness were the tests applied to all mechanics." THE OPINION OF KX-SECIIETAIIY BLISS. As the positive civil-service theorists and those who are so unfortunate as to accept the statements of the leaders of a civilservice society as infallible do not accept the explanation of Secretary Gage, It is not probable that they will listen to the views and experience of ex-Secretary Bliss. "I went to Washington two years ago a civilservice reformer," said Mr. Bliss recently in an interview, "and I left the Interior Department Jut as much-a reformer as ever." He stated that when he became secretary of the interior one of Mr. Cleveland's civil-service commissioners told him that many changes would be found necessary in the rules to be made covering over 30.000 positions, and it so proved. What the Jour nal said yesterday regarding the civil-serv ice blanket ex-Secretary Bliss confirms, as follows: The trouble with most civil-service reformers is that they will not be reasonable. They see a government place outside of the competitive class and at once set to work to bring It under the regulations, utterly regardless of the effect unon the service. If they once get it within the rules they will never give it up, no matter whether or not experience proves that it should be out. Now, I regard the civil service pretty much as I do a mercantile agency report, on a merchant who comes to me for credit for a bill of goods. It is all right as far as it goes. but I also like to have some special Informa tlon of my own. What has he done? Where has he traded before? w hat Is his local reputation? So it is with the civil service. It can cover and cover admirably thousands upon- thousands of places under the govern ment, and I am a thorough believer in it that far: but when a man takes hoid of a department he should have, the right to have about him U confidential rlatlnna

those on whom he knows he can depend. He should not be compelled to share his

confidence with men about whom he knows nothing except that they have a rating from ine civu-service ooara. Mr. Bliss, in illustrating, states that in one important case he had to share his confidence with subordinates whom he did not appoint and whom he did not know, but he discovered at an early day that the opponents cf the government were fully and promptly informed of all that he did or proposed to do. lie got rid of these men and was accused of a violation of the civilservice rules. Mr. Bliss changed but one of eight heads of divisions, and he did that because the occupant was absolutely unfitted for executive work. He was changed to a position for which he was suited, but if 21r. Bliss had followed the routine of the rules he could not have transferred the man without preferring charges against him. Mr. Bliss tells of an Instance when a chief clerk was wanted for the Pacific Railroad commission. The Civil-service Commission had no eligible list for such a place and In the emergency a practical railroad man was appointed for ninety days. He was entirely satisfactory. Ten months passed before an examination could be made, but when it was made the efficient man stood fourth and was dropped. Mr. Bliss holds that the head of a department 13 qualified, after trial, to select men for positions where practical ex perience is of value. It is to such positions that the order mainly relates. After having had editorial charge of the Indiana School Journal for thirty years. Prof. W. A. Bell announces in the Juno umber his retirement from that periodical nd its transfer to Prof. D. M. Geeting. When a teacher retires after such a period of service it is impossible to estimate the alue of his work. Its extent and its influ ence. It is much more difficult to measure the good accomplished by one who has labored in a broader educational field for so long a time. Prof. Bell's attention has been directed, not to a single school and ts series of classes, but to all the schools of every grade and stage of development in the State. He has studied them and their necd3, .has consulted and advised with teachers and has embodied the results of hio investigations in suggestions in his Jour nal so practical and helpful that many a teacher has learned through them the solu tion of her hardest problems. Within the thirty years Prof. Bell has seen the schools of Indiana develop from the heterogeneous district school to a graded system so com plete and in such thorough working order that it serves as a model to other commun ities, and is one of the chief elements going to make the State a power in the land. He has not only seen this educational progress, he has gone every step of its way, has teen a part of it. How much of it is due to his unwearied efforts no man can say, but at least he has the right to a personal pride in the work, and the schools owe him a debt of gratitude. An unassuming, genial gentleman. Prof Bell goes out of his familiar field of labor carrying with him the sincere regard and well wishes of a very wide circle of friends. Hamlin Garland, the Wisconsin novelist. Is visiting in England, and a London paper says of him that he was born in a "cooly, such as he delights In picturing." The cooly, or coulee, of which Mr. Garland writes, is understood hereabouts to mean a ravine through which a stream of water flows in time of freshet. It is news that Mr. Garland is an amphibious animal. "For thirty-five years," says Senator Hoar, "I have never missed, while in this countrj'i my Sunday morning breakfast of codfish balls. Can any one accuse me," he adds, "of being a traitor to New England?" No one can. but it Is a terrible price to pay. How the senator must dread Sunday! HUDDLES IN THE AIR. The Corn fed Philoaopher. "No." said the Cornfed Philosopher, "a man should not tell a woman he will love her always, unless both of them are young enough to believe it." ' Inference. Barnes Tormer He who entertains the fickle public, sir, leads a dog's life. Stranger You don't mean to tell me you are the barker for the show? Natural Consequence. "Wardle complains that the Smythes forgot to offer bim a chair the last time he called." "Due, I suppose, to his habit of taking the floor everywhere he is." Kept Ilia Vow. The Lady I don't believe you would work if you could. Dismal Dawson I'd do any kind of work that didn't interfere with me principles. I had a chanst to be a waiter onst, only I'd swore a solemn oath to never wear a spiketail coat. "WOMEN WHO SAW WAR. An Association of Heroines "Who Saw Service iu the 'GO's. Philadelphia Record. The heart of the veteran is strongly stirred whenever he sees a woman wearing a little badge of blue and gold, having upon it the cabalistic letters "A. N. A.' A vision arises before him, and he sees, through a dim vista stretching away over the toils and triumphs, the Joys and sorrows of more than thirty years, a young woman in the flush of health and strength, tenderly caring for the sick and wounded, or reverently closing for the last long sleep the eyes of a dying soldier, far from home and loved one?. She was undaunted by the sight cf blood flowing from gaping wounds, uncomplaining In the face of deprivation, always patient, even if suffering from the loss of many hours of sleep, and ever sympathetic when by the cot of the sick or dying. . There were many women of this type when there was need cf their services, but now their rank? are thinning year by year, and this year when, they gather in our city for their annual business meeting an additional interest will attach to them, for we know that before another vear rolls around many of the feeble but loyal sisterhood will have answered the last roll call, and gone to higher service, in an army where there is no discharge. Many of these army nurses are members of one or the other of the patriotic organizations which have grown out of the civil war. but as theirs was a distinct work so it seemed proper that there should be a distinct organization for them. Miss Dorothea DIx. who had the direction of so many of these women when they rendered euch excellent service, remembered their deeds of self-sacrifice and heroism, and thought it would be an appropriate thing to band themselves together In an association, so she Issued a call to them, and they came together in the city of Washington. June 1?. 1S1. and organized under the title of ExArmy Nurses' Association. At a subsequent meeting the name was changed to the National Army Nurses' Association. Miss Dix was enthusiastically elected president, and served acceptably until called to higher service. She was succeeded by Dr. Susan Edson. of Washington city, who served until failing health compelled her to resign. Among those who have served faithfully is Mr?. Emily E. Woodley. of this city, who went from here early In the war and stood at the post of duty until there was no more need for her service?. She was succeeded in office last year at Cincinnati by the next officer In rank, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Ew 1 n g. "The constitution of the Army Nurses Asfoelatlon requires that each candidate for membership shall prove active service as a nurse in the civil war. In March. 132. the arscclatlon was Incorporated in the District of Columbia. The recognition badge is a gold star, with "A. N. A." in raised letters across the face. The badge to bo worn at the convention in September is a white satin ribbon with a tiny flag draped across it. and "Army Nurses Association" "painted by hand upon It, while underneath will be a red ribbon. m The national president of the Army Nurses' Association is. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Ewlng. who is naturally proud of her position as 'the president of an organization which, like the Grand Army, cannot be recruited. She is fond of the noble band of women who. when the "bevs in blua" were

Buffering from rUsease or the dreadful effects of shot and shell, gave up the comforts of home that they might minister to the necessities of the loyal sons cf the Nation. Mrs. Ewlng i3 a pleasant speaker and is overflowing with reminiscences of hospital life. For a long time she was connected with the Baltimore hospitals during the war and was an efficient and sympathetic nurse. In appearance she is tall and stately, with abundant dark hair and a face wonderfully smooth for one of her years and service. Mrs. Ewlng i3 a Pennsylvanian, her home being in Phoenixville. Mrs. Mary A. Aston, the financial secretary of the association. 13 a Phlladelphlan and served in the hospitals of this city. She has a magnificent record for length and continuity of service. She was a volunteer nurse and was with Surgeon R. S. Kenderlir.e at the hospital at Broad street and Washington avenue, and later with him at the Christian-street Hospital, serving from Sept. 5. 1862. to Aug. 11. 15, without an absence except of one week when her husband died. Mrs. Aston volunteered for the work out of pure loyalty. Her husband, being an invalid, could not render any service to his country in her hour of peril, so was willing that his wife should do as her heart prompted. Mrs. Aston still lives in this city and is proud to wear the badge to which every soldier lifts his hat. iMrs. Emily E. Woodley. the counselor of the A. N. A., was Mrs. Wilson during the civil war, and as "Mother Wilson" is affectionately remembered by hundreds of old soldiers who came under her tender and motherly ministrations. She rendered such distinguished and valuable service in the Army of the Potomac under General Kearney, in the Army of the James under Gen. Howard and in the Army of the West under General Grant that several years ago in loving recognition of it the association presented her with a handsome badge. Mrs. Woodley's residence is in this city. The oth'r national officers are: Senior vice president, Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman; national Junior vice president, Mrs. Delia Fay; secretary. Miss Kate M. Scott; chaplain, Mrs. Jeannette M. Morrill; treasurer, Mrs. Lydia L. Whitman; WHEN YOU GO TO CUDA.

What Capt. D. F. Havens Has to Say About the Island. Washington Post. "If you go to Cuba do not listen to the stories you have heard about Cuba what to do. Go there as you would go anywhere else with your common sense with you. I have drunk water in every province, and I know it was not boiled. There is not a venemous reptile on the island. I never thought of locking in rooms or beds for scorpions and centipedes, and ran across none. A little whisky won't hurt you there any more than In America. Great quantities are dangerous If kept up. The nights are always cool. Smoke to your heart's content if you have the money it won't hurt you. Think of the pleasure of an American smoker in Cuba who 13 not a rich man at home, A light overcoat at night will be often useful. You want no really heavy clothing. From morning till night the unacclimated can wear light clothes, after sunset wear heavier. Do not stay in the night air until you have tested your capacity to stand it. In the early morning you will always need a blanket or thick covering to put over you. It is always summer, yet never hot, on account of the breeze that prevails. "Keep clean and observe the same rules of health and care of yourself that you do at home, and you. will get along all right. "The improvements in the cleanliness and dress of these people since we took possession of the country is very great and remarked on every hand In every city. "Traveling on the trains you will meet many queer customs. At the various stations where the train stops, men and boys board the train with most everything to sell. Many offer you cocoanuts and will open them on the end for you to drink the milk. They bring in chickens, quails, doves, bananas, oranges, guava Jelly, and many kinds of fruits to sell the passengers. On the hotel bills of fare they say the 'passengers' will be charged extra. for fruit carried from the table or for meals served in passengers' rooms In the house. Queeer name for guests in a hotel. "The banditti stories are largely imaginative or fakes. At Cardenas, a short time ago, I noticed quite a crowd rush out of th hotel to the street, and I Joined it. and saw two rural policemen on their ponies, and in front of them marching afoot were two negroes handcuffed together. I asked a Spaniard who could speak English what or who they were. 'Oh!' says he, 'they are banditti;' they had been arrested and brought to be placed In confinement fot trial. I inquired further ar o what they had been doing, and was told that they had been stealing chickens. I laughed, and said, 'In our country we never arrest a negro for stealing chickens or watermelons. "These poor, half-starved fellows caught stealing chickens are a fair example of the 'banditti' of Cuba. J do not mean to convey the Idea thaCthe men there are saints, or the women angels.' yet neither they nor their country deserve the continual misrepresentation they receive at the hands of nearly all the papers. "At the railway stations, when the train stops, passengers make a rush for the door to get out. Outside they find always a stand where they get coffee, mild and 'wild drinks of all kinds, but none of them ever get drunk. Sundays churches and cafes are all open. The people go to the church and the cafe, and all seem to drink, and they never get drunk. I was on the island about six months and over it every way, and have kept a 'look upon things as I passed, and I saw but ono solitary native drunk, and he was a Cuban. Drinking is a national habit, but drunkenness la almost (unknown. The people who go as representatives of our government and those that go for pleasure and stop a few days in Havana, then run down to PInar del Rio, Matanzas, Cienfuegos and Santiago, and return home are well paid for all their troubles by what they see. but they learn but little of Cuba, its people, or their condition and habits. It is a lonesome country to one who does not speak the Spanish language, but to one who does, I cannot see how they can fall to enJoy themselves in an innocent way with the greatest satisfaction. "To sum up, Cuba is. to use the good old Methodist song my father used to sing, a land 'where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.' "I want to say in conclusion that the American methods of dolng.thlngs have been applied to two departments In Cuba. The canltation, or cleaning of the cities and towns, and the Postoffice Department there. The work of cleaning the cities and towns under the direction of American authority has accomplished very great results already. The deaths from yellow fever in Havana in April. 1S98, were about eighty. In April, 1S99. only two. The greatest exhibit and change to our methods is shown by the improvement in the mail service throughout the island. "1 saw the first postoffice (American) opened in Havana, and upon leaving the city on the 2Sth of May I was in the present office looking at what it was and what It is and. seeing tho great improvement in the service In Havana and throughout the Inland. tv much credit cannot be given General Rathbone, Mr. Brlston, of Havana, and all the force connected with the department there and also at home. It is a great illustration of the American way of doing something." ... A NEW CLEOPATRA. Extreme Modern Realism of Bernard Shaw's Play. London Mail. Mr. Bernard Shaw has always the courage of his convictions. Winn he produced his first play, "Widowers' Houses.' he relates how he felt convinced that it had made him "Infamous as a dramatist." "I had not achieved a success." he wrote, "but I had provoked an uproar." So agreeable, moreover, did he find the sensation, that "I resolved to try again." And apparently it is with this intention that "Caesar and Cleopatra" has been written.' We are eternally being told that human nature is the same to-day, yesterday and forever.. Presumably it has occurred to Mr. Shaw that we had better see what this really looks like on the stage. Cleopatra being but sixteen, and a mutinous beauty, is introduced under the most natural conditions in the world, ancient or modern. She has lost her white cat. and having been bullied by her nurse, Ftatatesta. has slipped out of the ralace and wandered away In search of "Pasht." Grown weary, she. falls asleep In the arms of the Sphinx, but. is aroused by the entrance of a middle-aged person. whom, with the playful indtfference of youth snd the innate hauteur of a queen, she halls as "old gentleman!" That the visitor happens to be Caesar, aged fifty-four, Is nothing to the point. Mr. Shaw retains a strictly natural tone throughout, queens and emperors though tl-ey be. "Come here! old gentleman." cries Cleopatra. "I have lost my cat." and the conversation thus chattily beerun is continued In the fame frank strain. "Ah!" remarks this dauntless lady, as she snatches oft the "old gentleman's' laurel wreath. "I know now whv you wear this; it's to hide your bald head!" "Don't talk about that." rejoins the Emperor testily, replacing the trophy. "Why not?" Inquires the royal maiden. "Well, do you like to have people tell you what a child you are?" "No. I hate it!" "Same here." explains great Caesar, "I hate to be told how old I am!" Nor is Cleopatra set to be young only in what she says. Her actions also betray the pretty impulse of extreme youth. Her bother. Ptolemy, aged ten. and she engage in a furious squabble, and it is thus that Mr. Shaw would have her express the very natural feellnes which almost master her. "She Is seized." he explains in his stage directions, "with a strong desire to stick her tongu out at Ptolemy, but refrains for fear the action might appear unquee-ily. Mr. Shaw has. In fact, gone bald-headed, if the phrase be not too suggestive, for human nature, unadulterated, in this photographic ftudy of tea younar ttrptnt of Old Nile, and

the only question that arises concerns the wisdom of his choice in placing it in the hands of Mrs. Campbell. Should it not rather have been Miss Ada Reeve?

MARIA TERESA UREA. The Mexican "Saints Who Is Said to De Endowed with Divine Powers. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. The young Mexican girl. Maria Teresa Urea, who is devoutly believed by the Mex ican Catholics to be endowed with divine ) powers, is now somewhere among the xaqut Indians in Sonora. Mexica. and, although they are the fiercest tribe in that republic erd irreconcilable in heir hostility to the whites, they revere her as a priestess and obey her as if she were their queen. There is something strange about "Santa Teresa," as they call her. She is a modest, unassuming Mexican girl, the daughter of a tmall farmer in Sonora, with very little education, but at an early age she developed remarkable hypnotic or mesmeric powers, which cause the Ignorant peasants to look upon her as more than human. A tovch of her hand Is believed to be a cure for every mortal evil and one of her prayers of Intercession a passport to paradise. She dees nqj claim divine power, but confesses that she does not understand the source of her influence. Her family were Catholics, but she has never been strict in her. observances of her religious duties. At the same time she recognizes that, there is scmethlng within her that gives her the unusual influence that she enjoys.. In 1896 I saw her at El Paso, a plain looking girl of twenty-one or twenty-two years. In a speckled calico dress and coarse shoes, with a black shawl thrown over her head. Her hair fell in two braids to her waist, and she looked much younger than she really was. She was then living under the care of a gentleman named Aguirre. the editor of the Mexican paper at El Paso, having been compelled to leave Mexico by the authorities, who accused her of trying to incite a revolution. A band of fanatics somehow got a notion that she .was to be the mother of Montezuma, the long-looked-for Mexican Messiah who is to liberate the reons from servitude and restore the splendor of the empire that Cortez plundered and overthrew. Restless and dissatisfied politicians took advantage of the mania, and. in the name of Saint Teresa, organized a revolution in Sonora and attacked the custom house and barracks at Nogales. Mr. Aguirre may have given the movementsome encouragement, for he is an exile, and is "wanted" by the Mexican police. But I was assured that Teresa was not involved in any way. Trustworthy people told me that she was Just an ordinary sort of girl, without any special force of character or intellect, but possessed of a mysterious power like that of the magnetic girl who came out of Georgia a few years ago and seemed to have the strength of a locomotive in her slender fineers. Santa Teresa, has some such physical peculiarity, which gives her a mesmeric influence over people to whom it may be applied, and she has cured hundreds of sick and lame and blind. The Mexicans hang her portrait over their little shrines beside that of the Virgin Mary, but when we talked with her she laughed at the suggestion of her divinity, and Indignantly denied that she was to be the mother of the redeemer or the Aztec race. She Is now living among the aqul Indians In an obscure mountain village in Sonora, which Is constantly visited by pilgrims and sick people in search of her healing power. . . - PRESIDENT INTERPRETS BILE S. Civil Service Not So Badly Damaged . as Reformers Thought. ' Washington Special In Springfield Republican. President McKinley has given an. Interpretation to one of the provisions of the new clvil-servlce rules which deprives the rule of the objectionable character attributed to it by some of - the reformers. This is the amendment to Rule 8, providing that "all persons serving under temporary appointments at the date of the approval-of this section may be permanently appointed, in the discre ton of the proper appointing officer." It was believed In some quarters that this rule permitted the transfer to the classified service of the numerous temporary clerks, appointed without competitive examination, who are borne on the rolls of the War and Nevy Departments and the auditor for the War Department. This view not only prevailed among reformers, but among some of the higher officials, -who proposed to make the transfers. A firm stand against this interpretation was taken by the Civil-pervice commission, by Appointment Clerk Lyman, of the Treasury Department, formerly a member of the Clvil-servlce Commission, and by other officials. When the matter was , referred to President McKinley, he put nls foot down firmly on the side of the integrity of the reform system. He declared that he did not intend to throw down the bars for the transfer of persons who bad never faced a competitive examination into therrlasslfled service. The rule was intended mostly to permit the permanent appointment of clerks serving under probation under the civil-service rules, or the exceptional cases where temporary appointments were made when there was no eligible list from which certifications might be made by the Civilservice Commission. The lists of transfers proposed have therefore been pigeon-holed for the present, and the persons expecting such appointments will have to-pass competitive examinations or worK into the service individually in special cases. The action of the President is Important as a precedent, independently of its immediate effect. A rule that a lot of people appointed on a temporary roll without competitive examination could be transferred to the classified service, crowdlnr out those on the eligible lists and being promoted over the heads of men who had faced the examinations, would have thrown the doors wide open If it had been extended from time to time to new classes of temporary appointments. It was generally believed among critics of the administration that this rule, if interpreted upon the open door theory, would have been extended after a few years to the thousands of employes In the Census Bureau who would have choked the avenues of appointment and promotion for years and made the eligible list or tho Civil-service Commission useless as a means of securing appointments. This dancer Is averted for the present by the posltlon taken by rresiaent aiciyimey. COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. Hon. James Bryce's Opinion an to Its Importance. North American Review. " . . "The first question to be considered, for If it is answered in the negative there is an end of the whole matter, is whether a special preparation for commercial life is really of any practical use at all. Some men of business say.it is not. holding that business is a thing which can be learned only in an office or a warehouse, all previous training being thrown away, because such training is given before the concrete facts of commerce have become familiar. ;This objection might perhaps be answered by .an appeal to the experience of Germany, France and Belgium, where commercial opinion is almost (though not quite) unanimous in setting a high value on special training, and where in consequence public authorities of all kinds have been at great trouble and expense to provide it: But the objection is so deeply rooted in the minds of many business men who, though they do not say much, exert a wide: influence, that it deserves to be dealt with. It seems to rest largely upon two misunderstandings. One is the notion that the advocates of commercial education expect it to turn every Loy into a competent business man. .Now this Is what no education will or can do in any traxle or profession whatever. . Many young fellows of good ability who have had the best instruction money can buy, do not Succeed, whether it be in business, or in law. or in medicine, or in soldiering, because a host of other things besides ability and education are elerients in success. Industry, sobriety, steadiness of application, pleasant manners, social tact and knowledge of human nature, the power of inspiring confidence, be it confidence in your honesty, or confidence in your tenacity of purpose, all these things count for much In winning success in any and every walk of life. A physician, or a lawyer, or a soldier may fall for want of some of these gifts, but that is not deemed a reason for omitting to give him all the knowledge needed for his profession. So with business. No amount of teaching, or for the matter of that, no amount of cleverness, will insure success in business. All that epeclal preparation can possibly do is to make those ..Ks vn..o Va natural cl f t that 1 fl i tn nrcess somewhat better, and to make those In whom these natural guts are aencieni somewhat less bad. And as the majority of young men are neither so capable as to be sure of success, however 111 trained, nor so Incapable as to be sure of failure, however weir trained, the difference which training may make seems sufficient to determine us to give it." ;. '' : The English Are Great Sugar Eaters. Brocks Adams, in the Forum. . In 1863 Englishmen consumed, on the av erage, fortv-two Dounds ot sugar per cap Ita annually. That this is enough for either health or reasonable enjoyment is proved bv the fact that few peoples use so much to-day. For example, in 166 Italy con sumed 7.19 pounds per capita;. Spain. 12.67 pounds: Austria-Hungary. B.S4 pounds: Belglum. S.8 pounds: uermany, Zi.n pounas. and France. 23.24 pounds,- In the United States, where the use of .sweets is said to be Inlurlously excessive, .only thirty-nve rounds per capita was consumed In 1869 and sixty-one pounds per capita In 1833. In England during 18S5-97 every human being. Including babies. Invalids and paupers, disposed, on the average, of nearly, four ounces rtf en ira a Av or ki 77 nounda a vear Furthermore, neither from the econpmlc nor th fttnltxry tundpeist io C:3 u:zj to

which this extra sugar ration U put reem satisfactory. One of the chief of these appears to be to encourage drinking. Though the exports of beer from England show a tendency to. decline, brewing grows apace. Twenty-seven gallons a year per capita, counting women and children, is surely enough. In America, though the amount of spirits drunk is the same,- fifteen and a half gallons of beer suffice, and American beer is light. Twenty-seven and one-quarter gallons was the measure for England in 1SX3, yet in 1S37 it had swelled to 314 gallons, an expansion at the rate of about i per cent.

a year. But, fast as brewing grows, the weight of sugar used in the beer grows faster. In 1SS3 the public put up with something less than four and three-quarter pounds of sugar to the barrel; in 1S9 it demanded between eight and nine pounds. OPENED BANK OF ENGLAND'S VAULTS An American Did It on a AVnarer Dur ing: the First World's Fair. Washington Star. - The first world's fair, the Crystal Palace at London, was held In 1S51. and. though it was a long time ago. it is not forgotten, and has not been surpassed by the world's fairs which have followed. It was at the Crystal Palace that tho American mechanic showed that he stood second to none in the world. Hobbs challenged Chubb, and Hobbs, th$ American mechanic, carried off the first prize as a lockmaker. Hobbs represented an American manufacturer of iron bank safes. He placed his safe on exhibition and tied the key to the combination lock on the outside, inside the sare was placed Z50. or 51.250. and the free offer was made to the mechanics of the world that if they opened the safe the money contained therein could be taken for their success. The safe waa never opened. At that time Chubb was famous ail over England and In Europe ai a lockmaker. The Bank of England indorsed Chubb arid used his locks exclusively. Hobbs examined the workmanship of the locks and offered to not only enter the cuter doors of the Bank of England, but to open also the seven doors leading to the treasure safes inside of two hours if permission was given. This was too much for the Britishers to stand and they gave the necessary consent. Hobbs was on hand two hours before the time for opening the doors of the bank arrived and announced himself ready to go to work. All the tools he had he carried in his vest pocket, consisting of about twenty picks. He opened the front door in seven minutes and entered the bank triumphantly. He next approached the outer door of the treasure safe. In six minutes the door opened, and- before one hour had passed, half of tho time he asked for, he had his hands in the treasure of the bank, much to the amazement of the directors of the bank and to the intense disgust of Chubb, and a man of Influence and wealth. He took his defeat gamely, however, and soon set to work to improve his locks. This he did by taking Hobbs into his employ as an adviser. For the time, however, I think te Bank of England put American locks on their safes, for everybody recognized the fact that Chubb was no more a match for Hobbs than Sayers was for Heenan. ' ' AN "AUTO" CRAZE. The Horseless Carriage Becoming:; a. Fad In England. London Letter. - The moment was rie for a new craze. Blcj'cling has settled down Into a commonplace Joy; people are tired of skating; they were crying out for something new, and they have found It in the "auto." I fancy the Riviera season had something to do with the new fever, for it was while staying there this spring that a great many people experienced its delights for the first time. Lord Canarvon, who was almost the first to drive a motor in England, has been preaching Its charms for the past two years, but it never seemed to "catch on" among the English until this season on the Riviera. Now the craze has "arrived" ' In London, and "autos" are being ordered by the dozen. They are all French as yet. and at present there is a great deal of heartburning and Jealousy owing to the delay in obtaining them, for the demand at the moment is very largely in increase of the supply. I heard a woman with a passion for being in the movement bitterly bewailing, only the other day, that she was told her recently ordered "auto" could not be delivered under eighteen months. Quite a number of the fashionable young men about town may now be seen driving them. The Duke of Marlborough has a very smart one, and the Duke of Manchester is also an enthusiast. So is the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Marquis of Breadalbane has one which is said by experts to be the prettiest in London, though I do not know where the beauty comes in. Mr. Paris Singer is also credited with having one of the finest in England, and Mr. Alfred Harms worth owns another of the best. And the craze Is not being restricted to men: the fair sex are taking to it with enthusiasm. Of course, in Paris it is no novelty to see well-dressed women driving their own little "autos." The Princess de Sagan and - the Duchesse De Luynes are two well-known examples; but at present they have not been seen in London. However, we are going to change all that, and within a few months we shall see a very smart collection of "autos" in Hyde Park. For a long time to come, however, the craze will be restricted to the wealthy, for 6C0 pounds is as yet considered by no means a iong price to charge for an. "auto," and as much as 1,800 is often paid by the fastidious purchaser. Sonsa and the Organ Grinder. Philadelphia Evening Post. John Philip Sousa has an Intense dislike for the mutilation of his musical compositions. To hear one of his marches played out of tune or time not only set his teeth on edge, but provokes his anger beyond his power of resistance. Not long ago he came down from his home In Yonkers on the Hudson to New York city, and in front of the Grand Central Station he heard an organ grinder playing "Tne Washington Post March." He was turning the wheel with the utmost slowness and extreme Irregularity. It sounded like a funeral march. Sousa stood it as long as he could, and then rushed across the street and exclaimed: "That's not the way to play that. Don't do it any more. It's awful!" "How should I play?" asked the grinder, impassively. "Faster, faster." "Ah!" "Yes. This way. Let me show you," and he took the crank into his hands and turned it with so much spirit and vigor that he soon had a crowd around him. "Thank you," said the organist. "Who are you?" "I'm Sousa. That's the proper way to play that march." "Thank you. sir," replied the organist, bowing profoundly. The next day Sousa came to town on the same train and found the. same organ Krinder In the same place playing "The Washington Post March." Just as he had been taught the day before, out with much greater success. Murmuring and evidently awe-stricken spectators were dozens deep circled around the musician. Sousa forced his way to the front to see the cause of the excitement. He found it. On the organ was a large canvas sign reading: THE WASHINGTON POST MARCH Composed by John Philip Sousa Played by a Pupil of Sousa. Mr. Sousa has not given any more music lessons to strangers. 1 The Baby Inspired Them. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The officers hesitated. It was a desperate chance. The Filiplncs were strongly Intrenched In a position that seemed naturally impregnable. The American force was small, and. owing to the nature of the ground, it could only be precipitated against one angle of the enemy's works. No wonder the officers hesitated. They felt they would be sending the gallant fellows Into a veritable death trap. The men themselves were Huddled together on the ground behind a slight ridge that afforded them temporary protection from the Filipino sharpshooters They had been conversing In low tones, but the fatigue of cramped inaction was having its effect, and they were silent. Then Private Tom Hooker spoke up. The firing had ceased, and his words were clear and distinct. "I had a letter yesterday from my wife, he said, "and you can bet; boys, I was mtxhtv Rlad of it." There was no comment from the line of recumbent forms as he went on: "We have a little three-year-old daughter, and my wife writes that sha Is getting Just too cute for anything." Tne men shifted uneasily, as those who had been lying on their backs rolled over on their faces. "Her mother writes that It's Just wonderful how many funny things she does." The men clasped their rifles a little more firmly and drew up their knees. "Just the other day, when her mother was washing her. She said ' - With a wild roar the soldiers struggled to their feet, swept over the ridge, and fell upon the Filipinos with such terrific force that they fled without firing a volley. And the amazed officers never knew what had caused this panic of heroism In the ranks. Fire Danger in Old Paper. London News. Not a creat while ago librarians and book ! lovers In eeneral were discussing the de terioration In the quality or paper or late years. It is curious to learn from her Majesty s waste paper onice wiai one result nf the chanee of materials has been a decided increase tn liability to fire wherever paper waste is accumulated In any great nnantltv. It Is th rarest thin to find papr mads cf rara nowadays. It U nixda

from wood and other vegetable material, which chemically are not very different from the component materials of a" hayrick. If paper waste is stacked in large masses, and especially If it happens to be a little damp, htatlng takes place Just a with a prematurely stacked hayrick, and spontaneus combustion may at any time break out in flame, as it has often been known to do in the farmyard. Of lata rears the greatest care and vigilance have been necessary to guard against this. t Concerning the Fight. ' Chicago Tlmes-lUraM. At great expen? and after much trouble we have succeeded in obtaining the following opinions: i George Dewey Jeffries won without losing a man. but I still claim that I am the only one who ever refused J5.C0O for a magazine article. W. S. Schley I have nothing to say con-

.ct tittle tuc i i cl 1 u t u i intr r 'ii nuu a.iuii;' did it. There ought to be glory enough for all who didn't bet on Fitz. F. Funston They sav Fitz fairly swam in blood, but I notice that none of the state fair associations are trying to get him to do it again for a purse. W. R, Shafter-I would like to know thej name of the man who mhhed Jim's hpad. Albert Edward Fitz was monarch of the ring for a long time, but everyone's reign must come to an end sooner or later. It. isu this thought that enables me to contemplate the defeat of my countryman with com-. placency. . ' K. l . Hobson Fitz went down, but I did it first. Now perhaps he will be able to re- , aiize that republics are ungrateful.' 'josepn Wheeler Oh. I don t know. Jeffries Is not so numerous. They haven't got him engaged to any great man's widow as yet. Russell Sage if I had only known! Hoch der Kaiser They ray Jeffries is the greatest man on earth. But I have not appeared in the ring already. Russia All Right. Washington Post."There is nothing too good to say of Russia." remarked Gen. George B. Williams, who has lately returned trom the Czar' dominions, in conversation with friends at Chamberlln s. General Williarns has been a frequent visitor at St. Petersburg for the past ten or fifteen years and he has made a thorough study of Russian institutions, besides being on terms of personal friendship with many important men In the empire. "Russia," he continued, "is sincerely desirous of maintaining the closest relations of amity and good will with the United 6tates. Everywhere an American goes la Russia he is welcomed because of nls nationality. It would be the height -of. misfortune If there should ever come the least break in the good understanding that has prevailed between the two countries for all these years. "The Czar in advocating a halt in the frocess of increasing the military estabishments of Europe is absolutely sincere. He sees that to go on with the building of more big guns and more battle ships means, ultimate financial ruin to all the powers.. His ambition is for the expansion of Russia in & commercial and territorial way without a resort to arms. It is no timidity on his part, for Russia is the greatest military strength on the globe. He Is actuated by a spirit of true philanthropy that em--braces not' only bis own subjects, but all mankind." . Newspaper Ethic. Cannelton Enquirer. "Does it pay to be continually roasting your subscribers about being delinquent? nould be pleased to have the advice of our friendly exchanges."" Blrdseye News. No. It Isn t graceful and it doesn t pay. The man who will refuse to pay his subscription when approached in the regular way of business, hasn't enough self-respect to care what the paper says about him. A newspaper man should carry on his business A A. Ill - i I I . If. just iiao any oiner uupiness roan, jic ra7, find It expedient to-gtve credit, hut ir he does so he must trust to his Judgment in so doing. If he makes a mistake and furnishes a dollar's, worth of his paper to a man who won't pay. then he is Just In the same fix as a merchant who sells a dollar's worth of "beet" sugar to a dead "beat." As long as the newspaper man hasn't the nerve to come out plainly with the statement that "John Jones owes . this paper S1.87V4." there is no excuse for him to bore the subscribers who do pay with roundabout hints to Jones. Keep your pooks in tne orfice safe and not In the columns of your paper. The Foolish Castellanea. Chicago Post. The spectacle of Countess Anna Gould Castellane leading a band of riotous young noblemen to denounce the President of France has no special international lmporrfa A t Via Knchon Is tViA XL-ifM 1 1 notably true of this eccentric and somewhat, unbalanced young woman, who is more to be pitied than blamed. It Is reason for national congratulation that we gave Anna to France and kept Helen for ourselves, although we protest that we had no special grudge aga!n.?t our Gallic friends when weconsented so cheerfully to the match. Perhaps if Anna had remained In America and had married a sane young man of good reasoning faculties she might have appeared to greater advantage. As it Is. we must leave her to the tender mercies an1 consideration of her adopted countrymen. Possibly it will take another slice out of the Gould fortune to compensate for the lateat foolishness of D?onnced na Untrue. Richmond Palladium. In reply to a criticism" in the Indianapolis Journal of the action of the Louisville. Ky.. school board dismissing the publio schools of that city during the Bryan parade a few days ago, the Indianapolis Sentinel yesterday printed the following concerning the Richmond school board, which It said was ficm an Alexandria correspondent: "In the last campaign they (the Richmond school board) would not allow the scholars to go out to see Democratic parades and aiways dismissed school until the parades of the opposite party passed! Now, I would l'ke very much to know who is the greatest ass of them all. the school board of Louisville. Ky.. the school board of Richmond, Ind.. or the editor of the Indianapolis JourThe Sentinel has been Imposed upon. The above statement Is a lie, an unmitigated lie. . A Wood Seeded In Egypt. Chicago News. Many deaths from the plague are reported at Alexandria, and the ancient metropolis of Egypt Is In a frightful panic. The Britmh and Egyptian authorities might do worse than read the lessons taught by General Wood and adopt the methods of the man who transformed Santiago from a typical Spanish sinkhole to a clean American city. Very French Proceeding. Philadelphia Record. Captain Dreyfus Is to be charged. It !; now said, one franc a day for his. four years' lodging on Devil's ile. .The Frenn War Department is to deduct this amount from his pay in arrears. Evidently the antlDreyfusltes are not averse to the principles of Shylock. -, Never Moved. New York Mall and Express. Oiit in Indiana the other day tnere was a storm so violent that it blew away an, entire section of railroad track. The witness who describes this startling modestly admits that Jihe right cf way didn t budge an inch. ' Two Things That Bring Saecesa. Cleveland Plain Dealer. . It took the late Frank Thomson Just thlrty-elKht years to rise from fchop hand to the presidency of the world greatest railway. Whlcrx shows that we myst have patience as well as perseverance; A Suspicion. Detroit Free Prefs. There is a faint suspicion that Senator Hanna's allied rfft and health trip to Europe Is In reality a swing around the world to get the outlying possessions in line lor irjcnu .Not oo uaj-. WashingtoriPoit. The EngHV'cew,PaPr should" not become too in discussing theseamanship which resulted in the loss of the Paps. Captain Watklns is an Englishman. Filipinos Know Lawton Now. Boston Journal. Now the Tacalogs know what the American Indians meant when tbey named General Lawton the "Man-Who-Oets-Up-to-Flght-ln-the-Nlght." Delicate. Detroit Tribune. ; In spite of the careful nursing it has received. It is feared that the Alger senatorial candidacy will never be able to take solid food. ' Profitable. Detroit Tribune. M. Zola's friends already estimate that his martyrdom will earn at least 10O per cent, for several years to come. A Real "Hub" Pun. Boston Globe. A year ago it wa a casus belli with fpftfy Norr It la a casus Ezllizz-j , .