Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY; JUNE 21, 1899.

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THE IXDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL., Can b found at the following places: NEW YORK Astor IIou?e. CHICAGO Palmer Mouse. P. O. News' Co.. 7 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Qrand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley Sc Co.. 154 Vine tret. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerinjj. northwet comer ef Third and Jefferson itreets, and Louisville Bock. Co., 20 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. .Washington, .p. c Rigg House. Ebbitt House and Wlllard'a Hotel. After thU week's experience 'Dr." McXinley would be an ungrateful roan not to have a favorable -opinion tf 'the trigher education of women. v Tammany arraying Itself against trusts Is a fine example of Satan rebuking sin. All the trusts In the United States have not done as much -to undermine and degrade American citizenship as Tammany has. The election of a Republican congressman from the Second Maine district to succeed Mr. Dingley was a mere form. To name Mr. Llttlefleld was to elect him. If he shall serve his district and his country as faithfully and as ably as did his predecessor he will meet the most exacting: demands. With Mrs. Stanford. Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Emmons Blaine Investing: their money so wisely and liberally for the public benefit, It should occur to millionaires thit their names are most likely to live in men's memories if their wives and daughters are allowed to spend their accumulations without restriction. There Is nothing new in Attorney General Griggs's statement regarding the status of the United States in the Philippines, but tie states the case clearly. For the United States to surrender its sovereignty .In the Philippines now or to make any terms with the Insurgents except unconditional surrender, would be a disgrace from which the XSatlon would never recover. Americans in Havana who are arranging to celebrate the Fourth cf July by eating ten-dollar dinners are not manifesting the national spirit. , The Fourth is one American holiday wnich is not associated with big dinners. If the Havana people must eat, let them take their lunch baskets and a bundle cf firecrackers and have a picnic: but a heavy dinner nxthe Fourth perish the thought! The Sampson-Schley controversy, which everybody hoped was ended, has been dragged Into the papers again by the Indiscreet friends of the former. One thing is certain, namely, that of whatever prestige Schley's enemies may deprive him the same will not be added unto Sampson, at least so far as the public 13 concerned. That is not the way in which glory is distributed in this countty. , j ; , The army canteen, which has excited so much opposition from temperance reformers, is almost unanimously Indorsed by army officers as itself a reform. Of more than five hundred officers who have reported to the secretary of war the results of their observation on the subject all but six say that the canteen has been productive of Improved morals in the ranffs of the regular army, and, in their opinion, sr.ould be continued. Captain Coghlan, the brave but Indiscreet sailor who got into a little trouble by talking too frankly about some occurrences at Manila, says he has no use for hyphenated American citizenship, such as is expressed by the terras Irish-Americans. GermanAmericans, etc. "If a man is an American citizen." be rays. "he is an American citizen pure and simple." Right you are, captain, and we should all of us cease to recognize sny lines of demarcation. There should he an end of the hyphenated citizenship. Captain Brice. who has Just returned from China, where he spent several months looking after the Interests of a railway syndicate, says the prejudices with which he went there were totally removed by contact with the people. He found them friendly, agreeable and very accessible to fair treatment.' He says: "They are absolutely honest in all tnelr business relations, and a bargain once made Is never broken." Perhaps they are not yet sufficiently civilized according to the Western standard to be dishonest. It seems that General Joubert, commander of the Transvaal army, anticipating the possibility of war with England, has decided on a plan of campaign by which he expects to drive the British front one position after another, capture Cape Town within two weeks after the declaration of war and dictate terms of peace from British soli. That seems to imply rather more lethargy and acquiescence on the part of the British than they usually show In war. While the .Boers are doing all that to the British they may be doing something themselves. Some surprise will be caused by the announcement that Major General Miles has accepted an Invitation to address the combined labor organizations of western Pennsylvania at Pittsburg. Aa he Is not supposed to have made a study of the labor question the public wi!l be curious to know what he can ay to interest a body of labor union men. There Is one subject on which he could speak with authority, and perhaps to good purpose, namely, the relation of the army to the enforcement of law. There has been a persistent effort in recent years on the part of iome labor leaders and political demagogues to create the impression that the army is a menace to organized labor, that it is animated by a spirit of hostility t3 Tvcrklngmen. and that it lends Itself to the

cultivation of a spirit of militarism opposed to the rights of citizens. This is a vicious Idea as well as a false one, but It has been industriously maintained and has found considerable credence among that class of worklngmen who regard the use of trocpa for the protection of property and the preservation of order during strikes as an intervention of the government In favor of capital and against labor. It is' quite likely this mischievous idea will be utilized by the Democratic party in Its next campaign against expansion and militarism. Nobody knows better than the general of the army that it Is thoroughly American and law-abiding In its sentiments and that it could never be used to overthrow the liberties of the. people or- to deprive any class of citizens of their rights. It would be interesting to know why the labor organizations of western Pennsylvania wanted General Miles to address them, but as he has accepted the invitation It Ls to be hoped he will Improve the occasion to tell them the truth about the army and its relation . to the people and the right of the President' under the Constitution to send It anywhere in the United States for the protection of government property or mails, or the enforcement of United States law. RAILROADS AND TRUSTS. In his testimony before the industrial commission Mr. Havemejer said "the tariff Is the mother of trusts." Now comes Mr. Barrett, of Georgia, who says, "the railroads are both the daddy and the mamma of trusts." Barring the paradox this emphatic assertion may have a good deal of truth in It. Mr. Barrett Is vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, and, of course, speaks from a farmer's point' of view. He specified instances. in which the railroad rates had killed or crippled certain farm Industries In the South, and, no "doubt, these cases could be duplicated in the North. And It Is not farm Industries and products alone that are affected by railroads and especially by discriminations In favor of particular shippers- or particular localities. The entire business of the country Is, more or less, affected by the same cause. The transportation question, including that "of discriminating rates. Is quite as important as the trust question and Intimately connected with It. While freight rates generally are lower in the United States than In any other country, and the service better, the whole system Is permeated by discrimination?, rebates, etc., that work great Injustice to particular localities and great injury to certain competing industries. That the railroads have contributed materially to building up some of the greatest trusts In the country Is beyond question. It has been notorious, for. years that the Standard Oil Company got favors In the way of discriminating rate?, rebates, etc.. which no competitor could get. A witness testified before the commission a few days ago that the five trunk lines in Pennsylvania more than twenty-five years ago made a contract with the Standard Oil Company to charge all shippers double rates on oil and then to pay back to the Standard half of the amount collected as a rebate. This arrangement, the witness paid, resulted lh giving the Standard a profit of 400 per cent., while the independent refineries were driven into bankruptcy. He said that a careful calculation showed that In a little more than fifteen years the railroads had paid back to the Standard Company 111.000,000 In rebates. This. is only an instance out of many. Discriminating rates have been a cause of general; complaint for years. past. If trusts foster some, factories and close others, the railroads, by discriminating rates, build up some towns and cripple others, enrich some shippers and impoverish others. The interstate commercie law was passed to remedy this state of things, but It has afforded only partial relief. The evil Is scotched, not killed. Unjust discriminations between individuals, classes of traffic and communities continue to exist, and it seems as Impossible to prevent the evil by legislation as It Is to prevent trusts. One breeds the other, and the two go hand in hand. If no other remedy for the railroad evil can be found there may soon begin to be a decided growth of public sentiment in favor of government control of railways. y ' MR. BRYAN AS A LAY PREACHER. The New York Journal of last Sunday gave one page to an article by William J. Bryan on "Christianity Applied to Government." In the course of his speeches at political conventions, from rear platforms and at county fairs the public' has heard Mr. Bryan's views on almost every subject, but this is a new one. "Christianity Applied to Government" opened up a broad field for the advancement of new ldea3. if he had any, and one would think he would gladly have embraced the opportunity to get away from the hackneyed themes and thoughts he has been dealing with since his entrance into politics. To what extent he did so the reader may judge from a few points In his lay discourse. He begins as follows: Standard oil and water of life will rot mix. "If a man say I love God and hateth his brother, he Is a liar, for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, hew can he love God, whom he hath not seen?" Thus does John in his first epistle denounce those who pretend to love the Heavenly Father while they hate the earthly brother. Nothing could be more Bryanesque than that, The very first expression. recalls Ms "cross cf gold and crown of thorns" figure in the speech that nominated him for President. "Standard oil and tho water of life will not mix" is a striking expression and serves the double purpose of catching the attention and exciting the prejudice of his hearers. In these opening sentences there is a little of the apostle John and a good deal of W. J. Bryan. It Is the same all the way through, a cunning mixture of religion and politics, of cant and demagoslsm, of the apostles and prophets with the Nebraska statesman. The heads of his sermon are taxation, money, trusts and expansion, and he quotes Scripture to prove that he and' the inspired writers are in harmony on each. After dwelling on the Inequalities of taxation and intimating that all good Democrats are right on this question, he says: It was said of the scribes nnd I'hatlsees, "They bind heavy burdens ni grievous to be borne and lay them on men's -liou'ders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." This Indictment might be brought to-day against those who encourage extravagance in legislation and yet evade their share of the burdens vhlch

they impose. Of course the Republicans of to-day "who encourage extravagance in legislation," etc., represent the scribes and Pharisees. The money question is discussed with an assumption of candor. "In money, as in other matters," says the preacher, "we strive for perfection, knowing that it cannot be fully attained." He admits that a fluctuating currency is greatly to be deplored, and "absolute stability. If attainable, would give us an absolutely honest dollar, but such a dollar has never yet been devised." This adroitly implies that aa far as honest money is concerned there is no

choice between the silver standard and the gold. He concludes this head with a little, more Scripture and Bryantem sandwiched: In the parable of the sower Christ taught that "the cares of this world and the deceltfulness of riches choke the truth." and history confirms His teachings. Reforms come from those who suffer, not from those who are benefited by existing .conditions. and yet in 1806 those who were perverting the ends of government and reducing favoritism to a science threatened the Nation with bankruptcy if deprived of control. Some people have net forgotten that In 1S'6 Mr. Bryan predicted all sorts of 'national disaster if free silver at 16 to 1 were not adopted, but he seems to have forgotten that. It is the Republicans who have verlfled Christ's parable, of , the sower by their wicked perversion of the ends of government. Passing to the next head the preacher asks: "What Is the attitude of the Christian towaYds the trust? Can he be a monopolist? Can he run a corner in loaves and fishes without breaking the golden rule? Will Standard Oil and the water of life mix?" The last figure was too good not to be lugged In a second tlme.; The religious aspect of the trust question is presented quite Impressively and the reader Is left to Infer that Mr. Bryan and: the Bryanites generally occupy biblical ground on that question.- He quotes an anti-trust resolution passed by some assemblage and says: The resolutions might with propriety have concluded with the tamlllir quotation from Timothy: "But they that will be rich fall Into temptation and a snare and Into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men In destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.". Here, as m other parts ot the sermon, the preach'.r does not expressly aver that truly good Bryanites are free from the sin of loving money, but he leaves It to be inferred that he at least stands with Timothy. ...... . . Finally he has no trouble In showing that national expansion, especially the acquisition cf the Philippines, cannot be Justified on scriptural grounds.. He reminds his hearers, or readers, that "the. Christian religion is essentially a religlon of the heart, and love is its supreme manifestation," and wants to know how we can Justify going at the Filipinos with the Bible In one hand and a musket In the other. Really that Is not the best way. As long as they are in rebellion against the rightful authority of the United States ana are making relentless war upon our soldiers we ought to go at them with a musket In one hand and some deadly weapon Instead of the Bible In the other. It will be time enough to send Bibles to the Filipinos - when they have ceased to require fixed ammunition. Mr. Bryan thinks the administration has strayed from the straight and narrow path which he would have walked in, and he concludes as follows: By their fruits we shall know them. When we are told , that religious duty requires us to deprive remote races ofCthe opportunity for self-government we have a right to inquire whether our instructors have been careful to observe their religious duties at home. We cannot expect philanthropy and benevolence to inspire imferlalists In their foreign policy if wrong, njustice and special privileges have been the fruits of their domestic policies. If they have sacrificed others for their own benefit here, are they likely to make sacrifices for the benefit of others abroad? If Mr. Bryan had been making a political speech instead of delivering a lay sermon he "would probably have said Republicans instead of Imperialists, but It Is all the same. As the Republican party has violated the fundamental principles of Christianity in Its domestic policy, how can it be expected to do any better in its foreign policy? The panacea for all these evils is to elect the great and good man from Nebraska President and let him give a demonstration of "Christianity applied to government." THE WHEAT PROSPECT.

The statement that the world's wheat crop this year will probably be over 300,000.000 bushels below the average of the past few years is not one to attract attention, yet when it Is considered that the unusual demand of the countries which depend upon others for a portion of their bread does not much exceed that figure it suddenly acquires importance. There are but few sections of Europe that do not raise their own bread In some form. Some of them do not raise enough wheat to feed their people liberally, but they manage to get along with rye, 'millet and other cereals that make a food that will sustain life, even if it would not be eaten In this country. The shortage In this year's crop Is In the United States and Russia, the two principal exporters In the world.- Russia -would ,not have much wheat to sell to others if Its people could afford to, eat bread made from that cereal, but the latest reports are that Russia's wheat crop Is short and that its people have not enough for home consumption. This naturally increases the demand upon the United States. In this country the winter wheat crop Is short. The statistician of the New York Produce Exchanse. on the basis of the government's recent estimates of the condition of the crop, puts our crop at 563.000,000 bushels, against 673,000.000 In 1SDS a loss of 107,000,000 bushels. But the crop of 1S9S wa3 the largest ever harvested in the United States by nearly 64,000,000 bushels the crop of 1S32 being 611,780.000. The crop of 1S37 .was 530,000,000 bushels, and that of IKS was only 427.6S4.000 bushels, so the crop of the present year promises to be much above the average the country over, even if it is very light in some portions of the winter-wheat belt It Is estimated that 100,000,000 bushels of the abundant crop of last year are still In the hards of the growers or dealers. Consequently, if the harvest shall reach the estimate of 563,000,000 bushels we shall have a considerable quantity to export after 323,000,OfO are retained for home use, which is a very liberal estimate.- The partial failure of the crop In the winter-wheat belt is made up in part by the corn crop a reserve that no other part of the "world has to fall back upon in the event of the failure of any other food crop. 2nt the margin between, the world's crop of wheat and its annual consumption is so small that' It can be said that the civilized world Is within six months of famine. Hon. Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster general, who is now visiting friends in Louisville, is much gratified with the success and growing popularity of rural free delivery. He thinks it will benefit the farmers primarily, but incidentally also the country merchants, who feared it would hurt their business by preventing farmers from coming to town for their mall. BCl as the carriers are permitted to do errands, take orders from farmers and carry packages from the stores it really results In establishing a sort of express business between the towns and the country which Is beneficial to both. Mr. Heath relates the following: About eighteen months ago when I was arranging for a route from en Indiana town of perhaps S00 inhabitants I received letters from the merchants and hotel keepert protesting against the innovation, as they really believed that It would ruin their business when the country peoples did not have to come In for the mail. I told them that it was too late, as I had already arranged for

the service. I tcld them that If they wished me to discontinue the service after one year's trial I would do so. I established"the service and all went along smoothly until the Senate last winter refused to approve the appropriation for rural free delivery. As soon aa this was known to the people of the community served by the route they wrote, me that if Congress cut off the appropriation they would-continue the service, paying the cost out of their own pockets. The fact that the appropriation for this branch of the service has been increased from SUO.000 to S3CO.O0O for the next fiscal year shows that Its benefits are appreciated by Congress. There are now nearly two hundred rural free delivery routes in the country, and Mr. Heath thinks that 25 per cent, of them would be. continued at the expense of the people served if Congress should cut off the appropriation. The carriers are paid 5400 a year by the government . and are permitted to take pay for personal services and even to run light market wagons in connection with the mail service. Almost invariably free delivery has resulted in a material increase of postal business, one route showing ..an increase within five months from 9.000 pieces of mail

a month to 63,000. If Germany refuses to joln'ln the movement for international arbitration at the peace conference, the other powers should go on and adopt a plan among .themselves. Emperor William may think he will enjoy the conspicuousness and theatrical effect of being the head of the only great power not included in the arrangement, ; but he will find it a bad pre-eminence. The splendid isolation that would make a nation pointed at as the only one unwilling to join in a measure for averting war by arbitration is hardly the kind of prominence, that a civilized people should covet at the beginning of the twentieth century. Practical Lenrnlng. To most persons a student's thesis does not suggest attractive . possibilities. It Is apt, on the contrary,-to mean sophomorlcal rhetoric, unripe opinions and an overabundance of sentiment. But in these progressive days people have to reconstruct their Ideas on many things, and the student's thesis must be added to the list, I at least under certain circumstances. Students -deal with practical subjects now. Here is one at Purdue University, for instance. He does not trouble himself about the tariff or the cur? rency or the government's expansion policy; he has other matters to think, of, among them the holding power of nails. It was necessary for this young . man, who was studying mechanics, to prepare a thesis on some subject of his own choosing . before graduation. He heard a carpenter tell how a scaffold had given way and.- precipitated him to the platform below. . Investigation showed that but cne nail had been driven into the stringer of the scaffold. The carpenter wanted to know how much one nail would hold, and this set the student to investigating. Many persons, he found, "had Investigated how many pounds It would take to draw a nail from wood, but no one had determined how much the nail would hold when subjected to cress pressure, such as screws withstand which hold a bracket to the wall. He made, many calculations and experiments and prepared tables from which he made careful deductions. After hundreds of tests he drew, the" following .conclusions: The strength of a Joint varies directly as the number of nails in it. That Is. five nails are five times as strong as one nail of fame kind. The strength varies directly as the length of the nail from two inches to two ana cne-half Inches long,, when driven in a sevcn-eighths-lnch cleat. Doubling the length about doubled the load carried. Small rails hold more per pound of metal than large mils. This is true both for cut and wire nails. While it is common practice to drive nails at ar angle of from eighty degreen to elghty-f.ve degrees, the experiments show that it Is better to drive them straight in. For .finish nail?, wire nails hold more per' pound than cut nails. For common nallswlrej.andi'euti nails are in their holdrng power-about equal.. For fence nails the holding power per pound of cut nails is only about three-fifths the holding power per pound of wire nails. The strength of an oak joint is greater than that of a white pine Joint. The greatest strength is attained when the grain of both cleat and block Is perpendicular to- the line of action of the pressure. Joints soaking a short time hold slightly more than when dry; but thorough soaking renders the Joints less efficient. Barbed wire nails are not so efficient as common wire naila This thesis, practical as it Is, may not have an .equal attraction o the average reader with a bit of fine "literature, but it shows what the boys are learning In schools and leaves none of the usual regrets as to what they will have to unlearn. The Purdue jcung man may have erred in some of his calculations concerning nails, but there Is a reasonable assurance that he will discover his mistake sooner than his fellow-student, who has settled the financial problems of the government, will revise his views. The Northern Indiana Historical Society has Just issued an interesting and valuable pamphlet containing an account of the portage or path between the St. Joseph and Kankakee rivers used by the early French explorer?. This region was made historic by these explorersand missionaries, and In gathering up the records of their lives and tracing their footsteps the society is doing a work which should he emulated In other quarters of the State where are other traditions. The portage was known to all the priests and adventurers in that part of the world, apparently, for it was a pathway between what are now the States of Illinois and Michigan. Marquette, La Salle, Hennepin, Tonty. Cavelier. Jolliet and Charlevois are famous names that are associated to some slight degree, at least, with this road. The portage between the two rivers" was but a few miles in length, but the travelers found other attractions thereabout .than a mere highway. Cadillac' writing of the neighborhood in 1701, speaks of the fertile rrairles and the luxuriant grasses ."which fatten buffaloes of an.enormous size." A memoir prepared for the French government describes the St. Joseph valley as follows: " Tls a spot the best adapted of any to be seen for purposes of living. There are pheasants as in France, .quails and paroquets, the finest vines in the world, which produce a vast quantity of very excellent grapes. It Is the richest district In all the country." Another account tays that in addition to the buffalo were found bear, deer, beaver, otter, marten, mink, muskrat, wild cat, lynx, woir and fox.- The pamphlet, which Is the work of George A. Baker, secretary of the society,' is prepared with great care and Is a model, of its kind. Its evident purpose -is accuracy, and It shows the result of much reading and investigation. A number of early maps and other Illustrations add to its value. Because of these characteristics and its typographical features the Journal commends It to the attention of the Indiana Historical Society. The local courts of Washington have established some leading cases- regarding barking dogs and crowing roosters, and now they have settled the question as to how a live chicken should be carried so as not to incur the charge of cruelty . to animals. Some time ago a local Judge held that they might be carried by the legs with the head, of course, down, but he having died another Judge has reversed him and decides that as chickens walk with their heads over their feet It is cruel to carry them in any other position. This decision seems to be based on the theory that a chicken knows how to carry Its own head. As a result of this decision the chief of police has notified the peddlers and purchasers of chickens that they must be carried heads up. Irishmen of New York are talking of buying the lakes of Klllarney. with adjacent territory, as a public park for the-people of Ireland. At first It W3S . thought that the purpose was to secure a place for Tammany

meetings, and other people In New York were willing that Tammany hould remain permanently when. It got there, even if the tay were caused by falling In the lake. The Indianian who has invented the machine for stimulating the brain at will Is doubtless doomed to find a good many sub Jects whose- skull upholstering Is so constructed as to fool the electricity that goes nosing around for brains to stimulate. It la abouttime to be making up your mind what you are going to do on the Fourth of July-flee to the woods for peace and quiet, or stay at home and shoot firecrackers with, the children. The American people would far rather hear Mr. Bryan on trusts than to take him for President on trust. "A Magazine Explodes," says the headline to a dispatch. Cause, so many war articles, probably. -SBMM The "White Man's Burden" in the Philippines Is proving a decidedly slippery pack. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Superstitions. "Do you believe it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house?" "I have had worse luck . opening jack pots."

Home for Cati. "I have. a notion to leave half my property to found a home for stray cats." ; "Huh! The only proper home for stray cats is on the other shore." Not an Enthusiast. "You have as little patriotism as any man I know. I don't believe you even admire Dewey 1" . "Er well at least he has my sympathy.' Trade 3Iystery. "I want to know," sked the Cornfed Philosopher, "why a book with the imprint of 'The Smith Press will sell for so much more than if the publishers merely imprinted it 'Smith & Company TALK WITH SIRS. STOTSENBURG. Her Experience Under Fire at the Outbreak of Hostilities. Washington Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mrs. Mary Stotsenburg, the widow of Col. James Miller Stotsenberg, who was killed while leading a charge upon the rebels in the Philippines, is in Washington, on her way'to her horae in New-Albany, lnd. Mrs. Stotsenberg, army born and bred, ms proven by her recent experiences . in the Philippines the sort of mettle a soldier's wife Is made of. To-day she talked, somewhat reluctantly, of the life she led In the Eastern tropics. "I did no more than a s-oldler's wire should do," said Mrs. Stotsenberg. modestly; "and now that it is all over for everything seemed to be over when the colonel fell It Is a satisfaction to feel that I. left nothing undone. "When the time came to execute the orders for Manila I was ready to start with the colonel: not as an army officer's wife, for that is contrary to regulation, but as an army nurse. I shall never. forget the thrill that encompassed me on the day of . the colonel's first charge upon the Filipinos: "I was stopping in Manila. The colonel's regiment, the First Nebraska Volunteers, was at the front a few miles away. . Every day I drove out to. the camp in a1 calache, or wagonette. My understanding with the colonel was that in case of danger I was to seek refuge In the house of an Englisnman, half way between Manila and the American lines. Over this house the British flag floated, and the rebels respected It. "On Feb. 4 our lines and the enemy's were very close together. An hour before I arrived at the camp that day Colonel Stotsenberg. by the commanding general's orders, had sent word to the rebels to retreat several hundred yards. The Filipinos accordingly retired. "Later in the day the colopel left to visit outpests. I was chatting with a group ot officers in his tent, when suddenly we heard a shot from the direction of the front of the American lines. In an instant we were on our feet. The sound went through me as If the shot Itself had pjerced me. , "Another and another followed. We rushed -from the tent. I was quivering, but not, .with fear. It was the most exciting moment of my life. Volley after volley followed, until the air was white with smoke and the nclse of our own cannon mingled with the singing of the enemy's shells as they broke in our ranks and made heroes of the men. I felt first such a glorious thrill as moves the dying drummer to a last effort to cheer his comrades on, 6r lifts the ; wounded, bleeding arm of the color-bearer until the flag rises again to call back the handful of retreating men. ; "It was war real, actual warr-wlth' the thundering of guns, the. moans of the wounded, the cheers of the living and the colonel, my colonel, in the thickest of it all. "I was only a woman, and the staff officer's wife took me to the colonel's tent, where a ditch had been dug, and prevailed upon me to lie there till the worst was ovsr. "Mauser bullets flew over me thick and fast, often ripping up the earth at the sides of the ditch. They tore into shreds the canvas of the colonel's tent, and I could hear the shattering noise as they struck the trees ,ln the woods near by, and thanked God it was trees, not men, they had pierced. "Half a dozen staff officers, meantime. had been loking for my calache. When at last they found It and I was about to step into it a bullet whizzed by and Just missed the head of the Filipino driver. He promptly dropped the reins and fled Into the vnderbrush. "Then on foot, in company of a surgeon, I made my way off the battlefield, t Touching close to the ground to avoid the Mauser bullets which seemed to be coming from every direction. I would never have left the spot had I not given the colonel my promise that I would . do fo. When we reached the home of the Englishman we found he had fled in terror, hauling down the flag before he went. We were therefore compelled to make Manila on foot, and were footsore and weary when at last we reached there. "That was my first experience, but I passed through many battles after that. I hope I may never see another, however. The sound of a shot reminds me too keenly of him." , Y. M. C. A. In the Late War. Kansas City Journal. The Y. M. C. A. year book for 1899 has Just appeared, and.lt contains an interesting report of the army and navy department. The association began preparing for its campaign some time before the first call for volunteers was made. and. on April 30 permission of the War . Department to locate Y. M. C. A., tents at all army camps was given. From then on the effort? of the Y. M. C. A. were vigorous and effective until the close of the war. Nearly 200 men were employed by the association in army and navy work, and the work was prosecuted at 'twenty-four national camps. The most prominent feature of the-Y. M. C. A. work in the army camps, however, was not of a religious nature, as might be supposed. It was. on the other hand, the practical and popular task of providing soldiers with tho means of writing home. Pens. ink. paper and stationery were supplied ' without charge, and the chief, furniture of the Y. M. C. A. tent was always in the form of long tables convenient for ' the use of letter writers. During the summer R.0o0.00) pieces of stationery were used. With its customary practical sense, the association had seen that to make it easy for soldiers to write letters home was to bring home Influences nearer to the soldiers and to protect them thereby from the evil. Influences ' around them. . ' Elklns's Campaign-Fund Scheme. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. During the presidential campaign of 1SD2 Senator Quay and Senator Elklns. who were managing the Republican interests, and exSenator Brlce and Henry . Watterson. who were in charge of the Democratic- headquarters, used to live at the same hotel, and frequently dined together. . One evening, as they were sitting at the same table, Mr. Brice looked over to Senator Quay and asked: ' "How are you folks off for money?" "We are very hard up." replied the Republican chairman. "How are you getting along?" - "Well." said Brlce. "whenever, we want money I go down Into my own pocket for it. I have not been able to get much anywhere else," "You are lucky to have a pocket to go Into." said Senator Quay. "If I had money of my own I would not grumble." . . "But." said Brlce. "I have to borrow It." "Gentlemen." said Senator Elklns. "I have a suggestion to make. Suppose we four go downtown to-morrow and borrow SlJXW.OOO upon our Joint indorsement, and divide it between the two parties, and ,then let whichever one wins pay the notes." Tell the Whole Story. Chicago Tribune. ... : 4 When Col. William Jennings Bryan says he stands to-day where he stood three years ago he tells the whole story, -o far as he Is concerned. The country has moved on.

SCHLEY AND THE TEXAS

ANOTHER CHAPTER OF. THE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO CONTROVERSY. UeUner's Statement of Hodgson's Con. venation vritl the Commander Schley Said, "Damn the Texas.' WASHINGTON. June 20. Following the statement of Lieutenant Commander Hodgson respecting the events that occurred on the bridge of the Brooklyn July 3. 1SSS, the Navy Department to-day made public the, report of Captain Chadwick of his examination of Lieutenant Commander Heilner. The report is dated "U. S. S. New. York, Boston," June IV and is as follows: "Sir In obedience to tho orders of the secretary of the navy, I have the honor to make the following report of the examination of Lieutenant Commander Heilner with respect to his knowledge of a conversation, reported to have occurred between Rear Admiral Schley and Lieutenant Commander Hodgson respecting the action of July 3. 1S93. Lieutenant Commander Heilner states as follows1: " 'At one af, the early sessions of the board on ships' positions during the action of July 2. I strongly expressed my doubt as to the Booklyn'a position before making the loop, as laid downby Mr. Hodgson. Several other navigators, Mr. Comly and Mr. Schuetz. I know, sided with me. Mr. Hodgscn and I on this particular occasion walked up and down the port pide cf the cabin of the Brooklyn in which the board was sitting. It is my impression Mr. Hodgson claimed the Brooklyn was 1.100 yards from the leading Spanish ship when the turn was made. The board. I think, put it later at 1,400 yards. Mr. Hodgson told me he felt certain they were closer than 1.400 yards and that their stadlmeter gave 800 yards. He said: "We were so close that Schley gave the order hard a port. I said to him: 'You mean starboard, do you not?' The commodore said: "No; I mean port; we are close enough to them now. " " 'Mr. Hodgson then said he called attention to the position of the Texas and told the commodore he thought there was danger, of running her down. The comnfodore replied: "Damn the Texas; let her look out for herself." This, conversation was repeated to me on several occasions. " 'Everything I say now was contained in Mr, Hodgson's statement. The words,' may have beerk a little different. He may have said: "Don't you mean starboard, commo dore?" instead of the first phraseology, ne certainly said: ?We aro near enough to them now," and also "Damn the Texas; let her look out for herself." He repeated this conversation to me at least three times during the sessions-of the board, because every time a discussion arose I recurred to the position given by him which 1 did not think correct. I placed no dependence on any observation by stadlmeter or sextant during gun fire. Mv experience was that during the action I could not get a single observation by the stadlmeter on which I could place any confidence, though I was using two stadlmeters and had a man in the conning tower with cleaning material, whose only duty was to try to keep the glasses clean. With the utmost care thit could not be done. I tried keeping the stadlmeter under my coat but It was of no use. I mention this as a reason for the doubts which brought up the discussion. The report as published was practically the conversation as repeated to me.' "Lieutenant Commander Heilner appends his signature as an attestation of the correctness of the foregoing as herewith The' Navy Department to-day gave put the following correction in Captain Chadwick s letter anent the Hodgson statement: "me typewritten copy of the Ptatement of -apt-Chadwick and Lieutenant Commander Hodgson, given to the pres yesterday, was in error in the following points: About onethird from the beginning, where published statement reads: 'I intended him to understand there was danger of ru-ning into the Texas, He said 'all right,' or words to that effect. I cannot repeat .verbatim, it should have read: 'I intended blm i to understand there wae danger of running into thTTexas. He said: 'All right; the Texas must look out for that or words to that effect; I cannot repent verbatim. Schley Has Nothing to Sny. BALTIMORE, June 20. Rear Admiral Schley, who Is visiting Gen. Fellx'Agnus at the home of the latter, near this city, declined to comment upon or discuss in any manner the statements of Lieutenant Hodgson or- Lieutenant Commander - Heilner? General Agnus said: "Admiral Schley has nothing to say. This is rnerely e. dispute between Junior officers. History tells the rest." EXCHANGE OF HUSBANDS. Divorce and Second Marrlattea Make Two Couplea Hcpy. "A . ST. LOUIS, June 20. The Post-Dispatch says: "Mrs. Henry Lehman- that was is now Mrs. John Riedesser; and Mrs. John Rledesser that was Is now Mrs. Henry Lehman. This is the result of two divorces and two marriages. The wives have not changed residences, but the husbands have. John Rledesser and his wife Helena used to live at 2620 Sheridan avenue, ani Henry Lehman and his wife occupied' 2430 Spring avenue. The RIedessers came to St. Louis from Lafayette, Ind., several years ago. They were married in 1S82 and four children were born to them. The husband is a stone contractor and prosperous. , "Mrs. Lehman is a handsome French woman, dark eyed and vivacious. The families exchanged visits and became warm friends. Mr. Lehman and Mrs. Rledesser thought after a while that there was too much friendship between Mrs. Lehman and Mr. Rledesser. This estranged the women, but it didn't affect Mr. Rledesser's regard for Mrs. Lehman. Then the Lehmans separated and were divorced. Mrs. Lehman kept the home and Mr. Lehman went elsewhere. "Mrs. Rledesser hoped that this might bring her spouse to a realization of his duty to her, but Mrs. Lehman as a divorcee seemed to have an even greater attraction for him than she had when she was a wife. Mrs. Rledesser's friends advised her to a divorce and she did so, being ewar the home and the custody of the childi Mrs. Rledesser called on Mrs. Lehman . said harsh things. Airs. Lehman had 1. arrested for disturbing her peace. The case was tried June 3 in the Police Court and dismissed, the Judge holding that Mrs. Rledesser was not to blame. But If' Mrs. Lehman didn't score in the morning she did in the afternoon, for in company with the former husband of the defendant she went to Clayton and there they were married. Then they took up their residence in tlie Lehman heme. Their happiness appears to have made Lehman desirous of a like state, so he persuaded Mrh. Riedesser to again try the fortune of matrimony. She consented and they were married last Thursday." ' TWO ROBBERS ARRESTED. Drivers of Mall Wagons Charged with Rlflinff Pouches. CHICAGO. June 20.-What Is regarded by Postoffice Inspector James Stuart as one of the largest and boldest mall robberies In the history of the Chicago postoffice was detected to-day, and the arrests of Walter Porter and John Newman, drivers of mall wagons at the postoffice. followed. Porter made a full confession. Implicating Newman. A large amount of letters, money orders and packages taken by the men was found in their lodging house. The fact that the robbers had been in the employ of the Chicago postoffice since June 1 and that. all the thefts were committed since that time while the prisonej were driving their wagons makes the scarce one of the boldest in the recollection of the postoffice inspectors. The mail was all taken in pouches while being carried in th wagons between the postoffice and railroad stations. Meet Here Next Year. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. June 20.-The National Children's Home Society convention adjourned Fine die to-day, after electing the following officers: President. Prof. Charles R. Henderson, of Chicago; honorary president. Hon. John Woodbrldge. of Chicago; secretary and national superintendent. A. O. Wright, of Madison. Wis.; treasurer. Rev. J. P. Dysart. of Milwaukee. The next convention will be held at Indianapolis. Chaiies D. Merritt. of Belolt. was elected delegate to the Child Saving Congress at the Paris Exposition of 1IX. Junior Order of Mechanics. . MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Jue 20. Supreme Commadery Junior Order of American Mechanics, In an annual national session here, this evening elected officers as follows: 8uprme commander. H. C. Edy. of Colo-

radio: supreme vice commander, Charles L Voris, ef Kentucky: supreme prelate CoW. Beelr. of Kentucky; supreme recorder, C. D. H&uptfeurerr. of Ohio: supreme treasurer. Charles H. Temple, of Prnnsylvanla; protector, J. A. Lantz. of Ohio; supreme marshal. C. J. Stoneburner. of Colorado: supreme Junior councilor. C. E. Tinkler, or Oh'.o; supreme warden, George F. Lounsbury. of Colorado. MONEY THROWN flyAY. More Than 91,000,000 Needlessly Expended on Levee.

NEW YORK. June 30.-The Mississippi river commission held its -second meeting to-day In the Army building. The session was executive and may extend over Into tomorrow. The object of the meetings now being held Is t get all the special and other reports of the different members and engineers together and prepare them for the annual report, embodying the work and recommendations of the year for the secretary of war. "Mere than Jl.000.000 has been needlessly expended In the construction of levees on Bayou la Fourche, La., since 15?0.'? the statement made by Major Harrod and Rob ert S. Taylor. "Matter are serious at Bayou la Fourche," the statement says. "This bayou is an affluent from the Mississippi river, leaving It about' eighty miles above New Orleans and flowing to the gulf in a southwesterly direction. . There are valuable lands lying along its banks which must be protected by levees In order to save them from submergence by floods. A riroject has been under consideration slnco 8S6 for placing a lock at the head of the bayou, by which the entrance of Mississippi floods would be prevented and its navigation maintained. The building of such a lock would obviate the necessity of levees on La Fourche. - The estimated co?t cf the dredging and the building of the lock is $130.0. Since ISM more than SLlon.OoO has been expended on levees on La Fourche, which, if the Jock had been built In 155, could have been expended on the mala river." SOOTH NOT PROSPEROUS AGRICULTURE SAID TO BE 3IORE DEPRESSED THAN EVER. I Testimony. Before the Industrial Commillion The Xenrro Race and. Railnnys Criticised. TtT A CTltVCTftV Tn- A TV,- f-,ti,.ttt . . V V . . , . UIIC V. iliUUPll tai commission tQ-day continued its Investigation of the agricultural conditions of the South. Mr. J. Polk Brown, president of the Agriculutral Society of Georgia, was the first witness. He agreed with Mr. BarA. ...ti...a j a i . ii 1 1. who iciuuru jtsicruaj, 1111 me con. dition of agriculture in the South was more depressed than It had ever been. More people were plowing barefooted and bare--backed than ever before. He agreed with the late Henry Grady that the fault was not with the soli or the climate nor, as many had claimed, was It entirely with thi tariff. One of the. most prolific causes ot the trouble was in the fact that cotton was practically the only crop. Another cause, he asserted, was that, the education was not SUfficIentlVrtraetiratf It shntild tearh nrn. ple to do manual labor. So far as the colored race was concerned there was no opening for them in the trades or the professions. ' - Mr. Brown dwelt on the presence of the . negro as the special cause of the want of development of the South. He regarded . him as retarding the' industrial, moral, religious, social and agricultural" development of the section, and he felt if they were absent a better class of labor would take their place. The more the negro was paid the less efficient he was as a laborer. Mr. Brown wanted : the negro race separated from the whites and colonized cither in this w j u 4 lice n ini r. 11c . tia was nonprogressive and Indisposed to adopt new methods and new devices. The great obstacle in the way of the development of the manufacturing interests was the want of money. Mr. Brown advocated diversified crops, recommending each .community should raise sufficient of everything to meet its own demands. At the afternoon session the commission listened to a statement by Mr. P. 11. Lovejoy, a merchant and planter of Hawkins-. ville.lGa. He spoke especially of the relations cf the local merchants and the farmLers. The merchants themselves had not; oeen prosperous for several years. Thev were compelled to make the majority of their sales on credit and had to take mortgages on the land of the farmers if they had any or on their crops if they had no lands. Many of them were not able to give collateral of any value, and to such men sales were made on large margins of profit. "We size a man up," he said, "if he Is good we sell to him on a small margin. If he is a hard case we take what he has and quit." He said that freight rates from Georgia to New York were about twice what they are from New York to Georgia. The large cities were evidently being built up at the expense of the country. Even the watermelon crop was unfavorable. "We have found that in shipping melons we pay the freight." he said. "The railroads cut us out of profit in that business." WANTS PHILIPPINES .RETAINED John Barrett Talks to the Doiton Chamber of Commerce. BOSTON", June 20. Mr. John Barrett. United States minister to Slam during tha Cleveland administration, spoke before the Boston Chamber of Commerce this after-1 noon regarding the Philippines and the extension of United States trade. In the far East. He said in part: "If we fall to hold the Philippines and to, protect our rights of trade throughout the. far East the United States will not only become a secondary power In the great Pacific, where bv natural position and the hand of God we were Intended to be for-" ever first, but the Pacific coast States will experience the most' demorallzlne and de structive blow to their progress and pros-. perity that could possibly be given them. . I appeal to you to unite with and support the Pacific coast States In a policy which will insist on our taking legitimate advantage of the Immeasurable material and commercial opportunities that result from the occupation of the Islands. The whole country east and -.-est. north and south. Is ltally concerned In the expansion of American commerce and Influence throughout the Tacific seas. If the far East wants the flour and the timber, and other food and manufactured products of the Pacific coast, it wants also the cotton goods of New England, the cotton goods and the raw cotton of the South, the manufactured iron, steel and miscellaneous products ar well as petroleum of the middle States, and it wants the similar products, together possibly with the maize or Indian meal, and flour of the great central West." INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY Over 1,400 Foliovrrre of Hahnemann In Attendance. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. June 20.-The fifty-fifth annual session of the American Institute of Homeopathy opened here this afternoon with over 1.400 followers of Hahnemann In attendance. Every section of the country was represented. Sessions of the institute will be held throughout the week and there will also be a number of sectional meetings. To-day's sessions were devoted to committee reports, the annuaX address of Benjamin F. Bailey, of Uncoln. Neb., president of the Institute, and addresses of welcome, with responses thereto. Upon conclusion of the evening meeting a hop was given on the new steel pier, and this was followed bv a smoker at one of th beach-front hotels. The American Homeopathic Eye. Ear and Throat Society to-day elected officers as follows: President, H. P. Bellows. Boston; vice presidents. Dr. E. Wann. St. Paul; Dr. C J. Swann. Chicago; H. D- Schneck, Brooklyn, and treasurer. Dr. B. 11. Bel frith. New York. Mrs. Tom Baker Dylnir. LONDON, Ky.. June 2). Mrs. Tom Baker Is dying from nervous prostration caused by the death of her hu'iand. The doctors haa given her up and her death Is expected at any moment, All is quiet at M.mchtrte,? now, but trouble is feared at any time.