Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1899 — Page 3

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1899.

New York Store Established 1S53.

Sole Ascnta for Dutterlck rntterna. Price Every Duck and Pique Suit in our stock Beginning To-Day Pettis Dry Goods Co Modesty and Money Are very desirable. Modesty In a good housewife adds to her charms. Money adds good things to her pantry. Princess Patent Flour Is reasonable In price, and uneQualed In Quality. Every package guaranteed. BLANTON MILLING CO. For WEDDING PRESENTS In Solid Gold, Heavy Solid Silver, fine China and rich Cut Glass at WHOLESALE PRICES, see la lB.rn.mt Waahlnston Strat. Marottc 3 All tht year round the masses find tha beet vaiuei In thoes at the second largest shoe store In the world. 22, 24, 26 and 23 East Washington St 3 PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. A. M. Sweeney and family have gone to Lake Maxlnkuckee. Mr. and Mrsu S. O. Tollock and sons. Wal lace and Leopold4are visiting relatives In Lanesvnie. u. o Mrs. Carrie Smith, of Terre Haute. Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Richard Reagln, at 603 North East street. ConRicrcIal Travelers and Trusts. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I beg the privilege of answering a few points in your editorial of Tuesday, June U. in relation to "Commercial Travelers and Trusts." J First If I am mistaken in reference to the leading lawyers of the country being employed by corporations and trusts for the purpose of protecting them, then I have been misinformed mostly by the newspapers, for they have been the source of my information on these lines. Again, when a corporation, "combine" or a set of county officers desire to defeat, for Instamce, a fee and salary bill, why are legislatures filled with lobbyists until the public is indignant at their efforts to defeat legislation, and la It not a fact that generally these lobbies are bossed and controlled by some of the shrewdest lawyers in the county. Second You say the complaint of wholesale dealers is that the great expense of traveling men and the sharp competition amongst traveling men have so reduced profits that they must look about for more economical ways to distribute goods. I beg to say that the traeling man does not make the prices for his firm: the prices are made by the house, and woe to the man who violates them. The Jobber Is an honest man and expects honest profits, and the traveling man who has not "the art" of presenting his goods in the most plausible manner -and with most honest intention of not only benefiting his employer as well as the purchaser, soon finds himself without a Job. Your view is altogether wrong. In the mad rush to make millions, whereby the already rich man can shine In "society" and "swim ' with the exclusive four hundred, he Is not satisfied with the old-time honest pronts, but must "squeeze" out others who have been profit sharers. Go over the wholesale district of this city for the past ten years; there have been so few failures you can count them on the lingers of one hand; bul see the great prosperity our wholesalers have enjoyed. Their travelingmen have done 75 to W per cent, of their business, and they have only had such pay as was based on their yearly sales. For my part 1 can not see how any one can contend that there is no tangible way of reaching the trusts by enacting laws. Laws are certainly made for the public good. Some one once said "the public be d d," but it was a speech that rang up and down this country like a call to arms, and If. as it is universally admitted, trusts are a menace to the public good, then the public good Is greater than private corporations, and they must not damage the many to promote the interests of the few. I am told that In Germany, when a man offers for sale an article, say for 3S cents, that has cost him 50 cents, his competitors complain to the proper authorities that he is doing one of two things: First, that he intends to defraud his creditors, and second, that he Is a disturber of the public's business, and if be does r.ot quit he Is heavily fined. I fully understand that this is not the American idea or method of business, but It would be well to have more of it la our methods. REX. Indianapolis, July 15. Volney Foster's Scheme. Chicago Post. "May I hope that the noble gentleman and the beautiful lady will graciously condescend to honor mo and my poor, unworthy vehicle by engaging it to take them to their destination?" That is what one may expect from the Evanston cabmen now. They are striving , for a medal offered by Volney W. Foster for the cabby who is kindest to his horse, has the neatest and most attractive cab and excels In politeness. As the medal is valued at there is naturally great anxiety to possess it, and reports from the university town indicate that dancing1 masters and other teachers of deportment have mere business than they can comfortably handle. Of course in polite society the discussion of financial topics Is tabooed, and this has proved tjomethlng of u stumbling block. But, after all, what Is a "short fare" now and then to a roM mfJal? Having learned that It Is highly improper to mention the cost of anything In the upper social circles, the cabbies act accordingly. "How much?" asks a passenger. "Whatever my jjenerous patron considers a ride In my humble conveyance worth." replies the cabby. "It would be presumptuous in me to match my Judgment of values against that of a gentleman of high financial standing." Oh. a ride in an Evanston cab la destined to be more and more of a luxury as time goes on and the contest gets warm. It won't b long betore every patron will be presented with a bouquet and a novel to pass away the time, and the cabbies them.elvcs are already raid to Lk pricing silverplated harness and hats with "bugs" on them. The Upper Side. Chicago News. "Me ould mon an vr ould mon fought solde be soide. Larry." "Mabe they did. Dtnny; but Oi'Il bet me ould xuoa wuz on top."

GREAT FLOUR EXPORTS

PRODUCT OF UNITED 5 TATES IX GREAT Ell DE.MAXD TI!A EVER. Over 18,000,000 Barrels Sent Abroad La at Year, Surpassing All Previous Records of This Country. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. July 16.-The millers of the United States, like Its manufacturers generally, have made their banner recori in the flsca? year 1SH0. While wheat, corn. oats, corn meal, oatmeal, rye, and In fact all lines of breadstufCs show a reduction In exportation, by reason of the decreased demand abroad, flour alone shows an increase, and not only an increase, but reaches the highest point in the history of flour exportation. For the fiscal year the total exportation of flour is over 13,000,000 barrels, representing over SO.OQO.COO bushels of wheat, while no preceding year shows as great an exportation of flour. While flour 13 not Included with manufactures in the general classification of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, being retained under the general term "breadstuffs." the fact that American labor and the results of American enterprise enter into its transition from wheat to flour, and thus prove advantageous to labor and business enterprise, adds to the satisfaction with which Americans will note the steady growth in the exportation of flour, even in the face of the reduced demand abroad for breads tuffs. The short age in breadstuffs in other parta of the world In 1857 and 12)3 caused a general advance In prices, and the better crops of the year Just past resulted in lowef prices and less demand. This fact accounts for the reduction In our exportation in other lines of breadstuff s, and that flour exports should have continued to Increase in the face of the reduction in other lines is especially gratifying K those interested in seeing American labor participate as largely as possible in the profit of American exportation. The average price of a bushel of wheat exported during the fiscal year 189$ was 71.77 cents, and the average price for the wheat exported In the form of flour was S7.67 cents, calculating that four and onehalf bushels of wheat are utilized in the production of a barrel of flour. This adds 12.9 cents to the amount of money received for each bushel of wheat sent abroad in this form, thus bringing to American Industry over S10.0u0.0u0 during the year aa a compensation to the enterprise which transformed the $0,000,000 bushels of grain into the 15,000.000 barrels of flour exported. The exportation of flour from the United States has made Its chief development since 1875. Prior to that date American millers followed the old process of lSwu in the manufacture of flour, while European millers were experimenting with and bringing to success the modern roller mill methods. As a result the forelin flour trade of the United States met with serious reverses during the period from ISM to 1875, European consumers prefering to buy the wheat and themselves transform it into flour by their new process, which the millers of the United States had not then adopted. Writing of this period of depression in the export trade of American flour, Charles A. Plilsbury says that, "while our millers in 1854 sent 1.M6.000 barrels of flour to Great Britain alone, they sent in 1SS5 only 200,000 barrels to all Europe," and that "while during the five years ending with 1830 over 99 per cent, of tho value of wheat and flour exports was flour, in the Ave years 1&7Q-5 only 27.8 per cent, cf wheat and flour exports was In flour." In 1875 the exportatlons of wheat flour were 3,973,128 barrels, in is) ,- 011,419 barrels. In 1&S5 10.648,145, in 1&0 12,231.711, in 1S35 I5.2,fc32 and in 1&33 will be about 18.300.000 barrels, the exact figures having not yet been completed by the treasury Bureau of Statistics. While there is a gratifying Increase in the exportation of flour in every direction, the most strongly marked growth Is toward the Orient. The exportatlons of flour to HongKong in the year 1&9 will considerably exceed 1.000.000 barrels, while in 1&S9 the num ber was but 378,634. Flour for Hong-Kong goes mostly to China, though considerable quantities are shipped direct from HongKong to Japan, the Philippines and various islands of Oceanica. To Japan, direct our exports of flour have grown from 19.677 bar- . rels in 1S&9 to about .225,000 in lft, to all Asia from 418.353 barrels in 1S8D to about 1,750,000 barrels in 1&39. To South America the growth has been less rapid, the total for 189 being 1,068,167 barrels, while that for 1S39 will be but a little more than the figure for a decade ago. Germany, to which we sent but 13.009 barrels or hour in 18W, takes in 1S59 nearly 500,000 barrels, this being a large increase over last year. Netherlands, to which we sent but 92.260 barrels In 18S9. took in 1S9S over 1,000,000 barrels, the figures for 1&9 not being yet completed. To the United Kingdom our exports of flour in 1SS9 were 5.271.244 barrels, and in 1S99 will exceed 10,000,000 barrels. f MISREPRESENTATION REFUTED. The Words Put in Dewey'n Month by the Rev. McCauIey. Montpelier Dally Journal. The Hon. John Barrett, ex-United States minister to Siam, has been at the Pavilion for the past two days. A Journal reporter called on Mr. Barrett Tuesday evening to learn his oplnnln of the statements sent to the Boston Transcript from Tokio, Japan, by the Rev. Clay McCauIey. Mr. McCauIey stated in substance that General Otis and all the officers under him were opposed to the war in the Philippines, and that Admiral Dewey himself had said that rather than wage a war of aggression against the Philippines he would up anchor and get out of the narDor oi'iamia. .air. .uarreu saia: "Right at the start and from the shoulder, with all due tespect to the Rev. Clay Mc CauIey, I don't believe a word of it. I am very sure that neither Admiral Dewey nor General OtLs ever said any such thing, and when I am asked regarding it I am willing to stake my reputation as a truth teller by saying that they never made any such state ments. and. further, that when asked re garding the matter, as they surely will be. they will say they never said any such thing. "The Rev. Clay McCauIey is a bright. clever, well-meaning man, but one of those enthusiastic fellows who talk too much. He lets his imagination run away with him. and he imagines a man says what he does not. It is preposterous no, I will not say that It is incredible that a man like Admiral Dewey, a trained naval man as he is. should make such statements, even if he believed them. "The Rev. Clay McCauIey saw Dewey once or twice; I paw him every day for almost a year, and I never heard him cay or even intimate any such thing. I imagine the reverend gentleman's statements came about In this way: lie called on Admiral Dewey, and did most of the talking. Mc CauIey interpreted the admiral as saying what was in his own brain, lie thought out what he wanted the admiral to ay and then honestly thought he std it. The way of it was. the Rev. Clay McCaulev went down there on a running visit. He rushed about, on board ship and on shore, saw lots of things and heard everything be could. His mind was Just teeming with all these ideas, and he is probably honest In believing that Admiral Dewey said such things. You can put my eleven months with the admiral against McCauley's one visit, and then quote me as saying that Dewey never made euch statements. I know that Dewey wanted to prevent fighting, but I alio know that neither he nor General Otis ever sld what the Rev. Clay McCauIey puts In their moums. Boston Transcript please copy. SWIMMING SCHOOLS. Desirable Enough, but Not at Public Expense. Washington Tost. A number of our contemporaries have, almost simultaneously, commenced a vie ourous agitation for the establishment of swimminj? schools. The Post Is In favor of the most generous use of water for all domestic purposes, and has no obiec tlon to public bathlnjr houses maintained by taxation, until that good times comes. when water will be on the free list and a bath tub will te an indispensable fta ture In the equipment of every tenement. it is well for large cities to fv.rnish free baths. But we do not think it incumbent on a State or a municipality to add swim mlng schools to its educational facilities A knowledge of the natatorial art is not requisite in any of the professions or trades. Two or three Western papers base their advocacy of swimming schools on the assumption that a person who cannot swim is more likely to be drowned than one who can. So far as we know, there are no statistics that throw anv light on the question, but we believe that the greater the number of swimmers the longer the list of accidental drownings.

This list appears to be growing, but it contains the names of "expert swimmers" in very large proportion to the aggregate. In nearly all cases where persons are drowned while bathing they owe their death to the fact that they can swim. Bathers who have not acquired that art are not likely to take risks. When boats are upset It often happens that one of the party who prided himself on his swimming was responsible for the accident. Belief in his ability to take care of himself rendered him less careful than he would otherwise have been. When a ship founders at sea, of what value is skill In swimming? There is a good deal of pleasure in the natatorial art, and Its possessiou may fairly be regarded as an accomplishment: but It is not. by any means, a safeguard against drowning. We can see no good reason why It should be taught at public expense. But it Is possible that General

t unston might be able to get up an argument in support of that proposition. CAPTAIN WATKINS'S CASE. Unlucky Influence Constantly Surroands Some Ocean Liners. New York Letter. While there is much sympathy for Capt. Watkins, and while it Is probable that not one of the hundreds of thousands of passengers who crossed the ocean with him have not shared this sympathy and felt that Watkins could not be held in the ordinary sense responsible for the mental lapse which caused the loss of the Paris, nevertheless, the feeling does not exist among those who direct ocean steamship corporations that success is tho criterion for mastership, and one lapse, no matter how caused, is sufficient to destroy a master's character. . The president of the Johnston-Layard line a few days ago spoke of an experience which his corporation met with only a few years ago. A certain captain had com mitted an error of Judgment as mysteriously inspired as was the impulse which caused Watkins to err. Fortunately, he did not lose his ship, but it was In great peril for a little .while. The English board of inspectors did not do more than censure, but the reproach was very mild. President Johnston discharged him, saying that the owners of an ocean steamship line could not afford to keep In command of a ship a man who had made a single error of Judgment. Friends of the discharged -captain expostulated wltli Mr. Johnston, saying that he was demanding more than human nature was capable of giving. So many urgent re quests were made In behalf of this man's restoration that Mr. Johnston, against his own Judgment, wavered, and at last, as he could not find Just the captain whom he wanted to take charge of the ship, agreed to restore the discharged captain and give him one more chance. Ho made that decision only two or three hours before the ship sailed, and the captain, overflowing with gratitude, his eyes filled with tears, took Mr. Johnston's hand as he left the offices for th Khln. and said: "You will never have occasion to regret having forgiven and restored me. . That verv nlcht through another error of Judgment this captain ran the ship ashore in St. George's channel and she was a total loss. It was doubtless tne ieenng oi captain Petrle and his associate inspector that a sea captain who, after fifty years, is so suddenly amictea wun meniai numuaws that he is ahle to make a grievous mistake. cannot be trusted hereafter, although there may have been no moral reproach contained in the sentence of dismissal or suspension. Lapses of this kind sometimes come to tne knowledge of railway superintendents whereby the most trusty railway engineers have wrecked trains. An Instance Is in the records of the New Haven corporation as recently written. An engineer who never received a censure, wno never tnrougn any fault of his own met with accident or failed to bring his train in on time, passed a signal near Bridgeport and a few minutes later there was a wreck. The engineer could not explain his lapse of sight. The signal was fully set against him and the fireman happened at the moment that it came in view to see the engineer's eyes turned toward it, but the engineer tesiinea that he saw nothine: that his mind for the moment was not in touch with his sense of sight, and his word was believed, since for many years he had shown himself to be a man not only of unblemished personal character, but of unusually acute mind. Of course, that experience was enough to warn the railway superintendent against mm. and h -was not termltted to take out an other engine, although he was"not censured morally for the accident mat nis lapse caused. m . . Amoncr those who go down to the sea in ships there is only the conviction that that mysteriously malign influence which is graphically suggested by one word that is slang. and we have no other that Is good English to suggest it, "the hocdoo," was even nresent with the Paris from the very day she was launched. And the coincidences of unhappy experiences wnicn nave Deiauen that vessel are cited by tnese manors aa proof that their belief is not superstition. but truth. Here is a sister ship, the New York, not more carefully officered nor more skillfully sailed, going year after year over tne same course that the Paris took, built almost ex actly like her, so nearly that many of the parts are Interchangeable, and yet from the day she was launched until to-day sne nas been pared any of the experiences which have made the history or the .Fans an unhappy one. There are in every steamship line what are called lucky and what are called unlucky boats, and there does seem to be some mysterious influence associated1 with some ships that make them unprosperoujs. while others have nothing but favor. It may be the same quality which causes one locomotive to behave like a vixen and another built exactly like that one to be as docile as a perfectly trained horse. Thir ty years ago a firm of steamboat builders constructed a steamboat designed for service on the Hudson. There was no particular aim to get speed or superiority of model. They found, however, that they had built a boat than which none ever paddled the Hudson could go faster. She was the Mary Powell, a steamboat famous among American vessels of that kind. Desiring to match her. the owners caused another to be built with the accuracy of identification that enables watchmakers to make two timepieces so exactly alike that their parts may be exchanged, yet when this steamboat was built she proved to be a mere tug in comparison with her sister ship, nor were the marine architects ever able to discover wherein was the mystic difference that made the Mary Powell the fastest of tidewater boats and her sister ship one of the slowest. The Mary Powell has been repatched and reconstructed until, like an old garment, none of the original material is In her, and yet that makes no difference with her speed and the other day in a thunderstorm her smoke funnels were blown over, and yet sne pursued her way without perceptible loss of sneed. The infinity of detail upon which the safety of an ocean .steamship depends, as well as the infinite care, which, after all, explains the apparent immunity from accident, may be illustrated by an anecdote told by one of the veteran captains now commanding a favorite ocean steam ship. He was speaKtng' or tne loss of the Paris, not knowing then that Captain Watkins would take to himself the entire blame and set forth the rea son for the disaster. He was coming down the English channel In command of his ship, one of the finest specimens of modern marine architecture, when he observed that one of the lights was not where it should be if his reckoning or his compass was correct. Fortunately, it was a clear r.Ight. He knew that it was Im possible that the lighthouse could have been moved within a week and, therefore, the fault was either with the course he had laid out or with the compass. His ship carried one of Lord Kelvin's patent compasses, one of the most delicate of Instruments, and presumably one the least liable to be out of order. Tests were made which showed that the compass was wrong, and it was removed, another one put in its place which instantly gave cor rect bearings upon the lighthouse, showing that the captain s reckoning was all right. The captain spent som hours trying to dls cover wherein tiiat compass failed. Neither he nor any of his subordinate officers were able to detect any fault with it. Then the captain, using a strong microscope. found that some of the silk threads which served as a support to the compass, each thread being almost of the fineness of the spinning of a spider, had become un raveled a little, thereby causing Infinites Imal knots, and these, so delicate was the Instrument, had served to disarrange the compass. Had It been a foggy night that fine steamship would have been a wreck upon the coast of Wales. CANNED MEAT FOR CUBA. Good Enough Food for Even the 31 os , Fastidious to Eat. National Provisioned After every Invective of malice and every calumny of spl'e had been hurled against our inn,ir mAitfa After Veil T fit Infnwirtll. V .... t V V. - - - - - - - - " charges and of fearless searching inquiry by 1 . w. . I . Im .-r. I ..t . our Tsrncrm f urjiiuiriu, n u iantjiuK iu pee that the War Department has indorsed the verdict of "not guilty" as to those

charges, a verdict rendered by two able courts of inquiry. The War Department has done , this by placing an order for 123J0

puunus vi unucu roast oeei ror use oy uiw army in Cuba. Our people are eating this kind of meat at home every day without complaint, and why those of us who recruit for foreign service should not eat such a ration abroad does not appear. There Is no sense in an assumption that the army should not, for the navy does. The gentile earns for hindquarters of beef and the adjacent parts. He frowns at forequarters and chunks. The Jew eschews those choice luxuries of the Christian palate and will have nothing but "kosher" fores" at even an Increased price for that kind of meat. To each the other's meat is trash. The general eater will readily admit that the whole steer is good. Then why turn up the nose at the can which contains either part? It Is urged that tough meat only is canned. That U not true. The diner on canned beef will readily admit that he can masticate Its body more easily than he can the fiber of the average steak. It is high time to get sense a hair 1p It look at thA far? and the truth of the canned-meat business and stop ail Oi tnia cnuaisn uosn auuui wnntu iuuu. tread3 the soil but that is fit for human food and nutritious, wneiner in cans or on the rack, some fatter, some leaner, but all good food. A steer which has not meat on its bones Is not worth buying nor worth hauling and feeding In transitu, so is left on the plains or in the yards. This howl about tough and leathery meat Is all bosh, so m snnAH crnnH ar concerned. The nt anv tin will hear out that as sertion. The War Department, in placing so M - .J U 4?ta O A important an oruer ior canneu ueci u u mendable example to every devotee who has stopped to read or to listen to ie uaecitso canards perpetrated upon the reading world by tne xevensn uany paycis u. A FEW THINGS ABOUT HOGG. Folntera on the Style of Man Who Stampeded Tammany Hall. New York Herald. That great burst of enthusiasm tor William J. Bryan which was let loose in Tammany Hall on July i was all the doing or one man. His name is James Stephen Hogg, and he Is a former Governor of Texas, in an instant he marked an epoch in the campaign for the presidency that will- end in If-oo: He upset all Richard Croker's calculotinna iia lamflerrd various denuty lead erships. He ran away with the Tiger a heart and made it lose its head. He destroyed Brother Augustus's boom for the presidency, lie snowed tnai xamniaiiy a sincerity for the gold standard was not even skin deep. He undid all that has been accomplished by the Democratic Club antiBryan propaganda in eight months. It had nil w a m . a ,-i nxt h,ir in mfnri that Ttrvan. Cleveland and Hill-partlcularly Bryanshould be ignored. Free silver should not be mentioned. Bryan's name must not be uttered. All went well until Hogg was canea on as an impromptu speaker to take the place of one of the several absentees. Whether he went of his own accord or on the suggestion of some of the anti-Croker Democrats La not very clear. The suggestion that John C. Sheehan was at the bottom of it is accented by many. Be that as It may. the fact has gone on record that the Tammany organization, drilled and dra gooned for van wyck, cneerea isryan as the candidate in 1300 almost to a man. Feitner called it a Texas cyclone. Whalen said it wasn't much of a shower, only nobody had an umbrella. Carroll was too aumfounded to express an opinion. Croker win have something to say about it later, xsui the fact remained that Hogg, of Texas, to whom Tammany only a few months ago was offering the vice presidency on a ticKet headed by Gorman or Van Wyck, routed the "cohorts of mammon" in its stronghold so easily that everybody wondered how it had been done. Who is James Stenhen Hogg, of Texas? He is a type of the far Western politician. who grew up with the coyotes and Jack rabbits for playmates. If you frequent the Fifth-avenue Hotel corridors you win see him there four or five times a year.. the mg gest figure in that meeting place of politi cians. He usually wears a. slouch hat and a frock coat, and he is quite as imposing as a court-martial or a dress1 parade, because he weighs nearly four hundred pounds and looks every ounce of It. He is not a dandy in any senso of the term. He is blunt and fearless. He likes contention, and no man can fight harder than he. He has been called a demagogue and a Populist. He did more to Injure trusts and monopolies in Texas than any other man. He had Henry M. Flagler, of the Standard OH Company. indicted, and he made a demand on the Governors of New York and Florida that the ald Henry M. Flagler should be sur rendered for trial in the criminal courts. He likes politics, and headed the Texas del egation for Bryan in l&tf. He can tell a good story. He likes a good dinner. He is fifty-three years old. Mr. Hogg was born in Texas and he Is a pelf-made man. He began life an orphan In Smith county, Texas, and at that time it was one of the wldlest sections of the State. He worked on a farm owned by a widow curing his boyhood until he was fourteen years old, and then became a clerk in a store. He soon apprenticed himself to a country newspaper office and became a com positor. He took an active interest In politics, and the first year he voted was elected road overseer. Then he was elected Justice of the peace, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He went to the Lexis lature and then was elected district attorney of Smith county. That was at a time" when district attor neys In Texas had to possess grit and deter mination. Lawlessness was rampant. The rifle and shotgun settled disputes, and entire communities laughed the courts to scorn. The young district attorney went at his work with great courage. lie sent a dozen of the most notorious outlaws to orison. The rest fled from the State, and such was nis rame as a relentless pursuer of lawbreakers that he was e'ected attorney general of Texas in 1S88 and again in 1SSS on an anti-railroad and anU-monoDOlv rjlatform. Now began the. really stormy period of .Air. nogg s career, ne rougnt tne railroads and he fought them to a finish. He recovered thousands of acres of land that belonged to the State. Texaa was very lawless and many district attorneys were afraid to do tneir duty, while the courts were paralyzed. He made a proclamation that at once be came famous, that he would purge Texas of lawlessness and crime or he would bankrupt the state treasury. There was a man in Texas who boasted that no power could punisn mm. lie nad killed sixteen men. Mr. Hogg addressed himself to his case. He had the outlaw indicted on twelve counts. He tried the case in person and convicted him on every one of the counts. A life sentence followed. This case led to Mr. Hogg's nomination for Governor in 1800, and he was elected by 150.000 majority. As Governor Mr. Hogg Inaugurated a war on trusts, monopolies, railroads, banks and insurance companies. He rot after th Standard Oil Company and for a time drove it out or tne state, vested capital took alarm and resolved to crush him. An attempt to defeat him for renomination failed in 1S32 and George Clarke, of Dallas, was nominated as an independent candidate. The Republicans gave him support, end he was voted for by the negroes, whom he had promised to protect in their richts. The campaign tried Hogg as few men have been tried. He was abused, slandered and ridiculed In his own party. The press of the State was solid against him. Everv cor porate institution in the State was back of tne movement, uvery financial power in the United States Joined in. Texas was overrun by agents of railroads, banks, trusts and mortgage companies. His name was used in ribald and impolite ways. His administration was called the "Hogg" blight. It was said he had named his children "Ima" and "Ura," the same being a baseless slander. Texas never saw such a fierce campaign. Its progress was closelv watched all over the United States. Mr. Hogg was reelected by 65.000 majority. Henry M. Flagler never went into Texas while this man was Governor. These are Just a few of the things that can be told about James Stephen Hogg, of Texas, who took command of Tammany Hall for a few minutes on July 4. Ill Effect of riano Playing. Philadelphia Press. Piano playing, particularly by young women of no special musical taste, sensitive and not strong, is attacked by the Medical News and the British Medical Journal as the cause of many nervous troubles. Out of 1.000 girls devoted to piano practice observed by Dr. Waetzhold. v had grave, signs of. chlorosis. Out of 1.000 girls In a similar environment only 200 developed such symptoms. "There is no doubt." says the Medical News, "that the foundation of many a persistent neurvasthenla in after life can be traced to the nerve storms incident to musical training at a time when nature demanded rest, not excitement." Very many more girls have been broken down by undue attention to music than by college study, and both for very young and very sensitive frlrls there Is overwhelming medical evdence that the pernicious habit of requiring musical study of almost every girl does Infinite harm. We're More than Even. Detroit Free Press. Two young men of Detroit, named respectively Morgan and Allison, spent a recent vacation in Canada. While they were being shown over the citadel at Quebec, the soldier who was acting; as their guide stopped them abruptly before a small brass cannon and. giving a significant wink to a guard who was standing near, said quizzically: "This cannon was captured from the Americans bv the British at the battle of Bunker Hill." "Well," replied Morgan, "as long as the Americans kept the hill I guess that tho British are welcome to the cannon."

CRMPfllGNINGlNTHE RAIN

.OTHIfi NEW IX THE EXPERIENCES OF OUR TROOPS IX LIZOX. now the Soldiers of the- Civil "War 3Iet and Overcame the Difficulties Caused by Heavy Rains. Chicago Inter Ocean. "These fellows who are making light of the complaints of dust at Chickamauga," said the major, . "don't know what army dust is. Many feet make much dust on dry roads, and when mule teams, cavalry, ar tillery and infantry use the same road there is dust to tne oeptn or two or tnree incnes. There is no escape for soldiers marching in ranks, no picking the way. In the old days dust didn't bother U3 as much as mud. Given a rain of two or three hours and the average road in the South and ten thousand men with their wagon teams and artillery could turn out the worst variety of mud ever catalogued by a mudologlst. "As bad luck would have it. heavy rains generally came when long and important marches were to be made. In the summer of 1863 the Army of the Cumberland started on what nrnmlsed to bft one of the most briiliant of its campaigns. The men had had a good rest and were In high spirits. It rained ten or twelve days, and that highspirited array was sorely beset. Small streams became roarlnc rivers. Brigades and divisions were separated by unfordablo streams. Provisions and ammunition teams were isolated. The men huddled in camps like half-drowned chickens or paddled along the sloppy roads with yells of derision. On the first day s march I heard only one Jocu lar remark. A downDour of rain had come on us suddenly, fairly taking the breath of the men marching along the road, when a droll fellow shouted at the top of his voice, Who in Sam Hall touched the tent? The fun of this was in the fact that to touch the Inside of a tent in time of heavy rain was to make it leak, and in the further fact that the man who made the remark had been scored a hundred times for touch ing the tent. "Our biieada broka camD at CriDtile Creek, south of Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 24. It began to rain as we struck tents and rained all day and night. There was rain on the 25th, heavy rain all day on the 2th, showers on the 27th, rain In the afternoon of the 2Sth, heavy Tain all day on the 2Sth, showers on the 30th, no rain July 1 and 2, but heavy rain July 3, ehowers on the 4th and 5th, rain all of the forenoon of the 6th, heavy rain all day on the 7th and rain in the forenoon, July 8. Here was a campaign of two weeks with twelve of the fourteen days rainy, A part of this A 1 . , a . time we naa overcoats ana KnapsacKs, out no tents. The greater part of the time wa had nothlnff hilt hlankpt Prnclrer crum bled in the damp atmosphere, sugar and salt became unmanageable and ammunition as prmeciea wun me greatest aimcuiiy. THE WORK WENT ON. '"let, in those two weeks the army maneuvered Bragg out of his fortified camps and drove him to the line of the Tennessee. Harassed as they were by storm and flood the men were not Der mltted to lose sight of the purpose of the campaign. The regiments were In the presence of the enemy all the time, and every function of army life was performed. If the wagons did not come up at night half the regiment, armed with picks, shovels and long ropes, went back for them. If an old ford in a stream could not bo used the DanKs were cut aown at another placo and a bridge thrown across, if nrtirv atui in stream or swamp the men waded In and yuncu ii uui. xi a river couia not be crossed in the morning the regiments bivouacked near until the waters receded, and then waded in. "Nearly every day there was skirmishing In front, and tor three or four days there was almost constant heavy artillery firing on some part of the line, in the first weeK out. we crossed uuck river and Elk river, DlOneerS. DOntOOTl men ravalrv n r ll la... - -----r 1 , UtIIIIViJ and Infantry, all nersistln? in nit nf thQ rain. Camp life was not as dismal as any 'o ueawuyuua ui me experience OX tne soldiers would imply. There was variety enough durin&r the Anv. and whe-n nlrh came the men built fires, dried their clotnes as well as they could, and, sticking their suns, oayoneis aown, in tne ground, wrapped un in their blankets and let n rain There waa everything in the weather to uJBtuuiiigo mo men, oui everytning in events to encourage them. "We knew when we struck th fnrMfirj tions of the Confederates that we had won me oDjective point oi tne campaign. Then a few davs later the firing ctt u valuta miri us of the victory at Gettysburg and the capture of Vicksburg. The boys decided mat unaer tne circumstances rain didn't count. It was the season of berries, and often as the men moved forward in the line or battle they would gather from the nucKieoerry bushes enough to supply them for the day. They came, too, on the most beautiful forest lands of MirtdlA Tnnc and finally came out of the campaign with nu umtrr memories oi tne country except, as thev mit it. 'the rain wax Vfrv wet "The mud was SUCh as few Chicoen mn have ever seen. It was frequently knee uecp. -.vien aia not wear leggings then, but they drew the long army stockings up over the trousers, and when nfchf ram thn were incrusted with mud. Stockings were siripyea oii ana wasnea ana were rcaay for the next dav's tramn. In fnHlnc atranma the men would sometimes be In the water io ma armpits, wouia come out with a yell, start on a quick march and trust to luck to get warm. In fact, they practically generated steam aa thev movpd slnnr and it vA - - O ...v. .A UJO sun came out for fifteen minutes it was greeted with cheers. All this time our mall came to us regularly. We had papers giving an account of the operations of the Army of the Potomac and of Grant at v icitsouri?, ana naa no more men on the sick list when we came out than when wo went in. AMUSING INCIDENTS. "There were, of course, many ludicrous Incidents which gave spice to life in camD. One night myself and partner made our bed on a foundation of rails on the sharp Incline of a ridge. The rain during the night was so heavy that it washed the foundations out and we roiled down the hill, probably twenty yards. A favorite plan at that time was to put gum blankets on the ground, a woolen blanket over this, then two men would lis down close, putting a woolen blanket and a gum blanket oyer them, taking care to leave u,n woiiati pruject oeyona tne blanket biuuiiu. une nigni we were disturbed by a mOSt terrific VPll Snma man x.-K I J that day been reading Victor Hugo's 'Les Mlserables' dreamed that the sewers of i-ans were running in at one ear and out at the other. He woke with a s rroim trt fl rl , - ----- ...... -i.. kwl ji.iia that In turning and twisting the lower gum un m ground naa Decome exposed The rain had fallen on this in torrents and unuri nun so mat ne was rignt in a pool of water. This probably Induced his dream and caused the boys to believe that me lenow naa lost nis mind. "Another nlan wa t n nc tho email cV.i ter tents stretched on poles close enough to the ground to shut out at least half of the rain; but with these tall men were at a great disadvantage. They would make a little flooring of rails up a few Inches from the ground, stretch their shelter tent over that and count themselves comfortable for the night; but when sleep came and they stretched out their feet would project from six to twelve inches in the rain, and the wakeful men in camp made it a practice to co around and haner ti kettles and other things on the projecting ieet. wnicn proDaDiy orten caused many a six-iooier to aream mat nis ieet were loaded with rannnn hallo W i a a a a-4 w a a w a In this campaign the men of the regiment dug ditches, pulled wagons up hill, harvested oats and other grain, ate more blackberries ana nucKieoernes man in any year of thtir riTarrkii v nprlnp 1 1 vtA -n half rjtinna except as they were filled out by foraging for vegetables, chickens and hogs, and at the end of the campaign were at the foot of the mountains in East Tennessee. After a rest of two months they were at Chickamau ga." That High-Priced Revlerr. Philadelphia North American. Lady Randolph Churchill's Anglo-Saxon Review, price $5.25 a copy, has appeared. We have been permitted to steal a glance at it by a man who was wealthy enough to buy a copy. It is distinctly not for the common herd; there is no intent to en courage the readirr or good literature among the masses discernible about it. It is a magazine by lords and ladies for lords and ladles. It Is finely printed, finely bound, and has been given a superfine cover. Inside you may read articles by Lord Rose1 bery. Sir Rudolf Statin and Henry James-

we wonder how James crept in without a

tiller ut course, ne is ajways rfuwir,uui that isn't the point about the Anglo-Saxon review. For th ret. the matter contained in this isue is surprisingly like that which is dished up In plebeian form to the general reader in magazines at v cents a copy. POLAR EXPLORATION. Antnrctlo Ventures In Which Enajland and Germany Will Co-Operate. New York Tribune. The situation of arctic exploration at the present time may be summed up thus: Peary is supposed to have reached a point well up the west coast of Greenland last summer and found a winter camp, from which he should now be purhing toward the pole if all has gone well with him. Sverdrup, who chased him up the Smith sound. expected to attempt the circumnavigation of Greenland on the north and to come out on the east coast this summer. Wellman, an American, who wintered in Frans Josef Land, was to try for the pole this year as soon as mild weather and abundant light permitted. Several months will doubtless elapse before anything: Is heard from these three parties; but the Diana, commanded by Capt. Samuel W. Bartlett, and carrying a scientific expedition led by Professor Libbey, of Princeton, will start northward this month to obtain information about Peary if possible. ' Meantime the Duke of Abruzii, King Humbert's nephew. Is on his way to Franz Josef Land to imitate Wellman. Captain Jackson, of the Alaska Geographical Society, has proposed a scheme for exploring the region north of Bering strait, but has not yet received any special encouragement. This is the state of the Frenchman, Captain liernier, also. The expedition which ha been sent from Denmark to Iceland to study the aurora, and .those of the Norwegians and Russians, having similar purposes in view, are not looking for the pole. The same is true of the ns aeries suory organized by Germany and Kussia ior operations in the vicinity of Spitsbergen, and of Nathosfs hopeless hunt lor Andree on the east coast of Greenland. Attention Is directed to the antarctic recrinns lust now bv the interview held a few days ago between a deputation of English scientists and Mr. Balfour, who rep resented on that occasion me prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer. Sir Clements Markham. president oi tne Royal Geographical Society, accompanied by a number of notable people, preferred a formal reouest to the government for pecuniary aid for the expedition that the society proposes to send out In 1901. For many years efforts have been made to securo such assistance, dui tne goveriunriu felt unable for one reason or another to extend It. Hence an appeal .was made by Sir Clements last year to the patriotism of rich private individuals. Germany was taking steps to explore the antarctic, it was pointed out, and there was danger that the German flag would be carried to parts of the earth where the union Jack would be conspicuous for its absence. Thereupon Llewellyn v. ixngsiau oite,rA tft enntrihuta 1125.000 toward the expe dition, and as the Royal Geographical Society had already picked up $75,000 In small subscriptions elsewhere, the realization of Sir Clements's dream seemea imminent, ao be sure, the society wanted S.'flO.OW. If possible; for it wished to equip and send out two ships. But It was thougnt tnat a minimum of $250,000 might suffice, and that one ship would be enough. With the matter in this han th Rnvnl GeoeraDhical Society ap proached the government again, ana mis time with better luck. Mr. uauour indicated that he was able to hold out some hope to the scientists, but he could not spe cify tho amount -which the government would be able to give. The amount asKea for is 5300.000. It is now decided that the expedition will not start before the summer of 1001. The vessel in which the party will sail has not been built. That Is to say. it is now the purpose of the managers of the English entercrise to construct a new ship, modeled after the old Discovery, a steam whaler that has done good service in the arctic, out is now too old for further use. Here is a memorandum of the estimated expense; Ship, 17o,000; fittings, $20,000; salaries and wages for three years. $100,000; provisions. $40,000; outfits, $35,000; coal and stores. $j0.000; landing party, $30,000; contingencies, $50,000. It has not been determined who will command the expedition, out it seems to oe settled that Nansen will not. The illustrious Swede may try it on his own hook in 1902, though. In spite of Sir Clements MarKnam s ap peal to British pride, it seems that the English and Germans are going to work to. gether in a very cordial way. Although the two expeditions will be entirely distinct. they will adjust their plans, one to the other, in ways that have not yet been formally agreed upon. For Instance, it is possible that the Germans will attack the antarctic continent from one side and the English from the other. Again, on their may proceed along a different portion of the ice pack which fringes the coast from that under observation by the other. Al ready the German Government has nledeed the expedition which goes out under the German flag the sum of $300,000. and of that amount one-sixth has now become avail able. It is probable that at the International geographical congress in Berlin, next Sep tember, many of the details of both ven tures will be announced. It now seems Drobabla that Borchsre vink's party, which landed at Cane 'Adair. Victoria Land, southeast of Australia, last winter, will have finished up Its work and returnea to isngiana long berore the two new expeditions start. The latter will thus have the benefit oi all discoveries made by the Norwegian and his associates. Sir Clements Markham has expressed the con viction that the Borchgrevink expedition did not represent the highest wisdom that could be rallied in support of an enterprise of this kind, and he evidently expects but little from it. As the same time, it must be recognized that it has at least obtained a footing on the antarctic continent, a very difficult thing to do in view of the immense ice fields that extend all along the coast. The Southern Cross experienced much trouble in reaching her destination, and wnen 6ne goes DacK irom isew Zealand to pick up her company again she will doubt less have still another trying encounter with the ice. At last accounts there was still a remote prospect that Lieutenant De Gerlache, who took out the Belgian expedition of 17. and who was imprisoned in antarctic ice for several months during the ensuing winter or tnat nemispnere, would renew the work of exploration. But as Dr. Cook and Mr. Arctowski have abandoned him. and as an other expert. Danco. died on shipboard, he is greatly disabled and hardly in a condi tion to pursue tne tasK. a lew unimportant details were added to our Drevious knowledge of the islands south of Cane Horn by the Belgic's investigation, but tne expedition aia not-jana on tne continent, wnicn was us ODjective point. PRIZE MONEY FOR CEIIVERA'S SHIPS. It Seems Like Paying: Our Navy Twice for Dolnsr Its Duty. Philadelphia Record. It having been intimated to administration officials that suits are to be brought on behalf or tne omcers and men of the North Atlantic squadron for prize money alleged to be due to them on account or the Maria Teresa and the Itelna Mercedes, an aDpraisement of these vessels and of all the salvage from the Spanish wrecks has been ordered to be made by the naval board of inspection. AJthough the appraisement haa been oroerea in pursuance to a request recently forwarded by Admiral Sampson, and signed by C"aptam enadwick as the repre sentative of the claimants, the action of the Navy Department should not be construed to be an admission of the Justness of the claim for prize money, as it has been taken merely for the purpose of providing the government with expert evidence of the value of the vessels In the event of the projected suita being brought. The claim now preierrea is aistinct from and sunole. mcntary to the applications for bounty on account of the destruction of the Spanish ... ... f . i . i . . . cci t odmiagu, muse ciaims naving already been allowed and referred to the uourt or uiaima icr adjudication. Bounties for the destruction of hostile snips are provided tor by the statute law Of tne united States. Prize monev. on the other hand. Is paid in pursuance to the common law of the ea. and is awarded by a court of admiralty out of the proceeds of the sale of the captured vessels. Ordinarily, vesels taken and condemned as prizes are merchant ships, and while armed vessels captured by privateers would probably be ordered sold by a prize court and the money obtained from the sale awarded to the captors, it would seem reasonable to suppose that a different rule should be applied to the capturo of a regularly commissioned hostile man of war by the naval forces maintained and paid by tho United States for performing such service. Indeed, the statute granting bounties for the destruction of warships of an enemy seems to have been made in recognition of the fact that prize money eould not be awarded In such cases, and In the eye of the law the capture of a hostile man of war by our naval forces would probably be regarded as equivalent to Its dcstniction. A captured w.irshlp would certainly be "destroyed" so far as Its usefulness to an antagonist would be concerned. That our crews could claim bounty for destroying a hostile warship, and also .prlj

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HEADQUARTERS OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE EPWORTH LEAGUE CONVENTION Complete with staff. Kc each. 2 for 2, 1 for STk:, half dozen. CSo. one dozen 11.30. rr hundred $10.00. Everybody ehould decorate. Mall orders given prompt attentionW. H. GEDDIS, Official Slfr SO Monument IMace. money in the event of the same veel be ing afterwara raisea ana Drousni mio jwri, is a proposition which does pot commend Itself for its equity. To grant it would be to say that the servants of the United States) phould be twice paid for their fexvicc. If the government snouia resist me ciaim maHA, i rtMilri not hx speused fit manlfetinr a spirit of llliberallty. The sums) . a . la. J1 which would be payaoie to suoaiicra ouicprs and the enlisted men of tho navy out of the sale of the debris of Cervera's fleet would be innnlteslmally small, and th only material gainer if an award of prize money should be made In addition to th bounty admittedly due would be the commander-in-chief. The Rclna Mercedes hai already been appraised at $73,000. "and the guns and other equipments recovered from the Spanish wrecks may be worth an equal Bum. Since a large proportion of the prlx money would ko to the commander of th fleet, it might be worth while for him to make a test case of the matter: but on what jrround any claim for prize money from tha Keina Mercedes could be based Is incomprehensible. The vessel was not destroyed by our squadron, but "wa deliberately scuttled and sunk at the mouth of Santiago harbof by the Spaniards: neither wa she captured, but raised by wreckers in the employ of this Rovernment at a cost In excess of htr appraised value. Xfirmnn and Klnjtaley. New Tork Evening Post. A letter of Cardinal Newman's has lately been published, in which he expressed nil regret at Charles Klrjrslcy's death; said that Kinsley' attack uion him had lelt no 111 feeling: and that he had said a mats for the rcpcs of his oul. We may well excuse Kinsley's reither Ill-Judged and lmnAfiiniw iirrnlLrnment of Newman, for the iake of the latter's 'Apologia." of which it was the excit'.nir cause. Yet one might almost aav of Newman' devotion to theology, what Word? worth paid of Kaber's decision to take orders. "He may be right, but 2-Pg-land haa lot a pott." A Sadden Change. Ut. "It is wonderful," said the newly arrived guest at the mountain resort, "how timemakes uch havoc." "Of what were you thinking, sir?" plca antly Inquired the proprietor. I was thinking.' snli the guest, "what a magnificent building this waa in the circular I saw before leaving the city ix hours ago, and how It has changed since then." Dy Contrarlrn. That day my hurrylnc heart proclaimed thea real Fate mocked my hope, and thou cira'st not t ma. Now. when my heart Is tut one ftexa f far. Let Fata still mock me then thy faca I'll ! Edith M. Thomaa, la the Century,