Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1899.

States Telephone Company. It la stated men are being sent to Pennsylvania to Induce men employed there by the United States Company to strike. . . . A norol.R-CDGRD '"WEAPON.

Men Who le and Yield to the Boycott May Regret It. Cleveland Leader. A woman who got off a Biff Consolidated car the other day was followed Into a down town store where she wished to make a purchase by two men who warned the floorwalker not to sell her anything. The floorwalker asked why. "Because she came down town on a Bis Consolidated car," was the answer. "Well, we are In business and we propose to treat all customers alike." said the floorwalker. "It makes no difference to us how they come to our store. One person's money Is as good as another's." 'Jf you sell goods to that woman we shall boycott you," was the threat. "All light," said the .floorwalker. "Go ahead and boycott us, and now If you do not get out of here at once I will have you put out." The boycotters slunk away, muttering threats of vengeance. That busjness house is to be congratulated on having a floorwalker of courage, common sense, and American Independence. We are sorry we are not permitted to name the store. If all business men would take the same stand they would win the confidence and respect of people whose good opinions are worth having, and the cruel and unAnvrlcan boycott would be killed Inside of twenty-four hours. - There Is no Justification for attempting to sandbag the business men of Cleveland as Is being done every day now. The business men ought not to be drawn into the controversy over the strike. They have nothing to do with, the relations of the Cleveland Electric Railroad Company to Its former employes. They look to the whole public for trade. They are expected to serve all customers alike. One man's money Is Just as good as another's, and there should be no discrimination between customers, so long s all offer to pay for what they buy, and the attempt to coerce them Into taking side In a controversy which is of no interest to them Is sure to affect thera Injuriously in the long run. If they submit to the sandbagging process. Already there is an extensive movement on foot to punish merchants who submit to the boycotters' demands, and when public sentiment la once aroused the movement U likely to grow enormously, for the American people will not loner submit to such cruel Injustice, It is against their nature to do so. The strike has already caused a heavy lo 33 to business, and the application of the Infamous boycott will make conditions In finitely worse unless the merchants stand up for their rights and show that they have the courage to resent the unwarranted at tempt to interfere with their business. As Itev. Dr. Banks said on Sunday even ing, wnat is needed in Cleveland is a revival of backbone and pluck. The boycott is only dangerous as a threat, it .Is much like a storm cloud. It looks dangerous, but It soon E asses away and loses its terror. Let the uslnes men stand together for the right, and the object of the infamous conspiracy win De ueieatea. RETURN TO WORK. Boston Messengers Will Awn it Action of Arbitration Board. . BOSTON, Aug. L The striking messen gers of the Boston District Messenger Company claim the company had but six boys at work this morning. Two of these boys were assaulted during the forenoon, one of them being so roughly handled that he was taken to a hospital. One of the assailants was arrested. The strikers presented a bill of grievances to the company to-day. demanding' 24 cents per message, that ten hours shall constitute a day's work and that they be permitted to buv their uniforms Instead of renting them from the company. The strikers returned to work at noon pending the. result of a conference between the State Board of Arbitration and tne uistrict company. To Strike In Mnncle To-Day. cal to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIB, Ind., Aug. L-The half dozen messengers for the Western Union tele graph office and district messenger service will quit to-morrow on a strike for shorter cays and more. pay. They are working u-uui vneive o micen nours a aay ror from WEATHER FORECAST. Threatening and Continued niffh. Temperature Throughout Indiana. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Forecast for Wednesday and -Thursday: For Ohio Threatening; probably thunder storms and somewhat cooler Wednesday afternoon; Thursday, fair; fresh to brisk variable winds, becoming westerly. For Illinois Continued high temperature Wednesday and Thursday, with fair weather preceded by thunderstorms In northern portions Wednesday; fresh to brisk south erly winds. For Indiana Threatening Wednesday;' thunderstorms; Thursday, fair; continued high temperature; fresh to brisk high winds. Local Observation on Tuesday. Bar. Ther. R. IL Wind. Pre Tt.ni.. 3fcQl 71 60 Seast. 0.00 7 p. m LD.&S 82 55 S'west. 0.10 Maximum temperature, 84; minimum temCerature. 65. Following Is a comparative statement of xne temperature ana precipitation Aug. 1: ' ' Temp. Pre. p.ormal 7u 0.13 , Mean 74 0.10 Departure from normal 2 0.02 Departure lnce Aug. 1 2 0.03 Departure since Jan. 1 262 7.04 C. F. R. WAPPENIIANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. Mln. Max. 7 p. m, Atlanta, Ga. 72 86 72 Rismarck. N. D. 52 78 7t Buffalo. N. Y. 64 84 78 Calgary, N. W. T. 44 64 60 Cairo. Ill 68 90 86 Cheyenne. Wyo. 50 78 70 Chicago. Ill 66 82 73 Cincinnati, 0 64 SO 8$ Concordia. Kan. 74 iS 94 Davenport. Ia. 66 86 86 Des Moines. I a. 64 88 86 Galveston. Tex. 80 88 84 Helena. Mont. 50 76 63 Jacksonville, Fla. 76 90 82 Kansas City, Mo 76 96 90 Little Rock, Ark 76 SS 90 Marquette. Mich. 62 74 '.0 Memphis, Tenn. 70 94 88 Nashville. Tenn. 68 -88 86 New Orleans. La. 80 96 90 xsew 1 one . 1 .. 7t North Platte. Neb 64 86 83 Oklahoma, O. T. 70 94 84 Omaha. Neb. 68 90 84 Pittsburg. Pa. 58 88 80 Qu' Appelle, N. W. T.....50 88 68 Rapid City, S. D 54 SO 80 Salt Lake City. Utah ....62 86 78 St. Louis, Mo. 68 9 4 90 ' St. Paul, Minn. 66 7S 76 Springfield. Ill 64 92 SS Springfield, Mo 70 88 VIcksburg. Miss. 73 mi 90 Washington, D. C. CO 86 73 July Weather. Following Is a summary of the meteorological conditions prevailing at this point during the month of July as recorded at the Indianapolis Weather Bureau: Mean and atmospheric pressure, 23.9S: highest. 30,23. cn the 9th; lowest, 29.79. on tne 15th. Mean temperature. 76; highest, 94, on the 12th; lowest. 52.- on the 9th; greatest daily range. 20. on the 1st; least daily range. 8, on the 14th. Mean temperature for this month in 1S71, 74; 1S72, 78; 1S73, To; 1874. 78; 173. 76; 176, 78; 1S77. 78; 1S7S. 79; 1S79. &; 1SN0, 76: 1X81, 79; 182. 73; 1W3, To; 1SS4, 74; JWG, 76; 1SS6, 74; 1S87. 81; lSsS, 7i; 183, 74; 1SW, 76; 1SD1, 72; PD2, 78; lfS3, 7); 1S34. 76; 1V5. 74: 189. 76: 1897, 77; 1898. 77: 1S0O. 76. Mean temperature for this month for twen ty-r.lne years, 76. Average excess or defi ciency of dally mean temperature during the month. 0; accumulated deficiency since Jan. 1, 2Z2; average dally deficiency since Jan. 1. 1. Irevalllng direction of wind, southwest; total movement or wind. 5.e miles. aiax Imum velocity of wind, direction and date, uirty-six miles, southwest, on the 21. Total precipitation. 3.61 inches: number of cays with .01 inch or more or precipitation. 1; total precipitation tin inches) for this month In 1S71. 5: 1S7C. U.flO; 1S72. 1228; 174. S-M; 173. 1.112; 17, 7.4; 1877. 4.19; 187S, 4.51; 1S73. Z.40: 1V, Z.36; ISal. OKI: JV, 3.43; 1883. 1.12; ISM. 6 03; ls, 1.43; lKvJ. 2.27; 1$X7. 1.41; ltvi. 3.53; ISO. 5.98; !&, 0.97; 191. 1.93; IXC. 293; 13, 0.83; 1894, 1.35; 1S93, 2.S7; 1ST-6, 5.72; 3J7. 5.70; b.izi ia. 3.64. Average pre dpltatlon for this month for twenty-nine years. 4.42 inches: total deficiency during tne month, 0.78 inch; accumulated deficiency tince Jan. l. 6.70 inches. ; cioucy. u. u r. 11. waite.nhanb. Local Forecast Official.

J2 to $3 a week- The company will All thelr

places, ana then the embers promise trouble. Tcrro Haute IIoth Strike. Fjvrlal to the Indianapolis Journal. TEHRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. l.-The mes senger boys of the Western Union went on strike this evening because of a reduction from $15 a month to from $7 to til Until recently they were paid by the message and made $20 and 125 a month. Then a company took the business and hired the boys at Jlu. Now comes the further reduction, with the strike. ElKht-Honr Law Decision. WASHINGTON, Aug. l.-The Navy De partment has rendered a decision construing the eight-hour law that will be of Im portance to all labor interests as well as to government contracts. The commandant of the Washington navy yard recently asked authority from the department to permit the contractor who is building the new gun shops In the yard to employ his workmen ten hours per day. In support of this ap plication it was stated that during the progress of the work the operation of the machinery was to be stopped and the floor was being damaged by exposure to rains. The Judge advocate general's department has pointed out that the law permits the employment of workmemn on government works for more than eight hours per day 'only in case of extraordinary emergency. and then lays down a new doctrine in the construction of this law as follows: "Inasmuch as the conditions reported are such as must have been foreseen when the contract was made and are such as neces sarily exist to a greater or less degree whenever work of the character referred to Is in progress the department is of opinion that the case cannot be regarded as one of extraordinary emergency. In cases of this character it would aDDear that if the pub lic property cannot be sumclently protected from damage otherwise the proper remedy would be to employ a force of men In relays. by wmch means the work could be expedited much more effectively." Boiler Maker and Iron Workers. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. A strike of boiler makers and iron workers began in this city and vicinity to-day. The Iron workers employed in E. P. Morse's shipyard, Brooklyn, numbering three hundred, quit work to-day. The hospital ship Missouri and the transports Wright-and Logan are at this yard undergoing repairs. At Burlee s shipyards. staten island, six hundred men struck, de manding shorter hours and more pay. A strike had been expected at Islxon s yards, L.llzabeth. N. J., but these men voted to continue work. It was claimed by President Boyle at the headquarters of the strikers this afterno'on that eleven shipyards had acceded to the demands or the men. Engineers Ask Increase In Wages. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 1. Locomotive engineers In the employ of the Lake Shore Railroad have applied for an increa.se In wage3. Tho company is asked to adopt a new scale. giving engineers of passenger and light switch locomotives an Increase of 4 per cent, and engineers of consolidated and heavy freight engines an increase of 8 per cent. The engineers have also de manded the adoption of what is known as the pooling system. The demands are be ing considered by the company and the en gineers are hopeful of having their requests granted. Waxes of 7,000 Miners Increased. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. L Commenc ing to-day seven thousand coal miners In the employ of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Hallway Company and the Bloss Iron and Steel Company receive So cents per ton for mining coal, which la an advance of Z1 cents and a total raise of la cents per ton since 31 arch 1. Wages are now at the maxi mum figure agreed on In the new wage scale, which makes. the price of pig Iron the basis ox tbe miners pay. At Work Attain. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 1. For the second time In two weeks the Schwarzschlld & Sulzberger packing plant officials have practically settled the differences with their one thousand employes and to-day work was resumed In all departments. The few men who caused the trouble have not been re employed. Their differences will likely be arbitrated. Tailors Returning to Work. NEW YORK. Aug. L It was stated to day at the headquarters of the striking tailors that fifty settlements had been nade during the day. making: 150 in all. permit ting about 2.0uv men to return to work. The vestmakers are still out, but will begin to-morrow to make settlements, as the boss es have signified a willingness to do so. Puddlera Wages Raised. READING, Pa., Aug. L Beginning to day, the prevailing rate of puddlers' wages all over Pennsylvania will be $4 a ton. Less than a year ago puddlers in some locall ties received as low as V2.Z a ton. ranging from that figure up to 25 per ton. IIlRher Wages for 3,000 Miner. ELK HORN, W. Va., Aug. 1. Five lead ing coal companies In this district have ad vanced the existing mining rate 15 cents. Three thousand miners are affected. ALMOST CUT IN TWO. Ferryboat Damaged in a. Collision with the Gunboat Dolphin. NEW YORK, Aug. L There was a col lision this morning between the ferryboat New York, of the Williamsburg line, and the United States gunboat Dolphin. The bow of the gunboat cut through the ferry boat Into the engine room, breaking the main shaft and damaging considerable ma chinery. The gunboat's bow was bent and several feet of the rail torn away. The New York was In the center of the river when the Dolphin, which was coming up stream, signaled that she would cross her bows. The New York's engines were stooped, but the strong current carried her directly in the path of the Dolphin and the gunboats bow struck tne ferryboat just ahead of the paddle dox. The ferryboat. with the aid of tugs, reached the slip at Broadway. Williamsburg. Secretary of the Navy Long was aboard the Dolphin. That the Injuries to the Dolphin were trifling is evidenced by the fact that she continued on her way up the river and passed City island at 9 AO a. m. 1 Rark Snnk by a Steamer. QUEENSTOWN. Aug. L The Cunard line steamer Cephalonia, Captain Pierce, from Boston July 23 for Liverpool, which arrived here to-day at 9:53 a. m., was densely befogged during the night. Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, while nearlng the Irish coast, she collided with a sailing ves sel supposed to be a baric. rne vessels separated quickly and a boat was launched from the steamer, but all search for the sailing craft was unavailing. The Cepha lonia was not damaged. Yacht Cut Donn by a Steamer. GREENOCK, Aug. L The mall steamer Dromedary collided In a fog last night with the yacht Vendetta off the Scotch coast. The Dromedary lowered boats and searched in the fog fruitlessly for the yacht, wnlch eventually arrived at .Millport at dawn. She was cut down to the water's edge. Her crew manfully stuck to the pumps and the fourteen persons on board the Vendetta wtre safely landed. The Vendetta was towed to this port. Atlantic Liner Runs Agroand. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The HamburgAmerican line steamer Brasilia, from Hamburg July 20, grounded on the west bank in the lower bay near Swineburne island about 5 o'clock this morning. She has no cabin passengers and only fifty-five steerage passengers. They were taken oft and transferred to Hoboken by tugs. The vessel was floated shortly before 1:30 this afternoon. Slovementa of Steamers. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. Arrived: Bra?IIIa. from Hamburg: Frlederich der Grosse, from Bremen; Westernland, from Antwerp. QUEENSTOWN. Aug. 1. Arrived: Ceph alonia. from Boston, for Liverpool. CHERBOURG. Aug. 1. Arrived: Pennsylvania, from New York. SOUTHAMPTON. July 31. Sailed: Bre men, for New York. BOULOGNE, Aug. L-Salled: Patricia, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Aug. 1. Sailed: Servia, for New York. Bad Complexion Xeed Champlln's Liquid Pearl, DOc, A lovely, harmleu beau Utter. No eauaL

PLEA FOR THE FILIPINOS

COL. IV. J. BnVAlf WOULD IVE THEM IXDErKXDEXCC An Enar on the Right of People to Free Government He Thinks Congress Should De Called. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. William J. Bryan discusses the Philippine question in this week's Independent, lie says: "Tho Philippine question la important be cause fundamental principles are Involved in its discussion. There are two sources of government force and consent. Monarchies are founded upon force, republics upon consent. ' The Declaration of Independence as serts that governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed. and this is the doctrine to which we have adhered for more than a century. It is the doctrine which has distinguished us from European countries and has made our Na tion the hope of humanity. The statue of New York harbor typifies the Nation's mission. If the doctrine set forth in the Declaration of Independence is sound how can we rightfully acquire sovereignty over the Filipinos by a war of conquest? If the doctrine set forth In the Declaration of Independence Is sound how can we rightfully purchase sovereignty from a Spanish sovereign whose title we disputed. In Cuba and whoso rebellious subjects we armed in the Philippines? "In th resolution of Intervention Con gress declared that the Cubans were and of right ought to be free. Why? Because governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed and Spain had re fused to respect the wishes of the Cubans. If the Cubans were and of right ought to be free why not the Filipinos? "In the beginning of the Spanish war Congress denied that our Nation had any thought of extending its territory by war. If we then had no thought of securing by conquest new territory in the western hem isphere, why should we now think of se curing in the eastern hemisphere new races for subjugation? "An individual may live a, double lire when only one life is known. When both lives are known he can lead only one life. and that the worst. A republic cannot enter upon a colonial policy. It cannot advocate government by consent at home and gov ernment by force abroad. The Declaration of Independence will lose its value when we proclaim the doctrine familiar in Eu rope, but detestable here, that governments are round in shape, about thirteen incnes in diameter and tired out of cannon. "For more than a century this Nation has been traveling along the pathway which leads from the low domain of night to the lofty realm of right, and Its history has been without a parallel in the annals of recorded time. What will be our fate If we turn backward and begin the descent toward force and conauest? "It is not sufficient to say that the forcible annexation of the Philippines islands is a benevolent undertaking entered upon for the frood of the FillDinos. Lincoln pointed out that this has always been tne argument or kings. To use his words, 'They always be strode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do It, but because the people were oetter on for beinff ridden.' "It is surprising that any believer in selfgovernment should favor forcible annexa tion, but still more surprising that anyone who believes in the Christian religion should ravor the substitution of force for reason in the extension for our Nation's influence. "If we adopt the gunpowder gospel In the Philippines how long will it be before that principle will be transplanted In American soil? So loner as our arguments are ad dressed to the reason and the heart our progress is sure, but can we without danger to Christianity resort to the ancient plan of injecting religion into the body through the DUliei C01CS7 "The question ia frequently asked. What can we do? dearly two months elapsed be tween the signing of the treaty and the be ginning of hostilities in the Philippines. During that time the President and Con gress might have given to the Filipinos the same assurance of Independence that was given to the Cubans. Such assurance would have prevented bloodshed. If the doctrine of self-government is sound, the Filipinos are entitled to govern themselves. and the President can now promise them in dependence as soon as a stable government can be established. "If the President is not willing to take the responsibility of enforcing the doctrine set forth in the Declaration of Independence he can call congress together and let it take the responsibility. A special session would be less expensive than the war, not to speaK or the principles involved. "Our Nation is protecting the republics of South America from outward Interfer ence while they work out their destiny. We can extend the same doctrine to the Philip pines, and having rescued the inhabitants from a foreign yone. we can guard tnem from molestation while they develop a republic in the Orient. They will be our friends instead of our enemies; we can send school teachers to Manila Instead of sol dlers, and the world will know that there Is a reality in the theory or government promulgated at Independence Hall and defended by the blood of the revolutionary fathers." BRYAN MAY BE DROPPED. Senator Clark Say Another Candi date Slay Be Cbosen by Democracy. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. L Senator W. A. Clark, who is in the city, stated In an interview to-day that in his opinion there Is nothing sure about William J. Bryan's nom ination by the Democratic party at its next national convention. The senator also said that he is not sure about silver being the great issue of the next campaign, though he still calls himself a blmetalllsL He be lieves to a certain extent in expansion and feels that the war in the Philippines must be carried on until the Filipinos surrender. Senator Clark will build a new sugar factory on the Cerlllos ranch he recently purchased. The capacity will be 1.000 barrels a day. The plant win cost half a minion dollars. Iovra Republicans. DES MOINES. Ia.. Aug. L A majority of the delegates to the Republican state con vention, which meets to-morrow, have ar rived in the city. In the supreme Judgeship race the frlend3 of Judges Robinson, Sherwln, Burnham, Fee, Sloan and Giffen claim from 150 to 350 votes each. It will take 634 to nominate. Considerable work is being done on the side on the United States sen. atorial question. Senator Gear and his opponent. Cummins, are on the ground. Charles Ew Pickett, of Waterloo, will be tho temperory chairman and deliver the principal address. Former Congressman G. M. Cutis, of Clinton, will be the permanent chairman. Charles T. Hancock, or Dubuque, will remain chairman of the state central committee another year. Detroit Mayor Blunders. BALTIMORE, Ml, Aug. 1. Mayor Maifiler, Republican, of this city, has received a letter from Mayor Maybury, Democrat, of Detroit, in which the latter Invites Baltimore's chief executive to attend a Democratic Jubilee ir Detroit on Aug. 19 and make an address, adding: "A portion of the aft ernoon has been set aside for two or three speeches by Democratic mayors. Carter Harrison, of Chicago, has been invited and we have assurances of his acceptance." Mayor Malster has replied thanking Mayor Maybury for the invitation, but suggesting that an error has been made regarding the writer's political status. Inasmuch as he is a Republican, and deferring his acceptance until he again hears from the mayor or Detroit. Final Decree In a Dank Case. CHICAGO. Aug. 1. Judge Tuley to-day entered a final decree in the Globe Savings Rank case. The collapse of this institution ruined hundreds of small depositors and resuited in the sentencing of its president, Charles W. Spalding, to the penitentiary. The decree anirms the right of the Uni versity of Illinois to $1-3.000 endowment ponds found in the vaults after the failure. and fixes Spalding's liabilities at about $75,w). The indebtedness of the bank is nut at $4r5,M3.;, and the stockholders are declared liable to an assessment of 100 per cent, on tneir snares to pay mis. Chautauqua's Anniversary. JAMESTOWN. N. Y., Aug. 1. The twen-ly-iuin annivrrsdiy i me luuiiuiug or me dresses wtre made by President Studebaker, 1st. Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the New York Christian Advocate, Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, and Chancellor

j O. C. Wallace. The anniversary ode by Miss

;viary uuuivury was reaa dv itoi. . Clark, of the University of Chicago. There wa nlnirlnr bv thn rhmitaiiniift rholr of six hundred voices. WILL WITHDRAW TROOPS. Canada to Rednee Her Military Force In the Yukon Region. OTTAWA, Aug. 1. In the House of Com mons to-night the minister of militia stated that it had been decided to withdraw onehalf of the troops, about one hundred men. from the Yukon as eoon as arrangements cculd be made with the United States government to land them at Skagway. A Fake Statement. LONDON, Aug. 1. A few days ago a news agency Issued a statement, on the alleged authority of the Colonial Office here, that the Alaska question hinged on the inter pretation of the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1S25 defining the boundary and explaining Great Britain's position with considerable detail, saying: "The Colonial Office is not aware that the United States has offered Canada a port on the Lynn canal," and add ing that It was "not correct to state mat Lord Salisbury's government vras hampered by Sir Wilfrid Laurier." . , , John Anderson, C. M. G., principal clerk of Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, says no such statement has been issued by the Colonial umce to tne representatives of the news agency and that absolutely no such particulars In regard to the Alaskan question have been given to any representative of that agency. which has therefore used tne auinomy 01 the British Colonial Office entirely without warrant. Roandary Line Markings. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. L-John Zachert, a mining expert of this city, claims to pos sess Information which he believes will have an important bearing on the Alaskan boundary dispute. Zachert declares that the old Russian boundary is defined by monuments placed at short Intervals, and that inclosed in each is a chart of the Russian possessions. He is of the belief that the duplicates of the charts are on file at St. Petersburg. Zachert says that an ex pedition would have little trouble in rinding and following up this boundary line of monuments, and that the charts would prove of inestimable value in settling the dispute between this country and Canada. ANTl-GOEBELITES. Kentucky Democratic Bolter to Hold a Conference To-Day. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. L Delegates began to arrive for the antl-Goebel confer ence to be held here to-morrow. The lead ers will meet at 9 o'clock In the Phoenix Hotel for a brief discussion and the confernce will be called to order at 1 o'clock. About 1j0 delegates, representing 33 coun ties, will be in attendance. Theo. Hallem, of Covington, John Young Brown, John Whallen, of Louisville; McKenzle Moss, Judge E. L. HInes, of Bowling Green; J. C. Penlck, Todd county; James G. Todd, Owen; L. P. Tanner, Owensboro; J. C. . Flournoy, Fulton; "Jim" Williams, Louisville; J. M. Green, Caldwell county, reached the city to-night. All declare the feeling in counties they represent is bitter against Goebel. . In an Interview to-night, John Whauen. the Louisville antl-Qoebel leader, said: "I think the newspapers have sized up the situation. In Loul3Vllle, Jefferson county. Brown will get more votes than either Taylor or GoebeL Business men of Louisville are opposed to Goebel." Theodore iiaiiam stated ne is connaem Kenton county will give Brown 1.000 ma jority, and says antl-Goebel men are organizing so as to insure a fair count on elec tion cay. From delegates here to-night it Is learned there is a division on the question of State ticket. Whallen favors only the nomination of governor and lieutenant governor, and likely this plan will be adopted. The con ference to-morrow u certain to call a con vention for Aug. 30, . Expert Decoraters.CHICAGO. Aug. 1. Expert decorators from every State in the Union met here to day to attend the convention of the National Association of Window Trimmers of Amer ica. President Griffith, in his annual address, said the window trimmers were the keystone to the present system of selling merchandise, and that their influence was constantly growing. The convention will be in session three days. Three medals will be awarded for the best photographs of win now displays. Another Rullncr Against Mollneux. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. Judge Blanchard. In the Supreme Court, handed down a de cision to-day denying the application of at torneys for Hoiand a. Mollneux to inspect the minutes of the grand Jury which indicted Mollneux for the murder of Kate J. Adams by means of poison alleged to Lave been sent through the mails to Harry Cornish, an athletic instructor. Dank President Retlgns, NEW YORK. Aug. L The directors of the Seventh National Bank accepted today the resignation of John H. McAverney as president and placed ill am H. Kim ball, vice president of the bank, in control of the affairs of the Institution. The bank recently passed into control of a syndicate headed by Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster general. Mr. Heath at tended the meeting to-day. Dentists at Ma gar a Falls. NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.. Aug. 1. The National Dental Association of the United States met here to-day for a four days' ses sion, with four hundred delegates in attend ance. The president, Dr. J. II. J. Burkart, of Batavia, N. Y., called the meeting to order and delivered his annual address. Reports of officers and committees were read and filed. Probable Slurder and Suicide. SHAMOKIN. Pa.. Aug. l.-John Thoranson and his wife, an aged couple residing between Cable and Bear Gap. were found dead to-day in their home with a bullet wound in the head of each. There was every Indication that Thomspon had murdered his wife and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to have prompted the deed. . Obituary. ELDORA. Ia.. Aug. 1. C. C. Gllmtn. one of Iowa's most prominent inventors and railroad men, dropped dead near here last evening while f shlng in the Iowa river. He projected and built the Iowa Central Railroad and Hawkeye Telegraph Company, and built the big terra cotta lumber factory at Jt'ertn Amooy, j., which bears his name. Broker Fatally Injured. NEW YORK. Ausr. 1. Isaac Blum, a broker, was injured fatally by a New York Central train at Dobbs Ferry to-night. Both his legs were crushed and it is believed he received grave internal injuries while Jumping from the train. Mr. Blum formerly lived in San Antonio, Tex. He is wealthy and prominent in Jewish circles. Crops Destroyed by Hailstones. CROOKSTON. Minn.. Autr. 1. Fiftv square miles of crops were destroyed in Polk county by last nishfs hailstorm. The storm followed the river from Mallory to Crookston. At Gary, S. D., a strip of land twelve miles long and four miles wide was devastated. At Stephen. Minn., a thousand acres of wheat was leveled. Died at IOC. LEILLSVILLE. Wis.. Auer. 1. Marearet Garvin, aged lv6. years and seven months, died to-day in the town of York. She was the oldest person in the State. She leaves surviving her four sons and daughters. thirty grandchildren, fourty-four greatgrandcmiaren and one great-great-grandchild. Cihonllsb Policeman Sentenced. NEW YORK, Auer. 1. Policeman Thomas F. O'Brien, who pleaded guilty yesterday to having stolen a watch and charm from the dead body of George H. Rhodes, president of the Stuyvesant Fire Insurance Company, was sentenced to-day to four years and three months in Sing Sing. The Lawyer run. Spare Moments. One day a lawyer was walking through a street with his large bag full of briefs when he was impudently accoeted by a boy, who asked him if he was a dealer in old clothes. "No." replied the lawyer, "these are all new suits." Human Cusscdness. Richmond Times. The man who swears loudest when the elevator is out of tlx is now having a charming time climbing the mountains.

SUPPRESSED BY LUDLOW

SCf.RRII.OrS CUBA J5EWSPAPEH FORCED TO DISCONTINUE. Denounced as a Discrace to Havani Its Directors and Editors Ordered to Re Arrested. HAVANA, Aug. 1 General Ludlow, military governor of Havana province, has sup pressed the scurrilous Cuban newspaper, El Reconcentrado. Following is his order: "Whereas. The publication known as El Reconcentrado ia an obscene sheet, dally uttering by assertion and Innuendo vile per sonalities against not only the established authority, but the best people of Havana, and. "Whereas, The continuance of such pub lication is a disgrace to the city and to tne Cuban people and is opposed alike to public and private Interests and to morality, there fore "it is ordered that the publication be sup pressed, that its directors and writers be arrested and that its issue be no longer permitted. The police authorities will take pos ession of the premises and adopt such means as are needful to prevent the publication of the paper in question. This order will be construed as applying not only to El Reconcentrado but to any publication attempting to issue slanders and obscenities reerardine nubile and mrivate cersons with in the Jurisdiction of the department of Ha vana. In case such should appear the facts will be immediately reported through the mayor." Merchants and public officials express themselves as pleased with the action of the military governor. A number of copies were half printed when the police closed the office. In one part the half-printed copies say "That owing to circumstances, El Reconcentrado will publish under a new management, Ludlow, director irresponsi ble; Cardenas, editor-in-chief and pitcher editor." General Gomez's secretary has written a letter to La Lucha, saying that Gomez Is now "passing through a period of disagreeable transition. He has endeavored to obtain independence for the island for thirty years and his efforts have been little rec ognized. The sweat on the horse is hardly dry when the rage of those who did not dare to take the field by his side falls upon him. Insults will not affect him more than if they were directed against the Czar of Russia by the person with whom he had no connecting links. What, however. Is irritating and painful and has no logical explanation, is the desire to injure him, to despise the 'Dominican, to insult the stranger who believes he has done much for Cuba. They would insult the old Dominican republic, which has brilliantly served the Cuban cause more than any Latin people with money, love and blood. The Domini cans are called savages because their pres ident was killed by the angered hands of vengeance. Why, then, not call other nations savages on account of assassinations committed in them?" In this connection he cites the Instances of the killing of President Garileld, of the United States: Senor Canovas Castillo, the Spanish premier, and President Carnot, cf the French Republic Continuing, the writer says: "Some Cubans think they can get at him by means of this unfortunate occurrence, accusing him of aspiring to till the place made vacant by the act of the assassin, for. getting that, he aspires still higher. The history of his life proves that he prefers liberating those writing things against him. if Cuba cannot see a position to offer him after all his efforts, how could he see one in Santo Dcmlngo? Besides, he is not accustomed to live by .filling such positions? He is more Inclined to a work which dignifies than to a post that enslaves. Those make a mistake who think he aspires to anything in Santo Domingo or Cuba. God forbid that he should be even an employe of high rank. He thinks it a veritable misfortune to be President, as on the field of battle a brave man exposes his life, while in the presidential chair he exposes his honor also, even If he has no valor. Jimlnez Is the man he hopes will be President of the Dominican Republic" OSBORNE IS CHIEF JUSTICE. Tbe Samoan Commissioners En Route Home on the Badger. APIA, Samoa, July 26, via Auckland, Aug. L At a meeting of the Samoan com missioners Just held both parties dgned an agreement abolishing the kingship and President and agreeing to an administrator. with a legislative council of three tripartite nominees. The commissioners left here on board the United States transport Badger July 18. Sir. Eliot, the British representa tive, has gone to New Zealand. Thence he will go to San Francisco. At a meetifig of the Malletoa party the speakers expressed a desire for annexation as the best solution of the questions in dispute, but they did not set forth by what country they desired to be annexed. United States Consul Osborne will act as chief Justice, Dr. Solf. the German president of the municipal council, claimed the right to act as chief Justice under the treaty, but the commission withholding its unanimous consent. Dr. Solf resigned the office of presi dent, as he claimed the commission's actlom was an insult to his honor and nationality. The German commissioner. Baron Spec Von Sternberg, prevailed on Solf to withdraw his resignation in favor of Mr. Osborne. Alataafa is seriously ill. IXGERSOLL'S FLOWERY TOXGI'E. He Was Occasionally Led to Say Things That lie Regretted. A. C. Wheeler, In the Criterion. It Is indisputably true tnat Ingersoll held his place as the most conspicuous antagonist of Christianity in our time, mainly, if not entirely, by virtue of the charm which thi9 sensibility imparted to his rhetoric, and not by his scholarship or his logic. Un der the spell of his flowery tongue the lis teners were swept luxuriously away, Dut it was not safe to come coolly back and read him, or attempt to adjust his eloquence to the Implacable arbitrament of facts. In the fervor of his feelings he was often betrayed into declarations which took him years to deny, as when he said in Chicago, in his lecture on "Skulls," that he could write a better book than the Bible himself. This was such an egregious declaration that it was sure to haunt him tauntingly for a long time afterward, and then he publicly denied that he ever said It and attributed it to the d reporters. When the late George Sheridan went out with a lecture to reply to ingersoll, he made a great point of this Chicago incident, and one night, when he had delivered a very tine eulogium on the Bible, he capped the climax by saying, "But Colonel Ingersoll says he can write a better book himself." whereupon a six-foot. broad-shouldered man rose up in the audi ence and casually remarked to George Sheridan that he was a liar: "Ingersoll nev er said it," and then stood there waiting for something to happen. Fortunately. Sheridan was equal to the occasion. "My friend," he said, "I'll tell you why I thinK Ingersoll said it and will leave it to the audience to decide. In the first place, I've got the printed pamphlet with it in, which I bought at the door when Mr. Ingersoll was delivering one of his lectures, and I'll read it to you," which Sheridan proceeded to do. "In the second place, there is inter nal evidence that he said it. It agrees with everything else he has said and no other man on earth is capable of It. Now,' I'll give you a third reason why I think he said it. which may not count much, but I give It for what it's worth. I heard him say It." Amid the storm of applause and laughter which followed, the broad-shouldered man sat down and subsided. When, afterward. Ingersoll collated and published a corrected version of his Western lectures, he left out a great many thlntrs that he had said on the nmform. and this passage about the Bible was one of them. Creelman Pursues Him. The Criterion. As Admiral Dewey returns homeward it is, at the lirst blush, surprising that he should always get his first greetings on toucring land from Mr. James Creelman. The last person he taw In Manila waving Mm a good-bye "on behalf of Mr. William It. Hurst and the New York Journal" was raturally the last person he would expect to see waiting for him in a boat off Trieste; but there was James with his welcome "on behalf of the Journal and Mr. W. IL Hurst." As tho same thins is reported to have oc curred at Hong-Konir. Colombo and Aden. the belief Is growing that there are platoons or creeimans, but this ve utterly disbelieve. What need? James travels on a broom stick through the air, carries a "pad" of "godepceds" and "welcomes" In his pouch and surprises up each sleeve. Devotion to

his paper? Yes, no doubt, lots of that, but our private belief is that he is chasing Dewey half round the globe in order to tell him a story. James's stories last from

a day to a day and a half, and It is seldom he gets In one entire at one sitting. He evidently began one in the Philippines, and the wily admiral has been dodging It ever since. In vain. He might sink a Spanish fleet, but Creelman will sink him or get that story finished. Recollections of James getting be tween a swimmer and the shore off Shelter island and keeping the unfortunate for hours "treading water until he had told him to the bitter end "How I interviewed the Pope," perhaps color this supposition unduly. WESLEY AND METHODISM. An Estimate of the Great Evangelist's Character by 31 r. AsQultk. Philadelphia Press. English Methodism enjoyed a great rally recently, when Wesley's Chapel, In the City road, London, was reopened with the laying of five memorial stones, one "in memoTiara," one in commemoration of the settlement and endowment of Wesley's House, one in commemoration of the opening of the new buildings and two in commemoration of the completion of the restoration of the chapel,, begun on the occasion of the onehundredth anniversary of Wesley's death. March 2. 1S9L In speaking for the House of Parliament Mr. Asqulth had this to eay of the man the assembly had gathered to honor: "I suppose you are to-day. Judged by the test of numbers, the largest among all the rotestant communities in the world, and yet less than 150 years ago I suppose it would be equally true to 6ay that never since the first day of the Christian religion did a church start from such small beginall the external conditions of success. It Is true, oi course, tnat berore and at the time when the Wesleys began their work there Were, hoth In th Phurrh nf oj..l outside it, great personal forces molding the icufciuus mougnt ana activity ot tne times. Butler and Berkeley among churchmen. Watts and Doddridge among Nonconformists, are only the most familiar in a long -at.uuHu jl iiiusiriuus names, xjui inese men. ETeat ennd nntnt lnrtiienrefl ua their w;ere, appealed to a narrow and a limited We have th uniform Ustlmnnv nf torlans that at that time there had never been in the experience of England an era when the highest class was so completely penetrated with frivolity and indifterence and the lowest class so deeply submerged in animal degradation. It looked as if the viitiiiLuu oi a nunorea years before the Enerland of Mlltnn anri nf Cmmw.ll hot fallen asleep. From that slumber snfe was onaacucu, not oy one man or one set or forces, but amontr th vniea thit tahecH her every historian will acknowledge that there was none who spoke in clearer accents or more compelling zeal than the voice of John Wesley. "I am not qualified to speak of his theological system or of his scheme of church feuveniLutiiL, dui wesiey was one oc tuose men of commanding practical genius whom England from time to time produces, and who, placed in any sphere of lile, 1 do not care what, would have dominated and inSDired hiS flSSnr-iAtpH Ho hail tha inefinf MUI4 tU0UiiVh for government if ever a man had. He had. in u ut-gree wnicn, so xar as 1 Know, nas rarelv been exr!iHiV ihA fnrultv rt ntai. W AUblectual and moral rnnrpntraflnn "Everything he saw, everything he uuuf,nt, anu cvcijiuuis uu reaa ana we know that on his Journeys he was an omnivorous reader, and we have the excellent authority of Dr. Johnson that he could talk via aim puu 1 1 i t ! rrvi niny n saw inniurr or read was assimilated and compressed into v utru ww rea.n mar lmirnai nr n idnna or the unstudied masterpieces of literature, the homely narrative in which from beginning to end tbprA 1 1 nnt n trioa nt vonltv r cl t consciousness, to my mind the most simple uu mos. truiy sen-revealing or ell the con--w r v.vma vuwi Yv UV4I no read that Journal I do not use the language jl diiggerauon wnen x. say tnat we seem to in his labors and In his sufferings, hardly i.c.i buuh me greatest oi practical evan -EreMsts. -Hut Wesley was not content with preaching; he was one of the pioneers of English ymiiniiaropy. ne was tne nrst man. or almost the lirst man rrt q ?nlr (ha r va. lierious teacher nr leariArfn, fn for he had almost literally to do It into our jclub, nut uiereiy io orwg consolation ana alleviation to the prisoners, but - to expoa VL- Hot hi a wi a V.a . 1 - . nu mo tusk vu cjlj,'cc, iao cruel ties and thA InhnmaniHM nf th Tfcf aM t --. wa DJ o KXA UU" Time dOeS not nil -W m tn err nvr- th. whole ground, but there is no type of social uupiuvemtni as unaerstooa Dy tne Dest and luuai iurwa.ru minus ot mai lime to wnicn WesleV did not mntHhlltA irtc1crar pathy and support. He was derided as an uuns ms name ana nis work were the target for the gibes of the cultured and for the cuarser nostiuty oi tne crowd. "For all this time, as is Its . wont, has Drought a mm nipt a an A satf.fvlna- - - LAy 1 V T I. 11 t3 Kl monumentum PPmilrU flrnmonln. -- r ...v,. ,-lt,vuism, x oeneve, nas never lost the impress of its founder. In the free air and in the ODen fields it ha Tint nnlv hl nnrn Kit. It has steadily added to ts acquisitions and vuiajfccu us ooruers. it is wen, then, to commemorate John Wesley in that larger maintained not by the laying on of hands or mo transmission or uties. in that succession he is one of the noblest and the most heroic figures. This nlacA nmillorlv . . . " j vvnovnuitu tO hlS mpmnrv rchlh ro -a T iintor.a.,1 -- 9 v. m UliUblCiailU. uuuuBuuui ijis me, or uie greater part or hl9 li f f thA hnmA an A thn ntA, rs. ti n ubiquitous activity this place where his unleawjK spin. . iast xouna repose, this place is one wmrn wn nil nn nr rn nnnn i a lonCS. I VPntlirft tn Knv nnt tn a n. a caste, for, though you are its natural and ia appoimea giiaraians, you noia It in trust not for Methodism only, but for England tuiu iur unsienuom at large. COINS FROM IVOAII'S TI3ID. Valuable Collection Presented to Ice land Stanford University. San Francisco Chronicle. consul to China, recently presented to Mrs.. riamura, oi tne ieiana stanrorn, jr., Museum, a rare collection of 230 Chinese coins, come or tnem aate back almost to the time of Noah and thA flnnd art A th.v represent almost every dynasty, from the fire-breathing "Shun.'f who reigned B. C. ju, 10 me present weaKiing wno has Just been thrust from his throne. NlTn1mAttra WAS nno nf tViA KnVM. a the late Senator Stanford, and when Stanxora university was rounded its museum fell heir tO One. Of thA Mrwt rnllentlrm nf - " w . vr.w .4VSAia V. COlna in thla nmintrv T onntaln, tn uciiwy every age ana xrom every realm. coins of purest gold. The late accession to the collection is. therefore, greatly valued. The oldest com of the Chinese collection Dears tne aate 15. t;. Zoi3 to li. C. 2425. This was thft lecrendarv rAHrrl lfrntrn o ttiA an. Of five rulers nnrl thla wne-!jl cn(n hair. the st.mp of Kas-Yang-She. This strange piece of copper was passing currency soon after Noah alighted from his ark. "In the times nf Kn.ih's snna Rhcm Tlom onH - . - M .. .... auu Japheth, between the deluge and the Tower ui iiauei, tne collector nas mar iced upon thpm following this comes a coin from the "Hia dynasty," B. C. 2205 to 1818. The charticis uyuu mis com are suu piain, ana COUld rA .Msllv translatftH hv anv Phtnoo. philologist. This coin, like some of those of the "Chow dynasty," is made of Iron; One of the strangest coins of this collection is the "swords" coin of the "Chow dvnnstv." whlrh helnncra tn Ua lw. Cheops. David, Solomon, Zacharlah, Draco, Confucius, Cyrus. Alexander, Xerxes, Ptolemy and Scipio. Confucius mentions 1. t . i a t J-.J im cum in nis wnungs ana comments upon its singularity. It seems remarkable that SUCh a ClUmsV Coin should ham r.rnalniwl in use as currency for such a long time. For 2-jO years after 9 A. D. the Chinese mind turn, (1 once morA tn novfltlcq fr r- ka ni. lection shows coins that were 'in use during iai penoa wnicn are quite as remarkable as the "sword cash." Thr-v or knmvn "knife cajth and "forlr oath namA. .,t. appropriate. Judging from the forms of the have aDneared K. f 221. There is riven an Interesting .Im e . , . . . ----- - U 1 coins which circulated between A. D. CIS ana ids. xnese are or copper. Mr. Seymour nas aiso maae extensive collections of Chinese coins of the later periods, Including tho OitCl CVillA lOwV. Oom" 1'anl as "Lanhy" nas Seen Him. Labouchere. in Iondon Truth. I met Uncle Paul when he was- here a good many years ago. He was an honest old soul, but rough, certainly. Still, he was a man to respect. I saw him tuiltv of the solecism of drawing off his boots In com pany to warm his feet. The weather was cold and there was a blazinff fire. He no more saw the harm of toasting hia unahod feet than his ungloved' hands before it. "Oom" laul had principles and stood by tnem. wnenever nis eye caught a lady in a low dress he grunted and turned away his head. He was sent an order to the state box at the opera, and availed himself of it. But the ballet so horrified him that he would not etay to se it out. He wondered why God a vengeance did not overtake Paris. Joubert and another Boer, whose name I forset. sympathized with him. Something surely might be done with Kruger were the right sort cf person sent

xatio?;aiv Tube Works Wronxht-lron Pipe for Ota, Steam sad Writer, r?c!lfr Tvbrs. Cart anft Malleable Iron Fittings ibUck and rvanU-i, V&lvea, ftoj Cocks. Kiflne Trimmlr.jr. fteam iaures, lip Tongs. Vim Cutters, Vte. FerePlat's an 1 Dies. Yrnehf Ft-m Trhps. Pump. Kitchen Plnkn. Ho. BUIn, liabhtt Metal. Holder, "White acd Colored Wiping Wafte. and all other f uj-I-Jlea ofed In connection ttb CJas. Fteam and Water. Natural Gas Buprlies specialty. Steam Jieatlng Apparatus for Public Buildtncs, Storerooms, llllls, Shop. Factories. Laundries. Lumber Dry Houses, etc Cut and Thread to order any six Wroucht-ircn Pipe, front Vk locb to IX Inches diameter. KNIGHT S JILlSOIl, 121 to irr 8. PENNSYLVANIA. E? as an envoy. Sir Alfred Milner is too much the British official to enter into his mind. As to Kruger entering into Sir Alfred's mind, the idea Is too absurd. Th proper ambassador would le a Moravian missionary or a Congregational minister. But the Moravian wDuld be the bet person. Kruger understands nothing of the conventional values of Europe. A plain pious preacher with a message from the Queen would D4 at once in touch with him. SAVED I.fGEIlSOLlVS L1FK. Mow Major Cox Protected the Colonel from Forrest's Wrath. Washington Tost. Robert G. Ingersoll. when In Washington some years ago, sought out Hon. N. N. Cox, of Tennessee, and expressed his gratitude for the preservation of his life by that gentleman thirty odd years before. It is quite an interesting story, a thrilling episode or the great war between the States. One morninsr. the winter of ls2-3. Gen eral Forrest had ordered Major Cox to take 2C0 men and go into Trenton, Tenn.. "to see what he could find there." There had been a rain the day before, followed by a severe frost. The roads wre in wretched condition, and Cox made rather slow progress in his Journey of fifteen miles. When he had gone about half the distance he met a countryman who had just come from irenton. Cox at once discovered that he was a Southern man, and placed implicit reli ance on what he said. The countryman represented to him that there was u. full regiment of federal infantry in the stockade around the taiiroad depot, and that they could whip a thousand men. Cox sent an orderly back to Forrest with n. note explaining the situation, and proceeded slowly on his march to Trenton. hen about a mile from town he heard a great clatter of horses hoofs behind, and up rode Forrest like a thunderbolt at the head of sixty men. ' I 11 show you bow to take this damned town," he roared, and so they bolted Into Trenton at a Gllpen pace. and yelling like mad. They charged In front and were repulsed. Forrest then made a flank movement, charged again, and the federal commander surrendered. Forrest. Cox and half a dozen other Confederates entered the stockade, and the federal sol diers proceeded to ground their arms. They were sullen about It, and let go their Runs with much reluctance. They fr.lt that it was a most unnecessary surrender, and that nonor, too. nad been sacrificed, it came Into Forrest's mind that they might renew tne ngnt ana taite him prisoner. Turnlnz to Cox. he said: "Major Cox. order General Buford to march Into town with his division." Cox knew that Buford was fifteen miles away, but he saluted and started to execute the order. The federals were bluffed, and In a very few minutes they were without arms. Among the prisoners Cox found Robert O. Ingersoll. lie walked up to him and said: "Are you not that Yankee colonel we captured the day before yesterdayT" l am," was tne reply. 'What are you doing in here?" said Cor. 'I came here to take the train for tha North to await my exchange." "Great God!" said Cox. "if Forrest finds you in here with his parole in your pocket he will stand you up and order a- squad out ana snoot you run or holes." "I can t help that." answered IncersolL TVi a. fafa Aa a a T A trv Cox said that he believed him. ajid would smuggle him through, and so he did. For rest never knew of it. Cox said it 2uld have been Just like Forrest to have Ingersoll shot and Investigate afterward. A good story Is told of how Injcersoll't wit saved his life when he was .first captured. A great big rebel had a double-barreled shotgun leveled upon him at less than ten paces. Inpersoli threw up his hands and exclaimed: "Don't shoot, my friend, don't shoot: I have been anxious to recognize the independence of your Confederacy for the laft half an hour!" The rebel threw up his gun and exploded In laughter. Ingersoll surrendered to him. and he was Known in Forrest a command as "that Yankee colonel whose wit saved his life." EVOLITIOS OX TUB WAD AS II. Evidence That Tends to Support St. George MlTart'a' Theory. Kansas City Journal. From the natural eas belt In the great State of Indiana In fact, from the banks of the Wabash, a stream that occupies the place in American art and literature that the Beautiful Blue Danube does in that of Austria comes an! announcement that Is full of Interest to the scientific world. We are told that an epidemic of baldne Is sweeping over that favored land, and that the place of many a tangled human mane of yesterday is now polished but barren, like one of Larry Godkln's editorials. "So ciety young men" ere especially noted as affected. The special Importance of this arises from Its relation to the question as to how evolution evolves. Two theories, mutually ex clusive, have been advanced. St. George Mivart holds that evolution evolves by sud den and rapid changes alternated with peri ods or rest, as in tne putting up or a movepipe. Haeckel, on the other hand, believes that evolution grinds away all the time, like the Interest on a promissory notex He holds that the instability of matter is responsible for many things which have been falsely attributed to the administration, and ether extraneous causes. We had been Inclined to hold with Haeck el. but this Hoosier baldness rather strengthens the hypothesis of St. George Mivart. it is certain tnat tne further loss of hair is in the direction of evolution, the human pocies havln? already lost from each Individual enough to cover an oldfashioned haircloth sofa, It is significant that the lose shows Itself most markedly in society young men, an overnourlshed class ' which evolution does weii to experiment on, they being available for so little else that Is of use. And it is clear that in this case the change was Just as Mivart said it would be it occurred all at once, like Abrera? res ignation, and was attributable to a clearlydenned cause, viz., natural gas. 'ine consequences of all this In the domain of thought are so many and so Important as to bewilder the investigator. In the world or speculation, many a cherished theory must be abandoned, and many a carefully made hypothesis revised. In the economio domain, the tontorial artist must take counsel with himself, that he may determine where his occupation will be at when evolution gets done with it And we must not forget the ecclesiastical realm. It will be remembered that the Pope, a few years ago, denounced Mivr.rt's books, and placed them on the index ex purga tortus. It Is unfortunate for the doctrine of infallibility that his Holiness did not wait for the returns from Indiana. A Man's Earning Capacity Philadelphia Press. Sometimes the worm will turn, and one has done so effectually in Chicago. A paragraph of a familiarly noxious kind was recently printed, as follows: "At a gathering of authors and Journalists a short time ago one of the numbei remarked that Richard Harding Davls'i yearly income frovn his literary achievements exceeded $25,000. a publisher who was of the party replied that In any other profession the writer in question would In all likelihood have made five times that sum. As a physician, a lawyer, the same brilliance and adaptability, coui pled with the kef-n powers of observation and analysis which characterize Mr. Davis, would be productive of far greater monetary compensation." Commenting on this a writer In a Chicago newfpaper says, with pungent irony: "Now, this is the sort of Inane stuff that makes a man ridiculous, and no on will be readier to smile at it than the eminently Fnslb!e Mr. Davis. The remark is musty with ige and has been said of nearly every literary man that ever wrote anything. But why not turn It about and apply It to men tn other careers? Surely Mr. McKlnlev, had he not chosen politics would have been equally eminent in any other career. As a literary man he would havo been the pot laureate of America, W. J. Bryan, as electrician, instead of spellbinder, would have discovered wireless telegraphy years ago. and Funston. had he taken to public sneaking in place of swimming, wculd have been the greatest orator that Kansas has ever produced. Euc speculations as these are both profitable and Interesting.