Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1901 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, ArRIL 4. 1931.

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If the Integrity of the Chinese empire depends on the integrity of old LI Hung Chang It is In hard lines. Now that Agulnaldo has tnken an oath of Ueglance to the United States that fs weeping and binding in its character, is !t rot about time for his Boston supporters to fall into line? If Mr. Bryan's opposition to the Democratic candidate for mayor of St. Louis had anything to do with the Republican defeat In that city. It is hoped that he will support Democrats hereafter. It will take a good-sized argument to convince the American people that they should pay for a Nicaragua canal when n American syndicate stands ready to r')roha? and complete the Panama canal. "Not sutfl' icnt gravity to cause concern." wires General MacArthur concerning the commissary frauds at Manila. Of course, anti-administration papers will hasten to withdraw their yellow editorials based on the theory of enormous and extensive frauds. It may be observed that, while the Democratic candidate for mayor In Cleveland, Ohio, Is vouched for as a citizen of "pergonal worth" by the Plain Dealer, h!3 nomination was made by the element that he will be obliged to recognize, but which is. not in good repute in that city. Representative Bartholdt telegraphed Governor Dockery, of Missouri, at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning: "St. Louis is In the hands of a ballot-box stuffing mcb. I am afraid it will finish the world's fair In St. Louis." It should do so. so far as Congress and Republican States are concerned. The city authorities seem to attach more Importance to public parks than they do to public baths. This may be because the purchase and lmproement of public par'; grounds involves a bigger "rake off" thai the establishment of public baths, or It m:'.y be because the city authorities believe sun baths are better than water baths. The election of Tom L. Johnson as mayor of Cleveland on a platform of straight Scent street railroad fare, without any other compensation for the use of streets, will bring that question prominently to the front p.gain. There is no doubt that the trend of public opinion and municipal action is towards curtailing concessions to quas-i-public corporations of all kinds. Republican committees In some of the strong Republican counties of Maryland have established schools of instruction which are being freely patronized by negroes to qualify themselves to vote under the Gorman law. This is something th-a cx-senator did not count on, and he will probably be greatly surprised to find himself figuring as a promoter of education among the negroes. Most of the cities of Kansas were carried, Tuesday, by the opposition to the enforcement of the prohibitory law. Even in Topeka, where a Republican majority of l.fOO Is regarded as a small one, the Democrats, representing an open town, came near carrying the city. This Is all the more significant because women vote In all municipal elections in Kansas. It is fair to assume that this result Is a reaction caused by the disgust of conservative people at the reckless performances of Mrs. Natioii and her followers. The saloon has not had so timely and valuable a champion. It seems that suit has been brought by pome Doer sympathizers at New Orleans to enjoin the shipment of a cargo of horses and mules In a British ship on British orders to South Africa. It is hardly possible that the court will take jurisdiction of the suit. If it be admitted that the anim;ils are contraband of war they would be liable to capture at sea by a Boer ship, as would a similar shipment to t!e Boers by a British ship, but this principle could not apply In a neutral port before the ship containing the contraband cargo had sailed. A I'nlted States court ought not to be nsked t) do In the harbor of New Orleans the wort of a Boer ship of war on the high sea. General MacArthur his telegraphed th? War D-partnient that 'the frauds in nh comir.i -sarv department are not of sutllcir.t gravity to eau-e concern, and an apparently du-- to Irregularity in th sab.M of savings." Ev.-y ruin who has ben m the army understands what the ".--.i!s of avinr,1' means, particularly if h u be n stationed at a pot or a permanent camp. Under ordinary condition., , company of men cannot oat the rations furnished by the government. Years ago It was the common practice for captains to have credited to their companies the amount of rations due and draw only tho

quantity the men could eat. Usually there stood to the credit of the company a considerable quantity of rations at the end of each month. The commissary would give the captains, at the close of each month, a certilicate of the money value of the .rations not consumed, for which thi captain could get the money from an officer authorized to pay company savings. The captain of a company permanently located could save considerable values in rations, and with that money purchase vegetables and other articles of food which the men would cat with greater relish. It li probable that these savings about Mar.i'a Lave been considerable, and that commissary officer.-, instead of keeping the surplus and paying government money to the officers, have found that a profit could be made by selling the surplus on their own account and set I ling with the troops. SE.NATOU DEVUIlIIMiK OX TIIC ClII A. ii:stio. An article by Senator Bcverldge In the April number of the North American Review contributes materially towards clearing up the moral and political fog that has been raised around the American-Cuban question. Much of the recent discussion of that question has Ignored the fact that real statesmanship consists In the practical handling and settlement of live questions. Altogether too much weight has been given to the so-called humanitarian motive of the American-Spanish war as expressed In the Teller resolution passed at the beginnlng.of the war. The fault of this resolution was that It was purely sentimental. It placed theories above conditions and undertook to pledge the United States to a future policy that had no justification in the past. Senator Beverldge shows by citations from history and from repeatedly expressed opinions of leading statesmen, almost from tho foundation of the government, that the ultimate acquisition of Cuba has been regarded as an essential feature of American policy. He shows that this opinion was not confined to American statesmen, but was shared by political thinkers and writers of European countries, one of whom (Froude) called the United States "tho residuary legatee of all the West Indies." As against this long established Idea and policy Senator Beverldge shows that the Teller resolution, looking to the recognition of the independence of Cuba on merely sentimental grounds. Is an abrupt departure from American traditions. He holds that every argument that justified the United .States in going to war for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish rule justifies the continuance of American rule until Cuban Independence and stable government shall be an accomplished fact. He also holds that all the demands of the Piatt resolution. Including United States naval stations, etc., are necessary to our national defense and to the defense of Cuba. The senator does not go fo far as to urge the annexation of Cuba, which he Is known to favor, without giving her a trial of independence, but he shows that events are tending inevitably to that end. His article will contribute materially towards removing discussion of the Americo-Cuban question from the realm of sentimentality to that of practical statesmanship. CHICAGO AM) ST. LOUS KI.IMTIOVS. Two of Tuesday's municipal elections are significant and may be instructive if people elsewhere are seeking instruction. In Chicago, Mayor Harrison is elected for a third term. Except for his stand on the street-railway franchises Mr. Harrison has been about as inefficient a miyor as a city could have. The independent papers, which finally supported him, exposed the inefficiency and corruption of the police force, which permitted conditions to grow up under which life has not been secure for months. For a year there was a stagna

tion In the building trades because the Harrison officials were using a labor organization for political purposes which the unions themselves finally ignored. Not long ago a writer, whose specialty Is tramps, being, for his own purposes, one of them, declared that Chicago is the city of refuge of all criminal tramps and that two years ago they gave Harrison thousands of votes. Newspapers which finally supported him denounced him three months ago because he half defended the criminality of Chicago. The Board of Aldermen is Republican; if the Democrats who ran with Harrison had been elected the notoriously most corrupt men Ii local politics would have been elected. The Republican aldermen and not the mayor will take care of the street-railway franchises. Why was Harrison re-elet-ted? Because of the bossIsm of ex-Representative Lorlmcr, who has made himself thoroughly obnoxious to a large body of Republicans, who defeated him for the House last fall. The majority of Republicans, as shown by the vote of the primaries, desired the nomination of Mr. Harlan. More Republicans voted for Harlan delegates than for any two other candidates. If the nomination had been made by a direct vote at the primaries, Mr. Harlan would have been nominated and elected. But Mr. Lorlmer went into the convention and, with others, controlled thi delegates and nominated a good man who had few delegates elected for him. Being a good man did not save him. Some Republicans and independents voted for Harrison, but many thousands did not go to the polls. That is, Lorlmer and his supporters elected Carter Harrison. Tho incident Is worth remembering. It was different in St. Louis. It Is a Republican city, but under the Nesbit law an honest election is no longer possible. It has been proved by a nonpartisan canvass that S,) fraudulent votes were counted in one congressional district, in November. A grand jury reported. Just before the election of Tuesday, that the registration lists were entirely unreliable. AVhlle Republicans are given, under the law, a minority representation on election boards, the vicious law was ignored by filling the places by men not Republicans. The reports of the election show that frauds of tho most open and reckless character were practiced. Gangs of repeaters went, from voting place to voting place, voting the Democratic ticket, many of the voters being negroes employed to repeat. Ballots of Republicans and of tno.e other than Democrats were unfolded by precinct officers and tern in pieces before the face of the voters. The significant part of this performance is that the Democratic ticket was opiosrd by Mr. Bryan anil his associates because the head of the Democratic ticket voted for McKinley last November. So far as It has significance, the anti-Bryan leaders, le-d by ex-Governor Francis, will control Missouri against Mr. Bryan and his pet policies. It should Ik? ad. led that this glaringly fraudulent election of Tuesday places a traudulcntly

elected cJty government over St. Louis during the approaching world's fair. It is, possibly, too late for Congress to rescind its action appropriating Sj.OuO.OO-) to an exhibition that will be dominated by ollicers elected by brutal as well as fraudulent methods, but it is not too late for the Republicans in the States upon which the success of the fair depends to boycott it. It Is fortunate that the Indiana Legislature voted no money to help along an expositiun which will be largely controlled by the ringsters and bullies who have forced upon St. Louis, by by the most fraudulent and violent methods, a bogU3 governme nt.

JEFFEHSOMAX AIH'LLAMITCS. The local Democracy celebrated Jefferson's birthday by retiring into a cave of gloom and uttering doleful protests agair.st the growth of the Republic and modern progress. They wish to be known as belonging to the Adullamltes of the period. It Is recorded in the Scriptures that when David escaped to the cave of Adullam "Every one that was In distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto mm, and he became a captain over them." It Is entirely appropriate that the modern preacher of discontent should appeal to the same classes that led, their ancient prototypes to go into the cave of Adullam, but why do they select Jefferson's birthday as the; time for uttering their dismal protests against the growth of the Republic and modern progress? Why do they select the natal anniversary of one who had unbounded faith in the vitality of republican principles and republican government to lament their alleged failure? Why do they select of all other days the birthday of the first and greatest of expansionists, the man who acquired the great Louisiana Territory and who advocated the acquisition of (Juba, to deprecate the recent enlargement of the limits of the Republic? Why do they pretend to honor the memory of Jefferson by deploring what they call "commercialism," when he was openly and ardently in favor of everything that might develop American manufactures and commerce? What do the Adullamltes mean by commercialism, anyhow? It was the main burden of several of the speeches Tuesday night. One speaker made the depths of the cave echo with his lamentations over the country's danger arising from the spirit of commercialism. Hon. John W. Kern, whom a respectable minority of the people of Indiana wanted for Governor, deprecated the same spirit and declared that "It is the spirit of money getting which subordinates country, home, God and everything hitherto sacred to Its unholy purposes." He had no hesitation in publicly expressing hU private opinion that "If the government of our fathers Is to be preserved and maintained, this unholy power must be overthrown." and he called on the young Adullamltes then and there In the cave to "gird, on your armors, O ye brave young men, and in God's name go forth to battle for." etc. At this It Is presumed the young Davids tightened up their sword belts another hole. Whatever else may bo said of Jefferson, he was not a little American, and he was not a pessimist regarding the future of the Republic. Although there was not much wealth in the country in his day, ho favored the development of manufactures and commerce as a means of acjuirlnK It. "He regarded b(Uh as of equal importance. "Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation are the four pillars of our prosperltj'," he wrote, and he repeated the Idea dozens of times. Again he wrote In a letter to General Washington: All the world is be'comlng commercial. Were It practicable to keep our new empire Feparated from them, we might indulge ourselves in speculating whether commerce contributes to the happiness of mankind. But we cannot separate ourselves from them. We must, then, in our defense endeavor to share as large a portion as we can of this modern source of wealth and power. There Is the whole doctrine of twentieth century commercialism in a nutshell the impossibility of separating ourselves from the rest of the worlel and the necessity of getting as large a share of the world's commerce as possible. Those Americans are to be pitied who cannot see anything to admire in the amazing growth of manufacturing and commerce in the United States since Jefferson's time and the corresponding growth of commercial enterprise and prosperity which some caH commercialism. A country without the spirit of commercialIsm is the best country in the worId for live men to emigrate from and for Adullamltes to emigrate to. A good many persons have testified to LI Hung Chang's ability, but few, If any, have vouched for his honesty. In fact, he Is reported to be mercenary and corrupt. It Is now said he favors signing tho Manchurian treaty on the ground that It is useless to oppose Russia, that she will tak? what she wants anyhow, and that signing the treaty will give China a resnite of ten or twenty years in which she can strengthen herself against further aggressions. This reasoning is plausible, but. in view of tho wily old diplomat's reputation, is suspicious. China has more reason to oppose the cession of Manchuria than Japan has. yet the latter will go to war if the treaty is signed. It looks very much as if Li Hung Chang was playing into the hands of Russia, as he has been openly charged with elolng before. The Nlroku Shlnpo, a weekly paper published 'n Japan, now appears regularly among the Journal's exchanges. A column in English text contains stories of the cruelties perpetrated by European soldiers in China, as seen by the correspondent of the Shlnpo, and states that accounts of even more harrowing atrocities are to be found in oth?r parts of the paper. This being the case, the exchange eeiitor experiences no regret over his inability to read the teachest language of these other columns. The foreigners la China who were guilty of the barbarities complained of did not, It appears. Include any Americans, but Americans feel shame In reading of the acts of people who, like themselves, have been supposed to belong to the most advanced civilization. The suggestion for the erection of a monument to General Benjamin Harrison is timely and the favor with which it is received entirely creditable. It is needless to say the Journal Is In full sympathy with the suggestion and would do all in !rs power to make it a practical success. But the movement had better not be entered on at all than to be begun and fail. Bopulir emotions do not always stand the test. The Lawton monument movement had every merit that such a movement could have, yet It fell far short of Its original conception. No incipient sups should be taken toward a, Harrison monument without an

organization or plan of operation that would insure success. General Harrison was the last man in the world to approve an undertaking that did not foresee the end from the beginning. Speaking of the Local Council, the News says: "Hundreds of women that are members of the affiliated societies have yet to be informed of the purpose of the council and ot what it has accomplished, and, further than that, the necessity of its existence." True, what is the purpose? Let's have it; don't keep the women in suspense. FROM EITHEE AND YON.

As tci Fcd. What To Uai. He She looks r.ice enough to eat. Sh (severely) Yes; plain fcod has It charms for seme people. A Slmllnrity. Chlo Stete Journal. Mrs. Newlywed I never will be satisfied until you buy me at leaet three rings. Mr. Newlywed Say, love, you remind me cf an up-to-date circus. Thrives on "Wealth. Philadelphia Press. Willie Teacher told us to-day that there's a certain kind o' tree that grows out o rocks. I can't remember what it was. Do you know, pa? Pa It's a family, tree, I guess. Ilnppy Thought. Baltimore American. Clairvoyant Yes, you will be very wealthy. With my inward eye I can see heaps cf money all around you. Mr. Wise Well, suppose you take your fee out of it with your Inward fingers. Couldn't Stop Her. Catholic Standard. Mamma Tommy! Tommy! You're doing tha very thin? I told you not to. Now, don't you lit me 5ieak to you again. Tommy Gee whizz, ma, if pa can't keep yoU from talk in' when you once get rtarted, how d'you expect me to? "ADAM-ZAD THE BEAR." KiplinK" Fnmoiin I'oom nntl Its Present International Application. Baltimore Herald. Tho Russian bear Is not 111. The internal disorders of tho Czar's kingdom pertain only to attempts upon his life as a protest against a despotic government. To kill him would be but to strike down the puppet of power. The declaration that the Czar is the one man In Russia who is not its ruler is forceful and true. The power that restrains the Russian citizen is as cold and relentless as the ley hand of death itself. It is founded upon the horrors of the Siberian hell, the tortures of the unopenlng dungeon, the sudden disappearance of a fellow-cltlzen of whose fate all time ever afterward is silent, and the fear of the vast army of secret spies. The Russian bear rules a vast domain, containing S,600,0o0 square miles, and which comprises one-sixth of the entire lond surface of the globe, nnd Is larger than the combined areas of the United States, France and Germany. It Is onethird of Asia and two-thirds of Europe and contains a population of over 115.000,000 persons. The powers are not afraid of th-i bear, perhaps, but they are afraid for It to be aroused. In Chinese affairs, Russia Is doing that which no other power would attempt to do. and has coolly stated that what she Is doing Is her business only. Tho Russian bear can use its "steel-shod paw' upon a nation as well as upon an individual. Jt poured out the life-blood of tho Tartar hordes, ripped Napoleon's army Into tr.tters, struck down Poland, nnd years apo fastened Its paws In China's Hesh. Kipling tells of the story of "Matun, the old blind beggar, bandagexL from brow to chin." who oncce hunted "Adam-zad the bea r" Two full marches to northward, at the fall of the second night, I came on mine enemy, Adam-zad, all weary from his flight. There was a charge In the musket prickei and primed was the pan My finger crooked on the trigger when he reared up like a man. Horrible, hairy, human, with paws Ilka hands in prayer. Making his supplication, rose Adam-zad the bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at tho paunch's swag and swing. And my heart was touched with pity for Jhe monstrous pleading thing. Touched with pity and wonder, I did not fire then I have looked no more on women I have walked no more with men. Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray From brow to jaw the steel-shod paw, it ripped my face away! Sudden, silent and savage, searing as flame the blowFaceless 1 fell before his feet fifty summers ago. I heard him grunt and chuckle I heard him pass to his den. He left me blind to the darkling years and the little mercy of men. Over and over the story, ending as he began There Is no truce with Adam-zad, the bear that looks like a man. "Adam-zad" has pushed the boundary of his kingdom farther and farther toward the east. Other powers have protested .and he h.ir? answered with a growl. Manchuria is practically his now the signing of the treaty will be but the serving of formal notice on other nations. Redemption of ntionnl Hnnk otes. Sound Currency for March. The reason why national bank notes are presented for redemption is, perhaps, not generally understood. Many suppose that because the notes are fully secured, and are. In fact, guaranteed by the United States, there Is no real reason for their redemption in United States notes except the desire to secure clean currency for that which is soiled and mutilated. Such, bowever, is not the case. The main reason for redemption arises from the fact that national bank notes are not "money," but merely the secured promissory notes of the Issuing- banks. They are not available for the "lawful money" reserve which the national banks are reepiired to hold. Conveniently, at those seasons of the year when the movement of currency Is toward New York and other financial centers, the banks ther naturally sort out the national bank notes and send them to Washington for re deir.ption in order to get United States noe3 which they can use as reserve money. This suggests an important point of superiority of bank currency over government paper money. To the extent that surplus currency moving to financial centers In bank notes. It Is retired by the process of redemption. The notes go back to the issuing banks in tho interior, where they will be on hand whenever profitable employment for them can be found. Government currency, on the other hand, Is not retired under such circumstances; but. accumulating at the financial centers, produces abnormal credit conditions and stimulates speculation. If employment for the time Is found, the necessity for shipping the currency to the Interior a few months later again disorganize business. Not a "Whimper. Brooklyn Eagle. The London Saturday Review calls on European nations to join in and help England in case the United States attempts to build the canal at the Isthmus on terms which England dors not like. England and ether European countries have troubles enough now without seeking any, more. If the United States decides to dig the canal and throw It ojen to all nations of the world there is no probability that the jingoes in England or any other country across the Atlantic will raise any serious objections. "Art" n It Is Found. Philadelphia Press. We observe by the pictorial department of the valued Cincinnati Enquirer that the battleship Ohio Is to be christened by a colored girl. We believe this Is the first time in the history of the government such a distinction has been accorded the negro race, and, coming from Ohio, it is peculiarly appropriate.

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GOLDEN GATE MYSTERY HULK OF THE STEAMER RIO DE .JYNCIKO CAWOT I1C FOUND. Rocky Bottom of the Sen Searched In Vain for the Wrecked Vcel Experts Dumf ounded. San Francisco Special. As remarkable and as mysterious as the wrecking of the Pacific Mail steamer Rio de Janeiro at the entrance of the Golden Gate has been her disappearance from the bottom of the sea. Divers have explored the sea floor in the region where the steamer was supposed to have sunk and have searched far and wide for the wreck. The steamer struck on a rock on Feb. 23 and went down with the greater number of her passengers and crew. Her pilot, who escaped to tho shore, was sure he could locate the wreck, but when elivers went down in the place he had designated they found a rock, but no sunken steamer. There was a thick fog when the vessel sank, but it was thought she was then between Fort Point and Mile Rock, just outside the Golden Gate. In fact, no one had any doubt of It. But as the exploration of the bottom of the sea at the entrance of the harbor proceeded week after week by soundings and by divers and still no wreck was found, the affair began to assume the proportions of a big mystery. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company offered a reward of Jl.OX) for the location of the wreck, and besides the divers the company employed many volunteers have been searching for the lost vessel. There Is something weird in the loss of a great steamer at the very mouth of a populous harbor and her apparently sailing away through the ocean depths to the port of the missing ships. Besides the boats sent out by the company to sound for the Rio and the divers to hunt the bottom for her. two ships of the United States coast survey have taken a hand in the search, and some remarkable deep-sea diving has been done by a party of Japanese. Some of the divers have, been down twenty-five fathoms and remained at that depth for twenty minutes a feat which probably never has been performed before. They explored the bottom all around where the pilot declared that the ship had sunk but found no trace of her. These Japanese divers came up from Point Lobos, Camrcl bay, Monterey county, where they have been diving for abaione, a kind of shellfish, the body of which is dried and used for food, and of the shell are made buttons and ornaments. They paid their own expenses, to show the Americans how expert they were, and have succeeded in winning much admiration for their work. The Pacific Mail Company placeel buoys marking the place where they thought the sunken steamer lay, and all the bottom under the space marked by these buoys was gone over thoroughly, but without any results. One diver walked for three-quarters of a mile on the floor of the Golden Gate without finding any trace of the lost ship. A Japanese diver went down in sixteen fathoms of water about a half mile from the Fort Point barracks and walkeet out to sea, the barge with the air pumps, etc., floating after him as he walked, until the lead gave twenty-six fathoms of water. Heretofore it has been received as an axiom in diving that no diver coulel descend deeper than twenty-live fathoms on account of tho enormous pressure to which he would be subjected nt a greater depth. This performance of the Japanese eliver, however, has overturned previous theories. After reaching this great depth he walked to the starting point. He was down twenty minutes and the circle he described covered the very spot where the Rio would have been had she gone on the Fort Point rocks, as she was supposed to have done. It seemed clear that the steamer had not struck on these rocks, and if she had not hit them, what did she hit, and where? The wonder and the mystery deepened with each unsuccessful attempt to find the sunken steamer, and all sorts of wild theories have been advanced as to the cause of her disappearance. An exploration of the bottom of the sea one-eighth of a mile to the southwest of the red buoy off Fort Point also failed to reveal the whereabouts of the wreck, although this was the place where the people of the life-saving station were sure the Rio had sunk. They seemed to have been as much in error as the pilot in regard to the steamer's place of sinking. A reef was found there, along which the pilot worked his way, but he saw no signs of any wreck. A point almost two miles from Fort Point was tried, and the diver, after he had been down a few moments, came up and reported that the current ran so strong that it was Impossible to stand up against It. A heavy anchor was tied to his legs and he went down again. When he came up the second time he said there was no wreck in that place. Other places were tried, with like results, until it would seem that every foot of the bottom near the entrance of the Golden Gate had been explored. The most expert ellvers that could be procured have been tried, and careful soundings taken all over the region, but no results were obtained. An electrician named Fabian has suggested a scheme by -which he says he is confident he can find the lost wreck. He proposes to use a big electro magnet. He says that he has located fourteen wrecks In that way. By lowering the magnet into the water and then sailing about with It to and fro over the water at the entrance of the harbor the iron of the ship will attract the magnet, disclosing its whereabouts. This mystery of where the sunken Rio de Janeiro is now has excited almost as much interest in San Francisco as did her wreck. The tides sweep In and out of the Golden Gate with great force and swiftness, it is true, but they seem only to affect the channel where the ship could not have gone down. In all the places which have been pointed out by fishermen, the life-saving people and the pilot c.f the missing steamer, the divers do not seem to have found any currents in which they were unable to work. Rocks and sand cover the ocenn floor In most places In that region, and In only one place did a diver report that the water was thick and muddy so he could not see well. The people who escaped from the Rio after she had struck thought they knew about how far from shore she was when the fatal moment came, and the failure to locate the wreck at the first trial was a great surprise to everybody. It Is rather a grewsome thing to have a big ocean steamer go down almost within a rifle shot of a big city and then to disappear as completely as If not only the sea but the bottom of the sea had opened and swallowed her up. Jordan, the pilot, who was bringing th unfortunate steamer In when she struck and went down, was the most surprised man In the world when he found that the Rio was not where he had located her. He has been bringing ships in and out of the harbor for many years, and was supposed to know nil about such matters. He went out In a boat shortly after the wreck and sounded In the place whre he declared the ship had gone down. His lead line found something which he thought was the sunken steamer, and he placed a buoy there. When a diver went down In the place he found not a sunken steamer, but a flp.t rock. It has seemed to the people of Ran Francisco as if the wreck of the Rio de Janerlo was like those cases of mysterious disappearance where a man walks out cf hi cioor some morning to go to his ofüce and never Is heard of again. Sonth African War Incident. Salt Lake Tribune. A little Incident told In a war letter from South Africa to t'ae London Chronicle tells In a few words, metaphorically at least, that the old race Is still strong and true. The correspondent tells how in front of a post he found three little mites hand In hand standing fearful some ten or twenty paces from the picket. The sentry, a stalwart cavalryman, was pacing his b-at severely and looking most Important. And then the story runs as follows: "Tho eldest of the children was a girl perhaps sis years old; the other two clung to each j?ide of her skirts. As I approached the leader of the party said: 'We want to go past please. "Very well I said, 'go on; nobody will hurt you 'But,' she said, 'won't the Fentry stop us?' 'Tell him you are a little English girl I replied. Three little figures moved timidly forward. Tho sentry had heard the conversation and his eye twinkled grimly. 'Halt! Who goes there?' rang out in stentorian tone; then in childish treble. 'Please. I'm a little English girl Pass, little English girl; all's well The butt of a rifle clanked n the stone pave-

ment and the sentry stood ot ease with as much precision as if he had been on guard at Whitehall itself. The little party, with beating hearts but heads erect, walked past the post full of pride of race and of conquest."

TOLD BY JOITES. rrovrrj'nnn from first pageA uiiiist-a executively to any conversation th.it had taken place between him. e'.f and Patrick. Justice Jerome allowed the- evidence already given to stand. "On the day the attempt was made." said Jones. "Patrick and 1 had a talk in tho reception room at the Tombs. Patrick fold me his means' were exhausted and that tney were i:i desperate straits. Patrick wanted me to shoulder the responsibility for the time. I told him I would net confess unless I could tell' a straight story. I said I v.'ould rather kill myself on account of the. disgrace of the thing. Patrick said this mii;ht be the best thing for us both, and said lie would kill himself, too. He said ho had a-small knife In his cell. The knife would do for one and he would try to get some carbolic acid from Mr. Potts. He gave me the knife. I put it In my shoe and took it to my cell. Later Potts called. Patrick told me Potts would not get him the poison. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon after I had got the knife I sat in my ceil writing some letters and preparing for the end. Just then I was called to the district attorney's ofllce. While there I made a confession. I was brought back to my cell in the evening and at about 4 o'clock In the morning I tried to cut my throat." Jones then told of being taken to Bellevuc, there making a new confession. The new confession is the one on which his present testimony is based. Jones explained to-day what he meant yesterday when he said that Patrick did not wish Rice to live until Monday, as on that day a draft would be payable. The witness said that a week or so before the death of Rice certain oil wells in Texas in which he was lnteresteel were destroyed by fire. Rice resolved to rebuild them, and bound himself to provide nearly $200.u00 for the rebuilding. On the strength of this the oil well people drew for $25.900. the draft being payable on Monday, Sept. 24. Jones testified again today that Patrick wished to avoid the payment of this money. "I said." witness continued, "on Saturday that the old man would probably drop off. Patrick said we could not rely on that, but had to get him out of the way the next day." A number of telegrams gent by Jones notifying relatives of Rice's death were placed in evidence. They all read alike, setting forth that Rice died under the care of a physician, and that the death certificate gave as the cause diarrhoea, old age and heart failure, concluding with a notice of the funeral. A check was then produced and placed In evidence. This check, which It Is claimed was forged, was for tho salary of a Texas employe of Rice's named Cohen. Jones testified that the check was forged and forwarded to Texas to see whether the signature would pass the banks. CROSS-EXAMINATION. At the afternoon session Assistant District Attorney Garvin asked Jones a few unimportant questions regarding the sum3 of money given by Rice to the William Marsh Rice Institute. Mr. Jones's cross-examination was then began by Attorney Moore. "Who was the first man you saw at the police headquarters when you were first there?" asked Moore. "As far as I can remember it was Captain of Detectives McClusky." "Was a stenographic record kept of your statement?" "Yes. 1 think so." The witness said he could not remember what took plaee as the story he had toll was largely fictitious. "Do you mean to say," Interrupted Mr. Mocre, "that what tool: place on the day at police headquarters did not impress you sufficiently to be retained In your memory?" Jones said his recollection was very hazy. Moore, addressing Justice Jerome, said he did not know whether the story Jones told on that day was true or fictitious, but ho did want to know Just what did take place. It would be a matter for the court to decide, he said, whether Jones's story was true or fictitious. Justice Jerome then told the witness to answer the question of Moore to the best of his recollection. "Did you say "anything to Captain McClusky about the checks?" asked Mr.Moore. "To the best of mv recollection." witness replied, "I did. I think I told him that Mr. Rice had given them to me on Saturday to give to Mr. Patrick." "Did vou tell Captain McClusky anything about having called on Mr. Patrick on the Sunday when Rice died?" "I do not remember." "Did you know at the time that it would bo Important to you to be guarded In your statements?" "I did, yes." "And still you made your answers so carelessly that you at this time cannot even remember what those answers wTere?" Justice Jerome objected to this question. Bv questions Mr. Moore brought out that Edward Reckord. a fellow-pri onc. ha 1 written on witness's behalf to Capt. Baker, arranging an interview with Captain Baker in the district attorney's office. "Did you ask him to arrange the interview with Captain Baker?" "I did not. It was rather at the Instigation of Reckord that I consented to have him write the letter to Captain Baker." EASILY' INFLUENCED. ' Ifou are easily influenced, are you not?" "I am easily influenced, otherwise I would never have got myself Into this trouble." Jones then told of his interview with Captain Baker. Continuing he said that sometime between Oct. 2J and Oct. 20 he was taken to the district attorney's office and kept uptil 3 o'clock in the morning making his first confession. "What did you think when you chloroformed old Rice, your benefactor? Did you think that was right?" asked Mr. Moore. "I cannot say what I thought," Jones replied. "Did you say that you did not think any one saw Patrick and Rice together on the day before the batter's death unless it was Maria Scott, a colored scrub woman?" "I may have said so without using the name of the woman," witness replied. "Did vou say that Short and Meyers witnessed "the will?" "I think I made such a statement." "Did you say that oM man Rice had instructed Patrick to draw a new will?" "I have made such a statement," witness replied- , . . -Do you mean to say that Patrick called at your house as often as once a week or sometimes more often from November. 1MJ, to Sept. 23, 190. without ever seeing Rice?" "I don't know how many times Patrick may have seen Mr. Rice. I said that to my knowledge Patrick never saw Rice except upon two occasions." "When was that?" "Sometime during the spnn? or summer. , t Questioned bv Justice Jerome witness said the time when Rice-, according to yesterday's testimony, saw Patrick in the tarlor, was one of these occasions. Jones then In answer to questlor.3 denied that other statements made by him in the confession were true. NOT PROMISED FREEDOM. Mr. Moore then passed to the original complaint in which Jones swore that Patrick administered "mercurial and other poisons" to Rice, thus causing his death. "Did you not know when you swore to the complaint," asked Mr. Moore, "what those other poisons were?" The question was objected to, but allowed. "I did not, unless It was oxalic acid." wltress replied. j 'Did yoTi not know that you had chloro formed old man luce? askta Mr. Moore. Mr. Osborne objected. "What promise was made to get you t) make a confession?" "A good many promises have been made to me, but none of a definite nature." "Do you mean to tell me that you willingly made this confession, knowing that It would bring you to the electric ch:Jr?" "1 did not exactly think it would bring me to the chair." witness faltered. "Do you not know that murd- r th crime to which you have confessed If It could be established. Is punishable by electrocutio.i in the State of New York?" "1 do, yes." Witness finally' said that he mnd this confession because he would not perjur.j himself and because Mr. Battle, h's attornev, had told him if he told anvthing he must tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. "But Mr. Battle told me." witness said, "that if I told the truth I wouli receive less punl.-hment." "Did not Mr. Battle tell you that he ha l received assurances to that effect from Mr. Osborne?" "He did not." "Did not Mr. Battle tell you that he ha 1 jeen Mr. Osborne and that his promise was the result of a talk with him?" "He said Mr. Osborne said I had told so many storks and none of them could t-e corroborated. Mr. Battle tcld me I must tell the truth If my story was do be corroborated." N "You wanted your story that you chloro

formed poor oll i.ir.n Rice corroborated?" asr:rd Mr. Mnore. "f suppose it would have to be corroborated to 1. believed." witness lid. "Vou wanted to t. corroborated to get h'i:;fr." Ito!;. -n Mr. Moore. "Were you not promised that If you mad this riate: .or.t jm:r punishment would r iess severe, that. In fact, ycu would escape Oeath?" "I was told that nothing could be .on lor me unless I told the truth," the witness replied. Adjournment was taken until tc-morrcw. STILL PROCRASTINATING.

CubnuN Seemingly Not in Iluste to Act on the PIntt Amendment. HAVANA, April 3 The Cuban constitutional convention to-day took up the propositions of Sonor De Qucsada anl Stnor Tamayo regarding relations with th3 United States, v.hich were yesterday laid on the table, but only three members voted f-r the proposition of Senor De Quesada, and only six for Senor Tamayo's. The other propositions will be considered at lhs next meeting of the convention, which will be held Saturday. The question of sending a commission to Washington was not discussed. Senor Allejandro Rodriguez, who has formally announced his resignation of tha mayoralty of Havana, will probablv be appointed chief of ihe rural guard. The vacancy caused by his retirement has provoked considerable agitation in the National party, as two of its members Senor Seayas and Senor Gemr are endeavoring to get the party's Indorsement for th office. It is asserted on good authority that there will be no prosecution of the charges made ngainst Mr. Horatio Rubens an I Senor Gonzales De tuesada by a dlrecter ot the Havana Gas Company, to the effect that they had obtainevi money from tha company by representing that they had influence in Washington to secure a reduction of the tariff on crude petroleum. Politician Playing Wnltlng Gnme. WASHINGTON. April 3. Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, who has Just returned from a two weeks' trip to Cuba, paw the President to-day and talked with him about conditions there. Mr. Dalzell said he thought there was hardly a man In the island, except the politicians, who did not favor the acceptance of the conditions of lndependene imposed by the liatt amendment. "But the politicians are disposed to play a waiting game." he said. "I believe they will stand out until Congress meets, and then, finding we will not modify our terms, they will accept the conditions. The better element in Cuba favors ultimate annexation, but I believe a large proportion agree that it would better come after a trial of Independence has been made." BEQUEST WITH A CONDITION. Homan Catholics nnd Colored Glrla Eieliiileil from Ileneflts. BOSTON, April 3. In the will of David W. Hitchcock, filed In the Probate Court, appears the following clause, referring to a contingent bequest of $100.000 to the Wellesley Female Seminary to establish, scholarships for worthy young women: "I exclude Roman Catholics and colored persons because I feel the Introduction Into said seminary of pupils who differ essentially In race and religion from the others may prevent the best interests thereof. The girls to be selected as the beneficiaries of this fund by the officers of said seminary are such as would be unable to afforel tho expense of an education at said institution without such assistance, and I request said olficers to limit the benefit of raid assistance to such girls a appear to them to be bright and Intelligent and likely to profit thereby." If the trustees of the semlnsry refus to accept the trust the testator directs that the fund be given to the Museum of Fine Arts. The will contains bequests to several local charities. Mrs. Aim 1'roponed Memorial. CINCINNATI, O., April 3.-Mrs. Fred H. Alms, whose husband elurlng his lifetime took an active Interest In the College of Music of Cincinnati, to-day sent a letter to the boarel of trustees of the University of Cincinnati, saying that she desired t honor the memory of her husband by erecting on the grounds of the University, la Burnet Woods, at a cost not to exceeI JlOO.OoO. a large music hall, to be called the Frederick H. Alms Auditorium, to be devoted to musical culture, under the control of a department of music in the university, provided the present College of Music of Cincinnati is constituted an organic patt of the university. There is some question about the legal possibility of carrying out the condition named In Mrs. Alms's letter. AN APRIL 1 STORY. o Truth In the Report that Morsna Wim Is to Finish the Pnnnnia Caunl. NEW YORK, April" 3.-Senator Hanna' attention was called at the Waldorf-Astoria last night to the report that J. Picrpont Morgan had formed a syndicate to buy the rights of the French Panama Canal Company and that In conversation with the President and Senator Hanna Mr. Morgan had advocated the abandonment of the NIcaraguan route. "Yes, I have already seen that rejwjrt," lie said, "and you may say for me that there is not a word of truth in it. Personally, I have never expressed a preference for any route, but as for this story. I have never heard of suca a thing. If Mr. Morgan Is going Into the canal business I am not In his confidence.' A special to tho Herald from Washington says: "Specific ofiicial denials gre-ete.1 the published report that J. Pierpont Morgan, having discovered a gold mine on the Panama canal route, would head a syndicate to build the canal and had secured President McKinley' co-opt ration and the aid of Colombia. Denials came from the White House, the State Department, the Colombian legation and the French embassy. Most of those who denied the report declared that It was start el to make difficult the negotiation of canal treaties by the United States." SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. Their Membership, Schools und FInnnccs In Prosperous' Condition. BATTLE CREEK, Mich.. Amil :.-The biennial report of Elder (J. E. Erwin, preU dent of the Seventh Daj Adventists General Conference, was made to-day. Eldep Erwin said that, during the past two years, since the last general conference, the Increase In membership was lC.fAi and the total membership for the world 7S.T62. Con tinning, he said: "The tithes for the t-ame period amount ta J1.000.SIj. an Increase over the previous twa years of Jü.Sll. Gifts to carry on mlssionslonary work amount to flil.Oc. a gain of I $22.21). Publishers worn has increased. ' Books in fourteen different lar.Kuaces have j been issued by the Hamburg Pub'l?hir. House Sar.itarliini and health reform i work has gained in strength. Since the last general coT:fertUic-e nine sanitariums have ben established, two in Germany, two In Australia, one in New Zealand anJ live in tli- I'nited States, a total of twentyfoi r in all parts of the world. "The educational work is successful, there being six colleges, four academies, ten training and indu4tri.il sctioc's, one Intermediate school and 22$ church schools. total of Id fcchools with 2M teachers and C,M pupils." TWO BAD MARKSMEN. Lanjrr Fire SI Shots nt Each Other; b:-t Fail to Kill. CHATTANOOGA. Tcnn.. April 2. A sen sational shooting tccurred In Kingston In the courtroom elurlng a session of the court Sam A. Braze ale ami James J. Littleton, prominent attorneys, fired six shots each at each other, none fatal. Both are leading Republican politicians In the Second congressional district. The yjjrif-l ai'so over a spei-ch which Littleton made acaititt Brazeale, who is running for mayor of Kingston. Buth nun arc under snv .