Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1901 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, lflOl.

Prcidk anil a full cargo of supplies. A larse number of school teachers tr the Phllirrines a failed on the Sheridan. Movement of Transport. WASHIMITON. Jim 1. The War Department wu lnforricd to-day by cable that General i.'haffcc, with his troop?, on the. transport Sumner, had arrlvcil at Xapa.akl on the way to Manila. The tran?!ort KenUnk. from Manila for Seattle, has arrived at Nagasaki.

ev oiiiiiinnil for l inmton. WASHINGTON. Juno l.-Bricadif r General Krederick Km!. ton his tecn as.-iign-l to command of th Fourth district of the lerartracnt of Northern Luzon, with headquarters at Sai: I?idru. MISCELLANEOUS BREVITIES. Klsht hundred union hod carriers wont on trtke at Dtnvcr yesterday, demanding: an eight-hour day and $.5 a day for carrying bricks and $.1..V for carrj'ins ir.ortnr. ElfCht hundred lvrto Ilic.ans wrr cmbarkc1 on hoard the Ftcamship Colon at Lo Angele.. Cal.. yesterday. They are destined to work on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. The Louisville I.lederkrinz Society, the oldest member of the North American Faengerfet. has decided not to attend th? aengerfest at Puffalo this month owing to unsatisfactory railroad rates. The coroner's jury yesterday concluded Its Investigation of the lynching of the live men at Lookout, Modoc county California, end rendered a verdict that the men were hanged by unknown persons. Governor Pliss. of Michigan, because the Legislature failed to pays certain measures he recommended, particularly the antidgrarette bill and n bill taxing sleepinß car companie5, v.ill shortly call an extra bC3Ion. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Brlgham YounR was observed throughout Utah yesterday. The celebration at Salt Lake City opened with a salute of one hundred guns tired by the veteran artillerymen. Ths noted race horse Flylnt? Dutchman, the property of Clay & Woodford, of Paris. Ky.. Is dead of catarrhal fever at the stock farm of Hen Woodford. Flyinc Dutchman was a high-class stake horse and was considered one of the best in the We.st. As a two-year-old ho was bought by Pat Dunne from 'ol. V. I.. Simmons, of Lexington, for 515hm. Governor G. J. Toole, of Montana, has granted a pardon to Little Whirlwind, the Northern Cheyenne Indian who is serving a life sentence In the penitentiary for the murder of :t shepherd named Hoover, in Custer county, four years ago. This case Is a noted one. as the Indian Richts Association becam interested and worked for the Indian's, pardon. King Farmer, a twenty-one-year-old white man. was found dead on the Southern Iiaiiroad tracks, at Anniston, Ala., with three bullet w--unds in the body, which was badly mutilated by a freight train running over it. It I believed that Farmer was nssassinated and his body placed on the rails for the purpose of extinguishing all evidence of I he crime. The Milwaukee y.u ht Orion, built for the purpose of defending the Canadian cup. was successfully launched at Milwaukee. ye?terda. Miss Asnc.i llin.Te, sistcr-in-r.w of the builder, Pruno V. Nordber. thristcred the craft. Tho Orion is ;l f et over all. -7 feet on the load water line; draft b fee' 1' inches; extreme beam. 'J leet b lnthe ijhe will be uuirme V by a crew of hlx men. John Barrett, formerly Knited States minister to Siani. is making a campaign on the Pacific coast fr the position of minister to China In rae Mr. Conner resigns. His chief ppon. nt is ex-Minister Den by. Mr. Parrett claims to have President McKinley' promise of tho position providing lie can obtain sutricient indorsements on the coast. H has been indorsed by the Chamlers of Com inert of Seattle and Tacoma. A Ilrlde JamiTr m Pllml I. en p. CINCINNATI. June 1. -Meredith Stanley, a professional bridge jumper, while blindfolded. Jumped from the suspension bridge Into the Ohio rier this atternoon. Th-; distance from the bridge to the water be. lrw Is fifty feet. He made the jump successfully and when picked up by a row boat was none the worse for his darinjr leap. The Jump was taken to decide a small Tfiger. Kirf tit Ivniifcu City. this morning the four-story building at 413 Delaware street, in this city, occupied by George M. Shelley, a wholesale dry goo-ls merchant. Is burning and will be destroyed. At this hour the tire Is not under control, but the thick tire walls will save adjoining buildings. The probable loss will be $'0,0 0 or JTö.evo. Suicide In Prion. JOLIET. I I.. June 1. Gilbert Meiers, sentenced fronr Chicago Dec. ! last for defrauding various railroad companies, com-i-ln-! mtli.I.lu .,;. K.ir.r.. V. HIllKVl rill'.!!!"- UJ ll.lllpllif, lllllll'li In his cell, oihclnls believe he had planned ' .- u-u .ii linn in iue ar anu was sirar.gieu. WEATHER 30KECAST. rrobnbly l'nlr ThrotiKliont Indiana ' To-Pny and To-Morroiv. WASHINGTON, June 1. Forecast for Indiana, on Sunday and Monday: Frohably feir. I.ocnl Ohftcr viitloti on Snturdny. Bar. Ther. U.U. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 n. m.. 20.7.) & North. Ft. cl dy. .id 7p.m..2l.7i til 4" S'vtv-t. Clear. An) Maximum temperature, 71; minimum temperature, 54. Following is a comparative statement of ieir.rerature and precipitation for June 1: Temp. Pre. Tsormal tis .1. lean 62 .01 Departure from normal .11 Departure since June 1 .u Departure since Jan. I 371 3.1'J C. F. It. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Otticial. Yrttf nlny'ii Temperaturen.

Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Chicago, 111 is us ro Cairo. Ill 51 so TS Cheyenne. YVyo 41 ;r, Cincinnati. O :C, 70 55 Concordia. Kan 52 Si DavenjHirt. la 51 71 72 Des Moines, la Z 0 is Jacksonville. Fla 61 Kansas City, Mo M j Little F.ock. Ark 52 SO 7tj Memphis. Tenn Tvi 7S 7 Nashville. Tenn 52 7S 74 .orth Platte. Neb 4S 7S 71 Oklahoma. O. T 52 so 71 Omaha. Neb 5t m so Pittsburg. Fa "l x m Itßpld City. S. D 54 71 ft? Salt Lake City. Utah 52 7fi 72 St. Louis. Mo 80 74 Fprlngfleld. Ill SS 72 fiS Springfield. Mo 54 7S 16 .Vicksburg. Miss r. 82 75

Mny Meteorological Report. Following is a summary of meteorological conditions for Indianapolis and vicinity during the month of May: Mean atmospheric pressure. 29. S7; highest, 30.18. on the 15th: lowest. 20.53. on the 21st. Mean temperature, t;); highest. S. on thö Id: lowest. 41. on the 13th; greatest dallv range, on the 2ith; least daily ranr;e, 4, on the 2Mh. Mean pressure for the month In 1S71. ; 1S72. ; 1S73. f4: 1S7I. f.0; 1S75, 62: 1S76. M; 1S77. t:2: 1S7S. 2: 7:i. lwn, lsi. 70 ; is2. $s: Cl; 14. C2; w; VI: 1S7, 17: lv. CO: lS.vy. t: ism. C2: 1V1. ; lv2. ;0; IVU. tii; Jvül. 2; K 5. t4; lyjf,. 71. 1VJ?. lvs. 04; ly.i;, C4; Mean tempe-ature for the month for thirty-one years. average deficiency of daily mean temperature tlurlng the month. 2; accumulated delicicney of daily mean temperature since Jan. 1. 4U; average dall;.' ließe leney since Jan. 1. 2. Prevailing direction ot wind, north: total movement of wind, 6.C12 miles; maximum Velocity of wind, direction and date, 22, southwest, om the 12th. Total precipitation. 2 : i inches; number of days with .11 Inch or more of precipitation. 11. Total preeipltatlon. in Inches, for the month In 171. 1.5:; 172, 2.22; !s73. 2.V; 17I, 4.02; lv75. 5.13: lvX 3.11; 1x77. 2.0; l7s. 3 24; 3i7'J. 3.3.x; li . S 22; Ksl. 2 7s; 7 C; lvvl. 4.02; ISM. 4i; lsC. 3.i-., lvj. s.2; ti ff l&S. ATZ; Ivo. f.75; ly. 2;i; lvd. 1 11 ; ls:j t.32; li'jLl. 2.15; 1V.4. 4 F.2; lvC. l..7; 1 .-;, 35,;; U'j't. 4M1; P. 2.LJ; 2.3x; 1.. 0.14. Aver age precipitation for the month for thirtyone yearn. 4.'" Inches; total deficiency in precipitation during the month, l.fc'l inches; accumulate. 1 deficiency in precipitation since Jan. 1, 4.) Inches. Number of clear days, Smartly cloudy.

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PRAISE FOR HAMILTON

London kihtohs pm:asi:i at his IllllTAL Fit AMvNKSS. , Slinrp (rl(lclin ol tlie Mellioils of Ilrit fsili 3Ian n f act ur er Mt nation In ltiiMiu. LONDON'. June 1. Commenting on Lord George Hamilton's letter of yesterday replying to the attack of Sir Alfred Hickman In the House of Commons May 23 on American locomotives and bridse, the newspapers are unsparing In their criticism of what the St James Gazette calls the "you-be-damned" attitude of British manufacturers toward their customers. Tbc St. James Gazette applauds Lord Ilamilten's "crushing, brutal frankness in commenting on the Micawber methods of British employers and the selfish Idleness of British workmen," and, proceeding to censure the methods of trades unionists as "thoroughly and unscrupulously dishonest." the paper says It could almost wish Lord Hamilton had not promised to give preference to British firms where It is possible, as "It would be well for the future that our industrial classes learn the bitter lesson of experience." The Globe dees not hesitate to predict that unless the methods of trades unionism, as practiced in this country, are changed Americans in the next few years will beat the British trade out of the field. The Globe compliments American trades unionists on their good sense in fostering tdtlll and Industry, while simultaneously keeping up the rate of wages. AO SL'IIIOIS THUTBLK 1 IU SSIA. lien. ii. B. William Snjn IteportN from St. retcrtbnrs; Arc KxngBfcrnted. NKW YORK. June 1. A dispatch to the Herald from London says: Gen. U. E. Williams, who has been stopping at the Hotel Cecil, emphatically denies the reports that have been circulated to the effect that Russia is on the verge of revolution. In an interview he says: "To judge by the reports in the Kngllsh papers one would imagine that Russia was a hotbed of sedition, Just quivering on the brink of revolution. Now. I have visited that country periodically for many years past and have had an opportunity to see, perhaps, more than the average visitor could see, and to study the conditions of the country in a way that one can only do by intimate acquaintance. The country is as peaceable as any in the world. People ro about their business as freely as In England or America and appear to be just as little in awe of the authorities. Furthermore, as regirds foreigners, or. I should J say, Americans, there seems to be only the ; friendliest feeling. ou are everywhere rei-ceive-d kindly. 1 here is an evident disposition to do business with you on straightforward business lines. "With regard to some stories sent over the wire to the Knglish papers, there are two which I can contradict from my own personal observation. The story about unusual police precaution at the review was n myth, pure and simple. I was at the review with my wife, and came within 150 , fe-et of the spot where the Czar was standj ing. Beyond the ordinary guard of honor i there was no appearance of precaution to safeguard the Lmperor s person. Certainly there was nothing like wholesale exclusion of the public. The Czar moved around quite freely and did not appear to have the lightest distrust of any one who came near him. I have seen other royalties at similar functions, and certainly the Czar did not Hppcir any more in elanger or fear than they did. "Anotner instance of gross exaggeration was the incident tif the students at the cathedral, when, actording to the reports to London, a small sized revolution was the result. Now, I happened to be sitting in the balcony of the Nevsky Prospect Hotel at the time anei witnessed the whole Incident There was a handful of students who were expelled from the catheeiral because they would insist on smoking inside ihe church. They were expelled with as little fuss as so many young fellows would occasion, who tried to smoke inside St. Paul's. There was not the slightest disturbance, certainly nothing which would in any way be described as an erneute. Yet that trifling thing evidently was magnified into an eent which must threaten the Kusslan throne. It was all over in a few minutes." Cardinal Gibbon Itinerary. 4 HOME. June 1. Cardinal Gibbons has been feeling somewhat indisposed, and contemplated a course of the waters at Carlsbad, or Vichy, but Dr. Lapponl and. other physicians assured him there was no necessity to do so, and the cardinal will follow bis original itinerary. He will leave here about the middle of June, stay some weeks in the north of France and in Belgium and then proceed to London, where he will ba the guest of Cardinal Vaughan at the leginning of August. Cardinal Gibbons has hosts of visitors. Annrrhlstn from Amerlen. BARCELONA. June 1. It is sad that the cr. ptain general has been warned of a fore.gn Anarchist plot to kill the King and Queen Regent. MARSEILLES. June 1. It has been ascertained that the two Anarchists, one a Spaniard and the other an Italian. vh) were arrested In Madrid on suspicion of IxMns implicated in a regicide plot, arrived here as steerage passengers from America May 11. Old Salon Award to American. PARIS, June 1. The old Salon awards to Americans are: Painting, second class, rredal to II. Hartwich; third class, medal to Cm. II. Mossier. Seymour Thomas and Miss S. Watkins; honorable mention, Mrs. McMonies; sculpture, honorable mentions, Barnard and Walter. Victims of n Hint. CORl'NNA. Spain. June 1. The rioting here yesterday had more serious results than at tirst supposed. Two men and one woman were killed and the hospitals are tilled with wounded. Many arrests havi been made. The rioters used revolvers fitely. Cable XntON. Queen Draga anil King Alexander drove out together to-day for the lirst time in weeks. They were cheered by sympathetic crowds. It is stateel that the Queen Is not going abroad for treatment. J. A. Pease, Liberal, has been elected to the British Parliament from the north division of Essex, succeeding Armine WodehoUiC, Liberal, deceased. His majority was 7'.2 yeas, against a 110 Liberal majority at the preceding election. Prince George of Greece, the high commissioner, opened the session of the Cretan Assembly yesterday In the presence of the consular corps. A great demonstration was made throughout the city of Canea. The deputies passed a resolution in favor of annexation of the island to Greece. A parliamentary paper Just l?sued shows the emigration and immigration from and to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the past year were, resiectlvely, KS.S25 and G2.5o5. Sixty-one per cent, of the former went to the L'nlted states. The Immigrants were mostly Jew3 from Russia. Poland and Roumania. OPENING roil VOt.NG MEN. ced for Professional Gardener and Formten. Boston Transcript. The rejection by Superintendent Doogue or twenty men who would be gardeners In the employ of the city emphasizes the importance often set forth in thes'e columns o the tudy of forestry by young men. If there are any of them who are inclined to question the probability of getting employment after they have put considerable time and study into the profession they may easily inform themselves upon the Increase there has been In the demand for skilled gardeners, both for public and private purposes. In the last ten years. Getting this Information und adding to It the certainty that the demand will increase for a good many Keneratlons should lmpd them to regard knowledge gained upon the eubject of fe-rcstry and horticulture ns a safe Investment, even if at a great expense. Every one with u scrap of land at his command nowadays Is bent upon making it render him a few blossom, and those with acres to cultivate are possessed of the same ambition. And the number of the.se fortunato beings Is Increasing every year. Tho gar

dening fever Is spreading among corporations, too. There s hardly a dozen to le found in outlying towns who do not make some attempt at beautifying the grounds surrounding the factories. In evry case noted it will be found that each succeeding year sees a little more done a littl more ground cultivated and a little more tare bestowed upon it all. The good effect of this Improvement of unsightly places upon operatives has been observed and cbronic led ehev.hre any number of times. Th beauty of this gardening fever is the fact that once it attar k.s an individual or .1 corporation it never flies out. It Increases steadily till it reaches the limit, and lhn It preeeds to expire rliarmins' variation on old theme r. And these variations are r.ver exhausted. They never can 1-e. That's v.-by the future of professional cxrdeners and fnrf-r.fr? H sure to be brighter than even the pr-seut. SAH0AN BUDGET.

Pence Reigns ia the Gerninn Island Taxen I'nlil In Tutiilln. Ccrrcsivin.If ne.? of the Associated Tress. APIA. Samoa. May 17. The Cnitcd States warship Abarnida, with Gov. B. F. Tllley, of Tutuila. was in Apia on Sunday. May 12. and remained until the night of the 13th. During its Ftay, Lieutenant Commander Dorn assisted in the annual ceremony of placing a crown and cross of heather from ScotU-nd on the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. Mataafa has irsued a manifesto calling upoa all people to dwell in friendship and tendering his thanks to the German government for the state of peace now existing in the country. He acknowledges in the same document that his title of "Allim Sllll" (highest chief), is granted to him by the imperial German Emperor, who Is the greatest of klnRS in Samoa. Governor Solf met Malietoa In FIJI, anei has promised his people in Samoa that he will be allowed to return to his native country. The natives of Tutuila have almost completed the delivery of the copra due for district taxes. Governor Tilley will leave for the United States on tlio Venturia on May 21. MORE GUESSWORK. Supreme Court $nll to Have Another (rent Surprise in Store. CHICAGO, June 2. A special to the Record-Herald from Washington says: "The Supreme Court has another surprise In store for the country. Unless it changes its mind between now and October, the date of its next meeting, the court will decide the Philippine case in favor of the government. It will be another decision by a divided bench and upon most extraordinary grounds, to wit: "First That the United States has never declared its Intention to retain the Philippines archipelago indefinitely, and the only declaration of policy which had been made was in the other direction, looking toward a mere temporary occupation, the United States being a sort of trutee for the people of the Philippines as it was a trustee for the people of Cuba. "Second That in any event the l'nlted States, at the time the duty complained of (the fourteen diamond rings) was collected, was not in the actual possession of the Philippines, but that the United States was waging war for such possession, and such control as the United Stales had was limited to the operations of military authority." STRIKE IS OFF. Incrensc of Wa R'cn (.ranted to the I'lreinen nt Brazil. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 1. A threatened strike of all Terre Haute and Brazil street-railway employes was settled tonight by the Terre Haute Electric Company, which controls both systems, agreeing to increase the wages of Brazil riremen by July 1. J. W. Morton, president of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, was Instrumental in bavins the strike settled. HE ROOMED THE HOOK. Gen. Mct'lurK Gave "Helen' Ilahies" n Start In the World. New York Mail and Express. One of the favorite stories of the late General McClurg. head of the Chicago publishing house, was of how he started the Miccess of "Helen's Babies," which, it will be remembered, had what was considered a great run when it appeared, in the old days, in the last century. The lively little Lcok, as ail the world knew at the time, was written by John Habberton, when he was looking for something to do, and read aloud'as it progressed, to entertain a sick member of his family. When the manuscript was linlshed It was vainly peddled about among a number of publishers. At last the bookseller Le.rlng in Boston consented to publish it. but refused to pay J50 down for all rights in the book to the author, who would gladly have accepted that sum. Mr. Irlng said he would pav the 150 when the story earned it, if it ever did. , So "Helen's Babies" was published, but not pushed, und most of the rirt edition remained on the bookseller's hands for thre? months. At this point began Gen. McClurg's influence over the destiny of Budge and Toddie. He found the volume containing their early history lying on his desk one morning with a number of others, pat there for his inspection. He opened "Helen's Babies." attracted by the title. and read the dedication to the parents of the best children in the United States, "wita the hope that they will all buy and read the book." The general "bit Into the story a little," in his own phrase; then, without waiting to write a letter, put on a post-card an order for l.Ooo copies, to bo sent to Chicago at once, 5f copies to be taken unreservedly, the others to b? sent back to Mr. Loring if they remained unsold. He sent this card to his partner, Mr. Jansen, who was still living, and to their chief buyer In the great Western bookstore. Both came in to protest against this rash order, but the general laughed, and was llrm. His order wakened Mr. Loring up to a belief that there was some popular fjuallty in that little book; h- began to push it then. "in consequence," as General McClurg used to say with his courtly old-school manner, "in consequence Mr. Loring paid Mr. Habberton about J7.X) in royalties during the first year, instead of the fifty he had originally refused to pay. I remember v...cago t:ok 2.000 copies almost faster than we could get them." A POOR PAYMASTER. Our National Government Has 11 Bad .Name iu that Line. Collier's Weekly. 'I would not fell the government a box of matches without receiving the numey In advance; In some "respects this is the mott dishonest government on the face of the globe in dealing with its creditors," was the remark once made by a veteran member of Congress whose long experience on the appropriations committee had made him conversant with government methods. Any man who is familiar with treasury decisions will admit the justice of the indictment. A cuse in point is the refusal of the controller to pass the accounts of an army quartermaster who spent JG29 under the orders of his superior officer. While the army was being mobilized at Tampa, three yeurs ago, General Shafter represented to the secretary of war that International etiquette require! that he shold show some courtesies to the foreign military attaches, and he requested that $2,eo0 tie placed to his credit for that purpose. This was done, and $629 was spent in entertaining, the bills being paid by the quartermaster on the approval of General Shafter. Now comes the controller, who declares that the entertainment of foreign attaches was not a military expenditure authorized by law. and that the quartermaster must pay the bills out of his own pocket. That decision may be good law. but Is it Rood morals, or one which will redound to the credit of the United States in the eyes of forin nations? Flrt Gentleman of Europe. New York Press. "The tirst gentleman of Europe" was a nickname given to George IV, the most extravagant and dissolute of mtdern Kings Certainly he was first in rank, but it would h" sad to think that he was the most gentlemanly man of his time In feeling, manners and deportment. Louis D'Artois aIo was called the first gentleman of Europe. The epithet seriously applied to him, as he was In every respect a gentleman. The Prince of Wales wore it with easy grace an a hand-me-down, but it -its better Kins: Edward VII. who seems to have discarded sc m? of TAira-Tum'3 royal Indiscretion.

CAPT.HOWGATE'S DEATH

TIIK IIX-CAPTAIX st cc i Mns TO cru17 URAL HEMORRHAGE. Crime for Which Ho Ser"il 11 I'rlnon Sentence, After Belnvr Sought fur More Thun Twelve Yearn. WASHINGTON'. June l.-Capta!n IlenryJ w . Howgate, rormerlv disbursing omcer in the Signal Corps of the United States army, died suddenly this afternoon, ot cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in this city. He was sixty-seven years old. The name of Henry W. Howgate will be coupled, for all time, with that of Oberliu M. Carter as cne of the two great defaulters in the army of the United States. For love of Nellie Rurril, a beautiful clerkin one of the departments at Washington, he robbed the government, in his capacity as disbursing officer of the rignal service, of sums aggregating $2W'. Howgate'c crime was discovered in the summer of 1SI. and he was arrested on Aug. ('.. while at Mount Clemens, Mich., with the woman who caused his downfall. He was taken to Washington, and at his request the officer who had arrested him took him from tho train to his house, that he might remove the stains of travel before appearing before' his superiors. He. escaped from the bathroom window, and made his way 10 ar island in the Potomac, where he had provided a lod;e for himself and his inamorata, and where she awaited his coming. From there they made their way to the coast and to South America. He was not seen again by those who sought him until September of when an e x-officer of the secret service located him in NewYork, where he was keeping a second-hanu book store. He was taken to Washington, tried and convicted; served an eight-year sentence, less allowances for good behavior, in the Albany penitentiary, aud was released from prison in December of lasc ytar. , , Captain Howgate was born In England. In 12 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Twenty-second Michi? Volunteers &nd served to the end of the war with distinction, earning promotion for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of thickamauga und in the Atlanta campaign. At the close Of the war he entered the tegular army and rose to the rank of captain in the signal corps. K. It. Alderman, Editor. MARIETTA. ().. June 1. E. R. Alderman, for thirty years editor of the Marietta Register, died' at It e'clock to-night, after a lingering illness of two years. He was sixtv-two vcars of age and one of the wellknown editors of Ohio, having long been treasurer of the Ohio Editorial Association. William S. Reno, Pilot. " SALEM, O., June 1. William S. Reno, aged fifty-nine, a well-known captain and pilot on the Ohio river between Pittsburg and Louisville, died at his home In this city to-day. CONSTABLE CLOR A. A Town Officer Who Take Much ItcMpnnftibilitr on IHmnelf. Kansas City Journal. "I observe." writes a gentleman from Atchison to the Journal, "that occasionally you print something about our town constable, Mr. A. C. Clora. and that it always is of humorous or uncomplimentary character. The truth Is that right here in Atchison we have a revival of the medieval das when the lord of the soil was the lawgiver, the court and the executioner all rolleel into one. Or. possibly, a better comparison would be with King Solomon who dealt out justice according to the dictates of common sense without much respect to the letter of the law. But, comparisons aside, ww have in Constable Clora a character well worth a little serious consideration. "Mr. Clora is an eminently respectable colored citizen who two years ago was chosen to the office of constable. The law establishing a city court had limited the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to cases Involving no more than i, and therefore the opportunities for fees and emoluments to the officer of a justice court were believed to be of a very restricted character. But people who thought to dmn't know Constable Clora. His procedure upon being Installed In office quickly brought the populace to an understanding ol the fact that a constable could make himself a power in the land and incidentally gather great riches. Mr. Clora's first act was to procure a huge brass star upon which was inscribed the name of his otticial position. Then he armed himself with a gun as long as his arm and started out lor business. When he heard of .1 man who owed another man a bill he got the bill and went around with his star and his gun and promptly collected it. He scorned the unnecessary preliminaries of warrants or summonses or subpoenas from the court. When he heard of a neighborhood row lie went around and settled it. When men didn't pay their rent he went to their domiciles and threw them out in the street. Once he sot on the trail of a. man who owed $5 and was leaving town. He followed him into a Missouri Pacific passenger train and put him under arrest. And then, through tho coercive Influence of his star and gun. he made the conductor stop th train so that he might remove the prisoner. "At the city election this spring certain evil disposed persons t et up a job on Mr. Clora and secured his defeat at the polls. In fact, two other colored men were- electc-d to the office of constable by large majorities. However, they lacked considerable of having good standing in the community and were unable to give bond. So Clora went right on performing the duties of the office under the holdover clause which probably applies to the office of constable as well as any other. But the presence of the two men who had beaten him at the polls was not agreeable to him. He decided that Atchison would be better off in their absence, and it was a conclusion not disagreed with by many good citizens. So he chased one out of town for whipping his wife and the other for not paying his rent, and now remains an unchallenged possessor of the whole field. "No fair and impartial citizen of Atchison can deny that Constable Clora has been a power for great good, yet there are certain ones among us who are in constant worry over his peculiar method of comprising the legislative, executive and judicial all In one. To be more specific, 1 would mention Postmaster Jim Chisham and Mr. Frank Crowell. both of whom are on Mr. Clora's bond. They are troubled with visions of damage suits which may be brought by Clora's victims, and they would stop if they could the workings of justice along the lines which this official has chosen. However, the great body of the Atchison population stand behind Constable Clora like a living rock and look upon his stalwart form, his star and his gun as tho visible and tangible evidences of an unmixed blessing." WOMEN IN ST it E ET CARS'. Should Not Rend Papers If They NVnnt a Chance to Sit Down. New York Sun. When the young woman who works downtown got to the corner the newsboy ran after her, crying: "Want a paper, Missus?" "No." said she, "not this morning." "Isn't that an unusual attitude for you to assume toward the publishers?" asked her companion, "i thought you always read in the car." "So I always have done." said the young woman, "but I have profited by the threehundredth repetition of my experience. esterriay I bought my paper as usual. As usual the 'standing room only sign was bt ought in requisition on the car platform, tind I began my journey down town with the aid ef a strap. "No sooner had I assured myself that nobody was going to offer me a seat than I began to read. It was hard work to retain my equilibrium and probe the Eastern situation at the same time, but I persevered. I lurched and see-sawed and gyrated, but each time when straightening myself up I went at the partition, of the Celestial empire with renewed vigor. "By the time we got to Duane street I was really tired. A lady sitting down near the door noticed my exhausterl condition and remarked on my appearance to her companion. "'That woman has been standing all thj way trom Fifty-eighth street.' she said' 'Why don't you give her a seat. Joseph?' "The man grunted. 'Why should 1? ha said. Sh's J'at as able to stand as I am 1 don't mind yielding my rights to a woman who needs consideration, but 1 never did believe in making concessions to thos strong, masculine creatures who can hanqp

on to a strap and read a newspaper at the same time. Just like a man.' "Really, I don't think I ever had such a shock. It was my first Intimation that to read a newspaper in the car was considered masculine. 1 haven't read a line about th. Chinese question since. I haven't read a line of anything since. I don't know that 1 shall ever read anything again. But if I do I shall not read it In a street car." The young woman and her companion signaled a passing car. All the scats were occupied, but two men promptly arose anl invited them to sit down. Another woman not two feet distant was clinging to .1 strap, swaying dizzily to and fro. At th? same time the rend. Men looked at her occasionally, but when they saw that she was absorbed in a newspaper they seemed to think that i lie was able to lake care 01" herself, and resumed their own studious pursuits. The young woman of experience nudeed her companion. ."That poor girl has her lesson to loam." she said. "If I get a chance I'm going to give her a pointer on street-car etiquette." A.N MAL APPARITION.

A Grim Story from the Tottenham Court Ron tl. London Leader. "Dagonet," in the Referee, relates what he describes as a true London ghost story, all the details of which can be vouched tor by well-known people. "Last summer," he says, "a lady artist took a studio and bedroom in a sueet running off Tottenham Court read. "All went well until the night of Oct. 21, when In the early hours tne lady woke with a sudden start and saw a man standing at the foot of her bed. apparently washing his hands. She uttered a loud cry. The man took not the slightest notice, but continued his imaginary ablution. "The lady for a moment Imagined she was the victim of seme terrible nightmare, but when she sat bolt upright in bed and stared at the apparition she knew that she was in full possession of her senses. "She fell back paralyzed with fear. A strange fascination held her, and prevented her putting her head under the clothes. Sua tried to get out of bed and rush from tha room, but was unable to move. "So she lay in an agony of terror until the morning broke. With the first rays of daylight the figure melted away before her eyes. "Directly there were sounds of life in tho house she rose a; d di ssed and went to th landlady. She told her what she. had seen. 'Well.' said the landlady. 'I have heard people as have had the room Lefore talk about such a thing, but I haven't paid much attention.' "That was enough for the tenant. She declared she should leave the place at once. I'm very sorry,' said the landlady, "but if you do you'll have to pay the twelvemonth you've took the rooms for I can't lose my rent. Then the artist went off and saw her solicitor. "The solicitor said one couldn't plead ghosts, but he would go and see what could be done. He called on the landlady and cross-examined her. " 'I don't know what the story Is,' replied the good woman; "all I know is that everybody as has had that room has always given me notice em the morning of Oct. 22. "The name of the lady artist." adds Mr. Sims, "and the address of th haunted room are in my possession. The artist is not a nervous person. On the contrary, she is an exceedingly sensible lady, of great personal courage and strong will power. What she saw has, according to the landlady, been seen by every tenant of the room on the same date. The landlady has been in the house for twenty years. "So far as I can gather, the apparition is believed to be that of a man who is attempting to wash blood from his hands. I am trying to ascertain if at any time during the last five and twenty years this house was the scene of a murder or had among Its tenants a man suspected or accused of bloodshed." He NVan the Oldcvt Mason. Detroit Free Tress. "Funny," remarked the round-faced man who was giving a large order in a downtew n restaurant the other day, and he looked at the stranger across the tabic with a smile that invited, conversation. "Always glad to hear anything funny," with a return f-müe. "I was just reading here about a supper to the oldest Mason down in Kentucky. Ever notice it? It is an ofi paper that doesn't have Bomething about the oldest Mason or the oldest printer. Nothing surer, unless It is the weather report and the market quotations. It reminded me." "Something personal?" "Sure. You remember when they opened up Oklahoma and had a horse race sort of raffle to determine who should own the lend. Well, I was in it. That is, I wasn't in it. I had a horse that could run away from an express train, but I had never figured on the necessity of being a rider. I got away like a shot out of a gun, but inside of forty rods I took a cropper and was run over by the rest of the procession. I reached the main city thirty-six hours lato and walking lame In every joint. That very night they instituted a Masonic lodge and I was the first fellow initiated. "Three weeks later I was in Denver, dead broke and doing more guessing than a mind reader. I told a chap my story and he staked me on a limited scale. One evening while I was digesting a toothpick and studying the want column In a morning paper, he stood near by with a group of friends and one of them asked who I was. " 'Oldest Mason In a certain Territory.' was the quick response, and they all shouted. The result was a bet of $2.000. and my patron won. of course. They do things on a big financial scale there." "Was he white enough to divide?'' "Xot him. He made me take it all." Widely Read. New York Mail and Express. The authors that Miss Wilkins's Eva Loud and Fanny had read would be amazed If they could see themselves In a room together, were such a thing possible. Ours has become a great reading public, requiring hundreds of thousands tf popular novel. S. and one great reason for it is undoubtedly competition among women in keeping up with the times and one another. This extract from the May installment of "The Portion of Labor" is a whole volume of comment in itself:: "I guess we've read enough sight more than some folks that has had a good deal more chance to read. Fanny and me have taken books out of the library full as much as any of the neighbors, I rather guess." "We've read every single thing that Mrs. Southworth has ever written." said Fanny, "and that's sayin considerable." "And all Pansy's and Rider Haggard's," declared Eva. with triumph. "And every one of the Duchess, and Marie Corelli. and Sir Walter Scott, and George Macdonald. and Laura Jean Libbey, and Charles Reade, and more besides than I can think ef." That delightfully unconscious pairing of Marie Corelli and Sir Walter Scott, of Laura Jean Libbey and Charles Reade is a genuine bit of perfect satire of existing conditions in literary appreciation. NVeepiiitf Heroine. Freeman's Journal. Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, whose death has recently closed a literary career of amazing fertility, will principally be remembered by "The Heir of KcdcIyfTe'-a mid-Victorian novel, seldom read now. At one time, however, the whole feminine population of the United Kingdom was mingling Its tears with those of Amy. whom a contemporary novelist might justly have calied a "demd, damp, moist, unpleasant" sort or a heroine1. Some ten years ago a reviewer, who was holidaying at the seaside, elected to occupy his vacation reckoning up the number of Amy's tears and arrived at the sum of 269 fits of weeping. Allowing half a gill for each weep It becomes obvious that this queen of midcentury heroines must have shed, in round numbers, ninety-five quarts of tears in the course of her three volumes' career. It is computed, however, that Susan Warner's Ellen Montgomery, in "The Wide, Wfde World," exceeded this record, as the American heroine's emotions made up in violence of hydraulic pressure what they lacked in relative frequency. A Minneapolis Libel. MinneapolisTribune. Minneapolis has a centenarian of 102. but Mishawaka, Ind.. goes us a little better with a veteran of h'-, who is still in good health. His name Is Joseph Hush, and it Is stated that he lived for rlxty years on an Indiana bog farm. This r the first time we ever had reason to suppose that Indiana malaria war. a l!fe-prolorgr. liilunril I.. Carter in City. Edward L. Carter, recretary and treasurer of th-- United States Trade Exchange, of Washington. D. U.. and an attorney in the national capitil. was registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. Mr. CarUr came to Indianapolis to open a branch of the exchange, which is enlaced in the collection business. Old Hotel Man Here. S. T. 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