Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1901 — Page 3

TUE INDIANAPOLIS .TOÜRXAL, 3IOXDAT, AUGUST 19, 1901.

cDTB. l535CLl AZTt. LiJTTCRiCK PATTE riii Indianas üreatcM Dry Goods Emporium A BIG PURCHA5E Mea's.Shirtwaists Manufacturer's Loss Your Gain.

We closed from a shirt manufacturer. with a national reputation for standard qualities, all the Men's Shirtwaists he ha.l on hand. If you haven't tried Shirtwaists as yet here's your opportunity at little cost. Original prices were 1.00 to $i00. We've made three lots of them at these prices: All the $.CX) ones at OOo All the $1.50 ones at sr All the 2.00 ones at Oo Kast Aisle. Pettis Dry Goods Co. SWEET JUICY RUSSET ORANGES The flavor is indescribableexcept that it makes you think each orange you cat is the 'best I ever tasted." ASH. YOUR NEIGHBOR We. call them "Florida" russets. They are sweet, thin-skinned, heavy and juicy just like the Floridas of midwinter. They were, however, grown in California on stock grafted from Florida trees. We know you'll like them. Ask your neighbor she docs. 4V? and TOo a dozen a email price for such delicious fruit. Rather scare. First Siberian Crab Apples of season. Peck, 40c. Yon know you've been short of Jelly stock. The N. A. MOORE. CO, OROCIJHS 162 and 164 North Illinois Street. PHONES 892. FIRE AT UNION STATION CAtSED BY A CONDUCTOR'S BOX STRIKING A SWITCH LAMP. Flame Caught Floor of a Raggage Car Paen(rer Hashed from Standing Trains. While the Union Station was crowded with outgoing excursionists last night a commotion resembling a panic turnod the attention of the large crowd from its eagerness to pet nboard the- trains, toward a Are under a baggage car. As the Incoming Peoria train was pulling Into the train sheds Conductor J. I. Travis Mid a small trunk out of the door of the baggage car. In the box ho had put a lantern, cap, piles of blank paper for making out reports and a small tank of kerosene, which he used for his lantern. "When he slid the box out of the car he retained hold of it by a piece of cord. He let the trunk drag for some dlstjtnco along the walk. While he was holding the box It came In contact with a lighted switch lamp near the track. Immediately there was a great noise. The switch lamp had exploded. Relr.g filled with kerosene It soon ignited the box belonging to Conductor Travis and also the floor of the baggag car. When the people In the trains aaw the flames pour out from underneath the bagpage car some of them became frantic and rushed out of the cars, crying to the bystanders to call the tire department. Meanwhile the flames had burned to the Interior of the conductor's trunk. Everything was burned except the kerosene, which, providentially, did not Ignite. With the assistance of Patrolman Doss Schaffer Conductor Travis extinguished the blaze without the aid of the tire department. AMUSEMENTS. Annie Russell will begin rehearsals in "A Itoyal Family" to-day and will open her season In that play at San Francisco on Sept. 5. Her supporting company will include Mrs. (Jilbert, Orrin Johnson, W. II. Thompson and Lawrence D'Orsay. XXX Charles J. Boyle and his company In a musical farce, "The Star Boarder," will begin a three-days' engagement at the Park Theater this afternoon. The Holden Comedy Company in a sensational plav, The Denver Kripps," will have the stage during the last half of the week. XXX Ada Rehan is on her way home from Great Eritaln, where she has been spending the summer. Her plans for the season Include the production of a play unnamed, as yet by Martha Morton; but no date has Wen tet for the inauguration of the venture. She Is said to be recovered completely from the illness that compelled her to abandon the latter half of her tour of last season in "Sweet Nell uf Old Drury." XXX Sept. 9 Is the date fixed for the production, in New York city, of "Richard Lovelace," the rlay bought by K. 11. Sothern from Laurence Irving. The following evening Hertha Galland will begin her career as a star, ar rearing in A. E. Lancaster's dramatization of Maurice Hewlett s novel. "The Forest Lovers." Sept. 16 will be marked by th; New York city production of "The Messenger Hoy," which had a very long run in London. Jnmes T. Powers will be the virtual star of this London extravaganza. PERSONAL AND SOCIEtY. Dr. J. A. Houser and family have returned from Winona Lake. Miss Kathryn L. Wheeler is visiting her relatives in Joneshoro this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Rertermann and family have returned borne after spending several weeks on the lakes and at Huffalo. Miss Jessie Stake has returned from a visit to Columbus and Covington, O.. and will leave on Wednesday for a visit in Louisville. Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Logan and their daughter. Miss Lotta Logan, of Meridian. Miss., have returned home after a visit of tour weeks lth Mrs. Logan's mother In this city. German Day iut on u Week. Owing to the rain yesterday the exercises Incidental to the celebration of German day. to be held at Germania Park, were postponed until next Sunday. A Pioneer In Photography. Springfield Reputliean. An old photographer is dead in Roston the oldest, no d'ubt-for Ji.siah Johnson Hawes lgan tak'ng da-iri eotypes back In the 4s. and h has imw passed away l-i his ninety-fourth year. .Ml our famous folks of the past sat to Haw es. and his rhotegraphs and daguerreotypes for he revived this lost art after it had been supersededwere nrtlstir. Indeed, he was nn artist, for he painted miniature portraits until the fanvnjf Frenchman enlisted the un. and to the last of hi- work Mr. Hawes he'd the sound view that retouching negatives destroyed It di (duality and was an abomination. For fifty years ihi honest rtJsf and photi grapher was a striking f.gure In Mount Vernon Church, a Hostonian of the old and true type.

CIVIL SERVICE REPORT

iir.viKW or the work of the COMMISSION LAST FISCAL YEA II. Special Attention Directed to Several Hillen Heroiunirnilatlon as to Extension of the I.nrr. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 The United States Civil-service Commission has sent its seventeenth annual report to the President. The report gives a summary of the work done during the report year. Conspicuous space is given to a discussion of the operation and effect of the presidential rules now in force and to their administration, investigations made of irregularities and violations, and to the difficulties experienced and the suggested changes which experience shows to be necessary. An' Interesting feature of the report Is a brief history of the benefits derived by the operation of the civll-servke law since its enactment, and the commission's attitude and policy is set forth as to the greatest practical publicity concerning all matters connected with it3 work. A brief review of the recently enacted civil-service law in the Philippine islands is given, and the commission repeats Its recommendation for extensions of the classified service, makes a strong argument for a material increase of appropriation for a more adequate force of clerks and examiners, and concludes with appropriate expressions upon the death of former Commislsoners Dorman B. Eaton and Mark S. Brewer. During the year 4,7G3, persons were examined, of whom 35,025 passed. Of the number who passed 31.4J7 were for original appointment to the service, of which number y.S-SJ were appointed, the largest number ever appointed to the classified service through examination in any single year. Mention U again made of the excellent results of the operation of the amendment to the rules under date of July IT, 1S07, requiring that no removal shall be made from tne competitive classified service except for just cause and tor reasons given in writing, and only after the person sought to be removed has had notice and been iurnished a copy of such reasons ana been allowed a reasonable time tor personally answering the samo in writing, the report staling that "It Is believed that whatever honest opposition there may have been to this provision upon the part of appointing orticeis is bing dispelled by experience under its operation. When properly administered, it öfters no bar to the exercise of the power of discipline or to removals wnlcn are Justly required by the interests of the service." Tho commission directs special attention to the fact that under the provisions of the rules when any office is classified and brought within the civil-service law and rules, persons holding the positions thus classified at the time of their classification are given the same status as those who enter the service through examination and certification, and to the practice which grew up and assumed serious proportions under this condition whereby an appointing officer, anticipating the classification of an otilce. could appoint. Just prior to its classification, any person ho saw fit without examination and certification, and subsequently, upon such uppointee becoming classified by operation of the rules, he was at once eligible for transfer to other parts of the service; and it Is urged in the report that an amendment wnich the commission has submitted, or some other suitable and effective remedy, be approved. The report calls attention to the large number of positions in the internal revenue service which are excepted from the provisions of the civil-service rules, and expresses the belief that the best interests of the service require that at least all deputy collectors serving at the headquarters of the district, with the exception, perhaps, of the chief deputy, and also all deputies who have practically permanent locations at different points in the dls-trict, should be returned to the competitive classified service. The report says: "It is believed that the branch of the government charged with the Important duties of the collection of revenue should be placed upon the same business basis as prevails in the railway mall service as a result of a rigid and conscientious application and observance of the civll-3ervice law and rules." An argument Is presented In favor of fewer exceptions in the service in general. In giving a summary of the result of the investigation of alleged irregularities, including political assessments. In the Fifth internal revenue district of Kentucky, the report says: "The investigation also seemed to show knowledge and tacit approval of tho system of assessment on the part of the collector. The whole matter was submitted to the President with the recommendation for the removal of the collector and of the assignment clerk. The. matter was also submitted to the attorney general for appropriate action. The commission is informed by the attorney general that this case was presented to the grand Jury at Louisville In November, 1100, and that that body, after a most thorough investigation of the case, decided to 1 ignore the complaints." A summary of the case or the prosecution or Harry . Pates for falsely making and forging a writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States, and also that of L. D. IJass for a fraudulent use of the malls, are also given. Special commendation is given to a circular issued by the attorney general under date of Aug. 'J), VJ0, containing the following clause: "It is recommended that all officers and employes of the departments refrain from membership and service on political committees charged with the collection and disbursement of campaign funds." Recommendation is again made that the provisions of the civil-service law be extended to Include the Library of Congress and the force in the government of the District of Columbia, attention being called to the recommendation of the District commissioners to this effect. Some svstematic plan for the employment of unskilled laborers Is advised whereby these positions may be filled by persons who are competent and willing to perform laborers' duties and whereby the practice would be discouraged of appointing persons to such positions and Hslgning them to clerical and other classified duty. It Is pointed out that existing laws should be so amended as to provide for a corps of pension examining surgeons to take the place of the present local boards, such surgeons to be appointed under the provisions of the civil-service law. Recommendations to this effect are cited from the report of three members of the Senate committee on civil service and retrenchment and by several pension commissioners. An argument Is presented to show that the Interests of the service require that Indian agents should be appointed upon some system of ascertained merit and qualification. J. J. Rodriguez Honored. WASHINGTON. Aug. lS.-Secretary Hay has appointed Dr. J. J. Rodriguez, of this city, secretary of the United States delegation to the International Conference of American States to be held In the Citv of Mexico next October. Mr. Rodriguez is a lawyer and served as a special counsel to the American peace commissioners in Paris. MYRIADS OF BUGS. experience of t Sea Cnptnln Whose Cargo of ilnne Wn AUtc. PHILADELPHIA. Aug: IS. Captain Hemingway, of the American bark Antioch, which arrived in Philadelphia yesterday, after a voyage of fifty days from Montevideo, accomplished on the voyage a feat of which he is proud and which many a sea captain before him has tried and tried to do. but always without success. The Antioch Is a bone vessel, and her cargo on this voyage consisted solely of bones gathered up on the plains of South America and shipped to this country to be converted Into fertilizer. When these bones are picked up they are full of bugs, and when they are loaded into a vessel they are still full of bugs. Shortly after the loading of the vessel, however. It is the ship that is full of the bugs. They crawl from the hold out on the decks and up the shrouds and ratlines, down on the anchor chains and the anchor, too. In fact, they get everywhere, even Invading in countUss numbers the captain's cabin, where no on or nothing but a bug would ever think of venturing without permission. This oyage of the Antioch was no exception, with the single one that Captain Hemingway s cabin contained not a single bug during the entire fifty days. Therein lies the feat lie accomplished, and therein did he break the record. For, be n

known, the Antioch is the first bnne vessel to come Into the prt of Philadelphia. "How did I do It?" the captain exclaimed to the astonished quarantine and customs otlkials who boarded the bark and gazed around th interior of the cabin in amazement. "Powder regular old American bug powder. Took a supply with me when 1 went cut, and fed it to them like it hadn't cost a cent. One bite was enough for each one of the first batch that came through the door. They all turned tall and skedaddled' out of the cabin aa if they had been sent for in a hurry. 1 don't understand the hug language, and can't say for sure, but I'll bet that parrot over there and that monkey you see sunning itself out on the capstan that they told all the other bugs. Anyway, not another fine ever poked its face inside the cabin on the whole voyage. Never had such a good time in my life." In addition to the bug powder. Captain Hemingway used up a keg of arsenic and seven barrels of lime in the hold of his vessel to keep the bugs within proper bounds as to numbers. Made into a whitewash, the combination killed off millions. "Put there are still a few millions left." sententiously declared the captain, as he glanced at a small army trying to eat up an anchor chain. "It's hardly possible to clean 'em up entirely." BUFFALO'S ATTRACTIONS.

Programme for the Week at Hie Imposition -Firemen to Parade. HUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 1!. The PanAmerican Exposition will be the Mecca for firemen from all parts of the country this week. More than eighty companies have thus far signified their intention to attend the demonstration. The opening event will be the annual convention of the Firemen's Association, of New York, which will convene on Tuesday. The convention will continue through Wednesday evening. Thursday and Friday will be devoted to prire drills and parades. Michigan will celebrate Tuesday at the exposition. Gov. A. T. Rliss and the members of his staff arrived in Huffalo this evening and will remain In the city until the end of the week. Wednesday, the list, will be celebrated by the people of Louisiana, and also as Hamilton day by the citizens of Hamilton, Ont. Aug. 22 on the exposition calendar has been set aside as Syracuse day. Mayor McGuire will head a large delegation to do honor to that citj. Gov. J. Höge Tyler and staff, of Virginia, will be here on Friday, the 5d. to celebrate Virginia day. This day will also be known as Mohawk valley day, which will be made particularly Interesting by the A. A. IT. gymnastics which will take place in the Stadium in the afternoon. THEORIES OF TRADE UNIONISM. Some of the Mistakes of Labor Kindly bat Forcibly Discussed. Commercial West. The honest workingman of this country is to be respected always. There is dignity In labor whether it be at the anvil or the manager's desk, whether It be in a coal mine or In the office of the railway president. We live by our Industry and we should be left free to lind our place in the world, unhampered by organizations that destroy individuality and stop individual development. There is a contest In this country at the moment that is said to threaten the permanency of labor organization. The honest workingman is told that his interests stand or fall as the principle of labor union organization stands or falls. It is not so. Tho workingmen of this country have lost more money than they have gained through the "trust" form of labor unions. The most they have asked for in the waj- of wage increase would not. if granted, equal the amount of money they have lost as a result of ill-timed demands that have grown out of a wrong theory of organization and ended In expensive strikes. It is a common defense for unionism that capital organizes, therefore labor must organize. There is no parallel here. Capital never organizes at the expense of the Individual; labor always does. It is a most striking fact that of the rich men and the statesmen of this country nearly every one began life as a poor boy. Had these men belonged to unions that draw hard and fast lines as to what shall and shall not be done It Is not too much to say that none of them would ever have been heard of In their present fields of employment. The theory of the labor union is wrong because it ties the ability of the ambitious workingmen to the level of a worthless fellow , who does not care for work and who has no desire to rise. The man who stops work because it Is 6 o'clock will never be president of a railroad company. And the labor union says we shall work by the clock. It is a wrong theory. Every man has a right to lindt the hours of his work, but he has no right to limit the hours of another person. If this is done labor loses Its dignity and men become machines. This Is kindly criticism, not denunciation. The best workingmen of this country are in the unions, and for this reason union labor Is to be preferred, but from the standpoint of the workingman the labor union, as conducted, is a drag upon his earning capacity. Hence If the contest between the United States Steel Corporation and the Amalgamated Association brings loss to the latter It will not mean that labor has suffered a defeat. . It is right for labor to have an organization that will accomplish a right end. It is right that hours of labor should be limited so that workingmen will not suffer at the hands of an unreasonable employer, but not at the expense of individual ambition. It is not right for a labor union to say that a man shall not work because to do so Is to exercise arbitrary power such as no "trust" has ever attempted to enforce. Labor has nothing to lose by the downfall of tyranny In its organization. Men receive the highest wage in this country when they stand in the relation of Individuals to their employer. It Is organization that Is holding back the workingmen in this country. It has taken good living from them in England: it is threatening to do it in the United States. The employers of labor arc not, as a rule, the enemies of those who work for them. The salary of the union man is never raised to him as an individual, because he has fixed a salary for himself. Jfence the man who Is worth $5 a day receives only $3, because a "rule" fixes that as his price. It Is labor's great mistake that this is so. WORK HIS MOINKY TO SIIRKDS. Mr. Plummer Effort to Redeem Ills nrother'n Mutilated Savings. Washington Special to St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The Treasury ITepartment to-day received a package of nu tilated bank notes from J. M. Plummer, of Fairview. (). T.. with ihe tequest that they be redeemed after their denominations have been determined. Mr. Shriner, who is in charge of the redemption division of the department, says this is the third packane of bills which has been received from Mr. Plummer, and the department has thus far redeemed nearly a thousand dollars' worth of them. The bills are in a complete state of dilapidation. The package which rime in to-day was supposed to have nearly four hundreds dollars in It. and Mr. Plummer explains that the bills are the property of his brother. Some of the notes are only little pieces the size of a collar bution. and these cannot be redeemed, as the department must be civen enough of each bill to determine with the ue of magnifying glasses the denomination of the note, its number and the time of issue. in the arhdavits which have accompanied the packages Mr. Plummer states that the money was the picperty of his grandfather. He carried ail of the bills about with him for a number of years in a leather bag, seldom or never opening It. The bills were subject to moisture at times, and the friction to which they were subjected while he was walking about gradually ground them to pieces. The letter sent to the department indicates that Plummer has a number of the fragments still in his possession. He has been noti.ied to send all he has to the department, ami they will be redeemed if the government experts determine that they are ull ger.uine and there are suf-ck-nt pieces to establish t he identitv of each note. The fragments have apparentlv been divided among the different heirs, but the government will insist that all be ttnt In. Essential to Xittionnl "Welfare. Topeka State Journal. Thomas M. Robertson, an expert of the United States IJureau of Labor, who has been in New York investigating teturnenthoue conditions, is quoted as saying: "If I could talk to Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller I would ask them to keep their money away from libraries and away from colleges, and to imtld model tenements. I would see no college endowed and not a book given to a library until the people had homes." Many persons can bo lound who will agree with Mr. Robertson.

MUCH TANGLED AFFAIR

MOIti: IICillT X THE MANOR LIMI1CII COMPANY TROUBLE. tiinrsm Mnric by Cross Said to lie the Outgrowth of Albright's Transactions. CINCINNATI. Aug. 1?. It is stated here that the suit brought in Baltimore yesterday by Ben W. Cross, of Cincinnati, for a receiver for the Manor Lumber Company, is an outgrowth of the recent troubles of S. D. Albright, former president and treasurer of the American Hardwood Company, for which C. E. Cockran was recently appointed as receiver here and at Nashville. Albright is still In Jail here, charged with embezzling JSO.OOQ from his company, and he is unable to give 53,000 bail. Albright is a lumber man from Michigan. One of his daughters was the bookkeeper for the company In Cincinnati arul the other daughter was the bookkeeper of the office In Nashville, and It is charged that Albright credited himself in both offices with funds belonging to the company. Cross 13 a son-in-law of Albright, and there is a fight between Albright and Charles E. Cockran, the promoter of the scheme by which the American Hardwood Company, with other lumber companies, was merged into the Manor Company. Mr. Cross was seen here to-night, and his statements simply corroborate the allegations In the Associated Press dispatches from Baltimore last night. He says Cockran has recently been doing a large business with the paper of his different companies and that the report of Receiver Yellott will how some startling disclosures. C. E. Cockran how has charge of the offices of tho American Hardwood Company here and of the yards at Knoxville, Nashville and elsewhere, and It Is conceded, at least until yesterday, that he had the best of It in his controversy with Albright, Cross and others. Among the entries in Albright's books was one item of $5.0"0 with which he credited himself for "financiering the concern." It was alleged that Albright drew check3 against himself and then charged them to fictitious names. When C. E. Cockran as receiver succeeded Albright in charge here and examined frte books the former made the affidavits on which the latter was arrested. AS TO SLAVERY. Kinds of Servitude Other than That of Compulsory Labor. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. A gentleman who has spent a good while in Mexico tells the press that slavery exists in the sister republic to a large extent, not only on the old haciendas of feudal origin, but in mines and other enterprises where native labor Is employed. Slavery of some sort may be found almost everywhere. German princes who hired out their soldiers to other nations were not any more slave owners than are many others to-day. Cecil Rhodes, for Instance, who goes to a Kaffir chief with a fabricated demand for damages, which he compromises by accepting the services of S.Ooo or 10.000 of the chiefs tribe to work in his mines for a few cents a day, and for a period of years. Is as much a slave owner as Is any savage chief in the wilds of South Africa. Conditions make most of us slaves. Who, Indeed, really possesses freedom? How many are there who are not performing involuntary labor? Who among us can do just what he wants or who dares do other than what he must? Of the slavery of the Mexican peons It must be admitted that it suits them. It Is the best form of service. The peon is violently opposed to motion of any sort, and will not work unless he must. A goat to give him milk, a sack of meal to furnish him tortillas and an adobe house the size and something the shape of a farmer's bake oven is all he wants. He will doze his life away until aroused by the pangs of hunger. He will go In debt with no Idea of ever paying, and can be made to pay only when some such law as the old hacienda law Is invoked. So long as he works ho fares well in the matter of food, and his health is good. He is no longer a burden to society and a parasite on the thrifty and producing. Did he do enough work voluntarily to purchase the small necessaries which are required to satisfy nature, and with a friarly contempt for all forms of luxury and surplus, pass the rest of his time In contemplation, he would be a true philosopher, but his Inertia is such as to cause him to suffer from hunger and filth. His slavery is. therefore, enforced libertv, the liberty to live decently, and while sentimentally slavery is abhorrent, rractlcally it Is far from being the worst of conditions for certain classes. Who will say that the thousands of Idle and vicious men and boys, white and black, and women, for that matter, who may be seen loafing around towns and cities would not be infinetely better oft In slavery? They would Toe compelled to do useful work which would improve their morals, and they would be compelled to keep regular hours, avoid stimulants, eat wholesome food and escape exposure, which would Improve their health. No doubt they would complain bitterly and fancy themselves badly treated, as do vagrants who are put on the rock piles and chain gang, but any competent Judge would pronounce them much better off. There would probably be not one among them who would not extract as much good out of life as comes to the average freeman. It is safe to say that less suffering would be endured than comes to the laborer In big cities who is called free. Slavery Is a condition of society, moreover.' All men are more or less slaves to each other or to themselves. Only the hermit or anchorite who removes himself from the eyes of men is approximately free. The sense of freedom so much praised and enJoyed is a pleasing delusion. Few are free. J. P. Morgan Is as much a slave as any man that ever pulled an oar in a Roman galley. And with all his millions he Is desperately poor and pressed. He struggles not only to achieve, to accumulate, but also to ovoid destruction that constantly lurks In his path. He Is so poor, that he could not afford to die at present. He Is a slave to environments as trying and cruel, as despotic and Imperative, as the scourge of any taskmaster. Carnegie is a slave to effort, and he can no more resist Its appeals than a peon can resist the will of his master. He spent years of fret and fever in piling a lot of dollars together. Now he is throwing them away, like the child on the sea shore with the shells. A pleasant sort of slavery, most people will think. Not so. In the strenuous life the sense of enjoyment is atrophied. The temperate workman who labors without drudgery enjoys life much more. There are numerous forms of slavery that impose their hard conditions upon people who are not strong enough to resist them. Physical infirmities, mental obliquities and moral distempers are all Legrees, . more tierce and insatiate than the one painted by Mrs. Stowe. These Imprison, scourge and pierce, and from them there Is no escape. Some of them add to physical suffering more exquisite and poignant mental tortures. Those in whom the simply virtues abide, who are blessed with health, a contented mind and a tranquil disposition are free, though manacled in a Peruvian mine: those who lack health, who have lost spiritual control of themselves, who ar constantly bruising themselves against hostile environments, who are dominated by evil habits or who famish for the beautiful and rapturous Impossible, are slaves, though seated on thrones and ordering empires. We bestow all our compassion not wisely on the Mexican peon and the African Kaffirs. There are others whose bit Is Infinitely less towardly. Cnrlons nnd Disastrous Tandem. Detroit Free Press. The procession moved easterly through Pitcher street. It consisted of a boy, a bicycle and a big mule. The boy was on the bicycle and conscientiously trying to lead the mule by a rope. The mule was apparently absent-minded and took no Interest In the boy's plan. Because of this the mule frequently stopped short, the result being that the boy and the bicycle would go down In a tangle and have a catch-as-catch-can until the breakaway. The mule would look abstractedly ahead while the boy said intense things, but side-Jump with the agility of a rabbit when the lad tried to give him the rope's end. Then the procession would organize and move again, the boy looking as though he had been riding under a street sweeper and the mule looking like a philosopher. The boy had gone down nine times In one block, one particular yark taking him straight over backward with the bicycle on top and a clear winner of the fall. When they struck th asphalt at Cass

it acted like the rowels of a Mexican spur to the mule. His eyes brightened, his ears stiffened and he responded to Git ep. Pete, you dog-gone Ice wagon." as though he were a bangtail at the post. The procession became a streak ahead of a dust cloud. The mule was doing the leading and seemed to lo?e no time by throwinsr his heels at the tree tops. The boy burg on to the rope, frantically yelling "Whoa. Pete, whoal" Hut Pete was going for a record. Three dogs and numberless txjys joined the flying procession. Excited men and women called upon the boy to let go. A policeman went after him for scorching, and the best that an automobile could do was to run for third money. The procession disbanded in what looked like an explosion up by the rear of the D. A. C. grounds. The mule had returned to his spc-11 of absent-mindedness and stood with four feet through the wheels of the bicvcle. The boy hail gone against the high board fence with the usual kind of a thud, but was soon up begging the policeman to shoot the mule. A FIND OF WAR RELICS. .

Many Articles Taken from the Wreck of the Royal Savage. Burlington Free Press. The greatest find of relics ever known on Lake Champlaln was made Wednesday afternoon by J. G. Falcon, of Evanston, 111., and a force of men who have been employed for some time by the city water works. Mr. Falcon is a diver of much experience, and has devoted some time to searching for relics and doing all sorts of work under water. He completed his work for the city several days ago, but upon being Informed of the location of the schooner Royal Savage, which was sunk south of Valcour island in 1776, he determined to investigate the wreck, and. If possible, secure some relics. With a force of men, a barge with derricks and all equipments for the work, he went to the Island Wednesday afternoon. When he reached the bottom of the lane in about twenty feet, of water he discovered the well-defined outlines of the schooner. He found three gun carriages, a quantity of cannon balls and some smaller articles. With the aid of the derrick the relics were hoisted to the barge and brought to this city. The three gun carriages are the most Interesting parts of the find. Although much eaten by rust and damaged by action of the water, they still retain their original form and appearance. They are constructed of wood and Iron, and In many places the wood Is eaten away until there is hardly enough left to hold the structure together. The wood is now partially petrified and Is almost as solid as rock. The iron bars and bolts of the carriage are corroded and covered with large bunches of rust, some of them being nearly as large as a man's, fist. The carriages are two feet high, three feet wide and four feet long. They weigh In the vicinity of 200 pounds each. One of the carriages has been given to the city of Burlington by Mr. Falcon, but the other two were boxed yesterday and shipped to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Mr. Falcon spent about two hours in search of the relics, and aside from the carriages secured about thirty cannon balls and shot. Among them were chain shot, bar shot, grape shot and solid shot. He also secured a rib of the boat and some rigging. It is his intention to make another visit to the spot where the boat was sunk, and. if possible, get some more interesting relics. A large number of people gathered at tho dock yesterday to see the relics. Although several previous attempts have been made to get portions of the wreck they have been unsuccessful with one or two exceptions, when small articles, such as a few shot and small pieces of wood from the boat were taken. From a historical standpoint the find is a most valuable one, and further developments may lead to the discovery of the papers of General Arnold, which were lost at the time of the battle. The schooner Royal Savage was destroyed In the campaign of 1776. During that summer the British were busily engaged in preparing a fleet for lake service. Three boats were launched at St. Johns. The Americans were also actively employed at the other extremity of the lake In preparation to oppose the threatened invasion. The superintendence of the construction of the fleet was confided to General Arnold. By the middle of August Arnold was prepared to take the lake with a naval force carrying fifty-five guns, seventy-eight swivels and manned by :i'.n men. His fleet consisted of the slooo Enterprise, the schooner Liberty and gondolas New Haven, Providence, Boston, Spitfire and Philadelphia, After several small engagements between the Americans and Canadians and Indians the fleet was anchored on Sept. 23 in the channel between Calcour island and the main shore. His fleet had been Increased and numbered fifteen vessels, mounting eighty-four guns. The British force was twenty-nine vessels, mounting eighty-nine guns. At 8 o'clock on Friday morning. Oct. 11, the English were discovered passing Cumberland Head with a strong north or northwest wind, and bearing in the direction of Crown Point, toward which it was supposed Arnold had retired. As the English appeared In sight off Cumberland Head General Waterbury went on board the Congress galley and urged that they should Immediately set sail and fight the enemy in retreat on the broad lake; but Arnold declined at that hour to change his line of defense. Captain Tringlc was some distance ahead of Valcour when he first discovered the Americans. He Immediately changed his course toward the island with a view to engaging them, but found great difficulty In bringing any of his vessels into action. About 11 o'clock, however, the gunboats were enabled to creep to windward and take a position to the south of the American fleet, when they opened fire upon the Royal Savage, which, with the galleys, had advanced a short distance In front of the line. The British schooner Carleton soon afterward came to the assistance of the gunboats. The Royal Savage sustained the fire of the British fleet for some time and until her masts were crippled and much of her rigging shot away. She then attempted to return tthe line, but, running too far to leeward, grounded near the southwest point of the island and was abandoned by her men. who succeeded In reaching the other boats In safety. At night the British boarded the schooner and set fire to her. The battle resulted in a victory for the English and almost total destruction to the American fleet. The hull of the schooner Royal Savage lies on the spot where she was sunk. The upper timbers can yet b seen during low water In the lake. Arnold's papers were on board the schooner and were lost. "HOMEOTELEUTON Ingenious Experiments Tith the Vernacular of Description. New Bedford (Mass.) Standard. "Sampson is a pedagogue; Schley is a demagogue." Into these words the Brooklyn Eagle puts the sum and synopsis of Its comparative estimate of the two men, and its philosophy of the conflict which has arisen between them. It is a very clever way cf stating the case, as we must admit when we undertake to substitute synonyms and definitions for the words which the Eagle uses. If the Eagle had said: "Sampson is a schoolmaster; Schley is a man who seeks to Influence the people by panderrng to their passions," it would have made no hit as a coiner of vigorous characterization. The "gogues" do the business in this case, neatly and with dispatch, under the guidance of a discriminative ear. The trick, so to speak. Is one which is not commonly used in English proee composition in these days, though there have been some good examples of it occasionally. In the terms of the text-books on rhetoric It Is described as "homeoteleuton." which Is the reverse of alliteration, and. as we need not tell our readers, is commonly known as rhyme. With a little attention the device is easy to manage. Any number of variations of it. most of them having as much meaning as that adopted by the Eagle, and all of them equally well sounding, may be manufactured. Here are a few: Sampson is nn Instructor, Schley is a destructor; Sampson Is a sycophant. Schley is a mendicant; Sampson is a sorcerer. Schley Is a sophlster; Sampson Is a cormorant, Schley is a combatant; Sampson is a sorcerer. Schley is a loiterer; Sampson is a mastiff. Schley is a caitiff; Sampson is a brag. Schley is a wag; Sampson is a flatterer, Schley is a matterer; Sampson is an opinlonator, Schley is a depopulate Sampson is an alchemist. Schley is a humorist; and so on. and so on, and so on. We do not put forth these samples as expressions of opinion concerning the two men. but merely to show what can be done In this direction by the partisans of either. The list might be extended almost indefinitely by resort to the adjectival method of description. Thus: Sampson Is vitriolic, Schley is apostolic; Sampson Is chronic. Schley is tonic; Sampson is peculiar. Schley is familiar; Sampson Is idolatrous. Schley is miraculous; Sampson is fantastical. Schley is theatrical; Sampson 1 linguaclous, Schley is procaclous. What do they all mean? Most of them mean exactly as much as the Eagle's "Sampson is a pedagogue, Schley is a demagogue."

FORMATION OF PARADE

GRAM) MARSHAI5 IXSTIUXTIO! TO KMGHTS TEMPLARS. Triennial Conclave TnKeant Will Contlut of Twflrr Cirnntl UUUinn lndlaiiians in the Fourth. LOl'ISVILLE, Ky.. Aug. IS. Major John 11. Leathers, who will be grand marshal of the parade which inaugurates the festivities of the triennial conclave of Knights Templars in Ixniisville Aug. 21. Issued tonight his final general orders to every grand and subordinate commanJcry in the I'nited States outlining the formation of the pageant. Twelve grand divisions, exclusive of the special escort of honor to the officers and members of the grand encampment, will form the parade. Pennsylvania. Illinois, Indiana and the District of Columbia will have enough "swords" in line to form grand divisions composed exclusively of knights from these States. The line will be as follows: First Grand Division Templars from the grand and subordinate comma deries of Massachusetts, Rhode Island. New York, Virginia, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Right Eminent Sir Winthrop Messenger, grind commander of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, will be chief marshal and Eminent Sir John D. Munroe, chief of staff. Second Grand Division Ohio and Maine, with Right Eminent Sir Arthur B. Foster, grand commander of tho former State, chief marshal and Eminent Sir Thomas Kite, chief of staff. Third Grand Division Pennsylvania, chief marshal. Right Eminent Sir Thomas F. Penman, grand commander, and his chief of staff, Eminent Sir Wilson I. Fleming. Fourth Grand Division Indiana. Right Eminent Sir Leonldas P. Newby, grand commander, chief marshal, and Eminent Sir John L. Rupe. chief of staff. ' Fifth Grand Division Texas. Mississippi and Michigan, with Right Eminent Sir F. M. Gilbough, grand commander of Texas, chief marshal, and Eminent Sir Lewis Cass Goodrich, of Michigan, chief of staff. Sixth Grand Division Illinois, Right Eminent Sir Charles Philo Kane, grand commander, chief marshal, and Eminent Sir Ilolman Green l'urlnton. chief of staff. Seventh Grand Division California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Georgia, Right Eminent Sir George Butterfield McKee, grand commander of California, chief marshal, and Eminent Sir John Tonningsen, chief of staff. Eighth Grand Division Missouri, Alabama and Louisiana, with Right Eminent Sir Ira V. McMillan, past, grand commander of Missouri, chief marshal. Ninth Grand Division Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas. Maryland. Nebraska and Arkansas, commanded by Right Eminent Sir Graham Dukehart, grand commander of Maryland, chief marshal, and Eminent Sir Edward C. Regester, chief of staff. Tenth Grand Division West Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina, South Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Montana. Wyoming, North Dakota, Arizona. Florida and Indian Territory. Chief Marshal will be Right Eminent Sir John K. F. Steele, grand commander of West Virginia, and Right Eminent Sir Z. T. Walrond, of Indian Territory, chief of staff. Eleventh Grand Division District of Columbia, with Right Eminent Sir George Gibson, grand commander, as chief marshal, and Right Eminent Sir William T. Galliher, past grand commander, chief of staff. The Louisville KInghts Templar? have assurances that Rear Admiral Schley will come to Louisville long enough to participate In the parade, reports from Washington to the contrary notwithstanding, and a special place of honor in this division has been reserved for the naval officer. The twelfth grand division will include all the mounted commanderies. Right Eminent Sir R. P. Ilurlbut, of California, acting as chief marshal, and Eminent Sir A. F. Gllfilan chief of staff. The men will march in double sections, twelve files front, and the carriages will be three abreast Cnlifornlans En Ronte. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Most Eminent Sir Rueben H. Lloyd, accompanied by one hundred Sir Knights of California Commandery, left here in a special train to-night for Louisville to attend the twenty-eighth triennial eonclavo of the Knights Temnlars. The pilgrims will make stops at Ogden, Salt Lake, Denver and Omaha. The special train includes two relrigcrator cars filled with fruit and wine. GREAT NAVAL STATION. Charleston, S. C, to lie tne Seat of Great Government Works. Baltimore Herald. Admiral Endicott tells the- Charleston News and Courier that a great naval station is to be built at Charleston. Said he: "Such a naval station as we propose to construct at Charleston cannot be built and completed in a day, a month or a year," said the admiral. "We propose to build the largest and most complete drydock the United States navy has ever had, and it will, of course, take considerable time to get it In readiness for the reception of the great warships which may be sent there." That Charleston would ultimately become a great naval rendezvous the admiral never doubted, and, while he was unable to estimate the entire amount of money that would probably be spent here before the navy yard and the torpedo station were completed, he was confident that it would be well up in the millions. In speaking of the recent charts made of the harbor and entrance through the Jetty channel the admiral expressed himself as pleased with the showing made, and said that it would be very necessary that this work go on, and that a wide and deep channel be maintained. The engineers have clearly demonstrated that this can be done and Is a practicable and very possible condition. The channel Is constantly being improved, and every bit of work done within the past year has been proved permanent and satisfactory. The dredge Charleston, which has done such good work within the past few years, will soon be reinforced by the arrival of a new and more powerful dredge, and the two will work in conjunction for the betterment of the channel. The test of time has been applied to the Jettiee themselves, and they are proving their durability and steadfastness. No appreciable changes have occurred In the long stone walls that force the waters through the jetty channel. Admiral Endicott talked pleasantly ani Interestingly of the future of Charleston, and expressed the most sanguine hopes for its great prosperity and advancement. He not only talked of the navy yard and the things Immediately connected with that great project, but also spoke of the army post on Sullivan's island. "The fact that the garrison on Sullivan's island is to be enlarged and the fortifications there increased." he said, "shows that the army and navy are working together for the mutual protection of the Interests of the government involved in the very valuable plant connected with the naval station. You can readily understand that it is necessary to fortify and protect a large naval establishment in Charleston harbor." At the conclusion of the Interview the admiral Is quoted as saying: "We are polng to put up a station there which will not only be a very attractive feature lor Charleston, but it will also stimulate and benefit the commerce of that port, and at the same time be a great credit to the Nation." Certainly Charleston people can afford to believe that the morning of a new day is beginning to show bright above the horizon. With the finest and best navy yard in the great establishment of the United States in view, the grandest and most beautiful harbor on the American continent, a lare and handsome army post on Sullivan's Island, the city nnd harbor guarded by the most up-to-date and perfect system of fortification and by the permanent station here of a large portion of the torpedo fleet, with the government at work in the most scientific way toward making the entrance to the harlxir' the deepest as well as the best, what Charlestonian need be ashamed to answer the question that will be put to him by the thousands of visitors who will come here next fall to visit the most picturesque and Interesting exposition ever Field anywhere? A DYlltes Conscience. Philadelphia Record. , D. Ferpuson. the produce merchant, yesuruiy. i came in' a rrmarRaoiP mst.tnce of the power of the still, small voice the other day. and the stranRe part of k is that the aforesaid still, small voice in this case is Just now getting in lta Ace work.

alter a Fllence of twenty-seven yar. Th.re is a min from the Yt in Philadflhi 1 could tell you hi name, but, perhp.. it wouldn't be fair who t going aro.jnd among the romrnl'.Mnü hou- along the water front Kettling old debt thai rave long le--ri outliwfd- Twenty-.even year .mo he was In business and failed 'busfej up compl Uiy. Thn he disappear 1. and nothing whs heard of Vim until tti othr t'.ay, when he turned up and han to m:ke inquiries regarding lii Indehtcdnc to various tirms. Most of li's bill ha'l been small, and for several lays he ha been k;i busy 1 '.'tying" them. Most of the houses to whhh he owed money have n? out of bu.-ines. and In these Instap.ee he has endeavored to lxnte the luirs of his former creditors. He is a comparatively rich nian now, and hi. homo is in Chicago. Some time nto hi wife came under the spell of Dowie. tri '.'Ann r-.an. and was converted to his belit-f. The hu.-band thl man who fai!d twenty m vt ii yars ago also wanted to Join ih Zionists, but he told of hU past Jfe. and it was stipulated that not until he nid liquidated all his old lebt coui 1 he affiliate himself with the elect. So tht is the real secret of his presence In I'hiladilphia. Queer sort of a circumstance, isn't it?"

REACHING FOR CUBA. t nnndlnn Will IhercUr irrat Inda dice There. W. G. Nicholas, In New York Telegraph. Sir C. Van Home and Senor Quesada, the Cuban patriot, and next best friend of Ceneral Palma, arc seen together frequently in and about Wall street. The gentleman first named Is one of the giants ot finance, and as president of the Canadian Pacific he is known on two continents. II makes his headquarters in New York and is a familiar tigure in the financial district. Mr. Van Home and a selected company ot friends are building a railroad In Cuba, th line extending from one end to the other and having many branches and feeders. That is to say, the line, when completed, will be as described. Down to date the. project is largely on paper so far as actual construction is concerned. The Van Horn party has. expended several million dollars, however, in real money In the acquisition of rights of way and the purchases of land for terminals und such other purposes as may be demanded In the creation vt a paying enterprise. Reing tirst on the ground. Mr. Van Horn and his associates have secured the cream and have pre-empted about everything desirable In rights of way on the Island. Long exi?rience in conducting the Canadian government as an anex of the Canadian Pacliic Railroad has educated th Van Home party to the advantages of establishing nnd maintaining friendly and Intimate relations with the central official authorities, and from tho fact that th head of the Cuban enterprise is already on terms with the two men who will probably exert a commanding influence In framing the new Insular republic. Wall street is satisiled that no time Is being wasted in making connections. Havana advices have all along intimated that the Canadian influence has been potent in molding certain provisions of the. Constitution, especially those relating to taxation and the conferring of franchises, but until now no special notice has been taken of the further fact that the Canadian Pacific party also may desire to have the naming of the tlrst Iresident of the, republic and launching the government along proper lines. Wall street may bo Jumping to hasty and wrong conclusions, but It has made up Its mind that the Van Home party Is behind the movement to make Palma President and Queeda premier of the republic at the start off. If the street has guessed right, then it would appear that Cuba, while under the, protection of the I'nited States as a government, is likely to become really a province of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and under the financial management of lower Manhattan. In this arrangement It Is to b presumed that the sugar trust has been consulted, as several millions of sugar money is under contract to go into Investment there. How would a background ticket go reading this way: President Sir W. C. Van Horn. Vice President H. O. Havemerer. The Cuban Constitution could pmvid that Its government might be composed of nonresidents who could have authority to put on substitutes when it is inconvenient to attend personally to tho duties of th offices. POOll CA It LOTTA." Improbable Tnle . ConcernlngthT Cause of Her Insanity. - New Orleans Times-Democrat. The story of the insanity of the Empress is one ot the most fascinating chapter of history. It Is generally supposed that she lost her mind from grief, but thh Is not tho case. She does not know that her husband was killed. Sho never did know that her husband had been killed. She was mercifully spared that atTlictlon, and after all that she had endured and ruffcred In that strango country, the sending of her mind out Into the waste places was an act of positive charity. When the news camo that Maxmlllin had indeed been executed thero was great sorrow at the palace. Everybody there loved the Empress, and each and every cno shrank from the duty of informing her that her husband was no more. Finally it was decided to Intrust the tafck to the faithful Mexican maid who had been the intimate of the Empress sine her entry into Mexico. This maJd loved her mistress beyond expreftlon. and h v culi rather have committed suicide than to have been the bearer cf any such news. The Emperor's death was to her a personal yt rrow, and she knew ho.r much more it would weigh ou a strange woman in a strange land. So she thought of a remedy for sorrow that the Mexicans have used for hundreds of y-irs. She went to the old Looks and to the old medicine men. and bhe found that h tea prepared from th beans of the coffee plant, not the regular coffee plant, but the weed which grows In Louisiana and the other Southern States and which Is known as the coffee plant would produce cblivion. She procured a Mipp'.y of tho beans and gave the tea to the Empress, and the Empress drank it. Three or four hcurs after the Empress be gun to sink Into a coma. The doctors wer summoned, but they did not know the nature of the malady. They thought 6he had succumbed to the shock of tho announcenent of the death of her husband. Then there came the gradual loss of memory, and Anally memory was almost gon. All that she knew was that he had been ths wife of Maxmtllan, and that they had been very hnppy. it was In this condition that she was removed to rtelalum, where her brother Leopold, the present King of th Relgians. found asylum for htr. All sh remembers now is the days when sh was with her husband and they were at Miramar. and after that when she walked throuah the thrrncroom as Queen with her loved one at her side. And it Is better so. It is better that cne of the great actors in one of the gieat tragedies of history fhould know nothing about it. If she hat been spared the mercy of death, it is weih perhaps, that she has been given the mercjr of forgetfulness. Since those days there has not been an Austrian minister in Mexico, but last year the Mexican government Invited the government of Austria to erect a memorial tablet over the rlace wher Maxmlllan snd Mlramon and Mejla met their deaths. Ths Austrian government graciously availed Itself of the courtesy, the tablet was erected, and this led to the resumption of diplomatic relations. Fable of the I'nhle Makers. Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. One unluckv day a Lot of More-or-lest talented Scribblers most of them Less, got together and sali. "Oh. let's all write Fable.:" So they drew out their muchgnawed Pencils and their grimy Tablets, and Set to Work. They Chuckled as they wrote because they knew they were FO awfullv cleer all except two of them. They Giggled being built that way. torne of them Toiled with thHr Fet lr the (luttfr, so that they mlsht Absorb the Slang of the Street. Others set up phop near the Kennels and the Stys. In order to get the true Animal atmo?pher Into their inimitable brochures. When all the Alleged Fables wer finished they w re passed around from Hand to Hand. Everybody took a lock at what everybody else bd written and there was but one s-, nurnent Expressed Some said "Sluh:" a few said "Posh:" and all the others said "Rot." Rut those w ho had w ritte? were net Sot Rack by those frank Criticisms. They knew they were Inspired by brlght-greer Jealousy. It c hanced that A sop was looking down over the Par of the Lower Terrace of the God when he saw this Motley Gathering. When he heard th!r Productions he f laughed so Uproariously that Jove, whj was loitering on the Front Porch, ran: hurring down to see whit Frsh Fur the Human Motes had Worked Pp. "What U it. Soppy V he asked In hit Jovial Way. The Father of Fables roared araln. "Why." be gasped, '-just listen to th Fablists! 'Pen my word. thy don't know a Moral from a Megatherium!" "Shall I drop Vm a 1 hundertm?' in quired the boss of (Mvmr tls. "No." said Aesop kindly. "let 'em finish their little Stunt. It s harmless, and !t can't Last Long." Which shows that Higher crltlcl&ra doesn't count when you are Worklc t new Graft for all there is In XL.