Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1901 — Page 4

THE IXDIAXAFOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1901.

THE DA ILY J O ÜRXAL THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1501.

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Subscribers leavlnc the city for a period during" tb summer can hive the Daily and Sunday Journal mailed to any address In the United Btatss or Canada without extra charge. The address' will ba chanted as often 13 desired. Both, telephone David Bennett Hill has declined to go to Omaha to speak, but the declination was not received until Mr. Bryan li.nl made It known that he docs not wlsh to have Ulli break Into Ms Facial domain. Th members of the Amalgamated Association in Chicago believ; that when a number of mm make a contract they should fulfill its term, but Mr. Shaffer fays it is a matter of no consequence. Th Boston Herald ran find nothing in the reeo-smendatlons of tho Civ 11-scrvio; Commission but pood, in spite of all that It and other papers have Faid against the appointment of Commissioner Rndenburg. It did not make any difference with Judgo Stubbs that his name was not the flrst on the primary ballot for municipal judge. The majority voting .In tho rrimarieei wanted him and found him. They Urould if there had been a dozen names on the list. Some foreign papers are showing ft urprtalns amount of Ignorance regarding- the true relations of thia government to neighboringstates and of our treaty rights and "duties on the isthmus. Terhaps they do not care, but thy are making themselves ridiculous. ' The newspapers In Germany may not aTiow why the United States is sending warship to Fanama and Colon, but German statesmen do, and therefore do not hare the Uly fears of those editors who ee In It & scheme of the United States to capture Central America. A Milwaukee dispatch nays the men who were forced into a strike by President Shaffer in that city are troubled about their future, some of them saying the vote to strike, if It had been secret instead of being scrutinized by Vice President Davis, would have been against the strike. And yet those leaders talk of the tyranny of other men. The courteous, yet spirited, reply which Attorney General Knox makes to the irresponsible persons who questioned him in the most impertinent manner must give them the sensation of those who are hoist by their own petard. The questioners belongto that small army who ilve in Washington by the contributions of well-mean-lng people who must make some port of noise to convince the people who support them that they are at work. Since the recent breaking of some suspension rods in the great Brooklyn bridge various local labor unions have started a movement to force the city to resume operating the bridge. It is claimed that when the city managed it the wages of the bridge employes were higher, their working hours fewer and the bridge was better cared for than since it has been operated by the Rapid Transit Company. These arguments might not be conclusive with taxpayers. When the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. In speaking of the steel strike, says "there may be an awakening to the possibility and the necessity of enlisting the organlxed power of the people to stop these ruinous wars and feuds between the two orders of the industrial state" it expresses a growing sentiment in thU country. When the two interests are so extensive that they affect the welfare of the whole country and impair lespect for authority the lawmaking power of the whole country may create a tribunal to put an end to such contentions. A member of the Hoard of Safety Is reported an denouncing the Republican members of the Council for not voting the whole of the temporary loans asked for the u.rt of the fire department. He think the Republicans who would have been appointed if tho money hail been voted Will not be pleased when they find that they are not put on the pay roll at an early day. As member of the Hoard of Safety say that buildings ar.d apparatus for which these men are wanted will not bo ready fcr three months taxpayers will ask why they should be put on the pay roll now. The Council was rUht. There can be no doubt that the fart that the Vnlted State- Steel Corporation r. one of th parties to the pending strike has had the effect to modify public sentiment as to it merits. S many people see thl great corporation, whose organization has caused widespread suspicion, that they lose fight of the Justice of the isue in a growing opposition to th great combination. While both shies have disregard, d public sentiment, it must bt said of the officers of the United States Steel Corporation

that they have exhibited utter contempt for the general public by refusing to make any statement of Its position in the controversy. From first to last, the corporation, which is th creature of the laws of States, has shown no disposition to recognize the sovereignty of the people or the welfare of tiie public. Its officers look with apparent indifference upon the Interests of the public and the effect of the strike upon the welfare of the people. In this the Steel Corporation s makinsr a prodigious blunder as a matter of policy. It must have known that it was the object of suspicion, and that unles3 It Is greater than the people it cannot afford to turn suspicion to hostility. It cannot afford to leave the people to assume that it has no respect for popular opinion and that it will do as it please?, no matter who are the victims. covcniiMM; rnvsioxs. One of the objections to the pension system is that over 4'Vmo claims are now pending in the bureau, the intimation being that these are. original and quite recent claims. As a matter of fact, the most of these claims are for increase. Those who look at the matter candidly can see no evidence of dlshone3ty in the making of an application for an increase. Of the pensions in force June 3 iyl. 43S.1H were granted unrler the law of June 27, 10. These pensions are based upon disabilities not incurred in the line of service, but which prevent the pensioner from earning a livelihood at manual labor. These pensions range from $i to $12 a month. Under tho general pension laws, several disabilities could be added, so that a pension may be granted covering a wound, rheumatism, InJury to hearing or sight. Under a ruling during the Harrison administration the pension must be granted for one disability. This ruling was in force until May 9, lfon, when a bill became a law providing that in rating a pension "each and every Infirmity" of the claimant shall be considered, and that the aggregate of disabilities shown shall determine the pension within the limit of $12 per month. This law is less liberal to the Union claimant than was the Mexican law which Mr. Cleveland signed nearly fifteen years ago, because the Mexican claimant received la per month when sixtytwo years of age, whether disabled or not. LTvery pensioner under the law of ISM who sought an increase under th act of May, 1W, had to make an application, as did every one who had been rejected under the one disability ruling. Is it evidence that a man is a fraud because he applies for an increase upon an examination of the bureau's physicians? If some of those who hold that view would go to the rooms of the examining surgeons and take note of the condition of the men examined they would at least be less Inclined to apply epithets to them. Again, under the old law, a man may have been pensioned years ago for a wound. As the years passed the wound brought other complications and the disability became greater is such a man lacking in patriotism or honesty because he

applies for an increase? A very large proportion of those who apply for increases do not get them. Tositive that they should have them and unmindful that rules and decisions are applied by examiners, they naturally denounce the Pension Bureau, and particularly the commissioner of pensions, to whom many of them attribute the absolute power to grant pensions, regardless of evidence or of rules which have the force of law and which he did not make. AS TO PICKKTIXO. A somewhat curious controversy, and one which' in the outcome may prove instructive, has arisen in New Jersey relative to the right of labor unions to picket mills. The term picketing Is borrowed from army operations, where, as everybody knows, it means the posting of a guard in front of an army to give notice of the approach of the enemy. It was never used in connection with labor troubles until strikes took on the feature of using force to prevent mills from being operated or nonunion men from working. A resort to forcible measures naturally led to the adoption of military methods, Including marching and picketing. One of the definitions of the word picket given by recent dictionaries is "A body of men belonging to a trades union sent to watch and annoy men working in a shop not belonging to the union, or against which a strike is in progress." The marching movement preceded picketing. The former was flrst used during the great coal miners strike of 1897, when hundreds of miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia marched from place to place for the purpose of intimidating and preventing others from working. They marched with the American flag at their head, took several days' rations with them, and, but for their threatening demonstrations, were generally orderly. Finally the coal operators appealed to the courts and Injunctions were issued forbidding all parading and assembling of miners on the public highways or near the mines "for the purpose of intimidation, and by menaces, threats and opprobrious words of preventing the employes of said company from working in said mines, or of inducing or compelling any of said employes to quit work by threats, menace, show of force or other Intimidation." The strikers protested against the interference with their right to assemble and march on the public highways, but the order of the court was sustained and enforced. In passing sentence on some strikers for contempt of court Judge Goff, of West Virginia, said: The strikers had a right to quit work W l aw a a . mrpiifi ey, ami iney nan ine rignt to induce other miners by peaceable means. Hexertcd in a lawful way. to also quit work and Join them. Rut the miner who still desired to work had the same right to do so as the miner to quit work, and the own ers of the mines had the right to operate the same. A body of men over two hundred strong, marching in the early hours of the morning, before daylight, halting in front of the mine opening and taking position on each sile of the public highway for a distance of at least a quarter of a mile at the exact places where the miners were in the hbit of crossing that highwav for the purpose of going to their work, is neither an aid to fair argument nor conducive to the state of mind that makes willing converts to the cause thus championed. The marching men seemed to think that they could go and come on and over the country road as they pleased because it was a public highway. Hut this was a mistake. The miners at work had the same rieht to use the public road as the strikers had. Picketing is another phase of marching, and Involves the same elements of menace ami intimidation. A dispatch in yesterday's Journal stated tht the Hoard of Aldermen of Paterson. N. J., had passed an ordinance allowing the picketing of mills in that city by laior unions. The ordinance was passed In response to a demand by striking weavers, who. It was said, "lock upon it as a tremendous victory." A case Involving the question of the right to picket has already been appealed to the Supreme Court of NewJersey ar.d ha been set for hearing at an early day. The decision will undoubtedly be against the right of the Board of Alder

men to enact any ordinance on the subject. A city council cannot change the principles of common law. The general principles stated in the marching rases above quoted apply to picketing as well, the test question being whether picketing involves menace, intimidation and forcible Interference with men who wish to work. If done In an orderly, inoffensive way. simply as a means

of acquiring information, it might be permissible, but the moment the element of intimidation or forcible interference with the rights of others is introduced it becomes unlawful on general principles, and no city council or state legislature could legalize it. The right to picket cannot be made to cover the right to interfere with the personal freedom of the individual. HONOR TO 1IONRST MR. The latest statement issued by the steel workers at South Chicago, and probably their last regarding the present situation. shows that after carefully reconsidering the matter they have fully decided not to strike. This Is somewhat unexpected, as the reversal of their original action by the Joliet and Bayview men under pressure brought to bear by the officers of the Amalgamated Association led the public to believe that the South Chicago workers would follow their example. In declining to do so the latter have made a record highly creditable to themselves and have laid down a rule of action which all labor unions would do well to adopt. They base their refusal to obey President Shaffer's order on their contracts with the Illinois Steel Company. It is not that they love organized labor tless. but they love honor and honesty more. They express their deep sympathy with the strike in the East and are willing to contribute financially to its support, buc they cannot bring themselves deliberately to violate their contract with the company. After citing other cases In which the Amalgamated Association has advised the observance of contracts the Chicago men conclude: After taking legal advice, we feel certain Fresldent Shaffer's claim that our contracts are void beer use the Illinois Steel Company, with whom our agreement was made, has h.fn absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation is without foundation. The principles of union labor are as dear to us s to any it.t. In the country who earn th.-lr living" by hone3t toll, but w- do nor. think we should be expected to violate every rule of business integrity and personal honor for a matter of sentiment, for this 1.4 a time when we must not let our sympathy get away with our beiUr judgment. At tho beginning of the strike Mr. Shaffer assured the men in the Eastern mills in a passionate address that their contracts wre not binding, pince the companies with which they were made had bocome members of the trust. He did not say he had taken legal advice on the subject. He said: "The Steel Association thinks it owns you, contracts and all." The same appeal was made to the Western workers, but the South Chicago men declare that after taking lfgal advice they are certain that their contracts are as binding as ever. President Shaffer to the contrary notwithstanding. They are doubtless risht, but even if they were wrong as to the legal qvestion involved their action would bo none th lss commendable. Workmen who put business integrity and personal honor above the 'obligations of class organization are of the kind that will do to "tie to." It would bo well if the principle declared by the South Chicago workers were universally recognized. The report of the Civil-service Commission presents some figures which will tend to modify the opinion of those who have been led to believe that President McKinley has broken down the classified service under the civil-service law. While in office all Presidents have been charged with hostility to what is called clvil-servlce reform, or the merit system. Mr. Cleveland, toward the last of each term, when tho positions were largely filled with men of his own party, covered them with the provisions of the classified system. President McKinley modified, to some extent, the. Cleveland order. Nevertheless, it Is a fact that during the year which ended June 30 a larger number of persons were appointed to the classified service than during any previous year that the civil-service law has been in force. The number was 9.SS9, out of a total of 34.437 applicants who had successfully passed the examinations the total number examined being 43,763. During the past three years, while the public has heard so much of the breaking down of the competitive system by President McKinley, 27,316 persons were appointed through the examinations made by the civil-service law and rules. The number of appointments under the rules in three years, under the present administration, is more than one-third of the whole number appointed from the passage of the law, July 15, 1SS3, to June CO, 1000 a period of seventeen years. These facts do not sustain the charge that civil-service reform has been Ignored by President McKinley. The charges made against Chairman Fanning, of the Democratic city committee, and his associates, that they are using their influence openly and actively for the nomination of certain candidates on the primary ticket, naturally calls attention to a flagrant abuse of power, no matter the party to which the committee belongs. Committees are designed to serve the whole party and not a facxion of it. Their duty in the primary should end with providing for a clean party vote and an impartial count. With tho holding of primaries under the provisions of law the efforts of precinct and other committees I should be confined to work for the party organization and not for favorites in it to the injury of other aspirants. Even to those who believe that public officials should receive a certain amount of criticism, the delay of Governor Durbin appointing Mr. Martin as tax commissioner does not seem a subject for fault finding. The public service lias suffered no detriment, while the Governor, by sitting a full session with Mr. Martin, has had the best opportunity to learn of his qualifications from his point of view. Having satistied himself that Mr. Martin is qualified, the Governor has appointed him. The law requires that the appointee shall be a Democrat. That Mr. Martin is a Democrat his party has borne witness. That he Is well qualified for the position is not questioned. Why. then, should his appointment at this time be subject of criticism? Vfiat Sum for IJnd llonili. New York Pres. "It has been shown after careful inquiry. that the average haul of the American farmer in getting his produce to market. or to the nearest shipping station, is twelve miles. The average cost per ton for hauling over the common country roads is 2T cents rer ton per mile, or $1 per ton for a twelve-mile haul. Careful estimates also place the total tons hauled at 3i0.rf.oo per j ear ano tne average nam ai iweive mues, making the total cosi or getting tne sur

plus products of the farm to the local market or the railroad. j:J."oo.)Oo. This figure

fei'.-iirr man tne operating expenses oi all the railroads in the United States, which, for th vear ended June, l9s. were only Jxivo,) Atfi 'ror.nrt nf tho Industria l Commission on the Distribution of Farn m 1 I "UUCIS. Yet the farmer is the only American from whom effective onnosition to goodroads legislation ha a rrni-ried. III nennV .1 . r - r - - lurtu wouia reauc by two-thirds probahlv, half, by doubling or trel r,r at least onehllnir tho wleht Of every load. That would mean a saving of ii om Jji.uion.nr.! to JorjO.ron.non. FROM HITHER AND YON. Jnst About, Pu-k. Uncle Jaon fat th seaside hotel) What's th difference between the American and European plans, John? Guley Oh. about the same difference as be tween embezzlement and robbery. Infelicitous lniullt Ivenes, The Frr.art Set. Mumm. frrlt!nfir th familiar rhyme) "Old Mother Hubtird went to the cupboard, to get her poor dop a bor.e Little Percy (who has overheard something) Ma, did fh? have a skeleton in her closet, too? How He Felt. Frooklyn Eagle. Mrs. Spats John. Mrs. Chaser wants to know if you will buy a dollar chance on a piano lamp? Spits (firmly) No, Arabella. When It Is a quarter chance I see no harm in it, but when it Is a dollar, I feel that it U too much like gambling. Food for Thnnght. ?omrvl!l Journal. Subscriber I ffnd your puzzle department par ticularly interesting. " Magazin Editor Our puzzle department? Why, what do you man? We don't run one. Subscriber-Oh, yes, you do. I mean your roe try. A Slight Error. Philadelphia Tres. "I gue.s we'll have to put that 'ad In again as a free insertion." remarked the foreman. "What 'ad' is that?" inquired th editor. "Why, Ftilem's announcement of his 'storeful of furniture, beddlnn and rugs. We've matie It 'bugs' in to-day's issue." It All Depend. Washington Star. 'What do you think of civilization?" afVed the fat and prosperous Chlneee laundryman of the impoverished friend whom he was visiting in Peking. "I guess." was th thoughtful answer, "that it all depends on whether you go after it yourself or wait here and have it brought to you." THE ARMY CANTEEN. General Dngsrtt, IteUred, Tells. Why He la Opposed to It. In the advance by the American column at Teking for tho relief of the legations Col. Aaron S. Daggett, of the Fourteenth Infantry, was the second in command, and his men were the first to scale the walls. For Colonel Daggett's bravery on that occasion he was appointed by President McKinley, on the telegraphic recommenda tion of General Chaffee, a brigadier general. Than Gcner: Daggett the United States holds no truer, braver Christian patriot. What tho general thinks of the canteen will be seen from the following letter: "West ITarpswell, Me., July 24, 1301. "Rev. J. H. Dunn, D. D., Ocean Grove, N J.: "nea'r Sir In reply to your letter of the 22d instant 1 will give the following rea sons for my opposition to the army can teen: "First It presents the saloon to the re cruit in its least objectionable form. Many of our soldiers come from the rural dis tricts, where they never entered nor even saw a saloon. Arriving at an army post they rind the saloon, called canteen, estaolished by the United States government, managed by army officers and in many cases made as reputable as such an institution can be. It is the place of resort for nearly all the soldiers of the garrison. They live in an atmosphere that makes them feel that the thing to do is to spend their money at the canteen: it helps the company mess. The most of the recruits yield and soon form the beer habit. The credit system prevails. The soldier, being out or money, obtains cnecK.s on me canteen, presumably for a small part, but actually, in most cases, for a large part of his pay. This debt he is compelled to pay on piy day. He receives his money at pay-table and immediately goes to the canteen officer and pays a large part, perhaps all of It, to the canteen. In a few days he is out of money again and repeats the same process, month after month, during his term of service. He entered the service free from the drink and debt habit. He is discharged with both fixed upon him. "Second The canteen stands as a constant invitation to the total abstainer to drink, as a temptation to the moderate drinker to drink more and as a convenience to the drunkard to load up on beer when he has not the means to obtain anything stronger. "Third The constant presence of the canteen and the credit system offer opportunities for the soldiers to keep slightly under the influence of liquor all the time. It was no uncommon thing to find a company (I commanded a company more than twenty years), on inspection, with a majority of its men more or less under the Influence of liquor, but not so much so as to subject them to punishment; but they could not perform their duty as well as they could if they had not been drinking. "Fourth If there is no canteen at an army post, saloons will spring up Just beyond the military reservation, but of so vile a character that respectable soldiers will not visit them. When I commanded a company four-fifths of my men would not go near such dens of vice. The drunkards would have their pay-day spree, spend all their money, serve sentence of court-martial and be sober the rest of the time. The viler the outside dens of iniquity the better for the morals of the garrison, because they keep respectable men away, and the majority are respectable. "Fifth There doubtless have been cases when the canteen has been of temporary benefit. It is said that falsehood maj be of temporary benefit to him who avails himself of it. Hut it will be ruinous to him in the end. So will the canteen system be to the army. "Sixth The canteen system, in my opinion, resolves itself into this question: Is it best to keep a constant temptation before the total abstainers and moderate drinkers for the purpose of controlling the few drukards? Many of our railroad companies and business firms require total abstinence of all their employes. Only imagine their establishing canteens for them! Trainmen slightly dazed with beer! I believe the government should require the same of the army. You are at liberty to use this as you please. Yours trulv. "A. S. DAGGETT. 'Brigadier General. U. S. A.. Retired." I'ndonbledly Safe. Chicago Journal. A good anecdote is told by the bishop of Minnesota of the sarcastic powers of the Indian. "I was holding," says Hlshop Whipple, "a service near an Indian village camp. My things were scattered about in a lodge, and when I was going out I asked the chief if it was safe to leave them there while I went to the village to hold a service. 'Yes.' he said, 'perfectly safe. There is not a. while man within a hundred miles:' " Innrcnrate Comparison. Boston Journal. Tolstoi says: "After producing Thomas Carlyle and Jrhn Ruskin it seems inexplicable that the great English nation, in the vanguard of liberty, a beacon to all the world for freedom, should Idolize such men as Chamberlain and Rhodes." But neither Carlyle nor Ruskin was ever the idol of th English nation. Carlyle snarled to the last, and Ruskin died disappointed. Corollary Conditions. Boston Herald. f-o long as the other nations of the earth keep more men behind the gun and a less number behind the plow than does Uncle Sam. Just so long will the United States have a surplus of food to sell to th hungry peoples who still go on try ing to delude themselves into thinking that they can keep fat on gunpowder.

WHY NEGROES ARE BURNED.

Vierra of a .Man XV hn "Witnessed One of the Horrors. J. P. Mowbray, in New York Post. "So far as I have observed," said the practical man, "things seem to average up pretty well if you give them time." "Where?" asked the Judge. "Are you thinking of New York city, or Georgia, or Kansas? Perhaps you have got jour eye on McKeesport?" "Things appear to be working out all right. I don't see anything to discourage a man." "Don't you? Why, politically. New York has reverted to the Middle Ages and prefers a feudal chief to an intelligent ruler; and Georgia, not to be behindhand, has Tut the auto da fe of Torquemada on a self-sustaining basis." Before the judge could reach Kansas the practical man interrupted him, without the least heat, but with an easy return to actuality: "By the way," he said. "I have just come from Georgia and was fortunate enough to see one of their nigger-burnings." He said this with the conscious superiority of the man who places facts far above mere deductions. Perhaps his composure annoyed the judge, who stopped walking and said: "Did you enjoy it?" "Well, sir." replied practical complacency, "I am glad I saw it there is so much misapprehension among the people of . the North who never saw it." "Let us hone." said the judge, "that they will always have the same excuse for misapprehension." "1 think you mistake the motive of the. people who burn niggers. Von think it is in some way an unbridled vengeance." "Yes." said the Judge. "I think that would be our estimate of it." "Well, sir, there you would make a mistake. I did not observe any riotous sense of justice, at Kast not to any large extent." "Well, what in heaven's name did you cbserve?" "I observed that most of the men engaged in that business were actuated by a desire for sensation. It was a kind of exciting amusement. I think you do them too much honor by attributing any idea of justice to them." The Judge, who had started In with" his walk, stepped suddenly again and stared at me. I must have, stared back. The practical man had cnened a depth that had not occurred to either of us. The Judge pushed the library door shut softly, as if it were well not to let anything permeate the house. The practical man proceeded: "I was In a scattered community in Georgia when a lynching was proposed. I happened to bo at an out-of-the-way shanty boarding house in the district where 1 was prospecting some pine lands, and I had tho opportunity to see how the lynching proposition worked. Well, gentlemen, it worked a good deal like an approaching circus with a brass band, spotted horses, and a fairy rope walker. The men didn't ask what the nigger had done they wanted to know where the show was, and they wanted front seats. They dropped their tools and gave up their jobs and got together in knots. It promised just the kind of excitement that their dull, imbruted natures could thrill at. It's a fact, gentlemen. Even the niggers and the women felt the thrill of it. "Why, two years before, when I was in Texas, and a lynching was in progress, proof came from some of the officials that a mistake had been made in the man. but rather than disappoint the crowd, thej' burned the wrong nigger first, and then started in to catch the right one. Now, I don't think that the kind of animal.t I saw ever wasted as much time in defending the honor of their families as would an ordinary alligator. And they enjoyed the fun. Yes, sir. I don't discount that word. They enjoyed it, and they let the children see it." "And yet," said the judge, "you think the country is all right while it permits such atrocities." "Why. the country will correct the whole business in time. They will either burn all the niggers or the present race of Tar-hecls and Clay-caters will die out for want of amusement." "You have touched upon a feature of this abomination that it not at all new." I said. "It is the oldest infamy and the most appalling mystery of man himself, that agony in others may become a source of enjoyment to him. The whole effort of civilization is to keep man- from betraying the demon that resides in him. Cruelty was lifted to an aesthetic delight In ancient Rome, and the most exciting amusement that could be offered to perverted human nature was the slow burning alive Of human victims, so that the pampered hataerae turned up their dainty noses if the play bill did not promise them a smell of burning flesh. The burnings of Torquemada furnished festas to Seville, and the Spanish maidens came in from their vineyards, gaudily attired, to enjoy the agony of the heretics." "When was that?" asked the practical man. "It was In the fifteenth century." I re plied. "Spain burned thirty-two thousand persons before she got through." "Gentlemen, said the pracUcal man. "I don't think that our statistics can compete with theirs. "Oh, give the country time, give her time," said the Judge. WHERE THEY WENT. Missing Celebrities, -vrlth a Fevr Ex ceptions, Located on an Island. Chicago Tribune. "At last," said Pat Crowe, as his boat grounded on the desert island far off in the Southern Pacific, "at last I have reached an uncharted island not known to men and far from the track of ocean vessels. Here I shall be safe from tho police force and can spend the rest of my days In delightful obscurity, just as though I was an exVice President of the United States." But as the kidnaper of the small Cudahy boy walked up from the beach he suddenly met with a party of men. "What are you." demanded Mr. Crowe, "plain clothes men or park police?" "We are the citizens of Disappearance Island," said the foremost of the strangers. "I don't think I understand," said Mr. Crowe. "I will explain," replied the spokesman. "First of all. however, why have you disappeared, who are you, and what have you done?" "I am Pat Crowe, of Omaha." said the new arrival. "I stole the Cudahy boy and made his pa come down with $25,000 to recover him. The detectives kept on my trail and I had to whack up with them so often that I saw my fortune would soon be dissipated and I would finally fall Into the clutches of the law did I not disappear. So I sailed from San Francisco on a tramp steamer and when somewhere out in the South Pacific I cut loose the captain's gig one night. I filled it with provisions beforehand and after I had drifted away from the ship I floated quite nicely for six days, until the waves kindly brought me ashcre on this island." "Ah. rlad to meet you. Mr. Crowe." said the spokesman of the welcoming party. "Permit me to Introduce myself and my comrades. I am William Tascott. of Chicago, for whom the police of the entire United States have been hunting for twelve years. They say I made way with a millionaire there, and. now that I think of it. I believe I did. Some people think that I am dead, while others believe that I was only a beautiful myth. Yet, here I live with my dear friends, happy and peaceably, on Disappearance island." "Very pleased to meet you, indeed, Mr. Tascott," said Mr. Crowe. "This gentleman." went on Mr. Tascott. with a wave of his hand to a sad-looking individual who stood on his right, "is the man who struck Billy Patterson." "Glad to meet you, sir," said Mr. Crowe, bowing politely. "Thia gentleman." resumed Mr. Tascott. with a wave of his hand to another of his arty. "is the man who stole Charley toss." Mr. Crowe bowed again. "This person with the white beard and who, you see, is bent and bowed with years." continued Mr. Tascott. "is the venerable Individual who killed Morgan." "Glad. Indeed, to meet him and all the rest of you gentlemen." said Mr. Crowe. "In the local cemetery.' continued Mr Tascott. "you will find a handsome monument to that grand old man who long, long ago first came to this island, and who was the pioneer of that noble band of muchwanted citizens who live here to-day in peace and happiness." "And who was he, pray?" asked Mr. Crowe. Mr. Tascott and all of hl party reverently removed their bats while they answered in one voice: "He who killed Cock Robin." Conserving the Timber Supply. San Francisco Chronicle. A Texas corporation, which controls a ndlllon-acre tract of timber land in that State, has adopted a sensible method of harvesting the crop, which might be turned to good account in California. The comn.nr has contracted with a lumber com pany to cut and manufacture the growing timber on tho tract The annual output is put at no less than SSa.rtm.ooo feet, at which rat the merchantable timber on the tract will Ut at least twentv-threa veart Th

contract prohibits the cutting of any tree Ies.s than on-? fcot in diameter, saplings are to be protected from injury, and proper precautions taken against tort st fires. It is expected by thcs- means to secure a perpetual supply of lumber from the tract and prevent it lrom being converted under the old-time methods of lumbering into a barren waste.

RURAL DELIVERY BOXES. Cffort to Be Made to Sfcnre n filiform Pattern on AU Honte. Washington letter in St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Complaints have come from all parts of the country over the rules and regulations which the department has furnished governing boxes to be. used on rural free delivery routes. Ever since the unusually large extensions under the appropriation for the last fiscal year the department has faced a problem in the rural free delivery boxes. It has been accused of enforcing unusual, rigid and unnecessary rules in relation to the boxes, and the niof-t recent claim made in some of the rural districts is that the boxes authorized by the department are too expensive. Some of the ruril free delivery carriers have complained that the latitude which has liftn given by the department in permitting the patrons of different routes to select lrom a number of different styles of boxes has resulted in great inconvenience to them. The carriers say that four or five different styles of locks make it necessary for them to carry a large bunch of keys and to waste time in the selection of the right key to apply to tho boxes as they pass along their routes. They have been placed at different elevations by the roadside, some open from underneath, some on top and others at the ends or sides. Some of the boxes can be opened by the carrier lrom his seat in his vehicle, while with others It is necessary for him to alight. The problem facing the free delivery division of the department is further complicated by tho fact that a large number of newspapers have given boxes to their patrons as subscription premiums. The rules of the department for a time forltade their use, and this placed the publications in question hi the light of acting in bad faith toward their patrons. An order was issued permitting tbe use of these premium boxes. When the claim was made that the boxes which were prescribed tor use by the department were too expensive, twelve different designs were selected, ranging in price from J1.25 to J12. and permission was given for their use. the only reservation being that the boxes on any one route should bo of uniform design. Complaint arose over this regulation, and finally the department ruled that boxes of any one of the twelve designs approved by the de partment might be used indiscriminately cn all routes. In spite of these changes and conces sions, complaints continue to pour into the department over the Ikjxcs in use. Just in proportion as the rural free delivery routes are extended do these complaints increase in number. Postofnce officials now say that the matter will not be finally settled unless there Js action by Congress. At the next session it is possible that authority will be asked bv the postoffice officials for definite regulations governing the style of boxes used. One proposition is that the department ask in open market for competitive plans and specifications for boxes. A competent, skilled and impartial committee will pasi upon the designs sub mitted, and one of them will be selected. The government will then ask for bids for their manufacture, with the proposal that a royalty of 5 cents, or some nominal sum. on each nox re paid to the deicner. Another proposition is to have them made of a uniform design by the government and have them rented at a certain rate, perhaps 15 cent? a quarter. It is urged in favor of the latter plan that through the inspection system which would be put into force the boxes could be kept in much better order. WINES, RED AND WHITE. Tricks of the Trade That Fool the rel ates of DrlnkrrH. New York Press. The proprietor called for a half bottle of oberingelhcimer for his friends to taste, and all pronounced it fine. One of the party ordered a case of twelve quarts to be sent to his home. On the third day it arrived, looking extremely foreign and par ticularly Rhinish. with burnt brands and strap iron on all sides, but as soon as he opened the box evidence of home bottling and packing cropped out. The labels read "assmannshauser." There was not a suggestion anywhere of "oberingelheimer." The dealer had remarked with a sly wink: "I am very cagey on wines; nobody can beat me in the selection." But the box was nailed up, and a note informed the seller that a mistake had been made. Hearing nothing in reply, the purchaser called for an explanation. "So they sent you assmannshauser instead of oberingelheimer. did they?" sid the cagey man. "Did you taste it? No? If you had tasted it you would have seen at once it was oberingelheimer. My man made a mistake in pasting on the wrong labels. 1 will send for the case and have the labels changed If you like, but it will make no difference in the taste of the wine because assmannshauser and oberingelheimer are drawn from the same cask. These are the only two brands of red Rhin wines, and only the shrewdest expert can tell which is which." In a secluded corner of the room was a cask. "Come, let me show you about wines," said the proprietor enthusiastically. Through a siphon, which he started working with mouth suction, he filled three glasses of different shapes with the rich amber liquid. "Now. examine, smell, taste, and tell me which Is laubenheimer. which is nlersteiner and which Is deidesheimer. Ha! You cannot tell? Certainly not. Why? Because they are all the same wine, drawn from the same cask. But when we bottle this wine we use different labels, and there is no harm done, because these three brands are about the same price and taste exactly alike." Dealers in bottlers' supplies keep on hand large stocks of labeU covering all known names of well-known liquors. An oberingelheimer label is a work of art. The landscape scenery is an exact reproduction of the village to which the name of the label refers, which is printed In brown, with a gold border. The type matter 'is black. All on varnished paper. Price to the trade, I2.S0 per 1,000. Some of the names In stock are rudeshelmer, hochhelmer, laubenheimer. deidesheimer, nlersteiner, llebf raumlich. assmannshauser, geisenheimer, marcobruner and steinbergcr. ELEPHANTS ABOARD SHIP. They Sometimes Care for Themselves in Time of Danger. Cassell's Magazine. When a number of elephants are shipped a strong structure is erected on deck, and there they are stabled, chained by tho feet. No doubt In an emergency they could easily walk away from their chains and the deck flooring, throwing the stable aside if it offered any impediment to their prpgress and the door happened to be shut. Elephants, fortunately, are not always putting forth their prowess, and the chains In ordinary weather and ordinary circumstances keep them sufficiently In check. About twenty years ago, WUHam Jamrach, who had made a fortune, was returning from India with a cargo of elephants, black panthers, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, apes, serpents, orangoutangs, and rare birds of all kinds. He valued the lot at Ju7.d. The Agra that was the name of the ship he was coming home on was swinging at her anchor off Point de Galle. Ceylon. Suddenly there was heard a fearful cru.-h that gave pause to everything. The chattering, screaming, the growling and the roaring of the animals stopped dead. Tne startled men looked for Just a moment straight in the face of each other. Th u the exclamations: "Great Heavens, she is sinking:" was followed by a clamor that Just blotted out the stillness. At one and the same moment both man and beast seemed to realize the situation, and they all began to exhibit symptoms of the alarm they felt. In the rase of the men. they were free to devise means of escape, and they immediately busied themselves accordingly. In the ca.e of the animals, they were courlned and bad to undergo the horror of facing death they were powerUss to avert. It is natural for an animal to die in combat with an enemy, and while the combat lasts there is hope of err.ipe. There is no facing of death here; the animal is otherwise engaged engaged, too. in a natural wav. But with animals cooped up on the Agra, with never an enemy to fight, it was far different, and they gave vent to cries of unbounded despair. The repliants made a noise, too. but there wa not one touch of despair there. It was the business-like sound of crashing timber, and before the Agra had reached bottom a herd of elephants wa. swimming tu Cey-

DR. HALE'S CHARACTERISTICS.

Effect rt wpBter Heading on III Mental Slroclnrr. G. S. Lee, in the Critic. Dr. Hale read four novels a week when In coll Re, and hi was one of the few students who took a dally newspaper.. The fact that he re.d- the newspaper ge: era'4?y during the first morning recitation, which was in philosophy, may be taken as one likes, either as culojy or a criticism of the professor or a eulogy or criticism of Dr. H-ile. Dr. Hale is inclined to regard it apparently ;is a eulogy of th professor, taking the general ground that things being as they are and prüft s? -rs being what they are, the less a professor allows himself to determine what students thir.ic about in recitation the better; that is. any professor who accidentally or otherwise lets students think about the things they please may be aid to be above the average. To most of us this newspaper in the morning is the best way of accounting for Dr. Hale both in powers and his limitations. There can be little doubt th.it lr. Hole's brain, if a cross-section of it could be removed and photographed, would be found to be arranced and set up insid in headlines and columns. It is a mtnd that is always having things happening in it. and the things are put down in it a scon as they happen, and as more things are expected to happen right off it naturally follows that the sooner the things' tint have happened already are disposed of the better. Dr. Hale s "religion is an, intense and multitudinous sympathy with the moment. His philosophy, or rather one night to say bis reflections, like a series of events flying past him are a kind of spiritual form of the vnts themselves, and they have all the traits of events; reality, vividness, color, momentary supremacy, and then not exactly oblivion, tut a fair chancv perhaps, and perhaps not. for momentary supremacy again. Theio is cor.sid rable ground for the assertion that the world of modern culture c.'.n be divided for the most part Into two classes of persons distracted people and specialists, that is. people who know enough to be distracted in an era like this and people who do not. Dr. Hales life has been a study in trying to put the. two lasers together. He lias made a ppecialty of being an all-around man. If are inclined to carp, from the German university point of view. at the Edward Everett Hale kind of all-around man. it might be pointed out that an all-around man of any kind, who is so good as to continue to exit amongst us as things are going to-day, is a great public resource, a place for the human spirit to rest in. if only for a few months or a few yesra longer-if only to hold the bare Idea together that there have been all-around men in the world and that there are going to b The value of an all-arourd man to-day, or a man who merely stiegest an allaround man can hardly be overer-timated. His soul is the strategic point in modern life. The. gn-at batle of modern life and of modern knowlt-dge is tn be f iglit around it. Of the two classes of people c-ur schools are producing distracted people and specialists (mere specialists) the signs jtre growing very abundant that the distracted people are going to have the best of it. They are pot very happy and they do not bok very thorough probably (from the bottom of a well), but they are trying to do something and be something worth whileget a whole, generous cross-section of life; and a fw of them, a very few of them, are going to do it. Then they will show the rest how to do it. The barks that get out to sea, in modern culture, and that make port besides, can. be counted on the lingers of one hand. Most of us cannot even get out of port. We are cither distracted as a matter of pride (Scylla) or we are specialists without knowing it. (Charydbls.) What Is more. If the specialists that re teing produced at present could really be wrecked on Charybdls it would give Immediate and widespread relief. But is there anything; that can wreck specialists nowaday, or. rather, Inspire them Into knowing they ar wrecked? They are not only drawn fatally into Charybdis. but they are complacently moored to it. They are sailing on and on In their dreams, tied to a post, painted ships on a painted ocean. We are indebted to Dr. Hale for keeping alive the idea of the multitudinous mind. Even If his life has been monotonously unmonotonous. If his genius of restlessness has made his soul a kind of long spiritual str-et a mere sameness of change on it it is something to have kept in sight before us, for seventy years, a life which haa shared every life, which has thousands of doors in It a man who has lived before al the world In his cares and in his delights with the d'jor.cpen. MANAGES A SKUNK FARM. A Pennsylvania Man liaises the AnU mala for Their Fur. Bloomsburg (Pa.) letter. Columbia county can boast of probably the most unique farm in the State a skunk farm. Thre miles north of thU town, in a little ravine among the foothills, William M. Rush hs 3K) skunks withirt an lnclosure of two acres. Next year this time he estimates his skunk family will have multiplied to at least 1.000 members, and as the pelts are worth H apiece. Just as they come off the animal. Rush his a profitable crop in prospect. His four boys, who range In ages from, eight to fourteen years, have begun th raising of frogs, and in a little pond in the ravino they have 400 frogs of dlfterent cizes. Rush chose skunk farming beeaus skunks are easiest reared, they are tho most prolific of the fur-raising animals, and their hides command a better rriea than almost any other kind of pelt. II began his experiment last summer, during which time he trapped thirty-one of the animals and Installed them within his barb-wire lnclosure. This lnclosure, for. the most part, is virgin woodland, and beneath the- trees the skunks have dug hole or harbors-as Trapper Rush calls themand in these they have reared large and lively families. Next year Rush will broaden bis lnclosure to better accoemmodato his fast growing family of pets, and in the. fall of next season he will make hi firt "ext .Tmlnation." he calls it. releetina; only the male members of the colony from which to levy tribute by depriving them of their shiny coats and Incidentally their lives. He counts on making at least $l.oo-) on tho first lot of pelts, and this eUimata is very conservative. The actual cost of rearing the skunk Is small after purchasing the land and building the wire fence. Beside the six feet of wire above ground the fence also extends nearly three leet beiow the surface of the soil, this for the purpose of preventing the escape of skunks that may burrow in the vicinity of the limits of th yard. The cost of their food Is next to nothing, consisting of carrion and bugs. Rush says he will place an electric light over the lnclosure to attract bugs for his captives. The method employed when the rounding un or annihilation takes place is to entice the skunks" from their hrlors with a specially prepared bait, fixed In a large cag or trap, and once in this they are separatedthe female to b returned to the yard and the males to become victims for the slaughter by drowning. While the Senior Rush guards his skunk yard and looks forward to the time when the firt fur-taking is to come, the young Rushes are enlarging thflr frog pond for the accommodation of their fast-growing family of croakers. The 4-U already within the liulor-uro made by a low wire fence will be kept for late marketing this fall, when the usual nut hod of catching frocs no longer proves profitable to the pot hunter. Then, with th" prioe tip to 11 a dozen, tho H-ich bnvs will select their choicest frogs and take" tin in in'o market. llotr to Keep the Cnp. Boston Advertiser. Now that the Canadian yacht Invader h.i3 won th? races on Iwtke Michigan. If the owners of that yacht realiy want to keep the cup. they should take a leaf out of tha book of the New York "sportsmen. The owr.trs of the Invader shoull get out a n w "deed of sift" rih! away, to th effect that no yacht be rdlowed to onipete foP the cup utiles the ownership of that cup be transferred to th present owners of the Invader. Also. It may r provided that liefere the challenger I allowed to com. pete. It raut gle a Iiond for Tr"tK0 that even If the cup be won by the challenging yacht, the trophy shill still remain in the hands of its present holders. The Canadian may decline to take the precautions on the ground tnat such a contest is not ":pnrt. " True enoi:g.i; but tho New York yachtsmen are not after "sport." They ?e.m to be determined to k.ep the America's cup. If they have to Pwn it to themstlves -nd to lose the ticket immediately afterwards. The Indiana uhatltnle. San Francisco Post. Indiana boasts of having telephones on, farms in seventy counties. This is a pleasIng substitute for the old-fashioned p'a' of having one or two mortsases hang1r. around.