Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1903 — Page 4

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YOUR SUMMER VACATION. If you take one you will want to keep In touch with home. The best way to do this Is to have the Journal mailed to you. Leave your order before starting. We will change the address as often as you desire. The increasing; number of Republican candidates for the governorship shows a pleasing and prevalent confidence in the outcome of the elections. President Roosevelt's reception at Oyster Bay was quite as cordial as that of Emperor William at Kiel. These things have a way of evening themselves up. The gubernatorial race looks as if it might be one of the most popular events of the Beat racing season. It is an open field, with no handicaps, and the best man is pretty sure of winning the nomination. The boodle investigations in Missouri show that In twenty years the fire Insurance companies have paid $300,000 for legislation tn their interests. The State franchise of every company Implicated should be revoked. It seems a pity that the public must be regaled with the antics of the monster. Knapp, now on trial at Hamilton for the murder of his various wives. The more Quickly and quietly he is disposed of the better. Of course, there is threat of revolution in Colombia if the canal treaty goes thr.vigh. There is one point, however, the Colombians ean bank on, namely, if the treaty goes through the canal will go through, revolution or no revolution. To suspect Emperor William of acting as a spy on the Kearsarge while he was toasting Americans and proposing three cheers for President Roosevelt would imply that be to an insincere sneak. Whatever the Emperor may be. ho is not that kind of in. "Nothing to arbitrate" is a rather curt, not to say harsh reply to a labor union asking for a conference, and more than once it has caused disastrous strikes. It never does any harm to talk things over, nd it men are reasonable and frank they an usually get together on some common ground. W. 1. Flnley, former chairman of the Democratic state executive committee of Ohio, saya Tom L. Johnson told klm in a private conversation that he did not want to nm for Oovernor of Ohio if he could find any one else to accept the nomination. That la to say. In leading a forlorn hope he would rather put somebody else forward than lead himself. Because her father opened a letter containing a rejected poem which she had sent to a magazine, a Kansas girl ir. s l herself as a man, ran away from home and hired out as a farm hand, When found she was doing good service. If all KanMs girls were equally sensitive, the farmof that State, in view of the dearth of irvest hands, would do well to encourtheir daughters to write poetry. Editors rould attend to the rejection feature wlthnt any preliminary arrangement. In well-Informed Roman Catholic circles there is no disappointment because Archttahop Ireland was not created a cardinal at the recent consistory, because they did SsOt expect it. No new cardinal will be named in this counfry until Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore shall have passed away. America is regarded at the Vatican a missionary country, and it will be manyyears yet before it will be placed in the MM category In Catholic affairs with Italy, France. Austria and Spain. The distinction is rational and America will survive it. With belated energy. June did something In Its last two days to reduce its shortage SB temperature, but not enough to change Ms character of being- one of the most accent ic Junes on record. With the exception of two or three days its temperature has been much below the normal. Also, although there has seemed to be considerable rain, the precipitation has not equaled the average in the middle West. In Eastern States, on the contrary, and after weeks of drought, it went to the the extreme and save them seventeen

rainy days In succession. At the same time in the Northwest Minnesota and the Dakotas an unbroken dry season has prevailed. It needs no weather prophet, however, to predict with reasonable assurance that July will offer a goodly supply of what is known as corn weather days in which corn grows mightily and humanity suffers and perspires for the sake of this staple crop. CLOIDS IX THE EAST. Whether it is merely summer madness or whether there is really something In the situation. the fact remains that the warlike rumors at two very dangerous points are growing uncomfortably persistent. We are told that Turkey has 100,000 troops massed on the Bulgarian frontier and that armed bands of both Turks and Bulgarians are making raids across the frontier. An outbreak in the Balkans is the bete noir of every statesman and diplomat in Europe, through their well-grounded fear that it may mean a general break-up of the armed peace and a disastrous period of war, involving nearly every one of the great powers on the continent. In another quarter of the world there seems likelihood of trouble. Yesterday's dispatches from the Orient contained two telegrams that look significant. The first iS the statement that a conference of high Russian officials, including the minister of war, the admiral of the Russian Pacific fleet and the minister to China is to be held at Port Arthur early in July, presumably to formulate a final announcement of Russia's Manchurian policy. A rather more significant one to the American reader is the demand of Admiral Evans for an additional five hundred marines to be held as reserves at Olongapo, in the Philippines, where we already have one thousand. The admiral gave as a reason the signs of internal unrest in China, but one cannot help remembering at the same time that there is at present in the neighborhood of Port Arthur and Tien-Tsin the greatest gathering of war

ships of Russia, England, Japan and America ever known at any point along the China coast. To go back a little there is in existence a treaty between Great Britain and Japan, forming an offensive and defensive alliance to maintain the status quo in Manchuria and Korea, a treaty to which the United States is not a signatory, but with the purposes of which our government and our people are in full sympathy. But a few weeks ago it was reported that Russia had forced upon China a treaty by which she was to have practical control of Manchuria. It was denied, then partly admitted, and then a lot of diplomatic dust was thrown until nobody seems to really know just what has happened in Peking or just what is going to happen in Manchuria. But it looks at this distance very much as if the British, Japanese and United States governments proposed to find out through their own representatives on the ground just what is going on and to be ready to fight on short notice if things are not going right. THE COTTON CORNER. Speculation is bad enough when It ruins only the speculators and those dependent upon them, but when it reaches out and takes the bread out of the mouths of thou sands of people, victims of circumstances over which they have no possible control, our civilization should find some reasonable way to put a stop to it. Where the speculation is in stocks, bonds ai.i other evidences of debt, paper fortunes are made and swept away, and only the speculators and those immediately or remotely depend ent on their prosperity are affected, but when the speculation is In staple products it is almost sure to disturb the natural or der of things, and somebody usually a great many people must suffer for it. A striking case in point Is furnished just now by the wild speculation in cotton. First one clique and then another has taken its turn at booming cotton until they have it up to a prohibitive price. Already numer ous mills throughout the New England and South Atlantic States and in England have closed because the prices for cotton fabrics cannot be forced up in the same proportion and they cannot manufacture without loss with the present ruling price for their raw material. This means that many thousands of operative are thrown out of employment and must suffer severely for lack of the bare necessities of life. Of course there must be a crash that will hurt the very people that are now forcing the high prices. A New Orleans firm started this corner and took profits. Then one Sully took it up and carried it along and took profits. Then the Brown clique, at present in control, having come Into the market at artificially high prices, saw no way of getting their money back except by forcing the thing higher. The rapid closing of the mills will, of course, shut off the demand, and pretty soon banks will get tired of carrying the speculators, and the next thing will be a smash. Then cotton will rule at normal prices and the textile industry can resume operations. FICTION IN LIBRARIES. At the convention of librarians held at Niagara Falls last week the question of the circulation of fiction in public libraries came up for discussion, as usual at these gatherings. One librarian, John Cotton Dana, of Newark, N. J., had made a systematic study of the matter, and his report throws an interesting light on the taste of the public in fiction. From thirty-four libraries Mr. Dana secured the names of all the writers of novels whose books had beeu loaned by each library on three days, with the total number of books by each writer. The resultant showing differs widely from the monthly lists of "best sellers" found in the pub lishers' magazines. The ten most read novelists In this country, as indicated by the thirty-four replies are, in order of their popularity. F. Marlon Crawford, Rosa Nouchafjtg Carey. Alexander Dumas, Amanda Douglas, Amelia Barr. Clara Louise Burnham, Conan Doyle. Charles King, Anthony Hope and Gilbert Parker. The second ten includes Frank Stockton. E. P. Roe. Mary Johnston. Winston Churchill. Mary Jane Holmes. Mrs. Burnett. S. R. Crockett, Mrs. Alexander, Paul Leicester Ford and Hall Calue. The twenty-first in order was Dickens. Hawthorne was fifty-ninth. This list may be taken as a measure of the average taste of the community, and it must be acknowledged that the average is not high. At the same time it is an entirely respectable and even commendable list so far as the moral tone of the books which the several authors represent is concerned. If not all of them would suit the taste of intellectual and exacting readers, at least they are innocuous. Some of the writers like Rosa Nouchette Carey, Amanda Douglas, Amelia Barr. Clara Louise Burnham. E. P.

Roe, Mary Jane Holmes, Mrs. Alexander

and Paul Leicester Ford, furnish forth weak tea and thin toast, but why should fault be found with people who are suited with that variety of mental pabulum? The primary purpose as well as the final end and aim of fiction is entertainment, and since a great number of people find the novels of the authors named entertaining. why Interfere with them? It is easy to see that entertainment was what the library patrons who chose these authors were seeking, Marion Crawford never wrote a dull story, llio he never wrote a book with an obvious "purpose." Dumas whose position, between Rosa Nouchette Carey and Amanda Douglas is. by the way, rather amusing Is one of the greatest of entertainers. Conan Doyle. Charles King, Anthony Hope and Gilbert Parker can each make an otherwise dull hour pass pleasantly. Frank Stockton is amusing to some; Churchill, deadly dull to the critical, others find delightful; Miss Johnston, Mrs. Burnett and Hall Calne supply the dime-novel element, and Crockett, the cold chills that some readers delight to secure from their fiction. Why Corelll is not in the list is not plain. Can it be that her popularity is waning? The policy advocated by Mr. Dana and other librarians was -the purchase of a larger number of good novels and the elimination of the poorer sort, but who are to be the judges? Will the librarians use their own taste as to what is "good" and what is "bad," or be governed by the standard set by the readers? Presumably the first, but why should they insist upon a patron of the library reading Meredith or Hardy or Howells or Eliot, when he wants E. P. Roe? Why not gratify the average taste? I I I I I I ! Bi-ceut?nary celebrations of John Wesley's birth have been the order of the day for nearly two months, and people without biographical dictionaries at hand are beginning to ask when the founder of Methodism was born, anyway. It is just as well to explain, therefore, that while the actual anniversary, according to the existing method of computation, was June 28, a good many ministers, feeling that a few weeks could make no difference to a man born 200 years ago, arranged the celebration in their respective communities to suit their own convenience. Consequently there has been no uniformity in the events and Wesley's name has been much before the public of late. Also, some ministers may have been misled by the biographies, many of which, following the old-style calendar in use at the time of Wesley's birth, give the date as June 17. It is the general opinion, however, that nothing too much has been said about him. The action of the New York State Ginseng Growers' Association in providing that any member who plants Japanese ginseng seed or is found in possession of Japanese ginseng root shall be expelled requires explanation. Is Japanese ginseng an inferior plant, or is it better than the American variety? If the latter, then why not encourage its growth? It is customary with intelligent cultivators of the soil to improve their crops by every means In their power. The boycotting of plants simply because they are foreign is something' new in the agricultural line. Senator Hanna says that if he bad time to preach he would help the Salvation Army with his voice. The matter of time ought easily to be arranged. Ma.iy faithful workers in the army pursue their ordinary vocations by day and participate in street meetings at night. Exacting as his political and personal duties are, the senator must surely get an evening off once In a while. He could do a great work as a salvation, r. Saints and sinners and all would turn out to hear him. The New York judge who Increased a burglar's sentence from four to nine years because the prisoner was insolent and insulting helps to lessen public respect for the courts. A man fit to be a judge should have his temper under control and should have too much self-respect to feel himself insulted by anything a low grade of criminal might say. Five years in prison is a great price to pay for "talking back" to a judge not equal to his place. The easy familiarity which some people engaged in religious work acquire with the Lord, the Savior and the Holy Ghost is a bit surprising to the average layman, raised in respectful awe of the Trinity. It almost seems as if only their intangible spiritual nature prevents them from being slapped on the back by an occasional campmeeting enthusiast. Farmers of the country will not be surprised at the report of a discovery that frauds have been practiced by the contractor who furnishes the government the seeds that are distributed free by congressmen to their rural constituents. Except as chicken feed they have never set great store by those seeds. Why didn't the Turners tell us that kisses from pretty girls were to be a part of the prizes of the victors in their athletic contests? They would have had more entries than they could possibly have taken care of. Women have come to the rescue of the farmers of Kansas and are making up for the shortage of men in the harvest fields. Evidently the State produces better specimens of womankind than the Nations and Leases. Your Indiana man is always at the front, and no one hereabouts is in the least surprised to hear that it was young Steele, of Indiana, who won a naval boat race at Kiel and was awarded the Kaiser's cup. The Germans were surprised to see American sailors spending money for hack hire while on shore leave. It would be a mistake to assume that they do that in time of war. It is not surprising that Americans won in the launch and cutter races at Kiel. When it comes to sailing a boat the strain of the Viking blood shows all over America. Brown county seems to have an endless chain. The more Democrats the more whltecaps; the more whitecaps the more Democrats, and so on ad nauseam. It is to be hoped that the fatal accident in that Pittsburg pickle foundry will not be productive of any additional varieties to dazxle our eyes on the billboards. It is suggested that Lieut. McCue. who married two wives, may be insane. If be is not, he soon will be. LonReit Ruling; Popes. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The renewed reports of Pope Leo's failing health call attention to the fact that his pontificate haa already been longer than any other in the history of the papacy excaDt that of bis predecessor, Pius IX, who

was elected in 1846 and died in 1878. According to tradition the longest pontificate prior to Plus IX was that of Saint Peter, the first of the Roman bishops. Besides these two occupants of the papal chair only eight of the 259 popes prior to Leo XIII reigned more than twenty-one years, the average being a little over seven years. The pontificates of more than twenty years have been those of Saint Peter. 41-66; Saint Sylvester. 314-34. Hadrian L 782-Tv5; Leo III, T95-S16: Alexando- III. 1159-11R1; Urban VIII. 1623-1624; Clement XI, 1700-1721; Pius VI. 177517y9; Flus VII, 10-1823; Pius IX. 1846-1878. and Leo XIII. In the nineteenth century alone there have been, it will be seen, three long pontificates, two in the previous century, and only six in the seventeen centuries preceding. 1 THE HUMORISTS.

An Ancient Gags Revised, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Why is the beef trust like Pharaoh's daughter? Because it gets a little profit out of the water. Inconsistent. If in worn garb our neighbors go. We criticise their doing so; At costly garments still we fret And wonder if they go in debt. Detroit Free Press. Another Objectionable Form. Chicago Tribune. "No. Tlcklowell." his mother said. "I cannot permit It. You may go and pee the other boys bathe in the surf, if you wish, but" "But!" interrupted the little Boston boy, with bitterness. "Government by conjunction!" Chicago's Limits. Philadelphia Ledger. "Re's a citizen of Illinois, isn't he?" "No, he can t be." "Why, he gave me that impression." "You must have misunderstood him. He told me he lived Just outside the limits of Chicago." An Apt Description. Washington Star. "Why do they call the camel the 'ship of the desert?' " "Never could understand It melf until I rode on one of 'em," said the yourg man who had just been abroad. "Never was so seasick in my life." Indiscretion. New York Times. "Isn't the perfect trust and confidence engaged people have in each other perfectly beautiful!" "Perfectly idiotic, I should say." "Why?" "Because when I was engaged I told my future wife all about my Income and prospects; and now I can't spend a dollar on myself without her knowing about it." Discouraged Genius. Washington Star. "So you have decided to give up Journalism?" "I have." answered the fair-haired, blue-eyed youth. "I have done my best, but" "Is the work too herd?" "Too hard? No, it's too easy. After I had got up some splendid articles explaining the 1 recise intentions of Russia in Manchuria and the prospects of free trade in England and the obligations of Americua wealth to art they made a fuss because I overlooked an item about a new sewer." CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS AIUVAi MEETING OF THE CHURCH WELL ATTENDED. Reports Submitted by Executive Offleere Testimonial Meeting; to Be Held This Evening. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BOSTON, Mass., June 30. Although several sessions of the Christian Science gathering at Boston have passed, Scientists have continued to arrive throughout the day in goodly numbers, regretting that they missed the feature of the trip and visit to Mrs. Eddy at Pleasant View, Concord, N H., yesterday, but still happy at being present for the annual meeting this afternoon and the great testimonial meeting which will be held to-morrow evening. In point of interest to the members of the mother church the meeting held this afternoon was by far the most important session of the annual convention. While the attendance was restricted absolutely to members of the church, who were admitted by card, f-om 6,000 to 8,000 people were present. Tae exercises consisted of annual reports of executive officers, brief reports from branch churches throughout the field, which means the world, resolutions of thanks to local committees and an extended report from William B. Johnson, clerk of the church, comprising practically its history from the time of its formation in 1S59. and much other business of peculiar interest to the members of the cult. Not a few of the scientists have returned home and yet no very appreciable reduction In the numbers is observed. Many living in near-by towns are expected to return for the Wednesday night testimonial meeting. Contrary to the usual custom with conventions, the interest grows rather than slackens as this one proceeds, and the people seem eager to remain for the concluding session, disproving the popular notion that their interest centered in seeing Mrs. Eddy. As shown by the clerk's report the membership of the church increased 3.696 during the past year, making the total membership 27,796, the admission of this June being the largest in the history of the church. The report gave 566 regularlv organized churches, a gain of 55 during the year. Another denomination report was to the effect that the death rate this year is 2.24 per 1,000, against that of 18.73 per 1,000 in the city of Boston for the year 1902; the mortality in the membership of the mother church being lower than that of last year, which was 2.32 per 1.000. A report which was received with enthusiasm was that given by George V. Reed, of Berlin. Germany. It Indicated a growth of 200 per cent, and showed that the Christian Science text-book had been circulated in Russia. Hungary. Bavaria. Italy, Belgium, Holland and South Africa. Servian Names. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Speaking of the names so prominent now in the stories coming out of Servia," said an observant man. "they are not so bad when you once get used to them, nor are they s hard to pronounce. You no doubt have noticed that all Serivan names end with a syllable having some resemblance to th. English word 'itch.' Some of the names end in leg,' or Just with 'ic.' Sometimes it is 'ich,' or lcs,' or 'isc,' or isch,' and so on. It makes no difference how the name ends, you will make no mistake if you give the sound of itch' to the last syllable. That will be the proper Servian sound. For Petrovitch, or Petrovic, would be correct, and in both instances the word would be pronounced in the same way. by sounding the 'Itch;' and so. too, the name Karageorgevitch can be spelled Karageorgevle without changing the pronunciation in the least. Serivan names are all right when one gets used to them, but they are strange and shocking when put into the columns of English newspapers." His Reverence" the King. NOW York Press. That King Edward Is King of Great Britain and Ireland. Emperor of India, a field marshal, admiral and a host of other things very one is aware, but few know the King is also a clerryman of the Church of England, with a salary. In Pembrokeshire. Wales, St. David's Cathedral claims King Edward as a prebendary, and for this office he is entitled to a salary of 1 per annum. It is not known that his Majesty has ever preached a sermon In St. David's Cathedral, and certainly the simple Welsh folk of the parish have no knowledge of their King having done so. In the cathedral is a royal pew, which can only be occupied by other than royalty by an express order from his Majesty. St. Ewvid's Is one of the oldeat cathedrals in England, and during the middle ages was visited by many pilgrims in search of cures and blessings.

AN AWFUL SLAUGHTER

FORCES OF THE MAD MULLAH SCRPRISED BY ABYSSIMAXS, Who Slew Ten Thousand of the Fanatic's Speuramen and Captured Moat of Their Supplies. WATERING PLACES CLOSED BRITISH TO CO-OPERATE IN FVRSIIT OF THE MAD Ml'LLAH. War Office at London Notified by Col. Rochefort. Who Is Serving; with the Abyssinian Army. LONDON, June 30 The War Office today received a dispatch from Colonel Rochefort, one of the British officers serving with the Abyssinian force in Somaliland, which says the Abyssinians, on May 31, after a series of forced marches, struck the Mad Mullah's forces near Jeyd, surprising them at dawn and killing 10,000 spearmen and capturing almost all their cattle and sheep and 1,000 camels. Colonel Rochefort announces that the Abyssinians have effectually closed to the Mullah all the watering places south of the Gerlogubl-Galadi line and he hopes they will soon be in contact with the British forces and thus be able to co-operate in the pursuit of the Mad Mullah, who was detained in his movements by the fact that he is crossing a waterless part of the country. The colonel's dispatch was dated June 14. General Manning, the British commander in Somaliland, East Africa, has telegraphed to the War Office, discrediting the reports that several British officers are prisoners In the Mad Mullah's camp. The general says deserters from the Mullah's forces deny the rumors. Apparently the only foundation for the rumor of a British defeat In Somaliland was the gossip of Somalis who arrived at Jibutil, Abyssinia, from Jerbera, apparently magnifying the old Plunkett affair. The story bears its own refutation, as the natives said three whites who had survived the disaster arrived at Berbera June 19. As Berbera is only three hours from Aden, the news, if it is correct, would have reached London the same day. VICTOR HVtiO'S FORMER HOME. Mansion in the Place Des Vosges Presented to City of Paris. PARIS. June 30. The historic mansion on the Place des Vosges In which Victor Hugo spent the most active years of his life was to-day formally presented to the municipality of Paris by the grandchildren and other kin of the great author. The event attracted widespread Interest in literary circles. Paul Meurlce, one of the chief benefactors, pointed out that the gift was designed to give France a memorial similar to England's home of Shakspeare and Germany's home of Goethe. The condition of the mansion Is much the same as when Victor Hugo occupied it, besides being tilled with many valuable souvenirs of his work, a library of five thousand volumes and a collection of the author's drawings and wood carvings. The room where Victor Hugo died is exactly as it was at the time of his demise, the furnishing of the bed, the clock, etc., being Identical. The house also contains many souvenirs of Victor Hugo's friends, including Iamartine, George Sands and the elder Dumas, consisting of inkwells, pens and letters. . LEO IN HIS GARDENS. He Is Wonderfully Well and Expects to Live Several Summers. ROME, June 30. The Pope descended to the Vatican gardens this morning for the first time this year and was driven about for an hour and a half. He seemed to enJoy the air immensely and noticed the changes made in the gardens since last year. He was especially interested in the growth of the vines planted by himself and made Inquiries regarding the prospects of the vintage. When the Pope returned to his apartments he seemed not in the least fatigued and received several bishops. Monsignors Mourey and D'Haltpoul, French prelates attached to the Papal court, left for Paris to-day on a vacation which will last until October. They previously asked Dr. Lapponl. the Pope's physician, if their vacation was not likely So be interrupted and his reply was: "Do not be anxious. You may stop away for several summers.'' At present the Pope is wonderfully well. People who have seen him recently declare that all traces of the Pontiff's recent indispositions have disappeared. LANCASTER CELEBRATES MASSACHUSETTS TOWN THAT WAS POINDED 2SO YEARS AGO. Oration by Senator C. W. Fairbanks, n Direct Descendant of the Firat Settler of the Place. LANCASTER. Mass., June 30. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Lancaster was celebrated today, the guests of honor being Governor Bates, Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Senator George F. Hoar and former Governor George S. Boutwell. The orator of the day was Senator Fairbanks, who Is a descendant of John Prescott. the first settler of the town. The senator said in part: "With pleasure I have come to bear testimony of our gratitude to the East for what she has been and is to the West. I do not feel as though I had come among strangers, for the ashes of many of my ancestors rest in the soil of New England. We return to New England with filial affection. We look to her as a venerable mother; wise, noble-minded and generoushearted. She may have seemed somewhat exacting and austere in her earlier days, but she has mellowed and sweetened with age. If she has faults they lean to virtue's side. "We recognise and gladly acknowledge our everlasting indebtedness to you for our high Ideals which the pioneers carried hence to th.-ir humble homes in the West. They took with them the love of religion, the love of learning, the love of home. These have been the Inspiration of the West. They have been the sure foundation of her development from small beginnings to her present strength and power. "The East and the West are not composed of people of different bloods, of divergent racial tendencies, but they are of the same blood; of the same races. They have kindred sympathies and like aspirations. Though many years have intervened since the early pioneers of the East took up their march Into the unbroken and hostile wilderness we have not been divided i M bonds of attachment ha - grown steadily stronger. The sons and daughters of the East carried Into the West their iove of liberty their devotion to republican Institutions, their frugality and their Indomitable pluck, which defied adversity. If you would know how we have j-o splendidly won our way I would, in answet, point you to these influences." Has n Cure for Epilepay. Milwaukee Sentinel. Dr. W. Towns, of Fond du Lac, Is a guest at the Republican House, having come to

town to visit some pstients. He Is an exthusiast on the subject of epilepsy, which he claims to cur by a remedy discovered after thirty years of trying. "Some of my friends." he said. "Including Judge Marshall, of the Supreme Court, are anxious that I should establish a sanitarium and treat the unfortunates In this State, doing nothing else. I intend to go to Madison some day and talk to President Lyon, of the board of control, about introducing mv methods into the State hospitals for the insane. Epilepsy can surely be cured, and if the State would take hold of the disease I could reduce the number of dangerous insane fast. You know that a great deal of insanity is merely the result of epilepsy." RURAL CARRIERS NAMED

APPOINTMENTS FOR THE INDIANA FREE DELIVERY SERVICE. New Route to Be Established in Mar. shall County July IB-Two FourthClass Postmasters. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. June 30.-Rural carriers have been appointed in Indiana as follows: Alpine. Carter W. Farrlngton and Kenneth Perln; Bentonville. Corwin G. Overhlser and William P. Henby; Connersville. Edward L. Jordan and Oscar P. Hawkins; Connersville. Lucius L. Du Kate and Samuel E. De Haven; Connersville. Franliin O. Bryson and Carrie Bryson; Connersville, Albert L. Klrtley and Leander Kirtley; Connersville, John F. Snyder and J. R. Aber; Dublin, William Sullivan and Robert Elliott; Everton, William O. Kerr and Steven L. Crandall; Everton. Claud Williams and Arthur Williams; Lyons Station. Jacob A. Doner and Llod E. Doner; Milton. Samuel F. Morris and Caleb L Morris: Sharpsville, John M. Grishaw and Louis Foley. X X Two additional carriers have been allowed for duty in the postofflce at Fort Way;;e, Ind., to take effect July L xxx Indiana postmasters have been appointed as follows: Dorrell L. Bauman, at Chase, Benton county, vice Grant Gilger, resigned, and John E. Powell at St. Magdalene. Ripley county, vice Anthony Powell, resigned. XXX An additional rural free delivery service has been ordered established at Bremen, Marshall county, Indiana, to take effect July 15. It will cover an area sixty-one miles square, with a population of 1,700. XXX The Importers and Traders' National Bank of New York has been approved as a reserve agent for the Commercial National Bank of Union City, Ind. XXX David L. Axton has been commissioned postmaster at Grass, Ind. JOHN E. MONK. SAYS HE IS INNOCENT HARRINGTON DECLARES "JIM M'CANN WILL SHOW IP," And When He Does Those Who Called the Prisoner a Murderer Will Be Made to "Sweat Blood' ST. LOUIS, June 30. F. Seymour Barrington, confined in the county Jail at Clayton on the charge of having murdered his friend and benefactor, James H. McCaun, continues to declare his innocence. "Jim McCann will show up," Barrington declared to-day, "and when he does I will make those who called me his murderer sweat blood." The prisoner went on to say that he knows McCann is alive, but that for certain reasons McCann is remaining in hiding, and, even though he sees the newspaper accounts of his probible murder, he will not return to St. Louis and dispel the murder theory. All day detectives dragged the pond nnd searched diligently In the vicinity for the clothing belonging to the victim, v hose body was nude when discovered. The clothing has not yet been found. The features of the dead man were so completely effaced that the first impression that putrefaction from contact with the stagnant water had wrought destruction la giving way to the belief that the person or persons who shot two bullets into his brain and cut his throat deliberately sliced off his face to conceal his Identity ana relied upon the action of the stagnant rater to obliterate the evidence of the cutting of the flesh before the body would be found. The dead body was burled to-day In St. Peter's Cemetery as that of James P. McCann. Barrington will not talk of his plans foi defense. He declares that lie will be cleared and intimates that he will conduct his case himself. A Comparison. Washington Letter. An American in the Philippines, writing on business to a friend in this city, Incidentally sums up his impressions of our annexed territory thus: "The Philippine islands are a fierce proposition. I would not take Governor Taft's Job, and you know how avaricious I am Here are the attractions: Bugs, ants, lizards, mosquitoes, snakes, beri-beri, leprosy, cholera, bubonic plauge, fevers, dhoubey Itch. etc. News Is a month behind all the time. Ink coats a dollar Mex.) for a halfpint bottle, but the man who stays here to sell It deserves the price. It is inconceivable to me how any white man can 'enjoy' Manila. An engineer who has lived three years in Butte, Mont., and has had plenty of chance to see these Islands, tells me that Butte excels the Philippines as a place of residence. I really do not know which I should choose." Any Eastern person who has ever been in Butte will appreciate the comparison. Emersoulana. Christian Register. Emerson sometimes resisted Introductions. "O Elizabeth," ho said once to MUa Hoar, "whom God hath put asunder, why should man Joint together?" Emerson used to say that it would be a party if Alcott should survive him, since he was the only man who could explain to the world what Alcott really meant. When a Second Adventlst went from Boston to Concord to warn Emerson of the approaching end of the world, on the way from the city he met Theodore Pnrker returning from a call on Emerson. Recognizing him, he delivered his message, whereupon Parker replied: "Oh. that makes no difference to me. I live in Boston." The prophet went on until he found Emerson, whom he warned that he world would soon pass away. "No matter." said Emerson, "we can do very well without it." Head and Foot. New York Press. A stranger entered a hat store yesterday and asked for Ferdinand H. Schiller. Whrn Schiller appeared the order was given for a new .straw hat to be made to order. The forty-pound mechanism that hatters use to measure the head was applied. "What's that infernal machine? Looks like a typewriter," said the stranger. When he saw a ground plan of his head marked out by needles he got mad. "I didn't come here to have my shoes half-soled." he said. "I want a hat." When things were explained to him he was mollified. "Give me that shape." he demanded: "I'm going to send It home to my shemaker and order him to make a pair of shoes by lt. I never knew before that a man's head is Just the shape of his foot." To Reach Farmers. Philadelphia Record. An advertiser who deals largely with fanners saya he gets his beat results from using morning dallies. "Since the Jnauguratlon of the rural delivery system and the extension of the trolley lines every farmer must take a dally newspaper and the morning issue reaches him soon after publication, while the evening paper nam lie in the postofflce over night.

R. M.LOVE ASSASSINATED

CONTROLLER OF' THE STATE OF TEXAS SLAIN IN HIS OFFICE. Shot by W. G. Hill, Who Waa Mortally Wounded During; a Strand for his Revolver Revengeful Deed. AUSTIN. Tex.. June SO. Frensied br supposed wrongs, W. O. Hill, an ex-attache of the State controller's office, this morning entered the private office of State Controller R. M. Lme and killed him by means of two bullets from a large-caliber re vol -'r. As Hill turned to flee he was Intercepted by Chief Clerk Stevens of the department. who engaged him in a scuffle, during which Hill's revolver was accidentally exploded. The bullet entered the murderer s abdomen, causing a wound from which he died this afternoon, three hours after the death of the man whose life he sought. To-day's tragedy is the first assassinstion ever chronicled in the Texas capltol. The shooting threw tha town and State into a commotion, but tho death of the assassin as well as his victim has closed the story. As to what caused the shooting none can explain other than it was the act of a madman. Hill had been an employe of the controller's office for ten years preceding Love's term of office. He was let out by Mr. Love when the latter took charge, and it is presumed this fact preyed upon his mind. This morning he went to the capltol, entered Love's private office, spoke to him cheerfully, shook hands, and handing him a letter to read sat down at the invitation of the controller. No sooner had Mr. Love began the reading of the letter than Hill sprang to his feet and fired two shots Into the body of Mr. Love, one taking effect Just above the other immediately below the heart. Mr. Ive screamed. dropped the letter and sprang half towards hit assassin, then gasped and fell backward. Hill, seeing that his purpose had beam accomplished, turned to make for the door. He was intercepted by Clerk Stevens, who grappled with him and was wrestling with him when Hill's pistol was accidentally discharged, the bullet entering Hiil'a abdomen. He fell a dead weinht In Stevens's arm and waa lowered gently to the floor, where he lay until taken to the hospital. Love died within an hour after the shooting. The letter that Hill gave to Love reads as follow! "Col. R. M. Love. State Controller: "Dear Sir Public office is a public trust. Public offices are created for the servica of the people, and not for the aggrandisement of a few individuals. The practice of bartering department clerkships for private gain is a disgrace to the public service, and in this nefarious traffic you are a record-breaker. "You have robbed the stste employes, and your incompetent sdministration has prompted others to rob the State. "The man who. claiming to be a Christian, deprives others of employment without cause is a base hypocrite and a tyrant. "The greatest mind that ever gsve its wisdom to the world, the mind of all others capable of 'umpiring the mutiny between rigm and wrong." said: 'You take my life when you do take from me the means by which I live.' If that be true, you are a murderer of the deepeet crime. Although I cannot help myself, before laying life's burdens down I shall strike a blow feeble though it be for the good of my deserving fellow man. "For the right against the wrong. For the weak against the stroug. "W. G. HILL Mr. Hill was a quiet and gentlemanly person and was never known to have been addicted to any bad habits. At the time of the shooting he was holding a good position here. Immediately after the shooting, and while Hill was still lying in the corridor, a bottle of laudanum was taken from his pocket, and. reaching for it. be said: "Let me take that .Td die easy." AMERICANS LEAVE KIEL ADMIRAL COTTON'S SHIPS SAIL AMID GERMAX "HOCHS." Bands on the Kaiser's War Vessels Play "America" and Prlaee Henry Stands at Salute. KIEL, June SO. The "United States squadron sailed at 6 p. m. to-day from Kiel, all the German ships saluting snd the Americans replying. The flagship Kearsarge, the Chicago and the San Francisco will go through the Cattegat, stopping rt Kallundborg. Denmark, for two days. The Machias will go by wa of the Kiel canal to Brunsbuttel, and thence will rendezvous with the other American ships south of Spithead. The squadron will arrive at Portsmouth July 7. . As each American ship passed along tha line of German vessels the Gerraeus cheered and their bands played "Amerlea." Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, on the bridge of the German flagship, stood at salute until the last ship had passed. The Americsn officers, though interested In the proceedings every day of their atay. wer glad to get away from the necessity of changing uniforms three or four times a day and from long perioda of duty. Rear Admiral Cotton and the captains of the American ships were also relieved to depart without any untoward incident having occurred. They, with Ambassadors Tower and Meyer, had been in dally contact with Emperor William and were impressed with his sincerity and earnestness. They all said that they felt he could have done nothing more to ahow hla appreciation of the) visit of the squadron to Kiel or his desire is win American good will. The presence of the squadron, from the side of the general public. Is regarded as s demonstration of friendliness, especially as the battleship Kearsarge was sent at five days' notice to Join the aquadron. nnd also becauae the administration at Washington expressed definite sentiments toward Germany through Ambassador Tower s apeech. Personally tho Emperor's bearing waa unaffected and eves Jovial. He has often spoken with similar openness. German observers await with curiosity reports of the American squadron's entertain ment at Portsmouth. The British Forelg Office at first desired that the Americas warships should arrive at Portsmouth in time to enable the B'itish ships to Join them in celebrating Independence day. This, however, became difficult, owing to the desirability of the Americsn squadron staying here until June JO. Hence the British dates were changed. The fourteen-ar cutter of the German turret ship Kaiser Wilhelm II beat the United Statea cruiser Chicago's twelve-oar cutter to-lay In a race over a two -mil course, covering the (ilstan?e in twentythree seconds better tune. The winning German cutter, on account of having an extra pair of oars, started fifteen seconds after the Chicago's cutter and finished eight seconds ahead. The Kaiser Wilhelm U s cutter is tho champion of the German squadron, which won a cup from twelve other German four-teen-oar cutters yesterday. The crew wan in excellent training, and challenged the best boat on the American squadron, wnich was the Chicago's, the winner of sev. 'al competitions in Mediterranean ports this spring. After about a mile and a quarter of the course had been rred the nosa of the Kaiser Wilhelm H a boat drew level with the ptern of the Chicago's boat and eventually, Inch by inch, passed the latter and pulled away from her. The Americans kept up the race most manfully, but then continued to lose ground until the finish. Orlnln of the Cakewalk. New Orleans Times-Democrat. The French have found a reason for the popularity of the cake-walk In Paris. The thing is French! One of the negroe at the Nouveau Cirque, interviewed by a Paris paper, says that the origin of the dance was French. According to this latest account, some of the French refugees from the court of Msrle Antoinette Introduced the minuet Into New Orleans about the time of the revolution, and It was the native Imitation of the most fashionable dance in Europe that was afterward developed iutw the cake-walk.