Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAYV MAY 23 1904.

JAPAN'S RELATIOHS VITH WHITE RACE NOT AW : 0 F SATlSFAGTORr NATU RE

There Is a "White Perir More Pressing in Nippon than the "Yellow Perir Ever Can Be. STRENGTH AND MORALITY Former Conceded to the Whites, but the Latter Is Doubted Selection of Virtues and Vices. Co rr pon-ler.ee of the Indianapolis Journal TOKIO. April 21. One of - the foremost statesmen of Japan, whose name Is withheld as the sole condition on which he would grrant the interview, gave your correspondent the following outline of Nippon's relations with the white race, from the first visit of white men, in 1S43, as being of interest in connection with the present war. J American sympathy Is no more than our good right, he said, for the United States are mainly responsible for the white peril confronting these Island. Up to the time when President Fillmore ordered us at the point of a hundred guns to open our ports to foreign commerce, we thought we had done once and for all with the cuter world. But let us trace Japan's connection with the world of the white man from the beginning. In 143 the first white ben entered these islands, shipwrecked Portuguese. .They carried powder and rifles and relying on these weapons, forced their trade on us. They also brought us the friars. The latter succeeded in converting a number of small princes, who In their turn coerced tneir sudJects to embrace the new religion. Finally the Shogrm-that is, the actual ruler of the ancient empire the Shogun himself became a Christian and instituted persecution against the followers of Buddha. That unworthy yellow man died in the year 15S7: his successor was of a different mind. Calllns the monks together he questioned them as follows: "What right have you to preach religion, a purely spiritual and Individual matter, under pain of sufferings and death?" "What right have you to make war on other religions and particularly their interpreters, our native priests?" "What religion is tbt which empowers its priests to steal men and carry them across water as slaves?" The monks failed to answer these questions satisfactorily and the ßhogun banished them from Japan forthwith. This, our first connection with the white man had lasted forty years, and left a bad taste in the mouth. Six hundred thousand Japanese had been converted to Christianity, and it was charged that many of them had conspired with the Spaniards, who at that time were master in the Philippines, to turn Japan over to their rule. Tfce conspiracy led to the persecution of Christian Japanese; in 1503 Christian worship was prohibited. There were some martyrs, and the Christian belief was eradicated. SPLENDID ISOLATION. A splendid isolation followed for Japan. For nearly 300 yaars our country remained hermetically closed against white influence. Only certain Dutch traders were allowed to visit our shoresvat stated Intervals and at certain points. By these means the foreign world acquired our chief products porcelain, bronzes, fans and lacquered ware. During the period when no foreigner's foot trod her shores, Japan was eminently prosperous. There was no more beautiful, no more fertile Land under the sun and no happier people. 1 his exceptional state continued until 1853, when President Flllmoro sent Commodore Perry with a squadron of four vessels to the Mikado, demanding consent to the negotiation of a Sreaty of friendship and commerce between the two governments. The arrival of the Yankee squadron precipitated a revolution, and after a show of force the American demands had to be compiled with. Immediately afterwards the white men began to overrun our harbor towns, creating bad feeling everywhere. After a fsw years hatred of the foreigners had so incrrased that a number of merchants were slain just as Chinese and Italians are occasionally murdered in American cities to-day. Our punishment was swift and terrible. American. British and French men-of-war appeared in short order and began to bombard our defenseless cities. Palaces, pagodas, temples the proudeEt monuments of Japanese architecture were turned tu rubbish within a few hours. And to cap the climax we had to pay 75.000,000 of francs indemnity. Up to then the yellow world owed not a copper to the white man. It was the third lesson the whites gave us unasked, by the way. And our wise . men began arguing: "Wonderful peoples, these Americans and Europeans. A handful of them gathers within a few miles from our shores, wrtcks our most precious monuments and works of architecture, kills yellow men by the hundreds all without endangering their own skin and hands us a stunning bill. We must acquire the art of bombarding as a source of self-preservation." CANNON AND VICES. Accordingly we learned the language of cannon, and mastered other traits and vices of the white man. And while devouring foreign dishes, our appetite grew. We concluded that we must learn everything calculated to make whites superior to Japanese in brute force and I dare say we learned It! We took over from the white man his political apparatus, his army and navy, his economic and governmental systems, his ducational, industrial and agricultural methods, hla commercial usages, even. But mind, we never had the slightest desire to assimilate with the white man; our Idea was to become his equal la strength, to set up. under his Instruction, an Impregnable defense, no more, no lew. At the same time we retained of our national civilization everything worth retaining, customs and ethics, our arts, amusements, moral laws and religious belief. Our Constitution is framed after the Prussian pattern; it seemed the most promising to U3, but our administration is French iuuiiu iimi üvrrjr .european, not a jrrencninan. envies the French their administration. Up to 1J71 our army, too, was organized on the French clan, hut whn Flttld Marshal Yamagau returned from the 9 ranco-uermao war lie persuaded the Mliado to adopt the Prussian system, drill and all. We continued lnveatiratinar txA adopting the best hence our navy is con structed alter me unuan plans. The Unietd Staes furnished us with mod , :s ror lactones and machinery. Our banking fystem is American, so are our railways aa-T trolley lines. Like the United Staes. we pay subsidies to shipping companies and hire out our Niagaras to the highest hM. der. We adopted the American school system, and Like the Yankees teach our boys plenty of mathematics, natural sciences, chemistry and mechanism, but little philosophyOur colleges have great parks like oi America ana our college boys have occasion to practice the things taught them. But we did not adopt American akvcrapers and French flats. Therein. tn other things we remained superior to our xeacners. e retained our mall houses 4 wticx4 uu wane mats our scant furnishings, the little tables where Sretty girls serve tea in diminutive cups nd we stuck to our national dish-rice Our high officials hate rooms done In Western fashion to receive foreigners, but when the xoreigners are gone, me yellow man quickly WPS tr swauow tail for his nntinn-ii gown. All our social ceremonies we re tained, our tuen! on family life and matri mony. io oe always joyous Is one of our roremosi special duties, now as always. irc- a. n.ur lace, in japan no one thinks of the two-children system, nor or women running competition to men. ror nearly nrry years American and european missionaries nav had all the liberty they asked for in Japan, but of 45 -CIAOO0 yeliow men and yellow women less wan aaoptea cnnstlanity. Buddhism harmonizes better with the teachings of modern science; it .is the religion of charity and humanity. Reflect.; nineteen centuries passed before the Christiana abolished slavery, and today, 2.0):years after the death of the Xazarene. nearly every Christian nation Is pending, on the average, twice as much for war preparedness, for acts of destruction than for the uplifting of humanity, including schooling. From this general rule the United States of America is the sole honorable exception, but. then, in the United Ctatts, religion U a matter of private concern. If you want in Japanese to become Christians demonstrate that your religion keep trhat it promhre. The founder of Chrls-

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cU: i. MARQUIS ITO. Premier of Japan, Who Is Impressing on the Statesmen of Japan the Necessity of Observing All the Rights of Other Nations in the Orient. tlanity decreed that men should love one another. What showing has love and brotherhood in aristocratically governed countries? Turn to Russia, whose religious pretensions exceed those of all other lands. In that Christian state aiO.OGO.OOO men, women and children depend on the good will of a single person, master of his subjects lives and fortunes. There is small incentive for Japanese to become Christians. Among several hundred millions of Christians one, Tolstoi, preaches true Christianity, and for that crime he was put without the pale of the church. He practices what he preaches, but how many are there like him? There are even fewbooks in English. French, German or any other Christian language preaching true Christianity. Christian morality where Is it? As point ed out, we yellow men had the heartiest desire to adopt Institutions that .tended to make Christian countries) great, yet we utterly failed to discover superior morality in your commercial usages, industrial development, your army and navy, or even in your form of government. If we must have torpedoes and submarine boats, Krupp cannons and dynamite, factories for consumptives, child labor and alcoholism, what is the cse of getting excited about such trifles as our polygamous habits and Geishas? A HOME THRUST. Let us be frank, brutally frank, white man: vsnerever you encountered a coiorea race you made war on it, plundered it. cheated It, destroyed it. Where are the original inhabitants of America? There are cot enough left to people a German principality. You went to Africa and enslaved the blacks! Thtv were finally eman cipated, it is true, but at the cost of a war leaving two millions of white lives on battlefield and hospital cot. Let's understand eacn otner. wnite man; these things and more like them are not calculated to inspire the yellow race with confidence in your integrity or your re ligions. You taught us that the white man Is strong, hut we fail to see that his strength is wedded to kindness. In religion we found you wanting, but as for diabolical cunning we had no fault to find with you. You remember our revolution of 1868. To be frank, it was not inaugurated to win the white man's admiration and sympathy. We revolted for our own good and to keep the white peril at a distance as long as possible. Old Japan is dead, to insure tne new Japan's integrity we adopted certain foreign usages, vices and infamies. If they fail us in the present struggle, that does not say that we will be content to retrograde, that we will take upon ourselves a yoke we never bore that yoke or servi tude. Remember, the Japanese Is not an individualist: selfishness tit not the alpha and omega of life with him. His aim is the greatness of the fatherland, the wel fare of the people, of which he forms but an infinitesimal part. For his people's wel fare he can die as well as live. To Illus trate, let me quote one of our native chronicles. Once upon a time the regent Kotsuke was his name was lns-ulted by one of his barons. Takuml. He sentenced him to death by harikari. confiscated his fortune and chattels and destroyed his strongholds. Then Takumi's vassals went Into the moun tains and swore to revenge their dead mas ter. Ten years they prepared for the great work, until finally they felt strong enough to carry out their promise. During a dark night they overran the regent s palace and commanded him to kill himself as a punishment for the wrong inflicted on the baron. But Kotsuke had grown old and weary and had neither the physical nor moral strength to comply with the difficult task of committing harikari. Thereupon the con spirators, forty-seven men, killed him and cut off his head. This they carried in sol emn procession to Takumi's grave and deposited it there, to make it known to all men that the baron's death had been prop erly revenged. In any other country but Japan this act would have closed the incident, except for the interference or tne authorities. Not so with ua. When the forty-seven conspirators had made good their vow, they sat down on their leader's grave and commit ted harikari themselves, every mother's son of them disemboweled himself slowly and faithfully. Of such stuff are the little yellow men who borrowed weapons from the white man to ward off the white peril. $100,000 SAVED BY A CHARCOAL BURNER He Could Notßreak Off the Habit of Work and Saved All His Earnings. DERBY, Conn., May 22. Eccentric and hard working, but leaving no suspicion In the minds of his acquaintances that he had amassed a fortune. Carter Finley, who died recently in Manchester, left nearly $100,000 deposited In savings banks, besides deeds to LCOO acres of land. What will now become of his fortune is the subject of much discus slon. Finley spent his whole life laboring as a charcoal burner, and it appears he made the occupation very profitable, when with begrimed hands he appeared at a bank win dow to depoeit bis savlnks and was sometimes asked by the bankers why he did not stop work and enjoy his fortune, he Invariably replied: "I can't seem to break off the habit of work." His bankers were the only ones who knew Flnley's circumstances until the facts were made known to-day. No others who saw his blackened face, hands and clothing had the least suspicion that he was anything but a poor laborer. For forty years or more, however, he had made regular monthly deposits, sometimes amounting to several hundred dollars. Finley lived alone in a little cabin In the outskirts of Manchester, surrounded by his charcoal piles, doing his own cooking and housekeeping. His death was caused by pneumonia. As he left no family and is not known to have any relatives living, it is Impossible to say as yet who will finally ejijoy the xruits or lniey s laDor. CITY NEWS NOTES. The following resolution was unanimously adopted at a meeting of the representatives of every CJ. A. It. post and W. R. C. of this city on last I riday evening: "Resolved. That we heartily indorse the stand taken by the Journal and other papers with reference to the observance of Decoration dav and In their advocating that it should only be a day sacred to the memory of our fallen heroes who gave their lives that a country migm De xepi as one. Strike Action Postponed. NEW YORK. May .-The truck drivers of this city held a meeting to-day to con sider whether the 33,000 men whom their organisation controls art to strike In ivm pathy with the freight handlers of the New York. New Haven A Hartford Rail way Company now on strike here. After a heated discussion. It was decided to noet pone action in the matter until to-morrow, & A 2 I mm wnen anoiner meeting will oe neiuu

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TORPEDO BOAT CREVV DECIMATED BYQNE SHELL 0FFPÜRT ARTHUR (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) tends from Hai-Cheng to the west of MaoTien pass." The correspondent of the Mall at Kobe, Japan, cables: "Returning from Korea through the Yellow sea this (last) week. I saw Japanese transports in every direction. They were traveling without escort. Sometimes as miny as ten at a time were counted." KU RO PAT KIN REPORTS ON TROOP MOVEMENTS ST, PETERSBURO, , May 22.-General Kuropatkin to-day sent the following! telegram to Emperor Nicholas: "To-day, In the presence of all the 'troops here, forming the chief force of oneof our divisions, a thanksgiving service, in honor of St. Nicholas, the miracle worker, was celebrated. "After a Te Deura I thanked the troops in behalf of your Majesty for their valiant self-denying services and personally com municated .to them the tenor of your MlMtv' rUsnatrh rf Mav 90. The troorts replied with a hearty cheer to the wishes I expressed for your -aiajestjrs noaitn ana ong lire. "Tha ipw.-lv-crpatpd Knlehtu of the Mili tary Orders and all of the wounded officers and men of the regiments preaent were then called out and the troops, headed bx myself, marched past these brate men." A second aispatcn irom venerai-Jvuropn.-kln to the Emperor Is as follows: "Onr nfltrola nnd ravalrv detachments are reconnoitering this side of the KlnChou range, seventy-five miles northeast of Fong-Wang-Cheng. "The Japanese cover their dispositions by small advance guards, consisting of as much as a regiment or mrantry. wun artillery and cavalry posted along the high roads, and as little as two companies at important points. Japanese cavalry are sel dom seen. From renorta received veaterday I have concluded that the first Japanese army Is concentrated as follows: "Two divisions at Feng-uTang-Cheng and itm nvirnn nnd one division at Habaltn. half way between Sin-Yen and Feng-Wang-Cheng. . ' . "It is stated that x eng-wang-vjneng is being fortified." REPORT ON A RECENT FIGHT AT TAKU-SHAN TOKIO, May 22. A supplemental report was received here to-day covering the opposition encountered by the Japaneso force which landed at Taku-Shan, about fifty milest west of the mouth of the Yalu on May 20. The Russian force consisted or a squaaron of the independent Trans-belkal Cossacks-. They vigorously resisted tne Japanese ad vance at a bridge and only retreated after one officer and nine men were killed and a number of men were wounded. One Rus sian officer and four men were captured. The Japanese lost one man killed. The Russians retired in the direction or biuYen and Shalichal. VLADIVOSTOK GREETS ADMIRAL SKRYDLOFF VLADIVOSTOK May 22. Vice Admiral Skrydloff arrived here this afternoon. Ile was met at the Okeanskl station, outside of Vladivostok, by Major General Veronetz and deputations of the military, naval and municipal authorities, as well as by an enthusiastic crowd, and was presented with bread and salt, entering tne town tha admiral drove to the pier in an open carriage, escorted by Cossacks, and boarded the cruiser Rossia, on which a short service was held. The chaplain sprinkled and blessed the admirals flacr before It was run up to the masthead, where It was greeted with a salute from all the cruisers in the harbor. The day happened to be the eighth anniversary of the launching of the Rossia, and also Vice Admiral SkrydlofTs saint's day. The admiral addressed the officers and crew of the Rossia, saying: "The Emperor orders me to convey his greeting and loyal thanks for your gallant services. In consideration of which he reduces your tour of sea duty to three years." This announcement was greeted with cheering and the band played the national anthem. Admiral Skrydloff then visited the other cruisers and repeated the royal message. There was a great outpouring of the townspeople, the women wearing bright costumes. Admiral SkrydlofTs reception was of the heartiest everywhere, as he was a great favorite when last in Vladivostok. Japanese Fleet Not Sighted. VLADIVOSTOK. May 22. The Japanese cruisers, reported as being between Gensai and Vladivostok, have so far not been sighted. The opening of Vladivostok to trade has as yet had no effect in reviving business, which is at a complete standstill. The town Is in an excellent condition and the general health of the people Is good. RUSSIANS ONCE MORE OCCUPY N1EU-CHIVANG NIEU-CHWANG, May 22. midnight.-The Russians are reoccupylng this place with a fair force of artillery and mounted infantry. The disaster to the Japanese fleet Is generally known here. The only information came from the Reuter Telegram Company, whose dispatch was read to the troops on parade this afternoon. The news was received with great cheering. The Russians are constructing slight intrenchments south of the town. Steamers from Che-Foo" report that they pass quantities of wreckage, and it is supposed here that the Rusisans have been blowing up the obstructions at the entrance to Port Arthur. NEW JAPANESE LOAN IS TAKEN BY BANKERS TOKIO, May 22, 9 p. m.-Aftcr repeated conferences between the bankers, the ministers and the older statesmen of Japan the bankers have accepted the terms of the new popular loan of $50.000,000. It will be issued at 92, bear 5 per cent, interest and run for seven years. The former loan was issued at 95 and is to run for five years. Emperor Returns to Peterahnrs. ST. PETERSBURG. May 22.-The Emperor and Grand Duke Michael have arrived in St. Petersburg. BREWER KILLS HIMSELF; HAD LOST PROPERTY NEWARK. N. J., May 22. After suffering extreme depression for several months because of heavy losses in stocks, Charles D. Lyon, forty-six years old, son of D. M. Lyon, who was the head of Lyon Brewing Company, took his own life to-day by shooting. Lyon lived with his wife, one grown son and two younger children. Three months ago. while in a fit of despondency, it is said, he attempted to end his life by inhaling illuminating gas. Prohibition Alliance Meeting. Levi P. Pennington, of Greenfield, will address the Prohibition Alliance at the hall. New York and Alabama streets, this evening. Miss Maude Baker, who formerly resided here and has Just recently been graduated from a Chicago school of elocution, will give a number of readings. The meetlrg is open to the public. Peruvian RIIvny Surveys. LIMA, Peru. May 22. Herbert Selleclc. the concessionaire of the .railway from Port Huacho to Picuncha, has begun surveys of the line. Surveys of the railways from Cerro de Pasco to Port Huacho have been completed. Both are American enterprises and will tap enormously rich regions. .-....

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ARRESTEDOI ACCUSATION OF Canton Tailor Killed in His Store Woman Who Savs She Was His Wife Is Held. XWO ALLEGED WIDOWS CANTON, O., May 22.-George H. Taylor, aged thirty-two, single, was shot and almost instantly killed at hi3 store at the American woolen mills soon after midnight. Some time after closing he returned to the store for an overcoat. He was shot at the doorway by some one Just Inside or In the vestibule. Aboct all he said before he died was that a woman did it. Grace Battorf, who claims to be Mrs. Taylor, was arrested to-day and is in Jail on suspicion of the murder. Circumstantial evidence that points against her Is that she quarreled with Taylor on Tuesday and was discharged fro.n employment with the company. She admits that when he said he would shoot her If she bothered him any more she replied, "Not if I shoot you first." She claimed to be Taylor's legitimate wife, but repeatedly said their marriage ceremony was a mere mockery and was performed in a Cleveland hotel In March of last year by a "fake" minister. Another woman. Lillian Taylor, claiming to be Taylor's real wife. Invoked the aid of the local f)olice several weeks ago. asking that Tayor be shadowed with reference to his relations with other women, and a document found in Taylor's room by inference acknowledges this wife and his responsibility for their son's support. That the fatal shot was fired by some one who entered the store after it had been closed for the night, and was there when Taylor returned for his overcoat, is conceded, but whether this person was a burglar or a woman of Jealous mind the authorities disagree. Taylor had conducted a prosperous tailoring business here for the past eighteen months. A widowed mother and a brother reside In Cleveland, and another brother In Pittsburg. Miss Battorf is prominently connected in Ashtabula and Canal Dover, O. DELHI FURNISHED THE BAIL FOR SCORCHERS Seven Automobile Speeders Had Ready Money When Taken Before a Magistrate. NEW YORK, May 22.-Seven automobillsts, returning from the Morris Park races, were gathered in by the police of the Morrisania station for speeding their automobiles in Washington avenue, between One-hundred-and-sixty-elghth and One-hundred-and-seventy-flfth streets, the Bronx, at a greater rate of speed than the law allows. Bicycle Policeman Kufran caught three men at once, all driving big touring cars. At the station house they said they were Michael Sweeney, of 111 West Sixty-fifth street; David Egan. of 22 West Seventyninth street, and Edward Messward, of 246 West Thirty-seventh street. Sweeney and Egan askeorthe amount of bail and were told $100. "That's dead easy," said Sweeney, "I was down on Delhi in the Withers." And so saying, he produced a big roll, selected a one-hundred-dollar bank note, and threw It on the desk. "I had the same tip," said Egan. and did likewise. Messward was driving for a party, and one of them remarked that "Delhi was like finding money." Messward easily obtained a loan of the needed amount. Louis P. Moore, of Cleveland; Henry Osborne, of Mahwah, N. J.; Charles O'Donnell, of 135 West Tenth street, and Paul Kellar, of 321 West Thirty-sixth street, were gathered in later by Kulfran and Bicycle Policeman May. Each one showed evidence of a heavy play on Delhi, and all were released. SHOWERS AND COOLER PROMISED FOR TO-DAY WASHINGTON, May 22. Weather foreCast for Monday and Tuesday: Indiana Showers and cooler on Monday. Tuesday fair; brisk northwest winds. Illinois and Kentucky Showers and cooler on Monday. Tuesday fair, except showers In south portion; brisk northwest winds. Ohio Showers and thunderstorms on Monday. Cooler Tuesday; fair, except showers along the lakes; fresh south, shifting to northwest, wmas. Tennessee Fair and warmer on Monday. Showers and cooler on Tuesday. Minnesota Fair and cooler on Monday. Tuesday fair and warmer; fresh to brisk north winds. North and South Dakota and NebraskaFair and cooler. Tuesday fair and warmer in west portion. Kansas Fair on Monday and Tuesday; cooler In east portion on Tuesday. Iowa Fair and cooler on Monday. Tues day fair. Wisconsin Fair on Monday, preceded by showers and cooler in early morning. Tues day rair; brisk northwest winds. Local Observations on Sunday. Bar.Ther.R.H.Wind.Weather.Prec 7 a. m 29.96 62 68 S. Pt. Cloudy. .00 7 p. m.... 29.82 72 59 S. Pt. Cloudy. .(0 Maximum temperature, 78; minimum tem perature, 60. Comparative statement of mean temperature and total precipitation on May 22: Temp. Prec. Normal 64 .14 Mean 69 .00 Departure for day 5 .14 Departure for the month 40 .93 Departure since Jan. 1 (W .09 Plus. W. T. BLYTHE. Section Director.

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Yesterdny Temperatures. Stations. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. Abilene. Tex 64 &8 S4 Amarillo. Tex 54 82 to Atlanta, Ga 66 H 82 Bismarck, N. D 66 60 Buffalo. N. Y 50 74 72 Cairo. Ill 62 84 FO Calgary, Alberta 2S 56 &0 Chattanooga. Tenn 52 S6 80 Cheyenne, Wyo 42 74 70 Chicago, III 62 82 78 Cincinnati, 0 62 84 76 Cleveland. 0 54 0 74 Columbus, 0 56 82 74 Davenport. Ia 64 SI &) Denver. Col 46 7S 76 Dodge City. Kan '. 54 84 82 Dubuque, Ia 64 $5 61 Duluth. Minn 50 75 60 El Pa5o. Tex 62 SS 84 Galveston, Tex 72 84 78 Grand Junction, Col 52 S2 SO Grand Rapids, Mich 60 7$ 76 Havre, Mont 52 52 43 Huron, ß. D &4 S4 70 Helena. Mont 68 6$ 58 Jacksonville, Fla 64 80 72 Kansas City, Mo.... 68 S SO Lander. Wyo 40 76 74 Little Rock. Ark 62 86 82 Louisville, Ky CO $4 76 Marquette. Mich 50 W zA Memphis. Tenn 61 86 84 Modena, Utah 46 73 76 Montgomery. Ala GO SS S2 Nashville. Tenn 52 $6 SO New Orleans. La 6$ Ss SO New York. N. Y 60 70 61 Norfolk. Va 56 76 64 North Platte, Neb 54 84 82 Oklahoma, 0. T 64 SS S4 Omaha. Neb 6S 86 Js2 Palestine. Tex 62 8 W) Farkersburg, W. Va 54 hi 7ü Philadelphia. Pa 4 80 70 Pittsburg. Pa 52 82 76 Pueblo. Col IS S2 i Uapid City, S. D 56 76 62 St. Louis. Mo G4 82 St. Paul. Minn 60 84 72 Salt Lake City 50 76 74 San Antonio, Tex 5S 86 82 Santa Fe, N. M 42 72 68 Shreveport, La. 62 1) 84 Springfield, 111 60 80 76 Springfield, Mo 66 82 7 Valentine. Neb 54 81 76 Washington. D. C ..56 80 70 Wichita. Kan. 62 84 82

Yellow Fever In Mexico. MEXICO CITY. May 22. The Superior Board of Health reported that up to Friday evening there were In the republic, outside of Yucatan. lx cases of yellow fever, two at Vera Cruz and four on the Isthmus a? Tehuantepec. Great efforts will be made to stamp out the disease on the Isthmus, and a war against mosquitoes will be waged unremittingly. ,

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TRAGIC POET OF I Powerful Sayings of Verestchagin Recalled by the Great Artist's Death. WAR PICTURE IMPOSSIBLE Foremost Battle Painter Declared Terrible Scene Could Not Be Reproduced in Canvas. Special Correspondence of the Journal. VIENNA, May 10. Verestchagin fought against war, loathed it, yet at the same time loved strife. His nature, temperament, bringing up, made him glory where his reason, his broad humanity condemned. He was a courageous man, but time and again told me that he bowed most profoundly when he saw a grenade coming. "A real battle picture is an impossibility," this foremost battle painter of the times used to say. "In battle events change so quickly and persistently that something new, something unexpected occurs every moment. Besides, every one acts like possessed. Soldiers, officers, generals, correspondents, artists, everybody howls, curses, vociferates; in the end all are hoarse. ; "If anybody tells you of valor In action, put him down as; a liar or visionary. The thing does not exist. After talking with tens of thousands of soldiers of all grades and conditions witness the consensus of expert opinions. As for myself, whtn I am on the firing line I keep saying to myself: 'It's coming, brother, this time you will catch it sure." Why did I not have cense enough to remain at a goodly distance; I could paint as well afterward! As to the question of valor. General SkobelefC, who, in his day, had the reputation of the bravest man in the wide world, once said to me: " 'That any ono be unafraid in battle is rot; the opposite is true. Personally I am so coYifounded timid in battle that as soon as the bullets are whizzing I fear my last hour has struck. But 1 trained myself to look fierce such a mask easily passes for bravery. And, besides, if you once begin paying compliments to shrapnels and sugar loafs there is no stopping, there are so many. When struck down on the Clreen hill I felt like kicking myself. "Assi" I murmured, "here is your reward for following this butcherlike profession." I was firmly convinced that 1 would die like a dog food for carrion.' " When Verestchagln conducted me through the exhibition of his paintings of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow he was In an nnecdotical mood, and said all sorts of nonsense. "In the face of such horrorß how can you joke?" I demanded. " 'If I don't laugh I will have to cry, he replied, and I am convinced he meant what he said. On that occasion he told me that Kaiser Wilhelm received him moat ungraciously when he exhibited in Berlin. " 'Your paintings are the most powerful propaganda against war I know of,' he growled, 'and we need war, don't you know that? His Majesty tried to convince me that I gave a one-sided view of war only. NO TWO SIDES TO WAR. "As If there were two sides to war, a pretty and fetching one and another the reverse of beautiful, repelling!" cried Verestchagln. I had opportunity to talk the matter over with Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, who immortalized himself by h,is conduct of the Franco-German war. 'Only people who have never been to war talk of its glories, said the conqueror of Metz. Prince George of Saxony, another great army leader, expressed himself similarly." On another occasion Verestchagln said to me: "Persons who like to see others battle for their Interests while staying at home themselves to manufacture public opinion and petty royalties attached to headquarters to see and to be seen are forever dilating on the heroism of action. How much action, do you think, is there ih a war lasting a year or so? At best the average soldier faces action for a few hours, or a few days all told. During the rest of his time he is doing service such as the law imposes upon criminals. He must hunger, toil incessantly In dust, mud. snow or ice. The war subjects him to a thousand hardships of all sorts and he Is convinced that if he comes out of it alive he will for the rest of his years be a sufferer from rheumatism or worse. "Mind, baroness, I am speaking of personal experiences. To learn what war really is I shouldered a rifle and took sword or lance In hand. I went to attack at the head of an Infantry column, I charged batteries, riding a fierce war horse, as excited and as cowardly as myself. And at one time I went out as a navvy laying mines. But torpedo warfare is evidently not in my line. I got cerlously wounded at the game came near losing my life." Poor VasslllI It sounds like a presentiment. I can almost imagine his thoughts during the catastrophe that put an end to his career: I knew it mines are out of my line.' "He told me all about the 'humanity' of war. the ill-used term, so much prated about. The vast resources of the state, he Said, are employed for destruction; for purposes of humanity, of charity, there is but a miserable pittance; there is little else for the sick and wounded, for prisoners of war. but death. The men fall sick in droves and die like files, the Red Cross notwithstanding. Several tlms I traveled in the wake of conducts of prisoners. I found the road strewn with dead and dying bodies. And over their prostrate forms rattled ammunition wagons; cannons ground their bleeding limbs into the mud; the sides of the road served as Impromptu cemeteries for tens of miles, where corpses, and live men, too, were heaped up. Hundreds of blooding hands you see outstretched toward you, as you ride past with your heart of stone." PYRAMIDS OF HEADS. "And your 'Apotheosis of War;' is It a true picture?" I asked. "As true as anything I ever said or did," replied Vasslli. "Those pyramids of human skulls I encountered- twenty-ffve years ago. when traveling along the Chinese-Russian frontier. Two years earlier I had passed over the same territory. Flourishing vll-lages-a happy, contented people then now sterile desert, crswling hyenas and a few men and women worse than wild beasts. "Arrived in the neighborhood of the town of Tchugutchok, I marveled still moieat the desolation confronting me. Though the walls, towers and roofs were dragon crowned and shining in the sun as formerly, the trees along the road were lifeless; dead were grass and bushes. I stood at the gate, no eentinel, no official demanding tax. N'o human face anywhere. In the mud and mire of the main street I jioticed furniture, clothes, military apparatus, tiny shoes of Chinese women, heads and limbs of men. women and childrena fearful chaos. I made my way to the citadel. Below the walls and battlements human heads and limbs and carcasres in heaps, hills, mountains of them, while at several points, where the bodies of the murdered garrison lay, there were veritable pyramids of skulls and bones. You ask whether the 'Apotheosis of War' is real, baroness. I might have painted ten, twenty of the kind,, and yet have enough skulls to spare to people the cemetery of a very big town. "Ah, Barones?, the unhappy place was 'alive' with skeletons, the streets were full of them, the lanes, the alleys. Skeletons defended the entrance of houses, they lay In the courtyards, they barricaded the aisles of temples. Skeletons and skulls as far as the eye could travel on the promenades, beyond the city walls, at the edge of the river, skeletons everywhere, skeletons and skulls, skulls and skeletons. "Civilized man has ceased to eat his neighbor," concluded Vasslli bitterly, "but to butcher him. sever his limbs, knock off his head that Is patriotism, duty, justice, and whoever raises objection to that sort of thing is a bad citizen, an idealist or madman." Verestchagln lost a brother. stafT officer with General Skobeleff. before Plevna, killed during the third attack. Three months later, when the fortress had fallen, Vasslli went to the spot to find his brother's body. If possible. Here is his story of what he saw. "Search as I might, I could not find a 1 trace of ray dead brother, only grinning skulls and skeletons defying recognition. To a very few only the remnants of clothing were attached, a part of the shirt or rags of uniforms.. .Thir hands were outstretched, pointing to distant objects. "X tried' to conduct my investigation on

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u A prominent Southern lady,u Mrs. Blanchard, of Nashville, Tenn., tells how she was cured of backache, dizziness, painful and irregular periods by the use of Lydia E PinkhaaVs Vegetable Compound. 44 Deab Mrs. Putkham : Gratitude compels me to acknowledge the gTeat merit of your Vegetable Compound. I have suffered for four years with irregular and painful menstruation, also dizziness, pains in the back and lower limbs, and fitful sleep. I dreaded the time to come which would only mean Buffering to me. 44 Better health is all I wanted, and cure if possible. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brought me health and happiness in a few short months. I feel like another person now. My aches and pains have left me. Life seems new and sweet to me, and everything seems pleasant and easy. 44 Six ottles brought me health, and tvas Tforth more than months under the doctor's care, which really did not benefit me at all. I am satisfied there is no medicine so good for sick women as your Vegetable Compound, and I advocate it to my ladr friends in need of medical help." Mrs. B. A. Blanch ARD, 422 Broad St., Nashville, Tenn. $5000 forfeit If original of abovt Utter preulrj jtnulneness cannot b produced AMl'SEMEXTS. PARK THEATER 1 1 This Week THE HOLDEN STOCK CO. In a Magnificent Production of HALL CAIXE'S Celebrated Play this iiJHei'jrxAisr SPECIAL-Friday Matinee and Nljht-SAPHO. Everybody Goes to the Park. Prices. 10-20-30. IF:::. Your paper is not delivered to you regularly and early enough In the morning, be so kind as to notify us, that we may remedy tha fault IF It should miss delivery, a telephone message will bring you a copy by messenger within half an hour. BOTH PHONES. ASK FOR THE JOURNAL scientific lines, measure the skulls, nasal bones, etc. I could not. My eyes refused Fervlee, because they were wet with teari. I cried and cried, and still I cried. Dut after a while I began arguing with myself: 'Don't be an old woman; make capital out of thlß opportunity.' And down I rat to sketch the Inferno. I wanted to paint a picture with myself as the central figure turningr over the corpses, playing football with the skulls, as It were to find my brother's. I got the sketch ah, a dozen sketches, but no matter how often I attempted to put them on canvas, every time I was seized by paroxysms of . tea tu, of trembling, prohibiting work. That picture will never be finished If I live a thousand years." Vassill died by nn Instrument of war 'that was out of his line.' But all the nations are busy building great ships, loading them with untold treasure and human freight a hundred times as valuable to be blown to smithereens without a moment's warning some fine day. Madness? No statecraft, patriotism, you stupid! BERTHA BARONESS VOX SUTTNER. USED SCHOOL COAL. Janitor Denies that He Has a Gas Pipe to His House. NEW YORK, May 22.-Janitor George Wade, of Public School No. 22. w-as on trial before the committee on the care of Buildings of the department" of education this week. "Gentlemen," he said, "I have been supplying my house with coal from the school for the last eight years, and feel that I have had a perfect right to do so. When I lived in the school building I was supplied with my coal, gas and wood, and I think that I should at least be given my coal now." "Do you take wood also?" he was asked. "No, Kir; I never took a stick:" "Have you got a gespipe running from the school to your home? "Oh, no, sir!" The decision in the cas will be announced at the meeting of the Board of Education on May 25. As Wade has been a Janitor in the schools for twenty years it Is likely that his punishment will be light. SUBTREASURY SHORT A THOUSAND DOLLARS PHILADELPHIA, Maj 22.-There was consternation among the twenty-five clerks in the United States subtreasury when the discovery was made last Saturday that $1.was missing. Search for the monev was continued this week, but no trace of it could bo found. The shortage is in the account of the paying teller, who. It is presumed, paid out the money by mistake on Saturday morning. He will have to reimburse the government unless the money is found. In thflt event it will mean that Just onehalf of his salary of $2.000 a year will be forfeited for his carelessness. The loss was discovered when the cash balance was taken. All the clerks were told to remain at their deks. and under the direction of William S. Lelb. assistant treasurer, the accounts were gone over five times. Until 4 o'clock in the afternoon the clerks were kept behind locked doors. The books showed the teller paid out fcJTiO.OGO on Saturday. This had been distributed between nine banks. Mr. Lelb reported the matter to the clearing house, and all the financial lnstituions in the city were notified of the loss and requested to ascertain if the balance of any showed an excess of $1.0x1. All reported none had received too much money. The teller is under $10. t bond, so the government can lose nothing. o Frnr of the rinaiie. MAZATLAN. Mexico, May 22.-The health authorities here are taking every precaution to prevent a recurrence cf the bubonic plague, which now prevails in several South American cities. The city paid out during tho numth of April a bounty for 4SS rats and 1.703 mice killed. There is no fear of the reappearance of the plague in view of the cleaning up which the city has boon subjected to.

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UM0H STATIC MCRJDtAHSl i.3T Ht'M-For Lear Indiana oll. Terre Haute. Mat toon and PL ( Ii 4J a m: pm; Loal ) 7.m p m A 12-08 am. ?t Louts and Way station T 3a in. Terre Haute. UtKu and Wt. tnopra. Lafarette, Kickakre an 1 Chi- 11 so a ras i- P cairo it 12.10 am. Jtnk.akee and w ay Jtationi.... 7 00 a m. Lafayette and TTst Station .... iilpm. vlfax. Loranport and S. Bend. 7 on iinftlll P". IUoomtnrton and I'eoria ll Mara ll.Mpnu Peoria nd War !tati:i 7.U m. Cbnmpalgn and Way Stations... 4 13 pm. K AST BOTXl For ClereJand. JtufTalo I 4.40 a m: fKlarai New ork and Bonton.. I 2.M n p ra A 123 p m Cleveland and War Station .11.00 a m. Union City and Way Htatloni.. M uncle and Fort Warne Kort Warn. undaT Brnton Harbor and War Ma... Elkhart and Way Station .4 45 p ra. .. 7 0o a ra 1 6.3 pm . ! (v m. 7 on a ra A 1130 a ra. .44tpre. Greenaburg and Cincinnati JS 44 a m; U a m: 1 oniTtHe and Ncrth Vernon. .. 43 a m A IM p ra. C'nelr.nati and wv 7.4s a in 4 00 p ro Wajhinrton. I. C.' 7 4-t a ra ä .20 p m. Sprints!.! ami Columbus, U...t3 (V)im4 00 p m. Lynn ad it Stations 6.15 p m. Indicate lai!r. CITY TICKET OFFICE, 8 North Illinois St. Claypool Hotel. Lear Indiana poll. 4 no a m so am Cincinnati Express 10 40am soopm 5.00 p m 7 02 p tta A ( Uooara 10 40 am D jton 1 no p m $.oo p ra ( 7.02 p m , Toledo and Detroit ! 2 ' m 10 I 702pra Decatur and Springfield 1L60 a ra tL16pna St Louis U50 ana lllOpn Tntcola Accommodation 6.10 pm ......... Daily. tiiu.TiTKiMitn Cly Tkket om. n. unsold. St. Claypool HoteL Lear Indiana noil. 7 .on am 11 a ra tUpm nru a ra Chicago Expreaa Trains. ia f Direct Line .... ) Boaebdale, Cra ford'Tllle, Lafarette and Chlcaf 0 MicAian City Uodoo (lnL) Accommodation. Daily. Scnday onlT. il M a ra . lupo 4.00 p m a 4 LEaQUaaMlaS City Ticket Ode luiaots bu uats aaarra Toledo, Chicago 1 Mich. Ex.... 7:15 a.m. i n, T0IM0, Detroit A Cbica Ltd. 1?-Jf p.m. J Sf ft m. Mica. City, Mcaci 4t Lit. &pl. l.'Mf.m. :23 Daily. n P. M. time Is In BLACK Uro re'. , Indianapolis Union Station. ennsuivania Lines. Trains Run by Central Time. Ticxxt OrriCKi at Ftation and at corner IUisoli ana W aahinf ton Street. Dally, f Daß? except 6 and. Sunday only. S BOX ISPUIarOUl TO LXaVI aebjvi Philadelphia and New York. nJ1 ll.oJ Baltimore and Waahtnrton , tXü M1.A& Columbus, lol. aud Loultvilla... . 11.33 Columbus, lnl. and LouUvllia. 7.w ni.ilA klcDToond, rlquaand Columbus. O 7.M 11. Vlscennea Uxpreaa ..........T.J tt.ia Columbus, lnd. A Madlaoa .5 !.!.' LouliTlll Accommodation rife t5-40 North Vernon an4 Madison... ft. 04 tfi 40 Dayton and JCenla. S.10 4 4) Flttiaurf asdKact. htüL, Ü9W York...n.lft lt.li Lcpautport and Chlcajro. 3.4i Klcbraocd. llqaa and Columbua, 0..tl.40 flS.40 rfailadelpfela and Hew York 3.05 l.lt BaJüroor tad Wasainftoa 3.04 11.10 DftTtan and prtnf field. 3.05 lt.lO Vixtoennea AeoommodaUoa ..3.60 'It n LeuUvlUeand liadlaoa 3.65 11.1 epenceran Franca Lick 4.45 4 Ilttsbar? and JLaat Ä OO 3 Columbua. Fittabarc and Eaat.. S OO 3. IS Lou irrt Ua Aocoramdatio 6.4A ltl Thll. aod Sew York Tha Lttr)ttd".6.60 H I Cleveland and Pittsburg- and Eaat..? .05 t & Axauuapori und Cbicao mUM v m VAN U ALI A L1BC. Terre Haute ace. 00 "The f ixmii L.Unltod"...... Si 4.4 6 AS 2.60) J 1 ti J. hi IM The Capital express.... 70 The Cnicago ajid L Loaia express.! t. SO jneM. lXMiia express 3.ai lerro Haoteand Rfflaghaai Aco... ...4.0 Tasc Mail Terre Haute and Ft, Loaii.o.35 Tka World' Flr fpawUT'.. II ai CENTRAL INDIANA RAILWATfT -Weat-bound - East-bound a.m. a. m. p.m. p.m. a m. a.m. p-m.p Muncta .. f :C0 6:00 a:40 l:0t And'rs'n. 7:45 10:10 t45 6:31 1:49 n 2:SS l:M 1:11 t:0f 4 M :tJ 1:47 1:4 7: 1:0 Npblear . :55 UM 4:3 7:41 Wwtrd .10:SO 11:1S 4:SJ 7:M Leben'D . 1:43 12:09 t:40 1:4 N. Roa.. 1:00 1:20 1:25 : 7:4J 6:M Cll :4S ..... 11:47 4:80 UM Wavard. mT.'.V. ..... ..... ..... ..." Carbon .. 1:20 : Ladoga. . i-S3 4: a):40 00 araxu ... 1:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. am. a.m. p. m am. W. 8. PARK-HURST. O. P. 4k P. A. Sunday only. Anderaoii.ln4. fs ; d iX x a u 3VTÖ n Tract i ö x c ö ) i pas Andereon-Munela Dir. TiptonKohoma DIt. Leaving Indianapolis. Learinf 4 :20 a. m. S: a. m. I: a. m. 7:70 a. m. 8:20 a. m. 9 .20 a. m. 10:20 av m. 11:20 a. m. 12:20 p. m. 1 :20 p. m. ndtarapolla. 4:00 a. m. 5:00 a. m. 4 :00 aw m. 7:00 a. m. 1 :00 a. m. 5:10 a. m. 10:00 a. m. 11:00 a. m. 12:00 m 1:00 p. m. 2:00 p. 3:00 p, m. m. 2 :N p. rru 1:20 4: m. rru m. m. m. m. m. m. ra. 4:00 v- m. 5:00 p, ra. C :00 p. m. 7:00 p. m. t :00 p. m. 9:00 p. m. 10:00 p. m. 11 :00 p. m. p6:70 P7:20 : p. 9:20 p n:?0 p. 11:00 p. Limited trains. INDIANAPOLIS- A NOnTIIWESTEIlX TRACTION 430MPANY. General Offices. Lebanon. Ind. lndlanapolla waiting mni. ticket oftlc and express office. 119 Weet Maryland etreet. Lnlon block. Room . First through car for Lafayette leaves Indianapolis at 4 a. m. ani arrives at Lebanon at t:10 a, m.. Frankfort 5:90 a. m. and Lafarette 85 a. m. Second through car leaves Indianapoll t 6 a. m., arrives at Lebanon at 7:31 a. m . Frankfort at 8:14 a. ra. and Lafayette at, 9:17 a. m. and every hour thereafter until f p. m. I-t ear for Lebanon leaves IndlanspolU at 11:10 p. nv Flret throuih car from Lafayette leavee Lafayette at :2i a. m.. arrives at Frankfort at 7:32 a. m., Lebanon at 9:15 a. m. and Indianapoll at 9:45 a, m,. and even' hour thereafter until :: p. m. Iast ear from Lafayette to Lebanon leaves at 1:15 a. m. Express Department Onslrnments received until 10 o'clock a. m. for delivery the same dar to all point between Indlar.anolia and Frankfort and until p. m. for deliver to all points before 9 o'clock the next morning. TES IFDIaHAPOLIS A.VTD CIICOTATI TIACTIC? CO. SHELBTVLLLB DIVISION

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IND'r'LIS A: EASTERN RAILWAY CO, GRKSNFIELD LINE General Ottlres. rYar.klln I'-JlJIinf-ALL CARS D2PAKT KKOM MMUDLAN AND GEOKCilA feT KELTS. For llichmond. New Cafti ni stations cais le&xe at :5 a. m. and ever) two hours thereafter until V. p. nv rvtf Above cars make direct rorm-tt-na fr rtn. Columbus. Newark. Lirra, JUrlon and Clncinthereafter until 7:.-.5 P;.m. and 9.. V- ra Cars ieftvir.t at :.S5 and 11 :ü P m run only an far aa GCoU'tin purser and eipreaa cars le- j S i: ard1 n:M a. m for KniWHon an a m and i m for RtohmonH. a. m. a jrrti;iGHT CARS. r, I'n'rhtMown. Klrhmond and Inte rmediata fiU-rWur atrlve at MS a. m. and derart at I,-- ..rt jrriie at 7:15 a m. and .ave at wj m" n. Also arrive at 2:H r : m. aru leave at p J?- - ÄDIANIPOMS. COLlMIllS A SOITII. i;n TRACTION COMPANY. Thiough rM'n',r v ennr lvnla ana WaVrnrtn streets for Southport. Greenwood, White'iand. Franklin. Amity. Kdlnburf. Taylorsvir.e and Columbua First car at m. and very hour thereafter until S p. m. Throuatt cars leave also at 10 and 11:1 p m. At 9 p ra. a car leaxes for Franklin and Intermediate points ocjy. INDI AN A POMS A MAIITI SVILLC U.U'lll TRANSIT CO. Waiting room and station. 47 Kentucky aenua. First rar leaves from in front of Nv 47 Kentucky avenue for MartlnrvtU and intermedlata stations at a. m and every hour thereafter on the half-hour mark until fi X) p. m The 7:39 p. m. car runs cnly to MooreavUle, the I ) car runs to Martinsville and the next and lt ear leaves at 11:30 p. m . running- to Martinsville Lea vlna; Martinsville for Indianapolis arvl Intermediate stations first ear at l.ii a. m. and everr hour thereafter, on the ti-lrt y-minuta mark, until :10 p, m. The 7:30 p. m. ear rvna nljr to Mooresvllle. and tha I car to Indianapolis an J the next and last car leaves at l3:W, rur.nln t Indianapolis. Cars lesva Mreavt)) for Indianapolis and Martlnsvlile at S.30 a. m. Kxprees ear artivea - at lndtananolta at lV4t a. m. and departs at 12 wo tu.; als arrives at 4:44

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