Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1903 — Page 23
THI INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATTJEDAT SEPTEMBER 12, 1908.
GOLDEN TREASURE HID BY MOON, THE HERMIT, NEAR PLAINFIELD, NEVER FOUND; AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER WHOSE WEIRD TALES WILL BE LONG REMEMBERED
threw hi* plow*hoes across hJ» fhoulder Journeyed into the town. Whea fce rmched the ootekim of Plainfield be
Converted AH His Money Into 1ro!j14 ^ down by the me aside and put ,vcri cu Mil nIS muiicj w o« the deepined shoes. Tbea *'»
Gold and Buried It at Night Steadfastly Refused to Tell Its Hiding PlacetoPeopie That Gathered Around
His Death Bedside.
he would proceed Into the town.
.. Carried Rifle and Powderhorn. He always carried hi* rifle and a powder horn that he raid had been handed down to him hr hfa grandfather, a soldier In the revolutionary wax. When he reached the show ground* he had no trouble to getting an audience of boys. All knew John Moon, If not by bis
•tones, by his eccentricities.
Hi* strang* dress always attracted attention. He always wore blue clothlngl
‘ » fFrara a Staff ComsjKmdeut.]
FLAIh’FIELD. lad., Beptexcber 12, | Time and the elements are destroying tr.e flni*^^ ^ braes buttons From the crown last reminder In this whim unity !i of his head back he kept bis hair closely character whose child stories surpass c npp*i, whl]e ^ f0ret0 p wa s always }n {fantasy the stories Rip Van Winkle^ _ |S|
jn jl
told the children under the Ca 'before bis 'fateful Journey into the mountains. A turn bled-down shack stands as the only monument td the memory of #otin Moon, recluse and story-teller, John Moon, the hermit, died eight years
long and flowed over his ear*. He explained tHat he kept the back of bis he.ad bare because of the Intense beat that
centered there.
The old man was wont to stop under a tree or beside some circus wagon. The
^»e died to srjualor to a cabin that he erect- children around the Pled Piper cf !■ . cd many years ago, three miles "Southwest H - 9 his goo against tl»e "tree g)t Plainfield. The cabin is a wreck now fmd attracts only passing, attention. Eight His yarns were wlidly imaginative. He years ago ft was a Mecca of gold-hunt- woodsJuU of long-horn «d deer and § rs> of the glorl.es of the chase. TV ben Hoarded Gold Never Found. •Ste hermit is known to have died poetessed of a large quantity of gold. That gold was never found. The old man tioarded it for years and never trusted A bank with its keeping. Somewhere to the tangle of underbrush that surrounds Ids old cabin the gold is burled in the safety deposit vault of mother earth. (Kmidre'ls have searched to find the treaetare, and to-day Moon's old cabin floors Show the handiwork of the gold-seeker*, ft Is in a state of upheaval, but so far »s known nobody ever found the lost
treasure.
No ono knows how much gold the herfnlt possesssd. He hoarded the silver and paper that accrued from the rental of pis farm, and when he got 1100 to silver knd pujier he carried It to the bank in I'talafield and had it changed to gold. Then he returned to his secluded cabin, grid in the darkness of night burled it. His cabin was almost a half rnlle from the road and was hidden by trees and underbrush. He had few visitors, although every boy to and around Plain-
field knew the queer old hermit, A Hunter from Childhood.
Hi* father settled in Hendricks county |ri the early part of the last century, and John was born near the place where he died. II* never worked. When in his toons be began to hunt, and a hunter he ^ remained for the rest of his days. The hermit and work wore strangers. He enjoyed 'tlie wilds far more than the stress of city life, and nev.f left the fastness of his native heath except to indulge in three pleasures- to change sliver to gold;
to go to a circus, and to attend a public hnd visited la always cvudcd an answer
■ale. He remained in
remained to seclusion for
months, unless one of that trio of Joys
Was at band.
The fascination of a circus for him was tiiM oddest trait. The only explanation for that is that John Moon was never trappier than when surrounded by a crowd of boys to whom he could tell hi*
His Delight to Gather Crowd of Boys and Entertain Them With Extravagant Stories of Hunting Ad ventures—Went Barefoot and Never Failed to Attend Circus.
them. HI* favorite was his rltle, called
•'Old Trusty."
Although! a huntsman, he did not keep a dog. In his boyhood lie had a dog for a short time, but soon disposed of it. He preferred to go into the wilds alone. The cabin in which Moon died he built for himself and sister. The sister died in • short time, and Moon never took another companion. He left the room of the cabin as she had left it and never changed anything. After his death, silverware was found among his belongings. They were valuable pieces before the ravages of time had destroyed their beauty. Helios of wars and hunts were also found in his cabin. Moon did not go Into the civil war, as he was too old, hut he had war relics that had been left him
an endowment fund for Central Academy So enthusiastic did he become that he one day asked Dr. Test, now of Purdue Vnlverefty, but then the president of tlie academy, to accompany him on a visit to the hermit. Moon despised good dress, and when the well-dressed president of the college stepped into the cabin, Moon declared that the plan of endowing Central Academy with hit money was • , all off’-and Moon refused to change hit mind. The academy went unendowed. A Brief Love Affair. Moon is said to have had a love affair of brief duration—probably two minute* It is told that he one day approached the daughter of a neighboring farmer and asked her to marry him. She jocundly replied that “pap wouldn't allow her to keep company." Moon turned away and never loved again. The death of the hermit was sad. He went for weeks without seeing a human being. One day a farmer passed near his cabin and found Mm 111. Men who knew the old man hurried to his bedside and made his last day# comfortable. All offorts to peisuade him to toll the hiding place of his sack of gold were without
avail.
“That's it That’s it," was his only an*
uwer.
After bis death the floor of the cabin was torn up by gold hunters, but they never found the treasure. It Is behoved by some that he had a secret hiding place for his money on ths banks of Whit# Lick creek, which flowed near his cabin. Moon's farm became the property of his brother. A portion of it ls_ J oyw under cultivation but the moat of It Is a wilderness. Wild flowers of every description may be found on the place and foxes, otters, ground hogs and other animals of the wilds Inhabit Moon s woods. Near his obin is a spring that sends forth a flood
r- pure, cold water.
o
used
to bathe in
It Is said that he the cold spring water ‘ * ‘ was healthful.
by the Void seekers was $4 to silver and 11 “ of ul,uost lc J coldness
Buried at Cartersburg.
Importance came to Plainfield John Moon
pennies, and that was turned Over to his administrator, John Morgan, of Plain-
field.
Morgan an Intimate Friend. Mr. Morgan was an intimate friend of the hermit. When Moon was alive, Morgan frequently visited him and talked
questioned by the boys concerning ^the 0 . tr i Umi> h.
whereabouts of the wonderful taros All day he reveled In the glories of the
circus with the Ik.ye. They sat around
When the hermit died Ids brother did not appear at the grave but stood nt the cemetery fence and saw the strangers at his hermit brother's bier. One of the men at the grave saw the brother and went to him. He was Induced to go to
by saying I . „
“yes. that's it. Tlrat's It." The Deer's Business.
It is related that one day Moon tel Bug tlK) boys of a drove of homed deer that he had found Jungle so dense that he had to
stood lorgin a crawl
bands end feet to get into It. One of the
him on the hard seats, and when a marvelous act won their applause Moon always told a story of an act similar to that but far more marvelous He was wonderfully' Imaginative Yet he never read stories that he could embellish. His library, when he died, was of a volume on "How to Be Your Own Lawyer." and one or two other unimi>ortant publications. lie was know' to be illiterate, be-
over affairs with the old hunter. On one the casket and when he got there saw
occasion Morgan urged Moon to make a will, giving all of his property to Central
Academy In Plainfield. On that condition opened the grave and rein ter red the body. Morgan promised to have the school called Not satisfied with that, he again raised
that it was being lowered into water. That troubled him. The next day be
Moon Academy. The recluse become Interested in the project, and one day told Morgan that he would probably give hia prop-
1LG1HIAII BRIGANDS AUDI FOB AN! DEED WORE THAN REGULAR SPRING i UPRISING THIS TIME. ■ LiiLS;ilCL? LL' t |.;" LL::-?.L LL 1 ,, . LLY 1 ’ ’
Vraird arid fantastic yarns, and the circus bright boys asked bow the long-homed Is a boy's chief delight. deer got into the place, the undergrowth
~ •“"» “ <i ti “ •"
be wont barefoot through the country, b>ng.
but whoa a circus or an event of like “Oh. that's It That a It That's the
lka 1
the old-time Turk Is fairly outdone liy the Bulgarian Macedonian, who. in cold Wood, can kill, murder, bum and torture
Indiscriminately.
His persistency renders him still more terrible. The Bulgarians are a determined people, and are not' to bo deterred from their ends, either by fear or force. Whether their methods would allow them to be designated by the term courageous or not. they are at least bold. The recent events remind me of a threat, made to open defiance by a Macedonian last spring, after the unsuccessful outbreak, but which no one at the time seemed to have regarded seriously, viz.: that the revolutionists would only bide their time Until the harvests were ovej, when In
‘CHARACTER OF INSURGENTS 'SSXFmWU
they would be fully prepared
Since the outbreaks In May, and their Supposed suppression, together with the release of prisoners, end the mild punishment of the offenders, Turkey has been giving her attention to the boundary It us of Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Watched Each Other.
With troops assembled on the frontier. Bulgaria and Turkey, from their military posts, have been suspiciously eyeing each other, watching that no surprise t antes should cross the line. Whenever Turkey seemed to have more troops collected on the border than Bulgaria thought was necessary to prevent Bulgarian bands Joining their brethren In Macedonia, there came a protest from Sofia to the Porte in Constantinople, against the threatening .and warlike preparations accompanied by strong lUflrmaUom of Bulgaria’s peaceful intentions, and her non-afflliation with the Bulgari-
an Macedonian revolutionists
When Bulgaria, on the other hand, seemed to be assembling more troop* than Turkey liked, the latter sent in her sharp protest to the Bulgaran government, resenting the military reinforcements in face of Turkey's declarations of non-ln-terforeace with Hungarian privileges. In the meantime, the Macedonian committee, far away from these borders, was
not idle. • Though
cause, when a boy, he preferred the hunt than when surround-sfl by boys listening thing, and that was “knocked down’* to sales, and it was his delight to bo asked brother living at the time of his death to the schoolroom, and. try as they did, to bis yarns. him unexpectedly. He bid 5 cents for a to kill the chickens for the dinner. He , t .. „ _ oort terms Ifc
erty to the academy, as he didn’t want to boys of other days, now the men ot give It to his relatives. Moon had one BUl.nfield •np Ylolnity, see the old cabin
the body and had it buried at Carters
burg.
It Is said with sad thoughts that th<
firm
X.HVJ OV.SiLrt.yii v*V'J** t «**V», V* J MW -—
„ w ■rr.rjrL.
purpose of telling th# boy® th© wild fto- to public. b&\qb. C nly John bidding* sold him the book* ries of the chase. He was never happier onco In all of the years did he buy any- Moon always carried his rifle to the
went Into the chicken yard, and with his l,ut the3, were not on * 00<S term *> trusty rifle shot off the heads of the hens had several relatives, but not a close con-
picked for the feast, ncctlon
.h&r. 'Eirh. fl r n T„ir. a z° rd, 1 "? ^.a „v.r , h , p™,™.»,
of the hermit yielding to time. They never pass it without a memory of some ol the wild etorlea the hermit told them. And, too, they wonder where his greal
bag of gold Is hidden.
Only Mother Earth knows where.
W. M. HHHSCHELL.
iPpectal Correnpon.lonce Indianapolis News ] CONSTANTINOPLE, August 26 -The iperiodn .d outbreaks of the fires of revolution In Macedonia, which occur with persistent regularity to the spring of every year, have come te be regarded ■with little surprise, however much alarm
la occasioned by them.
After the recent uprisings in Macedonia, gndminating in the dy namite outrage# lu Salonika to May. the revolutionists were supposed to have subsided until next Spring at least. The renewal of the depredations In the vilayet of Motutstir lute, therefore, been the oooesiou of surprise
ga well us consternation.
TUa time the Bulgarian Macedonians -fcegaa their siege of terror by burning eniftlre vilagea of Mohammedan* maasaoreing men, women and children, and reports from the scenes of their depredations say they burned alive both Greek pud Turkish victims, gome Turkish soldiers first sent against them met the fate
of the villager*
Throughout the vilayet of Monaatir, .the bauds of Insurgents have been destroying and burning the harvests in the fields of Turkish peasants, thus rendering them, impoverished as they already are. absolutely destitute. However, no , one cares If the Turkish peasant does gtarva. for there is no ear for Mohaxnitnedan sufferings. European sympathy is ionly thick enough to spread over the so-
called Christiana
Prepared for Any Deed. Fierce as he Is fearless the Bulgarian ' brigand, w ho always calls hinuslf a patriot, Is prepared for any deed which he gnay imagine will contribute to the aeoomptishment of his purpose*, individual sir national. The proverbial ferocity of
management to be prudent, and to allow' no one in the near future to travel upon it* eye tern of railways where there might be Innocent victims of our struggle M e send this letter by a special courier. No Misunderstanding. It was not known at first whether this letter was an intimidating threat or a serious warning, but when telegraph lines were cut. rails tom up, bridges destroyed and a Turkish station blown up by dynamite, there was no misunderstanding Its import. An order has been received at this end of the line not to sell any tickets to passengers from Constantinople. The employes of the railway have demanded an especial guarantee for their own safety while on. duty, and the trains that are now carrying military supplies and troops into the vilayet of aionaatir are ench preceded by a safety engine. Since this letter's threats have been fully executed, the communication between Monnstir and Salontca has been arrested altogether, and Monastlr Itself threatened with entire destruction byfire The main European line Is now menaced between Sofia and Constanti-
nople,
it was at first believed that in this recent outbreak there was not sufficient concerted action among the revolutionists to prove anything more than a spasmodic j revolt, the last gasp of this year s dying struggle. A Macedonian revolutionist. ; however, is too obdurate an element to l>i ! reckoned with on ordinary chances. Even when he seems already crushed, he Is : Just as likely to be setting a fuse to a dvnamtte bomb as to be doing penance. While many of the peaceful Macedonian villagers are being forced to join j the revolutionary bands under pain of . death at refusal, and while the Turkish villagers are fleeing in terror to the ! mountains, the situation to Macedonia has never been so serious as now. The Macedonian-Bulgarian would seem to have reached the limit of desperation, as weU as savagery, whereby (without a thought of being able to overcome Turkey) the yet hopes to accomplish one of two thnigs:) either by acts of violence and outrage to arouse the spirit of retaliation
in the Turk to the
are side lights enough to show that the death of neither of these consuls was due wholly to the ferocity of either Turk or Albanian. It is a singular fact that to no other country, under no other government, does a foreigner assume the Importance and superiority, even aggressive authority, that he does in Turkey. Especially is this true of some consuls In the interior posts, and more especially still is it remarked among Russian consuls. It is told of the successor of Stcherblna at Mitrovitza that he has been known repeatedly to use the horse whip In dealing with Albanian underlings. On one occasion the Intervention of a Turkish police officer alone saved him from the ball of an outraged Albanian, smarting under the lash of this consul's horse-
whip.
A consul In Asia Minor, one of the most charming of men socially, has himself told me of his frequent resort to the whip, to order to chastise these “stupid fools," who he insisted "thus learned to respect you.” The use of insulting epithets is no uncommon thing, even on the slightest provocation, with many a hotheaded under official, while the highhanded way in which some vice-consuls and lesser officials ride over the customs of the people, would hardly be tolerated
It. any other country.
When sometimes these "stupid wretches” resent the arrogance. Insults and blows of these foreign lords, tliere is a tragedy, for which, however, the Turk
is made to do full penance. LOUISE PARKS RICHARDS.
GREAT LAND THAT IS OFFERED TO THE JEWS
CHARACTER OF TRACT IN AFRICA GIVEN BY ENGLAND.
FERTILE AND WELL WATERED
LODON, September 12.—One of the most remarkable movements of modern times will be the colonisation of parts of British East Africa along the line of the Uganda railway by the Jews who. it is thought will be sent out by the Zion-
ist movement
England has offered the tract, and such prominent men as Israel Zangwill and Dr. Max Nordau are strongly to favor
of making the experiment.
The Uganda district would in that case acquire an added interest to the world at large, since U would be the theater not only of the Uganda railway scheme, which has for some years been attracting attention, but of a serious attempt to solve one of the greatest problems of the times.
j When the British government offered
so considerable a stretch of territory in
Woman Collected Damages for Man's East Africa f?ff Jewish settlement It vol-
unteered to give away one of the most
CALLED HERSELF THE WIDOW
Death—Now a Brother Sues. NEW YORK, September 12.-Papers to
a complicated suit are to be filed at Plainfield. N. J., by Louis Amtet, of Kentucky, who seeks damages for the death of his brother in a trolley accident last
remarkable, as well as one of the most interesting, tracts of land in the world. The great plateau of the Uganda region is not only one of the very’ few in all Africa where white men may live and prosper, but it is a land as well which is noth inviting in all these respects which should make life worth living, ft abounds.
the work -ember Soon after the totality, the ! too, in much of the mystery and gUmour reforms - according to the latter - j Ke which demand Htoroowm Inter- ra J 1Wli7 ,«» n £ any ,P^'l *3.000 to a woman I which has for so long hung over the cenW beeT P^eedtog after the ^vesa^n^to th^ Jh* ^ °f, the^Dark Continent,
dilatory method® of the Orient, 1 stories of their wrongs
the Macedonians we* not sgtlsfled with I hormrs which thev comm.v. c. .w leval-a land remarkable for its forests,
the Macedonians
the results. Indeed, they will never be wor i d Turkey s inability to supp I satisfied with <*n.vthtng_short ot an ab-< own subjects, which will force Europe to
stories of their wrongs, or. by the very andfurrher^oss^imy ofa sultand th^
horrors which they commit, show to the i-,. ♦j.g c i tv
world Turkey's inability to suppress her.
■The Victoria Nyanxa region, where the Nile takes its birth, lies 3.S20 feet above sea j barous. though Sir Harry Johnston’is the
and plains, and unique in Its Man escarpment, a mighty stone wall thrown up by nature with a regularity almost aa marked as though it were man- ide, which faces upon a sunken valley caiied "The Great Rift.” About this rise mighty mountains, which are almost beyond question those which figured In the geographical stories of the ancients as 'The
Mountains of the Moon.”
When, even to comparatively modern times, the coast lands of Africa had been opened up by discovery and no mountains of any unusual size had been found it was affirmed that these Mountains of the Moon could have existed only to the imaginations of those who first wrote of them. But the geography of to-day has found in such peaks as Mount Kenia and Mount Killimanjaro, which rise 1«,000 and 19,000 feet above the surrounding country, full warrant for ail stories of the past. Sir Harry Johnston, who undoubtedly knows more of the Uganda region than any other man living, in his report on the country made as commissioner for the Uganda protectorate describes it as unparalleled In tropical Africa. He declares It to be admirably watered, fertile and cool, covered with noble forests, and but sparsely inhabited. He adds that It is quite as healthy for Europeans as Great
Britain Itself.
Remarkable Plants.
A very Interesting feature of his report has to do with the various vegetable growths of the country, which would seem to bo remarkable for the size they assume. Plants which in the temperate zone are properly regarded as small, attain in the Uganda a growth many times that which is characteristic of them in
lands farther north.
As for the people—and one might also say, “aa for the neighbors which the Jews will find awaiting them”—they make up in peculiarities what they may lack in numbers. The .tract of territory which has been offered by Great Britain Is perhaps two hundred miles long by ninety miles or one hundred In width. In that there are now living seven distinct tribes of African natives, one of them already in a state of some civilization, but the other six characteristically barbarous, though Sir Harry Johnston Is authority for the statement that all
them are well disposed toward the white man and willing to study and imitate his yr ay* Wear European Clothes. The Baganda people wear European clothes, that Is, Turkish garments, and most of them speak a little French or English; the other people of the region still go In the state of undress so long associated with African natives. Probably the strangest of the tribes arc the Kavirontdos, whose cannibal traditions still prompt them to file their teeth to needle-llko points, sad the famous Kiagwe dwarfs, a tribe of diminutive hunters which wanders over the greater part of eastern Africa between the Victoria Nyanza and the vicinity of tlie Indian Ocean, BRITISH BARGAINS IN BEASTS.
step to and take their control out of her __ _ _ _ , A . , _
hfuul.. ,h*» freeing Mndonla ComjTRACT OF LAND IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA THAT
Turkish rule, if nothing more.
In Deadly Earnest.
Whatever these Macedonians may be
in deadly earnest. So .
manifest is this earnestness that the;
Whiskey and Beer Habi! PERMANENTLY CURED BY ^
“ORRINE”
Fhyeldass and sciestists throaghoot the World have long since pronounced drunkenness ■ disease of the serrous system, creating a morbid craving for a stimnlaut. System* vary ha to the kind of drink that will satisfy this craving—aoiae want whiskey, others beer. wine, kimmel, etc., the use of nhlch will eventually result in raining the health and bringing on iitcaae. In many cases ending In death. •* ORRINE ’* permaaenUy removes the craving for liquor, restores the organs of the Stomach to their natural condition and Improves the appetite and digestion. It contains no injurious drugs of any deac rtpt ion. •• OWRIME" can be given without the patient's knowledge. If desired, in tea, coffee, water or milk. It requires no office or sanltarlam treatment, but can betaken at home. We will refund the money If It fall# to do all that is claimed for it. Mr. g. T. Sim3, Brooklyn, N. Y„ writes: * Use my name as a twenty-year drunkard reUTind tp manhood and health by 4 boxes of OnKtNK.’ ]t is a wondorful and marvelous
«« tor the driuk habit."
“ORRINB" Is U I*r boa.
Ibexes for #5. Malted ta plain, sealed wrapper, byOaaixs Co.. 8!7 14th feu, tl. W., Washing
Greeks by the Bulgarian Macedonians, while the preas of Athens te crying out ...» acts of cruelty and robbery j committed upon its countrymen in Mace-
donia.
_ .... ..... to the mountain above Monastlr. have been for two weeks or more spreading devastation and terror among the Mohammedan
subjects, and also among the Greeks fir-. N—I—^— 1 - ■ habitants, who, affiliating with the | otherwise, they are in deadly earnest. So
Turks, are equally hated by the Bul-
garians. ■ The Greek minister to Constantinople Turkish government is taking all steps has entered hi- protest at the Porte possible preparatory to the surprises the j against the atrocities committed upon Maoedon j a .. 8 ma) have in store. The re-
serves, which had scarcely been die- 1
-riMtlrv und rohbarv mlss * ,:1 3Md sent t0 their homes a hav«
against the act* of orueltt and robber j ajea j u called out, and sent into Mace-
donia, where the guards of public bulld- • ir.gs and foreign consulates have been re- j
Destruction ot Property. , >»To™£ o( M RMko ,. st> , b , be . r , 8 Not content with pouring out their ven- the second KnsMaan oonsubjyho has been
gence upon the InhaWtaanU of the coun-
try, the designs of the committee have the paiaoe at Coastantim pie where its always Involved the destruction of Pistole consequences were fully appreEuropean property. This time, however. | 1* **3 on the Mat of March that Consul | a dealre to spare European lives 1s af- Stcherblna, of Mitrovitza. during. the re- - feotod a «dwn«d bv Boris Sera. v ®* 1 of the Albanians, was assassinated. tectec. A letter stgneu by Bom Ssaru Th- ^ ^-eral thousand Albanfoff, the soul ©f the revolutionary ions had attempted to enter Mitrovitza. bands, and two of his associate chiefs. 1 Their attack had been repulsed by the; which has been sent to the office of the ' Turks with great loss on the side of the
explains Itself: Albanians Stcherblna was said to have !
watched the operations of the Turks, to j whose commander in chief he made eug- ,
gesttons
HAS BEEN OFFERED TO JEWS FOR COLONIZATION
.fig. M nssto., 8 C. later* t. Sold in
r —-efc-wSue. ,.4^. . *4*
ton, D. C. Interesting booklet fMsled) free oa
isqaert. Sold aad jeiommlwnied by
Orient Railway Company, explains B "The staff of the Revolutionary Com mlttee ot Macedonia and Adrmnople have the honor to inform the management of the Orient railway that it has decided 10 begin at once, to the name of the Christian population of Macedonia, and of the vilayet of Adrianopie, the Insurrection
‘ ‘ which for
n the e!e-
— w V ~ut has not afforded the least guarantee for the life, property and honor of its Christian population. This population has arrived at the extreme limit of despair, and sees itself constrained to proclaim warfare against it* mortal enemy, with the cry of Liberty or Death?* "This insurrection being obliged of necessity to be accompanied by certain attacks upon the railway, the staff oonMder* it a humane obligation to ash the
of a bullet
r.g
a kinsman. The murderer, though con
His. death was the result ■ of a bul from an Albanian, to avenge the death of
demned to death by the Turkish courts, finally had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life, tnrough the intern of the Csar, who. in consideration of the danger of sentencing one of this tribe of vendetta-loving Albanians, did for the Sultan what he should like to have done for himself under similar circumstances. Some Justification. Much as the tragic death of hi. Roskowsky is to be regretted, and wholly as murder is without Justification, yet there
1
Prices of Wild Animals Have Dropped Tremendously. LONDON, September 12.—Although up to the present time none of the many departing American travelers has had among his “effects'’ a young lion or a baby wolf, It will be strange if visitors to this side do not pick up something of the sort to take home to the children, should the present depression to the wild animal market continue. The proceeds of an animal sale Just held in Glasgow speak for themselves regarding the drop In prices during the Last decade, and show the results of new conditions which have at feet fed the trade. Among the genuine bargains at the Glasgow sale were a brown bear, which brought only ftf, and a performing elephant, which went for 2500, and a number of wolves, which averaged only 17 50 apiece. Animal dealers say that twenty years ago thee® animals could not have been bought for twice the sums which purchased them the other day, and they declare that the value of other beasts has
depreciated.
Although once the animal market of the world, London now has comparatively few large dealers. Most of the British steamship lines have abolished the practice so common years ago of allowing captains to bring a few wild animals, from foreign ports as a sort of perquisite,) and now charge high freight on what they term “risky cargo." These new arrangements have diverted importation to continental ports, where no such restrictions exist, and the big dealers of to-day are to be found principally in Hamburg end Antwerp. Pumas, which now cost $200'to import Into England, can be picked up at Antwerp for JpJ, while other prlcss range in proportion. Tne dealer? still left In London now handle rare animals and birds almost exclusively, A fine rhinoceros te worth 15,000, and a white specimen might sell for flO.Ooo. Giraffe* now average from |1,500 to $2,000, and they are not plentiful. WINDSOR TO BE CATLESS.
arasuc measures 10 remuve w occasion, while staying at hotel to Dm .on, he espied a at his feet at the breakfast ti
if they are to be tolerated nt all, they must confine themselves to more modest
quarters.
Andrew Carnegie suffers from a similar superstition. In the Intervals of his absence from Skibb Castle cats accumulate, but as soon as it becomes known that he te about to appear the steward tukei drastic measures to remove them. On one
-» hi* favorite
eat reclining
|.. table, and before there was time to put the beast oflt Carnegie left the remainder of his meal, and quitted the hotel, and he hor never
stayed there since.
Bo strong te his superstition to this direction that on another occasion recently he refused to enter Bkibo Castle because a cat had crossed the lawn while he was approaching. He turned back and put up at a local ton for the night. This story, by the way, te not more hearsay. It was told to the writer by a person who wit-
nessed the Incident.
TW0 CENT LETTERS TO LONDON A POSSIBILITY.
British Postoffice Has Detailed a Number of Clerks to Compile Statistics
on the Subject.
LONDON, September 6.—It seems that the Postmaser-Gcneral’s statement to the House of Commons on the eve of the prorogation of Parliament, that he was not prepared to promise a penny (two cent) post arrangement with ths United Btates, must not be taken to indicate that such an arrangement te not probable. A number of clerks have been on extra dutp for the last three months getting out figures that will enable Austen Chamberlain to come to some definite decision on the matter by ths time Parliament assem-
bles In November.
Postal reformers Ilk# Hennlker-Heaton, M. F* have been keeping In close touch with leading officials to the general poet-
are satisfied that a penny
ost between England and the United
that must come.
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post between Btates te a thing
The clerks engaged to compiling ths statistics are complaining that they are on extra duty without extra pay.
THE UGANDA DISTRICT THAT MAY SOON ATTRACT THE ATTENTION 0 F THE WORLD,
King Edward Shares Andrew Cai* negie’s Dislike for the Animals, LONDON, September 12.-Windsor Castle has been cleared of cats, by order of the King. For years his majesty has shown a dislike amounting to almost a superstition for the presence of the feline species, but ho tolerated them at Windsor because hte mother always had two favorite cats about her. The crisis came when "Jack," hte favorite dog, was poisoned at Dublin on his recent tour In Ireland, It appears that the poison which ended "Jack's” distinguished career was put down for the purpose of ridding the lord lieutenant’s residence of an army of cats that had infested it. ''Jack,” like hte royal master, disliked cats, and It was In an effort to exterminate them that he came to hte sad end. Hte majesty gave instructions that to future no cat must be seen, about any of the royal apartments, and
EARS LIKE THESE MADE PERFECT.
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