Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 December 1896 — Page 2

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LABOR FEDERATION.

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Cincinnati, Dec. 21.—in the convention of the American Federation of Labor today a large number -of resolutions were acted upon, among them the following: The Kenehan socialist resolution, defeated for the better inspection of nary yards .and- arsenals, aimed at the Carnegie Steel Works and others, adopted for union labels on stogies as well as cigars, adopted against any street care not /carrying mails having marked oa tbft cars The words "U. S. Mail," adopted for government control of telephone and telegraph, adopted revoking commissions .ot all organizers and authorizing issue of new commissions, adopted for more vigorous Investigation of armor plates and lor the establishment of government plants for their manufacture, adopted recognizing only such musical unions as are affiliated with the American Federation of Musicians, adopted recommending percentage system does instead «f monthly dues, adopted endorsing efforts of *11 organisations for Sabbath observance and others of lesser import.

The report of the special committee on immigration was read by Mr. James T. McBryde of Philadelphia. Instead of reporting a bill it recommended that the Lodge bill now pending in congress be passed, and that this be the recommendation of the American Federation of Labor to congress and the president. It furthermore recom-w mends that the executive council be emptf^= ered and directed to employ a competent attorney to draw a bill on the restriction of iihmigration to be presented to congress with the petition that it be passed. Among the provisions of this proposed bill were these: "That foreign consuls be emigration agents to pass upon the qualifications of emigrants before they set out for this country that all immigrants received here ehduld be required within a reasonable time to become naturalized citizens that paupers ana crlminalsf be excluded that an educational test be required that penalties foi^Violation of the alien contract law be increased."

This report was amended to refer it to the executive with instructions to the council to refer it to all the affiliated unions, and that its fate depend upon their aggregate decision. In-this shape the report was adopted by 3Q to 22. It met some opposition in debate

The American Federation of Labor adjourned at 1&:15 tonight. In the discussion of the immigration committee's report this afternoon it was assailed by Delegates O'Donnell of Boston,. Furnst of New York, John Tobin and Thomas Kidd, and was stoutly advocated by P. J. McG-uire, who read the Lodge bill also by James Dune in of Massachusetts, Silver of Washington, W. M. Woodbury, M, M. Garland and others. The opposition was principally against an educational and compulsory citizenship.

The night session lasted nearly three hours. The grievance committee reported a resolution asking that the charter of the American Federation of Steam Engineers of Chicago, No. ,653, be revoked, as it had not been legally organized

this was a threat that if the charter of No. 6,653 -was not revoked by January .1, 1397, that the Eingineers' Protectee Association No. 6,614, would withdraw. Mr. C. J. Deling of Chicago said the American Federation Of Steam Engineers of Chicago was "composed of scabs." The convention.

The international label league organized tonight with John B. Tobin, chairman, and the following executive committee: John B. Tobin, exofflcio John C. Derflell, Hatty Mason, John Phillips and W. Fox.

At 10:15 o'clock the convention adjourned.

DEATH ENDED HIS TORTURE.

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'Kentucky Mob flunging Stnne.

Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 21.—Sheriff Cook and jbrain

W A. Usher arrived in this city this morn-

pointed to defend the negro by the court,

Sheriff Cook left for Louisville Saturday morning, and in a few hours his departure tras known all over Graves county. When he arrived with the prisoner yesterday morning several unknown men were at the 8epot, and followed the officer to the county |ail, and during the entire day the jail was Mostly watched to see that the prisoner was not again moved away.

Word was received here just before dark last evening to the effect that a mob of 500 men were moving on the county seat from ihe north, and half the people residing in the city remained up in anticipation of the Pxpected event. At 10:30 o'clock a mob of about 500 masked men assembled a few hundred yards from the court house and jnarched to the county jail, and, after breaking the doors of the prison, entered And soowed the negro. He was carried to

the court yard and swung up to a Umb at S o'clock, and sfetefal of the mob fired through his body.

The~fatter attempted t» defeat the negro, but the mob demanded the man in such a manner that he was forced to surrender. The negro wade a statement to the effect that another negro committed the crime, but the mob paid no attention to his words. He off wed prayer, white knives were being plunged iato his body, but to no avail. The men were convinced of hi* guilt. Mid acted accordingly. A placard was pinned On hie body, announcing that he should not be taken down until 12 o'clock today. Another placard gave the names of several other negroes residing in the vicinity, Warning them to leave the country.

MUSIC AND MJCE.

A Sfaegestfcm of a Novel

As to the actual doings of a mouse when listening to music, it has been observed that the playing of a piano, even the tum-tum ot a beginner learning his first tune, will cause mice of the common house variety to ran

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and down behind the piaster of a house, causing it to rattle in a way to disturb the most earnest student. One night half a dozen persons were gathered in the parlor of an Adirondack home, listening to a skilled player, who, as a woodsman said, "could make a pianner talk," when it was observed that the mice were acting in an unusual manner. The ordinary conduct of mice when they hear piano music Is to merely rattle the piaster, but on this night they squeafce$ and squealed and rattled the plaster as they had never done before. The rush of the rodents died away after the music stopped, but it was hours before the last squeak was heard.

One of. the human listeners, was a boy who had some little skill as a harmonica player, and h« went frequently to the woods, where, with the aid of the instrument, he saeceded in calling chipmunks, red squirrels, and, on one occasion, a Woodchuck, besides wood mice—including the deer mouse —And the smaller birds. The mice chiefly ran about the player, with now and then a squeak, but sometimes a low strain with slight modulations would seem to drive them insane, and then, without hesitation, they would run. over the player, as if he had been a stumps The squirrels were less demonstrative.

SAY THE STRIKE IS ON.

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Coupled with part returned to work. The inforanattoo was given out by the operators, but it seems the strike is not off, at least the miners it is cot and there is intimation of trouble of a serious nature before there Ik. a final settlement. The minors say the operators are very anxious to have the mines started lip and for this reason have given out the statemeet that all the shafts where there has been a strike are working. They say that the shafts at Coal Bluff are the only ones In opera-

pissed the resolution revoking the charter tion and that the settlement made by the of 6 653. miners of this place is Under protest. The A resolution tj, ff pfr,'« & the convention In favor of the public owner- operators to break the anion. It is said that ship of such corporations as require franchises was adopted. After reconsidering the resolution already adopted to keep a legislative committee of two at Washington to look after labor interests there and attending it to make a Committee of one instead if two, John Fernseth, of the Seamen's International "Union, was chosen as the committee of one, his headquarters to be with the national headquarters at Washington.

at Reaedate an agreement was reached upon, the day system by which the machine men receive $2.25 and the laborers $1.80 per day. At Coxville a similar agreement was reached and at Lyford the rates were made even more favorable, as the machine men receive $2.25, ''shooters" ?2 and laborers $1.S0. The settlement at Foleyville was made upon the box system, which was condemned at the last meeting of the miners' association.

ThcTO was a strike of the miners at the mines of J. N.- and George Broadhurst, west of the city, yesterday. The firm demands that the miners fork their coal and carry it to tfhe cars for 55 cent3 a day. The men refuse to do this and will insist on a scale of 60 cents.

Henry C. Nevitt Bond.

Mr. Henry C. Nevitt died yesterday afternoon at St. Anthony's hospital after a long and painful illness. He had been in a critical condition for some weeks and had been unable to rest on but .one side on account of the severe pains in his he-ad caused by a tumor which had formed at the base of the

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Ine having in charge "Jim" Stone, who has years ago while skating. He struck his i,i thn nA«5t two weeks, ihead and was unconscious for several hours, been in Louisville for the past two weeKS. His trial was set for tomorrow. H. J. Moo Alb4ny

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and were in close consultation with him nearly the entire day yesterday. Stone was charged with crimhuJly assaulting Mrs. J. M. R. Greene at fcer residence, in this city, on the night of November 24th, and was arrested by Sheriff Cook the day after the crime was committed. He department at Washington. During this denied the guilt, but the evidence was over- time he continued his law studies. He rose whelmingly against him. His preliminary rapidly in his profession and in political circles. For a number of years he was attorney for the savings bank and during

hearing was set for the 27th, and he was taken to the county jail for safe keeping. He was bound over to await the action of the grand jury without trial. An order, was circuit court served as a special judge on received from Judge Moss to take the pris- several occasions. At the time Mr. Nevitt oner to Paducah for safe keeping and Sher- left here to remove to Albany, N. Y„ in 1387 iff Cook, with a number of deputies, started he was city attorney. During his residence for the'depot with him to take the local! there he received some important politioal freight train for that place. When the train appointments. arrived the officers placed the prisoner in He was married in St, Stephen's Episcopal the caboose, and a few minutes later a mob church in this city in the summer of 1SS5 of about 100 determined men surrounded the to Miss Ijanra Garvie. a granddaughter of

o*r and demanded the negro. The sheriff refused to give him up, and the mob was preparing to overturn the car. when Mr. Greene, husband of the victim, appeared at the. side door of the car and urged the crowd to let the prisoner depart in peace. His request was granted, the train pulled out of the yard and the negro was safely landed in the Paducah jail. That evening aver 100 well-armed men went to Paducah for the purpose of lynching Stone, but the MeCracken county officials had been noticed of their, intention, and upon arriving it the Paducah jail the negro could not be ,'ound, and the crowd retnrned to Mayfield the morning. Two days later Stone was transferred to Louisville, it not being leemed safe to keep him longer in Paducah.

tj0me and she expects to make

it her residence in the future. Henry C. Nevitt was born in Washington, D. C., in 1857. He was the son of Robert and Mary Nevitt, of that city. He graduated from Columbia college and for four years afterward filled a clerkship in the treasury

Judge Mack's incumbency as judge of the

the late James Ross. He leaves three children, the eldest S years of age. the youngest 2 years old. Notice of the funeral will be given later.

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,T« fries Tailed to Write.'

James Tpllvr, colored, who was sent to the reform school aad a year ugo released on parole, has been taken back to the Institution by Sheritf Seebarger. Wbee the colored lad was given his liberty be promised to write to the superintendent once a month and let Mm know how he was setting along. Superintendent Char:eton has been looking for letters for mi oaths, and as Uu!j- came not he wrote the Terre Haute sheriff to arrest the youngster. James says he Is sorry and insists it was all his fault

A XPW loilfe Orpialied.

A District Court of the Suorcme Court of Honor was instituted at the T. 31. C. A. last by Sir. 4. K. Black of Marshall, prenae fiireetor, aad Or. Wtistm of this city, supreme deputy. A number of prominent ottisens are members and the order has made a good start. They will elect officers aad complete thoic organization oa Wednesday evening at the same place, when they will also have a musical entertainment nnrter the dlrrtsoa ot Processor Stjoot,. so which ail are invited.

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Truth of London suggests that as mice like music, there is an independent fortune awaiting the man who will invent a small music box which when wound will runi all night, since such a contrivance would serve to call mice into traps and would be to the mice what a decoy Is ttf a flock of ducks, or a looking glass to -a tiger. After the suggestion, which is not untrue to nature, Truth went on to say that music that sounds out of kilter to a critic's ears would also drive mice from the house. If the Truth wrtier had ever actually seen a mouse under the influence of music he would never have made that mistake, comments the New York Sun. Neither would he have said "an accordion would also make the agile rodent desert the house as he is said to desert the sinking ship." Whether music affectB rats Is a question not yet settled by. students of natural history. "K-"*-/

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Orfi-jvnlzHtion Officials Trouble Is Not Over,

A few days ago The Express made the announcement that the strike of the miners was at aa end and that the men had for the most

TERKE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22,1896.

CHICAGO BANK PAIIiS

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Its Assets Arm Between •18,Wtt,000 and •lC,O(rO.O00-Tit« CaOSe. ."" ,,

Chicago, Dec. 21.—The Nitfoaal bank 6f Illinois, one o£ the oldest ami best-known banking institutions la th» city, with as#«ts of between $12,000,000 *5*d 116,000,000 closed it# doors today. 3*h« following notice was posted on the doors before the opening of the hanking hows: "This b&nk is la the hands of th* national bank examiner, by erder of th» Comptroller of the treasury."

This action was decided upon at a meeting of the directors of the bank last night, after the bank had been suspended from the Clearing House association of Chicago, at a. meeting of the clearing house committee, held earlier in the day.

Of the sixteen banks tliat cleared through the National bank of Ilinois, two closed their doors as a result of the closing of that institution. They are E. S. Dwyer & Co and Wasmandorff & Heinman. These two institutions are mortgage loan banks and savings societies in a small way, and their failure is not expected to affect &ny business houses. The assets of 81. Si Dwyer & Co. are given at $1,600,000, With liabilities of $1,200,000. The figures from Wasmandorff & Heinemann are, approximately: Assets, $650,000 liabilities, $100,000.

The Security, Title and Trust Co. Was appointed receiver for both firms.. Six banks have arranged to clear through other balances, and the bakfice of the sixteen are making similar arrangements as fast as possible.

The

failure was a great surprfse In flfiknclal and business circles. The cause of suspension, as given in the resolutions adopted by the clearing house committee, are "unwarrantable and tajundieious loans," through which the "capital and surplus of said bank is seriously Imperiled, if not absolutely lOSt

Tfb« Bank Affairs.

The sratteisent was made that a loan of about$2,400,000 to the Calumet Street I^aiU.. road company, of which J. W. Parson,"of Far son, Leach & Co. is president, haft caused the National Bank 6f Illinois to suspend, Mr. Parson declined to make a statement on that subjeet,

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stated that the failure would not afreet the' Calumet. Heavy loans on real estate ars also said to have been made. The last statement of the bank showed deposits $12,176,' 766, loans $9,199,642, cash resources, .$4,083,-

202. It is thought probable that none of the -depositors will suiter by the Buspensioii, afi the bankers who were preSSnt at the meeting of the committee have recommended the proposition to advance 75 per cent on all adjusted claims against the National bank of Illinois. In addition to this they have agreed to use their influence with all other members of the Clearing House Association to accept all such claims as collateral at the same ratio.

The National Bank of Illinois was organized in 1871 with a capital stock of $300,000, which was subsequently increased to $1.000,000. It was regarded as One Of the soundest financial institutions of the city.

The Press Club is one of the sufferers by the suspension, all the proceeds of the ad* vk&& sale of tickets fbr the football £«t»e betWeen tbe Carlisle Indians and tho Wis* consifc eleven, Which was iheld under the management of the Press Club, amounting to over $3,000 having been deposited Saturday.

It was announced that the Drovers National bank-, which cleared through the National bank of Illinois will clear through the Commercial fea&k.

Had Bat Ottle Kffect.

The West Side bank will also clear through the Commercial National. The suspension had but little effect either in the wheat pit or on the Stock Exchange. Wheat indeed, showed strength after the openihg decline, and. the stock market was -dull and only fractionally lower,

Neither the bank examiner afty officer of the National Bank of Illinois will fllake any statement at present.

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One of the leading bankers and financiers of the city at noon today said to an Associated Press reporter: "The failure of to? National Bank of Illinois has created no disturbance of consequence in financial circles here. Only two private bankers, who frere really nothing but mortgage dealers, have failed. But this is only a natural consequence of shrinking real estate values."

The principal source of trouble of the National Bank of Illinois was a loan of $2,400,000 to the Calumet Electric Railway Company This, with three or four other Wei* loans, threatened such severe losses that the clearing

house.Committee

saw no way, but

to suspend the bank. The loss in liquidation will be small, if any, to the depositors. It is not probable that the bank will resume business. ••.-'i.*

CLEARING HOUSE MEETS.

The Depositors lta the Insolvent Banfc Are To Be Cared For. Chicago, Dec. 21.-At a meeting of the clearing house banks held after the close ot business this afternoon, all the banks were represented and upon recommendation of the clearing house committee who had made a thorough examination of the affairs of the National Bank of Illinois, the clearing house banks were advised to advance 75 per cent, on all claims against the National Bank of Illinois, Which shall have been certified to by the receiver as being on deposit in that bank. The general sentiment of opinion was that the depositors would receive tfieir money in full and the bank has now on hand cash means, nearly 40 per cent, of their entire liabilities. No banks requested any assistance from the clearing house and the statements published today on the call of the comptroller of the currency at the c!os« of business oa the 17th instant shows very strong reserves. There has been very little excitement today in banking cir les in this city.

The following resolution was adopted At the meeting: "kesolved, that the clearing house committee after catering to thein and such other persons as they may desire be requested to formulate a plan which will enable creditors of the National Bank of Illinois to avail themselves of the offer of the associated banks to make advances by way of loans to said creditors to the extent of 75 per upon propetty claims."

The chairman of the clearing house stated that the willingness of the bankers ..to do this was so evident that it is not probable that any formal organization to accomplish the ^bject jsill be necessary, although the committee. appointed will give prompt attention to the duty imposed upon tlAin. The follbwing dispatch was received today by the .president of the clearing house committee:

H! "Washington, December 21. "I. have appoint^! Bank Examiner McKean temporary receiver of the National Bank of Illinois atid. instructed him to publish notice for creditors to prove claims. He informs me that the clearing house committee agrees to advance 75 per cent, on evi--&ea«Tof 'Aftims. Notice will be published

at once, ahd if claims are proven immediately, I shall within thirty days be able te*ay a very considerable dividend. I appreciate the action Of the cWring house in offering to advance on such certificates. "James H. Eckels, Comptroller."

Another suspension was recorded late in the afternoon when Judge Hofton of the Circuit Court appointed John H. Nichols receiver tot the property of Frederick Wiersema, who owns the Roseland Bank, which is situated in the suburb of Roseland. The appointment was made upon the application of George Dalenberg, a judgment creditor Of Wiersema to the extent of $600. The complainant attributed the. embarrassment of Mr. Wiersema to the connection at the latter with

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National Bank of Illinois.

The assets are placed at $75,000, and the deposit* at 150,000. =»?The bank Will resume business within a few days.

The Tribune tomorrow will say that in the case of the National Bank of Illinois, "the manipulation of books was such as to practically amount to the falsification of accounts." ... Lk

It is claimed that one loan of $900,000 made to the Calumet Electric Co. was charged up to foreign exchange instead of being entered in a proper manner. Other irregularities in connection with the loans made to the Calument Electric Co. are said to have taken place.

BLOOD IN HIS EYE.

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Brazil Man Stirs Cp Big: Excitement On Eagle Street. James Garrison Of Brazil IS in jail. Nina Hawkins, a pale faced gazelle of the Tenderloin district, is thanking her lucky stars that she a in the land of (be living. The dizzy young blonde is an inmate of Clara Unger's joint at 210 Eagle street, and it was yesterday afternoon that James Garrison, the desperado, visited it. He had a jag and a gun, and when he entered the place gave it out flat that he was a bad man, was fourteen lnohes between the eyes and carried the odor of a tiger on his person. It was very soon after he entered the linger resort and Inflated his lungs With the atmosphere therein that he became di«zy and fell to the floor. At first it was thought he had been doped, and one ot the inmates stuck a pin in him to. ascertain if he was alive.. Garrison did not move, and the keeper of the place ordered the police sent for. This aroused the Brazilian, and he jumped up, took a revolver from his pocket and declared he would shoot the first policeman that came within range. But officer Welch had been sent for, and it was but a short time before he arrived. Before he reached the place Garrison had stepped out. He came back, however, and brought his pistol with him. He was just getting ready to start a decidely rough house when Welch stepped from behind a door and caught the pistol hand, Garrison then wanted to shoot himself, but glad as the officer would have been to sate the county expense, he refused to surrender the revolver to its owner

ROMANCE ENDS IN DEATH.

Air*. tlUle Fi Klrue* Kills Herself In a Hotel »t Baltimore, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 21.-A romance which began years ago in Kentucky and was fraught with a number of sensational incidents camo to an end in the Niagara House on Camden street last night, when a middle-aged woman who had arrived from Washington the afternoon before and had registered as Mrs. Stew-) art turned on the gas in her room and laj down to die. Her effort at self-destruction proved successful. When the smell ot escaping gas led to an investigation this morninj she was found a corpse.

An examination of the dead woman's effects enabled the police authorities" to And persons with whom she had maintained business relations, among them a lawyer, and from them the sad story of her life was learned. Her real nafhe was Little F. Kimes and she was ttie divorced wife of Clinton S. Kimes, publisher ot the Railway Guide, with an otnee at 4 South street, this city. She was a native oi Kentucky. When a young girl she met Kimes and, against the wishes oi her parents ran aw&y With him and they were married. Happiness proved of short duration, however. Till husband, it Is said, exercised the blandishments which had won her altogether too free, ly upaa otlifcr women* The wife weirt West and obtained a divorce. After a period of separation the two met and remarried. Again the husband began to neglect and abuse her.

Once more Mrs. Kimes sought redress in the courts, this time in Frederick, Md., where sh(| in 1891 obtained a partial divorce and the custody Of the two children. But the alimony was never paid and Mrs. Kimes, who had for1 some time lived In Washington, was here trt see about it. when the idea of suicide occurred to her, she being destitute. While the divorC* was pendl-ng and before a decree had been handed own Kimes went to Georgia and eloped with a girl there. They, were married In Chattanooga. Tean., atid are now living at 1006 North Strieker street, this city.

FATHER AND SON MEET.

B, H. Davis Meets Bis Faftcr After An Absence of Thirteen Year*. Train No. 2 yesterday on the Vandalia brought E. H. Davis to this city, where he met his father after being separated for thirteen years. It seems that when the boy was but 4 years old he WSB adopted by an aunt in St. Louis and for some unknown reason he bad never heard from his father. The boy says he has written 'letters, but he had never received any answers. Some time ago he telegraphed to the police here to look his fathr up. They did so and found that he was Harry D. Davis and that he was employed in a coal mine three miles west of the city. The father met the boy yesterday soon after he arrived and was very affectionate in his greetings. The boy is employed in thte Planters' Hotel at St. Louis to which place he will return after Christmas.

Driven Insane By Hlecoaihi. Mary Miller, a bright girl, age 17, living near Manor StaUon. became a raving maniac yesterday, the result of a violent spell of hiccoughs. While sitting in Church last Sunday evening she was attacked with hiccoughs, and while everything was done by the physicians of the town to relieve her, they grew in frequency until yesterday morning, when they suddenly ceased. She sprang from her couch, gased wildly around her for a moment, then fell back unconscious. When she recovered her reason was gone, and today her condition is pitiful. The physicians are of the opinion that her death is near at hand.—Greensburg (Pa.) Special Philadelphia Times.

Culm Bas.Plcntr of Soldier#. Washington, Dec. 21.—Mr. Quesada, the Cuban representative here, said tonight that the Junta is not responsible for the enlistments for the Cuban cause that are now said to be going on throughout the United States. fit is not our desire to break the laws of this country," he continued, "and the enlistments are a clear -violation of them. We do not want any more men in Cuba now. Besides the 25,000 or 35,000 we have BOW in the field, we have 60,000 w® cannot arm. Anyone who claims to be enlisting men under our authority is an imposter. We don't ivant men, we want arms. I hope this will put an end to these rumors."" 1 ciatb a Cold in its* Day

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KIPLING

Tan AO*BO« A JOURNALIST 111 INDIA.

The Natives Called Hlna "Kuppoleen Sahib" —A gk«teh of His Work ...ta India.

Kipllng has said that he who has one* been a Journalist remains a Journalist to the end. He said this in a semi-autobio-graphical sense. Blit when a man has reached the point of having it even rumored that syndicates are formed to buy his MSS« at the rate of so much a word, the mill of daily journalism must go round without him.

But one Kipling was Journalist to the .marrow, and there was real pathos in his parting With the "rag" in India, whleh he had for so many years done so much to adorn. When, too, after fame was his, and America and England competed for his copy, he sent many a sketch lh his best vein to the old paper at the old low rate of pay. The early hours of the first morning of his flying visit to Lahore, his City of Two Creeds, saw him, for sheer love of his old work, sitting in the familiar office chair correcting the same old proofs on the same old yellow paper, with Mian Rukhn-ud-din, the Mohammedan foreman printer, flying round the press with green turban awry, informing all hands that "Kuppuleen Sahib" had returned. And there his old editor found him when he came to the office. But those times are not now.

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Lahore, however, stands where it did. Two and a half days' Journey up country from Bombay you will find the many mosqued capital of the armed Punjab, and there, on the right hand side of the broad mall, enbowered In slrls and peepul trees, behind a lawn studded with palms and Bougainvillias, wohse planting Kipling helped to superintend, a large building bears across its front the legend: **The Civil and Military Gazette Press." There Kipling worked for years, and before that, when the Civil and Military Gazette was still a losing venture, he had worked for It also ih humbler premises, near the native city, where the Eurasians live in dark verandaed bungalows and where the native pleader bargains with his clients.

As a boy from school Kipling wa6 brought out to India, and began at once to earn his modest monthly wage at the bottom of the ladder o# Anglo-Indian journalism. Newspaper work in India is carried on by-three classes of men. The native—Hindu, Mohammedan and Sikh—labor side by side in setting up the type and working the machines. Eurasians and domiciled British subjects supply the staff pf readers" while the comparatively expensive, because imported, Anglo-Indians fill .the editorial stajff. And -fl^ho aTe the short-hand reporters a^. subeditors? In Kipling's dayrihe uprcounr try newspaper had none. The editorial,staff comprising two men, did the entire work ..of getting out the daily paper, and" if you want to know how Kipling worked as one of the two men who produced the Civil and Military Gazette daily, with its seveh pages of reading matter and seven of advertisements, you could not do better than turn into that large double bungalow on the Lahore mall and ask cheery Mian Ruhkn-ud-din, the Mohammedan- foreman printer ask Bahi Pertah Singh, the loyal and orthodox Sikh bookkeeper ask Babu Hakim All, the courteous Moslem clerk, to whom was intrusted the task of pasting Kipling's printed work into volumes—for from the earliest days Kipling had the careful habits that so seldom accompany genius such as his ask Habibulla, the willing chaprassi, on whose head Kipling's office box came and went dally. They will tell you how Kipling worked. As a Journalist he was the man whom all editors seek and few find. He was a staff in himself. He distributed his own powers, it is true, so much that 'to demand a leading article from him filled him with anguish. He said it was "above him," and he scarcely wrote five in as many years. But for every other kind of work, from writing editorial "notes" to putting side heads to paragraphs, or reporting a police court case, he was as willing as he was gifted* To every grade of work he brought a brilliance of happy thought which placed his topic in Its brightest light, a dead-sure aid with words which made his headlines fit hie matter with that complete aptness which satisfies the editorial heart a command of abrupt turns of expression which supplied humorous side-headings to small paragraphs in such taking ways that the reader could not help but read, but, more than all he exhibited a conscientious industry and an inexhaustible phick in his work which made his friends many times fear that the quick Wheels of his mind would one day whirr and stop. He went near to it once or twice.

There are nights in the Punjab when the rains are delayed and the thermometer ranges about 100 degrees day and night when the day's waking thoughts of a busy brain twisted themselves into torturing nightmares in those stifling hours that precede the dawn, and the dawn brings no relief. Such nights there were in 1887, and the English speaking world then went»near to losing Kipling before it had heard of him.

But he never slackened in his work of which on "high collar" days there was more than enough. A "high collar" day, it way be explained, was' one on which no telegrams from England were ^received, before going to press, and editorial "Notes of ihe Daj'," had to be written to fill the column which the telegrams should have occupied, thus bringing the editorial matter close up to the head, like a high collar, of the first column. At other times a multiplicity of telegrams crowded out so many "Notes of the Day" that several of these, dealing with cogpate subjects, had to be strung together Into what Kipling called "patent seamless leaders. Outside contributors to papers in India nearly all belong to the civil or military services, and tbeir contributions were often bald in style, though welcome for the information they contained. Adding the few lines of comment to quality their contributions to be used as notes Kipling described as "fitting on the whiplash," and his were always neat tied and keen in application.

Tho heaviest and most distasteful burden that Kipling bore in those journalistic days was the Blue book. At certain seasons of the year the government of India issues a stream of official reports. This flux of "Blue \Books" has been not inaptly compared to a swarm of white ants issuing from an old beam of wood. It is the duty of the pai As-taking Anglo-Indian journalist to catch these reports as they coipe. dissect, boil down and serve them up with such litetwry garnishing as may .tempt the appetite of the capricious reader. Forestry, police. Jails, registration, education, public works, etc., each with its pages of statistics, come as tho dryest grists to tho mill, and no small portion of Kipling's working hours was devoted to the grinding thereof. Even genius oannot build in martle with mere bricks, but Kipling often went near to converting government reports, into interesting and picturesque narrative. Besides this, a great deal of sub-editor's work necessarily fall to his share when the entire drudgery of, the daily paper bad to be done by two men. He was an adroit yielder of scissors and paste brush, with a quick eye for matter worth republishing, and a happy knack of knocking it into shape. As a reporter, whenever the nature of the function to be described lent itself to graphic or humorous

treatment, Kipling WM Inimitable and brilliant fragments of the experience thus gained of vioeregai durbars or "tamaahas" in satire states flash from the pases of many of his later sketches. But his was a very mixed bag of work.

After dinner speeches at commomoratlvs banquets, university convocations, race meetings or lawsuits, a flower show or a military review, whatever eame, it was siway's Kipiling's term to "do" it, for tfaers was no On* else but the editor. Probably th* worst Job ever intrusted to Kipling was his mission to interview a notorious fakir, about whom there was great religious excitement In the Iunjab, as he was reported to have cut out his tongue in order that li might, witih the help of the goddess Kali, grow again in six weeks, and thus prove th« veracity of the Hindoo faith. Kipling nevei found the fakir, but through a hot lndlai day he found hismelf misdirected from oni unsavory slum of Amristar to another, til he was sick to death of his quest. It na doubt suited the fakir's schema to.be era* sive when a sahib was looking for him an 4 on his return to Lahore it was a very dirtj and travel stained Kipling who cheorily expressed the hope that the next time the ed«. itor wanted details of a tongue-cuttini boom he would go and get them himself.

Besides occasional reporting outside tb« office, Kipling's daily work on the Civil and. Military Gazette was briefly. 1. To prepare for press all the telegrams of the day. 2. To provide all the extracts and paragraphs. 3. To make headed articles out oi Official reports, etc. 4. To write such editorial notes as he might have time for. 5. Ta look generally after all sports, outstation and local intelligence. To rrg! all proofs except the editorial matter. He may have had to do mora,' btft. roughly speaking, for a few, a very few, hundreds of rupees per month, ho did the work of at least two men, and In his odd moments of leisure wrote his veiSes and sketches, some of whlCli hava been republished in "Departmental f)!ttles," "Soldiers' Three and "Plain Talei from the Hills." These were scarcely jourr.alirm, but they wero the only portion oi his work which ever needed "editing." His youthful faftcy now and then kicked over the traces of convention, and more than on« sketch found its home in the waste papal basket. As a rule, however, they wer« much too good for a hack's pay on a paper in the northwest of India, and even Kip--ling's modesty, almost a fault, could nol blind him to the fact that he was selling his brain work far below the market value, wasting its razor edge on blocks of literary worthless and perishable matter but he believed that.he owed a debt of grafcftude td" the newspaper proprietors, who toolrhlm on credit and gave him a salary when* fie was a boy fresh from school, and he determined to serve them for-a full term of years.

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Plight of a Miner Who Was Badly Stustf ity the Devil's Club. It is probable that never in the history of medical science in the United States ha* there been a patient travel so far and with such a strange affliction to reach proper surgical treatment as has John Trevilan, Cornish miner and prospector of Bernes Bay, Alaska, who arrived in Portland, says a Portland letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. Trevilan is suffering from erysipelas and blood poisoning, caused by having hia face and hands filled with the barbed and venomous thorms of that dread of the Alaska prospector, the creeping "devil's club," of devil's walking stick, botanically known as Panax horridus.

The face of the man presents a fearful appearance. The flesh has been swollen and drawn into deep corrugations, the right eyo being closed entirely, while from the left eye a bare glimmer of sight is left through a slit between the puffed, inflamed lids. If is a story of fearful suffering. He said: "I have carried thiB face and these hands about with me Since tho evening of September 2d last. What that statement means is only to be realized by those who have lived in Alaska and been unlucky enough to encounter devil's club, and have even but one of the poisonous thorns of the creeper enter the flesh. Such people will be able to sympathize with me in my months of wretched misery v*2ien I say that twenty-eight of the barbs were cut out by my partners after I had made my Way Into camp, following my stumble intd the creepers. "The doctors in the north extracted some fifteen more, yet I am here to have my face laid open and those of the thorns that are working inward rettiovld. There is. dull pain in the lower inner corner of my right eye, which the physicians in Alaska fear Is a bai-b pressing against the eyeball, and they advised tae to come south, where I could have, the benefit of full hospital attendance during the operation, which they have been unable to secure in AlaBka ai

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having struck a seam tf rich quarts I hoped to follow out before daylight faded. Dusli came at about 8 p. m. Tired and hungry I decided to make a short cut ardund the mountain, taking an old trail I had before noticed. Reaching the end of the trail 1 started onward through the timber. I had gone but a few yards when, pushing my way into a dense growth of ferns, 1 plunged head foremost into what later proved to be an old whipsaw pit of Johnson's. Ten year* of abandonment had allowed the pit to fill with a dense growth of'devil's club." Stash, slash, came the stinging thorns against my face, hands and neck as in my efforts to regain an upright position I brought my weight to bear on the entanglement of treacherous creepers. "Then when I had round the ladder lend* ing out of the pit the lower rung brok« through rottenness, and again I was tossed back into the stinging mass of poison thai can only be likened to a rattlesnake's den. Regaining the edge of the whipsaw pit 1 retraced my way down the Johnson trail. Already my eyes were closing, the agonizing pain I was enduring being impossible to describe. Reaching the well worn trail w« had used for two seasons, it had becoms impossible for me to see from the right eyo. The left eye was still open, however, and with my thorough knowledge of the'trail, despite its course through the canyon, I wa« enabled to reach the cabin."

An Indian Atfent Appointed, Washington, Dec. 21.—The senate in ixt ecutive session today confirmed the nomination of Benjamin C. Ash of Pierre, S. D., to be agent for the Indians at Lower Brula agency, In South Dakota.

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