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I A, GAME ON SUNDAY.

THEY WERE BETTING ON A JACK POT WHEN THE YACHT UPSET, v1

Ymprlsoned In the Cabin Until Guided by a Fish Line to Swim to the Surface—A Reminiscence of Poker Playing Off the

Ions Island Coast.

"The closest call' I ever had," said the pray bairfed.'yourtg looking man, "was in a game of poker, and, curiously enough, nobody called In that particular deal in which it occurred. "Perhaps you remember one summer about ten years ago when a succession of tremendous sqtraljs struck the south side of Long Island on four successive Sundays. I think it was just ten years ago. "•We-bad a olubhouse, eight or ten of us, that summer which was located on Hicks' beach, on the extreme western end of the Great South bay. "We all knew something about sailing —I least of all—but the commodore, as j"we all called him, was the best amateur Bailor I ever knew, and naturally we made him skipper, and nobody else assumed or "felt any responsibility when hewasaboard. "On this particular Sunday, the fourth

In the series of squally Sundays, there were seven of us on the yacht. We had been weak fishing all the forenoon about four mi lea east of Wreck Head, and had bad fair luok, but it was wretchedly hot, and, tiring of the sport, we bad run back nearly to Hioks' beach again and come to anchor off the best bathing^rround in the neighborhood, opposite the rffe saving station. Then we had a plunge and after dressing h.*ul gone into the cabin. Two of the men had gone to sleep and the rest of us had begun a game of poker. It was the last game I ever played on Sunday. "After an hour or so there came a jack Tot, in which there was some of the most remarkable drawing I ever eaw. The broker had opened it on a pair of queens. The commodore sat next, and having a pair of sevens came in. The doctor had three spades with a queen at tho head, and being a brash player at all times pushed In bis chips. I had been having great luck for a time and decided to rely on it, so I came in with an ace, and the lawyer came also, though he bad only two little foui spots in his hand. We found out all this long afterward when we were together one night talking over the adventure, and at the same time we learned what the draw was. It seemed so curious to me that I wrote it down, so I speak by the card in telling it. The doctor was dealing, so I drew the first cards. They were another ace and three, eight spots. The lawyer caught another four and two tens. The broker got three jacks. The commodore naught a seven and two nines, and the dootor got his two coveted spades. A pair of queens was high hand before the draw, and there were four fulls and a flush around the board after it. "Naturally enough, the betting began furiously, and the chips on the table were all in the pot presently. We were betting money and were, some of us, feeling through our pockets for our rolls, when suddenly the commodore threw back his bead and raised his hand with a sudden gesture that arrested our attention instantly. Dropping his cards, he sprang to his feet and started to rush out on deck, when a lurch of the vessel sent us all sprawling. The squall had struck us. For a moment, while we were scrambling up we could feel the yacht tug at her anchor, and then with a sudden drive dash onward somewhere. Almost at the moment of the snapping of the cable, for it had snapped, we heard a tremendous crash overhead, and we afterward learned that the kirch of the boat had thrown her stick out of her. "The 6udden drive meant that we wore drifting helplessly toward the mud flats on the other side of the channel, but liefore we could ascertain this—in fact, before any of us could get to the companionway—the wretched boat turned turtle. I have heard it denied that such a boatoould turn turtle under such cimurastances, and I don't pretend to explain how or why it did. All I know is that it did, and it looked as if we had reached our last quarter of an hour. "The oonfusion was indescribable. Of course we were immediately standing or scrambling on the ceiling of tho little cabIn, while everything Mint had been on tho floor fell with us. Tho water rushed in more than waist deep, and for a few moments it looked as if the little room would fill up completely beforo we could even think what possibility there was of getting out. Fortunately, however, there was buoyancy enough about the miserable craft, and the cabin was deep enough in the hull to keep it pretty near the water level, and the air in tho room was not immediately displaced. At least, that was bow I reasoned it out. All that I can say positively is that whereas I expected to be totally submerged I found thut I could easily enough keep my head out of water. What air there was in the cabin doubtless helped to keep us afloat, confined as it was, and for a time—it seemed a very long time—we were tossed about, splashed and thrown down, as the boat rocked and pitched, but we were not drowned. "At first no one spoke. Tho situation was too awful for words, and it seemed as if we were all so shocked as to be mentally stunned. I know I was for one, and if our escape had depended on my thinking of a means we would all have perished then and there. Fortunately the commodore grasped the situation, and, as we could talk and understand one another well enough, he told us his plan in a few words. It was simple, and ft gave us at least a chance for life. 'You can all swim,' he said. 'Find a fishing line. There are plenty in the cabin.' "Somebody produced one in a moment. It was on a reel. 'Hold fast $o the reel,' said the commodore. 'I'll take one end of the line nnd dive through tho companionway. I think I can find my way over the 6ide and up on the bottom of the boat. I'll hold my fend, and when you feel three jerks make this end fast. Then you will have to follow, one at a time. Don't let go of the line as you go out, and you can't miss the way. I'll hold the other end.' 'Very good, commodore,' said the broker, 'hue I'd better go first. You know what a swimmer I am, and I reckon the man who goes first will have the hardest job.' "The commodore was disposed to depute this proposition, but the lawyer spoke up sharply: 'Let him go, commodore,' he said. 'It's a forlorn hope at best, and he's far and away the best swimmer.' So it was settled, and in another moment the broker had disappeared. "Well, that's nil the story. The plan worked, and we were all perched on the keel inside of ten minutes. There we were •een by the life paving patrol and were all taken off safel* soon after.—Xew York 6un- ____________

BAKED BLUEFISH-^

Directions For Preparing a Il*h Which la Often Spoiled In the Cooking. A fish is more often ruined in baking than in almost any other way, yet if a bluefish is properly baked it is a most delicious dish.

Thoroughly clean and wash a fish weighing not loss than 2.4 pounds for baking. Make stuffing by putting a large spoonful of butter into a saucepan, and when it Is melted add one cupful of bread crumbs which have been soaking in a scant half rup of milk or water, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt and the same quantity of pepper, one teaspoonful each of choppcd ©apers and parsley, and onion juice or not

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and close the opening with small wooden skewers. Cut three gashes in each side of the fish about half an inch deep and two inches long and lay a strip of larding pork in each cut.

Now draw the fish into the form of a letterS by putting a long needle, holding a strong white thread, first through the head, then through the middle of the body and tho tail and fastening with a knot that can be easily taken out when the fish is baked. Put a tin sheet, on whioh have been laid some slices of fat salt pork, in the bottom of a baking pan and place the fish on it back upward. Rub the fish with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Pour over it half a cup of wine. Put it into a moderately hot oven and bake, allowing 15 minutes to each pbund. Constant basting is necessary for the success of the dish. When the fish is cooked, lift the tin sheet from the pan and slide the fish carefully into the center of a heated platter, remove the thread and garnish the fish with sliced lemon and parsley. Serve with either of the following sauces:

Put one tablespoonful of butter and one of flour in a saucepan over the fire, stir together and add a cupful of stock, two tablespoonfuls of stewed tomatoes, a bay leaf, half a dozen peppercorns and a teaspoonful of sugar. Bring to the boiling point, add a littlo sherry and more seasoning if necessary and strain.

For sauce hollandaise, rub half a cup o1 butter to a cream. Add the yolks of three eggs, stirring in ono at a time. Add the juice from half a lemon, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt and a dash of cayenne pepper. Place the bowl containing the mixture in a pan of boiling water. Add one cup of hot water to the sauce, beating all the time, and stir constantly until the mixture becomes like a soft custard. Do not let it boil, but remove from the fire and continue to stir a few moments before pouring it around the fish.—New York Sun.

""tHE ROMANOFFS.

krOw the Present Reigning Family Came to the Throne In Bnssia. During the long civil wars in Russia which followed the extinction of the Rurik dynasty, imperial title was still claimed by upstart usurper czars. In 1613 a new dynasty was chosen, to put an end to the rule of pretenders. Michael Romanoff, the son of Philaret, the metropolitan of Rostoff, was elected by a kind of states general convoked for the purpose. There had been various candidates, but a letter, said to bo written by Philaret, having been placed before the assembly, which was couched in terms advocating constitutional government, the son of that church dignitary was elected. Tho letter said tl£ the assembly ought not to confer irresponsible power upon the monarch whom they would appoint, but that the legislative power should be divided between the czar, tho house of boyars and the states general. The oath imposed upon Michael Romanoff was therefore to the effect that he should neither decree laws, nor declare war, nor concludo treaties of peace or alliance, nor inflict capital punishment or confiscation of property upon any person except with the assent of the boyars and the parliament.

Afterward this letter, when it had served its purpose, was declared to be a forgery. A few years later the young czar ordered the charter of 1918 to be destroyed and to be replaced by a aother, in which it was laid down that Michael Romanoff was elected czar and "autocrat" of all the Russias. Gradually the convocation even of a merely consultative assembly became less and less frequent. Finally its existence was altogether done away with. After 1682 no convocation took place any more, except once, under Catherine II, for a mere temporary object.

It is to these sporadic cases of states general, if they may be called so, and to a charter enshrouded in some historical doubt that Russian Liberals have in our time, now and then, referred as to a precedent. At least thoy did so in writings published abroad, Russian censorship having forbidden the subject to be touched upon at all. Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, Anno, Elizabeth, Peter III, Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, all ruled on the strict autocratic principle, whioh Nicholas II is still bent upon continuing. Peter I the Great enlarged upon it by extending the liability to corporal punishment from the nobility to the imperial family itself. He had his own sisters whipped. He put his own son to the torture, who died from it. He, too, took a delight in chopping off the heads of a row of political offenders while quaffing brandy between each fatal stroke of his reddened axe. It was sultanism with a vengeance.—Fortnightly Review.

Br. Wolfe and His Georgrina. In front of us stood a stout, short, elderly man, an unmistakable Hebrew in features and complexion. He spoke English fluently, but with an extremely strong foreign accent, and his manner and phraseology were peculiar, in a fashion which mado it very difficult to listen to liim with the seriousness which his subject demanded. He enlarged on his work in Palestine and Asia Minor generally, which had undoubtedly beon of a most praiseworthy description, but when he proceeded to illustrate the customs of his race by chanting some of their native songs in a high pitched voice, it proved very difficult for me, light hearted enough in those days, to hear him with due calm and decorum. Even his imitation of the lamentations of the Jews at tho wailing place outside the walls of fallen Jerusalem, which ought to have been deeply pathetic, became from his intonation and style exactly tho reverse.

The culminating overthrow of my gravity came */ith an anecdote which he told of an Arab chief who had offered him his daughter in marriage and anxiously pressed the beautiful bride upon him. "Yes," exclaimed Dr. Wolfe, stretching out his arms toward a quiet, dignified lady who sat on a sofa near him. "Yes, that chief begged me to have his child, with the brown eyes like a gazelle, to wed her and keep her always, but I said to him: 'No, no! I have my Georgina at homa I want no more wives. I have my Goorgina in my house already, and that is enough, oh, quite enough.' I must own that I had to beat a bastv retreat from the effects of this speech on the propriety of demeanor I had beon trying so hard to maintain.— Blackwood's Magazine.

The Cear's Favorite Books.

It is, of course, very difficult to form any estimate from tie preferences or predilections of a schoolboy as to what will be the bent of the mind of the monarch. His French tutor declared that he had a marked preference for French literature, and that, in his opinion, the modern French painters and sculptors stood first in modern art. Like most' growing lads, Nicholas II delighted in Jules Verne and in Robert Louis Stevenson. Among English authors he is said to be most partial to Scott, Shakespeare and Dickens, while among the French authors his favorites are said to be Victor Hugo and Lamartine. Of his preference in German authors nothing is recorded. The German tutors did not live in the palace, and although he was educated without any bias against Germany, it was noticed by those in his company that the young fellow's sense of humor was much exercised by the stiff, clumsy, pedantic and sweeping Germans, whom he seldom lost opportunity of ridiculing when he could do it giod humoredly.—Review of Reviews.

Cash Preferred.

Lady—Well, now, what is it you want, pie or chicken? Tramp—If it all the same to you, missis, I'll take money. There's a new niixa tonight, but I darsn't look at it without money in my band for good luck.-—De-

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IsTERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 2.1897.

ABUSES OF CHARITYi

ALLEGED WRONGS IN FREE DISPE^ SARIES TO BE PROBED.

Committee From Medical WH1 Ferret Ont Unworthy Cases—A Movement Elsewhere to Investigate. System of Medical Belief.

«The Medical league, composed of physicians of New York city and vicinity, re: cently decided to make a careful investigation of the alleged abuses of medical char' ity in the dispensaries and hospitals and to publish the results, in order that doubters may be convinced as to the existenoeof the evil.

The league's committee on charities, of which Dr. Frederick Sturges is chairman, will conduot the inquiry. Specific cases will be taken up and the committee will ascertain whether the recipients of free medical treatment were able to pay.

A practical inquiry of this nature was suggested sometime ago, but the organizations that have taken a stand against abuse of the dispensaries did not have funds available to pay the cost of such an investigation. The Medical league has the funds for this purpose, and work will be begun at once. The inquiry will bo conducted privately, but the results will be mado public.

A recent issue of The British Medical Journal shows that the dispensary question is not confined to this country. A lengthy memorial which the Hospital Reform association presented to the Royal College of Physicians of London May 18 is published. The memorial sets forth in 6ome uetail the manner in whioh the giving of indiscriminate medical relief in the London hospitals has increased of late years and points out the evil results. As the New York hospitals are in a measure following the lines laid down by the older British hospitals the result of their experience should be of interest here.

The memorialists, who number 220 practitioners, and include some of the foremost members of the profession in England, make these statements: "That the present system of administering medical relief in the out patient and casualty departments at most hospitals in infirmaries of the country is one fraught, with danger to the community at large, and is unjust both to the hospitals and to the general body of medicn^Tpraotitioners. "To the community at largo, because indiscriminate medical relief is demoralizing to those who receive it and is likely to inorease the pauperism of the country. "It is unjust to the hospitals because their funds are wasted on unworthy objects. Moreover, tho continuous increase in the number of out patients necessitates the expenditure of large sums of money in enlarging the accommodation necessary for their reception. That such an expen-' diture often entails the reduction of the accommodation for the in patients may be stated as a fact. "It is unjust to the general body of practitioners who are not officially connected with hospitals because they are deprived of patients whose means would warrant their employment of private practitioners. In connection with this point it may be mentioned that the establishment of cheap dispensaries can reasonably be put down to the competition of the hospitals. That the existence of such dispensaries is to be deplored every right minded medical man will agree."

The memorialists state that the increase in the number of out patients treated each year has been entirely disproportionate to the increase in population. The increase in out patients and casualty cases in London hospitals in ten years is given as 321,065 patients.

A report signed by Sir William Jenner, Sir William Gull, Sir William Fergusson and other members of the British Medical association is quoted and in it this statement is made: "Your memorialists are convinced that the manner in which the hospitals and free dispensaries throughout the kingdom -are conducted inflicts a serious injury upon many most deserving members of our profession,

while

the indiscriminate, or almost

indiscriminate, bestowal of gratuitous medioal relief upon all applicants lowers the whol$ scale of our professional remuneration, is far from being a real boon to the working classes themselves and cannot fail in the long run to have a prejudicial influence upon the nation at large. "—Exchange.

"~COLOR LINE IN SOUTH AFRICA."

It Is as Strongly Drawn There as In Any Part of America. It rarely if ever happens that a native, whatever his rank, is received on any social occasion inside a white house. Indeed he would seldom be permitted, except as a domestic servant, to enter a private house at all. When Khama, the famous chief of the Ba-Mangwato, a Christian, and a man of admittedly high character, who has ruled his people with singular wisdom and ability, was in England last autumn and was there entertained at lunch by the Duke of Westminster and other persons of social eminence, the news excited general annoyance and disgust among the whites in South Africa. A story was told me of a garden party given by the wife of a leading white ecclesiastic, the Appearance at which of a native clergyman led many of tho white guests to withdraw in dudgeon.

Onoe, when I was a guest at a mission station in Basutoland, I w*.s asked by my host whether I had anj^tbjoction to his bringing in to tho family moal t$e native pastor, who had been preachiny'to the native congregation. When I expressed some surprise that he should think it necessary to ask, he explained that race feeling was so strong among the colonists that it would have been deemed improper and, indeed, insulting to make a white guest sit down at the same table with a black man unless special permission had first been given. Thus one may say that there is no social intercourse whatever between tho races. Their relations are purely those of business. Now and then the black man gets ahead of the white, but the latt^'s pride of race remains. I was told of a white who condescended to be hired to work by a Kaffir, but stipulated that the Kaffir should address him as "boss."

Of intermarriage there is, of course, no question. It is not forbidden by law in the two British colonies, as it is in most, if not all, of the southern states of Amerca, but it is excessively rare, nor does it appear that there are now other irregular unions outside marriage, as there constantly were in tho old days while slavery existed. Iu this respect the case of South Africa remarkably resembles that of the southern states, where also there is now very little mixture of blood, though there was a great deal 50 years ago. Probably in both cases it is better that the races should not mingle their blood, for the white race would be likely to lose more than the black race would gain.—James Bryce, M. P., in Century.

CONEY ISLAND.

A Modern English Discoverer of New fork's Great Summer Resort. I pointed out to me the other day a man who discovered Coney Island—some two decades later than most of us, to be sure, but none too late for his own satisfaction. Mr. Shelley of the Oriental hotel was exhibiting him. "I—ah—saw the place from—ah—the deck of the—ah—steamer coming ovah," said he, "and I—ah—thought I'd see what sort of a place it was, don't you know.

ishing at the—ah—cheaper end, you know, iknd doosid comfortable heah." His formal and deliberate manner of putting his pince nez glasses up to his eyes, 'after much bother with the chain to which they were attached, suggested a perpetual alortness for discovery. He never merely looked at anything. One cannot call the /work of an astronomer "looking at things," and this Englishman brought the same effort and aid of glasses to his simplest visual action. When a newsboy rushed at him with a paper, meaning to sell it like lightning, before it became old and worthless' by the arrival of a later edition, the Englishman went through the same serious preliminaries with his glasses and ended by making the little arab feel that he also had beon discovered, that no one had ever looked at him before. Indeed, the startled lad shot his own eyes all over himself as if he suspected that he had been seen all over and might find himself naked.

Thus the Englishman looked at Coney Island, after it had grown ancient under Indian, Dutch, English and American rule, and discovered it and brought to it a case of apollinaris and a bathtub, so as to be sure to have those luxuries while he was there.—Julian Ralph in Scribner's. c?

•p The Ballet Trick. The probability was 99 to 1 that he would be shot, yet an Indian juggler took that one chance rather than acknowledge his inability to catch the bullet. Dr. Hoffman, the government ethnologist at Washington, tells tho story:

The bravest act I have ever known was performed by an Indian juggler. A favorite trick of his was one that has often beon performed bv white magicians.

It consisted in permitting himself to be shot at, the hocus pocus being an arrangement by which the bullet fell out of the barrel into a cavity in the stock before the weapon was discharged. Meanwhile the man had another bullot concealed in his mouth, whic.n at the instant of firing ho pushed outward with his tongue, so as to make it appear that he caught the projectile between his teeth.

Now, it happened that this man had a rival, who was engaged in the conjuring business in a neighboring village. On an occasion when tho trick was to be performed, the juggler having announced as usual that ho was ready to bo shot at by any one present, the rival stepped forward and said that he would do the shooting, but he demanded permission to use his own gun.

Naturally the juggler objected, but his protest was overruled". It was decided that the rival magician might use his own weapon. This meant almost sure death to the -performer. Yet he did not blench. To refuse the test would have been permanent disgrace.

There was 1 chance out of 100 perhaps that the marksman might miss. He decided to take that chance and so permitted the volunteer executioner to take deliberate aim and fire at him from a distance of hali a dozen paces. An instant later he ffell dead the bullet had passed through his brain.—Youth's Companion.

Tybee's Tower.

One of the objects which invariably attract the interest of voyagers approaching Savannah by sea is the tiny round tower a few hundred feet distant from the lighthouse at Tybee island, on the Georgia side. With the aid of a good pair of marine glasses the tower can be descried as built of stone and apparently hoary with age. Indeed, the native Georgian has no greater pleasure than to pour into the astonished ears of northerners the tale that it was erected by the Spanish about the same time as the structures of St. Augustine. But the hard and rather unpoetic facts of the case are that the United States government built the place as a defense against the British in 1812.

It is termed in military parlance a martello tower, being copied from similar defenses erected along the English coasts when Napoleon was threatening to invade Britain. The tower saw some little active service in the civil war, of course, but was even then not more dangerous or stronger than a stone dwelling.

At present it is used as a reporting and signal station, and during the bathing season it is a favorite visiting place for the guests of the fashionable hotels at Tybee Beach, the noted southern seaside resort. There are few objects on our coasts more striking and picturesque than the tower at Tybee, and it only lacks a few legends of Spanish possessions, sieges, etc., to make it famous.—Philadelphia Times.

S ••Good Grammar." *A contemporary tells the story of a rich woman who went to engage board for her mother in A homo for the aged and destitute and made the excuse, "My mother does not use good grammar, and we would none of us be at ease if she were at table with us." Curious. Perhaps the old lady will tell her future associates: "My daughter does not speak good English. I could never break her of the habit of saying 'use good grammar.' "—Exchange.

Sarcastic.

jFirst Cab Driver (on his rank)—What's flint, thiny yer got atween the shafts o' your cab, matey?

Second Cabman—Why, can't you see? That's my 'oss. What do you think it is? F. C. D.—Oh, I thought it was one of these 'ere new photographs. Yer can only see the skelington.—London Tit-Bits.

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A Negro Colony For Wyoming. Agent Bryan, representating a colored colqny in the south, arrived recently at Laramie, Wy., for the purpose »f negotiating for the purchase of 25,*500 acres of land situated under the Pioneer canal, the largest irrigating scheme in that section. •Denver Republican.

For Free Cuba.

Tho moon, a mystery flower of heaven, Bloomed large against the clouds That weirdly o'er the sky were driven

Like phantoms wrapped in shrouds,

While through the smothering forest crept A pale, brown, belted line Of living forms that onward swept,

Led by a thought divine.

For these were Cuban war men, stirred By no mad thirst for strife, But throbbing with the holy word

Of freedom, that gives life.

With machete and with gun they swung Death still along the route. Then on the Spanish camp they sprung

With a wild, triumphant shout.

All through the balmy air flew death. And death was on the ground, For every hero's farewell breath

Screamed a bullet's wailing sound.

With more than human strength they fought Till they won the long, fierce fight, For the weapon strong wherewith they wrought

Was the strongest—inborn right.

In the sea green depth of the bowered glad* The Spaniards sink away, But alas for the patriot lives that fad*

Ere the dawn of the full orbed day.

On the field of blood full many a tacm Lies mute, upturned and white, The swarthy hue suffused with grace

Not born of the moonbeam's light.

For indeed from the brows of the fallen brave Alight streams up to the sky, An.i earth salutes with ita rays from the grave

That splendor of night on high.

So the moon, a mystery flower serene. Mid the woe of the universe. Drinks up strange dew and light from, tie scene

Of the shattering battle a curse.

But the

day

will rise when heaven and earth glow from cloud to sea fob blended joy, for a land's new hiWh,

NIGHT OP LIGHTNING

IT WRECKS THE STEEPLE OF THE GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH,

JLittle Boy Narrowly Escaped—Two Colored Hen Shocked—Many People Badly Scared. .'-.

'Most people of this city will not soon forget the electrical storm of Wednesday night. It was the severest known here years and frightened many people very greatly. So far as is known everybody escaped without injury to speak of.

The lightning got its band is during the afternoon by taking a shot at the stack at the water works pumping station on the bank of the Wabash. This shaft of brick was considerably damaged ana number of men in the engine room were badly scared.

However, it was not until 0 o'clock Wednesday evening that the batteries in thd heavens got to working just right. At that! hour they were all turned on full blast and for an hour or two the darkness had very little chance. It was almost continuously dispelled by the frequent flashing* in all parts of the sky. Lightniug was racing around the circunifcrsncc of the horiion a.* if driven by Mcssali3 and Hen IIuis. It was darting up ami down the walls of hwen and shooting straight across the doom. N «uch fireworks were probably ever seen her» before. The spectacle was grand beyond comparison to the person who had sulBcienc courage to face it and not lasa his appreciation of the beautiful.

If the divine electrician m»ant Wednesday night's display as a ce'ebtaticr, cf the Fourth of July he designed a great programme for the occasion. The light and the noiso vvere alike startling. The air shook with the concussion of repeated explosions. Two of the most tremendous bolts, falling about 9:30 o'clock, seemed to rend clouds, air and earth. Buildings near the German Reformed Church, on the southeast corner o3 Eighth and Ohio, trembled with the force of the shock. The steeple of the church had its corners scaled off and the fragment7 showered down upon the sidewalks. Thoy fell about the shoulders of a littlo boy named Daugherty, who lives at 820 Walnut.

The boy was badly scared. The crash frightened him and his fear was intensified by the crackling of the shattered siato fronr the church roof. He eays the lightning darted about under his fee and see-ned td envelope the sidewalk. His natural impulse was to run and he did not loso any time* in acting upon it. He says he closed his eyes as tight as he could and got out of there. His home is only two blocks from where the accident occurred and young Daugherty was not long in reaching his mamma. It is reported that two colored hostlers working in a stable near the church were considerably shocked. One is said toi have been knocked down and left unconscious for a time. The Express could not find the colored men alleged to have been hurt.

FOR OPEN AIR MEETINGS

Possibility That "Members of Y. M. C. A. Will "Worship In Oollett Park.

Secretary Jamieson, of the Young Men's Christian Association, has applied to the board of Collett Park commissioners for leave to hold regular Sunday afternoon meetings of the association in the park. The meetings have been so largely attended of late that the small assembly room in which they have been held is inadequate to the congregation. This idea, if carried oiit, will prove a greater attraction than ever during the hot weather.

There has been an average attendance for some time at these meetings of about one hundred young men. The open air meetings will doubtless prove a drawing card and considerably increase the attendance. A quartette of strong-voiced singers will be provided, and the majority of the meetings will be led by Mr. Joseph A. McVeigh, who is in charge of the Light House Mission during the absence of Miss Mary McComb.

"OOM" JACK GOWDY TALKS.

He Wants to Increase Use of American Products in France.

Special to the Indianapolis News. Rushville, Ind., June 30.—The Jacksonian publishes a letter from Captain J. K. Gowdy, consul general to Paris, written to his onco bitter political antagonist, but now warm friend, Colonel T. M. Ochiltree. The new consul general gives his views on American, trade in France, and speaks of the exposition of 1900. He says: "I am determined, if possible, to increase the use and consumption of American products in this republic. The friendly relations existing between France and America warrant me in saying that there is no good reason why we ought not to extend CUP American trade with the people of this country. It is a stubborn fact, and one that I regret very much, that the authorities in France have a prohibitory order or law against imported beef cattle from America, to be consumed by their people. This condition was brought about three years ago because, as the authorities say here, of soma diseased animals being exported from America. I believe that American beef should be used here as well as in other countries crs this side of the ocean, and I sincerely hope that our administration at Washington will! assist in bringing about such relations as will increase the American trade. "We find beef and meats of all kiuds in the market here in Paris very high. A 25•.cent beefsteak in Rushville will cost hero from 50 to 60 cents. We had a duck for dinner last Saturday that cost us $1-05, and it was not a very large one at that. I mention these facts in order that you may know it costs more to live here than it does in Rushville. "There ®L-re many reasons, of course, way the producers in France are opposed to imports from America, all of which I need not discuss with you. The causes are familiar to you, and need not be referred to by mc. In short, the producers here are for protection—that is, they desire to protect their own products by prohibiting the American products to be sent here and placed in competition with their home products. "I find no American beef or meats have been consumed by the French army for over two years, as I understand it. None oan be purchased or consumed under the present conditions. I sincerely hopo that circumstances and conditions will change and that the American hog, beef and other meats will- be used extensively by the people here. America is certainly very generous in the consumption and use of products of France. Believing, as I do, in radical reciprocity, this prompts me to say that we hope to extend American trade relations with the republic of France? ''Great preparations are now being made for the Exposition of 1900. The French authorities are very active in the work. Many beautiful and massive buildings are being torn down, and the territory Is being prepared by skilled workmen for the erection of proper buildings for the great exposition. I regret very much that our United States congress has not complied with the president's request in making an appropriation for our country to make proper preparation for the fair. Several countries already have their commissioners here with headquarters es/ablished, and busy in correspondence and in the general line of preparation for having their countries properly represented. America should not fall behind. I hope that everyjr'Uzen who loves bi4 country stiU loncour^a^. oil the

part of congress and the administration ia order that the display made by our government in 1900 may be a credit to our people."

Consul-General Gowdy writes his ol4 friends in Rush county to visit him in 1900k He says he has begun housekeeping in pretty part of the city and drives daily aloaft the famous Champs ElyseeS.

MARRIED ON A YACHT

The Wedding of Miss Smith to Mr. Cum* cnlngs. New York, June 30.—Miss Helen Woodruff Smith, only daughter of formor Commotion James D. Smith, of the New York Yach Ciub, was married at Larc^moot yesterdaj morning, on board her father's schooncr y&chi Viking, to Homer S. Cutmnlngs, of New Yorlb The Viking left Stamford, Conn., the bride'f home early in the morning, dressed, from srtea to stern with flags and streamors and escorted by Commodore Howard C. Smith's steam yachj Halcyon.Tho bridal party arfived at the land} lng from Snider Lodge a lit tie before o'clock, and as soon as they were aboard tht Halcyon steamed out into the sound, towlnj tho Viking.

The bridegroom, with his attendants, went to Larchmont by train. As soon as the Vlkini arrived they boarded, and the ceremony wal performed promptly at 11 o'clock. The skj was cloudy most of the day, but the sun shoni brilliantly while the knot was being tied.

A bower of roses had been formed on th after deck, and hero the oaremony was per formed by the Rev. R. P. H. Vail, of Stanrw ford. An orchestra played all through thi service. The bride who was given away b, her father, wore a gown of ivory satin drapwith silk gauze. A tuille veil, which rcacn :h«s length of her train, was confined to th coiffure by a tl&ra of diamonds, a gift from her father.

Soon after the ceremony the Viking, followed by the Halcyon headed for Stamford, while the wedding party and guest* partook, of a breakfast in the saloon. Nearly 1,003 persone, including many from Jfew York, attended the reception held at Lincoln Lodge, after ihe return q£ the Viking to Stamford. At the rear of the house a tent was erected, and there the brido and bridegroom received congratulations.

Mr. and Mrs. Cummings sailed for Europe today on the Normannia on a four months' trip abroad.

Miss Smith, who is tall, slight end fair, and one or Stamford's most popular belles, has a long list of accomplishments. She plays the piano unusually well, and speaks several languages as fluently as she does English.

The bridegroom is a young lawyer of the firm of Fessenden, Carter & Cummings. He ran for secretary of state the last electloa on the democratic ticket and was defeated, but during the campaign he became known as a stump speaker of great force.

Tho decorations for this unique yacht wedding were green and white, great masses of white pinks and ferns forming a contrast to the ship's colors, which are yellow and white*.

MULLAN TO BE DISMISSED.

Commander of the Navy Found Guilty of Neglect. Washington, D. C., June 30.—Dismissal from the naval service is the penalty imposed by the court which recently tried Commander Dennis W. Mullan. The recorder's findings of the court, together with the indorsement of Judge Advocate-General Lemley and acting Secretary Roosevelt, will be presented to the president at once, and hecause of the desire to promote Commander N. M. Dyer to the vacancy existing in the grade of captain. Mr. McKlnley will be requested to act as quickly as is consistent with a thorough consideration of til© CflSC.

Commander Mullan was charged with neglect of duty, etc., while in command of the Pensacola navy-yard. He is best known in connection with the Samoan disaster, which occurred In March, 1889. He was in command of the third-rate steamship Nipslc at the time, and in order to save her from total destruction and the lives of those under his command, he was compelled to beach her. His course at the time was approved by the secretary of the navy.

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John ftntiiell Yonng Is Llbrarlwa. Washington, June 30.—The senate today oonfirmed the following nominations:

John Russell Young, of Pennsylvania, to be librarian of congress. Bernard !R. Greene, of the District of Colbia, to be suerintendent of the library building and grounds.

John P. Bray, of North Dakota, to be consul general at Melbourne, Australia. Church Howe, of Nebraska, to be consulgeneral at Apia and Nukualofa, Tonga.

Hugo Donzellman ,of Wyoming, to be consul at Prague and Bohemia.

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riuuped Bayonet Into Hl« Back. New York, June 30.—Thomas J. Kenney. master at arms of the battleship Indiana, was murdered tonight on board the ship as i: Jay at its moorings In the Brooklyn navy yard. The murderer, Philip F. Carter, walked up to him and without a word of warning plunged a bayonet blade up to its hilt in hia back. Kengey was a popular man although a strict disciplinarian. He entered the service nearly six years ago. Carter had been drinking.

Kdens For Immigration Commissioner. Washington, June 30.—There is a strong intimation given at the White House today, that the president would select neither T. V. Powdcrly Dor ex-Representative Keifer as immigration commissioner, but probably would appoint William G. Edens of Gaie3burg, 111. The protests against Mr. Powderly have been numerous. Mr. Edens is promineptly connected with labor organizations and has been an officer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

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A Swarm of Christian Endeavorers. Kansas City, Mo., June 3C.—Eight thousand people, delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention at San Francisco and others taking advantage of chcap excursion rates, literally swarmed the Union depot today. With one exception trains from tha east were run in four or five sections. In all about 300 car loads of people have passed through since yesterday.

Flgel Is Charred With Mnrder. .-«• San Francisco. June 30.—Theodore Figel, bookkeeper for Hoffman, Rothschild & Co. is now tn the city prison charged With thi suisist ew'l^c Hoffman.