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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1900. 9 Champagne. He will go at once to Paris, where he Is to deliver an oration at the unveiling of the Lafayette monument on the Fourth of July. The archbishop said he would visit Rome before returning to this country. There were a number of Catholic priests at the pier to see him off. ROUNDHOUSE BURNED. Makes hot breakfast-breads wholesome no yeast germs, no alum. Makes cake, biscuit and pastry of superior fineness, flavor and delicacy. Makes food that will keep moist and sweet. Is most economical, because it is the purest and greatest in leavening strength. In the easy, expedi tious preparation of the finer cakes and pastries Royal is indispensable. Care must be taken to avoid baking: powders made i from alum. Such powders are sold cheap, because they cost but a few cents per pound. Not only . will they spoil the cake, but alum is a corro sive acid, which taken in food means injury to health, i. ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. STATUE OF HAHNEMANN TJXVEILED AT AVASHIXGTOX BY HOMEOPATHIC INSTITUTE. Address by- Grtajg-s Printing Press men Elect Officers Music Tench era Election Other Meetings. WASHINGTON, June 21; A monument to the memory of Samuel Hahnemann, founder of the Homeopathic school of med icine, was formally dedicated this after noon with appropriate exercises in the presence of a large assemblage. Including President McKinley, Attorney General Griggs and the delegates to the Ameri can Institute of Homeopathy, now in ses elort ln this city. The site of the monu ment is on the east side of Scott circle, in the fashionable northwest section of the city. The statue is a fine work of art and represents Dr. Hahnemann in a sitting posture. The treatment is Greek in spirit and the statue is of bronze. Its total cost has been 550,000, raised by public subscrip tion. The exercises . to-day were opened by J. B. Gregg Curtis. After an invoca tion.' Dr. J. II. McClelland, of Pittsburg, chairman of the monument committee, formally presented the statue to the Amer ican Institute of Homeopathy and it was then unveiled while the Marine Band played "America." President C. E. Walton, of Cincinnati, accepted the monument in behalf of the Institute, and presented it to the United Btates government, for whom it was ac cepted by CoL T. A. Bingham, who is in charge of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia. "The Star-spangled Banner" was played by the Marine Band, after which Attorney General Griggs delivered an address. He said that in tho center of this park stands the statue of a great warrior, General Scott, on the other side is the statue of a great statesman and orator, Daniel Webster. Here on this side, with great appropriate ness, had been placed a statue of a scien tist, a reformer, a good physician. There is," said he. "but one test of worthiness, and that is that a man shall have wrought In unselfishness, in the interest of his country, of humanity and the world. It was the merit of Dr. Hahnemann," he said, "that he exposed fallacy, uncovered truth and uncovered errors." At the conclusion of the address the audi ence gave three cheers for President Mc Kinley, who bowed his acknowledgment, and then the ceremonies were closed with music The institute to-day, selected Niagara Falls as the place for the next meeting. Dr. W. N. Hancbett. chairman of the Inter nate commItr.ee, tubmitted his report. He said the committee had endeavored to de vise some means to bring about a law of reciprocity between the States, but there are serious handicaps to such a consum mation. In the Judgment of the committee the manner of interstate and international medical associations is of supreme im portance. The president announced the ap pointment of the following chairmen of feection for tho coming year: . Section of, materia medlca. Dr. K. B. Gregg Curtis, of Washington: clinical medl icine. Dr. Clarence Bartlett. Philadelphia; gynecology. Dr. S. S. Smlthe, Denver; san itary science. Dr. II. P. Stout. Jacksonville, Fla.: pedology. Dr. A. P. Hanchell. Council Bluffs, la.; surgery. Dr. George F. Shears, Chicago; neurology. Dr. X. B. Delamater, Chicago; obstetrics. Dr. A. B. Griffith. Montreal: ophthalmology, otology and laryngology. Dr. F. Park. Lewis, Buffalo. The institute elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Dr. A. B. Norton, president: Dr. George Royal. De Moines, la., first vice president; Dr. Flora N. Ward, San Francisco, second vice president. For the other oillces thote now tilling those positions were re-elected. ' P1UXTIXG PRESS3IEN ADJOlItX. OCleers Elected . and "Washington Chosen as .eit Meeting riace. MILWAUKEE. "Wis.. June 21. The Inter national Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union to-day elected officers, as follows: President, J. 8. Bowman, Chicago; first vice president. J. E. Callery, Philadelphia; second vice president, Daniel J. McDonald, Boston; third vice president, John A. Burns. Rochester, N. Y.; secretary-treasurer, W. J. Webb. Brooklyn. The remain der of the forenoon was taken up with a discussion of changes In the by-laws. Samuel !?. Donnelly, of Indianapolis, president of the. International Typograph ical Union, addressed the meeting, refer ring to the Philadelphia strike. Favorable action was taken on the proposition to give the assistants the, second and third vice presidents on the executive board, begin ning with next year. Washington was e lected as the next convention city. Music Tench er Elect OfMcers. DES MOINES. Ja., June 21. At to-day's cession of the National Music Teachers' Association convention tho following effl ccrs were elected: President. A. L. Man chester. Camden. N J.; vice president. M. L. Bartlett, Des Molne3. Ia.; secretary, Thomas A. Becket. Philadelphia; treasurer, Fred A. Fowler, New Haven, Conn. Among the papers read was one by John S. Van Cleve, of Cincinnati, on "Collateral Edu cation Necessary to Modern Muslclansh'p." The Cincinnati orchestra gave a well at tended concert at the Chautauqua grounds this evening. Eclectics Elect Ofilcers. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. June 21. The thirtieth annual convention of the National Eclectic Association adjourned to-day after selecting Chattanooga, Tenn., as the next place of meeting, and electing these of ficers: President. E. Lee Stanley, St. Louis; first ,ice president, Dr. J. D. McCann, Montlcello, Ind.; second vice president. Dr. A. B. Young. Memphis. Tenn.; third vice president, Dr. J. R. Duvall, Atlanta. Ga.; iecordlng secretary, Dr. Pitts Edwin Howes, Boston; corresponding secretary, Dr. N. A. Graves. Chicago; treasurer. Dr. W. T. Gommlll, Forest, O. "Woman's Interest In Mlnlncr. MILWAUKEE. Wis., June 21.-The fore noon session of the International Mining Congress was occupied with an address by Mrs. E. C. Atwood, of . Empire. Col., on "Why Women Should Become Interested in Mining." After taking one ballot with out result to decide the next place of meet ing the congress adjourned until to-morrow. Kansas City was in the lead. The report cn permanent organization is expected to be presented to-morrow. Matter .Mechanics at Saratoga. SARATOGA, N. Y., June 21. The Rail way Master Mechanics' Association of the United States began its thirty-third annual meeting here to-day. The annual address was delivered by the president of the asso ciation, J. .11. McConnell, of Omaha, Neb., after which the reports of Treasurer G. W. West, of MIddletown, N. Y., and Secretary J. W. Taylor, of. Chicago, were submitted. The usual committees were appointed and discussions followed. WILL BID FOR AEH0E PLATE. Bethlehem Company Will Make Thirty Thonsand Tons at Low Price. PHILADELPHIA, June 21.-At the an nual meeting to-day of the shareholders of the Bethlehem Steel Company the an nouncement was made that the company proposes to bid for the entire contract for 26.000 tons of armor plate for which bids had been requested by the government from all steel companies. A member of the board of directors said "The Bethlehem company will bid for the entire contract, and I think I may safely say the rate speci fied will be lower than any we have offered the government before. The reason for this is easily found in the magnitude of the contract to be awarded. Heretofore the government has seldom made contracts for more than 2.000 tons of steel plate at anv one time." The board of directors was re-elected. President Llnderman's report showed iW, 000 paid out in dividends and a surplus of S2.4G3.726. 0. H. C AKTER ILL. Former Army Officer Una Ilrokcn Down Under Confinement. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June 21.-Close confinement in the penitentiary has proven too much for Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captaln of engineers. United Slates army, and he is broken in health and spirits. He showed signs of giving way completely, and War den McClaughey has found it necessary to change his employment and place of con finement at night. When Carter was first brought to the penitentiary he was accord ed the usual treatment, which he accepted without complaint and with remarkable courage. He held up well until his general health became, bad. BOOM III PBICE OF BEEB. Advanced $1 m Barrel at Chicago, Making the Price fC CHICAGO. June 21. Chicago beer has been advanced Jl per barrel, the increase in price to take effect Immediately. Action was taken by the Milwaukee and Chicago brewers association to-day, and the effect was quite a little boom In the London-Chicago brewery shares listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange. The advance places the price of beer at J6 per barrel. If that figure is maintained local brewers will be able to make good prortts, something: they have not experienced in a long time. The rise In price is the result of months of effort on the part of the leading brewing interests. Escape of 3Inrderers. COLEMAN. Tex., June 21. William Tay lor, under death sentence for train rob btry and murder; Noah Willerson. under life sentence for murder, and three other convicts escaped from the Jail here last night. No trace of the fugitives has been discovered. . RATHBONE COMES NEXT t HE WILL DE ARRESTED IX A FEW DAYS AT HAVANA. President of the Mnncle Printing; Company Also Called Senate Com mittee Seeks Information. ' HAVANA, June 21.-H Is probable that Estes G. Rathbone, the suspended direc tor of posts, will be arrested within the next few days. The postal inspectors as sert that they have evidence implicating him beyond any question. Mr. Rathbone's replies, in the course of the examination yesterday before Fourth Assistant -Postmaster General Bristow and the inspectors, were regarded as very un satisfactory, more than establishing the suspicions that have been forced upon the investigators during the last few weeks until proof has accumulated to such an extent as to compel them to look upon Mr. Rathbone as guilty. It is also understood that the author ities will ask for the extradition of the head of the printing firm at Muncie which sent bills on billheads other than those of the Arm In fact, billheads of a purely fictitious firm. The defendants will be Neely, Rathbone, Reeves, Rich and the Muncie printer. Rich will be accepted a3 state's evidence. At the fiscal's office to-day it was said that the custom house fraud cases would come up on June 25 and would be vigor ously pushed. It is understood that the fiscal believes that with two exceptions he can secure convictions. Mr. Bristow has virtually completed his work of investigation. Last night he had a long interview with Governor Genera Wood and to-day the papers and docu ments were turned over to the fiscal. SEEKING INFORMATION. Senate Investigators Want a Coitplete Statement of Cuban Finance. WASHINGTON, June 21.-Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate committee charged with the investigation of the conduct of the American government in Cuba, has arrived in Washington and had a consultation at the War Department with Colonel Edwards, chief of the Insular division. His purpose is to ascertain what material bearing on the subject under in vestigation can be secured by the commit tee in Washington in order that the plans for the investigation may be Intelligently outlined by the committee. The senator pays it Is Impossible, in advance of the pro curement of this information, to tell when the committer will go to Cuba, or even to announce the date for Its meeting In Wash ington. Senator Platt to-nlght said: "I have been in consultation with the War Department to-day with a view of obtain ing at the earliest possible moment a de tailed statement of receipts and expendi tures in the island of Cuba from its occu pation to April 30 last, such detailed state ment being necessary to any thorough and intelligent investigation as required by the Senate resolution directing the same. "The War Department, in connection with the Treasury and Postofflce depart ments, is busily engaged in preparing such a statement. It involves a complete audit of all accounts for the island of Cuba and a new classification of the same. The amount of labor entailed on the War De partment by the call of the committee for such audited accounts can scarcely be ap preciated by those not familiar with the subject. "Every effort is being made by the War Department to furnish the Information re quired within the shortest possible time. A thorough investigation of all the expendi tures in Cuba is now being made under the direction of General Wood and a corps of expert accountants employed by him. It will be completed at an early date and the results communicated to the War Depart ment, and by It to the. committee. It is evident that until this is done the work of Investigating by witnesses cannot be com menced." ' He Did Not Eat Toad Stools. MACON. Ga.. June 21. The dispatch re cently sent out to the effect that Senator Bacon had been made ill by eating toad stools, mistaking them for mushroom, was a mistake. Senator Racon was at the time absent from home. He is in perfect health. Banker Bcnham Acqnltted. CANANDAIOUA. N. Y.. June 21. The Jury In the case of Howard C. Benham, the banker of Batavia, who on a former trial was found grullty of murdering his wife by poison, returned a verdict to-day of not guilty. Jockey' Fatally Injured. DENVER. Col., June 21.-At Overland Park to-day. in the hurdle-races. Jockeys Rurke and Hunter were thrown from their horses. Burke was fatally injured. Tornado In Nebraska. ALEXANDRIA. Neb.. June 21. A small sized tornado passed north of this city this afternoon, devastating the farms of Henry Albright and P. Munns. The members of the families sought refuge in the cellars and escaped uninjured. The houses, barns and buildings were wrecked and several head of cattle were killed. No other dam age of consequence is reported. MADE A SHORT HAUL. Bandits Secured Only $31 from an Iron Mountain Train,. TULLOS, La., June 21. Passenger train No. 221, southbound, was held up by four bandits on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, Just north of Olla, La., at 8:30 to-nlght. Two men entered the ex press car. with Engineer Barbaro and the fireman in line, and commanded Express Messenger Charles E. Rears that he give over all the valuables, which he did. The robbers only secured $31. The sheriff and a posse are now in pur suit of the robbers and bloodhounds will soon be put on-their" trail. The passengers were not molested. . CONVICTED OF POLYGAMY. B. II. Roberta Found Guilty by a Jury nt Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE. Utah. June 21. The Jury in the case of B. H. Roberts, on trial for unlawful cohabitation, returned a ver dict of guilty. Roberts, in an agreed state ment of facts put before the Jury, admit ted that he entered into a polygamous marriage with Maggie B. Shlpp and lived with her and his legal wife, Sarah Louisa. It is claimed that Roberts relies on the Supreme Cpurt to. reverse the verdict on technical grounds. . . LIKE A FATHER TO HEB. Gen. C. M. Clay Providing: for Ilia Di vorced Child Wife. VERSAILLES. Ky., June 21. Gen. Cas slus M. Clay, of White Hall, to-day pur chased from J. H. Yarnell, of Pinkard, this county, and deeded to his former child wife, now Mrs. Riley Brock, a house and three and a half acres of land adjoining Mrs. Brock's present home. This is the third purchase of land that General Clay has made for her since her marriage to Riley Brock and he looks after her com fort and welfare as a father would. MTIIB GLACIER BROKEN. Sea End of an Ice Mountain Shattered by an Earthqnnke. SEATTLE, Wash., June 21. Captain Heckman, of the steamship Queen, Just in from Alaska, says that the earthquake in Alaska last October completely destroyed the sea end of the Mulr glacier. The Queen sailed through fragments and icebergs for five miles, but failed to see anything of the old formation. The Summer Boarder-In a New Light. Leslie's Weekly. The summer boarder Is often used to point a Joke or adorn a romance, but now, for the first time, so far as we are aware, he has been investigated, analyzed, tabu lated and reduced to a tangible form as an economic and business factor. This service has been admirably performed by the New Hampshire Labor Bureau, ana the result shows that the summer boarder is, after all, a creature of no mean Importance, re garded from a practical and commercial point of view. It is set forth that not less than $10,442,352 is invested in properties used for summer boarding purposes in New Hampshire, and of this amount $937, 7S5 was invested in new and enlarged buildings in 1809. Summer visitors left $4. 947.935 In the State last year, an excess of $102,341 over any year on record. There are 204 cities and towns in New Hampshire where summer visitors are entertained, and only thirty-one where they are un known. Grafton county had the largest number last year, its total being 2.322.200. The hotels and boarding houses furnished employment to 12.200 residents. Taunting Her Fool Spouse. Detroit Journal. "Your extravagance in dress," he ex claimed, "will ruin me!" The woman, his wife, flashed as to her great, dark eyes. "It is not for you." she retorted with warmth, "to taunt me with extravagance! You. who every year pay taxes upon all your property!" At this he winced, and said no more. Parachute Jumper Drowned. TOLEDO. 0.. June 2L-Arthur Leady. while making a balloon ascension at Frcsque Isle at a picnic, this evening, was dropped Into the lake and drowned by the breaking of his parachute rope. Three Jfearroea Killed. CORSICANA. Tex., June 21.-Joel Hunt, his wife and William Barnes, negro farm tenants, were killed yesterday over & dis pute over a division of the crops. No fur ther details are obtainable. BAILEY TAKES THE POT WHS TEXAS DELEGATION WITH AX- TI-EXPAXSIOX IIAXD. Mississippi Delegates Choaen by Pri maryFlorida Unable to Name a GovernorKansas City News. AUSTIN, Tex., June 21. The Texas state Democratic convention adopted an anti- ex pansion platform this afternoon after a pro longed contest. The convention is still in fcesslon to-nlght preparing a list of dele gates to the national convention at Kansas City. The debate on the platform was the feature of the day, but the vote when taken resulted in 707 votes for the majority platform report as against 105 for the mi nority. The majority report is outspoken cgalnst expansion, and its adcptlon fettled he complexion of the convention. The in structions issued to the Kansas City dele gaticn are to support William J. Bryan. The platform urges laws to prohibit trusts; favors the construction of the Nicaragua (anal and insists that the Chicago plat form be reaffirmed in its entirety. Tlure are so many candidates for posi tions on the Kansas City delegation that the convention decided to send eight dele gates at large Instead of four. Representa tive Bailey addressed the convention at length this afternoon and was accorded an ovation. FOR THE NEWSPAPER MEN. Arrangements at Ivansas City In Charge of Editor Hitchcock. ST. LOUIS. Mo., June 21. Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri, chairman of the sub committee having in charge arrangements for the Democratic convention at Kansas City, gave out tho following statement to day: "A committee of newspaper men has been organized, with Mr. G. M. Hitchcock, of the Omaha "World-Herald, as chairman, to consider and determine the assignment of space or seats to representatives of metro politan papers in the section reserved for that purpose at the national Democratic convention at Kansas City July 4. All communications sent to me on that subject by the large dally papers I have turned over to Mr. Hitchcock, and all communi cations hereafter by papers desiring space should be addressed to him. This commit tee will have charge of the section set apart in the arena of the convention hall for the use of the representatives of the large dally papers and press associations. There will be about 600 seats in that sec tion, with tables for the use of the re porters. This committee of experienced newspaper men will have entire charge of all arrangements relating to that sec tion, and tickets and badges of admission to that section will be furnished by that committee or under its direction." Hon. C. A. Walsh, secretary of the na tional Democratic committee, who has es tablished permanent headquarters here for the July gathering, to-day closed prelimi nary arrangements for the printing of the convention tickets. This is the first matter of detail for the convention to be an nounced by the national committee. Big chiefs and a large camp of less fam ous Indians will be here during the conven tion. They are coming with the two con testing delegations from the Indian Terri tory. Thomas Bufflngton, chief of the Cherokees, and one of the most famous In dians living, will be here. General Pleasant Porter, chief of Creeks and during the civil war an officer in the Confederate army, ia coming, and so is John F. Brown, chief of the Semlnoles. Democratic Medical Staff. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 21. Col. John I. Martin, of St. Louis, sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic national convention, to-day announced the appointment of Dr. Nicho las Senn, of Chicago, to be chief of the medical staff of the national convention to be held here July 4. The staff is to consist of a physician from every State and Terri tory in the Union. The selection of Dr. Senn to be chief of such a staff of surgeons was made, says Colonel Martin, as a par tial recognition of his high standing as a surgeon and his great services during the war with Spain. Prohibition Convention Plans. CHICAGO. June 21. Preparations for the national Prohibition convention, to be held In this city Wednesday and Thurs day next week, are nearly complete. The convention will be held In the First Regi ment armory. It is said the national plat form will contain planks favoring woman suffrage, civil service, the establishment of postal savings banks and probably one fa voring the amendment to the interstate commerce law asked by the National Mill ers' Association. No plank will be adopted by less than a two-thirds vote and the advisability of a necessary three-fourths vote is being considered. Seeking: a Slate for Bryan. PHILADELPHIA, June 21. The North American will publish to-morrow the result of a canvass of the editors of prominent newspapers throughout the United States as to the logical running mate of Bryan, In view of the selection of Theodore Roosevelt by the Republican national convention as the vice presidential candidate. The tabu lated vote shows a decided preference for David B. Hill, but no man has a clear ma jority. Another favorite is William R. Hearst, editor of the New York Journal and Advertiser. He is almost as strong as Hill. Admiral Dewey finds little favor. Senator Clark's Pocket Convention. BUTTE, Mont., June 21. The Clark wing of the Democratic state convention to-day settled all contests in favor of Clark, which, with uncontested delegations in his favor, gave a total of 273 out of 4SI of the state representation. Resolutions strongly con demning the Daly faction and demanding the resignation of Democratic state officers and representatives in Congress as unfit for office were passed. Senator Clark, addressed the convention. Delegates to the national convention were elected as follows: W. A. Clark, Richard Fitzgerald. J. M. Holt, S. T. Hauzler, Frank Higglns and II. L. Frank. Florida Democratic Delegaten. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 21. The Democratic convention chose the following delegates to the national convention at Kansas City: H. H. McCreary, of Alachua; B. S. Liddon, Escambia; B. II. Palmer, Columbia; J. E. Wolfe, Escambia; Charles Wright, Pittsburg; W. J. Watson, Osceola; R. D. McDonald, Volusia county, and C Gibbons, Jacksonville. Eight ballots were taken for Governor to-day, but without a, choice being made, and the convention ad journed until D o'clock to-morrow. Repnbllcan Literary Bureau. CHICAGO, June 21. Congressman J. W. Babcock, chairman of the national Repub lican congressional committee, has engaged quarters for the literary bureau of the com mittee immediately adjoining the Auditor ium Annex. Mr. Babcock said that, while the output of campaign literature this year Is not likely to be as large as It was four years ago, it will nevertheless be Immense. Xctt Ticket Necessary. HUNTSVILLE. Ala., June 21.-The action of the Republican national credentials com mittee In making William Vaughan chair man of the Alabama executive committee over Julian Bingham makes Irregular the state ticket headed by Charles P. Lane, of this city, recently nominated by the Bing ham faction. Mr. Lane, who was the can didate for Governor, withdrew to-day. Louisville to Be In It Xeit Year. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. June 21.-Ike F. Whiteside, baseball promoter, who re turned from Chicago to-day, says Ban Johnson assured him that Louisville will positively be in the American League next season and that he was satisfied that Louisville, with its Sunday games, would pay. . Archbishop Ireland Leaves for Poris. NEW YORK. June 21. Archbishop Ire land sailed to-day on the French liner Lo Fire Started ly an EipIolon of Oil Tito Employes Dead In ltnini. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., June il.-Tho Southern Pacific roundhouse at K&rn City was burned this afternoon and the remains of Patrick Qulnn and Bird Gllmore. em ployes, were found In the : debris. They were killed by the explosion of an oil tank which started the fire. The los to the rall rad company will amount to $400,000. Twelve engines were destroyed. Pnrt of n Town Burned. . SOUTH M' A LESTER, I. T.. June 21. At Durnat, a town seventy-live miles south of here, two blocks situated In the heart of the city . were burned to-day. The loss is not known. Elevator Destroyed". MONDOVI, Wis., June 21. The Northern Grain Company's elevator burned to-night, together with S0.000 bushels of wheat and much other grain. Loss estimated at about $S0,000. partly insured. GROWTH OF THE BOXERS HOW THE AOTORIOIS CHINESE SO CIETY SWELLED IN NUMBERS. Incantations and Hypnotic Perform ances That Attracted Idle Coun trymen, Boys and Rowdies. NEW YORK, June a. -The American Bible Society has received a letter from the Rev. John Hykes, D. D., Shanghai, May 17, who had just returned from a trip to Peking. Dr. Hykcs says: "I had a long conversation with Dr. W. S. Ament, of the American board, a native of Owosso, Mich., and a graduate of Ober lin College, Oberlin, O.. who recently made a Journey of some eighty miles Into the territory occupied by the Boxers. At one of their strongholds they threatened to bind Dr. Ament and his companion and to murder a Chinese they had with them, but they happily escaped without suffering any violence. The movement was first organ ized with the object of driving the Germans out of Shan-Tung, and it was encouraged by the central government and the Gover nor of Shan-Tung, in the hope that It would succeed in accomplishing this patri otic purpose. They practiced Incanta tions and were armed with the rude imple ments which they could obtain in country places. After committing many acts of lawlessness, including the murder of the Rev. Mr. Brooks, they gradually spread north, and are now to be found in a large part of the province of Pe-Chi-Li. The long-continued drought in the north has been favorable to their recruiting. It has not rained for more than nine months and the country is as dry and parched as a desert. The farmers have had nothing to do for many months, and they naturally drifted away from their homes and Joined the Boxers. The mystery attending their incantations and hypnotic performances was an Irresistible attraction to the idle countrymen, and the prospect of loot seemed to many the only way to escape the famine. Of course the rowdy element naturally joined the society, and there is doubtless a large number -of the low fellows of the baser sort connected with it. These are ready for robbery, mur der or rebellion. "At the present time the Boxers are composed of rowdies, farmers and boys. They are armed only with swords, spears and bows and arrows. They have robbed heathen and Christian alike, but they are very bitter against the Christians, to whom it is generally believed that much perse cution is sure to come. In one place vis ited by Dr, Ament there were two Chris tian families, each consisting of tue par ents and two or three grown sons. One of these families armed themselves and de fied the Boxers. They presented such a bold front that they were not molested. The other family showed that they were terrified by the threats of the Boxers, and they were compelled to pay a large sum of money and to prostrate themselves before the idols in the village temple. When re proved for this act of idolatry the father said: "I would have been willing to die, and so would any of my sons, but they threatened to exterminate the family, root and branch." Each of the sons declared that he would have been willing to die if that would have satisfied the persecutors, but to have the whole family wiped out was too much for them. It is difficult for us to appreciate how this would appeal to the Chinese. "It is the general opinion in the north that the government is afraid to do any thing to suppress the movement, for fear it may become anti-dynastic. There is good reason to fear this. The anti-reform movement, or rather crusade, has aroused very bitter feeling all over the country, and it only wants a leader to start a rebellion that would quickly overthrow the govern ment." WOMEN AXD THE COLOR LINE. "Federation's Usefulness Impaired and Its Profession Discredited.'' Cleveland Plain Dealer. The biennial session of the Federation of Woman's Clubs at Milwaukee has come to a close. The gathering was com posed of over one thousand women of cul ture and refinement, representing clubs in every section of the land. Its purpose was to consider ways and means for the up lifting of womankind, of lightening the burdens of women in this workaday world. The proceedings have been watched by the whole country. It should now be easy to Judge Just what has been done for women and humanity. The close of the session saw its coun cils divided and its future threatened by the action of the federation in refusing admission to a properly accredited dele gate for the sole reason that she be longed in part to a particular race. Thla drawing of the color line, which as the first act of the Milwaukee gathering, re mains the dominant fact of the conven tion.. Beside this,' all the fine phrases of l-apefs and resolutions remain to a great extent, meaningless or a mockery. Un der a threat of secession made by the Southern delegates the convention placed itself in a hopelessly false position. It lacked leaders of sufficient courage and au thority 'to hold it in the right path and to point out that this discrimination against a colored delegate stamped as insincere every act and utterance of a great na tional body, whose professed purpose is, in the words of a resolution adopted at the closing session, to "leave a mepjage of fympathy for fill who have wrought with sorrow-laden hearts." The issue could have been evaded with tact or met with courage. The convention adopted neither course. The question re mains open for two years more, to be a fruitful source of discord and an ever present menace to the organization. At best the usefulness of the federation has been impaired and Its professions discredited to an extent that only the future can make eiear. One thing is certain. If the course adopted at Milwaukee is- to remain the policy of the federation of Woman's Cluhj its claim to national scope must be aban doned. HAS A FASCIXATIO. The Counterfeiter Flnda Ilia Ocenpa- tlon nn Eicillng One. ICew Orleans Times-Democrat. "Speaking of the mysterious charm of counterfeiting, about which I saw a para graph in the paper the other day." said a government oificer who was formerly con nected with the Department of Justice. "I have often puzzled over that problem myself, and I think I have arrived at the correct solution. A counterfeiter leads a life of pretty stirring adventure, and what time he Is at liberty he Is generally playing a game of wits with the best men in the etcret service. That is undoubtedly the tir.j that fascinates th chaps who ct X Üiii vims i fin"! . -V. J Soak thn hands thoroughly, on retirine.in a hot lather of Cctxcvka "SOAr, the 1 tuoet euectivo skin purifying soap, as well as purest and gweAtest for toilet, liath, and nurcry. rry.noint freely with Crncrsi Ointment, the great t kin cure and purest of emollient. Wear old cloves darinc nicht. For sore bands, Itchinjr, burning palms and painful flncer endj, this one tiipki treatment is wondciful. W4 LVfmtHout IS vorH. rTTii I). r C Ot rroj Uottoa. liev to BaaUfa 211 od," fre. Fli-nlolctxn Outfltn. Emergency Satchels. Medicine Cases, In strument Sets. Operating Gowns and Cush ions. Physicians Pocnet Knives, wills Spatula, and all other suitable articles. Bath Cabinets. 1VM. II. ARMSTRONG & CO, Rurglral Instrument 3Iaker ZU and iZi S. Meridian street. Indianapolis. Ind. into it, for. as has been correctly rtated. the cash returns are always ridiculously small. Take the celebrated Webster-head counterfeits as an illustration. The Web ster head was the finest ten-dollar 'queer' bill ever made. The plate Is supposed to have been engraved in a subterranean den in New York city and the printing was dona on board an old ecow anchored In a littla hidden bayou olt the Mississippi river. Then followed a long series of extraordi nary adventures, which, if they could ever be told from first to last, would dlcount the most thrilling novel that was ever written. The plates were several times buried and dug up; there were pitched bat tles with the government detectives, lon flights across the country, plots and coun ter plots, and enough miscellaneous inci dent to stock half a dozen blood and thun der melodramas. At last all of Xhm RanR were caught except one, and he is believed to be dead. It is a wonderfdl story, and I suppose the derperate men engapred in tho affair derived a certain amount of pleasure from their long war with the 'organized forces of society. At least there is no other way to account for their having engaged In such an enterprise. The Webster head Is accounted a very dangerous counterfeit, but only a few thousand dollars' worth ever got into circulation. I doubt whether the Ieople who did the actual work realized a copper for their pains." NEW MAIIDI IX THE SUDAX. He Is Said to Be Purchasing; Gobi and May Wage a Holy War. St. Louis Republic England is getting worked up over the tidings that a new African mahdi 13 pre paring his 10.000.000 followers for a holy war, which may break out this year. This successor of him who fell in the Sudan is Senussi, and he lives just now in Jo (To, south of Tripoli. This cloud on the North African horizon has been gathering for some time. It is by no means generally known that at any moment a cyclone of Moslem fanaticism may sweep over Egypt, Algeria and Tunis. This Is in the north. And further south in the tragic continent, owing, to tho same cause, civilization in Nigeria and the French Sudan may be put back fpr another generation. The rapid ex pansion of a Mahommetan secret society, with its inevitable Jehead, or holy war. among the Arabic, Berber and negroid races of the western and central Sudan, is a. factor in current life in the dark conti nent which at tny moment may assume ü terrible importance. The year that Gordon's life went out at Khartum. 1SS5. the followers of Senussl were estimated at about 3.000.000. Since then the movement has grown so enor mously that probably over 10.000,000 sons of the Prophet are sworn members of this or ganization. Far away from the "White Man's Africa," buried in the heart of the long sandy wastes that spread in endless silence from Tripoli to Lake Tchad, is being accumulated vast stores of the most mod ern war material, without the possibility of interference by the Christian powers most concerned England and France. Joffo, the headquarters of the new Ma hometan Messiah, is 500 miles west of tho Nile and about iOO from the North African littoral. It lies a point due south of Tri poli and a little to the east of the caravan route to Bornou. - There Is reason to believe , that at the front In South Africa, among the Indian bearers there are several representatives of the new Mahdi. who have enlisted to re port upon the events of the war. The mo?t extraordinary feature of this conspiracy Is that some of Its members declare that they have acquired the strange secret of brain telegraphy, whereby they are enabled to send messages over vast distances. As a military force his followers are In finitely superior to the Ill-armed Soudanese whom the Anglo-EgypUan army defeated at the Atbara , and Omdurman. Twenty thousand Manllcher rifles, it is said, have been bought at Liege, Belgium, for the, new Mahdi. Every one of these weapons was landed at Tripoli and carried on camel back to Joffo. The Italian War Office has lately been offering for sale a number of its disused field guns. Several have been bought and curiously enough, shipped to Tripoli. Always Tripoli, for there th Sultan of Turkey reigns supreme, and that astute monarch is too wise to run foul of the leader of 10.000,000 of the most reckless fanatics that Islam has enrolled. What is the policy, what are the alms of this truculent Moslem? In a word, to re vive a great militant Mahometan empire in north and central Africa, and inci dentally to turn out the two unbelievitig powers. It is one of the qualifications of a great leader. to bide his time. Senussl has waited for a quarter of a century. The Price of 3Ina-aalues. Chicago Post: An announcement of no small significance is made by the Harpers in the June num ber of their magazine. Beginning with the next volume the December number the price of the magazine will be restored to the former figures, 35 cents a copy and 14 a year. It is some years since the leading magizines of the United States made a re duction In price from &0 cents to 35 cents a copy. Thlfe was followed not long after ward by a still further reduction on the part of some to 23 cents a copy. Among thee latter was Harper's, and it thus ap peared to come into closer competition with, Scribner's which has always been a w cent publication. Still Harper's kept up the standard for -which it had charged 35 and even 50 cents. The Century and the At lantic continued in the even tenor of their ways at 35 cents. Evidently Harper's has reached a conclusion which has been fully forced upon the better class of newspaiers where competition is naturally fiercer than is poslble among magazines. It reaMzed that below a certain price a periodical can not be published at a profit, and a!io that those wishing to read Harper's ivould ai willingly pay 35 cents as 25 for it. Con Snltn Sabo t'tyo trey Es. ; Youth's Companion. Hiram struggled manfully with It for several minutes, and gave it up. "It isn't good Latin." he Vaid. "Tbre are some words In It that are Latin, but the others are either wronr In termination or are barbarisms from other languagrs. and. taken as a whole, doesn't make sens." "That is what I said." rejoined his sister, "but Koturah. out in the kitchen, translates it without anv trouble. She pays it means, 'Consult us about your eyes.' Whereupon Hiram collapsed. Wife Murder and Suicide. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. June 21. After shooting and killing his wife, Henry E. Pike, a bookkeeper, shot and killed himself to-night. Domestic trouble is assigned as the cause. - Mrs. Wlnsiotv'a Soothing Syrup Ha bn uJ over fifty yra by tntUloa of moUws for their children whU teet&tnf witu trfct lucctft. It soothes tfct ohllj. icftcn tU um, auaji ain. turta wind eolle, reulat i& bowl. and is tba beat r.tJy fur dlar.bra. mhcther arUlr.( fron) teethlnj or other cu. For sals bjr drurtUts in every rart of ttt wurli. He sure and fcr Mrs. Window's SoctUnj tfjrujv. cents a bcttla. t Aft fn!V rif fanhlon dft." In rne r ect at least, yon mut u tllenn's PuJ;hur ferap e tit ef rociety. and deservedly so. for tt ts tht rr OS $t salutary Ol u i...rt t'uri.ir. by an umTitii. ItU s fclr tzi wfctr-tr Cra, t--cx cr trr-rU