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18 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOMtNAL, SUNDAY, I.I AT 5. 1501. Ir..in'rrcf is shown them the gtcat?r prows tl.rlr nn e no ÄTc rr.ora'.J v stc l n a former nie Moria! that ih r :;nn.l yntary. Jung I,u. FhouM I i ally m;spd vdh ih- duty of methods i f i or ," raor il Miav;, as n-.j-.iin -l. '"it tH ir rctuo-t was m-t printed. Now. however. th.it th- di-i.nbrs :ave- rfili.! ciltl' t i i-it i-ti. tiny arc iomd at the ri-k of t It ir live again to et forth In trembling their humble opin i for the information of the throne. TIm-v sahnut. according to the principles i:M down in th ''Spring and Autumn An- Vii ' :s. v.lor t nation, are it tv. I w-. .- r? not kill 1. Hy the tn t. n ational ! iv. wes'ern w- rs a still 5r:-Ur inn-rt nw . Marius to envoys as the icpro at iti v f ' th. ir n it Ion. A siUhl to the envoy I a slight to his nation. If tho ?. rs arc now nllmvri! to attack and (iitny the b-,atiori. aid to succeed In killing th- fop un ministers, the for e:r. powci will "regard it a- a uros-s ia frill, will unite their force-, s.rd v II i fight to tl;-- lieatJi to Main repuviioii. Though the iiumlxT of foreign troops in ivking be limited, then- I no lirrit to the number of reinforcements that can ! sent. I-'or one ration to oppose all tin- nations is. in the humbl opinion of memorialist, a matter l.t merely of vie tor or defeat, but of the existence, or annihilation of the nation. :ii:ru;cTioN n convimits. The government of 'hina has now been 1 ri r Iitions with i'oredgn jMjwers for near! f ixty years. dirin i which time the latter havi- h ! allowed to propairite their re lioh'tv throughout the country. The con verts hav been in the habit of relying on the inilipiHe and support of the foreign l.i.-sionarie s to oppress their fellow-citi-r.eri". arid It h.s been inevitable that there l ave be C!i sorra1 o.'IIelals who have put Ires--i'ie er. the ordinary people in the ho;, id' avoiding trouble, with the result that th" i ople in their resentment have, become at enmity with the converts. Hut all this I du.' to faulty administration on the part of tlie memoralisis and other servants of the frown, fauUs which June led to their l ii 'T.t disaster. The guilt they have in curred i ind eri .serious. How r an mi moral ists venture to allet that the enmity be tween Christian? and non-Christians i.s en tirely the lault of the people? To allow both sddfs to take into their own ham's the ndressal of their arit vane s is to impair the prerogatives of the state. Suppose, for instance, that in & village there was a quar rel between two families, and the Junior? and servants in lighting out their dispute fcet fire to a neighbor's house and killed his Rate keerer, the heads of the families being- unable to restrain them. In such a case the neighbor would certainly not ad dress his complaints to the juniors and pirvants, but to the hads of the families. How could the latter reply that the matter did not concern them because the, juniois and servants were beyond their control? This is taking; a small matter to illustrate a great, but the principle involved in both Is the same. NO DISTINCTION IN FOIiniClNHRS. Another consideration Is this: Among the rrligioua systems of the western nations one consists in the worship of "the Lord of Heaven" (Roman Catholicism) and one in the worship of "Jr?uB" (E'rotestantism.) The Itoman Catholic missionaries are called fhen-fu (spiritual fathers) and the Prot estant missionaries are called mu-shih (pastors.) The Uoxers make no distinctions l-etween the religions, but call them both aMko "the foreign religions." Again, Ilus hia follows the religion of the Greek Church nd Japan follows Iluddhism. Neither of these nations have ever propagated their religions in the interior of China, but the Hoxcrs are entirely ignorant as to which nations has missionaries and which has rot. and speak of all who wear strange rloth s and speak a strange language as mao-tzu ("Ited-hemls.") They take pleas ure in hunting them all down without dis c imination, no matter what consideration3 oi policy make it inexpedient, what con siderations of right and wrong make it un lawful. Consider, moreover, the position of the Chinese ministers abroad. They are all stationed nt their posts in pursuance of imperial commands. If the powers in un controllable anger, on account of our kill ing their ministers, were to begin Killing our ministers, this would be nothing better than an exchange of swords for the slaughter of each others representatives. The throne has justly displayed its kind ly feelings by sending vegetables, rice and Hour to the envoys. Hut the aforesaid brigands, relying on the support of their braggart general, continue their lawless attacks and foreigners are led to suspect that the court Is making a show of treat ing tho legations with civility while secret ly screening their assailants. If it U said that the latter are not acting; under orders, but are irdulging in an orgy of cruelty on their own account, who will believe this? CLE A It ItKASONING. Now, If the legations do not come to harm, when friendly relations ara event ually resumed with the powers, the foreign ministers, having accepted tho gracious kindness of the Kmpress dowager and tha Emperor, will not fall to give expression to their natural feelings of gratitude, and will explain that tho trouble was suddenly started by the Uoxer brigands before pre cautions could be taken, and was not dua to any leniency on the rart of the throne. In this way they will be able to succeed in dispelling the suspicious fears of their gov ernments; the difficulty being halved, the good results will be doubled, and it will be comparatively easy to restore the situa tion. But if the legations fall and the envoys nxe killed, how will the outer world ever learn of the kindness and consideration displayed at this time by their Majesties, the Kmpres dowager and the Emivror? If we teek to explain matters ourselves to the powers, though we should speak with a hundred voices we should not succeed in excusing oursles to their aatsfaciiun. At the present time the powers are massing their troops on the pretext rf acting for China in the t-uppressior. of the brfgands. The suspicious say that they ire sur nptitiously taking advantage of thi op portunity to aim at usurpation, while thoe who believe th-m declare that they luve no ulterior motives. Memorialists do rot profess to have sufficient ability to fathom their Intention-. Hut. as for the Hoxers, iliy are a lawless crew in every :e:-pect. They ought Ion- ac to have been exterminate! without waliir.g for the re ptatrd rej'.Kts of the freigrers. and still iroro withou: waiting for the foreigners to suppress thoin fr u.-. The humble n niest of memorialists tl-.vii art- c - l .: Complete protection t !.oa! I be a:r:-.'t!i d t the foreign legations la ordv r to facilitate t'a future restoration of toe t alt:-- quo ant". Also, stringent coma; a sul. should be- given to Central Tiii.i. Fa If slang to withdraw the whole of h:.- ICan-Su inr. out.-ide the city, and to lortid hi- tr.,ps again apucouching Lega tion stnet -r j..uiio. uith their friends. -;; oa ntl.ek- upon trie lega-i tier..-', on pain of Immediate ex-eiition. If nare the .,',. t.- j the brigands were fepirated tile JoW.r of ?he latter Would be r'dwe-! and the te.sk. or sai-;rt s.-i:;g tlu:a re nib red com par it! el y -a-y. Also, rnorlahsts b.av again to beg th a (ranl Sci' tary Jung Lu be intrusted with the tasi.' oT e.v p !;;i:g all Zloxcr from t!io city within a pnscri'oed limit of time, in ordf r to r .sc ie the u:.try nan an im Kcdiaie peril, and that ho should adopt , measures t)r their complete extermination in order to prevent future calamities. Memorialists are well aware that the heavens being mw darkened by a flight of locusts. tIKister to themselves will follow their words, but -they are Idled with the thought i f the crisis ef life or death to the nation whh h I momentarily - impending. Their own opinions are simple and insig nificant. They cannot bear to speak, and yet they cannot bear not to speak. They, therefore, regardless of their own lives, humbly submit this mimoria! fer the per usal of their Majesties, the Kmpress dow aver anl the Kmperor. P'ndated; ivid ntly written between July 2) and 21, 1 ". J Memorial 1y llwti IiIiik C'hVnu mill V Ii im Cli'niiK. Memorial submitting to the throne a secret statement of how certain high ottl cials by encouraging magic arts have in jured the country and brought calamity upon the p ople, and repiesting that severe punishment may be Inflicted upon the In stigators of the trouble In order to check the evil at its sources and avert an im pending peril. It is now just over one month since the IJoxe-r brigands started the disturbances. The capital is shaken by earthquake and the four seas echo to the shock. Armies have collected, disaster is ripening, the whole world has been draggid Into the strife, events unparalleled In his tory have Inevitably brought about a calam ity equally without parallel. In the reign of Ilsien Feng (ln-tfJ) the Fa Fci (Long haired Hebels. and the Nien Fei (Mounted Iiandlttl in the North) fought desperately for over eight years and overran more than ten provinces. Still longer ago, in the reign of Chia Ch'ing (lTW-lsm), the Chiao Fei (White Lily Society) seized three or four provinces and usurped control for three or four years; and reference to the military archives shows that at the time all the military forces of the empire had to be exerted to the utmost before con quest could be effected. But if we compare the troubles of the present day we see that all the former ones were diseases of the extremities and not like the Uoxer brigands, a disease that saps the very vitals. For in the case of the Fa Fel. the Nien Fel and the Chiao Fei every one from the throne to the hamlet knew that, they were rebels, but in the case of the Ch'uan Fel (Hoxers) of to-day even high officials are deceived into looking upon them as patriotic subjects and refuse to call them rebels. Or there are some who know they are rebels but dare not treat them as rebels. Their folly is such that they have excited not only the enmity but the de rision of foreign nations. When the Uoxer brigands first set up their standard they had not the resources of guns and of rifles or of training in military operations. All they could do was to use the motto "Sup port the dynasty, exterminate foreigners" as a rallying cry for hordes of worthless vagabonds and to set disturbances on foot. Had there been a single magistrate or mili tary oflicer of ability available' they might have been suppressed with the utmost ease. But first the evil was fostered by Yn listen, ex-Governor of Shentung, and afterwards it was encouraged by Yu Lu, Governor General of Chi-LI, who supplied the Boxers with arms, thus, as It were, giving wings to a tiger. What is the explanation of the motto, "Support the dynasty; exterminate foreign ers?" If it means that men's minds are imbued with a sense of the abundant fa vors that have been showered upon them by our government for over two hundred years, a nil that therefore all who eat the produce or tread the soil of China are bent on exerting their energies and making speed to show gratitude for the imperial blessing, then the expression may pass. But if it means that at this juncture, when the state is troubled, when the times are critical and full of difficulties, the uncul tured classes have the power to give sup port In danger and restore order, then we must remember that to support Is the op posite of to upset, and that the power to support Involves the power to upset. Thus the intention implied Is only too evident and the expression of it still more deserves the punishment of death. DISCRETION URGKD. Your memorialists, unworthy servants though they be, are well aware that the in fusion of foreigners into the interior is certainly not for the benefit of China, But it behooves us to reform tho internal ad ministration of the country and to attend to the consolidation of tho external rela tions, to see that we have a cause of quar rel before) taking action, and to choose among the nations one which it is with'n our powers to oppose, when at one stroko we can with dignity and composure avenge our accumulated wrongs. If when a foreign oppressor was invad ing us there should arise any who are able to display enthusiastic patriotism and insist on the necessity of resisting to the death, no matter what the measure of their ability might be, memorialists could not venture but applaud their spirit. But at a time like the present, when the nation is actual ly in the enjoyment of friendly relations with the powers, to begin suddenly to speak of "exterminating foreigners," is to provoke a quarrel upon a false issue and to become the laughing stock of the world. LEADERS FIERCELY CONDEMNED. Moreover, does the expression "extermi nate foreigners" apply to the foreigners who are in China, or does it Include the foreigners of every nation in the five coun tries? If it is only the foreigners in China who are to be exterminateel It is impossible tc prevent, others from coming in their place. And If it is all the nations of the world that are to be exterminated, then the foreigners are more than ten times as numerous as the Chinese, and It does not require much wisdom to know whether or not their extermination is possible. Nevertheless, the wisdom of Yu Ilsien and Yu Lu. both high provincial officers, did not reach as far as this. Yu Lu even Invited the leaders of the Boxer brigands and treated them as honored guests. A rabble of hundreds of village ruffians and vagabonds had only to give themselves the style of I-ho-t'uan tthe Militia of Patri otic Union) to lo immediately allowed to come in person Into his Yamen and to be treat eel by the governor general with every mark of consideration. Was not this a slight to the throne and an insult to all the scholars of the empire? Chang Te Cheng. Tsac Fu T'ien and Han Hi. Boxers of Chlng-IIal-Hsien, Wang-Te-Ch'eng and others of Wcn-an and Pa chou were all common local bullies, ruf fians who defied authority and banded themselves together to make riots the plague of their districts. These men had been notorious for a long time; there was not a man in the country side who did not know their names not even a resident in Peking who did not know them. The aforesalel governor general brought them all to the- notice of the throne in a public memorial, speaking of them In laudatory trr.s ami recommending them for employ ment. THE GOVERNMENT DECEIVED. Never was there so flagrant a case of I'ecciving the sovereign. Again Yu Lu stated in a memorial that one day, the twentieth day of the fifth moon (June ltf), about 7 o'clock in' the evening, the for eigners demanded the surrender of the Taku forts; that General Lo Jung Kuang refused to comply; that both sides re mained firm until about midnight, when the foreigners opened the attack with artillery fire; that the general offered a valiant re sistance and succeeded in sinking two of the foreign ships at anchor? that of. the twenty-second (Juno IS) the foreign sol diers in the Tien-Tsln settlement advanced in different directions and offered battle; that the Chinese .forces opposed them in every direction, and, supported by detach ments of the I-ho-tuan (Boxers) attacked them with the utmost vigor and burned a largo number of houses in the settlement. Now the Memorialists have'made inquiries of refugees who have arrived at Peking from Tlen-Tsin. and these all declare that the- sinking of foreign ships and the burn ing of foreign houses actually never oc curred, but that the Chinese treops and Rogers wre killed by the artillery of the foreign powers to the number of not less than several tens of thousands. Dif ferent voices all speak in the same sense; it is certainly not a mere lying rumor. There arc even those who say that the attack of the Taku forts by the fonign forces on the 10th of June was subsequent to the opening of hostilities by Yu Lu, who gave orders to the Boxers to attack the Tien-Tsln settle ment. This statement, however, .may be merely the result of Yu Lu's unpopularity, and cannot be trusted implicitly. At all events, Yu Lu's lying report of military operations is exactly on a par with Gen eral Tung Fu Hsiang's false statement that the legations had been destroyed anil the foreisrieis In them utterly wiped out. TUNG WAS A ROBBER. Now Tung Fu ilsiang was originally a local robber of Kansu, who was forced by the pressure of poverty to offer his al legiance and having rendered a certain mount of good service in his military career, was promoted from the ranks by the throne, and thus attained "his present position. With what self-restraint and self respect ought he humbly to seek to requite such generous and gracious kindness. In stead of which, this bandit and traitor consorts with thieves and robbers and con tinues to pursue his course of rebellious conduct. Not only does he thus show in gratitude for the imperial favors, but his savage, wolf-like disposition gives cause to tear that he may bring about still further calamity. Yu Lu has held several high ter ritorial commands, and Is not to be com pared with a military oflicer like Tung Fu llsiang. Uut, nevertheless, his folly and ig norance have reached a pitch which sur passes all expectation. The truth is that both tried to fall in with the wild views of the officials at court, which they wrongly considered to be inspired by their Majes ties, the Empress dowager and the Emper or, and they were thus induced to turn around and relapse into sedition recklessly and unscrupulously. They were brought over, in fact, by the plozing deceits and hoodwinking devices of the present court ofiiciaN. The grand secretary, Hsu T'ung. Is, by nature, a fool, and has no knowledge of good nnd evil. The privy councilor and the assistant grand secretary, Kang Yi, associates with traitors and encourages rebels. He follows blindly and obstinately Iiis natural disposition. The privy council or and president of the Board of Cere monies, Chi Hsiu, is obstinate anil self opinionated, ignorant and yet fond of using his own judgment. The privy councilor and president of the Board of War, Chao Shu Ch'iao, is bent on cunning and eleceit, and skillful In playing the sycophant. V BOXERS ENCOURAGED. At the time when the Boxers were entering the city the princes, dukes and other metro politan and prominent officials were sum moned to the imperial presence, ami asked to pronounce for the policy of violent meth ods or of conciliation. Memorialists there upon replied to the effect that the Boxers were not patriotic subjects, and could not be relied upon to defend their country, and that hostilities could not be lightly entered upon with foreign powers without due; cause. Hsu T'ung, Kang Yi and others had the audacity, in the presence of the Em press dowager and the Emperor, to stig matize this language as seditious. Ah, if China's ten thousand well-sharpened blades were but equal to the task of con quering her enemies, would not Memorial ist's lifelong desire be to have the whole of them coljeeted in one place and to give the signal lor their destruction? But if they are not, if these critics are but de ceiving themselves and thus deceiving the country, the "seditious language" it is to be feared is not on the part of your me morialists. In the month of June, Kang Yi and Chao Shu Ch'iao received imperial or ders to proceed to Cho-Chou and disperse the Boxers. The latter forced them to knell and offer incense, and used language full of slanders and falsehood. Chao Shu Ch'iao well knew that they were lying, but he only muttered Ids disgust to the members of his staff and afterwards, finding that Kang Yi believed the Boxers to be pos sessed of supernatural powers, he did not elare to disagree. All they did was to issue a few hundred proclamations by way of fulfilling their mission, whereupon they re ported to the throne that the Boxers had been dispersed. But if that was so, how is it that the Boxers are now so numerous that they cannot be exterminated? Why does the throne not hold these ministers responsible for the reckless falsehood of this memorial? SNEER AT SUPERSTITIONS. At the present moment Tien-Tsin has fallen and the foreign troops are gain ing one position after another. So far the Boxer; have not succeeded in preventing their advance by magie arts, and there is every reason to fear that within a fortnight they will be actually striking at the capi tal. If by any chance the imperial temples should be alarmed by the shock or the people reduced to misery, what a terrible prospect! . At the very thought of it the hearts of your memorialists are filled with distress, but Hsu T'ung. Kang Yi and the ethers talk and laugh on the sinking ship and possess their souls In peace as if they still relied upon the ability of the Boxers to form a wall of defense. The whole court, too. has been in a state of bewilder ment, like drunken men or fools. Mem bers of the imperial clan, the Emperor's kinsmen and scions of noble families, men of high position, imperial guardians and preceptors and privy councilors, almost all have worshiped the Boxers as super natural beings. Even in the palaces of princes and dukes Boxer alters are said to have been erected. The folly of the Boxers affected Hsu T'ung and Kang Yi with folly, and the folly of Hsu T'ung and Kang Yi spread to the princes and dukes. Thus Hsu T'ung and Kang Yi are the pivots on which the whole of the present extremity turns. If the Empress dowager and th? Emperor do not put the laws of the realm In force and publicly denounce and punish the high oificlals who were the ringleaders in encouraging the Boxers it is to be feared that the whole of the court will be led astray on account of the Boxers, and all the high provincial officials who think to conform to the views of the court not to Yu Hsien and Yu Lu alone will be befooled along with the court. Alas, the ancestral altars which have blessed our land for three hundred years are to be staked on a tingle throw by mistaken statesmen in reckkss belief in the Boxer cult. How Khali tho Emperor answer for it to the spirits of hu sainted ancestors? Your memorialists submit that the crisis is at hand; not a moment is to bo lost. If the Boxers are not immediately exterminated there is no excuse whereby to stop the for eign troops. And If the leaders who screen the Boxers are not put to death it wl.'l not be possible to exterminate tho Boxers. Ai the time when the Boxers began their op erations they did not dare to disobey the commands of the throne, to insult officials, to destroy government property, to carry arms and bring fire and slaughter on peace ful citizens. But when Hsu T'ung, Kang Yi and the others called them patroitic sub jeets the prestige of the Boxers increase!, the common people were led still further astray, and the assemblies of worthless vagabonds became more numerous. THEY OFFER THEIR HEADS. If Yu Ilsien last year had Immediately suppressed these brigands they would never have been able to spread into Chih Li. If Yu Lu this spring had done his duty In checking them the Boxers woulel never hae been able to invade the capital. If Hsu Tun, Kan Yi and the others had not encouraged them with the title of "Pa triotic Subjects" these brigands would never have dared to commit such wanton excesses in the way of arson, pillage and murder. Thus, if the calamity is traced to its source it becomes clear upon whose shoulders the responsbility must fall. It Is the duty, therefore, of memorialists to ask for a decree, in the first, place, sen tencing to severe punishment Hsu Tung. Kang Yi. Chi Hsin. Chao Shu-ch'iao, Y'u Lu, Yu Ilsien and Tung Fu Hslang. The other high officials guilty of screening the Boxers, who held equally mistaken views with those of Hsu Tung and Kang Yi, should all be punished as their guilt de serves, and the customary slight remission in deference to considerations of rank and of relationship should be granted. If this is done the Boxers, learning thus that the former latitude given to the Box ers in opening hostilities was due to the error of these high officials, and not the policy of the government, may, it is to be hoped, lay aside the quarrel and resume friendly relations, and the ancestral altars may escape disaster. After this your memorialists beg that they may themselves be put to death, in order to appease the spirits of Hsu Tung, Kang Yi and the other high officials. So your memorialists will go joyfully to their doom. This memorial i3 written with reluctance and many tears, under the stress of an in dignation and con .Vernation which cannot be contained. It is hereby humbly sub mitted for the perusal of their Majesties, the Empress dowager and the Emperor. IDatcd July lm At .Natur Shrine. On :h? hous-i where I was born Sadly fniüi-s the autumn morn, On the whcatfleMs lor.e and empty, on the ranks of tanadiil corn; rf While the failitis flowers wear Their familiar, wddcnerl air. And the bees for their diminlshe-,1 weets in droning chorus fare. Now the robin high aloft In the rifled orchard croft. Ere he Journeys south Is singing in a measure low and soft; Still the blue bird lincrrrs near, The last mourner at the bier, And with him the sweet reflection of fair skies will dh-.ippear. Crimson haves are falling down lake the laurel from the crown Of the kinp: who woke one morning just to find himself a clown; And the autumn soon will lean lly his wrecked and gray drmense. While the winter In white cerements will enfold the saddened fc ne. Though these old fields still contain Stately castles built in Spi-n. There are mnrks upon their beauty of the rav- ?.p0s of rain; Th fair trees In valleys sveet. Where the r.aiads bathed their feet, Are like ruined, rootless abbeys, where tha ctorms unchallenged beat. Other r-crne around ha-e changed Since the olden ways I ranged, Hut no templed court nor splendid dome my heart has yet estranged; And when I come down to die, 'Tis my wlh that I may lie In this vale's calm mausoleum, with It? canopy of sky. I can wish no other knell Than the winds I love so well That into soothing symphonies at sunset sightn7 swell; L.c-t the memory of me live In the flowers fugitive That an earnest up to heaven every year so sweetly pive. Iia''s Crosging. Ind. -Alonzo Itice. A tlllCACiO CKLKniUTV. How Cli!itf1ell-ciin.tfi'Il Taylor At tained Prominence. New York Telegraph. "The story printed In the Morning Tele graph recently about Hobart Chattield Chatheld Taylor was rather roastful in quality," remarked a well-known AVall strert broker yesterday, "and was probably calle! or. Taylor has made a number of peculiar essays into literature and art in his day, and by many he Is looked upon as a foolish young person with more money than brains. This may "be all right so far as it goes, but you will never get a Cornell man to acknowledge it. "Hobart Chatfield-Cbatfield Taylor is highly regarded not onlv bv the boys at Cornell, but by the Ithaca folk as well. Taylor was the first millionaire's son that was ever seen in Cornell, and he was cer tainly a prize in those days. He did more to Rive the institution tone and style than any twenty professors or fifty men.' Ho was not a star man so far as his intellect went, but he did more to make the uni versity known outside the State than any other man I have ever heard of. "Taylor was in the class of 'Ss. In those days there were not more than six or seven hundred students in the university, and they were .nearly all of them the sons of farmers and well-to-do merchants of that section of New York. Taylor, when ho came there, was a big. awkward, ungainly young cub. badly dressed and not at ail easy or self-possessed in manner. In four years, h wever, he blossomed out into one oi the best and most expensively dressed men in New York State and acquired an case of manner and savolr faire that has distinguished him ever since. He went in for all sorts of things not included in the curriculum, and gave tne university a swing while he was there that was remarkable. He cuilt up the athletic of the Institution and lavished his money on things connect ed with the outside enjoyments of the stu dents. "He had been there but a short time w hen he was admitted to the best of th i college fraternities at Cornell, the Kappa Alpha. At that time the boys holding to this order met in a room over a store in Ithaca, but Taylor changed all that. He built a handsome brownstone fraternity building, one of the finest in this country, which cost him about JlO.Ooo. He gave the building unreservedly to the fraternity, anfl after that, as may be imagined, he was the favorite among the Kappa Alpna chaps. "He also took charge of the Cornell baseball team and developed the best set of players ever turned out by anv col lege or university. Of the men wha p!ayed under him in, 1 four afterward became stars in the' big League teams. One of these was Harry Taylor, who is new attorney of the IJall Players League -nei who was captain of the Louisville for three years, during one season of which Louisville captured the pennant. George Keats, who was with the Baltimore team lor a number of seasons; Charlie Hall, a s.'ar on the Detroit nine when It was in the League, and a man named Olsen, who made a. record at second base for the Detroits, were all on the team he managed. "It was while at Cornell that Taylor developed his first taste for theatricals. He- organized an amateur theatrical com pany ami put on a play written by him self and "Fatty" Lynch, a son of Judge Lynch, of Syracuse, and a great chum cf his. He brought Mrs. James Rrown Totter on to Ithaca to play the leading fe male part and mad" of the production a great succes. He did nt play a role him self, but acted as stage manager and treas urer. The affair cost much more than it realized, but he willingly put tip for all the expenses. "He was the first Cornell man to bring a ciach and four to Ithaca, and the sen sation he created was something phenom enal. "He used to drive about the hill roads with Mrs. Totter on the box beside him. and the natives turned out as though to a Euffalo Dill bhow. lie was certainly a wild scamp." ir Bring Your Twenty -five-Dollar Dress Ideas To Us This Week and We Will Gratify Them With Our SO A Mil It's a TwentyfivedoIiaf Designed and Alade By the Leading Mer chant Tailors of the Country. FOR THE SUMMER GIRL. Gov us and Ilatn and Other Fripperies Tlint She AVill Worn-. New York Evening Tost. Satin boleros in ivory or cream white are introduceel this season in many charming and elegant forms. They are lined with mauve, ciel blue, peach blossom pink or pale sea green silk and worn over very elegant blouses of venise guipure and other rich laces. These jackets are variously dee orated with costly designs in pale gold pas sementerie en applique or with deep ecru colored patterns in cluny, flemish or bruges lace laid over satin the color of the silk which lines the bolero, the tint of the satin gleaming delicately through the medallion like designs of some of the elegant ap pliques used. Shirring, fine lingerie tucking, box, side and accordion pleating, ruche edged flounces and frills set on in graceful undula tions are among the leading decorations on both full and demi-diess toilets and costumes for next season. The pleating or shirred flounces are bordered with inset design in lace, with rows of insertion, puffing, satin ribbon, cluny beading or chiffon ruches. White linen bands piped or stitched with color look very neat and pretty on some of the simple French gowns for morning wear next season that are made of figured pique, Irish dimity, shep herd's check gingham, pink and white or mauve and white, linen duck or chambray. A very easy and effective way to freshen a partly worn gown of black lace is to pur chase enough point d'esptit net to make from three to five natrow gathered ruches for the bottom oX the skirt. Cut the sleeves ott above or below the elbow, as preferred, finish the bell-shaped edge with, a singie row of black silk and lisse passementerie, remove a portion of the waist at the top, shape it in rounding form about the neck, add a band ol the passexienterie with a narrow ruching on each side and finish with a guimpe and underslceves- of the net. The circular flounce, variously shaped and trimmed, is a notable feature of very many of the newest French gowns. On one ef l'aquin's models this flounce is tucked at the top, each tuck being spaced, made not more than a quarter of an inch wide, and trimmed with a narrow ruche of mousselin de soie. finished with a tiny edge of black lace. This makes a very effective decora tion, with little ruches or frills covering two-thirds of the depth of the il ounce. A Paris-made gown of a beautiful shade of pale blue linen has a bolero with-stole ends finished with embroidery. The blouse bodice is of soft ecru batiste, laid in fun lingerie tucks that alternate with bands of the linen embroidered in pale ciel blue, pink and stem-green lints. The skirt has side pleats meeting in front and stitched down to within a few inches of the hem, and the circular flounce begins at cither side of these pleats, widening very much toward the back. The skirt of a fern-green dimitv gown is elaborately trimmed with black lace insertion. It is laid in very small box pleats about the hips, and between the pleats are bands of the trimming. Three rows of the same lace border the hem -f the flounce and band the puff sleeves from shoulder to shoulder. Many of the new, beautifully tinted and mercerized summer fabrics are soft and fluffy enough to trim themselves most ef fectively, although prodigal use is made of every description of band trimming in rib bon." lace, embroidery, hemstitched silk, gold and silver braid and the like, on gowns of taffeta, foulard, crepe de chine, net. ve il Ing. batiste, India mull and like delicate and beautiful stuffs. Manv of the new foulard silks or satins are this season trimmed very lavishly with white or cream guipure insertions, ap pliques, fichus, berthas, etc.; or, a foulard bolero opens over a blouse underbodice of lace, with matching stock collar and under slceves banded with velvet ribbon dotted with small gilt or peal buttons. The skirt around the front and sides at the top is ar ranged in clusters of five very narrow tucks, which are stitched one-third of the length of the skirt, and are let to flare be low. There a space of about four inches between each group of tucks, and at tin back the skirt is adjusted by nnderfolded box pleats, or else two box pleats set very closelv together. High-class modistes are making great use of the most delieate and expensive of French batistes, in plain silky surfaces, of batiste "pointelle" of double width and exquisitely beautiful surface, and also of silk chambray, India mull, and the finest and sheerest weaves of French organdh and dimity, in the preparation of elegant wardrobes for the summer season, and miles of laces and insertions are used for garniture in every novel and attractive guise. French challi Is another decide! favorite, particularly In cream white and s"ft opal gray. Klegant lace bands and ap pliques are used to .iccorate gowns of this material, and often with as prodigal a hand as for the most expensive of the taffeta and Muscovite silks, creped satins and crepe? do chine. Very lustrous and, flexible mohair fabri-s are agiin presented as one of the matcrieN that are to be favored this summer. Never out of fashion In strict sense, this useful and durable textile Is to find favor among powns for evening as well as day wea-, in shades of old rose, fawn color, creim white, sage green, ivory, nun's gray, etc. A. suit of gray-blue mohair has an Eton of the same, lined with cherry-red silk. A evertaln degree of elegance Is imparted tc the skirt by strappings of black si'!: passementerie laid over ech seam. V white mohair costume is flaboratc'y trimmed with bands of satin about three--eighths of a yard In length, cut into po'.ms at the end and nm.ls to lap each ether on the front and sides of the skirt. The lis; ttrais at the top of each row are trimmed with small gold or cut-jet buttons. When the latter are used, the straps are very lrequently finished at each edge with black satin pipings. One of the handsomest of th? great va riety of elegant carriage and traveling cloaks for the sprlr.K and summer Is In fceml-trmpire style, with a very short bolero m a n v eh - i v n i u (Jrf L H&sd A o o O O o All Wilke sea i Ö Alt TM (fff A i' .11 Tile and . ( lt.O I Hardwood celaiu Lined. ( M i-i"vai:i. ) and Zinc Lined Por MOWKRS Pennsylvania ami Mow- crs of same m.inufactor, the latest improved kini. -all sines, O Si. 95 ami upward GARDEN HOS1S OF AI.L, KINDS SCREENS AND SCREEN DOORS. I Lilly &StaInaker. washÄ top formed of the srft fawn-colored elnth which composes the wrap, but entirely covered with cream-colored Cluny lace, matching exactly the cloth strappings, which, in graduated widths, reach from the lower edge of the bolero, both front and back, to the extreme edge of the skirt of the cloak. The sleeves are in small bishop form, and the deep cuffs and rather wide turn-down collar are overlaid with a wavy design of the Cluny lace. Waists of pale blue cashmere or peau uV snip, trimmed with stitched bands of cream loth and tiny gold buttons; black velvet ribbon dotted with jet and gold beads, and white or pink batiste dresses garnished with bands of batiste insertion t dged with tiny frills of butter-colored lace, were among the pretty things visible in the display par lors of a fashionable uptown modiste this week. I'lack and white effects were car ried out in every imaginable form for trim mint?. There were endless variations of the circular flounce; elbow sleeves predom inated on all model gowns for dres-y hot weather wear, and all tho freshr-neil rowcs had the sleeves cut eff to the elbows and tho bodice cut down in the neck, with n-.'W dainty fa brie addrd for tho guimpe- and undersleeves. A single trailing wreath of pink roses and buds, with a plentiful back ground of tender groen foliage, is a favor ite dec orati-n for the spring hats of light weight fancy straw. The broad end of the spray is set upon the top of the crown at the left side. and. gradually diminishing in width, it curve's with charming grace across the entire front of the hat to the extreme edge of tho brim on the right sld. Another pretty and. to many youthful face?, most becoming and attractive siyle is a low crowned plateau-hat. trimmed outside with a large Alsatian bow of rather wide black or moss green velvet ribbon, the brim, either on the under or upprr side. bein;r wholly covered with fragile looking, shaded pink rose petals, softly lapping each othr from the extreme edge of the brim to the crown. Sl( !I IS FAMK. crinan Army Keoruits Vlio Und Xot - Heard of Emperor William. Philadelphia Record. An inquiry made by a number of German officers with a view to test the- intelligence o: a new batch of conscripts brought forth rome remarkable re-suits. Out of seventv eight recruits from various parts of Truss"; i twenty-one were unable to give ar.y answer when asked who was the Empr..r of Ger many: twenty-two replied that "a great general" und nine of them thought "a re nowned field marshal" was the wic hb r of the destinies of the empire; six imaulm-d that "the minister of war" was their l.'ege lord, while only fourteen gave approxi mately correct replies. If the fam of Wil helm the vociferous, in spite of the tireless industry lie has displayed in blowing hU lurr.. has penetrated no deeper into tie ci-nscioasness of the German masses than this inquiry seemed to indicate, the attain ment of the glory-crowned heights might a: wel' b? given up as an impossibility. If anybody has reached that pinn-ic.- it might be supposed to have been the im mortal William of Stratford upon Avon. Yet there appears to be a gentleman living ir Norway possessed of sufficient intelli gence to edit a newspaper, who knows nothing of the king of dramatic p.t The-, following criticism reentlv appeared i'i the Th'ning. a journal published at Aal si'pd. In Norway: "The traveling theatrical companv at present visiting this town gave l.-.rt nig!:: a representation of a play stvled 'flv Merry Wives of Windsor.' bv "a person railed Shaksn-nrc. The play I- s lid to be a comedy, but I terribly monotonous in lis effect. An uncouth 51nd b- snt, .1 cavalier, who flirts nnd spoors with . bevy of medi-mondalnes. but who becomes th victim of thr ir :bsard Intrigues such is the sum total of the? plot. We can only s iv that fcueh a play is poor f.ire to Invite an fducated public to. it was h relief when the curtain dropped and we had an o, pcrtunlty to listen to a selection of humor ous songs." Shades of uccn I'.ess! Has It come to thiH? The wittiest rascal that ev r trod the boards a "besotted cavalier" jmi th matrons of Windsor, instinct with v. hnloomoncfs and life and overflow1"' with honest mirth, "a Kny of d-mi-mm-daine.!" Opp might forgiv the criticism of the play; It Is not a master-ir or. and th margling it received nt the hands of a troupe of Norwegl-in barnstormers p-obablv did not tend to Improve It. Ifut what can le said in justification of the description of its author as "a person called Shak fpare?" When "myrlad-mlnded Shak sare" is not sure of his glory, what chance have they who fret a brief moment in the glare of publicity? After all. the doo--fceeppr of the llous of Representatives who thought he was "a bigger man than old M il II r, 'j B H im I m ,rv! tf u t Wasttingcon ireei 000 O tpc7 S M W K t o o o o e'rant" may have had an adumbration ol the truth. The memory -of the re. illy gleit is In the keeping of a rather small circle d the elect. The little great men have p:;; j.s large, if not a larger, but, never t le i' - -., a circumscribed loilowiag. Niucty-r.;i hundredths of the worll know not lw x other one-hundredth lives, and there is t.J siuch thing as universality in fame-. a rmu;i;-m niii:i) ijollau nr. rv.lj Kicli Jinn Who Demoralize! I'ulliiiuii Servier. W. G. Nicholas, in New York Telegraph. Or.c of the few rich nun wh a;n.c.- i nn.ro millions m rent sUel ..ad tin :. seüdation than he has liners a? 1 h making l;fo miserable for tl I'i. Urn ia pi! aee ear management. He tt;. .- a g 1 deal, and has contracted iL-- pnate ..r habit to an e xtent iiom I i.i m- -xp n ' ' ef th oldest orfie ial in th" ..ir.p.t.y. 1 1 '. cannot go from Jersey -;tv i, rsiw.tr-: without the employment. d' a r:Me Jtrvi in his travels back and l- :in freni Chi cago h wants a whole train. It would 1.- all light if his -e--::tri ity ended, there , for the Pullriaa ';'.: n y 1 1 r private car to rent to a!l c.i:ur.-: iM thi O'Ticials complain he has ! v.- 'r ! tl.- entire service of the c oi p ir..t I n. It is I:' custom to lavish extra vacant t- .- a.d f- on the attendant?, sieving $1 " bills w.th t! prodigality disrdajed by s." if..ri.g t.; n i"' soattrir.g their dim's. " '1 r.e nth- r day t!.-j P"ifer who sc ared the r;:n on tin- mi;:i---i-a ire's car happen, d to r;;.liin tl. t ov.'d on Jus furniture. "That's easy." rr .-narked h go-it I . f:o;i out of the Wc-t. .md. t: a ( t walkt from Ids insid - vest pc.-ki :. h !. r. ' ' the astonished p rt r thro.-- ji;a n ;, adding pntronizivgly. "Ibrc. my man. t . this and lifi the nn.it gate. ' Th.- pe.rt.T t'j.d; the nam. y, Vut hi.-t-iry ". silent (is to thf re he put it to. Hin th occurrence of th. ?::'-" evry m.-.n ia i;- service of the sic. ping-'-ir comp my 1. . 1-c-n lying awake ni ;ht dcvii-:g s:w:-s to -f on th" r b'red by th .,;!. -'nt Wert i-:.-r. i;v i-y sehen. td.i: t y car. sngya st is p.'ay d to I.-im of th- :'t,: -ciary of the magnate, and n 1 e i r : . V to sevi.ro an assignment f..r the- run. Mr. Nc wricli has not di.-.-overed h - to whic h tl.e . rnlfv !'ull;aan :;tt. :.d i:ü - I putting him. and takes as gera r .iv - U :i st rations of u flection :::! tribute.-- to ;t.i: :uss the drives at his purse thrci.li thf n. odium of hi v mit;. . Not long t Ince the IVilIman f.b"i It thought they con'.d have a r..;I c:c"''-i for refusing the n an te a pTipte car il j disputed a Mllec'-'c bill, claiming ?: un charge of ?!'o. The ru mag-m' :.! r- a.y hope he would ho'd oot in hi- !-?:; d settle, for then it e-iu! l f-up the weded relief. He wakened, h .w vt:. ..i. I his rcsnrncd X.r- b .i..t broken into Ir;- a few brief ivurs. The ( nfc shni of an i:pert.' New York Press. No more significa ::t ilkr-i-.it1 ri of r objec tioiis to exp tt U-t;.i..rv . pcarcd for s-m- t'::.- than th cdml ':. ol Dr. J. J. Kindred, of the II!.. i . Sanitarium, on tl.e wit:;.-s Man;. tht i will get f-V" e.,nting nt fee it the c .T.t. . ants of the wi;l of Mrs. U'.iz.i Jane i;, v.hi thei. .-ijii. !;p rt t. .-time :.y N gr.. i uaily coming to be regard- d bv" th if litigants a.- a ctiit. ,..,: v. winch m.iy i- as legitimately b :;-at a. a! -...! -. ' s.Tvires of a coua-...r an! attorn... i : it :-f.i:u::, oa an ait' -.th-r din-ieit b.. j". fact. The wit.a: i-- M.-orn ; t. il t:.i tlUth. the whale tr.;fi an I r-.h;n ,f the irvth. il w. th. . . n a:; ;iV.mi1 agreement to i.av to tl... I--,,.: i - I fee if t!.e ease got -. ov wvy t:..a '; :t ,-..-.-. .ii:ii:er w:iy i. r -.-.n V'i as aat:.: 4 else than p.ej;diced ti - ::r: r, V Suc h an a;. re me nt o-.-xht "to be er : r th- MT! 0f l!;r u Js al, Vf.:v . j say that it is of no e-o::. , .,:;?:: b such --Xpert te-stlmonv ha aire, id i a to be re garded as of I;ule value vi :i j jury. Ihn this ve ry -täte of pul-Ma . ; : i. in is a scan. nil. and all th w.rs. a.- 4 scandal b. cans. the supposition nt 1 1. base- of it L, l.,rf:..jy xrv.o. The f.u t tl il men attatb little jt: ; rt a nee toVxp.it ' tJmony affects only the pecuniary or olh r wise se'r.-h res'jat et tl.e i t f i i tr. which It is calle.l lo the Ma-id. s far .!. .t has any g-,d effect. Ia.t its ... d . .t contaminates ail s -cietv; it u;.d- r;.: . I popular fauh i.-i th.- i.;..c'i;:-.ery eu the Ijm and undermines in an iniir.iiei, .::,!. tie and more dange -ron-i wav 'the four..1 i lions of pai-o.nl th.Uc.cter. it i l.!-a time that there was a third cla.s of u -:.-moi-y established In our co,r: and so..-! witnesses pv-rmiitod who shall r--t be t avov.e-d partisans of eithe r Iv pns-- utia i or the defense. And it is e.-aa'Sy huh lb- that the Xpert who sdis fc4S i. tc lui-t oft the witness tdar.d. V Blue spy A r