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nt 10 o'clock every morning-. To-morrow
night Debs speaks at Riversville and the
next evening at Watson, and as he has
chosen the evening to make his addressee
it is supposed he does not expect the men
to come out brfore Thursday or Friday.
Indeed, in his speech to-day he said in five
days the great miners' strike would be set
tled.
Besides the 660 miners who laid down
their tools at Mononagh this iporning,
twenty-ja-von of the forty-one men at
Pritchard joined the strikers. However,
many of these men went to the. Chieftain
mine this evening, which is controlled by
the same party, and received employment.
It is predicted that some of the Mononagh
men will go back to work to-morrow, but
that is not the prevailing idea. A miner
to-night said they would not go back until
the great strike is over, and the truthful
ness of his words are in evidence when it
is stated that the men were offered 50 cents
a ton this morning if they would remain,
but refused. Whether the men in the re
mainder of the region will lay down their
picks is a question. The men in almost all
of the other mines are apparently content
ed. but were very enthusiastic at the meet
ing held here to-night. Ex-Governor A. B.
Fleming said to-night the men at West
Fairmont would not go out. He says that
If the men strike and the Pennsylvania &
Ohio miners get the rate they are striking
for. it will not aid the miners or the oper
ators in this region. His reason for this
statement is that the freight rates being
more will keep (he wages of the miners
down. At West Fairmont sixty gondolas
are being loaded each day with coal besides
the coaling of the trains, and as the men
know the exact state of affairs, so he says,
they will not strike. This morning Debs
went to Mayor Kendall for permission to
speak on the public square, which was
granted.
Men nt Work Fear Violence.
CANONS BURG, Pa., July 19.—The strik
ing miners from Bridgeviile, who visited
the Allison, Boone and Enterprise mines
to-day for the purpose of inducing the men
at work to come out, dispersed this after
noon, having attained their object without
trouble. Immediately upon receipt of the
news of the proposed raid, the mine own
ers at these pits ordered a suspension until
the excitement should die out. This after
noon the strikers held a meeting at which
speeches were made to the effect that if
the men did not remain out, the strikers
would return. 1,000 strong, and instead of
bringing musical instruments they would
bring guns. A committee was appointed to
guard the mines and report in case the men
returned to work.
The miners will probably resume to-mor
row. Some of the men are afraid to go in
again, as they say the strikers threatened
violence and saiu they would burn the cars
and tipples. Everything Ls quiet to-night.
The strikers now say suspension in the
Panhandle district is absolute, but the
operators of the Boone and Allison mines
say their men are not on strike and that
their mines were closed down by their or
ders to-day to prevent any possible con
flict. Notwithstanding the present quiet,
the operators express themselves as being
alarmed over the situation and have
doubled their force of deputies at the mines.
The trainmen who arc to take the coal from
Allison mine have been armed with Win
chesters like the deputies.
Addition to Strikers.
CHARLESTON, W. Ya., July 19.—The
strike movement among the miners in the
Kanawha valley received a slight impetus
to-day, when the coal diggers at two more
mines decided to go out. This increases the
number of idle men to about 800. A con
ference of thirty delegates representing sev
eral mines in the Kanawha valley was held
at Montgomery to-day, when it was de
cided to demand an increase of one cent
per bushel for hard coal and one-fourth
of a cent for soft coal. Arrangements are
being made for a mass meeting of miners
at Montgomery Wednesday when Debs and
Sovereign are expected to be present.
IDLE IX SULLIVAN FIELD.
False Re|inrt,N Circulated that Men
Were Returning; to Work.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBURN, Ind., July 19.—One week ago
last Saturday the miners in this coal field
laid down their tools and quit work. Since
that time work has almost been totally
suspended with the exceptions of Alum
Cave, which worked Friday because the
company required them to square up be
fore they can draw their money. Various
rumors have been circulated to the effect
that Alum Cave was still working, but
miners from the above mine say the report
circulated was false; that the miners were
still idle. The runner from the Cave said
if the company would pay the price de
manded the miners would return to work
at once. A few miners were working at
Star City to-day “squaring up" and timber
ing. These two plants are the largest in
this coal field and employ the greatest num
ber of miners. The action of these two
plants generally govern the remaining
mines In this mining belt. All Is quiet and
has been quiet up to date, but should the
large number of coal trains still continue
to pass over the road trouble may be ex
pected. A coal train to a miner is as a
red flag before a mad bull. A personal
letter from President Knight to one of the
miners cautioned them whatever they did
not to interfere with the trains or the min
ers would lose the strike.
Helping Needy Miners.
BRAZIL. Ind., July 19.—The miners' com
missary was opened again to-day and 175
families, representing 1,000 people, were
given meager rations. Promised aid from
business men at Indianapolis is expected
soon. The block miners have decided to
abandon their local union and join District
No. 11, of the United Mine Workers. State
President Knight will be here in a few
days to perfect the organization.
THREE THOUSAND MINERS OUT.
The Movement Spreading Rapidly
Throughout Illinois.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 19.-The miners
at Girard, Green* Ridge, Viriien and Bar
clay, who have been working, came out to
day. Reports received here show that three
thusand strikers came out of the south
ern field to-day. Assumption miners joined
with Pana strikers and forced the miners
at Moweaqua out.
BLOOMINGTON, 111., July 19.—At a meet
ing of union miners this afternoon, which
was held behind barred doors, it w’as unan
imously voted to strike. To-night the non
union men who are fully as strong in num
bers as the union men, says they will con
tinue work. The latter declare if they go
to work they will have 500 minors from
other towns here and force them to quit.
It Is believed preparations are being made
by the operators to protect all men who
wish to work.
ROCK ISLAND, 111., July 19,-Three hun
dred miners at Sherrard and Cable, Mercer
county, struck this afternoon after a joint
meeting of men in the two mines. These
miners are not organized and their strike is
largely sympathetic, although they suffered
a cut of 10 per cent, in wages last winter.
The miners at Gilchrist are still at work,
but are expected to strike also.
Throws Out 1,7500 Men.
PEORIA, 111., July 19. Both glucose
works shut down to-day for lack of fuel.
This shuts up the cooper shops and throw’s
1,500 men out of employment. But three
mines are running in the Peoria field, and
they are filling no outside orders.
Letter from ltatcliford.
COLUMBUS, 0., July 19.—President
Ratchford and Secretary Pearce to-day is
sued a letter to the public giving the
causes leading up to the present suspension.
The circular says that the suspension is
not a choice, but an alternative forced on
the miners in their demand for living
wages. An operator is quoted as saying in
a joint conference prior to the suspension:
"Go on ; ml tight, wt are ready for you.”
The movement is characterized as "nothing
less than a spontaneous uprising of an en
slaved people, wtio have determined to sub
mit no longer to the cruel, heartless and
inhuman conditions imposed ujron them by
unscrupulous employers, which has reduced
them and their dependents to actual starva
tion."
Attempt to Wreck Coal Trains.
MASSILLON, <>., July 19.—Early this
morning three attempts were made to
wreck trains on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railway near the Dillonvale mines. In one
instance obstructions had been placed on
the track and in the other switch frogs had
been spiked. Track walkers discovered the
obstructions in time to prevent wrecks.
Such trouble as ti is was anticipated as
soon as the movem nt of West Virginia
coal was begun. Yesterday seventy or
eighty carloads were shipped over the road.
The deputy United States marshals who
are guarding the track say they have clews
to the perpetrators of the outrages anc ar
rests are expected.
Fears of Coal Famine in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, July 19.—Acting on the ad
vlc< of the coaJ companies which distrib
ut- the products of the mines in the Illi
nois district tributary to St. Louis, nearly
all the brick-making companies in St. Louis
and vicinitiy have practically suspended
operations on account of the lack of fuel.
Kilns now’ burning will be finished and.
with one or two exceptions, none of the
local companies will fire new kilns until
the strike is over. The prospect of a possi
ble coal famine in St. Louis is alarming
operators in other lines of business.
Vice I’rcsidinl lvune Demi.
COLUMBUS, 0., July 19.—John Kane,
national vice president of the United Mine
Workers of America, died at his home in
this city at 5 o’clock. Death was the result
of blood poisoning superinduced by pneu
monia and pleurisy. He had been sick
about three weeks. He w’as aged forty
eight years.
AMALGAMATED SCALE.
Meeting nt Youngstown May Reach a
Settlement To-Day.
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., July 19.—A meeting
was held here this afternoon by the Amal
gamated Association wage scale committee
arid the Iron manufacturers whose plants
are in association with a view to settling the
scale and putting an end to the strike that
has been on since the adjourned meeting,
of June 30, when a conference was held
but no agreement reached. They were in
secret session till 9:30, when they adjourned
till 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. Nobody
who was in the conference would discuss
the situation, but the gen :ral opinion and
hope of the outside is that the matter will
be straightened out to-morrow.
Joliet Tin-Plate Plant Resumes.
JOLIET, 111., July 19. —The Great Western
Tin-plate Company plant, employing 300
men, resumed work to-day aft r an idle
ness of more than a month. The men get
an advance of 8 V 2 per cent, over that of
the previous six months.
JEAN INGELOW DYING
CONDITION OF ALMOST FORGOTTEN
POETESS GROWING V. OItSE.
Sweet Singer of Three Deed- .* go
Whose Popularity Or.e .t, r .
with Tennyson's.
LONDON. July 19.—Jean Ingelow, the dis
tinguished poetess and novelist, now in her
sixty-seventh year, is seriously ill. It was
reported last January that she was dying
and her condition has been serious ever
since.
The report that the almost forgotten
poetess is dying would have created some
thing of a sensation in the literary world
thirty years ago. But Miss Ingelow, like
other geniuses, has lived long enough to
appreciate the fickleness of the public
heart, and she who was once compared
to Mrs. Browning, who ranked with Keats.
Tennyson and Longfellow, will die, a pass
ing memory to the w’orld in general.
Jean Ingelow was born in 1830 at Boston,
Lincolnshire, and was the youngest of the
eleven children of William Ingelow. It
would seem that in so large a family one
could not be sad or lonesome, but it ap
pears that from her earliest years Miss
Ingelow was of a melancholy disposition.
The "Songs of Seven” are supposed to be
autobiographical, and when she wrote that
there was
"No dew left on the daisies and clover,
No rain left in heaven,”
She was describing her lonely position in
the great world, She spent her childhood
watching the blue sea, dotted with white
sails; the ebb and flow of the tide was the
sweetest music to her ears, and one of her
greatest pleasures was a visit to the light
house and bell tower. In those days, and
all during her life, her chum and boon com
panion has been the brother next to her
in age, who has remained a bachelor, and
with whom she lives in Kensington. Her
devotion to him reminds one of Maggie
Tulliver, and she is supposed to be describ
ing herself in “Off the Skelligs" when she
creates Dorothea Graham, a character very
much like the heroine of the “Mill on the
Floss.” Miss Ingelow and her brother live
in a quaint little cottage which sinks into
insignificance beside the conservatory,
tw’ice its size, which joins it. It is here
that she spends her happiest hours. She
loves birds and flowers and it is her great
pleasure to take her feathered friends in
the conservatory, liberate them, and drink
in their singing as they fly from plant to
plant.
It w’as not until she was thirty-three
years old that her first poems were pub
lished and it was generally believed at that
time that Jean Ingelow was a nom de
plume for some old writer. Os these poems
“High Tide Off the Coast of Lincolnshire”
was the most popular. It is described as a
‘ballad, cast in such strange form, so
musical that it sang itself: so lyric in qual
ityity, so quaint in diction, so keen for
beauty, so tender of pathos, so deep and
wide in religious feeling that there was
never a word for its defects.” This volume
appeared at a fortunate time, for Tenny
son had written nothing for a number of
years, Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside
Inn" w r ere losing their popularity, and the
public was on the qui vive. for something
new and original. Among her best known
poems are "We Are Seven,” “Laurence,"
Divided” and “Oh, Fair Dove, Oh, Fond
Dove,” which has been set to music. Be
sides her poems, Miss Ingelow has written
four novels and several children's stories,
but these never gained the popularity
which her poems attracted. It has never
been known w’hether Jean Ingelow's habit
ual sadness is the result of an unhappy
love affair, or, indeed, whether she has
ever been in love. The silence w’ith regard
to this part of her life has never been un
broken, and may always remain a secret
unless it is revealed after Miss Ingelow’s
death. She is now’ a sweet-looking old lady
of nearly seventy-seven, with a broad brow,
kindly eyes, and the same sad mouth that
marked her early years. Her pictures al
ways represent her wearing a thin lace cap
and dressed in a plain, dark gown.
DR. RYDER PROBABLY LYNCHED
Token from a Sheriff by u Georgia
Mob Lust Mglit.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 19.—A special to the
Constitution from Columbus, Ga., says:
“Dr. YV. L. Ryder, who on Easter Sunday
a year ago shot to death the young wom
an who had rejected him, was to-night
taken from the sheriff and is probably
lynched. Only the news of the bare fact
that he was forcibly seized and taken from
the sheriff's custody at 8:30 o'clock to
night can be learned in Columbus up to
this hour, midnight. Dr. Ryder was put on
trial at Talbotton the second time tor his
life this morning. He was taken from the
secure jail at Columbus Sunday afternoon.
When the court met at Halbotton this
morning a motion was made to continue
the trial on account of the illness of the
prisoner's counsel. Col. J. 11. Worrill,
Judge John C. Hart granted the continu
\\ hen the court met at Talbotton this
lumbus. going through the country ot catch
the train at Waverly Hail, twelve milts
lumbus, going through the countrj to catch
that Ryder had been ta.ceu from the sheriff
and deputies and put to death.
THREE INCHES~QF SNOW.
Cripple Creek I.le I'ntler Heavy
Cloak of tlie Beautiful.
DENVER, Col., July 19.—A severe snow
storm is reported from all the higher por
tions in the mountain districts. Three
inches of snow- is reported at Cripple Creek,
Aspen and other points, and one inch at
Leadville. The weather is uncomfortably
cool even in Denver.
Flood in Nebraska.
LODGE POLE, Neb., July 19.—A cloud
burst six miles west of this place washed
out one mile of railroad track. All trains
are tied up. Every dam between here and
Sidney is washed out, and still they are go
ing out. This is the worst flood ever known
here.
CHEYENNE, YVyo., July 19.—Very heavy
rains have prevailed throughout southwest
ern*Wyoming and western Nebraska to-day,
causing numerous washouts along the rail
roads. To-night the east-bound Union Pa
cific flyer Is tied up at Medicine Bow by a
washout at Miser Station. Assistant Su
perintendent Culross has gone to the scene
with a wrecking train. The west-bound
flyer, held at Sidney by a washout at Chap
pell, Neb., will run via Julesburg and La
salle. Col., and over the Denver Pacific
branch to reach here.
Oil mid Water.
Boston Transcript.
It has been said that oil and water won’t
anix; but the ease with which Mr. Rocke
feller's Standard Oil prolits flow into the
Baptist strong box seems to show that
there is uu exception to t>£ rule.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1897.
QUIET DAY IN SENATE
•
CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF THE
UNION PACIFIC PROPOSAL.
Congressman Johnson Will Leave
Washington to Regain His Health
—After Haughey’!) Pardon.
WASHINGTON, July 19,-The day In the
Senate was principally devoted to a dis
cussion of Mr. Harris's resolution relating
to the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Mor
gan, of Alabama, concluded his remarks in
favor of the resolution and Mr. Stewart
spoke in opposition to it. Mr. Thurston, of
Nebraska, was speaking in opposition when
at 5 o’clock p. m. the Senate went into
executive session and shortly thereafter
adjourned. He reviewed the history of the
construction of the road, contending that
it was a patriotic effort and not a Bcheme
to rob the government. Mr. Harris, in ref
utation of this, called attention to President
Cleveland’s strictures on the Union Paciiic
management in his message of Jan. 17, 188s.
Mr. Stewart said he did not wish to ex
onerate the company from payment ot just
dues to the government, but objected to
their being regarded as criminals. He de
sired to have tne whole matter closed. The
resolution under consideration would ac
complish no purpose.
Mr. Thurston then spoke in opposition to
the resolution. He contended that the gov
ernment had already risked enough money
in this investment; that without chancing
any further expenditure it should proceed
in the ordinary legal methods through the
courts of the country to enforce its legal
rights, whatever they might be, to secure
repayment of all its aufts on whatever prop
erty the court shall find are justly subject
thereto. The proposition before the Senate,
lie said, stripped of technicalities, w’as sim
ply to invest another $34,900,000 and take
the chance of getting it back on the ulti
mate sale of the road.
At 5 o'clock an executive session was held,
and then adjournment was had.
JUDGE SCOTT’S POSITION.
Congratulation)* for the Former In
dianapolis Man.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Judge John N.
Scott., formerly of Indianapolis, and now’
of Port Townsend, Wash., is receiving the
congratulations of his friends on his ap
pointment last Saturday to an important
legal position under the Department of
Justice. He has been named as special at
torney for the department to investigate
and adjudicate claims arising against the
government growing out of Indian depreda
tions. Judge Scott is in the city at pres
ent, but will leave for the Pacific coast
within a few’ days. His appointment is
generally regarde-d as a fitting recognition
of Judge Scott’s work in the last campaign
in the State of Washington in rendering
important service in lessening the free
silver influence there.
Representative Johnson has suffered con
siderably by remaining here during
the heated term, but has improved
his opportunity to clear up his
department work and to rec
ommend to all postoffices to which there
can be appointment made before next De
cember. As soon as Congress adjourns he
will follow the advice of his physician and
go at once to the seaside, and will remain
there for the benefit of his health until
late in the fall, w r hen he will visit liis dis
trict before returning here to attend the
next session of Congress.
The removal of Joseph W. Nichol, of In
dianapolis, chief law’ clerk of the control
ler of the treasury, to make room for a Re
publican, has been followed by unconfirmed
rumors of the retirement soon of Judge
Lewis Jordan from the position of chief of
the miscellaneous division of the Treasury
Department. Judge Jordan has made a lino
record, and Secretary Gage is very reluct
ant to part with him. There is a possibili
ty that he will remain in the government
service.
W. W. Tiffany, a one-armed veteran, who
served in Wilder's brigade, has been in
dorsed for postmaster of Wingate, Mont
gomery county, by Representative Landis.
Representative Landis has secured the
reinstatement of Adolph Derndingen, of
Zionsville, Boone county, to a clerkship in
the Pension Office, from w’hich he was
"fired” four years ago for being a Repub
lican. This is the third veteran of his dis
trict Mr. Landis has had reinstated under
similar conditions.
Judge Pietz and wife, of Terre Haute,
and Professor Roberts, of Indianapolis, are
in the city.
Presidential Appointments.
WASHINGTON, July 19.—'The President
to-day sent the following nominations to
the Senate;
Interior—Charles H. Isham, of Maryland,
to be commissioner in and for the district
of Alaska; Edward W. Fox, register of the
land office at Clayton, N. M.; George
Christ, surveyor general of Arizona; Al
plieus P. Hanson, surveyor general of Wy
oming. .
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow’-
ing nominations: David A. Nunn, collec
tor of internal revenue for the Fifth dis
trict of Tennessee; Frederick E. Coyne,
collector of internal revenue of the First
district of Illinois.
Henry W. Diedrich, of the District of Co
lumbia, to be consul at Magdeburg, Ger
many; George W. Heist, of Nebraska, to be
register of the land office at Sidney, Neb.
Working; for Hunghey')) I’urdon,
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-John S. Dun
can, of Indianapolis, is in the city in be
half of Theodore P. Haughey, the im
prisoned banker. He paid Attorney General
McKenna a visit this afternoon, presented
his petition and made an argument in be
half of the prisoner. The burden of his ap
peal was that Haughey had been punished
enough, that he had served three full years
out of the five years’ sentence, and that
the sentiment of the community in which
he had lived for a half century favored
mercy. He set forth that Mr. Haughey was
very old and feeble, and -that he had been
more sinned against than sinning in the
bank wrecking for which he had been con
victed. Mr. Duncan will call on the Presi
dent to-morrow for Mr. Haughey.
No Help for Fourth District.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Chairman Han
na, of the Republican national committee,
has turned a stony front to an appeal for
$2,500 from the committee's treasury for the
Fourth Indiana district congressional fight.
Mr. Hanna thinks the Ohio issues are pre
dominately important this year and that
whatever span change there is at his dis
posal should be put into this territory.
Sherman Almost Recovered.
WASHINGTON, July 19. According to
the report of his family, Secretary Sherman
is almost recovered, and would have been
in the department but tor the bad state of
the w’eather.
EQI ALITY OF IHE SENES.
Pruetieal Application of tlie Doctrine
Proves Unsatisfactory.
Detroit Free Press.
It is not by way of criticism but merely
as the statement of a fact that we ven
ture the observation that some women are
hard to suit. The women we have in mind
are those wdio are loudly objecting to the
order recently issued by the police depart
ment of Kansas City recognizing the com
plete equality of the sexes as far as con
cerns the prisoners under its control. Here
tofore it has been the custom to discrim
inate between the sexes, awarding to the
male prisoners one kind of employment
while the women were expected to work
at something different. Now the depart
ment has decided that this discrimination
shall no longer be made. The men in
prison are required to labor at the stone
idle preparing that refractory substance
for use in macadamizing the streets. Jus
tice to women, the department declares,
requires that she also should break stone
while in prison; and she, too, has beegi
ordered to the rock pile. The department
proposes, indeed, to wipe out all distinc
tion between the prisoners so far as ap
pearances are concerned. Substantially the
same kind of garments—in the shape of
coarse overalls—are to be provided for men
and women alike: and the latter are, so
far as can be effected, to be put upon
terms of precise equality with men.
It would be supposed, naturally, that
such a recognition of equality w’ould glad
den the heart of the "new woman." When
it has been urged in mild opposition to
their theories that if woman were permit
ted to vote and to make laws she ought
also to be expected to do military and
Jury duty, the now woman has professed
to be perfectly satisfied that this should
be done, arid-declared, that there is no rea-
son on earth why every avenue of respon
sibility and of duty should not be opened
to women on the same terms as to men.
Singularly enough they protest emphatical
ly against the general order of the Kan
sas City police sending women to the stone
pile; and are especially loud in their de
nunciations of the heartless monsters who
would compel the feminine convict to wear
overalls when at work.
Logically the Kansas police department,
has the best of the argument and the new
woman has not really—if. in view of the
overails we may be permitted the expres
sion—an argumentative leg to stand on.
Yet we are compelled to admit that we are
old-fashioned enough to sympathize with
their protest. Breaking stone does not seem
to be womanly work, even when the wom
an is a convict. We have seen the free
women of Italy doing it in their native
country, sitting on the ground and cracking
the stone in their laps and it has always
seemed extremely unwomanly, especially
when the probable husband was abroad in
the land with a pipe and a hurdy-gurdy.
The overalls, too. aggravate the case. They
are not becoming even to a male convict,
and in the case of a female convict they
must be even less so. The whole order in
deed seems to the Free Press an under
straining of the equality principle, no mat
ter how defensible it may be—and undoubt
edly is—in theory.
It will be humiliating, no doubt, for the
Kansas City police department to recall its
order under fire, so to speak, and to yield
to the illogical demand of the new woman.
We trust, nevertheless, that the depart
ment will pocket its pride and yield. There
surely must be something that the women
prisoners can do which is less back-break
ing than stone-breaking and quite as re
munerative; and on esthetic grounds alone
they can well afford to rescind the overalls
part of the order. The new woman may
possibly triumph in her heartlessness or in
the language of the wicked “crow over”
the department: but the consciousness of a
virtuous act wisely done should be suffi
cient to assauge the pangs occasioned by
such a demonstration.
HERR ANDREE MAY FAIL
SCIENTISTS NOT SANGUINE OF SUC
CESS OF NORTH POLE TRIP.
Russia Ready to Use Force if Sultan
Further Delays Peace Negotiations
—Other Foreign News.
BERLIN, July 19.—The „ best scientific
opinion here is not sanguine of the success
of Herr Andree's undertaking to reach the
north pole by means of his air ship. Fur
ther details have been received as to the
circumstances under which the ascent was
made from the Isle of Tromsoe in the midst
of a strong wind, which frequently blew in
fierce gusts. The cook had carefully stow’ed
in a small barrel the first dinner to be
eaten aloft, and Herr Fraenkel took along
a few bottles of beer for immediate use.
From the west side of the balloon waves
the Swedish colors, side by side with a
white silk flag adorned with a blue anchor,
the gift of a woman friend of the aeronaut.
Immediately under the balloon was fast
ened diagonally a piece of bamboo, to which
were attached sails like wings, which the
aeronaut hoped to be abie to manipulate
from the car by means of ropes. Shortly
before 2:30 p. m. (July 11) Andree was ready.
Then the trio, Andree, Strindberg and
Fraenkel, standing in the car, severed the
ropes holding the balloon while Andree
counted "one, two, three. ’ The balloon
rose majestically. Ail three w’uved their
caps and shouted “greetings to all at home
in Sweden.” After the narrow escape from
being driven against ihe rock in Sweering
burg sound the baboon was seen moving
northward exactly as Andree wished ovi-r
the liat peninsula of Hollandernaes. It will
probably be driven toward Greenland or
the north coast of America.
W ANT A WRITTEN STATEMENT.
Embassadors Weary of Tewlik's Oral
Communications.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 19.—The em
bassadors have informed the Porte that
they wish a written declaration as to tne
intentions of the Turkish government
which have hitherto been communicated
orally by Tew’fik Pasha. The embassadors
have stated that if this is not forthcoming
they will suspend the peace negotiations
and refer the whole matter to their xe
spective governmnets with a view of
adopting coercive measures. The terms of
the Turkish government as submitted to
the embassadors by Tewfik Pasha on Sat
urday not only proposed a change of iron
tier, but fixed the amount of indemnity at
four and one-half million pounds Turkish
and renewed the demand for abolition of
the capitulations granted the Gr<; ek sub
jects in the Ottoman empire. This s re
garded as clear proof that the embassadors
of the powers will be unable to effect any
thing by mere diplomatic negotiations.
Emperor Nicholas has telegraphed the
Sultan demanding immediate evacuation of
Thessaly and threatening that otherwise
Russian troops will cross tho'Turkish iron
tier. It is said here semi-offlcially to day
that all the powers except Great Britain
have consented to this course.
Revokes Religious I kase.
LONDON, July 20.—The Berlin corre
spondent of the Standard says that w’hile
celebrating Christmas eve in the German
manner the Czarina was asked by her hus
band to express a wish. She whispered;
"Please permit a little more religious tol
eration.” The Czar answered smilingly:
“Taat will come by and by.”
The Czar has not forgotten his promise,
as it has been reported, but has issued a
ukase canceling that of his father, Alex
ander 111, which ordered that every non
orthodox person in Russia who married an
orthodox person should sign a document
declaring that he would baptize and edu
cate his children in the orthodox faith. The
ukase of Emperor Nicholas permits chil
dren of mixed marriages to be educated in
the Religion of their parents, sons in that
of their father and daughters in that of
their mother.
Another Challenge for Orleans.
ROME, July 19.—The Pojtolo Romano an
nounces that the Count of Turin has chal
lenged Prince Henry of Orleans to a duel for
the calumnies and insulting remarks he is
alleged to have uttered at the expense of
the Italian officers recently released from
captivity in Abyssinia. Prince Henry has
declined to fight with the Italian lieutenant,
who had been designated by the drawing of
lots to challenge hint.
Grain Crops of Hungary.
BUDA-PESTH, July 19.—The harvest in
Hungary is proceeding. It is estimated that
the yield of wheat will be 28,000,009 to 29,-
090,000 metric hundred weight, as compared
with 38,000,000 metric hundred weight in
1896; that of rye, 10,300,0 m metric hundred
weight against 13,400,000 last year: barley,
99,309,000, against 12,000,000, and oats, 8,700,-
000 against 10,900,000.
Lady Sykes in Police Court.
LONDON, July 19.—Lady Jessica Sykes
was summoned at the Marlborough Police
Court to-day by Herbert Sanguinetti ter
obtaining by false pretenses, with intent to
defraud, checks of the value of £5,300 and
also converting to her own use 200 shares
of stock. After formal arraignment the
hearing was adjourned.
Emitauador’ii Family Poisoned.
PARIS, July 19.—Sir Edmund Monson, the
British embassador. Lady Monson and their
whole household was seriously poisoned
yesterday by a dish of shellfish served for
dinner. At one time it was feared death
would ensue in the case of several mem
bers of the household, but they were saved
by prompt medical attendance.
Consul General Gowdy 111.
PARIS, July 19.—United States Consul
G'eneral John K. Gowdy. w ho has been se
riously ill, is now’ improving and is able
to be removed to Plombieres, a h’ealth re
sort, for a change of air.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Silver to the amount of 350,000 ounces will
be shipped to Europe to-morrow on the
steamer Trave.
Gold to the amount of $250,000 was with
drawn from thv New York Subtreasury
yesterday for Bhipment to Canada.
Endeavor.
Kansas City Journal.
The Kentucky girl who went to Califor
nia with the Christian End-avorers and
captured an old sweetheart shows what a
genuine Christian Endeavor will accom
plish when fortified with red cheeks and a
plump figure.
A GREAT ENGLISH STRIKE
A TIME WHEN ALL KINDS OF INDUS
TRY WERE IDLE FOR SIX WEEKS.
Even the Public School!) Were Closed
and the Highway*) Were Rendered
linimssuble by Strikers.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Thomas Grundy, the well-known labor
leader of this city, was a participant in
some of the famous strikes which occurred
in England forty or more years ago, and
his recollections of the manner in which
they were conducted and his comments
upon the good which they accomplished are
interesting just now, when strikes and
rumors of strikes are engaging the atten
tion of nearly everybody. Mr. Grundy is
now upwards of sixty years of age, and
has been a hard worker in the labor move
ment nearly all his life. He drew his first
inspiration, from a mob of striking weavers
who, when Mr. Grundy was seven years
old, called at the schoolhouse where he was
beginning his education and compelled the
teacher to give the scholars a vacation.
This was a unique form of enforced sym
pathy strike, which Mr. Grundy has never
since seen duplicated. He had sometimes
wondered at the tameness of labor strug
gles which he has since witnessed com
pared with what he saw in his boyhood’s
days, but as he remembers his feeling on
the great occasion it was simply one of
satisfaction that the strikers should relieve
him of the necessity of going to school.
According to Mr. Grundy's description of
this strike it must have been one of the
greatest labor struggles that ever occurred.
In 1842 the condition of the cotton workers
in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire had
become so bad, owing to the introduction
of machinery, that a general strike move
ment was brought about without any or
ganization, and at first without leadership.
In its spontaneous character it seems to
have much resembled the present miners’
strike now on in half a dozen States,
though Mr. Grundy insists that the miners
have possessed great advantages for the
inauguration of a general strike compared
with w r hat the weavers had on that oc
casion, as the latter were absolutely with
out any organization whatever. During the
six weeks industry of every kind was en
tirely suspended in the district affected, it
being estimated that in the neighborhood
of 3,000,000 people were idle. This included
the weavers themselves and persons of ev
ery other occupation, whom they obliged
to leave work. The small tradesmen and
manufacturers were obliged to close their
places, the teachers in the schools had to
send their pupils home, and the strikers
even prevented the passing of vehicles upon
the highways by massing themselves in
compact bodies, through w r hich no horse
could be driven.
Mr. Grundy having been very young at
the time this strike occurred, most of his
information about it has been -.gathered
from reading. The incidents which he re
memers are principally the forcing of his
teacher to dismiss school and the obliging
of his father to suspend business. Mr.
Grundy’s father was a hatter, having a
shop of his own and employing a few
hands in the town of Ashton, near Man
chester. The strikers came in a large body
and it was only necessary for one of them
to say, put out that fire, Grundy," and the
hatter immediately suspended all work in
his little place and sent his men home to
wait for the strike to be over.
ROADS IMPASSABLE.
Mr. Grundy remembers seeing bodies of
the strikers marching along the highways
thickly massed together and filling the
roads from side to side as far as they could
be seen. They were always armed with
clubs, and when marching would line up
close together, each grasping the club of
the man on either side of him, and so weav
ing themselves into a solid mass. In this
way it was rendered impossible for any
thing or anybody to occupy the road but
the strikers, and their object of forcing a
general suspension of business in the uis
trict w’as obtained. This was only for a
little while, however, as large bodies of the
tic ops of the empire were ordered into the
district held by the strikers and soon
obliged them to preserve the peace and
desist from interfering with the affairs of
those who desired to carry on business.
Mr. Grundy's recollection of the matter
is that much sympathy was displayed for
the strikers by the troops and that the
latter were of very little use so far as
breaking the strike of the weavers was
concerned. The strike was lost, however,
the weavers going back to their work at
the end of six weeks without having ob
tained any increase of wages or any short
ening of their hours of labor. It was not
long, however, until Parliament, as a result
of this strike, began to pay some atten
tion to the condition of the weavers, and
laws which served very effectually to ame
liorate their condition were passed.
Cobden, Bright and other great English
statesmen took up their cause, and investi
gations and discussions resulted, the good
effects of which are still felt. The repeal
of the corn laws, by which English work
ingmen were enabled to obtain cheaper
food. Mr. Grundy thinks, was largely due
to this strike, though it had been advocated
before the strike took place. Another law
which was of great benefit forbade women
and children under eighteen years of age
to be employed in the cotton mills longer
than ten hours a day. This law was not
only a good thing in itself, but it caused
the workers generally to think and agitate
for a general ten-hour day, and some ten
years after the great strike of 1542 there
was a general strike for ten hours, which
resulted successfully, and which was the
beginning of better times in the matter of
hours of labor in nearly all English indus
l*Mr! Grundv was employed in a cotton mill
himself at the time this last strike took
place. The workmen simply quit when they
had w'orked ten hours one day, and so in
augurated a movement which was success
ful. Mr. Grundy says that at that time
there was so little general education that
many persons could not tell the time of day
by a clock, and so in passing around the
word for the inauguration of the strike,
everybody was instructed to stop work
when the clock pointed straight up and
dow r n, this being a method of securing a,
more general understanding than to say 6
o’clock in the evening.
A TEN-HOUR DAY.
In the mill where Mr. Grundy worked
the clock was -watched all afternoon, and
when the time came there was a general
rush for the outside of the mill. The fore
man had the gates locked and proceeded
to harangue the workmen, but it was to
no purpose. Several w-ere notified that they
were discharged, but this produced no ef
fect upon them or the others. Mr. Grundy
thinks that among ignorant workmen, that
is, among those who are ignorant in the
matter of education obtained from books,
there has been as a rule more loyalty to
each other displayed than by those who
are fairly well educated. At any rate they
stuck together upon this occasion, and won
their strike so thoroughly that there was
never afterward a general return to the old
practice of working twelve or fifteen hours
a day. In the mill where Mr. Grundy was
employed, too, the manager, after the ten
hour system had been in force for some
time, called the workmen together and ex
pressed his satisfaction with it, saying that
the results obtained were much more satis
factory from the standpoint of the pro
prietors than under the old way.
Mr. Grundy came to this country in 1863,
and since ho has been here has met a num
ber of leaders of the great strike of 1842,
who were either obliged to leave England
to escape arrest, or who were banished to
one of the English penal colonies, and aft
erward came to America. Two of these
persons, James Rateliffe and Richard Pil
ling. Mr. Grundy thinks, died recently in
Philadelphia. In all some eighteen or twen
ty men fled fiom England, or were deported
because of their participation in the areat
strike which Mr. Grundy
by the attack of the strikers upon his
schoolmaster.
Mr. Grundy is an earnest advocate of
politics in connection with labor movements
and rarely misses an opportunity to point
out that much of the good which the English
have obtained through their trades unions
is due to their having taken part in polities
or to the strikes having attracted the at
tention of Parliament and resulted in laws
favorable to labor being enacted. Mr.
Grundy thinks also that it is one of the
weaknesses of American labor unions that
they have been patterned too closely upon
the English model.
“The leaders," said he. “think that be
cause the English have succeeded in im
proving their condition through the medium
of the strike the best methods to adopt
were those of the English, and this they
have done with the exception that they
have not allowed polities to be discussed
in trades unions. In my opinion strikes
have never been so successful in this coun
try as in England, because the many dif
ferent nationalities made it impossible for
the workers to be held together as closely.
In England they are all of one race and
it was natural that they should display
more loyalty to each other than here, where
there are many races with numerous race
antipathies. Religion has been another oc
casion for laboring people failing to hold
together In this country, too. in England
people are religious, but they do not carry
religion into their business. Here there are
numerous opposing societies of different re
ligions. and no matter what effort may be
taken to prevent the cropping out of the
hatreds which they have engendered in
movements for the improvement of the
working people's condition, they are almost
certain to appear and work mischief in any
movement which embraces a large number
of people.”
STORY CAUGHT IN ST. LOUIS.
Detective Thornton Arrests the Stock
Yards Contidentiul Clerk.
Frank B. Story, the young man who de
serted a bride of two weeks and, as it is
alleged, absconded from this city a few
months ago with S7OO of his employers’
money, has been arrested in St. Louis and
will be brought here for trial to-day. De
tective Thornton went to St. Louis yester
day and last night a message was received
stating that he hud arrested the young
man.
Story was the confidential clerk of Tolin,
Totten, Tibbs & Cos., live stock commission
merchants doing business at the stock
yards. He came here from Rush county
highly recommended and was employed by
this firm Jan. 1 as weigher. He proved his
ability as an accountant, however, in a
short time and was made the confidential
clerk. As such he had access to the bank
account of his employers. Messrs. Totten
and Tibbs are the active members of the
firm, Messrs. Tolin and Harrell, the latter
being the "Co.’’ of the firm, not putting
in their time in the business. Messrs. Tot
ten and Tibbs spend the day at the slock
yards and their business is large.
As is well known to stock men, but not
generally by the public, stock commission
men sell stock for people who ship to this
city, pay the owners out of their own funds,
deducting commissions and look to the pur
chaser for the amount of the sale price.
Messrs. Totten and Tibbs spend tne morn
ing hours out in the yards, where thev have
frequently a dozen or more consignments
of stock. Often the seller of the stock
comes to the city with Ins stock and fre
(Miently he wants his money immediately/
filer the sale. To meet such an emerg/
ency and to prevent tne interruption ut
business, one of the members of Uie firm
will sign in blank a number of checks be
fore leaving the office. Certificates will then
be issued to the sellers for the amount due
them and the confidential clerk in ihe office
will fill out a check for the amount. It
was on account of this practice .hat Story
was able to take advantage of his em
ployers.
He had on several former occasions been
instructed by the firm to make payn < nts
by express, and he would then take a check
to the Indiana National Bank, draw the
money and ship it by express. Monday,
May 3, he went to the banK with a check
made payable for S7OO on account of Malone
& Todd, of Elnora, Ind. Thene was nothing
unusual in his presenting such a check and
it was paid without question. The young
man requested that he be given bills of
large denomination.
“Our customers complain that we send
them too many small bills, ’ he explained
to the teller.
He was given five SIOO bills and S2OO in
bills of smaller denomination.
When Story disappeared he left behind a
heart-broken bride. He had barejy estab- ■
lished himself in the good will of his em
ployers wiien he went to Anderson and mar
ried Miss McGuffin, an estimable young
lady of that place. He was barely of age
anil the young lady was still in her teens.
Her parents did not consent readily to the
marriage, but when it was arranged that
the parents were to come to this city and
all were to live together, the matter was
settled. The ceremony was performed and
the family located in a handsome little cot
tage at 158 Nordyke avenue.
The arrest of Story came about through
hia correspondence with friends in this city.
He went West as far as the coast and
through his correspondence the police have
been able to keep track of him. Recently
it was learned that he was to go to St.
Louis and Detective Thornton was there to
meet him when he arrived.
AMUSEMENTS.
“The Hidden Hand” at Wildwood.
“The Hidden Hand” was given its first
presentation at Wildwood last night before
a large and enthusiastic audience. The ef
forts of the players were liberally ap
plauded and the play gave general satisfac
tion. The honors of the evening were
shared by Miss Eettie Colton, who appeared
as Capitola Black, and Lew A.'Warner as
Wool, the negro servant. Olive North Sul
livan made her first appearance on the
Wildwood stage as Clara Day and was
well received. M'ss Ella Lawrence doubled
acceptably as Dorcas Knight and Mrs.
Condiment. A1 H. Bailey w'as very good
as Major Warfield, and Lawrence Earl At
kinson made the typical Black Donald. Fred
A. Sullivan appeared as Col. Craven Le
Noire, and William Chappel as Gentleman
Dick and Herbert Grayson.
Singing specialty were introduced be
tween the acts by Miss Colton, Olive North
Sullivan and Lew A. Warner. All of them
were well received and encores were fre
quent. Beginning with to-night all per
formances will begin at 8:30 o'clock. This
has been found necessary because the peo
ple are late in arriving.
Heyrnth Festival Opens.
BEYRUTH, July 19.—The lieyruth music
festival was opened to-day with the per
formance of “Parsifal.” Many persons are
in attendance and a full audience witnessed
the opening performance, among those
present being the King and Queen of Wur
temburg, the hereditary Princess of Wey
mar and Archduke Ludwig-Victor. Herr
Anton Seidl conducted to-day’s performance
with especial effectiveness. Herr Perron as
Amfort, Herr Grengg as Gurnemany. Herr
Gruening as Parsifal, Frau Brema as
Kundrad, Herr Plank as Klingsohr were
enthusiastically received.
Public Drinking and Morality.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
I have had my say in reference to public
drinking, and I have no desire to say any
thing more upon that particular point. But
now comes Rev. Mr. Hunter, and says:
“I know' of nothing more immodest than
for some agnostic and beer-drinking for
eigner to assume that this country is run
for the promotion of his ideas. This is a
Christian country, where sobriety, law and
order will and must obtain, so help us
God.
Os course I do not know whether Mr.
Hunter had reference to me personally.
But whether or not, being an agnostic,
drinking bec-r, being born in a foreign
country and having come to this country
only thirty-two years ago, 1 must presume
that ho had reference to me, at least as
one belonging to that class of immodest
people. I will not quarrel with him for
.considering me immodest. If it gives him
pleasure, very well. I never begrudge any
mans pleasure. His talk about foreigners
and their immodesty is pot exactly new',
much less is it original w'ith Mr. Hunter.
But we cannot expect original ideas from
everybody.
The most arrogant class of people are
those who assume to dictate, or make it
their business to dictate, to others what
their morals shall be. Fortunately, men
do not depend upon them to know what is
moral and what not. That class is always
conservative, not using the moral in the
sense of moderate, slow, careful, but in the
sense of intending to preserve, to "con
serve,” to make opposition to everything
new. Those arrogant people cannot see
that there is not and never has been an
absolute standard of morality, but that the
conception of morality and the laws of
morality are subject to change and evolu
tion like everything else in this world. And
this evolutionary process is stronger and
hiis much more effect than millions of ser
mons. It gives everyone thepporerw r er to know
by instinct, by intuition, by reason, if you
pleaso, what is moral and what not, with
out particular instruction.
The moral sense of to-day would revolt
against sending Hester Prynne through the
streets with the scarlet “A” exposed to the
eyes of the multitude, and yet if the arro
gant dispensers of morality lessons had
always had their way, if evolution in
thought and morals had not been stronger
than they, who knows but we might still
burn witches? John Wilson, the clergy
man, Governor Bellingham and Master
Brackett also thought this country to be a
Christian country, and their morality, their
law and their order were surely Christian
to them. If they would rise from their
graves and look at the world as it is now.
how’ they would shake their heads! They
simply could not understand our world, al
though they well understood theirs, or be
lieved they did.
It is not necessary to be a minister to be
able to distinguish the moral from the ini-
Royal mokes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWOTR CO., NtAT VOS*.
—i — <- iv-.n.' W—s—a
moral. His sources of knowledge are ac
cessible to everybody, and I, for my part,
claim the liberty and the ability as well of
having my own views and following my
own conscience. Men change, religions
change, moral views change, everything
changes. Life and change are almost
synonyms. Mankind has outgrown the
Puritanic idea. It has come to pass in the
course of time that there are people who,
immodest as it may be, believe that they
are able to conduct themselves morally and
respectably without the guidance of a shep
herd (that is what pastor mean*, is it not?),
and who believe that enjoying the few
years of life which are given to man in
one’s own manner and without injury to
others is not immoral.
By the way, Mr. Hunter asserts that peo
ple came out of a fashionable club maudlin
drunk. Will he not be kind enough to mun
that club for the sake of such other clubi
where it did not occur? It would be Justlcf
to them, and moralitv demands the prac
tice of justice. PHIL RAPPAPORT.
Indianapolis, July 19.
A VERY HOT PLACE.
A Glimpse of the Seething American
Desert in Summer.
Bernardino (Cal.) Letter in Brooklyn
Times.
."Hot! Well, I should exclaim!” remarked
the switch tender at Barston, as I swung
off the train for an observation while the
engine wet its thirsty whistle. ’’Hot? Say,
hell ain’t a patch alongside this here place.
We and go there, if we could, to cool off.”
And Barston isn’t the hottest station in
the Mohave desert, either. Nor is it the
biggest settlement, consisting mainly of
an eating house, a few shanties and a
saloon or two. Its Importance lies in the
tact that at this point trains for south
ern California turn off to the south
and those for ’Frisco keep on still west
erly. Another fact also—here w r e set our
watches back another hour, as the stand
ard official tim'e changes from mountain
to P’acific. From the Colorado river
westerly, perhaps 250 miles, stretches the
great Mohave desert, a itortion of that vast
arid arfea which guards all the eastern
approaches to California, no matter which
railroad you take to enter the Golden State.
As morning dawns the beautiful, though
forbidding, forms of the Needles, those
sharp-spired and multi-colorv-d mountains
at the crossing of the Colorado, rise against
the sky. Once over the muddy and treach
erous river, the real desert is ent’ered, and
for nearly two hundred miles the rails pur
sue their sinuous course, glistening and
blistering in th’e sun. We call this a desert,
and so far as the term goes, it is not misap
plied, yet it is vastly different from the
African Sahara, which I looked upon in
Algiers nine years ago—not actually a sea
of sand, like that of the dark continent,
with only a fertile oasis here and there
to enliven its vast expanse. This American
desert is not entirely destitute of vegeta
tion, for we have here several varieties of
cactus, areas of sagebrush and the yuccas,
with pointed leaves and tall spikes of blos
soms. Oases, too, are occasionally seen,
as at the infrequent stations, where water
from hidden streams or artesian wells has
carried life and fertility to this barren
waste. As there is nearly always a breeze
stirring, life is rend'ered endurable beneath
the planted groves and by the side of water
coursing through the “acequias."
No. this is not the hottest si>ot on earth.
North from Barston and its sister station
of Doggett, from which latter plaew a line
of freight wagons once in a while ran to it
across the torrid alkali plains, lies the ter
rible Death vah’ey—a great furnace-heated
basin, depressed nearly three hundred feet
below the level of the sea and surrounded
by mountains brilliant in coloring, but bar
ren of vegetation.
Only one miserable river runs into It, the
poisonous waters of which, so vile that it
is known as the Amargosa, or Bitter, are
entirely absorbed by the sands of Death
valley. Gold has been discovered In the
mountains surrounding Death valley, and
there are large deposits of soda and borax
there, but the intens’e heat prevents their
successfql working. Would-be visitors are
also deterred by the fate of several pros
pectors who p’erished of thirst and the terri
ble heat. It seemed the irony of fate that
water was subsequently discovered close to
the spot where the last man had fallen
by those who wer*e digging their graves.
Still It is said by those in authority that
even Death valley does not hold the record
as the hottest place on earth. That unen
viable distinction has been fairly won and
is held by a station on the Southern Pacific
Railway, known as Mammoth Tank.
This station has been declared the hottest
placfe out of doors, the mercury disporting
itself at 128 degrees during the summer
season day after day.
There is little else there besides the tank
aforementioned and the station keepvr. The
latter not long since took a respite from
his arduous duties of pouring water into
himself and hunting a shady spot long
enough to woo and win the belle of a littte
village up near Indio, on the same railroad.
The climate of Indio is pretty hot; Thermal,
the station below, is hotter; Volrano
Springs, still farther south, is even more so,
but Mammoth Tank beats them all for tor
rid it y.
Those who have tried it out here say
that a reliable temperature of 100 in the
shade is not at all oppressive. I don't know
how that may be. but 1. can vouch for the
fact that you don't feel the same degree of
heat so much here as on the Atlantic coast.
A few days ago I had occasion to go to
San Jacinto, south of h’ere, and to be out
driving all day. It seemed pretty hot,
though I had often felt the heat more in
other regions, and I was surprised when I
returned to the hotel to find the tempera
ture that day had reached 106 in the shade.
The hotel was a wooden structure, and
every room was in the western end, so
that it was late that night before the
temperature was lowered enough to per
mit of sleep. Various articles on the bu
reau, such as comb, hairbrush and razor,
were so hot that the handling of them
was not pleasant. On th'e train next day L
sat behind two ladies, one of whom load a
child with her. I overheard considerable of
their conversation, but the fragment that
particularly struck me was this: "Yes, yes
terday was pretty hot; but. lo you know,
my little Bennie here is a year old coming
Sunday, and the day he was born it was
112” She was a hearty looking woman and
Bennie was a healthy child, apparently. So
I fancy the climate must b’e beneficial, even
if it is hot.
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home last night?’
"Oh yis. ma'am! He was that straight I
was afraid he’d fall over backwards."
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Small Boy—No, sir; but me pop sez she’s
got wheels.
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