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first degree. It was inability to "get to
gether" as to the legal description of .the
offense, it is asserted, that kept the jury
out so .long.
A Senaational Rumor.
A sensational statement was made this
morning that one of the jurors had fa
vored an acquittal from the start and had
finally come to the other way of thinking
because a fellow Juror's father was dying,
his condition necessitating hi* immediate
presence at his bedside.
Nothing was said, so far as could be
learned, aa to the actual number of bal
lots taken. Mr. Oakley is said to have
been the dominating personality in the
Jury—the man whose opinion had influ
ence in determining what the final ver
dict should be.
The counsel for the defense had looked
for an acquittal. They believed that the
•reasonable doubt." sufficient to
had been established in the minds of the
jury.
Mr. Penney'* Comment.
"We are, of course, disappointed as to
the outcome of the case," said Mr. Pen
ney. "We mad© a hard fight and have
nothing to regret on that score, but we
believed we had a right*to expect that
Hamilton would be set free. A disagree
ment seemed the only other alternative.
We will certainly make every effort to
secure a new trial. Popular feeling in
this matter is about right. The great ma
jority of the people of Minneapolis believe
Hamilton Innocent. The voice of the peo
ple is the voice of God."
New Evidence Received!
Mr. Penney added that -within a half
hour he had received new and important
evidence bearing on the case, of such a
nature, he was convinced, as to persuade
the court to grant a new trial.
"Evidence like that," he said, "often
conies In after a man has been convicted.
People who object to getting mixed up
In a case sometimes conceal what they
know in the hope that acquittal will ren
der their evidence unnecessary. . Rather
than see justice miscarry, they, finally,
■ when it is not altogether too late, agree
to tell what they know."
Xj-e Says Defense Has \o Excuses.
Mr. Xje said that the defense had no
•xcuse to offer for the way in which the.
case had been handled. To begin with,
. toe admitted, the defense had the strongest
j kind of evidence to combat, against which,
ihe believed, a creditable showing had
| been made—sufficient, he thought, to es-
I tablish a reasonable doubt, at least, and
: clear his client. •
Mr. Glover, the Chicago attorney, a dis
, tant relative of Hamilton, who has closely
watched the fight for the defendant's lib
: erty, was deeply disappointed. The jury's
, delay in reaching a verdict had convinced
him, he said, that a disagreement would
be the outcome of the case. He is the de
fendant's nearest living relative and has
contributed generously to his kinsman's
financial assistance. -V\v~.
Prosecuting Attorneys Are Satisfied.
For the state, both County Attorney
-, Fred H. Boardman and Al J. Smith, first
'assistant, who conducted the case; feel
well satisfied as to its outcome. While
they had nothing but sympathy for Ham
ilton, they have felt from the first, so
they -said this morning, that he was
i guilty. They are naturally elated over
having won the case, especially as' it is
probably, the most important -■ case Mr
Boardman, who was but recently elected,
will be called on to try during his term
_of office. They concede that strong evi
dence was introduced in behalf of the
defendant, but declare that Rooney's
.story- of the confession was the rock on
! which the defense split. Public sympa
" 2m. Ijff »Ba£ Was a Powerful-handicap
; ,wlth -which they were forced to contend
from the outset. . •. ' - . • , ■
' Mr. Hoard man's View.
Mr. Boardman believes that "the pun
ishment fits the crime." and that convic
tion for manslaughter in the first degree
is no more nor no less punishment than
Hamilton Is entitled to.
*_' H^ I not believed Hamilton guilty "
he said "I certainly should not have
prosecuted the case against him. f I liked
the young man's looks from the outset
and it was positively a painful duty in a
sense, to be forced to proceed against
him.
Verdict Is Not Popular.
If anything can be judged from the
j expressions freely made on the street the
verdict is far from a popular one. Those
interested in the case generally seem to
have reached the conclusion from the evi
dence that a reasonable doubt as to Ham
ilton's guilt had been established. A dis
agreement was invariably counted on
Hamilton's refusal flatly to deny his
guilt on the witness stand is generally
conceded to have weakened the defense's
case.
Aside from the Rooney confession the
somewhat corroborative testimony of' Hill
the police reporter, was undoubtedly the
evidence moat largely influential in point
ing the way to the jury.
Hamilton was in the best of spirits
he arose a little after 8 o'clock
this morning. His naturally cheerful dis
position stood by him to the last. He
was slowly being persuaded that he need
not look for an acquittal, and that only
a disagreement could be hoped for Con
viction? Never, it is no exaggeration
..to say that Hamilton was the most sur
prised man who heard the verdict.
Hamilton Was Hopeful.
"I don't see how they can ever convict
me on that evidence," he had said but a
little while, before hearing the hard words
fall from the clerk's lips.
"I want this thing cleared up," he said
earnestly. "If there is a disagreement'
then I want a new trial. Complete ex
oneration alone will satisfy me. I don't
DIDN'T QUIT
Because She Never Started.
Many people have been interested in the
reports of persons made ill by coffee
drinking and cured by quitting and using
Postum Food Coffee. Of course, the leav
ing off of the poison of coffee by highly
organized people whose systems are af
fected by it, is a great help in itself but
the biggest end of the help is in" the
elements furnished by Postum Food Cot
fee. This is c true food drink of the high
est character.
A lady who has never been addicted to
tea or coffee drinking was reduced by
stomach trouble :o a condition of nervous
prostration with heart trouble, insomnia,
and finally got in such a weak condition
that the Doctors said she could not get
well, and it was thought she would live
but a short time.
Some one brought Postum Food Coffee
to her attention, she quit taking Medicine
and went to using Postum. She Bays "It
did not sour on my stomach and I be
gan to feel better at once. I kept on
using it day after day and now am well
and strong and have better health than I
have had for years, and am most sincere
ly thankful that Postum Food Coffee was
invented and I was led to use it."
This is a direct evidence of the fact
that has so long been stated that Postum
is a nourishing food drink containing the
elements of phosphate of potash and al
bumen that go to build up the "gray mat
ter in the nerve cells in the brain and all
over the body. It does not contain medi
cine of any sort or kind, only the ele
ments placed in the cereals of the field
by the Almighty Creator, and fleeted
and made use of in the form of a liquid
food by the inventor.
"My husband is a grocer and has been
out of health for some time past. Since
he has found what Postum has done for
me he has quit drinking coffee and been
using Postum for quite a little time. He
has improved greatly; sleeps well nights,
and says fie has given up coffee entirely."
This lady lives at Great Bend. Kansas.
Name can be furnished by the Postum
Cereal Co., Lid., at Battle .Creek, Mich.
see why those other witnesses did not go
on the stand and -tell all they knew. I
cannot understand it."
Hamilton's friends are fearful that a
conviction will .cause a decline in his
physical condition. Already from close
confinement his old cough is coming back
on him.
"The bugs have gone to work again in
my left lung," he said in his dry way,
as a fit of coughing shook his frame.
Hamilton's stomach has been going back
on him of late. Considering the nerxous
tension to which he has been subjected,
it is a remarkable thing that he has slept
soundly every night since his incarcera
tion.
About Mlbm Johnaon.
Then Miss Johnson came in and the
reporters left. Miss Johnson is the lit
tle woman who nursed Hamilton back to
life when he lay dying at Colorado
Springs a few years ago. With no close
relatives to whom he would instinctlvely
turn in his hour of trouble, it was to this
faithful friend that he at once appealed
when he found himself arrested on a
charge of murder in the gloom of that
November morning. She came on at
once from the "Springs," and has been
a constant visitor at the jail since.
POWERS SPLIT NOW
Disagreement Now That China Has
Come to Terms.
TROUBLE OVER THE INDEMNITIES
.Miiiinter* in I'ek.lug' Are Expecting
the Complete Surrender of
the Chinese.
Peking, Feb. 20.—The foreign envoys
this morning received an unofficial com
munication from the Chinese plenipoten
tiaries, offering to agree ho all terms of
the powers.
The Chinese desired, however, to save
the lives of Choa ShuChiao andYing Nien,
but they were informed that the minis
ters insisted upon the former demands.
A complete surrender is expected to
morrow.
Meanwhile extensive preparations are
being made for the expedition planned by
Count yon Waldersee. The Germans have
purchased 1,800 camels for transport pur
poses.
The foreign ministers think the grav
ity of the situation over, but it is expected
that difficulties will now arise among
themselves when some of the governments
send their indemnity claims, and particu
larly is there uneasiness regarding the
attitude of Germany that her claims must
be paid in cash before the evacuation
takes place. The other ministers resent
this, saying it will be impossible for
Chiaa to pay, as China has not a large
reserve, and the customs receipts go to
pay dividends upon former loans, and it
is improbable that she could borrow a
sum of any magnitude.
United States Minister Conger estimates
the total demands upon China at S4OO -
000,000.
TALK WON'T DO
Japanese Minister . Says China Mast
' • -. i, ■ !"/>Be Coerced. '' ' ' ".' '■'- ' ~V;-.
A'ote York Sun Special Service
London,. Feb. 20.—Baron Hayashi, the
Japanese minister to London, says In an
interview:
Procrastination. will be China's unfailing
argument so long as the powers tamely sub
mit to it. The.empire's power of resistance
is completely shattered, and : I think it . will
be frightened into activity along the desired
Hues immediately that such a demonstration
as is proposed assumes a tangible form.
No Protest to Germany.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The cabinet not only
decided to instruct Minister Conger not to
take part in the Waldersee expedition but
considered making a direct remonstrance to
Germany, t*ut l&Section showed the inad
visabillty of this course, or of- seeking to
form a combination of power against Ger
many.
Either course would only have caused a
feeling of bitterness in Berlin. It was
thought best to have Mr. Conger explain the
attitude of the United States to his col
leagues, and they will communicate his state
ment to their governments
In Pechill First.
Berlin, Feb. 20.—The German foreign office
says Field Marshal Count yon Waldersees
expedition is to be confined to the province of
Peenlli, unless the obduracy of .the Chinese
government makes an extension to Sian-fu
necessary. The expedition is intended to
bring pressure to bear on the Chinese court
to bring about the full acceptance of the
demands of the ministers.
CALL AH AX'S ALIBI
He Denies That He Helped Kidnap
Young Cndahy.
Omaha, Neb.. Feb. 20.—James Callahan,
under arrest in connection with the Cuda
hy kidnapping, denies absolutely that he
had anything to do with the kidnapping,
but admits that he was a close friend of
Crowe. He says he can prove an alibi,
and states that during the time which it is
claimed he spent guarding young Cudahy
that he was at the home or his sister, a
Mrs. Kelly,-living aU Poppleton avenue
and Fifty-third street, which is a short
distance from the Melrose Hill house.
Mrs. Kelly was asked concerning the
whereabouts of Callahan at the time of
the abduction and said the day'following
the deed be was at her home, but ac
knowledges that she- does not know his
whereabouts the night before.
The police secured information which
they expect to lead to the arrest of an
other-man connected with the crime. He
is a coachman of a family friend of Mr.
Cudahy and it is claimed he has been act
ing very quietly In the matter ever since
the kidnapping. The coachman's son,
Chief of Police Donahue says, fits minute
ly the description of man No. 3.
Callahan is 38 years of age. has lived
in Omaha, for several years. He has been
employed in the packing-house tit the
Cudahy Packing company at South OmaJia
up to three months ago. He has not been
em^l6yed for some time, but the police
claim he has been spending money freely
and taking life easy. In 1893 he was giv
en a five-years' penitentiary sentence for
highway robbery, but after serving
eighteen months was paroled. Six months
latex be was convicted for stealing and
sent back to serve the remainder of'the
sentence.
SPOONER PLAN STANDS
It Is Indorsed by the Senate Military
Committee.
Washington, Feb. 20.— The senate rommit
tee on military affairs to-day indorsed the
action of its subcommittee in adding the
Spooner Philippine - amendment, which gave
the president power to establish civil gov
ernment in the island. The vote was five to
four, on party lines.
The committee also inserted an amendment
providing, that appointments under the army
reorganization law, to fill original vacancies
in the grade of captain in the quartermas
ter's, subsistence and pay departments, may
be made from officers of volunteers commis
sioned since April' 21, 1898, and now in the
service.
MUST PAY $100
Special to The Journal.
La Crosse, Wia., Feb. 20.—The jury in the
libel suit of George Dobold vs. then Chronicle
Publishing company returned a verdict for
the plaintiff to-day, assessing his damages at
$100. published by the Chronicle
charged Dabold with selling adulterated but
ter, which afterwards was found to be the
pure article.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR ORONOCO.
Special to The Journal.
Rochester, Minn., Feb. 20.—A. D. Ellis,
proprietor of the Oronoco picnic grounds!
has decided to make extensive Improve
ments at that popular resort the ap
proaching spring. Many cottages will be
built along the shore for the accommoda
tion of pleasure seekers. The dam at the
foot of the lake is becoming defective,
and Mr. Ellis intends to improve it to
the extent of Sl.iioO.
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
CAPE TOWN WORRIED
Apparently There Is Fear That the
Boers May Raid the City.
ANXIETY ABOUT SMITH-DORRIEN
Oe Wet H» Again Succeeded in
Fooling: lord Kitchener
Completely.
New York, Feb. 20.—A dispatch to the
Journal from London says:
Grave anxiety is felt as to the fate of
Smith-Dorrien's column, which has not
been heard of since Feb. 6, when it lost
twenty-four killed and forty-six wounded
in a heavy engagement with Commandant
Botha at Bothwell. The officer in com
mand at Wonderfontein, the nearest place
on the railway to the scene of the en
gagement, reports that he has no news
of Smith-Dorrien, who has about 2,500
men.
Lord Kitchener has returned to Preto
ria, leaving the chaee after De Wet to
Smith-Dorrien. De We-t has simply fooled
Kitchener. Kitchener thought he had the
Boer general surrounded ■ near De Aar,
Cape Colony, but he found out he was
mistaken, and he is wondering now where
De Wet will be beard from next.
A raid upon Cape Town, while appear
ing impossible at this distance, is ap
parently actually feared.
MAY WRECK'; MINISTRY
South African War In Worrying the
British' Party. .. ,
New York Sun Special Servlea .
London, Feb. David Lloyd , George, i
M. P., the young Welshman whose brilliant
attack on Chamberlain In the house of com- !
mons has made him the reigning, hero of
the opposition, . declares that the Salis
bury government may yet meet its over
throw because of the South African war.
He said: ,
■; The ministerial party in the house of com
mons is becoming restive. The ministerial
lash has lost-some of .its efficiency. I don't
mean to prophesy that | the tories j will ever
retrace their steps in reference to the gov
ernment's South African policy." . They have
gone too far for that, but, assuming that
General Botha'and General De Wet maintain;
themselves, it is by. no means improbable
that some incidental question in regard to the
war may arise upon which the ministerial
craft may split. : • '■■'.;'
--•If, outvoted, the Salisbury cabinet, of
course, would resign. In that event the king
would doubtles summon Lord Rosebery to
form an emergency cabinet. ■
The South African conciliation commit
tee views the government's parliament
ary vicissitudes with equanimity. Secre
tary Swinny said: . r
There is a rent in the ministerial ramparts,
and this, may become ' greater. Unless the
Boer resistance suddenly collapses, we : have
every reason to hope that England in the end
will yield the Boers fairer terms than have
yet been. ■ proposed. „
The tories belittle the importance of
the government's so-called slump, yet
they positively agree that Lord Salis
bury's nepotism and South African sur
prise have not left the ministry exactly
impregnable. -^'"
Term* to the Boers.
London, Feb. 20.—The. secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, informed
the house of commons that a proclamation
setting forth the intentions of the govern
ment in regard to the administration of the
new South African colonies had already been
drafted, but had not been issued, in defer
ence to the opinion of General Kitchener
and Sir Alfred Milner that the time was not
opportune.
The secretary for war, Mr. Broderick, de
clared that the terms offered the Boers were
better than ever before tendered to a van
quished enemy.
Now Steyn I» Captured.
Ape Town, Feb. 20.—1t is rumored here
tha{ ex-President Steyn has been captured.
PELT THE PRESIDENT
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RIOT IX AUSTRIAN RKICHSRATH
Members Talk at Once in Several
Languages and the Session
Is Closed.
Vienna, Feb. 20.—Disorder in the reich
rath to-day compelled the president to
close the session.
The president said he proposed to use
the right of censorship in regard to in
terpellations. The Czechs and the Pan-
Germans simultaneously attempted to
make speeches in their respective lan
guages. Pandemonium followed, and ob
jectionable epithets were passed freely.
The young Czechs forced their way to
the presidential chair and bombarded the
president with paper balls, whereupon the
sittings were suspended.
NO TIME TO QUARREL
W. T. Stead Say* America and Rus-
sia Should Stand Together,
New York, Feb. 20.— W. T. Stead in a
special dispatch to the Journal, says-
Russia does not mean to quarrel with the
United States, not even to the extent of a
tariff war. It does not matter much to the
American manager if he is temporarily shut
out of the Russian markets: it matters every
thing to the consumer that the price of his
machinery should not be Increased. The
Russian peasant needs cheap agricultural
machinery. High duties on iron and steel
hit the agriculturist every time.
With Count yon Waldersee menacing China
from inland, and working hand in glove with
Great Britain, it will be a .fatuity for the
great power* who oppose their policy to allow
a trifle such as tliis matter ot interpretation
*a to what is or what is not a bounty-fed
sugar to Involve them in a dispute which
might render their co-operation in China and
East Asia more unnatural than It is to-day.
BELGIANS IN THE PLOT
Implicated In the Attempt to Kfll
„. Captain Jones.
Manila, Feb. 20.—Mr. Webb, the book
| keeper of the Philippine Trading company
has made a partial confession tha- hvi
rians in Manila and the Bay Lake dis
trict v ere implicated ;in the plot of Jan.
1 i to kil!> Captain Jones, commanding the
American troops in the town of Bay."
Another, force of insurgents will soon
be deported to the island of Guam. '::■
Many of the discouraged insur«6Etn in
the provinces are coming in individually
and surrendering their guns , . ,? *
« ar ™ Rubio, the alleged ringleader
in the Macabebes outrages, has been ar
re&tta for receiving copra from the insur
gents. . ' * — -_;.,'.;■,
EXPORT DUTY ON COAL
Possible Method of Raisins Revenue
in England.
London, Feb. 20.—At a meeting of a
railroad company to-day, the Duke of
Devonshire, president of the council, h'nt
ed at the possible source of revenue in
crease when he said there was no doubt
the chancellor of the exchequer would lead
a sympathetic ear to arguments in favor
of a a export duty on coal.
PERKINS RESIGNS
Vice President Harris Is President
of the Burlington.
Boston. Feb. 20.—C. E. Perkins, presi
dent of the Chicago, Burlington £ Quincy
railroad, has resigned and Vice President
George B. Harris has been chosen presi
dent.
Mr. Perkins remains as director. His
resignation is due to a desire to be re
lieved of business cares.
It is stated that as a director Mr.
Perkins will have practically the same
influence and control of the policy and af
fairs of the company that he has had for
many ears. He will continue to live at
Burlington.
FOUR IN THE FIELD
Minnesota Swedish Lutheran Con
ference Votes for President.
SJOBLOM AGAIN A CANDIDATE
_ r
Ballot Vnannonnced at Adjournment
-* • —IntereatlnK Report by .the
i Presiding Officer.
Special to The Journal.
Stillwater, Minn., Feb. 20.—The atten
dance upon the Swedish Lutheran confer
ence was largely increased to-day and
many more will come to-night and in the
morning. Delegates are present from Min
nesota, both Dakotas and Wisconsin, and
one, Rev. B. o. Berg, comes from Canada.
The enrollment to-day showed 110 min
isters and 170 lay delegates.
The conference undertook to elect of
ficers this forenoon and the names of P.
SJoblom of Dunnell, L. A. Johnston of St.
Paul, L. G. Olmen of Balaton and J. Frem
ling of Vasa, were presented for presi
dent. It was late when this proceeding
was reached and upon motion adjournment
was taken before the result of the ballot
was There were some pro
tests from those who were anxious to have
the matter settled at once, but the major
ity was satisfied to have it go over until
the morning session to-morrow.
Tie conference decided upon salaries for
the coming year—s3oo for the president,
1200 for the treasurer and $50 tor the sec
retary.
The report of the president, Rev. P.
Sjoblom, was voluminous and entered at
great extent into the work of the church
and conference and embodied several sug
gestions and recommendations that will be
taken up later. The president reported
that new churches were dedicated during
the year at the following places; Hector.
Minn.; Union Creek. S. D.; Swede Park,
Minn.; Steel Plant, Wis.; Two Harbors,
Minn.; Midway, Minn.; West Duluth,
Minn.; Gibbons, Minn.; Groton, S. D., and
a chapel in Scandinavia, Canada. Pastors
installed during the year were A. M. Bro
leen, G. E. Lindsten. Kristlan Rosenthal,
P. E. Fredlund, P. E. Sard, G. O. Scho
berg, Charles Swanson, P. A. Carlson and
C. O. Swenson. There had been no deaths
of pastors during the year and the
cburohes had been uniformly blessed and
strengthened. Several had paid their in
debtedness and others had made partial
payments.
A suggestion made by a member of the
conference that the president should be
elected for life and that he should be se
lected from pastors without regular
charges and work, caused a general dis
cussion. The proposition is not likely to
be acted upon by this conference, but will
be considered for a year and brought up
again.
The following committee was appointed
to examine the report of the president
and to report resolutions based upon it:
Rev. J. T. Kjellgren, A. Barquist, T. J.
Pearson, Rev. G. J. Edmon, Rev. C. B. L.
Bowman, Rev. A. Hult, H. L. Levine, Lin
us Johnson, Rev. J. N. Sundquist, P. M.
Hedenstrom, P. Dahlquist, C. F. Anderson;
Rev. B. O. Berg, Rev. A. Engdahl, C. M.
Ahl and Rev. A. Nyvall. The committee
is composed of one delegate from each
mission district in the conference.
At the religious session thi6 afternoon
Rev, Harold Ardahl, who was to have
preached on "The Teachings of the Bible
as to Living a Worldly Life," could not be
present, and the topic was immediately
taken up for a general and animated dis
cussion. Rev. E. J. Werner of West
Union will preach this evening upon "Per
manent Characteristics of the Worldly
Spirit as at Present Manifested," and
there will also be services in the Norweg
ian. Lutheran church *nd in the Swedish
Lutheran church at South Stillwater. Rev.
J. H. Randahl of Sven. Minn., -will preach
in the Norwegian church and Rev. J. P.
Leaf and Rev. M. A. Nordstrom will
preach at South Btillwater.
SOLDIERS AND THEIR ROWS
Trouble* That Occor and the Meth
ods of Settlement.
Kansas City Star.
The investigation of hazing at West
Point has shown that' the cadets do their
fighting with their fists according to the
rules of the prize ring. In the German uni
versities there is the well known custom
of duels with foils. The studen.l* are in
no danger except from scars on the face
because the duelists are protected with
quilted cuirasses over the chest and metal
visors over the eyes. The scars on the
cheeks are considered honorable and it
may be suspected that the young men are
glad to wear them.
The fist fights at West Point are sup
posed to be winked at by the faculty, but
when the cadets become officers in the
army they are not permitted to engage in
duels, and it would certainly be undigni-
Jied and ridiculous on the part of officers
and gentlemen to fight with their fists.
In Germany and France the officers are
expected to fight duels, when epithets are
bandied, but in England and America the
duel is prohibited in the army, as well as
among civilians.
The only recourse of an officer of, the
United States Army, if he is insulted by
another officer, is to file charges against
him. It would seem, of course, that it Is
objectionable to report a man for apply
ing an epithet to the complainant, but,
I when the rule against fighting is so strin
gent, tfc«re is nothing else to do, and it
works as well or better than the code in
the European continental armies. Its ef
fect is to prevent officers from engaging
in altercations which may lead to an in
sult and a blow. Calling a brother officer
a liar or striking a blow means, usually,
dismissal from the service. It did not
happen to do so in the case of General
Eagau, who called General Miles all kinds
of a liar in a public hearing held by the
extraordinary board of inquiry into the
scandals of the war department. But, if
an ordinary lieutenant should call another
only one kind of liar he would be dis
missed.
The disappearance of the duel in Ameri
ca and England was for three reasons. One
was that it had given rise to the profes
sional duelist or bully. Another was the
fatality of fighting with pistols, and the
third was the fact that because a man
happened to be insulted or injured was no
reason why he should also be killed. Jus
tice did not always give an accurate aim
to the combatant who deserved to survive.
Fighting with rapiers admits of ending the
combat with a wound in the arm or
shoulder, but this style of duel would ex
cite public derision in England and Amer
ica.
An engagement with sabres is bloody
and brutal. Pistols are in better form,
but more deadly than all other weapons.
The necessity for controlling the tongue
because fighting is prohibited seems to be
fully as effectual as the old idea that,
when harsh words mean a duel, there
would be careful politeness. The United
States army officer, to his credit be it
said, uses polite language to his brother
officers, not because anything else might
bring a challenge, but because he can't
fight without great risk to his Job.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED.
Special to The Journal.
Redwood Falls, Minn., Feb. 20.—Judge
Webber has granted a new trial in the
case of T. C. Shove vs. E. J. and W. J.
Martine, which was tried at the Novem
ber court, and a verdict given for the
plaintiff.—Revival meetings are being
held in the Methodist church. Rev. John
Stafford of Red Wing will have charge
next week.—Mayor Aune has vetoed the
resolution which did away with the serv
ices o£ one policeman. His principal ob
jection is that the resolution does not
provide I for tbfe appointment of extra
policemen in case of emergency.
A STARTLER.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Just came from downtown. Saw nine
teen men killed."
"Good gracious! Where?"
"In the latest high-clas3 melodrama."
To . Care . the j Grip in i Two Day u i, *
Laxative Bromo-Quinlne removes the cause.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1901.
PAUL KRUGER & CO.
A Bitter Attack on Oom Paul by
Paul Botha.
CHAPTER FROM HIS NEW BOOK
Botha I* a Member of Free State
Ituttd— Accuse* Krogrer of
"';>;; High.; Crimea.,
London Mail.
Paul Botha, a typical, rugged, intelligent
and upright Boer, who has been for thirty
years a member of the Free State Volks
raad, a progressive legislator and the right
hand man of John George Fraser, is just
publishing at Capetown a book on the war.
Our correspondent at Bloemfqntein, who has
seen the manuscript of this work, states that
its appearance will cause something of a
sensation. He has been permitted by Mi.
Botha to forward the following chapter for
publication in the Daily Mail:
I have been told that there are people
in Europe, in England and in Amerfca who
admire Paul Kruger.
I can understand our ignorant Boers
being misled by a man of powerful per
sonality, who, knowing them well, can
play upon their weaknesses and preju
dices like an expert player on the strings
of a violin. But that Oom Paul should
dupe well-educated people—that 1 cannot
understand.
The only way I can explain this mystery
is that a veil of romance has grown round
this rugged old man, and that Europe, be
ing 6,000 miles away, accepts him as seen
through the eyes of his duped burghers.
He made the burghers believe that he
was a prophet, who, like Moses, was the
means of communication between God and
his chosen people. This is literally true.
In the early days he often vanished for
long periods, and when he came back he
made the people believe that he had been
communicating with God. It was abso
lutely believed by the burghers that Kru
ger, who was in Heidelberg at the time,
a hundred miles from the scene, knew the
result of the battle of Majuba on the very
morning on which it was fought.
Add to this his indomitable will, through
which he made himself believe that there
were two Gods, one in heaven and Paul
Kruger on earth, and his undoubted cour
age proved in many Kaffir wars, then you
will understand his despotic influence.
Home Truths.
Let me tear this veil of false romance
from him, and let me try to show the man
to you as he really is, and as the Boers
whom he has not succeeded in duping al
ways knew him to be.
We know him —an avaricious, un
scrupulous and hypocritical man, who sac
rificed an entire people to his cupidity.
His one aim and object was to enrich him
self, and he used every means to this one
end- His ambition for power was sub
oTdinate to his love of money. He used
the Transvaal as a milch cow for himself
and his following.
I ask his admirers to show me one good
thing he did for his country during all
his years of power. He spent millions of
■the country's money in pretended benefits,
millions which were in reality expended
for the purpose of feeding up a crowd of
greedy favorites and aasvogels (vultures),
men who were necessary to him for the
furtherance of his own ends.
Paul Kruger has been accused of creat
ing: many monopolies, but the greatest of
all was the monopoly, on a truly impudent
and colossal scale, for swindling the
Transvaal—at the head of which he himself
stood. Any one behind the scenes knows
how impossible it was, even for the most
dishonest man, outside of this ring, to
gain any advantage out of the Transvaal.
In proof of what I say, take the scandals
over the mealie and donkey contracts, the
dynamite monopoly, the liquor and jam
concessions, the Netherlands railway,
Lewis and Mark's bottle concession, and
numerous others; and I ask: What bene
fit has the country derived from any of
these? Are there any institutions for the
public benefit in the Transvaal, such as
schools, universities, industrial institu
tions, public works, roads, or railways to
justify the vast expenditure of money?
No!
Krager's Avarice.
If you want to know where the money
has gone, search the pockets of Paul Kru
ger & Co.
To show Kruger's avarice and hypocrisy
look at minor matters. His salary as pres
ident was £8,000 >per annum—and £8,000
which he hoarded year after year; he
lived, not like the president of a country,
but like any Dopper farmer, never spend
ing a single sixpence on charities or any
other matter of public benefit. And then
he actually had the effrontery to make an
application to the volksraad for an allow
ance of £300 a year as entertainment
money, of which he also pocketed the
larger portion, as the only entertaining he
ever did was to give cups of morning cof
fee and a pipe of tobacco.
The very house in which he lived was
a gift of Nelmapius, the concessionaire
founder of the Hatherley distillery. This
man was afterwards justly prosecuted,
convicted and sentenced by the presiding
Judge, but subsequently? released on the
order of Paul Kruger, which proceedings
resulted in the resignation of the judge
concerned, who was, it is interesting to
recall, a son of Sir John Brand.
The matron of the dynamite explosion
hospital talks to this day of Oom Paul's
crocodile tears when he visited the
wretched sufferers, mostly Dutch. He
talked of his "anne" (poor) burghers,
large tears rolling down his cheeks, but
never gave a single sixpence to help them.
He did, in fact, donate £10, which he
never paid.
During the war, how did Kruger and
Steyn feed the destitute wives and chil
dren of their "anne burghers" who were
risking their lives on commando? Their
rations consisted of mealie meal, Boer
meal, and nothing else whatsoever. I
know because I was on the relief commit
tee at Kroonstad. When I now see the
country around Kroonstad made into a
desert, the farms burned, and the Boer
men, .women and children huddled togeth
er in refugee camps absolutely destitute,
and living on the charity of the British,
then I tingle with indignation to hear
that the cruel author of all this avoidable
misery, rich, smug and safe, is on his
way to Europe, and going to be received
by the queen of Holland and made a hero
of—a hero who was, known in the Free
State thirty years ago, before he found
better means of enriching himself, as a
swindling dealer in oranges and tobacco,
and one whom we strongly suspected of
being a very cute slave dealer.
The fries of His Gang.
Paul Kruger's successful policy against
England, for which England is much to
blame, perverted the minds of the greater
portion of the Dutch population of the
■whole of South Africa. I am convinced
that Kruger's influence completely
changed the character of the Bond—an or
ganization which I believe Hofmeyr
started at the Cape with the legitimate
purpose of securing certain political priv
ileges, but which, under Kruger's hench
men, Saver, Merrfman, Te Water and
others, raised unrest in the Cape Colony.
This successful anti-British policy of
Kruger created a number of imitators —
Steyn, Fischer, Esselen, Smuts, and nu
merous other young educated Africanders
of the Transvaal, Orange Free State, and
the Cape Colony, who, misled by his suc
cesses, ambitiously hoped by the same
means to raise themselves to the same
pinnacle.
Krugerism under them developed into a
reign of terror.
If you were anti-Kruger you were stig
matised as Engelschgezind (pro-English),
a traitor to your own country, and unwor
thy of a hearing. I have suffered bitterly 1
from this taunt, especially under Steyn's
regime. The more hostile you were to
England the greater patriot you were ac
counted.
This gang, which I wish to be clearly
understood spread over the whole of South
Africa, used the Bond, the Press and the
pulpit to further its schemes.
His Preu and Hit I'alplts.
Reitz, whom I believe to have been an
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ond sponser to the Bond, and voiced the
doctrine of his gang: 'Africa for the
Africanders," "Sweep the English into the
sea." With an alluring cry like this it
will be readily understood how easy it was
to inflame the imagination of the illiter
ate and uneducated Boer and to work upon
his vanity and prejudices.
That pernicious "rag," Carl Borcken
hagen's Bloemfontein Express, enormously
contributed in spreading this doctrine in
the Orange Free State. I myself firmly
believe that the Express was subsidized by
Kruger. It was no mystery to me from
where Borckenhagen, a full blooded Ger
man, got his ardent Free State patriot
ism. In the Transvaal this was done by
the Volksstem, written by a Hollander,
and subsidized by Kruger; by the Rand
Post, also written by a Hollander, also
subsidized by Paul Kruger; and In the
Cape Colony by the Patriot, which was
started by intriguers and rebels to their
own government at the Paarl—a hotbed of
false Afrikanderlsm. Ons Land may be an
honest paper, but fostering impossible
ideas, it has done us incalculable harm.
It grieves me to think that my poor peo
ple, through want of education, had to
swallow undiluted poison prepared for
them by such unscrupulous schemers.
When I come to think of the abuse the
pulpit made of its influence 1 feel as if I
cannot find words strong enough to ex
press my indignation.
God's word was prostituted; a religious
people's religion was Used to urge them
to destruction; a minister of God tgld me
himself, with a wink, that he had to
preach at the English because otherwise
he would lose favor with those in power.
These parsons who snorted fire and de
struction from the pulpit, however, care
fully stayed at home during the war. I
heard one anxious person in a war sermon
urge his burghers, "Go forth, meet the
enemy; I shall remain on the mountain
top praying for you like Moees of old";
solemnly adding that his dear wife, who
felt for them as much as he did, would
take the place of Aaron and support him
■when he got tired.
THE ADVERTISER ABROAD IX JAPAN.
Philadelphia Post.
In the ways of the American city the
author of "Artie" and "Fables in Slang"
is regarded as an expert observer; but
he recently discovered one place in which
he showed himself as delightfully unso
phisticated as the most innocent "lamb"
that ever strayed to metropolitan haunts
One day, when George Ade was out walk-
Ing with a guide in the naval quarter of
Kioto, Japan, he observed coming down
the street the head of a great procession.
Interested at once, he paused to watch the
procession pass. On they came, gaudy in
apparel but grave in face, flaunting flags
and great banners on which were Japanese
inscriptions. The mournful chant which
announced their approach was broken only
when the kettle drums or. tom-toms were
pounded or the cymbals clashed. As the
weird and solemn procession approached,
Mr. Ade uncovered and bowed his head
reverently, it being his custom and set
tled principle invariably to show the high
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of the peoples with whom he comes In
contact. He is a firm believer in the doc
trine, "When in Rome do as the Romans
do." His face was very grave.
The procession was long—nearly a block
in length—but Mr. Ade remained uncov
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The guide looked more puzzled.
"Shinto?" then asked Mr. Ade.
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face. He almost smiled as he replied:
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