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I t I . K i - . . . . - .. - .j-i i i - - - - ' - " M " ,. - _ a w w W L W M M j. m i , , , w n i IJI i p m i i L L,. im i n I . - n IUII. . i g n - - - i i i n 'i ~ i" mf-1 - - - - - - - - wi n ^ - i w w i a w i Li - - m i w m w a p u w t P - * * B W B ^ m m m m r m K , . . . . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ B B H ^ H H _ _ _ _ H g H _ _ _ _ _ _ - ^ M | ^ ^ ^ H M M | H H H B & THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUTCNAL. fVEDNESJDAY EVENING, MAY 7,, 1902. CITY NEWS MEN I I T M A L I A YS The Irish Comedian's Caricature Resented by Loyal Hibernians. THE AGITATION IS NATIONAL O n t h e O t h e r H a n d , R e a l I r i s h D e - l i n e a t i o n s W i l l B e E n - c o n r a s r e u . APPEALS TO PEOPLE Subscriptions for Park Music Are Coming in Surprisingly CONCEPTS IN ALL , THE PARKS T h e C o m m i t t e e ^TJJEl^Bla T h o r o u g h l y I m p a r t i a l i n A d m i n i s t e r i n s t h e F u n d . Members of the Minneapolis lodges of the Ancient Order of Hibernians have de termined to do everything in their power to banish the stago Irishman. The move ment originated with Senator J a m e s P. Bree of Connecticut, national secretary, and is now under way all over the coun try. There will be, in effect, a national boycott against all plays that caricature the Irish race. An Irishman will not patronize a play that he thinks is calcu lated to belittle his race. On the other hand, every effort will be made to en courage managers who produce plays de picting the true Irish character. Roger Vail, editor of the Irish Standard, said this morning: . The stage Irishman had his origin in Eng land, and the plays in which he appears have generally been written, if not by English men, at teast by enemies to the Irish race. The Irishman is not a blackguard. He is not a drunkard nor a brawler, and we object to having him so depicted upon the stage. The Irishman of to-day does not go around with a bottle sticking out of his pocket and wtilh a shillelah in his hand, looking for a fight. Neither do the Irish women smoke pipes. Despite the "make-up" used by al leged actors who think they are imperson ating Irish character, the Irishman has not the face of a monkey. All these things tend to belittle the race, and we shall do our best to put a stop to them There is a move ment on foot just now for the elevation of the Irish stage. They are playing pieces in the Irish language in Dublin, and showing the Irish character as it really is, not as it has been presented here through the lens of hatred and uncharitableness. Even our own people have presented plays here that have shown the Irish character up in an unenviable light Many of us re elize that and have piotested against it in the past. I have for one, and this year we held a joint St. Patrick's day celebration in order to avoid that very thing. American-made plays are almost as bad as English. Look at "McFadden's Row of Flats." That is the kind of thing we want to avoid. Of course it came from a series of newspaper sketches and we shall do all we can to keep the race from being maligned in the comic papers and comic supplements as well as upon the stage. When a play of that sort comes to town the Irish Standard will warn all Irishmen to leave it severely alone but when Chauncey Olcott or Andrew Mack or any actor who presents a decent type of the Irish comes to Minneapolis, we shall do our best to see that he gets a warm -welcome. Subscriptions received by the citizens' committee for the jar music fund, at noon to-day amounted to ,$314. As t h e subscription lists were not sent out until Saturday evening, this is regarded as an excellent stowing particularly when it is remembered t h a t personal solicitation has not been resorted to. With the morning mail came many in quiries from persons to whom subscriptfon lists A'-ere not forwarded, a s to where they should send contributions. The committee has asked T h e J o u r n a l to state that contributions may be mailed to Walter Boutell, care of Boutell Bros., and that when checks are sent they should be made payable to R. P. Oapen, treasurer of the fund. Fully t,00 subscription lists were sent out, and employes of firms re ceiving these lists are asked to make their subscriptions through the firm, credit being given on the list. Blank lists were sent to every drug stofe in the city and residents who desire to contrib ute small amounts can do so on these lists. Every list is numbered and all will be TeSturned so tfrat there c a n - b e no possibility of loss. As a further safe guard, the committee suggests that sub scribers take the number of the list upon which they inscribe their donation and the name of the firm to which it was sent and watch ito see whother it has been re ported. C o n c e r t s i n A l l t h e P a r k s . OF WIDE INTEREST The First Baptist Ex Parte Council Meets Next Week. EMINENT CHURCHMEN TO SIT IN T h e B o d y C a n D o No M o r e T h a n A d v i s e i n t h e R i l e y Cane.- REDUCE DUES OF ELKS DISCRIMINATION IS F A V O R E D "Weed M o n r o R e t u r n s F r o m a M e e t i n g of t h e L a w s C o m m i t t e e i n C h i c a g o . Weed Munro returned thi9 morning from Chicago, where he attended a meeting of the laws committee of Elks. This com. mittee is the "appellate court" of the or der, and its annual recommendations to t h e grand lodge are generally accepted. One of the important questions was whether the grand lodge would distin guish between annual and club dues. Vari ous lodges held that there should be a dis crimination between resident and non resident members of a lodge. It was felt t h a t the nonresident was entitled to a reduction in dues. Mr. Munro says the committee will probably turn in a favor able report. This year an officers' train will be run from Chicago to Salt Lake City, where the annua! convention will be held the week of Aug. 12. This train will have accommodations for the officers, commit tees, district deputies and their ladies. It will leave Chicago at such a time as to permit its arrival in Salt Lake Saturday morning, Aug. 9, three days before the opening of the convention, in order to dispose of detail work in advance. The members of the committee on laws are Charles H. Smith, chairman, Jackson, Mich. John Galvin, past grand exalted ruler, Cincinnati, Ohio B. B. Hay, past grand exalted ruler, Washington J. U. Bammis, Le Mars, Iowa Weed Hunro, Minneapolis. The ex-parte council of a dozen clergy men and laymen of the Baptist church called by the dissenting members of the F i r s t Baptist church of this city for counsel, and advice will meet next Tues day morning. Nearly every Baptist ohurch in the city has offered a meeting place, but it is probable t h a t the offer of Westminster church will he accepted. The morning will be taken up with or ganization and the afternoon with the presentation of the case by the dissenting members. The second day will be given to the witnesses. Although the meeting is called for three days, probably no more than two will be consumed. The council, will probably appoint a committee to write the decision. An article has been going the rounds of the eastern press saying that this is to be a heresy trial. This, of course, is not true, as an ex-parte council would have no right to consider such a question, accord ing to Baptist practices. The main charge against the pastor, Rev. W. B. Riley, is that he has "divided the church and refuses to resign so long as he has a majority, no m a t t e r how small. Charges against his veracity will also be made. The council.win be composed of prom inent laymen and clergy, several coming from the east. Whether the sessions will be executive lies wholly with t h a t body itself. PAID FOB TIMBER Treble Damages for Trespass on the Itasca Park. BIG FIRM HANDS ' OVER $930 F o r e m a n W h o W a s R e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e T h e f t H a s B e e n D i s - c h a r g e d . Dr. F. E. Brissel, surgeon of the Sol diers' Home, writes to know how many concerts are to be siven at Minnehaha park. \ a r o n Carlson, who resides near Windom park, inquires whether concerts are to be given there. 0. E. Naegle, president of the Germania bank, who re sides near Farview park, writes to ask where concerts are to be held. In r e - sponse to these incuiries the committee desires to say t h a t it is the intention to give concerts in every part in the city, their freauencv deDending upon the amount of the subscription received, but no one district to be discriminated against. In view of this fact people residing near any of the parks are expected to give what they can. Among the letters received this morn ing is one from Mrs E. C. Gale, in which she speaks highly of the plan and en closes" a subscription of $5. The list of subscribers UD to noon to-day, is as fol lows: Name Amount. New England Furniture and Carpet Co.$100 00 Boston Ice Co 10.00 Salzer Lumber Co ,ij5Vj C. A. Quist & Co 13.00 McCormick ?00 G. F. Miller * H. L. Danin 100 C. H. Petersen 100 R. H. Campbell -' 5-J G. S. MacKearley 2o S. E. Storm & Co j 00 Walter N. Carroll 5.00 Northwestern Miller 30.00 Mrs. E. C. Gale 5 00 L. T. Jermane 1 00 M. E Thume 100 C. E. Ornes 5^ H. O. Logan 50 St Anthony and Dakota Elevator Co . 50.00 H. Poehler Gram Co 10.00 F. A. Riehter l-f 0 P R. Holmes 100 Wm Poehler 1-00 M. Schisby 5.00 The J. I. Case Implement Co 5.00 Robert Mcintosh 50 J. B. Moffet & Co 2.00 Wisconsin Syndicate 4.00 John L. King 25 Charles Treat 26 H. N. Hatton 25 H. B. Waite Lumber Co 5 00 C. H. Ganglehoff 10.00 George H. Jacobs 50 George Black 30 A. M. Cheny .' 50 F. G. Ward 1.00 Commercial West 5.00 Mpis. Circular and Addressing Bureau . 2.00 A. & P. Tea Co 2.50 Nichohs & Taylor 5.00 Columbian Feed Co 5.C0 Albert Dollenmeyer 2.00 Kimball, Storer & Co 5.00 COLEMN O N BACKn Alleged S. D. Murderer Keeps a - Pretty Cool Head. A prominent firm of lumbermen paid into the state treasury this morning $930.40. This was at the r a t e of $11 a thousand for timber cut from Itasca state park by one of t h e company's crews. It was done without the knowledge of tho company, and the foreman who directed the work has been discharged. F or that reason the company's name is withheld. Attorney General Douglas Ms custodian of the park, and takes a great interest in it. The parkkeeper discovered the tres pass, which occurred while the crew was logging on adjoining land. He reported it to Mr. Douglas, who took the matter up with the company. They investigated, and admitted the trespass.' The law allows triple damages for t r e s pass. There was use for the timber where it lay, as the state will build a lodge for the parkkeeper near by. So the state kept the timber and charged double the value of the pine. The amount was paid this morning without protest. The state recently purchased 335 acres of standing timber from the Pillsbury es tate, lying on this shore of Lake Itasca and in tho heart of the'park. The consid e r a t i o n was 5.50 a thousand for the stumpage, and it came to over $17,500. Attorney General Douglas returned to work this morning from a short vacation. X e w I n c o r p o r a t i o n . The Eagle Lake Investment company incor porated to-day with $4,000 capital, to build a hall for the Modem Woodmen. F. W. Hil to is president. GHOSTS OF SOUNDS Phantom Noises That Still Remain Mysteries. SOME QUEER SUPERSTITIONS T h e " D e m o n K n o c k e r s " of t h e M i n e s The " B a r i s a l G u n s " T h e B e l l B i r d a n d O t h e r s . ADMITS HE HELD INSURANCE COTS 1 PBINT SHOP Bill Before Congress for Lodgings for Old Soldiers. Total $314.00 BABY ON HIS DOORSTEP NICHOLAS S T E W A R T S U R P R I S E D Tfo C l u e a s t o W h o L e f t C h i l d , N o r W h y I t W a s A b a n - d o n e d . This morning Nicholas Stewart, who re sides a t 3527 Fourteenth avenue S, was surprised to find a baby, only a few weeks Id, on the doorstep. %he child had been left there some t i m e during the night. Mr. Stewart at once notified the police, and this afternoon the matron went out to get the child and take it t o the station. The police are investigating but have ao clue. CHOOSE NEW DIRECTORS N o m i n a t i o n s A r e M a d e f o r Y. M. C. A. E l e c t i o n T o - d a y . At the monithly meeting of the board- of directors of the Y. M. C. A., hfld to-day, C. T. Fuller, J. M Martin. 0. W. Van Tuyl, O. H. Freeman, P. G. Hanson, and W. F. Decker were nominated for r e - election to the board. R. M. Bennett and F. B. Tallant were nominated t o fill va ci. nicies. The election will occur at the associa tion building to-morrow. It Avas voted to send Secretary H. P. Goddard to the national conference of the secretaries which will be held at -Mountain Park, Md., in June. Messrs. F. Wav, C - L Fuller and W. Y. Chute were made a committee ot arrange for an annual meetirg of a s sociation members to be held at the building early in June. ,, The financial condition' of the associa tion, as shown by the statement of J. ,M. Martin, treasurer, is most encouraging. ALL WILL SIGN NEW SCALE B r o o m m a k e r a R e a c h a n U n d e r s t a n d - ing W i t h E m p l o y e r s . The situation between the members of the Brooinmakers union, No. 32, and the proprie tors of the two shops who have not signed the ^ new scale, remains about the same, except " ^ that an understanding "ha* been reached,that late to-day or to-moFrow a schedule accept able to both sides will b signed. These fac tories employ about ten men each. The following employes agreed to the sched ule before the ultimatum time of 8 o'clock yes- . terday and their factories are running: Andrew Strand, 25G& Riverside avenue. ' Gustave Schiefelbeln, 1504 Fourth street N. T. Simon, 1502 Main street XB. R. F. Herder, 1104 Fourth street N and J. P. 'Lyons, 2016 Twenty-sixth avenue S are the flnms who asked two days more and who bxpect to be running to-morrow. TO TALK OF MISSIONS E p i s c o p a l L a y m e n to S p e a k T h r o u g h - o u t t h e D i o c e s e S u n d a y . Deputations of laymen will toe sent out Sim day by the tooard of missions of the Episcopal church to the parishes of the cities and prin cipal towns of the 'diocese to present the cause of diocesan missions. In Minneapolis the cause will be presented by laymen from St. Paul, and a reciprocal Visit will be made by Minneapolis laymen. y At St. Paul's wftl b Fra&itf O. Osborne j at Gethsemane, S. M-.Hayes and at St, Mark's, F. H. Stevens, all* of St. Paul. Edward H. Holbrook of this* city will go to Wfllmar. S w e a r s H i s B r o t h e r L i v e d S o m e T i m e , W h e n P o s t m o r t e m I n d i - c a t e s I n s t a n t D e a t h . Special to The Journal. ^ Faulkton, S. D., May f.An inquest to inquire into the tragic death of "Edward Coleman is now in progress here. G. A. Morse, John Darby^and Harry Bach 'are t h e jurors. Dr. William Edgerton, coro ner presiding. - The first witness called was Joseph P. Coleman, brother of the dead m-an. He told a straightforward story apparently. He and his brother Edward were alone at the ranch at the time. Edward was in the house while he was outside and about 150 feet ..away from the building. He was doing some work when he heard the- report of a gun in^ the house. On rushing in .to learn the^ cause he found Ed sitting in a chair and the gun on the floor. Ed looked up and said: "Joe, I a m shot." After that his mutterings were unintelligible except when he asked to be helped into bed. After reaching the bed he again spoke clear enough to be understood, and asked Joe to go to a neighbor's house for assistance.' They were the only words spoken that the witness could understand. The dying man did not explain how the accident, if such it was, occurred. Joe left his brother in a dying condi tion on the bed and went to a neighbor's for assistance. The distance was about a mile and a quarter. When he and the neighbors returned, Ed, according to Joe's testimony, was still alive. Joe further stated, in answer to questions by the state's attorney, that he held $5,000 in surance payable on his brother's life, taken out in January, 1902, and that he h a l , a few days previous to Ed's death, made application for $3,000 more and it had been accepted by the Northwestern Mutual of Milwaukee, through Agent Burnette of Aberdeen. H e a r t a n d R i b E x h i b i t e d . Neighbors who were called in after the death of Ed Coleman could give no light on the manner of death as Ed was dead when .they arrived. They had viewed the remains and helped to dress and put the body in a box and load it on a lumber wagon, all at Joe's request. A great sensation was caused when Coroner Edgerton took the stand and ex hibited the h e a r t and rib, which were taken from the body during the post mortem examination a t Melette, where Joseph Coleman had taken the body pre paratory to sending it east to his par ents. The post-mortem examination up sets the story that the rifle ball passed through the body. It was clear, too, that the ball must have entered the body from the back. The heart was also pierced by the bullet, and the large a r t e ry leading from the heart was punctured, showing conclusively t h a t the wounded man must have died instantaneously and could not have spoken a word after the bullet en tered his body. C o r o n e r ' s J u r y S a y s M u r d e r . The coroner's jury in the Coleman case brought in findings this afternoon to the effect_that Edward Coleman met his death by a gun shot fired behind him a nd that death was not accidental or with suicidal intent. Joseph Coleman is under arrest charged with murder in the first degree. The preliminary hearing will be held on Friday, the ninth. ADJ. GEN. TOWLER IN WASH., D. C* Nevr. G o v e r n m e n t P r i n t i n g Office M a y B e T u r n e d O v e r t o G. A. R . D u r i n g E n c a m p m e n t . ATHLETIC GOODS Complete Line of Spalding's Goods. Spalding's 1902 Baseball Guides Just Out. Price IQCts BASE BALL GOODS. LAB0RERJDR0PS DEAD ft.. C a s w e l l E x p i r e s S u d d e n l y W h i l e a t W o r k o n B o u l e v a r d . A. Caswell, 60 years of age, employed by ibe city, dropped dead this morning while at work upon some road improvements in front vt 3002 iLake of the IBIBS boulevard. The remains were taken to CI J. Minor's barn, where they were viewed by the coroner. Mr. Caswell resided at 2710 Third avenue S. . ,- ^DEATHS IN APRIL M o r e T h a n U s u a l , O w i n g t o C h i l l y , C h a n g e a b l e W e a t h e r . The mortality rate jrf the city for April was abnormally high. The number of deaths was 350, about 40 more than the average. Pneumo nia, as U9ual at-this season, caused forty ftve "deaths which is more than any other disease. . In most cases the deaths were of children or df ,aged persons. The 'mortality from contagious diseases was low. There were? tout five deaths from diph theria, five-from scarlet "fever and eight from ' typhoid. The total ntimbe'r 'of scarlet fever cases was large, 157 all told. LEGAL-MINDED BARBER HIS TREATMENT. Argonaut. Itt one of Philadelphia's colleges, a pro fessor of chemistry asked a student the other day: "Now, suppose you were called to a pa tient who had swallowed a heavy dose of oxalic acid, what would you administer?" , "I would administer the sacrament," re plied the student, yho, by the way, is said to be studying for the ministry and takes - ahemistry because it is obligatory. MAYOR AMES RETURNS D i s c u s s e s Grstnd J q ^ y ' s P r o b a b l e A c - t i o n W i t h H i s C i f e n t e n n n t s . Mayor Ames r e t u r n ed this morning from a sojourn of two or three days at his farm near Crookston, where h e has been superintending seeding operations. Promptly upon his r e t u r n ' he went into executive session with several of the in spectors and other police officials said to be subjects for investigation by the grand jury. MISS E. E. KENYON DEAD W o r d C o n i e s F r o m P e n n s y l v a n i a W h e r e S h e W a s V i s i t i n g . Miss E. E. Kenyon, for many years a resl denit of Minneapolis and a member of West mineter church, died this morning-et' the resi dence of her sister, Mrs. J. C. Eckels at Car* lisle, Pennsylvania. Miss Kenyon left Minne apolis about six months ago. H e L e a r n e d I*aw P r o m t h e J u d g e , T h e n H a n d e d I t A r o u n d . Baltimore Sun. It has been the daily custom of an eminent jurist of iBalttmore to visit levery day the same establishment for his morning shave. The barber who habitually shaved him mani fested a desire to elevate himself and decided to read law in his ifile moments. In order to encourage town the judge loaned him law books and daily inquired into his progress. Before many weeks the barber "began pro pounding legal questions for solution by his patron and mentor. "Now. judge," he would say, "suppose such and such a question arose, what would you do in that case?" And with much care and deliberation the judge would enter dnto the pros and cons of the case and set forth his reasons and decision. Several months elaise before a friend of the Judge apprised him that tine Opinions he had been handing drjwn to the barber were in reality upon (parallel cases brought to the barber by his friends, who set great store by his sound judijment and acumen, and who gladly paid d E-mail fee In return. At first the equilibrium of the astute jurist was sorely disturbed. When he visited the shop the next morning the conversation opened up in tmuch the same manner. "Judge," said the barber, "I've been think ing of a most interesting case." He then asked, "Now what would yu advise?" After a long ipaus the judge replied: "What would I advise? Well, let one see. Why, I'd advise that you oonne to my office and bring a certified check for $100 and I will be glad to let you know. Good morning."" from The Journal Bureau, Itoom 4,S. Post flunking, ~IFasIuii(jlon. Washington, May 7.S. H. Towler, ad jutant general on the staff of Judge Ell Torrance, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R , was a busy man during the three days he spent in Washington. His chief purpose in visiting the city was to see to preliminary arrangements for free quarters for the old scldierg during en campment week. Under the terms of the agreement made with the local committee in charge of encampment plans, no free quarters are to be provided by that com mittee. The sum of $15,000, however, is to be turned over by the committee to the "general officers of the G. A. R., who, with it, are to secure these quarters and look after the needs of poor comrades. Now,. $13,000 will not go very far, as Mr. Tow ler knows, and so he came to Washington to see if there was any way by which t o secure free quarters outside of the money in hand. After consultation wjth the local committee, a 'bil'l was introduced in the house on' Satuiday by Representative Jen kins of Wfsconsin, a'member'of t h e fam bus "Iron Brigade," providing that the new government printing office, the lar gest and most complete plant of its kind in the world, be turned over to the gen eral officers of the G. A. R. during en campment week fcr lodging purposes for t h e veterans. 'Should the bill passand it probably willthe building will be turned over to the G. A. R. officers, who will fix it up with cots. T h e N e x t D e l e g a t i o n . The Minnesota delegation in congress, at the beginning of the fifty-eighth ses sion, December, 1S03, will consist of four new members and five old ones. This will be the first break in the ranks of the dele gation yince the seven now serving were first elected I say five old ones, for it is assumed down here that Representatives Tawney, McCleary, Heatwole, Stevens and Fletcher will succeed themselves. Mr. Fletcher is the only one of the five who has on hand a fight for renomination, and his friends in Washington do not regard the fight at this time as having assumed any serious phase. The four new mem bers will come from the new sixth and ninth districts, set apart by the legisla ture in its redistricting of the state, and from the old sixth and seventh districts, now represented by Messrs. Morris and Eddy, both of whom will voluntarily re tire. Both Messrs. Morris and Eddy have made enviable reputations in this city, and they will be missed, no m a t t e r who succeeds them. In his particular lines, Mr. Eddy is one of the best informed and strongest men in the house. He has a thorough and intelligent grasp of public land laws and the questions arising under them and his mastery of the intricacies of the Indian question has left nothing for the other members of t h e delegation to do when Indian legislation was pending. On the great committee on Indian affairs, which embraces the best experts in con gress on this question, he has for years been a leading spirit, and no bill has been disposed of without his opinion first being sought after. The coming t o congress of four new members will relatively give the five old members a stronger position than they now occupy. Their length of service will give them a claim to first choice in com mittee assignments, and for a long time practically all of the business of the s t a t e in the house will be done by t'hem for the m a n who is serving his firat or second t e r m in the house isn't much of a fellow, when it comes to doing things himself, or to getting them done by others. W. W. Jermane. London Standard. One of the minor mysteries of nature, which modern science has yet to clear up, is the origin and cause of the strange and unexplained sounds heard at different times, and stated places, in almost all parts of the world. There is scarce a country in either hemisphere where, in some special locality or another, phan tom sounds are not known to be heard from time to time, and to account for which local legend or fanciful theory alone is forthcoming. Of such a nature, for example, are t h e "demon knockers' of which the miners speak curious tapping noises heard in mines, and coming, apparently, from the bowels of the earth. In certain countries gnomes and goblins, working in subter ranean treasure vaults, are credited with the knockmgs. In Cornwall It is the spirits of the old Jey captives who worked the old tin mines in the days of the Phoenicians. In not a few instances, again, the phantom sounds more nearly resemble the discharge of heavy guns at a great distance. The most famous known example of this special phenomenon is heard in India, in the neighborhood of Barisal, in the Delta of the Ganges, where the sounds have become so familiar as to acquire the name of the "Baiisal guns." The reports, which are described as a dull, muffled booming, are heard at irreg ular intervals, some times singly, some times in quick succession. Various the ories h-ave been adduced in explanation, one of which attributes the sound to the bursting of bamboo or other hollow canes in jungle fires but careful observation has failed to substantiate this suggestion, or to discover any adequate cause in the whole neighborhood, which is far re moved from any but the humblest habi tations. Nor is Barisal the only place in India where like disturbances are r e - marked. Quite a number of districts there are famous by reason of this very prenomenon, notably the country lying between the Brahmaputra and the Garo Hills, in Assam, where, more particularly in fair seasons, far-off booommgs are heard. In the same region, on the river's banks, a heavy cannonade has been r e - marked, apparently coming from the river itself, and the native boatmen, who are perfectly familiar with the sounds, at tribute them to the gods, celebrating the marriage of the Ganges with the Brah maputra. Half the globe away, in the United States, in a mountainous district in north Georgia, is a rocky peak where, for half a century, at least, at all times and in all kinds of weather, have been heard sounds, always mysterious and eluding- detection, but invariably de scribed a s resembling the discharge of distant cannon. Trustworthy witnesses who have visited the mountain by day and night expressly for the purpose of making careful investigation, have come to the conclusion that the sounds appear to issue from the ground itself. There are several other places in the United States where similar noises are noticed. At Franklinville, N. Y., reports as of solid rock being blasted have frequently seemed to come from the center of a certain hill. Nearer home, lookout men at Ostend have heard, usually towards evening, dull and distant noises, appar ently subterranean while on Dartmoor, in England, and in not a few parts of Scotland, circumstantial evidence of a precisely similar character is forthcom ing, and has, before now, been collected and commented on in some of the leading scientific journals. Even more frequently, however, the phantom sounds haunting various locali ties have been described as resembling the pealing or tolling of distant bells. One of t h e most remarkable instances of this occurs in the peninsula of Sinai, where is a mountain which has always been known as "Jebel Nagus"the moun tain of the bell. Here, from time im memorial, have been heard sounds as of a subterranean bell tolling within the heart f the t i l l . This is borne out by a local legend, according to which a mon astery which once stood near the sum mit was by supernatural agenicy, with drawn within the rock, and the sounds heard are those of the hidden bell calling the moi ks to prayer. Bruckhardt, in his 'Travels,' im Wished in 1822, attributes this sound *to masses of fine sand, which occasion ally rush down the mountain side antd in so doine: ive rise to a strange, bell-like note. Professor Palmer, who closely exam ired the whole neighborhood, was able to make careful observation of the slid ing of the sand, which, he said, is readily set in motion, when it rolls down with a sluggish, viscous movement, and the sound hegins as a -moan, swelling to a roar, and then gradually dying away. We need not go so far afield, however, to find many other instances of phantom bells, and where the theory of the falling sand is not admissible. At least half a dozen examples may be mentioned within our own isles. The fishermen at Dunwich, the seai-ort town on the Suffolk coast, where the encroaching sea h a s over whelmed a once large and populous town are known to declare t h a t the 'bells of lost churches can still be heard pealing unoer the waves. At Bcsfcam. in Sussex, the old bell cf the parish church, sacri legiously sold in olden times but lost in the bay, yet tolls occasionally,, so they say, beneath the sea. 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The flight of birds at a great height again may be made to answer for the other acoustic mysteries, or even, though very occasionally, the fall or bursting of j meteorites. Major Abbott, in the n a r r a - , tive of a journey to K-hiva, describes a ' melancholy music that is to be heard a i 1 night in that part of Asia. To the uiimi- | ated it would be wholly unintelligible, but | it is really due to the particular form of paper kite which the natives are in the habit of leaving afloat in the air. The crosstick cf the kite is bent and strung like a bow, and this tightened string vi brates in the breeze with the wild notes of an Aeolian harp. For the rest, it is clear that certain tales of subterranean bells, guns, or other sounds, may be satis factorily traced to earth tremors at a great depth, due, mayhap, to the fracture of some rock s t r a t u m far down under stresa of the superincumbent mass. MAIN K I L L E R S MEET. ^ -- Chicago News. ' *. N "There goes an outlaw who h a s killed more men than amy cuss out here," sajd Amber Pete. s. " I want to ishake his -hand," spoke up t h e youth In the leather caip. "I also hold t h e record.'.' " A r e you an outlaw, s t r a n g er ?". - ^ " N o I'm a chauffeur." ^ *&**:& V SHOT HIM IN THE BAGK SIOUX CITY F O R E M A N H E L D U P AN AMBITIOUS MAN C e c i l R h o d e s a n d H i s P l a n s f o r B r i t - ( i s h S o u t h A f r i c a . Baltimore Sun. It was said of Cecil Rhodes that he "thought in continents." Howard C. Hillegas, in his book, "Oom Paul's Peo- ple," gives an interesting illustration of this phase of Mr. Rhode's character. Eighteen years ago, he says, the man popularly known as the "Colossus of South Africa," stood in a Kimberley shop and looked intently at a map of Africa. After a while he placed his right hand over the map, covering a large part of South and Central Africa from the At lantic to the Indian ocean, and said: "All that British. That is my dream. Give me twenty years and -we'll have a new map." Mr. Rhodes has not lived to realize his ambition. Although the might of the greatest empire in the world has been concentrated in a supreme effort to change the map of Africa, the end is not yet. After two years and a half of war John Bull has succeeded in painting the territory which Rhodes coveted wifh blood of his best and bravest soldiers, but he has not changed the map. Cecil Rhodes thought it would be ridiculously easy to make the Beer republics "all British," to build an African empire on the ruins of two little countries which had enjoyed free institutions. Rhodes was a great man in many respectsa far man of action. But with '9 Rubles, Emeralds, Pearls, Both mouiited and loose We ha-ve the largest collection in the -west, and their mountings are noted for indi\id ual-ity and style original with us. Pe us before you purchase tnd" get out prices. S, 319 SJicollei Ave, W h e n H e K n o c k e d O n e of H i s A s - s a i l a n t s D o w n t h e O t h e r S h o t H i m . Special to The Journal. Sioux City, Iowa, May 7.Two high waymen held up John H. Vasserhng, foreman of the Great Northern shops, at midnight last night. He knocked one of them down, whereupon the other shot him in the back aiid struck him in the face with the revolver. The robbers .secured $15 and escaped. Vasserling will not die. Just before this attempt two men tried to hold up Charles T.-Johnson, night en gineer for the Mystic Milling company, but fled on the approach of another. David Callahan of Denison, Iowa, and Henry Goodsell of Woodstock, 111., have been arrested by the police. W I LL SHE? - London Tit-Bits. - -*- "Will you marry m e ? " he asked. " I told you once that I would not," she sinswcTG'dL % "Yes. but thiit was-yesterday.'\ ^ ~?i* riioLc. whlrh were being conveyed to seeing man Franc?" tor mercenary purposes, sank in ail his big ideas and his knowledge of deep water in 6t. Ouens bay. and these too, are said to ring before a storm. A like tale, again, is told of the lost bell of St David's, Pembrokeshire. Other r e - peated instances of the same legend or phenomenon may be met with almost without limit, and it has been suggested t h a t the cause may be found in the noises emitted by certain flsh which produce sounds under water often vague and hard to locate. ., . . . i It cannot be admitted t h a t the explana tion is a very satisfactory one, and, more over it is powerless to account for the in stances, nearly as numerous, where the bell has been heard under the ground. At St Levan's churchyard, Cornwall, a bell is said t o ring the half-hour bells of a ship's v a t c h e s in the grave of Captain Wetherall, an old sailor who died a sea. In the neighborhood of Tunstall, in Norfolk, when t h e oldest now living were childrep, it used to be firmly believed t h a t bells could b e ^ i e a r d , in evidence of a local legend, ringing under a certain spot in the neighborhood known as Hell Hole Near Kirkby Lonsdale, also, and again at Raleigh, in Nottinghamshire, the tale ap pears again. These underground peals are by no means so easy to account for as is the bell-like note t h a t occasionally echoes through the primeval forests of Guiana, which can be referred to the call of a particular bird known as the bell bird. This, according to' Waterton, is pos sessed of a horn-shaped organ, with which it emits a low solemn tolling like t h e sound of a ohurch bell, audible at a dis tance of three mjles. To birds, perhaps, may bev attributed a lon shrill -whistle heard in the same locality on moonlight nights, when, however, no bird or insect capable of producing such a noise can be presumably traced. Tropical forests, e s pecially at night, a r e notoriously the haunts of weird phantom notes, due no doubt, in large part, to the living deni zens of the jungle, but occasionally a t - tributable to .the strange moaninjjs a n d men he had his limitations. He under estimated the strength and determination of a people imbued with patriotism, lov ing liberty and fighting for independence for their homes and firesides. Rhodes was a cynic. He believed in t h e old, sordid principle that every man has his price. He was honestly convinced that the Boers had their price, that after mak ing e show of defending their indepen dence they would cheerfully submit to in corporation into the British empire. He lived long enough after the war began to be bitterly disillusioned. Even in this materialistic age he found t h a t men are willing to die for the noblest sentiment which stirs the heart of mankindfor freedom, for the right of self-govern ment. That undoubtedly astonished Mr. Rhodes. He seems never to have im agined that in this age of luxury, of self sesking. of cynical disbelief in patriot ism a few thousand farmers and herds me^i would absurdly prefer-^ndependence and a simnle- mode of life to all the com forts of civilization under the British flag. It seems never to have occurred to him that theie were dreamers who would sacrifice their lives before they would permit a simple little change of the map of Africaespecially when that change involved no material loss to them. It would not be just to Mr. Rhodes, however, to ignore the fact that in in triguing against the Dutch republics of South Africa he was seeking to promote not merely his own private interests, but the interests of the British empire. He' had all the wealth a man could desire to possess. He cared for money not for its o\n sake, but for what it enabled him to do in carrying out his notions a s an em pire builder. He was ambitious. His chief aspiration was to identfy his name with the glory and greatness of the Brit-/ ish empire. He wanted to change the) map of Africaan England dominant from' Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. It was with this object in view that he projected the Capt to Cairo railroad and telegraph system and induced English financiers To subscribe the money to carry out his' plans. It was a colossal conceptionone worthy cf-his powerful mind. He wanted his name to go down in history with that of Clive, who gave England her Indian empire. In order that he might realiz? his ambition he threw moral scruples to t h e ' winds. He plotted year after year against the Boer republics, and shares with Mr. Chamberlain and other British statesmen the responsibility for the war which has brought ruin upon the Dutch republics' and sorrow into many an English home. That is the sort of empire builder Cecil Rhodes wasa great men, a n exceptional, man, one who seems to have been really\ devoted to his country, but unable to un- - derstand that little states have rights which big states a r e morally bound to re spect that the Boer republics were as much, entitled to independence and self government as England, and t h a t their, enforced absorption into the British em pire is a crime against humanity. ft LIMITED. It causes me grievous distress To have to, tand up and .confess That'golf as she's played, I have never essayed, Though I've heard it discussed more ot less. I never developed much zeal F or steering an automobile I don't think it's fun To get smashed in a run. And then stay in bed till I heal. 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