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Send your voting proxies to him, and he can take the Textile company away from those now plun­ dering it." As the annual election of the Trust was only Six weeks away, Langdon and his clique were in a panic. They rushed into the market and bought frantically, the public bidding against them. Langdon himself went to Chi­ cago to reason with Edmunds--that Is, to try to find out at what figure he could be bought. And so on, day after day, I faithfully reporting to the public the main occurrences be­ hind the scenes. The Langdon at­ tempt to regain control by purchases of stock failed. He and his allies made what must have been to them appalling sacrifices; but even at the high prices they offered, comparative­ ly little of the stock appeared. "I've caught them," said I to Joe-- the first time, and the last, during that campaign that I Indulged In a boast "If Edmunds sticks to you," re* plied cautious Joe. But Edmunds did not. I fo not know at what price he sold hlm- •elf. Probably It was pitifully small; eupldity usually snatches the Instant bait tickles its nose. But I do know that my faith in human nature got Its severest shock. , . Fortunately, Edmunds had held out, ; or, rather, Langdon had delayed ap­ proaching him, long enough for me to gain my main point. The uproar over the Textile Trust had become so great that the national department of com­ merce dared not refuse an investiga­ tion; and I straightway began to spread/ out in my daily letters the facts of the trust's enormous earnings and of the shameful sources cf those earnings. In the midst of the adulation, of the blares upon the trumpets of fame that saluted my waking and were wafted to me as I fell asl«ep at night --in the midst of all the turmoil, I was often in a great and brooding silence, longing for her, now with the lmv parlous energy of passion, and now with the sad ache of love. What was she doing? What was she thinking? Now that Langdon had again played* her false for the old price, with what eyes was she looking into the future? Alva, settled in a West Side apart­ ment nof%tr from the ancestral white elephant, telephoned, asking me to come. I went, because she could and would give me news of Anita. But as I entered her little drawing-room, I said: "It was curiosity that brought me. I wished to see how you were in- Stalled." "Isn't It nice and small?' cried she. ;*Billy and I haven't the slightest diffi­ culty in finding each other--as people ;0 often have in the big houses." And V was Billy this and Billy that, and *ilat Billy said and thought and felt-- «hd before they were married, she had called him WilllEtm, and had declared "Billy" to be the most offensive com­ bination of letters that ever fell from Itwman lips. c ~ "i needn't ask if you are happy," said I presently, with a dismal failure at iooking cheerful. "I can't stay but a moment," I added, and if ^ I had obeyed my feelings, I'd have risen up and taken myself and my pain away from surroundings as hateful to me as a summer sunrise In a death-cham­ ber. "Oh!" she exclaimed, In some con­ fusion. "Then excuse me." And she hastened from the room. I thought she had gone to order, or perhaps to bring, the tea. The long minutes dragged away until ten had passed. Hearing a rustling in the hall, - I rose, intending to take leave the In­ stant she appeared. The rustling stopped just outside. I waited a few seconds, cried: "Well, Tm off. Next time I want to be alone, I'll know, where to come," and advanced to the door. It was not Alva hesitating 'lljfere; it was Anita. *^'I beg your pardon," said I, coldly. If there had been room to pass I should have gone. What devil pos­ sessed me? Certainly in all our rela­ tions 1 nad found her direct and frank. If anything, too frank. Doubtless it was the influence of my associations down town, where for so many months t had been dealing with the "short- card" crowd of high finance, who would hardly play the game straight even when that was the easy way to win. My long, Bteady stretch in that • Stealthy and sinuous company had put Hie in the state of mind In which it is Impossible to credit any human being with a motive that is decent or an ac­ tion that Is not a dead-fall. Thus the obvious transformation tn her made «o impression on me. Her haughti­ ness, her coldness, were gone, and with them had gone all that had been (e&Et like her natural self, most like the repellent conventional pattern to Which her mother and her associates fcfid molded he*. But I was saying to myself: "A trap! Langdon has gone Igack to his wife. She turns to me." i«d I te*ed her and ha*ed her. "Never," thought I, "has she shows so poor an opinion of me as now." "My uncle told me day before yes­ terday that it was , not he but you," r.he said, lifting her eyes to mine. It is inconceivable to me now that I could have misread their honest story; yet I did. "I had no Idea your uncle's notion of honor was also eccentric," said I, with a satirical smile that made the blood rush to her face. "That is unjust to him,** she re­ plied, earnestly. "He says he made yon so promise of secrecy. And he confessed to me only because he wished to convince me that he had good reason for his high opinion of you." "Really!" said I, ironically. "And no doubt he found you open wide to conviction--now/'. This a subtlety to let her know that I undertsood why she was seeking me. "No," she answered, lowering her eyes. "I knew--better than he.* For an instant this, spoken in a voice I had long given up hope of ever hearing from her, staggered my cyn­ ical conviction. But--"Possibly she thinks she Is sincere," reasoned my head with my heart; "even the sincer- est women, brought up as was she, al­ ways have the calculator underneath; they deny it, they don*t know it often, but there it Is; with them, calculation Is as involuntary and automatic as their pulse." -So, I said to her, mock­ ingly: "Doubtless your opinion of me sort* ot Ton can't learn how ta stand erect, and your eyes cannot hear the light." "I am sorry," she said, slowly, hesi- tatiigly, "that your faith in me diod just when I might, perhaps, have justi­ fied it. Ours has been a pitiful series .of misunderstand fags." "A trap! A trap!" I was warning myself. "You've been a fool long enough, Blacklock." And aloud I said: •'Well, Anita, the series is ended now. There's no longer any occasion for our lying or posing to each other. Any ar­ rangements your uncle's lawyers sug­ gest will be made." I was bowing, to leave without shaking hands with her. But she would not have it so. "Please!" she said, stretching out her long, slender arm and offering me her hand. What a devil possessed me that day! With every atom of me longing for her, I yet was able to take her hand and say, with a smile, that was, I doubt not, as mocking as my tone: "By all means let us be friends. And I trust yon will not think me discourteous if I say that I shall feel safer la. our friendship when we are both on neutral ground." , ' Aa I was turaiag away, her look, my own heart, made me turn again. I caught her by the shoulders. I gazed into her eyes. "If I could only trust you, could only believe you!" I cried. "You cared for me when I wasn't worth It," she said. "Now that I am more like what, you once imagined me, you do not care." ; Up between us rose Langdon's face --cynical, mocking, contemptuous. "Your heart is his! You told me so! Don't lie to me!" I exclaimed. And before she could reply, I was gone. Out from under the spell of her presence, back among the tricksters and assassins, the traps and ambushes of Wall street, I believed again; be­ lieved firmly the promptings of the devil that possessed me. "She would have given you a brief fool's paradise," said that devil. "Then what a hideous awakening!" And I cursed the day when New York's Insidious snobbish­ ness had tempted my vanity into start­ ing me on that degrading chase after "respectability." "If she does not move to free her­ self soon," said I to myself, "I will " 'YOU DO NOT BKLIKV« MEf SHE ASKED. has been improving steadily ever since you heard that Mrs. Langdon had re­ covered her husband." She winced, as if I had struck her. "Oh!" she murmured. If she had been the ordinary woman, who in every crisis with man instinctively resorts to weakness' strongest weakness, tears, I might have a different story to tell. But she fought back the tears in which her eyes were swimming and gathered herself together. "That is brutal," she said, with not a touch of haughtiness, but not humbly, either. "But I deserve it." "Thlre was a time," I went on, swept in a swift current of cold rage, "there was a time when I would have taken you on almost any terms. A man never makes a complete fool of himself about a woman but once in hi* life, they say. I have done my stretch--and it Is over." She sighed wearily. "Langdon came to see me soon after I left your hbuse, and went to my uncle," she said. "I will tell you what happened." "I do not wish to hear," replied I, adding pointedly, "I have been waiting ever since you left for news of your plaus." She grew white, and my heart smote me. She came Into the room and seated herself. "Won't you stop, please, for a moment longer?" she said. "I hope that, at, least, we can part without bitterness. I understand now that everything is over betwean us. A woman's vanity makes her be­ lief that a man cares for her die hard. I am convinced now--I assure you, I am. I shall trouble you no more about the past. But I have the right to ask you to hear me when I say that Langdon came, and that I myself sent him away; sent him back to his wife." "Touching self-sacrifice," said I, ironically. "No," she replied. "I cannot claim any credit. I Bent him away only be­ cause you and Alva had taught me how to judge him better. I do not despise him as do you; I know too well what has made him what he IS. But I had to send him away." My comment was an Incredulous look and shrug. » *1 must be going," I said. "You do uut believe me?" she asked. "In my place, would .yon believe?" replied J. "You say I have taught you. Well, you have taught me, too---for in­ stance, that the years you've spent on your knees In the musty temple of conventionality before fa]se gods have made you--lit only for the Langdon put my own lawyer to wovk. My right eye offends me. I will pluck it dat" CHAPTER XXXIII. « "WILD WEEK." I'-fflw Seven" made their fatal move on Updegraff's advice, I suspect. But they would not have adopted his sug­ gestion had it not been so exactly congenial to their own temper of ar­ rogance and tyranny and contempt for the people who meekly, year after year, presented themselves for the the shearing with fatuous bleats of en­ thusiasm. "The Seven," of course, controlled directly, or indirectly, all but a few of the newspapers with which I had ad­ vertising contracts. They also con­ trolled the main sources through which the press was supplied with news--and often and well they had used this control, and surprisingly cautious had they been not so to abuse It that the editors and the pub­ lic would I become suspicious. When my war was at its height, when I was beginning to congratulate myself that the huge magazines of "The Seven" were empty almost to the point at which the?1 roust sue Cor gases an my own terms, all in four days 43 of a; 67 newspapers--and they the most kn- t>ort&nt--notified me that they wou!4 no longer carry out their contracts ts publish my daily letter. They gave as their reason, not the real one, fear at "The Seven," but fear that I would involve them In ruinous libel suits. I who had legal proof for every state-, ment I made; I who was always care­ ful to understate! Next, one press association after another ceairai td send out my letter as news, though they had been doing so regularly for months. The public had grown tired of the "sensation," they said. I countered with a telegram to one or more newspapers in every city and large town 4n the United States: "'The Seven* are trying to cut the wires between the truth and the pub­ lic. If you wish my daily letter, tele­ graph me direct and I will send It at my expense." The response should have warned "The Seven," But it did not. Under their orders the telegraph companies refused to transmit the letter. I got an injunction. It was obeyed in typi­ cal, corrupt corporation fashion--they sent my matter, but so garbled that It was unintelligible. I appealed to the courts. In vain. To me, it w&3 clear as sun to cloud­ less noonday sky that there could be but on© result of this insolent an<! despotic detial of my rtghCs and the rights of the people, this public con­ fession of the truth cf my charges. I turned everything salable or mort­ gageable into cash, locked the cash up in my private vaults, a&d waited lor the cataclysm. Thursday--Friday--Saturday. Ap­ parently all was tranquil; apparently the people accepted the Wall street theory that I was an "exploded sensa­ tion." "The Seven" began to preen themselves; the strain upon them to maintain prices, if no less than for three months past, was not notably greater; the crisis would pass, I and my exposures would be forgotten, the routine of reaping the. harvests and leaving only the gleanings for the sowers would soon be placidly is- Bumed. Sunday. Roebuck, taken ill as ha was passing the basket in the church of which he was the shining light, died at midnight--a beautiful, peaceful death, they say, with his daughter reading the Bible aloud, and his lips moving in prayer. Some hold that, had he lived, the tranquillity would have continued; but this is the view ol those who cannot realize that the tide of affairs is no more controlled by the "great men" than is the river led down to the sea by its surface flotsam, by which we measure the speed and di­ rection of its current. Under that ter­ rific tension, which to the shtllow seemed a calm, something had to give way. If the dam had not yielded where Roebuck stood guard, it must have yielded somewhere else, or might have gone all in one grand crash. .Monday, You know the story of the artist and his Statue of Grief--how hs molded the features a hundred times, always failing, always getting an anti­ climax, until at last in despair he gave up the impossible and finished the statue with a veil over the face. I have tried again and again to assem­ ble words that would give some not too inadequate impression of that tre­ mendous week in which, with a succes­ sion of explosions, each like the crack of doom, the financial structure that housed 80,000,000 of people burst, col­ lapsed, was engulfed. I cannot. I must leave It to your memory or yiow Imagination. For years the financial leaders, crazed by the excess of power which the people had in ignorance and over confidence and slovenly good-nature permitted them to acquire, had been tearing out the honest foundations on which alone so vast a structure can hope to rest Bolid and secure. They had been substituting rotten besan painted to look like stone and it on. The crash had to come! the socaer, the better--when a thing is wiong, each day's delay compounds the cost of righting it. So, with all the horrors Of "Wild Week" In mind, all its phys­ ical and mental suffering, all Its ruin and rioting and bloodshcl, I stid can insist that I am justly proud of my share in bringing it about. The blame and the shame are wholly upon those who made "Wild Week" necessary and Inevitable. In catastrophes, the cry is "Each for himself!" But In a cataclysm, th« obvious wise selfishness is generosity, and the cry Is: "Stand together, for, singly, we parish." This was a cata­ clysm. No one could save himself, except the few who, taking my often- urged advice and following my exam­ ple, had entered the ark of ready money. Farmer and artisan and pro­ fessional man and laborer owed mer­ chant; merchant owed banker; banket owed "depositor. No one could pay be Cause no one could get what was du« him or could realize upon his property. The endless chain of credit that bindi together the whole of modern society had snapped in a thousand places. II must be repaired, instantly and se cutely. But how-1--and by whom? (To be Continued.) The Ears of Criminals. •aid to plffer Widely from Those of Normal Persons. Before the annual congress of German anthropologists at Gorlitz, Prof. Blau, a well known authority on diseases of the ear, read an*interesting paper on the formation of the ears of criminals and lunatics. Prof. Blau has taken accurate measurements of 1,061 ears. Of these 255 are the ears df lunatics and 343 those of male criminals. THe examination, moreover, was confined to men of one race and one country. The professor comes to the conclu­ sion that in the vast majority of cases the various parts of the auricle, or external ear, are larger in the case of criminals and lunatics than In the case of normal persons. This Is espe­ cially noticeable in the helix, or In­ curved outer border of the ear, and also In the lobe. According to Prof. Blau, the larger the helix is the lower the state of mental development. The hearing faculty, ou the other hand, is keener, and Prof. Blau illustrates his theory by reference to the auricle of ap?a, who are all la possession ol this extended outer border. Prof. added the curious remark that an ab normal development of the outer bor der was more noticeable among crim­ inals charged with sexual crime than among other classes of criminals. First Uso of Ice Cream. Though the ancient Greeks and Ro­ mans used ice for table purposes tc get through the hot months of sum­ mer, they knew nothing of "ices."! These were Introduced Into France from Italy about 1660 and were known fit first as "fromages glaces," Iced cheeses, although they were made ot strawberries and apricots, and con­ tained not a drop of cream. Frois 1762 the use of "glaces' 'In the plura' was sanctioned by the French acad­ emy, but not before 1825 did "un« glace" force Its way into recognized acceptance. "Ices" are referred ts from time to time in the eighteenth eantury in English people's letton from abroad. "Iced creanu," how­ ever were known as ea*>y tu 1689, an* by the middle of the eighteenth cea tury "lef cresm" tgured te epoimj m rfsrr •• ; ' ' * ' : .' ' ' .~"V ' 4""' REVOLTINQ 8TORY OP CRIME TOLD HAYWOOD TRIAk. » Chief Witness for the Prosecution Telia of Wholesale Murder J*;jigpiemss in - WhlchfHHii'V;--; Was Involved. - ILLINOIS MEET. Held an Interesting Thrie Days' T sion at Peoria. Peoria-1--The three days' meeting of the Illinois Editorial association held here was a marked success. The citi­ zen's committee made every possible effort to make the stay In the city an enjoyable one, and the editors and their ladies voted the meeting a big success. Among the interesting features of the programme; were addresses by fir. Zeller, of the Bartonville asylum; Boise, Idaho.--Alfred Rorsley, alias Frank J. Quinn, attorney for the san- Harry Orchard,-the actual assassin of ltary di8trict; steamboat rides on the Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand rlver- a to the Bartonville asylum, as a witness against William D. ^an<luet, etc. Haywood, and made public con­ fession of a long chain of brutal, revolting crimes, done, he said, at the inspiration and for the pay of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. The victims marked for death at his hands according to his testi­ mony were: Fred Bradley, retired mine of­ ficial, San Francisco; blown half way across street and maimed for life by bemb concealed by Orchard under doorstep; also object of poison plot Motive, revenge. " Sherman Bell, adjutant-general of Colorado national guard, Denver; waylaid by Orchard and other assas­ sins who sought his life; escaped. Motive, revenge for activity in put­ ting down strike lawlessness. Justice Gabbert of supreme court of Colorado, Denver; bomb placed in his pathway exploded by another man, who was blown to pieces. Motive, de­ cisions against Moyer. Gov. Peabody of Colorado, Denver; bomb placed in front of his home to kill him by Orchard failed to explode by accident. Motive, upholding law In strikes. David Moffatt, presldent of First National bank of Denver; Adams and Orchard tracked him with guns, but he cscaped. Motive, supposed activ­ ity on side of mine owners. , Judge Goddard, Denver. Motive, declared ^eight-hour biU unconstitu­ tional. ^ Frank Steunenberg, former^* gov­ ernor of Idaho; Caldwell, Blown to pieces by bomb placed at gate of home by Orchard. An undertaking by the special pros­ ecutors for the state that they would, by later proof and connection, legiti­ matize his testimony opened the way like a floodgate to the whole diaboli­ cal story and Orchard went on from crime recital to crime recital, each succeeding one seemingly more re­ volting than those that had come be­ fore. Here are a few of the interest­ ing points from his story: v "Haywood told me the blowing up bt the (Vindicator) mine was a fine piece of work. Moyer gave me $200 and Haywood paid me |300 for blow­ ing up the mine. "Haywood and Moyer both told me I could not get too fierce to suit them --to go ahead and blow up everything I could think of--to get some of the soldiers If possible." "Moyer and Pettibone wanted to know if I could not work up some scheme to assassinate Gov. Peabody of Colorado." "Haywood thought Steva Adams was the best man for the work. Pet­ tibone gave us some sawed-off shot­ guns and shells loaded with buckshot. We kept after Peabody for three weeks, when Haywood told me to lay off for awhile." "Haywood, Pettibone and Slmpklns then wanted something pulled off at Cripple Creek. We planned to blow up the Independence depot. The depot was wrecked and 12 or 14 men killed. The next day Pettibone gave me $300. Adams told me he got $200." He swore that the assassination ol Steunenberg was first suggested by Haywood, was jointly plotted by Hay­ wood, Moyer, Pettibone and himself, was financed by Haywood and was ex­ ecuted by himself after the failure ol an attempt In which Jack Slmpklns had participated. * ' ' " • Orchard lifted the total of his own murdered victims to 18, and detailed the circumstances under which he tried to murder former Gov. Peabody, Judge Goddard, Judge Gabbert, Gen. Shernmn ®ell, Dave Moffat and Frank" Herner Incidentally, he confessed to a plan to kidnap the child of one of his former associates. Orchard's Story Unshaken. ) Boise, Idaho.--Counsel for William D. Haywood continued their attack on the testimony of Harry Orchard at both eessions of the trial Friday, and centered their strongest assault on the events beginning with the explosion in the Vindicator mine and ending with the earlier meetings between the witness and the leaders of the Federation of Miners in Denver. To the extent that traffic with "the other cide" in the war of labor and capital in Colorado was discreditable they succeeded In discrediting the witness. Orchard stood the test and strain very well and held tenaciously to the story he related Wednesday and Thursday. Under cross-examination by the de­ fense Orchard confessed guilt of the sordid social crimes of deserting his young child and wife in Ontario, flee­ ing to British Columbia with Hattle Simpson, the wife of another man, and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman at Cripple Creek. Or­ chard held tenaciously to his direct testimony during the attack of the defense, and his testimony was prao- tlcally unshaken. Dr. Zeller Speaks. < Dr. Zeller, in addressing the editors, said: | "Bartonville was built upon new lines and designed to meet a special condi­ tion. It discarded former institutional methods almost from the outset. 'Sane surroundings for the insane' became its motto, and it has been in the fore­ front of every movement that has thrown about the care of the insane more comfort and privileges in thee past few years than any previous ten centuries show. "Its 2,000 inmates are neither re­ strained nor Imprisoned, and the spirit of non-resistance so thoroughly per­ meates the force that an altercation is Impossible. Activity marks every feature of the dally life of the Institu­ tion, and idleness on the part of an able bodied Inmate is as undesirable as In an employe. "The institution Is a community in itself. Classification is minute and its 2,000 inmates occupy 23 cottages and wards. There are separate cottages for the working inmates, for the aged and infirm, for the violent and destruc­ tive and a distinctly separate hospital system in which the physically sick receive treatment. Its epileptics are segregated and constitute the nucleus of the future Epileptic Colony of Illi­ nois. There are 160 of them and they are cared for from every social, moral, industrial and medicinal standpoint Records of seizures are kept and im­ portant statistics are being obtained. Th# tent colony tor Insane coft" sumptfves is the most complete of Its kind in the world. It consists of 22 canvas tents and houses, in which are quartered 25 consumptives of each sex. It Is Isolated from all other wards and has Its own mess hall and diet kitchen. Six nurses. In relays of two for each of the eight-hour shifts, have charge of it and the wealthiest consumptive, seeking the outdoor treatment in this or any other climate could secure no more for his money than is here given to these poor and unfortunate wards ot the state." In speaking of the deep waterway project, Frank J. Qulnn said: "The deep waterway will be a ben­ efit in many ways to the owners of property in central Illinois. At pres­ ent the sanitary district of Chicago Is emptying 300,000 gallons of water a minute into the Illinois elver, and with a ship canal 200 feet wide by 14 feet deep, will make It possible to empty 600,000 cubic feet of water into the canal and to remove the locks at Henry and Copperas creek. The waterway will not alone be advantageous to the sanitary district, but will make It pos­ sible to reclaim 3,000 acres of land in Peoria county alone and thousands of acres in the Illinois galley in the cen- |f*l portion of tha state." ' ' Newly Elected Officer* The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. A. Adams, Peotone; vice presidents, Miss Mary Davidsson, Carthage; J. M. Sheets, Oblong; Charles Mead, Ge­ neva; secretary, J, M. Page, Jersey- vllle; treasurer, H. A. David, Carlln- vtlle; member executive committee, J. M. Rapp, Fairfield; chairman legisla­ tive committee, E. A. Shively, Spring­ field. -'V ^• ̂ IQUAL TO THE OCCASION. Advice from Agricofa. Be prudent with valor and Without ostentation.--Agricola. brave Indulgent. First Bull Terrier--Why do you keep' your master waiting so long when he calls you? Second Ditto--Oh, just to jolly him a little; he likes to hear himself *fwhistle Alleged Defaulter Arrested. Seattle, Wash. -- Philip W. Kam- plen, wh£e arrest was sought by officials of the Capitol National bank of St. Paul, for the alleged de­ falcation of $10,000, was arrested here Wednesday. Kam plen wjs fsylng teller of the bank. Fame. "I always knew Tompkins. would some day become famous." • "What's he Invented now?" "A new soda fountain drink."--Mil­ waukee 8entineU Physician's Offer Settled imposition on His Good Nature. doctor has had unpleasant ex- periences with the economical minded person who tafetts advantage of a casual meeting ar tho dinner (able or elsewhere to importune him for coun­ sel as to his ailments. It is not al­ ways easy to get rid of these pests. Abernethy was, as we know, equal to the occasion when a wealthy alder­ man whom he met at a friend's house recited his catalogue of woes, ending up with the question: "What should I taker' Thd reply was: "Take ad­ vice." A French doctor recently rid him­ self in an equally ingenious manner of a patient who sought to impose on his good nature. He was accosted one afternoon on a crowded boulevard by a lady notorious for this practice. She at once began to tell of her afflictions, making particular complaint of pain in her hypogastric region. To which the doctor gravely replied: "My dear madam, I must examine you. Be good enough to take off your thipgs."--British Medical Journal. That life is long which answers life's great end.--Young. Search thine own heart. What pain- eth thee In others, in thyself may be. All dust is frail, all flesh is weak, be thou the true man thou dost seek.-- Jerrold. NEWS OF ILLINOIS. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. j SHONTS MAKES ADDRESS In Speech at Monmouth College Mi;, *>4' Denounces Arbitrary Authority Railroads -- Comes j Stone of Library Laid. Monmouth.--Protest against "retail- atOry legislation" and that which..,, _ m K si enacted "in the heat of passion," tends ̂ "to destroy instead of regulate" cor*r 1ft porations, was the feature erf the ad* ^ dress of Theodore P. Shonts at Mon- . *4 mouth college. The speaker praised the Integrity of : ' t * ' .7* •s. President Roosevelt and Gov. HugheSi of New York, but his remarks created the impression that he considered some of ther policies too radical. Mr. Shonts, who resigned as head of' the Panama canal commission to tak<* charge of the Interborough Metropoli­ tan railway in New York, is an alum* nus of the college class of '76, and his address marked the fifty-first an­ nual commencement exercises of the school. Thirty-nine collegiate and 1ft 'Mr ^ musical conservatory, students were graduated. - § ,f Mr. Shonts said: "Greater "'govern* - mental control of corporations t* bound to come, and, within ressonabH limits, it. should be welcomed by the corporations themselves. Fair minded f t commissions with supervisory power* could be of great assistance, but arW- v:'-- trary authority over the physical op- , eration of property without a corre-* **J§ * spondlng financial responsibility co»>-" tains the germ of disaster." A feature of the commencement «&• ercises was the laying of the cornet, ' I , stone of the new Carnegie library „ |> building, to which Andrew CaraegiiKv gave $30,000 and Mr. Shonts $10,0M. v THREE KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Middle of Long tf-: Car of Gasoline in Freight Trsin Blow* Up. Ked&ck.--Three men were kflflett ••>*£;$ and ten injured here by the explosio* * of a car of Gasoline In the middle at a long freight train on the Chicago & Indiana Southern railroad. Joha Frazee and Austin Stozkdon, of Danville, who were riding in a box car next to the car of gasoline, werw felown to pieces, and Fred W. Hatting^ • >'rH a barber, was killed on the street by a piece of flying debris. Every win­ dow in the town was shattered. \ $« Husband Fatally Shoots WffSv Kankakee.--After 36 years of maifc' ried life, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harmet» living near Bonfield, west of hert^ quarreled a few weks ago and separat­ ed. June 5 Mrs. Harmes sent a coa* f stable to the home of her husbatul fur ' J some of her clothes and other personal effects. Next day Harmes called asfe the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wit- liam Schultz, where his wife wa*. staying, and shot her. She la not em . pected to live. ' »r J > * • 1 •. * ' Plan Coke Ovens st JolIeC. „* j j * u f > u Joliet.--Plans for the erection of yjp coke ovens in Joliet are/announeed. The Illinois Steel cpaipany^wttt- cat- rt pend $2,300,000 on this industry is th* i next 21 months. The annual output' '^| will be 800,000 tons. The daily by-pro. duct of the ovens will Include 6,700,00# ' ^ ! cubic feet of gas. Ground for oven* has been secured near the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad, north of th# steel mills. The ovens will suj coke tor four blast furnaces at Jofeet. i.\< 'I'd Poultry Dealers to Meet. Springfield.--It Is probable that th^s- 'lift annual show of the Illinois State Pouir- try association will be held in Springs ^ field next fall or winter. The matter' of deciding is in the hands of the eas•' ecutive committee, but final action bai^y^.- not been taken. It Is generally be* lleved that the show will come to. XV Springfield, owing to its central loo*-.-' tiOn. . -m, • Christian County Land Is Sold. Taylorvllle.--Six hundred acres of Christian county land was sold for -X ,, $100 an acre, a total of $60,000. The > •' grantor was the Springfield Marin# 4 bank, and the purchaser was Francis \"| Taylor, of New Berlin, Sangamon if' county. The land is in one body an<I lays three miles north of the a** Pawnee-Taylorville railroad. Asking a Good Deal. First Tramp--It's pretty cold day; I'd hate to live at the north pole. Second Tramp---So would I; I wouldn't have the nerve to ask for a night's lodging, if the nights ware six months long.--Smart Set Physically Impossible. * "I don't see how a cockfight can ever be a square sport" - "Why not?" "Because naturally every blow given Red Men to Hold Memorial. Lincoln.--The Red Men of this «ttf have prepared, for a memorial day for the order and set a date for Red Men's day at the Lincoln Chautauqua. Th» date for the annual memory#- is June 16. and the special day sepapart for the Red Men at the chauiaKtea is Au­ gust 21. jF ^ • ' • •, ' Paints Carnegie for Library v El Paso.--Mrs. Sarah Arnold, ot thity' city, has completed a life-size oil paint* ^ ing of Andrew Carnegie, which ah®;. ; " will present to the El Paso free publlo •; t library. The library building wa» erected last fall through * Qpnaegite donation. 1 !" V . • --•-- ? i 1; [k Prisoner Saved from Mob. , Highland.--While a mob of 100 men was gathering in front of the jafl herw threatening to lynch Louis Monken. 65 years of age, he was removed through a rear door by the police and taken by buggy to Edwardsville, where* , he was again lodged in jail. Monkea is alleged to have shot and killed Al­ bert Britsch In a saloon in St. Mor­ gan. III. Wftnesses say Brltach daredt, Monken to shoot him, Monken having threatened him In a saloon quarrel.; Following the dare Monken is aai4 U» have drawn a revolver and'fired. ' Wind Carried Child to Oaath, Chicago.--Carried by a gust of wind that whirled her gocart to tkt curbing, Madeline fi. Johnson, 14 months old, was struck by a passing sprinkling wagon and almost inataattf killed. The child was thrown frosi Hs place in the tiny cart and dragged along the pavement lor some Hfc-. tance. Indicted for Murder cf Weman. Freeport.--Herbert Shring, of RocMt* ford, was indicted for the werder a| Mrs. Edna Rumelbagen. r ,?.-3U