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aiissia mm mmum m^mm^im K V T ' I * % < ; f%f4 Slighted in Fanston tteport. Lieutenant J. D. Taylor of the Twenty-fourth infantry, whose friends are claiming for him soma of the honor given General Funston for the oapture of Aguinaldo, (a 25 years old, •ad has been in the army aince 1898, •when he was appointed Second lieu­ tenant on the recommendations of Senators MaHory and Pasco of Flor­ ida. Lieutenant "Taylor was assigned to the Twentieth infantry At Fort Leav­ enworth and accompanied the regi- I--" '• • M > * ; ment to the Philippines. In April, 1899, he was promoted to First Lieu­ tenant and attached to the Twenty- fourth infantry. His father is a lead­ ing citizen of Lake City, Fla. Lieutenant Taylor's friends point oat that his name does not appear in the official report of Aguinaldo's cap­ ture. Although it was he who secured the first information as to the insur­ gent leader's whereabouts. It was while acting Captain at Pomtabangan that he intercepted the four Filipino messengers carrying orders that re­ vealed their chief's hiding place. He received a letter of thanks from Gen­ eral Funston at the time, but his friends are not satisfied with this par­ tial recognition, and believe he should have received credit in the official re­ port for his work in connection with the capture. A Charming Woman. Tte> wife of Kentucky's young Gov­ ernor is one of the most charming women of a state noted for the at­ tractiveness of its fairer inhabitants. Mrs. Beckham, who, since her mar­ riage has become known throughout the country, was Miss Jean Fuqua of Owensboro, the eldest daughter of Colonel Joseph Fuqua. She is 22 years old, and has all the charms that have made her state's women famous. She met Governor Beckham while he was speaker of the house of representa­ tives. He was visiting his sister in Owensboro, and at a reception given la his honor was introduced to Miss MRS. BECKHAM. fruqdi. They were married oh Novem­ ber 12 last, after the election of Mr. Beckham as Governor. Shorter Collect Coarse. Professor Norton of Harvard recent­ ly expressed the opinion that college men studying for the degree of A B. should be allowed a free choice to ob­ tain it in three years if they so desire. He says many students can do the work of the whole course in three years as easily and as well as others can in four, and he believes the ma­ jority would be the gainers if they did it in the shorter time. The growing length of the courses in post-graduate and professional schools makes this Bavlng of time increasingly desir- able. f J A "Sacred" IscJt ani JC*/< A Washington dispatch says that the lock and key of the front gate of the Sacred City of Peking have been received at the National Mu­ seum and will be placed on exhibi­ tion there within a few days. The relics are a 0ft from Rev. W. T. Hobart, a Methodist missionary in China, and were presented to the* United States through Eld win H. Conger, United States minister at Peking. The gate which the lock and key secured was directly before the palace of the emperor. On the lock are inscribed a number of Chinese characters, and the authorities of the museum will soon seek to have these deciphered and translated. The l&jk is an iron cylinder three feet and ten inches long. Extending from the cyl­ inder is an iron rod bent back that it might pass through the gate hasja and into the lock culde. Kdrts-"Lmnatic Herald*" lie Mir paper of Hi kind in the world Is the Lunatic Herald, which fci published at JatskaonvlQe, 111. It Is owned, e«ted and controlled by Gen­ eral A. B. Leeper, who freely admits that he is a legal lunatic; bat declares that tor that rea­ son ho will be able to do better work tor the large class of people to which he belongs, in the Lunatic Herald Gen era l Leep er will deal with the abuses which pre­ vail In some insane « asylums. He will tall for the repeal state laws which fair to lunatics, whom they chiefly af­ fect. Nothing will be printed which la inclined to produce irritation or irra­ tional excitement It will not be the business of the paper to stir up dis­ content among the inmates of insane asylums, but to furnish them with food for serious and healthful thought. General Leeper says that the number of legal lunatics in the United States Is now so large that there Is a great field as weB as a great demand for his paper, while if every person who is more or less crazy would subscribe for it, he declares, it would hare eas­ ily the largest circulation in the world. of certain seem un- iftad of Sbeeden's Jiaxty. Sir Adolf Arnold Louis Philander, the new minister of marine fer Sweden and Norway, has haft a distinguished career as a naval officer. He won his knighthood from King Oscar in 1880 on his return from the famous expedi­ tion in the Vega, of which ship he was commander and which bore the celebrated scientist and explorer, Baron Nordenskjold, on his voyage of discovery to the northeast passage. Owing to the name of the ship and in MINISTER PHILANDBM. memory of his services the naval offi­ cer was given the title of "Philander of Vega." Since that time his promo­ tion in the navy has been rapid, and at the same time well deserved. He is chief aid to the king and one of his rayol patron's most intimate and cher­ ished friends. The new minister is de­ rived from an ancient family of Fin­ land, noted in history for upward of Ithree centuries. He entered the navy as a boy and was early associated with the great Nordenskjold, whom he also accompanied in 1868 on the faaoous journey to Spitsbergen. i A GFhunder Ma&jtr. Even on the clearest, calmest day thunder, artificial, it is true, yet s t r a n g e l y like natural thunder, can be manufac­ tured by any­ one who will try the fol­ lowing sim- p 1 e, newly devised ex­ periment: Get a piece o r d i n a ry 'twine two or three feet in length, and place It 'iaround the back of your head, accord­ ing to the manner shown in the oc- companying picture. Next bring the two ends forward past the ears, or, rather, past the auricles. The ears must then be closed by keeping the fingers pressed firmly over them, and at the same time the fingers or hand must be pressed firmly over the twine at the point where it lies directly out­ side each auricle. Now ask some one to pull the two ends, of the twine with his thumb and index finger, and then, a firm pressure being meanwhile main­ tained, to let them slip slowly through the fingers. At once an Illusion Of thunder will be produced. Tou will hear peal after peal, and the firmer the pressure on the twine the louder will be the sound. If a few knots are tied in the twine a still more startling illusion will be produced. v A. Startling A startling proposition is made by the author of a work called the "Boxer Book," just published in Chicago. The writer believes that there is a yellow peril and a black peril and a red peril and after showing that the dark races increase much more rapidly than the white races, urges the gradual ex­ tinction of the former by the whites. He thinks the blacks should be con­ fined to certain zones placed under white rule under international law and then exterminated by gradual process of humane laws applied by "the fittest race," as the author puts it. A secret organization having its origin in the universities Is said to be urging the propaganda. Alexander Cambell, the professional golfer of the Country club of Brook- line, Mass., has a driver of ancient pat­ tern which is over 200 years old. It was the property of the Ear), of Eglinton originally. Hoke Smith, once in Mr. Clevel&ftil'g cabinet, Is on his second term as a member of the Atlanta school board. :.v\ »>: < w • a' * s * * 1 | •y:;j f- -RACE. * > . . t * | HENRY FOURNIER WINNER OP THE AUTOMOBILE RACE FROM PARIS TO BERLIN. Henri Founder the winner of the automobile race from Paris to Berlin, has long been known on the continent as the king of automobilists. He first used a petroleum tricycle for his road work. With a machine of 1% horse­ power he made an average of more The WhtsKjr Famine in Guam. There comes a tale of woe from dis­ tant Guam. This is the remote island in the Pacific where for some time Captain Leary of the navy was a be­ nevolent despot, forcing lazy Guamites to work and unmarried ones to wed. He appealed to the department for a brass band to aid in the civilizing of the inhabitants, but was unable to get it. >It Is not a lack of music, however, which causes unhappiness in Guam. It Is a scarcity of whisky. The last barrel of "commissary" has been stolen and drunk up by bad marines On duty in the island. This sad news is given In an order Issued by Commander Seaton Schroe- der, U. S. N., Governor of Guam. In It he calls the attention of the com­ mand to the "hoodlumism and law­ lessness which are rampant in it" Per­ haps this language is not too strong when the dastardly character of the crime which has been committed is taken into consideration. The Com­ mander says excitedly: "There is reason for alluding to the theft a few weeks ago of a barrel of whisky from the naval hospital that was the last and sole supply of the medical* department for medical purposes. An of­ ficer on duty here has since then been so reduced by climatic fever that a cer­ tain amount of whisky was considered necessary to keep him from utter pros­ tration. Fortunately, a small supply was Obtained from a passing vessel. Had that accidental supply not been forthcoming, and had that officer succumbed, his death Would have rested upon the heads of the Scoundrels who committed the theft." The percentage of illiterates among army conscripts In Italy is thirty-six. than forty miles an hour at a time when automobiles were the merest novelties. Thus it will be seen that he was no new hand in the big race which has Just been won at Berlin. Founder is a veritable spectacle on his ma­ chine. He files along with bulging eyes cast groundward, hair ' streaming in jthe wind, and his motor puffing like mad under him. He is so accustomed to these hazardous trips that he is per­ fectly cool while traveling over a country road at express train speed. A second race may be run. "Boston 'Philanthropist's Plan. Edwin Ginn, a prominent real es- I comfort, light, and luxury compared tate owner of Boston, will try an J with the old style now In vogue, and original experi­ ment in tenement houses next spring. Ho proposes to build several large fireproof structures in the West End, which will replace the dingy, unsafe, a n d u n h e a l t h f u l habitations which are now used by t h e w o r k i n g classes In that part Of the city. Mr. Ginn made a care­ ful investigation of the facts before he decided to make his experiment He visited the people living In the tene­ m e n t d l s t r l c , t s » counseled them as to the kind of houses they would most desire for the rents they could afford to pay, and then had his archi­ tects arrange plans accordingly. Mr. « ! } Ginn says that at tlte^Tesent time a man with $16 a month to spend for rent could not secure a place fit to live In. His new houses will be marvels of Ordered Steel WorKfirs* Stride 3 Ik. PRESIDENT SHAFFER OF THE SHEET IRON WORKERS. .'V , , v* t v ^ Theodore J. Shaffer, who, In his car pacity as president of the Amalgamat­ ed Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, gave out the sheet iron ma­ chinists strike order, is himself one of the most skillful sheet iron rollers in the trade. He is unique among labor leaders the world over. A college Letter-Copying Machine. While the copying of letters by means of the dampened sheets and handpress is a comparatively rapid operation and allows copies of letters to be filed away In book form for future reference, yet the machine II- __ _ Iustrated herewith has advantages over the former method both in speed and In the convenience for preservation of the copy in connection with the letter to which It replies. The copying paper is in tho form of a continuous roll, which Is loosely mounted on a spindle inside the cab­ inet, where is also located a tray of water, through which the sheet pass­ es on Its way to the pressure rollers. A crank Is used to turn the rollers, and the original letter is Slipped be­ tween the two pressure rolls, where it comas in contact with the dampened sheet and leaves its Copy, the letter pairing out at the opposite side of the xppan " ' graduate, a former clergyman and a most earnest and eloquent pulpit or­ ator, Mr. Shaffer may be considered out of his sphere in a rolling mill, but the theological iron worker prefers that trade to the church. He is a na­ tive of Pittsburg, 45 years old, and be­ gan his career as an iron worker when through a slot into the botton of the "cabinet. In filing the copy away the endless sheet is taken up and clipped to separate letters, which are then placed with the letter to which the original is the reply, the two being filed together and making it unneces­ sary to look in both the letter file and copying book when information- is de­ sired. ' * the rents, if anything, will be lower. It is estimated that from 7 to 10 per cent Interest will be cleared on these improved tenements. he was still under 20. He next went to college, studied theology, took church and preached with great suc­ cess for several years. Oddly enough his health was not so robuBt in the pulpit aB in the mill, and he gave up his charge to return to his trade, to which he has since devoted himself. He was first elected president of the Amalgamated Association at its con­ vention in Cincinnati. Lincoln and John Brotvn. A Kansas paper says an old citizen of that state attended a meeting held at Atchison in 1859 at which Mr. Lin­ coln made a speech. According to this old citizen, some one in the audience asked, "How about John Brown," who had been hanged a few days before, to which Mr. Lincoln replied: "He was hanged and he deserved it I don't know much about Brown's his­ tory in Kansas, but John Brown vio­ lated the laws of his country, and Governor Wise did right in hanging him." Whether Mr. Lincoln actually said this, it is impossible to decide. The memories of old men play them sad tricks sometimes. They sincerely be­ lieve often that they heard at first hand what they may have heard at second hand, or may not have heard at all. But whatever Mr. Lincoln may have said or thought of the execution of John Brown, he certainly disap­ proved of what John Brown did at Harper's Ferry.--Chicago Tribune. The Rev. Edward S. Tead, pastor of Prospect Hill Congregational church, Somerville, Mass., has been elected secretary of the Congregational Educational society in Boston, to suc­ ceed the Rev. Charles O. Day, the new president of Andover Theological Sem­ inary. The "Religious Fight in France• The French Associations bill is now safely through the legislature, and the debate, which has occupied the greater part of a year, is closed. During the progress of the discussion several amendments to the measure have been introduced and passed, and the gov­ ernment has receded on some points, the most Important of which was the project to confiscate the property of the religious congregations under cer­ tain conditions for the benefit of a superannuation fund. General Lew Wallace Is at work up­ on his autobiography. He made a trip to Kentucky recently to confer with some veterans on certain features ol the battle of Shiloh which will be In­ cluded in the work. which four British vessels overcame and captured the water-logged frigat« President, commanded by Captain Stephen Decatur. The London papei adds the Interesting information thai the President, after nearly a century of service in war and peace, is still useful as a "drill ship of the fourth class for the royal naval reserve in the southwest India dock basin, where MOVING rULL-QROWN TRKBS. Bomm Vtartr Tm» Old ttOtm terns Xa tin SoU to City. When Andrew Carnegie sailed for Europe 1m said he expected to return in the fall and to find waiting for him his magnificent new home on Fifth avenue in the block surrounded by Ninetieth and Ninety-first streets. In the grounds surrounding the building there will be at that time a large grove of trees growing Just as confidently and prosperously as if they had fur­ nished the shade for the place for many a year. These trees have been brought from Westchester county and from the border of Connecticut They have been selected with the greatest care, all with a view to harmonizing with a distinctive artistic design. They have been taken up, root and branch, and hauled in huge trucks from their native spots to adorn Mr. Carnegie's Fifth avenue park. In moving these trees care was taken not to injure the smallest of their twigs. There was no paring, no cutting anywhere^ Mr. Carnegie is getting old, and he wanted these stately growths, now in all their native glory. They were to grow in F>£th avenue just as they had done In the woods and forests for 20, 30 and 40 years. Modern science and invent­ ive genius have made It possible to transplant trees now without the loss of any of their vitality or any of their beauty. This is done by means of a complicated trucking system. At­ tached to the axle joining two heavy Iron wheels Is a long wooden pole, at right angles to the axle, and forming a sort of cross with it The axle la covered In the middle by a sort of felt saddle. This apparatus is moved against the tree, the saddle against its side. Two large hooks, like fishhooks are then placed under the two main roots of the trees. These hooks are suspended by a cable stretching over the top of the pole attached to the axle. This cable is now pulled over the top of the pole by a machine, and the hooks pull the tree up without In­ juring It, bringing the small fibrous roots and the earth that surrounds them. M Miner in PARLiAMBMtw A Hundred years J\ftot^^ Reviewing some famous ships that fly the British flag, a London paper t *,y tj** "-my, •J- sifei THE PRESIDENT. she has lain for a quarter of a century, though very few Londoners have seen her." The illustration given herewith shows the famous old fighting ship at BI|kMl Ambition to Sorvo Ittarutt •( Fallow WorkM, Having spent 18 years under ground, wielding a miner's pick when he was 10 years old, the member of parlia­ ment for Morepeth, Thomas Burt, might be expected to know a little on mining matters and the wages of the black toilers. Burt's history affords a grand example of that ennobling prin­ ciple of "self-help" which Smiles has advocated and Abraham Lincoln ex­ ploited. The son Of Peter Burt a miner, born at the beginning of the Victorian era in a tiny cottage ad­ joining the coal line which runs from Blackworth to the Northumberland docks, Thomas had to rush his village schooling and assimilate his wisdotn with the aid of stray books and a dig­ ger's lamp. No astrologer could have foretold that this rough Northum­ brian lad was destined to be an officer of state In the Victorian reign. The youngster went down Into the pit, the mental companion of Shakespeare, Milton, Scott and John Stuart Mill. As young Burt grew up he was always on good terms of fellowship with asso­ ciates without deeming it necessary to accompany them to the public house. He has always been an abstainer. He also became a Primitive Methodist snd a man of peace. He had no ambition save to serve the interest of his fel- low-mlners. They have ever respected him, and given him a choice of offi­ cial positions in their unions. Since 1874 he has enjoyed the by no means slight distinction of having sat in the house without losing those good qual­ ities which caused him to be sent thero by his companions in toll. Motion of Solar Rjitem. Professor Newcomb, the astronomer, discussing the advance made In that science during the last century, says that mankind is only beginning to learn something of the truth, and that the greatest victory of the astron­ omers in the nineteenth cen­ tury was the determination of the exact motion of the solar system, which is moving In space at the rate of 40,000 miles an hour, but no one can tell whence It came or whither it goeth. Another Important improvement is the application of me­ chanical methods for recording astron­ omical phenomena. An astronomer of a few years ago was compelled to keep his eyes upon the stars and sketch in­ accurately and imperfectly the objects that passed before his vision. The in­ troduction of automatic photography gives him an exact record of every event among the heavenly bodies, al­ though he may see nothing of it him­ self.--Chicago Record-Herald. Vint Kloetrte Ritarbu Rood. The first electric suburban railroad In Russia was opened for traffic this year. It connects the manufacturing city of Lodz, In Russian Poland, with the neighboring towns of Zgierz and Pablanlce, and is thirteen and one-half miles in length. The Thompson- Houston motors used were furnished by the Russian Electricity union. The road is owned by a company of Polish merchants and manufacturers, and was built at a cost of $560,000. The charter provides that the government shall re­ ceive a share of the profits, and shall have the right to purchase after twen­ ty years; and that the road and all equipment shall become the property of the government at the expiration of twenty-eight years. Two LItm Compared. A curious fact is revealed by the Peerage with regard to the earl of Leicester. He and his father married, and exactly 100 years lie between the dates of the two ceremonies. Each pun had two wives, and the present earl Is a son of his father's second marriage. 1 •• , ̂ Wlfo Vm a **Boffaio.* . , I S? When asked by his wife fot m< to buy some Hour, a resident of a western town handed her a $10 bill. She refused to give him any chan?* saying that she was a member of tho Buffaloes. The husband had her ar­ rested, but the local jnstiee dismissed the case. A WEEK in MMSOftD or HAPPRNINQS SEVEN DAYS* Car* Ctoo* mm -A nmWi Body KxhoaaoS Weaeeoda--fMaakw ObJ««u to pm ShUla* KoWonal XKyma. i«f -Bw Hut at OMtto One person was killed, two fatally • 1 injured and one badly hurt in a disss- ' ] ter which occurred during the eetebrs»< t tion of the Fourth of July at Cantos., Twenty or more people had climbed tou, " the roof of a one-story brick building to watch the passing of a parade. Th*. . sidewalk below was at the same tim*. crowded with men, women and child4:'"',?'- ren. Suddenly, and without any warn- ^ ing, the brick coping against wlifl/t the people on the roof were lesaifcg gave way, and all were precipitated to' / 1 the sidewalk, eighteen feet below. bodies of the people falling from the -vjj roof fell heavily upon the heads of the-.' people in the crowd below. A followed, buMt was soon qu!6t Letha Dydam, eight years old, had 5 4 skull crushed in the fall and died soon after. Charles Fellows and Robert Knott are so seriously hurt it is feared <:j ? they will die. Twenty others are moro- or less severely injured, but none seri­ ously. win Tto good roads convention sssenî bled at the courthouse in Cario. Con­ gressman W. D. Vandiver of Missouri was the first speaker before the con^ vention. His speech was lengthy and interesting and he handled tho subject of good roads in a masterly manner. The formation of a tri-statpf good roads association was perfected with the following officers: President, George Parsons; secretary, John tfc Rector; treasurer, George F. Ort, all of Alexander county, Illinois; vice presi­ dent, W. H. Green, Alexander county; Charles S. Brltton, Pulaski county; John Buck, Union county; W. M. Reed. Williams county; E. P. Curtis, ttaswaft county, Illinois; R. J. Bugg. Carlisle county; Stephen Elmore, Graves coun­ ty; John F. Cooke, Ballard county, and Elbert Thompson, Mississippi county, Missouri. V I < Not Iatoadod for Mcgroi*. At the second day's session of thei Wood River Baptist Sunday school convention at Galesburg, the R?v. T. U Smith of Springfield objected to the negro singing "My Country Tls of Thee." He said that the song was not intended for the race to sing and any one who at­ tempts to sing it handles the truth carelessly as long as negroes are shot; hanged and burned at the stake. "Th"» country," he said, "is not what fit claims to be, the sweet land of lib­ erty." A lively discussion followed. Ai little breeze was caused by informs^ tion furnished that Olivet and Provi­ dence Sunday school of Chicago fcatt withdrawn from the convention. Coraora Broom Cora Croft Tho Union Broom Supply company has cornered all the broom corn crop of 1900 and raised the price to $120 a ton. Three hundred tons in a war#, house at Paris has been sold to east­ ern manufacturers in the pool for $11# < a ton. This corn was cornered for )S0 and $60 a ton. During the week near­ ly 2,000 tons have been purchased by the trust in Mattoon, Humboldt, Ar- cola and Tuscola for $100 and more to secure exclusive control. Fifteen eastern manufacturers are In the com-* bination. The price will be raised to $150 to outsiders. The trust is buy­ ing up the Kansas crop and offering $90 a ton for the crop now raised. 4 %% Veterans Moot at Mowoaqaa. The eleventh annual reunion of the Shelby County Veterans' association concluded a highly successful two days* session at Moweaqua. Fully 5,000 peo­ ple were present. The officers elected H were: Commander. M. L. Lan, Tower Hill; senior vice, J. H. Yenier, Shelby* ville; junior vice, S. Bailey, Steward- son; adjutant, Wayne Cramer, Shelby- ville; quartermaster. John Clarke* Moweaqua, ' 1 1 n i n u $ y • ] •> ; ' -'! Bggfa Batch*<t bjr tlto San. Old Sol acted the part of mother to *^ brood of unhatched chickens on tho farm of Warren Powers, near Sterling. The hen was killed on her nest in tho^ field when the mowing machine ran over her, but the eggs were saved and put in a hot place. Within a few hours < there were eight eggs hatched out of % total of nine In the nest Eihomcd Body to SUoaoa Slaadafe The sudden death last month of a Thomas Monaghan, a wealthy farmer near Wauconda, has given rise to allNj sorts of accusations against the widow' by hostile heirs. The authorities havaf exhumed the body and found death;, was due to heart failure. Promlnoot Chicago Voaaa \ Mrs. Elizabeth Odlin, a resident of Chicago since 1868, died at her resi­ dence in that city of Bright's disease. Mrs. Odlin was 62 years old and is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Anna JL Chase and Mrs. May Mitchell.. 'H I. C. Parka Is DraA L. C. Parks, 85 years old, died at ms home in Crab Orchard. He was the father of ex-Sheriff Parks of William­ son county; was a merchant over half a century, and was an extensive deal- er in toe stock and tobacco. Hope resembles the head of a via and disappointment the other /•p. -v : .fci-sin; fJ , . - I t 4 - • / Cl; --L. . Mr. Harold H. House of ST and! Miss Ollie B. Edwards of Rich- yi£w, were married at the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. L S, Walker officiating. The young couple will re­ side in St. Louis. Jlfii The heat in the vicinity of FfrWjl Ington was intense on th-» Fourth. TlMt dead are: Colonel George H. Iwsfe aged 73 years, Heyworth. IlL; Jacob Horam, aged 68 years, Denver*, 11L a," -'.Mi;./tti