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THE OMAH DAILY BEE DAY, DECEMBER Y, 1yU1 eampalgn 1 of are Atlanta waukee, New Portland, Ore 1008, the in that city, AIMS TO PREVENT STRIKES r the ne Buffalo Orlear wants the xt place meeting Ange Mil- San Francisco onvention in held Los and the exposition year s o be Nationnl Civie Federntion En y Promote Cause biteat) of Are NEW YORK 8.—The National Civie Federation announces that the first annuai sezsion of the fe ation’s Industrial de partment wii be held December 18 and 1 in the roome of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. The special ob Ject of the industrial department tempt to federate the representatives of the Jarge employing corporations and assocla tions, the leaders of the large Iabor organi gations and representatives of (he al public for the purpose of establishing prin- elples of conciliation and voluntary arbitra tion as the best means to prevent strikes and lockouts The principal topics to be discussed are “The Effect of Machinery on Labor.” “The Shorter Hour Movement” and “The Joint Agreement Method of Preventing Strikes and Lockouts’” A permanent executive board will also be chosen Representatives from the large corpora- tiong, the American Federation of Labor, the rallway brotherhoods and professional men who are intercsted in the labor prob- lem are expected to participate TRADES UNION MEMORIAL Labor Representatives Form tion in r of Late President, 18 to at gene Ansocin- CHICAGO, Dec. § A national trades union movement for a McKinley memorial fund wae started here tonight when a num ber of men prominent in labor circles mat and formed the President McKinley Trades Union Memorial Assaciation of Illinols movement will be started with a fund of 300, which the letter earriers of Chicago have secured toward the building of a mon- ument dnd which they will give to the com- nilttee to attend to the collection of the funds. COCKRAN ARRAICNS ENGLAND (Continued from First Page.) s an ex- to an ex- be neces- stop (his bitter quarrel. It truordinary opportunity offered traordinary man. It would not sary o draw the sword, to make any threat of armed intervention, or to tnke an_unfriendly attitude. One word spoken 1o the, English ambassador or in the hear- ing of the English nation wou restore peace, gatablish justice, securs these birghers, promofe enormously rosperity of the human ra bring mmearurable glory to the American na- tlon. Wil that word be spoken? Nev in history have such momentous results hung on the lips of a human being. Wil Th dore Roosevelt {mprove this opportunity for himself, his country and the whole human race? . Letter from Carl A letter from Carl Schurz was read, which he sald: 1 am one of those who heartily rejofces at the subsidence in this country of the old and mor lesa unreasoning prejudice against England. 1 witness with sincer satisfaction the disappearance from —ou popular oratory of the cheap triek of Ftwigting the Beitish lon's tajl’” and 1 hail with joy the growth of a real friendship between the two nations, But Englishmen whould not Indulge In any delusions about this. Deep in thelr hearts the great masses af the Amerlean people cherish a profound sympathy for the Boers in their gjruggles und sufferings. What they mned when done by the Spanish in ¢ y d not_approve of when done by the British in South Africa. And if there is anything apt to revive the old antl-British feefling in this republic It is the terrible spectacle pre sented by the Boer war. Pro-Boer Resolution hur in The following resolutions were adopt Resolved, That we as Amerlcan citizens, belf that the wanton destruction of pro o noncombatants by English military authorities in the South African republics, unknown in modefn times, save English officers in the war of the Amer- n revolution, fs a source of needless suf- fering to the people of the South African republics and without advantage ‘to the military operations of the British army, and that the slaughter of the helpless and it caused by English prison pens @ causeless outrage upon the humanity of the civilized world which amply justify concentrated remonstra by American and European states, and belleving t the rights and obligations of common manity are not determined by geographical or political Timitations, and regarding the treatey of 18571 as made to be observed by England as well as by Amerfea, do most solemnly remonstrate and protest against the acts of the glish government Treaty of Washing Resolved, That we and each of us do pledge outselves to use our utmost powers to make this, our protest, known to our several reprexentatives in the Amer- ican congress and to cause a copy of these rfesolutions to be brought to the attention of the president of the United States with our most respectful but urgent petition that the treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871, be strietly enforced and that the use of Amers fcan ports and waters be henceforth denfe to vessels operating under British charters for the aigmentation of war supplies and that the president of the United States will use_every means to bring to nd_the Rorrors of concentration camps and a w fare by its unexampled ferocity and er of life and treasure has tounded the, clv ed world, Resolved, That the chalrman be author- fzed 16 appoint 4 committee of citizens of Chicago to call the attention of the presi- dent to these resolutions and to inform him of the sentiment of the cltizens of Chicago, and that such committee shall hiave power to add to its number citkzens of other portions of the United States. A resolution was also adopted commend- g Governor Yates of Tlinofs for Isauing a proclamation calling for assistance for the oceupants of concentration camps in South Africa, Raise Five Th The sand Dollars meeting closed with demonstration. . Following making the great audience proval of the Boer cause, the cheering heing long continued, and then contribu- tions were asked for the relief of the stricken women and children in the South African camps. The rst response was a check for $500, senf up by a man who requested that his name be withbeld, Then followed checks for $100, the contributors of these amounts belng numerous. Then smaller sums were asked for, Money came freely from all parts of the great auditorium. A large re- lef fund was raised, the total amount belng something over $5,500. a remarkable the speech- roared its ap- ¥aneral of Arthor Grd KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.—Funeral seryices over the remains of Arthur Grissom, editor of the Bmart Bet, who died in New York Tuesdny, were held at the home of the family 1h this efty. Burial was had at In- dependence, near here, Mr, Grissom's for- mer_home. Former newspaper associates in Kansas City acted as pallbearers and many writers in the southwest attended. —— Movements of Ocean Vessels Dee. S, At Houthampton — Arrived — Koenigen Luise, from New York, for Bremen, and proceeded. At Queenstown Liverpool, 1or New Y At Philadelphla — Arri fiom Queenstown and Tiverpeol. At London—Arrived=Anubis, from San Franciéco, via Valparaiso, Montevideo, St. Vincent and Teneriffe. A At New York — Arriv L' Aquitaine, trom Havre; Island, from Copenhagen truria, from wordland, Affer Dinner To assist digestion, relieve distress after eating or drinking too heartily, to prevent constipation, take Hood’s Pills Sold vawrt 35 cents, The | | | | | I I | port of Prot | substantial | CIVIL SERVICE 1IN VOGUE| Woather Bureau New Operating en Striot Morit System Bas's avors | IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY wi ent, « su lef of De- is L. Moore, Tells of rogress Being Made Under tes. * Improved Faol St | 8.—The annual re- | Willls L. Moore, chiet ot the weather bureau, says that improvements have been made during the last year in the weather bureau ystem of wireless telegraphy. Such prog- ress has been made by the government ex- perimenters that, with no interference by | private systems, stations can be success- fully operated over at least 150 miles of | coast line and are now in operation along | the Virginia and North Carolina consts aud soon will be instituted between the Farral- | lone fslands aud the mainland, and Tutoosh island and the mainland on the Pacific coast. The system of selective telegraphy he regards as well demonstrated thcoretically, | but has not been fully tested in practice WASHINGTON, Dec United States | Striet Merlt System, The report says A sygtem of merit and been gradually developed bureau, ‘which not only conforms to_the letter of the cfvil wervice law, but earries its spirit to a logical conclusion. <Ihe sys- | tem compels each employe or officlal to | work out his own official salyation. It | 15 falr (0 all; it epables honest and effielent persons o 'work . themselves upward; it contributes to u high stafidard of manly chiracter and .to effclency i public office and it holds back those of mediocre at- tainment or slothful habits, An important cxtension of the forecast work of the bureau wis made during the year whereby meteorological reports trom certain pointe in the Britkh isles, th continent of Europe and from the re transmitted te \Washington and bs¢rvations from Nassau, Hermuda and urks fsiand, are regularly published on the woather' maps, together with fore- | casts of the wind ‘and the state of the | weather for the first three days out ¢ sleamers bound castward, In & number « instances wher storms of marked strength were passing eastward off the American coast ' forecasts of the weather, which robably would be experienced by steamers eaving K n ports westward bound, were cabled to England. = Fog predictions alko were lssued. Repofts from steamers discipline has in the weather Azo with show that these forecasts and oth clal warnings have been verified. ol L of Extended. The lines years by the climate the weather bureau were continued and extensions and improv ents ade wher- ever possible. The cotton reglon service has been extended Into Oklahoma and the Indian territ and arrangements have made for beginning a similar work alifornia to be Known as the fruit wheat service. Prof. Moore points | ride to the complete system the ireau_has for the accurate and | compl collection and dissemination of | crop information, having a large number | of pald employes and volunteer observers and 14,000 persons reporting wmkli' to cen- tral points on the effect of weather upon crops in their respective localitles. The distribution of forecasts by rural free de- livery has become decldedly popular and ther¢ are a.a aggregat of nearly 42,00 familles in farming districts being sup- piled with t CREATE FOUR VICE ADMIRALS (Continued from First Page.) Reprosentative Corliss of Michigan suc- ceeding to the work on the death of his dis- tinguished predecessor, It has always ear- rled In the house by a vote overwhelmingly In excess of the required two-thirds, and sometimes its opponents were so few in number that they have not been able (per- haps they have not been willing) to-muster enough members to secure a roll call. But notwithstanding this unanimity of the popular branch of congress on the sub- ject the joint resolution has always been permitted to accumulate dust in the pigean holes of the committee on privileges and elections of the senate. It is likely to be different now, for Sanator Burrows, who will become chajrm , I8 a resolute advo- cate of the change. He voted for it as a member of the house and has supported it on every division in the committee since he has been on the committee of privileges and clections. He s not &0 very hopeful that the senate will take any action looking to an alteration of the general method of elect- ing senators, but he is quite confident of getting a favorable expression for the first time from the committee. May Go Over Senate's Head. And he also looks to going over the head of the senate itself. He sald today: “For many years the sentiment in favor of this change has been spreading widely through thé United States. There Is no doubt that it 1s overwhelmingly popuiar among the people in all the states. In thirty-five states of the union, by one manner or another, formal expressions have been had in favor of popular election. The branch of con- gress which Is now chosen by popular vote has several times expressed its belief in the change and passed joint resolutions. The senate has eat still, paying no attention to the overwhelming demand for the change on the part of the people or the formal action of the co-ordinate branch of congress. Some of these days the state legislatures will go right over the senate in this matter. It seems to be the general impression that the only manier.in which constitutional amend- ments can be proposed s by joint resolu- tion of congress submitting amendments for the ratification of the legislatures of-the states. But this Is not correct. There exists the great power of summoning a national constitutional convention. Congress is not only wholly powerless to summon a body, but also wholly powerless -to prevent its being summoned, and once called there will be no doubt whatever as to its action. The articlé governing this subject says: “‘The congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the cofistitution or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirde of the several states shall call a convention for proposing amendments.’ There has been an expression in one form or another on the part-of the legislatures of people of thirty-five states in favor of pop- ular election of semators and it is quite within the, power of these states or of thirty of them to request congress to call such a convention and congress will have nothing to do but respond to the demand In that event the senate will go out of busi- ness as an obstructor of the proposition to mend or end the present method of cheosing its own member: work pursued in previous and crop service o SEEK TO ABOLISH POLYGAMY Church Representatives Will tion Congress for Amend- ment to Conatitution, Peti- WASHINGTON De: At a meeting held here today at the First Congrega- | tlonal church under the auspices of llu‘i Woman's International union, a n‘nulunon" was adopted endorsing an amendment to the constitution prohibiting polygamy within | the domain of the United States and urging | the passage of a bill with that object in | view by the present congress. A pre- amble to the constitution expressed the | bellef that polygamy as taught by the | Church of the Latter Day Saints is lll“‘ & part of their bellef and practice, that the laws of Utah'are inadequate to sup- it and that there is no way by which | ican | 1taly, as | Although no lives wer this offonse can be reached so satistactorily than through the ¢onstitution of the United States Rev. Dr. Niccolls, a member of the Pre byterian Home Mission board of St. Louls, who is attending the meeting of the Pres- byterian revision committee here, presided. Ad made by Rev. Luther B Wilson ou Foundry church, Washingtonu; Rev, N. E. Olmonson, pastor of the Pres- byterian church at Logan, Utah; Rev. Fred- erick D. Power, pastor of the Vermont Ave- nue Presbyterian church, and Rev. A. S Fiske, all favoring the proposed amend- ment. A létter was read from Bishop Henry Y. Satterley of Washington, in which he expressed the earnest hope that the amendment would be carrfed and adding ‘It is surely in line with all of our Amer- traditions.” Rev. Dr. Clemenson declared that Iygamy is spreading in Utah CHANGE IN PAPAL DELEGATE Report (hat Mgr. Sealbrint Wi ceed Cardinal Martinelll Doubted, w808 wer Sue- H1INGTON, Dec, 8.—The reported as- nt of Mgr. Scalbrini of Plasensea, the successor of Cardinal Marti- velll, the papal delegate in thie country, is regarded as very improbable by officlals of the delegation in this city Monsignor Scalbrini fs regarded as one of the ablest ecclesiastics of the church in Italy and for a number of years has been in charge of his diocese. He has become very much attached to his people, €0 much so, in fact, that when some time ago he was offered a position in the church which meant elevation to cardinalate, he refused to leave his assignment. The expectation here is that Cardinal Martinelli will remain until spring WAS slgnm FIRE IN PRIVATE SANITARIUM reat Difficult culng the Twenty-Seven neountered in Rew- Inmates MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 8.—A fire today came near resulting in serious loss of lite at St. Mary's private sanitarium. For a time there was a panic among the patients lost great difficulty getting the twenty- the sanitarium out in time, Twenty-four of the patients were carried from the bullding by firemen, ten of these being 8o decreplt with age as to be entirely Aclpless. The property loss s small KILLS WHITE MAN AND FLEES Large Posse $cours the Country for Negro Criminal Whe Murdered 0. A. Whit MINTER CITY, Miss, Whitman, a white man, was killed by a negro named Ben Jones ncar here today. Jones escaped and a large posse is scouring the country for him. was experienced in seven inmates of Dec. 8.-0. A British Have New LONDON, Dec. when Parliament Tan r Camps, 9.~It is reported that assembles the British | Parliament will bring forward a new pro- posal with regard to camps in South Africa. proposal will suggest refugees in . the settled ing to a dispatch from the centralization It is believed this the distribution of district. Accord- a Brussels to the Standard, Halland has asked the powers to | support it in a demand that the people in these camps be brought to Holland. Duchess Co LONDON, Dec. 8-The papers announce that when the duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, visits the United States with her children this winter she will spend Christmas with her father, William K. Vanderbilt, at his coun- try howme, Idle Hour, and return to Great Britain in February en to Amerien, Ready to Bulld Turkey CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 8.—The Cramp Shipbullding company has notified the porte that it is ready to commence build- ing a cruiser for the Turkish government and has asked the government to send offi- cers to supervise the vessel's construction. Alleged Partic VIENNA, Dec. 8. man named Halju, Sofla, ‘Decembe pant in Kidnaping. -It 18 sald here that the who was arrested at and alleged to be the assassin of ex-Premier Stambuloff, had a hand in the kidnaping of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary. Counter Plates, ROME, Dec. 8.-~The hearing of the action brought by the Harvey Steel company against the Ternl Steel company for eoun- terfeiting Harvey plates has been fixed for December 30 before the Spoleto tribunal. Mythology in Knn-ulr Pittsburg zette: “Someone In Kansas proposed that a statue of Ceres be placed on tho dome of the new state house, but now he wishes he hadn't made the proposi- tion,” remarked the exchange editor, as he lald down a Kansas paper “What's the objection?”’ asked the tele- graph editor. “It is urged that no one in Kansas knows the lady and that she was probably an act- rese, anyhow. It is the opinfon that the figure of Chief Fewclothes, an Indian, would be more appropriate as an ornament to the dome of the Kansas state house.'" “‘Well, T should think that a statue of Chief Fewclothes would be & nude depar- ture at any rate,' NSIONS FOIR WESTERN VETERANS, War Survivers Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—(Speclal)—The following western pensions have been granted: Issue of November 19 Nebraska: Original (war with Spain)— Brenton 8. Hubbard, Havelock, $17. In- crease, restoration, ' relssue, ete.—Dani Matthew, Western, $10; Thomas H. Dalley, Omaha, $17. Towa: Original-Lyman A. Sewell, Deni- n, $6; Frederick Dahlman, Dubuque, $§; r with 8pain, Justus J. Morrls, Monte: zuma, $6; Michael Karrer, Creston, $§, Ine crease, restoration, ®lssue, etc.—James I. Holcomb, Nashua, $10: Henry "A. Siders, Des Moines, $8; Tsaac Thompson, Red Oak, 88 Allen B. White, Sloux City,'$3; James B Shackelford, Haaleton, $6; Claus’ Peters, Boone, $5; Ell Mefford, Cedar Rapids, $8! Nicholas 1. Lindsey, Wyoming, $12; Wil- llam Marlow, Bear Grove, $8; John M Karr, Reasnor, 8 Wil 2. Herrington Dubuque, $13: "Thomas Francls W. Crumpton, Fort Original ~ widows, ete.—Emily el, Cherokee, $8; spectal accrued November 21 Josephine A.' Hall, Eldora, 3§ South Dakota: ' Orlgina Wipf, Freeman, $17. Increase, restoration, relssue, ete.—Robert Hill, Btarcher, $10. North Dakota: Increase, restoration, re- tesue, ete.—Edward J, Brown, Kenmore, 3§, Colorado: _Original-Willlam M. Duncan, Denver, $6: Henry C. Allen, Brush, $§ Montana: Original (war with’ Spafn)— Everett L. Metcalf, Butte, $ L o n Foruer. Carl Cramer, wanted in Omaha for for- ery, was located in 8t. Paul Sunday by deteatives Heelan and Johnson and was urreated and placed in jail at that About the first of November Cramer to Omaha and passed checks on the ton Store. Hayden Bros. and several firms. The checks were forgeries, but be- fore the discovery was made Cramer left town. The checks aggreguted several hun- dred dollars. Detective Johnson will leave for St. Paul after the prisoner as soon as requisition papers can be secured Alexander D No Funeral services of thd late Charles F Stockham will be held from family resi- dence, 208 North Elghteenth street, Mon- day afternoon at 2 o'clock Friends invited. ' un e, po- | KILL AMERICAN DESERTER David Fagin, Negre Who Fled te Filipines, in Decapitated. GIVES SCOUTS LONG AND WEARY CHASE nernl Chaffee Disapproves Sentence of Death Pronounced on Inldore Torres, the Insurgent v Commander, MANILA, Dec. 8.~The gcouts from Bengabon province of Nueva Eeija have | killed the American negro, David Fagin, a | deserter from the Twenty-fourth (colored) infantry, who for more than two years American troops. The native scouts de- capitated their prisoner. The man's head, however, was recognized as that of Fagin | They also secured his commission in the insurgent army. Fagin had on one of his fingers the class ring of Lieutenant Fred- erick W, Altstaetter of the engineers, who was captured by Filipinos, supposedly un- der the command of Fagin himself, October 28, 1900, Fagin {s the deserter who has been re- ported killed on several occasions. The authorities are satisfled that former state- ments of his death were erroneous and that he has now been killed. Condemn Torres to Die. A military commission bas sentenced the Filiplno General Isidore Torres to be hanged after finding him guilty of ordering the assassination of Corporal Fieldner of the Twelfth infantry at Malolos, province of Buluacan, last October. The sentence of the commission has beeh disapproved by General Chaftee, who finds that the com- migsion had reasonable grounds to doubt whether General Torres personally ordered the assassination of the American soldier. General Chaff thinks that the held by Torres in the insurgent army would have been sufficlent to prevent such un- military action on his part. The case of Patterson, the Englishman, private secro- tary to Sixto Lopez, whom efforts were made to deport from Manila after he had landed there without swearing alleglance to the United States, is still hanging fire before the supreme court. Patterson’s attorneys claim that their Jurisdiction of W. Morgan Shuster, col- lector of customs for the Philippines, who has been trylng to effect Patterson's ex- pulsion. CREATES ANNUAL CELEBRATION Authorizes Commemoration of Jose Rizal's Birthday in Phil- ippinen. MANILA, Dec, 8.—Superintendent Atkin- son of the public schools of the archipelago has written a letter to Pedro Paterno, tho | Fllipino politiclan, saying instructions have | been given to every school throughout the island to celebrate annually the birthday ot Jose Rizal, the Fillpino patriot who was | executed by the Spaniards. The Itte and history of Rizal will be recited in the schools on this day. Paterno, in a manl- festo, has asked for contributions from the scholars, their parents and their teachers, to be devoted to constructing the proposed monument to Rizal's memory. Paterno con- cludes his manifesto, eaying: “If Rizal, the Filipino..Washington, were alive, he would hel dTl Flipino ‘children to gain an education.”™ The United States Philippine commission has passed an act guthorizing the insular purchasing agent to draw money in gold for the payment of supplies purchased, as the merchants refuse to sell goods for Mexican silver. A general feeling of uneasiness prevails among the business men of Manila from the unofficial announcement that beginning January 1 the United States Philippine ommission intends to reduce by the differ- ences of the fall in the price of silver, the present ratio of two Mexican dollars for one gold dollar. 1t is hoped, however, that some solution of the difficulty may be found which may obviate this necessity, as, for instance, the taxing of each silver dollar imported into the islands by the difference between its actual bulllon price and 50 cents in gold until such time as the United Statek congress gives authority for the fssuance ot a Philippine currency. L h Hotel Burna, LONDON, Dec. 8.—The Queen's hotel at South Sea was burned down this morning. Forty of the guests escaped from the building in their nightelothes. Two cham- bermalds were suffocated and several fire men and others were {njured. FAIR MONDAY AND TUESDAY Westerly Wind for raska and Snow is Predicted for Northern Territory. WASHINGTON, Dec. Monday and Tuesday: For Nebraska, Oklahoma, Indian Terri- tory, Arkans: and Kansas—Fair Monday and Tuesday; westerly winds. For Towa and Missouri—Fair Monday anq probably Tuesday; light, variablo winds. For South Dakota—Generally fair Monday, except snow in northeast portion; Tuesday fair; uorthwesterly winds. For Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Utah—Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday; light, varlable winds. Local Record, OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, Dec. 8.—-OMclal record of tem: perature and precipitation compared with the corresponding day of the last three rs: o 1901, 1900 1589, 1998 7 8 2 -1 8.—Forecast for Maximum temperature Minimum temperature.. Mean temperature o i Precipitation ... T 18 .00 Record of temperature and precipitation at Omaha for this day and since March 1, 1901 Normal temperature ... cess or deficlency for th | Total excess since March 1. Normal precipitation ... | Deficlency for the day’." Total rainfall since March 1 | Deficlency since March 1 | Kxcess for cor, perfod, 190 Defictency for cor. period, 1508 Reports from Stations at 23.50 Inches 5.93 inches inch 4.62 inches 7 pom, CONDITION OF THE WEATHER, --wopendpRag | ~e19dwa) WNWINEN Omaha, cloudy Valentine, cloudy North Platte, clear Huron, cloudy Rapld City, clear Cheyenne, clear | Balt’ Lake City, Williston, eloudy &0, Tainin ouls, cloy aul, clear enport, cloudy was Clty, cloudy Helena, partly cloudy Bismarck, : Galveston, loudy Dav | & ar . cloudy Below zero. o i iy E ci of précl o indicates trace of précipltation, . Local Forecast Oficlal. | has been leading Filipinos agaiust the | rank | client, once having landed, Is beyona the | | | | i FASTERS AND FASTING Folks that Seem Not Meals a to Day. A few days ago the Philadelphia Ledger reported the case of Mrs. Jane Lynn, who tived near Franklin, Pa., but who died after a fast of sixty-one days, during which, sald the reporter, with scrupulous exactness “she swallowed only one ounce of food, and for fitty-five days she took absolutely noth ing, with the exception of a small glass of water occasionally.” The report compared Need this case with that of Dr. Tanner, who won | fame by fasting forty. days; but Dr. Tanne: has been outclassed so often that he 18 no longer an object of interest. Rince his time there have been many Individuals who have fasted from thirty to sixty or more days and most of them declared that their health was much improved by the process One of the most interesting of these, says the Ledger, was Leonard Thress of Phil adelphia, who, fn the winter of 1900, fasted for fifty days, as & cure for dropsy. At the end of that time he ate a hearty meal, smoked a clgar and declared that he never folt better in his life. His weight had diminished from 209 to 133 pounds, but the dropsy had left him and he was physically sound and well Another remarkable faster s Miss Estella . Kuenzel, also of Philadelphia, who was reported in the Ledger on Docember 25, 1899, but without giving her name. Miss Kuenzel fasted forty-five days, but, unlike Dr. Tanner, she did not shut herself up in a room and take no exercise. She walked long distances almost every day, and on the forty-fourth day of her fast covered soven miles. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about her experience was that during her faat she lost only twenty pounds in welght, Just at present there seems to be some- thing of an epidemic of fasting. Several in- stances have appeared in recent news re- ports. On August 5 Miss Agnes Mitchell of Detroft ended a fust of forty-six duys, un dertaken to cure 4 stomach trouble. She nearly collapsed during that time, becom- ing deaf, dull of sight and at times uncon- scious; but on the forty-sixth day she sur- prised those about her by saying, “I feel hungry.”” teok some wheat broth, and the report says, “It is confidently expected by caso | her family tha. she will regain her health.” Atout the same time Dr. Immanuel Pfeif- tor of Boston ended a thirty days' fast vn- dertaken In the intersst of sclence. Dr. Pfoiffer made daily notes of his progrcss and found that he lost in welght nearly a pound & day. He lost more flesh on days wiien he drank but little water, when he overexerted himself or when the hout was excessive. On some days he gained in welght and his whole loss in the thirty days was twenty-six pounds. 1t was his third experience in fasting avll he declares he will not be satisfied until he nas fasted sixty days without losing weight-—a feat which Dr. Tanner, who fs now in New York, en- courages him to belicve is possible. Like Dr. Tanner he broke the fast with a per- fectly enormous meal and felt no i1l effects from it The fast of F. H music in the public Buttetfield, director of achools of New Bed ford, which began about July 15, was still in progress at last account. Mr. Butter fleld was a sufferer from indigestion. Ie took advantage of his vacation to camp out in the Maine woods and do his fasting away from the curious crowd, but to an fu- terviewer who found him there he said “I am not fasting for a record or because 1 enjoy it; 1 am oo good an eater for. that 1 stopped eating simply because 1 was con vinced that It was the only way to ward off a severe illness. * ¢ * . have now gone over twenty-five days, and have no craving for food. How long before I shall is a ques- tlon time alone can apswer. * * * [ am not well yet; my tongue must look better than that before my stomach calls a halt in my fasting." So It seems there are people to whom three square meals a day are not an actual necessity. CLOTHES PROVE THEIR RUI the Effects of Wearlng Conts. white man's glory—his clothes—is likely to prove the bane of the red man of the west. At least one tribe of Indians 18 succumbing to the enervating influence of the tatlor-made coat. The Topokaws, of whom a few lonely individuals still sur- vive, were an agricultural race living hap pily In the bottom lands of the Colorado river near the Gult of California. ' peacetully tilled the sofl and went about as their ancestors had done for hundreds of years, enjoying life in their untutored fashion. But one day sudden envy of the white man'g wardrobe implanted fiself in their breasts. Then after each harvest the head of the family put seventy-five or 100 pounds of corn ipto small sacks @nd made enty-five miles journey to Yuma. Here the corn was sold to the traders for ubout $1.50, which Is fully 50 cents under the The market value, and he invarfably spent all | of the proceeds in shirts and overalls for himself and calico for his wives, It was not alone the unaceustomed phy- sical oppression following the wearing of these unusual garments taat weakened the savages, but they even began to deny themselves proper food in saving money | to make additions to their collection of “gtore clothes.” To be dressed like the neighboring white man was a distinction among the braves that cost them dear. Prof. W. J. McGee of the bureau ethnology sald of this strange case: “The fact is, they are dying from clv- flization, or it would be more proper to say, from the fact that their civilization has not kept pace with thelr ambition. They are an interesting people from the fact that they are the lowest, most primi- tive and thoroughly degraded of all the Indian tribes in the southwest Dies from Injuries SALEM, Ore., Dec. Ingineer Willlam White, who was injured in the wreck on the Southern Pacific last night, died to- night. Tonlght's overland train was de- layed seven hdurs. There is no clew to the traln wreckers. of 5= s SHOOTS AGAIN. Althoungh Coffee Took His Eye: for Awhile, A Colorado camp cook had to quit his job because he could not make coffee withont drinking it himself and it was killing him. He says he used to take a cup of coffee be- fore he got his breakfast for the men, for he felt the need of keeping up his strength and his stomach troubled him so much “Finally,” he says, “I got 8o bad I was taken to the hospital. The doctor told me it was a clear case of coffee polson and if 1 did not quit T would never get well. I had to quit in the hospital and gradually got a lttle better, then I took to drinking Postum Food Coffee and took it out with me to a Job in the woods. “I have been using Postum steadily for about eighteen months and have entirely recovered from dyspepsia, and all my aches and ails. My eyes are so well now that 1 can see the gunsights as good as anybody, but two years ago I mever could hunt because of my I know it I5 the quitting of coffee and using Postum that has benefited nfé. Nobody could have dyspepsia any worse than I had. Al my neighbors thought I was going to die, but I am all right now. 1 bave to send thirty-five miles to the city of Trinidad for my Postum, but it is worth while.” Willlam Gree Bur- wing, Colorado. es. the sev-| old | RUSSIAN. FANINE CONTINUES Distress Spreads in Placss and Outlesk is Most Fearful, HUNGER AND DISEASE ARE PREVALENT | omeinl Repo | Attributes Rassin's 1 and Conl to Rank Extravagn | | ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 22.-(Corre spondence of the Associated Press.)—The |ministry of the interior yester day issued another statement about the famine. Five and one-balf mill fon poods of winter grain and purchased and forwarded to the needy dis- tricts. Thetotal grain purchases are given exceeding 16,000,000 poods, for which Y00 roubles have been expended. The entire famine fund so far disposable {8 14,- 213,268 roubles. The original estimates of grain to relieve the famine districts are now ftcund to be excessive, and they have consaquently been reduced in a number of cases. Conditions In Asiatic Russia are still bad aud much relief will be sent there. Petitions for official proclamation of famine from Asiatic Russia were recelved from twenty-seven districts and were granted in tweniy-two Conditions Wors, an Report Private reports which have appeared in the press from time to time are not nearly ws opimistic ax the governmental. Hunger and disease have been reported much more prevalent than the minister of the interior admits. In addition to direct help for the famine district help has been granted in several forms. Workingmen traveling to public works will enjoy the moderate emi- grant rate and mategials needed for the works, as well as grain, will be distributed at greatly reduced tarl: The czar his just sanctioned the be- ginning of the preliminary work on two great railroads—Petersburg-Viatka and Bo- legoye-Siedlitz. The latter s a strateglc road leading to the western frontier. Many workmen from the famine districts will find employment in clearing the right of way of these roads. The Torgovo-Promyshtennaya Gaz the daily organ of the finance ministry, y terday published a detailed article which affords valued detaile in regard to the Si- berian & Eastern Chinese rallroad. First, | as to the length of track that has been | laid: Kaldaloft branch, from Cheyla-Birk to Irkou'sk, 140 verst; then beginning from the cast, the Trans-Balkal line, with 3,140 versts; the Oussouri line, from Khabarowsk to Viadivostock, with a branch to Grode Kovo, 8§12 versts; main east Chinese line, to connect the Trans Balkal and Oussourl lines, 1,440 versts; South Manchurian line, Kharbin-Singari-Port Arthug, 980 versts; total, 7,702 verst Twenty representatives of the Ruesian fresh meat interests are golng to England «oon at government expense to arouse in- terest in the English market for Ruseian products. A delegation will also come from | Englana for the same purpose. It s prob- | able that the Russian production could com- pete with Amerfcan if the proper methods | of butchering, cooling and shipment are } employed., | For Alaskan The Nova Vremya is interested in the American project to build an Alaskan rail- way, bridge Behring strait and effect a junction ‘with the Siberian rallway. St. Petersburg students have begun the tssue of an underground newspaper. It Is stated in the first Issue that meetings are planned at Kharkoff and that the students would continue to protest unless women and Jews were admitted unrestrictelly to all educational institutions; unless the local restrictions were removed and unlesa the former students were all readmitted Some of the more conservative students aver the reforms demanded by this paper are too radical and should not be countes nanced, | A new city, | the far east near Port | peror’s coronation day. The telegraphic report of Commissioner Witte asks why Russia continues to con- sume so much foreign steel products and coals and is answered as follows by the | Gharkoft Vedomoski | Due to Extravagan “Candor compels us to admit it 1s because we industrially have little knowledge and less sclence, little money but a great appe- tite. We bought land regardless of price; we erected fancy factories; we have been paying our executive officers and commis- slons insane salaries and fees, We have distributed outrageously high dividends, but we have lald nothing by for the which has inevitably arrived. | some of us, dealt In the most reckless stock manipulations; we have borrowed money anywhere and everywhere at any ! price. “We have enjoyed government support for twenty years and have an insatiable appe- tite for more, and we admit we cannot even hold the domestic market, in spite of tremendous import duties." te, Ratlway | | | Arthur on the em- Sudden End of a N Sol- Aters. The “angel of the transports” s dead, reports the New York Journal. She dropped lifeless as she arose from a sick bed to get a glass of water. She was Mrs, Adeline Sullivan, widow of Dr. George Robert Sullivan, a surgeon of the civil war. She died as the result of overwork, nervous prostration and heart disease, aggravated by her exertions in be- half of the sick, wounded and penniless veterans of the Spanish war and alse In behalf of hundreds of soldiers with an hon- orable dischurge who had lost their old jobs and sought ber ald in procuring work She was {1l iu bed and had arisen when the entrance of dn attendant startled her and she fell liteless. Mrs. Sullivan was connected In her work with Miss Helen Gould, Miss Florence Bal- lard Day, Mrs. Horace See, wife of the marine architect, and other women. She worked with the Board of Trade and Trans- portation and’ the Red Cross. The brave widow, who had contributed liberally from her own means to the needs of the destitute soldiers, broke down in August, 1500, and for a time her life hung {n the balance at her city home, 4 East Forty-third street. In October following she had another narrow escape from death by typhold. $o important did her work become as the agent of the Soldiers' Rellef assoclation that she was permitted to make the army building in Whitehall street her hendquar ters Many a soldier who died in hospital was | saved from Potter's fleld by Mrs. Sullivan | who guaranteed the cost and trusted to the patriotism of friends to refill her purse for | the next call | At the horror camp of Chickamauga the | soldiers first learned to ‘love Mrs. Sullivan | In the tever hospitals at Chickamauga, | Tampa, Montauk and in every hospital in Manhattan and Brooklyn to which sick sol dlers were sent her sympathy, cheering ‘imm\ and personality encouraged poor fel- lows who had passed the danger line to fight for lite. She threw open the doors evo Gorod, was founded in | three millions of summer gralin have been | | commissioned grades the “angel [T, of her home in Flemington veterans for whom it was » hospitals to flnd room She found plafes for many the army building in comm ufacturing houses and in fir ard's department and deck transports. She made it her business | visit each transport to Rive counsel save the unwary soldier from the grecd the shoro shark The railroads- were her tion for volunteer. The “angel the transports,” prepos sessing in face, figure, dress and carriage, was an Inspiration to the tattered men in khaki who frequently fell from weakness or exhaustion in the army bullding. From the commandant of the Department of the Past down to the commissioned and non had the N not J., to those possible for soldlers in relal and man roon crews s stow of the an nd friends, many a steamahip companic furnishing transporta stranded and shattered of support of all GROWING OLD GRACE Elsnbeth Cady Stanton, Now 8§, Says “Live in the ¥ Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing on the subject of how to grow old easily, happily and gracefully. She fs now In her 85th year and she says that life to her fe as sweet as ever. She has no palns of aches, no regrots or forebodings for her self; all her sorrows are for the troubles of others. “1 attribute my vigorous old age in part to advantagecus clreumstances “in sent a8 been she ways t to a happy, hopeful temperament con sense of humor, sympathies for all my fellow belngs and a deep interest in all the vital questions of the hour, One must_have. an earne life beyond perdonal ambition aggrandizement “Self-centered characters do not posgess the necessary elemonts of a high develop ment. 1t one would bave a happy old age the first conditjon fs a sound bods; (o that end exercise, diet, dross, sanitary conditions are all impe nt “Nature does her best al woman's life to make each change one of added health and happiness. Those obed ent to her laws rejoice u every step from youth to age, “Fifty {6 the heyday of intellectual life Then the vital forces used in reproduction are garnered in the brain, giving new idoas and adding force, clearness and beauty to thought. “There comes to # woman eloquence of expression and she finds a wider field for her sympathies. She has new interests in the great world which fs the future home of her children, in which she Is now to labor to make it fit for them to live in. “My philosophy is to live in the present. Regrets for the past are vain; the page 18 turned; the is no remedy for what is done. As to.the future, anxieties are equatly vain; we do wot know what will bring forth; what we hope may never oceur; the present that is ours." t purpose and in family all perfods of one day or fear all AQ Jack Shields, well known on Mount Ad- ams, tells the following story in the Cin- cinnati Enquirer on a Young man of the east end whose name he refuses to divulge ““He courted a young woman of my ace quaintance,” egplains Jack, “and finally proposed to her. She was from Missourt and ‘had to be shown' how much my friend was earniug. He told her $16 a week. She accepted him. During the first week after the marriage the young fellow arose at 4 o'clock in the moming and was on his way to work an hour later. He never I until 7 o'clock i the evening, stating that he worked -twelve hours, from mto 6 p.om. Thus it was that the wife saw but little of her husband. “On pay day the early-riser and hard worker brought his envelope, still sealed, to his better hulf. When she opened it she was rather astonished to find but $3 ‘How is this dear? I thought vou were earning $16 per week? she asked *'So I am, but 1 only worked halt time last week,' he replied. ** ‘Well, for beaven's kake, was her star tled query, ‘what time would you leave the house and when would y return cach day it you worked full time?’ CRONJE'S FAY w nan ed Hix Master's Fortunes Until Disnster Can eneral Cronje's dog, the footed creature that followed { his master from the outhreak of the war until he was run to earth at Paare has thrown in his lot with the British He fx, writes a’ Capetown corre f the Lond Mail, located at mp, and Joys life with the falthful four- the fortuires best of them The dog is of the 1Re his former in the legs disposition, cerned, and retrlever breed, but un muster, exceptionilly I On the whole he is of & sur 80 fAr A% SIPALEErs ure con- wil rocelye attention from none save a man in unfform. He attends every parade held In camp, and whenever A company of men_are sent away, he uc- companles them 10 the rallway 'static walts untll they are entrained and then re turns disconsolately to camp. Church parade on Sunday morning is a fixture he never misses, thaugh when the state of the weather necossitates the hold- service in_the recrantion room Alis outsl should th e he rolonged more th Vo minutes over the usual time the dog solemnly marches in to inquire the reason. Altoget the animal {s made much of by the men in camp, but he 18 not glven to making many friends. e tn alwayvs rendy for o AEht with iny visiting canine, but he invarlably emerges from the encounter second best, evidence of which {8 to be found fn t torn. and mangled condition of his cont AMUSEMENTS, (] Woodward & Bu BOYD'S | “ivgia e Trl‘é'i'oi"'g‘fi%"{“ Tuesday, Wednesd, 5‘11\’ Thursday Nights, ZAU. 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