The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1895, Page 4

- - idn: Aftempt to CRUSES SO 0 S - . this Government will afford full protec- 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, the last annual convention of Railway Commissioners held in thie city last May. The Railway Commissioners of all States, and all efficers charged with any duty in the supervision of railways are asked te | attend. The session of American railway | accounting officers is also invited. The committee on organization of programme consists of L. B. Brown of Pennsylvania, J. Yantis of Illinois, J. W. Luke of Jowa, James W. Rea of California and Edward A. Mosely of the Interstate Commerce Commission. OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. FAVORS HER FREEDOM Senator Call Speaks in the Cause of Cuba. ALL FOR INDEPENDENCE. it Additional Pensions Granted in Califor- nia and Oregon. WASHINGTDN, D. C., April 5—The special mail service will be stopped be- tween Tollhouse and Pine Ridge, Fresno County. John W. Ebner was commissioned Post- master at Mount Angel, Oregon. Pensions bave been issued as follows: California: Original—George W. Green, | Prunedale, Monterey County; William H. Joy, Healdsburg, Sonoma County. Reis- sued—Samuel E. Cobbs, Elsinore, River- side County. Original widows, etc.—Sarah Macqueen, Freshwater, Humboldt County. Mexican War widows—Elen Smith, San Jose. Oregon: Original—Lorenzo B. Hoover, Clackamas County; David H. Sexton, .. April 5.—Spe Lucky Green, Josephine County. Reis- n Jackson- | sue—Nathan B. Sweet, Cottage Grove, 3 J Lane County: THREE RALROAD WRECKS _Residents of the Island Should Throw Off the Yoke of Spain. THEIR BURDENS TCO HEAVY. Paying a Tribute to an Army Which Will Now Be Brought to Crush Them. ville last night an Senator Call of F I have frequently Senate resolutions requesting the Pr d Inited States to open negotia- n looking to the inde-| n the basis of an issue in to Cuba as compensa- nds to be guaranteed to any y the United States. | Secondly, I have called the attention of | the State Departm to the condition of | —_— affairs in Cul ged legislation in | 1n Two of the Disasters Cars Were with the resolutions referred Ilvne'. ith the ZERGUTCGLE TNTIEC W ano Dumped Into a Deep 11 recommend t shall reco 2 | Ravine. bans have not estab- | nal government that | t the moment they at seems to have a e of permanence I shall reco on as belliger- Eight Men Are Instantly Killed and Others Fatally In- Jjured. ALTON, IrL., April 5.—A fearful wreck occurred this morning at the Wood-river bridge on the Chicago and Alton cut-off, about a half-mile north of East Alton. A long, heavy freight train wascoming down people of Cuba | the grade when the middle of the train ce, and mbst of | bulged out and fifteen cars were piled on ation to'the | top of each other. Four men were killed a offers one of the |outright, and two fatally injured. in the world. It js| None ot them are known, but they are under proper sani- | supposed to be tramps who were stealing be one of the healthiest coun- | & ride. The injured men were brought to ywhere, and would be | the hospital in this city. An inquest was control. | held at East Alton. , bright and | The wreck was caused by the train being i | too heavily loaded behind. When the 1 brakes were put on the front cars the e managed to keep them- | weight behind was thrown on the flat car h 1n the scale of intelli- | in the middle of the train, crushing it to pay an annual tribute of | atoms and wreckingthe other cars. ),000 to Spain to maintain the| On the train were sixty laborers, most to be used to try and crush | of whom had just quit work on the drain- ‘theém. I earnestly hope for their inde- |age canal near Chicago. The accident oc- petidence.” curred on the Wood River bridge, an open | structure seventy-five feet above the water. ; None of the train crew were hurt, as only | the middle cars went over. Sinest markets osieof the the people selves ve CONCEDES THE EEQUEST. Spain to Give Americans Arrested in Cuba a Civil Trial. | ZANESVILLE, Omio, April 5.—Four ASHINGTON, D. C., April 5.—The | persons were killed outright and a fifth n Government has conceded the re- | was fatally injured in a wreck on the Bel- t-of the United States that the two | laire, Zanesville and Cincinnati narrow- Boleton and | gange at a trestle five miles west of Sum- , imprisoned at Santiage | merfield this morning. A coach jumped DO ¥ to estab- | the track as the train was approaching the unal. | trestle, which is situated on a curve. The n a small boat | coach went down five bents of the trestle T and | to a ravine below. 0 and placed in jail. Eli Lucas, the engineer, whose family re- d States Consul Hyatt secured their | side in this city, was instantiy killed. Mrs. E. Young and little daughter of Summer- 1d and residents of Beallsville suffered the same fate. Jesse Jones, the fireman, was fatally injured. GARRISON, Coro., April 6.—A broken of crime and a civil | flange on the tender of a south-bound Rio Grande passenger train caused a bad wreck mear here to-day. The express-car was thrown to the right side of the track and the baggage-car and one coach to the | left side, rolling over. Express Messenger . April 5—A dispatch | 8. P. Thomas was caught under a stove om Cuba announces that 2 | and badly injured. The car canght fire rebels, which bas appeared in | and was with difficulty saved from de- land, attempted to at- | g ion. A coffin containing a corpse roops stationed on the | was badly burned. Considerable of the T to cover the landing | express matter was destroyed. who is said to be com- s T OPENING YANKTON 1o Consul Hy by the naval an SPANISH TROOPS ATTACKED. Cover the Landing of Mazx- imo Gomez LANDS. Intricate Questions to Be Investigated by Secretary Smith. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.—The | proclamation for the opening of the Yank- | ton lands in South Dakota will not be is- | sued until there can be an investigation by | the Secretary of the Interior of the present | contentions. Secretary Smith will deter- | mine whether the State can select the lands, and whether it will not be compelled also to pay for them at the same prices as agreed upon in the treaty with the Indians. In the enabling act admitting South Da- kota the State was granted about 500,000 acres of land. It is an open question whether selections made of ceded Indian lands would not mean that the State would get them free of charge, while settlers have to pay $375 per acre. The proclamation will be withheld until the questions are | { | | .Missionaries Fear a Massacre of Christians by the Turks. Demonstrations to Be Made That | : May Quell the Bloodthirsty . ves. ‘WASHINGTON, D, C., April 5.—The United States steamer Marblehead, now at Gibyaltar, was cabled yesterday by Secre- fary Herbert to proceed with dispatch to | Beyroot, Syria. The commander-in-chief | 1oL, Lc ; SRynange vestigated. ofthe Enropean station will sail imme. | "YeSE" diately on the San Francisco, now at ARRESTS TO BE MADE. Palermo, for Smyrna. He was instructed to-order the vessels of hiscommand to also visit Alexandria and confer with the United States Consuls and resident Amer- _fean citizens, and if itis found there are .good grounds for the apprehensions ex- pressed in these quarters concerning a probable massacre of Christians to inti- mate to the responsible authorities that Detectives Investigating the Carson Mint Steal. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5—The mint and secret service officials are reticent regarding the Carson mint. Itis learned, however, that up to this time shortages in gold have been discovered aggregating 4072 ounces, which is equal to $80,000. In nearly all the cases gold was abstracted during the process of melting the bars and the false weights of gold contained therein tion to American citizens living peaceably in that part of the world under its treaty marked on them.,' -gusrantees. The gold thus secured was sold to banks The orders to the European squadron at different points west from Carson, a were issued at the fnstanceof the State De- | o0 g tepl, BN MO from Carson, & partment, which bad received a letter from | Gon Francisca. Mock of the ohotr United States Minister Terrell at Constan- | j jg sqid, rook place in 1891 and 1892, but tinople suggesting this course. He Te- | ynol amonnts have been taken within the ported that the missionaries in Syria were in g state of alarm in view of the turbulent ;‘gtid";uy:x:“. L e feeling manifested by the Turks, and while no -overt acts had been reported he felt it -might be 8 judicious movement to send some of our warships to the towns along the seacoast for the sake of the moral im- pression it would make. The Board of American Missions also has been urging the Navy Department to make Smyrnaa rendezvous for the Mediterranean squad- romr to impress the natives in that section of the country. It is not, however, the in- tention of the department to adopt any ar- - rangements that will interfere with the Ban Francisco and Marblehead at the great " Kiel naval demonstration unless there * should appear to be real danger of an out- break in Turkey that might jeopardize the lives of Americans. % S s = RAILWAY MEN TO MEET. Plans for Holding the Big Convention of Commissioners. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5—A call has been issued by Allen W. Post for the seventh annual convention of the Railway Commissioners, to be held in this city on May 14 next at the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The call is issued under authority of a resolzsicn passed by —_— ders. e T0 BE HELD IN FOREIGN WATERS. Orders for the Finat Trialof the Cruiser Minneapolis. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 5—The triple screw cruiser Minneapolis is to have her final trial in foreign seas, which will be a departure from the old practice. Orders were to-day cabled to the admiral at Kings- ston, Jamaica, to put the ship through a thorough two days’ sea trial some time between the 23d inst. and- May 6, which last date will be just five months from that of the original acceptance trial. The trial board will be made up of the following officers of the squadron: Captain Evans, Chief Engineer Harris, Lieutenant-Com- mander Alibone, Lientenant Kellogg and Carpenter Fletcher. e s S Gold for South America. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5—The treasury officials were notified of the with- drawal yemrdllsv from the New York sub- trmmxofl,m!n d for export to South eri’:a. i Always at the head of the procession— Dr. Price’s—the best of the baking pow- HISSED THE JURORS, Missourians Sore Over the Failure to Convict the Taylors. BRIBERY IS SUSPECTED. Five Who Stubbornly Hold Out for an Acquittal of the Accused. THEN THEY QUICKLY DISAPPEAR Mob Violence or Grand Jury Indict- ments May Cut Some Figure in the Scandal. CARROLLTON, Mo., April 5.—The jury in the Taylor case came into court at 9:30 o'clock this morning ana reported that they could not agree. The jury stood seven for conviction, five against. The Judge thereupon discharged them. At 9:30 o’clock the jury was brought into the courtroom and Judge Rucker asked: “Gentlemen, is there any prospect that you will agree on a verdict?” “None whatever,” replied Foreman George Fleming. “What do the rest of you say?” said the Judge. “There is no show whatever,” replied several jurymen. “Do you stand now as you stood from the first?” asked the Judge, and the jurors replied that the first ballot was seven for conviction and five for acquittal, and the result remained unchanged in all future ballots. Judge Rucker ordered the clerk to enter a disagreement and discharged the jury | and continued the case until the next term of court. As the jurors filed out they were hissed, hooted and reviled by the people gathered about the courthouse. It is the general opinion that Carroll County has been dis- graced by the five jurors who stood out for { acquittal. The jurors who voted from the first for conviction were J. A. Rose, David Jame- {son, Adolph Auer, Granville Jenkins, Elijah Baker, James H. Creel and W. R. | Brammer. The five who stood out for | acquittal from the first were Frank Yehle, | Barnett L. Hudson, Ben Glover, George Fleming and J. T. Noland. As soon as the jury was discharged these | five disappeared. It is eaid by the other | jurors that they stole out of town, fearing | mob violence, | Before leaving the juryroom Frank Yehle made each juror promise not to | reveal to any one the names of the jurors who voted for acquittal, but when the | seven jurors got out and mingled with the | people on the street and learned the state | of the public mind and that unless it was | known how the jurors voted each man of | the twelve would rest under the suspicion of having been bribed, they told the names | of the five. | The jurors who voted for conviction say | that Frank Yehle sustained all arguments | made in the juryroom against conviction, | and it has developed that George Fleming, | foreman of the jury and one of «those who voted for acquittal, has a niece who mar- ried a cousin of the Taylors. | _Ben Glover, another of the five, is a rela- | tive of one of the attorneys for the defense. | Stories of bribery are multiplied daily, and | it looks as though the Grand Jury will | bave its hands full when these charges are brought before it. —————— A vital question—what baking powder do you use? Dr. Price’s is immeasurably the best. THAT BIG ORINOCO GRANT, It Would Seem That England Has No Claim to the Territory. Venezuela Encourages Americans in Securing Products of Great Value. MINNEAPOLIS, Misw., April 5.—A | representative of the Journal who visited [Mayor Grant of Faribault, Minn., to-day, | obtained interesting information about the | treaty concessions about the mouth of the Orinoco in Venezuela which Mr. Grantand his associates have secured. Mr, Grant denies with considerable vigor the asser- tions made in Washington that the con- cession is in any way involved in the international complications between Ven- ezuela and England. Nearly all of the land which is granted to the syndicate to be improved and colonized has always belonged to Venezuela and has never been claimed by England. Mr. Grant admitted, however, that & small corner of the con- cession had been settled on by the English, but it was the least valuable and no trouble would arise out of the fact. He adds that the concession is really eleven years old, having been granted to J. A. Bowman in 1884, who has been interested in it with Austin Corbin. ) After some work had been done in im- proving the privileges granted the revolu- tion broke out which finally put Crespo in power and nothing was done. The trip which Mr. Grant, with Bowman and W. H. Fisher, has just taken was to have the con- cession confirmed and the divergent inter- ests harmonized. In this they were successful and expect to improve their privileges, if the talk about international complications ora war with England does not interfere. The concession includes valuable iron mines, great forests of mahogany, rose- wood, and an island at the mouth of the Orinoco, in which there are valuable as- phalt wells. It is aiso believed that there is gold in paying quantities. The Vene- zuelan Congress adjourns June 15, and Mr. Grant expects to go there again before that date to close up the negotiations. —_—— CONFESSED WITHOUT AUTHORITY Attempt to Set Aside a Heavy Judgment in a Chicago Court. CHICAGO, Irw., April 5,—A motion was made in Judge Goggin’s court to-day to set aside the judgment which was rendered recently in the Buperior Cours by the National Bank of the Republic against the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company of $26,000. The judgment was entered by confession on a note of the company held by the bank. 2 Attorney I. K. Boyesen, who a for the company, told the court thatthe cenfession of judgment was not authorized by the company. It was made by Vice- | dol President McGowan and Assistant Treas- urer Finnisln, officers of the company who live at St. Paul, where the principal plant of the company is, but the attorney says these officials have not been authorized by the directors or other officers of the con- cern to confess judgment in favor of the bank. C. H. Remy, attorney for the bank, opposed the motion and argued that the confession was legal and that the officers had the authority to make it. Judge Gog- gin said he would hear the matter fully and decide it on Tuesday. e - WITH TREMENDOUS CAPITAL. Heavy Backing Behind the New Telephone Company. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 5—Thurlow W. Barnes, the active spirit in the new Standard Telephone Company, confirms the statement that the capital of the com- pany is $160,000,000 and that there are fifty different companies chartered and organ- ized. He further say: ““We have 200 prominent capitalists in the United States interested in the com- pany. We propose to commence our ser- vice this summer in this city with a rate of $3 a month for telephones. It is true that Mr. Searles of the Sugar Company is not a director of the company. He sold out. He was originally interested in the Stand- ard scheme, but was boneht out by the syndicate. Mr. Searles left last night for Arizona, to be gone a month or more, but among those associated with the - New York organization are his nephew, Ennis M. Searles, and his son-in-law, William Tuttle.” SPENDS A NIGHT IN JAIL Oscar Wilde Arrested on a Charge of Committing a Penal Offense. Marquis of Queensberry’s In the Libel Case Is Substantiated. Plea LONDON, Exc., April 5—The jury in the case of Oscar Wiide against the Mar- quis of Queensberry found that the plea of justification submitted by Queensberry was proved, and the Marquis was discharged from custody. The verdict was received with loud applause from the spectators, which the Judge did not check. A warrant for the arrest of Wilde was promptly applied for, copies of all the wit- nesses’ statements and the shorthand notes of the trial having been furnished the public prosecution. Early in the afternoon Lord Alfred drove to the bank, cashed a check and re- turned to the hotel. Soon aiter both Wilde and Alired drove away. Wilde was arrested at the Cadogan Hotel.. He was taken in & cab by two detectives to Scot- land Yard. Wilde was very pale but cool when he arrived at Scotland Yard. At 8:10 . . Wilde was arraigned. The prisoner re- mained silent throughout the proceedings. | He was then taken to Bow street and | placed in the docket in the police station. Here he stood with his hands in his pock- ets while the charge against him was being | taken. A police inspector then read the | charge aloud and asked Wilde if he had | anything to say, adding the nsual warning that anything he said might be used against him. The prisoner remained silent and apparently indifferent. He was then searched, after which he was locked in a cell. Shortly after he had been locked up one of his friends arrived in a carriage at the station with a Glad- stone bag containing a change of clothing and other necessaries, but the police re- fused to permit him to leave it. Later Lord Alfred Douglass went to the police station and inquired whether Wilde conld be admitted to bail. The police inspector explained that Wilde had been arrested for a criminal offense, which did not allow of bail being sccepted until he had been ar- raigned in court. Lord Alfred was greatly distressed by{ this information. He was told by the in- spector that Wilde had s blanket and all | requisites in his cell to be as comfortable | as the regulations allowed. The prisoner would be allowed to receive food from a hotel until to-morrow, when he will be arraigned on a charge regarding the penal offense. Three deaths from supposed mushrooms last week. How many unrecorded from use of as deadly adulterated baking pow- ders? Insist upon having Price’s Cream Baking Powder; its purity and goodness have never been questioned. AN ENGINE IN FRAGMENTS. Terrible Force of the Blow Which Dis- abled the Solano. The old Solano lies high and dry on the ways at the Oakland railroad yards, and although somewhat weather beaten from her years of service she is still sound and tight far beyond what it was expected she would be. The Solano has been sixteen years in commission, and during all that time she has never been out of the water. Twice a vear the barnacles have been scraped trom her hull by a kind of submarine scraper, but beyond that she has been practically unrepaired. Asshe is out of the water now, however, she will be given a thor- ough overhauling and it is probable that fully $100,000 will be t on her before she is again put in the water. Planks are being taken from all over her hull, and the least bit of decayed wood found is scraped out, or the damaged beam is re- placed with a new one. It is in the engine-room, however, where the greatest damage has been done and where the most money for repairs will be spent. The accident which caused the damage was a most peculiar one. The engine is one of the same kind as are familiar to all ferry-boat travelers, and on the Solano there are two of them, one to drive each paddle. The piston is about sixty inches in diameter, and the engine hasa stroke of eleven feet. The piston had just completed its upward stroke when the rod broke off in the socket by which it is attached to the mechanism of the walking-beam, Steam at a pressure of 45 pounds to the square inch had just been admitted above it, and the condenser, which is immediately under the cylinder, had just formed a vacuum below the piston, which was equivalent to adding 13 pounds more pressure to the square inch. Under this pressure of 53 pounds to the inch the piston, released from the walking- beam, was driven down with an original force of nearly 140 tons. The bottom of the piston is slightly convex and the lower head of the cylinder is shaped to fit it accurately, so wclen the piston struck the lower head it shattered it like glass; it went right on, too, through the condenser and did not stop until i reached the bed-plate of the engine. When the steam was turned off they could not find a piece of the lower part of the cylinder or of the condenser which a man could not pick up and eaails carry away., The sides of the c&llndc and the condenser were two inches thick. S The action of the blow was exactly simi- lar to the stroke from a steam hammer. The piston and its 12-foot rod weighed 2: tons, and with the force of the steam an the vacuum dri it_down 11 feet into a cup which it exactly fitted, the to e massive steel castings almost into a powder. It will take thousands of llars to repair the damage it caused. effect was | said SCHOOL MM AND ART Teachers Say That Too Much Time Is Given to Drawing. THE PRESENT SCHOOL FAD. Nine Hundred Teachers Discuss Miss Ball and Her Methods. The teachers of the city had a big time vesterday afterno@n over the teaching of | drawing in the public schools according to the system and method of Miss Ball, the special teacher of that art. They al! got together at the Lincoln and Webster | schools at 1 o’clock, and after long discus- sions expressed their finding of judgments by vote. They were generally in favor of a good deal of trimming. This gathering, which was called a special institute, so that absentees would be fined, was one of the culminations of a long and somewhat restless agitation. Prior to the present school year drawing was always down in the course of study, but teachers taught it or not according to their ability to do so, and when they did teach it they ienernlly followed their own ideas and methods. | ‘When Miss Ball came here about a year | ago as the agent of the Prangsand that | firm’s system of drawing she was engaged | develop the ability to draw as a means of ex- pressing ideas. Itisa practical means of ex- armion that can be constantly used in & mul- tude of ways through life. e can express ideas by writing nm?h the writing be crude, and so to express ideas by drawing it is not necessary to be an accomplished artist. With a fair -finy to draw one can often explain to 8 dressmaker or carpenter how a thing is to be made, for instance. by a little sketch better than by any amount of telling. Then drawing should be taught so as to quicken observation. It can give mental wer and it should cultivate the taste. The struction in the public school should be general and aimed at developing the child’s own power to do something with a pencil, not merely to imitate while a teacher stands near him. This gives the groundwork for special training in either industrial or freehand draw- ing, uns that should be specially given. Next year my work would be more directed toward industrial drawing than this year. e MRS, LE BALLISTER TALKS, She Declares She Has Nothing to Con- ceal From the Authorities. So far as straightforward defiance goes, Fred Hansted and Mrs. Reina Le Ballister have thrown down the gauntlet to the al- leged Senatorial combine in the last Leg- islature, in the pilot bill, and dares either Senator Seymour or Senator Linder to at- tack them as blackmailers. Ever since Fred Hansted, or Young Dutchy as he is commonly called, made his statement before Foreman La Rue of the Sacramento Grand Jury, to the ‘effect that there had been a Senatorial combine and that he and Mrs. Le Ballister had been “‘thrown down”’ by Senator Seymour in the matter of the division of the alleged “sack,” there has been blood in the air, but no no one would, in the language of the lobbyist, “give up.” ‘Whispers and rumors were rife, but Young Dutchy, Mrs. Le Ballister and Miss Minnie Howard declined to say a definite word until Hansted was brought before Mr. La Rue in W. W. Foote’s law office. Vil T S 7 M R ONE OF THE WAYS OF A CKILD’B‘PENm WITH NATURE. [Reproduced from a public school specimen.] as a special teacher to introduce her sys- | tem and instruct the teachers, She Te- | signed her position as agent, and went to | work at the beginning of the present school year. Drawing at once lea into promi- nence. Miss Ball called the teachers of each grade together regularly after school | hours, laid out the work for the month and told them what to do. Drawing has been increased in the schools from the lowest grade to the highest, and more drawing- paper has been used up since July thanin | any three previous years. | But Miss Ball found her job a hard one. She tried to get 900 teachers to pull to- | etherall at once and all do the same work. | it first she was unpopular, because the teachers said she was dictatorial and arro- gant, but lately she has become generally liked personally. Then they criticized her | system and methods in all sorts of ways. | ne month the children all drew spheres, cubes and cylinders in all sorts of positions. Then the cat was taken up as an elabo- rated cylinder and several thousand pic- tures were taken, labeled ‘‘cat.” In many classes the teachers tried her advice of tak- | ing to school a very docile cat, that would | sit still on the teacher’s desk. Leaves, | bugs and other products of natnre were drawn, and the children tried their hands at illustrating stories. % The old board stood by Miss Ball, but with the new administration there com- menced 2 movement to find out anew the merits of Miss Ball’s work. A meeting of the principals was held three weeks ago, at which the majority indorsed the sys- tem ‘‘with modifications.” That meeting called for the appointment by the Super- intendent of a committee of fifteen to find out the sense of the teachers of the entire departnient and report to another meeting of principals. That committee decided to call the teachers all together and they had their say about drawing yesterday.” The teachers of the nine primary and grammar grades met in separate Tooms and held nine separate meetings. They discussed and voted on several definite propositions. One question was, “How Much Time Should the Children Devote to Drawing ?”’ The time given has been about a half-hour a day. All the smdes voted in favor of one hour a week, ivided into two or three lessons. The grades were unanimous, too, in favor of plain drawing-paper, instead of textbooks with pictures to be copied. They all voted, too, in favor of a new wrinkle. The teachers want a special, printed monthly bulletin, illustrating the work to be done during the month, and containing explicit instructions to teach- ers. If the teachers get this improvement Miss Ball will become an editress. Another guestion was, “Do you favor each teacher instructing her classindividu- ally?”’ The unanimous verdict was “‘yes,” though one grade adopted a resolution making it optional for teachers to exchange work during the drawing hour, where one was especially skilled in the work. On the great question of whether the teachers should gather at the Normal School to be taught by Miss Ball after their regular school work was ended or should be allowed to dismiss their classes earlier once a month the vote was divided. Six des voted in favor of going after school- fi';m, and the second, eighth and ninth grades carried the vote in fayor of saving this extra tax on the teach- ers’ time. This spending the rest of the afternoon listening to Miss Ball once a month when their school work is done is ‘what many of the teachers have been growl- ing about, and some prominent teachers said that most of the teachers were a little afraid to vote in their personal favor on that point. % A number of recommendations were made by various grades. One of the eriti- cisms of Miss Ball's system that some teachers have made is that it did not ap- pear to tend to any particular good—artistic or industrial. On motion of Miss Pechin, principal of the Cooper Primary School, the fourth- erade meeting asked that the aim of the instruction in drawing be clearly defined. Then a graded course of drawing. be; ning with, the lowest grade and ending with the highest, was demanded. L This consensus of Fedazogiul opinion about how art should be taughtin the Eublic schools will be officially considered y Superintendent Moulder, and when the principals hold another meeting he will mku a lot of recommendations to the The teachers now ge!unl]{ like Miss Ball and approve her system, but there is likely to be a puring of the time that sev- eral “thousand children give to dnwln& and a trimming and pulling together the methods by which the rising genera- tion is learning to draw pictures. Miss Ball 15 an oxeendm‘ll‘y bright and talented young woman, who for eight iurs superintended the drawi he Omaha public schools. ‘hen she nt three successful years as agent for She ex] ed yesterday just what do in the field of art. She work of 1 am not to artists. Thou- sands of ChIIAren ShoRIA. not 3o teught dren: ing to develop six artists. My aim is first to All this time Mrs. Le Ballister declined to be seen or interviewed. It was admitted on all sides that the woman knew the facts, but for once the woman declined to talk. When Ed Con- roy stated that he had declined to call on Mrs, Le Ballister, because he did not call on ‘“‘women who were strangers,” the bar- riers of feminine prudence gave way, and yesterday Mrs. Le Ballister gave an inter- view to a CALL reporter. That she was connected with the Legis- lature regarding the pilot bill she would neither deny nor affirm, but when it came to Ed_Conroy’s statements, her big eyes flashed and her white-hands grasped the arms of her chairand there was wrath in eve}y ge:ture. “I1,” said she. “Mr. Conroy says that he | declined to call upon me because I was a stranger to him, he tells a deliberate false- hood. ““I was introduced to Mr. Conroy in due form, and his intimation is a deliberate in- sult.” Here Mrs. Le Ballister’s eyes grew full of tears, and she said in a strongly emotional manner: “I do not want any publicity. I havedone all I could to avoid it, but if it must come I will be ready to tell all T know before any Grand Jury in the State: “I was in Sacramento. I did know Sena- tor Seymour, but I absolutely deny that I ever said to Ed Conroy or to any one else that I thought he had money to be used for the retarding of the passage of the pilot bill or that T expected or had a right to expect any money from any clique or set interested in that bill, or that I ever intimated to Mr. Conroy that the men ip- terested in the prevention of the passage of that bill had better bring up the sack. I met Mr. Conroy incidentfily and knew him casually.” At this point anger dried the lady’s tears and she flashed out: ‘“This I will say. What I know I will tell when called upon by the proper aunthority. I have nothing to fear. " If I have, as is alleged, been con- nected with any deal let it be proved. If I, am interested in any blackmailing scheme let me be definitely accused. “I have accused neither Mr. Conroy nor Mr. Phillips with having been go-betweens. I1 accuse no one. I only ask to be let alone.” “Young Dutchy,” or Fred Hansted, when seen last night said: 1f Ed Conroy says he did not know Mrs. Le Ballister, ne lies. ' He not only knew her, but he called upon her and even occupied the seat next her in the legislative galleries. His inti- mations that she sought his acquaintance are wholly and absolutely false. Iam in this fight tostay. Iam spending my own money, and all Iwant is to have either Senator Seymour or Senator Linder meet my defiance. If I am blackmailing them let them take the Pproper course. AstoE. A. Phflliérs, Ican onl; say I have & score:to setile with him. 1 heiped him when be needed help, and now that he thinks I am alone in this fight he deserts me. Mrs. Le Bellister will tell all she knows to any proper legal authority, and =o will I, While talking Hansted evinced strong excitement and repeated several times the assertion that he was spending his own money and making his fight alone against the concentrated efforts of the ‘‘combine.” But he declared that if any legal aunthority would ask him to verify his statements as to the “sack,” Senator Seymour and the ;combine," he would be only too ready to 0 S0. Senator Linder and E. A. Phillips left town vesterday and_are believed to have gone to San Bernardino. Just where they went no one of their friends seemed to know, and when told of their departure Hansted grinned sardonically lns said : “They don’t seem anxious to make a fight, do they?” Marvelous when undergoing much strain of Body or Brain. 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Holy Writ is anthority for the statement that King Solomon “spake of the trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall”; but perhaps the earliest preserved botanic notes are those of Aristotle and his successor, Theophrastus. These cover the era B, C. 350 to B. C. 300, and from that time right down to to-day the study has never been entirely neglected. The proper scope of botany is admitted to be, not only the naming and arrangement of the entire vegetable productions of the globe, but also the consideration of the external forms of plants; of their anatomical structure, however minute; of the fuhctions which they perform; of their distribution over the globe at the pres- ent and at former epochs, and of the uses to which they are subservient. This lafter phase of the subject is the one in which the populace is principally interested ana to which, all things being considered, most attention has been given. 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