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REVOLVES GOVERNORS IN A ROW. Governor Beckham of Kentucky has addressed to Governor Durbin of In liana a letter replying to the criticism y that executive of the courts and of Icials of Kentucky in his recent letter efusing to honor the requisitions for Taylor and Finley. wanted for alleged ;omplicity in the assassination of Sen ttor Goebel. says a Louisville dispatch .o the Chicago Inter Ocean. He se verely arraigns Durbin for his refusal charging that in doing so he violated l is oath of office to support the con jtitution of the United States, and that he became "a party after the fact to lib w VVrtvS. TlUiiAVWW GOV. DURBIN. 'AtC zaost infamous crime in the history of this State, the coid-b'ooded and das tardly murder of an eminent and dis tinguished citizen of Kentucky." The Kentucky executive also charges that DurLin's action in refusing was the re sult of the political bargain made be fore his election to office, and charac terizes his charges against the courts and officials of Kentucky as slanderous and inexcusable misrepresentations. He takes the stand that the Gover nor of a State has no discretionary powers, but only ministerial power in the honoring of legally drawn requisi tions fiom other States, and this is taken as an indication that steps will shortly be taken in the courts to com pel Durbin by mandamus to honor the icquisitions. If such proceedings are instituted they will be in the courts of Indiana and taken cn appeal to the Supreme Court. Current News and Views HALL CAINES WIFE. The wife of the author of "The Christian" came out from Greeba Cas tle when her husband began his cam paign for a seat in the Manx Parlia ment a month ago and has made her self a familiar figure to all in the Ramsay district, which her husband has been elected to represent. She spent the most of a month driving around in the district, visiting factory workers and fishermen, whose votes and influence the novelist sought. Mrs. aCine is a pretty woman, charming in manner and graceful, and is believed to have won her husband many votes which he otherwise would not have RENEWAL CF CHINESE EXCLUSION. Next May the Chinese exclusion acts will expire by limitation, and the fore nanued people of California are al ready engaged in a vigorous agitation for their extension. Probably this movement will be successful, but its chances seem to be somewhat jeopar dized Ly the intolerant attitude of some of its supporters. In places where people turn upon the streets to stare after a quiet Chinese laundryman the source of the intense feeling against his race is not understood, and the whole opposition to Chinese immigra tion is set down to unfounded preju dice. The supporters of the present movement would, therefore, do well to abate the violence of their language, and argue their case on its merits. That there are good reasons for renew ing the present laws becomes evident on slight reflection. The objection to unrestricted Chi nese immigration rests upon the as sumption that a large number of Chi namen would come into the country if they could do so freely. The rapid In crease in the number of immigrants before the passing of the exclusion acts seems to show that this assump tion is just. That the presence of such a large body of Chinamen would be undesirable, at least from the political point of view, is generally admitted. A government is not truly one of the people when there is a vast mass of inhabitants who are alien sojourners and not citizens. On the other hand, perhaps no one desires to give China men the ballot. We already have a great many ignorant voteis in our cities, and experience does not incline us to increase their number. No one is properly qualified for the suffrage who has not some appreciation of the principles of popular government, and in this one department of life, at least, the Chinaman does not seem to be an apt scholar. Chicago Tribune. VICE GOV. WRIGHT. There are rumors, emanating from good sources, that the appointment of ARTIFICIAL EYES. Si WEEKLY PANORAMA A DESCENDANT OF FRANKLIN. There recently passed away in Phil adelphia Mrs. Elizabeth Duane Gilles pie, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. Her home was notable for the great collection of relics of ths scientist-publisher-patriot descent from whom gave her a place among the most distinguished people of Philadel phia. These relics are of priceless val ue and consist of wood carving, china, silver, paintings and various other ar ticles which were presented to him by foreign governments and individuals. Mrs. Gillespie made it her life work to search out all facts concerning her MRS. ELIZABETH D. GILLESPIE. great ancestor, as well as to collect and preserve all manner of memrntoes. There was a strong resemblance in te features of this woman and those shown in the pictures of Franklin. i MRS. HALL CAINE. got, despite bis name and the Isle of Man's pride in him. NO WAR ON AMERICAN GOODS. The fact that our exports of manu factures in the first eight months of this year were about 136,000,000 lesd LUKE E. WRIGHT. Luke E. Wright as temporary gover nor of the Philippine Islands, may eventually be made permanent. At present Judge TaTt i3 ill and the duties of the cilice had, of necessity, to be placed in other hands. As a member of the Philippine Commission, Luke Wright was a natural successor. Now it is said that Taft and Gen. Chaffee are not wholly in accord, and that, even in the event of the former's speedy recovery, it is not at all certain that he will resume his former posi tion. For the present, at least, Luke Wright i3 an interesting figure in pub lic affairs and he may be for some time to come. KING EDWARD'S MUSICAL PROJECTS London Truth credits King Edwart with the intention of reviving music at his court, but the details cf his pro gram only go to show the low condi tions of English music when comparet with its earlier glories. His progran. includes visits to the opera in semi state, with beef eaters on duty at the box doors and along the corridors; r coronation concert at Albert Hall; pri vate performances at Buckingham pal ace and Windsor castle; "commanded" performances before the royal family; J and more frequent playing Jjy the I king's private band. Sir Walter Par J ratt has been gazetted master of the i music, and Dr. Creser, composer to the chapels royal. Who Parratt or Cresei i are the world little knows or cares On the whole, though music will be I less neglected by King Edward thas 1 it was by his mother, there is no pros- ! pect that it will rise out of its low condition. Now that Sir Arthur Sulli I van is dead there is hardly a British i composer of prominence left. Sir Her- j bert Oakeley. Sir Alexander Macken zie, bir rreuerick Briuge, and Hamisl: MacCunn remain, but with the excep tion of Mackenzie their works are un known out of England. None of the members of the royal family, excepl the late Duke of Edinburgh, has been much interested in music except as ar. accompaniment to royal functions oi matters or iasnioa. ihe king himsell has been indifferent. Ther Were IX:ide lit Keypt Five Iltindre 1 Year 15. C. It is not tewn piecisely when or where artificial eyes originated; but the annals plainly show that in ancient times ihe prier-Ls in Egypt and Rome, who practiced as physicians and Bur geons, made artificial eyes, hands, arms, and les the Egyptians as ear ly as 500 B. C. TheJr method of eye making a thus described: On the cen ter of a piece of flesh-colored prepared linen, two and a quarter inches by one and a quarter, the flat side of a piece of earthenware, modeled life-size and painted to represent the human eye and eyelids, was cemented; and this linen, coated on the other side with an adhesive substance, was placed over the eye and pressed down. These artificial eyes were therefore worn outside the cavity, and though not strictly artistic in design or detail, were no doubt fully appreciated and worn with pride by the monocular Egyptian and Roman "toffs." It is chronicled that one of these artificial eyes was picked up in the ruins of Pompeii, which was destroyed in 79 A. D. The earliest known mention of modern artificial eyes that is. eyes worn Inside the orbit occurs in an exceedingly rare illustrated work on surgery, written by a French surgeon named Ambroise Pare, and published in Paris in 1561. Pare invented three artificial eyes. The first was a won derful contrivance. It consisted of a thin metal spring-band which passed half way round the wearer's head, hav ing on one end a small oval plate, which covered the orbit of the eye, and the other end pressed against the back of the head. The oval plate was cov ered with smooth, soft leather, on which an eye was painted. It would, perhaps, be difficult to devise anything more inelegant or uncomfortable. The second device was a hollow globe ot gold, eye-shaped and enameled, which was worn inside the socket the first recorded artificial eye thus worn. The third contrivarre was simply a "shell pattern" eye. exactly similar in shape to those now used, but made of gold, and enamelod. Eiccept that they were made of gold and enameled, the two latter were practically of the same design as the "globe" and "shell" glass eyes of the present day. Fare's clum sy, truss-like appliance and hi', two gold eyes, which were used only by the wealthy, were succeeded by eyes made of painted porcelain and colored pearl white, which immediately became im mensely popular. Next came the in vention of glass ryes, which instantly superseded all others, and still com mand the public favor. SUICIDE IN PUBLIC, View THE M'KINLEY MEMORIAL. The national association formed to erect a suitable memorial to William McKinley at Canton, Ohio, finds its work impeded by the project offered by public men and residents of Wash ington. The circulation of appeals for both projects tends to confuse the pub lic as to whicn is the proper object of popular contributions. Any doubt upon the subject should be dispelled by a simple statement of the facts. For some years there has been be rore congress a proposal for a great HCBART'S TOMB. The massive mausoleum which will contain the remains of the late Vice Present Garret A. Hobart is now rapidly nearing completion in Cedai Lawn Cemetery at Paterson, N. J. The design was prepared by Brite & Bacon, tee New ork architects, and all the work has been done under their direct supervision. The tomb will cost about $S0.000. Its material will be prinelp- than in the same months of 1900 has monumental bridge across the Potomac led some to believe that the much mooted "European alliance" against our goods has been effected and is now In operation. In the current North American Review O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, demon strates that this belief is without foun dation. In the first place, the reduction is partly due to the fact that Hawaii's and Porto Rico's annual purchases of about $5,000,000 are no longer counted as exports. In the Eecond place, the decline is not general, but is practi cally confined to refined mineral oil, copper, and iron and steel products. As to mineral oil, the decline was ia price alone. We actually exported for the compared eight months 47,693,272 gallons more this year than last, but we obtained $3,250,200 less for It. Blaine's Tollej Far-Reaching. The congress now being held In Mexico is a continuation of the policy Inaugurated by James G. Blaine, when Secretary of State, to bring about clos er relations between the United States and the Cen tral and South Amer ican repub lics. Mr. Blaine's ef forts In this dire ctlo n brou g h t about the first Interna tional con gress, which was held in the city of W ashington In 1SS9-90. In 1SS4 Congress took step to realize the idea of bringing together representatives of the different governments. at Washington. The idea Is of un doubted merit and in due time some such bridge will be built. Congress for various reasons has not yet made the necessary appropriation. One part of this proposed bridge is 'a great tri umphal arch, which the Washington committee suggests be built by popular subscription as a memorial to Presi dent McKinley. Inis movement is not In any sense antagonistic to the proposition to erect a monument to the late president at Canton. President McKinley recom mended that congress construct the bridge across the Potomac, connecting ashington with Arlington, as "; monument to American patriotism. and without doubt the construction of the bridge and memorial arch will be authorized by Congress. Ml i ii y v -- a i i' r There are 165,000 Britons living In WHERE CARROLL DIED. The Carroll mansion, one of the fa mous old landmarks of Baltimore, is about to be sold at auction. It was in this building -hat Charles Carroll, of Carroll ton, the last sur viving sign er of the Declarati o n of Independ ence, died N o v e mber 14, 1832. The house was built about 1770 by Richard Ca- ton. Charles Carroll's son-in-law. from bricks brought from England for the purpose. This historic structure, in whse rooms the flower of colonial so ciety once gathered, li now a tenement house, the abode of Russian Jews. fee iM I I the united Kingdom at present who large town at a night of over were born In the colonics. I feet above eea leveL Quito, in South America, is the only 9,000 " Chinese Widow Hang Hem fir ia of "aa Admiring Cnif J." On Sunday, in one cf the suburbs, after two postponements, one cn ac count of the typhoon and the other owing to the floods, the public suicide by hanging of a Chinese wido was witnessed by several hundreds of spec tators. The poor woman resolved on committing the deed immediately after the death of her husband. She sold the paddyfield she possessed for ?1C0. and purchased seme splendid clothes and a coffin with the money. The Taotai. getting wind of her intention, had her brought before him, and kind y expostulated with her. pointing out Ihe unreasonableness and wrong of .he resolve she had made, but all to io effect. She said that her husband ind all her children were dead, and ;hat she no longer desired to live. The raotai's offer to make provision for -er did not turn her from her purpose, ind the sending for the brother-in-law :o the Yamen and ordering him to pre sent her carrying out her intention was equally useless. It was in vain, io the story goes, that the Taotai tried to frighten her by the assertion that such visitations as the late typhoon and floods had been brought upon us through such wickedness as hers; be sides, did she not know that to take her own life was against the law of the land? "How is it. thn ,.. asked, "that the temple especially set apart for the worship of widows in tending to commit suicide Bhould be allowed by the government to re main?" All argument was unavailing Suffice it to say, the suicide came off as already stated, on Sunday last, with out let or hindrance on the part of an admiring crowd, the woman having be decked herself in the finest of fine clothes for the occasion. Fonchnw (China) Echo. THE HOBART TOMB. ally of white granite, surrounded by fluted columns of the purest white Pa rian marble. The entrance is guarded by heavy bronze doors, ornamented with piece work. All of the interior is lined with white marble. The dimen sions of the building are: Length, 39 reet 8 Inches; width, 21 feet 2 inches and height. 22 feet 7 inches. The re mains of the Vice President will re pose under the heavy dome in a mar ble sarcophagus beside another of slm- B0LD MONKEY SLEW SNAKE. htratepy of the Simian Wn Too Mich for the Cobra. At Bangalore, India, not Ion? ago a battle between a monkey and a snake was witnessed by a party of Europeans The reptile, a cobra, was enjoying a sun bath near ;he highway, far from the beaten track of jungle travel, when the monkey espied him and deliberate ly put an end to his siesta by hurlins at him every missile he could find. The snake wri&gled awhile under the niiTi- nar maite cesiinea ror the last resting isnment, and then in a fury eave chase place of Mrs. Hobart In addition to to tae monkey. The little simian was these receptacles will be six catacombs far to agile for the reptile, however, for the other members of the Hobarf and kept him at a safe distance untii family. Her Fortune Gone. iove nas led to misfortune in tht case of the Princess Elvira of Bour bon, daughter of Don Carlo3. the much advertised pretender to the Spanish throne. in 1896 Bht eloped with Signor Fol chl, an artisl and a mar ried man. She first met Folchi in Rome and became in f atuate c with him She had then a for tune in hei own rieht ni ivu.iuu and could easily have secured more advantageous alliance. Her family used every influence it could bring to bear to induce her to break off her friendly relations with Folchi, but she persisted In her course and oped with him. a pue or rocks was reached. On this the monkey calmly perched, with hi. back against a bolder, and awaited the onslaught. The snake came on in blind rage, and again and again 6truck at the monkey, who dodged every blow, al lowing the venomous head to strike the rock at his back. The cobra be came more and more infuriated as he battered himself against the bowlder, and at last, bleeding and exhausted, lay at full length with every fighting instinct subduud. This was the mon key's opportunity. Seizing the snake by the neck he quickly rubbed the head off against a sharp point of rock, and then climbed a tree and chattered glee- runy at the admiring human specta tors, who showed their appreciation of the spectatcle he had afforded by leav ing a banquet of Indian corn and su gar cane for the victor. Chicaeo Chronicle. Blight Be Worse. "Oh. doctor." exclaimed a rheu matic patient. "I suffer dreadfully with my hands and feet." But, my dear sir." rejoined tha nhv- sician, "just try to think how much Inconvenience you would suffer with out them." Tr&n63ttarYiic Topics 7. -WM IN 3m I j4JCI(Mll(lul lit, J The standard fuel of the poorer and middle classes of Germany consists of brown coal briquettes. The briquettes are made by reducing brown coal to powder and then molding it into little bricks with the addition of a quantity of bitumen. The Driquettes sell for from $2 to $2.75 a thousand in Berlin and burn-without smoke. Under a new process briquettes for use as fuel are being made from peat, of which there are nearly 5,000.000 acres available in the empire. It is expected that these peat briquettes will drive coal ana other fuels cut of the market. Most people in Germany live in flats. There are few private residences. Fur naces and steam heat are almost un known, the people using generally the old and ineffective tile-covered stoves, huge square structures, rising from floor to ceiling and looking most like monuments to some "dear departed." In even chilly weather it is almost im possible to heat a small room with one of these stoves, and the empire of fors a great field for American manu facturers of heating apparatus. One trouble has heretofore been that heat is not furnished by the owners of fiat buildings to their tenants, and It has been diSicuIt. therefore, to establish. central heating systems for such build ings. In Vienna the piice of beef, mutton. and pork is so high as to place these meats beyond the reach of the poorer classes, and for nearly fifty years their place has been taken by horse and donkey meat. There are in Vienna 185 butcher shops which sell horse and donkey meat exclusively, the price for the choicest cuts being from 5 to 10 cents a pound, which is much less than half the price charged for the same cuts of beef. During the last year for which the figures arc available no less than 25,040 horses were slaughtered for food in Vienna. The inspection of the animals is extremely thorough and careful, government inspectors being present at eath slaughter house with full power to condemn any animal. Dealers itt horse and donkey meat, and restaurantkeepers who oer it on thei; bills of fare are obliged not only to plainly state the fact, but also to keep in sicht of customers the government certificate of inspection. The model lodging house which was opened in Milan. Italy, last June, has proved a great success. It is patronized not by manual laborers, but by clerks and shop assistants. Rooms rent for cents a week. Every lodger must be in his room before midnight, and be out again before 9 o'clock in the morning. Bathrooms are cpen day and night, a full bath costing four cents and a shower bath two cents. Ledgers may buy food outside and cook it themselves in the hotel kitchens, or they may buy their supplies at the lowest possible price from the hotel storerooms. Lodgers are also fur nished with facilities for doing their own washing. The building is five stories in height, with a roof garden on the top. The building contains 530 rooms, all of the same dimensions, 5 feet 10 inches by 7 feet 6 inches. In no other country in the world is the cigar so popular as in Germany, bo much so that it Ii impossible to raise enough tobacco in the empire to sup ply the domestic demand. Last year Germany Imported nearly $22,000,000 worth of tobaccp, a little more than a third of it coming from the United States. The use of the cigaret Is rap idly spreading in Germany. Last year 286 tons of cigarets were consumed. at least five times as many as were needed ten years ago. Wonderful results are reported from experiments conducted at the Berlin electrical works with the idea of util izing the heat which goes to waste in the exhaust steam of a high pressure or in the circulating water of a low pressure tteam engine. For the pur pose of using this waste heat, so-called cold vapor engines have been built, and long continued tests show that they add an average of 41 per cant to the efficiency of the compound engines to which they are attached, and that without adding to the consumption of coal by so much as a single pound. What such a saving would mean in a large plant will be appreciated by ev ery man who has to do with the devel opment of steam power. The use cf American corn meal Is rapidly increasing in Eelgium, where it furnishes a cheap and nutritious food to the millions of working people iili 3 MB 9m SOU HtftC . -J0 . 14 I 1529 who earn only from 40 to CI ..vnta a day. It's thief use at preset is in bread, white corn meal Ixiur, mixed with whent Cour in its nakirp to the amount of 20 per cent. Nine-tenths of all the bread u-ed in Belgium l& made by public bakeries, and tholr product i? sold at lower pric.-s th:in is bakers' bread in l:e United States. Th high-speed electric tractiou tests nox being made under govc mmt nt su pervision on the military line between Beriin and Zossen have already proved successful, a sjed of ninety miles an hour having been attained, while tb3 engineers expect to rua at 150 mile an hour before the tests are flnihwd. The fast runs are all made on a t-tretc h of tr.k a little more than fourteen miles in licgtb. It is a standard gaug9 track, level, and nearly straight. Dur ing the summer the entire track va relaid and the roadbed put into perfect condition for the tests. Puwer U taken from a series of three ovrheal trolley wires, which are arranged in t unusual manner at one side of the track. The cars used in the tests were also especially built for the work, an J have been fitted up with electrical ap paratus by rival electrical firms. Tho front of the cars are pointed in order to lessen the resistance of the wind. France is badly worried over an alarming shortage in the wheat crop. The price of wheat has already risen 48 cents per 220 pounds, while tte price cf a quartern loaf of br ad has risen from 12.5 to 13.5 cents. It Is es timated that the shortage which EJuat be supplied from abroad will aggre gate nearly 100,000,000 bushels. There has lately been formed in Paris an international committee the ot'ject of which is to control the price -ot wheat all over the world. This committee has the support and indorsement of nearly a hundred agricultural tit.oietiea in Denmark, Germany, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Portugal and Swit zerland. The committee has opened permanent offices with a f-ecretary in charge, and haa gone to work in a scientific way to gather information and acquire influence which ny be used in keeping up the price. A r.e-w device for applying motive power to small boats has recently been patented by a French firm, which also holds patents In all civilized coun tries. The new device ean be eas-ily and quickly applied to any boat, with out special preparation. The screw is located at the bottom of a cylindrical shaft, about which it revolves, so that It may le worked in any direction. Thus by pimply moving a lever th whole power of the screw may be re versed, and the boat stopped In an in stant. "With the screw a tajhtt cr gasoline motor Is used. , ETHICS AND FOOTEALL In the November North American, President Charles F. Thwing of West ern Reserve University becomes a i kind Cf oTiCial panegyrist cf the pame of football, and stamps it with a kin4 of official approval. He can hardly be blamed for doing so. He discusses "The Ethical Functions of Football." and when a thing has ethical func tions" it should be received with open arms. May it not be suspected, however, that what we of the present day zre fond of crlling "ethical functions" are nothing more or leas than what used to be called "moral effects"? Such a suspicion bometimea crosses or.e'2 mind while engaged in the complacent use of such expressions. It is difficult to free one's speech of the cant of th day, and of all pieces of cant "ethical functions" is perhaps the most widely spread and the most glibly used. More over, when one comes to the specific "functions" which Prof. Thwing men tions one finds again that his expres sions have a kind of uncertain, glim mering effect. It may be that football does "represent the inexorable." and does "bring a man up against the eternal laws of the universe." but is there any sport, business, or amuse ment about which the same thing is not true? Does the young man have to go to the football field in order to fall under the operation of the lawa of the universe? Lord Penrhyn's son and heir, who is soon to visit the United States, will inherit nearly 50,000 acres of land ia Wales, including the most extensive slate quarries in tne United Kingdom and possibly in the world. The dally output of these quarries is 200 tens. They employ 3,000 workmen and sus tain more than 15,000 people. The gross Income of Lord Pcnrhyn from the quarries is about $3,500,000 annu ally. Penrhyn castle is one of tfc ehow places in Wales. The youngest college president Is said to be John II. McCracken, who at 25 presides over Westminster college at Fulton, Mo. Jerome Hall Raymond, president of the University of Wett Virginia, was elected to that once when 2S years old. President Booth Colwell Davis of Alfred University. New York, was elected when 32 yeart old. and Rev. Burris A. Jenkins ai two years younger when he became president of the University of Indian apolis. He Wotild BreaK the BanKof Morrte Carlo. According to a London cable, the Earl of Rosslyn. who recently tried to float a company float a company with a capital of $100,000 for the purpose of perfect ing a system capa ble of reducng the Monte Carlo sys tem to a 6tate of bankruptcy, has secured interesting results with his new scheme. On Monday a croupier played a test game with Lord Rosslyn at 91 and 93 Jermyn street, London, where he dealt Trente et Quarante cards for two hours In the morning and again in the . stakes according tothe svstem. The re- afternoon, while Lord Rosslyn placed j suit of the first day's play against the croupier was a winning of $1,325. On Tuesday the game vai reuumed, and at the end of the day. after ner eral heavy imaginary losses, the Earl had won $5,000. During the whole of the time occu pied in playing the Earl continually made puzzling calculations, and al ways referred to a big chart, which was covered with mathematical prob lems and hieroglyphics, that reminded of ancient Egyptian papyri. Sporting men and experts are skeptical and say that before any money U invested in the Earl's system It will be necessary to see the result of 20,000 couj played continuously. Brazilian carbon, which is vorth about $45 per karat, or about four times the value of ordinary diamond, is used in drilling some of the cold mines in South Africa. The number of students fn the liy regular medical scNools of the United States in 1900 was 1,079 females and 21,673 males.
