Nebraska Newspapers

    FAIRBANKS PUTS THE
BURDEN ON CHURCH
Vice-President Says it Only
Can Make Capital and La
bor Friendly.
SOCIALISM IS DECRIED
fiays It Is Inimical to American Go
nius and Spirit—Earnestly Advo
cates Merging of North and
South Churches.
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♦ CHURCH MUST HELP. T
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4 No political law can maintain 4
4 enduring relations of amity be- 4
4 tween capital and labor. No human 4
4 law' can bring them into such har- 4
4 mony as perpetually to avoid fric- 4
4 tion and collision. The Christian 4
4 church can do more than all the 4
4 measures framed by the hand of 4
4 man to maintain industrial peace, 4
4 for it teaches the brotherhood of 4
4 man and inspires men with a sense 4
4 of justice and fair play which is the 4
4 ultimate foundation of good rela- 4
4 tions. If men do not have within 4
4 them the spirit of love and justice, 4
4 if they do not have in their breasts 4
4 the spirit of divine law. there is lit- 4
4 tie hope of enduring concord.—Ex- 4
4 tract from Vice President Fair- 4
4 banks' address today before the 4
4 general conference of the Methodist 4
4 Episcopal church south.
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Birmingham, Ala., May 16.—Vive
president Fairbanks today addressed
Ihe general assembly of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south. He brought
greetings from the Methodist Episcopal
church and expressed the fervent hope
that the two branches of the denomi
nation would soon be merged.
The vice president referred to socialism
as antagonistic to the best interests of
the people and to our form of govern
ment, being a'‘leveling down” and not a
"leveling up.” No political law, he
said, would ever be devised which would
bring labor and capital together in
amicable union, the church could per
form the greater service in this direc
tion
in part the speaker said:
. ”i cannot refrain from expressing
and emphasizing the hope which those
'who have preceded me in this brotherly
mission have ventured to express. The
:tvvo great branches of Methodism in
America may be consolidated into one
imighty church, not in sentiment and
'in purpose alone, by in organization as
well. I give utterance to this wish
f.pon my own responsibility, though it
Is shared by many of my brethren.
'With me it is not a desire born of this
’kindly mission, but is one I have long
jeherished; one which time has but
.strengthened and which your hearty
welcome has but quickened. The trend
!of events seems to me to lead to ulti
mate union. The process may be slow
.but I believe it to be certain.
The inexorable logic of mutual inter
ests must lead us to a common conclu
sion. Union will come through the
subtle yet powerful influence of the law
of gravitation, the gravitation of mu
tual respect, of common faith! We have
the same ecclesiastical policy and sing
the praises of the Master from a com
mon hymn book. Lines of latitude do
not afford an insuperable obstacle to
ultimate and permanent union. Ancient
difference ■ do not constitute an
insurmountable objection. The church
inspires a feeling of brotherly love. It
teaches forgiveness, and if either
church has erred in the past, it has
long since been forgiven in the supreme
chancellory where those who misjudge
for want of light are forgiven. Meth
odism is too broad to be bounded by
sectional lines. It is too catholic in its
exalted purpose to be restricted by lim
its less ample than those of the re
public.
"While with us the church and state
are separate and should so continue, the
Vhristian church is nevertheless a pow
erful agency in the support of a free
state. It presided at the birth of toe
republic and has been its faithful
guardian angel from that hour until
now. It inculcates among the great
body of the people that wholesome re
spect for the rights of men that regard
for law and order, without which
the state cannot long survive.
• The United States," said De Tocque
ville, "must he religious to be free.
Furthermore,” said he, "despotism may
govern without religious faith, but lib
erty cannot.
"The socialistic tendency in certain
quarters has not escaped the attention
of the most casual observer of current
events. Its growth cannot be viewed
except with concern, for it bodes no
good to our country. The church may
well concern itself with all those things
which affect the temporal welfare of
Ihls great people. It may well concern
itself with these things which menace
tlie state., which tend to jeopardize the
institutions which came to us from the
hands of our fathers. The movement is
•yet in its incipient stages and it is well
that its pernicious influence should be
understood.
"Socialism is at war with our most
cherished traditions. It is hostile to
the rnlightened principles of our
'growth as a great people. It is a peril
•to our social and industrial develop
ment. It would paralyze Individual
'initiative, which has been the most po
tent factor in our upbuilding. Here,
amidst the unsurpassed advantages
which a kind providence has placed at
(our hands, the individual counts for
'more than' anywhere else beneath the
sun. Here, no matter how humble his
station, lie is able to develop his ge
nius for accomplishing things, for
subduing the wilderness, for building
great cities, for spanning the conti
nent with the evidence of ills power,
for improving his environment and
making better the home and stronger
the state. But this were endowment
enough. It has been the touchstone of
our national development. It has giv
en us countless communities, happy,
self-reliant, prosperous,, brave and pa
triotic. Socialism seeks to level down
and not level up. It id alike at war
witli the best interests of both capital
and labor.
"It seeks to restrict each in the ex
ercise of its natural functions. It puts
limitations upon each which are con
trary to American genius and spirit.
In the United St. tes the laborer of
today becomes the capitalist of tomor
row. Such has been our experience
from the beginning until now. and it
will be the history of tomorrow.
"Neither constitutions nor statutes,
though they were framed by men with
the wisdom of Solomon, can establish
and maintain equality and absolute
justice among men. H'o must look to
the persuasive power and influence of
the Christian church to bring them to
a complete realization of their tr ie re
lationship to each other, to their prl
mary duty to deal fairly with one er
other; to carry into the various >"’■
tions of life the principles f the* 1
,an,I splendid code, the gold. r. rub..."
DON’T BE GRAY,
BURN HAIR CELLS
They Eat Pigment, They Change th»
• Chameleon’s Color, but Heat
Kills Them.
Paris, May 16.—No one need be gra,
haired who does not wish to be, de
clares Professor Metchnikoff, the great,
Russian biologist and embryologist*,
Metchnikoff told the savants of the
•Academy of Medicine that gray hair
on the human head is a kind of disease
(Caused by the super-activity of a cer
tain living cell inside each hair which
'feeds on It pigment. A comparatively
low degree of heat is fatal to this cell,
which shrivels and dies if one pass an
'iron heated to 60 degrees centigrade
<(140 degrees Fahrenheit) through his
jor her locks.
The learned Russian again states the
fact that great emotion will turn the
'hair gray in a night. But he has a
new reason for it. He says fear or sor
row has strange power to stimulate the
pigment-devouring hair cell, which lit
erally fattens on human misery. Metch
nikoff further told the astonished sa
vants that the chameleon's frequent
changes of color are due to the same
singular organism which is made su
perlatively active by the lizard-rep
tile’s intense timidity.
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MRS. GORKY SAYS
“DON’T BUTT IN”
Real Wife of Socialist Says This Coun
try Is Too Freo—Sticks
by Maxim.
Yalta, May 16.—Editor New York
Herald: "I have today received a let
ter from Alexis MaxlmOvitch Peshkoff
(Maxim Gorky) which confirms the
news communicated by the newspaoer
telegrams regarding the reception giv
en to him by America. I am indignant
at the intrusion into the personal and1
intimate life of a man and astonished
that the American, citizens of a free
country, enjoying such large personal
liberties, are not free from the predju
dices dead already even with us in Rus
sia. Ekaterina Peshkoff.
Wife of Maxim Gorky.
SEARCHLIGHT STRIKES
ZULUS WITH TERROR
British Find New and Effective Weap
on Against South African
Savages.
Durban, Natal, May 16.—Searchlight!
promise to prove as effective weapons
in subduing the sedition of Zulus ast
British guns, judging from the display
given last night by the native com
missioners belore a huge gathering of
Zulus at the headquarters of the puni
tive force. The natives were awe-,
struck and regarded the searchlight as
the eye of the Almighty. They said
God had turned it upon them in his
anger.
The flashing of the light on the sur
rounding hills bringing in plain view
•the Kaffir trails as far as the horizon
powerfully impressed the Zulus, who
when the light suddenly flashed across
their faces cowered or fell on the
fround, before what they termed "The
atest witchcraft of the whites.”
QUICK PUNISHMENT.
Looters Are Set to Work Forthwith in
’Frisco.
San Francisco, May 14.—A novef
method of stamping out the evil of
looting, which has been on the increase
despite the stern measures taken by
the civil and military authorities, has
been established by Chief of Police Di
nan. He has issued an order that
whenever a looter is caught he is to be
put in a squad under the command of
Detective Sergeant Charles Taylor.
Members of the squad are compelled
to labor at clearing away the debris.
Already Sergeant Taylor has seventy
five men under him and the number i
constantly growing. The taskmaster c|
this chain gang is given discretionary
powers as to the term each of the
members shall serve. Already the
streets about Portsmouth square and
the Hall of Justice are beginning to
assume their old time appearance of
cleanliness, the result of the work of
the captured looters.
Chief Dinan believes that when the
existence of Sergeant Taylor’s army
becomes generally known looting will
greatly decrease.
HOPPE BEATS SLOSSON.
Youngster Wins Championship Bil
hard Contest in Chicago.
Chicago, May 14.—Willie Hoppe, the
boy billiard expert, won first prize in
the professional tournament which was
finished Saturday night in Orchestra
hall. Hoppe went through his four
games without a single defeat.
George Sutton, the Canadian cham
pion, captui'ed second place, having
three victories to his credit and one
defeat. The other three players, George
Slosson, who won the championship
in the recent tournament in New York;
Louis Cure, the French champion, and
Jake Schaefer, finished with a triple
tie, each player having won one game
and lost three.
The score:
Hoppe—118, 0, 0, 89, 0, 1, 0, 70, 2, 15
51, 63, 0, 20, 0, 50, 1, 6, 2, 10, 2—total]
500; high run, 11S; average, 23 17-21.
Slosson—18, 27, 11, 3, 23, 1, 11, 34, 1,
0. 4, 2, 4.’2, 0, 0, 20, 1, 1, 1, 1—total, 171;
high run, 34; average, 8 32-S3.
MORE NOSES; FEW VOTES
Paris, May 14.—Paris takes pride in
its population, and now is rejoicing in
new figures, 2,731,728, showing an in
crease of 71,169 in five years. Some
arrondissements gained and others lost,,
among the latter being the fourth, sixth
and seventh, their decrease being
enough to cause each to lose a deputy
in the chamber. The strange result thus
obtained is that, though Paris shows
an increase of over 70,000, on account
of the fashion in which the population
is distributed, it will have only thirty
seven deputies instead of forty. The
falling off in certain arrondissements is
explained by movements toward tne
suburbs.
Kansas City—A couple seeking marriage
went to Independence yesterday. Thu
prospective hridegroom. when told that i\
license would cost $2. insisted on getting
It for $1.7)0, but finally paid the price.
Then he inquired what It would cost to bq
married and was informed $2 "Not tot
me," exelaimed the economical bride
groom. "1 can get a preacher anywhere to
do it for $1.30." He finally paid Justicr
J. F. Buchanan the $2.
Boston, Mas-.—With tr.o advent cf spring
the girls at Wellesley college have de
veloped a fad for cross-country strolls,
and not sat'sfied to keep to the sidewalks
they have romped and frolicked over lawns
and private estates. This so annoyed resi
dents that a warning against it was print
ed today in the Wellesley Townsman, the
local newspaper, and In the Welieslej
College News, t!;4 student publication.
COAL CONSUMERS
SAVED $25,000,000
•John Mitchell Discovered Op«
erators Had 18,000,000
Tons Stored.
DART OF BAER STRATEGY
Mine Owners Kept Secret the Amour
of ooal on Hand—Calling Off
Strike Means Much to
the Country.
Philadelphia, May 16.—What have
the people of America saved through
John Mitchell's action in preventing an
anthracite strike?
Eliminating the cost in human lives
and injuries, the wages of the mine
workers and the loss to the wage earn
ers and capitalists in the host of in
dustrial establishments which would
be affected by a prolonged suspension,
und calculating only the extra price
the consumers would be obliged to pay
for the reserve stockb of coal held by
the operators, the saving which has
been accomplished is tremendous.
At no time during the suspension did
the railroad operators and the Inde
pendents give anything approaching a
detailed estimate of their reserve
stocks. This was kept secret from the
public and the miners as a bit of the
Baer strategy with which the battle!
was to have been fought.
Eighteen Million Tons Stored.
John Mitchell sought the informa
tion. and when he could not find it di
rectly from the companies obtained it
in his way. His investigation satisfied
him that the stocks would have lasted
well into the winter, and, at the high
rates which would have been extorted
as the strike dragged Into the late sum
mer, the mountains of coal would have
yielded enormous profits to their hold
ers.
Tills knowledge was potent in influ
encing Mitchell’s advice to the mine
workers. He found that within 100
miles of New York city more than
9,000,000 tons, mostly' domestic sizes,
were heaped, and that as much more
could be counted upon in the storage
yards at Bridgeport, Port Richmond,
St. Nicholas and other points in Penn
sylvania, and in the output of the op
erated washeries and collieries like the
Cayuga, Oxford and Bellevue, in Scran
ton.
Reduction Comes Quickly.
From these 18,000,000 tons 40 cents
per ton has been cut by one brief sen
tence from the anthracite trust's head
quarters in the Reading terminal, the
very day the anthracite miners voted
against a strike.
This announced deduction is from the
list prices of anthracite, and is far low
er than the real gain to the people.
Calculations upon the 40-cent. basis
shows that the people saved at least
$7,200,000 on the 18,000,000 tons which
the operators had or would produce.
But the real saving to the people, as
y.as been said, in the price of coal is
fnuch greater than 40 cents. The retail
price of domestic sizes fell 65 cents, and,
of steam sizes 75 cents, a ton. Calcu
lating this saving of 70 cents upon tne
total of 18,000,000 tons shows a grand
total of $12,600,000.
Consumers Save $25,000,000.
It must be remembered that this was;
only the beginning of the struggle be
fore a strike was even declared. Noth
ing is more certain than that the av-J
erage of 70 cents a ton over last week's
prices would have been more than dou
bled within two months if a strike had
been declared. The people, in that event,,
would have been mulcted to the tune of'
more than $25,000,000 over and above the1
normal cost of coal.
It is a fact that independent operators
and owners of washeries were already
getting advances ranging from $1 to $2!
a ton for their steam sizes.
This estimate makes no count of the
millions of dollars which Mitchell's ac
tion has saved to the business men of'
the anthracite region, nor those other;
millions which would have been sheared'
from the investments in all manner of,
securities. It is only a glance at one'
'corner of the picture, a corner which
faffects every household and factory m
which anthracite coal is a necessity, j
ALLEGED MURDERER
NABBED AT DOCK
William Meyer, Accused of Strangling
Aged Woman and Putting Muti
lated Remains in Trunk.
Now York, May 16.—William Meyer,
2S years old, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Marie Vogel, 74 years old, a
wealthy woman of San Francisco, at
Frankfort-on the Main, Germany, was
arrested on the Hamburg-American line
steamer Grof Waldersee on its arrival
at Hoboken.
The body of the murdered woman was
found last Friday In the railway sta
tion in Frankfort-on the Main. It Is in
a trunk, dismembered, and badly de
composed by quicklime.
Mayer was a furniture dealer in Now
Orleans and says he is a citizen of the
United States. He vigorously denied
that he was guilty of the murder. He
made no resistance when arrested and
said that he could prove that It was a
case of mistaken identity.
The woman with Meyer, who came ns
his wife, a comely-looking woman. 23
years old, appeared to be greatly
shocked over Meyer's arrest. She said
she had no Idea he was accused of
crime. She broke down and wept bit
terly and had almost to be carried from
the ship.
Before being taken to the Tombs tiie
piir were arralgrad before Commis
sioner Shields in the Federal building.
The man pleaded not guilty. The wom
an said that Mrs. Vogel was Mey-i's>
aunt. She said she knew nothing of ihe
crime.
She finally confessed that she was not
married to Meyer, but showed a wed
ding ring dated November 3, 1903, whi. Iv
she said Meyer had given her In prom
ise of marriage.
She said that Mrs. Vogel had ob
jected to the fact' that they had liv 'd
t< gather as man and wife.
MINERS GET MORE PAY.
Highest Rate Since Commission Made
Its Award.
Tamaqua, Pa.. May 14.—The com
mission appointed by the anthracite I
strike commission to compute the rate
of wages for antnracite miners has no- '
titled th; coal operators the miners will
be paid 8 per cent, on a $4.30 basis for
the month of May. the average price of
cor.I at tidewater last month being
$4.93 a ion. This is the highest rate
at whim miters have been paid since
the comrnisdcn made its award. 1
KILLED ENTIRE FAMILY.
Unknown Assassins Slay Minister, Hit
Wife and Seven Children
in Florida.
Pensacola, Kin., May 16.—One of the
most horrible crimes in the history of
this stale if not of the entire south was
committed ten miles north of Milton.
An itinerant preacher named Aeker
|man, his wife and seven children, the
oldest about 14 years old, were killed
land their bodies cremated in their
.home, which was burned by the assas
sins. The crime was discovered by par
ities with whom Ackerman had an ap
pointment. They found the house in
ruins and the charred bodies of Acker
iman and the eight members of the
family scattered about the wreckage.
: [Examination by physicians showed that
Ackerman and his wife had been struck
■in the head by some blunt instrument,
;thelr skulls being crushed. The citi
zens of Milton have raised more than
la thousand dollars which will be offer
ed as a reward for the apprehension
lot" their assassins, and Governor Brow
ard has been appealed to to offer a re
Iward for the state.
Ackerman is not known to have had
jany enemies.
MUTUAL HOLDERS
TRANSFER POLICIES
Britons Are Divided Into Rival Camps,
and Haldeman Appears to
Have Lead.
I London. May 16.—British policyhold
ers of the Mutual Life Insurance com
Ipany of New York are being organized
'into rival camps. Those following the
'plan outlined by the "protection com-,
mtttee," headed by D. C. Haldeman, a
former London manager of the Mutual,
(today Hocked to the officers of the
(North British and Mercantile Insur
iance company, where they filled out
(papers transferring their policies to the
[British concern. Haldeman with a part
Jof the old staff of the Mutual company
'were kept busy all day directing pol
'icyholders how to take the necessary
'steps. Thev nro receiving hundreds
(bf applications by mall, their offices
having the appearance ot a large bank
Ion the day of a popular loan. Halde
man claims to have a majority of the
flarge holders on his side, and expects
fthe smaller ones to follow their lead.
, The scheme for the transfer of the
business to the North British com
(pany was sprung suddenly. Arrange
ments were only completed late Satur
day night, and were not published un
til this morning, giving Haldeman a
'day’s advantage to communicate with
his clients.
MRS. CHADWICK SAYS
SHE GOT ONLY $241,000
'‘Queen of Finance” Failing Fast—De
nies That Friend of Pittsburg
Lent Her $800,000.
Columbus, May 16.—Cassle L. Chad
wick is aging rapidly under her present
Imprisonment and will probably not
(live out her term. She has lost flesh
inoticeably in the last few months and
would hardly be recognized by those
familiar with the "Queen of Finance,”
as she presented herself for trial in the
federal court in Cleveland last year.
She has become almost deaf, too, in
the last two months, so that in taking
her depositions yesterday for use in the
tease of the Frlend-Jutte case of Pitts
burg, the attorneys had to sit within
two feet of her in order to make them
selves heard.
The depositions were taken In secret
and sealed, to be opened only by the
court at Pittsburg. It is known that
she said she did not get $800,000 from
(Friend. She said the exact sum Was
$241,000. _ _ _
TIE OlTsUPREME
COURT DECISION
Mrs. James G. Blaine No. 2 Arrives in
Sioux Falls With Avowed Inten
tion of Divorcing Jimmie.
Sioux Falls, S. D., May 14.—Rumors
that Mrs. James G. Blaine intended
Coming to Sioux Falls for the purpose
of establishing a residence and secur
ing a divorce became a reality today
by the arrival of herself and maid in
the city.
They were driven from the train di
rect to the Cataract hotel, where Mrs.
Blaine has engaged a suite of four
rooms, and where she will make her
home during the six months or more
she remains in Sioux Falls, pending
commencement of her divorce suit. Her
arrival caused quite a flutter among
the members of the local divorce col
pny.
It is recalled that she is the second
wife of James G. Blaine to come to
Sioux Falls with the object of procur
ing a divorce, the first being the for
mer Miss Nevins, who now is the wife
of Dr. Bull of New York City.
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<00,000 POUNDS OF
POWDER LETS GO
^nd Bridgeport, Conn., People, Think
ing an Earthquake Was in Oper
ation, Fled in Nightclothes.
Bridgeport, Conn., May 14.—The ex
plosion of four magazines In the stor
age grounds of the Union Metallic
Cartridge company, containing about
100,000 pounds of powder, situated In
the northern section of Bridgeport,
•early today shook up this section as if
by an earthquake.
No person was injured, and property
damage is chiefly limited to the demo
lition of windows in buildings In the
city and suburban sections. The con
cussion caused great alarm in the city
and neighboring towns. Many people
(fled from their homes in their night
garments, believing there had been an
earthquake.
PHILLIPS GOES OUT.
Tarboll, Baker and Steffens Will Like
ly Leave McClure’s.
New York, May 14.—The announce
ment Is published that S. S. McClure
.has purchased all of the Interest for
'merly held by John S. Phillips in Mc
Clure’s Magazine and in the book pub
lishing firm of McClure, Phillips & Co.
Oscar W. Braay has been elected
treasurer of both companies to suo
veed Mr. Phillips. Mr. McClure de
.dined to make any statement as to the
'significance of the change.
Phillips was asked about the report
'Of the difference over the "muck rak
ers." and whether he intended start
ing another magazine. He replied that
•it was too early to discuss such things,
but added that In ull probability an
(other magazine would be started. He
stated emphatically that Ida M. Tar
jbell, Ray Stannard Baker and Bin
Coin Steffens will b» associated with
him in his new enterprise, whatever it
(might be.
CARL SCHURZ DIES
AFTER SNORT ILLNESS
| , |
'Videly Known Publicist and a
Former Cabinet Member
Succumbs.
MAN OF STRONG PARTS
Nas Editor, Lecturer and Author,
Winning the Respect of the People
of His Adopted Country—
76 Years Old.
New York, May lfi.—Carl Schurz, the
widely known publicist and former cab
inet member, died at his home In this
city early today.
Death was due to a complication of
diseases following an attack of stomach
trouble which became acute Thursday
last.
In spite of brief periods of seeming
improvement Schurz slowly failed yes
terday afternoon and sank into a state
of coma, which continued until the
end. At his bedside were his son Carl
r. and two daughters, Mnriunne and
Agatha Edward E. Pretorlus, Sohurz's
business partner. Schurz was 76 years
old.
Carl Schurz was born near Cologne, Ger
many, March 2. 1829; was educated In the
University of Bonn; while yet u young
man, became connected with the press,
and .alited a uaper identified with the rev
olution of 1848; took part In the defense of
Rastadt, after which he tied to Switzer
land; subsequently resided In Paris and
London, whore he was a teacher and cor
respondent for three years; emigrated to
the United States in 1852; was a delegate
to the Chicago convention In 1869, taking
z leading part in its proceedings; In 1861
was selected, by President Lincoln, as
minister to Spain, which position he soon
resigned; was then appointed a brlgadler
reneral of volunteers, and was present at
the second battle of Bull Run, and at the
battle of Gettysburg; after the war was
appointed a commissioner to visit the
»outhern states and report upon the af
fairs of the Freedman's Bureau; In 1865
and 1866 was a Washington correspondent
for the New York Tribune; was subse
quently conected with the press of De
troit and St. Louis; was a delegate to the
Chicago convention of 1868; was elected a
senator in congress from Missouri for the
term commencing In 1869 and ending In
1875. serving on the committee on pensions,
territories and military affairs; In 1876 be
came secretary of the Interior in the cab
inet of President Hayes, remaining In the
position throughout the term of four
years: after became editor of the New
York Evening Post, in which position he
ontinued until 1884.
“UNHOLY ALLIANCE.”
Forthcoming Marriage of King Alfons.
and Princess Ena Denounced
in London.
London, May 16.—What Is calculate*,
(o create bitter feeling between the
Woman Catholics and Protestants in
England was the violence of language
used in protest the other evening at
the approaching marriage of Princess,
Ena and the king of Spain on the part
of a large assembly of the clergy of the
Church of England, who had come from
all parts of England to attend the an
nual assembly of the Protestant Re
form society.
A resolution condemning the alliance
is a slight and Insult to the Church of
England and a danger to the British
nation was carried with vehement
:• heer.s by the audience which crowded
Exeter hall.
Here are some of the remarks of the
speakers:
"Tlie unholy alliance was not worked
up in England, but was engineered in
Rome, and the black hand was behind
It all.” "The peace of England, which
rame through the blble, Is endangered."
“Our ancestors already have suffered
from a member of the royal family hav
ing married a papist." "The pope has
won an English princess to his side
who will be a valuable agent in bring
ing other converts to the church o(
Rome by the vows she has taken. She
has declared that her uncle, King Ed
ward. was worthy of eternal damna
tion.”
But one of the most violent speeches
of the indignant clergy was the one
In which, amid hisses and cries of
shame, an excited, white haired old
man said: "Princess Ena is to be pitied
for receiving the blessing of the pope
and having the order of the Golden
Rose bestowed upon her. No one who
ever got the blessing prospered, and
it is notorious that the bestowal of the
golden rose always is followed by a
calamity to the receiver.”
DEATH IN MUMMIES.
Great Spread of Tuberculosis Due t
Disinterment of Bodies of the
Pharaohs.
Chicago. May 14.—"Egyptology Ver
sus Health” is the title of a mono
graph received at the headquarters oi
the Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago.
In which it is alleged that the great
spread of tuberculosis in Europe and'
America in the last 100 years found
its causation in the disinterment and’
shipment broadcast over the land of
the mummies which had reposed so
long in the tombs of the Pharaohs. '
The monogram was written by Dr.
Rafaelle Sorgnae, one of the lecturers
at the Sorboime in Paris, who was arj
interested visitor at the recent tuber
culosis exhibit in this city.
"That the disinterred mummies
started tl\e spread of tuberculosis
germs in Egypt cannot be doubted."
says Dr. Sorgnae in his monograph.
"There are more tuberculosis germs in
the almost impalpable dust around a
mummy case than in many cuspidors
of effluvia.
"These germs live for thousands of
years, as has easily Deen proven, and
the exhumation of the bodies, even the
well preserved ones, caused an epi
demic of consumption among the work
men and scholars wno first exhumed
the eases. It is also well known that
the keepers of the mummy cases have
been subject to the disease.
"The start of tuberculosis in France |
In a serious sense may be traced to the
great importation of mummies andj
mummy cases at the time of the Na
poleonic Invasion of Egypt, and this'
start gave the disease its first great
foothold In Europe, whence it has
spread all over the western world. ,
Dead bodies may not secrete the germs, '
but dead bodies are undoubtedly a fa
vorite lodging place for the tubercular
bacilli.
"The bacilli from the mummies are
undoubtedly of great age, and it has
been shown by experiments in Paris
that these aged bacilli are infinitely
more deadly than those obtained front
the sputum of live persons who are in
fer ted "
TO STUDY AMERICA.
Prince of India, Direct Descendant of
the iviahratta Generals, Arrives
in New York.
New York, May 15.—The Maharajah
Gaekwar, of Baroda, accompanied by
his wife, the maharanee, $nd his broth
er, Sam patras, lended yesterday from
the steamer Celtie, which arrived from
Liverpool. The Maharajah Gaekwai is
the second greatest prince in all India
and the direct descendant of the Mah
ratta generals who were the moguls
or rulers of India when the East Indies
wrested control from them. He is the
ruler of the state of Baroda, which, has
a population of 2,000,000 and an area
of 8,000 square miles. His brother act*
as his secretary.
There were many persons on the
pier to see the ruler of Baroda, but
those who expected to see a mai|
dressed in oriental trappings and hung
with Jewels were disappointed. De
scending the gangplank, there came a
dapper little man who would have
been taken ordinarily for a prosperous
East Indian merchant. He and hi*
wife, followed by two maids, were ta
ken to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, where
they will stop while in New York.
"During my stay in the United
States,” said the maharajah today,
"I shall visit most of your large col
leges. I am most anxious to see Yale,
Princeton, Harvard and Cornell, for I
understand that there are a large num
ber of Indian students at those insti
tutions. After I have spent two weeks
in New York I shall go to Boston, and
from there to Philadelphia and then
through west through Yellowstone
park. And on my return I intend tc
visit President Koosevelt at Washing
ton."
The maharajah takes a deep Inter
est In the development and uplifting
of his fellow countrymen, and toward
this end has established a college in
Baroda. He will send some of the
graduates to the United States to learn
the customs of the people here.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION
IN SAN DOMINGO
Said That Base of Operations Is in
Porto Rico, and United States
Government Will Take Aetion.
Washington, May 16.—Reports have
reached the state department of the or
ganization of another revolutionary
movement directed against the govern
ment of President Caceres, Santo Do
mingo.
It is understood the island of Porto
Rico Is the base of operations and It
Is supposed ex-Presldenta Morales and
Jimlnez are leaders of the movement.
Instructions have been sent to the In
sular governor of Porto Rico to take
steps to carry out the neutrality laws,
which would prevent the organization
and departure of any hostile exporta
tion. American warships surrounding
the Island of San Domingo will also be
instructed to prevent any landing of
hostile forces.
IS HARD HIT.
Rev. Dr. 3. T. Carter Says Thera Is
No Such God as Westminster
Conference Describes.
Now York, May 12.—The question of dis
ciplining or trying on heresy charges Rev.
.Dr. Samuel T. Carter, who several years
ago became prominent In an effort to
(have the Westminster confession revised,
has been taken up by the Presbytery of
Nassau at Jamaica, N. J. The meeting
:was called because of a letter In which
Rev. Mr. Carter declares he does not be
jUevo the Westminster confession to be
the truth of God, but "an Idol of man’s In
vention as truly as any worshipper In
•Delhi, Pekin, or Africa."
This letter Is addressed to the general
lassembly of the Presbyterian church
which Is to meet May 18 In Des Moines
,1a. The writer terms It a "protest and
confession.” The letter Is as follows:
, Fathers and Brethren: The Presbytery
of Nassau overturned the general assent,
lily a year ago asking that the brief stat«
menc of doctrine be substituted for ths
.Westminster confession as the confessloc
bf our church. By a practically unani
mous vote the generaly assembly, reject
ed this overture and retained the West
minster confession. By this action of the
assembly many ministers are compelled t(
'declare Llielr acceptance of a confession
which they do not heartily believe and
many of our best members to acknowledge
a creed of which they are ashamed. X ap
peal from the action of the assembly tc
the manliness and honesty of the ministry
of the Presbyterian church. Many years
ago when X was ordained to the ministry
of the gospel I declared In the most sol
emn manner that I believed the West
minster confession to be the truth of Godi
1 now In an equally solemn manner de
clare that I do not believe It to be the
truth of God; that I utterly reject it as
a setting forth of the character of ths
Heavenly Father.
No Such a God.
There never was, there is not now and
there never will be such a God as the God
of the Westminster confession.
It Is an Idol of man’s Invention as trull
as any worshiper in Delhi, Pekin or Af
rica. I believe that the great and tru«
God is infinitely and exquisitely good an*
gracious; that the one thing that we ca*
neither fully receive nor declare Is th«
boundless love of God; that all the noblest
exhibitions of human love are but brlghr
and beautiful sparks from that lntenss
and divine fiame—the love that througl
ages and generations has been leading mn
by the fullest wisdom and most tendei
providence to heights of knowledge, lov«
and boundless hope that far transcend alt
human thought. I lift up this overwhelm
ing divine love before my fellowmen, be
lieving that this alone will draw all men
unto him.
1 believe that the Westminster confes
sion of faith darkens and denies this grea*
love of God and should not be retained
as a confession by any church today, and
that our church is false to its greatest du
ty of being a true witness for God so Ion*
as It retains this confession.
I send this protest and confession to the
clerk of the general assembly, and I In
voke upon It the blessing of Almighty God
and kindly judgment of all honest men.
The letter was sent from Rome, Italy.
In Church Thirty Years.
Rev. Dr. Carter has been In the Pres
byterian church for over thirty years, but
is not in charge of a church. More that
a year ago his views were discussed b>
the Nassau presbytery.
The presbytery was In session only twt
hours. Upon Its adjournment It was stat
ed that the Carter case had been acted
upon, but all the members were pledged
to secrecy In the matter.
If the presbytery has decided to pro
ceed against him he will have to be sum
moned from Europe to answer the charges:
and this would entail an Indefinite delay.
It was reported last night that when the
general assembly ot the Presbyterlar
church meets at Des Moines next week
Dr. Carter’s letter will be presented of
ficially there. The Nassau presbytery, It
Is said, has given instructions concerning
the Carter letter to its delegates, Rev.
James N. Grace and Elder William Gould.
PULAJANES ON WARPATH AGAIN.
Manilla, May 13.—The following des
patch has been received from the act
ing governor of Cinco Island. Samar:
■ A band of twenty-four Pula janes hav
ing five rifles and other weapons en
tered Inabagan today, killing one and
wounding seven residents, burning and
looting thirty-six h- :ses and taking
over twenty residents prisoners.
Troops and constabulary are pursu
ing the bam