PEARY'S EXPEDITION A preliminary trip to be MADE THIS YEAR. Htatlona to Ixt Established In North Greenland — Arctic Highlanders Will Collect Meat and Kura and Train Hogs—The Hash to the fills In I HUM. His Plan's Well Matured. Nkw York, May US.— Lieutenant Peary, who has Just received five year:/ leave from the navy department, In an interview outlined hia plana for hm proposed Arctic expedition On July H he will start nortli on the preliminary journey, the sole objects of which is to make arrangements for the final trip, which will be begun In July, 1898. Lieutenant Peary will first pick out a route for his preliminary voyage. He will select one of the St. Johns sealers and have it ready to leave Boston l>e tween July A and 8. At Boston the steamer will take on board a store of supplies. Lieutenant Peary'a object in hia pre liminary voyage will be to communi cate with a colony of Kaquirnaux at Whale sound, who are known a* the Arctic highlanders. He will pick out six or eight of the most Intelligent young men in the colony and prepare them to take their families north with them and establish another colony which, a year later, will be his base of mippiice. At this village they will work throughout the year collecting meat, furs, bear skins to be made into boots, sledges and other supplies and training a puck of the best Ksipiimaux dogs obtainable. Lieutenant Peary says he could utilize the entire tribe in his work were it necessary, He will have his men urrunge affairs so that when he sees them in the summer of 1868 they will be ready to move north with him at a day's notice. Peary will he accompanied in this summer's trip by Ills wife and her 8-year-old daughter, but on the main expedition Mrs. Peary and the child will remain in this country. The jour ney tills summer will be from Boston to Sidney, then to Cape Breton, where the ship will take on coat; through the GuU of St. Lawrence to Relic island and up the Labrador coast to the mouth of Hudson's strait, then to Resolution island and across to the South ifreenland coast to Melville hay, and finally to wiiulc sound,which will be reached in the latter part of July. The return will be made in September, Lieutenant 1’eary is en thusiastic over the plans of liis trip, and is looking forward to his five years' work with the greatest pleas ure. “The project is entirely my own," he said. "The American Geographi cal society, the technical society most capable of passing on the project, lias indorsed it and has promised to sub scribe money for the trip when it is needed. The American Museum of Natural History lias also subscribed 1 have outlined plans very carefully, more so than before, and have made use of all the experience J have gained in previous experiences. 1 depend largely for my success upon the opera tion of the Ksquiinaux, but 1 have com plete confidence in them and f know that I can trust them to do everything that I tcil them and to have everything in readiness for me when I am pre pared to start on the main expedition for the pole. “As for tile plans for the main ex pedition, 1 can say little more than lias already been published. 1 am thor oughly^dccided on one project, and that is that 1 shall take with me very few white men. 1 shall give much at tention to the selection of my surgeon, who must lie vigorous, active and thoroughly enthusiastic. I shall time the maiu expedition carefully and be prepared to make the final dash for the pole at precisely the time when all tiie conditions are most fuvoruble. There will lx* much to do, but 1 am do terimued that there shall tie nodeluys. for any interference with the plans tiiat I have outlined might ha fatal to the entire project." TO MAKE BETTER CITIZENS Aiuerlran liotltut. of Clvtra llolil* It* Twelflli Annual Meeting. W’akiiisoto.v, May 3a. The twelfth annual meeting of the American In stitute of Civics was held in this city yesterday. Senator Hawley of Conuoe ticut presiding The president of the nsaoemtion, Henry Kundell Waite of New York, presented a report of the year's doing*, which showed that, not withstanding Ute depressed condition of tlnaiiciai alTair* throughout the country, the institute had made eu eon rug mg progress in the work U> which it is devoted The object of the institute is to pro luote a higher standard of ettUenshkp through education and by other means. Aa lanoee»l*e taileaa tsauelssOew. lion a Mai s. The cauoMUntlnu to dny of /nvcA'in, founder of the • inter uf Item.*biles end suruamed the A noetic of t.iwrame was the moat tut ■ovsslve 'erenow* witnessed |l Ah IVter's since the abolition of the lent porel power of the po|a'% || U estl meted that tn.Ot *’ laoipie were In the ksulivs GOME/ TO MKK M'KINLKV t afcaa t nwoweadev-ta t htef Is Mess s two ta IS. I so.d moss Cull tl tti so Ms* * Ad«o*s huts t ubn so* reeeirwd hv the iouni jnntA }r« sterday to the efft.l that IAmisI Itooie* will lempodv re sign as mmuisudsr of the Insurgent forces Ska! con** In this lountfl S* sects Is* i uf w«r pro tent of the thins repnhiie to wsihf with tVasi •lent M- hmiej an the • uhnn siinntnni IhMlng Ms ahseuen 11. n«< «i tooh Mill ewwwau t NOT GUILTY. So Say* the Jury In the Case of Have meyer. Washington. May 2*. —There was again the same crowd of distinguished persons at the llavemcyer trial this morning. When court opened Dis trict Attorney Davis entered upon his apply to the motion of the defense to order an acquittal, which Mr. Have meyer's counsel argued yesterday. Mr. Davis took up the six propositions upon which the defense based the mo tion and met them in order, though not as laid down by the defense. After the prosecution closed its argu ment the judge sustained the motion »f the defense and the jury, in ac cordance with the instructions of the court, returned a verdict of not guilty. It is understood by many that the M/quittal of Mr. llavemcyer would cause tiie indictments against John K. Searles, secretary of the refining com pany, and Mr. Ldwards and Mr. Shri ver, t lie newspaper men, to be quashed. Mr. Davis, the district attorney, how ever, said that the verdict in this case would not affect the case of John K. •Searles, whose trial will b« proceeded with to-morrow. Mr. Davis said that Mr. Searles had directly refused to an swer questions, and that his case was in no way parallel with that of Mr. llavemcyer s. INVESTORS SWINDLED. New Yorkers Caught for Much Money-* Tourlioil by a Promotor. Nrw Yohk, May 3a.—The many per sons who were Inveigled Into all sorts of schemes by Dr. (1. H. Griffin, who formerly had an office at No. 1U Broad way. aru mourning the toss of their money and wondering what hat be come of tiie smooth-tongued promoter. Dr. Griffin left town suddenly a short time ago, und only now Is the extent 4>f Ills scheming coming to light. The companies which lie organized are too numerous to mention. Among them were the Nanaimo Coal Mining com pany of British Columbia, the Central Islip I,nml and Improvement company of Long Island, the Massapequa Land and Improvement company of Long Island, the West Asbury Water com pany and the I’antlier Mountain Coni and Coke company of West Virginia. in udilitlon to these corporate con cerns he was interested in a syndicate which intended to build it railroad tbri ugh the coal Helds of New Bruns vv.ck, ' unuuu. wiiii oi ilie nr*L persons whom he interested in the railroad project was George Deiuet/.. Mr. Dc metz invested 810,000 in the railroad, and later turned over to Dr, Griffin $">,000 in addition. The road was never built. Hardly hud this deul been begun be fore Dr. Griffin announced him self as tin* owner of lurge and valuable coul properties in British Columbia and organized a com pany by the name of the Nan aimo Coal Mining company, of British Columbia, under the laws of West Virginia. Stock was issued to the amount of 83,000,000,and bonds amount in;; to 81,500,000. Dr. Griffin was president of the company and several New Yorkers were interested finan cially in the scheme. The bonds and stocks were printed in Montreal, and the Western Loan and Trust company of Montreal registered the bonds of tiie company and guaranteed the in terest on them, amounting to 1180,000 per year. Dr. Griffin then went to London to dispose of them, but, meanwhile, the trust company investigated in British Columbia and cabled to London, which prevented his selling the bonds to in vestors there. As president of the Panther Moun tain Coal and Coke company of West Virginia Griffin received 8500,000 in bonds, which he was to dispose of in London. He found it difficult to sell the bonds and obtained a loan on them of something like $53,000 WHISKY-DRINKING WAGER litres Chlcsgiiaus Kntrrrd the Rat e — One Orstl, Two Dying Ciiicaoo, Muy 5’s. Yesterday after noon in n saloon kept by Carl Sehoep | fer a number of men engaged in an ' argument as to who could drink the most whisky Finally Jacob Conrad. Joseph Holtiiu and Carl Kisleiteii be gan tile contest The salooukce|>er supplied the whisky in small beer glasses. Courad was ahead on the mini I „.t> .. f .l,„.,L ... I.I,. 1--1 Hint fell to the floor. He wits drugged into » room and left lying on tlie floor, while the other two drank on. They became unconscious in a slier' time and were left lying on the floor la'side t onrad Word was sent to the police, and when they reached the place i on rad was dead. Hot uni dying and KlateWu Itt a critical condition The saloonkeeper waa arrested, charged vsith manslaughter Agf trail are let Alaska w tniisslut, May :• The secre lary of agriculture has appointed a hoard, of which It Kitten of Oregon *tt», Ore , chatriuau of the hoard of regents of the tHegoa agricultural •ollege aad It. •tan 1st Idsst of thla eitjr, are meushers. to go to Vakha to iasetiiga'.e the aerda of aa agricuttur *' esperiment slalom tu that tern ‘ory. and to recur* data incident to the establish neat o# auvh aa laalitu lion The party will sail (runs Taco in a June a twltlys Messers lee lallei. tnn'Ano Matin < merge M Pull man has tv* < «.d ft urn Archduke Hat aet two magaiMcent uaedala and a nsfhly wrought diploma aa Icslosnmieis "f honor and wserit ta founding aad halldtng the ant print Iowa la the world this distinction for the s«h ur b i anus ar Ike tv ru t of an eahltu 0**a ta the lute,ns' M»as Htgieaw and Pharsaaeeuttcai rtpaitua is i'r ague, of which the arebduhe was promotes Pullman w>m against Use *ettieasa«ta created by hrupp. the gun man Heat ns the area, maker of and Hama sun li ugt< M* r FOREST PROTECTION SCIENTISTS MAKE REPORT TC THE PRESIDENT. The Orrtt Cost of rreventtng Flood* It) Europe Mint He Followed Eventu ally In Thl* Country—Forestry Bureau and Ollier Improve* merit*. All About Our Forest*. , Washington, May 27. — President McKinley has sent to the Senate the detailed report on forestry made by the committee of the National Academy of Science at the request of the Secre tary of the Interior. The polity of forest reservation was begun during the administration of President Harrison, in obedience to the urgent importunities of I)r. U. K. Fernow, the government forestry ex pert: Edward Bowers, counsel for the American Forestry association; Hobert Underwood Johnson of New York, and other students on the subject. la re sponse to the President's suggestion, Congress.on March 3,1891,enacted alaw authorizing such reservation by exec utive order as the president might deem expedient, and soon afterward a proclamation was issued -'serving about 13,000,000 acres. this was followed early In President CUve land's term by an order reserving tha Cascade range In Oregon, emlx-acing 4,492,800 acrea Then the forestry commission was appointed, consisting of Professor C. 8. Sargent of Harvard university, Oeneral L. H. Abbott, United States engineer; Professor W. H. Brewer of Yale nnlverslty, Alexan der Agassi/, of Harvard, Clifford Pinch eon and Arnold Ilayne. After a thor ough investigation and putiunt inquiry without compensation, the commission reported in favor of the reservation of thirteen additional tracts, amounting in the aggregate to 22,000,000 acres, and, in honor of the memory of Wash ington, President Cleveland issued on the 103th anniversary of the birth of tiie first President, the 22d of Feb ruary, 1897, an order complying with the recommendations of the commis sion. Thereupon the Senators and Representatives in Congress for the states in which the reservations are located, protested Unit the withdrawal of so much timber laud from use and settlement would be a great hardship to the people, in that it would deprive them of the necessary timber for building and wood for fuel, and a clause was inserted in the sundry civil appropriation bill of the last Congress revoking the order while it was pend ing in the Senate. The House refused to concur, and. after a prolonged con test, the Senate conferees receded from the amendment. lint the bill failed for the reason that it didn't reach the President iu lime for liissig nutu re. The western senators, disappointed over tiie failure of their plans for the revocation of the order, turned their attention to importuning the Presi dent to accomplish the purpose by an executive order, and several confer ences were had with President Mc Kinley and Secretary Bliss of the in terior department. As a result the members of the commission were sum moned to appear before Secretary Bliss on the last day of March. At this con ference, during which the senators and representatives for the states of Washington, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and South Dakota were present, the commission agreed to a modifica tion of its report in order to appease, to some extent, the clamor of the western representatives. The report transmitted to Congress to-day is the result of this agreement The gencrul conclusions of the com mittee were announced in un ubstract furnished by the committee some weeks ago. Millions of dollurs have been ex pended during recent years in Kurope in cheeking the force of floods, due to denuded mountain slopes, l>y the con struction of stoue dams ami river beds and planting sod and t"ces. The com mittee predicts that similar exjtendi turcs in this country must follow the destruction of mountain forests if the narrow valleys of the West are to continue inhabitable. Fire and pus tllrHio- lire cited as ctiictiv t lircatcninc/ the reserve forest lands of the public damaiii —Illegal timber cuttiiigdaiungc being comparatively insignificant. The committee saye that the gov ernment, in ucrinitting free pasturage of sheep 011 the public domaiu in states am*, territories is clearly unjust to people elsewhere who must own or hire pastures Traces of depredaltuua were visible in ait the reserve* visited. The segregations of these great bodies of reserved lauds cauuot be with drawn from all occupation and use. but should be managed for the beueltt of the people of the whole country, not fur a c as* or section The report say* that, under a strict Interpretation of the interior department tn.uuo MJti acre* of land are thus theoretically ■ hut out from alt hautan occupation or enjoy i*o'n I. a toad It low of affairs that should not omtlaue l.and m«*,» valuable fyr tie mineral de 1*0*1'* of agricultural crops lhaa fur its timber should be taken from the reserval "«» and sold to miners sad farmer*, mature timber should be eut and sold settler* within or adjacent In the boundaries usable to procure It la other ways should be authorised to tabs such mater Mat from ’rr*n>4 for eats aa s accessary for their seed* and prospector* should he allowed In aernvh the forest* for minerals tbs hauS’a Ibtrd entente I UK llftf kin# IT hh *h and ilaruar ( ago*' ores his inability to meet pay ments on his borne. HI* sender t Hnrbett form.ru a vteeh in the Hi I tonal ttanh of tlliaoi*, which coils,reed a f*« month* ago. iK-4 aod bdl*4 hUMaeif today This is the th-1<1 *«,< «trie maul ting ft we* 'k* tailurn *1 to hanh LAKE MICHIGAN. The Mean* by Which It In Mmle Xntlf. •hie All the Year Round. Navigation on Lake Michigan is nev er closed. Steamers run back and forth across the lake and between the ports of the west shore of the lake during the entire winter with remarkable reg ularity. The drat attempts at winter navigation in the trans-lake routes were made by the Detroit and Milwau kee Railroad Company and by the now defunct Kngelmann Transportation Company many years a^o, and the suc cess of winter ventures becnme estab lished us the character of the steamers was improved and developments were made In marine enginery. Now winter navigation proceeds ulmost uninter ruptedly, and the new car ferries steam back and forth with little regard for weather or for Ice. The success of the tar ferries on Lake Michigan and the car ferry which defies winter In the Htralts of Mackinac Is probably the cause of the announcement that nego tiations are in progress looking to the construction of ice-breaking freight steamers that will enable their owners to keep them in commission on the l-aku Superior and lower lake route during the winter. The report Is with out foundation. There Is a vast difference between the navigation of latke Michigan from one shore to the other and along its west shore and the navigation of the great lakes throughput their lengths and through the inter-lake channels. Ice breaktag Is expensive, and occasionally the Ice floes defy the crushing powers of the best of the so-called Ice break ers. One of the car ferries was recent ly stalled by a floe near Menominee, which defied not only the steamer, but the explosive power of dynamite. The trouble of winter navigation on the chain of lakes would occur In the In ter-lake channels and In the canals. Owing to the clogging effects of the Ice It would be ulmost Impossible to oper ate canals during midwinter. Another and a very serious bar to general lake navigation In winter is the prevalence of snow-storms, during which nothing whatever can be seen. nnow ih more oestrum vo to tne sight than fog and during u driving snow storm It Is impossible to see anything ahead, even in the daytime. Winter navigators on Lake Michigan, who are never out of sight of land for any great length of time, experience their chief annoyance from snow-storms. They manage to steam Into port when snow Is flying thick, because of their famil iarity with the route, but they occasion ally get into trouble while they are wrapped in "the tumultous privacy of the Htorm.” It does not follow, by uny means, that becauHe winter navigation Ih suc cessful on Lake Michigan It can be made successful in the upper and lower lake service. CURE FOR KLEPTOMANIA. Fffecllvrnens of Several I.itKlim of Two Hlrch Rods. An Englishman believes he has a cure for kleptomania. He is a west end shopkeeper, and the west end shops have been said to suffer greatly since Mrs. Castle's case of kleptomania has been brought before the public, says the New York Times. There is a great difficulty In dealing with these peculators, he says, and by making an object lesson of some one he is In danger of bringing discredit upon his establishment which would more than offset his losses by theft, and in expos ing the guilty person many Innocent people are made to suffer. The oper ators are also exceedingly artful, but his method, which worked a cure in one case, was a success as far as it _fPlv„ . . L_t. -_ 1 I_ V • • ”V wuvpnovpti > IUMUO LI1CM. 11 in the most merciful method he could employ and the guilty person is the only sufferer. He had watched a wom an one day and caught her with a quan tity of vnluable goods from his estab lishment in her possession. He In vited her to the office, where It was found that she had a shoplifter's pocket. In the office the proprietor ex plained to the woman the disgrace that would come to her and her family If she were prosecuted and Imprisoned, and gave her the choice of that or a punishment he would suggest. He ex plained the nature of It to her nnd she at cepted the alternative. A muscular sister of the shopkeeper was then called in and left ulone with the wom an, to whom she administered home made discipline, by means of two birch rods, until, after ten or a dosen strokes, the woman screamed for mercy. She was allowed to depart and was never again seen In the shop This proceeding brings up the question of corporal punishment. The Idea ad vanced Is that the woman was In this esse mercifully cured, while If brought to trlsl she would probably have es caped with uo more punishment than the illsgrscs. Kvldeuce would have been brought In a* lu her mental Ir res|»iuslblllty and Innocent people would have been paraded before the public with her, •Wllwurr Mrs kksluwuod "1 was speaking With Miss Kbier today Ilk* sats that every body tells her that ahe holds her age remarkably Mrs Orimm Ye* itb* ha* tan a n» fur th* last all years •« mr knowledge * Mosiua Irwascript t small Imtitii kmaadr tsilgkilag from her wheel at the roadside where Murtlmurw awaits her! Have I kept ras wait lag to a 4. dear Murtlmurw loaf’ Many ixlrl bare passed atuiw the hour ap» puts ted lor war masting fudge » ti»i»4l**i fashte* at Mask lus wilt hate to bring mum# fifty in I «r# mil * (li* «*l i * !%*• mi ft i#*4ft Id lit# !»*• i ’ « | n tfc# 4*a*l INftm IVimh THE ARGOT OF PARIS AND THE “PATTER” OF LONDON. ll I* Thoroughly Rfprwfntallf*—Origin I* (lord to Explitln It Chungei Ma terially Every Two or Three Yean— V.motion* of Criminals* HE language of criminals the ar got of Paris, the "patter” of London has been carefully Inves 11 g a t e <1 by numerous writers, with very variant results, says Popu lar Science Month ly. Its origin is difficult to explain. Criminals, say many authors, have found It necessary to adopt a technical language for their own protection, that they may be able to converse In pub lic without being understood. "They have been forced to do this, and have made a language as sinister and as vile as themselves.” This theory cannot be admitted. Certainly the argot Is sinis ter and vile, and thoroughly represen tative of the class that uses It, but fur ther thnn this we cannot go. The the ory that the use of this dialect is of any assistance to the criminal Is Inad missible. Most policemen anil all pris on officers know this slang, sometimes better than the thieves. To speak It in the hearing of a detective Is to in vite arrest; to speak it In the presence of the general public would arouse sus picion and attract attention—two things which are especially to be avoid ed. Why, then, does it exist? Dr. Laurent of the Sante prison, in Parts, lias given an explanation which has at least nothing to contradict It: The persons engaged in every trade form a species of dialect or technical phrase ology which Is spoken and understood only by themselves. Criminals, who practice a trade as old as any, have gradually acquired a language moro adapted to their wants, more In keeping wmi men mens aim iiiuugms. nusi-ia ble, heartless, engaged In a perpetual struggle against morality, law and de cency, they have acquired a language of debased words and cynical meta phor*, a language of abbreviated ex pressions and obscene synonym*. The general tendency of the criminal to re duce the abstract to the concrete, to de note the substantive by one of Its at tributes, Is shown very clearly in his synecdochlhi phraseology. Thus a purse is a “leather;” a street car Is a "short," comparing Its length with a railroad car; a handkerchief is a “wipe,” and a pair of shoes “a pair of kicks,” Again, some of the terms ap pear to he purely arbitrary and were It not that the creative power is as absent In criminals as in women 1 should not hesitate to stale It as a fact. But it seems wiser to conclude merely that the origin of these terms has be come obscured. To suppose that they were created would be in too distinct contradiction to all obtainable evi dence, Indirect though it may be. Such expressions are to “kip,” meaning to sleep; to "spiel,” to make a speech; “Jerve,” a waistcoat pocket; “thimble,” a watch; to "do a lam,” meaning to run. Some of the expressions are de scriptive. To run from a police of ficer is to “do a hot foot." A person who is always listening to other peo ple’s conversation is called a "rubber neck.” The word “push,” meaning a crowd, Is occasionally seen'in the news papers. To be arrested is to be “pinched;” to be convicted is to “fall.” To refuse a person’s appeal Is to “give him the marble heart.” Such expres sions require no explanation. This dia lect has mutilated the mother tongue; it has also borrowed liberally from oth er languages, but without method or etymology. Criminals are not gram marians. Neither are they linguists, and at first sight It would seem strange that they should import words from other countries. We will find, however, that in any prison the percentage of in mates of foreign birth will be large; in America It is about 15 per cent. A foreign expression which seems apt or an improvement on the one in present use Is rapidly diffused through the pris on. in cases where It Is especially de scriptive It may become permanent, but Its life is usually short. The argot of the crime class chunges materially every two or three years. It Is ephemeral, us shifting as Its users. Victor Hugo exaggerates only slightly when he says; "The argot changes more In ten years than the language does III len centuries.” Thus in the last three years there have been three different words for "watch”— "super,” "thimble” and “yellow and white” - each of which was. In turn, the only term used. Every writer on the subject has no Heed that the argot la rich In expres sions to denote certain common net Iona. Thla le a peculiarity shared by all prim Hive languages tbs only difference teing In the selection of the common Si-la I bus la Manscrit there are near ly IW roots which express the Idea uf hilling or wounding, without counting i secondary derivations itugx. of these ! toots at* embodied in our language to day In the dialect of the thieves there , are nearly one hundred expressions to i signify theft It was mksenary for the ; ptchpinhet to describe the vartewa po*h#t* In a mane nothing and in a j woman * dreea. The average man doo* n»i often need In eperify a particular t pmrhet s hew he due* he lev* hi* hand j on It |u anatal the poverty of hie inn gunge. the thief has a separate name ; ter *a>h separate pw> her Hut in vptte nf ht* rt. hneaa in evnunyma. ahinx m In Haetf a marked sign of -leg*nets, y ter i he lendemrf uf a language t* to aim last* tea a* nontax* giving to *n> h n different Otii* *1 uv .t.is* the S'got 1 ih a poor language It ha* not a single (•{esnius ter shairavt emotion to ai- ! « enipt to render a philosophic thought, i moral emotion, a synthetic or aesthet c Idea Into the dialect of the thief would be like attempting to translate ‘electricity" or "steam engine" into [.atin. It is impossible, because the words do not exist. They are n• Nancy so aae that of the mother of Abraham Idnealn Of the other great* tente m-ube** given names there era Mur Kusebetbs three Marys law Kit tee, two ieaen taw Anaa* and on* m> h «d Huennaa Netty AMrmU, Hemh. i*hoebe, Harriet Hugh in Malt tan nag Hart*. $ y