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GENERAL CARNAHAN. HEAD OF
WQFORM RANK K. OF P, DEAD
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Gen. James R. Carnahan, major gen
• eral of the uniform rank, Knights of
Pythias, died at his home at Indianap
■olis, Aug. 3, after an illness of two
weeks. The immediate cause of death
was stomach trouble and uraemic
poisoning.
James R. Carnahan was born at Day
ton. Ind., Nov. 18, 1841. Immediately
before the civil war he was attending
Wabash college, at Crawfordsville,
Ind., and joined the late Gen. Lew
Wallace’s zouaves as a private. He
later joined the Eighty-sixth Indiana
regiment, to which he remained at
tached throughout the war, serving
the last year as a staff officer.
After the war he studied law and
practiced a number of years at Lafay
ette. He joined the Knights of Pythias
in 1874 at Lafayette, went through all
the chairs, and was elected grand
chancellor^of Indiana in 1880. He was
regarded as the founder of the uni
form rank, and was elected its first
major general in 1884, which position
he held at the time of his death. He
was past department commander of
the G. A. R. and a prominent candidate
for national commander at one time.
He was a thirty-second degree mason,
a shriner and a member of the Loyal
Legion. He leaves a widow and three
daughters.
AMERICAN RACE
REACHED ZENITH?
Frol. Edward A. Rasa of University of
Nebraska Declaras People W ora
Finer in Stack Fifty
Years Ago
The American race has reached its
zenith. After two centuries of exist
ence the “morning” is passing and we
are about now to begin the “after
noon” of our career. Fifty years ago
the race was several carats finer in
stock than it is to-day. Our salvation
is a general practice of the simple
life.
Such, in hrief, is the opinion of
Prof. Edward A. Ross of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. He is popularly
known as the Author of the phrase,
i U “race suicide,” and is regarded as one
of the foremost thinkers along socio
logical and economic lines in the
world. His views were given in a lec
ture on “The Sources of Americanism”
At the University of Chicago.
Two causes are assigned for the
early maturity of the race. One is the
civil war and the other is what he
terms the “great dilution.” The blow
rendered the nation never has been
l fully realized, Prof. Ross believes.
} Our future is a question, be fears.
There is no longer a frontier which
was responsible for our two centuries
of success. Immigrants of a lower
and lower type—not like those who
came in the colonial days for the sake
of freedom—are constantly encroach
ing upon us, cansing a marked sag
in our political welfare. Then, too,
city life has bowed us down and is ab
sorbing the country’s geniuses with
ont due replacement.
“The American race is now :at its
zenith,” declared Prof. Ross. “The
western shifting of people has slack
ened and the bracing selections of the
frontier have well nigh ceased.
“The civil war cost half a million
men well above the average in phys
ique and in spirit. The south lost her
flower. In the north the impulsive
were decimated, while the calculating
staid at home and multiplied. Had
this splendid half million lived the old
world would not have populated the
trausmississippi region, and the nom
enclature of many a western town
would have been different to-day. The
blood of the nation was lastingly im
poverished by that awful hemorrhage.
Had this sterling humanity not been
squandered, the south now would not
be so hysterical or the north so graft
rotted, as is the case to-day. Notice
the declining production of statesmen
in the south.
I “Then came the Great Dilution to
pull down the average. The new
comer counts one at the polls, and
hence it is in our politics that the sag
is most evident. The higher types of
men are prompted to act together,
because they believe in the same prin
ciple or love the same ideal. The
inferior pull together from clannish
ness or allegiance to a leader. The
growing disposition to rally about
persons and the rising value of saloon
keepers, the ex-pugilist and the boss
in controlling city voters would indi
cate that the electorate has been de
based by the too free admission of
political incapables.
“Free land is gone, however, and
the fact that nowadays the hegira of
the ambitious is all to the man stifled
town from the spacious, prolific fron
tier may be fateful to the American
element in our population. The great
glittering cities attract the brightest
youths from the farms and tempt
them to strain for the prizes of suc
cess. But, what with shortened lives,
bachelorhood, late or childless mar
riages, and small families, the cities
constitute so many blast furnaces
where the talented rise and become
incandescent, to be sure, but for all
that are incinerated without due re
placement. Thus may run down a
race keyed up by the migration of
more than two centuries.
"War lowered the standard of ad
mission to the French army 3 1-3
inches betwen Louis XIY. and the
third republic, but in the meantime
siren Paris lowered still further the
spirit of the initiative of the French.
Unless our successful ones hearken
betimes to the gospel of the simple
life the afternoon spirit is sure to
creep upon us at last.”
As a race, Prof. Ross believe% how
ever, that the Americans are far in
advance of any other.
"In character, its salient trait is
energy of will,” he said. “We are suf
fering from a disease which I term
‘will cramp.’ An American never gives
up. He never lets go; he does not
know when he is beaten. In the
American action there prevails no Im
agination or reflection. He is the true
amphibuddhist, the occidental raised
to the n-fh power. Hence the Amer
ican rocking chair, solace of the over
tired. Hence the. phrases, ‘Time is
money.,’ ‘boil it down,’ ‘twenty min
utes for dinner,’ twenty minutes for
a college degree.’ To the women are
relegated religion, art, literature, so
cial elegancies.
“The strong will heeds nothing but
the goal. The high voltage American
of the pioneering breed contemns
hardship and risk, braves alike White
Pass and Death Valley. In sport or
In battle no one will stand more pun
ishment than he. Body, appetites, in
clinations—all are gripped in the iron
vise of will Hit Impulses *We kindly,
but woe to those whose lives block
his way.
“The bora American feels able to
win without stooping. Conscious of
strength, he prefers to speak the troth
and play fair, not as something doe
to others, bat as something due to
himself. Where business or political
competition becomes fierce this native
morality therefore is compromised by
the determination to succeed at any
oust Hence a queer, ring streaked
conscience that does not rtick at cor
ruption, fraud and grand larceny.
“The American race is distinct in
its type. The born American is lean
and angular. He is unusually tall ana
fashioned after the Indian. It is the
result of the strain, the energy, the
work of the race. The Gibson girl is
a good example of American feminity,
with high cheek bones, etc.”
Hypnotism for Wayward Boys.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver,
who has acquired a national reputa
tion through his services in the juve
nile court in that city, is about to
adopt hypnotism. He does not mean
to resign from the bench, but to use
the occult method in dealing with
boys regarded as incorrigible. He is
under the impression that he will be
able to do more good that will be last
□ ing good by this means of treatment
than he has ever done before. While
the children are in a hypnotic state
the cessation of objectionable behav
ior will be suggested to them, and then
they will be released. A boy addicted
to cigarettes is to be his first sub
ject.
New Sugar Plant*
The new sugar plant from South
America, which has been named Eupa
f -torium rebandium, is pronounced by
Bertoni, the German chemist, to be of
great industrial value. It grows eight
or ten inches high, and is found to
f contain from twenty to thirty times
* - ag much saccharin matter as sugar
cane or the beet.
Want Recognition for Franklin.
The bicentennary' of Benjamin
Franklin will fall on Jan. 17, 1906, and
already there is a movement on foot
to observe the anniversary in a fitting
manner. It is urged that, while Wash
ington’s birthday Is a legal holiday in
nearly every 6tate and Lincoln’s in
several, no similar honor has been paid
to Franklin. Congress will probably
be asked to adopt measures for na
tional recognition of this revolution
ary patriot.
Statue of Sterling Morton.
A statue of J. Sterling Morton, sec
retary of agriculture under President
Cleveland and the “father of Arbor
aav”, will be unveiled early in Octo
ber at Nebraska City, Neb., in the
public park which Morton in his life
donated to the city.
Warning to Motorist*.
The British Deaf and Dumb associ
ation met at Bowness, England, recent
ly and the district was placarded:
“Motor Cars and Cyclists Beware—a
deaf and dumb congress is being held
this week.”
WOMAN ® "SCHOOL TRUSTEE.
Mrs. Mackay Chosen by the Electors
"Of Roslyn, !L. L
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay was elect
'■* trustee at the election held
at 'Roslyn, "L. I., last week. She re
ceived 253 votes. John D. Reinsen,
who ran on her ticket and also on that
of Dr. Peter D. Leya, her opponent,
received 254 'votes. Leys received 83
votes. There were 304 votes cast and
of these 220 were the regular Mackay
Remsen ballots. Dr. Leys protested
the election on a technicality in the
printing of the ballots. Mrs. Mackay
fled to Saratoga, leaving the battle
Mr*. Mackay.
over |he election in the hands of her
political manager and the women and
children of Roslyn. There has never
been a woman member before the
election of Mrs. Mackay.
HAS LOST HIS POPULARITY,
Blessing of Father John Failed to
Avert Russian Disaster.
Father John of Cronstadt, whose ex
traordinary influence # oveT the Czar,
no less than his propaganda against
the revolutionaries, continually rouses
the ire of the secret commitj^e. is 86
years of age. In personality he an
swers to the description of the aver
age Russian peasant, only in his case
abstemiousness has wrought a#efining
effect on his features. He is short of
stature, with a somewhat florM com
plexion, and his small, twinkling gray
eyes have that furtive appearance
characteristic cf the Russian working
class. In spite of his great age he
is remarkably active and his long
brown hair is untouched with silve^.
Father John was once esteemed a mir
acle-worker, but it is said he has lost
his reputation since the ships he
blessed were sunk and the men he
blessed were killed in battle with the
Japs.
AGAIN HEAD OF FORESTERS.
Catholic Order Re-elects Thomas H.
Cannon of Chicago.
Thomas H. Cannon of Chicago has
been re-elected to the office of chief
ranger of the Catholic Order of For
esters by the international convention
of that body in Boston. Mr. Cannon
was re-elected by acclamation, and the
salary of the office was increased from
$2,000 to $2,500 a year. Other officers
elected were: Dr. J. T. Smith, of Chi
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rag®. high medical examiner; J. B.
Gendreau of Quebec, high vice chief
ranger; Thomas F. McDonald of Chi
cago, high secretary, and John A.
Limback .of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, high
treasurer.
Noted Prosecutor to 'Retire.
Oliver Stevens, who has been the
district attorney of Suffolk county,
Massachusetts, for thirty years, has
tendered his resignation to Gov. Doug
las. The resignation is thought to be
due to continued ill health and the ad
vanced age of Mr. Stevens. Oliver
Stevens warn 48 years old when he was
first elected district attorney and at
the time of his induction into office
the biggest case in the history of bay
stale murderers was on the docket.
It was known as the “belfry murder.”
Piper was charged with the murder of
J[abel H. Young. The evidence was
wholly circumstantial, but Mr. Ste
vens managed it with such consum
mate skill that the murderer was
found guilty in the fir|t degree and
hanged.
At Work on Hanna Monument.
Word has been received at Cleve
land by Samuel Mather of the Hanna
monument commission from Augustus
Saint-Gaudens of . Windsor, Vt., the
sculptor, that his plans are prepared
and that he Is working on his clay
model. When the clay model is com
pleted the commission will go to Ver
mont to inspect it. If it meets with
approval the actual work of construc
tion will begin without delay.
Jackies Want Mule for Mascot.
Admiral Evans has been asked Lv
the crew of the battleship Missouri to
assign a mule to the ship as a mas
cot. Ever since the former mascot,
Billy the goat, died after having been
put on short rations for insulting an
officer, the jackies aboard the warship
have longed for a mascot. What could
be more appropriate for a battleship
named Missouri than a mule? the men
ask.
Australian Wool Crop.
The droughts In Australia made tne
crop of wool shrink to 400.000,000
pounds in 1903. In the preceding year
the yield was 601 000.000,
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
The grocery, tinware and crockery
store of Richard Witte at Pender was
practically destroyed by fire.
S. N. Taylor, sheriff of Hall county,
resigned his office last week. J. W.
Ely has been appointed to fill the va
cancy, effective September 1.
Miss Margaret Hall, late principal
of the West Point High school, has
accepted a position in the Lincoln
High school for the next year.
Ford Quinby, of Yutan, was arrest
ed under the new dipsomania law and
the examining board found him guilty
of the charges, committing him to the
asylum for treatment.
Fire destroyed, the barn and all the
outbuildings of Charles Engeles, who
lives in the outskirts of Schuyler. Two
cows and a calf that were in the barn
were burned to death.
A complete rural delivery service is
now in operation in Johnson county.
Fifteen carriers from seven postoffices
go over the different routes each day.
serving every farmer within the bord
ers of the county.
Almost the entire colored popula
tion of Fremont, numbering about 100
persons, celebrated the anniversary of
the signing of President Lincoln’s
emancipation proclamation by a pic
nic on an island in the Platte.
Fred Brinkman, a Johnson county
farmer, harvested and threshed a nine
teen acre field of wheat which yield
ed 800 bushels. He sold the grain for
75 cents per bushel, realizing over
$30 per acre from the land this year.
Linn Huntington, a former State
university student, who left less than
a year ago to accept a position as
civil engineer on the Panama canal,
writes that the work is progressing
fast. His health is good.*
State Treasurer Mortensen has is
sued a call for $25,000 state general
fund warrants running up to and in
cluding number 123,567. for August 16.
This call brings the remeption up to
warrants issued February 19, 1904.
Sheriff Beil ol cripple ureeK, (joio„
was in Grand Island with requisition
papers for Frank Martin, alias Frank
Buster, wanted on a charge of murder
at Victor. Colo. Martin was held in
Grand Island until Sheriff Bell ar
rived
While stacking hay. R. Tappan, liv
ing one mile north of Hyannis. was
struck by a stacker and nearly killed.
The accident wras due to the breaking
of a devise, allowing the stacker to
fall on him. completely scalping him
from eyebrows to neck and dislocat
ing his right shoulder, breaking his
nose, right arm and leg.
Sweet WTater is the newest Buffalo'
county town and begins business with
the brightest of prospects for a pros
perous career. Heretofore the town
of Sweet W’ater has been located in
Sherman county, but County Surveyor
Edwards has just finished the task of
planting a new tow-nsite across the
line in Buffalo county.
J. E. Albee, who for six months has
been mourned for as dead by his
friends in Vermont, called at the office
of a local paper in Fremont and as
sured them that he was not the man
whose body was found with a bullet
hole in the skull near the depot at
Ames last January. His resemblance
to that individual, however, was start
ling.
Governor Mickey Gave John Clark
of Madison county, sentenced to three
years for statutory assault, a pardon.
The action of the governor was based
on the recommendations of Supreme
Court Justice J. B. Barnes. County At
torney Mapes of Madison county, the
trial judge, and the members of the
jury, who assert their doubt as to the
man’t guilt.
County Clerk Tyson has been au
thorized by the State Board of Equali
zation to make a number of changes
in Cass county’s assessment. In the
valuation of horses a 5 per cent in
crease is made; pianos. 30 per cent;
threshing machines, 40 per cent; sew
ing machines, 10 per cent. A 10 per
cent increase is made in the valua
tion of mules.
During a severe electric storm tne
six-year-old granddaughter of Marshal
Towsley of Broken Bow was struck by
lightning and badly burned. The bolt
first struck the house and the child
who was standing in the doorway re
ceived a portion, it running down the
left side, burning her clothes off and
passing from her body through the
toes of her left foot.
Deputy Attorney General Thomp
son advised County Asessor Miller of
Lancaster county that stockholders in
^Nebraska insurance companies must
list their shares for taxation. Miller
went to Secretary Bennett of the
state board In the first instance and
by him was referred to the deputy at
torney general, who told him that the
statute is explicit in its requirement,
that the stock be listed for taxation
and advised him to institute perjury
proceedings who had filed their sched
ules without including this property.
John N. Kerr, a brakemaa on the
Burlington, was arrested at Lincoln
and brought to Seward to answer to
the charge of breaking into a car at
Seward on April 16 and taking there
from twenty boxes of cigars valued at
$35.
At a meeting of the Village Board
of Leigh a special election was called
for the purpose of voting water works
bonds. The election will "be held on
Tuesday, September 12. and the bonds
will be in the sum of $8,000. At the
same time the voters will have a
chance to express their preference as
to the kind of a system desired.
Sheriff Mackevoy of Sarpy county
was called to Avery and arrested L
L Stevens for the shooting of one
Wilkinson. The Wilkinson boy is
shot in the arm. The boys are about
17 years old. The Stevens boy is in
jail at Papillion.
The Gaskill Carnival company met
with a serious accident a few miles
west of Sidney. The fourth car from
the engine, which was loaded with a
large organ, a boa-constrictor and a
box of monkeys, was discovered to be
on fire, and before the fire was ex
tinguished its contents were destroy
ed. Loss, $2,500.
ASSESSMENT IS COMPLETE.
Secretary Bennett Mails Out Certifi
cates to the Various Counties.
Secretary Bennett* of the State
Board of Equalization and Assess
ments has completed his work on the
assessments and prepared the certifi
cates of the state board’s action for
mailing to the counties, thus bringing
the work to conclusion in record
break time, much to the surprise of
the members of the board, who had
feared that it would be unable to do
the work by August 8, the statutory
limit.
The total revenue on the valuation
of $304,419,340.62, th.e revised and cor
rected figures for the grand assess
ment roll is $2,130,933.33, of which
Douglas county contributes about
one-tenth, $208,935.11. The total reve
nue for the general fund on the 4%
mill levy is $1,369,887.01, while for
the schools, derived from the %-mill
levy it is $152,209.68. In the univer
sity fund and floating debt funds each
will get $304,419.32 from a 1-mill levy.
The following table gives the as
sessment roll of each county as equal
ized by the state board, and also the
amount which each county will con
tribute under the 7-mill levy:
Assessed Total
Counties. Valuation. State Levy.
Adams .$ 5.173,996.27 l 36.217.96
Antelope .. 2,928.019.35 20.496.76
Banner _ 200.379.00 1,402.65
Blaine . 239.511.90 1,676.58
Boone . 3.816.891.04 26,718.24
Box Butte . 999.856.22 6.998.08
Bovd . 1.695.234.50 11.866.64
Brown . 789.176.70 5,524.23
Buffalo _ 5.376.031.45 37.632.22
Burt . 4.445,173.65 31.116.21
Butler . 5,734.694.90 40.142.86
Cass . 7.227.361.60 "50.591.53
Cedar . 4,502.813.00 31,519.69
Chase . 495,708.21 3.469.96
Cherry _ 2.182.191.08 15.275.34
Cheyenne .. 2.081.036.52 14.567.24
Clav . 4.695,532.90 32.868.73
Colfax . 3.924.011.35 27.468.08
Cuming ... 5.728.409.62 40.098.86
Custer . 4.160.958.63 29.126.71
Dakota ... 2.160.280.40 15.121.96
Dawes. 1.384.605.43 9.692.24
Dawson ... 3,632.338.22 25.426.37
Deuel . 992.300.08 6.946.10
Dixon . 3.462.232.94 24.235.63
Dodge . 7.094.858.98 49.034 02
Douglas ... 29.819,301.80 208.935.11
Dundy _ 5.850,324.33 5.952.26
Fillmore .. 4.900.600.45 34.304.20
Frajiklin .. 2.360.122.89 16.520.85
Frontier ... 1.240.935.46 8.686.56
Furnas .... 2.370.659.44 16.594.62
Gage . 9.113.440.39 63.794.08
Garfield ... 379.557.75 2.656.91
Gosper _ 1.133.912.20 7.937.38
Grant . 481.855.23 3.373.00
Greelev .... 1.763.364.75 12.343.54
Hall . 4.814.728.40 33.703.10
Hamilton .. 4.782.519.60 33.477.62
Harlan _ 2.330.459.10 16.313.22
Haves . 432.967.17 3,030.75
Hitchcock . 1.089,544.68 7.626.86
Holt . 2.793.889.14 19.557.22
Hooker .... 274.907.02 1.924.35
Howard ... 2.252.475.80 15,767.34
Jefferson .. 4,603.898.45 32.227.20
Johnson ... 3.724.095.24 26.068.68
Kearney ... 2.744.453.74 19,211.17
Keith . 1.188.117.36 8.316.83
Keva Paha. 582.944 00 4.080.60
Kimball ... 884.264.34 6.189.84
Knox . 3.765.49X.X.> 26.358.49
Lancaster .. 15.685.479.82 109.79S.36
Lincoln _ 3.087.886.09 21.615.19
Logan . 186.246.75 1.303.73
Loun . 201.553.13 1.410.87
Madison ... 4.557.518.20 31,902.63
McPherson . 143.966.70 1.007.77
Merrick_ 3.406.339 09 23.844.38
Nance . 2.418.728.98 16.931.10
Nemaha ... 4,829.760.52 32.408.32
Nuckolls... 3,760.565.58 26.323.97
Otoe 7,795.605.10 54.569.24
Pawnee ... 4.001.894.18 28.013.25
Perkins ... 623 873.33 4.367.11
Phelps . 2.653.552.12 18.574.85
Pierce . 2.^-*3.359.90 20.603.52
Platte .<94.505.12 41.961.54
Polk . 3.509.606.95 24.567.25
Red Willow 1.803.921.21 12.627.45
Richardson 6.225.471.25 43.578.30
Rock . 687.370.71 4.811.60
Saline .- 5.44.473.82 38.461.31
Sarpy . 3.336.666.54 23.356.67
Saunders .. 8.064.246.05 56.449.78
Scott's Bluff 769.928.60 5.389.50
Seward _ 5.387.748.68 37.714.24
Sheridan .. 1.565.534.SI 10.831.58
Sherman ... 1.547.369.68 10.831.58
Sioux .. 663.277 47 4.642.95
Stanton .... 2.799.036.85 19.593.27
Thaver _ 3.997.308.37 27.981.16
Thomas ... 31 4.388.97 2,200.72
Thurston .. 774.974.40 5,424.81
Valiev . 1.196.403.35 29.374.82
Washington 4.196.403.35 29,374.82
Wavne _ 3.893.555.20 27.254.90
Webster ... 3.081 026.15 21.567.19
Wheeler . .. 346.352.19 2.424.46
York . 6.103.865.04 43.147.06
Totals ..J304.419.340.62 J2.130,935.33
Young Woman Burn* to Death.
MINDEN—A shocking accident hap
pened at the home of Clarence Wol
cott, a farmer living aboiit eight
miles northwest of Min den, in which
Agnes Schultz, a girl about 18 years
of age. lost her life. She was light
ing a Are. using coal oil, when the
accident occurred.
Remedy for Cabbage Worm.
PLATTSMOUTH—H. C. McKanen
of this city has discovered what he
claims to be a sure remedy of the
oest known as the cabbage worm.
His method is to sprinkle common
flour over the cabbage heads while
the dew is on them.
Find Marked Pigeons.
OSCEOLA—A day or two ago a
pigeon or dove came to the home of
Jim Farris, and his young son went
out and captured the bird. It had a
silver ring on its leg. On the ring
were the initials, “V. B. W., 1903 and
No. 2332.”
"County Commissioner John H. Ben
nett of district No. 3, Red Willow
county, haB resigned, to take effect
September 1. Mr. Bennett will move
to Omaha to engage in the cigar and
tobacco business.
Junkin Law May Be Valid.
The Junkin anti-trust law may be
valid. Attorney Howell who was first
quoted as having some doubt as to its
validity on the ground of discrimina
tory exception of local corporations
and railways, stated that he had been
given new light on the subject and
rather inclined to the belief that it is
valid. He stated that the act would
not be conceded to be unconstitutional
until it is held to be so by a court
of last resort. This is regarded as
an indication that the statute may be
invoked.
Made Money Buying 8tate Land.
The purchaser of a quarter section
of penitentiary land at a recent sale
made money out of the deal. He
bought It for $6,640, or $41.50 an acre,
a few weeks ago, and has now sold it
for $8,000. The first purchaser was
Herman D. Strufflng. The land lies
in the western part of Lancaster
county. The sale was authorized by
the legislature. All the penitentiary
land has been sold for about $23,000,
which is to be used in buying land
near the prison where it can be cul
tivated by convict labor.
PROMINENT CHURCHMAN A
VICTIM OF YELLOW FEVER
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Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle,
who was stricken with yellow fever
Aug. 4, died early in the afternoon of
Aug. 9. Advanced age and the fatigue
resultant upon a long trip through
Louisiana parishes prior to his illness
worked against the venerable prelate
and in spite of every possible care he
never rallied after being stricken.
Placide Louis Chapelle was born in
Mende, France, Aug. 28. 1842, and
came to the United States when 17
years old. He was graduated from St.
Mary’s college and was ordained a
priest in 1865, holding pastorates in
Baltimore, Md.. and Washington, D. C.,
from 1870 to 1891.
In 1891 he was made bishop coadju
tor of the diocese of Santa Fe and
was ordained archbishop of the dio
cese in 1894. In 1897 he was made
archbishop of the diocese of Louis
iana, and after the Spanish-American
war was appointed by Pope Leo as
apostolic delegate to Porto Rico, Cuba,
and the Philippines.
YELLOW JACK IN AMERICA
Frightful Record of Cases and Death Culled From
the History of the Tropical Disease
The history of yellow fever in the
United States, with the awful mem
ories of the summer and fall of 1878
still rising like ghostly specters, is
well calculated to arouse dread of
what may ensue between now and
the frosts of autumn. With the fright
ful death lists of the past before them
it is small wonder that the people of
the southern cities are in a condition
bordering on panic.
In New Orleans yellow fever pre
vailed to some extent every year as
far back as the records go and up to
1880, with the exception of the years
the city was under the military con
trol of Gen. Ben Butler. Then the
regulations of war time completely in
terdicted travelers from the tropics.
In 1880 the city changed its system
of quarantine from the absolute inter
diction of commerce, which offered in
centive to “run the blockade” to a
more reasonable detention of vessels
from infected parts that kept the sus
pects from seeking entrance to the
city surreptitiously.
The mortality in New Orleans in
the years of the greatest yellow fever
pestilence from 1847 to 1878 was:
Tear. Deaths. Tear. Deaths.
1847.2.259 1858.3,889
1853..*.7.970 1867.3,093
1854 .2.423 1878.4,600
1855 .2,670
Yellow fever was first recognized
definitely in the West Indies, and
since 1691 it has been epidemic there.
In the latter part of the eighteenth
and the first part of the nineetenth
centuries the disease created havoc
along the whole Atlantic coast of the
United States, spreading to seaports
as far north as Maine, and into the
cities of Canada. In 1793 the city of
Philadelphia, then having a popula
tion of 40,000, was stricken, and 4,000
persons—10 per cent of the population
—died.
Four years later Philadelphia suf
fered another visitation, with a death
loss of 1.300, and in the year follow
ing 3,645 deaths from the fever oc
curred*
In 1798 New York also was attacked
by the epidemic, 2,080 persons dying,
while Boston gave 200. victims to the
disease in the same year. In 1802
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wil
mington and Charleston suffered ex
tensively from the spread of the fever
along the coast, but since that time
epidemics have been confined more
nearly to the Southern States. New
York, however, has never been im
mune.
In 1853 there was a widespread epi
demic, taking in Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas. In 1867 there was another
epidemic, more limited in area, out
particularly virulent in Galveston,
Texas, where the mortality reached
1.150. Then occurred the great epi
demic of 1873. In that year Memphis
furnished 2,000 victims. New Or
leans proper lost only 225 from the
disease, but the neighboring town of
Shreveport lost 759.
Then came the most terrible year of
all—1878—a year 'whose nent-m
causes a shudder throughout the land,
and whose numerals are synonymous
with death in the cities of New Or
leans and Memphis.
The fever invaded 132 towns in Lou
isiana, Tennessee, Alabama. Missis
sippi and Kentucky. There were more
than 74,000 cases, and the death roll
reached the tremendous total of
15.934.
Thousands upon thousands of cit
izens fled from Memphis and New Or
leans, but of the population that re
mained in the former city—about 1J.
600—or 70 per cent, sickened, and
5.150, or more than 25 per cent, died.
In New Orleans the mortality was
about the same. It is estimated that
the loss to the country in a commer
cial way as a direct result of the epi
demic was above $100,000,000.
The epidemic of 1878 furnished
heroes whose names will live with
those who fell in the Civil War of a
decade and a half before. The North
not only sent thousands of dollars and
train loads of supplies to the stricken
cities—whole train loads of coffins,
for "Send coffins” was the cry from
the South—but physicians, nurses,
ministers, priests, and other volun
teered by the hundred with their serv
ices.
Death spared none. After fighting
valiantly for weeks the epidemic in
vaded the ranks of the nurses and
doctors and those who came as the
emissaries of Godt In Memphis seven
teen resident physicians and twenty
eight volunteers from other cities sac
rificed their lives. Ten Roman Cath
olic priests, eleven Sisters of Charity
of the same church, a half score of
ministers of Protestant denominations,
also were among the volunteer work
ers who died in their heroic work. ,
There has been no outbreak of the
fever since 1878 to excite widespread
alarm until this year. In 1893 there
was a scare, 1,076 cases prevailing at
Brunswick, Ga., but only forty-six per
sons died. In 1897 there was another
scare, fifty-nine deaths occurring out
of a total of 620 cases.
Previous to the Spanish-American
vir Havana had been the chief in
fected port from which yellow fever
penetrated to the states. Science and
the warfare on the stegomyla fasci
sts following American occupation
cleansed Havana of the scourge. A
Panama victim is believed to have
brought the fever to New Orleans and
started the present epidemic there.
Americans Accused of Discourtesy.
The Army and Navy Journal has a
letter from an indignant American
who lives in Paris and saw the John
Paul Jones parade. “The courtesy of
the French populace will never be ex
celled,” he writes, “for not only did
they salute their own colors when car
ried by French troops, but every man
uncovered when Old Glory was car
ried by. It was in bitter contrast that
I noticed the Americans who saluted
their own colors, but kept their hats
stolidly upon their heads when the
tricolor went by. As to those of our
fellow countrymen who were so ill
bred as to fail to salute both the
French flag and our own, no phrase,
name or sentence is strong enough to
qualify such behavior.”
Great Sate of Orchids.
The sale at Stone, Staffordshire,
England, of rare duplicate orchids se
lected from the Walton Grange collec
tion resulted in some enormous prices
being realized. In the case of two
orchids the figures were 270 guineas
apiece, and others realized as much
as 240 guineas and 200 guineas each.
Chinese Students at West Point.
Ting Chia Chen and Ying Hsing
Wen are the names of the two Chi
nese who have entered West Point
There are thirty-six military schools
in China, and from these particularly
intelligent students have been select
ed to study the art of war in the mili
tary schools of the principal nations
of the world. Three thousand are
studying in Japan. In order to permit
of these Chinese studying at WeBt
Point, Congress had to pass a law,
which it did at the recommendation
of the president and the request of
the Chinese government. Chen and
Wen studied in 1904 at the University
of California, and are said to speak
fluently seven languages.
Views of Two Statesmen.
Senator Platt’s remark that if he
had his life to live over he should
model his political activities on other
lines recalls the reply of Speaker
Reed who, when asked by the lady
reporter of a Sunday paper If, having
another opportunity, he would not be
a bettor man, said solemnly and sadly
that La did not think he would.