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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-05

Ernest knaufrt, In REVIEW OF REVIEWS
The Victorian era inaugurated a period
of marked reform in the English nation.
The excessive drinking of gin a century or
so before had demoralized the people for
several generations wide Hogarth's plates,
Beer Lane and "Gin Lane" 1t is also
to be remembered that during the reigns of
the Georges few great statesmen were able
to hold office after their tiftieth year; hard
drinking duly brought them down with the
gout.) The grossnesS of the past literature
ard art was manifest, but whether the con-
seriousness of visitation of retribution in
the form of govt wide Cruikshank's carica-
ture THE Gout') had frightened the peO-
pie into a realization of their brutality, or
whether it was a happy blending of the sal
utary after-effect of Puritanic sincerity and
the decided manliness and healthy fun OF
the eighteenth-century satirists, the. Rich
ardsons. the Hogarths and Gillrays, Is hard
10 decide: but there is no denying the unan-
imous outbreak of didactfc humor. Carlyle
with his .'Sartor Resartus" kingsley with
his Yeast and more important, Dickens
and Thackeray with their good-natured
irony, we're, aided by the printing press,
enabled to civilize' England TO an extent
the public inadequately estimates, and a
potent adjunct to their labors we're the En-
glish caricatErists, Doyle. Leech, Bennett,
Tennies. Du Maurier and. Charles Ksene,
proteges of our gocf friend Punch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-05

Attention to breeding is not entirely lack
ing, however, as experiments are being
made to produce large. strong dog by
crossing mastiffs, Danish hounds, st. Ber-
nards, collies, settlers and Newfounatands.
A suggestion has also been made that the
crossing of the Belgian dog with the Ulm
or Great Dane would result in materially
better breed. The Belgian dog. the out
come of a haphazard interminglng of many
strains. makes the best draught dog. He is
strong, com2actly formed. standing from
twenty to tAirty inches high, and his hair
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

Did 1t ever strike you to inquire why
the cloudless depths of sky above US are
so delicately blue? says Answers. 1t isn't
that the gas we call air is in itself blue
AS far as we know, it is quite Transparent
and absolutely colorless. No; the blue
comes from reflected light. Air is never
pure. You couldn't live in 1t If it was
Countless millions of tiny particles, chiefly
Of water, are always suspended in Il. and
these arrest the free passage of light
Each particle has double retiection-one
internal, the other external-and so the re-
hected rays suffer the usual result of what
is called interference" and show color
You will notice that the sky appears much
bluer If you look straight up than if You
look across toward the horizon. The rea-
son is that, in the first instance, you are
naturally looking through much thin
ner layer of air than In the second. If
there were no air, and consequently no
watery vapor and nothing to interfere with
the free passage of light, even at midday
the sky above would look perfectly black
and all the stars palmer than at present
they do at midnight.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

claimed that the money was not to be
paid until 1900 and he gave Walker three
notes-one for 5000 and two for $500,
due IN that year In 1894 Walker died,
and shortly after his death the children
brought suit against Liddell for the pur-
chase money. They alleged that Idddeil
had agreed to pay the $500 to them upon
the death Of their father. Liddells de-
Tense was that he had made no such
agreement, but had given his notes for
the $500 and would pay them when
they became due. He said 1t would be
a hardship upon him to have to pay for
the property twice.
Atlanta Constitution: Heirs Of the Che
ney estate have again taken to the SUI
preme court the case which was decided
against them and in favor Of Mercer Uni
versity about a year ago, and the case
viii be placed at the heel of the docket
for hearing by a full bench, indicating
that the former decision may be reviewed.
Mr. Cheney Of East Point, who died in
1895, leaving a large estate, after MAX
ing over 10000 of special legacies, named
Mercer University as the residuary lega-
tee. r. W. Martin Of Atlanta is executor.
Among the special legacies, Mr.. Cheney
gave $1,000 to each of his nephews and
nieces, more particularly describing them
as children of my brothers and sisters.
At the time when the will was probated
dead. In such cases, under the common
law, the legacy lapses and money goes
to the residuary legatee. There is in
Georgia, however, a statute providing
that when a legatee dies before the will
is executed, the legacy shall pass to his
or her descendants. 1t was contended
that this statute did not apply in this
case because Mr.. Cheney did not mention
the nephews and neices by name. This,
IL was argued, made the bequest a class
legacy, and it was held that class lega-
cies lapse at the death of the legatees.
In the superior court Judge Lumpkin
held that the legacies of the thirteen de-
ceased nephews and nieces had lapsed,
and the money should go to the residuary
legatee. This judgment was affirmed by
the supreme court, Justice Atkinson dis
senting and Chief Justice Simmons and
Judge Lumpkin sustaining the judgment
of the court below. The case then went
back to the superior court, where Judge
Lumpkin gave a final decree, interpreting
the will in accordance with the decision
Of the supreme court. From this decree,
some of the heirs of nephews and neices
except, and the case has again gone to
the supreme court
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

away at dreary desert. singular char
acteristic Of the place We're heaps of the
bones of whales, their arrangement and
packing so systematically correct as to
have withstoOd a century's sweep of winds
over this exposed point. Only one human
skeleton has ever been found here. All
around are casts of roots of trees in the
shifting sand. ranging all the way in size
from coarse fiber to several inches indian
eter. There congratulations are intact,
the wind having swept them clean of the
loose earth. They yield a metallic ring
when tappeH with a rock or shell. A still
more rematkab feature of this desert is
a sparse stone forest, the broken columns
or trunks of trees composed of indurated
sand.
At the extreme western end of the ISL
and there is a colossal precipice 1000 feet
in hight, its chasamed and slitted face
softened by a luxuriant growth of emer-
aid moss and lichens. The strangest of
all the sights on this island is to be seen
on the broad plateau south of the Chi
nese camp az Coral harbor. Here acres
of the sand are Uttered with thousands
of disjointed skeletons. Measurements
have been made by several scientists OF
the thigh, leg and arm bones, and liter
ally bushels of skulls and other parts
Of the human frame have been brought
to Los Angeles from San Nicolas Island
for investigation. A physician recently
counted tnefe over lsGUJ Skulls III one 10
cality. Some were almost dropping to
pieces from long exposure to the sun and
water. The general opinion is that the
physique of the Indian race that SWarmed
over the island then was much larger
than that of any civilized race of to-day,
and that some of them must have
been seven feet three inches tall. The
skulls Of this extinct tribe often measure
several inches more than some of the
large skulls of to-day. Many skulls
found lying about on the island show
that their possessors must have suffered
death from a club or blunt battle ak. No
one has yet found a skull on San Nicho-
las that shows marks of bullet. There
are many collar bones and shoulder
blades broken and crushed, so that it is
evident that their owners were killed by
some instrument like a war club or bowl
der. Scientists say the favorite weapon in
warfare with the Aleutian savage tribes
a century or more ago was a club or
bludgeon, and this fact fits with the stray
tradition that the Alcutians came down
and completely destrC yed the people on
the Channel islands about $780,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
COVERED WITH HUMAN bones.
SAN Nicholas Island, the GOIgOth0 of
the Pacific.
Los Angeles Cor. st. Louis Globe-Demo-
Graf.

Los Angeles Cor. st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
party OF young scientists, acting under
the auspices of Harvard University, at
Cambridge. Mass. and Leland Stanford,
Jr., University. at Palo Alto, Cal, are
now exploring the Channel Islands, off
the coast of California, and they have
sent word TO the mainland that their
archaeological and chronological discover
les have been so marvelously rich that the
expedition will be prolonged several
months. The Channel Islands have long
been known among the oid-time residents
of California as the Golgotha of the Pa
ciic, for nowhere else in the world are
there probably as many human bones and
skeletons lying exposed to the elements as
In the Channel Islands. There are several
spots on San Nicolas Island where whole
acres OF rocks and sandy waste are thickly
strewn with human bones. Only a year
ago several men came home to Ventura
from the island with barrel OF Indian
crude implements and over 200 whitened
skulls, which the men said they had pick
ed from among thousands of skulls. A
dozen Of these fast-crumbling skulls were
sent TO the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington, and also TO Harvard Univer-
sty, at Cambridge. The ethnologists at
both institutions were Immediately inter-
ested, and they declared the skulls were
those OF a race OF Indian giants. Harvard
University lost no time IN sending an ex-
petition to explore the Channel Islands
scientifically.
Probably no region In the United States
offers greator Inducements to students In
anthropology and ethnology than these
Islands. Ten years ago a resident OF San
Francisco offered to pay the expenses OF
an expedition Of scientists who should
spend summer In exploring San Nicolas
and San Clemente islands, and TO give the
results OF their finds to the state unlver-
sty at Berkeley, but there arose such joal-
ousy among the leaders OF tho proposed
expedition that the offer was Withdrawn.
The Channel Islands constitute Calfor-
Mas only archipelago, with the possible
exception OF the rocky and scanty Faral-
lone Islands. They have been OBJECTS OF
romantic legends curiosity and mystery
for two generations or more. Notwith-
standing that all the Islands are within
elghty-two miles OF the California shore
they are solitary and unfrequented. and
years roll by with visits TO them OF fewer
than twenty people. Each island has It's
own particular traditions. and each has
countless traces Of an occupation By
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
HER HATED STATUE GONE.
Agnes Gilkerson's Figure DemOlish-
ed by SmithviIIe Men.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The marble statue of Agnes Gilkerson,
for years an object of interest on the
lawn Of the Smith mansion, at Smithville,
n. J., was broken into thousands Of pieces
yesterday.
The wreckage of this remarkable work
of art was then cast in Rancocas creek,
and the brazen testimonial to Congress-
man Hezekiah B. Smiths folly went out
of sight forever.
The story of Smith and Agnes Gilker-
son is one of extraordinary romance and
wrong, and when first made public, stir
red the whole country.
The man had deserted his rightful fam
lily at Woodstock, Vt, AMI made a new
home at Smithville with the woman of his
infatuation. He became a millionaire
manufacturer, creating a great industrial
plant in the out of the way retreat he
had selected.
He also went to congress and grew to
be a political figure in the state, Agnes
Gilkerson, known to those who knew
Smith then as his wife, pushing him on
ward and upward.
When the woman died the inconsolable
and aged manufacturer had q statue of
her made in Italy and placed it on his
front lawn, where he could see 1t al
ways.
Capt. Elton Smith, one of the manufac-
turer's surviving children, has just come
into the vast property of his father, and
one Of his first acts was to order the stat
ne of Agnes Gilkerson destroyed, so that
1t should never more plague him or his.
A dozen stalwart men, armed with
sledges and axes started out early yes
terday morning from the Smith machine
shop to do the bidding of their employer.
They went to work in the presence of
a crowd of other workers from the shops,
and great shout went up as they placed
their weight against the six-foot base and
sent the white statue crashing to the
ground.
Then, with their heavy sledges, they
hammered the marble fercely and until
it was nothing but pile of debris.
Some of the villagers had gathered.
and there was an effort to secure pieces
of the statue as souvenirs but this had
been provided against, and not one bit was
allowed to be taken. A cart took the
whole mess to the creek, where it was
dumped into ten feet of water and COW
cred with lots of rock.
AS boy of 16 Capt Smith had been
insulted by the woman Of his fathers
choice, and it was peculiarly appropriate
that he should see to it that the statue
OF Agnes Gilkerson was put away for
good.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

My wife Is a most original woman ..
said Brown. why, when I proposed To
her, instead OF saying, This is so sud-
dem she said, Wei. I think It's about
time "-Harper's Bazaar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
% gave Johnnie 4 dIme this mann

II gave Johnnie a dime this morning.
What do you suppose he did with III"
Cant imagine"
Gave 1t to the little Simpson girl for
kiss"
"Well. say, that boy Is getting the
typewriter habit early."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
In the World.

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been dull and gloomy.
p. r. p. is also n great cure for all
stomach troubles and dyspepsia.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03

pitchers; Gatteson at short and Moves
of Troy, left field.
The Dallas club of the Texas league
which has been transferred to Joplin,
has arrived in charge of Manager j.
J. McCloskey. The club will open the
base ball park Saturday with the Ga
lena club.
The Boston club this year will receive
enough from its grand stand to pay for
its salaries for the season and sum
from it's privileges ample to cover all
the travelling expenses of the club. 1t
is easy to see that at the least compu-
tation the owners of the club will di-
vide 100000 this year. New York had
prosperous year last season, but will
do far better this year, and will be at
least $50, 900 ahead.
The league season this year will
close on Sunday, October 3.
Harry Weldon writes: Dick Cooley
cares no more about the fast inshoots
of pitchers than did the late lamented
Curt WEIGH. Cooley goes to the plate
every time with the intention of getting
hit with pitched ball. He does not
wait for wide balls in the batters box
to get hit but leans out over the plate in
order to get the gift of a base by the
soaking route. Dick was hit four
times with a pitched ball in the present
series, but only once did he get his
base. Umpire Kelly very properly de-
cided that he put himself in front of
the other three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
BASEBALL GOSSIP.

Parsons has secured another profess
sional team to play until cold weather.
The members of the club are: Dunn,
third base; McHugh, shortstop; Mont
gomery, second base; Guy McFadden,
third base; Redsmond. catcher; Ash,
left field; Price. center field; Wingert
and Stricklett will pitch and play right
field Hughes, who played here last
season, has also joined the team
EyIar has signed to pitch with Weir
City the rest of the season.
Swede Jameson will close the ball
season in the pitchers box for Galena.
Junction City this season played Al
games, of which the team won "a, or
a per cent of So Atchison played 50
games, winning 81, Per cent of 685;
Abilene played SO games, winning SO,
percentage GIL
The Southern Kansas and Missouri
association will play during September.
OF the Junction City team that
doesn't go TO Parsons, Miller is to go
to Kansas City, Coglizer to Weeping
Willow, Neb. Wolever to F'redonia and
Cochran to BeIoit Cooley Will remain
there for the present
Abilene has practically engaged the
following players for 1898: Price, CEN
ter field; McFadden at first, Dunn at
second, Wakefield at third; Loman and
Hughes. catchers; Stricklett and Eylar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
HELD BY ROCKEFELLER.
Magnate in Absolute Control of Me-
saba Iron Range.

Minneapolis. Mimi, Sept. st is now
a conceded fact that John D. Rookie
Teller controls the Mesaba iron range
as absolutely as if he owned every foot
of ground on it.
For the past few years the small COM
panies have been bought out one by
one until there are now only three or
four small concerns competing with the
Lake Superior Consolidated mines.
These, a well known mining man said
will be allowed to run by the big
companies to keep the curse off. Even
Franklin Rockefeller says he has been
frozen out.
Rockefeller has a monopoly of the
railroad business, and his so cent rate
makes it impossible for small operators
to sell ore at a profit at Cleveland. Ac
cording to his own report it costs him
but 25 cents a ton to haul the ore from
the range to Duluth and his profits on
1000, 600 tons can be easily estimated.
Nothing but a new road will break his
TaOOOn0lV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
CYCLERS CRITICISED.
General Lew Wallace and Rev. Mr..
Hickman Raise a Protest.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 3.-General
Lew Wallace and Rev. DR.. w H. Hick-
man, vice chancellor of DePauw uni
versity, have raised a storm of protests
because of high handed criticisms of
the wheel.
Yesterday evening, during the recep-
ton of a we'll drilled commandery at
Crawfordville, while General Wallace
was making the welcoming address, he
claimed that the best appearing men
were those who had received a mill
tary training, and he took occasion to
deprecate the use of bicycles. saying
that the riders looked more like mon
keys than men, and that bicycling was
time wasted.
1t remained, however for DR.. Hick-
man to come out fiat footed in denounc-
ing the use of bicycles by women. He
declares that it is one of the most bane-
full agencies ever invented in so far as
it concerns the gentler sex. 1t takes the
young woman from her home and home
duties; its tendencies are altogether
wrong, and it has often resulted in the
downfall of maidens.
He also asserts that it affords a
means of easy escape from the restric-
tons of conventionality, and is harm
full from a hygienic standpoint
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03

dat all my money was a goln for pro-
visions saw dat just couldn't keep
it up dat way, and so had Missus Cole
write dat sign and paste it up, ana
told Lulu not to feed nobody only those
what paid her. Ii would a busted me
sure if I'd a KEEP on, and now I'm a
ton with my business" and Aunt Lu-
cinda laughed in a general shake all
"Of course ask lots ali my patients
to eat with me when they're here and
I'm eatin' myself" she said, but
OATS just like anybody else askin'
their friends to eat with them. Now,
the other day Mr.. and Mrs Simon
Greenspan took dinner with me, and We
had a good time talkin'. Dat Mr.
Greenspan is smart, tell you"
Yes, and the other day you had
Judge Genhardt of Eureka take dinner
with you" said Mrs Cole, who by that
time had donned her hat and was max
ing ready to start for her home.
Yes 'um, OATS right said Aunt Lu-
cinda, nodding her head. '.Oh, 1 like
to have people take dinner with me dat
way" she continued. but L just
couldn't feed everybody what comes
down here for treatment.
I'm goin' to build good house
here pretty soon,'' said Aunt Lucinda,
rather proudly, to the reporter after
bidding Mrs. Cole goodbye. I'm a
goin' to have it fixed in rooms so dat
people can come down here and stay
and take treatment, and if it don't cost
too much I'm goin' to have furnace
under it and have a lot of bathrooms.
Then I'm a goin' to have a band of
music and have things fixed right for
my business. Did you know I've got
some music here every day to help me
along now?" she asked
The reporter didn't know it, and told
her so.
Yes, I have. It's one of desc here
businesses what rolls music out of a
box: what is dat you call them?''
"Phoncgraph," said her brother, COM
ing to her assistance.
Yes. OATS it; phonergraph I've
man here every day what runs it and
sets it out in the yard and plays in de
mornin' and afternoon. 1t helps me
some in my business, but it amt near
as good as band"
Say" said Aunt Lucinda to the re-
porter as he was leaving, you tell de
people dat dat old crazy fool in North
Topeka what said the world was comm
to an end and said dat 1 told him he
had more power than me is just a nat
ural born scalawag, OATS all. I told
de old fool dat he was too crazy to have
any power and 1 tell you he better
never come round here no more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
IDAHO IN A NESS.
Every Important Law of the State
Nullified by the Supreme Court.

Boise City, Idaho, Sept. 3-District
Judge George H Stewart has decided the
antf-gambling law unconstitutional under
the decision of the supreme court in the
fee law case, which in effect nullifies all
important laws of the state. Encourag ed
by this decision, the district court of the
state will be flooded with attacks on var
ious laws which are claimed to come I'M
der the ban of the supreme court.
If the appropriation bill should be at
tackled as seems likely, Governor Steun-
enberg may be forced to reconvene the
legislature.
Should the governor decide to call an
extra session of the legislature he will
be in a quandary to know which to con-
vene, as it is presumed all but the first
session under statehood was illegal, the
legislative appointments being open to
attack under the supreme court decis-
ion.