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NO CIPHER MESSAGES.
Chinese Give as Excuse That Fighting

chinese Give as Excuse That Fighting
Is Going on at Tfen-T.fn
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The State De-
partment this morning issued the follow
ing:
Minister WI this morning handed to the
acting secretary of state a copy of a te1e-
gram from the taotai of Shanghai, dated
Aug. and received by Mr.. WI on the
evening of the 3d. 1t confirms the message
of Yuan Shin Kai Governor of Shan-Tung.
to Mr.. Fowler, consul at Che-Foo purport-
ing to communicate the same telegram of
July from the Tsung Ii Yamen. but it is
to be noted that it contains a passage
omitted from Governor Yuan's message
namely, the announcement that as fighting
is going on in Tien-Tsin ii is inexpedient
to send cipher kilograms to the foreign
ministers In Peking. In this particular the
present telegram agrees with Consul Gen.
eral GOodnows report, received yesterday,
that Earl Ii Hung Chang had told the
French consul at Shanghai, on the Sd, that
no messages would be delivered to the min
listers because the foreigners were advanc-
ing on Picking. The Tsung Ii Yamen's ca
blegram of July 80 is as follows:
Foreign ministers in Picking are all
safe and well. Recently vegetables fruit
and provisions have been repeatedly sup
piled to them. Relations most friendly
At present consultations going on for
the protection of the various ministers
going to Tien-Tsin for temporary shelter,
which will soon be concluded satisfactorily.
But as fighting is going on in Tien-Tsin
1t is inexpedient that cipher kilograms
should be sent. The different consuls have
been notified so that they may inform their
respective governments. Please inform the
Foreign Office. Besides writing to other
ministers, transmit the above to you.
.YU LIEN YUEN.'"
Minister WI has gone to Cape May to
spend a day or two with his family.
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be crudeiy clear or hidden under some
high-sounding name. Nor is the fact with
cut its significance that women, who are
natural arbiters OF manners as well con-
SENATORS of morals, have been driven by
necessity into the hustling crowd. 1t Is an
alternative between struggling for a foot
hold in the world sinking; and success.
nine times out OF ten, is the triumph OF
aggression. This In itself is fatal 10 the
self-effacement (which is so strong an ele-
ment of good breeding, and tends toward
a radical change in the habits and tradi-
tons of womanhood, which must react
more or less upon society.
By society woman" / do not mean the
type that first presents itself. the brilliant
compound of style, daring and Paris gowns,
whose life begins and ends with enter ain
ing and being entertained, who puts the
fashion of a handshake, the porcelain and
cutglass Of the dinner table, and The cost
of an eQuipage above the simple graces
and fine breeding which betray the choice
life of generations, or the Unborn taste and
nobility that ask nothing from inheritance.
i mean something that compares with IL
as the rare old lace compares with the
machine-made imitation. the rich and
mellow ones of the cathedral window
which the light of centuries has tempered
and softened, compare with the crude and
garish coloring of its modern copy There
are society women upon whom the mantle
of the old-time lady has fallen. through
nature or heritage, whose social gifts are
the sum of many gifts. the crown OF many
womanly virtues. One finds them every
where, women who cherish the fine amen
tiles, who are gracious. intelligent. tact
full, kind, and active IN all good works.
who understand the art of elegant liv-
ing, well as the intrinsic value OF things.
and like to open their hospitable homes
for the pleasure of their friends. II is
such as these who represent the finest
flower of our womanhood and help TO pre-
serve the traditions of gentle manners
which are in the way of being trampled
out in the mad march of something call
progress. 1t is for these TO ostracize vul-
garity, to put up the delicate barriers
which have been permitted to be ler down
between the pleasant comradeship Of men
and women. and the loud note OF famil-
iarity, TO temper and the sordid spirit Of
commercialism with the refinements OF
that higher class of intellect which sees
things not only as they are, but as they
ought to be.
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two-sfory brick buildings The compa
will employ about $50 hands.


Special TO the indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND. Ind, Aug. According to
an opinion handed down by Judge Henry
c. Fox, of the Wayne Circuit Court. to-
day, the County Council has no right to
interfere with the law which controls the
operations of the truant officers.
The opinion was delivered in the case OF
DIR. William s. Dempsey, truant officer for
Wayne county, against Alexander S. Reid.
county auditor, to mandate the payment of
a claim for s126 for services. The County
Council appropriated 500 to pay the truant
officer and when the claim for sl26 extra
came I'm the Council refused to allow 1t,
the president of the Council taking the
position that the services of such an Of
ficer were really unnecessary When the
suit for mandamus was filed to-day, the
county auditor filed demurrer, alleging
that the facts set forth did not justify an
alternative writ of mandate. The court
overruled the demurrer and ordered a
peremptory writ issued for the payment OF
the claim of the truant officer.
The court takes the position that the
truancy law was passed prior to the
county reform law, which created the
County Council, and that the working of
the former is not subject to the latter and
hence that the truant officer was entitled
TO his pay Notwithstanding the action of
the County Council.
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HAWAIIAN CHINESE EXCITED.
They Threaten the Life of Their Con-
sui at Honolulu.

HONOLULU, July q, via San Francisco.
Aug. 4-The news from China has stirred
the Chinese here to the depths. Yesterday
Yang Wal Pin, the Chinese consul, made
an appeal to the government for personal
protection, saying that he had received
anonymous letters threatening his life He
accuses the Bow Wong Wui, or Chinese
Reform Society, of having made the
threats. The Bow Wongs are the element
opposed to the Empress dowager and de-
sirous of having a liberal pro-foreign policy
in the empire. They formed their societies
here under the leadership of Leung Chi
Tso, the exiled reformer, and the consul
here sent to China the names of those who
became members. AS a result the relatives
of the Honolulu Bow Wongs were cast into
prison in China, and feeling against the
consul runs high. One of the letters that
frightened Yang Wal Pin referred to his
action in sending the names of Bow Wongs
to the imperial government and told him
that he would be killed for doing so.
The consul and vice consul Go Kim, have
made purchases of weapons organized a
guard at the Chinese legation and secured
the protection of the Honolulu police. Two
officers are kept constantly at the legation.
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on the Japanese steamer Hons-Kone-

on the Japanese steamer Hong Kong
Maru on Aug. %.
This Chinese war;" Bishop Moore said.
us simply blowing of the field for the
give way 10 the expansive forces OF mod
ern ideas My first and most urgent work
In China will be 10 reorganize the work or
the missionaries. AT present the LOO mis-
sionaries of the church are so scattered
that they themselves do not know exactly
what is going on
The bishop further explained the situa-
ton of the missionaries in China as fol-
lows: THE annual missionary conference
was adjourned at Picking the very day the
disturbance broke out. Some of the mis-
sionaries in attendance got away on the
last train Others. think seven in all. are
In the imperial city. The last heard they
had gone into the Asbury Church, q strong
brick buttressed structure in the mission
airy compound. DIR. George E. Lowrey, a
medical missionary, was in charge They
had the windows barricaded except for
loopholes, had big jars OF rice and water.
and were ready for siege. About two hum
dred altogether were in the church. count
ing the women and children, and they had
a guard Of ten American marines, ten
English marines and twenty men mission
aries. They could Withstand in that
church fortress anything except we'll
directed artillery fire. Whether they have
since gone to the English legations we do
not know.
THE West China mission the center of
so-called missionary conference, 1000
miles up the Yang-Tse, is completely cut
on We have not heard from Spencer
Lewis, Of this mission. nor any one there
for some time He is one of the most
courageous missionaries in China. With
him are men who have often been hunted
by the mobs seeking foreign devils They
have been concealed by the native con-
yerts. The fidelity Of those native converts
is remarkable: Haingua, another mission.
Is cut on Also"
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WRECKED BY BURGHERS
TRAIN OVER WHICH THE STARS AND
STRIPES WE'RE FLYING.
Consul General stowe Was Aboard
and Secured Release of British
Prisoners Captured by Beers.

LONDON, Aug 4-Lord Roberts tele-
graphs to the War Office that General
Hunter reports that s,s4s men have sur
rendered to him altogether. General Hun
ter also secured 3.046 horses and three
guns. Lord Roberts adds that Gen. Ian
Hamilton. continuing his movement to-
ward Rustenberg, engaged the Beers in the
Magaliesberg range Thursday. Lieutenant
Colonel Rhodes and Maj. G.. A Williams
were among the forty-one British wound
ed. The Beers left two dead and several
badly wounded.
Thursday night train was derailed and
attacked twenty miles south of Kroon-
stadt, four men being killed and three
wounded. Lord Algernon Lennox and
forty men were made prisoners, but were
released at the request of the American
consul general, who was on the train.
A Boer force was attacked by General
Knox near the railway north of Kroon-
stadt on Wednesday. Aug. /, and left five
wagons and lot of cattle.
A dispatch from Pretoria, dated Aug. 4,
to a news agency here, says: ut Is re-
ported that Gen. Christian De Wet is dead
from a shell wound. The report has not
been confirmed"
Regarding the wrecling of the train a
Bloemfontein dispatch says: "A train, on
board of which was United States Consul
Stowe, and over which was dying the stars
and stripes, has been derailed and burned
at Honigspruit, south of Kroonstadt, by a
flying patrol Of Beers. No prisoners were
taken"
The War Office has received a dispatch
from Lord Roberts, dated Pretoria, Aug.
a. which says: Lord Algernon Lennox
has been released by the Beers. Only two
officers remain prisoners. Commandant
Olivier has managed to escape to the
hills in the vicinity of Bethlehem with
1900 men. He has informed General Bruce
Hamilton that he does not consider him.
self bound by General Prinzloo's offer OF
surrender, and that his force intends to
continue the war. He has taken a
position between Harrismith and the New
market road. Lieutenant General Rumble
is now following him.
Prisoners captured by General Ian Ham
ilton say that only soft-nosed bullets are
now served out to the Beers. Hence the
wounds of our men are very serious. 1 am
representing this matter and protesting to
General Botha."
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BLOWS HOT AND COLD.
Mr.. Miers Is for and Against Expan-
sion as Occasion Offers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SULLIVAN, Ind, Aug. 4.-Hon. p. r..
Wadsworth. of Washington, the Republican
candidate for Congress, and Robert w.
Miers. of Bloomington, the present men,
Der of Congress from the Second district,
attended the reunion IL the Eighty-fifth In
diana Regiment in this city last week, and
both gentlemen were on the programme for
addresses. Mr.. Miers, in his address to the
veterans at the love feast at the People s
Theater, came out especially strong for
expansion, notwithstanding the fact that
both candidates were supposed to make
ponpartisan speeches. Pointing to the flag
on the stage. Mr.. Miers said: THAT flag
is good enough for the American people,
and is good enough for the Philippines.
Continuing. he said: Wherever that flag
is run up il will never come down.
These remarks, coming so Unexpectedly
strong from him. Democratic candidate
for Congress, struck the audience fOrcibly,
and especially the old soldiers, who greeted
the sentiments with shouts of approval
The sentiment expressed by Mr. Miers
was like a powder flash among the Demo-
cratic leaders, and the principal converse
ton next day was: ..'Why, Miers is for ex-
pansion." AS result the Sullivan Times.
in its edition yesterday, had an interview
with Mr.. Miers, in which he utterly denied
the plain English language he used in the
address.
He qualified his statement to mean 1.-THE
spirit Of the flag" He said: II said that
L hoped the spirit of the American fae
would spread TO these countries. BY the
spirit of the flag | mean the spirit of free
dom. the desire for liberty and justice
which brought our flag into existence, and
for which IL has always stood"
This hedging will cost Miers hundreds OF
he ri oil said feaFc h
cheered his utterances are now loudest in
their denunciations.
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Frank H. lowering, chairman of the local
India relief committee. has received the
following cablegram sent by William H.
Fee, chairman of the Americo-Indian re-
lief committee, Bombay, through L. T.
Chamberlain, chairman of the executive
committee: ITO the Indianapolis commit
tee of one hundred on India famine relief
In behalf of India's famine sufferers we
thank you for your generous part in pro-
viding relief funds. Distress is undimin-
ished and will certainly continue for many
months"
The following cablegram was received by
the New York committee of one hundred
On India famine relief from Chairman Fee:
Rainfall favorable over whole of famine
area, but immediate distress undated.
Great suffering not only for food but also
for blankets and clothing and aid to i'm
poverished peasant farmers. Money is
specially needed for care of famished. desti-
tute children"
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MINISTER CoNGER's MESSAGE.
The Original Cipher Text Indicates
that 1t Was Genuine.

that 1t Was Genuine.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.--The Department
of State authorizes the following state
ment in relation to the probable date of
the first telegram from Mr.. Conger, to
which, in transmitting it through Sheng,
at Shanghai, and Minister WI, the Tsung
Ii Yamen assigned the date of Is:
1.-THE Department of State is in possess
sion of the original cipher text of the en-
tire message as received by Minister WI
on July 20 and communicated by him to
Secretary Hay on the morning of that day.
l<sis partly in the Chinese cipher code and
partly in that of the United States. The
two texts were separated by several groups
not Ineligible in either cipher. As de-
ciphered on July 20 the Conger message
appeared to begin with the words In Brit
she'll, etc. With the aid of the full text as
telegraphed from Che-Foo from Consul
Fowler and already given to the press,
the doubtful groups, which were distorted
In telegraphic transmission, have now
been corrected and found to read:
For one month We have been bcsieged'
which intelligibly completes the sentence,
making the telegram read: For one month
We have been besieged in British legation
under continued shot and shell from Chi
nese troops. Quick relief can only prevent
general massacre. Conger.'
las 1T is known that the various lega-
lions and foreigners took shelter in the
British legation about June IL, the date of
Mr.. Congers telegram is fixed with APP
proximate certainty as July II. This agrees
with Consul Fowler's cabled message that
the original message, as written on a reg
ular telegram form and signed 'Conger'
Is supplemented by the words, F. H Con-
ger. July IL. address United States lega-
tion. written on the same form, but evil
IDENTIFY not transmitted. The fact that
the authentic text Of the original message,
as received in Washington on July 90
agrees literally with Consul Fowler's re-
port of the wording of the original form
written by Minister Conger and bearing
the fiie date of July IL, appears to estab-
lsh the genuineness of the message and
its date beyond doubt
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-The War De-
partment desires it to be known that mail
intended for the United States soldiers in
China should be addressed with the full
name of the soldier. his company and regi-
ment. with the words "China, via San
Francisco" In the case of staff officers
or civilians of the army the same means
China, via San Francisco"-should be
employed. All the regular China mail
ed. the government has been obliged to de-
wise service of it's own. using the army
transports as far possible. A postal
agent stationed at Nagasah will make the
first distribution of these mails. and an
other agent at Taku will care for the de-
tails. These agents have started for China
and will be in position to handle any mails
written after this date.
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PROBING A PLOT.
INCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)

tCONCLODED fROM FIRST PAGE.)
the hall and settle the matter outside. Nal
atesta, in a passion, was on the point of
descending from the platform when PIAZZA
gila drew a revolver and shot him in the
thigh Bresci threw himself upon the
would-be assassin and disarmed him. 1t
was this act which won for Bresci the
friendship of his leader, who looked upon
him as the savior of his life, Malatesta
himself being unarmed at the time. As
soon as Malatesta recovered from his
wound he continued his lecture tour, and
was always accompanied by Bresci TO guard
him from further violence. 1t was well
known. however. that Pazzagila had re-
pented of his attack and promised never
to repeat il.
Before Malatesta's departure for London
last April 1T had been determined that the
society should strike a telling blow But
the opportune moment had not yet arrived.
Malatesta consulted with his fellow-con-
spirators abroad. and IL was evidently
agreed that the Italian monarch should be
the victim. A cable was sent over from
London. 1.-The opportune moment has ar
rived" funds were raised at once, and
Bresci. Quintavelle and SASH were dis
patched on their murderous errand.
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SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY.
Enough for a Six Months Campaign
Are Being Hurried to China.

WASHINGTON Aug. Appropriations
being made by the War and Navy Depart
ments to facilitate the operations of the
American forces in China, not only in the
advance against Picking. but also for
winter campaign. indicate that the admin
istration. while hoping that a condition of
avowed war may be avoided, intends to be
prepared for it, In anticipation of the
northern part of the Gulf of Chilli freez-
ing in November, Quartermaster General
Ludington is making strenuous effort to
land at least six months supplies at Taku.
AT this moment Nagasaki is the base of
operations for the troops operating in
China, but this base must be transferred
to Taku, which can be reached by land.
General Ludington is arranging for the
transportation of 1900 tons of fuel to
Taku. Thousands of small campaign stoves
have been sent to that point. Heavy win
ter clothing, doors for tents, arctic shoes,
etc., have also gone. The transports Will,
of course, be withdrawn before the gulf
freezes, and any additional supplies SUBJ
sequently sent TO the troops must go via
Che-Foo, which connects by means of a
highway with Taku.
Brigader General j. W. Weston, COM
missary general of subsistence, is also pre-
pairing TO dispatch six months supplies to
u. X.
for China, carrying 973 men and 20 Of
ficers, conveyed sixty days rations for
these troops, and this supply will be greatly
augmented. General Weston has in con-
temptation the simplification of the COM
missary supplies sent TO Taku. He has
called attention to the inadvisabflity of
sending canned oysters, Holsters, mush-
rooms, peaches, pears, pineapples, two
kinds of sardines, four kinds of pipes, etc.,
to China, and IL his wishes are carried out
the supplies will be limited TO the whole
some ration of the army with a Few extras
for sale to the officers and men desiring to
purchase them. This is list of the arti-
cles selected at random from that detail
ing the supplies carried by the Hancock,
the amounts being given in pounds: Bacon.
1916 pounds; corned beef, canned, 1854;
flour, 1851 hard bread. 1854; beans, loose
and packed in cans 5.430; rice, 6O6; hominy.
464, potatoes, fresh, 1851; potatoes, desic-
Gated, 1,750; potatoes sliced, LOO; onions,
900; milk, canned, 1870; macarino, 1,620;
sugar, 5.151: butter. 1,050; green corn. in
cans. 1900; tomatoes canned. 12,2oO In adj
dition TO these articles there were apples,
apricots, cheese. chocolate, prunes, pre-
serves. jellies. olives. pickles. etc General
Weston holds that In view OF the difficulties
in the way of prompt transportation IT Is
entirely inadvisable to send so many arti-
cles which are OF course sold to officers and
men, and he favors limiting the number OF
articles much as possible.
Surgeon General Sternburg is sendlng as
many surgeons as may be neeced 10 emma,
and is placing both medical supplies ana
money at their disposal.
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"SMARTo BUT ILL-BRED.
Bad Manners as Exhibited by the
Typical American Girl Of To-day.

Mrs. A j. Maren, in August Century.
1t seems trifie unjust to the clever and
well-bred American girl TO dwell upon
familiar type much en- evidence as to
overshadow all the others and pass every
where as representative, but II Is ques-
ton of tendencies. This typical girl OF
nish clothes, spices her talk with slang,
not always of the choicest, losses her pref
ty head in proud defiance as she puts down
her parents, her elders, and her superiors
indeed, she admits no superiors. though
this scion of equality does admit in
feriors and snubs them without mercy
pronounces a final opinion on subjects of
which she does not know even the alpha
bet, shows neither respect for white hairs
nor consideration for favors which she
claims right. and calls all this swell"
her fashionable. or questionable. indie
pendence.
The same spirit runs through the entire
social gamut. There is nothing more con-
tagious than bad mannars; Ii is so easy for
the selfish instincts to come uDpermost
when the pressure of a law, written or
unwritten, is removed. The insolence of
servants is sufficiently emphasized. Even
the shop-girl waits upon you with half
disguised impertinence, often imperti-
hence without any disguise, and replies to
your civil word with lofty stare. as much
as TO say. "Since you are polite TO me you
cannot be of much consequence"
The causes are not far to seek A potent
one Is the rush and hurry of life in when
cftItDcut - upon uOluS the most IN
the least possible time There is no leisure
for small courtesies- Ii is Heterogeneous
scramble for the loaves and fishes. in which
the survival of the fittest resolves itself
into survival of the strongest IL is
something akin to brute force that gains
the prize, whether II be seat I'm the car
or seat In Congress. Indeed. we claim.
as part of our national glory. the trait so
well expressed by the word push Ii
makes little difference what one pushes so
long Ii stands in the way. Men in the
garb of gentlemen do not scruple TO thrust
| aside delicate women who happen TO be
moving before them In the procession.
| Wcll-dressed women run over one another
II Is the same spirit applied TO the minor
street magnate to walk over his weaker
rival. and the laboring man who has or
Kanized In the name OF freedom and human
brotherhood TO crush out Of existence. II
1.-The spirit of instructive, though some
times UNCONSCIOUS ooIuonnooos whether e