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LORD KITCHENER.
His Work Harder Than Any British
Generals that Went Before.

Chicago Journal.
All England is specializing on what Lord
Kitchener will get John Churchill and
Arthur Wellesley were created Duke of
Marlborough and Duke of Wellington, re-
spectively, and both titles carried with them
enormous grants of money and estates.
Kitchener has accomplished as much, rela-
lively, for the empire of his day and gen
Grafton as Marlborough and Wellington &C
complished for it in theirs.
Lord Roberts left the work in South
Africa half done, and the burden of finish
ing il fell upon the shoulders of man who
is cold and hard, a soldier more of the
Won Moltke type than any other. After
Lord Roberts had cheerily declared that
the war was over he sailed away to Eng
land, and Kitchener, whose efforts had been
handicapped by the field marshal went
about the work of winning the actu-
ally, and not on paper, in his own drastic
fashion. He began the military reconcen-
tration of noncombatants. He sent home all
war correspondents who told too much. ana
generally increased the strictness of the
from point to point he closed in on them.
He allowed no criticism to worry him, and
If he was not greatly loved by his troops
he was implicitly trusted.
The general asked to be sent to South
Africa at the outbreak of the war, but he
was snubbed. When everybody else had
botched and Numbered until the War Office
was distracted and the Nation disguised,
all turned to Kitchener. They say he asked
upon accepting the command to be allowed
to hang any man he pleased, which re-
quest was described as intensely character
istic All he wanted was food and arms
Hospital supplies could be cut down to the
lowest possible limit All that was ex-
pected of the trops was 10 fight. They
could die as chance ordained-in or out of
a hospital.
All preparations were made with the ut
most system and thoroughness, and he
took his own time about them. AS a result
when he struck he struck killing blows,
and the work did not have to be gone over
but once. No preliminary reports were
made, and even important news that was
not decisive was held back until the last
possible minute.
Lord Kitchener has been described as
fighting machine unerringly precise with
out emotions and absolutely remorseless.
In South Africa, as in the Soudan, he made
mis- plans with patience and carried them
out with incredible rapidity when once
they were made. 1t is said that his vic
tories in South Africa have grstiied the
only emotion of which he is capable-ambi-
ton. Had he failed he would have lost
reputation that was as hardly won as ever
a soldier went through toll blood and
smoke to obtain. He has done a gigantic
share of the work England has been bend
ing her best energies to for over two years
empire For the service he can command
anything which is within the power of his
country and his sovereign TO give.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

DR. l.. A. f. Storch left yesterday for
Chicago and st. Louis. While absent he
will make some special study in the clinics
of the various hospitals.
The annual meeting of the Indiana Chill
dren's Home Society will be held in the
parloTs of the Denison tonight. New of,l-
GERS will be elected and reports Will be
made.
will give a recital at the Metropolitan
School of Music tomorrow evening. They
will be assisted by Mrs. Frank Fuller,
Frank Taylor and Howard NJ. Talbot,
singers.
An election for State University trustee
Ia I'm progress, and j. w. Fesler, of this
city. and w. A. Wood. of Princeton. are
being voted for by members Of the alumni.
The man chosen will succeed Prof. X. a.
Ogg. OF Kokomo.
Charles c. Dawes, former controller of
the currency, will be the guest of the local
banks and trust companies June Is and will
talk at a banquet of finance. Mr.. Dawes
is now president of the Central Trust Com
pany of Chicago.
Some days ago l. F. Weir. a passenger
conductor on the Pennsylvania between
this city and Louisville. was stricken with
paralysis. 1t was reported yesterday that
he had died. but investigation proved that
he is in fair way to recovery.
Pearson Mendenhall. township trustee.
lost valuable horse and buggy yesterday
by theft The outfit was standing at the
corner of Meridian and Washington streets
while Mr. Mendenhall was in a store
When he came out the rig missing.
A brass cannon weighing 80 pounds. fas-
tened to solid oak carriage. was recently
stolen from the office OF the Keyless Lock
Company The cannon was brilliantly bur-
nished and placed in the office as an orna-
ment. The members Of the firm have no
clew TO the thief.
The high schools Of Marion county out
side of Center township will hold a union
commencement at Broad Ripple June 19.
There will be twenty-six graduates. In the
morning there will be six orations by stu
dents. In the afternoon DR.. r. J. Alley,
professor of mathematics at the State Uni
versity will deliver an address. At the
same time 173 common school diplomas will
be presented.
The pupils of Public School No. "A gave a
June festival concert last night in the new
engine house. Dexter avenue and Nine
teenth street. The programme consisted of
a number of selections by a chorus of
twenty-four voices. an orchestra, readings
by Mrs. L. V. Summers piano solo by Miss
Farman and a violin solo by Lawrence l.
Mills. The boys of the chorus appeared as
cavaliers. and the girls wore liberty cos
tunes. Miss Matte Osborn acted as ac-
companist.
superintendent Taffe yesterday received a
letter from c. l.. Teeters, of Columbus, o.,
asking that the condition of Mrs. Sara Ciss-
mas property be investigated. Mrs. Cissna
is the old woman who was placed aboard
a Greenwood car two weeks ago and left TO
her own resources. She was picked up by a
stranger in Franklin and brought TO this
city She was suffering from neglect and
exposure and sent TO the City Hospi-
tai Mr. Teeters said the old woman had
Mr.. Teeters said he was nephew of the
old woman.
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Previous chapters appeared May 20. o. %. %.
%. 80. June 2. 4, 6. Q. Back copies are kept but
thirty days.
synopsis of Preceding Chapters.


Merton Balfort, Of Putnam's division Of the
Continental Army starts on an important mis-
sion TO General Washington along the huusoh
has just overturned. He finds lovely girl IN
distress and escorts her TO an inn Ihere ne
encounters a drunken British officer, with whon
he fights duel. The oficer is wounded ana MS
friends make ready 10 avenge the INJURY ne
girl, who reveals her Identity as DeboIan fhlI-
Balfort of being spy and says she is MS sweet
heart The drunken ruffans insist upon mar
riage ceremony and push forward one OF their
number, who performs il. Balfort secures d
horse for the girl, and the couple proceed on
their journey. The girl stops at Tory mouse,
and the soldier continues on his mission Whlle
forest he overhears voices and then Is
a witness the famous conference between Ben
edict Arnold and Major Andre for the delivery
of the plans Of West Point. Balfort hurries
is intercepted by an American picket; ne is put
under arrest and ordered sent TO Arnold's mead
quarters, but he escapes from his guard ana
pushes on TO the headquarters or Washington
When he arrives there, after a tremendous rae;
IL is 10 learn that Arnold has already escaped
TO the British lines, and that Andre is prls-
oner. Balfort is then attached 10 Washington
staff and told to await orders. he is presently
sent on a mission the home where ne left
Deborah Philpse With his men surrounding
the house. Balfort enters to ma his falr com
panion of the inn standing in the nall he
accuses her Of completely in the plot 10 rescue
Andre. His love for the girl causes MIN TO nesl-
tate While in the house the British approach,
and there is a desperate fight, In which the
Americans victorious Deborah shoots an
Balfort The prisoners taken away by Bal
forts men, while Balfort and Deborah follow
They meet an American soldier who has been
robbed OF important dispatches for Balfort.
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CHAPTER NJ.
IN WHICH ROGER LEADS IN a FAST
RIDE.

RIDE.
We had gone but a short distance when
nv thoughts came trooping back, and
pulled UP. ' was called to Tappan-a day
was lost already-and up above were men
who had waylaid the messenger. who knew
the contents of the note. 'Twould be folly
to travel back to Verplancks and give them
time to take me on the road, or intercept
me on the other side, If they deemed 1t
worth their while. My feeling was that
they were merely gang Of SINNERS pill
Laying this man like all others. But they
might be. too. some of the escaped squad
we had outwitted in the old house, who
were following up the rear of the troop.
Most important Of ALL however, had not
Curtiss ghost found me with the girl,
whom he seemed to know. and would he
not try to get her by taking me?
At that 1 turned about and made for the
ferry. crossing as soon as could and set
ting out at once for Tappan. knew the
road well enough; for in my two weeks at
the fort had crossed more than once, and
from the drawings of the country in the
colonels possession the lay Of the land was
moderately clear.
So / had moved along for a mile or more.
till Roger stopped 10 breathe at the peak
OF a long hill AS looked back saw two
riders some distance behind. too far away
10 make them out, but twas evident they
were coming along at quick gait. They
seemed to have the dress of countrymen.
and on this side of the river / knew twas
not so safe for either British or outlaw as
on the other. For a moment I hesitated.
thinking to draw off the road and let them
come up and pass Then the mission I was
on seemed too important. and the chance
of coming 10 blows with them too great a
risk 10 be taken just now. Out stretched
Roger therefore in his great stride. and
7 knew there were but few animals in the
country could keep the good nags pace.
talked TO him as was my wont. and hade
him save himself, for that he and ! had
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sCHooLMATE OF AUTHOR.
John c. Hickman Talks OF David Graz
hmm Phillips.

John G. Hickman. OF New York, who has
been stopping at the Hotel English for sew
eral weeks past, is entitled to a position in
the ranks OF Indiana boys who have
achieved success. Although still a very
young man. being scarcely thirty-five, Mr..
Hickman holds a high position in the New
York auditing Office of the STANDARD Oil
Company. lie was born and raised at
Hanover. Ind, six miles from Madison, the
home OF David Graham Phillips, who has
attained prominence recently as an author
OF entertaining fiction. Mr.. Heckman's
father was president OF Hanover College
until late in the eighties when he resigned
and took his family 10 Cincinnati. In the
latter city young Hickman and David
Graham Phillips were fellow-students for
two years In Chickering Institute. where
they prepared themselves for the entrance
examinations OF Eastern colleges.
IT have been following Phillips's brilliant
career In the newspaper and literary fields
with more than ordinary interest" said
Mr. Hickman last night. FOR 4 recall dis
tinctly that way back In 1855, when he and
j attended old Chickering. he had his life
plans clearly mapped out In his mind. He
said then that he intended 10 become a
newspaper writer and that he aimed at a
place IN the forefront. He declared his
ultimate ambition TO become a writer OF
books Phillips's most prominent charac-
teristics were then, as they are now, pluck
and indomitable perseverance. such man
deserves 10 win.
Il was pleased TO read I'm a sketch Of
PhillipSs life" continued Mr.. Hecsman.
IAN account Of his first assignment on the
Cincinnati Times-Star. because l resided In
Cincinnati at that time and was perfectly
familiar with the incident. remember
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BoERs coon HATERs.
DIR. J.. VI. HansImair Thinks English
Government Made Mistake.

II think the English government made
one mistake in its articles OF peace with
the Beers" said Or. j. NJ. Hanslmair who
has an ONCE in the Fitzgerald building
yesterday evening. Il think they made
mistake" he continued. lin giving consent
10 the- Beers teaching Dutch in their
schools. The English should have insisted
that nothing but the English language be
taught. or at least they should have de-
clared that Dutch should not be taught q"
DIT Hanslmair was a surgeon I'm the Eng
lish army al the time or the Boer war in
1881. and I'm the battle of Majuba hill
He originally went from Germany to South
Africa to serve as physician in one of the
German colonies. When the war broke out
the English government offered him a good
salary and ne became a regimental sur
geon- The doctor spent several months in
South Africa and brought home with him
substantial evidences of the chase. lie was
an ardent sportsman and has elephant
tcsks and lion skins TO show that he bagged
some big game. The doctor thinks IL will
be a long time before the hatred of the
Beers for the English is eradicated. while
the leaders OF the BoeT army have signed
the articles OF peace" he remarked. there
will still be that feeling OF hatred among
the rank and file. and there will he n linger-
ing desire on the part of the Boer farmer
10 shoot at every Engishman that passes
his house"
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Kitchener the Conqueror.
Baltimore American.

When Kitchener went TO South Africa il
was as the new light looming above the
horizon of British military ability He had
avenged Gordon, retaken Khartoum won
a place in the English peerage. and been
rewarded with Parliamentary recognition
and large money grants. He had a reputa-
ton for doing what he set out TO do. and
was widely heralded a man who won in
the end by his superior powers OF organiza-
ton rather than by any brilliant flashes
in rapid direction or operation. Succeeding
Lord Roberts. who declared the war ended.
Kitchener found greater task on his
hands than any Roberts ever confronted
He was to subdue a nation overrun with
guerrilla warriors. eXcelling his own force
in the CELEBRITY OF their movements and the
visor OF their striking power
For nearly two years Kitchener has
stood in this attitude before the public OF
all the world. As comma nder-in-chief of
the British FORCES IN South Africa he has
been beneath a light as fierce as that which
ever beat upon a throne In that time
and until within the last few DAYS the
world has heard little from him His re
greet TO report dispatches became the butt
of jokes in every tongue, but from him
there has not come one single word ex-
planatory of his plans defending his ac-
ton or promising definite results AS
man of silence he strongly resembles our
own Grant. and his conduct OF the war i'm
the Transvaal bears a striking resemblance
in the grim determination of this comman-
der. TO the policy or Grant when he wrote
that famous dispatch, Il shall a0ht II ont
on this line If IL takes all summer
Secure in the confidence of his govern
ment Kitchener has not paid the slightest
attention 10 the storm OF criticism that has
beaten necessarily about his head. silently
steadily and vigorously he has prosecuted
the work he set out 10 do However much
we may dislike the inhuman nature dis
played by Kitchener. and all America dis
hold from the man acknowledgment OF
his success
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THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
A Passage that Is Very UnjustIy Called
Sectional.
New York Evening Post.


1t is curious that Southern politicians and
Southern newspapers should so generally
treat the Presidents reference to lynch-
ings. in his Memorial day address as a
sectional deliverance, and an attack upon
one part of the country which is without
precedent and without Justification Mr.
Roosevelts language this subject was
evidently chosen with care, and there is not
a word or an implication of special refer
ence TO a particular section in this state
ment of a condition which is of the first
Importance TO our national reputation:
From time TO time there occur in our
country. to the deep and lasting shame of
our people, lynchlngs carried on under cir
ity-a cruelty infinitely worse than anv that
has ever been committed by our troops in
the Philippines; worse to the victims. and
far more brutalizing 10 those guilty OF in -
Nor is there the slightest intmation-of a
sectional allusion I'm this further statement
of an undoubted truth: The men who fail
TO condemn these lynchings. and vet clamor
about what has been done in the Philip
pines are indeed guilty Of neglectins the
beam I'm their own eye while haunting their
brother about the mote in his" The only
sensible comment from Southern sources
il the declaration of an occasional public
man like Senator Blackburn of Kentucky.
that Il am not willing TO concede that the
President had in mind the Southern States
alone when he alluded 10 lynching"
Nothing could be more proper than the
Improvement by the President of a At &C.
casion for driving home the disgrace which
il is 10 the Nation that lynchings prevail
in so many parts Of the United States. and
are so frequently accompanied by frightful
barbarities as in the recent burning TO
death OF a negro in Texas. and in similar
atrocities IN one Of the chief cities OF Kan
sas last year, and in Colorado town the
year before. President Mckinley devoted
a passage OF his inaugural address in 1897
20 this question, and In his annual message
two years later repeated what he had then
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c. +. Carson. of Michigan City, a we'll
known Republican and chairman of the city
committee. was in town yesterday and told
Of the boom business is undergoing in his
locality. He spoke particularly about the
Haskell e. Baker car works which employ
from 100 TO 1900 men. During the Cleve-
land administration these men were receiv
son says that to-day the wages of the men
range from 1.50 TO S175 a day. 1t is claimed
the company is not able 10 get sufficient
number of men 10 do the work that might
be done Mr.. Carson is a member of the
firm OF A. r.. Colburn & Co. lumber deal
ers. He says that Colburn & Co could en-
ploy from thirty to forty more men than
them
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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.


NEW HAVEN. Conn, June 1O-Three
members of the graduating class of the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer-
sity, c. l.. Watson and his brother, c. A
Watson, both OF indianapolis, and II. H.
Bartlett, of Worcester Mass, went for
a sail across Long island sound, yesterday,
in small sloop. They did not return last
night and a searching party failed to find
them this morning. This gave rise to fears
that an accident had befalen them, but
ali apprehension was removed this after
noon when the little yacht, with the three
on board safe, was found in the lower llar-
Dor. The young men were surprised that
any anxiety had been felt for them.
G. l.. and G.. A. Watson are grandsons
of Mrs George +. Adams, of Indianapolis
and they are well known here, though
their home is at Peoria. When the re-
port came that the young men were miss
ing, Journal reporter visited the home
of Mrs. Adams and was informed that
a telegram had just been received stating
they were both safe.
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HUGE SUBWAY PROPOSED.
Chicago May BE Honeycombed with
Tunnels mt m Cost of Millions

CHICAGO. June 10. Former Mayor
Hampstead Washburne. William A. Alex
ander and S. S. Gregory will soon ask the
Council for permission to build subway
extending to all parts of the city. Honey
combing the entire downtown district is
contemplated by the projectors. who plan
to turn the huge tunnel over TO the city
at the end of fifteen years for a sum to be
agreed upon. The compensation during that
period is also TO be agreed upon later
Thirty days after the ordinance has been
passed and accepted. says Mr.. Washburne.
work will begin. 1t is estimated that il
will take three and a half years to con-
struct and put into operation the subway
in the downtown district. Everything i'm
the way of capital up to s5OO0O,OO0, II is
stated, has been secured. The project con-
templates the use OF the subway by the
traction companies on all sides of the CITY
it's use for all manner of electric wires
including the wires Of the Chicago Tele-
phone Company and possibly at a later
day forcing the abandonment of the elevat-
ed loop and the use of the subway by the
elevated trains, in the case of Boston.
The ordinance will ask for permission to
dig from curb TO curb and twenty-four feet
deep.
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said including the declaration that lynch
ings must not be tolerated in a great and
civilized country like the United States
What our people generally do not under
stand is that many Europeans refuse 10
believe that a country can be civilized
where such frightful barbarities occur,
year after year, In different States. Nor
should we wonder at this. Should we regard
England, France or Germany as a civilized
country IL every few months we read in
the cable dispatches accounts of how mobs
burned crimlnals-or alleged criminals
alive at the stake. infllcting the most
frightful tortures upon their victims be-
fore the end came? So long the United
States is disgTaced before the world by
such horrible outrages. our Presidents do
well when they try TO arouse our sense OF
shame
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At the Hotels.

F. M. Sparks, of Rushville. was at the
Hotel English.
at the Denison.
NJ. w. Pershing. postmaster at Upton.
was at the Spencer.
John II. Curtner. Of Wabash. president Of
the Lawrence National Bank of North
Manchester. was a guest at the Spencer
House last night.
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YAQUIS SCATTERED.


TUCSON, Ariz., June 10.-The latest re-
port received in Hermosillo from General
Torres of the battle in Sierra Mazatan is
that the defeat of the Yaquis is complete.
Less than three hundred of their number
succeeded in escaping. and a number of
these were wounded. The number of Yaquis
killed was eighty-five: wounded and cap
tured, 2lS. The Mexican casualties were
slight. The Yaquis that escaped have di-
vi6ed up into small bands and scattered
through the mountains. This defeat prac-
tically ends organized resistance. General
Torres has the situation we'll in hand, and
Americans travelling through the district
are unmolested. Mining interests are un-
disturbed.
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At the Columbia Club yesterday President
Sweet entertained at lunch party of visit
ing railroad men. They were officers con-
nected with the D. L. & w Rail-
way. The party included S. p. Col
well. vice president and general traf-
fic manager, of New York; John II. Craw-
ford, general Eastern agent. of New York;
w. NJ. Babcock, general Western agent, of
Chicago; George CullOm. general Western
passenger agent. of Chicago. and j. j.
Byrne, general travelling agent. of Cleve-
land
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Another national bank is being talked Of
in local financial circles. 1t is stated that
two bankers outside OF Indianapolis en-
tertain serious ideas OF engaging in that
business here. Others say that a local
broker has been writing 10 bankers in the
State asking them If they would take
stock in a new banking enterprise So far
there has been nc:hing more tangible than
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Concert. "An Birds Are Here Again"
Taken to the Poor Farm.

Mrs Sarah Fletcher. an old woman who
was found in an old house on West Walnut
street some time ago in a destitute condi-
ton and who taken TO the City Hospi-
tai was yesterday taken TO the county
poor farm Mrs. Fletcher has a son living
in Little Rock Ark At the time he was
notified but il was afterwaPd learned that
he was unable 10 care for her. Mrs. Fetch
er is at an advanced age.