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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
SUICIDE FROM CONNECTICUT
Took Poison In the Aston woods-Wss In
Deep Mourning.

A man OF twenty five orthirty, clad in
deep mourning. poisoned himself yester-
day in the -Astor Woods, grove. 800
feet from Westchester avenue, West Chess
ter, and near the Bronx River. Policeman
winecke. who was riding along the edge
OF the woods. found him still breathing.
He had drunk half the contents of a bot
tie OF carbolic acid from glass and had
left the bottle and the glass on board at
his side.
The suicide was about feet 10 inches
tall, smooth faced and black haired Some
Of his clothes were made in New Haven.
In his pockets were four black -bordered
silk handkerchiefs. 90 cents and a cam
paign button bearing this legend:
For Judge Of Probate-Samuel A. York.
Samuel A. York was the Democratic
candidate for Judge OF Probate in New
Haven county. Conn. last fall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
POPE CABLES HIS BLESSING.
special ben ediction Sent to Archbishop
Farley and His Bishops.

Archbishop Farley received this cable
despatch from the Pope through Cardinal
Rampolla, the Papal Secretary Of State,
last night:
, The fluctuations and good wishes of your
Trace and the right reverend Bishops Of the
province 81 New York. so happily expressed
on the occasion Of the twenty-ffth ami
hersnry OF his election were deeply gratify-
ing TO his Holiness The Holy Father fully
ment binding you all to the Apostolic See.
anu prompting. you on every opportune oc-
ssnun utph TO manifest unmistakable proofs OF
rs pledge. therefore. Of the pontifical
s eood Will the Holy Father very Affection
seiy In the name Of the Lord imparts to your
Trace and the right reverend prelates the
apostolic benediotion.
:, Meanwhile, with the assurance Of most
devoted servant In Christ
NJ CARDINAL RANPoLL&
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
CONDEMNS MORTGAGE TAX.
Chamber Of Commerce Report Alss Oh
jects TO indirect Taxation "PoIicy.

Chamber o. Commerce Report Alss Oh.
jects 10 indirect Taxation "PoIicy.
At the Chamber Of Commerce meeting
yesterday George F. Seward. chairman
OF the committee on State and municipal
taxation, presented a report condemninR
Gov. Odell's Mortgage Tax bill and criti-
ctsing the distribution Of excise moneys.
The following resolutions, presented with
the report, were adopted:
hso!red. That this chamber adheres to
rs long-expressed conviction that the taxa
nomic point OF view
Rssoired. That as respects the proposed
distribution Of the revenue sought 70 be
secured from MORTGAGE taxation a right
balance between the State and the political
divisions should be maintained.
. ftso!'ed. That as respects excise taxes
me same proposition should be kept In mind
by the Legislature.
The report also condemns the wholesale
appropriation to the State of revenues
local In origin and needed for local pur-
poses which characterizes both the Mort
gage Tax bill and the Excise bill; in other
words. 1t condemns the Governors indirect
TAXATION policy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
PEGASUS BOOK CLUB RAIDED.
NET TO STUDY RARE
PRINTS or DOPE SHEETS.

Captain Bedeil's sleuths Learned Of
Pegasus's Pedigree and Ills Alleget
Performance ON the B9otian Track
| and Knew They Had . Pooiroon, Sure.
The neighborhood OF l4sh Atlantic
avenue. Brooklyn, has been no literary for
the last month that Capt. Bedell OF the
Adams street police station became sus-
picious and sent one plain-clothes man
after another to an old book shop at that
address to find why SO many Of the GUS
toners were men who didn't look like book
worms and why SO much Of the trade was
between s and 8 o'clock In the afternoon,
when horses run around tracks.
For two weeks the detectives have been
looking over rare old volumes and first
editions. pretending to read, but really
straining their ears to hear what was gong
on In a rear room. to which most OF the
booklovers went.
The detectives tried to go. too, but were
told that that rear room was the private
meeting place Of the Pegasus Club, and that
the members met there every afternoon
to study rare prints. The prints are rarer
yesterday In a police raid on that Pegasus
Club
They amt rare prints, ANYHOW said
Detective Mccormick. They're dope
Sheets.
But they were being carefully examined
by the club members when the cops marched
through the book store and forced an en-
trance to the rear room. The final piece
Of evidence before the raid was decided
upon was secured by Detective Brady,
who made inquiries about the meaning
Of Pegasus. Somebody gave him this
record
Pegasus, by Perseus, out Of Medusa,
half brother TO Chrysaor. Won Hippo
creme handicap on Beotia track.
where's BPotia?" asked Brady.
Dunno said Mccormick. but we've
got 'em on the run. That's a poolroom,
all right, and we'll pinch 1t. Brady. you're
a great detective. McCluskyll hear OF
this clue you run down"
There were twenty-five men in the place
when the police got In. One of them was
pointed out az a man named Dougherty,
who had hired the back room from the
bookseller. He was arrested. When they
got him to the police court he proved that
his name was Cole and was discharged,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
ARCHBISHOP wON'r OFFICIATE.
"sr' Farley Denies That He II to Celebrate
the Vanderbilt Marriage

Archbishop Farley denied yesterday q
report that he will officiate at the mar
mage OF Miss Cathieen Nelson and Reginald
". Vanderbilt. The Catholic Church, to
emphasize its disapproval Of mixed mar
rank than that Of monsignor to solemnixe
marriages where one Of the parties is a
tL,totestant. A dispensation for an Arch
oshop TO perform a marriage might be
granted, but such cases are rare In the
history Of the Church
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
standee ban Disa pproved.

Mayor Low sent to Albany yesterday
ms disapprovsl Of the bill introduced BY
senator Grady which permits standing In
-eetree except In central isles. He says
Iiat this is the city's business, not the
Hgslature's. and that the bill makes no
discrimination between theatres Of modern
s %hst ruction built TO afford standing room
sng theatres Of the old type.
ne has also disapproved the bill TO make
men OF 30 linstead OF 2s) eligible for police
men and hremen. because II also allows
non residents 70 serve on both forces
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
Twas Located BY N.Rays and Removed
From Under His Shoulder Blade

By means OF X-rays bullet which Jacob
A. Clark. a hardware dealer Of 1885 DE kalb
avenue. Brooklyn. has carried in his
body for twenty-five years Was yesterday
removed by DR.. John Ferguson In the home
Of Clark. al IT'S Greene avenue; When
Clark was Is years old he was accidentally
shot by his mother. who was handling q
rev Oliver which she thought was empty.
The bullet was not removed at the time and
never troubled him until recently.
The bullet entered his back. broke q rib
near his heart and was detected. Il was
found under his left shoulder blade.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
Mr.. Bayies Of New jersey Dies in Cairo,
Egypt.

WASHINGTON. April AIN response to a
query from the State Department, s<nt
at the request Of Senator Dryden Of New
Jersey, Consul General Long at Cairo has
telegraphed confirmation Of report that
Mr.. Bayles. brother-in-law Of the A,tor-
ney-General OF New Jersey. had died in
Cairo. Mr.. Long says also that Mrs.
Bayles left for the United States on March
IS. but does not tell whether her husbands
body has been shipped for home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
sEIDLER OFFICIAL HAxoMAN
I Dedieatcsi at Helena e the
Pioneer and Scout.

HnLrsA. Mon. April s,-Col. A. X.
Mcclure. the veteran Philadelphia editor
dedicated In this city tonight a monu-
ment erected by the Society Of Montana
Pioneers TO John X. Beidler.
Mcclure and Beidler were boys together
In Pennsylvania. Beidler was tho Official
hangman Of the vigilance committee, OF
which former United States Senator Wilbur
Sanders OF Helena was chairman.
me justification OF the procedure was
evidenced by the results. Not an inno-
cent man, it is believed. suffered injury
at the hands Of the public jury and the vigil
lanos committee.
Beidler was perhaps the most noted of
Yellowstone Park guides and in this way
became personally acquainted with promi-
nent tourists. He once saved the life OF
John d. Rockefellers daughter. He was
also q noted Indian scout.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
SUES DAILY ESTATE AND HAGGIN.
p. J. shields Claims an Interest In Cashier
Coal and Coke Co.

BUTTE, Mon. April 2.-Patrick j. Shields
Of Great Falls began suit to-day against
j. B. Haggin OF New York, the Marcus
DAILY estate and the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company for a sixth interest in the
Cashier Coal and Coke Company, one OF
the Amslgamated properties. out Of which
he alleges that he was defrauded by Marcus
DAILY and Haggin In 1898.
The property was transferred to the
Anaconda company In 1894 and Shields de-
mands an accounting Of profits since that
date. which he estimates at t75O,O00.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
Dorothy Dsrr To he . Prima Donna.

Dorothy Dorr. who is playing one OF the
leading roles In The Bishops Move at
No. Osborn's Playhouse. Ia to 60 into
musical comedy. She has Nbeen engaged
bx Sam shubert a. the prima donna in
Tho Runaway, soon to be produced.
She IL California girl and has made hit
in serious parts, but has had q musical
training. having studied n Paris.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
SUICIDE WAS MISS CHASE.
Gave Her Clothes to salvation Army, body
10 Harvard's Medical school.

BosToN. April 2. - The woman who
committed suicide last night at the
Young Women's Christian Association by
drinking aconite. and who willed her
clothing to the Salvation Army and
her body to the Harvard medical school,
was identified this forenoon as Miss Emily
Chase. She was about IS years old and
her home was in Newport. r. !. She is said
to have belonged to a well-known family.
The Identification was established by
the Rev. w. II. Lyon, pastor of the First
Parish Church OF Brookline. There is
only one motive suggested for her suicide,
and that Is mental trouble
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03
Bangs Book Auction Business Sold.

The business Of Bangs 4 Co., book auc-
ton rooms at 81 Fifth avenue, has been
sold to John Anderson, Jr., by Fletcher
II. Bangs. The old firm will occupy the
quarters until the close Of the present season
The Bangs business was founded by Iemuel
Bangs in 1929 under the name of McElrath
4 Bangs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03

Col. Depew to Review 9Th Regfment.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew. who holds
the rank Of Colonel in the New York National
Guard on the supernumerary list as Judge
Advocate OF the Fifth Division, is to review
the Seventh Regiment at its armory on
Monday evening, April 49,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-03

Giiman Installed ~ Presidcut-
Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman was indicted
Ts.erday INTO the ONCE Of president Of the
sin nsncan Bible Society 70 which he was
s'ected . mon Ii age
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
DwelIer. In the Iea.

The Etahyans, or arctic highland
ers' of Ross, live in ice caves within
the vast glacier cap which covers all
northern Greenland. Theirs is perhaps
the most wretched and isolated exist
ence it Is possible to conceive.
Their dwellings are always wet
owing to the melting of the ice wallis
and floor. For full six months of the
year the darkness of the arctic night
envelops them. The ice is around them,
beneath them, above them. In nine
cases out Of ten if they venture abroad
they breathe the frozen particles, anb
the sensation is akin to that which
comes from inhaling the blast Of fur
mace.
Nevertheless they refuse to move far
ther south with the approach Of win
ter, as do all the other Eskimo tribes
They take sort of perverted pride in
their loneliness as in their misery
What matter" they say, '1f we are
cold and hungry? We are the last Of
all peoples. We dwell literally at the
end of the world. To the north Of us
there is snow, there is ice, but there is
no land, and there is nothing that lives,
breathes or has Independent move
ment"-Pearson's
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
Arizona Sunshine.

To one who has been there, says Cas-
par W. Hodgson In Sunset Magazine,
the name Arizona, first of all, suggests
sunshine and plenty of it. Nowhere on
the globe is sunshine more abundant,
more appreciated or more harmless. In
deed, sunstroke has never been re-
corded in this territory. Though all
good Arizonians have crossed the Has
sayampa river, which act, according
to tradition, divests one of the power
to tell the truth, 1 believe their records
are accurate as to sunstroke. The ex-
PLANTATION is found in the fact that heat
is not so much matter Of thermome-
ter as of humidity.
The dry, hot air of the Arizona desert
Is invigorating to the initiated. One can
learn to love the desert. There the sun
rises and sunsets are intensely beauti-
full and nowhere on earth richer in col
or. This is sometimes called Sunset
Land. 1t might also be called Land Of
Sunrise.-Sunset Magazine
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
self INDUCED HrrMENrs.
The Folly Of Nursing the Habit Of
Not Feeling Well.

Tne Folly Of Nursing the Habit of
Not Feeling Well.
Few people realize that their ailments
are largely self induced, says O. s. Mar.
den In Success. They get into a habit
Of not feeling well. If they get up in
the morning with a slight headache OF
some other trifiing indisposition, in
stead of trying to rise above this con.
dition they take a positive pleasure in
expatiating upon their feelings to any
one who will litten. Instead Of combat
ing the tendency to illness by filing the
lungs with pure, fresh air they dose
themselves with headache tablets OF
some other patent specific warranted te
cure whatever Ill they think they are
suffering from. They begin to pity
themselves and try to attract pity and
sympathy from others. Unconsciously
by detailing and dwelling upon theil
symptoms they reinforce the first sim
pie suggestions of illness by whole
army Of thoughts and fears and images
Of disease until they are united to do
a days work in their homes or ofices.
There is greater danger that young
girls who are delicate while growina
up and lounge around the house and BE
down whenever they feel the least Bit
out of sorts will form a habit of inva.
hdism when they reach maturity.
How often do we see such girls
brace up at once when anything hap
pens which interests or excites themi
An invitation to reception or a ball OF
any other pleasant social function acts
like tonic. For the time being an in.
stantaneous cure Is effected. They are
as we'll as anybody until after the en-.
tertainment.
Indulgent mothers are frequently to
blame for this physical and mental lazi-
ness, for 1t is nothing more, on the part
Of their daughters. A lounge or sofa 10
a positive curse In many a home, be-
cause it is such a temptation to Lib
down and succumb to triiing sugges-
tons of illness or the least indisposi-
ton. A habit Of giving In whenever
you don't feel like it, Is fatal to all
achievement and ruinous to self disci-
pline, self poise and nobility and dig
nifty Of bearing.
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
THE AURORA BoREALls.

Spectacle That Is Maxnincent In
It's Impressiveness.
It was a trihe past the afterglow Of
sunset, and the sea was a deep rich
purple, with long flowing swells. The
sky, fine light turquoise blue at ho-
rizon, gradually deepened into a rich
cobalt, in which a few stars twinkled.
A majority Of the men were absorbed
In various occupations below when a
call Of enthusiasm brought all up on
deck. At point low on the southwest
horizon a faint film had arisen, which
quickly, silently assumed the form of q
curtain, waving and mounting upward
in two stately columns past group of
finely shaped cirrostratus. In a few
seconds it was across the zenith, dis
playing beautiful pale yellows, greens
and delicate pink and blue lights, with
edgings at intervals of faint purple and
red. The columns descended rapidly in
ever varying spirals of perspective un-
til the avant garde was lost behind the
far northwest horizon
We were about off the Danish port of
Godthaab, Greenland, a sufficiently
southern latitude at this season for the
alienation Of day and night, and as the
heavens darkened the stars shone with
increasing brightness through this
great shimmering veil of light
The heavens and the sea grew darker
and darker, and the aurora brighter
and brighter in lightning changes of
form and color, with the green and yel-
low and blue rays predomina ting and
the delicate sheen from the aurora's
light writhing in fiery serpent forms
over the face of the moving waters.
What impressiveness, what magnif-
cence! 1t held the soul as in a spell.
There was not much talking. Splendid
as it was, afterward witnessed auro-
ras which produced a deeper impress
sion, due doubtless to the presence Of
the long night of the far north.-Cen-
tury.
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
Dumas the Pro,,ac

"As rule, I do not begin book un-
I'll it is finished the elder Dumas used
often to say. And certainly the pace
at which he put his works on paper
seems to bear out the statement. No
fewer than sixty volumes of his ap-
peared within a single year, a record
probably never equaled before or since
On one occasion he made a wager Of
f100 that he would write the first vol
ume of new book he had planned
within seventy-two hours, including
the time for meals and sleep. The work
was to occupy seventy-fve large FOOLS
cap pages, each page containing forty
five lines and each line fifty letters-a
total of 1876 lines. He won the bet
with ridiculous ease, accomplishing the
task in six hours less than the specified
time.
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
A Lot of Sick ones.

A delegation Of clergymen once call
ed on President Lincoln to recommend
one Of their number as consul at the
Hawaiian Islands and in addition to
qualifications for fitness appealed to
the presidents sympathy on the ground
that the candidate was in poor health
and residence in that climate would
be Of great benefit to him. Lincoln
questioned the man closely as to his
symptoms, then remarked:
II am sorry to disappoint you, but
there are eight other men after this
place, and every one Of them is sicker
than you are."-"The True Abraham
lincoln"
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
THE "WAvE MEKE."
Graceful and Refined Dance Per-
formed by Fijian Maidens


formed by Fijian Maidens.
'The Fitian natives call their dances
'mekes,' and the best Of them all is the
wave meke,'" says a traveller who has
witnessed these graceful evolutions.
"a lot Of pretty girls, in two or three
rows, act the movements Of the sea as
It rolls in upon the reefs.
First of all, they bend down In uni
son and sweep the ground slowly with
their hands. waving their fingers in or
der to represent the little wavelets
flecked by the wind. Then they sway
their bodies to and fro to show the long
roll of the tropical wave, and presently
their figures rise and fall as do the
breakers. The action Of the dance be-
comes more and more violent The
wave is dashing up the barrier reef.
The girls spring forward and clap their
hands and then drop to the ground
with long musical cry. The wave
has surmounted the reef and emptied
itself into the CLASSY lagoon. The dance
is over.
Every movement of the wave
meke' is graceful and refined. The best
ballet girls in your American theaters
are not better trained than these young
Fijian maidens, who spend good half
Of their happy, careless, lazy lives
dancing their 'mekes' or playing in the
surf. There are no finer dancers in the
world. Nearly all their ballets describe
the scenes around them or the Incl
dents of their daily life. Other 'mekes'
picture the palms swaying in the
breeze, the canoes tossing in a gale and
the clouds sailing across the sky"
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
A FREAK OF NATURE.
Wonderful Travelling sand Hi
That Are Found In Pe~u

wonderful Travelling Sand Hills
That Are Found In Peru.
After passing another ''town'' Of
three or four mud huts we enter the
famous desert of Islay, on which are
what I consider the most remarkable
natural curiosities. to be seen on this
globe. for we are now among hundreds
nay, thousands-of pure white sand
crescents on plateau Of 4,50O feet
above the level of the sea and fifty
four miles from the coast where all
else is of dark red or chocolate color.
Whence comes this sand and why al
ways in crescent shape? Professor
Bailey told me that scientific men do
not agree as to the reason why the
sand always forms the same crescent
shape, although it is generally believed
that the whirling eddies hereabout are
responsible. Some. however, argue that
such ts not the casa since each Of these
crescents has an opening toward the
northeast. At any rate, the inner circle
is an almost perpendicular wall Of the
finest pure white sand, and from the
upper edges the crescents slope gradu-
ally away on the outside. They aver
age about twenty feet in height, the
inner circle having a diameter of some
fifty feet, although 1 have seen one at
least a mile and a half in diameter,
which was, however, not much higher
than the average. These crescents
move, it is estimated, at the rate Of
three inches every twenty-four hours,
and when on the slow journey one
comes near the railroad 1t becomes
necessary to shovel the sand across
the tracks, after which it travels on,
forming new crescents or mingling
with some of the others.-Ernest G.
Rost in Harper's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04

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Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
Flower. That Harm the Sick,

Botanists and others who have made
life study of flowers have recently
discovered that the perfume of bios
SONS is often increased by growing
them under colored glass. They state
also that some plants are fragrant only
at night and others only in the hot
sunshine, that the season affects the
odors and that some perfumes power
fully affect the human organization,
sometimes giving rise to serious nerv-
Gus troubles. Flowers of delicate per-
fume quiet the nerves Of invalids, it Is
asserted, but the violet, lily of the val
ley and carnations are really harmful
to the sick.
Amador ledger., 1903-09-04
1ytton,s Good Catch.

Bulwer-Lyt tton was once entertaining
at Knebworth a young Australian
when the visitor from Melbourne, shy
and clumsy, took from the mantel-
piece piece of china lately given his
host by a grateful colonial. 1t slipped
out of his hands In another moment
it would have been shivered upon the
hearth. The host, from his sofa, saw.
what had happened, was up in an in
slant, stretched out his hand and
caught the bowl Just ere 1t descended
on the marble. "Fielded, by love!
But save my crockery. which
would rather not have written Money
than have lost" cried the novelist