The Indianapolis journal., 1903-04-05

is responsible for the proper organization
of the ships folk. He has charge of the
vessels records, is equipment and construc-
ton officer, and has general oversight of
inspection and discipline of the crew, and
of efficiency. cleanliness and good appear
ance of the ship. In battle he has general
supervision of the battery and of the safety
and effectiveness of the vessel. Altogether,
he's a very busy man, if a faithful one.
Can you tell me something about the
present Duke of Sutherland; also the line
of dukes from 1888 to the present time? 2.
Will you tell me something of the present
estate of Andrew Carnegie in Scotland?
j. +.
There had been an earldom of Suther-
land dating to about 1923, resting in the
Freskin family. 1t passed, in 1914, to the
Gordons, by marriage, and naught was left
of the line by 1776 but an heiress. She mar
ried George Gravison Levison- Cover, Sec
ond Marquis of Sutherland, who was made
Duke of Sutherland in 1888. The present
duke is the fourth of the line, and owner of
1,35S, 600 acres and some half dozen castles
or palatial residences. 2. 1t contains some
$4,000 acres, and has a frontage on Dor
noch Firth of fourteen miles. Its grouse
and deer preserves are of the best. It's
castle was modernize5 and enlarged some
ten years before Mr.. Carnegie bought It.
Will you outline the foundation of wom-
ems clubs in America, and trace the devel-
opment of them? 2. Who have been some
of the stronger LEADERSHIP. b. f.
Sorosis is taken as the first club of i'm
portance exclusively for women. 1t was or
ganized in March, 1868, the immediate cause
| he
committee of the New York Press Club to
permit women to participate equally with
men at a dinner to Charles Dickens. "Jen-
ME June Croly was the founder; Sarah
Parton CFanny Fern), its first president
Not very long afterward the New England
Woman's Club was organized at Boston,
under the leadership of Julia Ward Howe.
Thereafter the number of clubs increased
rapidly, and when call for convention
of them was made in 1889, sixty-fve clubs
of ninety-six addressed sent delegates.
These organizations now number several
hundred. with membership of many thou
sands.
What are the principal questions to which
each side would object during cross-exam-
1nation in the course of a murder trial? 2.
Where may L obtain a book or pamphlet
giving information upon forms and points
of law which /, as lawyer, could use in
mock trial in which a man is tried for muir
der?-High School Student.
This inquiry could not be answered in the
space at command here. In any case the
questions to be asked would depend upon
the circumstances of the crime and could
not be covered by CONGRATULATIONS. 2 See
either Moores or Gillette's Criminal Prac-
tice" (both books by Indiana authors) The
prosecuting attorney of your county can
give you information about these books,
and would doubtless be willing to give you
suggestions as to your mock trial.
Will you publish an exact account of
Christopher Columbuss fourth voyage?
IN. A.
He set sail in May, 1902 with four cara
vels, his plan being to go still further than
he had done in previous voyages His idea
was that the islands that he had explored
were only a little to the east of Japan and
China. The royal grant for the expedition
forbade his revisiting Espanola, and so he
was refused permission to reft one of his
unseaworthy vessels at San Domingo. Out