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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
DIED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
PROF. II. III. THURSTON, ENGINEER
ING DIRECTOR AT CORNELL.
Was Awaiting Arrival of Guests at
Lieut.. Commander Remington.

ITHACA, y. Y, Oct. 25.-Prof. Robert
II. Thurston. director of the Sibley Col
lege of Engineering, Cornell University.
died suddenly tonight at his home on the
campusl He was sitting in mis- library just
before 5 O'Clock. awaiting the arrival of
former President Andrew ID. White, Dean
Huffcut, of the College of Law; Prof. Hew-
it and others, who were TO be his guests
at dinner, to-day being his siXty-fourth
birthday. He seemed to fall asleep, but
when his wife made efforts to rouse him
she found him unconscious and he was
dead before n physician could be sum-
moned. Heart disease was the cause. He
had been in apparent good health and spir-
it's and had just returned from a brisk
walk.
DR.. Thurston was one of the best known
members of the university faculty and
ranked very high in his profession. He
was born at Providence. X. L., i'm 1885. and
was graduated from Brown University. He
served with distinction in the engineering
corps of the United States navy during the
civil war and at its close was assigned to the
faculty of the Annapolis Naval Academy.
In 1871 he became professor of engineering
at Stevens Institute and in 1895 came to
Cornell to take the dictatorship of Sibley
College. then about To be organized. His
administration wGs very successful.
He was the author of many engineering
scientific societies of Europe and Amer
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with a genuine expression on his features OF
that terror which he was used 10 marvel
ously to simulate in Richard III in the
midnight tent scene or as Macbeth when
the ghost of Banquo usurped his seat at
table.
In the pretty willow woven basket lay
the head of Booths old pensioner. which
head the old pensioner had beQueatned in
due legal form 10 the tragedian. begging
him henceforth to adopt IL as one of the
necessary stage properties in the fifth act
of Mr.. Shakespeares tragedy OF Hamlet.
Take IL away. you black impi" Numbered
the actor TO the equally aghast negro boy.
whose curiosity lad happily not prompted
him to investigate the dark nature OF his
burden.
Shortly afterwaro. however, the horse
stealer's residuary legatee. recovering from
the first shock OF his surprise. fell into the
grim humor OF the situation and proceeded
to carry out TO the letter the testator 8
whimsical request. Thus IL was that the
skull came to secure an engagement 10 play
the role of poor Yorick I'm j. B. Booths COM
pany Of strolling players and 70 continue
awhile longer to glimmer behind the foot
lights in the hands of his famous son.
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BEACH COTTAGE BURNED
VIRGINIA SUMNER RESORT MAR
ROwLY ESCAPES DESTRUCTION.
Sudden Shift of Wind and Gallant
Work of Life-Savfng Crews Keep
the Loss at a Minimum.

NORFOLK. Va, Oct. 25-But for the he
roic work of the crews from three life saw
ing stations the entire summer resort of
Virginia Beach, with it's two large hotels
and half a hundred or more costly homes.
would tonight probably be mass of
charred timbers and ashes. As it is, five
handsome cottages are destroyed and many
thousands of dollars lost, with no insur-
ance.
AT o'clock this morning L. c. Fosburgh,
Of the F. G. Fosburgh Lumber Company,
who. with his family. was occupying the
cottage of Hugh c. Davis. awoke to find
his room in flames. About the same time
a surfman from Seatack life saving station,
while patroling the coast, saw the fire and
gave the alarm. In only scant attire the
Fosburghs escaped from the burning build
ing. A northeast wind was sweeping on
the shore. driving sleet before it and car
rying flaming brands to the roofs of near
by cottages. The life savers notified the
crews of Cape Henry and Dam Neck Mills
stations of the fire by telephone and both
stations responded.
In the meantime the flames had ignited
several other houses and were rapidly eat
ing their way TO the Princess Anne Hotel,
and for awhile that immense structure
seemed doomed. A sudden shift of the wind
tuEHtQ the HdfIitS DdCk OH their TRAN and
swept them northward. This gave the fire
lighters an opportunity to head them off
by knocking out the inside of the Rev. Mr..
fuckers home and fighting from the in
side of that building. The homes destroyed
are those of Hugh C. Davis Mrs Shields
of Richmond, the Misses Nottingham and
Undertake of Norfolk. Hon. c. A Wood
ard of Norfolk and the Rev. DR.. Tucker.
Only two were occupied, the Davis cottage
by Mr.. Fosburgh and the Tucker Gotta &c
by n. NJ Bateson.
There is no fire protection at the beach
and none of the burned buildings was in
sured. The loss is not yet estimated, but
will be heavy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26

..Hetty Wesley Mr.. Charles Majors "A
Forest Hearth Mrs. Caroline Atwater
Mason's Holt of Heathfield." Mr.. Stephen
Gwynn's John Maxwell's Marriage" Mr.
Sidney Pickering's 1.-The Key OF Paradise"
Mss Caroline Browns ION the We-a
It'll, Miss Gwendoien oyertons The
"Their Child
a series of Handy Classics will be
published this fall by Little. Brown & Co.,.
TO be called the Handy Volume Cambridge
Classics" There will be eleven carefully
selected books in this series. printed on
clear white wove paper, and attractively
pouh1 IN ciotn al 20 cents eacn, and IN
Lord Bacon's Essays. "Religio Medici,
THE Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius An
tonius.' The Essays and Last Essays of
Ella" The Story of My Heart" by Rich
ard Jefferies. The Light of Asia" by Sir
Edwin Arnold, and THE Worlds Best
Hymns.
Shortly before his death. which occurred
on the 18th of September. Henry Demarest
Lloyd. author of Wealth Against Com
monwealtn and Newest England re-
viscd the latter book and requested his
publishers. Doubleday, Page K Co..
TO issue IL IN a new. cheaper edition within
the reach OF any working man. Mr.. Lloyd's
services were called for many time during
strikes and adjustments between capitalists
and laboring men and his books are con-
sidered authoritative OIL conditions and re-
tdtlou> VI hdDot tiN III Ills olitt
other countries. The revised edition of
Newest England will be published this
month.
The Century Company celebrates the sale.
OF 4 round half-nillion of thp Mrs.
Wigs books by the issue Of ,5oH,.Gy edi-
ton of Mrs. Wigs of the Cahhags
Patch" and ''I>ovey Mary IN very hanl-
some form The growing sale Of these two
little books has been Of the interest
ing Incidents of the publishing business.
Mrs Wigs began inodestiy with three
small editions in five months X was being
printed BY the 10.0ro. in u year by the
2s0o0. and the sale has been over 60.O00 in
single month. When "Iovey Mary was
issued. year and half after Mrs.
ton. was over 10000.
Houghton. AIiffiin & Co. announces: 1.-The
Land of Little Rain" a nature book on
Southeastern California, by Mary Austin,
with many Illustrations in tint; Long
WILL romance OF Chaucer's time by
Florence Converse: "reminiscences of an
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''The Gentle Reader" containing ten pun
gent essays by Samuel NJ. Crothers; "A
Listener in Babel" being series of inn
asinary conversations on questions of the
day, by Vida ID. Scuder; 1.-The Christ
Story" told for children by Eva March
Tappan. illustrated from famous paintings:
for boys. by Everett L. Tomlinson: a study
of civilian Ellery Claiming" by Paul Re-
we're rockingham; and limited Riverside
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26

What the Gymnsst Does When lie
Tumbles from N High Place.
New York Sun.

New YORK sun.
1.-The story that man fell 200 feet the
other day and didn't hurt himself Is anus
ing" said the director OF a gymnasium.
but cutting all foolishness out, there was
more than a grain of truth in It. What
/ mean is, that a man who knows how 20
fall can fan considerable distance without
getting anything more than bruise or
two.
1.-The trouble is that the average man
doesn't know anything about falling easily.
Now. one of the first things thar gymnast
or one who performs anywhere about the
ground must learn is just how 10 avoid
serious injury In falls.
Nearly every gymnast tumbes sooner
or later. but IL you will think IL over. the
number OF professional and amateur per-
formers hurt In year Is comparatively
small. The reason for that is that they
have learned not only how 10 avoid falling.
but how to protect themselves when the
fall does come.
Just as an example. I had a fall from a
height of about twenty feet the other day.
and got right up from the floor practically
unhurt, although | confess that IL shook
me up a good deal more than l liked. In
falling. however, i relaxed my muscles
and, as the athletes say. folded my head
into my chest. | struck on the uppermost
part of my back. just below the neck
When anybody is falling that Is the part
of the body on which 20 fall
81 am not particularly heavy man.
but i am fairly well protected by my mus
cles. Those on the back of my neck were
a sufficient cushion. With that 10 help me
the fall wasn't terrifying
Now, the reason why the ordinary man
is so easily hurt in a fall is that he thinks
ne must steel himself to the ordeal. as
IL were. He comes down sprawing out,
with his arms and legs rigid. Nine times
out of ten he either breaks a limb Or Sc
verely sprains muscle. That Is the wrong
way TO fall.
IF you want TO see the right way take a
few lessons from your cat. IL she Is good
healthy cat with n good training she never
Jumps or falls as IL she was trying 10 break
a leg.
Let me sum all this up by saying that
TO be really good athlete one must know
how 70 relax his muscles as well rs distend
them. Try fall and see II I'm not right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
PEOPLE WITH TEMPERs.
They Make Life Very Unpleasant for
Their Associates.

New York Mail and Express.
II have never been anything better than
yellow dog In my own house." remarked
a husband whose domestic woes SO into
court. The only fault with his wife. he
said was "her temper" The casual phrase
has the picturesqueness and fine appropri-
has a thoroughly fll-natured spouse or Is
thrown into constant and intimate inter-
course with a violeDt-tempered companion.
leads dogs life-a yellow dogs life. Other
dogs may suffer a martyrdom that is not
without dignity, but the yellow dog Is de-
spised as well as prosecuted. His suffer
ings are miugated by no balm OF self-re-
spect. In putting up with Injurious words
and deeds from those who are near and
more or less dear to him a man Is cutting
a sorry figure i'm his own eyes as well as ia
Tanning of the Shrew" IL he would reha-
bilitate himself
The plain old English phrase. "a bad dis
position" is the fittest to describe q violent
temper. There is a touch of congenital
badness about IL, something akin TO inter-
mittent alcoholism or periodic vice. Even
where II discharges itself in printable and
fairly decorous language, IL carries with
IL the ugly meanings and associations OF the
barrooms and the stews. IL Is not uEcom-
mon, however, when the barriers OF re-
straint are broken down. for IL to have
frank recourse to their forms of expression
So a man or woman who has, as life
mate or boon companion. one who IN min
or provocation rips out with injurious vio-
lence or der0gatOry epithets. is in some
what the same predicament one who IS
yoked with fellow whose past Is not with
out reproach, who has 10 be allowed for
with ones self and silently apologized fer
to others. IL is a species OF degradation
There are those who pride themselves on
the possession of what is called "a fine old
temper They are uncommonly easily
pleased. "IlI'' nature and bad temper
the words exist as embodiments Of the de-
liberate experience of mankind They stand
as opinions of something morbid and some
thing vile. The institution OF the dacking
school for scolds. male and female. embod-
les another hearty judgment y aich was
not abandoned when society abdicated the
task of convicting the evil one by forcible
immersion and allowing the ducking stool TO
fall into disuse. Its raison detre was the
belief that crossness just form OF
perverse egotism. a sort of childishnesS.
of immaturity and exaggerated self-iove.
that could be cured by course of sprouts.
"A contentious woman and a rainy day
are alike'-and a contentious man is not
far different. One cannot avoid rainy days.
but there is nothing inevitable about con-
tpnfiOn-
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Japanese Diplomat Kept from Land
-Russian Soldiers Speeding East.
BELLICosE RUSSIAN JOURNALS
HOSTILE TO UNITED STATES AS
WELL AS TO BRITAIN.
They Think 1t Is Time 10 Crush Japan
NOw-Canada Urged TO Scccde
from the Empire.

YOKOHAMA, Oct. 25.-At the conference
held yesterday between Cabinet ministers
and the elder statesmen of Japan when the
far-east crisis was discussed, there were
present among the others, Privy Coun-
cillor Yamagata, Marshal Oyama, Count
Inouye, Privy Councillor Count Matsukata,
Baron Komura, the foreign minister, War
Minister General Terauchi and Baron Yama-
motto. minister of marine, in addition to
Premier Katsura and Marquis Ito.
1t is officially reported here that Haghi-
wara Shuichi, secretary of the Japanese
legation at Seoul, Korea, and his party
have been prevented by the Russians from
landing at Yongampho. Thereupon the
party proceeded and landed at Wiju.
japanese reports of a visit to the alleged
signal station at Yongampho are to the
effect that there is a fort there.
LONDON, Oct. 25-According to re-
ports received here the conference
held Saturday at Toxic between cab
men of Japan did not result in any
final decision. 1t is understood that Baron
Won Rosen Russia's minister to Japan has
received fresh instructions from his govern
ment, and to have had another confer
ence with Foreign Minister Komura to-day.
III is Sdlu tndt Il majority OF the JAPANESE
elders favored adherence to the country
past policy. insisting that Russia should full
fill her pledges with regard TO Manchuria
on the ground that any compromise would
only postpone and not avert conflict
Special dispatches from st. Petersburg
represent growing ill-feeing in Russia
against both England and the United
States in consequence of the supposed SYM
pathy of these countries for Japan This
feeling finds expression in the Novoe
Vremya. which, in commenting on the de-
cision of the Alaska boundary tribunal,
says il hopes that Canada will now sever
the ties connecting it with Great Britain.
The Cyan Novkrai maintains a bellicose
attitude, expressing the opinion that
neither Great Britain nor the United States
will interfere and that Russia was never
better prepared for war. This paper urges
that Japan had better be crushed without
delay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
A WEIRD RELIC.
History of the Skull Used by Edwin
Booth I'm "HamIet-
Bailey Aldrich. i'm Century

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Century.
On bracket in Edwin Booths bedroom.
at The Players-the apartment remains as
he left IL that solemn April day ten years
ago-stands a sadly dilapidated skull which
the elder Booth and afterward his son Ed
win, used 10 soliloquiZe over in the grave
yard at Elsinore In the fifth act of Ham
let
In the early forties, while playing an en-
gagement somewhere I'm the wild West.
Junius Brutus Booth did series OF kind
nesses TO particularly undeserving fellow,
the name of him unknown 10 US. The man.
as ii seemed. was combina ton OF gambler
horse stealer and highwayman--in brief a
miscellaneous desperate. and precisely the
melodramatic sort OF person likely to touch
the sympathies Of the half-mad player In
the course of nature or the law. presumably
the law. the adventurer bodily disappeared
one day, and in time ceased to exist even as
"A Renaissance i'm the ford mind OF his
sometime benefactor.
As the elder Booth was seated at break
fast one morning al hotel I'm Louisville.
KY, a negro boy entered the room bearing
a small osier basket neatly covered with "A
snowy napkin Ii had the general aspect of
a basket of fruit or flowers sent By some
admirsr and as such IL figured for a mo-
ment In Mr.. Booths conjecture. ON lifting
the cloth the actor started from the chair
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technically clear. but the honesty that is
such according 10 the spirit as we'll as the
letter of the law, the honesty that is ag-
gresSive. the honesty that not merely de-
plores corruption-it is easy enough to de-
plore corruption-but that wars against IL
and tramples il under foot. / ask for tnat
type OF honesty. l ask for militant honesty.
for the honesty of the kind that makes
those who have ii discontinued with them
selves long as they have failed To DO
everything that in them lies To stamp out
dishonesty wherever il can be found, IN hlSn
places or in low.
And let US not fatter ourselves. we who
live in countries where the people rule. that
IT Is possible ultimately for the people 10
cast upon any but themselves the RESPONSE
bilitie.s for the shape the government and
the social and political life of the COM
munity assumes. l ask then, that our
people feel quickened within them the
burning Indignation against wrong In every
shape which shall take effect in condemna-
ton. whether found in private or in public
life ut the moment.
Surely in every movement for the bet
terment of our life, our life socially in the
truest and deepest sense, our life political.
we have a special right to ask not merely
support but leadership from those of the
church. We ask that you here, to whom
much has been given. will remember that
in return. For all of us here the lines
have been cast i'm pleasant places. Each
of us has been given one talent, or five.
or ten. and each of us is in honor bound TO
use that talent or those talents Alright.
and TO show that at the end he is entitled
TO the praise as having done well as
faithful servant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26

Much Damage i'm Wisconsin Fire-A
Thrilling Rescue.

ASHLAND. Wis. Oct. 25.-The loss in
the burning of the Shores block early this
morning will foot up to the neighborhood
of $4,000, with little insurance. The prin-
cipal losers are Warner Bros, druggists,
$4,000. and Z. A. Shores, owner OF the
building, $75.Vv. There were $50 roomers
in the building at the time of the fire, but
all escaped.
In the Shores block the most thrilling
rescue was that of Mrs. Weeks wife of
an abstractor, who with her husband oc-
cupied third story room. In raising a lad
der to her ROOM ii was found To be short
Fire Chief Schaetzle stood on top of the
ladder and Mrs. Weeks, who was clinging
to the window sill, was just able to reach
his shoulders with her feet. The chief called
out TO her not to jump. fearing that she
would cause them both to drop to the
pavement, but she collapsed and fell on
his head and shoulders. The chief swayed
for a moment. but succeeded In grasping a
rope and steadied himself until he could
reach the ladder and brought her down
safely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
Memorial Masonic Services.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Impressive serv-
ices were held to-day at the grave of Gen.
Albert Pike. formerly the sovereign COM
mander of the Supreme Council of Scottish
Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction,
by the members of that council who have
just finished their annual session here
Tributes to General Pixies memory were
paid by Grand Commander James ID. Rich
ardson, of the Supreme Council; Gen
Robert w. Hall. Inspector general of the
Southern Jurisdiction for the army and
navy, and by Gen. E. Il. Hurley, Inspector
general for the State of Washington
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
THE GIFT OF LANGUAGE.
Young Guide Encoun-
tered mt st. Louis Fair Grounds.

Rev. J. NJ Buckley. in Christian Advocate
fhe Governor detailed 10 our party a
guide over the grounds. young man who
f. SlaV by birth, has been a traveller from
his childhood. and speaks eleven distinct
languages with decided fiuency ( was so
much pleased with him as To regret, for a
moment. that ] could not start on tour
languages fuently but discriminatory.
and with great condensation. / asked him
this question: Except the language your
mother taught you. of course the easiest
80 FAR as your experience goes. which Ian
guage Is best TO extemporize in for your
have propounded that question have men,
toned one language. in most cases the one
they could use with the greatest fuency.
He answered, DO you mean for all pur-
poses2 One language is not as good for
some purposes as il Is for another" l re-
piled. "Selence? English" he said. For
oipline teaching1Y.. sa;erman.. r Ss ui he
paused there / said What about French %
20 French is the language OF diplomacy.
90 keep the peace with the people you are
talking with" As guide he had Travelled
In Japan. Korea. India and had Just arrived
for the worlds fair from Mexico. and was
engaged In learning Chinese as rapidly as
por1ible.
These polyglot people are a mystery TO
me- ! have studied FIVE langua ges-some of
them long and hard-with view OF speak
ing them. and the only one in which
dare 10 trust myself I'm the presence OF
the other hand Tor tongue). apart from
dialects and archaisns. 1 have little DIM
Guilty in translating any language which I
have tricd-after a short time. Why this
II IN the one Case and not I'm another Is
. question for professors"