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TO RETURN FOR TRIAL
FORMER GOVERNOR TAYLOR
WILL GO BACK TO KENTUCKY.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. August 14.-The
Evening Post SAYS: 1T is announced to-
day on the authority of a close friend OF
former Gov w. s. Taylor that Mr. Tay-
lor Immediately after the November cleo
ton will return to Kentucky from In
dianapolis for trial on the charge of COM
plicity I'm the Goebel murder. 1t is also
considered probable that the case, upon
change of venue. will be transferred To
Louisville. Mr.. Taylor has always stated
his willingness to return to Kentucky and
stand trial provided that he could Sc
cure a fair trial and would be granted
bail.
During his canvass for governor a. T..
Wilson stated that Mr. Taylor would
certainly return to Kentucky for trial IL
he tWillsom was elected and that Mr..
Taylor would be given fair trial
Information from Frankfort is that
Gov. Wilson has decided not to bring
this matter up pending the campaign. He
is determined not to make the Goebei
cases a political issue. and will take no
steps until the election is over. Imme-
diately after the election. however. he
will notify Mr.. Taylor that the time has
come to face trial and dispose. i'm one
way or the other. Of the charge against
Taylor
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Observations.

This school is great thing for the
Irish girls in the mountain cabins. whose
lives might otherwise be hopelessy sunk
in squalor and filth that seem to be in
separable from the peasant population.
have never been able 10 find anybody to
explain why an Irish farmer piles his
manure in front of the only door to his
cabin. 1t is habitual subject of With
cism. just as it is in Switzerland. where
similar customs prevail. but with thou
sands of acres of bare ground all around
the cabin it would seem that some other
place might be found
II occurred to me. too. as ] was going
through the School of Housewifery that
our government might do worse than fo,-
low TIN example that is found here and
establish schools in the southern states
for training colored girls in the same
way. but I suppose the Supreme Court
would pronounce such a scheme uncOn-
StitutiOnal.
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MEN SUSTAIN BURNS
DISASTROUS FIRE IN GLEN
FIELD, NEAR PITTsBURG.

PITTSBURG, Pa, August 1i.-SiX mer
were painfully injured by being burned
or cut and bruised while fighting the
names and a warehouse and five dwell
ings destroyed. rendering eight families
homeless. by a peculiar fire at Glenfield. a
small station along the Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad. just west of
this city last night.
While workmen were connecting pipes
Of the Standard OH Company between the
Sewickley valley and the reflneries at CO.
raopolis. one of the pipes sprung leak
and a large quantity of oil flowed into a
small stream running through the town.
The oil on the water was ignited. pre-
sumably by locomotive. and almost in
stantly a stream Of flames was flowing
through the town. The buildings burned
were near the stream, and for time II
was feared that most of the town would
be burned as the only water with which
to fight the fire was in the creek buried
under seething flames.
Firemen and apparatus were sent from
this city, and, with the aid Of volunteers.
they had the fire under control after sew
eral hours work. The dwellings were
principally occupied by foreigners. and
were not valuable.
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PROTEST OF ALABAMA
OBJECTION TO THE INCREASE
IN RAILWAY RATES.

Strong protest against the action OF
the railroads in the southeastern terri
tory in putting into effect August 1 in
creased rates on grain. grain products.
fresh meats. packing house products and
hay, will be lodged with the interstate
commerce commission within the next
two or three days on behalf Of the
state railroad commission of Alabama
This protest will be brought to the at
tentfon of the commission in formal
complaint against those railroads some
What similar to the one recently filed
with the commission by the A. p. Morgan
Grain Company and others of Atlanta,
Ga. and elsewhere. but will. 1t IL under
stood, be. couched in more vigorous Ian
guage.
Notice of the alabama railroad COM
missions intention to take such action
was given to Chairman Knapp Of the In
D. Nesbit and Samuel w. Weakley. COM
missioner and counsel, respectively. OF
the Alabama railroad commission. today
held brief conference. Later they dis
cussed with Judge Knapp the form Of
complaint which they would file with the
commission. The complaint will also call
attention. 1t Is understood. to the in
creased rates effective August 10 In the
southwestern territory. which. the Ala
bana commission claims, affects their
state.
Commissioner Nesbit declared that the
increased rates would have a. very in
furious effect upon the state OF Ala
bama. He asserted that the alleged
agreement between the trafnc managers
to increase their rates on certain com
modities constituted an illeGel combina-
ton in restraint Of interstate commerce.
and In violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law.
He also stated that the increase In rates
in some instances was as high as 30 per
cent.
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TOWN OF KILLARNEY
A Tourist and Educational
Center, BUT Not Pretty.
NOTABLE MEN BORN THERE
Schools Which Train Peasant Girls
for Servants.
A SAD SIDE OF IRISH LIFE
Alarming Increase of Insanity Due
Largely to Loneliness and Want
of Mental Occupation.
A SAD SIDE OF IRISH LIFE
BY WILLIAM F.. RTIS.

Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
KILLARNEY. Ireland. August =. 1!sS.
The village of Killarney is unattractve
and untidy but il is a busy place. One
doesn't understand why in country
where there is much room to spare
that the villages should not be made up
of detached cottages, with gardens and
lawns. hedges and shade trees. instead of
sections of solid blocks. that look as if
they had been cut out of the tenement
house districts of crowded cities. killar-
ney is a solid mass of brick and mortar,
with succeed fronts. painted dingy
yellow. without the slightest thing to re-
lieve the monotony until the last house is
passed and the green fields begin
A Great Tourist Center.
This is a great tourist center. and there
are dozen hotels and boarding houses of
different pretensions and prices to be
found here. There are licensed houses"
and unlicensed houses. and some of
them are licensed for seven days in the
week which means the proprietor has
permission to sell whisky and beer from
10 : O'Clock on the Sabbath day. Cooks
excursion parties come in like sWarms OF
bees buzzng around the hotels and
shops where faces ana otner curloSllieS
are for sale. and carry off loads of queer
things as souvenirs. They breakfast at
o'clock in the morning, are piled into
great four-hOrse coaches by q. and start
off on excursions with their luncheons in
baskets under the seats. They return at
sunset completely tired out. but the next
morning are off for Dublin or Glengariff.
1t is about as hard work to travel with an
excursion party as anything l know of.
for every moment must be economical
and everybody feels under obligations to
see everything.
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MEETING OF VETERANS.
Army and Navy Union Garrison In
duIpes in "Reminiscences.

Veterans of the civil, Indian and Span
ish wars attended meeting OF Gen.
William F.. Barry Garrison No. 26. Army
and Navy Union. in G. A. H. Hall last
evening. Several business matters were
discussed ard later several members
made addresses. pointing out that August
IL was the tenth anniversary of the sur
render of the Spanish army in the Philip
pines.
A committee composed of Col F. B.
Chase and Thomas Green was appointed
to confer with ]. Edwin Brown. national
commander of the union in Baltimore, in
connection with representatives Of other
garrisons in the city, upon matters con-
nected with the District department.
Greetings to the garrison from Cen An
drew s. Burt. commander. who is In Chi
cagO, We're read.
been called of representatives of tthe sew
eral garrisons of the Army and Navy
Union in the District. the purpose OF
which is to formulate plans for closer
union of the District bodies. The meet
ing will be held in Smiths Hall, 418 9th
street northwest. this evening The or
gaizations to be represented ar the Pres
ident's Own. Gen. William F.. Barry,
Porter. Gen. Guy v. Henry and Charles
Buchanan
Following the TRANSACTION OF DuSlHcSS,
tales of the Philippine and Cuba cam
paigns were retold by members OF the
garrison. Among those who spoke dur
ing the evening were Charles M. Shinn.
sergt. ]. ]. Strain. William A. Hickey.
Col. B. +. Chase. Sergt. y. b. Burch.
Alexander Fl. s. Burch. Capt. Robert F.
Green. Col. A. B. Frisbie. L. Taylor. T.
Thoman, Van A. Zahan. Noel A. Martin.
William McIhenny. Col. John Meade.
Sergt. Thomas Brown, Joseph Correll,
Vernon Pettys and Col. Charles 8. Wilder.
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ward America: for then the people were
more numerous; they had more occupa-
tons and their lives were not so solitary.
'If you will study the statistics" con-
tinued Mr.. Bailey, you will notice that
the largest number of insane persons
come from the pastoral counties. where
most of the land is given up to cattle,
and where there is the least population.
particularly those sections where the men
leave the cabins to the women and chill
dren for several months during the year
and go to England and Scotland in rearch
of work.
THE districts which contain the large
towns have lower ratio than those
which are chiefly rural And it is an in
variable rule that the ratio of insanity in
creases in the population diminishes This
consider very significant. 1t seems con-
elusive that the alarming increase n lu-
macy is due to the lack of intellectual &C.
cupatfOn among a race whose magma
tions are prOverbial for their fancies.'
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he has left they often relapse into their
former melancholy.
Belief in Fairies and Leprecauns.

What may lead to insanity among those
who come from the barren moors and
desOlate mountains as much If not more
than their isolated condition or impov-
ershed life is their strange delusions
The mountain peasants are very super
stitutious and imaginative. They believe
in fairies and bogies and hear strange
voices in the air around them.
They believe i'm leprecauns. which are
little men that come out of the ground.
They imagine the fairies and COLLINS can
come through the keyhOles of their rooms
in the asylum, and they are ever hearing
strange voices and seeing strange spec
tiers. as they did upon the moors ana
mountains.
OF both men and women now in the in
stitution more than 2J0 have come back
to Ireland after sojourn In America
The superintendent says that the dissi-
pations and excitement of their experience
in the United States have caused their
mental breakdown after the quiet life and
habits of their early days in Ireland. But
hereditary predispositiOn exists In almost
every case and in time would have caused
the same aff1iction even though tney had
remained at home. Hereditary influence
and generations of poverty and privation
are the general causes of insanity. Very
few recoveries are found among those
who have been born of insane parents.
Most of those dismissed are soon back
again, broken down as before by poor
nourishment poverty and want The
number of readmissions is very large.
There are two chaplains. one of whom is
the Rev Mr. Madden of the Protestant
Church of Ireland.
Few Protestant Insane Patients.
There are very few Protestant patients,
however. only twenty being in the asylum
at present. the population of the district
being largely Roman Catholic. The Roman
Catholic chaplain is Rev. ID. O'Connor,
and he is in constant attendance.
OF those who were committed last year
fourteen were people who had returned
from America. Heredity was the cause
assigned to thirtyfour, and eight were
placed i'm the institution as the victims or
alcoholism The annual report of the
medical director contains the statement
that it is a we'll known fact that people
with an unstable mental equilibrium are
prone to alcoholic excess when suffering
from strain due to domestic troubles. anx-
iety. losses. disappointments in life and so
forth. And il is difficult in these cases
to ascertain whether the alcoholic indul-
gence is symptom of the disease or a
direct agent In the production of the
same BY close investigation of the fam
lily history OF the patients admitted from
year to year to this asylum l find con-
vincing proof that parental incompetence
is strong factor in the cause of mental
disease and that the patients who are
the subjects of epileptic and adolescent in
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Shot Wife Because She Refused t
Talk.

LINCOLN, Neb., August A.-Because
his wife would not talk to him as fire.
quently as he desired, william Lush, one
Of Lincoln's weaithiest German cttixens.
fired four times at her with Q revolver
late yesterday afternoon and then at
tempted suicide. One of the bullets tore
through Mrs. Lush's hair. but she was
uninjured. Lush was taken, to st. Elisa
beti's Hospital. He will live, az the bull
let merely Clipped his skull. The Lushes
had been married thirty years.
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Education and ;Paternalism.


Killarney is quite an educational center
also. There are several popular schools
here and several monasteries. The Fran
ciscans conduct a theological seminary
and the Christian brothers have college
in connection with the cathedral. There
are two or three converts where young
ladies are educated. and a large institu-
ton In which 210 girls are being taught
by the nuns to make lace. one of the most
profitable occupation an Irish woman can
engage in
wifery. conducted by the British govern
ment under the supervision of the minis
ter of agriculture at Dublin. Paternalism
is carried farther in Ireland than in
Switzerland, Germany or any other place
| know of as you will admit when you
blue-eyed mavourneens are being educated
at the expense of the taxpayers as do
mestic servants. They are rescued from
the filthy cabins in the mountains, washed
and clothed in neat liveries; natty little
muslin caps are pinned to their raven
tresses, frilled muslin aprons are fasten-
ed to- their frocks, and they are taught
how to wash dishes and cook and make
beds and do plain sewing. dust the bric-a-
brac in the drawing room and courtesy
when they are spoken to and say Yes.
me lady" and Yes. me lord They
learn to mend and embroider. to do up
hair. to fasten dresses and perform other
duties pertaining to the jurisdiction of a
lady's maid After a year so of this
training positions for them are found in
the households of the nobility, where they
will spend their lives servants, marry
footman or game keeper. as will
their children and grandchildren and
generations to come after them, because
domestic service is profession i'm Great
Britain. and is followed BY families who
are trained for their work
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GIRL SWIMMER DROWNED.
Men Save Two Companions, BIZ
Reach Her Too Late.

NEW YORK. August 14.-Agnes Dunn.
Tessie OConnell and Mary Boyle. employ
ed in shops in Manhattan. who were
spending a vacation at Princess Bay. s.
l.. went swimming late yesterday after
noon of Seguiness Point. where the wa
ter is very shallow. The girls waded out
for a considerable distance and suddenly
all three stepped into the channel, where
the water was oyer their heads.
The cries of the frightened girls were
heard by William Lee of Princess Bay
and Arthur Brown of New Rochelle. The
young men went into the water after the
girls. They rescued Miss O'Connell and
Miss Boyle. but before they reached Miss
Dunn she had disappeared.
After bringing her companions ashore
the men dived after Miss Dunn's body and
finally brought IT to the surface. Efforts
to revive the girl failed.
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Notable Men Born Here.

A house by the roadside. now occupied
by a farmer named McSweeny is pointed
out as the birthplace of Robert Emmett.
Lord Kitchener was born about nineteen
miles from here at Crotto Houee, Tralee
where his father and mother were stop
ping for the summer. His father was
colonel in the army and on leave from
his regiment at the time of kitchener's
birth
The great Daniel O'Connell was also
born in the neighborhood. and his
nephew. Sir Maurice O'Connell, lives in
stately mansion that Overlooks the Lower
Lake in the midst of a beautiful grove.
There Is poorfouse here with 500
inmates, mostly aged men and women,
cripples and other incurables. And an
enormous insane asylum under the direc-
ton of DR.. Edward Griffin.
II is surrounded by a beautiful garden
and hedges i'm the midst of an estate of
sixty acres. 1t was opened in 1852 The
number of inmates last year was Gil of
whom 100 were women and go men. Dur
ing the last six or seven years the num-
Der of women has largely increased The
average age of the inmates Is about
thirty years. There are more young men
than old men i'm the institution. Many
causes lead to insanity.
A Sad Side of Life.
WHISKY. however, W uO Win
tile condition of the inmates. Last year
only five men and two women were here
for that cause. Tea has a larger num-
Der of victims in destroying the nervous
system by excessive use. The arger pro-
portion of insane come from the country
districts especially from the seacoast.
Comparatively few come from the towns
and cities The greatest number are of
the farming and labOring classes. common
laboreis and poor farmers with two acres
of land and two cows, who make up
three-fourths OF the inmates received last
wear Those from certain districts were
as u rule related. predisposi,ion to in
sanity being manifested in their fami-
lies. The farming class coming from the
noors and mountains a result of par
rem soil and great privations, are in
clned To insanity because of their i'm
poverished condition of life. Their only
food often is tea bread and tobacco. The
first treatment at the asylum is TO give
them plenty of nourishing food and build
them up They are furnished meat every
day except Friday. Religio decisions
have disturbed the minds of many who
fear they are damned forever and can
not enter heaven. They are hard TO cure
and the siowest to recover. The influence
OF the chaplain in these cases is most
beneficial Under his ministration they
receive temporary consolation, but after
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Increase of Insanity Alarming.


In discussing this subject with Mr.. w.
r. Bailey. one of the commissioners in
charge of the administration of the land
act. in Dublin few weeks ago he ex-
pressed the greatest concern because Of
the rapidly increasing number Of insane
people and idiots in Ireland. He asserted
that the statistics were alarming. AL
though the population of Ireland has de-
creased more than Al per cent during the
last fifty years. the number of lunatics
and idiots has increased 400 per cent. By
a census of 1851 the ratio was one insane
person to every 657 of the population; in
1871 the ratio was one 60 every 1913: in
1901 it was one to every I'D. and in 1901
it was one to every 11S persons. Mr..
Bailey predicts that the census Of 1911
will show a still greater increase. His
estimates are based upon the number of
imbeciles and insane under the care Of
the state which now exceeds 25OOO.
Probable Causes.
Various explanations are given for
these appalling conditions" said Mr..
Bailey: 'some say that they are due to
insufficient nourishment. and to the excess
sive use of tea by the women of Ireland.
which destroys their nerves and under
mines their constitutions. Others attribute
it to alcoholism. which no doubt Is true.
although hunger. nervousness and intern
perance are not the only causes that dis
turb and unsettle the minds of our people.
l have heard of cases being attributed to
political excitement, and no doubt that is
true, for there was nver a period in his
tory in which Ireland was without such
a reason for insanity. l have heard it
said also that emigration. which has
drained away the stronger and better ele-
ment of the population and leaves behind
the dregs and incapables, is largely re-
sponsible. but l think a very large portion
of the insanity among people may be
traced to the loneliness of their lives and
the want of mental employment among
the residents of large district in Ireland.
The effect of the long nights of winter.
with no lights in the cabins and nothing
to occupy the thoughts must be killing to
an intellect. particularly when it is pre-
disposed to imagine vain things and has
been stepped with superstitution.
Different Before the Famine.
such conditions did not exist to the
same extent before the great famine and
before the tide of emigration started to-
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Noted Boston Clubman Dead.

MANCHESTER. Mass, August IA
Robert c. Hooper. member OF one OF
the oldest Boston families. and prominent
in horse circles and club life OF the city.
died last night at his summer home here
following an Illness OF a few weeks.
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The entire town Of Taft, Mont, with
the exception of the post ONCE. the con-
struction company's warehouse, one gro
Gerry store and a saloon. was destroyed
by fire starting from a forest fire.
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sanity are very often the progeny of al
cohOlic parents
The average cost of maintaining each
patient for the year is .G22 AS 4d
Out of a total of I41 admitted during the
past year AZ were farmers, 81 laborers. ID
domestic servants and II had no fixed oc
equations. and 35 had been there before.
OF the total 80 inmates los cannot read
or write. 13 can read only and 169 can
barely sign their names; % are well edu-
Gated and 223 have had the rudiments of
an education, chiefly in the national
SchOOlS
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DIFFERENT Bef0re the Famine.
such conditions did not exist to the
same extent before the great famine and
before the tide of emigration started to-
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-11

pelted with howers--A real battle Of
flowers the ensemble making the
blood course rlotously in triumph
through the veins Of every true, loyal,
warmheartad Americana
On account Of the great length of
this bill the amateur events win be
postponed until Friday night. Thurs.
day night each week will be amateur
night in the future MS in the past.
Byron's Don Juan, an adaptation
in hard colors by Pathe Freres. the
celebrated Partisan manufacturer.
from the poem is the haudsomest film
so far produced by this film manufac
turer, famous the world over for his
excellence in photography, strict at,
tention TO detail and extraordinary
histronic talent exhibited by the &C.
tors in the east
Briefly The picture shows the
great Don Juan IN bis love escapadcs
and his defeat of Rivals. The first
shows him at n reception oyerhear-
ing a sweetheart making an engage
ment with "a dctostcl rival lie lies
In wait for his rival and engaging
him in a duel Kills him. He gives
lie signal and is welcomed by the
girl to whom bee tells the story of the
ineI and attempts TO force his atteu.
ion upon her. She scizes dagger
md plnngCs ii into her brpaet Don