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pjuv life CONTAINS Part Two Editorial Page VOL. XXV1XLV, NO. 44. LOOPHOLE IIITHE LAY Postofflce Employes Appointed Examination. MR.

GORDON SAYS SO Claims Course Is Proper Under Commission's Ruling. Potlaailtr Says Promotions Are Made by Hla Aathorlty and Strictly (or Merit. In charging Postmaster Charles 17. Gordon with favoritism in advancing; clerks under his supervision, dissatisfied employes of the Chi cago postofflce have brought to light a loop-bole In the national clvll-servlce law. through which postmasters In the larger cities are provided with a certain amount of patronage and are enabled to get partisans into the government service without the formality of an examination.

A number of postofflce clerks who have grown old in Uncle Sam's service declare that Mr. Gordon has crowded a number of personal friends through the merit-law loophole, and, having once installed them, ho Is said to have advanced them In preference to old-time employes. Mr. Gordon denies that he has shown any favoritism, but admits that several of his ac quaintances have got into the postofflce serv- ice without taking the merit-law examlna tion. He says that there are 200 clerks now In the service of the Chicago postofflce who became government employes, without talc Ing examinations, before he became post' master.

What the Postmaster Says. Mr. Gordon contends that the civil-service commissioners' ruling in interpreting the law bear out his official acts in placing unexamined men in the service and advancing them. He said yesterday: "The Chicago postofflce Includes many outlying stations, which until recently were not under civil service, having no free delivery. According to rulings on the civil-service law I had the power to remove any of the clerks in these offices and to appoint others to take their places.

When I became postmaster I found the places filled; by Democrats, and I made a number of changes, putting Republicans in their places. For instance, in the Norwood Park office I appointed J. H. Loge-man a clerk. I also appointed Byron L.

Mills to a clerkship at Klsdon and George H. Jen-ney, a personal friend, who came into the service at my solicitation, to another clerkship In an outlying station. All these men did good work for the government, and when the postofflce wherein they worked were put under civil service and given free delivery they held their positions and came under civil service, in accordance with the national commissioners' rulings, without taking an examination. Advanced on Their Merits. "Later I saw that these men were honest, trustworthy, and capable, and I transferred them and others to the Chicago main office.

Since then I have gradually advanced them on their own merits, as I have a perfect right to do under the law. The commissioners rule that clerks holding positions of executive and financial responsibility and of a confidential nature may be advanced by the postmaster. Ail other clerks look for advancement to the board of promotion, which holds examinations for advancements from time to time. In the case of Mr. Logeman I will say that I had him transferred from Norwood Park to the main office and to the position of assistant cashier, made vacant by a death, because I considered him specially qualified for the position.

Later I advanced him because of his efficiency to the head of the bureau of supplies, with a alary of $1,700. All these acts are perfectly legitimate, as any one can find out by looking up the civil-service commission's rulings. There are a number of cases similar to that of Mr. Logeman, but all of these clerks have been advanced because I considered it for -the good of the service. "In this postofflce are a number of clerks who have been employed here for a number of years and who are neither worthy of advancement nor capable of filling higher positions.

There are also a number who are cient employes, and I would be only too glad to advance them if the opportunity were to 'present itself. The matter of advancing clerks of the class I have mentioned lies entirely with me, and I certainly have acted In making promotions for the good of the service and without any favoritism whatever." Bonds for Carriers. It was reported In Washington advices yesterday that the department had decided that Mr. Gordon was wrong in ordering carriers to secure surety bonds from certain companies. According to the report, the department officials had prepared a list of fifteen surety companies, and the carriers are to be instructed to use their own Judgment which company i they patronise.

Mr. Gordon declared that he had received no advice from Washington, and that the carriers bad not complained of his choice of surety companies to him. "By advertising for bids for this business I secured for the carrier the remarkably low rate of 24 cents per $1,000 on bonds, while previously they had been paying 50 cents," Mr. Gordon said. "I do not believe that the carriers find any Jection to the new company.

If they have they have made no complaint to me, and all I know of the matter 1 what I have read in the newspapers." SOUTH SIDE C0L0REDM1SS10N. Reseoe and Hssssl Training; Society Opened, on Wabash Aveaae. The colored poor of the South Side have another and new friend tn the Bvangello Rescue and Manual Training society, which was established Mar 1 by the Rev. J. H- Washington, who la the president.

A. Blmons, vice president; A. F. Underwood, secretary, and Mrs. K.

B. Washington, clerk, are the other officers, all of whom are colored. The organisation la very small as yet and Is established at Nineteenth street and Wabash ave'uue. Food, clothing, and everything that can be of use to the poor Is solicited. R.

Austin of No. 2626 State street will gladly furnish all information regarding the mission of the loclety. HORSE DRAGS HIS DRIVER. Aleck, Uort Severely Injured Sear Lincoln, and Division Streets. Aleck Hartman, 38 years old, No.

C66 North Robey street, was severely Injured in a runaway, yesterday. He was driving on Division near Lincoln street, when his horse took fright at a bicycle rider and ran away. The baggy was overturned, and Hartman was 1 thrown to the street and dragged twenty-five feet. No bones were broken, but he complained of internal Injuries. He was taken to Jais home, Coart Upholds Overtime Wages.

Judge Dunne decided yesterday In the suit cf Robert L. Reld against Henry Levi, proprietor of the Hub Clothing company, for the recovery of wages alleged due for work performed after business hours, that where a contract for a fixed number of hours of labor existed an employe was entitled to payment lor overtime. HINTS FOR COFFEE HOUSES. Cooateas Sehlmmelmaaa Addresses Ytsig People a Federations. Workers from -the ranka of the Young People's Temperance federation conferred with the Countess Schlmmelmann yesterday in re gard to their plan to establish coffee-bouses throughout the city as competitors of the saloon.

The conference was held at the Palmer house. Willis Brown, president of the federation, explained the object for which the meeting was called, saying that It was to gain suggestions from the Countees as to the details of management of such institutions, so that her ideas might be adopted in the management of the Chicago coffee-bouses when they are put In operation next winter. Countess Schlmmelmann gave many interesting details of her experience with temperance coffee-houses In European cities, and promised her hearty co-operation in the work the federation Is undertaking. Speeches were also made by the Rev. J.

H. C. Smith, J. Beaucbamp, T. H.

Mackey, and J. M. Miller, director of the rescue work for the federation. In addition, there were musical numbers by Professor D. R.

Iceland and the Symphony quartet. "Our idea is to establish coffee-houses alongside of saloons and have all the attractions offered by the saloon, with the vices eliminated," said Mr. Brown. In speaking of the coffee-house project. "We will run them on a business basis, however, putting each under the management of a responsible person, with the financial and moral support of the federation.

The idea is to supply the need for a place where a bomele3 man can find a warm room and a chair to rest in without going to a caloon. With a cup of coffee, which will be sold at the price of a glass of beer, the customer will be furnished with as good a free lunch as Is given by the saloons. We will probably have music in the evenings, and make the coffee-houses as attractive as possible. In tht3 way, we can get hold of the class of people we wish to reach and nromote our rescue work. The coffee-houses will be opened up next winter, and the Countess Schlmmelmann is co-operating with as in the CASES COME UP TOMORROW.

Ex-Bank Examiner Harden and C. W. Walters to Be Tried. The cases of Charles W. Walters, better known as "Big Sandy" Walters, who Is accused of perjury, and former State Bank Examiner George R- Hayden, who is accused of misconduct as an officer, will come before Judge Burke in the Criminal court tomorrow The Indictment pending against "Big Sandy" Walters was procured about two years ago during the Investigation by a special grand Jury of the conduct of the affairs of the railroad and warehouse commission during the administration of Governor Altgeld.

At tnat time, uwight w. Andrews, ex -chief grain inspector, and Benjamin F. Jenkins, bis cashier, were Indicted. "Big Sandy" Walters was a witness before the grand Jury, and was Indicted on a charge of perjury for evi- aence ne gave before tbe Jury. "Big Sandy" Walters' statement offended principally In the fact that he maintained that while he was a deputy grain Inspector he went to May-wood to Inspect elevators, and he traveled over the Northern Pacific railroad.

It appeared, however, that there were no grain elevators at Maywood, and that the town is on the Northwestern, and not the Northern Pacific railroad. The allegation of misconduct as a public officer against former State Bank Examiner George R. Hayden is an echo of the failure of Charles Warren Spalding and the wreck of the Globe Savings bank, of which he was the president. Laxity in the examination of the affairs of the Globe bank were held at the time of the failure of that Institution to have In a considerable degree been responsible for the crash, and the entanglement of many depositors. The allegation against the former bank examiner Is practically Jt charge of palpable omission of duty as a public official.

Neither of these cases Is expected to go to trial tomorrow, but they are to be set down definitely for a hearing. WALLNER MURDER CASE DRAGS. Only Sis Jorors Accepted Oat of 23 Veniremen Examined. Six Jurors were substituted yesterday try George Simpson Fted Jones, Charles Peterson, Edward Lally, and Thomas Mc-Fadden for the alleged murder of Policeman Edward E. AVallner.

They are: Dennis McLaughlin, No. 922 nomas avenne; Sol F. Wood, 104 Hoyne avenne; H. J. S.

Scrivens, No. 2379 West Ohio street; W. Smith. No. 240 York street; W.

H. Zlegler, No. 63S Seminary avenue; Avery Coonley, No. 620 West Division street. During the first six days of the trial 250 veniremen were examined.

The defense need fifty of its 100 peremptory challenges, andtbe prosecution forty of the same kind of challenges, making ninety veniremen who were peremptorily released. During the week 154 veniremen were released for cause. The delay in securing a Jury la due In a measure to the fact that three attorneys represent the defendants. Individually, and veniremen who suit one attorney are not acceptable to the others. MURRAY INDICTMENT REDUCED.

Seventy Oat of seventy-Two Cessti Quashed la Extortion Case. The indictment against A. Gordon Murray, containing seventy-two counts, and accusing him of extortion by threats, was reduced to two counts yesterday, through arguments by James Todd, former assistant state's attorney, to quash the indictment. Then the case went over. In its present state the Indictment alleges In general terms that Murray extorted by threats 137.60 from Hugh McKay.

This money is said to have been the proceeds of tickets to an entertainment under the auspices of the Highland association of Chicago, of which McKay was the secretary. Murray was elated yesterday over the dismissal of sef nty of the counts In tbe Indictment. These were ruled out on technical grounds as surplusage. "There is nothing left upon which they can try me," said he. "The case never did have any foundation In fact." MEDICINE FOR THE POOR.

What the Central Free Dlspeasary of West Chicago Is Doing-. At the thirty-third annual meeting of tbe board of directors of the Central Free Dispensary of West Chicago the treasurer reported for the twelve months ending March 31 as follows: Total number, of patients, visits of patients to dispensary, visits to homes of patients, 650; prescriptions furnished, cost of conducting dispen sary the past year, including annual rent of 330, voluntary contributions of patients, $1414 average cost of each patient for attendance and medicine. 36V4 cents; cost of each visit, 14 cents; cost- of each prescription, 12 cents. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, Henry 8. Burkhardt; vice president, H.

F. Talbot; secretary. Dr. Edwanf L. Holmes; treasurer.

Thomas N. Bond; director, to succeed Hugh Templeton, deceased, Frank P. To bey. Work of German Aid Society. The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the German Aid society was held Friday afternon at No.

60 La Salle street. The report of the manager, Charles Spaeth, ahowed that the society last month supported fifty-five families, including 149 children, and forty-seven single persons, at an expenditure of $343.46. The total number ot persons provided with work as 3-7. Chicago, stjnday; may 7, isoo. forty-four pages.

CURES BY SUGGESTION Treatment for Insanity Used by School of Psychology. NEW YORK IS BEHIND So-Called Discoveries by Dr. Quackenbos In Use Here. Dr. Herbert A.

Parky a Explains How Patients with Manias and Drear Habits Are Treated. Hypnotism or rather suggestion, the vital principle In hypnotism has been used for several years by the Chicago School of Psychology, la the treatment of various manias with marked success. According to Dr. Herbert A. Parkyn.

the bead of the two cases of pronounced Insanity have been cured within the last six months and a score of persons afflicted with lesser mental troubles, down to hallucinations and nervous prostration, have received entire relief. Several cases of unbalanced minds are now at the Institution for treatment. In all mental troubles, he sayb, suggestion falls only in an extremely small per cent of cases. -TV. According to a story front New York city, Dr.

John Duncan Quackenbos, emeritus professor of Columbia, university, has become convinced by a series of remarkable experiments that hypnotism may be employed to a great advantage not only In alleviating pain and curing certain diseases, but for the purpose of reforming criminals. From his own use of hypnotism and its employment by his friends in the medical profession. Dr. Quackenbos says he knows that confirmed cigarette smokers, thieves, drunkards, and persons with delusions have been not only cured temporarily, but so changed as to leave little doubt that the cures would prove permanent. Moreover, he says that hypnotism will doubtless soon be used extensively in the treatment of various forms of insanity.

Sevr Tork Behind Ch lease. These so-called discoveries by Dr. Quackenbos are not new In Chicago. For several years the Chicago School of Psychology and similar institutions In the city have made a specialty of curing habits by mental. treatment, and have hadi pronounced success.

People addicted to smoking, drinking, morphine and cocaine, and affected with St. Vitus' dance, stammering, insomnia, illusions, melancholia, nervous prostration, and hallucinations, have been cured by the hundreds. The effects secured with children have been particularly marked. It now appears that at the Chicago School of Psychology, at least, Insanity has yielded to mental treatment. "We have cured) Insanity by suggestive methods for some years past," said Dr.

Parkyn yesterday. "Within the last few months, we have made two positive cores ot cases of pronounced insanity that had failed to Improve In long stays at asylums. We have at present several patients of the same sort under treatment, and all show enough Improvement to lead me to predict an ultimate cure in every case. Dr. Quackenbos can scarcely claim credit to any great amount of novelty in his reported discovery.

"But you must remember," continued Dr. Parkyn, "that we do not use hypnotism. Our work Is done entirely by 'directed which is the active principle tor good in hypnotism. In cases of pronounced Insanity, it Is Impossible to get thepatlent's attention fixed upon any one thing, even the voice of the physician, and hence hypnotism -is Impossible. We rely entirely upon suggestionsthat Is.

words and sentences constantly repeated In the presence of tbe patient, which In time result In changing the patient's line of thought and action Into the channels desired. Frequently tbe Insane person has functional troubles or hallucinations abont food or drink that be refuses to be treated for. These are matters which are vital to health. In such cases the constantly repeated suggestions result In-changed thought and action, and the patient remedies his troubles without being himself aware that the impulses were the result of outside stimulation. "The theory on which the work is carried on Is as follows: Every Impression (suggestion) a man receives through his senses Is stored up la the minute cells of the brain.

These cells are all In relation with one other, so that each impression is associated with those which have preceded it through the same sense. These brain cells are nourished by the bloody and are active or Inactive according to the amount of blood supplied to them. The more any group of cells Is kept active, the more likely are the Impressions stored up In these cells to be in our conscious minds. How Habits Are Developed. "It is the continual stimulation of one igroup of cells which produces habits ot thought: this accounts for the peculiarity of monomaniacs.

Many of these cells are motor ones, which, when aroused, send out Impulses to the various muscles or organs of the body. Sometimes the Impulses are feeble, owing to poor circulation In the brain; Eometimes they are Incorrect, owing to their imperfect education, or to physical conditions, which for a time have Interfered with the transmission of the normal impulses. "Again, the motor cells may remain dormant for a long time if a function, for mechanical reasons, or through ignorance of hygiene, has been allowed to lie idle and artificial means have been employed to take Its place. "Every one. at some time or other, has bad a musical air or a piece of poetry "running through his head.

Sometimes for days at a time. It stays with us till we get another group of cells stimulated Into activity, or until the mind Is completely absorbed In other things. Then the cells get a chance to rest. If a musical sir is bothering us we can get rid of It by humming something else; and so It Is in overcoming undesirable or unhealthy lines of thought in our patients. We place new thoughts in their minds by repeated suggestions, and when the treatment Is kept up each day for a length of time, and the patient 1s constantly going over these suggestions himself, the new thoughts take the place of the old onec; the old odes become Inactive, and the stimulation of the.

cells from which they spring diminishes. It Is Impossible to blot anything out of a man's mind, but if it contains undesirable thoughts we can overcome their effects by placing new thoughts there. The new thoughts will re-place the old ones, provided the suggestions are repeated very often. Treatment of Patients. "So, when an insane patient is brought to us tor treatment, we begin by inquiring thoroughly into his physical condition.

We find cut If any of the vital functions are deranged. If so, we proceed to rectify them first, since terfect nutrition and proper action of the tody is always a great gain toward health. Then -when matters of this nature are attended we turn our' attention to the mental troubles. We carefully avoid all reference to the mania or points of hallucination possessed. Instead we keep harping on a lino of thought such that If it is adopted by the patient, his old trouble will disappear.

We even give directions to the attendants and relatives of the patients to keep talking along the lines we suggest untU. (n accordance with the principle Just stated, of arousing brain cells, the cure Is accomplished. By experience we are enabled to map out in advance the line of suggestion to be taken to arouse in tbe patient the desired thoughts. "I U1 give you one of the recent cases as an illustration. A woman was brought to us Insane and- with a fear that every one was trying to poison her.

She Insisted on seeing all her food cooked, and would not even take a glass of water from her husband's hand unless she saw It drawn from the faucet. We found at once she had many functional troubles and her nutritive processes were greatly hampered. We directed suggestions to improve this condition and built up her general health, thereby Improving the supply of blood to tbe brain. She was constantly told that she was in harmony with her house-bold, everybody loved her, and her husband in particular was the best and most devoted of men. She was extremely melancholy, and we told her that she was happy.

Joyous, and gay. After her health Improved her mind gradually bettered, and in two months she was cured. I have seen her several times recently and she Is happy as the day is long." BANK STARTS PENSION FUND. First Rational Arranges to Provide tor Old Employes. Following; the example of many notable institutions In this country and Europe, the First National bank of, Chicago has created -a pension- fund for its employes.

The system was started May 1 and is known at the "First National bank pension fund." The membership roll Includes every employe of the Dearborn street institution from Janitor up to president. The fund becomes operative to those employes who have been In the service of the bank for fifteen years and are 60 years of age. This provision against the hardships of old age met with the, warmest support from the employes when the subject was broached. The powers of those In control of the fund are clastie. and there may quite possibly come cases where the pension will be granted to men who have neither served fifteen years tn the bank nor reached the age of SO years.

The rules of the system have been kept secret, but It Is announced that hereafter every man who becomes tn employe. Of the bank must sign the roll and contribute to the fund. The bank-gives certain eums to the fund, and each employe contributes per cent of his yearly salary, payable The rules make certain- that this will be paid, for the amounts will be deducted from the salaries as they are paid. The pension system as adopted by the First National bank is much like that in vogue In the Bank ot Montreal, tbe Bank of Nova Scotia, and many of the old banking-houses ot Europe and Great Britain. In the local bank Vice President James B.

Forgsn has been the prime mover In the Idea, and- he has spent much time la perfecting the scheme. Mr. Forgan received bis idea from the Canadian banks, with which be was connected before coming to Chicago. The plan, so far as known, has been highly successful everywhere it has been tried. The rules and by-laws are exhaustive and were the work of a committee of the bank directors, who praised) the idea from the start.

Since the step takes by the First National has become known among the business institutions of the great interest, has been shown In the scheme, and It In said that several of the large corporations are seriously contemplating the addition of Just such feature to their Institutions. One of the big trust companies is mentioned as among those working on plans for pension fund, and a number of the larger hanks are said to be about to follow la. the path of the First National. "In spite of the fact that corporations have eoine to be designated as "soulless snd they e- s-renHy la faor oCpro tecting their emrloye against the troubles of old said bank official yesterday. "Going deep enough, a cynie might find a selfish motive in for every Institution Wishes the best class of employee possible, and -wants the best service from them.

It Is evident that employes who feel themselves protected against a breakdown In later life will give better and more faithful work to their employers than those who do not have such too, the tendency will be for employee to stay with the house that offers such security, and the result will be to the benefit of the institution as much as to the help of the employes." "The rule went effect May sail Mr. Forgan. "and' 1 hare not tbe slightest doubt that It will be highly successful. Every one of the 250- employes of this bank has signed the roll, and, baa entered Into the plan wKh the greatest enthusiasm. The general plan of the fund has been taken from the systems In use by tbe Canadian banks, though I am told the same system, practically.

Is well known in Europe, where It has been very successful in the hanks and other large Institutions. As to whether any of the other business concerns of Chicago will take up this scheme, I do not know; but I should think they would be quite likely to. The First National bank has always bees in the lead In such innovations, and we have always found they were wise steps. Practical benefits cannot help follow, and believe our employes will find In the exUtence of the pension fund a source of great comfort. TRAVEL TALKS WITH PICTURES.

To Be Delivered by Ada M. Crow at the V. A. oesday ji literary and historical' "Travel Talk" on a trip abroad will be given in the Young Women's Christian, Association hall. No.

288 Michigan avenue, iext Thursday evening at o'clock by Ada Marie Crow, Illustrated with 100 superbly colored scenes of England, Scotland, France, and Belgium. The Imaginary tour Is taken from the land of Evangeline to spots made famous- by Sir Walter Scott in the "Lady of the Lake" and the "Lay of the Last Picturesque Parte. Historic London, Shakespeare's country, and many places of intense interest will be thrown upon the screen with all the vividness of POLICE PREVENT. A SUICIDE. Jail as Selettensky Pr pares lei Lean lata Calamet Hirer.

Julius Zelettenaky. (4 years old, of No. S332 Superior avenue, tied a rope about his neck and fastened the other end to the Ninety-Second street bridge preparatory to leaping into the Calumet river yesterday. -He used the rope to save the police inconvenience in dragging for bis body. He "was arraigned before Justice Foley of South Chicago yesterday and was fined 2S for attempting to commit BOY KILLED BY A FALL.

Joseph Kaesewskl Tn males Fear '( Floors Down. EleTator Shaft. Joseph Kaczewckt, it years old. was killed yesterday by falllDg -from the fourth floor down the elevator shaft in Mikkelson's picture, frame factory' at No. 23 North Jefferson street, where he vas employed.

He lived at No. 18 Ashland avenue. TWENTY CAR LOADS OF EGGS. Record Deaf for Closed 'Immediate Shipment la Chleaato. The largest trans for immediate shir action In eggs ever made ment was closed Friday, when a local dealer cost of 131.900.

sold twenty car loads at a There have been larger transactions, t. but r. one where shipment was required lmraedir ly. me eggs were soia ave been forwarded East. free on board, and 1: La Gran Theater Party.

on of La Granite mar- A theater rarty. rlcd couples, a the Studebaker i.t ner at Kinsley's, present were: y.i P-orwell, E. K. I Eunch, J. II.

Ln A S. Letkic, ar. den. the performance at evening, after having din-Ansong those who were rs. and Mesdames F.

H. C. C. Campbell, R. H.

L-te, George Laubensteln, S. Ieatty an Hrs. IIol- FLIRTWITH THE GIRLS Medical Students Throw Kisses to Hleh School Pupils. MR. DOWNEY'S ACTION Says He Wants the West DIyIs-- Ion Institution Moredv Flan to Tars the BaUdlasr Into a Home for the Nssssl last Work.

The young men who are studying to become pm-glvers or tooth-pluggers in the vicinity of Harrison and Wood streets are becoming entirely "too That is the verdict of School Trustee Joseph Downey, and he asks that the West Division High school, at Congress street and Ogden avenue, be removed immediately from such a baneful "sphere ot influence." Hereafter, or as soon" as the change can be made, the students in the medical and dental schools will be forced to confine their efforts to strsy pedestrians ot the gentler sex. Ogling, flirting, and winking will become lost arte in this district under the new scheme. The cause of it all is the devoted attention the students have been paying for years to the pretty girls in the West Division High school. It has beeff one of the things which made the West Side medical snd dental schools so highly successful. It is not known that those institutions In their prospectuses have announced, "Within two blocks Is located tbe West Division High school, filled with Chicago's fairest young ladles," but graduates have spread the word, and each year tbe young men come to study bones with the of a streetful of pretty girls uppermost in their minds.

Downey Says Move the School. "I want that school moved, said Joseph Downey yesterday. 'I have recommended to the board of education that the building be used for the English High and Manual Training school, if and that a new building be erected a few blocks further, away from the colleges for a high school. The board's architect will examine the building and report next Friday night as to its availability. It is a shame the way those young fellows act toward the girls in the high school.

They wink at them, wave their hands from the windows, and have even thrown kisses from the steps of the colleges at groups of girls passing on the street. Since the matter wss brought to my attention, a number of West Side citizens have spoken to me about It. Our girls must be protected. We can't have a lot ot medical fellows waving handkerchiefs at them and saying 'Ah. there' at every opportunity.

Then. too. I understand that when there is an operation or a dissecting ease going on. the students yell so that the high-school pupils can hear them clear out on the street. It's a shame, I cay.

Think, of our young womanhood being educated to the rattle of dry bones, the whetting of surgical knives, and the ogling and winking or a nana ox meaical fellows. That school got to be moved." No high school In the city contains more pretty girls than the West Division. It has been for tea years located at Congress street and Ogden avenue, and has, therefore, helped to relieve the monotony of that many classes of "medics." Tbe district Is a nest ot doctors' schools and hospitals. There are Rush Medical, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, the Chicago Homeopathic hospital, the West Side hospital, the county hospital, the Presbyterian hospital, etc Of course, the hospitals do not offend in the degree that tbe colleges do. Flirting; Sooa Acquired.

-The curriculum In vogue In this district smong the colleges respecting nigh school girls is practically the same year in and yea. out. When the new das enters in the spring It Is diffident and somewhat shy of the other sex, even when It comes In the form of a pretty girl of 16. But the class soon educated by observation of the sophomores, and before the school year is a month old every student devotea a certain portion of his time to flirting with the The flirtation is sometimes carried on en masse, sometimes In In only quartet of medics st the windows, sad occasionally one man finds himself alone with a procession of girls returning from or going to school. The steps of the colleges are favorite places for the mass plays.

A score of to-be doctors arrange themselves In tiers and wait for the girls from the high school. AS soon ss they begin to appear there Is a constant lifting of hau and a chorus of "why, how do you do's" and "isn't she sweet But Trustee Joseph Downey has forgotten his younger days. Some day he abould conceal himself behind tree and observe tbe aaily game ot flirtation. Some way the thought of the "medical-fellows" does not frighten the girls. They are brave on the West Side, and the very prettiest of them have been known to Uke their lives In their hands and pass the row of colleges daily, when it would have been nearer to go to school by way of Congress or Van Buren street.

It can be easUy seen that it takes great courage to do this. Kisses Threw ThroasW Glass. Stormy days bring only the change that th medics stand In the windows and throw kisses through the glass. Of course, kisses that have to pass through glass can do no harm. The girls know this, and It has been tolcf in the history of the case that one or two have been caught la the act of returning these X-ra osculatory attentions.

The conversation between the school girls and the "medics' usually goes on somethink-Uke this: First Student Goodness me, here comes Stella. "Stella" is within earshot, and tosses her head, looking across the street. Second Studeut How do you know her name Is Stellar First Student I know It. Isn't your came Stellar' "Stella" Tou had better go study those horrid old bones. Mr.

impudence. -Ail Students Ha. ha, hat First Student I'm coming over to yonr school tomorrow and ask teacher if I can't stt with you. "SteHa" (passing out of talking range) Oh. you're very smart, air.

I shall never walk on this street again. The. matter of moving the high school hss rcme to the esrs of the medics, and It la ssl'l If this happens they will petition the faculties of their various Institutions to move them across the street from the new high school. HOME OF MISS MABEL BURKE. Mr.

and Mrs. E. R. Oslas Correet Errosnsi Report. Mr.

and Mrs. E. R. Ozla. No.

13S0 Jackson boulevard, have written The Inter- Ocean to correct tbe statement in the dally papers that Mlsi Mabel Burke, who committed suicide Tuesday, had lived at their home. They say that Miss Burke came to Chfccago early In 1S92 and secured a position as stenographer with a down-town firm. She called at their borne and requested them to find a good boarding place for ber, which ther did. The Oziasts then lived at No. 1172 Washington MARTY INSURANCE IN COURT.

Company Asks Jssges to Decide Vks Shall Get It. The National union, a fraternal beneficiary association, yesterday asked the Circuit court determine who should receive the amount of the Insurance policy of Mail Carrier F. H. Marty, who. with his wife and child, was burned in the Arlington flats Feb.

14. 1899. The point to be settled Involves the question whether Marty died before the death of his wlfe or if her death succeeded that of her husband. In the one case the surviving heirs of Mrs. Agnes Marty are entitled to $2,000, the amount of the policy, and in the other event the policy is payable to the sisters ot F.

H. Marty, Mrs. Rose Balder and Miss Bertha Marty, The officers of the Insurance society have so fsr been unable to determine the question. William Mideke. father of Mrs.

Agnes Marty, with his wife and family, and the sisters of Mrs. Marty, are made defendants to the action, and the order of the court la asked that the defendants may state their claima to the insurance and settle among themselves what sums shall be paid to each. The National union declares itself ready and willing to comply with the order of the court In making the payment ail the Judgea shall direct, RENO FINED FOR CONTEMPT. Depaty Sheriff Is Deceived Davis Dlvoree Case Witness. Robert R.

Reno was arrested yesterday on an attachment for contempt of court for failure to appeaa yesterday tn Judge Chytraus' court In answer to a subpoena to testify in the Davis divorce Judge Chytraus fined him $L0 and costs, and gave him two hours in which to pay 10 or go to jail. Tbe deputy sheriff had great difficulty In arrecting Reno. He went to the tatter's residence at No. 16 Whipple street a number of times, and was met by the witness. The deputy sheriff asked him where Reno was, and the man replied that he was out and would not return for some When auked who he was, Reno replied that be was Reno's brother-in-law.

After several visits, always meeting with tbe same reply, tbe deputy decided to arrest the alleged brotber-in-law and take him Into court. Before Judge Chytraus the arrested man admitted that he had deceived tbe deputy and that he was really Reno. BODY IS STILL UNIDENTIFIED. Corpse Feaad In the River at Franklin Street JCot Known. The Identity of the body of the man found in the river at Franklin street Thursday remains a mystery.

A long cut on the back of the head points to murder as the cause of death. From appearances, the body had been in the water for five weeka or more. It was badly decomposed, and the features hardly recognizee. The police do not credit the murder theory. They believe that the wound on the back of the man's head was Inflicted by the machinery of some tug.

or that, in falling Into tbe water, his head struck' against Tbe man was apparently 60 years old. five feet seven Inches tall, and weighed about 145 pounds. He was dressed in black clothing of chesp material, and wore a blue shirt. The body Is at Roleton's at No. 22 Adams street.

PRISONER MAKES HARD FIGHT; Deteellves Arrest James Wilson. Sac peete-d of Several Bararlaries. Detectives Mackey and McCarthy of the Central station arrested James Wilson yesterday at Wells and Illinois streets after a fight lasting twenty minutes. Wilson is suspected of several important burglaries. He made several attempts to dispose of Jewelry and a bunch of skeleton keys on the.

way to the police station. Two gold pieces were found la his possession. One. a $5 coin, bore the engraved words "Miss Lou Walker." and on the other coin the Inscription "Lou" appeared. According to the police, Wilson has served several terms in the penitentiary for burglary.

He dresses at all times in the latest fashion, and when the Ulcers caught him he at first denied his identity and claimed that he was employed as a clerk In a bank in Dear- Do rn street- JORGENSEN EVIDENCE ALL IN. Jadge Barke Releases Hair Clipper on Call Fen din Decision. Judge Burke yesterday heard' the last of the evidence In the case ot John W. Jorgen-scn, or "Jack, the Hair Clipper." The testimony was ordered written up for review, after which 'a decision will be rendered. Jor-gensen did not testify In his own behalf.

He was released on his bends, pending the decision of the court. Alma Jorgensen, a sister of the prisoner, testified that her brother had been melancholy for four years. Dr. EL C. Fortner, former county physician, testi fied that be had treated Jorgensen for nervous troubles since Feb.

15. Mrs. Jorgensen, the young wife of the defendant, testified that she did not consider him mentally strong at times. Jorgensen listened to the evidence quietly, and occasionally gazed at a bench upon which sat half a ccsen small girls who had loot their tresses at his hands. PEACE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL Several Reslarwatlona Are Expected Tkrsash the Wrlaht Case.

The row In Wlllard Methodist Sunday school la at an end. now that tha resignation ot the accused teacher, John A. Wright, who figured so prominently In the disorders st the church Monday has been accepted. The indications are that further developments will occur this morning in the resignation of the young man's sister. Miss Anna Wright, superintendent of the Infant class.

Several other teachers, who are pronounced of the Wright side of the case, are also expected to resign. None of the Wrights or their immediate friends will say anything for publication, except that they think Mr. Wright has been vindicated, though he has neither been proved guilty nor been vindicated of the charges of Monday night alleging his unfitness to teach his class of twelve young girls. Several members who attended the secret trial Friday night confirmed the report of the proceedings as published in The Inter Ocean yesterday. FIVE: WALLNER CASE JURORS.

Attorneys End Examination of 24 Veniremen In Starder Trial. attorneys In the Wallncr murder trial, before Judge Stein, had at noon yesterday examined 240 veniremen and secured flvejarors to try the five defendants. At the midday adjournment the defense bad used fifty 'of the 100 peremptory challenges swarded It. while Assistsnt State's Attorney Pearson had used forty of his 100. This accounted for tbe dismissal of forty of the During the week 145 veniremen were discharged for cause.

Yesterday morning seventy-five new veniremen were sworn, and the examination ot these continued during the afternoon. The Jury material has been exceptionally poor during the week; but the fact that there are three attorneys for the defense, separately representing the Is largely responsible for the delay In obtaining a jury. Evana-ellstte Services Tsiay, The Rev. E. Payion Hammond, who has been holding evangelistic services In Christ chapel.

Orchard. and Center streets, for the last week, will hold services there today at m. and 7:43 p. m. He has made CdO conversions week.

PAGES 13 TO SCENES OFINDIAfl LIFB School Children Present Lon lellows Story of Hiawatha. AT BELMONT HALly Lake View "Woman's Club Mexm bers Are the Their Small Boas and Daughters Arsj Highly tsntertalaed by the Jnvenlle Performers. Members of the Lake View Woman's club held a special meeting yesterday afternoon In honor of thelrmall sons snd daughters st Belmont hall. No. 1682 North Clark street.

The pupila of the sixth grade of the Schiller school, Vedder and Larrabee streets, furnished the entertainment, which consisted of a play called -Hiawatha." Twelve scenes from Longfellow's poem were presented. The programme began promptly it I o'clock. The first act was an outdoor scene, with a large forest in the background, the bright green of the various trees forming a pretty contrast to the blue of tbe pictured sky. In the front of the stage, to the left of the center, was an Indian's tepee, with all the accessories of real Indian life. Colored Indian shawls could be Been through the opening in the tent, and bows, with the arrows hung on the sides of the tepee.

A small wood fire burned sear by. Before each scene was enacted one of the little entertainers came before the curtaia and read the part ot Longfellow'a poem that the act represented. The first scene was called the "Peace Pipe." A group of Indians seated under a large tree were smoking long briar pipes. In their midst was a party of white men, also smoking, and as one pipe after another went out Indians and white men shook hands, showing that a treaty of peace was being formed by the two nations. Then tbe Indians circled around the fire in an Indian dance of joy, and the "Whoop-las!" and shouts of the tribe grestly amused the smaller part of the audience.

Hiawatha's childhood pictured in the next scene, and the young boy appeared before the audience In all the beauty, of his picturesque Indian This scene closed amid hearty applause, and after several bows of acknowledgment the actors and actresses were allowed to prepare for the next act. This was a hunting and showed the Indian's method of using the bow and arrow. Bird. deer, and other animals were killed by Hiawatha and his friends. The nine remaining scenes represented the arrow-maker's shop, the Indian boat, confidences, claiming Minnehaha, the wedding, the corn, picture writing, the deaOk of Minnehaha, and the white man.

Each picture was well studied and carried out, anl gave the added charm ot life to Longfellow pen pictures. The music with which the varioua scenes were accompanied was weird, and of true Indian style. It was obtained from Harvard university from the collection of Indian music compiled by Miss Alice Fletcher, who at one time lived among tfao Omaha Indians. The Incidental music which was played between the acts wss written by Mrs. William W.

Butterfield and Miss Alice Heinroth. Miss Elizabeth Coffee, the head of the sixth grade of the Schiller school, man- ageu tne entertainment, and great credit Is due her for the thoroughness and understanding with which the play was given. There were seven principal characters besides the dancers and huskera. as many as twenty pupils taking part in the production. The cast of the play waa as follows: Tbe boy Hiawatha rt Johnsee.

Tbe youth Hiawatha af UliDp)i Xokomis Rubioek The girl Minnehaha Elate Pitcher Tbe maiden Minnehaha Theobald Iagoo Kidder The arrow-maker George Vogel iDancers. hnskers. ete. The programme ot the entertainment was also a feature of the children's day, and made a pretty souvenir of the occasion. The front i page was decorated by a picture representing the one reproduced on the stage with Mlnne.

hah a seated before the tent, and Hiawatha standing In front of her. It waa drawn by L. Brannhold, as were the smaller pictures of Indian pipes and other articles which decorated the inner pages of the programme. The play was given for the benefit ot the Schiller school kindergarten fund. Before It was given Dr.

David Beaton delivered a short address on, Longfellow. ON THE CARE OF CHILDREN. I'sef al Pamphlet by the Assistant Health Commissioner. Dr. F.

W. Bellly. assistant commissioner of health, has prepared a pamphlet on "Hot- -Weather Care of Infants and Young Children." Besides directions for the care of children, the pamphlet contains advice on matters which will tend to decrease the Infant mortality In Chicago. The circular Is begun as follows: "Out of every 100 deaths In the city of Chi cago for some years past, forty-five are of young children, under 6 years of age. Of these forty-five, two thirds are of babies (infants under 1 year of age), and more than one-third of these infants and young children die in the two hot summer months.

July and August. The weather cannot be changed, but proper feeding, suitable clothing, cleanliness, and fresh air will do much to make baby and child life more comfortable, to ward off slcknees. and to prevent death In any weather. The following advice is offered by the department ot health for this purpose." Copies ot this circular are obtainable at the offices of the department tn the city hall. NO DUTY ON PEACH KERNELS.

Jadsje KsUiaai Decides They Are Ttot to Be Considered Hats. Imported peach kernels were held by Judge Koblsaat In the United States Circuit court yesterday not to be considered; as nuts, and not dutiable. The decision was given In the appeal ot the collector of customs from the finding of the board of general appraisers ot Washington. Several months sgo the wbole- mle firm of Chapman Smith Imported A lot of peach kernels and sought to get them through tbe custom-bouse free of duty. The collector of the port thought the shipment should be tsxed as nuts, and he appealed from tbe order of the board, which had decided otherwise.

PRISON SENTENCES VACATED. Jada-e Barke Acts la Levr-Rltter-O'Mira Conspiracy Case. Judge JBurke yesterday vacated the penitentiary sentence Imposed by a Jury several months ago on Edgar S. Low, George W. Rtt-ter.

and W. O'Mara. members ot an allege! detective agency, and upon their pleading guilty to the charge of conspiracy fined them. Low was fined $400, and the others 1200 each. Over a year ago John Adams was given a severe beating by O'Mara, and the latter represented that he had been hired to do the work by Low and Rltter.

The three men were Indicted on the charge of conspiracy asl convicted..