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Forty-Four Pages Part Three; VOL. NO. 24 1. CHICAGO, SUNDAY, XOVEMBER 20, 1898. FORTY-FOUR PAGES.

PAGES 25 TO 3G: INSANITY IN RELIGION Chicago Experts Criticise the Charges of Dr. Talcott. DISEASE ONE OF HEREDITY Doctors and Pastors Curiously Di-. vided on the Subject Former Insist Talcott la Wttf. While Scbic Clergymen Think He May Be Rllit.

Is the Lurch aisle the high road to an Insane asylum? Doctor Seldou H. Talcott, head of the Mlddletown (N. Hospital for Insane, and one of the world's greatest alienists, says that It Is. Chicago physicians almost to a man not only disagree With hlio, but say that his utatement Is an absurdity ol absurdities. Strange as it may appear.

Dr. Talcott finds a few tndorsers of bis theory among the very men who naturally would b- expected to denounce it the clergymen cl Chicago. Dr. Talcott Intimates that religion Is. frequently presented in such a way "that the shock of fear blights the forces of growing youth, and an agony of remorse for tin in allowed to produce worry by day and Insomnia by night, until physical and mental development Is effectually arrested, and Insanity results.

Says Dr. Brewer. Dr. 1). R.

rower of Chiragc, when askei his opinion of the Eastern alienist's statement, said bluntly: "It's ridiculous on the face of It. There is not now and never has been since the world began such a thing as religious Insanity. When you hear that a person has gouo crasy over religion make up your mind at once that the statement is untrue. A man Is a lunatic; he raves over religion, and the superficial observer at once says that Is religious Insanity. There never was a case of insanity developed in a single generation.

The foundations for the mental disease were laid generations back. There was an hereditary predisposition to insanity in the victim, and a great excitement over any cause, political, religious, literary, oratorical, or anything else will, when the time is ilpe. send him to an asylum; but to call his disease political, or religious, or any other kind of insanity. Is the height of absurdity. It frequently occurs that Insane patients constantly talk of religion after becoming, mentally unbalanced, even though they never opened a Bible or heard a prayer In their lives.

This peculiarity of the insane leads the physician who examines superficially, and who knows but little of mental diseases, to dub the trouble religious insanity. Absurd!" "Correct," Ss Treacher Thomas. Dr. Brower. as a physician, might possibly have been expected to agree with his Eastern colleague, but his disagreement with him was diametrical.

Now here is a' clergyman who might be expected to disagree with a man criticising religious teaching, but who, on the contrary, agrees with him heartily and indorses every word he says. Dr. H. W. Thomas of the People's church read Dr.

Talcott's statements, and then said, "Every word that this New York physician has said Is the eternal truth. The world does not know," and Dr. Thomas' eyes flashed as he said this, "the mental and heart torture that came through religious teaching of the past. The old conceptions of God. not as a Father, but as an arbitrary king, a conception of total depravity, penal atonement, of the judgment day, and of endless, fiery torment, wre enough to drive a world crazy.

Wher su. methods of teaching are employ lay. here fear instead of love is made i here are rowed the seeds of In sai. in my own experience I have known almost hundreds of cases where minds were hurt by unhealthy religious excitement. One of the most sacred things is to unfold the great truths of religion to the minds of children and youths, and it should be done not dogmatically but from the the heart side.

In our own age of the world It Is positively wicked to bring be-fora the rising generation the old and horrible views once taught in the name of religion." "Blasphemy," Saya Father Byrnes. "Blasphemy, blasphemy said the Rer. Father Byrnes of the Holy Name cathedral, when he read Dr. Talcott's remarks on religion and insanity. "This man may be at the head of his profession, but when he gets outside of his calling he does not know what he la talking about.

We don't rule by fear, nowadays, at any rate, and I have yet to know of a case, so far as my own church is concerned, at least, where Instruction in the love of God drove any one crazy. I suppose it is true that there Is an occasional case where a boy gets spanked for neglecting to learn his catechism. I myself distinctly remember being thrashed for a neglect of this duty, but it didn't drive me Insane, and the boy who cannot stand a mild trouncing on the strength of a religious matter without going crazy hasn't much of either physical or moral stamina. The church rules by love. Its teachings bring peace to the soul, not trouble.

It is only to the occasional hardened sinner that the wrath of God over continued evil doing Is mentioned. Hardened sinners, by the way, are not the kind that lose their mental balance over religion. No, no; this doctor is not in touch with methods of the Catholic church at least." "Hot," Is Ur. Cle veneer's Verdict. Dr.

S. V. Clevenger, for years at the head of the Kankakee (III.) insane asylum, said he had read Dr. Talcott's remarks on certain methods of teaching religion being productive of insanity. Then he continued: "You may put me down as saying that this ssplcnt doctor is the laughing stock of the alienists of Europe and America.

Why, It Is only a few years ago tlf.it he declared the number of insane farmers was abnormal and that their Insanity was caused by early rising and the eating of potatoes. Here is a work of mine a paragraph from which will give you the thing in a nutshell: 'Wars and political and religious excitement merely give color to pre-existing Insanity and are seldom causes in themselves. Poetically there la no religious Insanity nor political People are weak-minded from causes' occurring through the generations. Some great excitement makes them crasy. Grant you it may be a religious revival or religious teaching that causes tem to fear the wrath of God and they go insane.

But, mind you, also, their insanity came not because the cause was religious, but because It was exciting. This Eastern physlcan jumps to false conclusions. What he writes is ill digested. As a matter of fact. It Is little short of 'rot.

The Rev. Mr. Torrey Cites Some Cases. "I suppose there are eases," said the Rer, R. A.

Torrey of the Bible Institute, "where young people physically weak might be driven Into insomnia and then into Insanity by having 'hell preached Into them' constantly. In other words, if God as a master instead of God as a father was the aspect of the Deity which they are taught, I believe in some cases lunacy might result. To this extent I agree with the Eastern alienist Let me change religion into Irreligion. and what he says is gospel truth Itself. There are many people who are convinced of the truths of religion, but who will not accept Christ.

These people frequently go insane and then in their Insanity they harp constantly upon religion. This leads the -unthinking to say That man was driven crazy by where, as a matter of fact, Irreligion was at the root of bis trouble. I know a man in Minneapolis who was Irreligious Inasmuch as he had not nil would not accept Christ; yet, peculiar as it may seem, he had an idea that he bad committed the unpardonable sin. He went violently Insane. The influences of religion were brought to bear on that man and the seeds of insanity which were sown by irreligion were killed.

He recovered fully and is a consistent believer today. Irreligion caused another man not far from here to be mono-maniacal and to attempt suicide by morphine four tla.es. Religion saved that man. Of course, I cannot give his name, but he Is one of the great merchahts of Chicago. Doubt, which led to his Insanity and to his attempt on hla life, bas given place to that implicit belief which brings peace in Its wake.

Within the week I have ministered to a man who was driven violently Insane by. Irreligion. This man is now mentally restored, and in duo time will accept the great Physician whose ministrations preclude any thought of mental disturbance." Cossty Physician Fsrtser'i Vlewi. County Physician E. A.

Fortner, who Is in charge of the detention hospital, has in the course of a. year many insane patients temporarily under his care. "I am not an alienist." said Dr. Fortner, "and have never pretended to be. but I will say this: I don't agree with Dr.

Talcott's Idea that the church airle Is a much-trodden path to the madhouse. Insanity Is to the largest extent a matter of heredity and environment. I suppose if a boy had a weak body and a predisposition to a weak mentality that the preaching of hell fire at him -for a while would send him over to be- placed temporarily under my care. People, preachers included, are getting more and more to believe tuat the basis of religion is love. It seems to me they have been feeling this way for some time, and, unless things an done differently In New York from what they are4n IlllnoU I cannot see where Dr.

Talcott gets his data for his observations on religion as a cause of insanity. I will say this, however, if It gives a crumb of comfort to any believer In his theory, that, while there are comparatively few Salvation array soldiers In Chicago, I have had three of the members under my care suffering from acute mania. However, this doesn't prove a thing; except, possibly, that the Salvation army services, being-of an emotional character, produced the excitement which was necessary to bring out the Insanity which bad come down through III 11(1 II III I IK i'liT i 1 Tiii i11 iiii hi ri ii ailFinl ii i iTi urn -iSnti. A CT1 generations. People In other religious bodies, with the same predisposition to insanity, might escape scot free because the exciting cause was lacking." Salvation Army Emotion Defended.

"Oh, yes. I know," said General Secretary Damon of the Salvation army. "People have an idea that our methods are too emotional and too exciting. I don't know whether this Eastern doctor bad the Salvation army in mind or not, but I think we teach God's love much more than God's wrath. I have known of cases of insanity among people moved by tbe emotions of religion, but I think that in every case their minds must have been unhinged before.

If a physically and mentally sound man geta Into a lunatic asylum just after he bas made a profession of religion you may put it down as a pretty sure thing that his religion got Into bis bead, but never touched his heart. It'a the sinner who lies awake nlghta, and not the righteous man. If a man goes crazy thinking what a tough character be is and does not seek the solace to be found In Christ, his Insanity certainly cannot be called religious insanity, though most people would doubtless so name It. The Salvation army is In tho world for a purpose. The people that we reach cannot be reached by ordinary church methods.

In order to get the people that we are after, we must beat a drum, thump a tambourine, and sing sacred words to the tune of There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight. Now, such methods may bo essentially emotional and exciting, but I do not believe that they ever drove any formerly well-balanced person Into, the enforced society of madmen." Rcr. Mr. Henry Scores Emotionalism. Cp In Lake View the other night there was a crusade against vice of the Red and Green sort, led by the Rev.

J. Q. A. Henry, who dropped tL leadership long enough to say a word about religion and Insanity. "Yes," he said.

"I suppose insanity does spring some times from religion, but many more times it springs from a want of religion. It Is un doubtedly true that religious truxn may presented such a way and under such circumstances as to produce a religious monomania. As a rule, however. It results from an unscriptural presentation or tne trtrth. The scriptures" do Bdt lay' chief em phasis on fear, but they appeal rather to the nobler motives of love ana ngnteousness.

I have known cases which bear out what the Eastern doctor says. The unfortunates, however, were not members of my I do not appeal to tbe emotions. I endeavor always to appeal to the Judgment of men. Hero Is a fact: There Is a certain form of animalistic spirit that is frequently taken for spiritual power. Is cbaraoteristto of the old-fashioned camp meei and revival.

It obtains now chiefly among tho negroes of the South, although It Is met with in other places. The pjeople who have this animalistic spirit go Into a sort of hysterical ecstasies, and this state, I suppose, produces insanity. As a matter of fact, most people who go off at a tangent are not 'well balanced anyway." Among; the Gods. "Geer said Mars, "I've lad to work thl summer." "Yes," assented Jupiter, "and you have made me work harder, too-, I've had to make my hailstones as big as ostrich eggs to get any space in the papers at all." Indianapolis Journal. NOW WEARING CRAPE Evanston'n High Ideal Clutr Puts On Badgaxif Mourning.

WOE OVER THE ELECTION Professor Podgers and Followers Discuss Their Defeat. Describe Their Bad Experience Jn Try-Insr to Koree Honest John Into Iletlrenren(. The Higher Ideal club of Evanston. which is composed of the very best people on the North Shore, held its regular weekly meeting at No. 411 Evergreen avenue last Thursday evening.

This, was the first gathering of the Higher Idealists since the vote in the Seventh Senatorial district was officially announced. At the previous meeting the worst was feared, but the members had bravely suppressed their emotions, hoping that some of the missing precincts in the celery districts of Niles Center and New Trier would change the result. This hope was now banished. It was known that the common person with the undent growth of spinach who owns a truck garden at Orland, In the neighboring township of Cicero, had been triumphantly elected, in spite of all protests from the very best people of the North Shore, and that George Patterson Engelhard and Patrick Henry O'Neill had received what tho residents of the Fourth ward vulgarly call the clammy band of an enlightened electorate. As a consequence of this disaster' the gloom was so thick around the Hlgh- FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR THE SUNDAY INTER OCEAN BY COMMODORE III CH e- Ideal club house that the fog horn began to blow at Grosse Point.

"Never before In the history of this organization," remarked Professor Emory Glade Podgers, as be took tho chair, "has it fallen to my lot to preside over a funeral. Will the secretary read the litany for the departed?" Half-stifled sobs were heard in ail parts of thtr room while tbe official designated was calling the roll of the recently deceased, and at its conclusion a dirge was performed on the which moistened the plaster and caused a crack in the celling. Sad Experience at Polls. "I think," said the professor, as the-last notes faded away, leaving Davis street deserted, "that it will not be deemed Inappropriate if I recall to the minds of the members of this club the fact that we are confronted with some astounding problems. While It was impossible for us to foresee the calamity that has befallen us as a people, yet it was our duty to bo prepared for a Jolt I should say a There are times In ohr Uvea when wo must stand face to face with disaster.

I was present at the Second precinct of the' Fourth ward on election day when a man entered whom I had never met at the Evanston club. Naturally. I did not know him. He asked me if I had a score Seeing that I did not comprehend his question, he asked me if I bad kept tab on the dubs. I Immediately quitted tho place, tearing that I might be in the presence of some person from the Calvary district.

It was not until I met Mr. Childs of the Index an hour later that I discovered what this man meant by his questions. Mr. Childs ventured to say, from the description I had given of tho person, that his name was Billy Goodwin, who was known as tho Whole Thing in the FoUrth, and that, evidently mistaking me some person residing south of Greenieaf street, he thought I mlghr have checked off those independent Republicans who were casting their ballots for our lately esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. Engelhard.

This, I hope, will be sufficient to illustrate bow necessary it Is for us to bo up and doing, with a heart for any Still, ach Mr. Wyche Sleets Ton ah People. want to add my testimony to that of our president." said Mr. Dlkiam. Wyche, who stands among the most eminent and self-sacrlnclng citizens east of the Ridge.

"It became my duty an election day to visit the Third-ward precinct. The committee which bad charge of Mr. Engelhard's. and Mr. O'Neil's cr.mpalgns bad decided that little vould be done for the glorious cause we all ba-.

at heart In the Lower Wards, but It was the prevailing opinion among us that it would do no harm If we should show ourselves to the plain No sooner bad I entered what should bo a sacred lnclosure than I was approached by a short, ruddy-faced fat man. Said be to me, 'How are the sanctified T' I was as much puzzled as my friend, Mr. Podgers. Tbe sanctified 2 exclaimed. What do you mean, my dear manr said he, and I blush to tell of It before this gathering of the very best people on the North Shore, 'perhaps you will understand ma If I ask bow tbe dough-face push is dolngr" "My!" exclaimed Mr.

Ccgti Gllson, one of the most respectable residents on tho Milwaukee division of the Chicago and Northwestern railway. 'Mjl Disgusting, Ahm shuah! i "2 took tbe little man aside," continued Mr. Wyche. "and-oxplalned to him as simply as I could what the very best people of the North Shore were endeavoring to accomplish. I told him that there were vast interests, real estate and at stake In this contest.

'Are you convinced I asked when be bad partially recovered himself. 'If you are smoke "It must have been a touching scene," observed a member of the Evanston All Day Whist club, who had been banging eagerly on the speaker's words. Kate of Wyebe'n "Toreh. "It was," continued Mr. 'Wyche.

"cost touching. Instead of telling as I expected be would, that thenceforth we should jflnd him on the side of all that Is chaste and pure and beautiful, he took the cigar which be bad just lighted from his mouth and asked. 'Where did you get this ropeT' This what?" I txclaimed, id astonishment. This be replied, I saw at once that be was alluding to the cigar and I remembered that it bad been banded to me earlier In the day by my friend. Professor Poe.

'Is It not a good I asked, still in a quandary as to what might be coming next 'It la, replied the little fat man, 'I will extinguish It uow and save It for tbe spring campaign. With this cigar I can overcome the student vote of Evanston the next mayoralty election. It is the beat hall-clearer I have ever struck and yet I sometimes ride in the smoker or Jim Knight's train. 'When I heard this I bowed coldly and "It is clear to me." remarked the president," "that the studsnt vote la about to be attacked. We cannot tolerate this.

It may te held that these young men are mere strangers, and have so right to cast their ballots here. This is tUe opinion prevalent in some-of the less wards. Bu If the students had Qot voted last Tuesday where would our recently esteemed, candl-. date, Mr. Engelhard, have found himself "In the began a gentleman In the center of the hall, but his voice waa Immediately drowned with the cries of "Order!" a "Our president 'has struck tbe keynote." remarked a gentleman who Is regarded everywhere between Da via street and the lighthouse as a leader among the best people on the North Shore.

The student vote must be protected at any cost, for It stands between ua and everything that Is debasing NEW NAVAL ACADEMY AT ANNAPOLIS. and degrading in politics. We own IL It is ours. We can use Jt as we please. Now, that tho American steel trust Is about to open factories west of the track, and bring workingmen into this city, it is more than ever necessary that we shall stuff "I think this -natter would be more properly discussed in a meeting of the executive committee," remarked the president.

"We all realize tho necessity, of protecting tbe ballot-box from the classes Clah Pots OB irsli(. "I would mi Mr.Presldent," said Mr. Wyche, "that the members of the Higher Ideal club wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days." "Wo must be constantly on our guard." said tbe president, "for we see that every species of trickery Is resorted to in order to crush the Higher Ideals in politics. It was only yesterday that a gentleman named Charles Bartlett, who iives south of our line, suggested to me that -our failure to elect Engelhard was due to the fact that Humphrey- bad flooded tbe outlying townships with the proceedings of the Saratoga rainmakers' in whioa ma and Carl Schurs took an active part. Iet us, then.

be up and doing with a heart for any 'I move we adjourn," interrupted one of the members from Benson avenue, "tbere'e a small game The club stands adjourned for one week." announced the president, sternly, and a rush was made for the drug stores. HE GOT A LESSON IN SPANISH. Chicago ttsdrst Wso Hna Mastered the Mystery of the One of the students of the University of Chicago went to a 'restaurant on Jackson street a few days ago wltb two friends who bad fought wltb the First regiment at Santiago. Naturally they talked of the war. and although the student showed considerable knowledge pi the, campaign, bia pronunciation of Spanish proper names was bad.

Invariably be gave the Spanish Its English sound. His companions, who were better posted on tbe Castllian tongue, stood it as long as they and Anally one of them said: here, If you want to talk war wltb us you must "pronounce those Spanish words as they should be. Say 'San Huan' and andT remember that 'Hunta' Is proper. Don't give the words the 'J' sound. There la no It's pronounced 'H' always." la it returned tbe student wltb a sneer of sarcasm, for he was getting angry.

"Then I suppose your name Is Hohn, not as It used to be before you went to Cuba; and perhaps you want me to tell you that this restaurant Is on 'Hackson street." Tbe derisive laugh that followed so angered the student that he leaped to bis feet. "I want you to understand," be shouted, "that I am a hentlemaai Hump onto me, you hackasses and I'll show you this is no boking matter. By the bumping Herusalem, yo haven't any more sense than a hackrabblt. If you Insinuate that I'm a country bake, I'll break your haw. By Himlny, I'm And the lndlgnaut ttuient put on bis hat ana stalked out.

IN SHOP GIRLS HOTEL Scsne at the Salvation Army'? I lodging House for Women. GUESTS HAVE NO BAGGAGE Scotch Girl Impresses Patrons with Virtues of Soap. Hotel la lard Mainly hy Transient What Think Cheapness Its Hsla The Mlna hotel. No. S44 Wabash avenue, la one hostelry In Chicago at which guests without luggage are not looked upon with suspicion.

In facC people who bring their trunks with them are regarded curiously. The Mlna hotel Is for women only, and Is run by the Salvation army. Any woman who bas 15 cents in her pocketbook can put up over night at the Mlna, and If she has a dollar she can stay there a week. When Consul Mrs. Booth-Tucker was In Chicago last week aba was especially Interested in the place, and drove over one stormy evening to take tea with tbe managers.

Captain Clara Van der Schoben and Miss Morris, her assistant. The hotel is named for tbe consul's 1U tie girl, and waa opened six weeks ago. will accommodate forty people, and now bas an average of eight to ten lodgers. patrons come and go. sleeping there for a night, perhaps, and then disappearing No questions are asked by the hotel clerk, a Salvation army lass, wltb a thick Scotch burr in ber speech.

BORN. CHIEF CONSTRUCTOR, P. 8. NAVT. "Ah, yes.

she says, "every buddy guesses It verra quickly. I'm from Ayrshire, close to where -Bobby -Burns lived. Maybe a good many of ye out here have beard Bobby Burner With true Scotch thrift. Mlsa Morris looks out pretty well that her lodgers have tbe necessary IS cents, and that it Is paid down before a bed Is secured. Beyond that, she is not Inquisitive, and boarders may keep their own secrets.

They are nearly always given a bint that the bathroom has nice hot water in it. The little Scotch woman being very ueat, and scrubbing her own rosy face until it ahines. sometimes dilates eloquently upon the beauties of soap and water. Lodsera at the Minn. Meals are not furnished at the Mlna hotel.

Tbe captain and her helpers cook for themselves. The lodgers take meals out and the captain is afraid that many a time they go to bed hungry. The lodging-house is 1 attended to furnish rooms within the means of cash girls, the poorer class of ahop girls, and servant girls who do not room in tbe bouses where they work. So far the patrons have been of this class, but migratory, stopping in for a night when out of a place to lay their beads. The Mlna hotel occupies the quarters formerly used by the training garrison of the army." A visitor goes up two' flights of oilcloth covered stairs.

At the top there is a neat and well furnished private parlor with rugs, pictures, books, and easy chairs. A cheerful coal fire burns In a shiny stove, and three handsome Bibles are ranged on a center table in front. The Scotch lass Is rocking and bumming, a tune. The old cook on the other side of the table Is knitting. Darkness is falling outside and the lamps struggle to light the street through the chill, foggy air.

Tbe cars, now passing In an almost uninterrupted string, are packed with people who have homes to go to, and are hurrying from work. At 'a step on the stair the cook gets up, goes down the narrow ball, and puts the kettle on for tea. The captain is coming. She baa been over at the training garrison all the afternoon borrowing the use of their sewing machine to make aprons for herself and the Scotch lass. Captain Clara and Miss Morris have a pleasant sleeping-room adjoining the parlor.

It is carpeted and furnished in the best of taste. In white and blue. Next that Is the room for their servant, the cook, and a little further on is the library. This Is a comfortable room, more a parlor for the patrons of the place than a library. About the only reading matter so far are the Salvation army papers, with nearly every day some of the Chicago dailies brought.

tn by the boarders. 4 Arrangement of tho Hotel. It Is a happy family of three that manages the Mlna hotel. The captain is the head and front of the enterprise, and bas bad about five years' experience in army work. She Is a tall, pale girl of 23 or 24, good looking, and of pleasant address.

She came from Pontlac, to take charge of the Mlna hotel. Between 8 and 7:30 o'clock at night the lodgers begin to come in. They sleep In dormitories down the hall, which the Scotch clerk is always glad to show to visitors, as she prides herself on their neatness. Three dormitories run from rooms of ordinary size to, eompTshat.JarKer. 'Tbeti are eight of them, with single beds for forty people.

Only about one-fourth so far are occupied. The beds are plain, wooden cots, furnished with straw mattresses, double blankets, and heavy blue and white coverlets. One of the rooms has seven of these cots, while another room of small size bas two. Each room bas two lockers, to that if any lodgers by chance should bring luggage there would be a place to store their wardrobes. The rooms have no ruga or carpets, but are apparently quite clean.

There Is no furniture beyond tho beds, and the lockers built to tbe wails. There is a big coal stove at the end of the corridor, between the dormitories, and one bathroom. The lodgers are singularly quiet and nar conuaaaicative. They do not talk among themselves, but slip ta, band tbe captain or the clerk 15 cents, and hurry to bed and to sleep. Whether they work in the day or do not work, tho captain says.

Is mainly a mat ter of conjecture. They conduct themselves well, two or three saying that they work I.i restaurants In the daytime. One boarder came on the day the house wss opened brought ber trunk, and Is there yet. She is a familiar figure In the office buildings up town, where peddlers are not barred. She Is an old woman with a gentle face and white hair.

Nobcdy knows her story, but It is pat ent to all the little household that she has seen better days. She la very reticent, never talks of herself or her earnings. She sells a very little. It la surmised, for she is often la arrears for her board. The only lodger In the establishment that she ever talks to Is bright little girl who works In a restaurant and who has lived at the lodging-house nearly a month.

Tbe two are great eronles. and many a piece of pastry, bit of chicken, or other edibles are smuggled over by the girls an divided wKh tbe old peddler. Captain Van der Schoben expects that when tho hotel Is full of lodgers it will pay expenses. For the present it does not, as the rent amounts to f50 a month. SHE BURIED THE WRONG BOX.

Mistake at a Fnnernl Which Made Even the Monrnera Lasgs. It Is not often that a man's funeral Is funny enough to make his near relative laugh. This, however, is what happened at tbe funeral of Dr. Kellogg of Ashland. Ohio.

The Kellogg family is an old and respected one in town, and, as often happens In old families of small towns. Is connected with nearly every other family In the town. Dr. Kellogg died in New York. He was a widower, without any children, and left orders In bis will for bis body to be cremated and the ashes deposited in the grave of bis wife at Ashland.

Mrs. Patterson, a cousin, was directed to carry out this request. The death of the doctor cast a gloom over tbe whole big family of kinsfolk. Mrs. Patterson telegraphed directions for the cremation of the body, and watched anxiously for the arrival of the remains.

One morning tha expressman drove up wltb tbe box. A funeral was held, and attended by Ashland in a body. The wife's grave was opened, the box deposited solemnly, and the mourners dispersed. A few days afterward Mrs. Patterson received a small sine box, about tbe size of the first.

She was horrified to find that this last box undoubtedly contained the ashes of her cousin. Dr. Kellogg. She knew, of course, at once, that something else, no telling what, had been deposited in the cemetery In lieu of the doctor. A quiet Investigation was made.

It was found that another Mrs. Patterson in Ashland, a sister-in-law. had sent a dress to a dye firm tn New York. Tbe box containing this dress bad been deposited In the grave of the lata Mrs. Kellogg.

A second and very quiet burying was held, at which only Mrs. Patterson and the sexton were present. The story waa too good to keep, and was soon passed around. RED INK. A RED MAN'S DRINK.

Great Quantities nf This Flnld Con-anmcd In tndlnn Territory. Vigilant as the deputy marshals are In Indian territory, and drastic as tbe application of the prohibition law by the courts may be, several kinds of-intoxication safely defy all statutory provisions. Amazing quantities of Jamaica ginger are consumed In the territory. The stores handle ginger as a legitimate drug. A teaspoonful will cause choking and coughing for several minutes in a throat unaccustomed to swallowing the powerful stuff.

But there are men in the territory who drink two or three bottles a day with apparent satisfaction to their educated stomachs. More Jamaica ginger is sold in the Indian territory than in half a dozen state! where whisky selling is licensed. Red Ink Is another favorite territory tipple. This' is not a nickname for eomethlng'else. The ordinary red ink which the bookstores of the states sell for wilting purposes Is a beverage in parts of this country.

The ink drinker of cultivated tastes will buy bottles by the half-dozen at a time and swallow the contents with relish. Essences which sell elsewhere for flavoring purposes are drinks undeF this civilization. Anything which has a basis of alcohol Is in demand. Intoxication is craved, and the stomach of tbe Indian territory drinker does not quarrel with tbe form In which It cop-es. Wood alcohol, accounted poison In most parts of the country, is consumed In considerable quantities.

The peddlers buy it in Oklahoma, dilute It with water, and sell it by the pint on this side of the line. STARS AHEAD OFTIME But Chicago Astronomer? Gat Sight of Blue Leonids. SORT OF ADVANCE AGENTS Big Show Will Not Take Placa Until -Fall of 1899. Urand Display of Rnddy Andromedea Will Ocrar, However, tVIthoat Fall, Sext I ssday. People who sat up looking for meteors Monday and Tuesday nights were a year -ahead of time.

Even if the sky bad been unclouded astronomers did not expect to see a display of falling stars. The Leonids return every thirty-three years, on Nov. 13. or within a day or so of that time, and the last display wai In 1866. Next year we shall reach tbe "gem of tbe meteoric ring," and people who are fond of celestial fireworks will not be disappointed probably in the entertainment.

In the year preceding and the year following tbe main star shower many stragglers of tbe outer circle of tbe me- teor's swarm are likely to strike toward tho earth ma rapid advance agents of tbe shew. Nov. 27, however. oT this year is tbe time for tbe regular thirteenth-year appearance of the Andromedes. and a fine display may be -expected.

Meteors at Lake Geneva. Astronomers In Chicago and vicinity bad. about aa good a view of the Leonids on Tuesday night as observers anywhere In this country. The sky for three nlghta waa overcast with clouds, and tbe Leonid family disappointed ordinary watchers. Professor Barnard of the Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva was laying for the meteors with a sclen- tlflc camera.

He got a shot at a couple of hundred between and 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Many were of the first magnitude, leaving a brilliant trail cf light, wltb a bluish green tinge. Others were very faint. Pro fessor Barnard considers that the display rr- gues well for a brilliant shower next year. The meteors observed dashed to tbe earth at the rate of forty-four miles a second, attain- Ing the greatest velocity of any shooting stars.

They appeared 100 degrees from tbe radiant. By far the greater number appeared in the Western sky. although later in the morning seme appeared In the East. They were all a day later than astronomers bad calculated upon, owing to disturbances from the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Professor Bar-rard took his observations from tbe roof of the observatory and sscured some fine photographs.

Professor Bacon of Beloit, caught a glimpse of one brilliant meteor which lighted up the whole zenith about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning and left hlnf train ia. the heavens. Professor Huff of the Dearborn observatory, Evanston. was not able to make any observa tions owing to the clouded sky. At Princeton.

N. Prorcssor Xoung report- that the meteoric shower was feeble but distinct. Professor Toung concludes his report by saying that everything now points to a grand exhibition of the Leonids next year, and adds the discouraging intorma- tion that "it Is probable, however, that the display will be visible only to China and a part of Europe." At Columbia university, ana at tbe Lick observatory a few straggling met or were seen. Hla: Show Xext Sunday. Astronomers all declare that Nov.

27 ought to furnish a good exhibition when the Andromedes. following In the track of Biela'a last comet, will -visit the earth. Unlike the Le- onlds. the shower of Andromedes can be viewed from early evening till morning. The Andromedes radiate from tbe star Gamma, at the feet of Andromeda, the same beautiful double star referred to so charmingly by Oliver Wendell Holmes In "The Poet at the Breakfast Table." In order to find this stsr the observer must follow the line indicated oy the pointers In the Great Dipper as far as the nnl atar.

and continue tne line on ine tmir mAa nf tha nnl star as far as the middle of the right-band stroke of the Inverted- In Cassiopeia. This line, continued on as far as Andromeda, points almost cureciiy io u- dromeda. However, for those who are unwilling to look for the dipper, the pointers, tbe pole star. Cassiopeia, and so on to uamnxa Anaromeaa, there la another and simpler way. At aoour.

half nast 9 o'clock the point In question is so nearly overhead that, to ordinary observation. tho meteors radiating from mar. point seem to travel directly toward the horizon, vertically If seen near the horizon, and from Milni nverhcad If seen hich UP. THs tracks of those seen nearest to the horizon will be longer than those of the meteors seen acgner up. The Andromedes are of a ruddy hue and wltb only short trains, moving slowly ss compared with the Leonids, since they drift along in the same direction as nnu.

famous shower of If the Leonids are visible In the Culled States next yesr It will be an occasion i remember. In 1833 an observer relates oi me display that "he never raw snowflakes thicker In a storm than were the meteors in the sky at some moments." During the five or six hours of the display 250,000 meteors were counted by observers in Boston. The colored people In. the Southern states were overcome with terror, ana supposea me uu world was at band. A planter was aroused from slumber by one of his slaves, who knocked at the door, shrieking.

ei p. massa! The anjrel Gabriel will nave aono blown his trump If you ain't up In "Starland Professor nail relates im n.ri.ip of a Mr. Kirk wood or fcoutn Caro lina, who describes the effect of the meteorle display on the plantation workers ss follows: 'I was suddenly awaaenea cy ue icosi u- cries that ever tell on my ears. Shrieks of horror and cries for mercy could be heard, and. while earnestly listening for the cause.

I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and, taking my eword. stood at the door. At tbat moment I heard the same voice beseecning me to arise. and crying out that the world was on fite.

I then opened the door, and It is ditnruit to ssy which excited me tbe most the awful- nees of tpe scene or the distressed cries or me men. Upward of a hundred lay prostrate on the ground some speechless, and rome with the bitterest cries, raising Jbeir bsnds and praying for mercy. The scene was truly swful. for never did rain fall much thicker than tbe meteors fell toward the-earth." A Matrnaalmona Sister. "Mamma gave you the biggest piece of said 6-year-old Tommy to bis littlo sister.

"She always gives you the most of everything." "Well, never mind. Tommy," replied the little girl; "she Is going to put mustard plasters on us tonight when we go to bed. and I'll ask her to give you the biggest." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. An Aristocrat. Broncho Bill Since PistolFete dug up that tree the boys hung bis father on and planted It In his front yard, he got awful proud.

Tenderfoot Proud hat Is there about that to make him proud? Broncho Bill Why. he's now the only roan In town with an authentic family tree, New York Journal..