The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 3

TO SPEAK. counties will give their usual Democratlo vote. I Got. Beckham Will Open Ills Campaign Sept. 3.

HENDERSON THE PLACE. ZX-OOT. rtPCBZABY TO SZ HIABD AT THB SAXB TDtt. WILL START STATE BATTLE. Toons; Ken's Democratia Club Vests and Discusses Election Law Hatter.

sot, losq caw hot. sxbvb. i Oiw HsiiiTmib la to owk hie first emmpalgn speech on, September and it rUl delivered at Hnderon. TBx-Gov. MeCreary win be heard at the am tlma Tha Damoeratlo Campaign OoBMnlttaa aa announced yesterday.

Wbn Oor. Beckham appeared bafora tha committe laat Saturday ha placed himself la Ita haada and said ha would devot aa much tlma to hla campaign and canvass aa ba could apara from hla official duties. Monday ha wss to tha city again and had a conference with gome of tha members of tha oommlttaa, and It waa decided to aaalgn him to tha Henderson data with Mr. MeCreary. Gov.

Beckham will go to Henderaon. from Frankfort on tha day of' hla apeech and return Immediately to Frankfort. Ba wCl make other apeechea daring tha campaign, btrtt' ha haa not keen assigned to other dates, aa tha committee doea not know tba daya ha can leave Frankfort. Mr. MeCreary will also make a num ber of other apeechea urine tha cam- paign, uui no ouier nam beau aaalcned him.

Aa chi tha Committee ba actively engaged la directing the campaign during moat of tha time, but whenever ba can apara a day ba wm ba found on tha boating. Secretary LaMlng said laat night In making pub-llo Got. Beckham's date that ba thought tha committee would arrange for others In the near futura, Congressman A. 8. Berry, of tha Sixth district, waa assigned yesterday to apeak at Louisa.

Lawrence on August 17 In tha Interest of tha candidacy of, J. N. Kehoe, the Democratlo aandldata for Congress In the Ninth dls-trtct--JJ la County Court day there and tha gathering will mark tha opening of tha campaign In tha Ninth district. Secretary Lasslng will go to Walton to-day to make final arrangements for tha primary in tha Sixth congressional district, which ia to be held on September 22. He will return to-night Mr.

MeCreary will also return to headquarters to-day after aa absence of a few daya at hla home In Takes Action On Zlaotion Lav. At tha meeting of tba Toung Men'a "Democratlo Club last night a motion was made that tha Legislature ba petitioned to pass tha Johnson amendment to tba election law, which provides that tha emblems shall ba removed from tha ballot. This resolution waa drawn and submitted, but before a rote waa taken a lively discussion followed. When put to a rote, tha resolution waa lost. Then another one, asking tha Legislature to pass a law similar to tha Ohio election Jaw? waa Introduced.

ThJ also caused discussion. Tha majority of tha members thought that If thla law waa satisfactory to tha Republicans and Democrats of Ohio, it certainly would be to both parties in thla State. The resolution accordingly waa adopted. Mr. Roe made an address on tba trust avll.

pointing out the effect of monopolies upon the worklngman. He quoted the Democratic platform adopted at the Kansas City convention, and dwelt upon Its opposition to trusts. He quoted Senator Teller's apeech In Congress on the subject, and In a general way described tha attitude of tha Republican party to ward trusts. He said that If McKlnley were re-elected they would continue to lire and prosper, notwithstanding that the Republican party bad declared against them in Its platform. The club extended an Invitation to J.

M. Chattereon. Its Pre i dent, to make an addresa-on tha second Tuesday In September on any eubject ha eared to choose. Mr. Long Can Not Serra.

Mr. Charlea R. Long, who baa been mentioned aa tha possible -chairman of tha Democratlo Congressional Campaign Committee, baa notified Judge Gregory and tha party leaders that It would ba Impossible for him to aerva If elected. became of hla business dessauda and tha condition of hla health. A conference will be held thla after noon between Judge Gregory and tha leaders to consider the selection ot a chairman.

Boberts Discusses tha Seventh. B. J. Roberta, a member of tha Republican Campaign Committee from Lexington, waa in the city yeaterday, en route to Chicago, where he will, confer with Ferry 8. Heath regarding campaign literature.

Mr. Roberta haa been placed In charge of the press bureau. and baa opened an office In Lexington, Ha waa asked whom the Republicans In tha Seventh district would nominate for Congress. Ha said that R. P.

Btoll. of Lexington, and H. Clay Howard, of Paris, were moat frequently mentioned, but ha Intimated that the Republicans and Brown Democrats might "fuse' again thla year. In that he did ndt know who would ba the nominee. though ba eald that CoL Breckinridge bad been most frequently mentioned.

Mr. Roberts also said that the race waa attracting little attention from tha Republicans, and no date had even been selected for the convention. Tha Republicans have about decided ta Issue a handbook thla year. If they do, R. W.

of Owensboro. a ll), in all probability. be the editor. Scants Victory In tha Sixth. Mr.

J. B. Duncan, aa attorney of Car. ronton, and Mr. Sanders Craig, also of Carrollton, ware at tha Wlllard Hotel yeaterday.

Mr. Duncan la much Inter-eater In tha present campaign, and Is a great admirer of Oov. Beckham. He baa Just been on a trip over the Sixth district, and reports that there la no doubt of an old-time Democratic majority. The atorles of disaffection In Ken ton axe or no importance, and the alrmaar of wnnf Mr.

Duncan win take tha atump for Bryan and Beckham aa soon aa tha active work of the campaign begins. RUDYARD KIPLING ON STAND. His Testimony Bafora tha Royal Com mission On Hospital Abuses In South Africa. London Times.) Mr. Rudyard Kipling was tha next witness.

In reply to the chairman. Lord Justice Romer, who aaked him to tell hla own etory in hla own way about the condition ot the South African hos pitals, be said: I landed In Cape Town about February a. From that time to tha end of the month I waa generally In and out the Cape Town hospitals. My experience ta confined entirely to the Cape Town hospitals. I went to No.

No. 2 and No. I hospitals not to Woodstock at all. I took particular care to go with tba official doctors In charge of the hospitals, and we discussed an aorta of Indifferent matters. and I asked Incidentally If they had everything that they wanted.

They said there waa no particular strain and tha hospitals ware by no meana fuIL They had everything and did not need anything at alL went ta tha nurse, and I aaked tha nurse: What da you want, because can get things out of the A. M. B. (Absent-Kind ed Beggar) Corps, and there may ba acme odda and endi you may (The reply waa: We want pajamas. DSn't bring them to the store Issue department, but bring them to tha back door.

So I got ninety-eight pairs of pajamas and unloaded them quietly to the nurse. I went to another hospital and I aaked the same question and received practically the same answer that It was not sny good taking It to the officials, but If I would quietly bring pajamas and also slips tbey would feel much obliged, because the nurses said there was a difficulty In getting pillow alipa or pajamas. 1 also bd tha same answer from the nurse of a hospital train. There were three hospitals which I visited In February before there waa any train, when the doctors gave me to understand that they needed nothing, and they were exceedingly well-pleased with themselves. Later la February, about tba time' the Yeomanry were coming over.

I visited the Msltland hospital, a few mlleaxbut of Cape Town. In that hospitals there were a large number ot uneorted men coming out from En- and they bad no medicine ex- boric acid and quinine pills. I went to the druggists, after consulting a professional man. and sent over a few pounds' worth of medicine. They were willing to take things privately, and there waa no acknowledgment, and nons desired, of course; but the general Impression waa that taey got thera quicker that way than through tha store department." In reply to Prof.

Cumrhigbam the wft-neaa If I had given those things openly to the stores I should have got trie people Into trouble, I knew Trom the doctor of tha Msltland through a friend that tbey wanted these drugs. The Army Service Corps and the Royal Army Medical Corps were In want of these thing. It took them, as they aald. forever and ever to get them from the stores department. It saved ttroe to st them otherwise than through tha stores." The chairman: Had they got them?" I do not for a moment say that the stores were not there.

I waa told explicitly that they were there, but could act be got at. We were sending absolutely the same thing that they had. but the things got at once to the pa tl ejus, who would have wanted if bad not sent them. After" that I went with a bospHal train and saw tba wounded come down. There was nothing bad, and everybody waa working very bard.

The system at Cape Town waa alow and cumbrous, and I felt waa much better to have the things sent In another way where a man's life was at stake. I went through four or five town hospitals at Bloemfontelo that waa before we hsd any epidemic and before the waterworks were cut." "What was their condition Vry good; but they were all under eover. I did not go tp the tents. The enteric was beginning then end'there waa an advertisement In tha paper I bad the honor to be connected with Inviting people to give beda and blankets and bedding. The hospitals were pretty clean.

The Dutch had been using them before, and they smelt a bit. That waa before the heavy strain began. I was there twelve daya I left before tha big epidemic. There was no enthusiasm about nursing enterics tbey were long and troublesome, and not as interesting ss the wounded. There was not much heroism about the enterics." -What did you do next?" I went back to the Cspe, snd thera were mora snd more enterics.

The hospitals were perfectly clean, and everybody waa working very bard: but thera waa always this quiet complaint about tba excessive alownesa of getting at anything in the stores. Throughout that waa tha note. I atopped there till the end of April. I waa In South Africa from February to May." -You did not go to Woodstock "Na The air was foul snd the place was simply unspeakable. The drains ran out there, and the place stank.

THOUSANDS IN GINSENG. Tha Plant Successfully Cultivated On Tana Xn Missouri. The St Louts Republic of August contains a page special headed "The Most Valuable Bit ot Farm Land In the World." Some years ago O. P. Millard, of Houston.

Texaa county, Uo, conceived the Idea of cultivating the ginseng plant, which grows wild in parte of Kentucky and The De partment ot Agriculture at Washington assured Mr. Millard that ginseng could not be cultivated, but he obtained a few roots and began hla experiments. These lasted for several years. Now he haa a quarter of an acre of thrifty ginseng. Not until thla year haa Mr, Millard consented to dispose ot a alngle plant, root or seed ot his ginseng stock.

Every aeed was carefully preserved, and planted by htm the following spring. He waa determined that hla stock ahould not run low. But thla year he feela that he haa enough stock for him. elf and that he ran spare some to others who wlah to embark In ginseng culture, He has closed one contract for IK.000 worth of roots and seeds, to be aeiiverea to a niew York man when the crop la gathered In September. Other contracts for auma ranging upward from C5 bring the total amount of Bales for thla year close to 125.000.

All of this supply haa come from the quarter acre tract. A year ago Mr. Millard planted another half acre in ginseng. The great commercial value of gin aeng la due to the act that the Chinese regard it with a superstitious admira tion, and make all sorts of uses of it. They have a particular fancy for cer tain forma of roots.

One of these is the "Manchurian" form, which la much tha ehape of a man. They will pay fabulous sums for these roots, and will preserve them tn handsome glass cases. Mr. Millard thinks he haa a few of these uniquely shaped -roots now, and ta watching them with particular care. The seed sells for five cents each, and the yearling roots for.

twenty cents escn. As aa acre of eight-year-old plants will produce over 3.OOO.0OO seeds, there la little doubt that Mr. Millard knew what he was doing when be stuck ginsenK. gland. uv THE COrrIEK-JOTOXAL, LOUISVILLE.

f.Frora th NVw York Herald y. 1 tk WHfcFm Tas great ctty of Pes In or rather agglomeration ot three chics haa Innumerable gates. 8ixteea rteree the outer walla. From the plan given above will be seen the posit loo of the two gates, knows aa th Sham-Lang and Tong-Chl, of the eastern wall of the Tartar city, which were blown up by the These lie to COOLER WXA.TKE& XZT SZOHT FOB THX OHIO VALLXT.V A DROP IN TEMPERATURE EL Louis, But tha Hot Wars Continues General In tha Lower Xlsalsalppl Ballon. A NUMBER OF PROSTRATIONS.

Washington. Aug. a. Reports received to-night by the Weather Bureau show that the hot wave coutmuee In Southern Indiana, Southern Mlnole, Western Tennessee, Southwest Missouri and quite generally throughout' the lower Mississippi valley, and la the South 'Atlantic and Gulf States. There has been a fall of 10 degrees In St.

Louis and Kansas City, and. tba Indications are for cooler weather In the Ohio valley. r. HXAT BROKE THE SXCOBTX Nina Prostrations At St. Louis, Four ot Them Besultlng; Fatally.

St. Louis. Aug. Nine persons were prostrated by the heat to-day. Four of them, one woman and three men.

died and five were taken to the City Hospital for treatment. To-day waa the hottest August 21 of which there la any record tn St. Louis. The thermometer registered degrees at 4 p. The Indications are for continued fair weather and high temperature.

Overcome By tha Heat Owensboro, Ky- Aug. 21- Special.) Dr. E. Pennington, a well-known physician and one of the delegates to the recent Kansas City Convention, waa overcome by beat to-day and waa found wandering to-night tn a lot back of his office snd incoherently. He was taken to hi horde snd phyaiolans summoned who pronounced his trouble due to the exccsrlve heat.

He Is a brother of the late. Oart- Pennington, formerly atationkeeper at Louisville. Work Practically Suspended. Pana. lit.

Aug. 21. Thla haa been the hottest day ot the year, the thermome i ets THE ALLIES 'ffv-wvii it .1 ft. if i- inp.f.rF LIloio ftarscurie owaot tLfLni ieW f. -v Bin GAW 4t BIRD'S-KTB PLAN OF FEKTN AND ITS WALLS.

the north of the Tung-Chow canal, which enters the city near the wall, separating the Tartar and Chinese cities. The Japancss and Russian troops were on the north of the canal, and after some obstinate resistance from the Chinese oa the walls entered and made their way along the streets leading parallel with the ter standing at 104 In the ahade at 1 o'clock. Business and farming were practically suspended. John Tatea, a farmer residing near Shtnkley, waa overcome In his pasture, and died In a few moments. W.

M. Ryan, a leading farmer of Stonlngton. fell dead while driving from market to his home. Many prostrations are reported. Tvro Fatal Prostrations, Charleston, 8.

CL. Aug. 21. There were six prostrations from beat here during tha day. two ot the eases proving fatal Gage Williams and William Harrison, negroes, who were overcome at the Atlantic Phosphate Works, died within an hour after their prostrations.

The other patienta are all doing welL They are Irene Smith; an unknown woman: A. Balger. of SS Alexander street; George Hoffman, ot Knoxville, and Wash Williams, colored. The highest temperature registered during the day was degrees. Intense Heat In Southeast.

Savannah. Ga Aug. ZL The highest temperature known In years has prevailed along the south Atlantic coast -during the last few' days. At this place the thermometer reached 102 degrees, at Brunswick. 101 degrees.

At other coast citiea the high temperature records have been broken. At Interior points the beat baa been Intense. Few prostrations, however, have been reported. Silent Bain At Owensboro. 7 Owensboro.

Ky' Aug. 21. SpectaXl To-day was the hottest day of the the official thermometer registering 99. There waa a alight rain tonight, the first that has fallen In Owensboro for four weeks, but It gave relief from the heat There waa a good rain tn parte of the county. Belief At Topeka.

i 7 Topeka, Aug. 21. The Intense heat that haa prevailed here for a period of ten daya waa broken thla afternoon by a heavy shower. From to 5 p. tn.

the temperature dropped from 100 to Late-planted com will be materially benefited. A Death At Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Aug. 2Tu The thermometer reached 93 here to-day. and the nret death from heat resulted.

L. Mullaney. of Bunker Hill. fell on Illinois etreet, and died a half hour later. There were two other prostrations.

Honorably Discharged. -Washington. Aug. 21. Ca pt.

G. W. 8. Stevens. Signal officer, volunteers, and First Lieutenant of the Risth artillery, having tendered his resignation aa an officer of the volunteer army and hiving resigned hla commission In the teg.

ular army, haa been honorably discharged from the service of the United States. EDNESDAY SMOKNIXG. 'AUGUST 22. 1000. CHINESE ARE FIGHTING.

wfQp6flU6ATl0rH wait southward to Legation street. Meanwhile, the Americana and British had. it seems, effected aa entrance at the Tung-I'tea gate, which admits to the Chinese City, but sot the. Tartar city, oa the south of the Tung-Chow canal, which made a sort of moat for the British Legation, situated in the southeast corner of 'RASTUS ODT. Second Fnlr Gires Ilim a Chance To Parade.

COW, GOAT AND BAND. BACZS ABD CAKE WALKS TUX Uf THE AFTXBZTOOS. BIG CROWD WAS PRESENT. Thelntense heat of yeaterday did not. promise well for the opening of the second annual fair of the Louisville Colored Fair Association at the trotting track, but as the afternoon wore oa thousand ot tha colored, cltlsena were on hand, and many hundreds of white ones.

It wss not a Vad place to be after the sun went behind the grand atand. and a light, breese sprang up. There waa no doubt ot the attendance of colored aristocracy. Judging from tha general appearance of the crowd. The colored brother from the church circles, business circles and any other circles when a half dollar waa available showed up In front of the grand atand between the hours of 4 and 7 aa a solemn duty to bis race, what was going on and to him- The chief duty of the assemblage, after exchanging social amenities, more, or less wss td eat.

drink and be Up from the basement Boated odors odors of hot fried chicken snd fried fish, fresh snd savory the kind the old "mammies" used to cook before the war. Whenever a fresh installment of odora wa watted upward there waa a rush tor tha scene of action, and white and black aat down tn. tha aame apartment to without thought of race distinction or reference to. the "Jim Crow coach law. It Is needier to observe that there was also something to drink of all kinds, and a vast consumption of that estimable and cooling compound.

Ice cream soda. Aa a matter of duty most ot the people went to aea the exhibits first and CATC Blowr BtOWr UP BY WrCRE Bfunst-t EKFERSO the Tartar city. Making their way either along the broad summit of the wall or within the Chinese city to the Ha-Ta gate. the BrKish-American detachments mored to Legation street, joined bands with their Japanese allies snd happily found the Ministers and long besieged foreign residents awaiting them in safety. got them off their minds as quickly aa possible.

The Bve stock were enjoying siesta tn far corner and only Joseph Bl flier's colossal billy goat was willing to receive an adtnlrmg attention. In the upper exhibit ball the small fry went wild with admiration of a beautiful assortment ot pigeons, a real owl, a bus-sard, a rattlesnake tn a box and traxxle chickens. When a tame coon, a fox and a peacock were added to this menagerie It Is not to ba wondered at that the small Afro-American was In his glory. Matter In this department were exceedingly lively st all times, but the mora so when, tn the beat of the early afternoon, tha one cow exhibited, tba blllygoai and a few dogs got away and threatened to have a mile race around tha track wKb no purse' offered snd never a Judge who bad courage enough to take the stand In the beat of the sun. A dosen courageous urchins, however, saved the day.

They cut after the exhibits, grabbed their horns, bung on to their tails snd threw thelr-bate at them until tbey were willing to be made a show of and were returned to their stalls. The fair opened with a street parade, which will always be one of the happiest memories of President Isaac Curtis. Seated In an open back and surrounded by the "directors' of the association toe venerable worker beaded the procession through all tba principal streets. He was followed by sll the exhibits. Including the cow snd the mammoth billy-goat, which promises to be one of the principal features of the whole fair.

At o'clock portly Dr. William H. Brown ascended the timer's stand, shed numerous layers of clothing, and then rang the gong. President Curtis sp-peared In the Judges' stand, a small boy on the other side ot the rsce track blew a blast or two trom a bugle and the fair waa officially on. The excellent colored band was followed down the track by a number of small girl and boys In rata attire, who preceded the.

Juvenile Drum Corps of Louisville, the officers of the Touissaat L'Overture Club tn carriages and the live stock exhibit before mentioned, which had. by -this time, been subdued to becoming frames of mind. The parade waa led on its return by the Indefatigable Isaac Curtis and the General Superintendent, Theodore Hawkins, both of atom have worked Incessantly for the success of the fair. In the cool basement were shown the women's exhibits of quilts and needlework. These rhould be praised without any reservation.

There are many beautiful pieces of embroidery worked by colored women snd the neat quilts are beyond criticism, snd of sll materials from silk to calico. There are also on exhibition a number of interesting relics and curios whlcto go far to show that the negro race has the same family feeling for those who have passed away ss has the white mar. Old silk gowns, laces, pewter tankards and silver candlesticks were in this display. The afternoon was taken up with bicycle races, cake walks, eta. asm SWELTERED Under 9S Degrees Yesterday Afternoon.

LOUISVILLE WITH HOTTEST. soars btt.tkt PBoamzs to-sat BT WXATBXB BUREAU. ONE DEATH FROM THE HEAT. Loulsvllls Blacksmith Prostrated On His Way Soma Trom An Indiana Springs. THOUGHT KB WAS PEAT).

Vadnaaday Thursday OA Friday Saturday Kondsy Tuesday FW 99 .......97 ......98 After Monday nlgbf a bulletin predicting thunderstorms and cooler weather for Kentucky, yesterday was. one of the hardest days to bear of the entire hot spell. People who read the pradlotTon endured patiently their sufferings throughout the hours of the morning, the sky In expectation of tha cloud that were to bring with them tha promised relief. Neither cloud nor- relief cams. Tha sky was tha aame beautiful blue that it hsa been for weeks past and tha one or two filmy clouds that appeared at.

intervals throughout tba day waa so patently unable to deliver tha goods to give grounds for any hopes from thera. For the second time In two days people were saved from an extreme of suffering by a faintly perceptible breese that rendered excellent servlo throughout the latter half of the day. While the temperature as a whole was In thorough keeping with that of tha twenty days that have preceded it, the maximum wa not reached until 4 o'clock In the afternoon, when 98 degrees waa recorded. Heretofore o'clock has been the star performer la the way of holding the day's record, but at 2 o'clock yesterday tha temperature was one degree lower than It waa aa hour earlier snd lee by two degree than that reached at 4 o'clock, when the maximum for" tha day was reached. Louisville tied with Jacksonville.

Nashville. Cairo, St. Louis and Kansas City for first place in the heat series. Chicago and New Tors, with 72 and 74 degree, experienced a delightful change of sensation caused by an area ot high barometer in Canada which has resulted In decrease of temperature throughout a belt across tha northern part of the United Statee extending from Chicago to Boston. Local showers In that portion at the country have aided matters materially and wiU result in the saving of large portions of the corn crop which were seriously threatened.

It Is expected that Kentucky will get the first benefit from these altered conditions to-day. -The drop will not be much more than 5 degrees, but even that will be gratefully accepted. MayavlUe and Oatlettaburg In the eastern part ot the Stat bare already been visited by good rains, and It is possible that the rain will become general throughout the State within the course ot the next day or so. It is by no means certain, bow-ever, that these gveatly-to-be-deaflred conditions will go Into Immediate effect. The hourly readings for yesterday were aa follows: a.

m. SI 2 m. a. rn. 3 1 p.

nu.uw,ttw(. P. nx. .87 4 p. nx.

.96 10 a. ia) 4 itb. V7 It a. iiii .4 4 p. .95 m.

7 p. st fX la.s.assseins isff "OVEBO02CX OK A TRACT. John Tanlan, Weil-Known Louisville Blacksmith, Waa Thought To Ba Dead. John Tanlan. who conducts a blacksmith shop on First street, between Main and Market, was overcome by the heat on an Air Line train, a few miles from New Albany, and the attending physician.

Dr. Brent Palmer, considers his condition critical. Tanlan left with a party of friends for Sweet Sulphur Springs, nesr Vet-pen. about a week ago. Hs became 111 oa Sunday, and concluded to return home yesterday.

J. T. HUIerich accompanied him. As the train seared New Albany Tanlan fell forward unconscious. HUIerich attempted to revive him.

but waa unsuccessful. When the train reached the Seventh-street sts-tton Tanlan waa quickly removed to an Invalid's chair and wheeled to the edge of the platform where he could get the benefit of any breese that waa blowing. His condition wss precarious, and waa feared that he woald die before hla family could be notified. Dr. Palmer was notified, and for four hours labored to restore the man to consciousness.

The Rev. Father Lynch, a priest at the Cathedral of the Assumption, administered the conditional absolution. It wss a queer group. Many spectators, attracted by curiosity, stsnding around the hastily arranged couch, and the priest In prayerful attitude, calling upon the man to confess. But his words fell upon deaf ears, snd be administered the conditional absolution.

Death was thought to be but a few minutes off. but about o'clock the man rallied, and the ambulance waa sent for. He was removed to hla home on Oak Street, between Floyd and Prestos. He partly regained consclounfsa. but he suffered a relapse, and his condition is now serious.

John Stephens, who conducted a grocery and saloon at 232 East Green etreet. died yesterday of heart disease Induced by the weather. Stephens wss Ui.nly a short time. He leaves a widow and three children. The funeral service will be conducted at St.

Michael's church tbia morning, and the burial wlU be in St- Louis cemetery. John Smith, the day watchman at the Kentucky Wagon Works, wss overcome by the beat yesterday morning, and was removed to his home, S224 Fourth avenue. His condition Is still serious, and he is being attended by All-hands. Miss Sarah T. Prewltt Bead.

Mlsa Sarah Frances Prewltt died yesterday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Boone V. Prewltt, 1933 Portland avenue. Miss Prewltt waa twenty-four years old and had been with David W. Baird A wholesale milliners, for asrerai year, becoming a valued employe.

Bo, waa a member of the Third Christian church. The funeral services wlU take place at the family residence to-morrow morning at 1:30 o'ciock, the Rev. D. F. Stafford In charge, QUAIST BEXTAT CUSTOMS.

Why la tha World Bid Land Owners Brer Want Payment In These Strang. WaysP (London Mall. To the average householder the only queer thing about the payment of rent la tha celerity with which the quarter day comes round. The rest of the proceeding he regards as prosaic enough. In all conscience, and quite the reverse of quaint or curious.

Happily for the lover of tha out-of-the-way, there are still a round dosen or two of British bouse and land owners whose rent and the manner of Ita paying are by no meana of aa average nature. The quaintest rent is that which has been paid to the Crown for the last (00 years by the Corporation of London, for two estates, held from the sovereign erer since the days of Magna Charts. The property constats ot an estate In Shropshire, known as tha Moors, and a smithy In Mllford Lane. Strand, The payment Is made ones a year, at tha Law Courts; when the Queen Is represented by her Remembrancer, and the tenant corporation by the- City Solicitor. The proceeding are watched on behalf the public by a small court of nine ladles and gentlemen, who are aeated upon chairs ranged In the form of a horseshoe.

Upon the tenant of the Moors being called to render hla dues to the Queen, the City Solicitor gravely steps forward with as ar a hnnHt. nf Th. latter he forthwith chops tn half, in order to demonstrate the quality of the ax. He next produces bill-hook, and goes through an identical performance with a fresh bundle of fagots. The two weapona are then formally handed over, to the Remembrancer, and the Moors ia secured to the city for another twelve months.

Equally quaint Is the rnt paid for the City Solicitor le the corporation's representative. This time, however, the. rent takes the form of six huge hcrse-'. ahoes snd sixty-one horseshoe nails, the. due handing over of which completea this curious rent day.

As moat people are aware, to the family of Dymoke belongs the proud office of champion of Kngland. It Is the duty of this gentleman to throw down the gauntlet on coronation day. In case sny one dares step forward to dispute the title of the King or Queen-elect Few, however, know that this same office Is merely another curious way of rent paying with which British custom was at one time so replete. Briefly, the property of Scrivelaby, in Lincolnshire, which was for generations the home of the Dymoke. carried with It the obligation of providing the coronation champions.

"3- Although the custom Is happily now as dead as the proverbial door nail. It was one compulsory to pay rent to the Crown for every hat one wore. The re- of. a paper ticket, which had to be pasted or affixed by the utterer In the lining or Inside the crown ot such bats, under a penalty of C10 for each omission. The value, of the ticket ranged from 3d.

payable upon hats of 4s. value and under, tip i to the maximum levy of 2a, payable upon "tiles' ot a value of 12a. and upward. Am may be imagined, this species of rent collecting wss dodged every whit aa much as Is ths modern Income tax. Sometimes, however, the dodging gave rise to exceedingly humorous situations.

For instance. It I recorded that the Rev. Char tee Scott, chaplain ot Portsmouth dockyard, having prosecuted a workman tor carrying a gun without a license, had the satisfaction of seeing a fine of imposed. i Unfortunately for the ecclestaatlc, however, ha had laid his hat, upside down, close to the dock. In a moment the prisoner spotted the absence ot the necessary stamp from the chaplain's hat and.

laying an Information against the offender, he soon had the pleaaure of seeing hla quondam prosecutor mulcted tn a considerably heavier sum than himself. The sting of tha situation lay In the fact that, as informer, the worklngman became entitled to half the fine exacted from the cleric, who had In thla way to pay the very penalty that he had Just been successful In causing to be enforced. PASTOR DEFENDS 'NEWPORT FLOCK. Or. Hamilton Bepliea To Thomas Kelson PagVe Attack On So-- dety Divorce.

Newport Dtspatoh to New Tortt Eerald.J The Rev. Dr. Braddla Hamilton, whom I aaw at tha New Cliff Bote! this after noon. I have Just read with some mteres. Mr.

Thomas Nelson Page's Ideaa of what be think constitutes New Tor and Newport society. I do not agree with Mm, I do not preach to flatter any one. I have no time to devote to that I sen now, a be say, a rector of a New York church, and have no particular parlsbonera to please. "Mr. Pag seem to think that dV vorced1 snd doubly divorced people' lead New Tork snd Newport society.

This is grave delusion. I sdtnit that thers are many divorced persons In society in every city. I have made a study of this aut-Ject to some degree, and know thatNew Tork and Newport society contains no more divorced persons proportionately than that of any of the other larger cities. "And tlwee divorced people In New Tork or Newport do not by any means lead or control; In fact, they are only tolerated tn society snd generally for the same reason lhat a parent, brother or sister ia obliged to tolerate an unfortunate, member of the household, because fhy are blood relations. The men who have practically controlled Newport and all that pertains to It for the last ten years see strong the finest specimens of humanity I have met tn any country educated Christian gentlemen, who-are known for their moral Urea and good deeds, such men a the late Cornlhis Vanderbllt and the Browns, of Providence, and their successors, sll of whom I can not for th moment name.

"Of course error snd sins creep la here Just the same as hvto any other community and have to be spoken against, which I do when It fall to my lot. Mr. Page says I should go abroad and see American homes. Visiting American homes baa been my life for twenty years. I bsve visited hundreds, both in the Esst sad the West, and vis-ittoe; the working man snd poor man of New Tork city was my special duty for three ytais.

and the cUy government paid me tor doing It. I have glveo at least fifty lectures and addresses on hr life and ought to know something of It. "Now. I would ssk Mr, Psge to visit New Tork in the winter and Newport in the s-mmT and meet personally the people who truly and really lead the society of these places, and I know he would be sorry for calling them such bad name. I do not mean the freaks, snd oddities who very often seek notoriety.

find the all sphere, but their Influence really amount to nothing." Six men tost their lives yesterday morn. Ing at Guthrie. by the caving la of a well, They were Howard Elba, K. T. Sbat.

roth. H. R. Wales. J.

Hill. H. Studs and Joha Maade..