Western Herald from Jetmore, Kansas • 2

vi Ue oyiaiaa that during the Brat three TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. r-Gcwor Frank W. Higgias ot York, is dead. KANSAS KEWk, Mrs. J.

M. Lusk, wife of a farmer living southeast of Wellington, was fatally burned while raking up sotam trash around a fire ia the yard. William Atkinson, SO years old, a resident ot Winfield, was run over and killed by a St Louis ft San Francisco switch engine ia the yards sear bis -WHERE it YOUR GIRLr Pittsburg Paster Bass a Remark- airs Sermon en Troubles a the Thaws Taking for bis topic "The Blessings and Curses of Wealth and Home," Rev. Dr. W.

Blodgett, at the North. Avenue Methodist Episcopal eh arch. Pittsburg. PaV made the Thaw ease the topic of aa extraordinary aermoa. "Wealth need not be a corrupter of morals he said.

"It is the vulgarity cf it that the world recoils from. This country is reading of the tragic scenes in the court of justice in New York Tiatta Barry K. Thaw was naaouad mind became of a diseased "Aa a result of your obaerratioa during the last five visits, did you form aa opinion as to Mr. Thaw' mental condition?" -I did." I -Please state it" The stability of his Blind was still Impaired but seemed better than on the three former visits." "Was that improvement sudden or gradual?" "Ia my opinion it was gradual." "What, in your opinion, was the condition of mind the result or sequel otr "1 am of the opinion that be was Suffering from a positive disorder or f- JvS1? r-s derangement of mind as a result of ere on the streets of Allegheny the hereditary predisposition. I am of the poor wife of the chief actor played opinion tfcat there were additional ex- hen she was a girt.

Across the river citing causes in the order of stress, tue husband now on trial for the mur-atrain and ordeal of mind which form-1 oer e( a man in New York, the revealed a brain storm or mental explosion meats of whose life make you shudder which left its traces behind." WjlB horror, spent his boyhood days. 1 They both came from respectable fam- AN ALARMING POSSIBILITY. The Alarmed Waiters Sir, we think unless you quit eating so much, you'll bust! It is stated that John D. Rockefeller believes with Secretary Sbaw that there is too much prosperity in the United States. News item.

estimate of the number of thore on board agrees, however, with the estimate made by the Joy line officials nt Providence who said that (he I-arch- STEAMSHIP DISASTER. Collision of Two Ocean Vessel Destroys 150 Lives. The Joy line steamer Larchmont sank in Block island sound, Rhode island, late Monday night, February after a collision with the three-masted schooner Harry Knowleton. The Larchmont was bound from Boston for New York. The Knowleton was beached by the crew to keep her from sinking.

Captain George McVey of the Larchmont, who escaped, says be had on board between 150 and 200 passengers when the collision occurred and only eight of these escaped with their lives. At the time he made the statement fourteen bodies had been washed ashore. Captain McVey communicated with the Joy line officials in Boston by telephone from Block island. He said that the Larchmont sank within ten minutes after the collision. After cruising about in a small boat in the icy gale from 11 o'clock to 8 o'clock next morning he landed on Block island.

Close behind his boat several others landed bringing eleven dead and nineteen badly injured passengers. The passengers met their deaths in various ways. -Some ot them attempted to launch lifeboats and were frozen to death on the docks of the floundering steamer. Others were drowned iu the attempt to escape before the vessel Went down and still others who were successful in launching a lifeboat were frozen to death before the small craft reached shore. Captain McVey said his steamer left Providence late in the evening and t-t the time of the collision Captain McVey had not had an opportunity to examine he passenger list which had been handed to him just before his steamer left Providence.

The captain's INSANITY. Dr. B. O. Evan, Alienist, TmU- fie In the Thaw Trial Dr.

W. D. Evans, head of the New Jersey Insane hospital at Morris Plains, ho visited Harry K. Thaw ia the Tomb eight times after the shooting of Stanford White, gave an analysis of the different forma of insanity, which is of general interest, aside from its bearing on the case of the celebrated tragedy ot Madison Square Garden. On his first visit to Thaw August 4, he said the prisoner exhibited a peculiar facial expression, glaring of the eye, restlessness of the eye, suspicion of his surroundings and of the witness, nervous agitation and restlessness such aa comes from a severe brain storm common in those who have recently gone through an explosive or fulminating condition of mental unsoundness.

He exhibited delusions of a personal character, an exaggerated ego, and along with them delusions ot a persecutory He thought of exaggerated importance and believed himself persecuted by a number, of persons. K' By an "exaggerated ego" Dr. Evan said he meant "a disproportionate idea of importance of self, a belief that one is clothed with powers, capacity and ability far above notual or above those actually possessed." These symptoms, he said, were characteristic of several menU! dis- i easfes, one of which in Thaw's caw is adolescent insanitv. It is character istic of the development period of life from 10 to 40 years. Tbe person thus afflicted is known as having a psycopathic taint; a predisposition to mental unsoundness, the result ot heredity.

"Another form of Insanity indicated," said the witness, "Is known as paranaoid or fixed insanity on some subject. The third is maniacal, where the patient jumps from one idea to another. These forms and others are characterized by the exaggerated ego. They are well defined forms about which there can be no difference of opinion." "Is there any specific name doctor," asked Mr. Delnias.

"given to that form of insanity wherein one imagines himself omnlprescient the ruler of the world?" "That Is included in the forms of insanity to which I have referred. Both adolescent insanity and paranavid insanity are characterized by decisions as to self importance add exaggerated ego. In adolescent insanity the patient exhibits no marked symptoms. But wheii the stress comeB" Dr. Evans took bri a declamatory tone of voice "the man does hot break down as the ordinary or normal man would.

There is a complete loss of mental balance, an explosive condition of the brain, the reason becomes dethroned, the will power is lost and the brain Is operating as a ship does in the wind without a rudder the balance wheel Is gone. "The acts of such a man are not the acts of a normal man, but show him to be guided by disease and stres3. His mind has left its moorings and yielded to diseased conditions. "On my first visit I also noticed that Mr. Thaw suffered from a rapid flow of words not characteristic of the normal mind.

He showed a condition of abnormal excitement a diseased condition of the brain." "In the disease you describe how do the conditions differ from the conditions in a normal man who speaks rapidly?" "An ordinary normal man speaks more or less deliberately on all matters of grave importance; he talks slowly and his ideas come logically and connectedly. In a man of unsound mind the ideas come rapidly, tumbling over each other, jumping from one. subject to another, that at once leads a trained observer to suspect that the mind has either recently come through or is just going into a severe mental storm; in other words. It is either the twilight or dawn of a state of mental unsoundness, or explosion. "By delusions I mean false Ideas out of which a man cannot be argued by logical and ordinary arguments.

Mr. Thaw exhibited what I believe were false ideas which my arguments could not shake." Mr. Delmas asked: "What was your opinion after the first three visits as to the mental condition of the defendant, with reference to his mind being sound or unsound?" "I was then and am now firmly of By a peculiar accident a freight train crew on the Chicago ft Northwestern railroad lour, a car from the middle of a long train and never missed It until on the return trip, when It was seen In the ditch. A fast freight, while running down grade, broke In two and the rear car ot the forward part jumped the track. The forward section slowed down for a curve and the hind part caught up with it The automatic An important question He was an impecunious, seedy, out-at-the-elbow person, and the doctor, when he prescribed for him, knew better than to expect a the Inflamed eyes." said the benevolent physician, "dissolve as much boraclc acid as you can put on a 10-cent piece In half a glass of water." "Thank you, doctor," murmured the patient, turning away.

A moment later, however, the office door was opened and the patient sidled in. a Western Union Telegraph has iBeunced aa advance of 10 per cent telegraph operators wages, effect Maxell 1st. Vr. Motono. the Japanese ambaa-i-ior at St Petersburg, has notified foreign office that the mikado had frdarsd the immediate evacuation of 1 jiacharia.

in his Dote on the sub set the minister says this is done in rdr to restore the normal state of flairs in Haaehuria and as also bowing a sincere desire to resume iocnplete friendly relations with Bus-la. Only sufficient troops will be left guard the railway. ft Princess Louise of Belgium, the di- orced wife of Prince Philip of Saxe- ioburg-Gotha, in an open letter pub-Ished in the Paris Matin, complains utterly of the heartless fashion in rhich her father. King Leopold, has bandoned her, even allowing the her- tage which she derive' from the late jueen mother to be seized for debt. It aa announced from Paris recently bat the trunks of Princess Louise had ixwn attached for $15,600, the amount a jeweler's bilL Interesting details are given in a public offering of million dollars 6 jper cent ten-year bonds of the jschwarzschild ft Sulzberger company concerning the volume of business jturned over In a year by that packing company.

The circular says the company does a gross business of 75 million dollars a year. It has a paid cap ital of $4,373,400 and owns real estate land plants valued at $8,697,886. Its net earnings for 1906, after providing for all expenses and net charge, amounted to $922,758. Its excess of quick assets over current liabilities December 31, last, was $8,073,894. ft The statement is made at the State department that at a conference held between Mr.

Bacon, the assistant secretary, and the Mexican ambassador, it had been decided that Mexico and the United States would unite with Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala in making identical representations to Honduras and Nicaragua to the effect that they would be expected to settle their differences without resort to war. It Is also said that the arbitration which recently was terminated at San Salvador must be reconvened In order that the Issues between the two countries may be peacefully settled In accordance with existing treaties. S. N. D.

North, the director ot the census, who was a member of the tariff commission which went to Germany to confer with a similar commission appointed by the German government with a view to arriving at a basis upon which the tariff of the two countries might be satisfactorily arranged, had a conference with Secretary Root While no statement on the subject can be had, it is believed that the draft of a treaty in process of perfection looks rather to a correction of rules to which objection was made by the German government against the administration of our customs laws than to any change in duty. President Roosevelt has sent to Congress a message calling attention to what he terms "The urgent need ot legislation affecting the different phases of the public land situation In States." 'i he President advocates the conservation of coal and other fuel resources on government lands, urges government contiol of the Western public land pastures with a system of small grazing fees id asks for an appropriation of 1- million dollars to aid in detecting and preventing land frauds. He contends for a system of government leasing of Its mineral lands and for treatins these fuel lands as public utilities. The President asks for legislation which will provide two distinct titles to public lands one for the surface and the other for the underlying minerals. The details of this plan he leaves for Congress to work out, arguing only for the adoption of the plan.

Congressmen are mailing to their eoDsuuitnta a pamphlet from the government printing office, containing declarations of mercantile, tlona! and local for the upbuilding of American shipping in foreign trade as presented to the committee on tne merchant marine and fisheries of the house. The demands for leiMntion to encourage American shipping cove 22 pages. The exports of Iron and steel mann fnctures from the United States reached their highest record during the last year, according to figures compiled by the bureau of statistics of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor. The total for 390G aggregated 172 1-2 million dollars, an average of 30 million dollars over the exports of the preceding year. Exports have do iblel In oigbt years.

Practically every one the Important urMcles or a xmp nr ar Iclcs si. a re in this gain A certain class ot girls do no work whatever except to work on Christmas presents, wedding presents and birthday presents. The perfection of moral character consists not only In doing only good, but also in thinking no evil. The senate ha adopted the resolution by Senator Miller, requesting that the legislature of Kansas In enacting a uniform law for the government of the Kansas City stock yards. Fire at HunnewelL Kansas, destroyed fourteen business buildings and merchandise valued at $25,000.

The The business portion ot the town was destroyed. George A. Taylor, one of the first settlers of Central Kansas, died at Junction City of heart failure. He was 70 years old. He located in Geary county in 1S57 and was one of the most widely known men of the county.

Dr. B. F. Boyle, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Atchison and an old soldier, I a Republican candidate for congress from the First district. At a meeting of John A.

Martin post of tbe G. A. a committee was appointed to boom bis candidacy. The house passed Mr. Rhodes' bill regulating the hog" industry of the Mate.

The bill provides that al! hogs ter which die of disease shall be burned within twenty-four hours after their demise. The purpose of thi bill Is to prevent careless bog raisers from throwing dead hogs into streams and thereby spreading cholera. ft An electrical current killed Shelton, Moody, of Joplin, 6 years old. He was playing on the roof of a building near which was strung a power wire. His ball rolled into the gutter and in trying to get It he placed both nands on the wire.

He was found dead by his Tha ,11 i 1 1- ma 1 1 1 f. a month ago from Decarur, Ark. ft While stringing wires on the new inter-city viaduct at Kansas City, William McCanley, 25 years ol.l, an electrician in the employ of the Squires Electrical company, started to shift, his position when the safety straps holding him broke. McCauley fell fifty-five feet to the ground, but his fall was broken by wires. Several bones in one foot were broken and the ankle sprained.

He was taken to the emergency station in the city hall. Arthur Capper, owner and editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze, gave a dinner at the Topeka club to the newspaper men in the legislature and the correspondents attending the session. One of the features was the introduction of the plans of the new building which Mr. Capper is to erect as a home for his papers. The dinner cards were an engraving of the first page of the Capital on Monday morning.

On the reverse side was a list of the newspaper men and pictures of, those members of the craft who are in the legislature. ft Senator Hayden's resolution, adopted by tbe senate, instructing the attorney eeneral to prosecute the trusts, recites the provisions of the anti-trust act, alleges open and notorious violation with reference to handling, selling and disposing of goods, wares, merchandise, farm machinery, lumber, coal, salt, sugar, flour, grain and beef and ether commodities; recites that district courts have jurisdiction, and that it is the duty of the attorney general to prosecute offenders; and instructs the attorney general to proceed at once against "any and all persons, companies or corporations" who contravene the law. ft "Bud" Loge and "Abe" Hosklns, convicts In the Kansas penitentiary, fought and Hoskins was cut on the head with a hatchet. Loge and Hoskins were gatekeepers at the bottom of the coal mines. They disputed about Dr.

Grigsby, the recently discharged prison physician, Hosklns alleging that Dr. Grigsby was cruel and refused to give prisoners proper medical attention. Loge seized a hatchet and Hoskins a pick. Loge siruck Hoskins five times with tne hatchet. Hoskins' skull was fractured by the blade of the hatchet and it is said he cannot live.

JJoskins in an Oklahoma prisoner just finishing a 7-year term. for burglary. Loge is a Kansas prisoner serving a 25-year sentence for murder. The National Packing company is installing the machinery for a 500-ton Ice machine in the new building now being erected In the Fowler plant in Kansas City. It is a part of the improvements started last year and designed to modernize the old packing house, built in 1873.

The motive power in the plant will also be thoroughly modernized with electrical machinery and equipment. The senate passed Senator Hedge's bill providing for an excise tat of 1 1-2 per cent, on the gross receipts of express companies -doing business In the state. The bill creates a board ot the attorney general, auditor of state, secretary of state and state treasurer to levy the tax each year. The original bill provided for a tax cf 2 per cent, but. this was changed.

The author of the bill says that it will Increase the state's revenue from e-prcpg companies $12,000 a year. intense interest. Pittsburg is deeply interested. Hies. One knew what poverty hunger for breadthe other, when a mere lad, spent enough money in a year to keep a dozen f'milie.

They both go wrong. i "Oni seemingly by the cruel hand I of fatef the other through love that was" blinded. All our heart bleed for yjil the fathers and mothers tllis ana other cities take any wlrnngf We smg 'where Is My Wandering but where is your girl? i (fie place of amusement, t'ien de- coyed into some gilded studio then sorrow and a life worse than hell. No higher virtue should be demanded of Women than of man. The same code of ethics should apply to both.

"A treacherous scoundrel of a man, poor or rich, should have the same treatment as the abandoned woman. Poor Evelyn Nesblt Thaw la not the only girl that has been ruined as she was. "In the outcome of the trial of Harry Thaw, the reckless and unfortunate boy of one of our most respected homes, millions are interested. What of the outcome of the lads and lassies not grown to manhood? Hearts are still to be broken and homes made desolate and some of them may be yours. "No state can rise higher than the home, and no church can be more in- fluential than the firesides from which its members come.

The warning voice I that, comes to us over the clicking wires and the cold type of the press is: 'Have a jealous care of your boys and girls. Restriction is far better than unlicensed liberty and a morsel with purity better than wealth with The highest record of private pension bills in the lower house of Congress is 725; passed 'February 8, 1907., St. Louis and East St. Louis, packers are excited because of a decision at Danville by Judge Wright in the federal court. This decision grants a perpetual injunction against the St.

Louis Hide and Tallow company which has conducted a rendering plant in East St. Louis. Packing houses, under Judge Wright's decision, come under the class of rendering plants as it is necessary, for them to maintain such departments to manufacture the bi-products upon which they depend for so much of their profit. Judge Wright declares that a rendering plant is a nuisance, and that it is not only un-healthful and unpleasant, but that it causes the depreciation of property adjoining It Therefore, he holds that in the case under consideration the company is forever enjoined against operating a rendering plant within the confines of any city. Attorneys say that Chicago would suffer, particularly if suits should be brought against plants there.

Most of them are in the city and all of them do a rendering business. The railroads of the country are preparing to make a general increase in freight rates which will bring them several hundred millions added revenue annually. Conferences are being held in Chicago between the highest traffic men of both Eastern and Western roads, with a view to eliminating hundreds of rates which are known as "commodity and to compel shippers to submit to the classification rates, which are substantially higher. The reason for an increase is the alarm over the increasing difficulty in obtaining money with which to make needed improvements. Women of Chattanooga, held a meeting and protested against the printing of details of the Thaw murder case and similar court proceedings.

The protest, it was stated, was made in the interest of the sanctity of our homes and the purity of our children and to protest against the minute and detailed accounts given in the daily papers of the sensational and scandal- ous proceedings of the criminal The state department of Mexico has made public the following note: President Diaz," acting on the direct suggestion of President Roosevelt, has sent a note to the governments of Costa Rica, Salvador and Guatemala, asking them to use every effort to prevent an armed clash between Nicaragua and Honduras, with the Intimation that past treaties must be lived up to and that their dispute must be referred to aa' arbitration board. BY DIRECT VOTE. Senator Bourne, a Testimon- ial to the Efficiency of Ore- gon'e New Law. The first United State senator ever elected by popuiar vote of the people faa arrived in Washington and be is the subject of much curiosity. His name is Jonathan Bourne, Jr.

and he comes from Oregon. "Yes." said Senator-elect Bourne, when asked about his election, "I find wherever I go there is great cariosity about this new scheme by which senators are elected by the people. I bave been up in New England, and even in Canada. And everywhere I 8" there are the same "Doe the Oregon law reaiiy put the matter directly dp1 to the people?" Mr. Bourne was asked.

"Directly, and id just as binding a way as In a presidential election. Our law works. I am here as a testimonial of Its working powers. I am here in spite of the1 bpposition of the bosses and the inmichce which ordinarily control the bosses. After the people had expressed their choice at the primary elect iohs in April and June, I weut away and stayed away.

I was convinced that the law would work, and wanted to give It a fair chance, have been away for six months In fact have not been back nd yet I received 80 out of 90 votes iri the legislature. I received a- lot Of votes which were not under any pledge to me." "Was this not a personal "Not at all. It Is merely a tribute to the intelligence of the people in adopting such a law. It was the law and principle they had In mind. 1 Just happened to be the man who had made the fight to ge the law.

So tbey made me the candidate to test It out. My election is merely an opportunity. "I am here to make good. "If I make good there will be ro question about my return. And to make good I will bave to make good with the people.

So long as I look after their Interests I will be as certain of my continued return as I am that I am here now." Mr. Bourne paused before he added: Under our new law the senator from Oregon will have to play poll-tics with his brains, not his pocker-book. He will have to give his best thought to the service of the people, or they will hoid him to account." The United States district attorney, Mr. Stimson of New York city, has served notice on the publishers of all the principal newspapers of that city that he intends to bring before the United States grand jury for criminal prosecution all violations of the federal laws against the circulation of obscene matter in reporting the Thaw case. Mr.

Stimson's notice read as follows: Information has been brought to me indicatin gthat some of the newpapers of this city, under the guise of reports of the Thaw trial, have been sending through the United States mails lewd, lascivious and obscene matter in violation of section 3393 of the revised statutes. I beg to advise you that the mere fact that such matter purports to be an account of a judicial proceeding furnishes no excuse for a violation of the statute in question in regard to the mails, and that I propose to bring before the federal grand Jury of this district for criminal 'prosecution all such violations that may occur. coupler reunited the train. The car was missed at the end of the run, but the train crew thought it had not been coupled in when the train was made up. No man can escape Nemesis, not even the penalty of a peccadillo.

Praise must have a deeper source than the Hps. "Say, doc," said he, with an ingratiating smile, "where do I get the 10-cent piece?" Youth's Companion. Slightly carnivorous "Yes," Said the thin man, munching his apple, "I'm a jitrict fegetaiian." "You mean you think you are," replied the observant man. "What do yon mean by that?" "I mean that I noticed a worm in that, bite of apple you just Home Maffsixlne. 1 niont carried about 150 passengers and c' thirty.

The inhabitants of all parts of the island turned out to assist in rescie work, although many of thera live several miles from the point oft which the steamer sank. The north rsle continued with zero throughout the morning. At 11:30 o'clock four bodies were washed ashore, making a total of eighteen bodies recovered with eight survivors of the accident being cared for on the island. Thomas A. EdiKnn Inventor la fin yea rs old.

In an interview he said It was now time for him to knock off work and play awhile. "For forty-five years I have been making experiments with electricity," said Mr. Edison, "but all these years I have been turning these experiments to commercial' value so fast that I have not had a chance to play with electricity for the fun of the thing, Just to see how much I can find out about it But from today I am going to give up the commercial end of it and work In my laboratory purely as a scientist. That will be a pleasure I have long been promising myself." "Is it possible to foretell what the next great step in the application of electricity will be?" Mr. Edison was asked.

"I would be a daring maii. to venture a prediction," he answered. "We are all busy collecting data, we investigators and maybe in 100 years more we will begin to suspect something." Says a Naples dispatch: A tidal wave destroyed 122 houses at Marina de Catanzaro, the fishing village on the Calabrian coast. Great suffering en- 8uel and the government sent troops assistance. having 18,490 square feet of area over all.

This will give the World the largest newspaper building In existence. The new structure is to be completed January 15, 1908. The complete building will cover feet on Frankfort street. It will be 209 feet high on North William street. It will have frontage of 105 feet cn Park Row and 85 feet 4 inches on North William street.

than thirty acres on the old York road. A dispatch from Harbin, Manchuria, says that the Japanese are erecting two monuments on Peropelochny bill, Port Arthur, to the memory of the Russian and Japanese soldiers who fell in that siege. In proximity to the monument to the Russians a Russian chapel will be built, bearing the following Inscription: "In memory ot the heroes who met their death In defense of Port Arthur. SOME GREATEST COLLECTIONS. Mrs.

D. C. Weeks and son have begun the construction from plans by Architect Horace Trumbauer of ail addition to the Pulitzer building, home of the New rYork World, to cover about 7,500 square feet in the rear of the present structure. The enlarged Pulitzer building, when completed, will fill the whole block bounded by Park Row, Frankfort street, North WllJiirn street and Brooklyn bridge, Lyndenhurst, the country estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, has been destroyed by fire. The expensive furnishings, with the excep tion of probably several thotisand dol- lars' worth of paintings, were all ruined.

Half a dozen fire companies were powerless because the water supply wa frozen up. The loss is about 1 1-2 million dollars. Mr. Wanamaker and family live In Philadelphia in the winter and the country estate is in charge of a caretaker. The estate covers more.