The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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REV. JOSEPH F. BERRY.
NEW METHODIST BISHOP
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PATHETIC SCENE DURING GILLESPIE
MURDER TRIAL AT RISING SUN. INDIANA
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Hov. Joseph F. Berry of Chicago, I 1850, and receh
svho was elected by the Methodist gen- | Milton Academy
eral conference as one of the eight
new bishops, is a distinguished mem-
ber of the church, who has been editor
of the Epworth Herald since 1900. He
was born at Aylmer, Canada, May 13,
d his education in
Ontario. Dr. Berry
entered the ministry in 1N74 and rapid
ly rose in the esteem of the church
leaders. He was editor of the Michi-
gan Christian Advocate from 1884 until
1890.
KOUROPATKIN IN REAL WAR. HELPED BY CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
Russian General Facing Foemen
Worthy of His Steel.
It ought to be a source of consider- '
able gratification to Oen. Kouropatkin j
to have the opportunity of encounter- j
ing a completely equipped and highly
intelligent enemy. A warrior of his j
voracity could hardly have died re- j
plete it* the scanty fare of his previous
campaigns had not been supplemented j
by this brawny piece de resistance.
For thirty-eight years Kouropatkin i
fought Bokharians, Algerians, Khokan-
dians, Turks, Khivans, Samarkhan- j
dians, Khirgbizes, Tashkendians and
\ariegated mid-Asiatics. His foemen
were worthy of the arsenal of stars,
swordfl and crosses which they won
for him from the czar. They were
wolvei But that is just what they
wore. Even the Turks, because of the
infirmity of their government, resem-
bled a pack of wise animals rather
than the army of an organized nation.
When Kouropatkin went to St. Peters-
burg in 1898 as minister of war he
must have felt that he had been not
so much a conqueror of men as a hun-
ter of inferior breeds.
To-<jay, as he watches Kuroki come
toward him over the Manchurian hills
with a commissariat department and
a chess game plan of campaign, his
heart should bound with the prospect
of making tyis first offering in the
Temple of the Real Thing.
How many strange scenes, drawn
from strange and widely separated
parts of the habitable world, must
tloat now through Kouropatkin's
mind!
• He must see himself as he was in
1874. young enough to have the "wan-
dering feeling in the feet," and there-
fore wandering to Algeria in the
French aimv under Lovcrdo. How far
away, how unreal those Algerians
must seem with whom he fought on
the desert sands and over whom he
rode info the Legion of Honor!
And then the Turks especially the
dead Turk under whose body he lay,
wounded and unconscious, all one
cold night! They must come back to
him together with his chief Skobe-
leff, standing shoulder to shoulder
with him in hand to hand encounters
with bashi-bazouks and dripping
equally with blood while Archibald
Forbes asked them questions and tel-
egraphed to his newspapers his fa-
mous description of their gore em-
bossed uniforms.
Turks and Algerians, however,
must be but feeble images to Kouro-
patkin compared with those mild-
Asiatic Turcomans—Bokharians. Kho-
kandians and the rest—whom it was
his life mission to subdue. "The Rus-
sians will not be able to conquer the
Turcomans," said Lord Salisbury.
"The Turcoman barrier will last for
our lifetime at least." It was Skobe-
leff and then KouTopatkin who rid-
dled this prophecy. The Turcomans
yielded to marches as magnificent as
that of Lord Roberts on Kandahar
and to massacres as promiscuous as
those of Caesar in Gaul. Does Kouro-
patkin remember Geok Tepe now and
the 20,000 men, women and children
delivered to the flesh and blood lust
of the Russian soldiery in one of
those thorough dissuasive lessons
which, in the book of Russian colon-
ial assimilation, precede the insidious
Mtasion of administrative gentleness?
Certainly there could hardly be
found for any individual man in any
previous period of the world's history
a more varied retrospect than that
which comes now to the Russian gen-
oral. who, a continuent away from
home, is taking what is perhaps his
last stand against the enemies of his
sovereign and is fighting instead of
hunting.
Dr. Lehmcr Given Funds to Complete
Successful Invention.
Dr. Derrick N. Lehmer. instructor
in mathematics at the University of
California, has been voted the sum of
$300 by the Carnegie institute to be
devoted to hiring assistants in order
that he may complete a table of
"smallest devisors" which he has been
preparing during the last three year*
under a new and successful method.
Dr. Lehraer's achievement is the dis-
covery of a new and simple process
for finding the factors of all numbers
up to 10,000,000. The task has been
rarely attempted on account of the
enormous labor involved. Dr. Leh-
mer's method is brief and complete.
While his tables carried out to the
10,000,000 would take a period of for-
ty years.
Ex-Sultan Is a Prisoner.
Few people realize that for nearly
thirty years an ex-sultan of Turkey
has been kept a prisoner at Kourbad
ji, on the Bosporus. This unfortun-
ate man is the ex-Sultan Murad, the
eldest nephew of Abdul Aziz, who
came to the throne in 187G on his
uncle's death, but was allowed to
reign only three months. He was in
weak health at the time and there was
a strong party in Constantinople
which was desirous#that his brother,
the present Sultan Abdul Hamid,
should be caliph. An intrigue was
therefore set on foot to declare that
Murad was insane and he was quiet-
ly deposed and Abdul Hamid reigned
in his place. The ex-sultan, who is now
f 4 years of age, has become seriously
ill and his Iffe is despaired of.
Could Not Predict Further.
More than two years a friend of
George B. McClellan made a wager of
a dinner for a dozen friends that he
could write the name of the next may-
or of New York on a slip of paper.
He wrote the name of Mr. McClellan,
put the paper in the safe and won his
bet. Mayor McClellan and this grand
guesser were recalling the remarkable
feat in political prediction the other
day. The mayor said: "Take an-
other peep into the dim and distant
future, old man. and tell me what
new honor is in store for me." "Can't
do it, Mr. Mayor," was the reply. "Mr.
Murphy, the Tammany boss, has not
taken me into his confidence this
time."
Coming Arbitration Congress.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
placed at the disposal of the secre-
tary of the treasury for the proper
entertainment of the delegates to the
international arbitration congress,
which will hold its next meeting in
the United States during the fall. This
is the first time the United States
have had the honor of entertaining
this body. The International Arbitra-
tion—to give the organization its full
title—is composed exclusively of mem-
bers of parliaments and national leg-
islative bodies of the different Euro-
pean countries.
Worked Hard for Material.
In gathering the material for a re-
cent book S. R. Crockett lived for
nearly three months with a family of
smugglers on the eastern Pyreean
frontier; he spent a week in a camp
of Carlists, and with them ran away
from the gendarmes; he passed three
nights with a hermit who dwelt among
the rocks at the upper end of the Val-
ley of Arlege; in a fortnight among
charcoal burners he discovered that
they were mostly ex-brigands and
"not so very much 'ex' either," as Mr-
Crockett says.
Details of the alleged family feud
to which the prosecution in the Gil-
lespie murder trial at Rising Sun. Ind ,
hoped to trace the death of Elizabeth
Gillespie will be perhaps never
known.
Mrs. Margaret Gillespie, the state's
chief witness, who promised to tell
everything she knew of the affair un-
der oath, broke down on the witness
stand after answering the third ques-
tion of the defense, and was led weep-
ing from the stand by her son, James,
who is charged with the murder of
his sister, whose life she was expected
to swear away.
No testimony that would tend to un-
ravel the deep mystery that surrounds
the assassination of the young woman
in her own home escaped the mother's
lips, and unless her condition will per
mit she will probably be unable to
again take the stand.
Fond of« Music in Oklahoma.
Walter Damrosch says that during
his tour of the country none of his
audiences was so enthusiastic as that
which he found in Oklahoma City.
The theater there is the most costly
for its size he ever saw and when the
lights are all turned on tho place is as
resplendent as a fairy palace. Mr.
Dainrosch was much astonished to
find that many of the audience were in
full dress and that their appreciation
of good music was quite equal to their'
enthusiasm over the performance.
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PRINCIPALS IN THE GILLESPIE TRAGEDY.
The upper sketch shows Mrs. Margaret Gillespie on the witness stand,
weeping as she testified against her son and two daughters. Below her is
the portrait of James Gillespie, accused of the murder of his sister, Eliza-
beth. The woman to the left is Mrs. Myron Barbour, jointly charged with
her brother with the commission of tthe crime. The picture below shows
how Miss Gillespie was slain.
JOKAI A PROLIFIC AUTHOR.
Famous Hungarian's Writings Num-
bered by the Hundreds.
Maurus Jo Jokai, the famous Hun-
garian patriot and novelist, who died
in Buda-Pesth on May 5, was born at
Komorn, Hungary. April 19, 1825. In
1844 he went to Pesth and was arti-
cled to an advocate, but speedily gave
up the law for literature. Five years
later he became the editor of the
Wochenblatt, a paper famous at the
time. Next he became editor of the
Abendblatter and soon had to flee for
his life. After a few years, however,
he settled in Pesth, betook himself to
fiction and published hundreds of nov-
elettes and scores of romances, be-
sides writing several plays. I^ater in
life Jokai again turned his attention
to journalism. His novels generally
display the seamy side of life, but he
was a humorist as well as a realist In
his methods.
Embarrassing Typographical Error.
Albert Sonnichsen, author of 'Deep
Sea Vagabonds," was recently put in
a very uncomfortable situation by a
typographical error in an article about
him printed widely in the western pa-
pers. Among other things the inter-
viewer said he found Mr. Sonnichsen
"smoking fat cigars which his Filipino
wife had taught him to like." Mr.
Sonnichsen's friends believed him a
bachelor and this was astonishing
news. Mr. Sonnichsen's father wrote
regretting that his son had not con-
fided in him and the author of "Derp
Sea Vagabonds" spends hours each
day now explaining that he is not
married and that the author of the
article wrote "Filipino life" instead of
"Filipino wife."
PROVED HIS ACCOUNT CORRECT.
Time and Expense No Bar Where
Principle Was Concerned.
William Andrew Jackson Sparks,
who died suddenly at his home in St.
Louis a few days ago, was registrar
of public lands at Edwardsville 111.,
in early days. When his final report
was sent to Washington a clerk in-
sisted that his remittance was $3
short. Some correspondence ensued
and at length Mr. Sparks journeyed
to Washington by stage and through
the influence of Judge Dreese, then
United States senator from Illinois,
obtained a hearing before the land
commissioner. His report was found
to be exactly correct and but for his
intercession the clerk would have
been dismissed. Mr. Sparks then re-
turned to Illinois well satisfied, though
he had spent a great deal more than
the $3 originally demanded.
No Opportunity for Brilliant Man.
England is not in every case the
best market for talent and ability.
The late Lord Acton was master of
the contents of a library of 66,000 vol-
umes; he was one of the best in-
formed men of his time on home and
continental politics, especially the lat-
ter. German, French and Italian were
as serviceable to him as his native
language. Gladstone was his intimate
friend from the middle '60's. Earl
Granville was his stepfather, and Lord
Acton was anxious to serve his coun-
try. Yet, as brought out in Herbert
Paul's recently published memoir, all
the public employment that could be
found for Acton previous to his few
years in the regius chair of modern
history at Cambridge (1895-1900) wat
lord in waiting to the queen.
Booker Washington's Parable One
Well Worth Heeding.
Booker Washington, in lecturing to
his colored people, tells them this
story: "Once upon a time there was
an old colored man who was having
great success catching crabs. He had
\ tremendous box more than half full
when a passer-by warned him that the
biggest and bes crabs were crawling
out and would escape. The old man re-
plied: "Thankee, sir, much obleeged,
but I ain't goin' to lose no crabs. 1'se
a crabologist, I is. and I knows all
'bout de crab nature. I don't need to
watch 'em, 'tall. When de big crab
light up to top, and when he's gettin'
out, de little crabs catch him by de
laig and pull him back. He can't git
out nohow.' " And then Booker Wash-
ington says: "My friends, I have been
informed that there is something of
crab nature in human nature, but it
must be altogether among white folk
and not in our race."
MADE THE HONORS EVEN.
Kansas Man Had Never Been Abroad,
But He Knew Omaha.
Frank Everest of Atchison, Kan., is
a good deal of an American, having
small admiration left for foreign lands
or people. Not long ago he went to
Europe on business. During the voy-
age he and other passengers were
much annoyed by a Bostonian who
talked a great deal about tho number
of times ho had been abroad. He
laid great stress on the fact that he
went over twice a year. "Have you
ever been abroad?" he asked Everest.
Everest admitted lie was making his
first trip. "I go over twice a year,"
said the Bostonian. "Oh, do you," re-
plied Everest, and he added, "Have
you ever been in Omaha?" The Bos-
tonian said he hadn't. "Well," said
Everest, "I go there twice a week."
ONCE WHITE HOUSE MISTRESS.
Daughter of President Tyler Ruled
Sixty Years Ago.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, second
daughter of President Tyler, during
whose administration she was mis
tress of the White House, celebrated
the eighty-fourth anniversary of her
birthday at the Louise home, where
! for nearly a quarter of a century she
has lived. During her eventful life at
the capital half a century ago she was
tho friend of the most famous states-
men and public men the country had
produced and her mind, still active
j :ind vigorous, recalls the stirring inci-
dents and events of the Whig and
! Democratic struggles in which her
father's administration was conduct-
ed. As mistress of the White House
I she antedated Mrs. Roosevelt some
| sixty years.
RESULT OF DRINK INCJ A " RADIUM.**
The radium cocktail will never bo
popular if its glow may bo seen by
the wife of the man who drinks it.
"To date we have noted no corres-
pondence schools to teach the youth
of our land how to shave," says an
exchange. Why should there be when
so many peoplo are willing to shavo
them for nothing?
To cut an engagement ring to fit
the finger is a bad omen and apt to
break the engagement. When tho
affair has culminated at the sea shore,
however, always have the ring cut.
The Post-Mortem Player.
A wise man says that cards are had;
That shuffling is waste of time-*
Honrs spent hi 1'oollsh idleness
I'non tin* ladder we would elimb!
And yet 1 tlnil a game or two
Along Fame's way hut scarce retards—
Except when some hum player halts
To hold post-mortems on the cards.
"Who was it held the ace of spades?"
"If I had only caught the jack,
I surely would have won that pot.
And helped along my little stack."
Who trumped that deucn fur goodie I
sake?"
"I tried to All a bobtalled flush."
".Inst l -t me sec liit discard, please!"
vhlle he holds the game to gush!
Why don't tho goblins got this man?
1 wish the bad. bold hold-up "pards"
Would slug th® nuisance who gets wise
And holds post-mortems on the cards!
An impudent paragraphcr asks if
Harry Lehr wears those new stylo
stockings with pockets in them near
the top! The idea! Of course not.
Harry is not that kind of a girl!
Many a young man goes to church,
not to hear what he can during tho
meeting, but to see (home) what ho
can after said meeting has adjourned.
God made all men equal, but Mam-
mon had the last word about their
bringing up.
Solomon may have been wise in his
own generation but he never had to
live a seal-skin life on a dog-skin
salary.
A man never knows what it means
to have a good and virtuous wife un-
til he has had the other kind.
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Out of His Element.
George W. Jefferson Is a colored
I justice of the peace in Camden, N. J.
One morning last week John Johns-
;:oweztl, Andrew Ronstonvlskl, Paul
llosantoti and John Szoplutikizl were
1 arraigned in his court charged with
1 assaulting Anthony Urboezeski. The
| first witness called was Mrs. Nicolina
| Gulifuskizl, and his honor listened to
| testimony in which she made frequent
use of the names mentioned. There
were half a dozen more witnesses, but
I Justice Jefferson adjourned court and
i went homo sick.
Bought a straw hat yet?
A close perusal of the papers wttf
undoubtedly result in the discovery
of an invitation to Mary's little snow-
white lamb to come out and gambol
on the greenswards of spring! "Ba!"
ing it high over his head, tho old
Fashionable women are growing in
their love for gowns made of leather.
This will be good news to the unfor-
tunate bungler who persists in step-
ping awkwardly on women's trains.
Tho dog fought valiantly, but the
Filipinos at the St. Louis fair killed
him at last, and on the bill of fare
the item appeared: "Piece de re-
sistance a la dog!"
The swords of war may be beaten
into plow-shares, but it would be un-
wise for fishermen to use the rapid-
fire guns for sinkers yet awhile.
I)o not pick your teeth. Let the
dentist do this Having had more ex-
perience, he can match them better.
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