THE PLATTSBXJBGH

By W. A. Fraaer.

COFvnran-r, 1901, BV \V. A. FII

THE lights from the Gymkhanaclub wore slii-n-inliiK ncriwB Ilnl-pln ro;i<l, uiul the drone yol* tlio

band came lazily across tlio open, filter-ing Itself through the octopus limbs ofthe big banyans and over thu lake ofposes the professor had filled the com-pound with. That was tine professor'shobby—roses. That and Bunkos—only

• the snakes wore real business, theroses were for pleasure. But boththrived equally well in Ranguu, jacque-minot and the capello.

It was paradise, this land where theroses grew even as cabbages, and thehooded devils came up out of the jun-gle of their own accord to be dissected.fio thought Professor Oonti.

But the professor was over at. thegym now, and the drowsy imi.sie, el-bowing and jostling, the frtraggllnplights as they crowded through theKush-Kush tatties, mingled with thesoft patter of small talk with whichMinora Oonti was beguiling the min-utes as they sat there, she and themajor, waiting the return of the pro-fessor.

"Of course, the major's pony, NatThue, would win the Tharawadyplate." she was saying, when she stop-ped suddenly and steadied herself asone does when a ten foot ditch sudden-ly opena its yawning maw under thefore feet of one's mount.

The light which streamed out fromthe drawing room and offered battle tothe glimmer of the Gymkhana showedthe sudden paling of her cheek. Parianmarbh? was not more white than thatset face.

"Do not move, major," she said; "donot move your lips even, if you valueyour life."

Herkomer looked straight into thegreat, strong eyes of the girl, and theytold him more of the danger, more ofthe horror, than even her words baddone.

"Keep perfectly still," she continued,<4and do not interfere with me in any"way."

"Is It a snake?" asked the major, dis-regarding her injunction to remain si-lent.

"Yes, a cobra!" the lips whispered."Do not move."

Prom the direction of MInora's eyesHerkomer knew that the hoodeddemon was on the high back of hischair.

Surely it was the light of inspirationwhich came into the eyes of thisstrange girl, as she broke into a lowItalian chant, weaving her slenderarms back and forth, back and forth.

Herkomer could feel that the cobrawas following her movements. Greatbeads of perspiration stood out on hisforehead—not so mueh at his own prox-imity to the hated thing, but becauseof the grand, cool courage Mlnora wasshowing, and the risk she was runningIn drawing the attention of the viper toherself.

"She's going to hypnotize the beast,"he thought. He knew she could do It,too; the face told him that. It seemedcowardly to sit there and allow a wom-an to face the snake, but her commandto keep perfectly still had been asmuch entreaty as command, and hefelt that by moving he would only in-crease the danger of both.

With the same - sinuous movementMinora had risen from her seat, and,gently swaying her body as the softcadences of the chant rose and fell,glided toward the cobra.

"My God, keep back!" Herkomergroaned, scarcely moving his lips."'Stand back and wait till he goesaway."

But the chant continued, and therewere the interjected two Englishwords "Keep still!"

Before Herkomer could move or re-monstrate further there was the flashof a white arm, a rustle of the soft

"Yes, a cobra," the lips whispered. "Donot move."

folds of Hinora's muslin dress, and hesprang to his feet to see the cobra be-ing held at arm's length, firmly grasp-ed by those slender fingers close up toIts ugly wedge shaped head.

"Wait, please!" she cried, steppingback, as Herkomer advauced towardher with evitleut intention of'takingthe snake. "Father's tomtom has justdriven up to the door—he will take theeobra—it is one of his patients."

She was still holding the repulsivecreature at arm's length as the pro-fessor ran up the cemented steps call-Ing for the bearer to come and tak<

. his topee.He stopped short when he observed

the grewsome tableau In front of him-stopped short until startled into activ-ity by his daughter's voice asking to berelieved of her terrible captive.In an instant the professor had the

cobra by the tall. and. calling to Mi-nora to let go quickly, he swung himclear and, holding him thus, carriedhim back to the box from which hehad escaped.

Overcome by the reaction, the bravegirl sank into the chair she had risenfrom and gave way to a flood of nerv-ous, hysterical tears.

Of course there could only be one re-ward for such gallantry, If the termmay be applied to woman's bravedeeds. A "V. C." was out of the ques-tion; besides, the great Italian eyeshad worked sad havoc with Herkomerbefore the advent of the cobra.

"Love made her brave," mused themajor us his Burma pony rattled him•>vt<r the metaled road of the canton-

•it late that night; "but she's a well•M.- anyway, and blood will tell.

Ciwl, how she stood there and neverflinched, with that devil In her hand!"And then ho thought of the soft maid-enly blushes that had swept over thesweet face as he talked to her of love,of the love that had been In his mindfor days and weeks before the appear-ance of that sinister visitor.

With Jesuitical complaisance Herko-mer be^nn to feel deuced ulnd that theeobra had precipitated matters by pok-ing his ugly head into their tete-a-tete.It had Riven him the opportunity torisk it all on a single throw of the dice,and he had won—won with (lie otherfellow, her father's great friend. CountItubltlno, a bad second.

Count Rubitino was a dilettante, anamateur scientist, ostensibly devoted,like Minora's father, the professor, tothe discovery of an antidote to thevirus of the cobra and kliarite.

"All dashed rot!" said Herkomer tothe little iron gray that was carryinghim so gallantly along. "MInora's hiegame, and I have beaten him, myboy—beaten him clean out of his boots,by Jove!" and he chuckled to himself(is he thought of the bally row both thr-ount and the professor would kick upwhen they learned how the land lay.

AH he jogged home from parade nextmorning Herkomer brought his ponyup alongside of Surgeon Thornycroft.

"Come over and have breakfast withme. I want to have a talk with you,old man," he said.

The preliminary of the talk was anaccount of what bad happened thenight before over the advent of thething with the spectacles, for he andThornycroft were even as Damon andPythias in the old on time.

"Now for the sequel, my boy," hesaid as he drew his chair closer toTliornycroft, "and then I want you totell what is the matter with me."

Thornycroft shot a suspicions pro-fessional look over the physical mapof his friend's exterior, searching fortouches of "liver." "sun," "Burmahead," "pegcltis" or other unique com-plaint indigenous to that land.

"It's this," said Herkomer thought-fully—"I woke up about 3 o'clock Inthe morning, as near as I can judge,with a peculiar tingling sensationthrough every nerve of my body, asthough some poison were coursingthrough my veins. Sitting In a chairbeside my bed was the flgure of a man.

"I spoke to it, thinking that the bear-er had fallen asleep there.

"The flgure did not move. I got upand struck a match, lighting a candlewhich stood on the table. I dislodgeda bottle of soda In my fumbling aboutfor a match, and it rolled off, strikingthe cement floor and exploding with areport like a gun.

"Still the flgure did not move. Itmust be the bearer, I thought. Only abearer could sleep through such a jollyrow.

"When I turned the light of the can-dle on the face of the sleeper, what doyou suppose I Baw, "fhornycroft?" AndHerkomer leaned over until his trou-bled questioning eyes were broughtclose into the surgeon's face, and hegripped Thorny croft's wrist till his fin-gers seemed eating into the flesh,

"One of the fellows who had tarriedlong at the gym and lost the numberof his mess," answered the other care-lessly, knocking the ashes off the endof his cheroot.

I saw myself dead," continued themajor, taking no notice of his friend'schaff—"dead, and a cobra clinging to

iy arm!""Liver and sun both," sighed Thorny-

croft mentally."Of course you'll call it a dream,"

added Herkomer, "but this morningthe soda bottle was in fragments onthe floor, the candle had been lighted,and the sole of my foot was bleedingwhere I had stepped on a piece of tuebroken glass; besides, I know I wasawake. Now, what do you make of.that?" he asked triumphantly.

'What do you make of it?" queriedthe surgeon as he hunted about for hishelmet. "Make nothing of It, Only:on't let It occur again, and as pre-entive is better than cure In this

country, take a run up to Darjeeling.It may save you the expense of a triphome. There 1s a little angel sits upabove. In these days of robbery byruinous exchange, who sends us thesewarnings, with a postscript added,'Look to your liver.' So the next timeyour chum comes take him.up to Dar-jeeling and let the mountain winds

•pet beat the jungle fever out of hissystem."

S'o. I'm quite well," said Herkomer,•'quite well, and that's the deuce of it,"he added plaintively. "I can't make itout. When a man is well and seesthings, it's—it's the devil!"

Often after that Herkomer had com-pany of the same sort; always thesame, sitting there in the chair wait-Ing. "What ,tlie thunder is It waitingfor?" Herkomer used to ask himself.Only he did not bother his friend anymore about it. It was no use.

Physically he was all right. Hecould put the best man in the regimenton his back; aye. and hold him there,too. for ten seconds, with both pointsof the shoulders touching the ground.Vf>ither did he go to Darjeeling. Hewas in a happier place, ^had climbediutp heaven, otherwise known as thehaunts of Minora Conti. Not but what

hot Chinook winds which blow upfrom hades sometimes withered andscorched his paradise.

It was Count Rubitino who alwaysstarted these hot blasts. He and Mi-nora were unnecessarily too mucn to-gether, it seemed to Herkomer. Butthen he was jealous and consequentlyno judge of such matters.

As often as Minora assured him thatshe cared nothing for the count hebelieved her, and as often as he stum-bled upon them in close communion

r some secret matter did he feelthe hot winds blow, and vow that he

>uld break away from his bondageand leave her to the count. But it al-vays ended the same way. It wasn'tvhat Minora said that put things right;t was the eyes—the great, soft Italian•yes looking straight and truthfully nt,and through him, bowling over hisjealous resolves like tenpins and bring-ing him back into leash, like a whippedbefigle.

And still it sat there, almost nightlylow. beside his lied. He had grown.ccustouied to seeing It What was itsuiting for?

Sometimes It annoyed him; he feltlike getting out of bed and kicking it,but the idea was so incongruous, thiskicking of himself, this spiritual self,(is it were, that he gave it up and sigh-ed resignedly.

I)f course it means something," hemused; "something's going to happen,but I'm not going to make an ass of

lyself by talking about it at theess." So he sat tight and waited for

the thing to happen as he would havealted for a Ghazi rush.

It was grewsome, but much in Indlnis grewsome, so he had learned to takethings of that order much as he tool;fighting—with his coffee.

A far greater puzzle to him was Mi-nora herself. Sometimes he found herlistless, indifferent, and then again fora. time she would be her old brilliantself.

Thinking perhaps that these fits ofdejection were due to oppression fromher father, or unduft influence broughtto bear by the count, he •made bold toquestion her; but she shrank from himwith horror and seemed more agitatedthan she had been when holding thecobra.

"It's nerves," he thought. "Life withthe musty old professor and his cobraassociates is depressing enough towreck the nerves of a bronze BuddhaI'll have to get her out of this."

So lie rushed matters a little, and itwas all settled for Christmas week.The professor gave his consent, re-luctantly enough, Herkomer thought,and the count congratulated him withan ironical aimer that made Herkomerlong to give him a toss !u the air fromwhich he would alight on the top ofhis curly black head.

When he and common sense sat faceto face, common sense told him thatMinora loved him with all the strengthof her high strung nature. What elseIs there in it for her, common senseiirgued. for the major's Inheritance waslimited to what his sword might cutdown from the pagoda tree, with theexception of a trifling allowance, bare-ly largo enough to settle his monthlygym account,

It, but the other, intuition, or whateverother alias he masqueraded under, saidthere was something behind it all. andfor once iu a way they were both right.

The love was there right enough, andalso something else behind it, and thissomething else might have all comeout one evening if Herkomer had uotbeen so stupid—honorable he called itat the time.

It lacked two weeks (of Christmastime, and they were sitting on the ve-.randa, as they had sat that other even-ing. Minora, putting her cool whitehand on Herkomer's wrist and turningher face a little into the shadow, sothat he did not notice how set andwhite it was. said, "I have a confes-sion to make, Rolando!" '

"Don't make ijt then, little woman.Confessions are silly things for whichwe are always sorry afterward."

"But I shall be happier if you let metell you about this. I can't marry youwithout telling you first. I won't"—

"Look here, Minora," said the major,turning her around so that he couldlook Into her face, "my objection toyour confession Is purely selfish. Yousee, I couldn't let you confess all onyour side, without unloading some ofmy sins into your ears, and if we ex-change experiences—well, well, Ifancy the count would appear such asaint by comparison that I should loseyou altogether. By the way, I'll com-promise," he added laughingly. "I'llJust ask you one question, which youmay answer or not, and then we'll callthe whole thing off."

"I wilj answer." she said quietly,"only—only"—

"Well, bus It anytuing-to do with thecount, what you wet-e going to tellme?"

"No.""Then 1 can't possibly listen."And so the chance went by, the evil

•went on—went on for two weeks longer,and it was the eve of the wedding day.

Love does many strange things,among others causes a pony to gallonso fast that a syce cannot possiblykeep pace with the winged rider. That•waa why Herkomer arrived at Minora'shome syeeless. As there was nobodyto hold his pony, he led him aroundbehind the bungalow to the stables.

Minora's rooms were in the northwing of the bungalow, and as hepassed the great windows opening onto" the verandft and reaching fromcelling to floor, and open save for theshutters, voices that he could not helpbut hear fell upon his ear.

For an Instant he stood petrified. Itwas the count's voice, speaking to Mi-nora.

"You wll! wreck your harpiness fo?a fancy." sneered the voice.

Herkomer quickened his pace, so thathe might hear uo more, and of her an-swer, whatever it was, he only caughtths one word "confession" as heturned the corner of the bungalow.

But all the fierce jealous passion thathad slumbered in his heart' for weeksarose and smothered him—smotheredeverything—all sense of shame, ofjustice, j}f prudence, and he rusiiedinto Minora's boudoir a passion mad

What right had she, who was. to be-come his wife the next day. to holdsecret intercourse with the count therein her own apartmerts?

With a startled cry Minora thrustsomething into the drawer of a sec-retaire beside which she was standing,and stood ., with her back to it asthough she would guard the secret.

"Perhaps I am de trop," remarkedthe count, passing beyond the purdahwith a low bow, and as Herkomerthought, a sneer on his pale face.

"Why—why have you rushed in here,Rolando, and frightened me?" askedMinora confusedly.

"I am sorry if I have frightenedyou." said the major shortly, "and Iwill answer your question by asking

"Back! Do not touch it!"another, for perhaps your answer willsuffice for both questions. What haveyou got in that drawer?"

If Minora had riot gone white withguilty fear, It might have been allright yet, but it was the falteringwhich developed the tiger in the man.He took a quick step forward andgrasped her wrist cruelly, harshly, at-

he fairly hissed out, "You have a letteror something from him there!"

"My God!" she moaned. "Back! Donot touch it! If you touch that draw-er, I will never marry you—never."With an exclamation of rage he brush-ed her to one side and, snatching thedrawer open, plunged his hand In.

There was the lightning swish of adark body, like the coll of a whiplashin motion; an electric shooting of painthrough his arm which brought an in-voluntary cry of anguish from his lipsand the twisting, writhing of the Hide-ous cobra body as he snatched his handfrom the death trap.

A piercing scream had rung out onthe still night air as he pulled thedrawer open, for, powerless to stophim, Minora had foreseen that he idriving to his death.

I t 'was the scream that brought theprofessor to the room.

"Quick, father! Rolando is bitten,'and before the major knew what hewas about, the professor had graspedhis wrist as in a vise and pulled himinto his own room, -which was next.

Prom that on it was a head and headfinish, with the professor and death asthe runners. There were ligatures andlancing, and the Injecting of the pro-fessor's antidote, and the ceaselessmarching up and down of the patientbetween two sturdy durwans, and thewatching of a woman with a greatsore heart and eyes that were too. dryand hot for tears.

And the other, the one that had satnight after night by Herkomer's bed.came and sat there, just In the centerof the veranda. Herkomer would notlet the durwarns move the chair. "Don'tdisturb him." he said. "Let him sitthere."

"Huzoor, it Is but an empty chair,"said one of them. "No one sits there,sahib."

But still he told them not to movethe chair—they could walk around it."He won't have long to wait now," hemuttered.

"Surely the poison is making thesahib a little mad," the durwanthought.

At first Herkomer felt strangely elat-ed. It was like new wine—he wasdrunk on it; It was good to be bitten bycobras. If he could only get over It, hewould like to try it again—it was likeopium.

And then came the poppy sleep. Hebegged them to let him lie down andrest

"If you sleep, you die," the professoryelled in his ear.

The voice was far off. it was like adream, it was the murmuring of thebreakers far away on the coral reefs,and required too much energy to listento It. Besides, he was so tired andsleepy. This ceaseless walking up anddown was like counting sheep; it madehis head heavy.

Dp and down, up and down the hardfloor of the veranda, re-echoing to theclap, clap of the durwans' loose slip-pers as they marched one on eitherside of him.

It was a terrible race, and life waathe stake.

But as the torturing hours chasedeacb other through the long Burmesenight and the gray l>egau to steal upbehind the tapering spire of the goldenpagoda In the east, and the major stilllived, still walked up and down be-tween his relays of Punjabis, the pro-fessor knew that he had won—had rob-bed the hooded fiend of his victim.

And the man who came back out ofthe jaws of death, when he was toldthat he might sleep, went deep downinto the rest world and lay for hours ina sleep that was first cousin to death.

When he awoke, the flgure sitting bs-iide his couch had changed. It wasMinora, she who had sat there hourafter hour watching that the light didnot go quite out, that the sleep did notbecome of closer kin to death.

Very confusedly the questioning eyeslooked at her when they opened.

When be had grown a little stronger,she told him this, told him the talethat she had tried to tell that nightwhen he had stopped her:

"Father inoculated me with the cobravirus, partly as an experiment andpartly for my own safety, as his cobraswere always about.

"As it seemed to be harmless, and tomake it" sure, he performed the opera-tion several times. But he, learned ashe is, did not foresee the result. Itacted on me like morphine acts onthose who have it injected into theirveins—it became necessary to my life.The exhilaration you felt would bemine for days; then depression follow-ed as a natural law.

"But why go into detail?" she added,with a faint, wan smile. "Without It Iwas dead. At last I became so thatthe bite "from the cobra was only equalto the dose my father used. This wasthe simplest plan.

"WThen you first came into my life, 1thought that I should overcome it, forlove is blind.

"The night you were bitten I meantto tell you all, but to fortify myself, tosummon up the moral courage todrown the love which was so great andstrong, I had asked Count Rubitino tobring a cobra from my father's box.

"That is all; it is not pleasant," andshe smiled again wanly. "I should nothave allowed this love to conquer me.but now it has conquered, it has tri-umphed over all. I will not marry you,because I love you."

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NEXT CONGRESSREPUBLICAN

A Tabular Statement of theProbable Complexion of

the House-Sure Re-publican Votes,

173. -New York, Oct. 21—The staff corres-

pondent of the Mail and Express atChicago gives a forecast of the resultof the election as it will affect therepresentation of the several parties inCongress. It is now /possible, he says,to present the probabilities and thepossibilities of the-political complexloiiof the next House of Representativesin condensed (tabular form more ac-curately thian. earlier conditions havepermitted. I

The accompanying table differs in'many details from any hitherto com-piled. It ia based upon data that areabsolutely confidential. Their sourcemay not be disclosed. The chairmanof neither (the Republican nor the Dem-ocratic national committees will com-pile such a tatole "for publication.Should either do so. he would be over-whelmed with.angry messages fromcandidates for Congress demanding toknow why their districts had beenclassified either as lost to the opposi-tion or doubtful.

SHOWS PRESENT CONDITIONS.It may be stated, however, that this

table presents the present situation as j male acquaintances of the young -wo-ito the congressional canvass as accur- ~ ' " ' "ately as is now possible. It should be

New House.Rep. Gpp. Rep. Opp. Dlbt,

— 9 1 7 1— 6 — 6 -

6 1 5 — 2— 241

— 2 —

— 4 —< —— 1 — —

149

1172

— — 1

. — ' 6 —-

y p eborne in mind, however, during itsscrutiny, that several of the districtsplaced in the dotrfotful column may,and probably will, be counted as isafelyRepublican within the next fortnight.The -table follows:

PresentHouse.

State.Alabama..Arkansas.,California.ColoradoConnecticutDelaware..FloridaGeorgia.: .IdahoIllinoisIndianaIowoKansas.. . .Kentucky..Louisiana.MaineMaryland.MassachusettsMichigan.. . .Minnesota. ..Mississippi. .Missouri. . .Montana.. . .Nebraska.. . .NevadaN. HanvpshlireNew Jersey..New York. ..N. Carolina...N.Dakota.. .Ohio.. . . . . .Oregon.:Penn-vania .Rhode IslandS. Carolina . .S.Dakota. . .Tpnnessee .,Texas.. . . . .UtahVermont. . . .Virginia... . . .Washington..West VirginiaWisconsin.. .Wyoming. . .

44

1012

6162!1

152

202

43

1010

710

— 1 — —

— 2 —•• . —10 '23

2— 7 —

2 — —.2 8 i2, 1 1:2 —*— 1 —

2 — , 2— . 1 0 —»i2

31 0

&!• 1

— 8— 1 — —

Totals.. -...185 17i2 173 132Majority.. ..179 -r 179 —Needed assured Rep. maj. 6 —

A /majority* of all the memibers of theHouse will be as at present, 179. Thatis the number the Republican 'partymuist control in order to organi:._the House. According to this tablethe Republicans are now absolutelysine of 173, or six less than a majorityof the whole. But -there are fifty-twodistricts classified as doubtful, andeven should the -Democrats capturehalf of these, the Republicans wouldhave twenty votes (more than theyneed to organize the House.

'things, and not give themselves far-ther needless trouble 'about the reli-gious conditions of the Philippines orof Cuba.

"As a plain matter of fact, the onlysafety which the Catholic church atthe present time has in (the Philippinesfor the possession of her psrop&rtieaand for the Mves of her priests is theprotection afforded by the Americanflag; and all this is fully understoodanfl fully recognized in Rome."rived yesterday as a passenger on theWard Line steamer Yucatan fromHavana. He will proceed immediatelyto Washington.

General Wood said: "I came -up fromHavana at 'the request of the Depart-ment and to make preparations to takemy family to 'Cuba. Affairs are quieta.nd the people are busy preparing forthe constitutional convention. The•d'eaJth rate in Havana, including yellowfever, is smaller than for many years.''

NO CLEW TO MURDEiRER.

Dea-th of Jennie Bossehieter in Pater-son, Shrouded in Deep Mystery.

Paterson, Oct. 21-JThe police havethus flar l|>en tunable to cftear away themystery that surrounds the murder ofJennie Bosschiefcer, who waJs (founddt»aid with her s-kull fractured near theroadside, a sbort "•distance • froon theWaganaw bridge, on the Bergen county;side of the,Paterson river, yesterdaymorning. Officials say they have lit-tle or no ground on which to base aplausible theory of the murder.

Coroner Vroom believes Una-girlmust have jumped or fallen from a rig,probably while defending herselfagainst an attempted'aasauflt. The inquest wiil be hesjd to-day, and several

l it f y u g woman, who are said to ihave been seenin her company Thursday night, wil

Leonard JCemerling, of No. 145 EastFifth street, Paterson, told the author-ities thait he saw Miss Botssehieter inconversation with two young men infront;.of Kent's drugstore, on Mainstreet, at a late hour Thursday night.He said that the girl and her com-panions seemed to be somew'haJt ex-cited and spoke in loud tones. Thepolice do not attach, any importance tohis statement. ,

The present murder •mystery recallsthe nrar"der of Mamie .SuQlivaa, whichexcited Paterson lour years aigo. iMissSullivan was also fioum'd lying in a lotwith her skull .fractured. She died thenext day withbiit 'having pecoreredc o s i o A l f $5

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YOUTSEY FOUND GUILTY.His Punishment Fixed by4he Jury

as Life Imprisonment.

Georgetown, Ky., Get 21—"We, thejury, find this defendantt guilty-<ain!d fixhis punishment at life imprisonment."

This verdict was returned'by the 1{2men who "were selected to try Henry E.Youtsey, farmer iy Gorvettnor Taylor'sstenographer, on'.the charge odHbedng:a principal in the shooting of GovernorWilliam Goebel in front of the execu-tive building at Frankfort Jan. 30.

The jury filed out of the room, andthe most dramatic trial in the K<••braky courts for many years was at anend.

It was learned 'that no 'ballottaken last night, although it was prac-ticably agreed that a verdict of ®uiiltjWould be found.' The vote was unanimous.

It is likely a jury will be empaneledas soon as practicable to inquire intoYoutsey's sanity.

Scrofula in the blood shows itsel:sooner or later in swelltingis, sores,eruptions. But Hood'completely cures it.

NO BIBLE IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS.

POPE THANKSTHE PRESIDENT

Our Flag Protects all Faiths-Vatican Refused to Re-

cognize Filipino In-surgents.

New York, Oct. 31—Archbishop Ire-land, of St. Paul, who returned a fewdays ago firom one of Ms frequenttrips to Europe, made an interestingstatement yesterday concerning the..Vatican's view of the attitude of thiGovernment of the United States to-ward the Catholic Church in the Phil-ippine Islands and in Cuba.lAi'chbisho'p on this trip abroad, as isus.ual with him, had several audienceswith the Pope, as well as interviewswith Cardinals. He said yesterdayresponse to a question as to what isthought in Rome as to the attitude ofthis government:

"I am quite willing to repeat whatwas recently said to me in Rome onthis subject, and I do this all the morereadily that the eminent personageswith wihdm I had the honor of con-versing on the matter showed them-selves to be is no way umwilling tohave the statements made by them be-come rjublic.

"In one of the audiences which hegraciously granted me, the Pop© said:'We are well pleased with the relationsof the' American government . to thechurch in Cuba and the Philippine Is-lands. The American governmentgiree proof of good willl and exhibitsan its acts a spirit of justice and of re-spect for the liberty and the rights ofthe church. Tlhe repbirts we receivefrom bishops and others indicate this.Difficulties of detail occur as a conse-quence of war and off newness of com-plexions. Bint we uinidWstand suchthings. We have confidence in the in-tPlligence and the spirit of justice ofthe American government, and believethat the future will not lead us to achange of Sentiment toward lit. • Underthe American Government there willbe due respect for rights of (propertyand of conscience.

" 'You will thank in my name thePresident of the Republic for what isbeing done.'

Archbishop Irefland went on to say,speaking of his own observations atthe liome of the church:

"The authorities in Rome are In-formed to a degree that both astonlsh-'fl and pleased me about matters re-

ligious and political in the Philippinesan it in Cwba, and as they have the in-terests of the church to those countriesmost deeply at iheart, and1' know flarlj Wherever the mind's opinion is setbetter tihan we in America icould know Imp over the soul's feeling there is awhat the rights of the church are amd \ remnant of the dark ages.Trow beat such rights may be defended, * ' —.Amerlcans-^Catholics and others— | _ W'hen Truiiv riutstious, silence is amay safely accept their judgment of tyte-

Trustees of the Board of EducationBar It Out by a Vote of 13 to t

Chicago, Oct. 19—By a vote of 13 to6 the trustees of the Board of Educa-tion resolved last night not tdpermilthe introduction of "Readings fromthe Bible, selected..-'for the 'publi_Softools" into tae schools of Chicago.TMs vote was the fiisc ta^en since toebook was b-rougat ip-'the attention ofthe Board.

For nearly two years attempts havebeen made co induce the School Man-agement committee to, recommend taatMhe book be placed in aiie ast of.sup-•p'icnieuitary reaudiig. It was agreedthat the book could be read by theteacher without comment, and that itwould prove of moral value in the edu-cation c-f children. Trustee Dawesasked the board to adopt the book ofBible readings, to be add*d to tlhe sup-plementary list. Trustee Keatingstrenuously- opposed to the motion. Hesaid: "Vhe merits of the book suggest-ed should not be made an excuse forthe introduction of religion in theschools. Such an innovation would belamentable. Some parents, wtho do notwish tlheir children to learn anythingof the Bible, would strongly object tothe introduction of this book, with orwithout comment from tlhe teacher.To bring in a source of dissensionamong parents who rely on the publicschools for secular education would \ .to bring a curse on the people of Chi-cago. Once admit the Bible in theschools and the doors will (be openedto endless religious discussions."

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