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12 THE BABY. ffiirrfeff* <n the Benoklyn Engle. The little fot'rintr nabyfeet, With faltering steps and alow. With pattering echoes soft and sweet Into my heart they go; Thev also go, in grimy plays, In muddy pools and dusty ways. Then through the house in trackful mate They wander to and fro. The baby hands that clasp my neck With touches dear to me. Are the same hands that smash and wreck The inkstand foul to see: They pound the minor with a cane. They rend the manuscript in twain. Widespread destruction they Ordain In wasteful jubileo. The rffoamy, mumi'rlng baby voice That cook its little tune, Ths: makes my listening heart rejoice Like birds til leafy June, Can wake at midnight dark and still, And all the air with howling All, That splits the ear with echoes shrill Like cornets out of tune. MASKED VIGILANTES. The “White Caps,” or “Knights of the Switch,” in Indiana. A dispatch from 1/ouisville, Ky., to the Kew York Herald says: The “White Caps” are to Southern In diana what the “Bald Knobbers” were to Missouri. Not so desperate in character as the latter, their organization is identical and thev have equally set law at defiance. Tlie headquarters of the "White Caps” are in Harrison county, Ind., but the organiza tion extends over'into Crawford, Jefferson,. and half a dozen other counties in the oldest civilization of the State. There is not a more intelligent, peaceable or orderly community in Indiana than in Harrison county. Corydou. tiie county seat, was the first capital of the State, and its court house, built in ISII, was fourteen years the capital. The country is rich and schools and churches alvmnd. A branch railroad has been built to Corydon, and its citizens are prominent in State and na tion. In spite of all thiß, the “White Caps” or '“Knights of the Switch,” as they are some times called, have existed for seventeen years. The courts have been set at defiance, jails have been opened and prisoners liber ated or punished. Men, women and chil dren have been dragged out of bed at deoil of night, and their homes burned before their eyes, while they themselves have been whipped, tortured with fiendish ingenuity and made to 11 ee the country. .PEALING SUMMARILY WITH WRONG-DOERS. ? Like the “Bald Knobbers,” the professed motive of the “White Caps" is the punish ment of crime more swiftly and fittingly .than can be accomplished in the courts. For this reason there has lieen little outcry against them, and even when public indig nation has been aroused by some unusually jflam-ant act, nothing has lieen accomplished. 1 The identity of “White Caps” has been revealed time and again, hut not one has •ever been brought to punishment. There ‘have been many attempts by grand juries to indict the offenders, but so far they have proved ineffective. For years and years •hardly a circuit court is held in Harrison •county that the jury is not instructed to investigate some case of recent occurrence, but “White Caps” are on the jury and in jtke court room, and nothing has ever been •discovered in this way. i There liave been hut few confessions of membership, but one of these furnishes in formation of the regular nature of the or ganization. The “White Caps,” or “Knights,” are organized with regular lodges. There are signs, grips and pass words—crude, of course, but sufficient for the recognition of, and for communication between, members. They meet at appointed places, but not often at the same place, and but seldom in a house. Secluded groves are their favorite resorts, and here they assem ble upon notification of the leader of the lodge. Councils are held, expeditions deter mined upon and punishments inflicted. The sign for the assembling of these “lodges” is the laying of crossed fence rails in the middle of a road. The earliest known band of this organiza tion was in Scott township. Harrison countv, :itecn years ago. .Tames -V. Khan, 'a email farmer, accused of petty thievery, was tied to a tree and severely whipped. He was their first victim, but oases were frequent alter that. ACTIVITY OF THE SWITCHER. Of late the “White Cai*’’ have been very active. The latest outbreak was in Jeffer eon county, two miles from the small village of Brooksburg. A band of masked men last Friday night broke into the farm house of Stout 'Brenson, dragged him from lied with his wife and child, removed the furni ture from the rooms, burned the dwelling Rnd quietly disappeared. Neither Brenson cor his neighbors can assign any reason for the outrage, but it is supposed the “White Caps - were headed by a personal enemy. That the party was from the organization was shown by their wearing the white inasks, which have given them their names. The lynching of John Davis, near Eckerty, lad., three weeks ago, for an assault upon Annie Flaimogan, was the work of the mys terious bond. WOMEN WHIPPED. The “Knights” were guilty ten days ago of a less serious but als- > less extenuated of fence. At midnight a bgnd of some twelve or fifteen white masks visited the house of Joseph Lynch, a farmer who lives near Leavenworth. They broke in the doors, Seized Lynch and his wife, entered the room where slept his daughter Mary with her three little brothers, amt dragged the whole barty into the front yard. The two younger boys broke loose and fled into the bushes. Five men held Lynch and the older boy, and the remainder' whipped the two women with stout hickory switches. They mounted their horses when sufficient punishment had been inflicted and quietly rode away. The outrage created no excitement either Rt Corydon or Leavenworth, though brief notices were made in the pajters here. The Lynches live in a prosperous neighborhood, but whan a correspondent visited the place ■nen only shrugged their shoulders and said it.tie beyond remarking that the “whip-ups generally get hold of the right ] parties.'’ A TALK WITH VICTIMS. •The home of Lynch was visited, and his wife was found ut work laying a rail fence In front of the house. Her boys were around the house, and Mary got up out of bed to Stare at the unaccustomed v isitor. Very shabbily dressed were all. Mr. Lynch was Rt work at a neighbor's, and his wife was so frightened that she trembled from head to foot when questioned, thinking the re , porter was oue of the "Knights.'’ Bbe said the “Caps ’had been there n week go and whipi>ed her and Mary, but she couldn't remember anything. When anv trouble earns her heart lam so fast that ft her and she fell down like dead, and the way with her that night. She identic afraid t<> tell anything, but. ■Hi isTstiiision made the following i. -nt: KBi lived here all my life, and belong to hut I've had a hard time. Mr. HjHi owns a farm and I'll get this place mother. We've hurl trouble and girl Mary got into trouble, but the titan said he'd marrv her. They wire in the bill, but my son "Willis >.'l and they ui lift lie. Then to be iitamed 111 the spring, but made such a trouble they HBd. His name is Bryant (freon, mid lie !"ilie Km of Wesley Green, our nearest (might ur. He says bo ll marry her yet. MOW THE “WHITE CAPS” MANAGE. “The other evening Andy Green, Bryant's young brother, earns over and borrowed our shotgun. That night the ‘vigilance’ rente ana they whipped me and whipped Mary, i don't know who it was. They whipped us in our night clothes. First, one Rid then another laste dus both. MarvVi so iwfujly hurt I’m afraid she'll die. I guess there's some people wunt our little property ual are trying to drive u* away.” Mary Lynch is not more than 17 years f,| d and rather good-looking. Bhe could tell more than IwtuvUwr. . . .. ... . ! - tx- ■. ,• ?;■ •>* ■4r 1 I >rT ri t, —_jft . ~ &$} r&sJ K't chcn *”’f ]Vm j JWcfy '-s>'T9 JU 1 ees:| \ parlor v % j \*xrf !=E3 J'Tt 1 "* W 13 J ! ' i{al i ' fp ""*"1-1—! *~Vc ra nclcv j. Esjr.ir.Tg ::-:rn - : -^ = - == vJ | -J FIRST floor The alxn-e design was furnished us ter publication by the Co-Operative Bulling Han Association, a large firm of Architect* doing busmess at 11 Brnadva} ' who make a specialty of country and suburban work, being able to furnish the and Swings and specifications for more than three hundred different designs, mostly ot low and moderate cost, they invite correspondence from all intending builders, however distant. They will send their latest publication (called bhoppell s Modem Houses, -No. o) containing more than fifty designs, on receipt of $l. • Wesley Green, father of Bryant Green, was found by the reporter and said that the Lynches kept a bad place—playing cards and “whooping’’ on Sundays. The vigilants, he thought, had done right In whipping them. Mrs. Lynch was a respectable woman, he guessed, and the “cutting up” hail only been going on seven or eight months. PUBLIC OPINION. Public opinion in the neighborhood is much divided over the matter, but the gen eral opinion is that the “Knights’ought not to have done tne whipping. The whipping of women is too frequent in the annals of the “Knights” to lie pleas ant. Generally thoir victims are charged with unchastity, but it is admitted that there have been cases when whippings were given as the result of disappointment or malice. More serious things than these have been recorded against them, and the list of fami lies whipped, houses burned and victims forced to leave home are distressingly com mon. Hardly a week passes that these minor outrages are not reported from some where in the territory of the “Knights.” More than one tragedy has resulted from what was meant to be a trifling punishment. MAKING A LAZY MAN HAUL WOOD. In Blue Kiver township Lem Arnold lived a couple of years ago. He was apparently stout and healthy, but was accused of sliift lessness and letting his wife haul wood. Tliat winter a band of the “Knights” visited him at midnight, took him out of bed and hauled up a good supply of firewood. Ar nold drew the sled in his night shirt, and although he was literally whipped to keep up the circulation, he died a few weeks afterward of consumption, brought on by the exposure. ■ In tne same township lived Henry Long, a lawyer accused of being of a disturbing element, especially at elections. He was brought to trial before a magistrate. While the case was in progress a band of masked men, with their coats turned, surrounded the house. Long sprang to the door and shot dead the first man who entered. The victim proved-to lie a respected young Frenchman named M. Heuriot, whom the mob had forced into the lead. Long tried to shoot again, but his pistol failed him. He made a dash through the crowd but received sev eral shots, from the effects of which lie died next <lay at Corydon. None of the baud was ever brought to justice. a town CArrrnF.n. Corydon was once captured by a band of the “White Caps." In May, 18S5, there was talk of corruption in the county offices, but to the demands for investigation no atten tion was paid. On Saturday evening two men rode into town aland dark, saying they had come to sec the Ku Klux. Soon homo men liegan to ride into town from evory road, in half an hour between 300 and IXX) had gathered Upon the public square. The men had their coats turned, and all wore white masks, with a dozen other forms of disguise. All the horses luul white masks over their beads, with holes cut for their eyes and ears. A number of horses had white strips tied around a fore leg. The band lode through every street in the town in military order, then once around it and then disbanded. Two or three were ote served to ride into a livery stable and leave their horses. The next morning letters threatening to burn the town and kill evory one of the officers unless an investigation was ordered wore reeoivod by the Couuty Commissioners and several of tne prominent citizens. Ail investigation was ordered the next week. Discrepancies were found in the Treasurer's and Auditor’s offices. Treasurer Bowling turned over a large sum of money he had collected, was sued on Ills bond and jkJOO more was recovered. The records iu the Auditor’s office werej mutilated one night, so a complete investigation could uot be hud. Auditor A. W. Brewster, however, paid over $3,000 which it was thought he owed the county. John Jacob iUilcr. a well-to-do Tanner THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1887—TWELVE PAGES. living near Corydon, was brought before the grand jury as one of the mob. Ho refused to testify and was ordered to jail for con tempt. He secured a few minutes' talk with the Judge and the prosecuting attorney, however, and the order was revoked. Mil ler went homo and nothing more was ever done in the case. These instances could be multiplied by the score. Queerly enough the Indianians seem not to he much opposed to the “White Caps” and conclude they rarely make mis takes in punishments. The more thought ful, however, admit that the organization is sometimes the weapon of private malice and that great wrong is done. Still, nothing is done to break up the “Knights.” WITHOUT A LENS. Photographs Taken with Pill-Box and a Pin-Hole. From the Missouri Hepnblican. Hereafter it will be possible for the economical amateur photographer to make his camera out of an old blacking-box, with no more costly accessories than a very small hole, bored in a piece of metal, and pre pared dry plates, which retail for 00c. a dozen. There will he needed no costly lens, no elaborate camera, no complicated ma chinery for focusing—nothing more than u pin-hole and a sensitive surface in a light tight box. The gentleman who has patented the de tracting process which renders all these wonders jiossible is Dr. John Vansant, the physician who has charge of tho United States Marine Hospital. Like all remarkable new things, the idea is not entirely new. The pin-hole aperture in place of the lens has been used in the camera obseura for many years, but it has never lieen applied successfully to photogra phy before. This Dr. Vansant has done. A reporter railed on the doctor at the hos pital yesterday, and asked to he shown some of the results of his experiments. The doc tor very courteously proceeded to explain the process. “First,” said he, “f will show the little instrument which takes the place of the lens." And he drew out an old cigar box in whose interior were a number of interesting looking packages done up in paper. “You know,’’ he said, "that the detraction process forms an image of the camera by means of a minute aperture instead of a lens. Hero are some ot t hose which 1 use." Ho handed over some disks of metal in some of which there were apparent minute pin holes and in others the closest examina tion failed to discover any aperture. "Try (lie microscope,” said the doctor, and only thou could tile hole be made out. It was liquate, cut. as smoothly as with a die and of two thousandths of an inch wide. "1 have them cut square,” said the doctor, “be cause it is easier to get rid of only acci dental blur, or inequality or raggedneas of edge that way. although a Circular aperture does just as well. That represents THE WHOLE OK MY PROCESS. You can replace the lens of an ordinary camera with one of these diaphragms nn'd go to work; or you can do as 1 do, and fix up an old pill box mi that it will do every thing that you need. There are a number of advantages which the simple aperture has over the lens, nnd but one defect. In the 11 rut place, it is achromatic, and thou it is orthocnrouiatic. ” “Do it oue at a time, doctor,” protested the reporter, feelingly. “Well, it bus not the blur which a cheap lens always gives, and it is more perfect than the "best possible lens in giving tin proper tone value of colors in black and white. It needs no focusing; the definition is as sharp one inch from the aperture as it is at one foot, the only difference lieing that the latter picture is of course larger. The only objection ie that the detraction process does uot give os good and Unitiou as the lies! louses, tins, of cuurye, beteg due hugely to IP E RSPECTIV E VIEW. DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN. Size of Structure— Front, 33 feet 6 inches. Side, 3S feet, including front veranda. Size of Rooms—See floor plans. Height of Stories —Cellar, 0 feet fi inches; First Story, 9 feet; Second Story, 8 feet. Materials Foundation, stone; First Story, clapboards; Second Story, clap boards; Roof, shingles. Cost—#2,soo to $3,OtX), all complete, ex cept mantels and kitchen range. Special Features.—The centra? hall is tl feet ti inches wide. There is a fire-place in the parlor. In the sitting-room and in the dining room there are flues for stove con nection, and small, neat hard-wood manlcl shelves. A bath-tub is provided in the second story, but no water-closet. Hot and cold water are carried to the tub and to the kitchen sink, a galvanized iron boilej fur nishing the hot water. Four very good bed-rooms in second story. Two good rooms can b finished in the attic, if desired, still leaving storage room. The finishing of attic rooms is not included in our estimate of cost. Cellar under the whole house, with walls laid in cement mortar, and cellar bottom concreted. the crude manner in which I have had to cut them.” “Let me see some of your pictures.” They were produced." There were pictures of the marine hospital, from the north, east, south and west, and from many of the inter mediate points of the compass. All of them were clear, sharply-defined and well done photographs which would have been credita ble to any professional. One of them, the capitol atr Washington, was especially excel lent, and TYPICAL OF THE WORK which the machine could do The visual angle was over 100 degrees. The whole front of the building wan shown on the plates taken while the camera sat across the street from the main entrance. Very clear and ex act likenesses of Dr. Vansant and his wife, photos of statuary, even mteo photographs in which the common pedieufus punmnua became a monster that to lie bated needed to be seen, were shown; each of which was a work of art and most of which had been done with a pill liox with a hole in one end about one-fiftieth the size of the finest needlo's eye. “Of course," said the doctor, “this is a practical application of an old process but some of these pictures have been developed by a discovery which I know is my own development by phosphorescence. I have made a sheet of phosphorescent )iaper and seven hours after exposing it to the sunlight have taken a negative and a piece of sensi tive paper and made tnat, picture." And he handed the reporter one iii which t here was a peculiarly beautiful tone of light and shade. “I don't yet see much practical use for this discovery,” said the doctor, “but it certainly is something tlvat the authorities have declared could not be done. Come into the dark room and I will show you some remarkable experiments in phos phorescnce.” Tlie doctor has an array of phosphorescent preparations, one of which—sulphide of cal cium with a little zinc—blazes like a violet fire in the dark after it has been exposed for a couple of seconds to tbe sun. Taking a sheet of paper covered with this prepara tion, the doctor held a negative over it for a moment in tho light. The redd violet flame shone all alxuit the paper where the negative had not, prelected it. hut left the picture dark against tho bright background. Then exposing another sheer of paper until it was all aglow, the iv*utivo was replaced and n sheet of red glnss nut over it, nnd the whole exposed again. When tbe glass:* were re moved the red rays lmd blotted out the vio let, whole the negative had not interposed, and TIIE PICTURE BURNED FORTH brightly ngaiict a Held of black, just the reverse of the former one, Taking either picture in one's hand one could follow every shade and tone, in one, iu violet tire against blackness in the other, in black ugainst purple light. "This,” said the doctor, “is not origins! with me, but I believe I am tbe first man who has succeeded in putting phospho rescence to work on a sensitive plate.” “You have patented your defraction pro cess, of course.'” “Yes.” “What shall you do with it!” “That, remains to lie seen. Borne people who attempted to use mv idea, doubtless under misapprehension of my rights and intentions, got, up a paste-board camera which they sold for 25c. nnd which really took very good pictures. I have stopped the sale of them, however, and I have not yet made up mind what I sliall do.” “We are apt to have workable cameras at 35c. a piece, however f" “Why, an old blacking box will do—all yon need is a light, tight, camera. You uui get the apurture to as costly a lsix as you choose to buy, or to as cheap a one. I think myself the result should be to popularize photography greatly. There is nothing that tbe lenamMjMkiii <he apertures can not, d<> ■ t* 1m take mnantaneous view*.” c.. , r~~~" •' —-I- ■ '.■ -‘-‘Ar.-WISBIBS STTP i I~ Z ,|= l\oon\ I J ; jec! l\oarO \ \° oh y F \ &’X\X b =a | “ \ I/ ° V ,1. I I :p y f iiMf I u .j. S „ \ a-.' J |l j \ SECOND Ff.OOR. The Belle of Sierra. “We’ve got a girl up in our country,” said James Farwell of Sierra valley yesterday at the Grand Hotel to a San Francisco Exam iner reporter, “that discounts the world. ' Ain’t another one like her anywhere. Make a good catch, too, for some fellow, only he should have plenty of hustle to him, else he’d get laid out. She’s a rippper. Runs two ranches and makes a barrel of money. “You see, she’s a girl who is alone in the world. Two or three years ago her only re lative, a brother, died, and consequently she had to run the property. She is Miss Ellen Callehan. Everybody throughout the Sierra valley knows her. She can yoke up the steers and plough as much in a'day as any body. She can build fences, pitch hay, or take her place with a crew of men at a threshing-machine and keep even with any of them. As for riding refractory moun tain horses, she’s a regular vaquero. It takes a very supple and long-jointed nag to get her off, now. I tell you. He’d need to be lubricated with the best material a going to do it. “Miss Callehan has gone into the cattla business a good deal lately. It is only a few days ago since she sold rortv-six beeves in one lot to James Miller for $3,31275. And, if you think she ain't shrewd on a trade, all I have to say is she got 8 1-3 c. for them, which is the highest prtlvpaid in the Sierra valley for several years. “She wouldn't take paper money—nothing but gold—and she carried it ali home with her, and stowed it away in her cabin. She has a holy horror of banks, and thinks they do little else, but swindle. Now some people might think this girl would be good game for robbers, but die wouldn’t. I have an idea it would be a very sorry time for the man who got to poking his nose about her place. She can shoot, and she does It, too, whenever the occasion requires. “No, I never heard that she ever shot a man, but she is as handy as any fron tiersman on the game that comes around there.’’ “ ‘ls she pretty?” “Not from the city standpoint hardly, I presume. Fact is the girl's got too much to do. Rut she is not ovor 25, weighs about 130 and is dashlug and really attractive. If she gave her time and attention to frills and furbelows instead of bulls and beef, I’m free to say I think she would eclipse many of the dazzlors who listen every night to the music of the National Ofiera Company. The girl's environment has had much to do with the formation of her habits, the same as it has with all persona. But Miss Callehan is ambitious. She says she is soon going to have a piano and an extensive library, and as soon as she turns off her other lot of lieef cattle, which will be early in the fall, she is going to take life easier. My word for it, Miss Callehan has the real stuff in her, and we’ll hear from her further and to greater advantage before long. “Some of the young ranchmen in the vi cinity there have shown an inclination to win the young woman’s hand. But she hasn’t encouraged them much. She says most of them are no account. “I suppose Miss Callehan is about the best judge of live stock on the Pacific coast. Hhe is to the Pacific coast what Minnie Morgan is to tho Atlantic. You know Miss Morgan made such a reputation as a judge of hoof ed cattle and horses in the East that the New York World wanted her, and now she does the fine stock department exclusively for that paper, tho World paying her such a salary that she writes lor no other paper whatever. “At guessing on the weight of a steer, or on giving an opinion of the points of a horse or cow, Miss < allchan is acknowledged to be the queeu of that country.” IViKTUAMTER Pams, of Solar. 111., receives 10c. a veaj. The postmaster at Pork, 111., got 30e. lasi year, while the postmaster at Lear, Ark., got 31c There Is one admirable feature about a wire fence The patent medicine man can't paSHM legend on 11 in regard to his liver cure.- - HOFFMAN HOUSE EXCITEMENT. Tom Ochiltree’s Appointment as Post master Causes Pertift'bation. From the New York Evening Sun. At precisely 5:45 yesterday afternoon a tall man with a sad expression whispered gloomily in the ear of Prof. Billy Edwards, whom he found examining his pink finger naili in the Hoffman art gallery. “No, by my stars, you don't say so,” said Prof. Edwards, with a manner of surprise, and then he added: “Well, I heard some of the gents say that he was going over to the Democrats.” In less than ten minutes it was all oyer the Hoffman House, and had been wafted on the quick wing of gossip to Dwight Law renee, who was keeping a sofa warm in tne Eifth avenue lobby. “Cleveland run; ap pointed Tom Ochiltree postmaster, that was the story. Mr Lawrence assumed his reflective mood. He expecting to hear that Tom Ochiltree imd gone over, but he didn t t hink anything short of the New \ork post office or Consul to Cork would buy him. Mr Lawrence shook his head sadly as he re flected that where Tom Ochiltree led others would follow. „ „ TI At the tables in the Hoffman House nothing else was thought of. Justice Powers was not surprised that Ochiltree had pone over to the Democracy, but shivered when he heard that he had taken a petty post office. Telegrams began to pour in. They asked if it was true that Tom Ochil tree had accepted an office from Cleveland, and no doubt it was this news which caused Dorman B. Eaton to walk pensively down Broadway, shaking his head and muttering to himself. . Mr. Ochiltree himself was nowhere to be found. He was either at the races or the ball game. When the ticker announced that Hie New Yorks were beaten the clerk informed the crowd that had gathered that Tom was at the races sure. The hew Yorks never lost a game when he smiled upon them. loiter in the evening the Hon. Thomas Prognosis Ochiltree strolled into the Hoff man House. A telegram was thrust into his hand and he tore it open. It asked if he had been appointed postmaster of Rush ville. Mr. Ochiltree thought it was a joke. He even suspected when his friends thronged about him and plied him with inquiries that it was one of Adonis Dixey’s tricks. But when a dispatch from Washington an nounced that the report was true, and that Tom Ochiltree had just been appointed postmaster of Rushville by President Cleve land, Mr. Ochiltree was puzzled. With a throng of friends gbout him as he sat at the head of a table, Mr. Ochiltree em phatically denied all knowledge of the ap pointment. His friends smiled a dry smile. Mr. Ochiltree insisted that no office was there which he would accept. Here Jake Hess slyly nudged the ex-wicked Senator Gibbs. Some of Mr. Ochiltree's friends urged him to decline. The clerk of the Hoffman seemed I to weep, and Prof. Ed wards looked as he might if Sam Collyer had whipped him. Bets were offered that Ochiltree would go on the stump next fall for Cleveland. Odds were accepted that the appointment was only temporary, and that he was booked for something higher. Mr. Ochiltree was him self so perplexed that he forgot his engage ment for billiards. “Yes. sir. It appears to be a fact that the President has appointed either me or some body of my name to the post office in the great city of Rushville,” Mr. Ochiltree said reflectively. “But do you suppose for a moment I could take that officer’ When I step politically I step up, not down. As I once said t > the Juke of Cambridge, as we were riding Hyde Park together, ‘Juke,' said I, ‘I have been Marshal of Texas.’ 'I know it,’ says he. ‘I have represented the Galveston district in Congress, and that borders on Palestine.’ ‘I know it, Tom,’ says he. "And I’ve had enough,’ says I. ‘You might go higher, Tom,' says he. ‘But I won’t,’ says I, and I meant it when I said it to the Juke and I mean it now. I won’t have the office. I didn’t ask for it, and no doubt Reagan, who wants to get me into the Democratic party, put the President up to it. What, I who have dined with kings serve as postmaster at Rushville! You may say I decline.” When this deeision of the Hon. Thomas was announced bottles were cracked and Prof. Edwards smiled. . Later there came unother dispatch saving that the Tom Ochiltree appointed Post master at Rushville is not Thomas, known 1 as Thomas Porterhouse, or Prettyman. or Prognosis, but Thomas M. Ochiltree. When this dispatch was shown to Mr. Ochiltree he went off and played billiards, and the ex citement at the Hoffman subsided. , WOMEN RULING A CITY. And Doing It Fully as Well as Mascu line Officials Could. Salinn (Kan.) Letter to iftmphis Appeal. 1 have just returned from a trip on the Santa Fe road, west. Syracuse, 16 miles from the Colorado line, was the Mecca of my pilgrimage, because here, April 4, they elected a City Council of women, and I was bent upon seeing the town that had made this innovation and the women who were filling the Council chairs. I wanted to ask the people how it came about and how it was working. The first of these ladies in troduced to me was Mrs. E. B. Barbour, a fair-faced, gentle-mannered woman, with an unmistakable air of business about her. I found this accounted for by the fact that she is a businesswoman. Her husband dors a large and complicated business• the books are entirely in her charge. Mrs. H. D. Nott is a business woninu. too. I expect, much of Mrs. Nott in the management of their Suf frage Society, because of her experience in lowa as President of the Eighth District Woman Suffrage Society. Mrs. Coggeshall says they were very sorry to low Mrs. Nott from their ranks. She "is chairman of the Syracuse Aldermanic force. Mrs. M. M. R'iggles is a quiet little woman, a careful •and conscientious mother and housewife. She has a way of making up her mind for herself and standing firmly by her convic tions. She has a reputation among Syracuse male citizens for being a person of excellent judgment. Mrs. S. N. Coe is a woman of excellent ability, with enough conservatism to ko<q> her enthusiasm in proper check. No one of these women is more anxious to do exactly right than is Mrs. Coe. She is sister to Mrs, l.emort. President of the Saxon Equal Suffrage Society, organised at Dodge City by Mrs. Baxon and named for her. She has several such namesakes in Kansas. Mrs. L. M. Swortwood, the fifth member, I did not see, although I made an effort to do so. She was confined to her home by sickness; hut T am told she is a woman of ability and by no means behind her sisters in any re quisite for her position. My short acquaint ance with these women convinced me that sitting in council eliairs and wrestling with questions of city polity have had no effect to unsex them—whatever tlmt ay be- for these were as womenly women as l have ever seen. I looked in vain for masculine tendencies. There was not a hint of it In dress or manner. Meeting them on the street or in the cars, you would never guess that, they were city official*. From conver sation with them I learned that they were exceedingly anxious to make their adminis tration a just one—one that would advance the best interests of the city; and when they spoke of advancing the interests of theft city they betrayed the fact that they had in mind the city’s moral as well as temporal prosperity. It is said of them that they ure doing hotter work than the body of men who composed the previous Council. 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