THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY li, I01J.
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CHARITIES OF
i YOUNG HEIRES
SENATOR SIMMO.'S. I
Girl of Fourteen Wants to Give
Away $30,000 a Year.
SHE INHERITED $30,000,000.
Atkt Court to Allow Her to Divide Her
Annual Income of $60,000 With
Churches, Hospitals and Orphanages.
Plan Is Her Own.
Miss Catherine Barker of Michigan
City, Ind., the fourteeu-yenr-old heir
ess to the entire Barker estate of $30,
000,000, has applied to the courts for
permission to contribute annually a
large part of her Incomo to Catholic
and Episcopal churches and hospitals
and orphanages allied with them. Be
ing a minor and under the guardian
ship of the First Trust and Savings
bank of Chicago, Miss Barker must
obtain the consent of her guardians
and the court to distribute tho money.
The income of the estate is more
than $1,000,000 a year. John II. Bar
ker, her father, set aside $00,000 a year
for the education and maintenance of
his young daughter. The bulk of the
big estate is In Chicago bank stocks,
which were accumulated forty years
ago by Miss Barker's grandfather.
Through her guardian, rcpreseuted
by President James B. Forgan of the
First Nntlonnl bank, Miss Barker
seeks to arrange for the division of
her annuity by causing u petition to
be filed In the Laporto circuit court
asking leave to use part of her annual
allowance In charitable work.
Restrictions In Will.
Miss Barker has been subjected to
considerable nnnoyanco by fortune
seekers and charity solicitors. Recent
ly she was the object of Interest to an
alleged prince of Sicily, who wrote
her an endearing letter which was
seized by one of her tutors.
She lives In a big country homo In
Michigan City In care of a governess
and a corps of tutors.
The will of her father gives her guard
ians unlimited power over her future.
She cannot marry until she passes
twenty-one. Her future husband must
bo approved by tho guardians, n com
mittee composed of President Forgau
of the First National bank and several
directors. Not a dollar of her great
fortune can be conveyed to her hus
band, and sho must not live perma
nently abroad.
The guardians are empowered to
control her Income and allow only
what In their Judgment Is necessary.
This power Is permanent, even after
marriage.
ATTACK ON HARVARD.
Sidls' Book Also Contains a Thrust at
Dr. Eliot.
Boris Sldis, a psychologist of high
standing connected with Harvard uni
versity, In "Tho Philistine and Gen
ius," a small book Just Issued, sharply
criticises Harvard and other colleges
and schools of the country and Inci
dentally points out tho possibilities In
the way at education by citing tho ex
ample of his remaskable son, who nt
twelve years of age reads Homer ami
discusses authoritatively the fourth di
mension. Even President Emeritus Charles W.
Eliot of Harvard did not escape the
writer's verbal castlgatlon, or at least
It is supposed that President Eliot was
referred to In this paragraph:
"Not long ago wo wero Informed
by one of those successful college man
darins lionized by the office clerks, su
perintendents and tradesmen that he
could measure education by the foot
rule." Harvard men were amazed
when they read this reference palpably
to Dr. Eliot's live foot shelf of books.
CITIZENSHIP HARDER.
Provisions of New Law Affect Half a
Million Man.
Various provisions of the naturaliza
tion law, passed Ave years ago, are now
In effect, and a study of them seems
to Indicate that half a million men
who have taken out first papers dur
ing the last five years will find it Im
possible to get their second papers.
The leading provision of tho new
law is that beforo receiving his sec
ond papers tho applicant must fill out
a new blank containing fifty ques
tions. This ho must send at his own
expense to Washington. Second pa
pers cannot be granted until the
Washington offlce has verified the
proof of the man's landing here. It
has been tho custom to accept n man's
sworn statement as to his landing and
the sworn statement of two witnesses.
HE BREEDS TOADS.
Colorado Man Uses Them to Kill Off
Flies.
A unique garden is that of, J. V.
Crono of GroeJoy, Oolo., devoted to the
breeding of toads as well as tho rais
ing of gardon truck. Mr. Crone has
caught hundreds of toads and put them
on his, place. He says that they nro
the worst enemy of tho fly and that
the. time will como when people will
domesticate thorn, for tho purpose of
ridding premises of flies.
Toads have cleared every fly from
, tho Crone place, and neighbors at
tribute absence of flies from their
premises to the toad garden.
Whose Amsndments to
Reciprocity Are Lott.
Washington. July 11. The senate
promptly disposed of the Cummins
and the Simmons amendments to the
Canadian reciprocity bill, nnd In doing
so made substantial progress toward
passing the measure unchanged nnd
adjourning congress by Aug. 1.
All the efforts of the Insurgent Re
publicans to amend tho Canadian reci
procity bill were unavailing. On most
of the propositions they could not
muster more than fourteen nnd usu
ally only twelve votes.
Three of the Insurgents went over to
the administration side and voted
against the proposed amendments.
Theso were Brown, Works and Poln-dexter.
Flnnlly Senator Clarke, Wyoming, a
stand pat Republican who hud been
voting with Senator Cummins, also
crossed over and voted with the op
position.
His System.
"Percy," said his father sorrowfully,
Percy, you have been fighting again."
"Yes, father," said Percy.
"And you have lost tho fight, Percy.
Ihnt Is worse than anything. When 1
was a boy, Percy, I always won. 1
hnd a system by which I nlways con
trived to get In tho first blow."
"I did that, father."
"Well, you did It badly. By my sys
tem I always hit the boy fairly on the
point of tho Jaw. My system never
failed."
"Yes, father, but suppose when you
hit the boy on the point of his jaw ho
fell Into a pile of bricks and got up
with a brick In each hand, how would
you have continued your Bystem when
you were a boy?"
"Percy," said his father, "you seem
to have a quarrelsome disposition. Let
your defeat bo a lesson to you. Now
run away and-play." Pearson's.
Nature's Rifle Bullets.
What man has learned by dint of
thought and experiment some of the
lower nnlmuls appear to know through
Instinct. An Instance Is furnished by
what Is called the "spiral swimming"
of certain organisms, such as the
spherical shaped volvox and several
elongated lnfusorlans. As these re
volve about tho axis of progression In
the manner of a projectile fired from
a rifled gun, the consequence Is that
they arc able to travel in a straight
lino, as they could not do otherwise,
tho revolution compensating with ab
solute precision for any 'tendency to
deviate from a straight course. With
out such a device many of theso
mlnuto creatures' would simply de
scribe circles, making no forward prog
ress.
Guarding Its Own Goods.
Honesty, In Its purpose, looks but
little outside of Itself; honor gener
ously alms to deserve the good opinion
of the best, finding keener anguish In
tho moral stain or blemish than in
grievous bodily woimds. Honesty
guards Its own goods, and loves self
interest, whllo It gallantly protects the
weak, relieves the oppressed from the
grasp of cruel force, redresses tho lu
Juries of others or defends Its own
pure dignity. Albert Mathews.
Art Enthusiasm.
"Does tho public of Crimson Gulch
remember my previous visit?" asked
Mr. Stbrmlngton Barnes.
"It does," replied Broncho Bob.
"And Is It waiting to receive mo with
open arms?"
"Not exactly open arms. It looks
more like a case of concealed weap
ons." Washington Star,
Good Impulses.
A mere good impulse that does not
result in good works Is rather worse
than useless, for if not carried out In
deed It has a reaction instead of an
action as its outcome.
Settled.
Father I don't think much of that
young Binklns who calls to see you".
uaugnter rjever rnma, father, I
think, enough of him for both of us!
Nothing.
Dinks Where I stent Christmas last
year tho thermometer dropped to zero.
Jinks That's nothing. Blnks What's
nothing? Jinks Why, so rot
PROBE KELLOGG'S
EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Trust Buster Drew $30 a Day
For Personal Expenditures,
DREW A TOTAL OF $23,311
Whlls on Standard Oil and Harriman
Merger Cases In Addition He Was
Paid $59,000 For His Work In Prose
cuting the Rockefeller Combine.
An average expense account of near
ly $30 for every day of a period of
more than two years. In the eyes of
Chairman Beall of tho house commit
tee on expenditures In tho department
of Justice, even If the expenses are In
curred In tho prosecution of tho Stand
ard Oil company nnd tho Harriman
merger of the Pacific railroads, is
Romcthlng worthy of Investigation.
Frank B. Kellogg, special assistant
to the attorney general and Roosevelt's
chief trust buster, drew from the treas
ury $23,311.07 on expense vouchers.
Ho made tho drafts from Dec. 23, 1007,
to Feb. 11, 1010. The last mentloued
lay Is about tho time tho reargument
of the Standard Oil case was complet
ed.
Mr. Beall nnd his committee will be
gin an Investigation of the Kellogg nc
counts when the committee nssem
bles again, probably in tho near fu
turc. T. C. Spelling, one time as
sistant attorney In the department of
Justice, who declared tho Harriman
merger case was bungled, has been
employed by the committee to delve
into tho matter. He said that the
vouchers setting forth the items of ex
pense incurred by Kellogg will be pro
duced before the committee.
Put Limit on McReynolds.
Tho expenso accounts of J. O. Mc
Reynolds, the special assistant to the
attorney general In charge of the to
bacco trust case, are also to be scruti
nized by tho committee. So far ns can
be learned, there was no limit on
Kellogg. There was one on McReyn
olds. His limit was $10 a day for
subsistence, which was exclusive of
railroad faros and telegrams. Ills
meals and lodging while absent f-om
New York city on official business
might not exceed thnt limit.
The committee Is expected to find
out whether Mr. Kellogg was away
from home every day during the time
ho was engaged upon tho Standard
Oil nnd Union Pacific cases. Members
of the committee have an Idea that the
actual dally nverago expense will bo
shown to be something over $40 a
day Instead of $30. From Sept 30,
1008. to April 1, 1000, tho expense ac
counts amounted to $13,081.81, or some
thing like $71 a day.
The ordinary employee of tho gov
ernment Is limited to an expenditure
of $5 a day for meals and lodging. It
is not uncommon, however, for the
head of an executlvo department to In
crease the limit to $10 or $15 a day
for n trip to New York or somo other
big city where It Is manifest that $5 a
day would bo a low allowance, but
Kellogg Is the only one thus far dis
covered whose own discretion sot the
limit. Durlngr the political campaign
In 1008 be went frequently to Hot
Springs to consult with Mr. Taft The
vouchers will show whether these
trips were made nt government ex
pense.
Kellogg's Expense Accounts.
Tho amounts drawn by Kellogg are
as follows:
Dec. 23, 1507, Standard Oil case... tf, 282.80
April 7, 1903, Standard Oil case... 1.C35.97
Juno 29, 1908, Standard Oil case... 806.00
Sept. 20, 180$, Standard Oil case... 1.W4.M
Sept. 20, 1909, Union PacWo cose.. 8,129.04
Jan. 2, 1909, Standard Oil cose.... 2,769.22'
Jan. 2, 1909, Union Paclfta case..,. 1,806.85
April 1, 1909, Standard Oil case,.. 2.185,43
April 1, 1909, Union Pacific case... 2,036.75
June SO, 1909, Standard Oil case.. 817.59
April 2, 1910, Standard Oil oase... 2,149.42
Feb. 11, 1910. Standard Oil case... 727.94
Total 123.311.G7
These sums are all In addition to
the $59,000 in fees paid to Kellogg for
his work In the prosecution of the
Standard Oil suit
MAN-BEAST FOUND.
Texas Discovery Has Feathered Wings
and Monkey Face.
The strangest freak ever found In
Texas and which bailies ornithologists
was captured In a cave in Bexar coun
ty. It appears to be partly human,
partly monkey and partly owl and Jub-
bers In a tongue as though speaking
an unknown language.
Pnrt of tho body Is covered with
feathers and part with hair, and its
face is like a monkey's, almost hu
man, Tho freak Is about three feet
two Inches, and Its two legs are cover
ed with hair. It has two short wings
with feathers.
Tho cave had not been explored for
many years, and the freak appears to
bo perhaps ten or more years of age
and la believed to bavo been imported
from some foreign country.
Battleships For Turkey.
The porte and the Armstrongs of
England have entered Into a contract
for the Immediate construction of an
up to date battleship with engines and
armament complete They have also
signed a contract for a second battle:
ship f and when the parliament pro
vides funds.
GERMAN AERO RACE ENDS.
Koenlg Wins 1,116 Mils Dash and
Gets $10,000.
Berlin, July 11. Germany's 1,110
mile aeroplane race, which began at
the Johannlsthal aviation grounds on
Juno 11, has ended here.
Koenlg, who was first nt tho finish,
was awarded a prize In cash of $10,
000, whllo Vollmoeller, second, got
$0,230. The third man, Buechner, was
given $2,C00.
None of tho fliers wero hurt, but
thero were a number of enforced dp.
scents.
Tho machines used by the winners
were all of German mnke except that
Koenlg's motor was of foreign design.
It will bo bought by the German government.
Guarding the Bank of England.
The Bank of England's nightly guard
Is drawn from the guards stationed In
the Tower of London. The custom of
providing a little garrison of guards
for the Bank of England every night
dates back to 1780, the time of the
Gordon riots. The troops are made
very comfortable In the bank, nnd the
officer in command Is provided with a
dinner for himself and two friends.
Of course an allowance of wine, sat
isfactory from both points of view, is
made. The vaults of the Bank of Eng
land would make fine robbing. They
frequently contain fifty millions ster
ling. Several keys are necessary to
open tho lock to tho whitewashed
vaults, and each key Is In the posses
sion of a different person. The gold
lies piled on trucks to facilitate re
moval or is heaped against the walls
In sacks.
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