Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1899.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1809. VcsLItoa Office 103 PcflcsyrrafiU Avenue. Telephone Calls. Easiness Offlce 23S Edl.Tial Booms S5 ter)is op sinscniiTiox. DAILY ET MAIL Pally cn!r. on month i..... I rKr only, three months 2.00 Illr only, or.e year S-M Iailr. Including Sunday, one year 1.0 EaaJaj only, cne year 200 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier...'. 15 etaFuniay, tlnjle copy 5 eti VzUj and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 ct y WEEKLY. - . " Per year $1.W Reduced Kates to Clubs. FutfcrPe with any cf cur numeroua stents cr send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER . COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. , Persons er.dlns the Journal tlirough the malls In tt. United State ahould put on an eigM-page pa;r & ONE-CENT postage stamp: cn a twelve cr flxteea-pajre paper a TWO-CENT potass stamp. Forelxn pestaza Is usually double these rates. All cornaiunlcatloris Intended for publication tn thla pajer ir.ut. in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless Jataze 1 Inclosed for that purposeTIIC INDIANAPOLIS JOIIINAL. Can be found at the following places: KCW YORK Astor House. CHICAGO Palmer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Taclflc Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. ' LOLISVH.LE-C. T. Deerlna. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville J Hook Co.. Zlt Fourth avenue. JBT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, d. c.-riks- House. Ebbitt House and Wizard's Hotel. If Secretary Alger employs a paragraph clipper these days he must realize that he tx the subject of very general comment. Giving any sort of encouragement to Agulnaldo, or Indirectly discouraging enlistments. Is not good politics for the Bryan organs.

, If a class of politicians could learn that it has never been good politics to attempt to weaken an administration while carrying on a war It would be greatly to their advantar i r The reports indicate that the Thirtieth Heglment, In. which Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin contribute men. will be filled in two weeks, which Is an exceedingly short time. Mayor Taggart has put his city attorney and engineer in rather an embarrassing attitude by going back on the elevated rail way scheme after committing both these officials thereto. The Kokomo Dispatch in Its news columns explained that some contractors have not made the progress in the work they should because of the Impossibility of getting lator. There was no difficulty in getting labor In 1SD6. The Influx of common laborers which 350,000 Immigrants the past year means is not cause for congratulation. Just now labor is fullv emoloved. but usually there" are a creat many common laborers for whom there is no employment. While General Brooke Is of opinion that the majority of the Cubans about Havana would vote for independence, General Wood expresses the belief that three-fourths of tho natives in the province of Santiago would vote for annexation to .the United Ctates. The Bryanites are said to suspect that Candidate Goebel in Kentucky is in the Gorman-Croker "combine." The attitude of the Louisville Courier-Journal Is regarded with suspicion. It is said that Allen W. Clark has been sent by the Bryanites to investigate the situation. The Kansas City Times undertakes to show that the small enlistment In that city tor the new regiments is evidence of the unpopularity of the war, but the Kansas City Star shows that If 'the same ratio hould be kept up for a month all over the ccuntry 25,000 men will be enlisted in that time. BBBBBSBBBSBSBBBSSSSSSasaSSBBBBSJBSSBSBBBBBBBBBSBBSSSJS The Dominion of Canada has a debt of CC0.0CO.00O. which, la increased every year, while Its population, less than that of New York State, scarcely more than holds Its cwn. Like the woman who put on airs because her husband had mortgaged his house, Canada's excessive debt may be the cause of its disagreeable importance. The Philadelphia Times independent Democrat) closes an article highly com mending the course the President is pur suing In raising the new regiments by urglng him to complete the good work by call ing General Miles to the command of the forces in the Philippines. Such an assignment would be no reflection upon General Otis, the Times declarts, for the reason that he has done his work well. The fact that the war In the Philippines has as sumed a greater importance than was be lieved to be possible when General Otis suc ceeded General Merrltt requires, the Times thinks, that the senior major general should take command. The view of the Times seems worth considering. The final settlement of the Tllden estate calls to mind again the amazement that was felt over the discovery that so great a, lawyer had not been able to draw a will that would stand. Every now and then the assertion Is made by members of the legal fraternity that the drawing of a valid will Is so simple a matter that any man of ordinary Intelligence and power of expressing his wishes should be able to do It for hlmself. Perhaps the great legal knowledge of ilr. Tllden and his effort to cover every point caused him to be obscure; probably. too. simplicity and brevity in a document which devises eight or ten millions of dol lars are hardlv as easy to secure as in the case of an estate worth but ten thousand. Mr. Ostergren's process of making liquid air. as described In Harper's Weekly, is superior to Mr. Tripler'a in that It Is less expensive. "A plant In New York city built after his model has the capacity for produc Ins L500 gallons a day at a cost of but 6 or 6 cents a gallon. The practical uses to which this substance Is proposed to be put are widely divergent in character. It is expected to take the place of Ice for refrigeratlve purposes, one gallon of It, weighing Seven and three-fourth pounds, having tLe cooling power of eighty-five pounds of Ice. It has also the advantage over ice of being clean and absolutely dry. It will serve as a. motive power, one gallon, tak ing Into account both its expansive power and Its latent cold, equaling two horse power for one hour. In addition to these uses its qualities as a high explosive are rtnarkafcle. and It is expected to accomplish TTonSers in this line at a cost greatly be-

low that of any other explosive method. There Is also a possibility that It will produce a cheap light. The scientists will probably be allowed to play with this new toy for a considerable time before the general public will care to experiment with-it. The average citizen may look longingly upon so cheap a substitute for lec In the home refrigerator,-but the fact that under certain conditions this same liquid air has the explosive ability to blast out mountains will cause its admission into the household to be regarded with some alarm. In due time, no doubt, as in the case of gasoline and other dangerous substances in common use, familiarity will breed contempt and

liquid air will be ordered from the grocery with as little thought as potatoes are or dered now. FAILURE OP OVERCAPITALIZATION. The figures of the Chicago Tribune show ing a shrinkage of $101,255.01? in tb'. stocks of twenty-six industrial combinations dur ing the first six months of the present year represent a loss that Is a general and marked advantage. Doubtless shrinkage represents some actual loss to Investor? and probabiy those small Investors who know all about it, but the condition of the business of the country makes it certain that there has been no shrinkage In the value of a plant based upon Its productive capacity. Very naturally, the greatest shrinkage ap pears in the quotations of the common stocks of these combinations. These stocks are all water, and, for the most part, are In the hands of promoters. But there has been a marked shrinkage in the prices of the pre ferred stocks those which are backed by the value of the plants. Some of the shrink ages of these preferred stocks are remarkable. For Instance, the preferred stock of the American Linseed Oil Company has fallen off IC2.73 per share, that of the Amer ican Steel and Wire Company $23, of the American Tin-plate Company $17, and of the International Paper $14.50. These shrink ages mean that these properties have lost a large portion of their face value during a period of general activity and unprece dented demand for their products. If the preferred stocks have lost from 15 to 33 per cent, of their value, it stands to reason that the common stock is worthless. It also stands to reason that the plants generally are worth much less than the preferred stocks which have been issued upon the value of the plants. That Is, In. ordinary times the preferred stock will never be worth par because all of the earnings of the combinations will be needed to pay the Interest on the bonds issued. It is fortunate that the depreciation in these stocks comes so early In the lives of the companies issuing them that the loss must be fictitious rather than real, and also bo early that the public will be warned against putting money Into them. It Is fair to assume, moreover, that when there has been a shrinkage in six months of $10.17 per share on the 4.411,628 shares of preferred Mocks in the Tribune's list that the over capitalization has not been so successful as many have feared It would be. since people who have money will not Invest it in stocks which lose one-tenth of their value during the first six months of their existence. THE FUTURE OF CinA. It Is reported that the President has de cided to give the people of Cuba an oppor tunity to decide by ballot whether or not they desire to be annexed to the United States. If the voting should be confined to the more intelligent part of the people who own property and have business In Cuba the declaration would be in favor of an nexation. If all the people in Cuba should vote the result would be doubtful, since there is an active element In the island which desires to exercise the governing power. The question is quite as important to us as to Cuba, for the reason that when the United States became involved in war that Cuba might be taken from the power of Spain, we assumed responsibility for the future conduct of the people of the Island. Consequently, in the Judgment of the clv iilzed world our duty will not be performed until Cuba has a government which will in every way be better than was the rule of Spain. It is probable that the larger number of the people in this country have come to the conclusion that annexation is the only course that will secure to Cuba good government and the development of its re sources. If the question could be kept clear of partisanship the Judgment of the country would be In favor of annexation. This Judg ment would not be due to a desire to ac quire territory, but would be based cn the profound conviction that to make Cuba in dependent would be to give the Island over to a chronic state of revolution such as has prevailed In the South and Central Ameri can republics. Better the tyranny of Spain than a series of Insurrections. The more in telligent Cubans hold the tame opinion. "Cuba has to be American territory, and cannot be anything else," Is the recent dec laration of Marquis De Apoztegula, the leader of the Conservative party. The reso lution of Congress pledging Cuban Independence when it shall be able to maintain a stable government Is no obstacle In the mind of this leader. To the American people he says: "You have acquired responsibilities which you are not at liberty to throw off or go back on." Annexation under somo form is "an Imposed ultimate solution." An other Cuban of note, Adolfo Munoz, looking to the Industrial interests of Cuba, says the salvation of Cuba's sugar Industry requires that It be placed upon the same footing as that of Porto Rico. Another prominent Cuban favors annexation, first, because it would insure tranquillity, and second, because It would give the island the same advantages in the American markets that Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines will have. Cuba would be seriously handicapped if deprived of the market which these Islands will offer. But are these men who have an eye to the industrial advantages of Cuba so numerous and influential as are those . ambitious men who are demanding independence? DRIFTING TO AGU13ALDO. Many Democratic papers are drifting Into what will soon be open opposition to the prosecution of the war, thus repeating their conduct during the war for the Union. At the outset they were for the prevention of the war, but as the months passed they began to find fault, first with the manage ment and then with the policy of President Lincoln. At the end of two years most of them were assailing the President, charglng him with violation of the Constitution, the exercise of arbitrary power and Inability to bring the war to a close. The Journal hoped it would not be compelled to call at tention to the unpatriotic record of 1SG2-64, but as the rrocess is being reflected by many Democratic papers it seems neces sary to do so at a warning. Nor Is the drift ing of a' large portion of the Democratic

press into opposition to the war a Repub

lican assumption, since those who have read the recent address of Agulnaldo on the arniversary of the Filipino declaration of Independence will recall the allusion of that leader to his allies In the following words: Just so we affirm that the Philippines are for the Filipino?. Some States of the Amer ican union have arisen in our favor. Especially Is the Democratic party Convinced that both victors and vanquished will lose precious lives. Thus, many of the people nnd many statesmen censure President McKinley as inhuman for having ordered his military representatives at Manila to seek means to bring about hostilities with the Filipinos. It is not true that the Democratic party Is In favor of withdrawal from the Philippines, rince the larger part of Its members are in favor of having the government assert its authority in the Philippines, but many Democratic leaders and papers have assumed an attitude toward the prosecution of the war which would lead Agulnaldo to assume that the Democratic party is hL? ally. It Is hLs belief that there is a large and growing element in this country in sym pathy with him, which encourages him to persevere In, his prosecution of the war. He has held out to his followers that next year there will be a change of administration, which will give his friends in the United States control of the government and secure a recognition cf his authority. Perhaps those Democratic papers which are drifting toward Agulnaldo Imagine that giv ing aid and comfort to the man who began rar upon the United States Is "eood nolitics," but they will learn otherwise. There is a great deal of excitement In De troit over the latest development of Gov ernor Pingree in regard to municipal ownership of street railways. The Supreme Court has declared his commission to purchase . the street-rallwavs tn he nnrnn. stltutlonal. He has now Induced the City Council to pass the contract which the com mission made with the street-railway. The mayor has vetoed the ordinance, and now there is an effort to pass it over his veto. The proposition Involves the purchase of the street-railways by the city for about $17,00,000, to be paid by an issue of 4 per cent, bonds. To secure the street-railway companies against loss they are to have a forty-eight years franchise, with a 5-cent limit for fares, so that, should the city be unable to make payment, the charter will revert to Tom L. Johnson and the people will pay 5-cent fares. Mr. Tom L. Johnson is so anxious to secure this franchise or get rid of his plant that he has agreed to try the experiment of 3-cent fares that the people may see how they will like It. By this means it is hoped to win the people to the Johnson-Pingree scheme and create a sen timent that will sustain the purchase, which will saddle the people with a heavy debt. It Is believed by many that the city cannot pay this debt from the profits of a 3-cent fare. Fear is expressed that the JohnsonPingree clique will secure the votes to pass the ordinance over the mayor's veto a fear that ha. been increased by the statement of a Democratic member of the Board of Aldermen to the effect that Mr. Johnson offered him $6,000 a few years ago to vote for a thirty years franchise. If the ordinance should be passed over the veto the citizens will take the matter to the Supreme Court again. General Lawton will be able to stock a hardware store with Indiana swords if each of the plans for giving him one Is carried out, that undertaken by the members of Col. Studebaker's regiment being the latest. It 13 a pity the several undertakings for this purpose cannot be united and the gift made one of exceptional value. The Sion S. Bass G. A. R. Post, of Ft. Wayne. Is authorized to receive subscriptions for a sword for this gallant Indlanian, the hero of three wars, and has now on hand consid erably the largest fund yet raised. As Gen. Lawton is a member of this post the manifest fitness of things should suggest to the custodians of other sums collected the pro priety of adding them to the G. A. R. fund. There should be nothing but a generous public spirit associated with the Lawton testimonial. Major Vardoman asks to be made the Democratic Governor of Mississippi upon the platform that the negroes be reduced to peonage and the schools for them be discontinued as-doing no good, but only unfitting colored men for usefulness as laborers. Such a policy Is the logical sequence of depriving the negro of the right to vote. "Poppy Hostetter" figures in the list of rewly appointed instructors In an Oklahoma college. The name suggests a venerable, gentleman variously known to irrev erent students first as "Father," then as "Pop" and finally and rather endearingly as "Poppy." Investigation, however, discloses the fact that this version is Ircorrect and the instructor is In reality Miss Poppy Hos tetter "Poppy" being the poetical and floral appellation bestowed upon her by loving parents, Just as others name their daughters '.'Daisy," "Posy." "Pansy" and the like And if she is pretty Poppy, what a theme she will afford for budding and susceptible male poets in that Oklahoma school. The "great dailies" of the Atlantic coast are much excited over a mysterious young woman, "richly attired and evidently beau tiful," who gees into the surf at Atlantic City with a mask covering her face. No bedy can find out why she thus hides her feaatures, and all sorts of guesses are haz arded. It has apparently not occurred to anyone, however, that she Is trying to pave her complexion from an unbecoming tan. . The letters of Captain Dreyfus show again, and clearly, that when a man has something to say he can say it himself, not only much better than the man who tries to imagine the same circumstances, but in such a manner that, without the indignity of editing, it becomes literature. The dlf ficulty is not so much to Judge how well a thing Is said, but as to whether the writer really had an idea to embody. If this government can compel the Chi nese to iuinn their national promises, it cculd also compel Individuals in this country to fulfill theirs. This would be throwing another difficulty In the way of the candidate. O It seems, after all, that the "mothers" are not to admit ratners and unmarried persons into the "mothers' congresses" on equal terms. When it comes to regyrating the children the mothers propose to have no partners. , The" new Yellowstone Park geyser, along with several thousand boy babies, a few carloads of dogs, various corn plasters, a mile or so of beer saloons and cheap restaurants, has been named "Dewey." Two Insurance companies have arrived at th olden-tlme conclusion that, if they owned Texas and Hades, they would rent the former and live In the latter. Neither so much time nor so much cutlery vas required to nominate -a Republican ticket In Kentucky as the Democracy of that State found necessary. Everybody In Indiana is glad of the rain on account of the farmers.tbut the sense

of agricultural gratitude having been duly experienced the people who own no farms

may be allowed to feel glad for their own sakes. The folks as well as the crops needed rain. That new Yellowstone geyser has been named "Dewey," presumably because It was so sudden. DIBBLES IX THE AIR. Lot Ills Case. Cltlzen-So my dog tore your clothes, did he? Where? Hungry HIgglns I've forgot which one them tears is his. The Empress. Watts You are an anti-Imperialist, ain't you? N. Peck Yes; but she doesn't seem to care a cent whether I am or fcot. Theological Discussion. "My old aunt holds it to be wicked for a minister to joke." "I dunno whether it could quite be called wicked, but generally It is awful painful." The Savage Bachelor. "You. think you know all about women. don't you?" asked the newly-married boarder. "No." replied the Savage Bachelor, "and I am mightly glad I don't." THE STATE PRESS. Prosperity has knocked at the door of many a man while the fellow was sitting around on a store box waiting for something to turn up. Elwood Call and Leader. About the. only thing for which Commis sioner Evans should be criticised is his failure to send a number of those pension agents to the penitentiary, where they deserve to be. Kokomo News. The statements of the Greensburg national banks show that at the close of business June 30 the people of this county had over $$00,000 on deposit. Six years ago, under a Democratic President, there wasn't that much money in the county all told. Greensburg Review. The Sullivan Times Is respectfully notified that Uncle Sam can get a fine company of volunteers right here In Sullivan county any day he may ask for that number for service In the Philippines. Don't think for a minute that Bryan, Hoar and the rest of the copperheads represent a ma jority in this country. Sullivan Union. It is rumored that General Otis, In command of the American forces In the Philippines. Is to be superseded by the editor of the Plunkvllle Bazoo. No one seems to know where Plunkvllle Is, neither does the name of the editor of the Bazoo appear in the calendar of distinguished military leaders, but he doubtless knows as much about such matters as any of the other editors who are criticising the conduct of the war. Kokomo News. . Municipal ownership is illustrated in the Huntington water works. Consumers pay as much for water (if not more) than would be charged by private ownership, and In addition there Is a tax levy upon property of 31 per cent, to pay interest upon and maintain the plant. In addition to this, the city secures no tax upon the $200,000 or $300,000 invested. The only compensation for all these taxes, loss of revenue, etc., is the water used by the city. If municipal ownership is not a humbug, the object lesson we have In Huntington is the exception, not the rule, wherever It obtains. Huntington Herald. TOM JOHNSON'S CURSE. Consigns Detroit Reporter to Brutal Care of the Devil. Detroit Journal. "You go to h-lt" Just think of It! The urbane, .chubby child of fortune, Tom L. Johnson, using such rude language. But those are his exact words without the growl that accompanied them. Tom L. Is now in Room 24, second floor, front. Russell House. He has given up his parlor suite to a man who sells readymade pants. It was a dead secret between the clerks and Tom as to where he was reclining his ponderous frame, but a sweet little chambermaid told the reporter and the reporter bearded the lion, just outside his Ian "Oh. Mr. Johnson." said the reporter after he had knocked repeatedly at the door, "please come out or let rhe come In." "Who's that?" roared the ponderous Tom. "Just me," said the reporter, "only me, a reporter. "Only you, huh!" said Tom. "Well, you go to h 1." Then the matronly housekeeper came along and said: "I wouldn't, if I was you, disturb him now. lie s dressing for dinner. Yes he had a visitor he was the mayor and after the mayor went nway Mr. Johnson became very angry. I wouldn't disturb him now if I was you. And the reporter didn't.. .- . i . The American.' 31anufacturers. New York Letter. ' The idea of an exhibit of American prod ucts and manufactures In St. Petersburg in 1101 is favorably received and commented on in manufacturing circles. Russia is the most inviting field for American trade ex tension now in sight. That great empire is in tne early stages of prodigious develop ment, and a grand market is being created there (or improved machinery and for the innumerable devices and appliances for multiplying production and decreasing its cost, as well as for developing the splendid resources or the nation. An exhibit such as indicated will give the Russian an op portunity of seeing and of inauiring into the utility of American machinery and of Amer ican wares or an sorts, in the natural or der of things America will be feeling for a broader market for her products within the next two years, and Russia will be an Im portant outlet for the surplus manufactures of the Republic. Organized steps will soon be taken to promote the St. Petersburg project for American trade extension, and Congress will be asked to help It along witn a substantial appropriation. If the exhibit should lead to practical results in the way desired, similar exhibits can be made In South America and in other parts of the world where the people have need of tne tnings wnicn the united states can furnish. Mr. Heath nnd Rural Free Delivery. Hartford City (Ind.) Times. The farmers are indebted to several persons for this rural Hllverv corvloo Trtrcf ------ - v v a J . v v a v a. v of all to Hon. Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster general. People around In this part of the State are wont to call him "mir OWn Perrv " hopanwi ho Viatic frnm Muncle and is well known here. His eninusiasm ana wonoerrui persistence have obtained this boon for so many rural communities. Appropriation after appropriation is made for rivers and harbors and such rever benefit the farmer. a lesr thov don't see it often. This rural service is something for the farmers and they can see and use It every day. This ought to Tiffin r Air T Too t Vi r Atrarv f s r m as f Terry Heath is the one man who has fought mi it ru imiu uim sirong. Shnnklln'n Agitation. New York Evening Sun. m Dear! dear! What frlchtful visions these tree sliver men have! Here's an old Demo. crat of the old school, the Hon. John CI. Shanklin. of Indiana, who is so daft on the silver question that be draws this lurid picture of the gold standard curse: "The gold standard has been a curse that has wrecKea lives and fortunes from the mo. ment it was put In force. It will continue the work of disaster, spoliation and death so long as tho saturnalia Is permitted to rurvive. but that will not be alwavs." Shanklin couldn't possibly be more ex cited it a Kissing bug had saluted him. Other Side of the Question. Baltimore American. Indiana women are now demanding that aaverusers aojure tne female face and form in their advertisements. The women should Pause a moment nnd reflect. Th first nh. ject of an advertisement is to attract aticniiun. inai xne auenuon is instantly attracted by a female face or form in an advertisement l n enmnllmctit that ahnnhl please the gentler sex Instead of arousing their indignation. It plainly demonstrates woman's superiority to man in point of attractiveness, and where is the woman who aoes not giory in tnat superiority? Gets Her Money's Worth. Boston Transcript. It seems like extravagance for a girl who has to work for her living to pay $j) for a .iiamona ring, out it is fully worth the ex pendlture to have; her friends ask her if that ring means anything. It gives quite as much pleasure, with none of the detractions of a genuine engagement. 'T any rate. there is no nuisance of a man connecetd with it. Company for Morss. ' Washington Post. Another IiiuUna Democratic editor has boldly with Editor Morss, of the Indlanapo--t a lis cenuuei.

JORDAN ON EDUCATION

INTERESTING ADDRESS DY A FORMER RESIDENT OF INDIANA. Usefulness of the University as Viewed by Stanford, PresidentClose of Los Angeles Convention. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 14. The National Educational Association convention closed to-day. The attendance has been good, more than 12,000 visiting teachers having registered here. At the general sesslcn the pavilion was crowded to excess, and, while the papers read In the morning were devoted almost exclusively to the educational press, those read at the evening session were varied. A paper read at the morning session by Superintendent Aaron Gove, of Denver, on the "Usurpation of the Home by School," was of special interest. The growth of paternalism, the speaker urged, reaches over to the schools and much of the training formerly done at home is now done at the school. The severe religious and effective discipline of the early American home are disappearing, and the remedy advocated was more time with the teacher. "The ' Usefulness of the University" served as a text in the evening for President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, to fleliver an address on the work being done in American universities In turning out manly and cultured men. He said, in part: "Now and then in these days some successful business man raises his eyes from his counter to question the American university's right to exist. 'Does higher education pay?' he asks, and from his own experience of tireless energy 'and from his own contact with the thin-legged, whitefaced collegians seeking a Job he gives to this question a qualified negative. He further claims, should he care to pursue the subject at greater length, that opportunities for higher education are too widely diffused, and that the American masses are victims of overeducation. If all this is true it is time to call a halt and take account or stock. We have invested too much in universities, love and devotion as well as bonds and gold, for us to be indifferent to their usefulness. it is certain that to speak of 'overedu cation is a misuse of terms. If education Is rational and effective there cannot be too much of it. It is not men trained and effi cient who enter into destructive competi tion. It is the ignorant and ineffective who make the struggle for existence so dire a battle. Whatever leaves men weak ana ineffective cannot lustlv be called education There is nothing more useful than wisdom, nothing more effective than training, nothing more practical than sunshine. Surely no one can claim that the American people are too wise, too skillful or too enlightened for their own good. Yet to give wisdom, skill and enlightenment Is the main func tion of higher education, it cannot give brains, courage and virtue where these qualities were wanting before. It cannot make a man, but it furnishes the best known means to help a man to make himself. The gain through self-building often outweighs in value the original material. It may be more important even tnan tne nnished product, as effort is a greater source of strength and happiness to a man than final achievement. MISFIT EDUCATION. "What these critics usually mean to at tack Is misfit education, the training or straining of the memory rather than the acquisition of power to think and act. They mean that the colleges give schooling rather than training. They 'teach young peo ple how to talk rather than how to live. This is still true to some extent In some places, but the whole tendency of university movement Is toward reality and practicality. These critics have not watched this movement. They do not draw their idea of a university from the powerful, well-organized institutions of the day, which lay hold of every various power of humanity and seek to draw It into effective, harmonious action. Rather they picture to them selves the starving colleges Of their youtn. where callow boys were driven against their will over race courses of study, no part of which appealed to their own souls or was related In any direct way to their lives. Such colleges and such ideals of education exist In our time In certain forgotten corners, but they are In no sense typical of the American university of to-day. Harvard University, Cornell University, the great and growing state universities of the West are as firmly and thoroughly devoted to the needs of American democracy as tne modern harvester Is to needs of the Amer ican wheat fields. No doubt inferior methods, dull, stupid traditions can he round here and there under the names of higher education, as rusty and outworn machinery exists under the name of agricultural implements. It Js not by these that the best we have should be judged. No one knows better than our college authorities the mis fits and failures of education. No one strives half so hard to prevent them, though in all large enterprises no one can avoid a certain per centage of failure. "The college of the past dealt chiefly with records and tradition. It sought no new truth and coveted no action. The college life was a period of restful growth, to be cherished for its fragrant memories. It was not a time of forceful struggle, for heightened power and deeper wisdom. VThe university of to-cay is aiert to au the problems of social and political develop ment. The poorhouse, the Jail, the caucus, the legislature, the army, the discordant demands of freedom and order all these call for closest attention of the university stu dent. There are Just as many classical scholars to-day as there ever were, but they no longer bar the way to men -of other powers and other tastes, ihe classics no longer close the door to other forms of culture. He who writes Latin verses still finds his place In the university, provided only that his verses are good enough to be worth writing. But he no longer occupies the sole place of honor or even the front seat in the lecture hall. The man who knows steam engines has an equal place in the university and an equal share in the honors of scholarship. With the advent of realities, spurious honors disappear. It Is not for the university to decide on the rela tive values of knowledge. Each man makes his own market, controlled by his own standards. It is for the university to see that all standards are honest, that all work in genuine. To do this it must cast off many of its own shams of the past. Its titles and privileges, its prizes and honors. its distinctions and degrees, its caps and gowns and chapiets of laurel berries all the playthings and millinery of Its youtn, it must cast away with Its full maturity These prizes of learning are but baby toys to the man of power, to send forth men of power the university exists. TRUE DEMOCRACY. "To the university we must look for the promotion of true democracy. Its function as a part of public education is to break up the masses that they may be masses no more, but living men and women, to draw forth from the multitude the man. The mass 13 the real foe of democracy, for the slave In all ages has woven his own lash Where men are driven or sold like sheep. there the tyrant rule. ' It matters not whether the tyrant be a king in velvet and satin or a ward boss In slouch hat and fitriped waistcoat, when individual intelli gertce does not rule, men are governed by brute force. "The function of democracy is not good government. Its effect Is to stimulate the people to broader outlook, to deeper Inter est in public affairs. It is not to make good government, but to make good citizens that public affairs are confided to the common man. The feellr.g of caste is fatal to de mocracy. The fundamental tenet of civil freedom Is equality before the law. In other relations it matters not what inequality develops, the more unlikeness among men the better, because the more varied the power and talents. But unlikeness is not In equality. As 'God is no respecter of per sons.' so the law must not be. The state can show no favoritism. It knows no black nor white, no wise nor simple, no bond or free. If it places one class above another it is a democracy no longer, and it is not a democracy when. any class of men tamely accept any inferior, place as theirs by right of birth. "The old education seemed to accentuate the Inequalities among men. This was because it took the traditions from aristocratic England, though its real effect was to promote democracy. The great service of the state university, the cap-sheaf of the public school system. Is that It carrier the university into democracy without impairing the essential qualities of either. It furnishes a plain way to every , student, the highest as well as the lowest, from the commonest schooling to the training that gives the highest power. So long as the grass does not grow in the path from the farmhouse to the university, to borrow tan MacLaren's phrase, so long is the Republic safe. So long as the people can become enlight ened and wise, rich and poor alike, so long chall government of the people, by the peo

ple and for the people endure upon the earth. The need of democracy makes! a special demand upon the scholar. 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. and to the scholar on the watch tower the people look for this vigilance. It is the scholar's duty everywhere ln season and out of season, to uphold the sacredness of truth. The university must place as fixed beacons in the swaying tides of democracy those men and women who can never be moved by feeble currents, who know what to do. who have the will to do It and the courage to abide the consequences. "Wisdom, virtue and religion alike It is the province of the university to cultivate and intensify. It can accept no shams in wisdom, still less in virtue or in religion, but a life without these is the greatest sham of all. The university cannot promote virtue and piety In any machine fashion. If the college stand in loco parentis, with rod in hand and spy-glasses on Its nose, it will not do much for moral training. It will not make young men moral nor religious by enforced attendance at church or prayer meeting. It will not awaken the spiritual clement in their natures by any system cf demerit marks. This, the college of our fathers, in English fashion, tried to do, and with such ill success that the university of to-day bears among the ignorant the reproach of godlessness.

"What the university can do is along manly lines. It can cure the boy of petty vices and childish trickery by making him a man, by giving him higher Ideals, more serious views of life. It may win by Inspiration, not by fear. It must strengthen the student in his search for truth. It must encourage manliness In him through putting away of childish things. Let the thoughts of the student be free as air. Let him prove all things and he will hold fast to that which is good. Give him a message to speak to others and when he leaves the university you need fear for him not the world, nor the flesh, nor the devil. The universities of America have grown enormously In wealth and power within the last twenty-five years. The next twenty-five years will tell the same story. They have the confidence of the people because they deserve their confidence, and the good citi zen of the Republic must give them trust and support, tor-it is in the university at last the history of democracy must be writ ten." OTHER ADDRESSES. Hon. Nathan Schaefer, State superintend ent of public instruction of Pennsylvania, delivered an address on "The School In its Relation to a Higher Life." Alfred E. Wlnshlp, of Boston, made a short address on "A Professional Spirit as Influence," and then Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, as chairman of the committee on resolutions, made a re port. O. T. Corson, of Columbus, O., the president-elect, was presented to the Immense gathering, and. after he had said a few words to the audience and Joined In singing "America," the convention was at a n one) The department of normal schools held a very interesting closing session this afterneon, when several papers were read and Inns crtrtlra rtn "I xcenn Plana anA Xf torn v. tximona, oi iweu, aiass., ana toi. 4. W . . tm . . . j. ti. van L.iew, or uos Angeles, led in the discussion of "Observation as a Factor in Training Srhnnl WnrU " a paper tnat appealed strongly to parents as wen as icacners was read in tne eiementarv rfpna rtmpnt rtv Runerlntenrlent .T W. Dinsmore. of Beatrice Neh on th enh1ect Of "Vires of OMMhrtwl anA VftiitK uiuniuuuM university cessions was ine mond. of the ITniversltv of 'lrr!nla ftxr ' -m. m m W V Q ) V a naner which aftnrAeA nmnlA nnnnrtnnlfw for discussion in the department of higher euueauon. some or tne arguments advanced were combated in the controversy inai ionowea. m wnicn President J. II. Baker, of the TTnlversltv of Colorado- Prnf W. C. Jones, of the University of Calliornia; ur. j. w. saunaers, or las truces. N. M.: President G. w. White, of the Universltv of Southern California nartlr. Dr. Elmer S. Brown, of the University of a.iiornia. contributed a valuable paper on ine oiuay oi luiucation in the UnlverrUy, the discussion that followed helnc a hi v rnn. dUCted bV B. A. Illnsvlalo of tho ITnli-Arcltv v m. - vtui oi ncnigan, ana tnanceiior W. II. Payne. ui me universnv or i ennese rror. w. c btevenson. of the Kansas State Normal School, tho mimcrt which he contended Is In revolt against high Bcnooi courses mat are prepared solely with a view of admission to the classical course of the college or university, in a paper read In the business department on" "The Advent oi commercial High School?." The ques tion was T rpa I p.i a n in a not hor rona after which it was thoroughly discussed by intr cuuiHKirx rrpspnr. In the final session of the department of wtrtrunuarv eu urn i inn tn norn tT nor nfn,. lem which must have confronted the minds of manv n teacher thmirVitftiii., sidered and lucidly set forth by President o. xi. ocuvei, oi me university or Worcester O. He canvassed the subject "In Fundamental Ethics. What Ought We to Teach as the A m erf ra o rviMrin rf T7cHctI - - v a iiftuii aim the State, and the wide scope affected by iur r-uuji ieu up io an earnest discussion, led bv President J. It. RaVer nf t v. tti verrltv of Colorado. "Tho VHhiai t.a..a.. of Study of Economics" was the subject ""'i wiin uy vt. v. aiaiinews, or wewark. . o., unu wnn ine reading or that paper WALL STREET STIRRED. . Flurry Created by an Insurance Company Proposed Sale of Stocks. NEW YORK. July 14.-The decision of the New York Life Insurance Company to dls pose of Its investments In stocks may be the forerunner of similar action by other companies that would flood the market with nearly 1100,000,000 worth of these securities. No announcement has been made yet that this significant action by the New York Life will be immediately Imitated, but it Is explained that even If the other compa nlei Intended to follow the lead they would wait until their plans had been perfected before stating their intentions. So much has been said recently concerning the enormous Investments of these corporations that the fear of other companies following the example set sent a shudder through the spec ulative community. It was recognized that the liquidation of all the railway stocks held by the life Insurance companies would cause a pressure temporarily too great for the absorbing power. Some Idea of what this wholesale liquidation would involve can be gained from the statement of the immense holdings of the various companies: The total stock and bond holdings of the representative insurance companies in dol lars are as follows: Stocks. Bonds. Aetna J3.517.627 J13.OS8.22l Connecticut General ... 157,264 378.6S3 Connecticut Mutual ... 478.034 19.927.029 Phoenix 330,156 3.157.402 Travelers' 2,007.2)3 6.792.W2 Berkshire ... , 328.2W 1.458.209 Equitable 17.19S.210 126.2S8.4S2 Germanla 7.143.495 Home 325.616 3.790,!)8 Manhattan 10.2jX) 3.681. ?4D Massachusetts Mutual . 719.850 7.872.761 Mutual Benefit 15.136.011 Mutual Lire 32.330.913 128,625.227 National Ilfe 27.2.TO 6.S78.236 New England 2.251.756 1 2.12S.995 New York ure 6.000.831 121.759.613 Northwestern 24.199.396 Penn Mutual 179.870 11.582.906 Provident L. and T 1,49.100 15.652.226 Provident Savings 126.887 837.2M State Mutual 1.318,814 7.343.353 Union Central 37.21 Union Mutual 1.011.507 2.987.103 United States 20.350 1.694.C27 Washington Life 496,046 The stock holdings Include railroad and bank stocks in the following amounts: Bank Railroad, and trust Aetna ; $1.77.032 $1,031,855 Connecticut General ... 56,748 94.619 Connecticut Mutual .... 361.749 116.285 Phoenix P9.7S5 219.011 Travelers' 1.246.305 527,913 Berkshire 143.600 144.790 Equitable 7,406,112 8,626.762 Home 74.665 248.951 Manhattan 10.20 Massachusetts Mutual . 590.250 76.6O0 Mutual Life 30,2ss.472 12,042,411 National L.iie Zi.zs) New Kngland 1.436.271 662.857 New York Life 3,957,666 2.0S0.415 Pennsylvania Mutual .. 126.092 29.27S Provident u and T 273.501) rroviueni oiiiiks C3.l aW AAA a oiaie .uuiudi i,y.y.ti ou,r. Union Mutual 54S.8H5 448.712 United States 20.350 It Is understood that a bid has been made by a prominent Stock Exchange firm for all cf the railway stocks now held by the New York Life Insurance Company at present market quotations. The largest blocks are ll.60O.oio, at market valuation, or rsortnwestern preferred, and $313,500 of St. Taul preferred. Whitney's Country Home Escaped. NEW YORK. July 14. The fire on the Wm. C. Whitney estate at Westburg. L. I.. Thursday night did not destroy the country house, as was first reported, but burned one of the largest barns. ' The total loss from the fire I estimated at from $60,000 to $70,000. much of this sum being represented bv some twenty fine horses, including sev eral of Mr. Whitney's racers, which were burned.

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.IVEI.Y SCKXE IS THE WHITE EM PIIAVr AT K1XGSTO.V. MO. rokrr Players nnd Drinkers Caught by Their Female Itelatl ves Tbreata t of Dive Keepers. CHICAGO, July H.-A dispatch to tht Times-Herald from Kingston. Ma. says: Kingston Js Just now the seat of a lively war between the forces of the W. C. T. U. . and of a "drug store" known s "the White Elephant." The W. C. T. U. is backed by Col. C. J. Holt, a temperance lecturer, of Chicago. On the opposing side are the -patrons of the ostensible drug store, which is really- a saloon and poker den. . There have been two pitched battles during this war. The women have raided both the gambllng room and the drug room. Two , of them were forcibly thrown out of the drug ; room by employes of the proprietor, but the : women surprised tne gamblers and drove , some of the frightened men out of a sec-end-story window to a roof, from which they Jumped twelve feet to the ground. Mrs. Cora Stiles, whose father, a retired farmer, was suspected of visiting the Whit Elephant, slipped quietly urstalrs from the , street to the room where the poker game was running. She knocked at the door and her father appeared. Mrs. Stiles took her father home, but the very next day. Friday, . he returned to the poker game. Mrs. Stiles, who is a young woman, slen- . der. but apparently very determined, de cided to go again to the White Elephant. so Friday afternoon she started out in com pany with Miss Lulu Loomas. Miss Loomas had an fnterest In the game, too, because she had heard that her sweetheart. AI Clevenger, a blacksmith, played there. Mrs. Stiles had learned the mysterious sign that gained admission to the poker room. She rapped thrice on the door and rubbed her nails across the wood. The door opened wide and there sat the horrified father and the deeply-ashamed sweetheart and several other men. with cards in their hands, money and poker chips before them and beer glasses and bottles cn the table. Then followed a great scuffle. In their haste to escape from the wrath to come the men broke the table and scattered the chairs and cards about the room. Two climbed out of a back window down to the roof and dropped twelve feet to- tne ground. The father and sweetheart were taken prisoners and led home by tne young wemen. Colonel Holt held several meetings after this, at which several of the women made rabid speeches. One of them said: This thing is going to De cioppea 11 it takes all our money and all our property to do it. It will be stopped if it takes bloodshed." IM The women determined then to raid the saloon,, and they started at once to the White Elephant. This was where the fierc est battle or tne crusaae was iougm. the women marched boldly through th drug store, there was consternation among the clerks. Mrs. Stiles called for Mr. Miller. the proprietor. "Doctor" Tom Butts, a clerk, said that he was not in. Nothing daunted, the women said: "Well, we will see. , Thev started back toward the saloon. There are two dcors In the partition that separates the drug store from the bar. "Dr." Butts Jumped in one of these and Joe Dunn, the barkeeper of the place, held r.Is arm across the doorway or the otner. But they could not keep the women out. Mrs. Gartslde crowded past Dunn into tho bar. A negro boy, who was drinking a glass of ber, drorped the glass and fled out the back door. " Butts was fierce with anger. He caught Mrs. Gartslde by the arm and threw her violently back and out of the bar. He crabbed Mrs. S"es and pushed her toward the front of the nore. "Get out of here." he screamed. "I can whip all of your husbands." Meanwhile the crowd Increased until it was almost imnofMbre for anyone to move inside the store. One of the invading wom en carried a small box containing a half dozen spoons. One of the men at the door , of the store saw her enter with the box In her hand, and he shouted that the womenwere going to blow up the place with dynamite. When he heard this Butts was fran tic. He pushed his way to the street and crossed to the proprietor, whom he found tr.ere. "Come, oh, come Quick! They are going to blow up the place with dynamite." After an hour and a half, by an effort of the mayor and marshal and the husbandsot some of the women, they were persuaded to go home. There were about fifty of them In light hats and summer gowns in the store and on the sidewalks in front. Ihe men had been crowded out. The Joint Is now closed, and the women say It will stay closed. They say that they are deter mined to put a stop to the sale-or Intoxicating liquors in Kingston. The marshal and the mayor seem to symnathlre with the Joint-keepers, so the women say that if the ponce or tne city will not help them they will clean out the White Elephant them selves, and everybody In Kingston says they die; gallic CUUUII IU UU 11, The dive-keepers have in their barroom analligator about a yard long which they .say -will be turned loose among the temperance women tne next time they raw the place. DOCTOR ASKS $1,000 A VISIT Charges $10,000 for Savins Life. of a Millionaire Who Attempted Suicide; ITHACA. N. Y., July 14. An Interesting lawsuit Is before the Supreme Court of. Tompkins county. A little less than a year ago G. E. Chambers, one of the wealth iest business men of central New York, who at the time was a resident of the vil lage of McLean, but who has recently re moved to Cortland, made an attempt to take his own life. He was stopping at a. little hotel in McLean. After locking hlmeelf In a room he used a razor In hacking himself about the neck and head, but before finishing the Job he seemed to come to his senses and applied for the aid of a physician. Dr. B.'L. Robinson, of McLean, was the physician summoned. He was the means of restoring Chambers to lite, as he alleges. and he has now sued Chambers tor $10,000 for services rendered. The amount rh&rfctd by Dr. Robinson seemed more than exorbitant to his patient, and he refused to ray. He accordingly hired Attorneys Halllday & Denton of Ithaca, to take cnarge 01 the case. A few davs aco a complaint vas served upon this firm by Dougherty & Miller, of Cortland, counsel for Dr. Rohlnson. In it Dr. Robinson says he spent more than the ordinary time in nursing the patient back to life, that the surgical operations performed were diaicult and dangerods. and that the care, attention anl m?di at tendance that were necessary seemed to him to be fairly worth $10.m He also alleges that the defendant. bef-.e be attempted to take his life, was Involved in extensUe Interest and that he was a man of great wealth, which is estimated to be more than Il.000.0u0. He. therefore. cor.H.Ws that Chambers. In case he nad men, would i-ave proved a great loss to himself, fatnily relatives and business men and citizen generally. It is on this tro ind. therefore, and the fact that he was ol::gcJ to sacrifice considerable time nnl troub. tVreby neglecting his practice in )thr localities, that he asks for the ium of $i0.v.. The care was on the calendar cf ihe Supreme Ccurt, which has Just adjourn?!, and. as the pU.ntlff's attorneys were not roaiy for trial, the case was put over uqtll the next term, which convenes here next December. To the complaint th- attorney i?r the defendant have entr.?1 a general tlen.nl cf all the facts Alleged. Chambers h3ld that Dr. Robinson's fervices alone were pt the means of paving his Ilf-r. for tiher Th3lclans were also emplowd. Atto-ncy Denton said that the plaint. if Ind inide comparatively few vslt to tlrt fcndint. aid that be was afteTntl: to charge at the rate cf nearly $1,000 for each v'sit. The cVfYndant offered to seMe the rase 'or 250. HI attornevs will fight It tc the end, -ontendir that the plaintiff has no reason t.o mke his charge exorbitant slmplv from the fact that the defendant is re- ionized s a millionaire. SBBBSMBIBBSSSBaBBMSSMSMBMaBMBBBaBSSSSSBSSSSBasSBB Woman Fatally Illtten by n linn?.. WATERIXX la.. Jnlv 14. Mary Vaughn. a young woman of Cedar Falls, died lat nlfht from the effects or a wte on ner up ftom a bug of rcme kind. Her face and bend swelled ro as to become unrecogniz able. The swelling also affected the upper part of her body. Spaniard Enlists tn the nvy. NEW YORK. Julv 14. Pedro Orizsr. fourteen years old. who was cahin boy nnd bur'er on the Fnanlsh cruiser Vltcaya. hM enlisted In the United States navy at the Brooklyn naw yard. He will be sent to the training school at Newport.

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