Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1900 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1900.

J OL UNA 19 IIIMSE3S IlIUECTOnY. Mm. L Klc. West MlchUan street. Telerhon: Oll. 2i7i-); new. 31Ü Territory west of White river. 1 LnUlSTS m:ktkhman'x floh at, compant. Nw No. :1 M. ave.. rS N. Del. st. Tel. 0 JJANTEI.S AND URATES I M. I'diStlLL. (Mantels. Furnaces). ZZ Man.

PATENT UWTErPV. IL lockwood. 415-:S Lemcke buIMlnc BAL.1! AND LIVEItT BTABLES HORACE WOOD tCarrlajres. Traps. Du--boards. etc.) 5 Circle. Tel. 1097. EHOW CASKSWILLIAM YVEIGEU ?n South MerMian Street:. Lmi Kit V A K K KiW FRANK r-LANXHAHD. S N. Delaware si Tel. 411. Lady Attendant. t A I.L. HA PK HS ' IL C. STEVES. New Ftyl Wall rarer. Low price. 930 N. Senate ave. Tel. 2 on 22. - funeral DinECTons. , PLANNER & BUCIIANAN-(Llcensel embalmerO Can ship diphtheria and scarlet fever. La3y embatmer for lad'es and children. 320 North ll'lnota at. Telephon Ml. new and old. Old VA. C. E. KREC.ELO. JSew 2-1 FPNEKAL. PI HECTOR, 223 N. Delaware Ft. ReilSence. ES E. Vermont Ft. (Colonial Flats, r New Phone. 1743. I) I F.D. CIARY Josie. wl'e of 1 E. Clary (daughter of Oeorge and Margaret Albrecht). turJay moral rue at 1:45. funeral at residence. 1 i Fletcher avenue. Monday at 2 p. m. LESTER Mar Jorio l,eter. aged four yea", diphtheria. Funeral Monday, 2 o clock, 13.7 Ruckle street. FUNERAL NOTICE. WEILER Mrs. Rosa Kahn Weuer eueo urday. Oct. 20. at 10 P. m. at Last Market etreet. Funeral from Temple, corner Delaware and Tenth streets, Tuesday, Oct. 2i, at Vi a. ra. Friends Invited. FINANCIAL. LOANS Money cn mortjases. C F. SAYLEa. 137 East Market street. . LoANi-jn city property; 6 Pr cent . no , coi. mission: money ready. C N. WILLIAMS & CO., 21 Lemcae Duuaing. FOR SALE, FOR SALE Real estate, loan and TOiiectlm business. Small law library. Established over twenty yearn. Fplendld chance for right man. GEO. WADSWOUTH. Fowler, Ind. STORAGE. . W. E- Kurtz. Pres. 11. A- f'rossland. Mgr. (New) r.17-1.23 8. Penn. 'Phone 1343. We STOIUS, rAun. najiAuu. b'fORAUE The Union Transier and Ktorri Company, corner East Ohio street and licetine tracks: only flrst-clafa storage soncltcO. CKATINÜ AND PACKLNO OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS A SPECIALTY. WANTED 31 ALE HELP. wivri'n rMftv re hit. nfl fiftv colored shove!era for excavating at Singer Mf. Co. a new rlsnt. South Uend. Inquire olHce site new I anbandlefreight station. Georgia and Delaware BUetta. JAMliS ÜTJLiVV ART & CO.. Contractors v'ANTEÜ For U. 8. Army: Able cocied unmarried men between aites of 21 and 3a. cltlrers of United tftates, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. Recruits are specially desired ror aerrcrultln? ÜÄcer, 25 N. IlllnoU street, Indlanapo- . . a IIS. iOO. WANTED. WANTED Men with Doys Fathers with two or more boys over iouneen jt-ara ui age m be riven steady employment at iair hkw. Adnrena FA1HMOUNT Gl.ViS3 WOItKS. Falrznount, InJ. WANTED SALESMEN. w 4TET A hurtllnir. brainy salesman with rtmii-itv r devclon into a manager. tJooJ ray Trmjnent rnisitlon to the rljcht party. Addn-ea iao not call), L. II. BULK LEY, liatea House. lor.lanapolis. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WAVTPn nntnl work free at Central Collrare of Dentistry, southwest corner of Ohio and Illlttoln Btrewta. 2o cnarge, except lor ui wi material. . v a VTt'ii l Ol" mn women and clrla to hell) us advertise "Happiness at Home." Largest premium list ever Uued; sample copy. IS good stories, package of circulars, present coupon and trmu fi.p a in stammt to cover rotair-.:. Our work can b dune at home. Address HAPPINESS AT HOME, L3 Virginia avenui. Indianapolis. FOUND. FOUND Man's tlcycla. Inquire 313 E. Market street. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ' CLEVELAND. CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & bl. lAJUia ilAlL. WAX LUJirAii 1. Cincinnati, Oct. 8, lw. The annual meeting of the stockholders of thU company tor the election of directors and f.-r auch other business as may come before the meeting, will be id at the otnee or tne comT,r.T. corner of Thlrü and Dmitri streets. In inrlnnatl. O.. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1WO, at 1 o'clock a. m. The stock transfer books will be closed at the otr.ee or. Messrs. J- i -Montan lla.. No. 23 Wall street. New York, at 3 o'clock t. m., Thursday. Oct. 1L l, and reopen at 1J o'clock a. m.. Thursday. Nov. 1, im . . usuuit.. secretary. IE0M SUNDAY'S JOURNAL. Summary of the Principal Itemi Found In the Iaane of Oct. 21, Queen Wllhelmlna officially presented her beau to the city fathers of The Hague. Colonel Roosevelt was tho recipient of a great ovation at Baltimore, where he made two speeches. Senator Foraker, of Ohio, made an eloquent address at a great Republican meet ing at Sheridan. Ind. Charles Dudley Warner, author, editor and essayist, lawyer and traveler, dropped dead ot Hartford, Conn. Mr. Bryan closed his tour of misrepresentation through New York with two large meetings at Buffalo. Senator Hanna closed his week's campaign with a great meeting at four different points in the city of Omaha. Former Attorney General Harmon, of Ohio, who claims to be a Gold Democrat, has announced his Intention to support Bryan. Henry Youtsey was found guilty of the murder of William Goebel, at Georgetown, Ky., and his sentence fixed at life im prisonment. Archbishop Ireland has made public a statement errnhasizlng his reasons for his continued and hearty support of the Re publican party. Germany and England have declared an agreement on Chinese questions along the lines of tne various American notes on the same subject. Announcement if made in New York of Taggart'a schema to save Kern by trading two votes for JIcKin!ry for one for his puppet gubernatorial candidate. Chairman Jlmkay Jones has Issued a statement tearfully pleading that his cot ton halt company Is not a trust, and If It ! a trust. It is a good trust, anyway. Saturday's football games Earlham, 23: Butler. 0. 1) Pauw, 0: Roe Polytechnic. 0. Notre Dame, hi; Cincinnati, o. Michi gan. 11: Purdut. 6. Brown, II; Chicago, 6. Pennsylvania. 30; Columbia, 0. Yale, 3S; Wesdyan. 0. Cornell. 11; Union. 0. Harvard. 2i; West point, o. Princeton. 5; Eafayette, 0. Naval Academy, t; Georgetown, U. Indlnnupolls. Strike of the miners at Linton settled by Secretary llfon. Judge Carter Ixgan an anti-divorce cru sade in the Superior Court. The National Live Stock Exchange elected officers and adjourned. . Th M. T. H. S. football team defeated the Louisville High School team 11 to 0. James T. Parker was run over by United States mail wagon and seriously injured. Lnui?vUle d f cated the Indlapapolls Golf Ciub in the tri-State championship serivs. M-arlon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society held Its annual fall ext:L

TONNAGE IS INCREASING

BIT STILL LIMITED BY CAIIS THAT ca:-; nn furnished. Rnniori Hint the Eljr Four Seek Con trol of the Chicago fc LaRtern Illinois Personal Matters, The train records show that there were received and forwarded at Indianapolis In the week ended Oct. 20 a total of 2S.2GS cars, 22.121 being loaded, an Increase over the week ending Oct. 13 of 618 loaded cars, but 5S3 fewer than were handled at this point In the corresponding week of 1893. The Big Four dropped below tho loaded car move ment of the corresponding week of 1S99 but twenty-two loaded cars, the Vandalla eighty-two and the Pennsylvania lines 664. The Lake Erie & Western showed an In crease of eighty-nine loaded cars, and the Indiana, Decatur & Western also" showed an Increased movement. Any decrease shown at present Is not because of lack of business, but Is due to car ßhortage, local as well as through traffic being now limited to cars the roads can furnish. The Monon, the Indiana, Decatur & Western and the Cincinnati, Hamilton &. Dayton have no big systems like the Pennsylvania or the Vanderbllt lines to help out ma terially any. car shortage, and the fact Is that the only cars the Indianapolis lines can get to load with east-bound business are those which come here loaded with west-bound freight. Fortunately, tonnage west-bound at present Is unusually heavy. The best feature of the present situation is that every pound of freight east, west. north or south, through or local in char acter. 13 carried at tariff rates. Business In this Immediate territory Is seldom as active with the roads, and with their best efforts freight men are unable to furnish cars as promptly as desired.' The packing houses, cereallne mill and flouring mills are calling loudly for cars. The live stock traffic is again heavy. The new corn crop is beginning to move quite freely, and so bountiful are the fruit and vegetable crops that more cars are required for these lines of traffic. The table below shows the number of loaded cars handled at this point for the week ending Oct. 20, and for the cor responding weeks of 1809 and 1X)3: Names of Roads. 1900. 1890. 1S0S. C, I. & L C00 66S 637 I., D. & W 518 607 403 C, II. & D. Ind'polis dlv. 928 1.0S2 911 L. E. & W 83 588 Penn. I. & V 812 1.029 730 Penn. J., M. & 1 1.0T.& 1.243 1.026 Fenn. Chicago div 9S5 1.109 814 Penn. Columbus div L931 1.969 2,343 Vandalla 2.324 2.406 2,747 P. & E. East div 1.097 9KJ 1.030 P. & E. West dlv 1,167 1.154 1.219 Big Four Chicago dlv.... 2.245 2.520 2.687 Big Four Cincinnati dlv. .'2.668 2.S13 3.382 Big Four St. Louis dlv... 2.557 2,208 2.428 Big Four-Cleveland div.. 2,531 2.4S2 2,651 Totals 22.134 22,719 23.476 Empty cars 6.134 5.002 5,901 Total movement 28,2'58 23,621 29,377 Faithful Service Appreciated. E. B. Thomas, president of the Erie Rail way Company, closes his annual report by saying: "It Is with great regret that the board announces the death during the year of Charles II. Coster. Ills wise counsels and assistance are greatly missed by the .board. The company also lost by death the faithful and etflcient services of W. J. Holmes, superintendent of telegraph, who had been In the service of the company and its predecessors . for the past fortyfour years." He then adds: "The excellent results of the year are due to the hearty and loyal work of officers and em ployes of the company, and the board taks much pleasure in publicly announcing its appreciation of their efforts and thanks them for their fnithful service." In the year ending June 20 the Erie ex pended in maintenance of equipment, including the purchase of rifty consolidated frelcht engines, J ;,ixi,Gl7.42, an Increase of H. 715,510.62 over the year ending June CO, im Penunylrnnln Relief Department. The monthly report for September of the voluntary relief department of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg has been published and shows a number of benefits paid. The list is longer than usual on both the Pittsburg and Indianapolis divisions. The summary Is as follows: Pennsylvania Company Death benefits by accident, 3, J1.M0; Panhandle, 4. U2Ö0; total, 7, $3,75"). Natural Penn? ylvania Com pany, 6, $4.500: Panhandle. 6. S2.7W; total. 1:', SI.'-&0. Disablement benefits, accident Pennsylvania Company, 213. JJ,(rj5; Panhandle, 233. 53.501; total. 536. Jo, 602. Sickness Pennsylvania Company, 311, $4,31; Panhan dle, 316, $!,442; total, for, 752. Total bene fitsPennsylvania Company, 5'j3. J13.4ts; Panhandle, HJ, Jl-'.y; grand total, $20,355. Dclt Itoatl Traffic. In the week ending Oct. 20 there were transferred over the Belt road 19.639 cars, against 18,579 In the week ending Oct. 13. Belt road engines handled at the stock yards 1.308 carloads of live stock, against 1,23d carloads in the preceding week, and for private switches on its line 3S4 cars, against W!) In the preceding week. Personal, Local and General Noten. The Pennsylvania announces that Its semi-annual dividend is payable to stock holders registered Oct. 31. The time when safety paper shall be used by all roads for coupon tickets has been extended to Jan. 1, Lr2.. A. H. Harris, a former Philadelphia & Reading man. has been appointed general traffic manager of the Quebec Southern road. Elijah Smith has been elected president of the Eel River road, which, by acts of Indiana courts, has been separated from the Wabash. The Lake Shore, last week, let the con tract for a new elevator at Chicago, to cost $100.000 and to have a capacity of 750. OOU bushels of grain. The Chesapeake & Ohio, in the second week of October, earned $322.825, an In crease over the corresponding week of 1S39 of $Ü0,S59. Since July 1 an increase of $731.2 is shown. Robert F. Kelly, generel agent of the Wabash line at Louisville, who, six weeks ago, was taken ill at Buffalo, and has since been confined in the hospital in that city, returned to Louisville on Saturday. A circular announces that the Jurisdle tlon of D. B. Martin, passenger traffic manager of the Baltimore & Ohio, has been extended over the Mttsburg & West ern, now controlled by the former com pany. The rumor is again current that the Big Four is to absorb the Chicago & Eastern Illinois. Parties interested, it Is stated. admit that a scheme looking to such a re sult is being worked but has not yet been accomplished. To-day the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy will pu: on a through car by the way of the Burlington route to Denver, the Colorado Midland, the Rio Grar..'3 Western and the Southern Pacific, running through to Los Angeles, Cal. The Pittsburg Locomotive works last week completed the two thousandth en gine built at the works. A number of their engines are on the Vandalla and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, and give very satisfactory service. J. R. Groves, superintendent of motive power of the Colorado Midland, passed through the city yesterday en route to Philadelphia to confer with the Baldwin people with reference to the construction of five locomotives ordered for his line During the last six months the Chesapeake & Ohio has broken all records in rxuorts from Newport News. The com pany has large contracts which has neces sitated the building or another pur at New port News. It will be one of the largest piers on the Atlantic coast. The classification committee of the trunk lints finished Us work on Friday

and agreed upon a new schedule, to become effective January L The new classification will not be announced until sometime in December. The secretary of the committee says there is no material change. The proposition on the part of general passenger agents to erect a monument to the memory of C P. Atmore. late general passenger agent of the Louisville & Nashville, is received with much favor and prominent railroad men outside the passenger service express a willingness to contribute to its erection. The opinion prevails that at the next meeting of the National Association of General Ticket and Passenger Agents, an insurance department will be organized. In a number of instances prominent passenger officials have died, leaving their families aimost destitute, and an insurance department would afford them relief. John K. Cowen. president of the Baltimore & Ohio, and last week elected president of the Pittsburg & Western, has issued a circular stating that there will be no change In the personnel of the Pittsburg & Western road for the present, all heads of departments to continue In discharge of their duties as heretofore. Since the railroads stopped paying commissions on sales of tickets the income of the ticket agents is so reduced that several hundred agents in different parts of the country have resigned. The general passenger agents have been asked to recommend an Increase in pay for agents on a number of the Important lines. The paint tests that the Pennsylvania road makes at Its shops are quite instructive. Strips of wood painted with standard colors are exposed to the weather, so as to determine the lasting qualities of the paint used. Twenty or more of these strips of wood are nailed up on one corner of the shop, and the date of their exposure Is shown. One piece has been exposed Bince 1SS7 and Is still In good condition. Notwithstanding the strike of the anthracite coal miners, the freight movement over both the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & Reading roads has largely increased since Oct. 1. The Pennsylvania is hauling immense quantities of scft coal and coke and general merchandise. Hard coal shipments have fallen off almost entirely, but the loss is scarcely noticeable, as many of the industries that use hard coal are now burning bituminous. L. F. Loree, general manager of the Pennsylvania lines west, who was on an

Inspection of the lines last week, on his return from a trip over the Indianapolis & Vincennes, said that but few divisions of the Pennsylvania lines showed greater im provement in physical condition as compared with that of five years ago than did the Indianapolis & Vincennes, and Super intendent Mansfield had-reason to be proud of what had been accomplished since he was appointed superintendent. On Saturday the New York Central opened to the public the new passenger waiting room at New York city. The great room Just completed Is impressive In size and beauty. It Is 200 feet long by 100 feet wide and seventy feet high. Its marble columns and wainscoting, artistic decorative finish in pure white, and the corrugated ceiling of steel and colored glass, dotted with bullseye electric lights, is said to give it an appearance of massive ele gance. The furniture Is in keeping with the size and style of the room. INSULTED WOMEN ON STREET. Lon Good Also Struck a Detective and Wns Roughly Handled. Lon Good, of 128 South Davidson street, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Ger ber and Lancaster and charged with offending persons on the street and resisting an officer, after an experience which he will probably not soon forget. Gerber and Lancaster were walking on Alabama street and heard Good make indecent remarks to Anna Scott, of the Marquette Hotel, and Catherine Moore, of 417 East Market street. The officers were on the opposite side of the street ahd called to Good to move long and behave himself. He dared ths officers to come over to where he was, and when they did cross the street he began ustng vile language and threatening them. When Gerber approached him Good put his hand behind his back, as if to draw a weapon. Lancaster saw this and made a Jump to catch his arm. Good, before Lan caster could prevent, threw a large rock, vhich he took from his pocket, and struck Lancaster on the back of the head, inflicting a deep gash. He then ran, followed by the detectives,' who showed no mercy when he was caught and attempted to draw another weapon. The Hepublicnn Party. (Chant Royal.) Dedicated to Senator Albert J. Beverldge. In days ot abolition dangers erst. While bondage moaned and bondslaves tolled in vain. The world's most glorious progress-party burn Through clouds of gloom and walls of bleeding The cry, "Advance! advance!" In startling echoes rose; 'Jen strong- of soul amid the flames they chose. With nerves of steel, and lion-hearted, swore That slavery's bannered gloom should wave no more; And hope and faith and courage prophesied, Above thj eteis of anguish and of sore. The flag of empire, liberty and pride. Advance! advance! On red fields battle-cursed. ,0'er mountain Bcourged and cannon-blastei plain. , Advance! advancef Through horror'i raging worst. Where prim destruction rends our bonds In twcln. Plunge on. ttern Progress, till thy heart's blood flows In anguish-torrents through the Nation's throes, . And crushing armies, wangled corps on corpn. In carnage-throngs that bleed at every pore, Hurl back the gloom '.bat dared thy crimson tide. When from our fathers' hopes its grim hands tore The flag of empire, liberty and pride! Then civic progress srdendldly dispersed The remnant Ills that stalked in slavery's train. When voting power and honored freedmen first Walked hand in hand up liberty's domain. Till east, north, south and west the watchword roes: Advance! advance! Fling back the future's foes. Who cry "Retnat!" when at the very door Of proud success, the frowns our nation wore Are beaming smiles that sparkle far and wide. Where faith's eternal vanguard swiftly bore The flag of empire, liberty and pride! Where craven schemes of Infamy were nursed. Where blighted homes were steeped in human bane, WKh wheels of progress drearily reversed. Amid the dark, dependent Isles of Spain. Progressive Spirit, touched with Cuba's woes, Btat back the tyrant with herculean blows. And where the wild East's gleaming waters roar. With science-prowess and the skill of lore. Won mission-visions that shall there abide And lift In splendor never known before. The tiaa; of empire, liberty and pride. For rrogress must, as progress always durst. Bear blessings forth; benighting clouds wli wane. And, with her spars In gleaming ekles Immersed, Her onward march will bring a world-wide gain. So while the far East's wealth of promise grows And while the far East's famed luxuriance glows. Across the glad Pacific's dancing floor. With tall, proud sparkling towers of naval ttore, Grand ocean cities gloriously shall ride. And raise, with commerce-beams, from shore to shore. The flag of empire, liberty and pride. -L' Envoi. Up! up! ye brave young foemen of repose! Up where the future's iridescent bows Enshrine the promise of the days of yore! And may the Stars and Stripes there o'er and o'er Through faith and hope and progress glorified Above the heljchts of blazing triumph eoar. The flag of empire, liberty and rrlde! Tucker Woodson Taylor, Mnpleton Team Won. The Mapleton football team defeated the Nationals of West Indianapolis yesterday by a score of 13 to 0. The Mapletons chal lenge any team in the state averaging not over Ho pounds. "GAKLAXD" STOVES AND RAXGES Awarded highest prize Paris exposition 1300.

TALK ON IMPERIALISM

REV. J. CUMMIXG SMITH DISCUSSES IT FUOJI RELIGIOUS VIEW. The Universe Under the Imperialism of GodThe Note of Imperialism Needed. At the Tabernacle Church yesterday morning the Rev. J. Cummlng Smith preached the first of a short series of sermons on "Political Banner Words." His subject was "The Higher Imperialism." He said: "Jesus was double sighted. He beheld the sown field and at once another field of spiritual seed time and harvest rose into vie. He beheld the son roving afar from his home, and at once another prodigal wandering from God rose Into view in the vast ground. Paul was two-sensed. All seers are intuitively conscious of the spiritual sphere when the . material laws are observed, for tte two kingdoms are one in analogy and direction, and the distinction between time and eternity is flimsy. The word 'Imperialism' carries a magical and agitating meaning. I leave to another platform the discussion whether our Republic is truantly drifting into the perils of empire and forfeiting our ancestral char ters. The pulpit is not for politics except when politics infringe upon the domain of righteousness, and then the pulpit is apostate that muzzles its voice. But to every mind that lordly word 'imperialism' leads away into vast spaces oi practical truth as a woody avenue leads back to vistas that charm the eye. IMPERIALISM OF GOD. "The universe Is under the fmpcriallsm of God. That man has begun his truest culture when he recognizes the sweeping current of influences superior to himself. In the material world It is the resistless reign of law. In the moral realm It Is the Irresistible though tedious progress of truth and righteousness. In the domain of truth God has revealed far-reaching and dominating facts, such as the fatherhood of God, such as the brotherhood of men, euch as the need of harmony between God and man, such as the potency of Calvary to restore that lost harmony, such as the priceless value of virtue and obedience to Ills laws, such as the reasonableness of an eternity where our character is carried over. These truths Involve a true Imperialism. Heaven here or anywhere means harmony with them. A man who violates these truths courts his own degeneration, which Is death. 1 He may be sincere in his op position, but sincerity cannot serve a man who closes his eyes to the lighu A man may sincerely step over a precipice or sincerely drink a poisonous cup of chemical liquid, but in either event he opposes inexorable laws and must .ake the consenuences. "It is true that tho general tone of the Bible is persuasion, and not coercion, but none the less it is true that he who shuts himself against the argument of persuasion really coerces his own protesting better na ture to side with sin. and sin only ruins as a divine law. "In our time we need the note of im perialism. In our recoil from the harsh authorities of Puritanism we have oscillated too far and drugged our sterner moral demands. Look abroad on the world s vexed life and be as rosy an optimist as you may and as I am. we cannot expel the painful Impression that America is catching the emlrch and leprosy of Paris. There are too few under the leadership of right, under the presidency of conscience to the church. There is a temptation to veil the mind of God, to tone down truth till it chimes with current opinion, to mask or muffle the stern truths till men come to act as If God was a myth and eternity an illusion. Here, again, we proclaim the absolutism or God. He has revealed vast and ineffaceable methods as the methods of His government. To discount that hightoned revelation of love is to dwarf our own life. We have too frequently preached a supple and emlable and trembling God, and the mass of men gladly hall such an agreeable gospel and continue in vice. LENIENCY OF DIVORCE LAWS. "We urge the imperially m of religion. Look out on public life. What means the leniency of divorce laws? Do we not approve of one of our ablest Judges in his attempt to check the crowds looking to ward lax courts for divorce? Look at the looseness of some home life, where the plainest rules are set aside and the germ of libertinism Is too often planted in the nursery. Look at turbid, tortuous, unscrupulous politics. No words are needed to paint that abyss, and, what makes it worse, nobody seems to care how low an ebb our political morality reaches. What mean these exposures of councilmen caught in their own snares, and the apathy of the public toward such a crafty offender? What mean these accidents at railway crossings and the relucnce or placid re fusal of corporations to eiovate tracks when a law compels them? Look everywhere, and one sees a tendency to dodge laws, to swerve from the right course as if no public conscience existed to scourge such deviations. Is or is not our general moral sense sleeping under opiates? Does not Inexcusable negligence tend to nurse crime? "History demonstrates again and again. tirelessly, that the public will permit wrong to go very far, and then public opinion, when awakened to the danger, will rise in a perfect storm of wrath and sweep the plague out of the house. But public conscience is long-suffering In its torpor. "One wearies of most of our haranguing spellbinders. With some noble exceptions in both parties, most of them catch at anyswindling argument to sway an audience which, it not stupid, must detect the fallacy. Anything is fair In a campaign! Where are the magnificent educators on platforms who stoop to no personalities, who employ no weapon of special pleading, who mold audiences by the resistlessness of undoubted fact? Such there are, but they are too lew. The very word 'spellbinder is an ill-chosen word, because It suggests an act of dazzling rhetoric or clever hits, rather than the art of carrying people along with manly and brilliant argument. AMERICAN IDOLATRY. "Our American Idolatry of mere success without any discrimination as to how the success Is achieved, is nothing but libertinism under a cloak. Our worship of wealth without an emphasis on the methods of making wealth is often a disguised approval of highway robbery. We have no quarrel with the magnate, but we insist on manhood as the great necessity. We talk about paramount issues; we speak s If America would suffer if some particular measure Is rejected at the polls, and it is sane to lay stress on these issues; but the paramount issue before the people is the re-enthronement of rectitude, the absolutism of God. "The basic infirmity is not some particular Instance of inequity, but the general wantonness and vagrancy In our higher life. There is too. little reverence for the great things. We set up our reason against the reason of the Infinite. We deify our self-will and forget the law that makes for righteousness. We exalt our vulgarities. We choose truth we like and shelve truth that grates on our lower tendencies. Now, since the evil has a deep, wide root, the cure must go deep. It must come by a revival of moral strenuous education. In the home, in the Fchool. In the church, in the press, that quintet of human omnipotences, the accent must be put on erect and glorious manhood. NOT A MAN. "He who overreaches a brother Is not a man. He who brags over his llzardly trickeries Is not a man. He who puts a premium on any form of guilt that lowers our moral nature has ceased to be a man. The virile quality oozes out of any man who, In public life or private, honors what dishonors our humanity. Above all, tho tendency to reduce religion to sentimentalists or convenience or fadlstn, rather than everyday spontaneous righteousness, is insolence and impertinence to our manhood. He alone who doeth God's will can be saved. "All along the line, therefore, we can feel the crying need of an old-fashioned sense of the absolutism of God, the inspiration of duty. How many splendid voices are urging this reformation! How many eloquently silent people see the undercurrents toward the overthrow of fundamental conxictlons and swell the demand for the en forcement of truth, the sovereignty, or, if you will, the noble tyranny of high faith! We are not whlners; those who know us accuse us of too brlght-hued an optimism. Our belief is that the right will win if we band together to make it win. and It can

not win of Itself any more than God alone can save the world If the world docs not save itself."

THE HICKORY ELM CLUB. Initiation of Dr. Fngleton How a Paramount Iaane Is Made. "The club will be In order," said the president. "Captain Skidmonk will hand me the ritual for the initiation, of coroners, Lring In Dr. Fugleton and t will finish him while I am In the humor." The doctor was brought in and the president opened on him by Inquiring: "How long have you been in the profession since you quit the carpenter trade?" "I have been practicing about fifteen years." "Has your practice kept up with your mal-practice pretty well during that time?" "If I understand what you mean by ths question, I think It has." "Do you rent or own your own cemetery?" "You will pardon me, sir, but I can't see what cemeteries have to do with my coming into this club." "Never mind what you can't see, doctor; just answer the questions as they are set out in the ceremony of initiation." "Well, sir, I neither rent nor own a cemetery'." "If you were called on to see a patient down with hay fever, which would you undertake to cure first, the hay or the fever?" "I see the pun, Mr. President. As the hay would probably be already cured I would go after the fever first." "You're all right, doctor. Now, what Is the difference between milk sick and mllK sour? If you do not care to answer I will ask you if it Is necessary for a coroner to know the politics of the subject of an inquest to be able to determine whether death was caused by delirium tremens or by falling in a well?" "It would not be necessary. In my opinion." "What is your politics, doctor?" "I am supposed to be a Democrat." "Old or new style?" "I think I belong to what might be called the new school." "Then you expect to vote for Mr. Bryan, oZ course. Has Mr. Bryan informed you or any member of your family as to what he Intends to do with reference to paying salaries, pensions and the interest on government bonds in silver dollars, halves, quarters and dimes?" "No, sir, I have no Intimation from him, or from anybody authorized to speak for him, as to how he proposes to establish the silver standard, other than his promise to open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold on equal terms, without Italian or other foreign consent." "Do you think that would do the business, doctor?" "I think it would. I have no doubt of it." Do you look upon Bryan as a sincere and honest demagogue In politics, or do you Judge him to be a talented and unscrupulous political trickster compelled by the force of circumstances to take the wrong side of every public question in order to keep up the organization, with only one chance in 900 to win the election this fall?" "Is it necessary to answer that question?" "No, sir, it is not absolutely necessary. You have the right to fall back upon the ancient and time-worn privilege which all modern Democrats have of thinking one thing and saying another. The club will take it for granted, that being a coroner, you are Intelligent enough to tell a dead cat-fish from a live sucker, and that whatever your opinion of Mr, Bryan may be, it will not interfere with the reserved right which we all claim, to practice deceit and hyprocrlsy upon the people by pretending to believe that he is not the colossal fraud and humbug that Roosevelt has shown him to be. when you know he is. With this understanding, you may lay your hands on Captain Skidmonk and repeat the obligation after me: "I, Fitztyphus Fugleton, in - the presence of these witnesses, do solemnly promise that I will support all indefinable, inscrutable, transient and impossible principles, tenets, dogmas and doctrines of the Democratic party now under the supreme. Imperial control of William Jennings Bryan; I promise to turn a deaf ear to all reason when a Republican undertakes to argue with me on Bryan as a dangerous demagogue, however much I may think so myself. I promise to abide by all rules, regu lations and by-laws of the Hickory Elm Club, reserving the inalienable right to object to. kick and protest against, any nomination of the party, or any platform thereof, but I promise that my Judgment shall not be allowed to Interfere with my duty to vote the ticket. In other words, I promise to be a Democrat in everything that the word Implies. "Having taken the obligation you may think you are a full-fledged member of this club, but if I should leave you without further Instructions your membership would be of very little use to you, because you couldn't get into this hall to save your life without the password, which you have not yet received. If you will advance r.bout four feet and turn the side of your head this way, I will give you the countersign in a low whisper. (He whispers:. The password for this month is, 'Sic Semper Polaris.') If you give It away you will hav? cause to regret It. Before entering the hall the door must be open. You will rap seven or eight times and remain quiet until Captain Skidmonk shows up. when you will be admitted. The grand hailing s'gn of distress until after election is: 'Poodle, boodle; who's got the boodle?' When you hear that cry proceeding from a member you will know at once what the trouble is. You may now take a seat over there by Colonel Snort, who will keep you posted on the ever-changing paramount." Philip Fungus was first to congratulate thi doctor. "I was the last man taken in before you," said he, "and I have never enjoyed myself more in my life in the same time than I have since I threw off the restraints of conscience and joined this club. I have learned a great deal about human nature that I didn't know before." "What is the most important thing you have learned?" inquired Dr. Fugleton. "The most Interesting thing I have learned is, that it is a great deal easier to be a Bryan Democrat than it Is to be a Republican. A Bryan Democrat doesn't have to strain his Intellect trying to get at the right or the wrong of a thing. He simply waits until one of the leaders of the party throws a trotline across the cur rent of public opinion and goes to fishing for an issue. When something catches tn one of the hooks and is drawn up into the boat, the issue has been found. It may be nothing more than an old boot with a spur on it. or the carcass of a dead dog; but it doesn't matter what it is, the crowd can t tell from the shore whether -it is dead or alive; whether it is a mud-turtle or a Jack-salmon. When word has been sent out that the river is full of em, mak ing it dangerous to health, life and naviga tion, the object at once becomes a paramount issue, and we don't have to worry about the unreasonableness .of the thing for a minute." And the club adjourned. W. S. II. EATON BARNES MAY DIE. The Condition of Other Injnred Per sona Xot So Serlona. The .condition of Eaton Barnes, who is at the City Hospital, suffering from frac ture of the skull, received in the collision Friday night, was unchanged, yesterday. He had not recovered consciousness, and there was said to be little hope that he would live. Ills condition Is such that oper atlon upon the skull cannot be performed. Dr. Ross reported that his patient, Mrs S. W. Weeks, of 419 Madison avenue, was doing well, and there was no Immediate danger of her injuries resulting fatally. though there was a possibility that she might not be able to withstand the shock. Bert Baldwin, of 232 East St. Joseph street, was sent to his home yesterday. He had improved much last night, thouirh he will be unable to get out for some days. Dr. W. M. Wright is the attending phy sician In most of the cases of injury from the accident, and he said, last night, that all others were doing nicely, and within a few days all but one or two would have fully recovered. A Talk on Prison Work. Mrs. E. Trask Hill, of Somerville, Mass., who for fifteen years has been identified with prison work in Massachusetts, yes terday morning at Hall-place Church, In nn interesting manner, related her experi ences among the penal Institutions of that State. A large audience listened to her talk on what Is now her life work.

ANTI-HIGGINS MOVEMENT

REPUBLICAN COUXCILMEX WAXT TO IMPEACH HIM. Steps May Xot Be Taken, However, Until the Grand Jury Has u Chance to Act. There seems to be no doubt that a quiet scheme is on foot among the Republican councilmen to take steps to bring Impeachment proceedings against Councilman John M. Higglns, Democrat, who claimed to be able to furnish protection to gamblers in the city. Stories of alleged wrong doing by Higglns come to light every day, and he may be punished. The Republican councilmen will not openy stale that he will be impeached, but there are some who go so far as to say that if there were any hopes of the Council voting to impeach Higglns, the step would be taken at once. It has been talked about In a quiet manner, and one Republican councilman said, yesterday, that, as It would take a two-thirds' majority to get such a resolution through the Council, it s feared the Democrats would not vote for it. Another Republican said, last evenng, that it was likely the councilmen would wait to see what action the grand jury J would take on Higglns. Should the grand Jury indict him. the resolution for impeachment would be presented to the Council at once, and it may be presented even if the grand Jury fails to Indict. Deputy City Attorney Bell has saw tnat before long he will render an opinion on the action of Higgins, and this opinion may Influence enough of the Democratic councilmen to stand with the Republicans for a resolution to Impeach the representative from the Fifteenth ward. The councilmen are all up in arms against Higglns for his insinuations concerning other members of that body. POISON CAUSES DEATH. It Is Xot Known, However, Whether Edward F. Illrd Committed Suicide. Edward F. Bird, of f30 Virginia avenue. who took morphine yesterday evening, died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Drs. Wiggins and Berner, of the City Dispen sary, were called after the drug had taken full effect and were unable to revive him. Members of his family, which consists of a wife and several children, were unable to say whether or not he had taken an overdose of the drug or taken it with the intention bf killing himself. Bird was a traveling salesman for S. Castro, a com mission merchant. BRYAN'S PURPOSE. His Ceaseless Effort to Create Discon tent and Hatred Among the People. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If I were half as anxious as the Journal is to defeat Mr. Bryan and thwart his Echemes," and if I were editor of so influential a 'paper It seems to me I would not so continually furnish fuel for the lire he is purposely kindling. He cannot dis guise his purpose. Every speech he has made since he suddenly came to the front in 1898 has had but one aim. He is seeking to bitterly array class against class. or rather to segregate wage earners and those who never earn anything into a class and pit them against the" working people in every condition of life who by economy and wise investments have acquired homes and in some cases become the employers of others. There are no classes in this country except as such malodorous plotters make them for selfish and mischievous purposes. The extent of his success is the most alarming feature of our social and civic condition, and i3 clearly indicated by the anarchistic assaults upon Governor Roosevelt and others by the class of men he Is educating to more pronounced wrongs against society. It was no accident that a mob of the "class" he is constituting assailed Governor Roosevelt at Victor and Fort Wayne and other Democratic strongholds; it was In all cases the outcropplngs of the coming more violent resort to brute force to right the imaginary wrongs the people suffer. Four years ago he harped upon the certain slavery that awaited the poor man unless his hobby (free silver) was maintained. This year he never opens his mouth In defense of 16 to 1 because the unequaled prosperity of the country has given the lie to his predictions, but his p.urpose to create a class and array it agaÄst the government is not abated. He harps upon other matters and seeks to make them "Issues;" anything to make the poorer people believe they are wronged by the more thrifty, and that they are therefore to constitute themselves into a class whose duty it will be to assail every commercial Interest that requires more money than these can put into business. Every one who was a part of the preliminary events which culminated in the civil war sees In these harangues of Mr. Bryan and the outrages to which they have already led an exact reproduction of the animus and the local outrages that preceded the culmination of the controversy of fifty years ago. Then, as now, the harangues and the mob violence were perpetrated in the name of the Democratic party, and. strangely enough, the same high-sounding slogan was tne watchword. Then murders were committed and riots provoked in the name of "squatter sovereignty," which was only another form of claiming the consent of the governed, and militarism was denounced whenever it was proposed to interfere against border ruffianism with the army of the country. In short, there is not a claim put forth by Mr. Bryan for his support that was not made by the slave power and Its tools in 1&6 against the election of Mr. Fremont. It is the same spirit, and, as nearly as possible, the identical class of arguments. The beginning of the end of slavery was the fight to allow the border ruflians to exclude free-state men by violence, under the plea of self-government. But the parallel goes further. When such men as Morton and "Jim" Lane and General Dumont refused to go with the Democratic party they were followed by the most opprobrious epithets. To call a man an Abolitionist in those days was little less offensive than to call him a thief they were intent on stealing "niggers" was the popular thought, and that was what these men were called, and the prejudice of the unthinking was thus turned against them. Here is where the Journal's blunder comes In. It often speaks of the changes of front of such mn as Eckels and English and Denby as acquisitions to the Republican party, and they are. but such a claim at once subjects them to opprobrious names. "Just what we might expect of them," say Mr. Bryan's mouthpieces, If he does not say it himself. "They are born plutocrats, natural aristocrats, bloated bondholders, and with the Republicans is their normal place." And they use th fact to Intensify the fear of the Anarchists that their liberties if not their lives are in danger. Hence my advice is to say but little about such acquisitions. It only gives Mr. Bryan and his kind an additional reason why there should be a class of people whose one work is to be the denouncing of corporations and any degree of wealth above the average accumulations of wageearners, and thos'c who earn nothing. Just what will be the immediate result of this line of policy no one can tell; what will be the ultimate result none can doubt; the time will come when the Governor of any State may travel through any other State and express his views on any question without being in danger of a mob In the interest of an opposing opinion. Through what throes we must pass to reach this condition no mortal can divine. Mr. Buchanan was elected President in 1556 through th exact methods now used by Mr. Bryan. What followed is history. The right of a free man to live in Kansas was purchased with blood, whereas the Republicans proposed to settle it peaceably; and that blood was only a skirmish en-

AMUSEMENTS.

GRAND "Still Waters Run Deep (ThU play was made f.imiliar to the American public br Mr. and Airs Kendal ) Preceded ty the one-act farce "Box andfoi." Evenings. V and tOc: matinees. t.V. o JE? IV GJLI S H 9 Sc TO-NIGHT One Night Only ..MK. TIM Jl "LJWI:II"V Supported by öl Smith Ruanell's company in A Bachelor's Romance Prices-fl.V, $l,?5c, idc. 25c. Seats now on aala. Saturday, Oct 27 Matinee and Niibt PRIMROSE AND D0CK5TADER PARK To-Dav I 21: The Angel of the Alley Fascinating features of Greater New York. Thur.dar 'o-Uon-4o-Mohawk. In Lincoln J. Carter's rfreat play "Tne Flmninc Arrow." Wabash and Delaware hiraet. ONE WEEK Com fr.encinr .Monday, Oct 22. MATINEE DAILY. EVERT NIGHT. CLARK BROTHERS' ROYAL BURLESQUERS Trice of Admllon lue, 1 3c. t Sc ml 3 Jo Next Week "Broadway Burlc-sqi-cr UNSTEADY NERVES make a poor matksman. Men or women who work in the shop or factory or at desk all day long, day after day and year after year trying to MAKE a few dollars fora rtlny day, after a while find themselves suffering all the tortores of the dlseans of mind and body, and feel themsIvr fitted only for the asylum. They become unfit subjects to battle with the world. They would indeed make F00E MAEESX5EN for anything, save the undertaker. Acm Blood Purihcr and Sj'ftem Tonic, will strengthen and tone up your nervous system. Will give you a ravenous appetite; will free the system from aU impure and poisonous matter, and make you strong, healthy and full of manly vigor. gagement of the bloodshed which ended with Lee's surrender and the acknowledgment of the right of an American to be heard anywhere. Mr. Bryan may be elected, and. as in the case of Mr. Buchanan, it will be claimed as a triumph of the element that will not now tolerate free speech; but that will not be the end of it. The Altgelds and the Crokcrs and the Bryans cannot permanently govern this country. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, Oct. 20. HAD TOUGH EXPERIENCE TllltCJS CAME FAST AXD FURIOUS FOR EARL THOMAS. He Serionaly Consider nettirnlns to Greenenstle, HI Former Home Oh, What a Night I" Earl Thomas, who purchased, Saturday, the Star saloon, at 134 West Market street, from Fred Metzhetier. was wondering yesterday what the further experience of his first effort at embarking In business In the city would be. He came Saturday from Greencastle. Shortly after his arrival he confided to some one that he had money to invest in a business. .He was told of the Metzheizer saloon, and, after some preliminaries, bought the place for $250, paying $150 down and agreeing to piy the other 1100 in installments of 13 a week. His first experience was with a lot of "grafters" and f "chair warmers." who insisted upon being given free drinks for their "good will" and future patronage. Then a man, said to be James Brannan. for whom the police are looking, passed for a five-dollar bill two old Madison Ai Indiahaiolis Railway fivedollar scrip certificates, which had been pasted tosethcr. Then a free-ior-all light, in which Metzheizer, tho former proprietor, was a principal, caused the police to arrest the participants and a number of the "patrons" whom Thomaa had been kind enough to supply with free drinks. Among those arrested were three women, two of them colored, for whom, Thomas was told, it would be policy for him to furnish ball. He went to the police etation to do so, and before returning to the saloon took enough liquor to make him aleepy, so he retired at once upon reaching the saloon. He slept on a couch In one of the upper rooms, and on the floor of the same room cior.f ih colored iKrter. Frank Maya. When Tiiomas awoke he found that what money he had upon retiring. JiS, was mlsIng. und so was the porter. Mays was later arrested and charged with the theft. Twenty-five dollars was found on his person. Thomas complained to the police that all he got for his flöo and promise to ray I UK) more was one box of cigars, one bottle of whisky, one-half keg of beer and the "good will" of the Metzheizer business. To one of the ofiicers he confided that he seriously considered returning to Greencastle. BEER MALLET AS WEAPON THE DEATH OF JEFFERSON SKACGS MAY PIIOI1AI1LY IIESUL.T. He Stabbed Benjamin Kersting and Wna Struck hy the Latter Son, Ed Kersting;. A fight early yesterday morning in KerstIng's 6aloon and restaurant, at ZZ) West Washington street, will possibly result fatally to Jefferson Skapgs. of River avenue. SkagRS and Benjamin Kersting be came involved in an argument which terminated in a fight. Skaggs stabbed Kersting twice in the arm and his further use of the knife was prevented by Ed Kersting, son cf Benjamin Kersting, who struck Skaggs over the head with a beer mallet, fracturing his skull. Skaggs was taken to the office of Drs. Eisenbelss & Karchner. who worked with him for several hours, trepanning the skull. The Difpensvary ambulance was called through the police desk sergeant, who sent the bicycle police to Investigate. Upen hearing the Etory they arrested Edward, Kersting and charged him with assault with intent to kill. Skaggs was taken home, and at a lato hour was not expected to live. The jollc wero unable to learn the cause of tho trouble. To the doctors Skaggs said yesterday that he went Into the place with four other men and ordered live ulasses of lttr. A stranger who was in the place wanted to drink with them and sugrc'ted that the saloon keeper hould Rive lx glasses of beer for a quarter. The six glasses wero brought out. Skaggs tkrew upon the bar a sliver quarter, anil then followed nn argument about the price. Ken-tins dernandii.g SJ cents. The fight followed the argument and the refusal of Fkoggs to rny for tht stranger's drink. Died from Football Injuries. ASIIEVILLE. N. C. Oct. 21. A. D. Price, of Palestine. Tex., a student nt the Bingham school, died to-day from Injurie sustained in a practice game of football yesterday. His spinal column was broken between his shoulders.