Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1902.

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A happy new year! May It find the American people as prosperous at Its close a3 did the end of ltol! If Republican love feasts are to be a permanent Institution the party will have to build or hire a hall. It is not necessary that the United States should distrust the Kaiser because Great Britain offers it? special regard with warnings against Germany. Admiral Schley is reported as declaring that the controversy affecting him Is ended. Whether it is or not, it can be said for him that his conduct has been that of a man who appreciated the dignity of his position. It may be stated that the President sustains the I'ostcflice Department in its rulings relative to newspaper rates of postage. The President understands the difference between a newspaper and a prize package or an advertising scheme. Representative Crumpacker said yesterday that after carefully reading the report of the postmaster general he indorsed his rulings against the abuses of the newspaper rate. And so will every other man who 13 influenced by facts. It would be difficult to find three more timely Republican addresses than those delivered by the two senators, Fairbanks and Beverldge, and Governor Durbin in the Republican conference yesterday. They are so timely that every citizen can read them with profit. When a man of the character and standing of B'shop Potter declares that prohibition Is a fraud and failure, and that its attempted enforcement tend3 to produce fras and hypocrites, those who advocate It will have to adopt some other line of answer than vituperation. The New Year's day reception by the President has always had some very democratic features, Including the admission of everybody that cared to attend and shaking hand3 by the President with every person that passed in line. The latter is a foolish custom and objectionable on several grounds. It Is said that in to-day's reception President Roosevelt will shake hands only with those whom he knows personally. It Is announced that Chief Geronimo and wS Apache Indians who have been held as prisoners of war twelve year3 are to be released and allotted land by the government. The Apaches wero formerly considered the most troublesome Indians the government had to deal with and the least susceptible of civilization. Their reform has been slow, but if they are ready to settle down on allotments of land they have undergone a great change. July 1 and Jan. 1 are the semi-annual interest paying days on government bonds and of dividend payments on railroad, Industrial and other stocks. The rate of interest and the dividends paid are generally low, but they amount to a very large sum in the aggregate. It is estimated that the sum thus paid throughout the country to-day or during the next few days will amount to from $210,000,000 to $223,OjO.OOO. The disbursement of so large a sum should tend to increase the prevailing prosperity. When Senator Fairbanks said "Our party judgment upon great public questions has Invariably been the soundest," he stated a Tact that is fully sustained by history from the organization of tho Republican party to the present time. Beginning with civil war Issues and the preservation of the Union, and Including every phase of the financial question down to free silver, the tariff question, commercial expansion and all the great national questions of the last forty years, the Republican party Judgment has Invariably been the soundest. The Republican conference yesterday -was the largest and most representative body of Republicans that has ever assembled on such an occasion. Every section of the State was represented, and the representatives brought most encouraging reports. Meeting the great Issues with courage when they presented themselves, taking the side Indicated by wisdom and experience, results have Indicated the correctness of the party Judgment and. the quality of the party courage. Out of Republican victory in 1SS0 has come the greatest prosperity, and in that and the victory of 1300 disturbing issues of the greatest moment have been settled for all time. The Injunction prohibiting the sale of the preferred stock of the. Northern Pacific Railroad Company to a syndicate and to prevent the merging of the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads, granted on Monday by a county Judge In Minneapolis,

was vacated yesterday by Judge Lochren, of the United States District Court, so far as it related to the sale of the preferred stock. The Injunction was Issued on the petition of the holder of one hundred 'hares with a par value of I10.O0O, while It is represented that the holders of the rest of the 53l,C0,OoO are desirous of selling. The federal judge did not consider the Injunction so far as it forbade the merging cf the railroad properties. This action makes it possible to complete the sale of the stock and thus prevent its going into the hands of those who would control the Northern Pacific in the Interest of some other transcontinental line than the Great Northern. Those who are in the movement claim that there is no purpose to consolidate the roads, but to operate them separately, while a syndicate will own the securities of the properties. Governor Van Sant and others have been holding a conference to determine what action can be taken to prevent the execution of the plans of the capitalists and railroad men, at whose head 13 Mr. Hill, the builder of the Great Northern. ltX2. The first year of the twentieth century expires with signs of important coming events in the fields of diplomacy, science and commerce. In spite of the efforts of international peace congresses and arbitration societies the atmosphere In several quarters seems to be charged with war. The war in South Africa does not seem as near an end as it did six months ago. Venezuela and Colombia are In the throes of serious revolution, with an imminent prospect of a German demonstration against the former. Chile and Argentina are both making vigorous warlike preparations, with not more than an even chance that the present controversy between them will be settled peaceably. The United States i3 still obliged to maintain a considerable military force in the Philippines, though happily with a prospect of a speedy cessation of active hostilities. There has been no reduction in any of the standing armies, and all the leading powers are increasing their navies as fast as possible. Thus It can hardly be said that the year opens with a prospect that it will be one of universal peace. The chimes of Christmas bolls proclaiming peace on earth have scarcely ceased to echo before the clash of arms or the sound of military preparations is heard in both hemispheres. liven China, which was but yesterday supposed to have been subjugated and thoroughly disciplined by the powers, is reported to be

organizing and arming troops on a scale far exceeding anything she has attempted before. Her preparations for war will not culminate during the present year, for she Is a slow-moving power, but when they are completed she will make a tremendous effort to wipe out old scores. Whatever else may happen in China in the immediate future the year 1902 will be one of great military activity and progress with her. In no part of the world are there any indications that swords are about to be beaten into plowshares or spears into pruning hooks. In the business world the present year will doubtless witness a further development of policies and alignment of force in the great struggle of the nations for commercial supremacy. The law of evolution is operating in the business world as well as In the world of warfare and of science, and it is evolving new forces and new methods as different from those of the past as the agricultural implements or mechanical appliances of to-day are from those of a hundred years ago. Organization of labor, consolidation of capital and co-operation of both are the dominant ideas of the time, and nowhere else are they moro distinctly recognized and effectively applied than in the United States. In the highest development, the most compact organization and the most friendly co-operation of capital and labor lies the secret of the commercial supremacy which is the object of the great struggle that the nations and peoples will wage during the coming year as they never have before. There is reason to believe that the mean3 of success in this struggle are better understood and more Intelligently applied in this country than In any other, and that the year 1002 will witness as great relative progress by the United States towards undisputed commercial supremacy as has any past year. The great economic discoveries and improvements which have placed the country in the foremost rank are still going on, and by the time other nations have studied and imitated our present methods, as they are preparing to do, we shall have evolved new ones. Thus the end of the year will find us relatively further in the lead than we are at the beginning. From any point of view it is evident there will bo a good deal of history made during 1902, and this country will help to make it. MISCHIEVOUS nEI'OIlTS. It was announced a few days ago that the efforts of the government to promote American commercial Interests in Germany through diplomatic channels were embarrassed by the representations of certain American firms that were operating in Berlin on their own account. Now it appears that the efforts of the government to maintain friendly relations with Germany are being embarrassed by sensational dispatches sent out from Washington declaring that there Is a strong feeling of suspicion and hostility towards Germany In army and navy circles at the national capital. The statement was cabled to Berlin papers in an exaggerated form to the effect that "the principal military and navai authorities in Washington consider that war between the United States and Germany sooner or later is inevitable." Very naturally this caused comment by the German papers and called forth a statement from our ambassador at Berlin that the statements were "the thinnest kind of sensational nonsense." The power of the press for evil has seldom been exemplified in a more marked manner than it has been in the dissemination of these mischievous dispatches. Hatched in "Washington out of the fertile brains of Imaginative correspondents, they were hardly started on their course in this country before they were snapped up and wired to Berlin to cause uneasiness there. If there Is any foundation at all for the dispatches it must be of the most flimsy character probably nothing more than the club gossip of some talkative naval officer who Imagines that he is a co-ordinate branch of the government. Such talk is an insult to the good faith of the Gerrran government, which has made very frank and friendly statements regarding its Venezuelan policy, and to the intelligence of the United States government in assuming that it is so easily deceived by these statements. It to calculated to do a treat

deal of mischief In both countries and cause bad blood between peoples who are bound together by many ties. Ambassador White, who always says the right thing at the right time, emphasized his characterization of the dispatches as "the thinnest kind of sensational nonsense" by adding: Presi.lent Roosevelt, the commander-in-chief of both the army and navy, it is well known entertains not only official but personal predilections for Germany, which have been known not only otficially to the German government, but which have long been known among his friends. He studied In Germany, re-ads and loves German literature and has a most sincere personal respect for the German Kmperor. Any utterance of the kind alleged by an officer of either service would be sternly rebuked by President Roosevelt. If any naval officer in Washington has been airing his private opinions on this subject he had better be careful not to let President Roosevelt hear of it. Meanwhile, the American press can do a patriotic service by treating the dispatches as imaginative and mischievous. If the commission merchants are right In their contention the Union Traction Company la discriminating against the trade of this city by either refusing or falling to provide the freight service which was expected and promised. The complaint Is a serious one. The charter of the Union Traction Company Is a contract under which, on the company's part, It agreed, in return for certain privileges, to do certain things. Including the provision of adequate freight service for Indianapolis merchants. Failure to do this would be a breach of contract which should not be permitted. The first thing to do is to ascertain the facts, and If they are as claimed by the local merchants a remedy should be applied. Among the interesting events occurring to-day will be the instillation of Mr. Low as, mayor of Greater New York. His appointments already announced Include only persons of recognized character and fitness, and he evidently intends to make a thorough reformation in municipal affairs. THE HUMORISTS.

Short and Plentiful. Catholic Standard. "Do you believe in long engagements?" Inquired the Boston matron. "Well, I never gave that much thought," replied the Chicago matron, "but I can't say that I believe in long marriages." The Farmer's Interest In It. Scmerville Journal. Farmer "Way back Those pesky boys tied a tla pail to that dog's tall and ran him eleven miles. I'll sue 'em. Mr. Cityman Was it your dog? Farmer Wayback No. It was my pall. Reminiscences. Life. He Ah, those days of our young love I Tou remember that afternoon you promised to meet me, and didn't come? How I raved! She Just like a man! And there was I suffering agonies trying on that dress you liked so much. Point Cenernlly Overlooked Chicago Tribune. "This," the salesman said, handing out another package, "is also an excellent substitute for coffee. It is very wholesome. It makes rea blood." "Haven't you something," asked the young woman with the earrings, "that makes blue blood?" Her Observation. Washington Star. ' "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins. "I am sometimea sorry that Christmas does not come on the 2Sth of the month Instead of the 23th." "I don't see why." "I have observed In going through the shops that bo many things are cheaper on the 2?th than they are on the 21th." No Thoughts. Philadelphia Tress. "The postman just brought me Aunt Jane's present," paid the poet's wife. "What do you think it Is?" "I don't know," replied the poet, disturbed at work. "Rut can't you think?" "Gee whizz! How do you expect mo to think now? I'm writing something for the magazines." A LITTLE NEW YEAR'S SERMON. From "The Long Voyage," by Charles Dickens. Thoughts of another kind of travel often come into my mind. Thoughts of a traveler unexpectedly summoned from home, who traveled a vast distance and could never return. Thoughts of this unhappy wayfarer In the depths of his sorrow, In the bitterness of his anguish, in the helplessness of his self-reproach, in the desperation of his desire to set right what he had left wrong and do what he had left undone. For there were many things he had neglected. Little matters while he was at home and surrounded by them, but things of mighty moment when he was at an immeasurable distance. There were many, many blessings that he had inadequately felt; there were many trivial injuries that he had not forgiven; there was love that ho had but poorly returned; there was friendship that he had but lightly prized; there were a million kind words that he might have spoken, a million kind looks that he might have given, uncountable slight, easy deeds in which he might have been most truly great and good. O for a day! (he would exclaim), for but one day to make amends! But the sun never shone upon that happy day, and out of his remote captivity he never came. Why does this traveler's fate obscure, on New Year's eve, the other histories of travelers with which my mind was filled but now and cast a solemn shadow on me? Must I one day make his journey? Even so. Who shall say that I may not then be tortured by such late regrets; that I may not then look from my exile on my empty place and undone work? I stand upon a seashore where the waves are years. They break and fall and I may little heed them: but with every wave the sea is rising, and I know that it will float me on this traveler's voyage at last. Tenia' Accomplishments. New York Evening Sun. A woman who had the good luck to be seated next to Nicola Tesla at a dinner the other evening was struck by the wide and comprehensive range of knowledge he displayed in the course of the conversation. From mentioning, incidentally, that his father spoke twenty-one languages, he passed on from one subject to another, each widely different, but with all he was equally Intimate. The woman at last, in sheer admiration, turned to him and remarked: "How very much j-ou know, Mr. Tesla! I had rather expected to find you a man of one Idea, but instead of that you know something of everything. You are more conversant with more topics than any person I ever met." "I have to be." returned Mr. Tesla, naively; "I simply have to be in order to keep up with those college girls that I meet dining out. They're conversant with everything, you know; to be able to keep up his enc. of the conversation with one of them a man must be more or less a walking encyclopedia. Why, only the other evening I took a college girl out to dinner the prettiest kind of a girl and no sooner had we seated ourselves than she began talking about Herbert Spencer and what he said about something or other on page 11 of his First Principles' if that's its name. She knew all about it. but it was more than I did. I bepan a course In Herbert Spencer the next day so ns o be ready for the next college girl I met, but she very likely will discourse upon Ibsen or Maeterlinck. Oh, no" (with a sigh); "it would never do for me to be a man of one idea I must keep myself posted upon everything that's going or I wouldn't stand . ghost of a chance TVlth these bright college girls."

NEW YEAR EDITORIALS

MORALIZINGS OF THE LONDON PRESS OX CURRENT QUESTIONS, War in Sonth Africa and Competition of American Trade the Lending Topics. REPORT FROM KITCHENER "WEEKLY BUDGET SHOWING THE WORK OF BRITISH TROOPS. More Reinforcements deeded Denmark to Keep Faith and Sell Her West Indian Islands. LONDON, Jan. 1. The entrance of the new year was celebrated In the usual manner by watch-night services. There was a great gathering outside St. Paul's. Editorial moralizings in this morning's papeis naturally concerned themselves mostly with the war in South Africa, and the nation's necessity of bracing itself for renewed efforts. Next to this feature in prominence comes the matter of the national development of the United States and the competition of American trade, which are held to have been very distinguishing features of an eventful year. In general, hopefulness Is expressed. "The fit of disquiet has passed," says the Daily Telegraph, "and like all great races, the English people have found their Inspiration in their difficulties. Foreign hostility in politics and American competition in trade have Intensely stimulated unmistakable impulses and the stirrings of a great renaissance of national energy." The Daily Mall, in a similar strain, says the past year has been one of dlslllusion.ment and disappointment. "We have discovered that the mere fact of being British is not a magic talisman, insuring success, and it is no small sig-n of progress to have got rid of the snug self-satisfaction In which for so long we have sunned ourselves." WORK OF BRITISH TROOrS. Boers Killed, Wounded and Cnptnred Since Dec. 23. LONDON, Dec. 31. Lord Kitchener, under date of Johannesburg, Dec. 30, sends a weekly budget showing that since Dec. 23 33 Boers have been killed, 5 wounded, 237 taken prisoners and 51 surrendered. These, says the commander-in-chief, do not Include De Wet's losses in his attack on Dargell and Firman, when, it is reliably estimated, fifty were killed and fifty wounded. De Wet is still In the vicinity of Langberg. Colonel Spencer and Colonel Plumer came In contact Dec. 2i with Britz's commando and took twenty-seven prisoners. General Bruce Hamilton came In touch with Grobelaar's commando near Marydale, Dec. 23. He killed four Boers and captured twentyseven. Newspaper correspondents in Pretoria continue to send warnings of the need of more reinforcements. -Lord Kitchener is turning the artillerymen who have become discouraged by reason of the return home of the heavy guns, into three corps of mounted infantry, each 1..VK) strong. Independent accounts of the Boer attack on Colonel Firman's camp on Dec. 24 add little to the official story of the occurrence except that General De Wet's force of 1.500 men, as at Majuba. removed their boots, climbed the precipice without noise and completely surprised the sleeping British camp. The terrible struggle lasted nearly half an hour. Three more British officers have died from wounds received in this engagement, making all told nine officers killed. The government scheme for the settlement of land in the Orange River colony is already in operation. Nearly 100 men, mostly time-expired yeomen, have settled there with the assistance of the government, consisting of loans of farming implements. - TO CONTROL NICKEL OUTPUT. United Steel Corporation to Pnrchnae an English Corporation. LONDON, Dec. 31. At a meeting of the Nickel Corporation to-day the chairman, Mr. Hunsicker, said the reason for the recent change in the directorate was that a number of his friends in America were negotiating for a large block of shares, conditional on the election of a new board. Mr. Hunsicker said his friends did not represent the United States Steel Corporation or the Carnegie Company, who are not Interested In the Nickel Corporation. A shareholder complained that the new board had failed to put in Its report several material facts, adding that it looked as if it was intended to depreciate the value of the shares so that the purchase might be mide in an interested quarter at a low point. Mr. Hunsicker, rising slowly, looked the shareholder in the face and said that he would be sorry for any gentleman who repeated to his face, outside the meeting, a statement of that character. The shareholder did not reply. NEW YORK, Dec. Sl.-The Herald will say to-morrow that it was announced officially to-day that negotiations are practically completed by the United States Steel Corporation, by which the great nickel deposits controlled by the Nickel Corporation of England will pass into the control of the big steel trust. The deal, it was officially stated, does not Involve more than $3,ou0,000 or $4,0OUl00, but the control of the property will place the big steel corpora tion in a position where it will be better able to control the manufacture of armor plate and other forms of hard Eteel. DENMARK WILL SELL. Will Part with Her West Indian Islands as Agreed To. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 31. It has been learned upon the best authority that the treaty between the United States and Denmark for the. sale of the Danish West Indies will be signed, in spite of the agitation here against such action. Insomuch as the Danish government has given its promise to this end. The question of a plebiscite will not be allowed to Interfere in the matter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. In the absence of any fresh diplomatic exchanges between this country and Denmark on the subject the officials of the State Department say there is no news to be made public regarding the proposed sale of the Danish West Indies to tho United States. There are no differences between the two countries as to the terms of the proposed transfer. The United States is ready to close the deal, which appears to be blocked only bv the timidity of the Danish MInistrv owing to the agitation against the sale of the islands by some of the people of Den mark. Urate d to Sell the Panama Canal. PARIS, Dec. 31. All the newspapers here to-day publish an address to the shareholders of the Panama Canal Company, Issued by M. Bunau Varilla, a large shareholder, who, as cabled Dec. 21, made an appeal to the shareholders and others to con tribute at the becinninir of the rsw var funds to carry on the work of building the canal and wno only secured promises o ä T ..If - 2UU.WU irancs. in mis aauress, wnicn takes up half a page of space in the papers, M Dunau Varlila gives the text of a lettei wVHrh he recentlv wrote to tho nw nrei cent of the canal company, commending the decision to attempt the impracticable task of reopening the negotiations with Washington lor tna sale or the company's nrftnrtV. And UfireS that thf nnlv rnnraa open, in order to save the situation, is for . . A. . -m the company to maxe, ueiore jan. 7, a etrnli?htfnrwnrd offer to sell th nrnnorv for fiO.OOO.ouO, or, better still, notify the

Isthmian Commission that It can itself fix tha reasonable nurchasa rriee at which its

report said it would have recommended the Panama route. British ReTenne neturne. LONDON. Dec. 31. The revenue returns, Issued' to-day, are unexpectedly hopeful, and show a much greater expansion than was anticipated by Sir Michael HicksBeach, chancellor of the exchequer. The receipts for the past quarter show an increase of 3.596.639 as compared with the corresponding period of 19u0. Unless there should prove to De some unexpected increase of expenditure it Is now believed that there is reasonable ground to anticipate that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will not be required to propose an increase of taxation for the next budget. The Dervent Valley Flooded. LONDON, Dec. 31. Melting snow has caused the rivers Wye and Dervent to overflow, and the whole valley of the Dervent this morning presented a scene of desolation unprecedented for twenty years. Hundreds of business premises, noieis anu residences are flooded and the occupants of several had narrow escapes, so rapidly rose the waters. Ten feet of water covers the Matlock football ground. Prince of Wales Will Visit Berlin. LONDON, Jan. 1. King Edward has deputed the Prince of Wales to attend Emperor William's birthday Jan. 27 at Berlin. It is believed that this action is taken probably with the intention of emphasizing the good relations existing between the two countries. The Prince of Wales will start for Berlin about Jan. 21 and will remain there one week. Alleged Big Price for a Raphael. PARIS, Jan. 1. Upon the authority of his own statement, the Paris edition of the New York Herald says that a well-known picture dealer has just sold Raphael's celebrated painting called the "Madonna of St. Anthony of Padua" to J. Pierpont Morgan for 2,5'JO,000 francs. Judgment in Carnegie's Favor. EDINBURGH, Dec 31. The Edinburgh Court of Sessions has given judgment in favor of Andrew Carnegie in the suit brought by Evan Charles Sutherland to set aside the sale of Skibo Castle. Cable Notes. 150,000.000 FOR TRAMWAYS. The municipal authorities of Paris have appropriated 150.000,000 francs towards completion of the work of the metropolitan tramways. DEPEWS LEAVE NICE.-United States Senator Depew and his bride, after a luncheon on board the steam yacht Lysistrata with James Gordon Bennett, left Nice to travel by easy stages to Cherbourg, where they will take the American line steamship St. Louis for the United States next Saturday. FREE-TRADER ELECTED. Dr. Barth, the free trade editor of the Nation, and a frequent visitor to the United Slates, has been elected to the German Reichstag from the Wittenberg district by C01 votes over the number polled by Herr Von Leipziger, a large land owner. The Wittenberg district is strongly agricultural and the Agrarians made a strenuous fight to carry it. This Liberal victory is regarded as significant of the temper of the country on- tho tariff question. ZIONIST COMMITTEE. Before adjourning at Basle on Tuesday the Zionist congress elected a new executive committee consisting of forty-five members. Dr. Theodore Herzl, of Vienna, founder of the Zionist movement, was re-elected president. Rabbi Gustave Gottheil, of New York, H. J. Wise, of Portland, Rev. Dr. Scharfer, of Baltimore, Periera Mendez, of Chicago, and Rev. Dr. Sarazohn, of New York, represent the United States. Rev. Dr. De Sola, of Montreal, Is the Canadian representative on the committee. RECOVERY OF JEWELRY 1(130,000 WORTH THAT AVAS STOLEN FROM P. J. THE HAU I). Part of It Found in n Pawnshop and Tart in Valet Kern's SatchelArrest of a Woman. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. It was made known at the detective bureau this afternoon that 530,000 worth of jewelry stolen from Paul J. Thelbaud, had been recovered Some of it had been found in a pawn shop in this city and the rest in a satchel. Kern, the valet, had left the jewelry at a pawn shop and was to have received a loan of 1,500. He received $700 and was to have returned yesterday for $S00 and the ticket. He did not come back. Detective Captain Titus said he had learned that on Sunday Kern, the valet, had called on a man who worked for a pawnbroker in this city and had shown the jewelry, saying that he vranted to get $1,500 on the jewels. This man took Kern to his employer, where Kern put down the Jewelry. The pawnbroker told him to come to his place the next day and get the money. Kern said It was a matter of life or death, as he had to have the money, and the pawnbroker gave him $70), telling him to come the next day and get the balance, $S00, and the ticket for the articles. In making public the list of articles recovered Captain Titus said that most of the goods were found in the pawn shop, the location of which or the name of the proprietor he refused to make public, and that the remainder was found in Kern'n satchel in a hotel In this city. Among the Jewels recovered was a pear-shaped diamond pendant valued at $20,0u0. The police have Mrs. Poillon, wife of a waiter, in custody. She is a native of Switzerland, and was friendly with Kern. She was arrested last night, but the police kept her identity secret until to-night. She was arrested in the street after having been at a hotel with Kern, and had with her two satchels. In them was some of Kern's clothing and some of the Thebaud jewelry. She denies any knowledge of the crime previous to its having been committed. She said she and Kern had planned to go to Switzerland to live there. She declares that she does not know what has become of Kern. A theory advanced to-day was that the package reported to have been sent to Kern to the Hotel Walton in Philadelphia, "to be held until called for," contained $S00, or the remainder of the $1,500 which Kern was to obtain from pledging the jewels. The police would not admit this however. WESTERN ARTISTS. They Hold Their Sixth Annual Meeting at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Dec. 31. The Society of Western Artists held its sixth annual meeting at the Art Museum, Cincinnati, to-day. Representatives from Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Toledo and St. Louis were in attendance. The object of the society (which Is composed of painters and sculptors residing in the Middle West) is to hoia an exhibition annually in the following cities: Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo fcnd üt. Louis. Works of art from as far south as Dallas and as far west as Denver, as rar north as Detroit and as far east as Cleveland were sent to Cincinnati, and from these the representatives selected 150 paintings. The works sent in this year were of unusually high quality, so that while the standard was high the number of rejected pieces was comparatively small At the business meeting the following officers were elected: President, Holmes Smith. St. Louis; vice-president, Edmund H. Osthaus, Toledo; secretary and treasurer, J. Ottis Adams, Indianapolis. "GAVE HIM LEAVE." Small Alabama Box Shot and Killed by His Older Brother. BIRMINGHAM, Äla., Dec. 31. While hunting near here the ten-year-old son of Barbour King was shot and Instantly killed by his twelve-year-old brother. One asked the other boy to "give him leave to shoot." The brother replied "Let her fly," and began to run. The older boy fired to scare him. but the charge struck the boy In the head, tearing it completely off.

REAL BASIS OF LIFE

rnoF. Jacques Locn says it is ELECTRICITY, NOT HEAT EXLIIC.Y. Another Remarkable Paper Read hy the Untversltr of Chicago Scientist Before Naturalists. HIS EXPERIMENTS DESCRIBED DOES NOT CLAIM TO HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF LIFE, But He IIa Discovered the Cause of Xerve Action and Other Things of Importance. CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Prof. Jacques Loeb, of the University of Chicago, to-day in a paper read before a section of the American Society of Naturalists convention, made the announcement that he had discovered the physical processes that accompany life, that electricity and not heat energy is the basis of life. He does not claim to have solved the problem of "What is Life?" but to have proved a theory which overthrows a fundamental portion of the teachings of text-books on physiology. "The energy of foodstuffs," Prof. Loeb said as a conclusion, "and the motions of heart are not, after all, due to the production of heat, but to tha chemical energy In electricity charged molecules," and again he put it this way: "A part of the chemical energy of foodstuffs is transformed Into electrical energy, which, in turn, gives energy to the muscles and organs of the body." Dr. Loeb described his experiments with a Jellyfish and explained that when he placed the fish into a solution electrically charged, such as salt, it responded, while, when ha subjected it to a solution that was a nonconductor, it did not respond. Proceeding, from further experiments he found: First, that the muscles contracted rhymthlcally in solutions which had these electrical charges in them, and, second, that the contraction of the muscles depended on the number of charges in the different solutions. The announcement that electricity and not heat is the life energy is the climax of Prof. Loeb's famous experiments, which have extended over ten years. He was first led Into this line of research by the observation that electricity was able to effect protoplasm in a more universal manner than any other stimulus. He then came to the conclusion that if electricity was able to have such effects In the form of currents it ought to have like results when in the form of "ions." "Ion," he explained, is an atom, or group of atoms, carrying a charge of electricity. He first set to work to investigate along the lines of parthenogenesis or artificial reproduction and discovered that the electric "ion" was responsible. Then he took up the study of the cause for the rhythmic beat of the heart and again traced the agent to the t-ame source. When, with the aid of Prof. A. P. Mathews, the same causes were discovered to be behind the secret of nerve action, the series was complete, and the savant's ambition attained. "Nerves, consisting of a colloidal solution," Professor Mathews said, "are stimulated by the passage of the colloidal particles from the condition ot solution to that of gelatin, which change is produced by the action of electrically charged atoms which bear negative charges. The stimulating action of any chemical compound depends on these negative charges; the particles of the nerve are held in solution by positively charged groups of atoms such as sodium, potassium, etc., and the effectiveness of these ions In preventing stimulation varies directly with tho number of positive chargts they bear. By these facts chemical stimulation is shown to be identical with electrical. Whenever in any part of a nerve the negative particles are in excess the nerve is stimulated. All positively charged ions reduce Irritability in the nerves; negative charges increase it." It was said to-night that while Dr. Loeb's experiments in prolonging life were important and interesting, thus far they were applicable only in the case of a single animal cell, and therefore of narrow limitation. Another paper which attracted special attention was that read before the meeting of the Bacteriological Society by Professor F. G. Novy, of the University of Michigan, who made public for the first time the result of his struggle to find a perfect germicide. His results as reported were beyond expectation, for he has, it is claimed, discovered an organic peroxide which is absolutely destructive to organic life and which can be taken Into the system by human beings with perfect impunity. A number of experiments were described by Professor Novy to demonstrate the power of his germicide, which he calls "Benzol." Germa to the multitude of 1.000,000,000 in saliva were Immediately killed. The throat of a diphtheria dog was sprayed with it, and the dog was cured more speedily than by the anti-toxin treatment. This drug is in the form of volatile crystals, which are soluble in water. In the psychology' department Prof. Charles S. Minot, of the Harvard Medical School, scouted the doctrine of telepathy as a product of the imagination. The sessions will be concluded Thursday. National Geological Society ROCHESTER. N. Y., Dec. 31. The fourteenth annual meeting of the National Geological Society of America began a three days' session in this city to-day in the geological lecture room of the University of Rochester. The following officers and fellows were elected for the year 1902: President, N. II. Winchell, Minneapolis; first vice president, S. F. Emmons, Washington; second vice president, J. C. Branner, Leland Stanford, jr., University, California; secretary, H. L. Fairchlld, Rochester; treasurer, I. C White, Morgantown, W. Va.; editor, J. Stanley Brown, Washington; librarian, H. P. Cushing. Cleveland; councilors, C. W. Hayes, Washington, and Joseph Paxson Iddings, Chicago. Fellows Ermine Cowles Case, A. B., B. M., instructor in State Normal School. Milwaukee; Arthur Gray Leonard, A. B., A. M., assistant state geologist Iowa state geological survey. Des Moines, and Charles Hyde Warren, Ph. B., Instructor in geology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. SENATOR SEWELL'S FUNERAL. Military Honors Paid by the State and Federal Governments. CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 31. The funeral of the late United States Senator William Joyce Sewell took place to-day from the Sewell mansion in this city. From 10 until 11 o'clock the public was permitted to view the body and thousands passed around the bier. The services were conducted by Bishop Scarborough, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New Jersey, assisted by Rev. R. A. Roderick, of this city. At the conclusion of the services eight sergeants from the Third Regiment and Battery B, National Guard of New Jersey, carried the casket to a caisson provided by the War Department and the cortege proceeded to Harleigh Cemetery, where interment was made. General Brooke, of the military Department of the East, was in command of the government troops and Brig. Gen. William F. Cooper was in command of the state troops. At the grave a salute of thirteen guns was fired. After the reading of the committal services the body was lowered into the grave and another salute was firtd. Among the honorary pallbearer were Secretary of War Root. Adjutant General Curbin, Governor Voorhees, Governor-elect Murphy, ex-United States Attorney General Griggs, A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and Clement A. Griscom, president of the International Navigation Company. In addition to the United States senators and representatives who came to attend the funeral there were present a large number

of distinguished and prominent nun from New Jersey and adjoining States, i it" committee of the United Statt s tVn.ito included Senators Kean. Hawlcy. Proctor, Burrows, Warren. Scott. Quirle.. forrr.ii tvttiis. W. Harris. Foster. Cul-

Inm, Aldrich, Penrose. ElUins and Turn.r. The Hou?e committer was comjcd of the New Jersey delegation. All of the county and city oflicr.s and mot of the business houses were tloeid from noon until 1 o'clock. Dally Record of Vcnthn. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 31. Captain W. W. Kerr, a well-known attorney of this city, who was prominently identified In the famous "star route" cases and who wmp an expert in the drawing up of indictments, died here to-night. During the administration of President Arthur he was sdect-d by Attornev General Brewster as an assistant in the star-route cases, and earn. l national prominence. Captain Kerr w. is counsel for Capt. Wiborg and tho late Cart. John D. Hart, who were prosecuted in t io federal court for their filibustering expeditions to Cuba. CHICAGO. Dec. 31. Col. Thomas H. Monstery. once widely known as a swordsman, died here to-day at the age of Intyeight years. Monstt ry was born in l;-""; more. His mother was a Prussian lady of wealth and position, daughter of the Swedish beauty Sophia Akerstrom. morganatic wife of Frederick William of Prussia . Tr. decedent was a duelist of international reputation and had been the central hpuro in adventures in all quarters of the globe. NEW CASTLE. Wyo.. Dec. 31. -F. IL Curran, better known throughout the Blacic Hills country as Major Curran. died to-oay at his home in this city. Curran was proprietor of gaming houses in New Cast e, Deadwood and other towns In the lims when the boom was at its height. Ho abandoned the business several years ago. since which time he has become one of tue wealthiest stockmen In tho West and leaves and immense fortune. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. A cablegram Just received in New York announces the death of Joseph, tho famous Parisian chef, who came to America on an engagement with Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt at a princely salary. He, however, did not remain long in America, and after spending some time in directing the culinary department of the Savoy Hotel, London, returned to his former home. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. James S. Van Antv.'erp. a widely-known newspaper correspondent, died early to-day at his homo in this city. His death was due to physical and nervous collapse superinduced by overwork. He was the Washington representative of the Philadelphia Bulletin. Seattle Times, Milwaukee Wisconsin. Los Angeles Herald, Duluth Herald and Richmond Times. LACROSSE. Wis.. Doc. 31. Rev Dr. Marian Von Droste-Huelshoff. son of Baron Von Droste-Huelshoff, of the diocese of Westphalia, Germany, died at the St. Francis Hospital hero to-day, having given up the life of a nobleman to enter the priesthood. Ho came to America thirty years ago and had lived in Lacrosse for the past fifteen years. DETROIT, Mich.. Dec. 31. Ransom Gilks, one of the founders of the wholesale dry goods firm of Edson. Moore Co.. of this city, died at his residence to-day from pneumonia. Mr. Gilles was born in Argyle, N. Y., in 1S3S. He was a prominent Prt-sby-terian. NEW ORLEANS. La., Dec. 31. Col. Thomas C. Bcrndon. manager of the New Orleans clearing house, died to-day. He was born in Eutaw. Ala., and was seventytwo years of age. He served in the Confederate army. LAWRENCE, Kan.. Dec. 31. Theodore Poehler, senior member of the wholesale grocery firm of Poehler & Co.. died at his home here to-day. aged sixty-nin as a result of Injuries received In a runaway accident. NEW YEAR USHERED IN XEW YORKERS BLEW HORNS AU FIRED THEIR REVOLVERS. Old Trinity's Chimes n Magnet for Thousands of People The "Tenderloin" Noisy as Usual. NEW YORK, Jan. 1, 1M2. With services of prayer and song, with tolling of bells and ringing of chimes, with blare of thousands of horns and the sharp crack of revolvers and pistol shots, with the screeching of whistles' and cries from the throats of thousands the old year was bade farewell and the new year welcomed last midnight. Watch night services were held in many of the churches throughout Greater New York and many chimes rang their farewell to the old year and greetings to the new. Roman Catholic churches did not mark the passing of the year by midnight massts, as was done last year, the service then having been decreed by the Pope because of the advent of a new century. Old Trinity and its chimes were the principal magntt for the horn-blowing crowd In the down-town portion of the city. Thousands gathered about the historic oid church. The scenes about Grace Church and in Herald square were similar ones. The din, too, in the Tenderloin early in the evening was terrific. But the noise and confusion that broke loo.e from steam whistles and horns on the stroke of midnight was the climax of the celebration. Mth. Hohnrt Muket ti Valuable I f t. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. The Patterson, N. J., Children's Day Nursery received a New Year's gift to-day from Mrs. Jennie T. Hobart, widow of the late Vice President IIobart. It is a plot of land 100x123 feet in Patorson. Mrs. Hobart also gave J2r.i"J with which to erect and completely furnish a modern building adapted to the needs of the nursery. UXCLE SAM'S GREAT SECRET. Paper on Which Onr Money oies Are Printed Jenloiulr Ciunrded. Ladies Home Journal. If there Is any secret which Uncle Sam jealously guards it is the process of manufacturing the fiber paper upon which his money notes are printed. He pays a Massachusetts firm 43 cents a pound for it, an 1 this firm docs Its work under the surveillance of a government agent. The paper is boiled and mashed into pulp. As It is rolled into thin sheets silk threads are Introduce d into it by a secret process. These are the distinguishing marks making imitation of the paper well-nigh impossible. The sheets of paper, already counted twice and placed in uniform packages at the paper mill, are stored in a treasury vault, and issued to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as wanted. Before leaving the treasury they are counted three times more, and the receiving official at the bureau must receipt for them. Then the bundles are unwrapped and the sheets are counted twenty-eight times by a corps of women. This is to insure that each printer gets the recorded number no more, no lss. If one sheet of this precious paper be lost the entire force of men and women having access to the room where the misplacement has occurred are kept in. like so many school children, to find it. Each sheet is issued from the vault for the printing of a definite amount of money upon It. If the lost sheet were Intended to ultimately represent Jl.O-O worth of notes tho group of employes to whom the responsibility of Its misplacement has been traced must make good that amount if they cannot locate it within a reasonable time. The most expensive loss which has thus occurred was of a blank sheet issued for the printing of $50 upon its face. Cardinal Gibbons on the New Woman Ladles' Home Journal. As I have said before, I regard woman's rights women and the leaders in the new school of female progress as the worst enemies of the female sex. They teach that which robs woman of all that is amiable and gentle, tender and attractive, and which gives her nothing in return but masculine boldness and brazen effrontery. While professing to emancipate her from domestic servitude, they are making her the slave of her own caprices and passions. She never feels at home except when abroad. When she is at home home is irksome to her. She chafes and frets under the restraint and responsibility of domestic life. Her heart Is abroad. It is exulting in imagination. In some social triumxh or reveling in some scene of payety and dissipation. Her husband comes to his hnm to find it empty or occupied by one who. heart is void of affection for him. Then estrangements, and the last act In th dre.ma is often divorce. I speak the sobvr truh when I afilrm that for the wrecks of families in our country woman has a largs share of the responsibility.