Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 338, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1902 — Page 4

TüE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, OTÜRSDAl? DECEMBER 4, 1902.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 4 1902.

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Wlltard Hotel. DENVER, COL.-Louthaln & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. . DAYTON, O.-J. V. WUkle, 33 South Jefferson street. COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct News Etand, 2Si High atreet. The Lincoln Aaaasalnsttion. Tte Journal cf Sunday, Dec. 7, will contain tbe first Installment cf a hitherto unprlnted narratlr of the conspiracy that culminated In th assassination of President Abraham Lincoin by J, Wilkes Booth. Samuel Bland Arnold. on of tn convicted conspirators, died recently In Maryland, leaving thi history of the- plot to kidnap Mr. Lincoln, which culminated In his death. It deals with the formation of the plot, the arrest of the conspirators, the execution of some and the Imprisonment of others at the Dry Tortugas, with statements of alleged cruelties to which they were there subjected. The narrative will begin In the Sunday Journal and will La continued from day to day until completed, which will be Dec. 20. - The few anti-imperialists who met the other day to find fault and console each other, not only wasted their time, but made themselves ridiculous. The local Democratic organ sees nothing to admire or approve In President Roosevelt's message. It once thought Grover Cleveland's messages great state papers and modeis of style. If It Is true, as stated, that the representatives ot big trusts have organized a powerful lobby to oppose any legislation by Congress" requiring publicity under oath, that 13 a strong argument In favor of such legislation. The experience at Muncle that meter measurement is a great conservator of natural gas. and that at 25 cents per 1.000 feet it I a very cheap fuel Is that of many other cities, bat the testimony comes too late to help Indianapolis. The intelligent sense of the country Is distinctly opposed to the admission of any more rotten borough States into the Union. This would bar the admission of Arizona and New Mexico, which can only be favored on narrow, partisan and unworthy grounds. When President Roosevelt wrote of Americans as "men with iron in their blood" he could not have intended to Include those little Americans who distrust the ability of the people to solve great and difficult problems. He did not refer to calamityites and pessimists. Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, has introduced a Joint resolution for an amendment to the Constitution making the District of Columbia a State, and, of course, giving the right of suffrage to its citizens. It is not likely that any considerable number of them desire the change, and its wisdom is not apparent. The presence of United States Judge Gray on the anthracite coal commission in fortunate In that it insures strict adherence to legal forma and to the original jurisdiction of the commission. In a brief statement made yesterday he makes it clear that the commission does not intend to shirk any part. of its responsibility for a definite settlement of pending questions. Milwaukee had voting machines In two wards at the recent election, and is so well pleased with the experiment that the City Council has voted to purchase a suffldent number to supply the whole city. The elites using the machine in New York strongly approve after several trials. There can be no excuse for not introducing the machines Into the larger counties In Indiana. It is reported in Washington that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and his associates have arranged to fight any bill which may come up in Congress designed to require corporations to publish sworn statements of their business. The Democrats may help Mr. Morgan in this matter, but Republicans In Congress cannot afford to do so. as they are committed to the policy of publicity. Besides, lfMr. Morgan could have had his way the next House would not be Republican. Through the co-operation of the mayor of Bedford. Ind.. and the 'commissioners of Lawrence county an arrangement has been made for the city to work Jail prisoners p.. Its streets. The arrangement would t ; a good one for many towns and might tw applied advantageously on a larger scale. Supporting prisoners In idleness Is costly business. Working on streets Cr roads Is one of the few things they can do without eliciting a protest from organized labor, and it Is a very useful kind of work. Earon Von Oppenheimer. a distinguished oülci&l of the German government who has b4n making a seven months' tour of the United States, concludes a glowing eulogy Cf ths country and peopla by saying:

"There seems to be no limit to your enterprise and Invention, and I can say as one

who has seen the civilizations of Europe, Africa and Asia that my knowledge was incomplete until I finished a study of America." There is no reason why Americans should feel flatttred by such expressions from foreigners, but they should be stimulated to live up to their opportunities. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEW". The voters of three States in the recent election are so meager that they attract general attention. Even the Democratic New York World has twice called attention to them, declaring that under such elections government "is neither republican in form nor democratic in fact." That the matter may be clearly understood the following figures are given, the population and number of voters being taken from the census of 1300: States. Population.Voters. Louisiana 1,341.623 233.314 Mississippi 1,551.270 231.413 South Caiolina ....1,340,316 IW.Gul Vote. 26.2 lS.uTtf r,2D5 4.237,211 678.361 72,63$ The Republican partem three districts in Indiana polled more votes for representatives in Congress than did the three States of Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In this district the aggregate vote for representative to Congress was as large as the entire vote of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi, which have fourteen members In the present House, Mississippi electing seven representatives by an aggregate vote of 18,073, or 2.5S3 for each representative. Marion county, casting 43,821 votes, elected one member of the House. The three States named, casting 72,638 votes, elected twenty members of the House, while Indiana, casting 650,356 votes, elected but thirteen. The wonder is that such facts as are here related do not attract more attention than they do, since they show the entire absence of Interest in elections by the people. In each of these States half of the voters have been disfranchised by constitutional amendments which. are not submitted to the people amendments designed to nullify the Constitution of the United States. Rut why do not the other half of those qualified to vote exercise the right of suffrage? Recause there is but one political party in these States, and there is but one political party because men who would create any other party than the Democratic would become the victims of a sort of social ostracism. Futhermore, the States which have disfranchised half of their voting population have Imposed a heavy poll tax upon all wjio register to vote, which can be escaped if those entitled to vote do not register. On this point the New Orleans Times-Democrat says that "about one out of six of the persons who can vote under the constitutional provisions took the trouble to pay their poll tax, get registered, go to the polls and cast their ballots." There is no reason why a man should pay a poll tax of $2 simply to enable him to vote when there is but one party, and when the voting can be done by the limited number of men who must pay taxes on property. It cannot be possible that the Democratic leaders who cunningly devised the schemes for nullifying the Constitution of the United States could have been blind to the consequences of that provision of their amended State constitutions which makes the suffrage of those who are not disfranchised depend upon the payment of a poll tax. It seems that they must have foreseen that the poll-tax requirement would accomplish just what it has, namely, the reduction of the number of actual voters to those who have the requisite property and taxpaying qualifications. In view of the result, is it not fair to assume that the ruling class, which makes constitutions and ratifies them without vote of the people, had in view the elimination of the majority of voters to the end that "the rule of the few" the very few might be firmly established? It may seem a matter of no consequence to many people, but it Is an indisputable fact that in no State which has been under Democratic control the past decade is a full vote and a fair count tolerated. In Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina; North Carolina and Virginia disfranchisement and poll-tax requirements have suppressed a large majority of the voters, while in Kentucky at Goebel law, and In the Republican cities of Missouri a Nesbit law has been enacted to overwhelm Republican votes by fraudulent voting and counting. CHANGE IN THE MAKE-L'P OF MESSAGES. The message of the President years ago seemed to follow the form of those of the earliest periods of the government. After a brief Introduction the government's relations with foreign governments were taken up, something usually being said of our relations with the leading nations. Doubtless this routine of treatment was due to two conditions: The secretary of state is the first officer in the Cabinet, so much so that he is sometimes absurdly called the premier. Second, but more im portant, during the earlier days of the Bepublic our affairs with other nations were I of first importance. At that time the United States was an inconsequential power and was treated as such by two governments, Great Britain and France. It was not until after the war of 1S12 that Great Britain really understood that the United States could be an Independent govern ment. When, In 1S03, Napoleon sold the territorial rights of France to the United States and abandoned his design to establish a French colony west of the Mississippi, France abandoned the Idea of using this Republic as an auxiliary. We had our territorial troubles with Spain, while our boundary disputes with Great Britain did not cease to have a bellicose coloring until the surrender of our claims In the Northwest by the Tolk administration In 1S46. Again, in 1SG1, Great Britain and France became a menace to the Integrity of the Union and continued so until the close of the civil war. Thus, for the reason that our foreign relations so constantly menaced the security, if not the life of the Republic, they assumed the first place In the public mind. It required the war for the Union to convince European governments that the United States was not a power to be trifled with. It was that knowledge which led Great Britain to agree to General Grant's proposition to submit the Alabama claims to arbitration. It was a realization of the growing power of the United States which led Great Britain, at our request, to submit the dispute between the latter and Venezuela about territory to arbitration. It is because of the display of our naval power In the war with Ssaln that the cowers bv

at length recognized the Republic as one of the most Influential. At peace with all the world and with the most friendly relations with every nation, the long discussion of our foreign relations can be dropped from the first place in the President' message. In recent years more and more the mes

sages of the executives have curtailed the abstracts of the work of each department until now President Roosevelt makes no mention of the operations of any branch of the public service. Even the financial statement is dropped, and Congress and the country are not told of the number of pieces of mail matter transported during the year. Years ago, before the Associated Press sent to its newspapers abstracts of all the reports of the heads of departments at Washington, such recapitulations of the work of the departments was necessary for the information of the people. Relng unnecessary now, President Roosevelt wisely left such matter out of his message. A DEPARTMENT OF COSIMEKCE. The President's recommendation for the creation of a Department " of Commerce whose head or secretary shall be a member of the Cabinet will meet with popular approval and will doubtless be carried out by Congress. The commercial interests of the country have become so vast, Important and ramified that they deserve more particular care and attention than they now receive at the hands of the government. As the President says: "The rapid multiplication of questions affecting labor and capital, the growth and complexity of the organizations through which both labor and capital now find expression,' the steady tendency toward the employment of capital in huge corporations and the wonderful strides of this country toward leadership In the international business world Justify an urgent demand for the creation of such a position." A special advantage of the new department would be in bringing together under a single executive head the bureaus that now deal with different phases of the subject and causing them to co-operate to a common end. Of this class of existing bureaus are the Interstate-commerce Commission, a very Important body which at present is not connected with any department, and has no hearing in the Cabinet; the Intercontinental Railway Commission; the Rureau of Statistics and the Bureau of Navigation, which are now attached to the Treasury Department; the commissioner of railroads, connected with the Interior Department; the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of American Republics, all unattached. The Isthmian Canal Commission, when it is created, would naturally be attached to the Department of Commerce, as would any arbitration commission or other body that may be created to deal with labor troubles. In connection with the State Department the Department of Commerce should have a voice in the negotiation of reciprocity treaties designed to protect fort eign trade, and its head would be a valuable adviser for Congress in tariff legislation. There would probably be a Bureau of Man ufactures connected with the department which would conduct investigations and make reports concerning that interest. Our shipping Interests, which at present have no intelligent government supervision. would find It In the new department, and other interests besides those named would obtain more recognition than they have yet received. The President evidently thinks there is a field for such a department, for he says "Congress should endow it with large powers, which could be Increased as experience might show the need." Almost every chamber of commerce and board of trade In the country has joined In requesting the creation of such a department, and the time has come when Congress should act in the matter. The action of the Philippine commission In expending $2,000,000 (Mexican) in the purchase of rice to defeat a monopoly and benefit the people by selling to them at a reasonable rate Is out of the ordinary from an American point of view. It could not be done in this country, but the Philippine commission. has a very free hand. In the absence of constitutional restrictions Its action was doubtless wise, and will be further evidence to the natives of the friendly motives and practical benefits of American government. The warning of the secretary of agriculture that the foot and mouth disease may reach the West has caused some uneasiness. Those who explain his language say he meant that its spread in the middle States would close all our ports to the export of cattle. The disease has never been. known in the West, and comes into the Atlantic States from Europe and Canada. Experts say It yields readily to inspection and isolation. Cattle infected with the disease do not get far from the Atlantic seaboard. THE HUMORISTS. Ecclesiastical. Yonkers Statesman. Church Do you think he Is a well-proportioned man? Gotham No; his lungs are away out of proportion to bla brains. An Expert. Life. ' "Where is that mathematical phenomenon that was here last year? Wonderful, the way he could Juggle with figurt-a." "Oh, he's left the stage and gone with a gas company." Confusion. Chicago Tribune. Cholly I would have brought a box of candy this evening, Gladys, only you'ra training for a bask'-tball game, you know, and Indignant Maiden I'm not doing anything of the sort! Cholly (turning pale) Then I've got my girl mixed! They Don't Rend. For all the money given toward The higher education The average man' Illiterate, Just as he was of yore. The thing becomes a menace to The safety of the Nation, For scarce a man, it seem, can read The sentence: "Shut the door." Washington Iost. Polntera for a Novice. Urooklyn Kagle. "Now, In this literary line, how are the returns?" "They are all right when you get them?" "And whm do you get them?" "You get Oiem when they come." "Rather indefinite." "Of course. That's the difference between literature and business. Huslneps la buainegs, but literature is something entirely different." May Come to It. Judge. Having been abroad for soma years, the returning citizen was somewhat surprised to And hla natlv villas la a turmoil. Ia fact, a lynch-

lng bee wus being pulled off with much eclat and considerable rope. "What Is this?" he exclaimed. "Who are they lynching?" "I forget his name." shouts the person addressed; "but he 1 one of these vaudeville actors that always use long words when they want to be considered funny." "I wonder," mused the returning citizen, "that they did not think of It long ago."

INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Probably nine out of ten men would have acted the same way as the Sullivan sheriff, but the tenth man Is the one that ought to be the sheriff. Washington Gazette. The voting machine Is fast coming to the front as the surest, safest, quietest, most expeditious manner of exercising the divine right of suffrage. South Bend Tribune. The Sultan of Bacolod continues to fret for war with the United States. He seems to be literally pining for a brush with the American troops and the outlook is not bad that he will eet what he Is crying for. Here's hoping he'll be satisfied when he gets it. Fort Wayne Sentinel. Indications point to another effort to establish an additional normal school within the State, with a legislative appropriation, of course. Legislators and the people should keep their eyes wide open for the many schemes bound to come up during the winter. Lafayette Courier. There will be no Populists In the next campaign, that party being practically ex tinct. It was a protest against poverty and prosperity killed it. The Socialist party is growing, however, and the indications are that like the poor we must always have the "isms" with us. Goshen News-Times. The argument that voting machines expedite Athe returns does not appeal as strongly as it might to our Indiana Democratic friends. Republican victories seem to have become the regular thing in this State, and when one has bad news coming to him he would naturally prefer to have it broken by degrees than to receive It all in a bunch. Kokomo Tribune. The word Reichs-Tag, usually rendered Reichstag, is a stunner to a good many readers of English or American papers. The literal translation of the word is "Empire day," and the signification is Parlia ment or National CongTess. The pronunciation of Reichstag Is "righs-taag." Just bear this in mind. When you see the word divided "reich-stag" by the printer, just ascribe it to his lack of understanding. South Bend Times. Governor Durbin's determined stand in regard to the removal of the sheriff of Sullivan county is the true position. No leniency should be shown that official. In case tnIs ,the first application of the very commendable law, is rendered null and void by its suspension It simply means another dead letter on the books. The way to avoid the necessity of having to pass on the law is to enforce if to the letter at the very start. Richmond Item. The Sullivan county sheriff, who is reported as circulating a petition for his reinstatement in an office his own action forfeited, is evidently a gentleman of colossal nerve. At any rate, he is no man to be intrusted with so responsible an Office. He must have known that the hriniring of that hunted negro to Sullivan would result in mob law, and if he was really - mm i i. tic . aa i can j I too dense to appreciate this fact his Ineffectlve and farcical resistance would b lust and sufficient cause for his removal. Terre Haute Tribune. The discussion of voting-machine legislation is largely useless. The last Legislature provided for the use of these machines where they are desired. In other words.

the Legislature passed a local option ma- Proud- The slde whiskers resembled those dragged. While they had a half dozen witchine law. To compel all communities to ' Pendennis, as pictured by Thackeray. It nesses before them they did not learn much . ...i . . ni.u.rv,, , v-, more than they already knew. On their

' sensible as for V .nth 7. M.nH V" " to du in tJS?tt VhiPr.inttSf ShP reason In thf Hi ShSlh . The.r.e is '1?" il.th i.A1 roPr.",? ana under proper conditions iMtutca however, can decide those conditions. In the case of the voting machine the law leaves it optional, as it should, for the Present, at least.-Elkhart Review. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Quietly and without any blow of trumpets Mrs. A. A. Anderson has given $100,000 to build free baths in one of New York's tenement dlstrlctn. Nothing was known about the gift until ali arrangements had been completed and the work was begun. A prlie of $00 offered by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of Boaton, for the best household lavor-saving device designed by a woman has been awarded to Mrs. Lydia Coale Sharpless, of Philadelphia, for her bread-making machine. Three folk-kitchens for children were recently opened in Berlin; nine more are to be added, and each one will feed three hundred children. A sausage with rice boiled in milk is given for 5 pfennigs (a cent and a quarter), if eaten on the spot, and 10 Pfennige if taken away. Instead of giving the fifty employes on her estate at Tarrytown Thanksgiving presents of turkey3 this year Misa Helen Gould, on account of the high price of coal, presented each with a barrel of kerosene, a large kerosene stove, a barrel of potatoes, one hundred pounds of bacon and a barrel of flour. During a trial in Paris between the partners of a corset firm the defense revealed that one of the branches of their manu facture was men's corsets. The Judge, hvlng demanded an explanation, it was shown that more than IS.miU corsets were made yearly for Frenchmen and 3,000 were shipped to England, principally for army officers. German officers also created quite Ä2in2!!!i-a!rtval üerUn flrm ffered cheaper article Mrs. Mary B. James, of Minneapolis, has ben appointed by the State Board of Con trol to supervise the cooking in state in stitutions. Mrs. James will begin her work in the School for the Blind at Faribault. The board expects to promote economy in Its institutions and has engaged the services of a trained expert in dietary matters rather than trust the matter to superintendents, whose usual procedure Is to cut down the expenditure without considering the comfort of Inmates. Former Capt. O. M. Carter, whose military career suddenly terminated in the Fort Leavenworth prison with a five years' sentence against him for financial irregularities growing out of his connection with the river and harbor improvements in Savannah, is due for release from confinement early next year. Prisoners are granted a curtailment of their sentence at the rate of two months each vear for good conduct. Former Captain Carter has been a model prisoner, and ten months will be deducted from his term, according to present indications. BERNHARDT IN GERMANY. Played In Rerlln Tliongk She Had Refused, for Thirty Yenr. a New York Commercial Advertiser. Sarah Bernhardt's recent appearance at the Hof Theater in Berlin and the incidents attendant upon her visit to the German capital possess a certain piquant interest. Ever since the Franco-Prussian war Mme. Bernhardt has set her face like flint against all Invitations from German theatrical managers. To some of them she had sent impertinent answers; to others simply curt refusals. She explained that she would never, never set foot on German soil until Alsace-Lorraine had been returned to France. She even refused to have anything to do with Germans; and only a few months ago she denied all relationship with a German lady who had written her a very polite note to suggest that the two women represented different branches of the same family tree. In a word, of all the irreconcilable fatriots in France, Sarah was the most rreconcllabie. Now. without any particular reason, she has gone to Germany, and not merely to Germany, but to Prussia, and has acted in the presence of the Kaiser himself and has been grateful for his applause. Nobody knows precisely why she changed her mind. Perhaps her patriotism 1 waning. Pehaps she has become tolerant of the inevitable. Perhaps she simply needed the money. Anyhow, she went. The thing was, in Its way, something of a victory for the German. They seem to have recognized it as sucn, out alter a fhion that showed a characteristic absence of tact. Sarah was invited to a re-

ceptlon at a club of artists of every kind, and there, on a silver plate, she was presented with "Alsace-Lorraine" in the shape

of an ornamented card bearing that name. If thl was intended as an offensive reminder of her former attitude and of her capitulation It was neat, if discourtesy to a guest is ever neat. If it was regarded as a little pleasantry, it was a very heavy-handed Teutonic pleasantry and one of which no other people would be capable. Rut whichever it was, perhaps It serves Sarah right for having protested strenuously for thirty years and then showing herself to be willing to eat her own words. The occasion brought about an interesting combination of French fickleness and German lack of tact. "LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD." The Authorship of the "Well-Known Son Almost I'nknown. New York Evening Post. It la a curious coincidence that the real author of "Listen to the Mocking Bird" should have died while there was running at one of our theaters a light opera constructed around an imaginary romantic story of the composition of that very song. The librettist, in this case, had expressly disclaimed any attempt at historical accuracy In the construction of the piece, but he was doubtless surprised to have supposedly authentic anecdotes about the mocking-bird song appear on the heels of his piece of dramatic license. The very fact that the authorship of the song was so completely forgotten during the liftlme of its author that sentimental legends could be woven about it as though it were a folksong of Immemorial antiquity, shows how quickly a composition of this kind loses its identity and is credited to the proline "Anon." The monument itself may be as enduring as brass, but the inscription is quickly rubbed off. There is a moral in it, like Hamlet's speech about the great man's memory. The account which is vouched for as the true story of how Septimus Winner came to write the song, is quite as unusual as the fiction. It was In 1S52. Mr. Winner, then twenty-six years old. lived in Philadelphia. His opposite neighbor kept a mocking bird In a cage, and the young man often listened to its singing. One evening he was surprised to hear a duet instead of the single silvery song. The voice of the new singer did not sound quite familiar, and he ran across the street to have a look. Sitting on the curb, listening with puckered lips to the bird's song and answering back in a clear whistle was a ragged little pickaninny. Winner found that the boy could sing as well as whistle, and asked him to come to his house. The song was made or at least based on scraps of the negro boy's artless Improvisations. the few which our government ever tried to suppress as treasonable. The composer was actually arrested, in fact, by Secretary Stanton's order. ROOSEVELT AS A BOY. Ills Father Wa n Well-to-Do and Substantial Citlien of New York. Rene Rache, in Success. When he was nine years of age young " - Roosevelt was taken abroad by his parents. trip w. h them to ard. greatly njoy and he made another Europe not long afterwa ing a voyage up the Nile. At seventeen xr j j .1 he entered Harvard, and promptly grew a pair of side whiskers, of which it may reasonably be supposed that v.a was verv I , 7 7, 7. 7 extremely PPular at collee' whcre he ac quitted himself fairly well in his studies, om ,,1. w Old classmates recall the fact that he had a passion for animals, and that he collected many queer natural history specimens, which he kept In his room. Mr. Roosevelt's father was a well-to-do substantial citizen of New York, and belonged to one of the oldest families of the metropolis. He was in business with his brothers as a merchant. Later they became bankers Theodoro Roosevelt the cider in December, 1S53, married Martha Bulloch, a Southern lady of distinguished family. They had four children two sons and two daughters. The four children born of this marriage were in order of birth Anna, Theodore, Elliott and Corlnne. Anna is the wife of States navy. Elliott, who died a few years aS wnne yet a young man, looked a good deal like Theodore, but was darker and less robust. Corinne is Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr.. and lives in New York city. The Roosevelt family has always clung closely together. The President is extremely fond of his sisters, and his devotion to his children is exceptional. On the whole it is rather surprising that Theodore Roosevelt ever lived to grow up anu Decome tne president or the United States. He was an exceedingly delicate cniia, sunenng sucn tortures es with asthma h S fat5e? 'aS -in-hand in the that on many occasions obliged to harness his four middle of the night, take the bov from his bed and drive forty miles in order that he might get his breath. MAN IN KENTUCKY. Una Xo Legal Rights His Wife Is Round to Respect. Louisville Courier-Journal. Judge Toney yesterday from the bench In Joint session expressed his official sympathy for the state of the married men in Kentucky. This exnression was emhndlen in an opinion he handed down In the case of the Kentucky Asylum for the Insane against F. S. Reeler, individually and as a "committee" of Lula Beeler, his wife. The suit is for $1,000 for five years care and maintenance of Mrs.. Beeler. Judge Toney holds Beeler liable. Ills opinion is as follows: "The marital relations at common law between husband and wife, quo ad, their property rights, have been abolished in Kentucky by statute. The doctrine of unity of person of the two is abolished. The doctrine of merger is reversed ana the gray mare is the better horse. In every legal contest between husband and wife he is the under dog in the fight. If she have estate and he none, he is a pensioner on her bounty, and it is only vx gratia he may enter the backdoor of her mansion. "I know a matron-heiress, sailing in her yacht in the Mediterranean sea, while her husband is in the poorhouse. He is not entitled to her personal property, nor to her rents, nor to her earnings, nor to anything that is hers, and is not even allowed to give her a mild Rlackstonian chastisement to keep her in a good humor. The common law baron is dethroned and the fem enthroned in every legal right and advantage over him. Doure and courtesy are abolished in Kentucky. Notwithstanding the total disruption of marital status of property rights of husband and wife at common law, the husband, the poor fellow, is still liable for her torts, her gossip and her spring and fall hats, and, a fortlore. for her necessaries, whether furnished by the State, if she is Insane, or by some other man. Is she is not in the asylum." Restore the Canteen. Omaha Bee. Perhaps Congress at the coming session will not be disposed to restore the army canteen, which was abolished at the last session as a concession to prohibition sentlJ ment, but the facts made public by the War Department from reports of army offiI cers present what must seem to unpreJudlced people to be an irresistible appeal for the early restoration of the canteen. Instead of Its abolition being promotive of temperance In the army, it is shown most conclusively that it has been conducive to Intemperance. Hundreds, of saloons have been opened near military posts, with the result that drunkenness has greatly increased, desertions have become more numerous, discipline has bwn impaired and there has come both physical and moral deterioration. Not a post commander has yet expressed the opinion that the abolition of the canteen has had a beneficial effect. This condition of affairs should not be permitted to continue and Congress ought to accept withojit question the uniform and unqualified testimony of the officers of the army on Iii subject. Of course the prohibitionists will make a strong fight to have the law stand, but all the argu ments and claims they made to secure Its passage have been utterly confuted and 1 discredited.

n ; r iv r0 p,nL nJ . nU rVnönd inai ine comraisslon was Y ena any may be taken. Hrownfleld's testimony was S2"5l' fn S Qky0vlu,Jl ??n Conciliatory help to bring about that end. Tiven at Miss Morrison's second trial which er, a call for General McCIellan s return , resulted in htr being found guilty and to the army of the Potomac, was one of To-day's proceedings were of a more or Llfl e! li ,";!.. ßh. I. nnw nn

m TALK OF PEACE

THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE AIR' IN THE ANTHRACITE REtilOX. Revival of Rumors that the Dispute Between Miners" and Operntor NV1I1 Re Settled Ont of Court." INVESTIGATION IS TOO SLOW IT 3IAY DRAG ALONG VNTIL SOME TIME NEXT TEAR. Commissioners Weary of Listening to Statements of Conditions They Are Already Familiar With. SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 3. The anthracite coal companies and their employes, having failed to come to an agreement during the Thanksgiving recess of the strike commission, the hearing of the miners' side of the case was continued to-day as heretofore, and unless something is done by the lawyers on both sides to curtail matters its proceedings will surely run into next year. With the reassembling of the commission to-day, however, there was a revival of the talk of a settlement "out of court." Nothing definite has been done and neither side has approached the other, so far as can be learned, regarding further negotiations, but aa one prominent attorney expressed it, "there is something in the air." The lawyers on both sides have heard the rumor and profess they know nothing about It, "but would not be surprised if something in the way of an agreement is reached before the hearings are concluded." Chairman Gray, speaking for the commission, to-day again expressed the hope that efforts would be made by both sides to agree on as many points as possible, and less desultory character. Six witnesses were on the stand during the two sessions, They were President Mitchell, two phoi .... ...

lugiapuers. iwu practical miners, ana tne mining transaction, was released at Newwife of a German miner. Mr. Mitchell was York yesterday on $5,000 bail. Shortly after on the stand for a short time only, and McNutt left the courtroom a detective of , . . , , V1 ' , Chicago came with a warrant of extradition was called to show that a 20 per cent, in- for McNuU No one knew where McNutt

crease in wages aid not mean a corresponding increase In the price per ton of coal. The photographers produced about half a hundred photographs they had taken of the homes of mine workers In the Hazleton g t0Th3 SSTSnlriSrtÄaf .t,:lff 'SSf Ä an independent concern in the Hazleton region, and the woman, whose husband is employed in the Coxe mines, told a general story of poverty. "c vummissiuiitrrs ui limes were seem tr,P through the coal fields they saw houses whose general appearance was worse than those pictured to-day. and they also reetived much information alone the lines information along the lines presented to-day from the men in the mines which they visited. They are anxious for the documentary evidence, such as wage statements and other data bearing on wages and conditions. This was strongly evU denced to-day when they eagerly seized upon the due bills handed up by the Hungarian witness. Every member of the commission examined these and had questions to ask about them. One of the commissioners said to-day it was principally a question of wages, and they wanted these facts as quickly as they can get them. In this connection there was considerable discussion between the attorneys for all sides and the commission regarding the documentary evidence. Both parties to the controversy had agreed to try to agree as far as possible on a summary of the great mass of figures that the hundreds of accountants for the different companies are computing, but the task Is such a stupendous one, taking in as it does about 145,010 men and boys, that neither side is yet ready to go into that feature of the investigation. The commission has decided to give all companies who have not been a party to the arbitration committee until 10 o'clock to-morrow to file their answer to President Mitchell's original statement of the day when attoYney Tfor thl Iwge comPanIes objected to a witness testifying as to what occurred at th Pnr rnmnv-, miners' case. This was brought about toto What nmirrWI at the Pnt PnmntTnv's to wnai occurred at tne coxe Companys mines when that company was not directly before the commission. The company is not a direct party to the arbitration Droceedings. but has agreed to submit the award of the commission to Its employes as a basis for employment. The commission decided to permit the witness to testify. The usual large crowd was in attendance to-day at the Superior Court room, where the hearings are being held. The already large number of attorneys has been increased, prominent among the additional members of the bar being Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia. Besides representing the individual companies In Hazleton region, he also appeared for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, an independent concern, which has about ten collieries in the Panther Creek valley. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Hall Calne, the novelist, and Mrs. Caine sailed from New York for Liverpool yesterday on the Celtic. The grand Jury at New York returned an indictment yesterday against former Police Captain Daniel C. Moynahan. charging him with bribery. Capt. Evan P. Howell yesterday was elected mayor of Atlanta, Ga., without opposition, having been nominated some time ago in the Democratic primary. At Castlebury, Ala., J. Stubbs shot and killed hl3 mother and then killed himself. Whether the first killing was accidental or the result of temporary derangement is not known. The family is prominent. President King, of Oberlln College, yes- I terday announced a donation of JoO.Ouö to the university. He said there were conditions, but the college would surely get the money. The name of the donor was withheld. Frank E. Brady, secretary and cashier of the defunct Imperial Savings Bank of Toledo, was indicted yesterday on seven counts, three for embezzlement, one for forgery, one for making false entries and misapplying moneys of a building and loan company. Robbers broke into the postoffice at Lemore, Cal., blew open the safe and secured about $103 cash and gold in nuggets, the value of which cannot now be given. They then broke into Copeland & Lovelace's store and stole Jewelry and watches valued at about 00. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas has declined to restore fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of the State of Washington until that grand body abandons its position recognizing negroes and others, regarded Vy the Grand Lodge of Texas as "clandestine." Thomas Gallagher, alias James Casey, one of the four robbers who attempted to enter the home of the Meach brothers, at Elyrla, O., on the night of Oct. 4 for the purpose, it is charged, of robbery, was found guilty yesterday. The Jury recommended the prisoner to mercy. Consul General Ruble, who succeeded to the late Rounsevllle Wlklman's post at Hong-Kong, has arrived at San Francisco on his way to Havana, to relieve Consul General Bragg. He will go to his old home in Milwaukee, and there await specific orders from Washington as to his subsequent movements. District Judge F. T. Johnson at Denver yesterday declared Julius Archele. clerk of Arapahoe county, in contempt for disregarding the injunction Issued in the registration cases prior to the election, and sentenced him to sixty days' imprisonment and $500 fine. An appeal to the Supreme Court was allowed. On account of the illness of Mr. Carnegie the dedication of the Washington public library building, which he presented to the national capital, has been postponed from Dec 16 to Jan. 7. Mr. Carnegie will deliver the principal aaarms at tne dedication ceremony. President Roosevelt yesterday

accepted an invitation extended by the commissioners of the new library to attend the ceremony. Members of the Cabinet and both branches of Congress also will be present. The Illinois flag committer has mailed to members of Congress a par.iphlet tontalning extracts from letters from officials all over the world, stating that tY Jes-cration of the national flag is prohibit. 1 ty lavr. The object of the Mag coirmltt i.- to " secure the passage of the j-cniid? law against the desecration of the Amcricaa flag. Midshipman Richard Walnwright, ir., Fori Of Commander Walnvvrlght. lr. S. X.. ha been taken to San Juan Hospital, savs a New York Herald dispatch fro-n San Juan. He is suffering from a fever supposed to be typhoid. Wainwrlght has been in charge of a working iiarty from the battlc?hp Indiana. enlaced in digging a snail canal at Cukbra island. The Allan steamer Numldlan arrived at St. Johns. N. F., yesterday fro Liverpool, three days overdue. She report having; experienced hurricane weither in the At-

IJIlllc - inner arriving vessela Lrinc similar . . 'v i.- aim uidiii'M &t rural uam ages in the gale, which has also swept the northern coast. The Labrador coast is blocked with ice ilocs. Rear Admiral Frederick Rodg'ers will lower hi3 pennant from the masthead of the oruiser New York at San Francisco on Thursday and will depart for the East, where he is to take charge of the Brooklyn navy yard. The battleship Wisconsin ij expected to arrive at San Francisco from Panama In a few days, and it is stated that Admiral Casey will transfer his Mag, to the New York. Admiral Glass will take command of the cruiser after several months have elarsed. The bodies of two men were found yesterday in the ruins of the fire at the lumber works of L. S. Johnson & Co., Boston. Th victims were Theodore C. Graves, of Rox bury, of the firm of Graves & Phelps, furniture manufacturers, and G. K. PratV of Hoxbury, employed by Graves & PhelpC, A third man. a Swede, employed by L. S. Johnson & Co., Is missing. Graves & Phelps occupied the upper story of the Johnson building, and Mr. Graves was in his office, when the fire broke out. After a spirited fight, conducted with the utmost good feeling, however, the synod of the diocese of Springfield, 111., yesterday following the suggestions of Bishop Seymour, voted in favor of recommending to the joint committee of the general convention appointed to receive the suggestions of the various dioceses that the nam of the church be changed from "Protestant Episcopal" Church In the United States of America, to that of "the American Catholic Church in the United States." A Jury at Eldorado, Kan., yesterday rendered a verdict of guilty against J. C. Brownfield. the principal witness for tha defense in the case of Miss Jessie Morrison tor the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, who was charged with perjury. The penalty is not les than seven vears in the penitentiarj-. Sentence was deferred and an appeal ball pending an appeal. William II. McNutt, who is accused or having obtained J13.& from William 11. Bloch, of Chlcaco. in an alleged fraudulent had gone, however. The bond was furnished by Gussie McKee. a woman who figured in the newspainrrs several years ago wqen she was married to Lieutenant Martin, of the United States army. U St" it l2tö ,?r?,f.S honor of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, who was recently appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Addresses highly eulogistic of the private and Judicial actf of the guest of the occasion were made by Chief Justice Mason, Judge Knowlton, Governor-elect Bates and others. The ninety-ninth anniversary of the formal transfer of the Louisiana Territory to the United States, at New Orlen ns on l) c. 20. 1S03. will be celebrated by the world's fair exposition officials in St. Louis lec. 'JO. Letters were to-day mailed to the Governors of the different States asking that they issue proclamations requesting the people of their States to participate in the celebration of the date by the display of the national colors on all public buildings and by the decoration of public buildings, places of business and residences. The Anniversary will be fittingly celebrated In St. Louts, and the committee on ceremonies Is now at work on a programme. President Roosevelt's message, printed in full at the City of Mexico, excited much favorable comment. It is regarded aa an especially strong and frank document. The Mexican Herald says the message is unusual and that much of it will be quoted In after years, "for Koosevelts do not happen along every half century." It is considered a typical American message, and the Mexican papers say that no ruler in the old world could have fittingly used such words of confident forcefulnes except the German Emperor, or a man cf like temperament. The message is said to be remarkable for its virile sentiments and its rich literary grace and pleasing form. A special order was issued yesterday by Oeneral MacArthur. commander of the IXWtmnt of the Lakes dismal,, race fm the soldiers convicted of serious viol dlsmlpslng in cisarmy lx OIQierS COnVICieU Ul Btruuua uumuuis vi OT.mv ,i, .i ruiatinns after betnsr tried bv court-martial. The men ih w ca. aaaj n charged are Privates William Kenney, Company B. Sixteenth Infantry, desertion; Frank R. Brehm, Forty-fourth Company Coast Artillery, desertion: August Schultz, Company I. Twentieth Infantry, larceny; Earl H. Munson, Company H, Sixteenth Infantry, desertion; Bert Miller. Compary If, Fourteenth Infantry, desertion; Willlara H. Sebree. Troop B. Eighteenth Cavalry, desertion. An ordinary Jacknlfe was offered In evidence by Attorney General Parker in the course of the Blondln murder trial at Boston yesterday and the questions put. in direct examination, to Assistant Medical Examiner Meigs, of Lowell, when this article was exhibited, lead to the belief that the prosecution will maintain that the defendant decapitated his wife with It. Attorney Morrison, for Blondin. protested vigorously against the admission of the knlfo es evidence, but he was overruled by Jtide Braley. This was th chief incident of tho day, and the state followed it up with testimony from Dr. Meigs tnat such an article might have been used in cutting off the head of Mrs. Blondin. SAGASTA WILL RETIRE. Spaiilnh Premier Tenders Ills Itcalenntlon to the Yuung Kins;. MADRID. Dec. 3. Premier Sagasta has resigned. He had an audience with King Alfonso this morning at whlch-he presented his resignation and Intimated that the step was irrevocable. He informed the King that the opposition had treated him with distrust and discourtesy, which ha did not deserve. His Majesty will not decide on the course he will pursue until tomorrow. Yesterday the Spanish Cabinet suffered a defeat in the Chamber of Deputies by the adoption of a motion of censure on the minister of marine for authorizingthe contract for the conrtruction of two training ships without previously obtaining the consent of the Cortes. The Cabinet which has Just resigned was formed by Senur SagaBta on Nov. 14 last. The difficulties confronting Scnor Sagasta are so great that It Is expected that he will speedily retire from the leadership of the Liberal party, which would result in splitting up the IJlx-rals In three sections. It Is understood that differences in the Cabinet regarding the situation In Catalonia had much to do with the Cabinet crisis. Demonstrations and disturbances continue to take place at Barcelona and the university there has been closed. TO VOTE ON PROHIBITION. People off Ontario Will To.)ajr Ilecldo Whether Barrooms Munt Go. TORONTO, Ont.. Dc. 5. A referendum vote will be taken throughout the province of Ontario to-morrow on a measure passed in the Legislature last session prohibiting the retail sale of liquor in Ontario. In order to carry the referendum the Prohibitionists will have to t?ecur a number of votes equal to a majority of the total polled at the per.eral elections of MP. or 212.TJ3 votes, and must aUo have a majority of the votes polled to-monow. The law Incomes effective May 1. Kt. If the Prohibitionists poll the requisite number of votes. Under its provisions barrooms will be abolished. It prohibits the sale of liquor within the province except by licensed druggists, but does not prohibit the manufacture and export or sale by manufacturers to licensed drucMsts.