Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS' JOURNAL, MONDAY. JANUARY 5. 1903.

to prevent the mm coming: to the office, "where they mlcht have learned the truth, and arranged for a resumption of work. -Meanwhile I had been Informed that the name men who had been making; trouble during the strike were taking a leading part Jn Intimidation and threatening any one coming to the ofTIce and returning to work mder the conditions pacified. On the morning of Monday. Oct. ZI, II. I ordered notice to give up possession of the houses to oe served on twelve men who had been active in preventing the men resuming work- No attempt was made to collect the arrears of rent which accrued during the strike, and the notice to quit, havinx been servel Oct. 27, judgment of ejectment was entered Nov. 5.. and the parties evicted on Nov. 6, The net earnings of the evicted men for the year IDOL according to the statement, varied from to $!.(. The answer further states that the father of the boy Chippie was killed as a result of his own neglisence. He was not indebted to the firm at the time of hla death. Iiis earnings for the previous six months, from February to July inclusive, amounted to tZfi. Mr5. Chippie paid nothing on account of rent or coal. Henry Colt, one of the evicted men. had always received Rood wages. Mr. Markle states. The answer asserts that his wife did not die in consequence of the eviction, which occurred Nov. C. as she lived until December. Attached to the answer are several exhibit?, one of which is a statement showing the earnings of certain contract miners during eleven and one-half months, including eleven of the highest earners and five of the lowest, the highest receiving J4.ÖU0 and the lowest Jl'JO. Railway Trainmen at SI. Lonln. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 4. Members of the general committees of the Order of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors, representing every railroad system west of Chicago, began gathering in St. Louis to-day for their meeting to-morrow, when they expect an answer to their request made of the railroad companies on Dec. 20 for a 20 per cent. Increase in wages. riDDibm Demand Granted. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 4. The Master numbers Association at a meeting to-day acceded to the demands of the 4X) plumbers who went on strike Friday for higher wages and decided to adopt the scale of wages demanded, which is $5 a day. an increase of $1 a day over the old scale. The strikers will return to work to-morrow. FIEE IN HONOLULU.

Xoa of 9100,000 Suffered Japan Relinquishes Slarcun Island. HONOLULU, Jan. 4. A fire causing a loss of $100.000 occurred here to-day. The fire "broke out In the general merchandise store of L. B. Kerr & Co., and probably was caused by defective electric wiring. J. F. Morgan also suffered heavy loss. A letter received here from Thomas Fitch, the Washington attorney for the ' Marcus Island Guano Company, Fays that Japan Is relinquishing her claim to Marcus inland, and Is willing to allow the United States to take possession. Japan will also deport her subjects now on the island and is reatiy to pay as a reasonable indemnity $10.000 on account of the loss sustained in the trip of the schooner Julia, which was refused a landing on the island. ChicflKO Grocery House Hums. CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Firc to-night in the jwarehouso of Franklin McVeagh & Co., srholesale grocers, at Sixteenth street and Js'ewbury avenue, caused a loss of JIjO.OOU. The loss Is fully covered by insurance. SPREAD OF THE PLAQUE. Two Cases Are Reported In a Little Totti In Slnnlon, 31ex. IIERMOSILLO, Mcx., Jan. 4. Two cases of bubonic plague have been reported in the little town of Ahome, In Sinaloa, not Xar from the Sonora border. The authorities of Sonora have notified those of Sinaloa that a sanitary cordon has been established on the border and no one will be permitted to enter the state from the south. WEATHEE P0RECAST. Enow In the Xorth and Rain In the South To-Day. WASHINGTON", Jan. 4. Weather fore Cast for Monday and Tuesday: For Indiana and Illinois Snow In north and rain in south portion on Monday, followed by fair in the afternoon. Tuesday fair; fresh west winds. For Ohio Snow on Monday. Tuesday fair; fresh west winds. Local Observations' on Sunday. Bar. Tern. R.IL Wind. Weath. Free. V a. ra... .23.81 2tf JS N'west. Cloudy. T. fp. m....2y.S3 26 5S N'west. Ft C'y. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 26; minimum tern Derature. 24. Comparative statement of the mean tem perature and total precipitation on sunaay, Jan. 4: Temp. Prec. formal 27 0.10 Mean 25 T. Departure from normal 2 0.10 departure since Jan. 1 7 O.TS Plus W. T. BLYTHE. Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. iAbilene. Tex CS 56 Amarlilo, Tex 22 W Atlanta. Ga . 28 40 Bismarck. N. D 20 32 Buffalo, N. Y 22 34 Cairo. Ill 20 42 Calgary. Alberta IS 4'2 Chattanooga, Tenn 33 42 Chicago 22 28 Cincinnati, 0 34 , 3 Cleveland, 0 22 34 Davenport, la 22 8 Denver. Col 3S 50 Des Moines, la 20 30 Dodge City. Kan 22 44 Dubuque. Ia 22 2S Duluth. Minn IS 26 Kl Paso, Tex 26 60 Fort Smith, Ark M 42 Calveston, Tex 42 S3 Grand Haven. Mich 2t CO Grand Junction. Col ID 34 Havre, MMit 2C 40 Helena, Mont. 32 4$ Huron. S. D 16 32 Jacksot ville, Fla 50 62 Kansas City, Mo IS 36 Landec. Wyo 20 43 ' Little Itock. Ark 34 46 Louisville. Ky. 34 36 Marquette, Mich 21 24 Memphir, Tenn. 34 46 Modena, Utah 16 44 Montgomery. Ala 42 46 New Orleans. La 41 54 New York city 36 40 Nashville, Tenn 36 42 Norfolk. Va 42 42 North Platte, Neb 32 3S Oklahoma. O. T 21 46 Omaha. Neb 2S 36 Falestme. Tex 31 62 Parkersburg, W. Va 34 3S Philadelphia. Ta 36 40 , Pittsburg. Pa. 34 36 Pueblo, Col 1 41 Qu'Appelle. Assn 12 34 Rapid City, S. D 31 42 Salt Lake City 26 44 St. Louis 26 SS St. Paul. Minn 8 22 Santa Fe. N. M II 2S Springneid. Ill 24 34 Springneid. Mo. 26 CS Vlcksburg. Miss 52 Washington, D. C.. 31 SS m 46 40 40 30 30 40 2S 2S 3S 2' Ii. 5 40 56 4 24 36 41 23 50 32 38 42 34 42 38 41 60 34 3-S 36 32 3S 26 56 2S OS 26 36 20 3S 42 20 30 30 34 46 36 MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-Arrived: St. Paul. Trorn Southampton and Cherbourg: Umbria, from Liverpool and Queenstown; Sardinian. Iron Glasgow; Hesperia. from Genoa and Naples; Canadian, from Liverpool. VALPARAISO. Jan. 4 Arrived: United States army transport Hancock, from San Francisco, for New York. . LIVERPOOL. Jan. 4. Arrived: Etrurla. from New York, via Queenstown; Nomadic, from New York; . PLYMOUTH. Jan. 4. Arrived: Rlucher. from New York, for Cherbourg and Bremen, and proceeded. SOUTHAMPTON. Jan. 4. Sailed: Kaiserin Maria Theresa, from Bremen, for New York. CHERBOURG. Jan. 4. Sailed: St. Louis, from Southampton, for New York. HOLYHEAD. Jan. 4. Passed: Rhynland, from Philadelphia, for Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN. Jan. .-Sailed: Ivcrnla. from Liverpool, for New York. LIZARD. Jan. C-Pas3cd: Minneapolis, Czt Londea.

CHILD FATALLY BURNED

WAS P LAYING WITH MATCHES AM) SET ITSELF AFIIIE. Military Fnneral of Philippine Soldier at IHuffton Goshen Church Dedicated Other State Xewi. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 4.-Pearl M., the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gush, was fatally burned this morning while playing with matches at the home of her parents, a mile northeast of this city. At the time of the accident the father was asleep in the house. He was awakened by the cries of the little one and rushed to its rescue, and In extinguishing the burning clothing of his daughter was badly burned about the face and arms. The little girl died in great agony this afternoon. ONLY A DE FACTO COURT. Decision Made In the Allen County Justice of the Peace Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 4.-Judge Heaton, of the Superior Court, has decided that Justice of the Peace France, who has been sitting as a Justice for nearly twenty years, was not legally elected In 1S9S, and that while he has been acting In the ca pacity of a Justice ever since he was only a de facto court and no longer could exercise its powers. Under the law of 1SG7, which gave this town four Justices, he lost his right to serve, when, by the ab sorption of the corporation for which he was elected by the city of Fort Wayne, the township was only entitled to three. but was illegally declared elected In 1S9S by the canvassing board. Judge Heaton's decision will be suffered to stand without appeal by France, who will go Into other business. In the case of Michael Tancey, who was defeated at the last election by his Re publican opponent and who now claims the authority of a Justice of the peace on the assumption that the law providing for two Justices on salary is unconstitutional, the court granted, the attorneys for the defense further time for tiling a brief. , This case undoubtedly will go to the Supreme Court. GIVEN MILITARY FUNERAL. Roland C. Dock Killed In the Philippines on Jnly 111. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 4. The funeral of Roland C. Buck, who was killed in the Philippines on July 13 last, was held hereto-day. It was a military funeral In charge of soldiers of the Spanish-American war and was the first ever hell in this city by their organization. G. A. 11. veterans and the American Mechanics' lodge also attended In a body. Roland Buck was a member of Company M, Twenty-eighth Infantry, and was killed in action near Cavlte. The body was shipped from Manila Nov. 22 and reached Bluffton on Dec. 3L Other State Necrology. GREENFIELD. Ind., Jan. 4. A message was received here to-day announcing the death on Saturday at North Yakima, Wash., of Henry L. Moore, for many years a wealthy and prominent citizen of Greenfield. Mr. Moore left here about a year ago for North Yakima, thinking It might benefit his health. He was troubled with kidney disease and paralysis, which troubles ended his life. He was born Oct. 1, 125. on the shores of Lake George, New York. Ills parents came to Ohio in 1S32 and In 1SC6 to Hancock county, Indiana, where Mr. Moore passed all of his life until last year. RICHMOND. Ind.. Jan. 4 Mrs. George H. Dunham, formerly of this city, is dead at her home in Nantucket, Mass., aged sixty-four. Theodore Heagy, who recently died at Flerceton at the age of seventy, waa a former resident of this county, and owned a farm south of Centerville. ELWOOD. Ind., Jan. 4. Mrs. John Henry Myerly, wife of a prominent stockman three miles southwest of this city, Is dead. She had been afflicted with cancer for several years. EVANS VILLE, Ind.. Jan. 4. Mrs. Lucy Kurlng, aged seventy-two, died here to-day after a long illness. Her husband is a pioneer resident of the city. Christian Association Organized. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 4. A Young Men's Christian Association was organized in this city this afternoon, under favorable auspices and with a good enrollment of members. Funds have been raised to place the association on a safe footing. W. W. Drlnkwater was chosen president and Conrad Wolf secretary. The local Y. M. C. A. will federate with the state association, and In the near future will erect a fine building for a home. A spacious library and reading room will be established. Handsome Church Dedicated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind., Jan. 4. The handsome new church of tho Progressive Brethren Church of this city, costing $6,000, was dedicated to-day by Dr. S. H. Bashor, of Waterloo, la., who will assist the regular pastor, the Rev. G. W. Rcnch, in a revival for the next month. Will Return Without Requisition. BASTROP, Tex., Jan. 4. John Selby. wanted at Vincennes, Ind., on charges of forgery, declared to-day that he Is innocent of the charge and that he Is willing to return without any formalities. THE COAL COMMISSION. Significant Lack of Aetlon on the Part of that Body. New York Commercial. We knew It was coming felt sure It would break out somewhere with reasonable promptness! Tho New York Times has voiced it. "There is a growing Impression," remarks our contemporary, "that the members of the anthracite coal strike commission are not taking their function quite seriously, and are not pushing their Inquiry as rapIdly to a conclusion as they might do." This "growing impression," the Times thinks, Is to be "regretted, if not founded on fact." Much more to be regretted would be the facts themselves, if they exist and there is "ample Justification for believing that they do. It was the opinion of the Commercial at the outset, frequently expressed, that the field of Inquiry beforv the commissioners was so wide and many of the incidental matters to be investigated so complicated that they could not do their work thoroughly ana conscientiously much inside of a yar; and, if its future progress Is to be no more rapid than that up to date, a year will most likely have elapsed long before the sittings are over. The Times suspects that the commissioners are letting the matter drag along in the hope and belief that some plan of settlement by agreement will In? reached "out of court" which will render It unnecessary for the commission to arbitrate anything. They adjourn very easily," It explains, "for longer periods than re3t or recrvation would seem to demand, ani have thus far shown no disposition to do anything which savored of expedition." Everybody who has followed the matter up closely and impartially from day to day must have shared to some extent tho Times's suspicions. It is plain either that the commission is not going into this thing as exhaustively as the President had wished and the public had hoped It would, or that for some unknown reason It wants to spin out the Inquiry, or else that the commission has thus early In Its work discovered facts that would Justify a decision now and one of a sort that would not. In the commissioners' opinion, be "popular." We are Inclined to the latter view. One can easily enough imagine how a decision dead against the miners, rendered In midwinter with coal still scarce and huh.

would bring down on the heads of the arbitrators, from the great mass of the unthinking, the prejudiced and the "yellow," a storm of the severest condemnation a storm that almost any et of Juroro would naturally want to avert. Further Justification for a suspicion as above outlined Is found In the attitude of the miners themselves. Their representatives spent days and days in efforts before the commission to prove that the mine workers are underpaid. downtrodden, wretched strugglers for a bare subsistence; yet within a week the spectacle has been presented of most of them quitting work and waßes for many days in order to "celebrate." The public begs for coal, while a goodly portion of it gives the operators a dally tongue lashing for not supplying.lt. Meantime, the miner.- loaf and dance and make merry! The Times docs, not a bil overstate the case when it says: "That men who struck against wages Insufficient for support were idle five months, and during that time received very little money In relief funds, are in condition voluntarily to surrender wagt?s for the better part of a week for no other reason than a desire to have a good time, contradicts most of the testimony they have presented, and tends to destroy confidence In the miners' grievances. That they are Ignorant of and indifferent to every consideration of duty to the public or their employers Is evident." Well, let Congress complete that legislation for $30,000 for the arbitration commissioners' use, and let the work go on as the commissioners themselves may elect. The whole truth is bound to come out in some way, at some time, even if a government appropriation doesn't reveal it. TRAFFIC IS SUSPENDED

IVORTIIERN PACIFIC TRACKS WASHED OUT IX WASHINGTON. Miles of Road Under Wuter Pausender TrnliiN Stalled Grent Northern In the Same Distress. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 4. Traffic wras at a standstill on the Northern Pacific to-day, not a train leaving the city, and the railroad officials are unable to make any definite statement as to the future. The chinook still prevails and water Is pouring down the Cascades in torrents. At Martin, on the cast side of the tunnel, there Is a washout of nearly S00 feet, while several places between the tunnel and Ellensburg are under water or the tracks covered deep in mud. There are five washouts on the main line between Castle Rock and Kelso. There are innumerable slides all the way from Cosmopolls to the terminus on the Gray's Harbor branch. The Auburn cutoff is under water for one mile. Nearly a mile of track Is gone in one place on Green river. Five or six other minor washouts are reported between lister and Palmer. The big washout at Martin Is followed by a succession of washouts and landslides all the way to Ellensburg. The South Bend branch is under water and covered with slides from Willapa to the terminus. The company has two passenger trains tied up at Maywood and is taking the best care possible of the passengers. There are slides ahead and washouts behind and ar rangements are being made to get supplies to the trains. There is no way to get the passengers out at present owing to the washing out of all the road bridges in that locality. Not a county road can be followed a single mile In any direction. One passenger train is bound up at Lester, where the passengers are also being cared for by the railroad. No communication is possible cither way until the water shall have abated. The Great Northern Is in a similar pre dicament. WATER IX THEIR HOUSES. Many Familie A'enr Seattle Driven Out by the Flood. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 4. White river overflowed its banks near O'Brien Station, fourteen miles below Seattle, at 3 o clock this morning. The people of the town were awakened by the water, which in many cases crept Into their beds. A relief train was ordered from Seattle and on arriving with boats tho rescuing party found sev eral families, the women and children hud dled on chairs and tables in xrder to keep from the water, that was more than two feet in the houses. All persons were taken to places of safety. 'No lives are reported lost, but much property has been ruined or lost. To-night the floods are subsiding, and no further danger is feared. INDIAK0LA WELL GUARDED. Prospect of Trouble at Indlanola Over Closing of Postoffiee. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 4. A dispatch from Greenville, Miss., by telephone from Indlanola, Miss., says: "Every effort Is being made to suppress any trouble that might grow out of the closing of the postoffiee. The mayor of the town and the sheriff of the county say they do not apprehend that there will be an outbreak, but their action seems to speak louder than their words. The fact that a cordon of deputy sheriffs has been thrown around the town leads many to think that serious consequences will result. It is thought that the government has sent a number of sercret-servlce men here, and that they were among the large number of strangers who came in on the train late to-night. "Messages arc hourly coming In from all parts of the surrounding country offering assistance, arms and money If they are needed in case or trouble." Hnnd-Mnde Philosophy. Chicago Tribune. It is unnecessary to buy a nice new red expense book In which to keep tab on 1903. The one you quit using the eighteenth of last January will do as well. This will carry out the theory of economy you formulated when you made the first entry in the book. And it might be Just as well, also, to dig out the diary you quit writing in on the sixth of last February, and use it to em balm your dally needs and thoughts for the little while you will keep up the prac tice. There must be something peculiar about people who keep a diary or an expense book in good running order the whole year tnrougn. The expense book Is useless. At the end of the year you may condense it into: "Had the money. Spent It." The diary, however Well, the future holds out a certain temptation to those who have the diary habit. In a few hundred years the old book may be discovered and printed. Therefore, In your diary, set down things that will do you credit. Who knows? Some day, in the ages to come, you may be like good old Samuel Pepys. Half the historians will dispute you, and no one will know how to pro nounce your name. There Is one benefit In a diary. By perus ing the old ones you may come to a better realization of how many different kinds of fool you have been. Still n Prophet. Nebraska State Journal. As the Journal surmised. Colonel Bryan's chief object In visiting Mexico Is to protest against the adoption of the gold standard In that happy country. The colonel will doubtless point to the United States as a horrible example of the withering effects of the gold standard. When the colonel, a few months ago. challenged anybody to prove that the "McKinley prosperity" had materialized he sent cold shiver to the heart of popdom and doubtless thousands of his followers are satisfied that all the dire results predicted by him in 15 in case the Republicans should carry the elections have come to pass, but the lying Repub licans are pretending to be prosperous and happy, notwithstanding. The colonel Is steadfast and unmovable, no matter how many leagues in the rear his obstinacy may leave him In the progress of the coun try. He said it and. therefore, it Is so. no matter what common people think they know about it. Aeeepts (Jenernl Secretaryship. rf AHA .Inn 4 The Tlev. I-iithrr TCi-hn n.islnr tt f5r;iee I.nther.in (Thnrrh r..f fnl to-day to accept the general secretaryship . . At. M A. . a or me i,uinrr league 01 America, witn headquarters in New York. The league has - - f - 1 I . A, VWl , societies Him iiiemuen. CI1IONA will curd that sore throat

STATEMENT OF HERRMANN

HE REFUTES BAN JOIFSSOVS INTIMATIONS REGARDING PEACE. Saya HI Committee IIa Fnll Power, but Reserves the Right to Consult -with Its Colleagues. CINCINNATI, Jan. 4. Chairman Herrmann, of the National Baseball League peace committee, to-day made the positive statement that his committee had full power to act in negotiations for peace with the American League. Herrmann protested against the construction which President Ban Johnson placed on his letter of last Friday, and when asked for a statement said: "It seems from the telegraphic dispatches from Chicago that an erroneous impression ha3 been made relative to the National league committee. It has been Intimated that the commltte has not been delegated authority to act. The contrary Is the fact. Our committee has been given full power by the large majority of our clubs, and I so notified Mr. Johnson In my letter last Friday. The committee, however, prefers not fully and finally to exercise that power without reserving the right on tne mem bers part to confer with their colleagues or business partners on the Important mattfrs that may present themselves during the conference, with the understanding. however, that they will take such steps as will enable them at any time during the conference to reach their colleagues without a moment's delay. "This- action on our part has been taken for the reason that the club owners In our league have not been In consultation with reference to any of the important matters that undoubtedly would present themselves during the confererrces, and we, therefore, believe that it is only fair and rasonabie that we should reserve the right to confer with those whose financial interests are at stake, before coming to any final con clusions on important matters until they have had an opportunity to express their views, notwithstanding the fact that we have been given full power to act. By tak ing this action there will be no question that our findings will be concurred in. 'If a reasonable reservation of this kind on our part is to be a barrier to peace negotiations, then I cannot comprehend that the other side is anxious to secure it. The National League wants peace. In obtaining it there will be no objection on our part to have a fair, frank and open discussion of all of the points about which there may be a difference of opinion. Still n Chance for Peace. CHICAGO, Jan. 4. There Is still a chance for peace in baseball, according to Ban Johnson, president of tho American League. Mr. Johnson says his organiza tion Is "prepared and willing to hold a conference with the National League to further the best interests of baseball, but he also insists that the meeting be "held in the open." "The -American League Is ready to do its part to reach a just set tlement," Mr. Johnson said, "and I still think there ia a good chance for a meet ing. There are certain matters which I shall take up with Chairman Herrmann, and In the end all may be adjusted." BATTING AVERAGES. Beaumont Heads the List with n Per centage of .357. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The official bat ting averages of National League players who participated In fifteen or more games during the season of 1902, as compiled by Secretary N. E. Young, were made public to-night. They show thai the ten leading run-gettlngs were J. Wagner, of Pittsburg, leading with 116: Clarke, Pittsburg; Beau mont, Pittsburg; Leach, Pittsburg; Craw ford, Cincinnati; Tenney, Boston; R. Thomas, Philadelphia; Keeler, Brooklyn; bheckard, Brooklyn; Beckley, Cincinnati. The ten leaders In base bits were as fol lows: Tenney, of Boston, leading with 2D; Dobbs, Cincinnati and Chicago; Demontrevllle, Boston; Keeler, Brooklyn: Dexter, Chicago and Boston; Flood. Brooklyn; Dunn, New York; Ritchey, Pittsburg; Tinker, Chicago; Smoot, St. Louis. The ten players who led In stolen bases were J. Wagner, Pittsburg, 43; Slagle, Chi cago; P. Donovan, St. Louis; Barclay, St. Louis; Clarke, Pittsburg; Carney. Boston: G. Smith, New lork; Beaumont, Pittsburg; Lush. Boston: Dexter, Chicago and Boston. The ten leading batters, with the numbers of games and the percentages, are: Beau mont, Pittsburg. 131, .&: Seymour, Cincin nati. 60, .349; Keeler, Brooklyn. 131, .342; Sebrlng, Pittsburg. VJ, .338; Crawford. Cin cinnati, 140. .333; Philips. Cincinnati, 32, .333;. Beckley, Cincinnati, 129. .333; J. Wagner, Pittsburg. 137, .329; Kelley. Cincinnati. 27. .327; Clarke, Pittsburg, 114. .321. Eason, of Chicago and Boston, is the tallender, with 27 games and a percentage of .089. Daseball 3Ieeting Postponed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 4. The meet ing of the presidents of the Central Ball League, which was to have been held to morrow at Indianapolis, has been post poned until Jan. 15, to permit the managers to meet at south Bend to-morrow. Präsi dent Mautner says South Bend and Lex ington, Ky., are to complete the octet of cities. Fort wayne, uayton, Springfield. O., Marion, Terre Haute and Evansville being the other six. RACING AT OAKLAND. It Will Re Opened To-Day, to Continue Until Feb. !. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.-The racing scene will be transferred to-morrow to the Oakland track where it will continue up to and including Feb. 6. On Feb. 7 the sport will be resumed at Ingleslde with the $10,000 Burns handicap for the main attraction. The meeting will continue there until Feb. 29 and the remainder of the season will bo run at Oakland. During the forty-three days of the Ingle slde meeting ending on Saturday rhe New California Jockey Club distributed $127.524 In stakes and purses. v . B. Jennings & Co. still maintain a strong lead over the other owners, having $15,680 to their credit. Burns & Waterhouse have jumped Into second place with $3,045 and G. B. Morris is third with $6,305. Over thirty owners have won sums in excess of $1,000. FAVORABLY RECEIVED. I Land Conference Report Discussed by the London Press. LONDON, Jan. 5. The report of the Irish land conference Is commented upon on all sides this morning as a very encouraging document and as indicating that the prob lem is ripe for solution. It Is also said to give valuable suggestions to Chief Secretary for Ireland Wyndham for the projected land bill. The government organs, while pointing out that the conference does not represent many of the great landlords, commend the tone and disposition of the conference as revealed In -its report as very hopeful for the future of Ireland. These papers contend that the report involves the complete repudiation of the whole Gladstonlan policy of land reform, namely, dual ownership. OBITUARY. Prof. Charles J. Hell, of the I niversity of Minnesota. SOMERVILLi:. Mass., Jan. 4. Professor Charles J. Dell, professor of chemistry In the University of Minnesota, died from Plight's disease to-day at the residence of his brother. Dr. William A. Bell, where he was spending the holidays. Professor Hell was born in Somerville in 1S53. He was professor of chemistry In Pennsylvania State College for a time Later he accepted a similar position In the University of Minnesota. A widow, brother and sister survive. Jndice Fayette Smith. GREENFIELD. Mass.. Jan. t. Judge Fayette Smith, formerly of the Court of Common Pleas In Cincinnati died here to

day. He was born in Warwick, Mass., in J

liC5. After practicing law for a time ne went to Cincinnati, where he became a member of the bar and later Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for five years. Ills widow survives. Henry Lester Townaeud. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4. Henry Lester Townsend, senior member of the banking firm of De Haven & Townsend, died to-day in Camden, S. C. Pierre Lafitte. PARIS, Jan. 4. Pierre Lafitte, leader of the French posltlvlsts. Is dead. HEAVY FALL OF SNOW. There May Be Fairly Good Sleighing This Morning. A heavy fall of snow began falling shortly after midnight, and at an early hour this morning it gave promise of being sufficient for good sleighing. The snow was of that soft kind that packs gently, making a good hard road for cutters. The fall began when the streets were clear of pedestrians and vehicles and there were no tracks beaten. No wind accompanied tho fall, and the ris ing temperature of the early evening made the weather pleasant. It is probable that the rising temperature will continue this morning and the snow will later turn to rain. SERMON ON TflE MOUNT THE REV. J. C. SMITH INQUIRES INTO ITS PRACTICABILITY. Jesus Was Lesislutlnfc for the Cen turies When He Addressed the -Multitude on the Hilltops. At the Tabernacle Tresbyterian Church yesterday morning the Rev. J. Cummlng Smith preached on "la the Sermon on the Mount Practicable?" He said: "When Jesus addressed the multitudes on that hill slope He really was legislating for " the centuries. li'e was advising the growing ages. Hence there Is a reserve power in that sermon as in all great statements of spiritual truth. Each age can appreciate from its higher planes the depth and pertinency of that divine utterance. "Some of its commands are plain and capable of instant responsp. 'Judge not that ye be not judged;' 'Enter ye in at the straight gate;' 'Pray ye not as the hypo crites;' 'Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven' these commands allow no shirk or equivocation. We must surrender on the spot. "Other commands refer to the future. They open perspectives shadowy with mys ticism. They imply a reconstitution or things In order to their practicability. There is a loftiness and telescopic distance In the sermon a rifle range as well as a pistol range. Every theory of Christian socialism finds a seed germ in that prodigally suggestive philosophy. You nave watched clouds sweep over plains la the West and while their base trailed along the earth and left verdures and foliages imparled as with morning dew, their summit reached high altitudes and a gulden glow touched their ragged edges of white. As the sermon sweeps along it Is full of direct Issues and practical, search ing analysis that must provoke the sleep iest conscience and then the utterance rises to high levels. . Jesus looked down the vistas of tirne upon changing human con ditions and breathed lessons whose sweet ness and penetration would dawn on the world long after the throng immediately in front of him had gone down to the grave. GLIB FLUENCY. "There Is too glib a fluency concerning the sermon. A mayor in a city flaunts the 'Golden Rule A minister wrltes a doubt ful book with the catchy headline, 'What Would Jesus Do?' So far as these voice tho general desire to bring Christianity from the cloudy realms of dogma into the actual arena, they are healthy and virile. But a fallacy underlies them. A certain irreverence mars them. The Sermon on the Mount is capable only of a gradual en forcement. Jesus gave commands, but commands are to be classified. "When a boy is ruining his eyes over adventurous books at midnight and the father calls up, 'Son, blow out the light and turn into bed,' in a minute or two there ought to bo darkness upstairs. When next morning the mother calls, 'Son, hurry down and fetch in kindling and wood,' within half an hour at the outside she ought to hear the blocks tumbling Into the woodbin. When at breakfast the boy groans over mathematics and the father gravely urges, 'Son, I want you to learn algebra,' the command Involves consider able future. When toward close of day the home group rathers for worship as the still shadows He on the snowy sceneries the father, with mellow voice, adds: 'Son, get goodness,' it is clear that this command entails far futures: and long after the boy has grown to be a man and left the breezy years far behind the goal of goodness still lies ahead. and it retreats as he advances. Now, this series of commands involves imperative authority, yet the element of time and the capacity of human nature enter as ele ments. If they were extorted Immediately they would be as dospotic as lr a mother ordered a babe In swaddling clothes to climb a steep staircase, or a beginner in music to evoke a symphony from the or gan. PLACE OF ENVIRONMENT. "Then, once more, there are commands that imply levels or graduations of en vironment as conditions of their execution. To order a man to cooper some defective church spire is unjust unless he is able to work at that elevation In that dizziness. A syndicate cannot Justly order an em ploye to repair somo trolley wire unless It is assumed they will provide him with the wagon and ladder affixed by which he may stand on that level. In plain words, God is love. His Son represents His tempera ment and sympathetic adjustment of burdens to shoulders, of taxes to wealth. of duty to strength, of thought and vision' to intrinsic mental range and perspicuity. God never expected Timothy to produce masterpieces which came gushing out from the won drous 60ul of Paul as from a mountain spring. And there are commands in that sermon that appear extortion in our com petitive system. Not until co-operation comes to be the dominating feature of society can the Ideals of human rrotherhood be realized. So long as society dances to the fiddle of jostle and scramble, so lontr as the world is but a jungle only somewhat subdued and regulated by government, just so long there are laws of Jesus that admit of a very imperfect and slovenly fullflllment egoism or altruism, ourselves or our neighbors we must simply do the best we can in the circumstances and urge the world onward to a nobler organization when the royal dictates of human brother hood and unity may bo more fully en shrined in commerce. "Such an Interpretation as this may ap pear to rob the sermon of practical au thority over our lives. Or It may appear to doom it to Invalidity in the immediate present. Far from it. On the contrary, it heightens Its power and effectualness. It Is a series of statutes which we must all commence to apply at once. 'Be perfect as your Father' commence this before you leave this church. 'Do unto others as ye would others should do unto you' com mence at once and as soon as the next hymn Is given out be sure to hand your neighbor a book, because he stood all through last hymn without a book, and a book is like a crutch while six verses are being sung! NOT EVANESCENT. "Begin every command right away. However, do not be Inveigled into the Idea that this great sermon Is a brief, evanes cent piece of exhortation. It is the con stitution for changing centuries. It ad justs Itself- to the slow, torturesome evo lution of the race. It is gentle and con siderate, even while It Is severe and im perialistic. And, therefore, while the world has a right to rail at all forms of unreality and half-hearteuness in our religious life. It has no right to mock, thi church because It does not perfectly embody the sermon in practice. It is Impossible. As well ask saints to soar and walk among the stars! The utmost possible U proximate obedl-

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