Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1903.

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If the President will Just let the canal situation sizsle awhile it seems not unlik iy that Panama may come as an independent state asking for annexation; and that would very greatly simplify the situation all around. If the Venezuelan outrages on foreign residents continue until some of the European Cabinets regard Mr. Castro's government as due for another spanking it is likely that Uncle 8am will keep hands off while the punishment is being administered. While it is officially announced that the Karl of Minto was expressing his personal views, not those of the Canadian government, at the Montreal banquet, yet it Is evident that the Chamberlain Zollverein idea Is wcrking in the colonics as well as in England. As the matter stands now, if Turkey hows a disposition to be good we may Withdraw the ships; otherwise not. That la a good way to let it stand, and under any circumstances it is a good thing to let the Mussulman population of Asia Minor know that we have warships, and usually have them within easy striking distance. It Is said that President Roosevelt's address at Buffalo on Labor day w ill deal entirely with labor topics. Indorsement of the principles of conciliation and arbitration, as found in the report of the anthracite coal commission, and reiteration of his views regarding the supremacy of the law will probably form the basis of the address. If the Journal reads correctly the complaint of Mr. Hord. the attorney general and members of Congress who got the Indiana war claim through were all in a conspiracy to prevent Mr. Hord and the ex-attorney general with whom he had a contract from letting the matter glide along in the same old way and thus preventing him from getting a lovely fee out of it some time. Jersey Justice has sometimes been a theme lor jokes, but just now it is furnishing the unuaual spectacle of several railroad magnates and millionaires on trial for manslaughter in causing the death of a number of school children in a railroad accident at Newark last spring. The list of defendants Is headed by the pre of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, and several others are only B little less prominent. Advices from Rome indicate that Pius X Is undergoing 3ome physical tUa as a- well as mental depression. This may be due to the complete change in his mode of life and may soon pass away, but If his health should be threatened with serious impairment his physicians may insist that he cease to regard himself as a prisoner in the Vatican. Thus the Pope's failing health may lead to an abandonment of trie temporal sovereignty claim. Who is this Mr. Wiemann. of Baltimore, who is said to have declined an invitation for an audience before the Kaiser while m Berlin? If he did o without th. excuse of either illness or accident he did a thing that reflects no credit apoa I Ither h.mself or his country, (or the Germans very naturally take such boorishness very much as we would if one of them were to refuse an invitation to visit ;he President an insult to the whole country. Andrew Carnegie has been giving play to his imagination by predicting in an address to a British audience that "some day Instead of. being two small Islands here alien to the European coutiueut, you will

look across the sea to your own children in Canada and in the United States and become once more the mother member of the dominant rowers of the world." In as far as the prediction foreshadows a closer affiliation of Anglo-Saxon peoples it is well enough, but Mr. Carnegie is looklug through the wrong end of the telescope. If the partnership is ever formed Uncle Sam will be the head of the firm.

IXIOX LABOR AND MR. PARRY. Mr. D. M. Parry will probably make his own answer to the question put to him by the Central Labor Union, but the Journal may be permitted to take some notes of them. Some of them are very much to the point, and, taken together, they show considerable mastery of the labor question from the union point of view, but they include uo others. This is humau. John Mitchell says in the preface to his forthcoming book, "Labor unions are for the workman, but against no one." Of course, this means they are fbr the union workmen, but when he says they are against no one he puts it rather strong. They certainly are against nonunion workmen and employers who do not adopt their rules and comply with their demands. The case of union labor would be stronger if it recognized the equal rights of all workmen and those of employers to manage their business in their own way and to run union or open shops as they please. Mr. Mitchell says again: "Labor unions are for a class because that class exists and has class interests, but the unions did not create and do not perpetuate the class or its interests." The unions are for union workmen only, and they certainly did create and do perpetuate that class. The much larger class of nonunion workmen is entirely outside of their sympathy, or field of effort, except in trying to bring them within the union. But the fundamental error of the questions put to Mr. Parry is in assuming that he and other employers, who concur In his views, are opposed to labor unions as Such, and would destroy them entirely. The Journal does not understand this to be the case, and it is but fair to Mr. Parry to say that he has repeatedly denied it. The opposition is not to organized labor, but to some of its methods which employers think interfere with their rights and those of nonunion workmen. If these could be cut out, including resort to violence to enforce strikes and boycotts and opposition to open shops, there would still be left ample ground on which reasonable men of both sides could meet. One of the questions to Mr. Parry reads: If the trade union is a menace to our institutions should it not be suppressed by law? If it cannot be suppressed by law, is It not apparent that it is not against the spirit of our institutions? If it is within the province of the lawmaking power to suppress the union, is It not also within t lie province of the law to interfere with the private operation of every factory in the country? This shows a surprising lack of information as to the true issue and facts of the case. The courts have repeatedly asserted the right of labor to organize and to promote its interests by every legitimate means. The menace to society and to justice is not in organization, but in the use of illegal means to promote the ends of organization, and these the courts have repeatedly declared could not be tolerated. "If it is within the province of the lawmaking power to suppress the union." says the question, "is it not also within the province of the law to Interfere with the private operation of every factory in the country?" It is not within the province of the lawmaking power to suppress the union any more than it is to close factories, but the law defines the individual rights of all persons, whether employers or workmen, union men or nonunion men, and places their protection and maintenance above that of any organization whatever. These principles are so elemental and axiomatic that it ought not to be necessary to assert them, but as long as they continue to bo misunderstood it must be done. Eventually they will be recognized by all classes, as they are now by the courts and those who know the law. THE COLOR LINE IN OLEOM ARGARIXK. The fact that the commissioner of internal revenue has imposed a fine on Kingan & Co. for manufacturing oleomargarine colored in imitation of butter, which was returned as uncolored, does not argue anything against the honesty of the firm or the purity of the goods. It simply shows a difference of opinion between the firm and the government authorities as to the meaning of the term "uncolored." The oleomargarine law, which took effect July 1, 1902, provides for a tax of 10 cents per pound to be paid by the manufacturer u?on all oleomargarine. It also provides that "when oleomargarine Is free from artificial coloration that causes it to look like butter of any shade of yellow, said tax shall be onefourth of 1 cent per pound." The object of the law was to compel oleomargarine to be put on the market in its natural state, which is white. It was passed in the interest of butter makers, although it is notorious that much of the so-called pure butter is colored. All dairy butter is colored, as is most "country" butter. When the law imposing a prohibitory tax on colored oleomargarine was passed manufacturers at once tried to And a way of producing an oleomargarine that would look like butter without being artificially colored. Some of the best chemists in the country were employed In trying to solve this problem. For a while pa'.m oil was successfully used. This is a pure vegetable oil, and the only possible objection to it was that it gave a butter color to the oleomargarine. For this reason the government construed it as coloring matter and imposed heavy fines for its use. As it only takes one-tenth of 1 per cent of palm oil to produce th desired "butter color" in oleomargarine, it is evident its use was perfectly harmless. But the internal revenue authorities construed it as coloring matter and that settled it. Then the oleomargarine manufacturers tri-1 to color their product by introducing a proportion of "pure" butter, which it was found contained enough coloring matter to give color to the oleomargarine. As the law defines what Is butter and what is oleomargarine it is difficult to see how the use of standard butter for the purpose of giving a butter color to oleomargarine could be illegal, but the revenue officers held that it was. Abie lawyers think differently, and the point will probably to to the Supreme Court pf the United States. As the manufacturers of "dairy butter" are only required to pay a tax of one-quarter cent a pound it seems unjust and inconsistent to require the manufacturers of Oleomargarine who color their product with dairy butter to pay 10 cents a pound on an article as pure and harmless in its composition and

as cleanly in the process of manufacture as dairy butter. It Is probable that every manufacturer of oleomargarine in the United States has used one or the other of above processes for giving the butter-color to his product, and has beea assessed for "back taxes." If the Supreme Court should hold that the use of dairy butter of standard purity as coloring matter for oleomargarine is not a violation of the law the government may ultimately have to refund the sums thus collected. la w hoi; v 1 1 I :- v. 1 1 : K s. When a foreigner with an unpronounceable name pleaded guilty before him to the charge of wife beating. Judge Feldman, of South Bend, said:

I shall not send you to jail because your poor wife and bales are in need of your support :in.I are r...w waiting !r you in their little home, but if I had the power I would instruct an officer to tie you to a post and severely lath you with a cat o' nine tails. That tells briefly and succinctly the story of thousands of cases that occur in Indiana every year. Half educated, half civilized men marry women and propagate families of children. After a few years the brutal nature of the man asserts itself, and, utterly negligent of the grave responsibilities he has taken upon himself, he begins to make life at home a hell for his wife and little ones. She must struggle with him every pay day to get some part of his wages to keep the family out of the streets, and she must struggle all the rest of the week to work and skimp and try to make the paltry sum she can extort from his and her own labor suffice to feed and clothe the children, the father and herself, and keep things clean. His own drunkenness and his disposition to keep all his wages for his own pleasures lead to frequent quarrels, and, being the stronger of the two, he not infrequently resorts to brute force and beats her. As the Journal has remarked before, this is the commonest kind of a situation, and yet our laws utterly fail to meet it. The imprisonment of the husband and father Is a hardship on the wife i nd children. Effective punishment that will not require mu. ; of his time should be provided. When a reproduction in black and white of Sargent's portrait of James Whitcomb Riley was recently given by a magazine th Journal expressed the opinion that if the copy was even approximately like the original the portrait so far as likeness was concerned, could not be satisfactory. It was admitted, however, that the imperfect processes of art reproduction and the absence of the color effects made a definite judgment of the merits of the portrait impossible until the artist's work itself was sc. u. Now comes a contributor to the Reader, Mr. Alfred Brennan. who says of It, after mentioning other specimens of Sargent's work as of inferior merit: "Then see his James hitcomb Riley. Who shall commend or defend it? Never was there a worse libel done in the (alleged) lineaments of a man of brains." This is only one man's opinion, it is true, but if it chances to be the common verdict of those who know what a portrait should be it is a pity, for Mr. Sargent is a great painter and had a good subject; also the Riley portrait is expected to hang in a place of honor in the Herron Art Institute as a memo rial of both poet and painter. The German press is expressing satisfaction with what it is p.'-ased to consider as "the advent of the United States as a factor in the Turkish problem." Nonsense. The United States has no more thought of interfering in the Turkish problem than it has of reviving memories of the Schels wig-Holstein or the Alsace-Lorraine ques tion. It is simply looking after American interests, as all nations do after their interests whenever they are threatened in any quarter. The friends of Walsh, alias Lynchehaun, are proceeding on the theory that his offense was trivial. The Journal does not know how this information was obtained. It may be correct, but if the record should prove otherwise and that the evidence of a serious offense was conclusive his champions would wish they had not goue so fast. They had better be sure of their facts as they go along. The block coal operators say the advance of 23 cents a ton is made necessary by the unprecedented demand at this season of the year. What they mean is that they have advanced the price because they think tho demand will enable them to get it. Interest in the international yacht race is practically dead. The winning of two races out of five by the American boat would not alone have caused this if it had not demonstrated its superiority over the challenger so plainly in every point as to leave no doubt as to the result. It is hard on Sir Thomas to have to go through the form of auother defeat. A Florida paper remarks: "Miss Ruth Bryan will go to Chicago and 'work for the poor.' We hope she will be more successful sUong that line than her father." Ott, he hasn't had such bad luck. lie was quite impecunious eight or ten years ago. when he began to be a candidate for the presidency, but Lincoln people say he is very well fixed now. If this controversy about the weight of the Cleveland baby ever reaches the contines of Nebraska, we may expect a column or two of thunder from the Commoner and a new ebullition of wrath on the stump. Mr. Merriam declares that we have something over 84,000,000 of people. This convinces us more than ever that there are quite a number that could be spared. The silver service that is to be presented to Sir Thomas Lipton will probably contain several consolation cups. "I'neasy lies the head that wears crown;" also the one that wears a fez. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. John D. Rockefeller has just bought six farms at Eastview. Westchester county. New York, and adjoining his Pocantico Hills estate, giving him 5.om acres in all. Mrs. Alfred Peats, wife of the millionaire wall paper manufacturer, has established free kindergarten on her estate near Greenwich, Conn., as a memorial to her child. On Catamount hill at Colrain. Mass.. a monument has been raised to mark the site of the first flag raised over a public scholhouse In the Cnited States. The fiag in question was displayed in May, from a long schoolhouse which stood on the hill. The descendants of John Alden and Prlscilla at their recent reunion in D ixbury, Mass.. started a subscription for a fund to buy the old Alden homestead In that town. President George W. Alden. of the association, says that it can be bought ..V.I T1, .. V...... . . i St U re.tsoort i mi- ;n nr. uc nuuw:, rfevifu by John Alden s grandson and now Xo0

years old, has been held by the Alden family through all its history, and is now occupied by John W. Alden and his wife. Mr. Alden being a direct descendant from the original John. Lady Henry Somerset Is withdrawing gradually from her career as a reformer. She is very sensitive on the subject of her hobbies. Her pet aversion is William Waldorf Astor, who once said of her: "She must be the sort of woman who drives a man to distraction." "Cape horse sickness" is a disease which resembles human malaria. It especially attacks horses that are left to graze all night In marshy regions. Dr. Pitchford found that horses stalled by night in stables protected by wire gauze remained perfectly well, and therefore concluded that mosquitoes are responsible for the disease. The Catholic Citizen tells about a negro In Chicago who. when he heard that the new Pope was a Catholic, exclaimed:

'Good Lord. I thought he was an Italian!" He doubtless supposed nil Catholics were Irish. Bishop Talbot tells of a sermon he preached in a Western settlement at which a local unbeliever had been persuauca io be present, much aniiinst his custom. He was afterward salted how he liked the bishop. "Pretty wi II." said he; "and I learned one new thing. I learned that Sodom and Gomorrah was places. I always thought they was husband and wife." Tho late Alexander Von Homeyer, of Frankfurt-on-tho-Main. was an idefatigable collector of zoological speciments. Of birds' eggs he had more than 10.000, representing about 1,500 species, while another of his collections included over 30,000 butterflies. At Frankfurt he founded a society of naturalists who were locally dubbed the "Bug Butchers." In 1874 he was sent to West Africa by the German Geographie , l Society. He was prostrated by an attack of malaria from which he never fully recovered, yet he brought back no fewer than BM kinds of butterflies previously unknown to men of science. JOURNAL ENTRIES. Appropriate. "What did you contribute to the shower for Miss Honeymoon the other evening?" "An umbrella." Sufficient Reason. "What makes Middlerib so bitter against the Turks?" "The young man who calls on his daughter smokes Turkish cigarettes." Mournful Numbers. "Peculiar thing 'bout these races," remarked the old alt. "What is it?" asked the landlubber. "Shamrock III has been second all the time' Mary Maelane. Mary wrote a little book; In truth, it was a Butt ; But when she wrote another one It was too mild to suit. The Xew Version. "The Bulgarians are going according to a revised version of the Bible." Why do you think so?" "They are going over into Macedonia and helping themselves." Limericks. There uaa a young oarsman of Goshen Who went to live by the oshen; When he sailed on the sea, Faid he: "Seems to me A creek is more to my noshen." There was a fair maid of Dubuque Who studied her cuquery-buque. And when she was wed Her proud husband said He wouldn't swop Jobs with a duque. WOULD HISTORY REPEAT T Wall Street Xot Likely to Do aa It Did In the Past. Wall Street Journal. The lines of the campaign having for its object the defeat of President Roosevelt for a second term do not seem to be very definitely laid down so far as some of the forces who oppose him are concerned. Our brilliant and forceful contemporary, the Sun, representing as it does so ably the views of the "high finance" in this matter, is probably the best guide to those seeking information on the point. About twice a week it prints a double-leaded editorial criticising the President on some ground or other, but it has apparently not yet chosen its final battle ground. A few days ago, for instance, it printed an article on "The Proclivities of Genius," the Interpretation of which is still disputed among competent exegetists. The general impression that it gave was that some gentlemen were not geniuses and some geniuses not gentlemen, with the indicated inference that the President was neither. The obscurity of the article which might be accouted for by the writer's general unfamiliarity with his subject was notable. More recently, however, it printed another article reciting some of the things that the President has done which he should not have done, and wondering if he would do them again under the same circumstances. This line of thought is interesting, and appears peculiarly applicable to the situation In the financial world, which has given and is giving people all over the country so much food for thought at the present time. We may well wonder whether the leaders of the high finance would, if they had the chance over again, do all the things that they have done in the past few years. The exigencies of space prevent us from going into very much detail on this poinr. But the general features of the record stand out clearly and distinctly and mark the period as one of financial excesess never before approached in this country. Beginning with the era of speculative industrial promotion and coming down through the era of railroad consolidation, conducted by the issue of purchase money bonds of fixed liability in payment for stocks of contingent liability, until finally we reach the steel conversion plan, the Louisville & Nashville purchase, and the International Mercantile Marine combination, we have before us a record of a speculative activity involving the very highest financial circles that abundantly explains the conditions now existing in the financial world. There has been too large an output of legitimate securities in the first place too large, that is. in proportion to the available cash awaiting la vestment aud in the second place, there has been an enormous output of securities that are not legitimate in the proper sense of the word. Mr. Morgan's statement with respect to "undigested" securities was correct as far as it went, but the statment needed Mr. Hill's addition of "indigestible" securities to make it complete. would the leaders of the high finance (who are now so bitterly opposing the re-election of the President) if they had the chance over again, do all the things that they have done? If Mr. Gates, for instance, were to walk into Mr. Morgan's office to-day with control of Louisville & Nashville iu his pocket, would Mr. Morgan buy it of him once more at $15u a share? If the executive committee of the United States Steel Corporation had the question before them to-day. does any one suppose that they would to-day vote to put in force the preferred stock conversion plan? Does any one suppose that the gentlemen who requested Mr. Morgan to act as their broker in forming the International Mercantile Marine Company would do it again to-day ? We think not. Time will probably show' that a good many lessons have been U artied by the leaders of the high flnauce in the past two years. The public has Sil dj paid a good deal toward the tuition fees for these lessons. No one knows yet what the cost will be, but the amount that has already been paid on account Is very coaildernble. The country at large g niorv.ev.r at this time trying to reckon up how much more it will have to pay La the shape of diminished business, shrunken confidence and contracted credit. It has been an era of great things no doubt, among which are great mistake. It is uaturai that as the time for paying the bill comes along there should be anxletv to shift responsibility to some one else. That the country, however, will infallibly place upon the shoulders of Wall street iu general the principal blame for whatever depression there is in store for us in trade as a whole is reasonably clear. The probability is that Wall street will I u " tu titled to. have to carry more ot u tnan u Is fairly

PRAISE FOR MAGELSSEN

HAS CONDUCTED IIMISELF WELL IX A D1FI l l LT PROBLEM. Two Well Known Men Who Have a Good Word for the Vice Consul at Beirut-Has Mode n Record. New York Special in Philadelphia Press. Two persons In this city who very recently saw much of William C. Mageissen, the United States vice consul, who was shot at In Beirut, have been interviewed concerning the man and agreee in their praise of his abilities. They are Chancellor MacCracken. of New York University, and Walter S. Bigelow. the explorer. Mr. -M ' " Isseii was born. It seems, thirty years ago at Bratsburg, Miun.. aud was a son of a Lutheran minister. He was educated in the common schools of Minnesota, and was a student of the Lutheran College at Decorah. Ia.. for three years. For a time he was assistant city assessor of Sioux Falls. S. D.. and also associate editor of a paper called The Echo, published there. When he was appointed vice consul, on Sept. 20, Ufa, he was a consular clerk in Turkey. Mag- is... n was appointed on the recommendation of Senator Nelson, of Minnesota. He was a brother-in-law of Consul Ravndal. "Both Mr. and Mrs. Mageissen," said Chancellor MacCracken, who has just returned from Beirut, "are Norwegian by name and by parentage, and are fine specimens of the Scandinavian-American. The vice consul has been prompt, intelligent and able in the transaction of business. The American consulate, under his chief and himself, easily held the first place iu reputation among the foreign consulates in Beirut. I lived within a block of the consulate during my month's stay. I observed that as a young, patriotic American, the man was zealous In helping every American interest. A celebration of the Fourth of July was organized bv the consulate, and held in a suburb of Beirut. The Syrian Protestant College, which .i.ts under a board of trustees chartered by the State of New York, found the vice consul a helpful friend. He promoted sealously a field day held this year and helped to secure the attendance of the Governor of Lebanon, who came with full staff and a military band playing American national airs. I met Mr. Mageissen also at the commencement of the college in July. I had been told that the vice consul had more than once taken part in securing the punishment of crimes by natives in Beirut which were committed under his notice." The chancellor was Inclined to think that Magelssen's courage in pursuing criminals had probably caused the attempt on his life. Old residents of Beirut had assured him that for Christians to appear in court against Moslems to testify to their crimes was to invite assassination. A recent murder of a man in American employ had been left almost without inquirv because witnesses were completely terrorized. THEY TAKE GREAT RISKS. "The Turkish government," continued Dr. MacCracken, "leaves Beirut and every similar district under a petty vice autocrat, who is energetic in little except unwise and cruel extortion of taxes and taking of bribes. I have been for ten years chairman of a New York board of five trustees who carry on St. Paul's Institute in Tarsus, Asia Minor. Nothing saved this school, made up largely of Armenian teachers and students, from the horrible massacre of a few years ago except the preseuce throughout an entire summer of the United States warship Marblehead in the harbor near by. The whole Beirut American colony of about one hundred persons, aud the British colonv of fifty persons, would be at the mercy of a Moslem mob if such should be excited by the growing misrule. AYe have noble citizens there. One medical faculty of some half a dozen American physicians, two of tnem, Lr. ueorge je. post and Walter F. Adams, from our New York University Medical School, is the most noted American faculty of medicine outside of America. Dr. Harris Graham, of this faculty, a graduate of Michigan University, to whom I owe my son's life, is coming to this country the present autumn. The United States government has recently extorted from the Sultan the same rules for liceusing graduates under the American faculty at Beirut that were granted the French schools." Walter S. Bigelow, who has business interests in Turkey, where he spent six months last winter, says that the attempt on Mr. Magelssen's life was probably an affair provoked by personal revenge rather than lusplred by any political motive. "Last April I spent three weeks in Beirut." said Mr. Bigelow, "and, meeting Mr. Mageissen the first day, I saw a great deal of him, and came to know him very intimately. The news is a great shock to me, and yet in a way I may say that I am not altogether surprised, knowing Mr. Magelsscu so well as I did, and knowing also the almost total absence of personal protection existing in all Turkish cities. The vice consul is a splendid physical specimen of a man. He Is unusually tall and of large frame. Hailing from Minnesota, he possesses the characteristic daring and nerve of the westerner. He is absolutely fearless. For these reasons he Is known and beloved by all Europeans along the j Syrian coast as far south as Alexandria, and perhaps for the same reason he invoked the euimlty of the natives. "Soon after arriving at Beirut I was told several stories of encounters which Mr. Mageissen had had with native highwaymen. On ore occasion he was waylaid by two desperate characters along the shore road on a dark uight, and, although unarmed, he disposed of his assailants single handed. The punishment he administered was said to have been as severe as it was unexpected. Later, another native cutthroat attempted to hold up Mr. Mageissen one night in a lonely part of the town, but he was so badly used up as a result of the encounter that the services of a doctor were necessary. Naturally, in a small place like Beirut, the reports of these affairs spread. INSOLENT CAB DRIVERS. "Possibly one or two little encounters with cab drivers might be mentioned. I remember one distinctly, in which both Mr. Mageissen and myself had a part. Of all cab drivers, the Turkish variety is the most insolent and exasperating. The helpless victim of one of these Oriental Jehus has only one option when it comes to an issue and that Is, give up or defend himself as best he may. On the occasion I am thinking of the cabman, who had started in by force to collect an excessive fare, met a reception he was not looking for, and since then has probably thought twice before he has attempted to practice extortion on Americans of athletic, appearance. I remember asking Mageissen at the time if he went armed if abroad at night, and he replied that he seldom carried a revolver, and was not afraid to go into any part of Beirut .it any time of the day or night. It seems strange now, but I recall saying to him, half seriously, half jokingly: " 'Mageissen, if you don't take better care of yourself. I shall expect to hear some day that these curs have done you up. You must be more' careful.' "I do not believe they will ever catch the man, for there Is no such thing as police or detective work in Beirut. If driven, the Turkish authorities may punish some innocent nobody to satisfy American demands, but it is more than likely that the real criminal will aaoapa "Mr. Mageissen has made a name for himself iu the consular service, and when 1 was there was hoping for advancement. He had received special commendatory mention for special services performed 1 him In collecting Valuable data regarding conditions tnrougnout Palestine. lie w.ts very thorough and painstaking in all his work. He took special interest iu American commerce, and renden l me personally valuable assistance in behalf of the Interests I represented. luirut is not only a small, unimportant city at best. It is on the Syrian .oast, far away from the seat of Macedonian troubles, and with the absolute suppression of news and newspapers. It Is safe to say that a large share ot the population do not know at the prtsut moment that any trouble exists In Macedonia or European Turkey. When I was at Beirut the Syrian Protestant College a splendid lustltutie-n. by the way gave a flekl day aud luv it. d the Turkish authorities to witness the i-.jrt. The Turkish gowruor did uot at-

tend, but reported that night by telegraph to the Sultan that the Americans had offered his Royal Highness an insult by having the Turkish military band play all the afternoon under a tent, from the flagpole of which floated the stars and stripe. This was the only expression of ill will toward the United States which I heard while there. The Turk does not take kindly to education, especially when it is introduced by the Christians, and no doubt there is some feeling against the Americans for this reason."

JOURNALS NEW DEPARTURE. Unr.K of Friendly Approval from an Evening on temporary. Indianapolis News. So the sober, staid, conservative Journal is to print colored supplements on Sunday! We should not have believed It if the Journal had not said so itself. But papers thse days must of necessity appeal to as wide a constituency as possible, and those which have Sunday editions seem to find it necessary to consult and to cater for the tastes of the children hence the comic supplements, with their "Foxy Grandpas," etc. Of course, there is a limit which decent and self-respecting newspapers must observ. . and which the Journal may be trusted not to go beyond. But there are certain people who seem to be very easily shocked, even at the legitimate efforts of newspapers to Increase their circulation. They have a right to their opinions, and in truth there are many to whom the red. yellow and green supplements are exceedingly distasteful. Yet this Is a question of taste rather than of morals, and people whose tastes are not highly refined have a right to be considered the papers belong to them quite as much as to the artistic class. The question really is whether the means adopted to get business are reprehensible in themselves, and after that has been answered there Is the further question as t what is to be done for the readers of a paper after they have been secured. Circulation gives a paper power, if it will only use it honestly and courageously. The more readers it has the less dependent is it on any one reader or class of readers, and the less is the need for it to compromise its independence. Further, if it preaches sound doctrine it is better that It should preach it to a large than to a small audience. Many papers have been rippled by the limited nature of their field. There is a wisdom in making concessions in smaller and more Indifferent matters for the sake of gaining an influence in matters that are more important. It is to be noted further that with the growth of the news side of the paper out of which sensationalism and yellowness have grown as exaggerations the conception of the newspaper as a party organ has largely passed out of existence. Indeed, there are few organs left in the larger cities. Many bad papers there are. but their sins and defects are not those of the organ. In this respect, therefore, the new development is certainly to be commended. Extravagances will disappear, aberrations will be corrected, and it may be that even the flaming supplements will be proved to be unnecessary. The effort to get readers Is in itself wholly commendable. Success In this direction, if gained by honorable men. will bring greater power, independence and influence, as well as greater wealth. We congratulate our neighbor on its enterprise. FAILURES BY A GREAT PAINTER. Mr. Sargent' Portraits of John Hay, James YV hitcomb Riley and Others. Alfred Brennan, in the Reader for September Why do we see some things so strangely done by Mr. Sargent? Some of his portraits, done here in America last winter, simply class themselves among the worst noteworthy failures ever done by the hand of a truly famous painter. His John Hay, when judged as the portrait of a great man, is ridiculous. That U possesses facial likeness doesn't redeem it because facial likeness is but a kind of excellence in a portrait that to be great should be great In qualities of distinction altogether superior to that one qualification. Wretchedly cramped in a meager misfit canvas, it is only a likeness-sketch perfunctorily done and made quite absurd by one little unintelligent hand that is hung up out of place at the side of it. serving no purpose, suggesting nothing better than the superfluous remarque commonly seen at the edges of prints. Where is the air of fine distinction, the power of purpose, the amplitude of sensible feeling that the master portrait painter nives by that rare and infinitely complex art which is his? I declare nobody has any conceivable right to make such an insufficient and misleading picture of our great secretary of state. Then see his James Whitcomb Riley. Who shall commend or defend it? Never was there a worse libel done In the (alleged) lineaments of a man of brains. (Excepting, perhaps, two maliginant things by Boldini one of the great lamented Whistler and the other of a big New Yorker.) Witness Mr. Sargent's Thomas B. Reed, if you please. There he had In his subj. . t a man, a wit, a forensic wonder; and, by gad, sir, he put. on a stingy little 20x30 canvas, what is nothing better than a paintily painted muttonheud, overtopped by an unnaturally bulging forehead. It is practically impossible to know what kind of reasoning a painter brings to bear on his problems who decides to paint a portrait of a lady with her arms outstretched as if she were Illustrating an exercise in calisthenics; or what kind of understanding and Imaginativeness he is gifted withal who paints a facial likeness of Edwin Booth and leaves it surmounting an extraordinarily tall figure. Booth wasn't five feet eight, much less eight feet five, and. furthermore, to send him down to posterity (or even to present him to hi living friends) with his hands hung by their thumbs at his vest G ckets is a wrong done, thoughtlessly or jnorantly. toward a gentleman who was very highly distinguished by his dignity and fine manners. A FAVORITE SON. Mr. Heruenway in Prime Favor in the Whole Ohio Valley. Louisville Herald. The reported selection by Speaker-to-be Cannon, of the House of Representatives, of Hon. James A. Hemenway, of Indiana, to be chairman of the committee on ap propriations, has been received with great satisfaction. The Ohio valley especially halls the selection with delight. Mr. Hem enway is a favorite son, not only of Indiana (for whose First Congressional district he has been five consecutive times elected), but of the entire valley of the Ohio. He is a gentleman of ability, a tried and loyal servant of the people. The chairmanship of the committee on appropriations is next in importance to CM speakership of the House. Mr. Cannon could not afford to select for first lieutenant a man of lower than first rank, firm, patient, far-seeing, cautious and yet comprehensive in his grasp of every question presenting itself for solution. Mr. Hemenwaj has by incontestable merit won the position he holds to-day in public life. Educated in the common schools, he began, at twenty-five, the practice of law at Boonville. Ind., his native town. That was in 18Ä. His being the qualities that invite confidence and insure success, his rice ha been rapid. To-day. young in years, he stands on the very threshold of the highest positions in the gift of ihe people. Mr. Hemenway understands the importance of a navigable Ohio all the year around from Pittsburg to Cairo. The legtlmate Influences of his high position and the unquestionable character of his knowledge of the riverway problems will be of the lushest value t the commerce and development of the Ohio valley. Mr. Hemen wav will not. however, render service to the Ohio waterway because it is of local but because it is of national importance. Mr. Lang English. Lewiston Journal. The Indianapolis Journal complains that Andrew Lang, the famous English writer, maltreats the English language when he savs. "It is better to know the He of the land." Instead of saying "lay of the land." How does the I ndlanaolls Journal know? Possibly Mr. Lang was warning his readers against the Democratic party in the United liidlanapolla aa a Seaport. Omaha Bee. The foundering of a pleasure steamer In a canal near Indianapolis caused a panic hui.. Hi, in. p.t.-s. :. . s There were three feet of water and velvety mud to wade through. Bravely the passengers waded, .n tali led bv the natriouc conviction that thev were luakltis track for auuüur his lexical noveJL

TROLLEY SLEEPING CARS

I III. Ml I I I.R It I I LT ARE 'AMED 1DIASA AND FR AJMMs Expected to Be Pat la Servlc 9pt. IS on the Linea Between Indiana lia and 1 olumbus, O. Brooklyn Eagle. Finishing touches were put on the first electric sleeping cars ever built the trolley sleepers the Indiana and Francis yesterday. According to present plans the will make their first trips September la and will be put into regular service between Indianapolis. Ind.. and Columbus, O. Orders have been place! for twenty-four mora sleeping cars and combination sleepers and diners, and within eight mom ha the service, which will be begun out of Indianapolis to Columbus, will be extended to Wheeling. W. Vs.. and Pittsburg, a distance of 400 miles to the east; to Cleveland and Buffalo, almost as great distance northeast. and from Cincinnati to Toledo and Detroit and around the Lake Erie front to Cleveland. Sleepers will also be running between Chicago and Cincinnati via Indianapolis, within eighteen months, and If tha plans of the Boston capitalists known aft the "Apnleyard Syndicate." are worked out. tho sleepers and combination sleepers and diners will be operated between Augusta, M. . and Chicago and St. Louis within three years. It is thought that service will be . p. iud between BL Louis and Pittsburg within eighteen months. Clearly the introduction of the sleeping car service betwen Indianapolis and Columbus, O., in September this year marks an epoch in transportation and the trolley men themselves say neither they nor even the most extravagant dreamer can forecast what w ill follow in five years. It Is a singular coincidence that the first trolley sleepers are being built in the very shops in which the first Pullman car was built. It Is also significant that the builders of the trolley sleeper have already entered an agreement with the Pullman Company whereby the latter will not make trolley sleepers and the trolley sleeping car company will not let its space saving inventions go into the steam road service. FEATURES OF THE CARS, The trolley sleepers are being built by the Holland Palace Car Company, which is composed of Indiana men and capitalised at $1.000,000. It is headed by Harris F. Holland, inventor of the new car. The cars will be owned and operated by the company identically the same as the Pullman Company owns and operates Its cars over the steam roads. The cars will be geared to run sixty miles an hour. The smallest will have twenty berths made Into ten compartments. The comfort of passengers is provided for, even to the extent of electric hair curlers In each compartment for the women, electric cigar lighters for the men. Each compartment will be equipped with electrical appliances whereby the lights in that compartment can be raised and lowered or put out. Each compartment will be ventilated separately and windows will be raised and lowered by pushing buttons. And when the night's ride is over all compartments will be rolled into the walls and Into the floor, the beds will fold Into parlor car chairs and tha car will be nothing more nor less than a parlor car. In addition to these features a special one is made of having large women's toilet rooms, though all will have compartments in which they can stand while dressing and can lock a door on their possessions. All berths are single ones four feet wide. Tha car in every particular is an entirely new idea In sleepers. The combination sleepers and diners simply have a ten-foot compart ment added placed between the berths are the rear retiring rooms. Temporary tables will be placed between chairs. The service will be quite as complete and elegant as given now in steam road dining cars. The compartments for the night runs are made with mahogany rolls similar to the roll tops used in desks. They come up out of brass slots In the floor and dovetail into and fasten each other when up, making a perfectly rigid and elegant wall, with a doorway. The upper berth is let down from the wall on the same principle that is employed In the Pullman sleeper. The elegantly upholstered chair of the day parlor car, however, is a revelation. Two of these chairs are faced. By pressing a hidden spring the arms spread out and become part of the bed. The two chairs are made into one box spring mattress bed, four feet wide and seven feet long. The beds and compartments can be made up quickly and the entire car converted into a parlor car Cor the day run in less than a half hour. A porter and a maid will run with each sleepr. it is claimed for the sleeper that the beds will be better than those of the Pullman sleeper and the extra inducement will lie in the fact that each traveler, or two travelers, will have a complete compartment. COST OP RIDING. The cost of riding in such a car will be a revelation to the sleeping traveling public The run from Indianapolis to Columbus O., ISO miles, will be made between 11:30 at night and 6:90 in the morning. The cars will be standing on the sidings and open st 7 o'clock. For the night's run an entire compartment can be had fbr $3. Blngle berths will cost $2, but two persons buying a compartment together can get it for the $3. The regular interurban fare between the two points will be charged. Approximately it is $3. This will make the fare and sleeper for one person 36, for two persons buying together 34.50. or one person buying one berth 35. The steam road's day coach fare is fi.30. This will be a new kind of competition for the steam roads and there is a great deal of speculation aa to what will be the outcome. In addition to the inducement of practically giving away a night's rest in a sleep ing car. it Is announced that the dining charges for the combination service will also be moderate. It is known that the traction roads have no dust, cinders nor smoke to contend with. It is thought that tiie sleeping car windows can be left wide open on iiot nights. It Is expected that all these points of advantage will catch the commercial trade. Though no trunka will lie carried on the sleepers and none will be carried free, they will be taken through in the night on the regular limited trains that will be put into service, and the express charges will be very small probably 2S cents for each trunk for the lo miles. Tha Appleyard Syndicate, which is standing sponsor for the new service. Is so sanguine of the results, that it is pushing . very energy to extend the sleeping car service to littsburg, Cleveland. Cincinnati and Toledo at the earliest possible data, wi.en the Pittsburg line is opened the cars will have to leave the Indianapolis and Tittsburg terminals about o'clock and will covtr the 40 miles through Dayton. Springfield. Columbus and Wheeling so as to arrive at the opposite terminals at 7 or . clock the next morning. In order to gain time in getting entrance t i Wheeling and Pittsburg, the narrow gauge Ohio River fc Western steam road between Wheeling and Zanesville, o., has been purchased. The lines are connected now between Indianapolis and Newark, which Is thirty-five miles c?.st of Columbus. The Appleyard Syndicate is building a line between Newark and Zanesville and converting the steam road to a standard electric road. The company Is getting right of way between Wheeling and Pittsburg. Besides this the Appleyard Syndicate will build its own line into Indianapolis from Troy. O . s distance of 1 miles. At present it has Indianapolis connectiona though the Dayton Western Traction Company, from Dayton to Riehmond. Ind ; the Richmond Traction Company from Richmond to Dublin. Ind.. and the Indianapolis 4k Eastern from Dublin into Indianapolis. The com pany at this time, in connection with the Tucker-Anthony Syndicate, of Cleveland, Is putting In the connecting links for Its through service from Cincinnati to Toledo and Detroit and aa far north as Port Huron. Mich., and for Its service from Indianapolis and Cincinnati through Columbus into Cleveland and Buffalo. When the syndicate's extensions are completed and its proposed road from Augusta, Me , to lui. ia completed, it will have .. " miles or main iraca. l ne mam lm. through Indiana and Ohio will be double tracked. The Work has hegus 4a Ohio.