Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1903.

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THE INDIA YPOLIS JOURNAL Pan be found at ttei foil wiag placer: MEW YORK-Astor blouse. CHICAGO Palmar Hotsl. Dearborn F' louse. Auditorium tlon News Stand. Annx CINCINNATI-J. Grand Hot!. R- Hawley Sc. Co., Arcade. LOUISVILLE C. T Deerlng, northwest corner Of Third and JVff streets, and JJluefeld Bros.. 4U West Ms et street. C LOUIS Unon N as Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Khjgs House, Ebbitt House. Fairfax He el. Wlllard Hotel. MNVER. Col. Lou haln A Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence str -ts, and A. Smith, 1CÜ7 Champa street. aUTTON. street. O. J. V Wilkie, 39 South JsffllS Mm COT.UMBTTS. O. VI luet News Stand. 0 High street. It is said that I- issia is playing for time tn the ftr East. K begins to look as if she wer playing for i iernity. "Colombia will rot give up Panama" Is the latest annoui -ement. Of course she Won't she hasn t tiny Panama to give up. After mixing so. freely with the aristocracy xf England. 'olonel Bryan can hardly hope to be the sa ne with his old Populist friends. HaJktt," says r rry S. Heath, "animated Bristow repor- " W. U. it is not certain WESttM tint wasC whet did it, but it was surely animated. It if doubtful If the people of the United State will take k'-idiy to having their politics cut out for nein in London by Boss Croker and Willia n J. Bryan. The New York Ventral Railroad has ordered thirty electi c locomotives And thus begins the fulfillment of the prophecy that a supplanter of -team would come 'some day. In Minnesota tb-y understand the worth sf trees. A boun'y 1 paid for the planting, which last year amounted to $18,42). Since the Jaw wer into effect bounties have been paid amoun1 ng to 1600,000. Grand Rapids t-iks of a change of venue for its Citizens WUo are implicated in the water scandal. U it impossible to find twelve men for a Jury in the Michigan city who are not involved in the trouble? A "scientist" ha announced his belief that religion is a disease. If that is really the ease, Indianapolis Isn't going to quarantine against it. An epidemic of that kind wouldn't do anybody any particular harm. It Is sever fatal. Five-cent novei'-sts are already at work on thrilling histories of the lives of the Chicago boy ba-dlts. These books will encourage others o go and do like wise, and thus will be kep: up the endless chain of Crime and glori cation of crime. The revelation- of municipal corruption ta Grand Rapids. Mich., are as bad in their way as anything that has occurred. Grand Rapids Is not a - crge city, but in its sphere It is a representative one. Are we becoming B nation of boodiers and thieves, or is there jre chance for r'orm? - , -- IBM The New England Anti-Imperialist LlSue of Bosto, continues to exploit Itself by demanding fwm the United States govsnunent "an immediate, definite, official promise of entir independence for the Filipinos." As the Filipinos themselves have long since ceas 1 to demand anything of the hind and ar , happy and prosperous under American rve, it looks a little as if the were ovevVcting its part. John Roberts, i itisen and land owner, has BOt exceeded hit rights in refusing to make a deed for his land for the proposed army post north of 'he city. John has rights which the Unit, d States is bound to respect, and he Wll not be deprived of them Without due process of law. But it looks as If John were - rying to get the advantage of the United States, and that he cannot do. He will fin., in the last analysis, that the right of eminent domain s superior to private rights r id that when the government requires ; piece of land for public purposes the la-' provides a way of getting It. John bad be ter get off the track. If certain Lor '.on newspapers become too bitter in their Statements about American heiresses lower ".g the tone of London society. It Is easy to retaliate. A mention of thw BUM of th- Countess of Euston. who died the other Oer, should sflcsjC even the editor of the L ndon Truth. The countess was once a met ber of the demi-monde, and If she had lived a few weeks longer she would have bee a a duchess. Lord Euston s father, the Duko of Grafton, is more than eighty years oh and In very ill health. Had his daughter-ii law outlived him. Hritain would have ha-l to accept this person as a duchess of the realm. It really appears as if American girls are too good to be allowed IS marry Into society where such things are possible. Washington dispatches In !cate clearly the ground tie administration will take relative to Ger ral Reyes's mission for the ewtelesaent of he Colombian-Panama affair. It will n t talk war nor discuss any war proposition s, but will offer the assistance of this government in bringing about

ible settlement and understanding

between Colombia and Panama. Of course, that means on the basis of Panamalan independence, which has been already recognized. THE IM ISHMF.T OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. In his memorandum on the report of the Bristow investigating committee the President said: "I heartily approve of the recommendation of Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte that the statute of limitation be extended in the case of government servants to a period of St ISSSf years; for the persons who in auch positions of trust engage in corrupt practices can ordinarily conceal their guilt for a longer time than is covered by the present short Btatute of limitations." The attorney general has recommended a change of the law in his report to Congress, and it will probably be

made. It is a question whether there should be any statute of limitations against the right of the government to punish frauds. At common law there was no such bar, even among individuals. It is a maxim of the common law that a right never dies, and, as far as contracts were concerned, there was no time of limitation to actions on such contracts. This rule, however, was found to encourage Injustice in bringing suits long after the cause of action had arisen, and it was finally changed in England by statutes which were followed In this country. Now, all of the States have laws limiting the time in which various proceedings may be instituted or crimes punished. The theory of such legislation is that as the investigation of controversies becomes more difficult with the lapse of time, and that long delay to sue may imply either that satisfaction has been received or that all claim is abandoned, and as it is vexatious to revive stale claims the law allows fixed periods, varying with the grievance, within which. If at all, a claimant must apply to the courts. Such a rule may be wise and just as between individuals, but it is of doubtful wisdom as applied to the government. Frauds against the government are the worst form of crime. They should never be condoned nor the right of the government to punish the offenders surrendered. As President Roosevelt says in his memorandum: "No crime calls for sterner reprobation than the crime of the corruptionist in public life." The laws of the United States define nearly every form of fraud against the government and prescribe severe penalties, but the statute of limitations runs in all such cases. Section 1046 of the Revised Statutes says that "No person shall be prosecuted, tried or punished for any crime arising under the revenue laws, unless the indictment is found within five years next after the committing of such crime," and Section 1044 says, "No person shall be prosecuted, tried or punished for any offense, except as provided in Section 1046, unless the indictment is found within three Wars next after such offense shall have been committed." This section covers ail violations of the postal laws. The Bristow report shows that some of the frauds which it exposes began ten years ago. but under the section last above quoted only those perpetrated within the last three years furnish a basis for prose cution of the offenders. The rest are barred by the statute. It Is difficult to see on what principle of justice there should b any limitation of time against the govern ment prosecuting those who have defraud ed It. The statute of limitations is, in a sense, an encouragement to government of ficlals to perpetrate frauds, as it gives as surance that if they can cover their tracks so as to escape exposure for three years they will be safe from prosecution. The ex tension of the time to five years, as recom mended by the President and the attorney general, will be an Improvement, but better still would be a repeal of the statute of limitations. No lapse of time should prevent the government from prosecuting and punishing a person who has defrauded it. BOSTON'S PRUDERY. Four prominent booksellers in the city of Boston have been arrested on the chargo of keeping obscene literature for sale. And Boston the literary "hub of the universe" is stirred from center to circumference over the circumstance. The arrests were made on the complaint of an organization known as "The Watch and Ward Society;" and the books so sternly characterize'd are Boccaccio's "Decameron," the "Heptameron" of Margaret of Navarre and the works of Master Francis Rabelais. The decision of the courts in this case will be eagerly awaited, not only by Boston lovers of literature, but by bookish people In all parts of the country. Not that the judge's opinion of the matter is likely in any way to Influence their own, but merely to see what the legal status of certain great literary works shall be in tne literary city of Boston. These books have a recognized high position in the world of letters. They are classics works of a far different nature from those with which the good people of the Watch and Ward Society are supposed to concern themselves. Boccaccio, the father of novelists, the inspiration of Chaucer; his imitator and worthy pupil, the Queen of Navarre, and the great Frenchman who created Gargantua and Pnntagruel are their works fit to be exposed for sale in Boston book shops? Certainly, there are things in these books which would not make them proper reading for young girls and boys, and yet on Indianapolis woman said the other day: "I keep Boccaccio on the high shelf, of course, but if I had to make a choice I would rather put the 'Decameron' into my daughter's hands than such and such a book" and she named two of the popular novels of the day. The "Decameron" has other things than Italian intrigues as the subjects of its stories; there arc tales of noble character and intense human inter est tales which have been the inspiration f. r many a monumental work of literature. Shall we banish Chaucer, too? Loglenlly. we must do so if we exile Boccaccio, for the father of English poetry took many of the Italian's stories and he did not choose the most delicate of them, either. He picked one or two of the most daring, and he clothed them in a bold Saxon which would have shocked the author of the originalst The Watch and Ward Society has undoubtedly made a serious mistake, and one which may have the effect of vitiating the organization s future usefulness. It will be easy for the defense to show that if these accepted monuments of liternture are to be condemned, Shakspeare, Balzac, Zola, Walt Whitman, Swinburne, Tolstoy and the English Bible must go also. Of course, there may be circumstances which would render it advisable to limit the sale of certain books. If the book-

sellers have boen making a practice of selllrg these works indiscriminately to prurient-minded boys and Inquisitive and irresponsible schoolgirls they should be admonished; but there Is a class of literature to which the "unco guld" of the society might better turn their attention. There are yellow-backed novels sold at 5 and 10 cents each which are Infinitely worse in their purpose and effect than the Innocent indecencies of early literature. The high prices at which the translated classics are sold are generally prohibitive to young people. If the society really wishes to accomplish any good it will endeavor to remove the books that are really implanting vice in the minds of youth the tales that are starting many a "boy bandit" on a career of crime that leads to the scaffold.

RAILROAD HATKS AND CAR SEItVItK In connection with the movement to se cure better transportation facilities and rates for thif, city, it is of interest to note that an organization called the Foreign Trade Association, of New York, yesterday took up for consideration the question of discriminating freight rates in favor of certain classes of goods, and of foreign as against domestic trade. The proposition submitted to the association stated that The Trunk-line Association has granted a concession in rates upon a special list of Iron and steel products of 33 1-3 per cent, to all foreign countries, except British America, from all points east of the Mississippi river, to the exclusion of all other manufactured products of the United States, the injustice of which is clearly evident; and it is the common practice of the transportation companies of tne United States to favor foreign countries in the sale of their manufactured goods in the United States by making effective rates on imported goods at from 50 to 75 per cent, less than for goods in domestic transit." The Journal Is not prepared to say whether these statements are true or not. The Foreign Trade Association includes in its membership many reputable manufacturing firms of the East, and probably knows what it is talking about. The interstate-commerce law was intended to do away with discriminating rates, but it has been only partially successful. Why American railroads should discriminate in favor of foreign manufacturers, as against Americans, if they do, is past finding out. This questiou is ouly remotely related to that of local rates, but it shows that the railroads are capable of all sorts of discrimination. Indianapolis owes much to the railroads, but they In turn owe a good deal to this city, and considering the franchises and privileges they have received, they owe It fair play. The movement in favor of better rates and better car service should be vigorously pushed. Jules Levy, who died last Saturday, was at one time considered the greatest living cornttist. He made his first hit in this country with Parepa Rosa, but for the last fifteen years has rarely appeared in public performances. He was well known in this State, having for a number of years given instruction to pupils in Elkhart. Count Tolstoy has written an unfriendly criticism on Shakspeare. Even the truly great have their moments of weakness, and the Russian novelist has now exposed his. When the gods have gone, the halfgods take on airs. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat makes a grievous though natural mistake in supposing that the first name of the Aby.ssinian general, Ras Makonuen, is au undignified and familiar abbreviation for Erastus. Geologists have made certain discoveries in Kansas which lead them to believe that man was here prior to the carboniferous epoch. There was a time, then, when somebody got ahead of the coal dealers. Novelist James Lane Allen is reported to have made a fortune by investments in oil. It was probably the midnight variety which writers are always understood to use. A newspaper reporter in Washington has discovered that in the roster of names of the congressmen there Is only one Solomon. He is alone in all his glory. It begins to look as if Santa Claus would have ample opportunity to use his sleigh this year. THE HUMORISTS. Unnoticed. "You say you saw my sister at a recent v, ddina-?" "Yes. It wasn't very long ago." "But I don't remember that she mentioned seeing you." Very likely. I was only the groom." Cleve land Plain Dealer. How She Worked It. "But were the boarders not suspicious sometimes? Did they not seem to act as If they doubted that the veal stew was turkey?" asked the new gleaner. "Ah, but I took precautions." replied the retlrcd boarding-house keeper. "I always stirred in a few feathers." Judge. Enlightened. Hungry Mike Any free lunches In Boston? Wise -William Sure, dey ia; but yer don't want ter look for no signs readin': "Free lunch." Hungry Mike Gee! Don't they have no signs out? Wi.-e William Sure, dey do; but in Boston dey read: "Luncheon Gratis." Puck. Not Contemporaries. Crlttick Yes. I took In the opening perform ance of Gagley's comic opera at the Coiuedia last night. .kins Tea? Metatttg new there, I suppose. Crittlck O! yes. some of the people in the audience seemed to be quite new. They laugheü at the Jolr ,a t'atholic Standard. V timed tu Know. Yon Know. "Henry." ald Mrs. Wattles, ."when will the election come back?" "The election? What election?" ' Why the last one you attended." "It'll never come hack. When an election Is over, that's the end of It; It never returns." "Then why do you men when talking together so often say 'the election returns.' " Kansas j City Journal. For Christmas. Now doth the woman who Is wise Her Christmas gifts prepare. Lest Christmas come before ahe wots And take her unawares. She lays aside five dollars, and With that she plans to buy Gifts for her family and friends. And kinsmen far and nigh. Then saves she up. for she is wh-e. And vrsfty is her look. A twenty to provide a small Remembrance for the cook. Washington Post. Delays Are Dangerous. Lover And so yoMr mother does not believe in long engagements? I am delighted. Miss De Broker Yes. mamma says ever so man sirls' fathers have failed during long en-

gagementa, and the poor things never got married at all. New York Weekly.

The Saeceedlng Days. 'Twaa turkey yesterday, forsooth. And tasted mighty well; Rut what 'twill be the next few days Served up In countless nauseous ways Where is the man can tell? Baltimore American. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. A Delphi. Ind.. editor was ttneA $200 the other day for printing an obscene story in his paper. He had to pay the fine or go to Jail- He is not in jail. We never knew that courts did business on credit.. Cannelton Enquirer. Having attained to a position of honor and influence. Hon. J. E. Watson is better equipped to represent his district than he has ever been. To turn him down at a time when he has reached a stage of greatest usefulness, would be a serious mistake a mistake which the people will not make. Middletown News. Farmers in this vicinity report one of the finest corn crops ever raised. We are informed several pieces have made as high as 100 bushels per acre, while aeventy-five and eighty bushels per acre is quite common In this locality. With a corn crop of this kind the farmers can overlook to a large extent an almost complete failure in the wheat crop. A large part of the crop is being put on the market. Poseyville News. If Charles S. Hernly. of New Castle, decides to run for the Legislature, as he threatens to do, he will get there, and Henry county will have a representative worth while. Charley Hernly is one -of that class of 'citizens who do things when they start, and if he gets upon the floor of the Indiana Legislature there will be something doing every hour in the day to the credit of Henry county and to the State. Lafayette Journal. In view of the recent trouble involving the banks of northern Indiana, it is gratifying to know that the banking institutions of Goshen are solvent and able to meet any obligations that may be made on them. Investigation shows that the banks of this city have greater assets on hand than at any previous time, and all of them have safe, conservative men In charge, guaranteeing proper business management. eloshen News-Times. A Berlin cablegram announces that it has been proved in the court at Gratz that Constable StetMh by threatening to kill one Bratuscha, - . a 1 forced him to confess that he nau roasieu una eaten his daughter, whereupon Bratuscha was sentenced to death, bit later committed to an insane asylum. Later the daughter turned up safe and sound, and now the constable is on trial. Constable Sesko selected the wrong field of operations. If he had only applied himself to the cases of the forty or fifty Republicans who are accused of firing the shot that killed Senator Goebel. he would by this time have had 1...SS. ssinn ..r a ssssjleaiaMe em Oos af that $:),- 0) r.-wari und might a PQffJlSI candidate for senator. Governor or something equally as good. Logansport Journal. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Pletro Cartonl. of Rome, has given $200.000 to found a sanitorium for consumptives, in memory of his two sons who died of tuberculosis. Owners of the Victoria Cross who sell or lose the decoration without being able to account for the loss, will hereafter forfeit the $50 pension that goes with It by a recent War Office order. A remarkable case of skin grafting is re ported from Elkton, Md.. where a woman naa over three square feet of skin grafted on to her, part of It being taken from her husband and son, and the rest from frogs. Ramon Joss Lacsom, a Filipino student at Georgetown 1'nlversity. says that the records or his country show that there were universities in the Philippines long before institutions of such high grade were ever thought of In this country. Rev. W. A. Jones, of the Presbyterian Church at Knoxville, Pa., has refused a can to .asi Liverpool at an increase of salary amounting to $1,200 a year, and his congregation has voted him the most exceptional clergyman in the Key stone State. Melamenchytraeus solifugus is a singular earthworm lately noticed on Mount St. Ellas, Alaska. By night it swarms on the snow of the Malaspina glacier, but when the sun shines it burrows to a depth of eighteen inches or more under the surface. That popular teacher down in Auburn, Me., has received another gift form the small, auburn-haired youth on the front bench. This time it was a mouse. The scholars claim that they were much surprised when they found out teacher was an athlete. Senator Quay's recently expressed Idea about an Indian senator from one of the proposed new States recalls the fact that a str.iin of Indian blood flows through his own veins. It is of Delaware origin, and those of that tribe even now regard him as one of themselves. Rev. John Sinclair, the eighteenth Earl of Caithness, has just been installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Brookline, Mass. The earl, as long as he lives, will be entiteld to the title. A former earl willed the estate away, but the title can never be included in a will. Representative Nehemlah D. Sperry, of the Second Connecticut district is the father of the House is point of years, being seventy-five years of age. He is one of the founders of the Republican party, and was secretary of the Republican national committee during Lincoln's administration. He went on the bond of the builder of the Monitor, which demolished the M err i mac. The patent office invariably refuses any specification or invention which might possibly be put to fraudulent use. They are equally careful with reference to gams of chance. A novel form of roulette table was among the inventions recently refused; and another device, a sort of penny-in-the-slot machine, which would return a coin when shot in a certain direction to its owner, shared a similar fate. A BATCH OF LITTLE ST0EIES. Fooled the JudW. A Maine farmer who had gone to law with a neighbor su: I to his lawyer that he send the magistrate a couple of fine ducks. "Not on your life." said the attorney. "If you do you'll loBe the case." The case came on and was tried and Judgment was given in his favor. Then he turned to the lawyer and gleefully exclaimed: "I sent the ducks. ' Astonishment on the lawyer's part led the client to continue: l'.ut I sent them in my opponent's name." Chicago News. An Objection to Washington. Mi .- tentative Bowie, of Alabama, has a little daughter to whom life In the national capital has been a disappointment. In her Alabama home she has us her playground expansive lawns and fields filled with flowers, and her freedomloving cplr't rebels against the asphalt streets and granolithic sidewalks of Washington. A few days ago she approaihed her father with dlegOSt and weariness written all over her tiny features. 'i'aja." she said, "let's get out of Congress and ro back to Alabama to live." Why. daughter." exclaimed Mr. Bowie, "don't you like Washington'.' It is the moat beautiful city In the land." 'Taln't." responded the small girl, with conviction; "it's a horrid place. Why, papa," she continued, the light of triumphant argument In her eye, "there isn't mud enough tn all Washington to make a single pie." Washington Past, Ills Title Defective. When Beriah Wllkins. who is now the proprietor of the Washington Post, was in Congress from Ohio he was also president of a national bank. He was ordered away by hla physician for a rest, and went to a village in Georgia, where he knew nobody and where nobody knew nun, and nobody, apparently, cared to. He sat around the hotel for two weeks. Then he decided to go back to Washington. l'.e found he did not have enough money to pay his hotel bill and railroad fare. He did not care to make a check, so he walked over to the little bank on the public square and told the aged banker who he was, saying he fleshes' to make a draft for $.'o0 on the bank of which he was president. "I don't know you." said the banker, "but

you can make the draft, and if the bank honors

It I will give you the money." "I can't wait that long. Wllkins replied. "I want the money now." "Identify yourself." said the banker. Mr. Wilkins showed the banker his name as president of the Ohio bank In the bank directory and produced some letters. "That's all right." said the banker, "but I can't let you have the money on such an identification." Wilkins argued. The banker was obdurate. Finally, after half an hour's' Ulk. the banker softened and said: "Let me see the tag on your shirt. - If the initials are right I II cash the draft." Wllkins opened his waistcoat. The letters "J. P. B." loomed red and distinct on the tag. He had on one of half a dosen shirts his shirtrnaker had sold to him for cost, because the man for whom they were made didn't take them. Philadelphia Poet. Had One Bad Trait. A call for a minister was about to be Issued in Champ Clark's home town In Missouri. It was made, and when the minister arrived the church committee found the minister and Representative Clark were old schoolmates. They went to him and asked him about the new minister. "He's a good man." said Mr. Clark. "He will infuse new life Into the church and Is one of the most sociable fellows I ever met. He is eloquent, tells a good story of the right kind and will be quite an addition to our town." The committee started to leave, feeling very good over having made such an excellent selection, when Clark called them back, saying: "Oh, I forgot to teil you that Dr. Blank is fierce when he gets drunk. There's no handling him when he drinks." New York World. From the Doctor's Hand. An uptown physician tells the following story at the expense of a patient whose name, for obvioua reasons, he withholds : "She is a highly intelligent woman, and called to consult mi. for a cold, which, while severe in character, was easily prescribed for. I made the selection of sugar-coated pellets, which I placed in a small bottle. Before Inserting the cork I poured six of the pellets In the palm of my left hand, which I extended, saying: " 'You might as well take these now. "She grasped my hand, and, much to my surprise, raised it to her mouth, and. slightly bending, licked the pellets from my palm. As you can readily imagine, it was done so quickly and withal so neatly that I had not the opportunity to withdraw my hand in protest, even had I been so disposed to do." The M. D. added: "It is surprising what really laughable 'breaks' some really clever people make." Philadelphia Telegraph. Why He Doesn't Like "Dixie." Brigadier General "Jack" Hayes was an aid on the staff of General Kllpatrick during the civil war. When a hand-organ began playing "Dixie" the other night he left his seat in front of a local hotel t.nd went into the house. "Why don't you like 'Dixie?' " asked a friend. "On our march to the sea," said General Hayes, "we were tearing up a railroad, building bonfires of the ties and laying the rails across them until heated redhot and then twisting them about trees and telegraph poles. A bunch of Confederates attacked us. General Kilpatrick ordered me to take out three bands and begin playing, hoping to delay the main attack until we had destroyed railroad communication. "I deployed the bands, and they gave the Rebs the finest lie of music they ever heard. Finally all of them stopped. " 'Play more patriotic airs,' I ordered. " 'We don't know any more,' said the three bankmasters in concert. " 'Well, give 'em 'Dixie,' I said. "The bands played 'ölxle' and those Confederates let out the rebel yell and started for us and gave us the worst licking we got on the march to the sea. That's why I don't seem to like 'Dixie.' "New York World. Brought Money and Fame. It is possible George Ade still would be unknown to the stage if he had not taken a short trip to the Orient a few years ago. He went to the Philippines to visit his friend, John T. McCutcheon, a Chicago cartoonist, who became a war correspondent by chance. McCutcheon was on a voyage around the world in the dispatch boat McCullough when war broke out with Spain. The McCullough Joined Dewey's fleet in time for the battle of Manila, and the artist was ordered by his editor to stay In the islands and report events. He wrote to Ade to .come. They had been students together in Purdue University, and both had found employment with a Chicago paper. Ade spent six weeks in the East. When he returned to Chicago he wrote "The Sultan of Sulu" for an amateur organization. The success of this play when exalted to the regular stage gave Ade the belief another comedy about the strange folk across the Pacific would be acceptable to the public. A short time ago he finished "The Sho-Gun," In which he flits from the court of the Sultan of Sulu to the weird attractiveness of Corea. A third comedy about the experiences of Ade's flying trip may be expected. He has found the East more profitable than the prairies of Indiana and Illinois. Since "The Sultan of Sulu" started him toward prosperity Ade has resigned his position on a newspaper and he now owns an automobile. New York Press. How Russell Sage Dines. Russell Sage eats five meals a day. He begins the day with a substantial breakfast and ends it with an ample dinner. But between this and therein lies the main merit of his dietary instead of the heavy luncheon which brings torpor to the keenest intellect the rugged old financier takes three light lunches of bread and milk or crackers and :nilk or milk and a sandwich, but always milk. These lesser meals he consumes at 11, 1 and 4 o'clock. That is, during his busy worklrg day Mr. Sage, while providing his system with a full allowance of nutriment, imposes no tax on the digestion sufficient to divert the main flow of blood from the brain to the Etomach. By the lightness of the meals he escapes mental torpidity and by their frequency he avoids any feeling of faintneas arising from an empty stomach. New York Herald. Get Their Sin Straight. Delinquent youngsters in Denver are having a fine time of It. The Juvenile Court law permits the judge to hold parents responsible for the behavior of their children, and the result is that frequently the parent Is fined or otherwise punished instead of the child. There is a certain amount of Justice in this, but what if the child has inherited his sin not from his parent, but from some remote ancestor over whom the parent had no control? It is hoped in such cases the judge will not be too severe. Home children have inherited their propensities straight fiom Adam. Chicago Chronicle. Feigned Hard Work. It was away up to the Bronx that a delivery wagon from a big department store waa sent with a 5-eent bottle of vaseline. The Irish arises backed the team of horses to the curb, got" out the skids and deliberately slid the small bottle down them to the sidewalk. He rolled It to the basement door and, handing it to the servant, asked her If she knew of a Ftrong man who would help him carry a lamp wick to a customer around the corner. New York Press The Masterpiece. My mother cut it out for me. And started it so I could aee; Ar.d then she turned some edges in And let me take It to begin. I made it. But I did not know How very hard it is to sew. I took a long time for that stitch. And now it's there, I don't know which Is better; but not one is small. And they are not alike at all. That side was very hard to fix; And then the needle always pricks. And you must hold it and take care. Because the point la always there; And knots keep coming, by and by; And then, co matter how you try. The thread conies out of its old eye; . But somehow, now I have It done, I think It Is a pretty one. Josephine Prestoa Pea body, in Harper's Magazine.

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Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffton. one of the well known Democratic leaders of the State, is inclined to trke life and polities seriously, on the whole.' but there are times when he likes his little joke, and on occasion he can turn a point on the other fellow as neatly as the next one. Last evening in the lobby of the Eng ish he was talking with some friends Republicans, at that, for with all his Democracy Mr. Dougherty finds Republicans comi aniouable at times when the question of carrying Indiana next year was brought up. "I regard Indiana ai safely Democratic next year." observed tl e Bluffton politician, apparently in all seriousness. Then as his hearers turned on him for an explanation, his eyes twinkled and he added: "That is. if Bristow is Tvrmitted to continue his work and is abl to land all the Indiana Republicans he seems to be after." A moment later, however. Mr. Dougherty expressed his serious opinion of Brlstow's work. "I have been following the postal frauds case with considerable interest. he said, "and have read with interest Brlstow's report and the comments of the President. I am inclined to bellee that Bristow has over-reached himself and overdone the task he has undertaken. He has been given complete freedom In. his investigation but I think he has gone a 1 ttle too far. has accepted statements no made under oath and will not be able to substantiate all of the charges he has made. Unquestionably there has been Crookedness in the administration of some brain h. i of the Postoftioe Department, and any step to remedy the evil and punish the offenders is to be commended. Perhaps Brh'tow has been unable to unearth a teuth of p.ll the real rottenness, but he should not attack the integrity of nv man without good aid sufficient evidence to convict him, and from reading his report, I doubt if he Wfl! make good his cases against a majority of those he arraigns." XXX Active steps toward securing the next Prohibition national convention for Indianapolis have been taken by the Commercial Club. Letters have been sent out to each member of the Prohibition national commit tee and a booklet, setting forth the advan tages of Indianapolis as a convention city. has been prepared, copies of which will be distributed where thy will do the most good. The national committee will hold a meeting Dec. 16 at the Auditorium Hotel, In Chicago, to determine upon the time and place of the next convention, and the claims of Indianapolis will m presented to the committee in the strongest possible light. F. T. McWhirter, of this city, and Charles Eck hart, of Auburn, the Indiana members of the committee, will do all in their power to head the convention this war. and they will be assisted by a special committee ap pointed for this purpose at the last Prohibition State convention State Chairman C. E. Newlin is chairman, and Quincy Lee Marlow, of this city, is secretary of this special committee. A number of other ities are after the na tolnal convention, arr.ong them being Baltimore. Buffalo, Columbus, Kansas City and Minneapolis, and. Indianapolis will not have a walk-awray. This city entertained tne convention In 1SS. xxx State Chairman Newlin was asked yesterday where the Prohibition party will turn for a presidential candidate next year "No booms have beei started, so far as I am aware, ne replied, "Out thfre la a sentiment among the party leaders that our ticket would be greatly strengthened if some strong Southern man, who has hith erto been allied with the Democratic party could be nominated for PresWent and induced to accept "he nomination. Such a man as ex-Cov. Northern, of Georgia, for instance. Northern is a Democrat and possibly could be pursuaded to head the Prohibiten ticket, but he is a strong man. By nominating a Southern man I believe that We could Spilt the Dem ocratic party wide cpen and poll a much larger vote than ever before in the history of our party. "Some people may mile at the suggestion thart the Prohibition party should turn to the South for its candidate." continued Mr. Newlin, "but they dc not realize the progress the cause of prohibition has made in that part of the country. Texas will be a 'dry' State after the l rst of the year, a local option law which has been adopted in every county in the State going into effect Jan. 1. T Georgia, 120 of the 137 counties have local option, and forty-seven counties in Kentucky are with us. Over two-thirds of Tennessee has local option and there is a new law in that 8tate w tich prohibits a saloon within four miles of a schoolhouse, except in the larger cities." ' xxx No names have been mentioned up to the present time in con-nection with the Prohibition nomination lor Governor of thdiana next year, but a fev of the friends of Dr. Homer J. Hall, of franklin, have started a quiet movement fo- him. Dr. Hall stands high in the councils of the party, and may be selected to head the ticket next year. Charles Eckhart, of Auburn, who was the nominee in 1900, dors not desire a second nomination, it is understood. With the Prohibitionists it is usually a case of the nomination seeking the man, consequently it is not probable that taere will be a contest for the preferment. xxx Apropos of some vvorld's fair talk among a group of politicians in the lobby of the Claypool last evening the suggestion was made that there should be a special committee in the Indiana World's Fair Commission to arrange for an exhibit of Indiana politics as one of Use State's chief industries. "No need of that. ' spoke up one of the group. "The commission has a committee on fine arts, and po ltlcs in Indiana Is certainly a fine art. The fact that machines are made and used 4s no reason for classifying politics as an Industry." xxx Lieutenant Governor Newton W. Gilbert, of Fort Wayne, was at the Columbia Club last evening. His presence in the city conclusively contradicted the report that he had been forced to return to the sanatorium at Battle Creek beevtuse of a recurrence of his rheumatic troubles. "The shadow of the sanatorium still hangs over me," he explained, "but I haven't had to go back yet.v Mr. Gilbert was rfsked if there was anything new in Twelrth district politics. "I didn't know anything new about the Twelfth district uijtll I came down here to-day" he answer'ed. "I've leSflMd a lot of things to-day, ahd much that I learned would be Intere'stlPg and important if it were true." He declined to dis.euss the question of his "OLD TIMES IN INDIANA.' How Two Hooster Boys Set Oat to Capture Morgan. Cleveland Leader, t An interesting b't of heretofore unnarrated history of tae State of Indiana In civil war times was related Sunday evening at a luncheqn and smoker of the Indiana Society of Ohio at ilotel Euclid, by James M. Richardson. One of the incidents told by Mr. Richardson-, in his realistic picture of "Old Times in Indiana," was as follows: "It is the summer of 1863. Four of my brothers have gon? to war. One has paid the last full measure of devotion' on Shiloh Held. The fifth anil youngest has had no chance. John Morgan has crossed the river Into Indiana and turning east from Mitchell is making for the Ohio line. Two boys have been secreting munitions of war for two days, biding their time. Ostensibly sleeping together at th" home of one of them, they manage to kep awake until early dawn. "At the first henld of the daybreak th y slip out of the wint'ow onto the kitchen roof and thence to the .ground and away to the barn. Spreading hy upon the floor and the bridge they saddle and lead out two horses, carefully keeping rnem on the grass at the side of the lane, until they reach the high road. There, mounting and walking the horses until they phss a grove of trees, tluy break Into a gallop, and from that moment John Morgan s anuv is In dang. r. "They are heavily armed. One has a bowie knife and a sword, the other a CSoll I revolver and n bny-uiet. They know that a mounted companj of Home Guards Connersville the night before and they were hurrying to join :it. As they approached Connersville the fun rises. The larks are singing in the rmadowa. The dust of the

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gubernatorial candidacy, saying that he would not be ready to talk on that subject for several weeks. xxx A. G. Lupton, of Hartford City -"Majah Lumpkins," as he is known to h fellowmembers of tn- Governor's staff was at the Innlson last eve-nine;. Business, not poli ties, brought him to the capital, he said. xxx "There is a great deal of Hann talk la the East." said K S Mc I 'hereon, an Insurance man of Washington, D. C. who waa at the Denison last night, "and I am in terested in learning if there is much Hanna sentiment in the middle West. Bel tor Hanna. as I understand, has never stated flatly that he would not permit the use of his name as a presidential candidate, and in anv event his name is being used in that connection. With the Democrats Senator Gorman seems to have the call on the nom ination, although an effort is be ng made in New York by the Cleveland ement to bring Judge Parker to the front as the residuary legatee of the Cleveland boom. xxx Judge Owen N. Heaton. of Ft. Wayne. Is being spoken of by his friends ax a possible candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in the Twelfth district next year. It is understood, however, that he does not look with favor on his boom. as he has yet three years to serve on the circuit bench. i xxx Maj. Francis T. Roots, of Coinersville, who was at the Columbia Club last evening, says that developments from day to day in the Sixth district strengthen his pre diction of a few weeks ago that E. P. Xhayer, of Greenfield, will be eLected district chairman with little or no opposition. "There is nothing to be said against Mr. I'nthank personally. or politically,? so far as I am aware, but his candidacy for chairman has ualned little headway, and I shall be surprised if he does not withdraw before the convention is held," said tr. Roota. "I do not believe, either, that Mr Williams, of Newcastle, is making any process with his candidacy against Congressman Watson. Mr. Watson has worked Sard during the last two or three year$ and has strengthened himself greatly ii the district. His appointment as a meniber of the ways and means committee will add to his strength, too, as it will enable him to be of greater service to his censti'uents and take a position of more prominence in the House." XX Elam H. Neal, of Jonesboro, prospective candidate for chairman of the organization In the Eleventh district, was at the Columbia Club last evening, in .conference with Harry C. Pcttit, of Wabash. What h said to Mr. Pettii the W; bash politician alone knows, but when a reporter approached he entered into a dl.-.cussiou of the telephone business. Mr. St has not announced his candidacy for district chairman and will not aay when a deilnite statement as to his attitude may be Expected. xxx James F. Stutesman, of Peril, another Eleventh district Republican w?o Is troubled about joining the lists of the candidates, waa at the Claypool last-, night. "If Mr. Shideler is to be a candidate for Governor the Eleventh district will be for him and he will be the district's bandidate,' he said. "If he is not a candidate I think I shall be a candidate for lieutenant governor, but I cannot say definitely what I shall do until 1 know where Mr. Shideler stands." Mr. Stutesman predicts the re-election of Adam Beck as district chftirmrtn. "Beck will be re-elected easily," he sild, "and I doubt if Elam Neal is a candidate against him. As the thing now standi Beck will have Cass. Miami. Wabash and (Huntington counties solid and will get a parU of Blackford, so I can't see that Neal has any show at all. Beck has been a good chairman, he is friendly both to Senator Beteridge and State Chairman Goodrich and ;s in a po sition to stand pat on the preiredent that gives the members of the statt committee the indorsement of at least one it lecttsB. Mr. Stutesman has always brten arrayed atrainst Maj. George W. Steele, of Marion, in Eleventh district politics, ard it ia expected that he will be for Representative Fred Laniis for the congressional nomina tion next yar. He was not disposed to take a decided jiosition on that poirjt, however. "as there is no avowed oppositl-ii to Land Is It is to be expected that all the Republican of the district are for him," hfc said. "Of course, there may be a fight against him, but I'm not indulging in speculation along At . li., nvnM ' that line at present." t XXX Former State Senator Eph i Inman, of Washington, who was at the English last evening, is one of the Democratic leaders of the Second district and he har" been mentioned as a possible candid te against Representative "Bob" Mlers for Ihe congressional nomination next year. However, he punctured his own boom by pr edicting the renomination of the Bloomington statesman. "i believe Mr. Mlers will be renominn without opposition," he said. t'Tt is true that th"re has been talk of opjsltion, but the talk has not been productive of candidates, and I think the Democjrata of the district will decide that they h - the right man in the right place and wSJ keep him there for another t"rm at leas. There is little politics in the Second dlt1ct at presentthings are unusually quiet.j in fact." Senator lnman was greatly mfssed during the last st ssion of the Legislature. He was a member of the Senate in the sessions of lSJe and 1901. and in 1901 he and; "Blue-Eyed Billy" Stilwell, of Princeton.tcontributed more to the gaiety and excitement of the S. ssate than any other half dosen members. The Democrats were in such a helpless minority that they could hope t accomplish little more than to annoy and harrass the Republicans, but in Inman änd Stilwell they had two leaders who were past masters of the art of making trouole. For all that, both are capital good f. Hows and they were popular on the majority side as well as among the mimrit. xxx Mayor John W. Holtxman to k his mayoralty troubles to French Lic yesterday, where he will seek recuperation from the life strenuous. It Is hinted also that, concealed somewhere about his berson, the mayor took with him his incipient gubernatorial boom, which he will display to the Democratic editors of the Sta e. who will be at the springs as the guest of Thomas Taggart. James Leroy Keach. It is inferred, will view with alarm, to put it mihiy, the jourii. v of "the man I made mayo! ' to French Lick, where Taggart holds forth. In Reach's opinion, according to confidences he has given a few friends, there has alreadv been "too much Taggart" in the present city administration. road, wet by the dew. Is soft beneath the horses' feet. The cattle at the pasture bare look with dreamy-eyed wondtr at these valiant knights. Suddenly upon this atmosphere of i i" breaks the sound of war; the rumble of heavy wheels. As they reach the man street they see approaching from the north two full butteries tof artillery, coming at a brisk trot. "Tbey wait at a side street; to see them pass, and then, with pale faces, hold a council of war to determine irhettter they should go on and capture Mlrgan or return home. With these two batteries between them and the enemy. elude that it is safe to follow, and pn they ride. Near Brookville they overtake and join a mounted company of motlej clad 'stay-at-homes' undr th; commatfd of a captain of Infantry, named 0olman, who is at home on leave of absence. "The campaign was short, tout glorious. Its grand strategy has never been written. It consisted chiefly In halting for meals and to rest the horses in reserving; ammunition for emergencies; in fier e warlike addressees by the captain, and In petitions from the rank and file tfcat he should not load his men into danger in necessarily, for the sake of the loved ones at home. General Morgan's command. unmindful of its peril, crossed their fn'nt one night while they were peacefully 'sleeping two miles away, and paeeed over the State line into Ohio, and the campaign was over." I resident M. A. Marks, wh . in keeping with his position, was toaa tanas ter. then introduced David Gibson, chblfly known te fame hereabouts as the editor of the sfcCordsviile Exhumer, now published in conjunction with Saturday.- u.;i:.d Leader, and who was the second speaker of the evening. His topic Was "Hoosbr Country Journals." and during the Iisj course, of which he related many of the m"uii iihib umi appear im i uese v quaint items that appear in t tiers, he also told anecdotes at foii Nye and other Indiana editors. Other spenk.-rs w r- N H. W hiting. L. A. Smart, A. K. McKee and W. G Oswald. Acceptances of their electioa to honorary membership in the society were receives from lion. John Hay, secretary of state: Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben-Hr.