Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1904 — Page 4

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It is reported on good authority that ,Jafr. Bryan is hurrying home to urge the bntificatlon of the Panama treaty so that Hi can oppose it later in the year. Cable dispatches from St. Petersburg continue to assure us that the Czar yearns for peace In China. Uninterrupted preparations for war, however, give rise to the Mnpiclon that it is a piece of China for Which he yearns. The striking drivers of Chicago claim jbredlt for suspending the strike since the theater horror, but it should never be forgotten that they were guilty of the barbarism of refusing to permit funerals for some .time before the disaster. In addition to the vessels purchased Vom Chile, Japan has bought two new Warships from Argentina. The South American republics are coming to a sensible tvallz.it ion of the fact that they do not Baad War vessels except to sell to some less fortunate country. As "one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ' so one tragic stroke like the Chicago catastrophe elicits sympathy from All mankind. Probably no other local event has ever drawn out as many expressions from all parts of the country and from ther countries as this one has. A Presbyterian organ in Philadelphia objects to the election of the Rev. Lr. Hale as chaplain of the United States Senate on the ground that his opinions are "unorthodox." This is querulous sectarianism carried to an extreme; that paper needs the prayers of sensible Presbyterians. If the Czar is turning over any new leaves this year, why does he not try to get his beloved subjects to swear off ou the Kishineff habit? The Russians might abstain gradually, and only kill a Jew now and then, until finally it becomes comparatively easy to abstain altogether. If Oeneral Miles talked at Richmond as he is reported he has furnished another case of an army officer talking too freely. Although he is on the retired list. General Miles still occupies a quasi-official position, and it is not becoming in him to talk for publication concerning foreign complications and wars. A faint idea of the tremendous size of the United States Steel Trust may be gained from the figures of the consolidation of the Am. r: : s .. ; Steel and the American Tin Plate companies. Seventy-one plants are included, and their joint capitalization will be $100.000.000. These are only a part of the constituent combination in the gigantic trust. An auspicious feature of the beginning of the new year are the Indications that the. war cloud between the I'm ted States and Colombia will blow over. On reflection Colombia will probably decide to accept the Inevitable and not commit the mistake of trying to subjugate a republic whose Independence Is guaranteed by the United St i ; King Peter, of Servia. and Sultan Abdul, of Turkey, are two mouarchs who must he getting a good deal of quiet pleasure out of life Just at present. There is much International trouble agitating the world, but neither of them happens to be mixed up in it. Other countries will do them a real personal favor by forgetting their existence for a while. A Chicago man Wiflf win that his city buy $900.000 worth of the electrical machinery that will be used to light the exposition at St. Louis. The St. Louis plant will cost fc.U00.0U0. but when the fair Is over it will doubtless be for sale at about half the market rate. CI tins In need of flue up-to-date electric equipment might d worse than attend this bargain counter sale. After all has been said about the contributory causes of the Chicago disaster. Is it Bot true that the basic cause was money greed? We are told that the asbestos curtain was of inferior quality and b t tive Workmanship; that the fire escapes had not Ht been placed In position; that the spec-le-vuiar i- utt MM were uelvctive;

that the exits were Inadequate, etc. All of these defects could have been avoided if the management had taken more time and spent more money in making the theater safe. They were too anxious to save money and to open the theater prematurely in order to make money.

I ON i: i ion T LK. It may be a little early to discuss the next Republican State platform, but suggestions for the welfare of the party are always In order. State conventions generally meet somewhat earlier in presidential yars than they do in others. In order to line np before the national convention. In 1S96 the Republican national convention met June 16, and in 1900 on June 19. This year It will meet on June 21. and the State conventions a few months sooner, beginning probably in FebruaryIn 1896 the Indiana convention met on May 7, and In 1900 on April 25. It was the policy of Mr. McKinley s friends in 1896 to have as many State conventions as possible declare in his favor before the meeting of the national convention at St. Louis. Mr. Hanna, not yet Senator, was managing Mr. McKinley s campaign, end he wished early conventions. The Ohio convention that year met on March 11 and adopted what was regarded outside of Ohio as a weak and straddling resolution on the money question, which was destined to be the paramount Issue of the campaign. This money plank in the Ohio platform was severely criticised by leading Republicans in other States and led to the adoption of a much stronger and better one by the Indiana convention, which met a few weeks later. If the Ohio resolution on the money question had been adopted at St. Louis, Mr. McKinley probably would have lost the support of many sound money Republicans, and certainly would not have had that of the sound money Democrats. The Ohio resolution was a blunder which the resolution adopted by the Indiana Republicans helped to correct and pointed the way for the national convention to save the party by taking strong and advanced ground on that question. Thus while there may be a disadvantage In holding an early State convention in the failure to properly diagnose public sentiment, as was done by the Ohio convention in 1S96. there is also a chance to render an important public and party service by taking strong lighting ground, as the Indiana Republicans did that year. Happily the money question Is settled and there Is no other issue pending so fraught with possible danger to the party, but it is always important that a State convention should square itself and the party with the best public sentiment of the time. The Indiana convention of 1896 did not mention any presidential candidate by name, but its demand for a return to the sound Republican policy of protection and reciprocity was construed as pointing to Mr. McKinley as the candidate. Four years later, when he was a candidate for renomination, the convention indorsed his administration and him by name. The features of his administration specially indorsed were his policy on the money question, the open door in China, the administration of insular affairs and the conduct of the Spanish war. On all of these questions President Roosevelt has adhered .steadily to the policy of his lamented predecessor. From present indications it is probable that the State convention which will meet three or four months hence will fall in line with those of other States by indorsing President Roosevelt's administration and himself, for renomination. On State issues the convention can congratulate the people on the marked Improvement in the administration of State affairs, on reforms in the State penal and benevolent institutions, on the steady and large reduction of the State debt, and on progressive and beneficent legislation. It should favor such economy in State and local administration, as will make it possible to reduce taxes, and should insist on a reduction of the cost of government wherever it is possible. The Republican administrations of the last few years furnish a good platform on which to go before the people and a good keynote for the next convention. The new year opens with war in the East apparently inevitable and imminent. If it is true, as stated, that Russia has declined to grant the Japanese proposals the jingo spirit of the Japanese people will make it almost impossible to avert war, even if the government desires to do so. It has been evident for some time that the Japanass are eager for war. and their patriotism is roused to a pitch that is almost uncontrollable. If the Jätest dispatch regarding Russia's attitude is true the clash may come very soon. Canada is trying to annex Greenland in order to get even for that little piece of Alaska she lost. The news that Denmark refuses to sell comes as a surprise to about nine out of ten people who did not know that Denmark owned Greenland. The offer to buy, however, shows how familiar Canada is getting with the annexation idea. It will do her no harm to learn all about it. "The year finishes with an epidemic of disastrous fires." remarks the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. That is beyond the limit of the use of that overworked word "epidemic." Epidemics of suicide, of murder, of ping-pong these may have some figurative excuse; but an epidemic of fires Is beyond comprehension. Fires are catching, to be sure, but not that way. The late translator in the State Department is said to have been conversant with all the living languages and many of the dead ones. Now he himself has been translated into an unknown country; but perhaps he understands better than he ever did before. The children of the United States, with the able assistance of the dear girls, aided and abetted by their "steady company." managed to consume $150.000.000 worth of candy last year. This is good news for the sugar trust, the drug stores and the doctors. It has not yet been reported that Mary Mac Lane has been successful in her search for a husband, but as it will be place aux damea this year, she should have no excuse for not getting a good one before many weeks roll by. "Will Russia Use Force?" ask the headlines of a morning paper. Probably not; the only food products thus far ordered from the United Stat s have been embalmed beef and flour. Bnakfast food may come later, however. Eastern ministers- are now contlemning the game of pingpong. They appear to have waited until the gaiae ceased to be popular

before they began to preach against It. What profit is there in kicking a dead dog? The cook who once baked pies for Abraham Lincoln is dead in Danville. 111., at the age of 104. She has gone to join the noble army of Lincoln's law partners and Washington's body servants. A New York negro has been engaged at a salary of $5,000 to go to Haytl as court pianist to President Nord Alexis. Good! There i3 one ruler who likes ragtime and isn't ashamed to s.y so.

Lent will come very early this year; and that is another circumstance which will aid young men in preserving their New Year's resolutions. Some sympathize with Patti because the end of her career's In view. But she has made half a million, they say. Pity Patti? Pooh ! THE HUMORISTS. No Doubt of It. Crawfor.l Did he tell you he lived in a flat? Crabahaw No; but I met him looking around for a dwarf Christmas tree. Town Topics. instinct. The children all are optimists: V'ho hasn't noticed that The little darlings all play house. And neve once play flat? New Tork Sun. A hnblty Trick. The shades of night were falling fast. As through a Jersey village passed Old Santa Claus, who was it nice Filled stockings with oh, mean deviceExcelsior. Brooklyn Life. To Share the Blame. "Won't you be Riad. Tommy, when your baby brother is as big as you are now?" asked the caller. "You bet I will." replied Tommy; "then he'll be licked for some o the things that I git licked fur now." Philadelphia Press. Trial of the MoNlers of the Brush. I.andseer was instructing his pupils. "Kor a dachrhund." he explained, "paint on a piece of elastic, and then stretch It out." Struck by the beautiful simplicity of the scheme, they hailed him as a genius. New York Sun. Xenrer Home. Fr.-fesor Sfargazer Gravity Is actually less on the surface of Mars than at the sea level on the earth'. Every ton of coal, for Instance, delivered in that remote globe would fall short by 200 pounds. Mr. Furaess It Is unnecessary to go so far as Mars to perceive that same phenomenon! Judge. Jannnry. "Oblige me with a Hat," said Time The Prestidigitator, And Mr. World, with trust sublim. Uncovered his Equator Time waved his wand and. Presto! drew In coiling convolutions From out the Hat a roll of New And Pious Resolutions. Oliver Herford, in Metropolitan Magazine. In San Domingo. Way down in San Domingo They shoot to kill, Wos y Oil; The flamingo In the marshes is a Jingo In San Domingo; They're always revolutln'. Always tootin', lootln', In San Domingo; Some of them are rootln'. hootln'. Others are just scuttlln', shootin'. But most of them are parachutln' In San Domingo. New Orleans Times-Democrat. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to carry a larger amount of Insurance than any other woman In the world. Her policies amount to more than a million dollars. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell has arrived at Genoa. He will convey to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C, the remains of James Smlthson. founder of the institution, who died in Genoa In 1829. Louis Andre, the well-known criminal judge of Paris tribunals, has devoted all of his fortune for the purchasing of lands and creating large settlements at Haut de Saint Jean, near Chsrtrea and Choisy, where ex-culprits can find work and happy surroundings. Sir Conan Doyle Is renewing his attempt to enter Parliament through a Scottish constituency, having accepted the Unionist invitation to conteit the Hawick burghs. Three years ago he tried for Central Edinburgh, but was beaten by a publisher, too. He has a stiff fight ahead of him now, for the Wawick burghs are aggressively Radical. Maggie L. Walker, of Richmond, Vs., the only colored woman in the world who is the president of a bank, received a Christmas present of a handsome victoria and pair of coalblack horses, the outfit costing $S00. The present Is made by the Independent Order of St. Luke, of which she Is grand worthy secretary of the fraternal department. She is president of the St. Luke's Bank, which is one of the enterprises of the society. Capt. W. O. Watklns. of Clinton, Mo., has In his possession his own death warrant, issued and signed by United States officers during the civil war. Captain Watklns was sentenced to be shot for recruiting Confederate soldiers inside Union lines. He escaped from Gratiot prison. In St. Louis, where he was confined awaiting the death penalty, and was never recaptured. Recently Captain Watklns secured the warrant for his own death. He priaes the war relic highly. A recent letter from Abysinnia describes King Menelik as a man of about sixty years of age, dark In complexion, his face marked with smallpox and his chin covered with a slight gray beard. He has a keen, thoughtful face, brilliant dark eyes and through an Interpreter converses intelligently with his guests. International interest will be centered In the progress and outcome of Consul General Skinner's visit to King Menelik at Addis Abeba Bishop Thomas Bowman, of East Orange, N. J., the oldest Methodist Episcopal bishop, just passed his eighty-six birthday, says that he warned President Lincoln against John Wilkes Both five days before the emancipator was slain. Mr. Lincoln made light of the warning. Bishop Bowman, then chaplain of the United Stales Senate, had observed Booth prowling about the Capitol and the White House and at once called on the President with a warning. Mr. Lincoln smiled kindly and said he did not think any one wanted to kill him. Two days later Mr. Bowman started for his home In St. Louis and had hardly reached there when news of the assassination arrived. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. UmllS Snltj Made Beef. The University of Nebraska is all puffed up on Itself since Its great champion steer Challenger, fed and owned by the university, was awarded the ilrst pi izo at the recent National Live Stock Exposition held in Chicago. I'rof. H. R. Smith, of the department of animal husbandry of the University of Nebraska, selected the animal, gave him the name Challenger and fitted him for the honors which he won. Col. F. M. Woods, In speaking of the triumph of the university, said: "This Is a great event for Nebraska. The chainpi mship of this, the greatest live stock show the world has ever seen. Is no small matter and Nebraska has reason to be proud of Its achievement. The breeding of this animal appears to be somewhat in doubt, but this we do know, he Is one-half Hereford and one-half Neb.askan. He Is our trump, and the University of Nebraska in producing him ha ftuth. r.d Its cap for all time. Challenger has demonstrated that the college men have solved the knotty feeding problems confronting the cornbelt beef maker, and the private feeder must look to his laurels la the future. Toe colivgs

men seem to have discovered the balanced ration calculated to serve the best purpose of; the feeder, and they also seem to have mastered the secret of producing marketable steers without a blemish."

Stnilent Ltfe nt ( nmhrldicr. "The life of a student at Cambridge Is a very pleasant one." said Mr. George T. Jackson, a young Englishman, who Is pursuing his studies at that famous university to a Poet reporter. "There are about 3.000 students there and about the same nembcr at Oxford. Between the two there IS not much choice, Oxford ranking Its sister university as to theological studies and Cambridge holding v . ;.i:n, : i athletic h mors. Not many Americans are to be found at either. The only one I evtr got acquainted with was young Milburn, the son of a noted Buffalo lawyer, at whose house President Mclvlnby died. Milburn and I were matched In a big swimming race, and I had the luck to beat him by the narrowest sort of margin. "If a young man is very economical he can get along at Cambridge for about $1.250 a year, but that only supports him during the college term, or for about half the year. Unless he lives at home he will need several hundred dollars more for his maintenance during the long vacation. Some of the sons of wealthy people and of the nobility, who go In for pold and hunting, spend as much as $10,000 a year." Washington Post. Uri. st to Educate Itnlinna. Early social institutions, when the priests had charge of the crafts and directed the affairs of workmen, are called? to mind in a desperate recourse which has been taken by the president of the Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants, who acts as a great distributor of labor, to give the laborers sent out by him a sense of their obligations to employers. He asks the head of the Catholic Church in America to take especial cognizance of this fault in future religioud Instructions to Italians. Let the priests come into Intimate touch with the laborers contract work, he says. The late Herbert Spencer. In delineating the rise of the industrial system of society out of the military, might have found in this letter, perhaps,, his most striking Illustration. The ethical value of democracy, he says, lies in the fact that in substituting freedom of contract for compulsion, as in the military regime, a sense of individual obligation grows up. Under the military system of society a subject does a thing because he must; under the industrial s -tern he performs his act because be ought to. Brooklyn Eagle. Noted I!diicntor. Dr. James Robert Spurgeon. late charge d'affaires ad interim of the United States at Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, who has taken such an active interest in the educational development of that country, is not yet thirty-five years of age, a close observer and a brilliant talker. He was born in Richmond. Va., was graduated at the Hampton Normal a 1 Agricultural Institute in 1890 and from the law school at Yale in the class of 1902. He was the principal of the high school at Maysvllle, Ky.. and akso succeeded in his law practice In that State, and took an active part in the movement which was the instigation of ridding Kentucky of the "Jim Crow" car. He was appointed secretary of the United States legation at Monrovia, Liberia, by President McKinley about six years ago, and became charge d'affaires ad interim of the United States at Monrovia, after the trouble with Minister OrosHland. who resigned. Dr. Spurgeon was supported by the Republican congressmen and Senator Lindsay, a gold Democrat, of Kentucky, when appointed to Monrovia. He stands high in the Order of Free Masons and had the distinction of Witnessing the installation of the Duke of Connaught. a brother of King EJward. in England in 1901. Brooklyn Eagle. Educational Notes. Gen. O. O. Howard reports that this year 400 young people from the mountain cabins have entered the doors of Lincoln Memorial Institution at Cumberland Gap. As an aid In the study of American history the rhetoric classes in the New York city schools have undertaken a consideration of Webster's reply to Hayne. Members of the evening classes In literature are attending a course of lectures on literary subjects delivered by Professor Concord. The final adoption of a series of uniform textbooks for the common scnools of Georgia by the state school-book commission, created by act of the Legislature at the 19e3 session, is the closing incident in a long fight, one that has progressed for almost fourteen years, and now there will be a period of tranquillity in the school-book situation at least for five years to come. A new cqurse. that of typewriting billing, has been inaugurated In the evening classes of the Hefflcy High School, Brooklyn, on Mondays and Fridays. Many large business houses and transportation comianies are adopting a system of typewriter billing, which has created a sudden demand for competent operators. A course of from two to three months has been laid out for preparing students to do this work. Prof. CtaTrsM A. Robinson, '94, has resigned as head of the Latin department of the scientific school of Princeton University and will assume charge of the Peekskill Military Academy. The widow of the late Professor Vlrchow has decided not to sell his extensive library, but to give it to several of the scientific institutions to which he belonged. At the last meeting of the Berlin Medical Association Professor Ewald announced the recoipt, for the society, of about 7,000 of these books. A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. Bltfid Formality. Mrs. Van Rennselaer Cruger tells a story of a Washington hostess who Invited nn attache of one of the foreign legations to dine with her. The invitation was formally accepted, but on the morning of the appointed day a note, written by the foreigner's valet, was received, which read: "Mr. Blank regrets very much that he will not be able to be present at Mrs. Swift's dinner to-night, as ho is dead." Philadelphia Ledger. To Fool His Cows. Frank Leidgen, who lives northeast of town, came in one day this week in search of green eye-glasses for his cattle. Of course, our men who deal In glasses were forced to give it up as a hard proposition. When asked why he wanted his cattle to wear them, Leldgen replied: "When in the pasture the green glasses will make the grass look green and the cattle will think it is spring and the pasture green." It is true that it has not rained in this part of Oklahoma for some time and the gras i is ver' dry. We have jatents on everything we can think of but patent eye-glasses for cows. Can't some one accommodate the gentleman? Frederick (Okla.) Free Press. New lae for Poetry. A former assistant secretary of the interior, who lives in Washington, bears the same name as a poet who hails from Pennsylvania. The ex-official recently received a letter which he considers a remarkable epistle. The writer confounded him with the poet and wrote: "Dear friend and statsmen: I rite you the earliest dalt to be so cind as to do me a fafor. I haf trld all clnds of paten medisln for hart decease an no avail. I read yore little pome on Hart deces beginin " 'The hart which sad tumultus beets, with throbs of keenest ialn ail oft recover Its defects Thro' naturs fcweat refrane.' "1 haf never trid an Injun doc but haf took all clnds of erbs. I now ast you to send me by return male 2 bottles of your medsln natura sweat refrane. Sen to Alex K , C postoffus. Penn. "P. S. I will sen prise by return male." Philadelphl Post. Accent in AVuMQSSXarteB It Is said that the Kooseveltian pronunciation la rapidly becoming a fad in Washington. Speaker Cannon was in the chair recently, and Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, arose for recognition. Mindful of the President's pronunciation of the word "delighted" in greeting his guests. "Untie Joe" said, in his most urbane manner, "The gentleman from Wee-o-ming." The 1:. ! not responsible, however, for certain Senate vagaries of pronunciation which led Senator Teller to describe his beloved West as the "pa-ra-ras," or Senator Pettus to refer fiwunUy to Uic ueatjr el ' Mtw (aTl S ej,"

with the accent on the first syllable, or Senator Lodge to Invariably say "commit -tee." New York Commercial.

A Conntltnent's Request. "1 have just received a letter from a wsMl-to-do brewer In my district, who Is no less worthy because he is somewhat Illiterate.'' said an Illinois representative in Congress. "He is coming to Washington in a few days, he says, and he wants me to arrange to take him to the President's New Year's day reception. " 'Will you please fix P so that I can go with you to the President's public melee on New Tear's? he asks me In his letter. " 'Levee,' you see. Is a common, onnery sort of word out our way, and he couldn't fetch himself to the point of using It. perhaps. In connection with a White House function. So he took 'melee,' the nearest thing to it in his mind." Washington Post. Another Rockefeller Story. John D. Rockefeller, jr.. at the annual banquet of his Sunday-school class that was held recently in New York, talked about perseverance. It was perseverance, more than anything else, he said, that caused men to succeed in life. After he had finished his address Mr. Rockefeller said to one of his neighbors: "I regret now that I didn't speak a good word for tact while I was on my feet. Without tact, perseverance, after all, won't accomplish much. Years ago my father had this truth brought home to him in a little restaurant In Rochester. "He entered this restaurant and ordered some luncheon one day, and after the food was brought he was much annoyed by the waiter. The waiter stood right in front of him. watching him like a hawk. Except these two, the waiter and my father, there was no one in the room. The silence was intense. My father tried to eat, but every little while he looked up nervously, and there was tho waiter, studying him with the same profound Interest you or I would show to a strange creature from an unknown planet. " 'Walter,' said my father. " 'Yes, sir,' said the waiter. " T have ah I have everything I want " 'Yes. sir. Thank you. sir." "But the man still stood there, still stared. " 'Waiter, you may retire,' said my father, testily. " 'But I ah responsible for the sliver, sir,' the waiter said, in a low, reproachful voice. "A man like that waiter, with all the perseverance in the world, would hardly succeed." continued Mr. Rockefeller. New York Letter. STORIES ABOUT LITTLE FOLKS. Like the Prince of Wales. An English schoolmaster promised a crown (about a dollar and a quarter) to any boy who should propound a riddle that the teacher could not answer. One and another tried, and at last one boy asked: "Why am I like the Prince of Wales?" The master puzslod his wits in vain, and finally was compelled to admit that he did not know. "Why." said the boy. "it's because I'm waiting for the crown." Tit-Bits. Anxions for Questions. Little Johnny, having been invited out to dinner with his mother, was commanded not to speak at the table except when he was asked a question, and promised to obey the command. At the table no attention was paid to Johnny for a long time. He grew very restless, and his mother could see that he was having a hard time to "hold in." By and by he could stand it no longer. "Mamma!" he called out. "When are they going to begin asking me questions?" Puck. A Choice of Words. Dido Natall, a little three-year-old child, when being taught the Lord's prayer, obediently repeated It after her mother until, coming to "Thy will be done," then, with a reproving glance at her mother, she continued, "Thy will be finished." In vain her mother remonstrated with her. Her answer was, "Dat done is not krect." Nor would she substitute done for finished until a year later, when, going to church and hearing the Lord's prayer said, she was convinced that her mother knew better than she. New York Times. A Child's Religion. A child's religion is its own, and often challenges to a trial for heresy. Two little children were sitting in a room one evening after dark, with their faces pressed to the window and their eyes fixed on the stars. For some time they contemplated the firmament in silence, then suddenly one of the little fellows turned to the other and said: "Wasn't God a nice man to give us the stars for a light?" "Oh, Teddy, how can you say such a thing?" said the other boy. much shocked. "You shouldn't call God a man. If ever there was a gentleman, He's one!" Rochester PostExpress. Wants Another "Tnil." Apropos of Mark Twain's story, "A Dog's Tale," the following is related: A little friend of Mr. Clemens, who considers him quite her "nearest and dearest." listened eagerly while the mother read aloud the Btory. She absorbed enough of it to be ecstasy, and begged to be allowed to write the author a letter. The little missive was sent just as it was written and the reply from across the water will be awaited with interest. "deer Mister Mark," she wrote, "I liked your doggy, and the poor little puppy to. now pleas wont you rite us a cats tail quick your playmate jessle." Philadelphia Ledger. A Theory About Ere. Mrs. Gilbert Is an eternal fascination to stage children. They grandma her so much, she says, she feels like Mrs. Methuselah. Finding answers to their questions, she says, is harder than studying new parts, and cites this incident in proof: Not long ago a little girl said to her: "Eve had a nice, fat little baby, handn't she. Grandma Gilbert? A baby all her own." "Yes, dearie." "It was the first baby ever in this wide world, wasn't it?" "Yes, dearie." "And she never even seen a photograph of one?" "No, dearie." "Well! I'll Just bet she thought it was a lobster until sh got to know It better, don't you?" New York Times. The Journal's Widening Influence. Indianlans generally, and Republicans especially, note with gratification the recent Improvements in the Indianapolis Journal, the state organ of the party of prosperity and progress. The Journal Is covering the State and general fields In admirable fashion, and in its editorial columns Is doing valiant service for Republicanism. Among Indianapolis newspapers the Journal will, In all probability, stand alone in the advocacy of Republican principles during the approaching national campaign. It will be the year for the Indianapolis News to be Democratic, and the trend of the editorial columns of that paper indicates that it is preparing Itself to render whatever service it can to the Democracy of the State and Nation in 1W4. The more gratifying, therefore, is the development of the Journal Into a widened field of influence. Marion Chronicle. Ketirina; Mrs. Hetty Green. Mrs. Hetty Green, reputed the richest woman in America, has returned to Hoboken, and with her Is her little dog, Dewey, and her maid. Mrs. Green, disdaining a vulgar display of wealth, has secured a luxurious little thirdfloor flat, for which she pays between $19 and $ a month, and her neighbors are clerks, mechanics, bookkeepers and stenographers. It would be almost useless for any one to locate m unless he Is in the secret, for, like Balzac, she lives In retirement from all but the elect. If one would find her he must search for a fiat the door plate of which bears the name "Nash." The inquisitive have learned, so they say. that this Is the name of Mm. Green" I maid, who, among other duties acti ai a bulwark between her mistress and the curious. New York Letter. Philadelphia Jnat Heard It. A teacher of a Virginia district school recently asked one of her little colored pupils to go to the blackboard and write a sentence thereon containing the word "delight." George Washington Jackson went pompously to the front of the room and wrote. In a large scrawling hand: "De wind blowed so hard dat it put out de luiiiL" i'biladciiihla Recurd.

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Staff Correspondence of the Journal. LINTON. Ind., Jan. 1. The second annual banquet of the Democrats of the Second district was intended for a love-feast at which the leaders of the district would get together and agree on the renomination of Representative Robert W. Miers without opposition. It turned out to be a council of war of the anti-Miers Democrats of the district at which plans were laid for the retirement to private life of the Bloomington statesman. The revolt against Miers la unmistakable and all that is ueeded is i i. . !. r. Let either Cyrus FJ. Davis, of Bloomnel.. or Judge W. V. Moffett, of Vincennes, but say the word and the sentiment against Miers will be crystallised in an aggressive campaign that will take from him his congressional toga. "I believe it would be a good thing to ?end a new Democratic delegation to Congress from Indiana." said one of the rebels tonight. "The Fourth district Democrats have started right by getting rid of Griffith. Zenor. of the Third, is up against certain defeat for renomination and, if we can retire Miers here in the Second perhaps the Twelfth will complete the good work by shelving Jim Robinson." The cry of the opposition to Miers is that familiar one of "pass the good things around." The antis say the Bloomington man has had enough and more than that they accuse him of breaking fith. They say that he agreed four years ago to retire voluntarily after one more term and that he made the same promise two years age with the same result in each case he forgot all about his promises as the convention day rolled around. "Bob won't get out; let's kick him out," is the cry now. Another complaint registered against Miers is that he has forgotten his Democracy In his desire to perpetuate himself in office. He has got to the point at which he solicits Republican support and is so fearful of incurring Republican hostility that he attempts to be half Republican and half Democrat. He has secured pensions for many Republican soldiers over the distruct and by this has won their gratitude to the extent that they will vote for him If he does not grow too radical in his Democracy. A story of the last campaign is told to Illustrate this ioliey of Miers. A Democratic meeting had been arranged in one of the counties at which one speaker from the State committee was to appear. Another ripeaker was wanted and Miers was suggested to the local committee on arrangements. "Not much," replied the chairmac of the committee, "we can t trust Bob Miers to make a speech in this county. He Sever talks for the party, he talks only for Miers and our people don't like that kind of Democracy." Cyrus E. Davis does not know whether he wants to be a candidate against aflefa. He is wavering between an ambition to go to Congress and his better judgment, that tells him to look after his business and financial affairs before seeking political honors. Davis has reason to believe that he can beat Miers for the nomination. Delegations from Martin, Daviess and Sullivan counties waited on him this evening, and asked him to be a candidate or to agree to support a candidate they would bring out DEMOCRATIC PLANS. How Gorman and Others Hope to Defeat the Republican I'urtv. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The Washington correspondent of an Indianapolis paper predicts, from Information obtained through Democratic sources, that the Republican party is in great danger of defeat in the next presidential campaign. The correspondent arrives at these conclusions from the fact that certain big moneyed men of the East openly declare their Intention to support the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be. The Democratic leaders conclude, the correspondent adds, that these influences will enable their candidate to carry New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware, and, having done so (which looks easy on paper) all that is needed to place Mr. Roosevelt on the shelf will be the vote of Indiana. All this is decidedly illuminating. We are given to understand that the Democratic plan of campaign, as formulated in the brain of "Oily Gammon" German and the other reorganizers, is substantiatally this: Certain moneyed influences in New York, presumably Morgan, Rockefeller, Schwab and other trust magnates, are mortally offended at President Roosevelt because of his manifest intention to choke them loose from all special privileges and governmental favors of a shady character. With a view to obtaining revenge for Roosevelt's enforcement of the law against their Securities Company schemes and at the same time a restitution of their lost privileges, these angered magnates have "struck a bargain" with the Democratic leaders on the give-and-take principle. Briefly state, this contract is, we will furnish you all the money you n-ed to buy Indiana, New York and other doubtful States if, after you get power, you will agree to do for us what Roosevelt refused to do. This is certainly clear enough, and when the bargain is struck and Gorman is under full headway in the task of carrying it out, we shall hare a political spectacle quite unique in its simplicity if not its originality. The Democratic party, recently led through two revolutionary campaigns for the avowed purpose of dissociating the trusts from the government, is to be asked to conduct another for the express purpose of turning the government over entirely to these same trust influences. And it Is all to be done in open day for so much cash "in hand paid this day.-' That Democratic correspondents at Washington are gravely sending forth to the country this itemized bargain and sale, and heraleling their belief that the rank and file will rally enthusiastically to the support of a preslden. tial candidate thus bought in advance, shows the high opinion these writers at the capital entertain of the honesty, sincerity and patriotism of the Democratic masses. But perhaps Mr. Bryan and his friends, when they are informed that they are to be soid to the abhorrent "money power" like sheep bound in the shambles, may Insist at least on a fair division of the purchase money as a price for their degradation and abnegation of former dearly cherished principles. Like the shipwrecked sailer, who drew of the fatal straw to decide which of the crew should be devoured to save the others, they may demand the first slice for themselves. As for President Roosevelt, who is noted for his good luck at all conjunctures, he may be -xcused for rejoicing over the wide advertisement of the fact that he has incurred the enmity of a few predatory trust magnates for refusing to allow them to partition the country and its resources among themselves. If, In addition to this, all the thieves he has prosecuted or removed from office for stealing and plundering the government shall continue to exhibit their sore places by howling their hostility and join the trust magnates In a concerted movem- r.t to defeat 'their enemy," the prosecuting executive, the latter may be justified in considering himself even more fortunate in the enemies he has made than in the millions of stanch admirers he has won by his fearless fights of fraud in all its shapes and the infamous elements whose whole aim. politically, is to plunder the government by wholesale from the outside, whl! their smaller prototypes rob it from within. Indianapolis. Dec. 31. y. W. V. Sensitive Horses. Country Life in America. The horso does not like a nervous, fiJgetty, fussy or irritable man. He is too nervous and irritable himself. "Why is It." one teamster was heard to ask another, "that Phin's horses are always gaunt? Phin feeds well." "Yes," wss the reply. "but he's like a wasp around a horse." A well-known owner of ruce horses, not at all a sentimental person, recently made an order forbidding his employes t talk in loud toues or to swear in the stable. "I have never yet seen a goo-mannered horse." he says, "that was being sviorn at all the time. It hurts the fe. lings of a sensitive horse and 1 11 keep my word good to discharge any man in my employ If I catch him swearing within the hearing oi any horse in this stable.'

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against Miers. He has not yet given them his answer. Davis was a candidate two years ago, and came within fifteen votes of the nomination, and this witho ut a vote of Sullivan county He has assurances now that he can hold his own strength and also get Sullivan county this time, which would assure him the nomination. And yet he hesitates, and it is written that he who hesitates is 1 st Judge Moffett is regarded as the leader the anti-Miers forces will seek in event Davis refuses to come out. The judge is popular, well known over the district, and has many things in his favor, but he. tc.. hesitates, ano he is Just getting well established in his practice at Vincennes after six years on the bench in this circuit, and he feels that he cannot afford to sacrifice his professional future for ths chances of a term or two in Congress, with little but honor to compensate him. In the meanwhile Miers is mixing in the crowd apparently unconscious that thers nr.- semes here who have their hatchets out for him, and he says be Is sure of the renomination and is not doing a bit of worrying. The probable outcome of the revolt will be that the antis will finally agree that Miers may have one more nomination on condition that he declare publicly and unmistakably this time that he will not ask any further favors from the district. Under such an agreement Cyrus K. Davis probably will become Miers's legatee tws years hence, as Lincoln Dixon, of North Vernon, has become the legatee of Representative Grirfith la the Fourth district. The banquet to-night was devoid of sensational features. "Uncle Andy" Humphreys, who has served more terms in the State Legislature than any two men in Indiana, presided as toast master. "Uncls Andy" Will be eighty-three years old next month, and has lived in this county and district over sixty years. He is still hale and hearty, and expects to attend several more of these annual banquets. The principal speakers were Representative Miers. John W. Kern. Senator Davis, Senator Inman of Washington and Judge Moffett. The speeches were the familiar "get-together" utterances characteristic of all Democrats nt this time. Some of them, as Benat.-r Fairbanks says, will get to gether by locking arms, others by locking horns, and there are fully as many ofths latter as of the former. C. S. WATTS. DO RAX IV ILL NOT RUN AGAIXST MR. S HERRICK Fpeelal to the Indianapolis Journal. LA PORTE, Ind., Jan. 1. When interviewed by the Journal correspondent regarding the report going the rounds of the papers that at the recent Republican love feast in Indianapolis he had announced his candidacy for auditor of state, Francis H. Doran, of this city, said that this was aa trror, as he believed David Sherrick was entitled to a renomination, having served with credit to himself and for the bcsi interests of the State. Mr. Doran, aa he announced on the floor of the last Republican State convention, will be a candidate after the expiration of the second term of tho. incumbent. Mr. Doran was pleased to make the correction in order to eliminate from the minds of all concerning the belief that ho had any intention of entering the race this year. He will be an active candidate before the convention of 1906. His race two years ago made him many friends and he has their assurance that he will be well I supported. CLEANER MONEY. Schemes Xow Before Congrress for Retirlna Soiled Dills. Boston Transcript. Cleaner paper money, one of the great needs of outlying sections of the country, especially in the West and South, Is the end toward which several proposed projects of legislation are directed this session. Representative Wiley, of New Jersey, has introduced a bill prohibiting the reissue of paper currency when it has once returned to the treasury. This is now the rule at the Bank of England, and its example is cited by Mr. Wiley in the preamble of his bill to prove that the schema is practicable. Under the present plan the treasury has, besides the usual paying and receiving tellers of a bank, redemption and assorting tellers. At the redemption window any one can exchange soiled or otherwise undesirable bills for fresh ones. The assorting teller is responsible for the separation of the bills which are fit to go into circulation again from those which are not. If a package of bills come from an Eastern city, perhaps one-half will be Judged fit for reissue; if from the South or West it is very likely that the entire lot will have to b destroyed. Five minutes' watching of the man doinsj the actual sorting shows that no bills are sent out again on their travels to which the ordinary customer in a store, for instance, would think of objecting. Yet they are not perfectly fresh, and, presumably, after passing the average number of times from hand to hand before coming back, will be a triffe dirtier than if they had started brand-new. The destruction of the unfit currency la the macerator is one of the things in whica visitors to Washington are always interested, and little statuettes made from the resulting pulp are among the most popular souvenirs. The result of putting all instead of only a part of the paper money passed over the government's counters into this beneficent machine would be that perfectly clean bills would be sent out where practically clean bills are to-day. and that a large amount of additional work would ba thrown upon the destroying apparatus nnd upon the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which mu.t furnish the substitute bills. It Is pointed out that the Bank of England's experience, dealing as it does with no piece of pafer of less value than a five-pound note, is very different from the handling of our millions of one and two-dollar bills. Another plan proposed for the "purification of the currency" Is that of Representative Gaines, of Tennessee. It is that the government transport free of charge the soiled and tattered bills which hunk? or private citizens turn in for redemption, and send back the fresh currency as well, at its own expense. Thut would mean, of cours . that the backwoods citizen, if he cared to take the trouble, could keep the contents of his pocketbook in just as presentable condition ss the resident of a sub-treasury city. This Is not a new Idea, as in past years two appropriations have been made for carrying United States notes for this purpose. In !.' the amount so allowed was ioO.OOO. and in lts3 MMJuO. Though it does not pay carriage, the government ttill does something to encourage these exchanges by registering without charge parcels of money for redemption. It is willing to do so, at least, and makes the offer in Treasury Department circulars, sent out by the hundred thousand; but few people are aware of the fact. A dosen or more letters containing bills for redemption are received from private Individuals daily, and hardly one-third of them are registered. It may be wondered whether the public will more readily grasp the oport unity to receive transportation as well as registry free. The fundamental difficulty of the whole situation Is that not all the legislation in the world can effect the currency which Is in the pockets of the people or passing from hand to hand. "There are microbes Iti money, and there is money in microbes,' as a newspaper humorist has put it. But the Treasury employes who handle the money sent for redemption do not thltilc their calling a dangerous one. An officer who has been for thirty-rive years In the department says that h does not recall a single case of contagious disease contracted by handling the soiled curreocv. Tbc Ho rar. Country' Ulf in America. The horse Is a logical snd therefore a teachable animal. Once convince him that a locomotive or any ther obj. . t of terror Is not really dangerous and he will never shy ::t it In Every year accidents occur been use the hsrnes breaks or the vehl '. : sets, and Urin the horse rung away. But such accidents are unnecessary. Auv horse can, with a little pains, be taught to hold back a carriage by his hind quarters as weil as by the breaching To have wheels come off, and straps und othef s hilling his los, should be S putt el even toils du..u.uou.