Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1904 — Page 4

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Russia says that Japan is trying to bully fcor. That's so poor thing-! How could Japan ba so thoughtless and Inconsiderate? Russia declares that she has the best intentions toward Japan. Yes, the road to war Is said to be paved with good Intentions . "Mr. Bryan is at sea" announce the headlines. If that is the case he is In closer harmony with the rest of his party than he has been for many a year. The Mikado will soon have a change to outlive the popular conception of him loug ago implanted in the Western mind by Messrs. Gilbert and S lUfsSJa. Mr. Bryan says that English cities are much better governed than American cities. That mischt be true and the English cities still not be well governed. It is very faint- praise. Panama has magnanimously agreed to assume a part of Colombia's debt. She says nothing about paying it. but the assumption will help some, now that the United StaNa im a responsible party. The Jews are scarcely likely to furnish Russia with any money for the coming contest. Their sympathy will be with Japan, and they will be apt to back their sympathy with cash. Of course. Senator Hoar will stick to his party, as he always but It could be wished that he would not do it with that air of conferring an overwhelming favor for which the party should be duly grateful. Francis Wilson says that inclines should take the place of steps in theaters. This may not be practicable in every instance, but his idea is correct, nevertheless. 8uch a substitution would greatly lessen the possibility of injuries In case of panic. The United States .nay have a favorite in the approaching Russo-Japanese treaty, but we are not showing it. Orders for canned beef, flour and army mules will be promptly attended to, no matter whn h power they coma from. It Is a matter of Ouslnoss. not sentiment. The editor of a Toronto newspaper refers feelingly to "the overweening arroanc.', the intense selfishness, petrified conscience and braxen rapacity of the United States." Will Canada never get over screaming and kicking about a dooiston rendered against her by an Englishman ? An ordinance has been proposed In Chioogo providing for the arrest of all persons under twenty-one years of ago found smoking in public. That ordinance, if passed, will make a lot of trouble for younglooking old men, and a lot of fun for oldlOoklng young men. It is hardly practical. In Germany they make condensed eggs! The superfluous water is removed and sugar is added. The condensed eggs are put up for the market in hermetically sealed boxes, a one-pound box containing about ilfteen eggs. This article finds a good market in South Africa, but during the present egg famine they might be imported into this country with more or less protlt. The ordinance introduced In the Council Monday night to provide for better fire protection In the city th. aters seems to be More drastic than the occasion calls for. and in some- respects Impracticable. The public la entitled to every reasonable protection, but there la no occasion for hysterical action in the premises. If new legislation is nee-N -1. It should be drawn only after confer nee with the fire chief, the building Inspector and the theatrical managers, and after careful consideration of present appliances and how they can be bett : John Alexander Do wie. self-styled Elijah II. may be a true prophet, but he seems to fee subject to human variableness. Instead of going to Australia, as he gave out regsntly ho was going to do. he has turned up at San Antonio. Tex., where he Is negofjatlag for the purchase of an island off the gulf coast, on which to found an ' eternal dty " If an eternal city can be founded uy perennial cheek. Dowle may succeed in doing it. In his bitter speech at the McClellan dinner, former Senator Hill abused the President for making war against Colombia, and declared that Congress alone has power to declare war. The President has 001 made war afalnat Columbia. .Nut a

shot has been fired nor a single aggressive taken against Colombia. It may be true. In a literal sense, that Congress alone has power to "declare war," but different Presidents have time and again used the army m navy In hostile operations without any declaration of war or authority from Congress. In all our military operations in China In 1900 there was no declaration of war. President McKinley sent ships aud troops to China to protect imperiled American Interests, and they did some fighting-, but there was no declaration of war nor any authority from Congress. "Nun YORK AMI 1 DI . Most of the presidential elections of the last forty years have shown that New York and Indiana were the pivotal and decisive States. With the South solidly Democratic the Northern States have been so susceptible to changes that both parties have generally regarded New York and Indiana as fighting ground, and their fiftyone electoral votes. New York thirty-six and Indiana fifteen, have turned the scale more than once. New Jersey and Connecticut generally go with New York, making sixteen more electoral votes. If these four States had given their electoral votes to Harrison Instead of Cleveland In 1892 Harrison would have been elected, and if they had given ;heir votes to Bryan instead of McKinley In 1K06 Bryan would have been elected. The four Stater? named are nominally

Republican, but not as surely or safely so rs Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. Ohio or Iowa, They have been the main battleground in every presidential election during the last generation, and are likely to be so In the next election. The exceptional years in which they have not been regarded as doubtful States have been those in which the political drift was so overwhelmingly Republican as to leave no room for doubt. Their position as doubtful Suites has caused both parties to nominate candidates with reference to their ability to carry New York and Indiana in the expectation that New Jersey, if not Connecticut, would follow New York. That is still tho situation, and both parties are likely to shape their tickets this year with more or less reference to these States. Assuming that Mr. Roosevelt will be the Republican nominee for President, as now seems practically settled, the Republicans should nominate for second place a man who can carry Indiana beyond the peradventure of a doubt. There is going to be a big fight in New York this year. The Democrats will select their candidate for President with special reference to that State, and will nominate a popular Western man for vice president. Some persons doubt if President Roosevelt can carry New York, but. If he cannot, what Republican can? It is beyond the limits of possibility, and would be idle to expect that any Republican can get the vote In New York this year that McKinley did in 1896 or In 1900 when Bryan ran. but there is no reason for doubt that Mr. Roosevelt will receive as large a vote as any other Republican candidate would. As It seems to be practically settled that ho will be the Republican nominee for President, and as the Democrats will undoubtedly shape their ticket with an eye to carrying New York and Indiana, the Republicans should give early and thoughtful consideration to the question of nominating a man for second place who will insure the carrying of this State. HA DU M: MCKI US DISCOVERS The eyes of the scientific world to-day are turned upon the mysterious substance, radium. Its apparent power of giving off radiations from its own substance without loss of weight or energy; its seeming permanence; its immense force; its properties of diffusing heat, light, electricity these are marvels which intercut not only tho scientist but the general public as well. Great possibilities are predicted for this wonderful substance; its discovery has already caused many of the old ideas of the conservation of energy and the theory of atoms to be questioned or discarded. Has anybody questioned the truth of the statements made concerning radium? Has anybody denounced M. nnd Mme. Curie as humbugs and notoriety-seeking impostors? A few years ago there lived in Logansport a man named Nickum. He was as poor as the proverbial church mouse, but he was an enthusiastic scientist and experimenter. He finally announced that he had discovered a substance that would give off perpetual light. He believed that If he were given time and money he could make his discovery financially profitable. Then the people of the town, the press of Indiana, and finally of the whole country combined to Jeer and laugh at Nickum and his light. Ixmg articles were written to show that his claims were ridiculous and impossible. He was merely another dreamer a Hoosier with a screw loose a crank with a get-rich-quick scheme. A few men had confidence in the light and invest d money to form a company. But even these were frightened by the storm of jeers and criticism. So Nickum finally died, penniless and in debt, aud his secret died with him. The principle which this Indiana man was seeking to perfect was the emanation of helium. Many scientists now think that the light given off by radium Is due to helium vapor. Nickum's experiments he kept to himself, and nobody will ever know their extent. Did he discover radium? If he did, he is gettiug the usual tardy post-mortem recognition; others are getting the honors and will reap the profit. And. even If he did not. these new discoveries have proved that his claims were not altogether baseless. They prove that we have scorned another genius have laughed and scourged another Columbus to his grave. V WflSI THAT MIOt I.I) n t !- PI. 1.1 BD. In his annual message at the beginning of the regular session of Confess the President referred briefly to the commission which was appointed to confer with the principal European countries In regard to devising a plan to establish a fixed rate of exchange between gold-standard countries and those having the silver standard. This is the commission of which Mr. Hugh H. Hanna. of this city, la chairman. It was appointed at tho suggestion of a Joint note from the governments of Mexico and China, and, as they showed a desire to escape from the evils of a fluctuating rate of exchange between themselves and gold-standard countries. Congress wisely concurred in the plan of appointing a mixed international commission to visit the gold countries having depeudcncles it: which the silver st;i: ...i prevails, and, if possible, induce them to join in a movement looking to the adoption of a monetary -ystem that would minimize If not

wholly prevent the ruinous fluctuations in exchange between gold-standard and silverstandard countries. Congress appropriated $25.000 to pay the expenses of the American members of the commission, those of the Mexican members being defrayed by that government. The 'mmisslon visited several European capitals and was received with marked courtesy and consideration. The desirability of some such plan as that above Indicated was admitted on all hands, and all of the governments visited showed willingness to co-operate in bringing it about. The work of the commission is, however, incomplete. It has filed a preliminary report showing encouraging progress and the President says in his message: "I deem it important that the commission be continued and that a sum of money be appropriated sufficient to pay the expenses of Its further labors." It Is hoped Congress will not overlook this matter. The work of the commission is important to the commercial world in general and to the United States in particular on account of our large business dealings with Mexico. If it is not to be completed it might as well not have been begun. Congress should appropriate a sum sufficient to complete the work on the lines already laid down.

KPl ULK A N I IP CON FERENCE. The meeting of Republicans Monday night to discuss the approaching reorganization of the party in this county was in accordance with good political methods. It is always in order for members of the party to come together and discuss measures of party policy. A party organization, to be strong and effective, must bo harmonious aud represent the party as a whole and not any personal element or faction. In the present case a friendly contest for the county chairmanship has reached a point that has engendered some feeling and threatens to culminate in factional division in the party ranks. In this situation the suggestion that both of the present candidates withdraw and leave the way clear for the selection of a compromise candidate seems to be wise. Such a disposal of the question would be no reflection on the present candidates, and they would both win approval by subordinating personal ambition to the welfare of the party. The chairman of a political committee should be. if possible, the unanimous choice of the party, and when' a party becomes divided between two aspinnts it had better get together and unite on a new man. The matter is one that belongs to the rank and file of the party to decide in the interest of harmony. While David B. Hill was in the United States Senate he gave no evidence whatever that he possessed any of the qualities of a statesman, and since he quit the body he has done very many things to make people wonder how he ever got there. His speech at the McClellan dinner Monday night was worthy of him, but not of the occasion. Other speakers discussed party questions and prospects with some show of intelligence and dignity, but Mr. Hill's speech was mainly a personal attack and abusive tirade against the President. In the Democratic convention of 1884 that nominated Grover Cleveland the first time, a speaker said: "We love him for the enemies he has made." One of those was David B. Hill, who afterwards received Tammany's support for the nomination against Mr. Cleveland in the convention of lbV2. If Hill's enmity to Grover Cleveland contributed to the latter's nomination and election, his abuse of President Roosevelt cannot hurt much. If a story recently sent otit from Wichita, Kan., is true, a find has been made which will astonish archaeologists. In a shaft sunk by the Weir Junction Coal Company a fossilized bark box was discovered, which contained three flint arrow heads. This box and contents were solidly imbedded in fire ciay, fifty feet underground, below two beds of coal. Previous to this discovery the earliest traces of humanity in this country were found in glacial deposits a reindeer horn with the figure of a mammoth carved upon it. But this goes far back of the glacial period. It is important, if true. It appears that a new and more dangerous method of "looping the loop" has been discovered, though such a thing hardly seems possible. A French rider takes a segment out of the upper side of the loop and ilf through the air until he strikes the track again. Nobody will be satisfied with the tame, old-fashioned feat now. It was getting so that not more than one performer in every five was killed; but this n-w method may be expected to add Interest by increasing the fatalities. A Boston paper says: "Lord Leicester's marriage to Miss Georgiana Caveudish took place exactly a hundred years after his father's." This statement, if true, is shocking. Not only did he marry his father's wife, which is against the law, but the bride was more than a century old, and was still called "Miss." What queer things they do In England! A novel experiment Is being tried in a big London hotel, and the English newspapers are Wund ring whether it w ill be a success. Telephones are to be put In the various rooms, connected with a ceutral exchange. If London keeps on at her present rate it will not be many years before she entehes up with Indiana villages in the matter of conveniences. Sarah Bernhardt, It Is said, will appear iu a French version of "The Light That Failed." If there Is such a thing aa an international injunction, however, it is pretty certain that Kipling will never allow her to take the part of Dick Heldar. And she would hardly waste her time ou Maisie." The Pope has placed Abbe Ixdsy's books upon the Index Expurgatorius. From now on there should be a great demand for those books the public probably did not know they were bad before. The Pope is as good an advertising agent as are New York ministers. The French consul at Shanghai reports a large market for cheap toilet soaps in China. This would be very encouraging were it sot ffOf the suspicion that the Chinese use this article in their weird cookery rather than for purposes of ablution. The Mormons have taken sides against the strikers iu the present labor troubles in Utah. Think of Mormous beins opposed to unions of any variety! What is the use of going all the way to New York to see a beauty show? You can see one on Washington street any bright afternoon. Perhaps Russia and Japan nre wearing out the patience of the world with their negotiations, not because they are afraid

to begin fighting, but because they do not wish to start before Richard Harding Davis has time to arrive.

THE HUMORISTS. Burns Amended. Stella Don't you wish we could see ourselves as others see us? Bella Xj; I'd much rat'.ier others saw us the way we see ourselves. New York Sun. A Me aw ii re of Time. They had been engaged only a few days, so the sensations were still comparatively new. "Can t you stay a little longer?" she pleaded, as he gave indications of preparations to leave. "Well, perhaps a very little longer." he said. "How Ions?" she asked. "About ten kisses," he replied. Chicago Post. Saiuenesm Abont Them. "Shucks!" said Mr. Meddergrars, "I believe these her patent medicine fellers Is all in cahoots." "What makes you say that?" asked the druggist. "Well. I've got five different almanacs so far this year an every blame on of 'em is alike except fer the name of the medicine." Judge. Contradictions. The fireman has a funny task; He never in the heat will bask; Instead of cheering aa he oughter. On warmth be has to throw cold water. A chorus girl's 3. funny thing; She doeu not care to act or sine; But firm to fame her name she regs By merely happ'nlng to have legs. Portland Oregonlan. Neeensnry Formal Ity. The hero and the villain met In the center of the stage and were preparing to lunge at each ether, when a commanding volco cried out: "Stop!" Invniuntarlly they drew back. What for?" demanded the hero. A man of stern aspect left his seat In the fifth row and walked forward to the stage. "I want to see." he taid, "If those foils hava union buttons on thorn." Chicago Tribune. i:en He. Noah was leaning over the taffrail of the ark, waiting for the rain to begin. ?3me of the rude boys of the neighborhood gatl-.ered on the bank and gave him a tin horn serenade. "Boys." he said, kindly, "you'd better come al.ard. There's going to be a storm." But they laughed him to scorn. "Well," remarked Noah, resignedly, "nobody In Chicago can say that I haven't tried to save the orchestra." Chicago Tribune. A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. Lodge the Whole Thin;. A story is in circulation about a White House poiiceman. who recently got Into trouble over some slight neglect of duty. He went to young Archie Roosevelt. "Archie." he said. "I want you to see what you can do to square this trouble for me." "All right." answered Archie, "we'll see what can be done." "Speak to your father for me," suggested the officer. "He'll fix It al right." "That won't do." Archie objected. "We'll see what Lodge can do about it. He's ths man to see." Washington Times. Mail' Wny for Hosea. This is one of Dr. Lindsay Parker's after-dinner stories: An old Irish Protestant preacher had announced tho major and minor prophets as the subject of his discourse for that day. For an hour and a half he talked of the major prophets, assigning each to his proper place. Then, taking up the second division of his sermon, he said: "And now we come to the minor prophets. First, then, what place shall we give to Hosea?" A tall man rose from one of the back seats and, with a reverential bow, politely said: "If you plaz, sor, he can have my place; I'm going out." Brooklyn Eagle. No Wonder She Was rained. Dr. W. J. Tolman. of the Institute of Social Service, tells this story of an Incident that befell him during his recent trip abroad: "I was invited to a dinner In London, and my hostess Instructed me to take a certain lady to the table. There was a woman there whose husband, a somewhat noted man. had recently left for India. I thought that this one was my partner. "After we were seated I started In on the weather as an Ice-breaker. " 'Been a very nice day,' I remarked, affably. "She replied to the effect that it had been too hot to suit her. " 'Yes,' said I. geniall "but It doesn't begin with the place where your husband has gone.' "She looked pained and stiffened. Afterward I learned that she was a widow." New York Times. .routed Ills Request. Good stories of Tom Marshall are often heard in the cloak rooms, and, though sometimes old, they never wear off all the genuine goodness. An Ohio congressman says that on one occasion Tom Marshall was engaged In a trial before a rather Ignorant justice of the peace. Tom tried to convince the dispenaer of Justice and law that he had made an erroneous decision on a certain point, and for this purpose he cited authorities from King Solomon all the way down, piling tome on tome, until the justice was ready to declare that he didn't eare a darn for all the authorities nor Tom Marshall, either. After Marshall had exhausted himself he said: "Will your Honor please find me $10 for contempt of court?" "For what?" asked the astonished magistrate. "You have committed no contempt of court." "But," replied the illustrious Tom, "I assure you I have a most infernal contempt for It." And the justice accommodated Tom. Washington Times. Obstinate 'I.cen Divfln. In her younger womanhood along during the years when Mr. Kvarts was in Washington public life Mrs. Evarts occasionally regaled Intimate friends with incidents from his early professional career. There was one story, however, which she would never admit concerned him, but only "a young Vermont lawyer I knew of." It was repeated yesterday at the lawyers' Club. A New Englander, probably guilty, was being tried for murder. His friends decided to make advances to an Irifhman on the Jury, and they promised him $500 If he would hold out for 'a verdict of "murder in the second degree." Not an inkling was given to the lawyer. The Jury deliberated three days and nights and the verdict was "murder In the second degree." When the friends of the accused went to settle with the Irishman they thanked him in behalf of all concerned. "How did you bring them around?" they asked. "Bedad." he answered, "it was a hard Job. Thim other "leven dlvils were all fur acquittin' the man." New York CommercialAdvertiser. A Itemurkable Cat. If reports be true. Dude, the striped semisavage cat of C. H. Mendenhall, ot Lincoln, is the most expert feline hunter in Lincoln county. Dude has caught rats, gophers, cottontails and other game of that sort by the hundreds. Dude, who is half wildcat, has also caught lizards and snakes by the thousands. He also brings his game In front of the Mendenhall castle and meows until somebody comes out and looks at the game. He never devours any of his vlcthnes until told to do so by his master or mistress. Dude's best qualification just now is quail catching. He must smell the harmless birds from a distance, the way he often runs, sometimes a quarter of a mile, to where a flock Is feeding or moving around. Then the cunning feline will crouch like a leopard and suddenly jump right onto some of the birds. He seldom fails to capture one. and often two. Then he takes the bird In front of the house, and, of course, the game is prepared to sizzle in tha frying pan. Mr. Mendenhall, who Is a legal luminary, is alarmed, f or the game warden might arrest the cat for catching quail without a written permission. Kansas City Journal. Very Ancient Ilrlton. While workmen were excavating under a house In SaMsbury Square. London. recently.

they came upon a nearly complete skull of a

woolly Siberian rhinoceros. Although the lower Jaw is missing, the specimen is the finest and most perfect ever discovered outside of the Siberian tundra. The find was made In a bed of peat, and near by other bones, believed to have belonged to some other species of rhinoceros, were unearthed. It is a far cry backward to the days when England was the home of such animals. Scientific American. A P. y Ina- Institution. Among all of I'ncle Sam's projects there is no department which is proportionately as great a source of income as the Patent Office, and yet, at the same time, no branch of the government owes its origin to a more beneficent purpose. In the earliest days of the colonies the now proverbial Yankee proclivity for Invention was recognised as a possibly important lactor In the Improvement of conditions in the new world, and when the eolonists had secured tha right to enact laws for their own government this question was one of the first to be considered. President Washington, In his first address to Congress, 1790. called attention to the matter and urged the expediency of giving effectual encouragement to the exertions of skill and genius in the production of new and useful inventions, and from this suggestion came the present American patent system, which, as one writer on international law has said, "is generally recognized by the most profound students of our institutions, both at home and abroad, to have contributed more than any other one thing to the pre-eminence of this country In the industrial arts and in manufactures." It is only within the archives of the Patent Office that one is able to obtain anything like a correct idea of the wide range of the Inventive ingenuity of the American people, for up to the present time nearly 700.000 patents have been Issued, while the receipts of the department are so much greater than Its expenditures that the balance in the treasury on account Ot tho patent fund now exceeds $5,000,000 Collier's Weekly. The Sdcnuuiii Life In Chleago. We often hear it said that "the States" have no western frontier any longer, that our country Is all settled now. and that wild life has passed away and existence grown humdrum. There was more talk of this sort before the gospel of the Etrenuous life had taught us all that adventure is Independent of environment, but there is a good deal of it still. There is nothing in it. We don't wear coonskin caps nowadays, but a tumultuous life was never obtainable in this country at less trouble than now. Anyone who I.nds New York inadequately violent and emotional has only to hie himself to Chicago. Transportation thither is luxurious and the trains are many and swift. To the adventurer, once arrived, anything may happen or so, at least, we Infer from the stories that the newspapers bring us. It seems to be a tossup whether the traveler will ride to his hotel, or walk and carry his trunk on his back; whether his hotel will be warmed, or denied coal; whether ho will get coffee and boiled eggs for breakfast, or go hungry; whether it will be safe, rbky or extra hazardous to walk in the streets. Judging from the newspaper reports, tho conditions of human existence in Chicago and we gladly admit that we have made n recent personal test of them are as fruitful of adventure as the most unfettered aspirant could desire. Life seems to be lived there in one of three ways; by stealth, by violence, or by permission of organized labor. Harper's Weekly The President at Home. The day at the White House begins shortly after 7 o'clock. At that hour the President is up and at S o'clock he and Mrs. Roosevelt and some of the children frequently with guests, men whose tine is as valuable as his own and who begin their days early are at breakfast. As with any other man engaged In active affairs, the President goes to his work Immediately after breakfast, and spends from 9 until 1:30 in, his oflloe, returning to the house to lunch. It Is rare that he is without guests, except on Sunday, which he always tries to have a strictly family day. The President regards a horee as a necessity rather than a luxury- A good horse is essential for his comfort, a horse that can gallop over rough country and take a hurdle or a brook when put to it. When at Oyster Bay he knocks about in a email rowboat and he has all of Mr. Gladstone's fondness for cutting down trees. He Is really passionately devoted to hunting, but to enjoy hunting ho must rough it; he has no patience with those effeminate hunters who go out into the woods with a cook and half a dozen servants, who carry with them their wine and their whisky, which the President never touches, and who bring civilization into the forest. A horse, a companion, an open fire, a rockingchair and a book are the modest requirements to satisfy the President's demands. A Maurice Low, In Harper-s Wtekly. The lS-Cent Burundi. Very few people know why it is that department stores mark goods two cents below the dollar mark In so many cases. The general opinion is that 2 cents off is a catch. To many women bargain hunters $1.38 looks much less than F, and $9.98 seems to mean a saving on a J 10 bill. Tho real reason Is very different from w hat might be suppoped, and was thus explained by a buyer in a larg department store: "We used to have bargains at $5 and $10, but we found it a very expensive racket. It sounded nice to advertise "what $6 will do,' and all that, but we lost money right along when we had these sales. "Investigation proved that many customers would pay for such goods with the exact change, and the clerk would simply hand up the goods to be wrapped and fall to send down tho check. The money went Into the clerk's pocket. With 2 cen's chung coming m.-t women will wait and there is no opportunity for 'knocking down.' "New York Mail and Expr Heil HnnuiiUN. Bananas have figured so long In the Quaker City as a cheap fruit that we seldom even think of the ilch red bananas as very high priced. Just now, however, they cost a dollar the dozen. Quantity as well as quality, of course, regulates the price, and according to a fashionable fruiterer the quantity has been sadly larking of late. It Is a fact that the last banana-laden ship arrived with 15,000 bunches on board, but it is also a fact that among all this great quantity there was Just exactly one bunch of red bananas. Naturally the dealer who got It had to pay the price and that price made it necessary to retail this delicious fruit at the high figure mentioned. It may yet come to pass that a banana in a basket of fruit will stamp it as being high priced, instead of, as of yore, being considered a good and very reasonably priced filler." The price of these red bananas is certainly built to correspond with their delicious flavor. Philadelphia Ueeord. Importnnt Oversight. An irate Nova Scotia member of Parliament announces his desire and ability to thrash any citizen of the United States. But did he ever see our Mr. Jeffries In action? Milwaukee Sentinel. Core for the Kcolotion llnhlt. Santo Domingo should take something for that chronic state of revolution. It might swallow a can of nitroglycerin and then get somebody to hit it with a hammer. Cleveland Leader. jr,,MH Howard. Everybody's Magazine. Do you want 125,000? Here's your chance. California, which produces so many grapes, is eager to learn how to make grape acids out of them. (Jrape acids are raw materials for tartaric acid. The 1'nited States is a large importer of them. As the grape rip ns, a part of Its acid changes into sugar. The problem is to change that sugar back into add. especially tartaric ai id, which is worth some 31 cents a pound wholesale, while to change measure into weight a pound of California wine, made from grapes costing $10 a ton, is worth only about a cent. There ought to be money for the alchemist who can transmute that sugar into acid. The American Grape Acid A.-soclation. of San Francisco, offers him &5.0UO and gives him until Dec. 1. Huri, to earn it. The money has been "put up" with Mr. Daniel Meyer, banker. Young chemists, go and catch that turtarlc acid, that little nest- gg. Hymnal t onveatlOO Adjourna. WASHINGTON. Jan. 5.-The Joint hymnal committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which has been In session here for a week, concluded Its labors toaaj. About 7UU hymns were selected for the new hymnal, which win be issued in the rough some time this week.

THE DRIFT

Thirteenth district Republicans, at their convention next Tuesday at South Bend, will go a step farther than those of any other district, and. in addition to electing a district chairman to succeed Walter Brown, of Elkhart, as a member of the State committee, will select delegates and alternates to the Republican national convention and the presidential elector for the district. The other districts will confine their work to the election of State committeemen. The call Issued by the State committee for the district conventions did not contemplate the election of delegates and alternates to the national convention, or the selection of presidential electors, and when State Chairman Goodrich saw the call for the Thirteenth district convention he at once communicated with District Chairman Brown. He learned that the district committee of the Thirteenth, at the meeting at which It selected South Bend as the convention city, had decided that the convention should not be limited to the election of a State committeeman, anU Mr. Brown has issued a call in accordance with this decision. This in a measure further complicates the situation in the Thirteenth, where an exceedingly lively contest for the district chairmanship has been on for some months. The delegates to the convention will be apportioned as follows: Klkhart county 2 Fulton county 11 Kosciusko county Marshall county 13 Pulaski county 8 St. Joseph county 39 Starke county 6 Total 122 The candidates for district chairman are Rome C. Stephenson, of Fulton; Frank W. Boss, of Marshall; John L. Moorman, of Starke, and Walter Brown, of Elkhart. It Is possible that Mr. Brown will withdraw from the race before the convention is held, and in that event the contest will be a three-cornered one. Mr. Moorman is being urged by Pulaski and Starke counties as the compromise candidate. No candidates for delegates to the national convention have been announced, but, while it is not probable that there will be much of a contest for those positions, it is readily seen that the selection of national delegates may be brought into the chairmanship contest to complicate that situation. Attorney General Charles W. Miller is at Goshen, and it is understood that he will not return to this city until after the South Bend convention. The meeting Monday night to start a compromise movement for the settlement of the contest for the county chairmanship was the principal topic of conversation among local Republicans yesterday. Comments were varied, many prominent party men indorsing the movement, while others, close friends of either Mr. Smith or Mr. Rothschild, the opposing candidates for chairman, "were Inclined to Insist that the two candidates be permitted to light it out, or that, at least, if a third candidate should appear his campaign should be made on the same basis that Mr. Smith and Mr. Rothschild arc making their fight. C. S. Denny, chairman of Monday night's meeting, who Is to select four men to compose a committee, of which he will be the chairman, to call on Mr. Smith and Mr. Rothschild and inform them of the action taken at the meeting, and suggest that th y both withdraw from the race in the Interest of harmony, has not yet selected his committee. Mr. Denny said last evening that the committee will probably be announced to-night, and that It will call on the candidates Thursday or Friday. Mr. Smith and Mr. Rothschild, as might be expected, are not stating in advance of the calls from the committee what they will do in the matter. They will make their answers to the committee, and the committee will report to the conference to be held next Monday night. No candidates for secretary of the county committee have appeared as yet, but some little talk has been started as to probable candidates. W. A. Bogardus. former deputy city controller, is being mentioned, among others, in connection with the secretaryship. It la understood that Harry Negley, the present secretary, does not desire to succeed himself. Preparations for the primaries for the selectiou of delegates to the district convention are under way, and County Chairman C. N. Elliott will aunounce the voting places for the several wards and townships to-morrow. The primaries will be held Friday evening from 4 to 8 o'clock. Inasmuch as there Is no contest for the district chairmanship, It Is not probable that there will be a heavy vote at the primaries, but efforts will be made to get out as large a number of voters as possible. The convention, which will be held next Tuesday afternoon, will re-elect Floyd A. Woods as the member of the Republican state committee from the Seventh district. It is understood that the primaries for the election of precinct committeemen In Marlon county will be held early in February, but the call will not be issued for some time. Mayor M. A. Brouse, of Kokomo, was In the city j-esterday. An interesting bit of gossip going the rounds of Republicans who take an active hand in party affairs is to the effect that the Indianapolis News will In the coming campaigu support the Democratic county, congressional and state tickets. According to the story, which comes from reliable sources, one of the men largely Interested in the News confided to a friend a few days loot that it had been determined that the policy of the News In this campaign should be to support the Democratic tickets. Since lsDC the News has thrown Its influence to the Republicans, except lu the recent municipal campaigu iu Indianapolis, when it supported Mayor Holtzman. Carroll D. Wright. United States labor commissioner, before leaving Indianapolis yesterday made a visit to the Statehouse and cpent some time in the office of the State Board of Charities. "I was very much Interest d in the Indiana system of charities and correction," said Mr. Wright in the afternoon at the Columbia Club. "It is one of the best In the country, unquestionably. The work is mor-- vst. rna'tiz- d and better results are attained than in any other State I have visited. I was especially interested in the plan lor placing orphans In private homes, instead of l;ivjn;r them in the various public Institutions provided for their can . The same plan is follow, d in other States, of course, but not upon such an extensive scale, l was Impressed with the system of conducting all the State ELECTRICAL SCIENCE. Carious Device for Muanifyingv Time Wb.it It Im I aed For. Baltimore American. Just as there are things so small that the naked eye cannot see them, and we use a microscope, so there are other things that move so o.uickly that we cannot see them. It is to enable ns to magnify the time taken by very rapid motions that the stroboscope has been Invented an instrument described before the Institution of Electrical Engineers. London, by the eminent French electrician, M. Hospitaller, president of the Societe Internationale des Electricians. Take, for instance, the case of an engine or machine moving- at great speed. Its parts appear a mere blur to the spectator, yet an important improvement may depend on the possibility of realizing exactly how a certain part of the motion at full speed takes place. The stroboscope Is an instrument which enables this to be done. A movement that really takes place In a hundredth or a thousandth of a second may be seen drawn out to a quarter of a minute or more. The time of the movement Is magnified so as to enable It to be watched and examined at leisure. The

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institutions and I believe that Indiana Is at the front in this work." Mr. Wright, by the way. paid a high compliment to the Columbia Club, where he stopped while in the city. "I was surprised to find auch a club in a city the sixe of Indianapolis." he said. "It la certainly a beautiful club, perfectly arranged and admirably conducted. 1 have never sc. n its superior, either in this country or abroad." Mayor George M. Snyder, of Noblesvllh , who was at the Deniaou last evening, says that everything is quiet In politics in Hamilton county at present. "We have nothing to get excited about. he said. "It is generally understood that there will be no right for the Republican congressional nomination in our district and Representative Londis has suet e. ded in smoothing out the trouble th.-'t . xi.-:d f r him in our county. A little Interest Is being taken in the reorganization of tho county committee, but there will be no const tin re. It is generally ( on reded that E. M. Hare, the present county chairman, will be re-elected without opposition, in recognition of hia faithful and ctlicient work in the last campaign." John W. Kern, who has charge of the arrangements for the meeting at which W. J. Bryan will appear in this city Jan. U, is making out the committees on reception, etc.. that will be In evidence at the affair. Cnusual efforts are being put forth by the Bryan wing of the local Democracy to make the meeting a notable one, but ons or two things are conspiring to disappoint the Bryanites. In the tirat place the very considerable element of the party that has had enough of Bryan docs not purpose to give him any encouragement upon his brst appearance in Indiana after his tour abroad. The antis are led to this course by the belief that Bryan has been given far too much attention here In the past and that it is high time some other of the party leaders are being "featured" in Indiana. Again. Bryan comes this time under thi auspices of the Jefferson League, and tho league is not looked upon with favor by many Indianapolis Democrats, especially by those "politicians" whom President Edgar L. Maines scored so severely In his letter in which he expatiated on the ills o Indiana Democracy. A frosty reeeption for Bryan will be also a rebuke to Maines and his league. "Stokes" Jackson, of Greenfield, treasurer of the Jefferson league, yesterday denl- 1 the story that he was about to sever his connection with the organization He said he was for the league, for the Democratic party and for anything and anybody that could bear the stamp of the rooster. "I never go back on anything Democratic." he avowed. Mr. Jackson says that Hancock county Democrats, most of whom are of the Bryan stripe, will be in Indianapolis in full for. o next week to welcome Bryan. "We'll bring over at hast four big carloads of people for the meeting unless the weather is against us," he said. f A boom for Marshall Field, of Chicago, for the Democratic presidential nomination was launched yesterday by John B. Stoll in the South Bend Times, and taken ur by the local Democratic organ. Mr. Field is' put forward as a man who would be satisfactory to all the many elements In the party, who has given substantial matei i I support to the party in every campaigin for the last quarter of a century . ll whose loyalty to the ticket, evfn under the most trying circumstances, has ne . been questioned. The boom was nr. ived with some favor by Indianapolis Democrats who discussed it about the hotel lobbies last evening- At the Ciaypool a Chicago traveling man grew so enthusiastic that he declared Mr. Field, if nominated, would carry Illinois by 175,0UU plurality. Governor Dnrbln yesterday announ the reappointment of V. D. Ellis as a member of the board of metropolitan police commissioners of Kokomo. It will b n - called that a fight against Mr. Ellis's r -appointment was made by the Civic League of Kokomo, and that an interesting meetlog between the Governor, a committee representing the league and the members oi the board was held a few days ago In the Governor's office. Republican State Chairman J. T. Goodrich was at headquarters yesterday. "I had a rather unusual experience down at Lawrenceburg to-day." said Senator Charles N. Thompson last evening at the Columbia Club. 'I had occasion to g.. down there to look after a lawsuit and I knew that the judge of the court was a Judge Downey, but It never occurred to me that I knew him. I knew that there was a Downey down In that part of the State that I Irt-iAimr l.iit Hl.l ri.,f ttiinlr H iH.. lstt'i. A 1 . . , ' , V ' i i ' I ...... . ... V .... . . . " J V. ' . I were one and the same person. Howe:, the moment I entered the courtrttom I n nlzed the judge as an old classmate and fraternity brother at De Pauw, whom I h:i l not seen in twenty-three years. The surprising thing about it was that the judge recognized me instantly when I was Introduced, although he had not expected to see me and had not been thinking of me It is needless to say that we held a little college and frat reunion before we proceeded to legal business." A potential Democratic candidate appears in Indiana for some office, from first plact on the national ticket down, whenever two or more members of the party get together. The. latest boom is one for Mason J. Niblack, of Vinceunes, for the vice presidential nomination. Jerry Collins, of Michigan city, was at the Grand last night, stopping lu the city en route to Lofaytte to attend the Tenth district Democratic convention tomorrow and he confided to a few friends that he was prepared to launch a boom for Mr. Nlblack at the convention and would attempt to get a resolution adopted Indorsing the former speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives as Indiana's candidate for Vice President. Mr. Collins is also booming John B. Faulknor. of Michigan City, for state committeeman from the Tenth district to succeed Dan W. Simms. of Lafayette, whoso retirement is announced, and hc-ha m.. out a targe umount of work for hitn- :i at the convention. J. Kirby Risk, of Lai y. tt. Is being groomed by Tlppecno count I mocrats for the district chairmanship rw . and the contest between Faulknor and Ri k may prove as exciting as the Hunlon-Srott fight in the Third. A dispatch from the Journal's Washington correspondent says of Judge p nlr Id and the gubernatorial question: "Judge William L. Penfield, of Auburn, received miny members of the Indiana colony at his office :i the State Department to-day. They called to inquire as to the intentions of the solicitor relative to the gubernatorial nomination. Jude Penfield is not pr pan-d at this time t.( ;i:iooi;ne. w h th r or not lie will titer the race He looked over the field carefully while in Indiana ami is now in correspondence with friend in the Si.it.- He said to-day that he w mid have sum thing to say on the subject later In the month " means that prod ace this wonderful result are ludicrously simple when you know them. By means of an t ! ' trie spark Mredl at rapid recurring periods, or a revolving disc with silts pahsed before a lantern, ths moving object is illuminated in a succession of flashe. If the flashes coincide exactly with the period of the machine's revolution they will show It always in one position, and to the oOer er it will seem at rest. By rlightly retarding the n.i,. - 0 that they lag behind their time, the machine under observation will sc m to movo slowly, beca .t each revolution It Is shown at a slightly later stage. Thus a movement to rapid for direct observation may be analyzed and watched slowly, ths strains or vibrations at every point being clearly noted. Thus you may watch the formation of the stitch in a sewing machine, the exact way In which a petrol motor works and a thousand other aaachlns movements where It is Important to slowly whr.t goes on with lightning speed. The great glare of the arc lamp Is not a continuous light, but the see-saw of an alternating current, so fast that the eyo cannot catch the rise and fall of the illumination. The stroboscope will throw tha image of the an and scree) so that ths rise and f ill of the i gin appears piU slow, and the effects of different kinds of carbons, different frequencies and different methods of regulation an be Judged. Tho ti 11 re r m vs r 1 xact of th r Iodic action del mined and recorded.