Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1904 — Page 4

TTTE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1904.

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Senator Oorman will nlease take notice tint United States marines were landed In Korea to protect the American legation, Without waiting for the consent of Congress. Senator Lodge is right in his contention that the recognition of new governments Belongs to thr President exclusively. It Is Bn executive act with no element of legiblagJon in it. The Cuban House of Representatives has Bassed a natloual lottery bill, and with the help of the new reciprocity measure the republic hopes to keep in comfortable circumstam i Tin ore has now been discovered to exist In paying quantities in Alaska. There is probably plenty of money In it. but somehow it does not sound nearly so tempting as the discovery of more gold mines. The people of the United States had to pay for 50 .um quinin pills tor the senators during the last year. That Is 556 pills and a fraction for each senator. The drug habit appears to have the upper house by the While the Democrats in this State are heating the bushes to find an available candidate for Governor, the Republicans are troubled to choose between half a dozen aspirants, any one of whom would make a wit-ning race. A Massachusetts county is offering a Bounty of $2.5o a head for tramps. When one is caught a ball and chain Is attached to his leg and he is set to mending- roads. The most effective method of getting rid of the "hobo" la to compel him to work. "If the United States withdrew its support," complains an anti-administration organ, "the tin-horn Republic of Panama wouldn't last thirtv d.iys." Pretty good argument for continuing the aforesaid support, la It not? Why so vindictive against the "tin-horn republic?" The battleship Indiana is said to be considered a third-rater now. and not at all up to the st in. lard of modern righting machines. If that is the case, why not sell the old "queen of the navy" to one of the billigeren ts in the East? Both are looking tor bargains in this line ami neither has tune to be t ular. 8outh Carolina newspapers have started a fund to erect a monument to the late Editor Gonzales. It will be not only a fitting tribute to a brave man who was an ornament to his profession, but it will call const.) uf attention to the disgraceful miscarriage Of Justice whereby his murderer was allowed to go Jr.. and unpunished. This country d. ph.res u tr. whenever and Whersver it takes place, but, if it must occur, the United States is always ready and willing to furnish supplies to the combatants. Russia and Japan are now reported t.. 1. buying coal in this country; If this heavy demand does not raise the price p. home coaaumers we shall be happy to furnish it. Emperor Men. lik. of Abyssinia, has sent President Roosevelt, among other barbaric glftB, a pair of beautiful elephant tusks. Have ihey a facetious or a complimentary glgnltP ante? Do they call attention to the President s own more or less prominent SBBtars. or do they symbolize the "hound's tooth cleanliness" which !) thinks should axlst in the department - Russia has a mopoly of the brandy Industry, fr.an vhih sie d. rives the enorsnous revenue of g .'M ; i .tr To help Out the treasury iu the present crisis the government will nen i. n. th. sale of tea aad sugar. Since it is expected that evca

larger revenue will be derived from this :i from brandy, the only strange thing about it Is that Russia did not think of it a long time ago. POSITION THAT WILL BK llfinrcD. A Washington dispatch in yesterdays Journal said the State Department's answer to General Reyes's formal note setting forth Colombia's alleged grievances had bet n prepared according to Secretary Hays instructions and the draft memorandum was now in his hands for final revision and would be transmitted to General Reyes In a few days. In the light of event? and of past correspondence between the department and Gen. Reyes, it is . asy t- f Te ast the nature of this reply. On Dec. 8 Gen. Reyes, then in Washington, addressed a communication to Secretary Hay, stating that he had been instructed by his government ro inquire what attitude would be assumed by the United States in the event, which might take place, of Colombian troops making their appearance on the isthmus or attempting a landing on the territory "for the defense of the sovereignty and integrity of Colombia." Secretary Hay's reply to this communication, dated Dec. 11. reviewed briefly the vents pn ceding the recognition

of the independence of Panama and the signing of a treaty between the United States and Panama and said: In vi 'W of these facts I am instructed to say to your excellency that the government of th' United States would regard with the gravest eoncern any invasion of the territory of Panama by Colombian troops, for the reason that bloodshed and disorder would inevitably result throughout the whole extent of the isthmus, and for the broader reason that, in the opinion of the President, the time has come. In the interest of universal commerce and civilization, to close the chapter of sanguinary and ruinous civil war in Panama. On Dec. So Secretary Hay acknowledged a letter from Gen. Reyes requesting him to state explicitly whether the invasion of Panama by Colombian soldiers would be considered by the Cnited States as a declaration of war. In reply Secretary Hay called attention to his communication of Dec. 11, quoting part of it. and closed with the statement that he could only reiterate what he had before said on the subject, and add that the time which had elapsed since Dec. 11 had only tended to deepen the painful impression which would be created in this country by the armed invasion of Panama territory by Colombian troops and the sense of the responsibility which would thereby be imposed on the government of the United States. The secretary said in conclusion that he had been instructed by the President to Inform Gen. Reyes that the United States has only the friendliest intentions toward Colombia and would not lightly be provoked into assuming a hostile attitude towards her. The text of this correspondence was transmitted to Congress with the President's recent special message and has not been made public before. It does not require much reading between the lines to see that the position of the United States has been taken and will be maintained. The recognition of the independence of Panama and the signing of a treaty pledging the United States to protect such independence closes the incident as far as the relations between the two countries are concerned, and makes it certain that Secretary Hay's final reply to Gen. Reyes will be in accordance with his two notes of previous date above referred to. It can hardly be possible that Gen. Reyes does not already clearly understand the attitude and policy of the United States in this matter, and it Is probable his desire to get reiterated definitions of it is in order to convince the Colombians of the hopelessness of inducing the United States to change its attitude and of the extreme folly of invading Panama while the United States stands pledged and prepared to repei such Invasion. Gen. Reyes has recently been elected President of Colombia, and when he gets Secretary Hay's final note he will be in a position, when he returns to Colombia, to define the position of the United States very clearly. It is safe to predict that his voice and influence will be against any step by Colombia that will invite the hostility of the United States. LEST WE Fom.UT. Senator Piatt, of New York, is universally conceded to be one of the shrewdest of political managers, but it is not so generrlly known that he has had a long and successful career as a business man. His experience in this line qualifies him to discuss politics from a business point of view. He is a statesman of the practical, or. if you please, of the commercial school. In his speech at a complimentary dinner given him in Washington Tuesday night the New York senator emphasized the inability of the Democratic party to rise above its environments in the administration of the government. He pointed out that, as the dominant element of the party is lacking in good business sense and controlled by vagaries. Its administration of public affairs will inevitably partake of those characteristfc I, A Democratic President may not himself be a dangerous man. but, said Senator Piatt, "he must yield to the spirit of his party and be its instrument, or he must S break with his party and be the rock on which it splits and goes to pieces." The fol lowing Is worth quoting: The history of Mr. Cleveland Is a perfect illustration of my point. He was made the Democratic candidate for his availability, but as soon as the entire government became Democratic, in his second term, it was straightway discovered that between a conservative President and a radical partythere was no possibility of successful government. As the President became more conservative the party became more radical, and the effect of their struggles for control was felt in the profits of every business and in the earnings of e ry workingman. When Senator Piatt says that the struggle between the conservative and the radical elements of the Democratic party affected the profits of every business man and the earnings of every workingman he knows whereof he speaks, for he is a business man himself. The American people must have very short memories tf they have forgotten what a disastrous plight the country was in at the end of Mr. Cleveland's s. end administration and how quickly it rallied when the party of prosperity and progress came in again. In the light of experience and in view of the contrasting records of the two great political parties In their administration of the government. Senator Piatt thinks "we shall need throughout the coming campaign to keep constantly before the people the often-proved incapacity of the Democratic party to conduct public affairs and the menace to business which proceeds frm its very constitution." The suggestion is timely, lest we forget that the Democratic leopard has not changed its spots and that the party is still as Incapable of giving the

country a successful and progressive busi- 1

ness administration as it ever was in the days of its past professions and promises. Senator Piatt voiced the business sense of the country when he said in his speech Tuesday night: The construction of an isthmian eanal transcends in importance any other act of legislation or diplomacy to whien me government can commit itself, and the people will look impatiently, in my opinion, at any individual or political party that seeks to embarrass this work with partisan outcries. The people have already shown thiir im patience with Senator Gorman, who has BBSS treating the subject from a peanut politics point of view, but he does not seem to have taken the hint yet. Speaking of military appointments that jumped new men over the heads of old ones and shocked the military critics, no President ever did half as much of that sort of thing as Abraham Lincoln did. As the years go by it is worthy of note that there are more and more good stories written about dogs. The intelligence, fidelity and sterling qualities of this noble animal have always been a source of mysterious fascination to human beings, and a good dog sjory is always sure of a wide circle of enthusiastic admirers. During the last few months Mark Twain, Maeterlinck and Jack London have occupied themselves seriously with a contemplation of canine nature. "The Call of the Wild" deserves to become a classic as do "Bob, Son of Battle," and "The Bar Sinister." There is more "human interest" in dog stories than in many man-stories. Why is it? The London Daily Mail is concerned over the fact that modern life tends to make us lazy. People will no longer read poetry because it requires effort; they no longer row boats, dance or take a game of whist seriotlsly. "Lazy" is hardly the term to use "tired" would le better. The miniem man hasn't time for these things during office hours, and after his work is done he would much rather go to bed. He Is very lazy when he is not doing something which will make money that is all. And it is bad enough, in all conscience. "Think." cries the Atlanta Journal, "of Alfred Austin grinding out his poet laureate sausage, and Swinburne yet alive!" The last statement is doubtful. From the latest few links with which Alfred has favored us it is strongly suspected that Swinburne was ground up in the machine. Several of his pet phrases and all of his alliteration could be recognized in spite of their mangled condition. The newest ocean steamer will be 755 feet long, or thirty feet longer than the largest steamship now afloat. That is to say, if she were docked in Pennsylvania street with her bowsprit in Washington street, her propellers would be opposite the Denison Hotel. But of course she won't be used that way. Editor Watterson says that the gray wolves of the Senate will all "go to hell in a hand-basket." Marse Henry's cursing record is not yet up to the standard set by Dowie, and his methods are not so up-to-date as those of Parkhurst, but he has done a lot of damning in his time, nevertheP ss. A Missouri horse got his hind foot caught in his mouth the other day, and before the horse doctor could get it out the poor animal choked to death. Horses should learn from this that the habit of biting the nails is not only impolite, but positively danger ous. Says the Memphis Commercial Appeal: "The knockers are trying to flimflam the people into believing that they can pave the streets without money." Perhaps Memphis is another one of those places which are paved with good Intentions. Whitelaw Reid says that college graduates are not usually successful as journalists. Perhaps that is the reason so many of them are giving up the idea of becoming journalists and are being newspaper men instead. The Empress Eugenie stuck a hat pin In her cheek aad is now seriously ill. The Empress should read the health magazines which warn us never to use any other than a blunt instrument for picking the teeth. President Roosevelt is looking for a fencing partner. Several men who have filled this position are at present rubbing themselves with arnica, and show no great eagerness to return to the fray. A distinguished medical authority now comes forward with the advice not to work between meals. It is easy to see that his patients are all either millionaires or hotel waiters. INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS. Hurt Socialism. The steadily increasing number of departures from New South Wales and Victoria for Canada. South Africa and even Great Britain is beginning to awaken alarm In the commonwealth. 4urlng the first six months of the present year, according to official reports, no fewer than 16,327 persons left New South Wales alone for ports outside the commonwealth, the emigration excelling the immigration 2,116. In addition there has been a large influx of Now South Wales and Victoria population into western Australia. This Is one of the immediate effects of socialist labor legislation In the mother state and Victoria. The people who are leaving Australia are no mere birds of passage. They are mostly a class who have been born or long settled in Australia, many being steady, competent tradesmen; not a few belong to the ranks of master craftsmen, others being pastoralists. farmers, station hands in fact, the very men of which the commonwealth stand In most need. Scarcely any are trade unionists. The nonunionists, under the new erder of things, has no place in Australia. The New South Wales industrial arbitration court and the Victoria wage board each refuses to recognize his existence. He must either Join a trade union or starve. And this Jn a land capable of supporting the whole of the European population several times over. Toronto Globe. Wood Heiter than tout. Terhaps we may some day give up Linning coal and use eucalyptus wood instead. In some parts of Cape Colony it is even now regarded as cheaper to plant a lorest of these quick-growing trs than to import coal. The eucalyptus, according to observations made in southern India by U. K. Hutchins and Sir A. Brandls, produces annually the equivalent of twenty tons of coal per acre; and the writers believe that, under cultivation, this yield would be doubled. Tie M are In the world about eight billion acre of lam: suitable for growing the tree at its most rapid rate, and one-half this are under forest might thus yield the equivalent of lSC.eO0.0OO.0O0 tons of coal yearly more than 2s$ times the world's present consumption. Evidently our descendants will not hae to go without fuel, even if the coal mines should give out. or if the operatives of the future should decide to go on a permanent strike. Success. I ia tie with lislnlH. Mr. fcMlllan. the American explorer, who recently arrived in London, after hi unsuccessful attempt to explore the whole Blue Nile, was Interviewed on the subject of American trade expansion In Abyssinia. He said: 'The greater part of the trad- in Abyssinia Is already in American hands The principal import is white cotton sheeting, which every Abyssinian wears, all of which comes from the t'nited State. I do not aea that there is much possibility of further development In thU trade, aa. so far as this sheet-

ing. which is known a 'Amrikani.' is concerned, the supply has already reached It maximum. There may be some peaslblltttes in the case of oil, which at present come from Russia. As a matter of fact, there is no money in the country. The Abyssinian do not work themselves, leaving . r j thing to the Gallas." Indon Mail.

Locomotive Without Fire. From Germany come news of a locomotive worked by steam and yet independent of Are of It own. The engine has just been completed at the Hohenzoll-rn works at Duesseldorf, and is en-- of a tv... designed for shunting In explosive factories. Instead of carrying Are in Its own boiler it In filled with steam from stationary boilers, and when so charged is capable of several hoi -s' work. The first warming up occupies half an hour, and subsequent recharging can be done In a quarter of an hour. The apparatus is so simple that an unskilled workman is able to look after it. The absence of fire in a place where dynamite or gunpowder is teing handled is the reason for the Invention of this type ..f engine, which is known to engineers as the Lamm Franc system. The working of it is said to be only half as expensive as that of an ordinary locomotive. New York World. Brief Mention. The government inspected 2.000,000 tattle for Texas fever during last year. Most of the wooden toothpicks used in this country are made from white birch In Maine. Charles T. Yerkes Is the authority for the statement that the London underground system is now half completed, and that it will be entirely finished in about five years. The section from Baker street to Waterloo will be open within a year. Within ten years a network of rice farms has been formed from New Orleans to Galveston in land previously useless. There are now 570,000 acres In rice, $26,000,000 invested in canals, machinery and mills, and en annual product of 4,500.U0O barrels, valued at $15.000,000. An eight-Inch pipeline has been constructed from the Bakersfleld oil region, 2S0 miles, to San Francisco bay, by the Standard Oil Company. The oil Is so thick that it has to be heated every twenty-seven miles as it travels. The line is covered with asbestos and delivers 20.000 barrels a day. The original cost of the Suez canal was $95,000,000. Its depth was for many years maintained at twenty-five feet. In 1S95 it was dredged to a depth of thirty-one feet. 108 feet wide at the bottom and 420 feet at the surface. This brought its cost to a little more than $100,000,000. Its net prof ts average 10 per cent, a year. THE HUMORISTS. The Tune. Knicker Somebody call architecture "frozen music." Bocker W 11. I guess our flat must be Greenland's icy mountains. New York Sun. YexiuK Pa Bay. "Our new company is capitalized at $40. 000, 000." "Great! Let me see your prospectus." "Oh. we haven't got out a prospectus yet. The er the darned printer wants his pay in advance. "Puck. Ahead of the ;anie. "They may abuse Wall street all they please." said the Philadelphia man. "but I came out $7i"0 ahead the last time I was there." "How did you do it?" asked his friend. "Left the money at home," replied the wise Quaker. Chicago News. How She Got It. "Mamie got a diamond ring for her Christmas." How did she get it?" "Hung up her stocking." "Jack, of course? But how did Jack get It?" "Hung up his watch." Illustrated Bits. Mis Other Cheek. "When an enemy smites me." said the piouslooking hyprocrite, "I always turn the other cheek." "Why," asked the man who knew him. "do you want your enemy to go around with both hands disabled?" Chicago Record-Herald. Inattentive Waiters. Stranger Are the waiters here attentive to you? Pretty Cashier Slr-r-r-r! Stranger Oh, no offense. I assure you. I was only carrying out the Instructions as printed on the bill of fare, which says, "Please report any inattention of waiters to cashier." And I thought if they were Inattentive to you I would report them that's all. Baltimore American. Presence of Iind ml Hod. v. Turkish baths were a luxury entirely beyond their limited means. "Do you know." she said to him. suddenly, as he was shaving and she was dressing her hair. "I weigh only 100 pounds without any clothes on!" "Where were you weighed?" he asked. She was a young woman of great presence of mind. "Oh, at the meat market," she said, airily. Town Topics. Almost Forgottpn. "Hello, old man. what are you figuring at so hard Christmas eve?" "Why, 1 can't get rid of the idea that I've overlooked some one to whom I ought to give a present, so I've been listing all the people who are entitled to hold me up, but I'll be hanged if 1 can think of anybody who has any claim on me that I haven't got down on one of these three hundred lists. Yet I can't get that horrid impression out of my head " "Read over one of yoitr lists, maybe I can help." "Well, out where I live there's the cook, chambermaid, waitress, nian-of-all-work, washerwoman, mailcarrler, pjer boy. butcher boy, grocer's boy, milkman's boy and policeman; and here at the office there's the janitor, office boy, clerks, elevator boy, mailcarrier again, barber, waiter at the club, scrub woman, and do my best. I can't think of another who'd be able to make my life miserable if I didn't remember him." "Don't you give your wife a present?" "By Jinks, that's it!" Town Topics. President Loreo'n Salary. President Loree's salary as head of the Rock Island syttem, 20,000 miles at least, is not less than $"". 000 a year. One of hi friends said to me yesterday: "I should not he surprised if it is double $75.000. Loree was long intimate with the steel crowd Gate, the Moore brothers, W. B. Leeds. Daniel Gray Heid and the rest and when the Moores got hold of Rock Island they kept their eye on him. Leeds, who has Just retired Irom the presidency. Is too rich to be president of anything. Yet. not so many years ago, he was working for a small salary as a railroad superintendent When Loree first knew him he didn't have $2,500 to his name. He can add three cipher to that sum now and multiply the two by five. I know what the Moores think of Loree. They wanted him They were bound that he should leave the Baltimore it Ohio and go with them, and they probably said: 'Doree. we're going to have you, no matter what It costs. If you want $150,000 a year you can have it. Name your figure.' He simply had to go with his old friends." New York Press. Winter Unlk tit Noon. The night was winter, in his roughest mood. The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills. And where the woods fence off the northern blast. ! The season smiles, resigning all Its rage, I And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue. Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendor of the scene below. Again the harmony comes o'er the vale And through the trees I view the embattled tower. Whence all the music I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains And settle in roft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant, under oaks and elms. Whcse outspread branehen ..verarch the glade. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. Th.- redbreast warbles still, but is content With slendr notes and more than half suppressed. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where-er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant d-.. of ice That tinkle in the withered leaves below. William Cuwpaa.

FLYING EXPERIMENTS AI KILL DEVIL SAND HILL Wright Brothers, Sons of a Former Indianian, Tell of Successful Trials.

TESTS IN WINTER GALE DAYTON. O.. Jan. 6. The Wright brothers, inventors of the flying machine which ha attracted such widespread attention, l rt pared the following, which they say Is the first correct statement of the two successful trials made by them: "On the morning of Dec. 17. between 10:; and noon, four flights were made, two by Orville Wright and two by Wilbur Wright. The starts were all made from a point on the level sand about 2(0 feet west of our camp, which is situated a quarter of a mile north of the Kill Devil sand hill, in Dare county. North Carolina. The wind at the time of the flights had a velocity of twentyseven miles an hour at 10 o'clock and twenty-four miles an hour at noon, as recorded by the anemometer at the Kitty Hawk weather bureau station. This anemometer is thirty feet from the ground. Our own measurements, made with a hand anemometer at a height of four feet from the ground, showed a velocity of about twentytwo miles when the first flight was made and twenty and one-half miles at the time of the last one. The flights were directly against the wind. Each time the machine started from the level ground by its own power alone, with no assistance from gravity or any other source whatever. As a run of about forty feet along a monorail track, which held the machine eight inches from the ground, it rose from the track, and under the direction of the operator climbed upward on an Incline in the course till a height of eight or ten feet from the ground was reachtd, after which tne course was kept as near horizontal as the -wind gusts and the limited skill of the operator would permit. Into the teeth of a T ember gale the flyer made its way going with a speed of ten miles an hour over the ground and thirty to thirty-five miles an hour through the air. It had previously been decided that for reasons of personal safety these flrst trials should be made as close to the ground as possible. The height chosen was scarcely enough for maneuvering in so gusty a wind and with no previous acquaintance with the conduct of the machine and its controlling mechanisms. Consequently the first flight was short. The succeeding flights rapidly Increased In length and at the fourth trial a flight of flfty-nine seconds was made in which the machine flew a little more than a halfmile through the air and a distance of S52 feet over the ground. The landing was due to a slight error of judgment on the part of the operator. After passing over a little hummock of sand in attempting to bring the machine to the desired height the operator turned the rudder too far and the machine turned downward more quickly than had been expected. The reverse movement of the rudder was a fraction of a second too late to prevent the machine from touching the ground and thus ending the flight. The whole occurrence occupied little, if any more, than one second of time. Only those who are acquainted with practical aeronautics can appreciate the difficulties of attempting the first trials of a flying machine in a twenty-five-mlle gale. As winter was already set in, we should have postponed our trials to a more favorable season, but for that fact we were determined before returning home, to know whether the machine possessed sufficient power to fly, sufficient strength to withstand the shocks of landings, and sufficient capacity of control to make flight safe in boisterous winds as well as in calm air. When these points had been definitelyestablished we at once packed our goods and returned home, knowing that the age of the Hying machine bad come at last. From the beginning we have employed entirely new jprinciples of control; and as all the experiments have been conducted at our own expense without assistance from any individual or tnstitutlon, we do not feel ready at present to give out any pictures or detailed description of the machine. CAR BARN BANDITS ON TRIAL AT CHICAGO Three of the Four Before the Bar on the Charge of Murdering Clerk Frank Y. Stewart. CHICAGO, Jan. 6. -The trial of three of the car barn bandits, Marx. Neidermeier and Van Dine, was begun to-day before JuCge Kersten In Criminal Court and after a day's struggle in the effort to procure jurors court adjourned without a man having been accepted. It has been announced that the defense would be insanity in each case, but the attorneys for the defense to-day, by the questions put to veniremen, indicated that some other line would be adopted. It is possible that four veniremen who were examined to-day may be accepted to-morrow. Among those present was the mother of Niedermeier, who has been familiarizing herself with court methods In attending a murder trial conducted by another Judge during the past few days. The morbidly curious were rigidly excluded, no person not directly connected with the trial being admitted. The specific case called was that of the murder of Frank W. Stewart, clerk in ch.irge of the money at the car barn office. Koeski, one of the bandits, is not. a defendant in this particular case. The first step taken by the defense was a motion to seek delay in behalf of Van Dine. An affidavit was presented to the effect that effort had failed to secure the attendance of Dr. James C. Ross, who is in Colorado. Van Dine was employed by Dr. Ross in Chicago Heights, and it is said that the physician will tstify that Van Dine is insane. THE CATALPA AND THE LOCUST. Relative Merita of These Two Trcc for Kit il road Ties. Philadelphia Press. Arboriculture, a monthly magazine published iu Indianapolis, in the interest of the International Society of Aboriculture, devotes considerable space in a recent issue to a consideration of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's project to raise locust trees on a large scale for ties. The locust is an excellent wood for posts, but Arboriculture does not think so well of it for railroad ties. It says: "If locust is used for lies the holes must be bored. When a spike is once driven into a iocust and the wood seasoned it will break off but cannot be withdrawn. There is no more elasticity in a locust tie than in east iron. In track removals it will be found extremely difficult and slow work with cross ties of locust so much so as with metal ties." The ideal tree to grow for railroad ties, in th opinion of Arboriculture, is the catalpa speciosa. This is a quick-growing, tall, upright forest tree. There are a number of species and varieties, and when they grow near the speciosa they readily hybridize, and the trees raised from such seeds are disappointing Ussfl t the eat.ilp i seen in tht- innlty have a .-h-.rt trunk, while both the trunks and larger limbs are more or less crooked and not promising as tie material. The Pennsylvania P.. i ilroad Company, we understand, experimented with catalpa tree growing some y.-ars aaro. but It was disappointed with the result, for the reason. Arboriculture states, that their tree- were not the catalpa speciosa. but a hybrid. Trie Illinois Central Railr ad have some JOO.000 catalpa trees growing m ar Du Qimin. ill. The catalpa speciosa Is a Western tree. It will be the sut jei t of a special exhibit at the Bt Louis extxsitton. under the auspices of the International Society of Arboriculture. Formerly the best heart wood! of white oak trees was the only timber used for railroad tl-s The supply of this has long since ceased to be sufficient for the demand for ties, and interior wood of vari-

THE DRIFT

Senator Beveridge called on President Roosevelt yesterday, says the Journal's Washington correspondent, and In commenting on the visit the Washington Si tr said Wednesday night: "Senator Beveridge went out into Indiana about five or six weeks ago. when there was a great deal of newspaper publication of possible opposition to the President in Indiana and support of Senator Hanna. Senator Beveridge stayed out there. He talked with the Beveridge machine, which is said to be one of the smooth., st tunning private affairs in the country. This machine is resurrected out of the Beveridge private locker on all necessary occasions. There was a love-feast of Indiana Republicans at Indianapolis s few days ago. The fact that the love-feast and the indorsement of the President all followed the visit of Senator Beveridge had not escaped the President's attention. Consequently, the suspicion is that Senator Be.eridge and the President met each other under cordial circumstances, and that the President at least congratulated Senator Beveridge on the feet that the love-feast resulted In all-around understanding that Senator Beveridge is to come back to the Senate from Indiana without opposition." With the election of a member from the Tenth district at to-day's convention in Lafayette the new Democratic state committee will be completed and ready for reorganisa tion at the meeting at the Grand Hotel tomorrow forenoon. Local Democrats who are interested in the election in the Tenth predict that John B. Faulknor, of Michigan City, will be made the successor of Dan W. Simms. They say that Kirby Risk, of Lafayette, would make a strong candidate for state committeeman, but regard it as improbable that the Democrats of the Tenth will consent to the election of a Tippecanoe county man, inasmuch as that county has had the district chairman for several years. A. T. Livengood, of Covington, who was re-elected as the Ninth district member of the State committee at the Crawfordsville convention Tuesday, is the ninth of the old members to be re-elected, which is taken to mean that the present committee's officers and policies will be perpetuated. Thomas Taggart is known to favor the reelection of State Chairman W. H. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg, and it is taken for granted that his plans will be carried out at to-morrow's meeting. However, the programme of the wily boss may not k through with as much unanimity as the resolution indorsing him for national chairman, for it is intimated that the Fleming insurrection will be again in evidence, this time with the new member from the Twelfth district, A. A. Adams, of Columbia City, as the leader. At the Grand Hotel last evening there was min h speculation among the Democrats congregated there concerning Adams's attitude toward Mr. Taggart. It was reported that former State Senator James K. McDonald, of Ligonier, while here to attend the meeting of the Stat. Board of Agriculture, had whispered to a few friends that Chairman O'Brien would not be reelected without a fight and that the Flem-ing-Taggart feud is by no means a closed incident. Fleming and his friends will neither forget nor forgiye the turning down they received two years ago when Fleming wanted to be made State chairman and they pyrpose to show that they are "Indians." In the political sense of the term. It is not believed, however, that Fleming and Adams can muster sufficient strength in the new State committee to worry greatly Mr. Taggart and tr'halrman O'Brien. They can spoil the beautiful harmony which most of the party leaders so earnestly desire, but they canuot control the situation. "I am not a candidate for anything," declared J. W. Reilly, the present secretary of the Democratic state committee, last evening, when he was asked if he would seek a re-election. Still, there is such a thing as dc?tring a position without being an avowed candidate for it, and this is generally regarded as Mr. Rellly's attitude. No one else is asking for the secretaryship at present, and unless a candidate bobs up within a few hours Mr. Reilly will probably get what he wants without asking for it. "Hugh H. Hanna, of Indianapolis, is the latest Indiana man to be mentioned in connection with the vice presidency on the Republican ticket. The Washington Post today comments favorably on the Hanna boom, and expresses the opinion that his nomination would neutralise the opposition of Eastern financiers now opposing the President." Washington Correspondence of the Journal. Senator E. E. Hendee, of Anderson, was at the Columbia Club yesterday with Judge M. A. Chipman. Governor Durbin will leave Saturday for Washington to attend the arbitration conference which meets there next week. He will be accompanied by Addison C. Harris. At the session of the conference Tuesday afternoon the Governor will be one of the speakers, the programme including Cardinal Gibbons, Andrew Carnegie. Edward Everett Hale and President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University. Tuesday evening a reception will be given for the Governor at the residence of John W. Foster and on Wednesday h will be a member of a committee to wait upon the Senate committee on foreign relations and on President Roosevelt to inform them of the action of the arbitration conference. The last visit Governor Durbin made to Washington provoked an endless amount of political gossip and the newspaper correspondents at the capital worked overtime to unearth the true significance of the Governor's trip. It is now up to them to "make copy" out of this visit. iThe Populists of Indiana will seek to bring the next national convention of the party to this city. The middle-of-the-road and the fusionist factions In Indianapolis are being brought together, and at a conference this week of about forty leaders it was decided to send a committee to the conference to be held in St. Louis on Washington's birthday to make an effort to capture the national convention for this city. The launching of the Marshall Field Democratic presidential boom in Indiana papers has created a mild sensation in Chicago, and local correspondents of Chicago papers have been given rush orders for extended stories setting forth the names of the Chicago friends of Mr. Field who are sending out the letters urging him as the man for the first place on the Democratic ticket this year. It might bo suggested by way of parenthesis that Mr. Field is one of the heaviest advertisers in Chicago, and that the newspapers of that city will find it no difficult task to induce themselves to boost him for the presidency. Thomas Taggart. Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, when ask d last evening what he thought of the Field boom, said: Mr. Field is essentially a business man and has never taken an active part in politics, but he is a thorough Temoerat and has at all times given the party hi earnest support. He is a man whose character and career command universal respect and he might prove to be the best man upon whom the party could unite as a leader in the coming campaign. It is generally understood that Mr. Taggart personally Inclined to Judge Parker. ous sorts is now accepted, and the life of a railroad tie. that was about nine years when heart white oak was used. Is now only half that time, except when, by treatment with creosote or other preservative the life is materially extended. The catalpa speciosa, it is claimed, contains its own preservative and will last indefinitely, at least Its limit of life is not yet ascertained. Instances are given of catalpa ties sound and good after thirty-one years of service. Tho capacity of wood to resist decay under the conditions which surround a railroad tP- d termiues only one element of its suitability for this s rvice. Its capacity to resist indentation under pressure is a consideration quite as important. The redwood of California, which has been extensively used for ties on the Pacific coast, is rapidly woru I by the grinding and pressure of the rails on the soft wood, aided by the sand which finds its way between the tie and the rail. The power of Western catalpa to resist decay has been proved. Has its capacity to resist Indentation under the tremendous pressure of a railroad doing the business the Pennsylvania does also been demonstrated? This is a most important matter. If. as is claimed, catalpa trees can be grown in sixteeu ynrs that will meet every requisite of a good tie for thirty years or more, a grave problem confronting our railroads la solved. The Pennsylvania's locust tree plantiug is

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of New York, as the man for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Sumner League, an organisation of colored Republicans, held an enthusiastic meeting last night at the Parkt r House on West Michigan street, to celebrate the ninety-third anniversary of the birth of Charles Sumner. James H. Lott. president of the league, delivered an address on "The Life and Character of Charles Sumner." Caleb 8 Denny last evening announced that Wiliam T. Drown. Henry W. Bennett. John L Marsee and Crate D. Bowen had been selected by him to act with him as a committee to wait upon H. B. Smith and L. G. Rothschild, the opposing candidates for chairman of the Republican county committee, and inform them that it was the smsi ot tin Republican conference held :.-t M-nd ,v nig! thai In the Interest of party harmony thy should both wtthdraw from the race and let a compromise candidate be selected and elected. The comtittee will have a meeting to-day or tomorrow, preliminary to calling on Mr. Smith and Mr. Rothschild. Paul Poynter. one of the active young Democrats of Sullivan, was at the Grand yesterday. n.-.-ar H M.-r.tsrom. ry. of Seymour, the retiring- member of the Republican state committee from the Fourth district. U at the Denison. "I came up solely on legal business." he said last evening. "I have a case before tin Supreme c'ourt and other business to look after. In fact. I'm so busy with legal matters now that I am not thinking about politics, but I expect to have my affairs in shape by the middle of the month to turn my attention to politics. It is generally understood that Mr. Montgomery will be a candidate for the nomination for judge of the Supreme Court from the Second judicial district. Will H. Whittaker, superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory, and J. D. Reid. warden of the State ITison. were In the city yesterday to attend the session of the Prison Reform Commission. S. T. Murdock and Henry W. Marshall, of Lafayette, political adversaries, but personal friends, agreed last evening at the English that this is Lafayette's year to shine in State polities. "We have candidates for the Republican nominations for Governor and secretary of state." said Mr. Murdock. "We're going to nominate Dan Simms for Governor on the Democratic ticket, ami we may go after a few other pi urns before the trees are shaken. It is not so much a question of our going after these honors as it is one of a tttti!. i .t:,.:i "!i of the superior qualities of our citizens, both Republicans and Democrats. We could furnish the entire State tickets for both parties and still have enough good men left to make a lively fight for our city and county offices. Lafayette is there with the goods when it comes to furnishing candidates." T. N. French, of Alexandria, a member of the Prison Reform Commission, who waa here yesterday, was asked to name the winner of the race for the Republican congressional nomination in the Eighth district. "Dunlap," he replied promptly. Mr. French believes that the former mayor of Anderson has the call on the nomination because of the multiplicity of candidates and the fact that he represents the largest county in the district. -f E. K. Sowash. of Middletown. who was at the Claypool last evening, said that Adolph Cooper, of his city, may become a candidate for representative from Henry county, a preferment sought by Charles 8. Hernly. of New Castle, former chairman of the Republican State committee. "Cooper can beat Hernly for the nomination If he goes after it." said Mr. Sowash. "He is well known all over the county and is one of our most substantial citizens." James Epperson, of Linton. State mine Inspector, was at the Grand last night. Mayor Henry Bcrghoff. of Fort Wayne, was in the city a few hours yesterday. Mr. Berghoff was the chairman of the recent Democratic district convention at Columbia City. W. L. Taylor, of this city, one of the gubernatorial aspirants, will make a speech Saturday at a mass convention at Bloomington. The convention will select delegates to the Republican district convention, which will be held next Tuesday at Vlncennes. A dispatch from the Journal's Washington correspondent says: "Ernest EL Tripp, of Indianapolis, arrived hen to-day and was in conference with Senator Beveridge. It is understood that the conference related to the chairmanship fight in the Fourth congresslonad district, where Mr. Tripp's brother. Albert A. Tripp, of North Vernon, Is a candidate against W. E. Springer, of Elizabethtow n. There is soma talk here to the effect that a compromise may be brought about In the Fourth district." -f John Williams, of the Anderson News, was at the Grand Isst evening. T "What's in this talk about Marshall Field for the Democratic nomination for Ptesiui nt?" asked Charles G. Mauzy. of Fowler, who was at the Statehouse yesterday afternoon. "Is It a genuine boom, or merely newspaper gossip? Field would make a hard man to beat If he should start after the nomination." G. V. Kell, of Fort Wayne, who represented Allen county in the State Senste in the sessions of 1899 and 1901 and served an apprenticeship in the House prior to that, waa on of a crowd of Democrats at tha Grand lest evening. He predicts the renomination of Represnetative Rcblnson bv the Twelfth district Democrats. "We're going to renominate Jim Robinson because he's the one man we can depend on to carry the district." said Senator Kell, "and because he can go out and get the nomination whether some of us w-Mnt to give it to him or not. He la tho most popular man in the district and the secret of his popularity is that he s 'Jim to everybody who knowa him. while In turn he knows almost every msn In the district by his first name. I stood by his side In a crowd at Island Park once for over half an hour while ha shook hands with the people as fast as they could get to hlra and I'll sw. ir he greet-d all of them by their first names and Inquired about the members of their family who were not thete There isn't a man In the district who can beat him for the nomination and I don't believe the Republicans can put up a man to defeat him for the election. There's Just one Republican who might turu the trick and that's Newt t;tlbert." Senator Keil was asked what the Democrats of Allen county thought of 8. H FlemltiK s couise in i. fusing to vote for the resolution indorsing Thomas Taggurt for national chairman that wHs adopted hy the Democratic State committee at its Inst meeting here. "Well, to tell the truth, most of them didn't like it." he replied "Fleming has lots of friends, of course, who believe that almost anything he does ts about nmn. Dur even many of tl his attitude toward Taggart." experimental. If convinced that the catalpa -a promises better results, no doubt the company will make Its future plantations of catalpss. The locusts already started will not be wasted. If they do not make as satisfactory ties as catalpa their timber is exceedingly durable, and for posts, and. we might add. policemen's night sticks it is the best possible material. Warned l the Mayor. BLOOMINGTt N. 111.. Jan. . This afternoon Mayor George c Morrison issued a radical proclamation concerning the street railway strike. He or-l.-red all persons to refrain from loitering or congregating on the public streets under the severest penalties. In addition it n is decided at a conference this noon between the citv and county authorities to triple the forces of ofBcern and of deputies lu anticipation of any outbreak on Saturday night or Sunday. Hunhnell'a Munlttrent tilfta. SPRINGFIELD, o.. Jan. . Asa 8. Bushneil has given 1 two daughters, his dauth two sons-in-law fTSo.OOu in st tematlonal Harvester dm men he gave each tlOO.nJO. women ea h ttfO.000. The was made at a dinner oartY. Ex -Govern or o his son and er-ln-law and tck of the lnny. To the and to the announcement