Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1904 — Page 4

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY. JANUARY 8. 1904.

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Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A Smith, 157 Champa street. DAYTON. O.J. V. Wllkle. 39 South Jefferson street. COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct News Stand. MO High Street Chinese cruisers have received a coat of war paint. Chinese war paint must be a terrible thing; to contemplate. What can it be like? President Roosevelt says that Root is the most capable man in the Cabinet. The Journal sharts In the President's enthusiasm, but what's the matter with Hay? A colony of Russian lepers has settled within the borders of Nebraska, and the State Is very angry about it. Why didn't Mr. Bryan mention it to his friend Nicholas? Has the President not settled the muchvexed question of what we shall call tha Inhabitants of Panama? He calls them Panamuns, ami It s. ms as if that ought to make the appellation official. The Democrats still cherish hopes that the administration will Interfere in case of trouble in the far East. Since the Panama "scandal" has proven to be no scandal they sre anxious for something else to make an Issue of. The Suprenv- Court has decided that Porto m - ttj I ar. ore ernrilea to enter th- i tu. -d Stafps without obstruction. If that is the case, how about the Filipinos, and the decision in the other Insular cases? The Jacksonian Club, of Omaha, has reinstated the Gold Democrats whom it expelled in 196. When Mr. Bryan gets back to Nebraska he will tind that his abseue In Europe has been taken base advantage of by his friends. A Moslem league has been formed at Bagdad for the purpose of fighting Christianity. It is good news to hear that there Is enough Christianity in that part of the world to make the formation of such a league necessary. In consequence of the closing of tho theaters, Chicago finds herself overflowed with Jobless chorus girls, tuneless orchestras and penniless comedians. A beiieflt performance for the poor creature ha s 1. .n suggested but there is no theater in which to give it. John, Alexander Dowie is seeking a southern islaud to whit h he can transplant his "eternal city." Happy thought why not buy Santo Domingo for him? Then this country could let the revolutions take care of themselves, and "Peace be with you!" ' would be the motto of the island. In the Senate committee on military affairs, of the two who oppose the conflrmaoa of General Wood, one is a Democrat .Od ope a Republican. Two of those who .'avor him are Democrat. Thus goes up In smoke another frantic effort to make a political issue against tho administration. Tha President denies positively that the United States government incited the revolution In Panama, or had anything to do with it. That should remove the issue from the consideration of the treaty. President Roosevelt's word can be relied on, and even bis opponents never have the lernt rity to call him a liar. One reason why it Is necessary for this government to exercise large authority for the protection of its people and their interests in foreign countries is that under Republican ruie the I'nited States has become s world power. The Democratic pa ruts freely absolved from any responsibility far thst. The telegraphic report of the burning of e Iowa Capitol added: "Au Important fact connected with the structure is thst the building was completed without t?ia taint of suspicion of extravagance or corruption attaching to the contractors or State officials. ' It is truly a aigniflcant comment on the state of public morality that such a fact should be thought worthy of special mention! The Scientific American suggests that elltri - should into favor again with travelers for pleasure to Europe. Many people who enj.. a sea voyage and sWsrret that the Atlantic titp Is cut down It a week even now take passage on freight vessels. A well-built and comfort - SjMy-fltted sailing ship capable of carrying S score or mor. of passengers ought to pay well. It would be. a novelty and much ought aft r by persons in search of health. Our frienus, the enemy, the Democratic leaders and pushers of Indiana, will hold a sort of reunion in thin dty to-day. The occasion Is the altem;, t to rebuild the disrupted fa. lions wf the party into a har

monious whole a far more difficult undertaking than thst of constructing a complete animal from two or three bones. As last attempt "to reorganize the party probably means an attempt to regain control of the national government, one is reminded of the story of the dog that chased a railroad train for a mile or so, barking at every leap The question was asked. "What would he do with it If he caught it?" Noho.Iy - liuld t 11. UM l,TKHTF.H WIM.-. Representative Mann, of Illinois, seems desirous of winning reputation as the defender of the policy of Importing adulterated foreign wines into the I'nitod States. During a discussion of pure Boss legislation by the House committee on foreign commerce. Dr. Wiley, chemical expert of the Department of Agriculture, stated that fifty cargoes of German wines containing salicylic acid had been condemned and pent back to Germany under the law regulating the importation of foreign foods: Representative Mann, of Illinois, asked if salicylic acid was Injurious to health. Dr. Wiley replied that according to general opinion it was injurious. However. In said, he was now conducting experiments to ascertain this fact. "Then," Mr. Maun declared, "you have barred out German wines before you knew they were injurious." "We have taken the action because the German laws prohibit salicylic acid," replied Dr. Wiley. "Yes," retorted Mr. Mann, "but that law was passed for the express purpose of retaliation against Germany." The law under which the German wines were excluded was passed by the last Congress and went in operation July 1, 1903. It authorizes the secretary of agriculture, with the aid of chemical experts, to exclude from the United States all imported foods and beverages which are adulterated In any manner or which arc falsely labeled as to their character. The law was intended to prevent the United States from being made a dumping ground, as it has been to a great extent in past years, for adulterated foods and wines which could not be sold under the laws of the countries from which they were exported. Some of the wines aimed at were injuriously adulterated, while others were mixed or blended wines, not absolutely Injurious, but falsely labeled as pure products. The inquiry of the Illlonis member showed his ignorance regarding the character of salicylic acid and his willingness to let Americans be injured by German wines which could not be sold In Germany. Salicylic acid is used to some extent for the preservation of meats and vegetables, and especially to arrest in wines the fermentation which is necessary to their perfection. It Is not a deadly poison, but It Is injurious, and If taken into the stomach habitually or in any considerable quantity, is distinctly hurtful. Its effect on tho stomach when administered in small and repeated doses is such that the clerks on whom Dr. Wylle has been experimenting have rebelled against continuing the diet without a rest of two weeks, which has been granted. The German stomach is proverbially tough, and if German wines treated w'th salicylic acid are not permitted to bo sold in Germany, they certainly should not be admitted to this country. If the Illinois member wants his constituents to have wine treated with salicylic acid they can probably obtain it without sending abroad for it.

OI'PItKSSIOX KM FIM.VD. From time to time the news from Finland indicates that Russia is not drawing back or slacking in her policy of crushing the national life out of the little dependent nation. When Finland became Russian territory the Czar promised that she should be allowed to preserve her old customs, language and traditional rights, and that he would not endeavor to exert a Russianizing Influence. This promise, like most Russian promises, appears to have amounted to absolutely nothing. One by one the ancient rights of Finland wore taken away and not the slightest heed was paid to the protests of the nation. During the last year the Iron hand of the imperial power has grown steadier than ever. The Russian tongue was made the official language, and it was ordered that it should be used in the schools. This In spite of the Czar's direct assurance that he would never take this step. The next blow was exile by the administrative process. This was another deliberately broken promise, for tho Finns had foreseen Its possibility and specifically petitioned against it. When it was enforced prominent men protested, but these were imprisoned or exiled. The Intest step toward the denationalization of Finland is the gradual extension of the Russian inquisitorial system to the libraries and reading rooms of the province. An order has gone forth that all publications which might foster notions of independence are to be confiscated. If any of these books are found in libraries a second time the libraries are to be closed. This results in the condemnation of an immense number of patriotic works, and ns Finnish literature is particularly rich In tnls kind of books, the national monuments of letters are threatened with extinction. Immense numbers of Finns have therefore come to the United States during the last two years. The exodus was so large as to be surprising. eVn to those who were acquainted with all the conditions. And yet the Finnish love for the fatherland Is so strong that many are extremely unhappy in this country. Three hundred Finns are reported to have passed through Stockholm the . dher day on their return home from the United States. The report looks strange, but it Is not surprising. These three hundred people were homesick. Russia had made no concessions; but. so much were they attached to their enslaved native land, that not even the prospect of freedom and political liberty 'and equality could keep them away. They preferred suffering and slavery to exile. The contention of those who criticise the President's action in the Panama case is that the executive has no right to take the initiative in such matters, but must await the action and authority of Congress. Yet who questions the rightfulness or wisdom of the President's action in ordering the landing of United 8tates marines in Korea and In San Domingo to protect American life and property? If the opponents of the President's policy In Panama should succeed In establishing their proposition they would make the executive branch of this government something that no power on earth would reaped. That Democratic love-feast In New York was a queer thing. D. B. Hill was the only party Kader present what ailed the rest of them? Cleveland was not there. Judge l'.itk. r declined with thanks, Senator Gormau was not able to come, Judge Gray sent regrets, Scuator Morgan had another en-

-iK in.i;t. John G. Carlisle, Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, and Mayor Collins, of Boston, were conspicuous by their absence. Aud Bryan was not even invited. It must have been a grand and glorious affair for David Bennett Hill.

Parke E. Godwin, who died in New York yesterday, belonged to a past generation of literary workers. A son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant, for many years principal owner of the New York Evening Post, Mr. Godwin was a long-time editorial writer for that paper, contributor to leading periodicals and author of several historical and biographical works. He would have been eighty-eight years old the 25th of next month. There Is something highly edifying in the unanimity with which Democratic members of Congress from this State, who spent the holidays at home, report regarding Republican sentiment since their return to Washington. Of course, as they associated only with Republicans while here and met them on a confidential footing, they know all about it. It is valuable news. The anxiety of some Democratic members of Congress for a congressional Investigation of postofnee affairs seems rather forced, in view of the fact that two such investigations resulted In whitewashing reports by the entire committee, including the Democratic members. The frauds were not discovered until the present administration took hold of the matter. One St. Louis man asked another to lend him $50. He had the money, but. wishing to avoid loaning it, claimed that he had been robbed. The police investigated, but he could give no satisfactory explanation of the robbery. So he was locked up and fined $3. The moral is that when your friends want to "make a touch" you might as well submit, lest a worse thing befall you. Mark Twain has a paper on "Italian Without a Master" in a recent number of Harper's Weekly. He was always able to extract a great deal of fun out of the vagaries of foreign languages as witness his "Essay on the German Language," in the appendix of "Tramp Abroad;" his sidesplitting farce, "Meisterschaft;" and his retranslation from tho French of "The Jumping Frog." M. and Mme. Curie cannot get 1,'to the French Academy. And yet while every man and woman who ever reads a paper knows who discovered radium, not one in fifty could name a single one of the immortals. 'Twas ever thus! Many arguments have been advanced In favor of asbestos curtains for theaters, but the best of these is based on their economy. When they are worn out they can be cut up into stovewood lengths and sold to dealers in fuel. A Chicago paper says that evidently "Parsifal" is making ns much of a hit in New York as did the Florodora double sextet. Well, perhaps but the songs will not be whistled on the street to any great extent. Elbert Hubbard has come out with a defense of Prophet Dowie. It might have been expected, as the methods of the two men are similar. Both have waned in popularity and a merger may help some. A Russian surgeon extracted a bullet from a young woman's heart and saved her life. The report fails to state whether he succeeded in making any impression on that remarkable organ. A California girl took the first prize in the New York beauty show. The taste of the New York judges ran toward the large and statuesque rather than the dainty and petite. A West Virginia swain has been fined $25 for killing his rival in love. It costs lots of money to court a girl in West Virginia. The open door policy will hereafter be vigorously applied to all Indianapolis theater exits. A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. Knew from Experience. It was at the clu a man's club and tha members were discussing woman, possibly from a realizing sense of how little they could ever hope to know about tha subject and with a laudable desire to learn by pooling their general information as much as might be. From women in the abstract the conversation had drifted naturally to a consideration of the mere concreto expresalon of feminine phenomena In other words, the company was talking wives, and each member was putting in his littlo claim to reflected glory, even as long ago did the happy husband or one Penelopa. "My wife," said the man from Brooklyn proudly, "has one of the brightest minds of any woman I have ever met." "Indeed she has." agreed a stranger, who had Just been introduced to the club. The Brooklyn man looked up sharply. There was an authoritative rir.ff in the stranger'a voice that he did not quite like. "Nevertheless." he continued after a pause, "I must admit that she has her faults." "Indeed she has." corroborated the stranger. The Brooklyn man started to his feet. "See here, my friend," he exclaimed, "I should like to know by what authority you agree with me so definitely about my wife?" " The best in the world." said the stranger. "I used to be married to her myself, you know." New York Press. The Hilling I'liislon Strong;. "Old Adam Forepaugh." said a friend of the veteran showman, "once had a big white parrot that had learned to aay: " 'On at a time, gentlemen one at a time don't crush.' "The bird had. of course, acquired this sentence from the ticket taker of the show. Well, one Jay the parrot got lost in the country, and Mr. Forepaugh leaped Into his buggy and started out posthaste to hunt for It. "People here and there who had seen the iarrot directed him in his quest, and finally, as he was driving by a corn tield, he was overjoyed to hear a famUiar voice. "He got out and entered the field, and found the parrot in the middle of a flock of crows that had pecked hua till he was almost featheiless. As the crows bit and nipped awav the parrot, lying on his side, repeated over aud over! " 'One at a time, gentlemen one at a time don't crush.' "New York Tribune. A n old ord. "Did" you ever hear of the preacher who prayed that the House and Senate might hang together?" asked Champ Clark. "It cornea to me this way: "The man of God was aending up a petition that the lawmakers we are the ones might hang together; that the times were trying, and that united and concerted action was necessary for the good of the country. At the point in his petition to the Throne of Grace where he asked that they might hang together, a member of the congregation, evidently a disappointed candidate, said, 'Yes, and the sooner the better; this Is the prayer of all good people.' "Hut. my friend." said the arson. I don't mean as the brother does. I mean that they may hang together in accord and concord. " 'No matter what cord." returned the member, 'so It's a good anl strong one.' "Washington Times. What Ailed llltnf An employe at a certain Philadelphia club takes a great deal of Interest In the welfare of bis patrons and also boa a fondness for large wurda. In the former case he always tells one

customer all he learned about the preceding ones and in the second he proves that he has a "leather stocking's" ear for mouth-filling utterances which he likes in proportion to their size. The other day one customer was taken slightly ill while being waited on and it was found necessary to send for a doctor. The event immensely excited and Interested the waiter, who told about it to all the customers following. "Mr. Blank was here to-day." he said, "and he had a bad turn. "We had to send for a doctor and the doctor had to give an epidemic." Philadelphia Press.

Part of Ulm Left. "I suppose." remarked the man who prides himself on his winning ways with the other sex, "that in the pretty locket you are wearing there is some memento some token of a past love affair." "How did you guess It?" asked the dazzling creature beside him. "Yes; there's a remembrance a lock of my husband's hair." The man of fascinating manner looked surprised. "Why." said he. "I had no Ilea that you were a widow. They told me. If I mistake not. that your husband was alive." "And so he la," responded the beautiful woman; "but his hair la gone." New York Press. Pertinent. During some recent army maneuvers at Fort McPherson a sentinel was stationed In the road. A farmer came along and his horse, unaccustomed to the eight, bolted and upset the soldier. After going a short distance the farmer managed to pull up and then, turning to the aoldler. Indignantly exclaimed: "Why the mischief don't you get out of the road?" "Good Lord!" exclaimed the disheveled, warrior; "you ain't coming back, are you ?" Chicago News. Does Not Want Convention. "It Is a mistaken Idea to suppose that there is a greet popular clamor on the part of the citlxens of Greater New York to bring the Democratic national convention to our city," said Mr. G. F. Myers, an attorney of the metropolis. "The fact Is, the general business community does not want it. The high-class hotels do not want the crowds conventions bring to a city. The great stores feel about the same way. It is generally believed that the crowds are not only not profitable, but deter business. Of course, there are thousands who do like the Idea. The railroads and street-car people principally. Speaking from the standpoint of a Democrat, I should prefer to have the convention go to a city other than New York. Chicago or St. Douis. for instance. I think, on the whole, the delegates 10 be elected will prefer a Western city to the metropolis, and tha national committee, to assemble in this city on Jan. 12, will voice the sentiments of the delegates and a majority of all other Democrats." Washington Post. Men's Pads. "Women are not the only ones who have fads, said an observing Individual during a discussion on fads. "I know a contractor In this city who goes about buildings he is constructing and extracts bent nails from waste lumber. He straightens them out and tosses them Into a nail box. It is not because he is penurious, for he is quite generous. It la Just a fad. I know a banker in New York who has all envelopes laid on his d?sk after the letters have been taken out. Then at his leisure he cuts the envelopes apart and lays the addressed sides In a pile to be used for scratch pads or memoranda pads. That Is his pastime, or fad. If you will. There Is a rounder uptown who never passes a hotel without going In and looking over the register. Anl I know that he is never expecting to find a familiar name. He told me, when I chlded him about It, that he didn't know why he did, unless it was his fad." New York Commercial-Advertiser. Mump Worth n Furtnnc. A Broadway stamp collector, who haa clients all over the world, showed to a reporter a trade circular from London telling about a recently discovered stamp for which offers of 1.00 have been refused. An American collector living in England Is said to have offered more than that sum for It as a matter of speculation. But the firm that owns the stamp keeps it locked in its safe. Only a limited number of persons are permitted to see it. The coveted stamp is what is called a "tuppeny Mauritius." and is one of the rarest in the world. Its value Is due to an engraver's blunder. His wlta went wool gathering while he was at work, and the stamp was imprinted with the words "postofflce" instead of "postpaid." When the blunder was discovered the entire Issue was hastily withdrawn, and all sold that could be recovered were destroyed. Tho recent discovery waa found in the collection of a Glasgow man whs died about two years ago and whose helra were disposed to treat his postage stamp hobby with contempt. "I have seen these stamps in museums." said the Broadway collector, "but I never before heard of ona In a private collection'. Thla one' may come to America If anybody chooses to pay enough for It." New York Press. Poitmark Stamps. One would scarcely believe that the manufacture of the simple-looking little hand stamps used by the government to cancel stamps would require machinery eufheient to construct a locomotive, but it does, and the building at Lodge. VS., where they are made. Is filled with machinery of the finest and most expensive mako, much of it the Invention of Mr. Chambers's father, and a great deal of It his own. There are about 90,000 postoflices in the United States, and this number is being added to every year at a rapid rate. The ofllce3 in our new possessions have helped to swell the llt. and consequently increase the work of supplying postmarking stamps, for every office down to tha smallest hamUt must use the stamps. This naturally increases the value of the invention which has caused the government to pay into the Chambers family more than 11,250.000, and It's dynamite for the man who comes nosing around the factory to see how the work is done In making the stamps. A certificate of character Is necessary as soon as a stranger gets off the boat at the landing. Detroit Free Press. Wiley's Valuable Report. Coming events cast their shadows before them, and the fact that Dr. Wylle has given his salicylic acid eaters a two weeks vacation may be taken as an intimation that a report may be expected that this preservative will preserve anything except a person's health. This report will be of great value, as salicylic acid In milk and cream certainly makes them acrid and disgusting, whether It makes them poisonous or not. Chicago Chronicle. Blnek and White. Mr. Carnegie puts his finger on a valuable trutn when, in his Hampton Institute addrass, he Indicated the dependence of the agricultural South upon Its 7.000.000 negroes. To-day. even more than in the days of slavery, the most indispensable subjects of King Cotton wear the Ethiopian skin. Without black men the Southern fields would not. as now. grow white with the li-cent staple. Boston Transcript. The Trouble. "How is your school of Journalism doing?" "Well, it is a little slow. We have no trouble in getting people who are willing to be teachers. The trouble is to find anybody who doesn't think he knows all about how a newspaper ought to ba run." Washington 8tar. Me n-1 Ik's Mistake. The Emperor of Abyssinia, in order to show his friendship for the United States, proposes to send lions as tokens of his affection. Evidently no one has yet told him that th- tiger is now foremost in the regard of a considerable percentage of voters, at leat In New York. I urn A h ii t . Just by way of reciprocity, after hearing Parsifal." we might send Lillian Russell. Pete Dal ley. Willie Collier and Ezra Kendall over to Beirut to show them what American drama means. Washington Post. ( leveln nd's Indisposition. The "vexatious Indisposition" that kept O rover Cleveland from attending the McClellan dinner the other evening seems to have been an indisposition to meet the men that were to be there. -Chicago Tribune A Few Left. Another prince and princess hare been divorced. Hurrah! The supply of titled foreigners who can be used by American helresaea may turn out to ba fulrly satisfactory after all Chicuso Uccurd-Herald.

RESOURCES OF PANAMA WILL YIELD WEALTH TO ENERGY AXD EXTERPRISE

fOXCL,TTDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) the most primitive condition of operation; but there the end Is reached. In all Pauama there is not a mill for the grinding of grain, a part of the kitchen outlit of every home being a mortar and pestle, usually made by hollowing out one end of a short log and rudely fashioning a club out of one of the hard woods. Travel over the 30.000 odd miles of this area, and there is uot to be heard the hum of a single sawmill, although such woods as lignum vitae. a white wood almost as durable ar iron; kokobola. a red wood which takes a polish richer than cherry, mahogany or rosewood, r which, by being buried in the ooze of swamps, quickly becomes perfectly ebouized, are available in limitless quantities. Nor Is there to be found in this land. where travel is principally by boat along the coasts and rivers, a single boatbuilding establishment; cayues hollowed out of cedar logs and fitted with a small sail and a paddle alone are used. There is one insignificant tannery on the isthmus, but aside from it mechanical labor is an entire stranger In this secIou of the universe. The foregoing may be taken as a fair index to the prospects afforded by the future. Agricultural and mineral development, commercial activity, industrial enterprise each in Its numerous and variable forms all wait the touch of genius to be called into being. But as a prelude to this development there must come first the real work of the pioneers. The railroad's monopoly of transportation facilities must be destroyed and wagon roads constructed, so as to make the Interior accessible. The destruction of the railroad's transportation monopoly will be easy after the United States shall have secured possession of the property; but the building of roads will be a more difficult undertaking. In its present native state the land is most repelling, being a succession of wampi and jungles. Drainage quickly does away with the swamps, and by this means thousands of acres now wholly useless can be redeemed for purposes of cultivation with comparative ease. But there remain tho jungles. These are nothing more than dense masses of most exaggerated and excessive vegetation, rendering survey and construction work almost impossible. The Jungles are only penetrable when one takes along a native, who, armed with the universayl machete, cuts a path through the taugled vines and small shrubbery. ROAD MAKING. For actual roadmaking the difficulties would be infinitely greater, for in felling trees it is necessary to cut them off in sections at the bottom, the growth of vines through the bows being so strong and so generous that it Is very nearly impossible to drop a tree by cutting. This pioneer work of clearing is not, however, impossible; all It requires is plenty of determination and much hard labor. The greatest difficulty about it is that, once it Is done, it has to be frequently done over again unless, by advanced systems of drainage, the land is completely subjugated. Neglected for a little while, the land produces a jungle rivaling the one removed, Uli quality of the soil, the excessive rain tthe average fall Is about 130 inches annually) and the .perpetual heat from the sun giving to vegetation that rapidity in growing found only in the tropical countries. It is notable, however, that In the case of the few cleared plots where recent attempts to cultivate bananas have been Inaugurated comparatively little difficulty is experienced in keeping the land clear. This is due to the attention paid to draLnage, and it stands as a fact that once this land is drained and thoroughly redeemed its equal for richness and productivity can hardly be found. Given roads, drainage and decent methods of communication for the diminutive ponies and minute carts now in use in the towns are of little account in connection with any interior operations on extensive scale all of the possibilities of this land which I have recited can be turned to profitable account. The policy of the new government toward the concessionaires, while not entirely outlined, is in the direction of progress. The beef-killing concession has already been abrogated, and in that act is a great incentive for the development of the cattle-raising industry on the isthmus. It is commonly believed that other concessions, which, being now in the hands of speculators, serve only to retard progress, will also be vacated. For instance, the concession for mining coal on the Pacific slopes of the isthmian strip is held by one man, who has never made an effort to open a coal mine, and who now holds on to the concession solely because he hopes at some time or other 'to be able to unload It on some firm or corporation who will turn it to practical account. The timber concession is In the same class, and so are numerous others. The balefulness of recognizing the validity of these grants or of permitting them to be held solely as a speculation Is realized by the new government, and since s spirit of progress seems to animate those in charge of affairs something will almost certainly be done to make the present untamed areas available for purposes of cultivation and development. Just how this end will be accomplished has not been determined, but the wealth of the country's resources is too well understood, in a vague and indefinite way, for the new government to countenance a policy of having rt all locked up under the control of nonenterprlsing concessionaires. A way will, therefore, be found under which the development of the country cannot only be permitted, but invited. And when that time comes Americans will be mere than welcome; for all that has been done on the isthmus of a progressive nature has been done by Americans. It is, to be sure, a very little, but Panama knows that America possesses the men, means and enterprise to convert this land from the jungle it is into the rich area it should be, and to raise the whole country from its present state of commercial nothingness to ono of consequence; to employ the native labor now habitually idle, and to endow the new republic with prosperity. KIND OF AMERICANS NEEDED. That an Invitation, couched In the strongest and most alluring terms, will go from here for Americans to undertake this work is undeniable. Americans should, however, exerciso great good judgment among themselves in accepting that invitation. This climate was not made for white men to live in, and as the sanitary measures to be inaugurated by the United States will embrace, beside the canal zone, only the citiea of Panama and Colon, no man should come to this republic from the States unless lie is fitted in alt respects to perform the work of the pioneer. In the higher altitudes, among the mountains, the eternal rain is the most serious obstacle to good health, but it should be remembered thut these higher altitudes are now, and for some time to come will be, the most inaccessible portions of the isthmus. The first work of development must. by the force of circumstances, be done in thi lowlands, where breed the pernicious fevers which make the isthmus the haunt of pestilence, and where general climatic conditions are enervating and most debilitating. There is, also, the additional objections that no work done here can be immediately remunerative. Time must be allowed for fruits to grow, for trees to reach the bearing stage, and for all work to be brought to that degree of production that will insure return in the form of money. It follows, from all of this, that the man who comes to Panama must have two thingsperfect good health and means sufficient to maintain himself for a protracted period. Of good health, he will require a more generous quantity than any man finds absolutely essential in other parts of the world, and it must be good health builded upon an absolutely perfect constitution. The man deficient in this particular qualification who comes to the isthmus may expect to forfeit his life at an early date as penalty for his temerity. Of cash, or other financial resources, he will not need as much as would be required in other parts of the world, provided he plunges into the interior; but he will need enough to supply his more material wants for a long term of months, and unless he has this qualification he wiil do well to stay away from the isthmus, for already there are infinitely too many people here who live fram hand to mouth, and live sklmpingly at that. But if, in the States, there are some thousands of men who can comply with the qualifications laid down, ami who have the good seuse to conserve their health, instead of spending their time in riotous livingfor riotous living on the isthmus kills, and kills quickly the commercial possibilities and Industrial opportunities of this country offer flattering inducements for them to transport themselves hither. The tastd will, when subjugated aud turned to practical account, support a population several times greater than that now inhabiting it; among the natives the enterprising American will find virtually no competition; labor is cheap, and the possibilities I have recounted do all exist in fact. They are not. however, for the adventurer, of general no-acount tendencies, but will r.n.iin to ! realized hy men of regular habits, strong constitutions, generous mfSBS. Indomitable courage and exhaustless enterprise. For such as these Panama is a land of promise, in the commercial and industrial setfeSS; for all others It is a land to be avoided with unequaled strenuoslty la the act of avoid MKUK1LL. A. TU AGL'Jsi.

THE DRIFT

Democratic leaders from various parts of the State were rounding up in the city yesterday, to be on hands in good time for the meeting of the new State committee to-day, at which officers will be elected and one or two matters of party policy determined. Among the early arrivals were State Chair man W. H. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg; Linluiii uiAUM , ui iortii t n uuu, tuuiiuiiiccman form the Fourth district; Joseph "W. Cravens, of Madison, who represented Jefferson county In the house last winter; Thomas Hanlon. of New Albany, the new committeeman from the Third; Judge W. E. Cox, of Jasper, who is after Representative Zenor'8 seat in Congress; 8am N. Quillen and W. Jones, of Linton; former State Senator Joseph H. Shea, of Seymour; John B. Faulkner of Michigan City, the new cnmmittHcmhn from the Tenth; John G. McNutt. of T.Tre Haute, committeeman from the Fifth: E. E. Cox. of Hartford City; J. 8. Megee, of Rushville. committeeman from the Sixth; S. M. Ralston, of Lebanon; Lew T. Elllngham, of Decatur; J. A. M. Adair, of Portland, committeeman from the Eighth and Jerome ilerff, of Peru. Among the Indianapolis stalwarts who were In evidence about the Grand last evening were Thomas Taggart Joseph T. Fanning, committeeman from the Seventh; County Chairman W. W. Bpenoer, J. V. Reilly, secretary of the State committee, and W. H. Hawkins, former secretary. The members of the State committee are claiming that the meeting to-day will be one of beautiful unanimity aud harmony, but there will be at least one discordant note. Jacob Piatt Dunn, city controller, and one of the main cogs in the KeachHoltzman machine, or what there is left of it since Taggart gave it such a battering in the Seventh district light last week, will be on hand to breed trouble and dissension. Dunn is a reformer, and, while he has been very busy with the task of reforming Indianapolis municipal affairs, he has found time to work up a dose of reform which he will seek to administer to the Democratic State organization. He is after primary reform, and has prepared a resolution or set of rules embodying his ideas, which he will have presented to the committee. It will be remembered that Dunn, Keach and others of their crowd set up a cry of foul play immediately after the Democratic primaries in this county two weeks ago. They claimed that Taggart and Fanning used the district and county organizations, or which they were in control, to conduct the primaries to suit themselves, and that the Keach crowd was not given a fair deal. Keach was not given representation on the primary election boards for his candidate, Wallace Maines, and Dunn contested the election of the Fanning delegates in the Eighth ward on that ground. Now Dunn has a set of rules governing primaries that will, in his opinion, remedy all the ills that Democratic primaries are heir to, and he will attempt to get the State committee to adopt them. Mr. Fanidng, the Seventh district member of tho committee, will probably submit Dunn's resolution, as he could not very well refuse to do so, even if he were so inclined. However, judging from the expressions heard around the lobby of the Grand last night, there Is slight prospect of the resolution being adopted. Dunn will be politely, but firmly although Indirectly informed that he is wasting his time when he seeks to reform the entire Democratic party In Indiana, and that ho should devote all his enirgies to bringing about a little genuine reform In the conduct of the affairs of Indianapolis. "Dunn is long on theory, but short on practical political common sense," said one of the up-State members of the committee last night, when he learned of the city controller's resolution. "We can worry along in the management of the party's affaits without any of his valuable assistance, and I might add that I can see no reason why he should butt in new cr at any other time." Keach, Holtzman, Dunn et al. will receive another Jolt to-day, when Keach will be retired from the State executive committee and a man appointed in his place who is in harmony with the Taggart-Fan-ning wing. In this connection the story of how Keach happened to get on the executive committee is of interest. In 1&99, after Keach had been at the head of the gold Democratic organization through two campaigns and had been fighting the Democrats with all the bitterness with which a bolter always assails his party, he decided that he wanted to get back into the fold. He intimated as much to Fanning, who was then at the head of the city committee, and Fanning was glad to welcome him back. Fanning proceeded on the theory that It is always good politics to reclaim a loät sheep, even if it be a black sheep, and did everything possible to make it easy and pleasant for Keach to get back among his old associates. Then, a few months later, in order to show that the Democrats would admit Keach into full standing after all his treason, Fanning had Keach appelated on tue State executive committee aa the member from this district. The position was largely honorary, but it was considerable of a concession to make to a bolter. At that point Keach apparently decided that he had received about all the help and advancement that Fanning could give him, consequently he promptly turned on his friend and set about wrestling the city organization from him. Keach became a candidate for city chairman and while Fanning did not seek a re-election he had a candidate in the person of John W. Kern and wanted to retain the organisation in the control of the same old crowd. Keach won the fight for the city chairmanship and his next step in his programme of reward to Fanning for favors received was to attempt to oust Fanning from the district chairmanship, but there he stubbed his toe, fell down and is still down. Fanning was re-elected district chairman by four votes to every one cast for Keach s es ndidate. Keach Is now selling potatoes Tom Taggart ordered a carload from him the other day, just to show him there was "no cold feeling" and he will not be called upon to sacrifice his business to accept another term on the executive committee. Another matter of some importance that will come before the committee to-day is the report of the subcommittee appointed to draft a rule that will do away with the unit rule, followed by many county organizations In the selection of delegates. J. D. Megee, of Rushville. Sixth district committeeman. Is the chairman of this subcommittee. The report will not be made public until the meeting to-day, but it is known that it will put an end to the unit rule if adopted. The special demand for this rule comes from Mr. Megee's district, from Rush and Shelby counties, to be more particular, where a bitter rUht is on for the Democratic nomination for judge of the circuit comprised of those counties. Douglas Morris, of Rushville, the present judge, is a candidate, for renominatlon, and George M. Ray. editor of the Shelbyville Liberal, Is leading the fight on him to secure the nomination of Albert Ray, former county attorney of Shelby county. In the convention Rush county will have twelve delegates to nineteen for Shelby. The Shelby county organization, which the Rays control, has decided that in the selection of delegates the unit rule shall be followed that Is. the candidate that receives a majority of the votes cast at the primary shall name all the delegates from the county. If Albert Ray can carry the county, and with the organization in his control the Morris adherents claim he has a "cinch." he is sure of the Shelby county delegation and the nomination. The Morris people contend that each candidate should "be permitted to tight for the . dividual delegates, and say they are perfectly willing that Ray should come into Rush county and secure every delegate he can get. If the state committee adopts the report of the subcommittee, and in ail probability It will, the unit rule will be done away with in every county in the State. On the eve of the reorganization it was conceded that the present officers of the committee, State Chairman O'Brien and Secretary Reilly. will be re-elected. Thomas Hanlon, of New Albany, and Judge W. K. Cox, of Jasper, were eagerly sought out by their feliow-partlsans at the Grand last evening. They were centers of Interest because they won out In the bitter fight for control of the Third district organization last we k. Hanlon was elected district chairman In the liveliest Democratic convention Indiana has known for some time, and the forces of Representative Zenor, of Corydon. were completely routed. Judge Cox i after Zvnor congressional

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toga. and. now that he is tn control of tha district machinery, it is regarded as altogether probable that he will be the next member of Congress from the Third unless the Democrats become so badly divided among themselves that the Republicans can carry the district an end greatly to be desired, but ocarosly within the range of possibilities, considering the overwhelming Democratic majority to be overcome. "I feel very well satisfied a 1th the situation." said Judge Cox. when questioned concerning the tight. " am confident I shall secure the nomination." That is all the Judge will aay. but his friends are claiming that Zenor la already defeated and on the run, and that he maywithdraw from the race before the converttion is held. The contest will be fought out in the primaries for the election of delegates, and the convention will be a cut-and-dried affair. The slogan of the Cos adherents is: "Twenty-six years at the public crib Is enough for any man." In answer to this the other faction says that It la Zenor's long service and experience that make him the best man in the district for congressional honors. A. JL Adams, of Columbia City, the new member of the Democratic State committee from the Twelfth district, was a late arrival last night, and he. tot, was s center of Interest. Mr. Adams succeeds the strenuous 8tephen B. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, who I not altogether en rapport with Tagg.tr t. O'Brien and other State leaders, and there has been much speculation as to whether he would take up the fight against Taggart where Fleming laid It down. The members of the committee were anxious to know where to place Mr. Adams la this respect, and several "feelers" were sent In his direction with little success. Reporters, however, rush in where politicians fear to tread, and a reporter secured from Mr. Adams the assurance that he will not take rank as the lighting member of the committee. "By no means." he said, when asked If he would continue Fleming's tight on Taggart. "1 am fur Mr. Tagn.irt for anything he wants. I shall be very glad, also, to vote for the re-election of Mr. O'Brien as State chairman, if Mr. O'Brien desires to succeed himself. I believe that a man who has conducted a campaign capably and satisfactorily, as he conducted the last campaign, should rece' e the indorsement of a re-elec-tlon." J. C. Fletcher and S. M. Gorrell. of Knox, the former the committeeman from the Thirteenth, and the latter the editor of the Starke County Democrat, arrled on one of the late Drains. Lincoln Dixon, of North Vernon, authorizes the Journal to announce that he Is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth district Joe Cravens, of Madison, "smoked him out." It has been generally understood that Dixon would be a candidate, but he has never made a formal announcement. Last evening Cravens, for a Joke, sent word to him that if he did not announce his candidacy within twenty-four hours he. Cravens, would become a candidate, and Dixon threw up his hands and exclaimed, "I'm a candidate!" the moment he received the message. Since the withdrawal of Representative Griffith the nomination of Dixon is taken as a foregone con luslon. and the only question now at issue is. who will succeed Dixon as the Fourth disuict member of the State committee? Dixon has just been re-elected, but he will retire to become the congressional candidate, and the dlstrh t committee will elect his successor. Former State Senator Joseph H. Shea, of Seymour, is slated for the place, it is understood. The first suits attacking the new legislative apportionment will be filed Saturday, unless t ho prrsent plans of State Chairman O Brien, A. G. Smith. 8. M. Ralston and the other attorneys who have charge of the matter are changed. The complaints are ready, it Is understood, and nothing remains to be done but institute the act too. Two suits will be filed at first, one in Dearborn county and the other in Hancock or Boone county. Lew T. Ellingham, of Decatur, brings word of a lively scrap among Adams county Democrats over the nomination for joint senator from the district composed of Allen and Adams counties. Allen county having conceded the nomination to an Adams county man. J. T. Snow, of Decatur, slipped up on a considerable number of the Democrats of his county a few daya ago by securing the indorsement of his candidacy by the county commlttoe. This aroused such opposition that a candidate was at once brought out against Snow in the person of John w Tyndali. and now the fight Is on. "The indorsement of Mr. Snow by the old cour. iy committee was premature." said Mr. Ellingham. "The new county committee, which will be chosen in a few days, is the one to make such an Indorsement and Mr. Snow and Mr. Tyndali are now fighting it out in the primaries for precinct committeemen. The one that receives) the indorsement of the new committee will be Adams county's candidate." With all thla troubl in Adams county, Allen county Democrats may conclude that the best way to settle the difficulty will be for them to nominate a man from their own county, leaving both Snow and Tyndali stranded, high and dryThe Jackson day celebration of the Jackson Club at Terre Haute to-night will be attended by many of the party leaders. John W. Kern and Henry Warrum will b among the speakers at tha banquet and they will form the nucleus of quite a party that will leave Indianapolis for Terre Haute late this afternoon. The contest for the Republican chairmanship In the Fourth district was brought to a sudden close yesterday by the withdrawal of Albert A. Tripp, of North Vernon. William K. Springer, of ETiixabethtown. will now have no opposition and will be th next m mber of the state committee from th Fourth. The withdrawal of Mr. Tripp comes as the result of a compromise movement that has been umW way for several days. The leading Republicans of the district, friends of both candidates, believed that the contest should be settled before the convention, and their wishes prevailed. James W. Sale, of Bluffton, who was her yesterday, says that the announcement that Wells county has a candidate for the Republican congressional nomination from th Eighth district wo incorrect. "I know that it has been reported that Dr. Sharpe, our postmaster, and Mr. Swain, tht editor of the IlluiTton Chronicle, were avowed candidates, but the report was premature, to the least." said Mr. Sale. "Wells and Adams counties are the only counties In the district that haven't candidates for Coor ; - II w. w r. I lo not wish to be understood as saying that Wells county will not have a candidate. There s no telling what may happen within the next few days." ' Mr. Sale Intimated that lh r is a content on for the chairmanship of the Wells court ty organization, but he was not Inclined to talk of that. f Joshua T. Strange, of Marlon i r sident of the Farmers' Congress, was In the city yesterday, looking after soma matters incidental to the meeting of tha congress here the first week in February. John W. Kern yesterday announced hie list of committees and vice presidents for the lirym meeting, to be held in Tomlinsoa Hall Jan. 13. and it Is a poor Democrat. Indeed, whose name Is not included In the list. Four vice presid nts at large are named B. F. Shiveiy. John F. Lamb. James McCabe an 1 W. H O'Brien- and then comes a list of one hundred vice presidents for Marlon county and an equal number fur other counties, to say nothing of the committees, U. 8. Jackson, of Greenfield, is the chairman of the k neral omrnlTlee on reception, Elliott U Honte- is the chairman of the local reception committee, apd 'apt. Tim Griffln Is at the head of the committee on arraiiK' n. nts. Floyd Woods, chairman -f th.- S.,nth district, last night named the following at members of th. ered.-nti.il commute. Ovid rt. Jameson, chairman. a.-s Cnnaway i.a Harry B. Gates. All contests over today's primaries will be submitted to this committee to-mrrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Crimiaa Court room in the coutthoua.