Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1904 — Page 4

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High DAYTON. O J. street. V. Wiikic. 29 South Jefferson DENVER. Col Louthian & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lswrnc stre-ts, and A. timith, 1857 Champa street. DBS MOINES, la. Mose Jacobs, 309 Fifth street. LOS ANGELES. Ca 1 Harry Drapkin. LOUISVILLE C. T Deerlng. northwest corner of Third and JefTcrion atreeta. and Bluefeld Bros., 442 West Market street. NEW YOP.K-Astor House. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. ST. JOSEPH, Mo F. B. Carrtel. Station D. WASHINGTON. D. C.-RIggs House, H .use. Fairfax Hotel. Wlilard Hotel. Ebhitt Friday will be Carnation day. A red carnation In the buttonhole of every citizen will show that one of America's greatest Presidents Is yet remembered with tender reverence in Indianapolis. Another thaw will bring another freshet, and the rivers will overflow their banks and destroy tne bridges again perhaps even more severely than last week. Riparian owners must be prepared for more or less property damage In the near future. His German Majesty's troops are being tnlsndnctd to Fussy -Wuzzy in Southwestern Africa, They are going to have a jolly time of it, too, for German soldiers, though the finest in the world at exhibition drills, have never had any experience in fighting savages. The Kaiser may have to apply to K.igland or the United States for information as to how to proceed. TTTe Iroquois Club, of Chicago, is going to make a feast for General Miles, and General Miles is going to n:ak- ;i apt toil for the Iroquois Club, of Chicago. And when it is all over. Cleveland. Olney. Bryan. Hearst, Parker et ai. will welcome one more recruit into their waiting ranks Kvery Democratic dinner the.-,- days Iaun he.- a new boom. The latest news from the far East is more warlike than that which has been received for several days. This is to be exfected. however: a glance over the files of the newspapers fur several months pa-t will show a regular alternation from day to day of "Peace war peace war." like the ticking of a clock And nobody can guess on which side the pendulum will finally re-t There Is a thing in Korea called the Fosung. This is a brown citizen who hates foreign devils, lu tim: of peace he is a pddler; tn time of war he is an irregular fighter. During the next year he may make Ist himself a place in history beside the Boxer, whose tastes and prejudices he appears to possess. The foreign colony at Seoul is afraid of him. ami with reason, for the Emperor has issued modern weapons to 300 of him. and he is more dangerous than ever before. What is "the dangerous age" in children? A perusal of the news items in ystcrday's papers would lead to the belief that It was the age of five. On the same day. a five-year-old gfrl in this city played with matches and hr burns are so terrible that chances of recovery are slight; a flvc-year-otd rl in lacrosse isj put h r baby hrother in the oven and baked him to death; a five-year-old h in Marion shot his little sister in the head with a rifle. Watch the five-year-olds they are likely to do almost anything. The entombing of nearly two hundred nu n in a Pennsylvania coal mine is the latest appalling dlSBSt I whose list of fatalities may be added to the theater and railroad haiTora which of late have come with such alarming frequency. Does the population of thf United Stat, s o soon need thinning out by tfcse distressing Mn ' h. n news of great Ioms of lifo by flood and rtre came t u from China, we used to be told that these things were the methods chosen by a wle Providence to keep down the swarming surpl-js of population in that overcrowded ceintry. Shall the same unsatisfying i; applied at home? Business prospects continue to improve, and the expectation ! a cod vrar 1m strong. The cotto speculation Is the only harrier of the textile industry, and the Condition of the steel business extremely fawrable. Stocks went down last because money was tight, and are oiag up In 1304 because of the bis; payments for cotton exports and the return of currency to Wail Mret from the West after crop movements have made mom j asy. Rockefeller, who whk held responsible for the slump. Is now credit -d nith the rise, but It is probable that the laws of trade are more powerful even than the oil king. It is fer everybody to Im fairly pri a pern as at the same time, but seldom for everybody to b. equally prosperous.

Wm several years Industrial labor has be-n wri rv l histr-;c ; act tatus of ib. -nljchly paid and Its pro.P r - . to the ' i.-op r numbers on

tamers for big prices, nlule the farmers thssnselves received only ordinary returns

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see conditions in a measure ' r d The ; farmer of the North will get war prices J for hi wheat; the farmer of the South will i gt high prices for his cotton, and he will I buy supplies at c lower rate, while- the wages of the industrial workman are ssssn what reduced. This Is a big country too big to suffer universal depression. LAYfXG iii M'iiMiiii in hi: m HII.OM.V The verdict of the coroner's Jury in the case of the Iroquois Theater fire is a new departure in ?ueh matters, ami will cause considerable surprise. The public has become so accustomed to incompetence in municipal officials and o bearing the results of their inefficiency uncomplainingly that it must have ben almost f-tartling to learn that the mayor of the lügest city in the country and three of his subordinates, the building commissioner, the building inspector and the fire marshal, are held responsible, along with less consplcuous nersons. for the most horrible fire j catastrophe of modern times. The finding of the coroner's Jury may not be follow d by the indictment of the implicated officials, because the machinery of the city government will probably be put in operation for their protection, but it will at least set people thinking on lines that may lead to the establishment nf a higher standard of official responsibility. It is a well-settled principle of law that employers, whether individuals or corporations, are responsible for the acts of their agents. If a railroad accident occurs through the carelessness or neglect of employes, the sufferers from it do not look for reparation or damages to brakemen, switchmen, engineers or train dispatchers. They look to the corporation that employs them. In the case of the Purdue railroad wreck many persons were disappointed that the coroner did not hold some of the high officials of the road responsible for the accident, instead of laying the blame on a defective system. The coroner's jury at Chicago did better. Instead of finding that the Iroquois Theater fire was due to violation of the building law? and to corrupt municipal government, they lay the responsibility on Mayor Harrison and his appointees by name for permitting and conniving at such violation. Although the verdict of the jury may not result in legal proceedings ugainst the officials. It is undoubtedly a Just one, from most any point of view. When a city charter provides for the appointment of certain officials to see that laws for the protection of property and life are enforced, the people have a right to expect that competent persons will be appointed and that they will perform their duties faithfully, conscientiously and without fear or favor. If they fail to do so, the appointing power is jointiy responsible with them lor such failure ami its results. The verdict of the Chicago jury is a step in the right direction. It formulates a truer theory of municipal government and suggests a higher standard of official responsibility than has ever been proposed before. If every city government in the country were reorganized on the basis of this verdict a great many municipal officers would have to step down and out. vi i-ivn ( VMS UDQISli tio. The miners' convention will probably declare in favor of the passage of the antiinjunction bill now before Congress, it is sometimes referred to as the conspiracy bill. It was introduced by Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, and is now in the hands of the judiciary committee. It is entitled "A bill to limit the meaning of the word 'conspiracy,' and the use of restraining orders and injunctions in certain case?.'' The bill pi ovides: That no agreement, combination or contract by or between two or more persons to do or procure to be done, any act in contemplation or furtherance of any trade dispute between employers and employes in the District of Columbia or in any Territory, or between employers and employes who may be engaged in trade or commerce between the several States shall be deemed criminal, nor shall those engaged therein be indicted or otherwise punishable for the crime of conspiracy, if such act I unmitted by one person would not be punishable as a crime; nor shall such agreement, combination or contract be considered as in restraint of trade or commerce, nor shall any restraining order or injunction be issued with relation thereto. The effect of the bill, if passed, would be to change the common law definition of the word "conspiracy," as it has existed and been construed by the courts almost from time immemorial. This definition is "a combination between two or more persons to commit any act punishable by law, or to effect a legal purpose by criminal or unlawful means." Under this definition one person may do lawfully what, if several persons combine in doing, becomes a conspiracy. One workman may quit work whenever he pleases, but ir a nuramr combine In n strike, and attempt to make it effective by intimidation, boycotting or picketing it becomes a conspiracy and punishable as such at common law. The Grosvenor bill would Bnaha a fundamental change in the legal definition of the term conspiracy, and would upset a long line of decisions. A similar bill was Introduced in the Fiftysixth Congress and passed the House on May 2, 1902, but with amendments which destroyed its value to the labor organizations, by whose attorney it had beep drawn It was Introduced again In the Fifty-seventh Congress and passed the House as originally drawn, but was so amended by the Senate that the labor unions opposed its further consideration. The original bill con tails ! the provision above quoted, but the Senate amended it by inserting the words "not Involving Injury to property or breach of the peace." This practically left all hnycottins and picketing combinations still up1 r the old' common law definition of con.-p-r.u v. The labor unions did not want it this way. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, said the Senate amendment transformed ;:n anti-injuncti n bill Into a pro-injunction hill By dSfCaftfing the bilt as amended the labor unions virtually admitted that whit they wanted was the right to combine together not only in striking, but in boycotting and picketing. withe.ut being liable to lie enjoined by the eourts. In his address at the opening of the minersconvention 1 M esi.p : M-teh-ll ir ge, the convention to indorse the- anti-injunction bill, and said: Th evils which have grown out n;' the indlse riminate issuance of federal Injunctions, th insidieuis attempts upon the part Ox oine 1 1 f" oi i r I e, lr . I im1- . . . : . the right of trial by Jury, are so well known to tlw trade unmnls e'lpiire no elaborutli fore, I would recom of ir eountry as to U report. Thnrshat the national iscertain the exto secure their . id to send a this infunruiion Ml elre ular letter conti to each of our local union with nuch in structions as a 111 enable our members col

ly and individually to petition their 1

liter. -- i if i t 'i the Th impll d eh.irae aeainsi federal judges are tin worth v of Mr. MitcheU. and. not be ing a lawyer, he should hevitate to declare j well- orisii'. r-il judical gets as "indicrlm- J t inate issuance of federal injunctions." Kven if Congress should pss the bill referred to It would have r.o fffect on State courts, which would still adhere to the old definition of "conspiracy." with their right to e wtits of injunction unimpaired. The death of Justus C. Adams removt s from this community a typical citizen. Mr. Adams was not a highly educated man. though he was possessed of fine intelligence and an unusually forceful personaütv. Coming of a Quaker, or Friends, family, he clung tenaciously to the tenets of that creed and represented Its best qualities. As a politician he practiced the best methods and the fact that he was elected auditor of Marion county and lator a member of the Legislature and speaker of the House showed that he possessed a Indent for poliUna. though his natural field was that of business. Most of his friends knew him familiarly as "Jesse" Adams, though his real name was Justus. Many persons throughout the State wf9 grieve to hear of the death of "Jesse Adams." They are drearily fighting in Paris and London over vexed and boresome questions which we in this country settled long ago. Theater hats are being denounced and defended in both those cities, and the same old fight which Americans have almost forgotten is raging again. The women persist in wearing enormous picture hats which hide the stage; the men write letters to the i papers; the managers are helpless. How simply American cities have settled the question, and how thankful we ought to be that women do not wear hats in our theaters! And in London, people stand ou the street corners and "orate" about the tariff, using the same arguments pro and con which became familiar to Americans so many years ago. We have settled that question, too, just as we have settled the other; let us give thanks for protective tariff and the happy solution of the problem. In a neighboring city, the other day, the leading man of a theatrical stock company a matinee idol committed suicide. It is reported that in one schoolroom in the city the girls were all so overcome by the news of the actor's death that study and discipline became impossible. Harsh measures were necessary on the part of the toac hers to calm the hysterical weeping of a dozen high school girls who Stars regular matinee attendants. Are the school hours too short?1 There is a lot of time being wasted, and worse than wasted, at least In Dayton, O. Paris now cats 30.000 horses a year, and no longer eats them under disguise, the meat bsinfl 1'rjukly labeled "horsey and highly recommended by epicures. So perhaps the rise of the automobile does not mcau the extinction of the horse, after all. The noble animal will continue to be bred, not for speed, but for fatness and tenderness. And yet to put the horse on a level with the cow seems a profanation! West Virginia scientists have conducted experiments demonstrating that if one eats salt saturated with kerosene he will stagger and see double Xow, is it necessary to resort to anything so unpleasant as salt. and coal oil to produce these phenomena? If it must be done, there are methods much more pleasant, and within easy reach. When a man can save 120,000 a year out of a salary of $3,500 it Is his duty to his fellow-man, and especially to the youth of the nation, to make known the secret of his thrift. For this reason it Is not only selfish. but positively unpatriotic ror Mr. August Machen, late of the Postofflce Department, to continue so reticent. The new ordinances provide thit the old inhabitant who is reminded of the winter of '48 shall be fined; the man who recites "Beautiful Pnow" shall b 1 imprisoned, and the man who says "Is it cold enough for you?" may be shot on the spot. An Oklahoma railroad president has been fiiud for swearing at a negro. Xow. if Oklahoma gets all the Southern senators down on her by such unheard-of proceedings as thar, how can she expect ever to be admitted as a State? Mr Bryan's latent phrase in bidding for immortality is: "The plutocracy of wealth." That is excellent; it sounds almost as well as "The democracy of the people. rhe monarchy of kings" or "The asininity of the jackass." Korea has two names, "The Hermit Nation" and "The Iind of Morning Calm." It is so very far from deserving either one of ihesc titles nowadays that to refer to it thus were a grim, sarcastic jest. Three Arkansas citizens are dead from drinking ginger ale flavored with lemon extract, Arkansas people should stick to their original "forty-rod" and net experiment wilh "soft drinks." New Albany reports daffodils peeping out of the ground on Sliver Hills. Friday, Jan. 22. They promptly withdrew, however, when the mercury dropped to freezing point again. That .VH.W)0 appropriated by Congress may not exterminate the boll weevil, but It is a dead citainty that the boll weevil will exterminate the fcVxi.OuO. THE HUMORISTS. nttiiiK lniiinntinii. The Maid Jqst think. N'orah. Jt look the hairdresser an hour and a half to put my hair in thin style. The Cook lndatie! An' hd ycz call for it or did 5he edri'l il home'.' Puck. Not Hint Kind of n Widow. "Have you vrr been in South Dakota'.' he asked. "Na. fir." she indignantly replied. "My husband wan kille-ij by SSShS mistaken for a deer ' in mu lagan." CatWfo Recore-Herahl Iii ose Hoar ;rM. Mildred Jack Shortleigh roposerl to me week before lint. Amelia W hy. he pronoSSi to me last week Mildred I'm not nt II sur.ei-cd p, ,..a, it hen I refill, e aha he tnreateiie.l tu elo uomethiug 1 1 esprtrate. New Terk IVorM, Sharjie-Every one on the car knew they were on t,,Hr t"i he.-. i'in l'l nty ot in-c thrown. 1 suppose ' sharpe -Y-e; and. net sathhhNl with that, they calleel for rice pueldinjr. in the uining t.ar The Ba r I " Y s of thl like 0 We a: he letter P. "I'm ureatlv in T.,,,r ueinent for phone tie sjh U;ng pj It nsaeSSlll uloited." ipier.eil th. intt 'I'i'oKaliou pnir.t "I'd SSSS SSSV' ehillle- thu of KttiiiK uut of debt.' "-rinUuieiphia Ledger, Mnxlins ftr ll Psiipssts. "Remember, my ran," raid the srpaant uiati. the: a ieim naed la a penny earue'd." Thef i so." replied the reckless youth. "The trouble with rue la that I am always getting

hold 0r wrong proverb. I

wa. thinking. " 'a?hiiijton "No? hing ventun. nothing Sti.r. ha' Bad oversight. Hi l ii "mil ill I as I had completed the irdens of Babylen. "Don you think they are nice? he asked his wire ' No. I dor t." answered Amytt. "How costs you ever keep ihe golf balls on them?" Pouting. h wondered shy on earth men always overlook the main consideration New York 'i m-. USES OF ELECTRICITY. Trance's F.lcetrlcnl Power. In a rejwrt to the state Department J. C. Co- ! vert, consul .f the Cnited States to Lyons, j France, under date of Sept. 23. makes some interesting observations concerning "Electrical Power In France." Iast year, he says, a congress was held in the Alps to consider the water power "la houi'le blanche" that might be utilized in those mountains. The report of this congress, recently printed, showed the existence of 48.860 waterfalls in th-i Alps. 46.000 of whfch are in use and represent 4R9.ÖU horne power. In 1901 it was estimated that 48.000 establishments in France were provided with hydraulic power, utilizing 575.0k) horse power. At the same time it was estin ated that in all France the steam power in use aggregated 6.780.000 horse power. In the Alps, according to the calculations of M. Rene Tavernier. of Lyons, the mountainous region between the soa, the Rhone and the frontier of Italy can furnish not less than 3.000.001) horse power and 5.UO0.OUO during eight or nine months of the year. Denver Times. Klectricit For the l.miKM. High-frequency, low-potential alternatinr currents have been used by Dr. J. Cunningham Itowie In Kngland for treating pulmonary tuberculosis, with some degree of success. He found that the passage of a current of elect rieity through toxins considerably modified and annulled their toxicity, and that the greater the volume of electricity used the more quickly this was accomplished. He concluded that electricity might be of vulue in the treatment of phthisis or other diseases where bacterial toxins had to be contended with. For this purose an apparatus which would develop a fairly large current at a hiph ftequency was necessary, and this apparatus should make it pos.s:le to regulate the frequency, the voltage and the current at will. An apparatus of this kind was constructed and has been used In a number of cases, the results of which he gives. Almond oil. containing iodine, thymol and other antiseptics, was used for intralaryngeal injection. The current y. density varied from 300 to 800 milliamperes; the voltage from 50 to 70, and the time of application from 10 to ;0 minutes. The arrest of legion was brought about by this treatment more quickly than by the use of nntlseptie oils alone, and the author's experience shows that the high -frequency current promotes hanling Raltimore American. T Keep Trolley On. Many inventors have with more or less success directed their attention to the task of contriving some simple device which will either prevent a trolley wheel from slipping off the line wire, or which will nable one to readily replace the trolley wheel after it has slipped off. An invention recently made practically covers both of these requirements; for should the trolley slip off to a limited distance on either side of the wire the latter will b caught by a spirallygrooved roller and fed back on to the trolley wheel. This device also possesses the further advantage of having no par's projecting' above the trolley wheel w hlch might interfere with the free action of the trolley or the finder. The rollers which are adapted to feed the line wire back on to the trolley wheel have approximately the form of a cone, and are mounted with their axes inclined upwardly from the trolley harp. The rollers are loosely journaled on studs, which are threaded into rocking frames supported on the projecting ends of the trolley shaft. In order to retain these frames on the shaft, the latter near each end peripherally grooved to receive the squared ends of bol CS threaded through the hubs of the rocker frames. The rocker frames are preferably conmcted to form a yoke, which spans the trolley wheel, and to the outer end of the yoke a guide rod is fastened, which runs parallel with the trolley pole, and Is fastened at Its lower end to the trolley-pole stand. Scientific American. l-ileetrieul Notes. A German chemist and electrical engineer by the name of Dr. Hans "loldsehmldt. says Elec'rlclty. is in this country as a i epresentative of his government, to Inspect the electrical furnace In operation at the Cowles aluminum works. If his report is satisfactory, this type of furnace will probably be adopted by the German government for the Krupp gun works. An apparatus in me in Germany for the purification of milk by ozonization is so construeted that tho milk contained in a vessel Mows thence in a thin stream into am ther rssSn placed below. The wires and carbon points of a strong electric battery are so arranged that the light arc passes through the stream or near it. The ozone which Is thereby eng"iidered from the oxygen of the air is said to be sufficient to kill all ni ro-organifims contained in the n.ilk. The only system of trackless trolleys in the l"n. ted States is that at Scranton, Pa., which has made a fair shuwin of success. In France and Germany a number of these lines, which have electr'cal automobiles operated by an overhead wire have proved satisfactory, the emly objection to them being the fact that they requlro twice the current used for cars operated over rails. The magnitude of the e trical development in the I'nited States Is strikingly illustrated by the figures of fe current cer.sus bullet'n, showing that in 19i2 there were in operation 3,520 central station electric plans foi power and lighting, represe nlins in construction and equipment an investment of -V04,7iL'..' "J. and showing gross earnings of 1485,700,352 per annum. The power plant equipment consisted of l.VJf) steam engines of 1.373.IM1 indicated horse power, and 1.391 waterwheels of 438, 73J horse iower. driving 12.484 dynamos ot 1.24,!S0 horse ower. The electrical central station is a very new industrial development, almost wholly created duting the decennial period between two census enumerations. A German medical weekly says that a Ftoentgen congress will be held In Uerlin during Faster week, 190f, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Jse-overy of the X-ray. Professor Von Bergmann will be the honorary president and IMofessor Roentgen has promised to attend the congress. It is intenocd to hold In connection w:th the congress a Roentgen exhibition. Icr the par pose of showing the scientific results of the discover . Pwtrlnwltlen of the -n'. That impress-on made on one of the nenses may i roduce similar impressions on anothe r sense n a fact whopc edneervation has come within the experience of man. An extraordinary instance 1m describee! in the Revue Ihllsophiuue. The Mil ' was a youth of twent)Six. born of SanSS nalhlll family. H,. devrloped spile psy in his thirteenth year, ami the attacks htihihIv impaired Iiis mental laciilv Jtaonnh Ins color snnse. which hau been ie- ; markabie since birth, remained uneotn a only j achte'. The human voire had always, it appear. I reavnstnTnatf eaters to hha colors of a pfann-llaa we Heavy. Kven the crie s ( f animals were .1i seeta li the oukc of th-' human iee the- most j intenne color Impretndon resulted from the sound nt the spoK"'l . ..- . f,,i . x.i u; J . if t'e iaiprey-Mlon l li;ht green, and other enen were aflVetc! as well. The Impression juceee.. 1 and were merged Into cae h other. Other owed uoumls ji : e.. . i tfcssa eullar asoehips: e ,n y llo'v. ii i.rk Rreeri. y shite. I black. The irin l "ln pmeluced the same hnTSteSStSna, vary inn in vis Id neu. Harper's Weekly. Tiie e TrHliinient in lorit lie am, "A rrcat mar.y people are under the imprenMon lhat it tnkes a ! ux while to rrnl u. Ne w IhTaassest' laurhrletl a nsll wssss pteaehei tiie other day. "but s a matter t.f fae-t It only require, -ixty hours for the average nagger to read the? entire book, or. In other aSJfdSi If a man JSS lo reael an hour ie!j day he would finish the book inside of two gggSthSi 1 told this to a nSShSSS innn once, and he raid h dl.'.n't nShpV me. Tltlnkln- It woubl lie h rom1 t Ij'.i to ggf hhS IS :ead It at any rate, I advlred hlni to try n, and the reult thai he inpstrtsi Ihpi he had read everytubi In it within forty hours.' - Philadelphia Prvrui.

A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. Populism nnl Mn t rl mon y. w l'lara Jennlnscs Flryan was telling a party Of frknd about a chat lie had with a lon?whlkerd Populist he met on the uteamer returning from abroad. ' Don t y- u think the mission of the populi.-t lrty i about eaOSaTV asked Mr. Bryan ot the bearded man. "I wi:-h I kuew for Fiire." replied he. If there ain't any chance for my party I'd marry a widow worth a fortune." "What's that gut tj do with politics ?" "Well, you see. the widow would accept me, if PS shave," said the hirsute Populist. New York Times. He Lot the Huise. I have a friend, a manufacturer. A year ngo he hlru a boy. For months the only noticeable thing about that bey wus that he never took his eyes off the machine he was running. A few weeks ago the manufactuier looked down from his work to see the boy standing b'riJe his lejk. "What do you want?" he asked. "Want my pay raised." said the boy. "What are you getting?" "T n-e dollars a w -ek." I "Well, bow much do you think ycu are worth" "I fink I'm wort' $4, and I've been finking so for free weeks, but I've been so blame busy I haven't had time to speak tu you about It." The boy got his "raise." He deserved It, just as every man deserves it who is too busy ubout his employer's work to worn- about his next week's envelope. Llyplncotfs Magaxine. The Wronx Honse. The other day one of the telephone operators at the Hotel Cadillac received a severe shock to her nervous system, which even now disturbs her sleep. Girls at hotels often have very funny questions asked them over the 'phone, but the operat'. r says this one was the limit. The bell rang and she answered. "Hello," tame a voice. "This is Mr. (the name of a prominent Detroit broker. IMd you get that $100,000 draf; I se-nt over to you a few mlntues ago?" DtttaM Sf Pierpont Morgan flashed across her brain as she tried to say "W hat?" but it was no use. After getting her breath, she said: "No. I haven't seen it." What!" roared the broker. ' Didn't get it.' Say. is this the First National Rank?" "You're in the wrong house," said the operator. "This Is the Hotel Cadillac." The broker made a certain remark as he slammed up the receiver, which the operator says was "just mean of him." Detroit Free Press. oided a Duel. Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army used to like to describe how he avoided a duel in India during his residence In the Punjah. Mr. Booth-Tucker was in the British etvtt seiThn at the time, but he already inUnas toward the Salvation Army, and such an inclination made him, naturally, a foe to BCaWl iiiK. He was seated in a lonely railway station one a ftei neon, whtn a GhnnSSn soldier, a tourist, entered. This Cierman had been nrlnslnSJ He was in a bellicose humor, and he began at once to pick a quarrel with Mr. Booth-Tucker. The latter said nothing to help on the quarrel, but nev. rtheiess the German worked himself into a frenzy. Finally he exclaimed: "One or the other of us two, sir. will not leave this room alive." Stay here and die. then," raid Mr. BoothTucker, and he arose and went out quickly, slamming the door behind him. New York Tribune. A Street nr Fpisode. A man with a horse blanket boarded a trolley car at Lehigh avenue and Memphis street on Wednesday evening. Making himself comlot table In the corner, he proceeded to buckle the blanket around his neck, after which he relied himself up in it and flopped down. The other passengers were curious, and for their ediMcaticn the man in the blank t gravely explained that his business necessitated his riding all over town in trolley cars, since he couldn't afford to hire an ice wagon. He had caught innumerable colds from the frigid atmosphere; these had finally developed Into the grip, and then into pneumonia. The horse blanket, he said, was merely used as a precaution against consumption. As he spoke he nervously brushed at the nap of the blanket. "What's the matter? What do you see?" asked a man fitting opposite. "Grip germs," replied the man in the horse blanket. ' Iook at 'em bopping around." "I guess what he wants is a warm berth in the bughouse." remarked the conductor, cynic ally.' Philadelphia Record. Thnckeray on His Travel. What shall I tell jou about Rome? We are her a fortnight and the man who travels without a g-overness and with two daughters finds himself pretty much the tall confidential old fa:vily sei ant of the young ladles. Not one word of writing have I done as yet. and. to be sure, have been 111 for the last four days with an attack of well of leeches, blisters, calomel. I have been lil once a month for the la.t five months. I, who never was ill in our country. Miss Sarah. 1 have had bivdnwater for four days, and am pretty better, thank you, and am so glad I brought my servant with me, contrary to the dictates of common sense- & economy. Beside him we have an Kyetalian old woman, with whom we blunder on amusingly, and for lodinps seme of the very handsomest and eomfortablest rooms in all Itome. We came by Lyons & the Rhone to Avignon and Marseilles, a dreary journey through frost and snow, in SteaSSSM O how unlike our steamers! had a Jolly passage by C.enoa & Ixghorn to Civita Vecchia. kilt a postillion on the road to Home, and missed being robbed only by a eiay ; the next elay people were stopped and my girls were quite disappointed at our not enjoying the adventure. I had a hundred louis with me wnicn would nave mane it mucn ineie piquante. From Letter? in the Century. tliblc by Ceirrcxpoude'iice. "If you read the ad v. i t ising pages of the magazines you are constantly coming up against some now game to teach things by eorrsspondence." said a local advertising expert yattSI" day in a burst of confidence. "Telegraphy taught by mail has long been one of the things at which I have marveled and there aro other schemes equally as bewildering The latest, however, completely knocks out all the others for nerve. It is indeed a solar plexus blow. A mail course in Hilde leading is the se-hemc. ami It is being worked through the columns of the religious publications. For a fee of the advertiser guarantees a scientific course in the study of the Hible. 1 don't know just what his game is. but it seems to SM that he Is up against a hard proposition. Still, there' may be enough ieople of the class he evident l intends La rcaca to make it pay. You can never tell about such things until thef a:e tried."-lhi!.' th lpl ia Record. lerj eel it o-j . A neu dog story eones all the from IJIrmiiiKham. Kngland- new rf you elon't nmppt ,i to ha-' Bft l ho same dn- be fore. He had , n a great pet in the family, this ltirmiiighuin uog. In fact had be n IT until the baby eame. Their was suspicion the- eiog was Jealous, but. for the most ait. hr hid his sorrow in his hsart, und oiil i not be eleteeb'd in any rfla respect or disloyalty to the newemier. It mywtertnrefls IhTtnacnni, however, that whenever the elog was b-it alone with til baby the baby bcrfan t civ. I poll 1 1 1 viu the room, no . :j;n of trouble WSSS e ver to be seen, and the u.g war alv.i.s rnTsMndtnl Snaenfnfls be-roie the tire. Hut fln-tlly. one da) . when the baby tried an usual dPnf. being hjft sJhTnf with the doc, a peek through the keylole discljd the eruel .i-.ir. - lahhliu i i I n i i an l dovu the Lac;, s neck .V w Vik Commercial. tie II in I. A fw years ago a man living near Wi I m had an only .uiiahter. ,he marled m;l . nt to 11' at Kmporla. Alter lo r mu i rlac. her psrentre sold tin ir larra and moed to H'tohttS. w h re thy bouKht a mall hotel anel made good return. One elay the daughter and her huibMU( cam for a :lt. They renialned two days, th i. ar.'itl'or and mad" no movement tuward ItnSSe. Phnfllj tlie- father-iKnölord TTSlhid Ma en in-lw IS hlf ahht aud raid: "What a plt lehn, i u'l you and Marj- didn't come to visit ut at the latin. N iure' .tit keptn ltotl then and it wouldn't hao coat you a tent to have stayed as long as ou wanted to." Wichita ahwhs

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Temporary headquarters for the democratic State committee will b np.nd n-xl Monday in the Sentinel building and the permanent headquarters will be established there as soem as the desired rooms om be - -red. State Chairman W. H. O RrJen, of Itwrencebur. was In the city yesterday to rr.ake arrangements for the opening of headquarters for the e-ommittee and las-t evening at the Grar.d Hotel he announced that a room had been sevur i i;: the Sentinel building and the office wouid be opened Monday with Secretary Joseph VV. Reiily in charge. Chairman O'Bri n will be at b quarters frequently, but will not spei.d much time here until tiie campaign is well under way. The first work to le tak n up upon the opening of heaoquarU i s wiil.be the sending out of instructions to all the county chair men to prepare for the reorganization ot' the county coinrr.iitecs ut one. Vi e Si itm I fhW mitt, s at Its recent saeetins d i;d that afl the counties, except Marion, should l- oiK.uiizcd by March 1, and the on.v ers i f the committee will keep alter Gm county chairmen until thi- is accompli-hed. The Democrats in a lew counties have already sele-et-ed their precinct committt e :n n and the committees have efTtcteti their organizations, but in most of the ceiunties no action has been taken aiong this line. Chairman O'Brien says that the Democrats are fully prepared to prosecute their suits to test th? constitutionality of the legislative apportionment act passed by the last General Assembly. "The suit in Dearborn cemnty will be heard next Monday," he said. "Our attorneys will be Greene Smith, Mrtjor G. V. Menzies and Judge Given, of lawrencburg. The case in Boone county has been set for Feb. 3 and Dan Simms. Judge Davis and S. M. Ralston will look after our lnt rsts there. 1 do not know what arrangements, if any, the Republicans have made to defend the apportionment act. Our suits are against the county officers in the two counties, seeking hrst. to restrain them from holding an election under the new apportionment, and second, to mandate them to hold the election under the apportionment of 1897. so I suppose that the county attorneys will represent the defense, although the county ottlctrs may be represented by other attorney. Of course we are confident we shall knock out the apportionment. We wouldn't have brought the suits if we hud not expected to win them." It Is to be expected that a protest will be raised by a considerable element of the Democratic party against the opening of the state headquarters in the Sentinel building Thomas Taj,-gart's building where the committee will hold forth as a sort of sideshow to Mr. Taggart's newspaper and his interesting political scheme's. On the face of the thing it seems that Mr. Taggart has organized the state committee, and now has moved it into a room adjacent to his own office, where ho can easily keep his hand on the lever at all stages of the campaign. The wily boss has enemies within his own party, especially here In (iklbanapolhl, where City Chairman Keach and Mayor Holtznian head the opposition to him, and it Is from these Democrats that the pretest will come to this latest maneuver of the man they would like to put down and out of politics. During the last campaign the Democratic State headquarters were in the Lombard building. One of the first things to be taken up by the Democratic state committee, by the way, is the advisability and practicability of getting out a Democratic handbook, giving the entire party organization in the

State and epitomizing political information j lw Van.k-rburg. kvans'ville; Feb. W'arOf value to the party workers. The Repub- rick, Booneville; Feb. B, Rush. Rushlican state committee issues such a hand- y,ilk': ,Feb -4 ?E22Tr lirlsne'v; Feb 24. book each campaign, and the Democrats a'etto ,Co"nr8vJ,lo;. 1 , b' ?J' have come to the conclusion that h.-re is H -binspeert : I-!.. ... Wayne. Richmond; one good thing which they can copy from Jebj l fJ reb. Hancock, c-re-en-

the Republicans There is one difficulty in the way of the Democrats doing an extensive campaign work the state committee is without funds. "Yes, and we're likely to continue bankrupt as long as Bryan continues to shout against reorganization and the use of money in politics," plaintively admitted one- of the leaders last night. "1 almire Bryan in many respects, and was a Strourg Bryan supporter in the last two campaigns, but I think he has a lot to learn about practical politics. 'There was a goexl deal of truth In the letter which Bryan said he received from an Indiana Democrat, asking him to get out of the leadership of the party so we could get some money in Indiana for e-ampaign purpose's. Legitimate campaign expenses have inereased ten-fold within the last few years. We have so much of civil seavtes that we can't promise to reward a man's service by securing an appointment for him, and we have to pay in cold, hard cash for every bit of work we get done, irom the posting of bills to the making of speeches, except in the cases t the candidates. "I've about come to the conclusion that a straight out-and-out anti-clvil-servlce plank in the Democratic national platform this year would make a big hit with the people. I know a lot of Republicans who are de.ael against civil service. It is a shame thai the men who do thv real work in campaigns cannot hope to get any reward save In an elective office or in a postofflce." In othe r words, this Democrat indorses the statement made by Judge Harris, of Sullivan county, at the Jackson Club banquet at Terrs Haute, that the real issue with the Democratic jearty is "pie." The light for the Democratic congressional nomination in the Third district has reached the acute stage where leaders of the ZoBOr and Cox factiems are hurling all kinds of charge s and epithets at eae-h oth. i. the latest development along this line being that each faction Is aecusing the other of bringing "Goebel methods'' to play in Inditna politics. The recent district convention at New Albany to elect a district chairman Is character: ized by leaeliiiK Democrats of the Zenor factum in Harrison county Mr. Zenor s horrn as a "Music Hall" "convention, and James R. Duffin. the retiring chairman, who arbitrarily appointed S credentials eeimmitte e that unseat d a suffie ient number of eh legates Claimed by the Ze'lier people tO give him SbSOlUtS COUtred snd insure the election of a Cx man. is be ing dubbed tin "Judge RedWtue" of the Third districi. The eemtestants for the congressional pbim are- Wiliiam T. Zenerr. 0l COrydon, who is now se rving his fourth consecutive term in Congress, and Judge W. E. Cox. I w e ll-known poHtldsn of Jaaper. Dubois county. .Mr. BcnoT has continuously held office for the past twenty-etghl years, tii-i as pros. uting attorney, tb,' " s4- e lre-uit juelge- anel linally as a member of Congress. Juelge- CoX has SUCCSSdcd ill fYf e'tlng a strenig Organisation against ZeMieu and tinelect ten er Thomas Hen Ion. of n-w Albany as district chairman, brought gbosjt, as ihe Zenor people eluim. by the nMfSi highhanded and outrageous " loebel met items, " . . . 1 A L Was i eee Kici ic tory io. mrii. siate Senator Smith Askren, also f H irrinon count v. eome lime- hro luiooun'-eel ilist he woubl be a e-anelidate for the congresslonsl nomination, but it now dev loos that he h;ie been play in;; a shrewd j;ame' In ihInterest of Judge Cox. wim h DemoTatie county centnü cummiUeo f !Imrision cemnty W- a fe w days io to .-. t a diite for the county primary election :mel to udojit rul": ge.wrnlng the primary it wns argued that since Harrison county has two camiielatcs fer Congress It would be m.tCo r f justice to rihitarel th unit i ulc and adopt the rehttlve stre-ngth rule and :: . ord'nfcly this wns done. In the othei enuntleas In the elistvict tin candidate rece ivIng plurelity of the eite-s e-ast in th- prlrn:'.ri( l ' I be' e nt tlel tei the fuil delegate vote ol the cxiuntles, hut under the rule adopted by thi Harrison county committee that county v.ill l a ellvided tie legation to Ih nKi. ssional convent. n Snd it : - well umlerhtuod that the lelcgates Senator A-kre-n secures will be delivered to Judge PANAMANS THE PROPER WORD. Washington Lstto r, Two nn-n gf authority In th' government have psjfw msde chie .nneuig ihe- a snort -merit of SSjgSgf for an inhabitant of I'iiiuma. hut, unfortunately, they 1 not agree. I'lt-sidr-nt Ue)osi U. in bis special m'ssng". use d "Panainaiis." while H nator Spo- n r In a spe-- b fhertly after th u. ss.ij-,r v . - um so '! .:. said, "ranamanian- If that is ibe way p. peon snei n." h sstor M irgan's Immedhtte Intrrjeetlos f MPsnssBanhsoM WSS lUther Bn obvious ,i- Im-I . -, rl.ntly new to the gullorles, for th-re was loud laughter. As was reported in this correSpondenoe recenily, the Hoard of Geo-

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Cox the v hen 1 arm d his reif ef b 1 at Wrtshlni alive stien in of the i l rule bv i :red it "J county he i I ed home. j the county nun to me .Co lit half i house and igih rule and by le. Thin. It WSS e the Harrison r are raising the pclare the whole meeting was Irin, ismuch as tl n f the commit ree. to ca'l the com t ev. m informed ion of holding a m crj . They . H at nd i S:i t r -ity mittee that tl they Hons. I. a had inserted in the original rt i I pted bv the committee on J: clause to the effect that the county chairman alone should have authority to call a meeting of the committei the chairman, is a suppor as is al?o Ji.mes Brewst Major W. Funk, of Car Qfjntann as one of the leac yen in southern Indiana i Democratic politician in E D II. !on. who is rec.g criminal lawd the shrewd t the district, is leading tl home cou fight agalrst Mr. Zenor In his To the Journal corresjHmdcnt at Corydon Major "-link said. "We do not intend to submit to the highhanded and outrageous acts of the Zemr 'Goebclites.' If they will not accept the legally and re gularly adorted rubs governing the primary they will simply have n voice in it. and a solid Cox delegation will be sent from this county to the congressional convention." As the situation is at present two committees, both claiming to have been regularly apiM.inted. will have ballot printed and arrange- othe-r details for holding a primary Fen. 13 in Harrison county. One committee is lirable t Zenor. the ether to Cox. Both sides are determined and thoroughly aroused, and interesting deve!oBSntttS are antie-ipate-d. However, as 'ox, has absolute control of the' district machinery now. he has every advantage in the tight He will have the chairman of the cengressional convention and a eredentlals committee' favorable to his interests will bo named. onse que ntly Cox delegations will be seated wherever there are contests, ami the Zenor faction will have no more show than it had In the New Albany e .invention unless Zenor has an ov rwbelmlng majority of the delegates a setwhte esetbility and altogether impmbahli The Ysnor peopN' n.a bolt and hold a distrn t convention of their own, and this is probably the course they will pursue, with a view of getting the controversy into th. conrtj Carried to Its logical conolunUm. the fight means the rending in twain of the Democratic forces in the Thini district. ,i nation decidedly auspicious to the Republicans. 4The Marion County Democratic Club. which is the rejuvenated and reorganiz d Cleveland Club, gave a smoker last night at tin- hall nt Us West Washingtem Mre-et. for the mt'mbcr and their friends. John F. Lyendecker. Michae l C Kelly, Ira W"bb, Jedin Shea and Charles Brinklev constituted the committee? in charge of the affhir. 4Prohibition State Chairman C. K. N -lin has announced the fedlowing elates for Prohibition county conventions: Jan. . White county, Montice-llo: Jan. . Warren. Pine Village; Feb. ?, Grant. Marion; Feb. 10. Clinton, Frankfort; Feb. M, Wabash. Wabash; Feb. 11. MontfoaieTy, Crawford--ville; Feb. 12. Fountain. Veede-rsburg; Feb. 13. Boone. Lebanon; Feb. If,, Hamilton; Feb. lti. Pike; Feb. 17. Gibson. Princeton Feb. IT. Tipton. Tipton; Fe-b. is. Howard. K'oknmo- Keh IV l'ouov 1 1 V,r-o..i- l..a. iiciu, ir e w. i, xcni , . e w v.aslie'. The withdrawal of Frank H. Snyder. ef Portland. and Theodore Shoe-kney, ef Union City, from the race for the Republican congressional nomination in theKighth district leaves M. M. Dunlap. ef Anderson, to tight it out with Repre-senta-tive George W. Cromer, of Muncie. The nomination will be settled by a direct primary. "Dick " Elliott, of Connersville. former chairman of the Fayette county Republican central committee, and Owen I Carr. et Rushville, were at the Columbia Club terday. Sam Wulfmann, of Huntingburg. was one of Governor Dur bin's callers yesterday. Henry W. Marshall, of Lafaye tt. . former speaker of the House of Representatives, who has a reputation for his immaculate and correct attire, was standing in the lobby of the English last evening, talking with a Ortend, when a second friend approacheel him. The new-come-r riveted his y "ii a raoiant white vest worn by Mr. Marshall and suggested qu stloiiingiy : "I didu't know it was tin correct thing bo wear a white vest in the winte r ': "It is always correct to wear a white vest," returned Mr. Marshall promptly and imperturbably, "when ytur mothe r-iu-law gies vou oue for Christmas." Albert Lieber and Robert Metzger both deny emphatically the stateme-nt in an afternoon payer that Mr. IJeber had held a meeting in the office of the Indianapolis Brewing Company te further the Interests of Mr. Metnger as a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican county eommlttee. Th. y sa tbiit the- re-pert had absolutely no foundation. The contest for the chairmanship tKdwoeii Mr. Metzser : i.d ed. Harry B. Smith i greiwing wiirmer elaily and yesterday there were, two Ints of $j."iei each made on tin result. The bets were posted by Smith supporters at the Dentson ami (Jrand Hotels and were promptly covered by friends f Me-tzger. Joht S Bays, a well known Demcrat of Sullivan, who is at the- cingllsh, says them is little surface indn-ation of oppositiein lo Representative Mb is in the Second dlstrie t. "There has been seme talk of opposition to MieMs's i nomination, ' he said, "am" I understand ih.it Juelge Moffett, of Vineines, and Senateir Davis, of Rloomfle-ld, wenild both like to make the trans if they COttld errang' their private' affairs satisfactory, but the-y have not announced their Candida den and there' are no signs that their announce sssnl will tx forthcoming. We- are" having a comparatively tranquil time, politically." Mr. H::.s is o--ep InterestnJ in ib- murder cas it l'e-,!ioid thai is attracting sue'h widespread attention. He denounces the eotin. ciln of veiling Joseph Ileitger wttn the MlT.-llt. "A Kr.i injustice- ha been lon young HMu -r by connecting his name with thn terrible murelct. declared Mr. t s "I ku w Up- yoi'iig nidii and know absolutely ,,, fhl. ,.atinre is iioirtliiK to jastify even thn ol :. A. It. Kl.ldeler. :t jr. sited hesrs by father. I. H. Shin. Ic or tl Mi is in thn of bis r S sator .1 C I'oW 'lI. of Logarimrt, Is In tin chy on b.isines-. Seuiator luwedl was a prominent figure- at the recent Kleventh districi convr ntion at Peru, as he is alwsrs j dlsti : . 1 has j :ity J , I SSOfl htM :i ItollPn? elolllft p since tin- m -inorable , loS in ight promlnenl banker f Klch , Y";,rVpln - in t io . .t. T no Mi i Ih IT . crh go w u A k' d opinion W;tl i I 11 lb will h w ! i'l ' j j B1'! i utiy. '' m , rb table, ai fyot. Ilie ci nt the last d h! mm h as v it is he-aid i the tl.st syl of a dart) lis