Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1904 — Page 4

THE TXDTAXAPOLTS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 19D4.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 19C4.

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Tt has been reported that the surviving Populists will support President Roomvelt rather than nominate a ticket of their own; but this may be a wicked Democratic campaign He, bom of a desire to get rid of an incubus and make the Ropublkan patty ridiculous. A Virgina senator eulogized William J. Bryan, paused for applause and was rewarded by a burst of laughter. The Virginia Senate did more to repudiate the "peerless leader" with that one laugh than by all the bitter speeches and denunciatory resolutions it could have made. In announcing the accession of Governor Taft to the secretaryship of war yesterday, the Sentinel said: "With the takTng of the oath of office to-day he becomes the director of war policies for possibly live years." This is a frank admission to be made on the eve of a presidential campaign. It appears that Wbitaker Wright was not sin h it great promoter, after all. His get-rlch-qulck schemes were capitalised at only $S2,000,000a mere bagatelle in comparison to the amount mimed on the paper of sdine American captains . f industry. His enterprises almost amounted to cheap gambling, and nut "high finance" at all. Col. Henry Watterson, after a week or two of comparative silence, has come out with a striking and original epigram. He says, "The 'Democratic party needs votes." Can that be tho trouble? 43ryan thinks It needs silver. Hearst thinks It needs him, Cleveland thinks it needs sanity, but Mai's Henry says It needs votes. Perhaps he has hit on the great need of Democracy. One of the latest stories of Mrs. Maybrick is that her release has been promised on condition that she "will not appear on the public stage, or write a book of her experience, and shall in no way endeavor to attract attention to herself." That sounds genuine The English government is r.nxlous to h.t. u name hidden, and has a wholesome fear of public indignation. In a New York speech the ether d iy. Mr. pryan said, speaking of McKinley s denunciation of Clevelands financial policy: "I agreed with Mr. McKinley, and that is why I did what I could to reorganise the Democratic party." it is dilheult to see, then, how Mr. Bryan could consistently critiei-. t ..- Democrats who agreed with McKinley a little later In ls".6 and 1S0. Pneumonia in New York city almost amounts to an epidemic, and has for several weeks. Th. hospitals are crowded with patients to such an extent that hundred are obliged t. sleep on the lloors. Should a great disaster occur there would be no place to put the victims. In spite of immense sums given and spent in this country, there are not yet enough hospitals; It takes an emergency to prove a need. Busy days In old Milwaukee. The grand Jury has done its duty, and the "most prominent citizens are now being arrested In bunches of six on such charges as "bribery," offering bribe?." obtaining contracts under false pretenses" and "perjury." Success to the many American cities which are engaged in cleaning hous. Kvil things are exposed, but the results must be good for the municipal health. Governor Taft declares that in thr. mwm the Filipinos will be competent tu age their own affairs. The atatemem ,ll be surprising to most people; It would be Incredible coming from anyone else than Governor Taft. There la scarcely an appeal from his Judgment, howon. and nobody doubts bis sincerity, so bis statement la

partiealastjr gratifying. If his prophecy proves correct the United States will have done a wonderful work.

DUCISlOl 01 TUB PPOimoNii i ACT. One of the twa suits brought by the Democratic State committee to test the constitutionality of the last legislative apportionment act has been decided by Judge Artman, of Lebanon, who holds the act unconstitutional. J-'nr some reason or other the committee decided to have two strings to its bow, and brought two suits, one before a Republican and the other before a Democratic Judge. Judge Artmau is the Republican. The argument of the present decision and the facts cited in support of it are substantially the same as those used by the Supreme Court in setting aside the apportionment acts of lSi3 and 18. Readers of the Journal are familiar with the provisions of the Constitution under which apportionment acts are framed. It says that senators and representatives "shall be apportioned among the several counties, according to tho number of male inhabitants above twenty-one years of age." The courts have always held that this does not require a mathematically exact apportionment of senators and representatives, because that would be impossible, but that It requires as near an approach to that standard as Is practicable and without any flagrant departures from it. In the decision of 1896, after quoting the constitutional provisions, the Supreme Court said: While it is true that the Legislature has and in the true nature of things must have, large discretion in making an apportionment, yet It cannot be successfully maintained that the incumbents of any department of the government have a discretion to disregard the Constitution of the State. If exactness from the nature of things cannot be attained, then the nearest practicable approach to exactness ought to be made. In that decision, also, the court emphasized the idea that the Constitution intended to provide for the local representation of counties, as governmental divisions of the State, and of the inhabitants according to their number in each county. For this reason the court held that the grouping of two or more counties, neither of which has a voting population equal to the ratio for a senator or representative, and giving to the district so formed more than one senator or representative, was a violation of the Constitution. The court cited many instances of such violation In the act of 1895. In the present case. Judge Artman cites many instances in which both senatorial and representative districts have either many more or many less than the number of inhabitants required to form a district, and therefore deiarts from the constitutional standard to a degree that involves a violation of the Constitution. He holds that the unit of population that is, the total number of inhabitants divided by the total number of senators or of representatives constitutes the true basis of representation, and that the apportionment must conform as nearly as possible to that standard. His line of argument is very similar to that of the Supreme Court in 18, and the individual cases of mis-apportionment cited by him seem equally clear. If the lasf legislature had been more careful to follow the principles and rules laid d wn by the Supreme Court. In the decision of 1896, the present litigation might have been avoided. As it is, Republicans cannot complain if the present apportionment act Is subjected to the same ordeal and tests which they applied to former ones. DEMOCRATIC HARMONY IN KKlfTl( KV. In a leading editorial of considerable length, addressed "To the Democrats of Kentucky," the Louisville Courier-Journal makes an earnest appeal to them to be done with Bryan and Bryanlsm and return to the true Democratic fold. With a touch of sadness, and yet wdth pardonable pride, it recalls the gallant but losing fight It made during several years against the combined forces of Populism, Socialism and Bryanism, and asks the Democracy of Kentucky to consider the results of their failure to follow its advice. It says: Its fidelity to its beliefs cost the CourierJournal at least a quarter of a million dollars in money and five years of embittered strife with its life-long political assoeintes. All this while, if it had been a traitor, a self-seeker any of the wicked things its enemies said it was the doors of the Republican party were open to it. Not once In all that evil time did It lower the standard of the strictest Jefferson Democracy; home rule; honest money; no sumptuary laws; individual freedom, and a tariff for revenue only. Over and over again it was offered recompense for its losses. Over and .r again the beckoning hand of SOlleltatlon was held out to us. it couveyed not even the thought of temptation. The paper clasped Its integrity and its poverty to Its bosom, and to-day it survives to see all Its contentions vindicated by the result. The Democrats of Kentucky are not particularly reminded of how In 1900 they repeated and emphasized the folly of 189, giving the organizer of defeat a considerably larger vote the second year than they did tho first, but they aie kindly asked If they do not think they have had enough. Turning from its own to Mr. Bryan's rec ord, the Courier-Journal says: As a general, what victories has he won? It Is not alone that, preaching Man agalast Mammon and preaching it as though no one had ever preached it before he appears in the courts atrugKling with a widow for the greater part of her husband's estate, the will and attendant documents prepared by himself In his own house the testator not a relation, nor even an old friend but it is given out. and all the circumstances indicate, that he is making common cause with a candidate who will appear before the next Democratic national convention literally loaded down with gold; his sole entire strength derivable from the lavish use of money. He voted against Crisp for Speaker of the House, alleging that Crisp. having been a Confederate i-oldler. such a vote might cost him his own re-election to Congress; yet. willynilly, the party must continue to adopt the Bryan policies and follow the Bryan leadership without considering the election returns, or paying any regard whatever to the consequences. He has blacklisted everv Democrat the last live v,ars who has shown any vitality, displayed any power of winning votes, from Holla Wells in Misoliri V?. Athur. p- Gorman in Marvländ. and will be only satlsrid with some unknown quantity-presumably Mr. Hearst to be named by himself. The article concludes with: "God help the party, and God help the country if the answer to Mr. Bryan's exactions be not instantaneous, universal and overwhelming." The Courier-Journal's appeal to Kentucky Democrats would have more w. :i:ht If it had not supported Bryan In 19U), though it had opposed and still opposed the principles he represented. The Democrats of Kentucky may think that If some dummy of his selection is nominated at St. I,ouls on a Bryan platform the C.-J. will fall in line, as it did in 1900. To do It Justice, however. It did have the courage of its convictions In 189. and by supporting Palmer and Buckner helped to give the State to McKinley and sound money by a small plurality, its pteeent apical shows bow little

real harmony has been generated in the Democratic party by the reorganlzers and what a nightmare Bryan still is. When or how It will get rid of him is still a question for the future.

The appointment of Governor Taft as secretary of war makes the fourth change in the Cabinet of Mr. McKinley, as Inherited by President Roosevelt, all the result of voluntary resignations. On Jan. 9, 1902. Governor Shaw, of Iowa, was appointd secretary of the treasury, vice Lyman J. Gage, resigned; on the same date Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, was appointed postmaster general, vice Charles Emory Smith, resigned; on April 2y, 1902. William H. Moody, of Massachusetts, was appointed secretary of the navy, vice John D. Long, resigned, and now Governor Taft succeeds Mr. Root. The Cabinet was a strong one when Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the office and his appointments to fill vacancies are fully up to the original standard. There is every reason to believe that Governor Taft will make a worthy successor to Secretary Root, who was one of the greatest war secretaries the country has ever had. The movement to organize a national Latin-American fraternity of college students has a broader scope than most college fraternity movements. There are now quite a number of young men from LatinAmerican countries attending different col1 ges and universities in the United States. They come from Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philppines and a few from South America. If they could be brought together in a college society there would be among them a sort of kinship that would introduce a new element into college life. Arrangements are on foot in the Philippines for sending several native Filipinos to the United States every year to be educated here, and the indications are that the number of LatinAmerican students will steadily increase. Their Americanization will mean the dissemination of American ideas and their membership in a college society will be a good step In that direction. Sometimes it appears as if. in these days, life were getting to be considered of as little consequence as it was in the days of the Roman empire. One reads in the dally papers of suicides from such trivial causes, or sometimes from no discoverable cause, that he wonders what there is In modern society that makes 1 man so careless of his own existence. On Sunday a young man in Lafayette shot himself because he feared he would go insane. Not that he perceived the symptoms of approaching Insanity; but he had earned that some of his ancestors had been crazy, and he feared inheritance of the taint. And this came from reading medical books. There should be a law to keep them out of the hands of the laity. If Jewish bankers and financiers in Europe should unite in boycotting a Russian loan, as a foreign dispatch says they may do, Russia would find herself in a perilous predicament in the event of war. Her finances are In such a condition that a large loan would be one of the first necessities. As the finances of Europe are largely controlled by the Rothschilds and other Jewlch bankers of that class, their combination against Russia would be a serious matter. She would realize theu that persecution of the Jews Is a game that two can play at. The Park-avenue tunnel disaster in New York was probably the most expensive ever suffered by a railroad on account of loss of life. The company has paid altogether to those injured and the heirs of those killed $1.240,000. The last claim was settled the other day for $40.000. There have been many accidents in which more lives were lost, but there has never been one in which so many high-salaried men were killed or injured. Damages assessed according to the earning power of these men are responsible for the high figures. Consul Skinner is loud In his praise of the Abyssinians, whom he calls "the Japanese of Africa." He reports that the country is becoming rapidly modernized, and that neW roads, bridges, telephone and telegraph lines and water supplies are being constructed everywhere. There is a large field for American trade a.id industry, and it proves that President Roosevelt selected an opportune time for establishing relations with Ethiopia. Some tlms ago a choir in Canada went on strike because the minister requested the members not to chew gum. Now a New Jersey choir has made trouble because a curtain was hung which concealed them from the congregation. And who can blame them? What young woman would Join a choir where she could not be seen in her new hat and silk waist? Who wants to Join the Choir Invisible while still on earth? If the church wants a choir in star chamber, why doesn't it get a phonograph and be done with It? The New York smart set has formed a Women's Athletic Club, an exclusive organization with a membership restricted to 500. The club will probably be an important factor in the social life of the metropolis. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is one of the ten chief movers In its establishment, and every other name is a power iu itself. Well, it is a wholesome fad, at any rate, and more innocent than most of the amusements of New York's gilded idlers. Aren't we going to hear any more about that bill, introduced by Congressman John R. Thayer, by which each of us is to get eight acres of land? That is a mighty good scheme, and it seems a shame to have the bill tabled. It would be so interesting to see how long it would take before a few dozen men got It all, and the rest of us were no better off than before. Indianapolis seldom has a chance to see a more meritorious actor or a better play than John Drew In "The Second in Command" which is in the city this evening. The country needs more dramas like this Marshall comedy ch in, witty and wholesomea relief from the nauseous problem play, and a proof that a clean drama can be immensely popular. The freezing line keeps moving farther South every winter; it begins to-seem that it may some day be impossible to grow oranges within the borders of the United States. Northern Florida was once tho center of the orange Industry; it was given up years ago, and each year the wise growers move their line southward. If the money appropriated by Congress for the extermination of the boll wecll proves to have be -n wasted, why cannot that body make another appropriation for the extermination of the cotton speculator? It would not solve the problem altogether, but it would help some. Where can the limit of speed be placed at which racing automobiles can be driven? W illiam K. YauderbiU has covered a mile

on a Florida course In thirty-nine seconds. It would be interesting to know bow many times his machine touched the ground in that mile.

The librarian of Congress says that current fiction is a composite product of bad paper, indifferent typography, mediocre Llustratlons. shabby bindings and a modicum of authorship. The librarian has evidently been a book reviewer in his day. The trades unions of Chicago have S,:ue..'oo :r; various banks in that . ity. After a while they will belong to what Mr. Bryan calls "the plutocracy of money." and then just watch Willie Hearst turn his cartoonists loose on them! The son of the President of Switzerland committed suicide because a woman was "not at home" when he called on her. Imagine a son of our own President making a fool of himself for such a trivial cause! There will never be any excuse whatever for shooting King Peter of S-rvia. He is willing nay. eager to climb down from the throne without a bit of trouble. Just show him how to get loose, that's all. Some Democrats are beginning to allude to William J. Bryan as a dog in the manger. Others, while not admitting so much, fervently wish that he would get in the hay. This has I- M baT w k tot r.niium: only six new miracles have been discovered that It can perform successfully. The week to come will probably even matters up. Dr. Parkhurst alluded to the Iroquois Theater disaster as "God's fire." Ho seems to be an expert in distinguishing the fire from both places. THE HUMORISTS. Much More Kluhornte. "They say her wedding beggared description." "Oh. more than that!" "Indeed?" "Yes. It beggared her father." Chicago Post. ite tagai Teacher I am a thorough believer in reincarnation. Willie (aside) If she ever comes back here as a chicken I'm goin' to chop her head off. Detroit Free Press. Natural History. Eva Mother si.ys I'm descended from Mary, Queen of Scots. Tom (her brother) So am I then. Eva Don't be silly, Tom. You can't be you're a boy. Punch. D-ct-r P-kh-at. He stta in his shell. He sits in hia shell, And faintly he murmurs. "Dear me! This la hell!" New York Evening Sun. Qnite So. 10 mills make a combine. 10 combines make a trust, 10 trusts make a merger, 10 mergers make a magnate And he makes all the money! Springtield Republican. i:plnined. Chaucer was explaining his method. "I simply dictate and let my stenographer spell as ahe likes." he said. Wondering nobody had thought of such an easy dialect seheme before, he ground out "The Boke of the Duchease." New York Sun. YomiK Sponnnmore. While a young woman was making a hurried toilet upstairs her father was entertaining her caller. "By the way. Mr. Spoonamore." he asked, "how do you aa,nd on this question of imperialism?" "Why," responded young Spoonamore. "I've always thought It was r more becoming to most people than a goatee." Chicago Tribune. SCIENCE AND INVENTION. Woman Drunknrds. According to Mr. Holmes, the well-known London Police Court missionary, most of the women who appear on the "Inebriates' blackHat" are quite incapable of reform, "mentally defective creatures, in whom indulgence in strong drfnk Is part of a sensual nature, leading Inevitably to prostitution and moral degradation. I know that bolts and bars will not cure them; that two years, although spent in retirement and healthy surroundings, will not reform them; that human sympathy, coupled with earnest effort and prolonged care, will not make them as other women. To God and science their future belongs, for they cannot help themselves." Science Monthly. Hadiuni nnd ( ondnell vity. The researches of Professor Kohlrausch seem to prove that radium rays have a certain effect In increasing the electrical conductivity of water. The, experiments were carried out with rays which were emitted by a bromide of radium and barium which, after passing through an aluminium screen of 0.17 millimeter, were sent through a layer of water 18 millimeters thick. The water must be kept under action of the rays for some time in order to observe an appreciable effect, but after a certain time it Is found that the electrical conductivity of the water Is Incrc-ased. To account for this phenomena two different hypotheses have been advanced; first, that of a direct formation of iona In the liquid, anel, second, the action of the rays on the glass of the containing vessel. Electrical Ilevlew. All Hypnotics Dungernua. Tlrard has recently pointed out that all hypnotics are more or less dangerous. As each new hypnotic is put on the market It Is declared free from the dangers attending the use of the others. Sulphonai. for Instance, long held its ground as a safe hypnotic. Experience has. however, shown that It may cause a variety of dangerous symptoms and even death. Trional also has been found hi rare cases to cause collapse and death. Paraldehyde, thought by many to bj a safe hypnotic, sometimes causes, through prolonged use, mental and physical deterioration similar to that produced by the excessive use of alcohol. Vrethane may cause vomiting. The nausea of the opium taker, the danger to the heart from chloral, and the depression produced by the bromides are well known. Added to these Immediate dangers ia the still greater one of fastening upon the patient a drug which will eventually ruin him. body and soul. Detroit Journal. Pal col it hie Pnycholoity. In the course of a review of modern spiritualism in the Edinburgh Review, a somewhat pessimistic view of the scientific claims of the Society for Psychical Research is taken. Many respectable members of the society, wrltea the reviewer, are Intellectually on the same level as the 'Shaman" or the "Angekok." who believes that he can destroy his enemy by an incantation unmixed with arsenic, or foretell next summer's hunting by trance-commutHta-tlon with the world of spirits. In a word, we are not convinced that any new revelation, or any scrap of scientific proof of the continuance of human personality beyond the grave has been brought to light in .the last fifty years. What proof, indeed, can be expected from a method of Inquiry which Is not repelled by the grotescjuerles of the "spirits." and which accepts balderdash as the poetry of Shaks;eare. twaddle aa the philosophy of Bacon and the medium's thinly disguised person as the reincarnation of Socrates, the Virgin Mary or the repentant pirate John King? The force of pathos and idiocy can go no further, and one is almost Inclined to set aside the .vhole work of the Society of Psychical Research as baffled ty a hopeless fog of Imposture and credulous folly. Baltimore News, i lrntT Hrevltlea. The film of a soap bubble is but the fifty-mil lionth ot an inch in thick:. The freezing of shop windows, says a German authority, can be pi evented by rubbing Lb

class on the Inner side with glycerin dissolved In alcohol. The treatment also prevents sweating. Tne sun Is 866,000 miles in diameter, and It would take 1.300.000 worlds the slxe of curs to equal It In bulk. Pianc playing Is found by a German physician to be a common cause of nervous disease. 00 giris out of 1.C00 being affected among piano

I players under twelve, and only 100 In LtM among nonplayers. The mulc lessons should not begin before Fixteen. A new Improvement of the microscope consists In so arranging the illumination that no light can enter the objective except that reflected by the object under examination. This, It is claimed, brings into view objects about half the size of thoff formerly, improving the limit of minuteness. It has been laid down as a physiological rule that the requirements of adult diet depend not on the weicht of the eater but on the extent of his bodily surface. An infant may weigh one-eighteenth as much as a grown man, but its surface Is more than one-seventh as great As the fl;st requirement of the Infant's food is to replace the heat that is continually being lost by radiation from all parts of the body, the latter friction determine the needed proportion of nourishment rather than the former. But In the case of a growing child iood is also needed to supply the increase of bodily weight. In all, an infant's ration may be five times as much as would be estimated from its actual weight alone. A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. Neither One of Them. The proverbial Irishman's wit often comes to light, even In these modern days. McCarthy met Finnegan at the corner of Market and Eighth streets this morning, and the ensuing conversation was overheard by a bystander. "Hello. Mack; how are ye, and have ye seen McCloskey lately?" "Yls," answered the other. "I was walking down Chestnut street yesterday and I saw McClotkey coming up on the other side. He saw me at the same time, and I walked over to meet him. Now the lunny part of It all was the fact that when we got together, faith, it was 'neither one of ua." Philadelphia Telegraph. Di-cmmI mm n Hon. It is told of the late P. D. Armour that on one occasion he made a present of a suit of clothes to each of his employes In a certain department. Each man was told that he might order his own suit and send the bill to Mr. Armour, no restrictions being made as to price. In order to avail himself iully of the liberality, one young man ordered evening clothes costing 80. When the bill was sent In Mr. Armour sent for the clerk to vouch for its accuracy, and, Unding it right, assured the man that it would ue paid. As the clerk was leaving, however. Mr. Armour said to him: "I wish to say to you that I have packed a great many hogs in my time, but I never dressed one before." Boston Post. The Senator's C'antlon. Senator Allison, of Iowa, has the reputation of being the most cautious man in public life. He takes no chances, but always qualities his statements. This was never more clearly shown than when a citizen of Dubuque made a bet that he could force the senat jr to say "yes" to a direct proposition. Half a dozen friends went along to see the miracle performed. They eoteied Allison's office and chatted on various topics. Presently a flock of sheep, newly saeared, came by. "Thos sheep have ju.-t been sheared, senator, ' said the man who had made the bet, winking at his companions. Senator Allison gazed earnestly at the sheep. Then he softly replied: "It lookj like It on this side." Philadelphia Ledger. It Was (.mm1. A Kentucky distiller tells this story at the expense of Justice Harlan, of the Cnlted States Supreme Court. They were fellow-guests at a reception In Washington, and the hostess rallied the Justice on bis failure to drink more than one glass of punch. He replied that as a Kentuckian he felt disloyal to drink his other than straight, adding that Just then he was out vof the genuine tipple In his home. The distiller that evening telegraphed to his manager, who sent the justice a case of his best. Next Sunday the two men met In the church of which Mr. Harlan ia a deacon. The distiller was coming down the steps when the Justice called to him. "That was splendid." Then remembering where he was, he added hastily, "The sermon, 1 mean, of course." Omaha Bee. Tried Ti Please. Representative Dougherty, of Missouri, has a sheriff in one of the counties of hia district named "Jack" Steele who is somewhat of a Joker. At a recent session of court Steele summoned a panel of jurors and picked out the fattest men he could get. After tho first case they were he'arlng was well under way Steele took the Jury to a local hotel and fed them liberally on cabbage, buttermilk and other sleep-Inducing viands. The result was that every Juror went to sleep that afternoon, and most of them snored, to the great discomfort of the Judge. "Mr. Sheriff." the Judge said, after the Jury had been awakened, "1 will not submit to such outrages as this. Next time you summon a Jury 1 want you to pick out men not for their girth, but with a single eye to justice." Steele obeyed. Every man on the next panel was one-eyed. Saturday Evening Post. A Canny Scotsman. The youngest bank president in the world is Carl R. Schultz, president of the Equitable National Bank of New York. Mr. Schultz is only twenty-seven years old. He waa graduated from Vale only six years ago. This young man was asked recently to what quality he attributed bis success, and he replied that he attributed It to discretion, coolness. Thn he was asked to give an Instance of that quality's manifestation, but he would not give a personal one. He said, with a laugh, that he would give an Instance of coolness and discretion, but It would be one somewhat different from the kind he meant, and it would pertain not to himself, but to a Scotchman. 'There was a ocot," he suid. "who owned a fine orchard, eurrcunded by a hedge. Une day, aa he tntered this orchard, he saw a neighbor of his creeping on hands and knees through the hedge, so as to steal son.e fruit. " 'Sawmy. hoot. hoot, mon.' exclaimed the Scot reproachfully, 'whaur are ye gangin'?' "The discreet Sawney answered: " 'Bock agen.' "Denver Times. rtilicial und Real Penrls. A report from the Osaga Japan) Kxposition. published in European papers, says a Japanese has devised, a plan for the artificial production of pearlx. His method is to put a grain of sand or foreign subatance forcibly into peail oysters, which he afterward puts back in the beds. In this way he gets pearls so like natural pearls that connoisseurs cannot tell thern apart. It would be strange, thinks one writer, if they could, for the method employed by the Japanese is the one employed by nature. It is a wellknown fact that pearls are produced by a grain of sand or some other foreign substance falling into the open oyster and b;ing covered by the same substance as the Interior of the shell. The pearls thus produced are being sold so cheaply that a fear is gaining ground that they may affect the market for "real" pearls that ia, pearls produced by accidents to the oysters rather than by the efforts of man. The "artificial" p.::; are , in put to xa ! !h. san. - uaea as the "real" ones. Baltimore American. An InKenuous Confeaalou. Mr. Folk has declared in favor of home rule , for the State's cities. "It looks very much." says the Mates County Democrat, commenting ' on this, "as though Mr. Folk and some of his j supporters are seeking to hand Missouri over I to the Republicans." This is. perhaps, the ' trankest confession yet made by a Democratic nt-wpapr that the State's cities, and therefore, th State Itself, would return Republican majorities of the Democrats did not steal the elections by means of election and police boards appointed from Jegron 'ity.- Kansas City Journal. t oitniateney. There la a factory somewhere In Pennsylvania In which idols are made for the Chinese market. There are factories elsewhere from which missionaries are turned out for the same market. This country is a beautifully consistent lace to live in. Washington Times,

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Vigo county will have at least one candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in the Fifth district. A Journal n presentative who visited Terre Haute yesterday found practically all the Republican leaders a unit on that proposition, while not a few of them ventured the opinion that there will be two candidates tnm t h it county. If there Is but one candidate, that will, in all probabiity. be Alva M. i gins, whose name has not been Mentioned heretofore in this connection. Robert H. C&Ute, who was a candidate two years ago. is figured on as the second candidate from Yigo. if there should be one. Both Mr. Higgins and Mr. Catlin are exceedingly coy. in the political sense of that feminine adjective, when approached on the congressional subject and miliar will admit that he Is or will become a candidate. Close friends of both, however, have in a way comraitte : them to making the race and a formal announcement from one or the other, or bih. is anticipated within the next few days. County Chairman A. G. Cavlns. who has been spoken of as a possible candidate, will not ente: the race. Mr. Cavlns did not inspire the mention of his name in connection with th congressional light, but once the gossi was started he has not taken the troubb to deny it because it se'emed to give politicians something to talk about and did not worry him. But he will not be a candidate. He and Mr. Higgins are law partners and if one of the lirm enters the contest it i be the latter. When asked Iiis intentions yesterda; morning Mr. Higgins at first jocularly dt nled the soft impeachment that he has con gressional aspirations. Later he talk- ! seriously of the subject. I cannot even sav now that 1 snail prob ably be a candidate, but it is true that am giving the matter some consldt ration, he said. "I have just returned from a trii Kast and really have not had time t. t.; with many of my friends, but a few friend have come to me with the suggestion tr. I enter the race. It will be a difficult ra.u ter for me to determine, for my p :.-.!... affairs are; in such a shape at present a to demand all my time. However. I sliai not delay long in reaching decision anu may have my mind made up within a f' days." One or two men who are close to Mj Higins have already in a quiet way start quite a boom for him and it is upom theii activity and expressions of confidence that the prediction is baaed that he will b- found In the list of Repress native Holliutay's opponents before the campstfgn Is niany dayi older. These men say that Mr. Higslni will be a candidate and they have taken steps toward forming the nucleus ol an organization to secure the Vigo county deb - ia tlon. In much the same manner friends of Mr. Catlin have committed him as a candidate, although they have not gone so far, perhaps, as Mr. Higgins's frieinds. Mr. Catlin maintains the position he took hupf week that he has nothing at all to say on the congressional subject but his friends have gone to several men with the purpose of learning what sort of a reception would be accorded his candidacy. "But, what will Barcus do?" That is a question sevetxil Terre Haute Republicans and many politicians In the other counties of the district have asked. Senator Barcus, as is well known, was a candidate for the congressional nomination two and four years ago and was regarded as a prospective candidate for this year's nomination up until a few weeks ago. A day or two before the recent convention to elect a district chairman he announced definitely that he was not a candidate. At that time it was anticipated that thtij wou'd be no contest this year if Senator Barcus did not make the tirst break, und that Mr. Hollkiay would be given onej renomination without a struggle. Tho I ntrance of other candidates has fiven some of the politicians an idea that Senatoj Barcus might therein find an excuse for changing his mind and deciding after all if there was to be a fight he might as well be in it; and that, along with the genera', curiosity as to his attitude toward the several candidates in event he adhered to his determination not to be a candidate, has led to the question as to his intentions. "I have announced that I am not a candidate, and that announcement was made only after due consideration I am not a candidate." , Such was the answer returned by the senator yesterday when the- q tiefst ion was put up ' him. When he was pressed to slate hirf position toward the other candidates 1W parried with a counter-question as to whether there was an avowed candidate from Vigo county and said that he could not aay what he would lo until he knew if tha-re was a candidate from his own county. Inasmuch as Mr. Higgins rjanaged Senator Barcus' campaign two years ago it is not unreasonable t inf-r that if Mr. Higgins is a candidate this year he will have the heart' suptrt of the- m fialm . but the latter intim&ited that he was not givm to crossing a bridge until he csime to it and would not in any way commit himself. "Nick" Filbeck, that irrepressible political iconoclast of the city on the banks of the Wabash, is anjoying himself hugely these days of preliminary skirmishing aloni; congressional lines. Be is being "felt out" by friends of the- General prospective candidates and there" is nothing wheToin he takes so much pilcasure an the approach of some man who wants bis support in n political struggle. "Wheth'jr he is inclirued toward the man or not, he likes it. "I really don't know a thing about the congress! nal situation." he protested to the Journal's repres tntatgve. "It looks like there would be a fight against HolUdfiy, all rlffht. but I had mm V' u: my mind to keep out of the light, if tl.ere was one this year and I haven't paid much attention to it. Some people have been bilking to me about it. though, and 1 m;iy et into it before it's over." "Will Vigo county iiave a candidate?' "Well, now, I could-a't say positively, hut it wouldn't be much f a shock or surprise to me to learn thut Uhere is a Republic in Vigo county who would like to go to Congress." The Question as to w4hother the Vigo county candidate, if there be one, would ge the solid delegation Crom the county, is. another that is bothering the politicians. When it was put to a group of three or foajr of the county leaders it seemed to strike them, as a nv rry jest. "It'B possible." said one of them with a chuckle, "but it strikes me that the. man who can get the solid support of Vio county on any proposition is too big a man to run for Congress w hen we find h m v e n nominnk" him for President." Representative Hollidav has matjy warm friends Pi Vigo ai:d some of tlie artivDECORATIVE HOUSE I1ANTS. Ineenslw nnd Simple- Greenery Often the lle-t. Country GentUman. Of all the plants grown indogrs for winter enlivenmenr perhaps none give great, r satisfaction than those wrnch make no pretension to more than a little simple gre, n. ery. There is something at once cheering and deliciously rewtful in the sight of a bright mass of fresfi. Irving green, when all the world outside Is cold and seemingly dead. Such plants as either of the two varieties of asparagus the light Sprengerl. or the even more re-flnr-d Plumosus nanus, with its lovely frondkike foliage may be confidently counted among the decorative plants that decorate. Hardy, unexacting free from insect pests and easily accommodated as to lighting, they give constant beauty and cheer and ask little in return The ouly annoyance caused by th si-cl-men which I know be.t is felt when ;t itor occasionally admlm-s it. adding. "I am so fond of the maidenJiair fern!" I have tried the maidenhair fern for a house plant, but without great success. But a good, thrifty fern, such as the one known to comme rce as the Boston fern, with t hemore richly cut leaf ef the- rn r form of it. is a highly satisfactory deniaen of the ordinary living room. 4 fine-, solid English ivy. gnu -fully disposed, like one whn h 1 ' have recently seen trained upon an ancient

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party workers are for him. but It Is probI matleäl If they would ho able to get any of the delegates there for him in event th re is a candidate from the county. James Soule. the retiring county auditor and Postmaster t. ij are prominent among Mr. Holllday's friends in Tcite Haute. Howard Maxwell, of Parke county, has not yet come out of the woods m the congressional question. He has been ineluded in the list of prospektives and his friends, too, have said that he would be a candidate, but so far he has made no formal declaration It is said for Mr. Maxwell that he is in a better position now to make the r.tee than he was two years ago. for the r a son that he can command the support of Verniilllon county. Vermillion anel Parke counties constitute a Judicial edrcult, fer whnh a judge is to be nominated and elected this year. Parke can control the nomination, but it has been understood that the judgeship would be concedf-d to V rnv.lion county, and as a result three candidates have 'appeared there to coatest for the prize if Vermilion Republicans want the Judge they will have to be good to Parke Unrein lies Mr. Maxwells strength. Otis E. Gully, of Danville, the man who started the congressional contest by announcing his candidacy Jan. 21. is laying ids plans for an aggressive campaign and has already done some little werk. "I announced my candidacy without a thought as to whether there would be one and: late or a dozen against Mr. Hollllay," said Mr. Gullcy at Danville last even.ng. "I went into the race because 1 want to go to Congress anel because 1 thought here was a fair chance of securing the ."ruination. 1 have the assurances of the al support ot my own county and beve 1 can win. Beyond thai I have nothig to say at this stage of the campaign, t will be some weeks before anyone cun io any prophesying." Maj. Joseph B. Human, who is managing Mr. Galley s campaign. Zim K. Dougan, ounty cl rk and chairman of the Re pub n county committee, and Julian Hogate, editor of tlie Danville Republuar. ..ud chairman of the district organization, all conIrm Mr Gull y's claim that he will have n loyal support of the Hendricks county delegation. "Hendricks county will be for Mr. Guile y, f course." said chairman Demgan. "The delegation will be one that will do everything in its power for him.' "We are for eur candidate." said Mr. Ho;aie. "Mr. Gni'.ey will luve the lojai support of his county. 1 shall do what 1 can to see that tin delegation is for him. but, of course, as district chairman 1 am not in a position to take a hand in the fight or 10 .40 outside' my. own county." The inference was drawn from conversations with a number of other Danville Republicans that Representative llolllday has many warm friends in the oovaftjr, and that he will be the second choice of a majority of the Hendricks delegates. The dele-gates will be for Mr. GuMey until he is nominated or as long as he is in the fight, and then, in event of his withdrawal, most of them will go to the Brazil man. Put nr. m county, it is said, will not have a congressional candidate, and as Ben K. Corwin, of Greencastle, Is a candidate for reporter of the Supreme Court, it i understood that the vote of Putnam will be carefully divided among the several caudidates. It is not definitely known as y t whether Morgan county will have a candidate. J. K. Sedge wick, of Martinsville, was rtport to have announced his candidacy last weeh, but he has since said that the announcement was premature and unauthorized, but that he is considering the advisability of entering the race. There will be 120 delegates in the Fifth district congressional convention, which will be held May 17 at Torre Haute. The relative strength of the se veral counties is as follows: Vigo, 40; Vermillion, lt.; Parke, 14; Clay. 1; Putnam. 11; Hendricks. 15; Morgan. 14. Ou the face of this division it is apparent th;t the possibilities for combinations and deals is unlimited i ' The Fifih. by the way. has the most htereagene .u.s population of any district in the State. It is at once an agricultural, mining and manufacturing district, apd has as well a city that aspires to be a metropolis and that is entitled to recognition as such so far as a large clement of what is known as a flouting vote Is concerned. Incidentally there are four large educational institutions in the district the Normal at Danville, 1 e- Pauw Cniversity at Greencastle. and Rose Polytechnic Institute and tin State Normal at Terro Haute. The large mining population insuies thousands of foreigners, mam -f whom can neither speak nor understand Edglish. and rnd a few of whom are known by numbers only at the mines where they are employed. "Seinp' of our foreigners don't even know their own name's." declared Mr Hogate-. i.i commenting m the mixed population of lm district. "Gr. if they do. the names are so unpronounceable that they don't attempt to use them. Wh. one of our po'l takers lound a woman in one of the- mining towns who didn't know her own husband name. When she was asked his name she auswäre. l, -j,.... ..,,,,1 iK , Th, NVa aLi the name he- had." There has been some little talk as to the men wno shall be made delegates to the Republican national convention from tho Fifth, and it seems to be a matter of gen-f-ral understanding that the honors will fall to U R M Keen, of Terre Haute, and Major George W. Grubbs, of Martinsville, without u tonte st. So much for the Fifth congressional district. To come back to the capital city, tho first thing to interest the politicians is tlie l'l'fant litt!, surprise uirtf t.n.iered James L. Keach. Mayor Holtzman and friends yesterday by .Thomas Tiinnart, Joseph T. Fanning and W. W. Spencer, when the latter, as chairman of the Democratic county committee, issued the call for the primary to elect precinct committeemen V- Xt uTnurday. Feb. 4. T.. say that the Ke ac h fac tion was surprise d at the sudden tail, which gives but the thi-e days notie r required b the primary election law is putting it mildly, and the latest coup of the. wily boss was the topic- ,,i general comment last evening. Mr. Taggart and hie ejus- friends took a few days to select a "ain filiate ; ir count v chairmei Kn 1 before the other crowd had had time to do mure man talk about prospective candinates, the call for an immediate primary was issued. It is taken as a foree-on. con clusion that the Taggart cam H. Clarke, will be . I. ct. d. .. able that under the drcui ICeoeh faction will not atteoo light. The primaries will be h.d.l 1 city, wurd and precinct bound polls will be open from 4 Thursday evening. The newl' mitteemi n w ill meet to elect a man and otlnr officers Satur in the M is. .nie Hall. it naiv S t is probDcea the o make a r the new s. and th H o'clock "ted c.-m-spinning wheel, has a kind of complete ness In its effect that does nt weary quukiy like more- howy aeiornments. The-re are always palms, unrivaled in their way, and elegant (and costlyi show plants, as the Norfolk Is) u. l pine- A rau Carla 1 xc-e lsai for instance, that add a touch, of distinction to tin- must hall or drawing room. But for most of us simplicity is b t-te-r and eertainlv more , .il within our reach. The- lovely mingling "t eiiergy with delicacy that nature puts Into every fresh pray of characteristic leafage may give- us its own little lesson and its e.wn characteristic charm in the c-eiminone-st weed that grows. There- is hardly any plant In eur woods and thdds that may not become a true "decorative ' plant upon occasion. Some of our tiny native ferns, fnlxed with vine-s of tin "sipiashbe-rry and hidden roots of violet and anemone- have been Known to mrnisn untaiitng interest for a. whole winter, within garden limits n broader than a dinner plate" A single- well -developed specli often d more value In home- iW ten plant m Whole Shelves full eT the usual ; diiu o!ant. A tine ol,t lu.i ample- in hardly matters what the special variety ut öl dozens of good ootid, with a shajee-lv and almost maje-Htle outline which these plants assume with age-, ceverd with good foliage', and each branch supporting a shower oi its tl'-ficat- -op .,ns p.ii,. or uy dowers. Is intrinsically bea itiful and form a noble object worthy to stand alone Even a large jar of the lush branches of tradesoantia. placed in wate r with a f. vr lumps or charce.al and without in. -t sunlight, will go on for six - r cht a. ..titln owing out vita! ami tnr,K TL, .uih and constant!) iia reasmg a rl h ' wealth of satisfying greenery. How easy it is to find aud cherish beauU' If we will: