Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1904 — Page 4

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Deerln. northwest comer of Third and Jeff arson streets, and IUuefeM Bros , 443 West Market stre t. NEW YORK Astor House. LCI"I3-I"nlon Kewi company. Union Depot. BT. JOSEPH. Mo.-F D. Carrlel. Station D. WASHlNOTi flf, D. C RlggS House. Ebbltt House, Fairfax Hotel. Willard Houl. Wouldn't It be queer If Mr. Bryan's "new Idea" turned out to bo nothing but the Iowa Idea In disguise? "Bryan Forsakes the Silver God." read the headlines in one paper, and in another of the tame date, "Bryan Will Raise His Voice for Silver." So you can choose either Idea that su'ts you and Bryan will still be the Peerless Leader. In the report of extra cold weather in St. Louis, the other day. the dispatch stated that all workmen at the exposition grounds stopped working with the exception of the Japanese. That is the sort of spirit that Russia has to look out for. While running to catch a train on the New York elevated railroad, the other day, two persons dropped deud from heart failr. I j llmr ri.it tvnlrnl .it the moil.-m strenuous spirit? Better to risk death than wait three minutes for the next train! Most of these fatal mine explosions appear to be caused by the extreme carelessness of the miners in the use of matches. What is the use of safeguards and legislation when people will run such deliberate arid criminal risks of a terrible disaster? The new decoration of the Legion of the Medal of Honor is displeasing to several of the members, who declare that it is lacking in finish and appropriateness, and is too much like a G. A. R. button. But it stands for as much as If It were an artistic triumph. Look at the Victoria cross! South Africa has taken a dangerous some think a fatal step in committing itself to Chinese cheap labor. It looks like the deliberate importation of a race problem and a labor trouble at one fell swoop; and it appears, indeed. In the words of an Eastern paper, that society there will soon consist of only two classes millionaires and slaves. People have different ideas of what constitutes a world-power. Extent of territory, foreign possessions, size of army and navy these are points most frequently considered. But when one reads that the United States now has 50 per cent, of the banking power of the entire world the question seems to be answered. Tho incorporation of a company with ),0U0 capital to engage in hydraulic gold mining in Morgan county looks as if somebody had faith In the enterprise. Cold In small quantities has been found there for many years past, and it may be that with improved machinery some pay deposits may be found, but they axe not likely to be e;. tensive. Is there no food for reflection on the part Of the insurance companies In the statement of a noted New York civil engineer to the effect that one-third of the theat. ft built are burned within five years after the building? Present-day theaters must be about as poor rUks as they were in Bhavkapeare'a day. when the '-Globe" suffered so much from the. fire fiend. Scientists are greatly encouraged by tho discovery in Utah of an apparently unlimited supply of radium. It will not become flfceap. although the carmotite ore in which American radium is found is much more abundant than the pitchblende used in Europe. The cost of Isolating the coveted substance is immense, but there will be a svfBcieat quantity for the use of laboratories and experimental work. If jrou need a job and can speak the Chlnese language there are lots of chances In the far East. These Ls a demand for dlplomats who are familiar with the language sad customs of the country. Seven young sea are studying Chinese in the American legation and preparing to be student Interpreters, which are to be-sent by the goveruteest to each of the couaulates; and two uew consuls, under the provisions of tho recent Chinese treaty, have been sent to Mukden and Antung In Manchuria. The continued illness and repeated relapses of Senator Hauua will be sincerely regretted throughout the cou.try. The SOOgestlve chill of Wednesday was un SSkWd serious symptom A person of Senator Henna's agehe will be aixty-aeven tat Sept. X4 does not easily recover from tbe effect of auch au attack. Hu will prob-

ably outlive it. but his health will be shattered. This prospect will be regretted by all who regard the Ohio senator as one of the most useful men In public lifo, and especially by Republicans who would like to see him one of the foremost leaders in the next presidential campaign.

sflSRatraBSKHTIXG TOTE ruill)i:M. For a bill that never stood a ghost of a chance of passing Senator Foraker'a bill to amend the anti-trust law has attracted undeserved attention. This is mainly due to the fact that it was seized upon by the Democratic press ns a pretext for partisan misrepresentation and by enemies of the President to place him in a false position. The biil is a very short one. Aside from its title and enacting clause it reads as follows: That nothing in the act to regulate commerce, approved Feb. 4. 1887, ot in the act to protect foreign trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopoP a, a i proved July 2. 1810, or in any act amendatory of either of said acts, shall hereafter apply to foreign commerce, or shall prohibit any act or any contract in restraint of trade or commerce among the several Stetes, provided that such restraint be reasonable, or shall hereafter authorize imprisonment or forfeiture of property as punishment for any violation of said acts, except for perjury or contempt of court. The Democratic press immediately Jumped to the conclusion that the bill was an administration measure and Indicative of a change of front by the President. They construed it as showing a desire to placate the trusts by materially limiting the scope and effectiveness of the anti-trust laws. The New York Staats Zeltung (Democratic) described the bill as sweeping away all the limitations which previous anti-trust laws have attempted to establish, and said: And this with tho approbation of President Roosevelt, seeking to assure himself of Wall street's support. Either two years ago he spoke contrary to his own convictions or he is now sacrificing Hum. in order to win the trusts to himself. However one may look upon it. this much Is clear that Derer yet has the presidency been sought with greater demagogism. The New Y'ork Sun, independent and antlRccsevelt. approved the principle of the bill but thought the time and manner of its introduction would prove damaging to Mr. Roosevelt. "It Is humiliating," said the Sun, "to reflect that the legislation of the country has been so perverted to the ends and uses of demagogues that such a measure sh uld be necessary to set it straight; but It is still more humiliating to have to confess that the remedy is now vouchsafed only from discreditable and unworthy motives." That there was no foundation whatever for these views appears first from a statement by Senator Foraker, and second by a prompt and emphatic denial by Attorney General Knox, speaking for the President, that the bill was an administration measure. Senator Foraker says he drafted the bill about a year ago, but held it up until the Northern Securities case, which had then been brought, should be decided. He asfumeb the entire responsibility for it and thinks it would make the anti-trust laws more conformable to the common law and to the English practice than they now are. Whether this is the case or not need not be discussed at present. When Attorney General Knox was asked If the bill was introduced with the knowledge a:.d approval of the administration he replied: "Absolutely no." He then went on to state what the effect and operation of tho bill would be and wherein they would depart from the views and policy of the admiristtation. The two statements of Senator Foraker and Attorney General Kuox prove beyond doubt or question that the Fc raker bill not only was not an administration measure, but that it was a distinct departure from the President's views. As Senator Foraker is an avowed friend of the President it is not to be supposed that he intended to bring criticism on the Prerident by introducing his bill, nor is he responsible for the fact that it was distorted to that end. That it was seized upon as I l i sis of partisan misrepresentation shows tho eagerness of the President's enemies to find some charge against him that will stick. This one did not more than others, and it remains to be seen if the papers thut have used it will retract and apologize. MR. CK KR WS W AY OF LOOKING AT THINGS. Mr, W. Bourke Cockran has been nominated by the Democrats in the Twelfth New York district to succeed Mr. McClellan. elected mayor. In accepting the nomination Mr. Cockran made a speech which for vast and varied misinformation and studious disregard of facts is probably w-ithout an eu,ual. Mr. Cockran is toted for his fondness for rhetorical effect and riis distaste for the prosaic verities of life. hut in this speech he quite outdid himself. He began by reminding his audience that "ten years ago we had a Democratic President, a Democratic Congress and Democratic Governors in several leading States," but that since the country had passed through a crisis. So It has, but not of the kind depicted by Mr. Cockran. "Any one," he said, "can realize by looking at the yawning chasm between the conditions of this country as they are to-day and as they were ten years ago, that Democratic success is an absolute necessity if the country is to be preservtHl." Any reader of the Journal who has time to step to the edge of the yawning chasm and look into it will probably feel like yawning himself at Mr. Cockran's description of the situation. He said: Democratic surpluses have been squan1 red by Republicans who succeeded our leaden in office; surpluses were turn d into deficits and panic spread over the land. It was Democratic integrity and sagacity troin K'M to lK'l t ha t restored the shattered credit of the country and revived business in 1&7, but at that time the Republicans, just elected into power, claimed the credit, although they had only harvested the crop planted by Democratic ability, loyalty and capacity. If there is anything in political literature to equal the audacity of this the Journal does not know wheie to find it. As Mr. Cockran was addressing a Tammany audience it did not make much difference what he said, and most of those who heard him will never know any better. But it may be well to state some of the facts. During the last three years of the Harrison ad'niniMratioti. l.u to iv;. tin government revenue exceeded expenditures by $Ul,7.o.26!; during the lust three years of the second Cleveland administration, lsy4 to ivO, inclusive, government expeniHtttl exceeded revenues by $137.al 1. 73U. Un July 1. lsys. the first year of Mr. Cleveland's second election, the public debt was $1,5!W, 111,156; on July 1. 1SS7. it was 1.!1 1.436. 7Ub an increase of 121X324.55 during an administration of profound peace. During Mr. Cleveland's administration there were four issues of boi.ds to replenish the treasury and meet current expenses, vis.: Jan. 17. 1KH. Ijü.uuO.oh. N-.v 1 :. !-... 15U,tou.W; Feb. v lVki. t&!.Jl5.UUU. and early in January, 1S&. fluO.UOU, OU. in aaWmraat with these bond is

sues during a time of peace President McKinley carried the Spanish war to a successful conclusion without borrowing a dollar. Everybody remembers the panic of 1893 and the period of business depression that followed. Everybody remembers also how quickly business responded to the election of McKinley. A contemporary history written

In the fall of 1857 says: "It Is no longer denied that the country is once again fairly started on the road to business prosperity from which it wandted groping, early in Ü83." There never was in any courry as rapid and complete a recovery from universal depression to general posperity as that which followed the election of McKinley in 1S96. Mr. Cockran attributes it to the bond-issuing and debt and deficitmaking administration of Mr. Cleveland, and says, "Now again we are threatened with the results of Republican ascendency." If Mr. Cockran Is elected to Congress, as of course he will be, he may become a source of gayety for the nations. He only needs to be punctured to give forth a stream of imaginary facts that will make the comic history of Rome appear tame by comparison. The raising of the Goebel issue in the House was evidently done as a pre.ext for attacking Republican officials. As far as the action of two Indiana Governors iu the Taylor extradition case is concerned, the ground has been thoroughly traversed and need not be gone over again. No person cognizant of the facts believes that Governor Taylor could have had a fair trial in Kentucky or doubts that if the Kentucky officials could have laid their hands on him he would have been railroaded to the gallows or to the penitentiary for life. Such an outcome was a foregone conclusion, and Governors Mount and Durbin were right in refusing to become parties to it. There is no power to compel a Governor to honor a requisition against his convictions of justice and right, and it is absurd to say that he has no discretion in the matter. The public-spirited men and corporations of the city have come to the front again in an emergency by raising a guarantee fund to insure the holding of the State fair this year. Past experience probably justified the board in declining to hold it, in the face of a prospective deficit without a guarantee against loss, but now the difficulty is removed. The public ought to rally to thesupport of the fair and make it unnecessary to draw on the guarantee fund. If the Supreme Court should hold the present apportionment law unconstitutional, Governor Durbin would probably follow the precedent of Governor Matthews in 1896 in refusing to call an extra session of the Legislature when the laws of 1895 and 1893 were held unconstitutional. In that case it was necessary to go back to 1S85 to find a law that would stand the test of the Constitution, and the election was held under that law. MINOR TOPICS. Although young Air. Burnett T. Tiffany, of New York, has an allowance of 134.650 a year to live on, he does not consider the sum sufficient for his personal expenses, and he has sued his father's estate for Iiis fuil share of the income. To the frugal Westerner tifis young man's ideas as to what he needs to sustain life are interesting, especially as he says he has no bad habits, does not drink or gambie, and is surely very economical. His rent costs him $1,500, hia three servants "and a man" another $1,500, his clothing 112,000, and his board 16,000. For carriages and traveling expenses he needs another 16,000, and for "other expenses necessary to comfort" 7,500 he thinks a reasonable estimate. He does not say which of these items he considers too small; possibly he thinks they might all be increased. And surely it does look as if the young man should have more than a miserable 112,000 a year to spend on clothes. A Tiffany should not be obliged to go in rags; and those little comforts that cost $7,500 should be accompanied by decent wearing apparel. To be sure, there are hosts of young men in New York who are doing very well on what he gives his "three servants and a man." and they work for that; but they have not his needs, for they have not his idleness. The courts should see that young Mr. Tiffany is properly takt-u care of. A British peer has written a book of advice to young men in the form of letters to his son a la "Self-Made Merchant," Lord Chesterfield, et al. on the subject of how to succeed. He says that the only line of action for a poor nobleman Is unlimited extravagance. A dangerous game, but he should be thanked for not advising marriage with an American heiress. That is being overdone. Novelist Jack Loudon has been arrested in Japan for taking photographs of important fortiflcations. He Only wanted the picture for an American paper, but the Japs were afraid he would sell it to Russia, hence the trouble. The novelist's remarks on the occasion of his arrest would, no doubt, prove an interesting addition to his latest book, "The Call of the Wild." Tailors and modistes say that automobile clothes are to be much worn during the coming spring and summer. To wear them it will not be necessary to have an automobile, any more than yachting caps require yachts, golf stocking presuppose the ownership of a bag of sticks, or a silk hat and a frock coat argue that the wearer is possessed of more than two shirts. "Plodding wearily through the snow, with seemingly no idea of where he aas or what he was doing. Blcycleman found an old man last night," begins a thrilling story in a valued contemporary. Cannot the city administration do something to keep the bicycle police from wandering about that way without any idea of what they are doing? It is an outrage. A Jersey City man who made a record by playing on the piano twenty-six hours without stopping has been challenged to an endurance contest by a Newark man. The trial is to take place In the latter city, where it is said a gang of whitecappers is b. lng organixed to lynch the contestants before they can start the trouble. The latest fashion In dogs, says a Paris cable story, is for Pomeranian Loulous. The name, for all Its spelling, has a suspiciously American sound, and In the photograph the dog bears a strong resemblance to the common poodle of commerce with an abnormal hirsuite development. To be in style, get a loulou. An eminent English physician says: "The human stomach works better wh n slightly stretched Just as the longs work better with deep inhalations." That MSJHafij eat till you are full. In spite of the health faddists who tell you to leave the table with an appetite for more. This is good news. A Chicago school teacher complains bitterly that more attention is paid in Illinois to raising pigs than to raising children.

Well, every State has a right to Its own taste in these matters. And what is tho foundation of Illinois s greatness, anyhow pigs or babies?

A New Orleans paper protests against putting the bodies of white men and negroes In the same morgue. So the poor colored brother who hoped that death would end his troubles and that all would be equal after the great change is fooled, after all. An Iowa schoolmistress went to a dance. and a member of tho school board tried to have her discharged as a consequence. But she fought the case and was vindicated, and now all the schoolma'ams In Iowa can trip the light fantastic to their heart's content. Emperor William has talked into a phonograph for future generations, and the cylinder will be kept at Harvard. The wellknown Idiosyncrasies of the talking machine will serve as an everlasting reminder of the Kaiser's recent throat trouble. St. Petersburg dispatches say that Russia is delaying war until the Czarina recovers from her attack of earache. What an acute sense of hearing she must have if she expects to be disturbed by the guns on the Yellow sea! William Winter says that in New York there are more than forty theaters in which people are mere-ly sawing wood. That is not so bad, provided they are following out the rest of the proverb and saying nothing. A dispatch states that a woman in New York is getting great results in curing disease by hypnotism. It is not stated, however, whether her method consists in hypnotizing the sufferer or the microbes. The author of the song, "Just Because She Made Dem Goo Goo Eyes," is now an inmate of a New York lunatic asylum. And yet some people insist that there is no such thing as providential retribution! THE HUMORISTS. Solomon's Poor Showing;. "Do you think Solomon was really the wisest man that ever lived?" "Gracious, no. There is nothing in the Bible to show that h was SOSB half as rich as Mr. Rockefeller." Chicago Record-Herald. Of Coarse, She Wai Jrslons. Tess George told me how much he paid for my ring-. How much do you think it was? Jess I don't know, but it doesn't look to be worth it. Tess Worth what? Jess What he told you he paid for it. Philadelphia Press. What a Blow. Miss Antique I can trace my descent for the last hundred years. Miss Custique So long as that! You surprise me. You don't look a day over sixty. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Brutal Inference. "Is there any way to make a woman stop talking ?" asked the newly married man. "Yes." answered tae home grown sage, "but somehow a man hates to hit a woman with an ax." Pittsburg Dispatch. fjatrjtta r. "Uncla." said the high-school young man, "Is 'polities' singular or plural?" "Sonny." was the reply, "in de paht of de country whah I come fu'm dey's sing'lar, mighty sing'lar." Washington Star. WIse'ly (honen. Mr. Short Can I believe it you will really marry me? Miss Tall Yes. I always make my own dresses, and. as we are both the same height, you will come real handy when I am cutting and fitting. New York Weekly. References Required. The Customer Here, waiter! Take my order, please. The Waiter 'Scuse me. sah! But Ah must Just inquiah if yoh reco'nised de Grand Confederated Union ob Colored Gentlemen Help? Brooklyn Life. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Renl Estate nnd Medicine. A good story is told on Representative Hearst. of New York, who took a spin around to several States before settling down to his congressional duties and fanning off the presidential bees which buzz around his bonnet. One of his colleagues says that while young Mr. Hearst was sidetracked In Atlanta, Ga., he was confined to his room a short time with a slight ailment, and Editor Howell and some of the other Georgia and Atlanta President makers determined that a physician was necessary. A hurryup messenger was sent out. and soon landed a dtvpenser of pills and potions, who was far mora interested In booming Atlanta real estate than In his profession. However, the realestate physician answered the call and. with satchel in hand, hurried to the hotel and was ushered into the suite of rooms occupied by Mr. Hearst, who had simply a case ot "1-am-aw-fully-weary." The physician felt his pulse, diag-nosod the case and prescribed a few pilla. and was about ready to depart when Mr. Hearst'i attendant asked how the pelleii ihould be taken, as no directions had been given. "Yes, yes," said the doctor, whose mind was taken up with sale of city lots and real-estate booms, "one-third down, and the balance in six and twelve months, with interest." Washington Times. A Good Slim. There are signs, though, that never fall, as everybody knows. The seal-brown gentleman who tends my fire has one which makes betting on the next election unsportsmanlike and removes it to the sure-thing class. He put in a solid hour last Monday working over the grat. The Are refused to burn. "I was jes' a-trylng a 'sper'ment," he said, at length. "I knowed It wouldn't work. I named this yera tire wrong. I started it with this New York paper an' I named it after the gentleman mat writes the paper. You kin see he certainly Is s loser. This time I names your fire right." He patiently arranged kindling and coals again and set a match to the paper beneath. "Now." ha said, as he put the blower on, "you git down to work, Mr. Roosevelt, an' burn." And "Mr. Roosevelt" burned all morning without further aid. Washington Post. 'With "Duiuimble Iteration. When the present aecond assistant secretary of state. Alvey A. Adee, was third assistant the writer was an employe of the State Department Answering a ring o the telephone, the following colloquy ensued: "Adee." "A. D. what?" "Spell It, please." "A." "Yes." "A." "Yes." "A. " But here the receiver was indignantly hung up. Saturday Evening Post. Ken the Varels Would Run. "Down in Thomas county. In my State." said Representative Griggs, of Georgia, "there lived an old lady a motherly old soul who believed that she was Inspired to write hymns and psalms. She wrote and wrote, and every week the editor of the county weekly was forced to make some excuse for not printbig her effusions. He did manage to use a little of it In 'poetry' for funeral notices and the like. The good old woman, nndini; that she could not get any one else to hear br Inspired words, forced the negro house girl to sit all Sunday aft moon and listen to her read them. This was in siavery day a. and the girl got so tired of her Sunday punishment that she ran sway. When soe was caught and brought back the girl said that she

didn't want to run away, but could not stand to hear old mist' ess read her poetry- 'She made me sit nearly ail day Sunday an' listen to her." said the girl, 'an' the hymns and psalms she had betn wrltln' all de week was 'nuff ter make de blessed angels run er way from home.' " Denver Times.

Decent People Wouldn't Come. Senator Clapp. of Minnesota, Is a great campaigner and is constantly called upon to make speeches in his State. Last fall he was asked to go to a town called Erin Corners, which is r.ot far from his home town, and make a political address Erin Corners la a Democratic hamlet, with no Republicans Uving within its limits. Clapp is a Republican. He got to the village and found the town hall packed with Democrats. He tried to talk and they howled him down. He tried again and was howled down again. He tried half a dozen times and each time was compelled to stop because of the noise and disturbances in the hall. He was just about to quit when an old man Wtn had worked as hired man on the farm of Senator Clapp' s father came up to the platform and said: "Don't mind them, Mose. They're a lot of loafers and rowdies. None of the decent people would come." New York World. INDIANA EDI 10 RIAL NOTES. The Bedfora investigations are as full of theories as Sherlock Holmes, but there the resemblance ends. Terre Haute Tribune. There Is no special reason why Hearst demonstrations should not contlnu-j to be pulled off In Indiana so long as Mr. Hearst continues to have the price. L.ogansport Journal. Congressman Landis couldn't etand it any longer to keep oft the band wagon. The band wagon is the most popular vehicle in America to-day, or any other day Anderson Herald. Russia, and Japan might at least be polite enough to ask Korea whether she would prefer a wreath of immortelles and smilax or just a simple and chaste knot of crape. Kokomo Tribun.:. A detective in Illinois hung himself because he could not unravel a crime. Ir the detectives on the Bedford case were to follow his example, Bedford would almost rival Chicago in its list of suicides. Elkhart Review. When it comes to getting out of political prominence precipitately there Is probably not another man in the United States who can locate the exit more accurately than Tom L. Johnson, who recently also ran for ..jvernor of Ohio. Ealayette Courier. Bedford people are doubtless getting weary of the murder theories that have been developed and exhausted by all classes of people since Miss Schafer was murdered. What they want Is the murderer and not so many theories. Seymour Republican. Germany admits that the United States has gained a great diplomatic victory in Manchuria. Many of that kind of compliments will be taken as an evidence that Germany is pulling for the Roosevelt administration, and It might prejudice the Russian vote against the President whfcn he comes jp for re-election. Eafayette Journal. The colored race cuts somewhat of a figure in the United Slates outside of the servant, the stevedoro and the jockey classes. There are 30,000 capable colored school teachers employed in this country, 3W practicing colored lawyers, and 800 reliable colored : hjsicians in the Nation. There are very many colored preachers, some of them eloquent speakers and highly educated divines. South Bend Tribune. The metropolitan papers of four States have special correspondents and artists in Bedford to unravel the mystery of the Schäfer murder. They are not doing much at unraveling, but they are spinning an endless yarn about the case. The muruerers are all taken into tba conndsnce of the officials and the dectectives, along with the rest of the public. It is the American way of paying homage to mystery. Fort Wayne Newa "Eventually we shall win when we deserve to win," said Samuel Alschuler in an addreos to the Chicago Democratic Club. This Is well .-aid. Victory will come when the party proves itself worthy of being crowned with victory. Fitness to be intrusted with the management of the greatest governmental machinery in the world is to be established by placing lti control of the party machinery men of known probity of character, of practical sense and judgment, of unquestionable capability and integrity, and of genuine devotion to the public welfare. And this must be general not merely in spots. South Bend Times. An Anecdote of Thoiuua B. Reed. There seemed to be no character of court proceedings into which ex-Speaker Reed could not infuse some humor. The writer once watched him through a session of a trial whose testimony was as entertaining as a table of steel-rail production to a pieman, yet Mr. Reed often found opportunity for a play of his temperamentally prompted wit. It was during Mr. Reed's career as a New York lawyer, when he returned after so many years to the practice of his profession. The witness, Mr. Reed's client, was being cross-examined as to some tedious details relating to a $14,0U0,0u0 pool, out of whose operations arose the cause at trial. The witness had been one of the largest contributors to the pool, and bis desirability as a client can be further inferred from the fact that bis financial affairs were of a magnitude to warrant his testifying his inability to say, without reference to his books, how much "within a million or two," he had contributed to the pool. Mr. Reed had objected to one of the crossexaminer's questions as "being possibly a litlla too leading, your Honor." "But," said the opposing counsel in excuse, "the witness la 'unfriendly.' " Mr. Reed turned slowly to the speaker with a yuzzku look, and then drawled, in a tone of mild aurprise: "Do you find him unfriendly? Why, I haw found him most friendly." The numerous and dlitlniuishrd counsel on both Miles had sudden occasion to hide their faces behind documents, and it was a minute or so before the judge, the folds of whose silk gown were curiously agitated lo the meantime, said, "Counsel are delaying the proceedings; wo will continue." Mr. Reed alone appeared not to be in the Joke. Edward W. Townserd, in Harper's Weekly. Testimony of Experts. "As a rule I don't place much confidence in the testimony of paid experts," said a Philadelphia lawyer of wide experience, in discussing the Bechtel case. "I have a particular aversion to medical experts. The men who constitute the average jury pooh-pooh such testimony. They don't understand it, and don't want to. They are simply confused, and they don't pretend to consider it. The only case I remember in which xpert testimony has cut any figure in recent years was in a divorce suit. I was counal for the defendant. A witness, a servant girl, had testified to having seen certain actions through a keyhole. I called as a witness a well-known professor of mathematics, who swore on the stand that under the circumstances It would b impossible to see through the keyhol what the witness had sworn to. He proved this mathematically, or rather geometrically, and as the jury trying the case happened to have on it a couple of men who were cranks on the subject, my client won the case. But the testimony of experts, as a rule. Isn't worth the price." Phdadelphia Record. "HSISHSB he Statte.' With Maxine Elliott entertained by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House and Ethel Barrymore among the elect invited to Mrs. Astor's ball, no one will deny the rapproachement between society and the stage. "Isn't is refreshing and encouraging:" cried a member of the I'rofe.-.-: i:al Women's League to the dozen of American censors of things theatrical. ' actors and actresses will soon be all the rage iu drawing rooms. Will It not elevate the stage?" "1 taluk myself." Mr. Winter la reported to have answered, "that It Is somewhat more likely to do so than pounding the daylight out of a dramatic critic." New York Mall and Express. Students Sell Themselves. A new custom has arisen among needy college students on tae Russian Caucasus. According to a Baku newspaper, they sell themselves in the matrimonial market. Local tradesmen, rreud of receiving a scholar Into the family, compete for the honor of having a student son-in-law. The bids average 1,.0. With this money the prospective bridegroom is able to complete his studies and obtain a government appointmenL-iveUwU Tribun.

THE DRIFT

Members of the Republican State committee in a number of the districts have notified Chairman Goodrich of the selection of men for appointments as members of the , State advisory committee. The selections I made to date are: First District-David KronenDerger, Evansvllle. Second Oscar F. Shryer, Bloomfield. Third-Newiand T. De Pauw, New AI- I bany. Fourth Lucien Cravens, Madison. Sixth-Owen L. Carr. RuhvilU. Ninth John L,. Wlngate, Wingate. Eleventh Albert C. Hearss, I. ru. Thirteenth James H. Stat.-, Elkhart. With the exception of Mr. Carr. of the Sixth, and Mr. Wingate, of the Ninth, all the members of the advisory committee so far named are new men, who have not hitherto been identified with the State organization. Secretary Sims is now in correspondence with the committeemen from the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth districts to secure their recommendations and it is expected that the entiro advisory committe-e will be made up within a few days. The new State executive committee will, in ail probability, not be named unti' the next meeting of the State committee, which will be held some time the latter part of this mouth. The-State chairman selects the members of the executive committee as his cabinet. Mr. Goodrich lias not, as yet, . cated his intentions in this respect. The numbers of the eld executive committee are: Warn n Rigler, of Wabash; Henr C. Starr, of Richmond; Waiter AI. Schmitt, of Evansville, Elmer F.. Crockett, of South iiend, anu Sidney W. Cantwell, of Hartford City. Secretary Sims, of the state committee, called attention yesterday to the fact that the law extending the terms of county and judiciui officers, which has been declared unconstitutional by Addison C. Harris, does not affoct county assessors, and that the county organizations will act accordingly. "The county assessor's is a statutory office," said Mr. Sims, "and the law in question applies only to constitutional ottn a The terms of county assessors were extended by the last Degislature, but by another act, the constitutionality of which is sot questioned. Letter will be sent out to the county chairmen calling their attention to this fact, lest they be led Into error by the question raised as to the validity of the law extending the terms of other county officers." Democratic State Chairman W. H. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg, who was in tho city yesterday, is inclined to doubt whether the constitutionality of the county officers' act can be successfully attacked. "A few years ago the Legislature extended the terms of township trustees," said Mr. O'Brien, "and the Supreme Court has passed on the constitutionality of that act, holding it to be valid." When the attention of Republican State Chairman Goodrich was called to the point raised by Mr. O'Brien he said that ho believed Mr. O'Brien had been led into error by failing to consider that the office of township trustee is a statutory office, which is absolutely within the jurisdiction of tho Legislature. Chairman Goodrich left last nlsrht for Chicago, where he went to look after some arrangements for Indiana's representation at the national convention in Juno. The plan to be followed by Randolph county Republicans in dealing with the situation arising out of the question as to tho validity of the act extending the terms of county officers is that candidates will bo nominated as usual this spring, and then, if the Supreme Court should hold the law constitutional, the candidates will be certified on the ticket two or four years hence, as the case may be. Thus, the candidates who are successful In the primary this year will not be subjected to the necessity and uncertainty of making another tight for nominations, but will receive the reward earned this year. The primaries In the county will be held March 1. the same date as the Eighth district congressional primary. A friendly suit to get the question into the courts will be instituted as soon as possible in Randolph county, and It is expected that a decision by the Supreme Court will be secured within sixty days. Major W. W. Ross, editor of the Evansville Journal-News, was in the city yesterday to attend a meeting of the board of trustees of the institution for the deaf. Active Republican workers, to the number of eighty-four, representing every ward in the city, met last night at the jail to further the organization in the interest of Sheriff Robert Metzger, who is a candidate for the Republican county chairmanship. Speeches were ma.de by several of the leaders and an hour was devoted to an informal discussion of the primary campaign. The affair was rounded out with a lunch. County Attorney David L. Bishop, of Anderson, was in the city yesterday seeking information concerning the law passed by the last Legislature governing the publication of county legal notices. Ho called at Republican state headquarters while iu the city. ' Republican stale headquarters, by the way, was in a state of siege by telephone yesterday. The publication in yesterday's Journal of Mr. Harris's opinion on the county officers' law attracted w1despr.n! attention and from all quarters of the State inquiries were poured into headquarters from county officials, prospective candidates organizations. T T Will 11. Whittaker, superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, was in the city yesterday to see Governor Durbin regarding a requisition for one of the paroled prisoners of the Reformatory who has violated his parole iu Colorado. Mr. Whittaker was formerly Been tary of the Republican State committee, anil he called at headquarters to extend congratulations to his successor, Mr. Sims. Sherman Harding, of Elwood, was a visitor in the city yesterday, and called on a number of local party leaderg. Among the thirty or forty Democratic editors gathered In the city for the meeting of their State -association there was a notable absence of Bryan enthusiasm. A prominent member of the association expressed the opinoiu that there are not over three Democratic editors iu Indiana who are not heartily tireei of Bryan and Bryanism and are anxious V turn to other U iders and other issues, if isms are essential to Democracy. Whatever the attitude of the ACTION OP SEN ATB SURPRISES CUBASS They Will Object to Any Attempt to ilake the Piatt Amendment More Stringent. HAVANA, Feb. 4 -The news from Washington that the Senate foreign relations committee yesterday had takt n up the Cuban treaty, carrying into effect the socalled Piatt amendments, with the Intention of making its provisions more binding, caused surprise here, as it is considered that it will obviously be difficult to secure the Cuban Senate's approval to an amendment placing the provisions of the I'latt amendments forever beyond the power of change by future governments. The masses of the Cubans consider the Piatt amendments irksome and onerous and a proposition for their modiiication is now the leading feature of the Nationalist party's platform. The proposition to have them further declared perpetual would, it Ü asserted, be unpopular. Secretary of Fotcign Affairs Zaldo says the treaty in us piesent tonn is pia- tn any It cannot be ab ;ated or umeaded without the consent of both parties, except through a declaration of way, "and." he humorously added. "Cuba not in a position to take the ialtur course 1 at picavuu"

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masses of Indiana Democrats toward the prophet from the Blatte region, it is apparent that if they read their party organs they win read no praises of the presidential candidate of UN and UM. 4 William 1. Fenfleld. of Auburn, who recently announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination. Is now on his native heath in the Twelfth district, and Is lining up his forces at home, preparatory to entering upon an aggressive campaign for the nomination. L. G. Rothschild, of this city, one of the deputies in the office of the attorney general, has unearthed ai interesting political relic. In the form of a letterhead of the Harrison Hustlers," an organisation of young Republicans formed in Connersvllle in the campaign of 1. sir. Rothschild was the vice president of the "Hustlers" and his souvenir is taken by his friends as s good explanation of hia political activity since he located in Indianapolis he began "hustling" early. Henry A. Barnhart, of Rochester, one of the well known Democratic editors and. it may be noted, entitled to recognition aa a trust magnate, inasmuch as he is at the head of the recent combination of independent telephone companies was at the Grand yesterday. Though a Democrat Mr. Barnhart occasionally rinds something good to say of a Republican, and he is saying several complimentary things concerning his friend. Rome C. Stephenson, of Rochester. "Mr. Stephenson," he said, "will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for joint senator from Fulton and Wabash counties, and he ought to get the nomination, which is equivalent to the election. He is the kind of a man who would be a credit to the district, even though a Republican, and since it is practically assured that a Republican will be elected frm our district. 1 hope to see Mr. Stephenson win." Mr. Barnhart says that the activity iu the Joint senatorial race is the only thing ol a political nature that Is attracting much attention in Fulton county at present. Democraic State Chairman O'Brien announced yesterday that the Democrats had filed a third suit contesting the constitutionality of the apportionment act of 1903. This suit was filed in Ripley county. When asked the object of bringing further suits when the two Circuit judges had already decided in favor of the Democratic eoutention and the cases were now en route lo the Supreme Court, he explained by say ing that in Ripley county the apportionment could be attacked on slightly different grounds, and the Democrats purposed to overlook no chance for knockiug out the act. Henry Sherman, of West port, who represented Decatur county in the Houae during the last session of the Legislature, was here yesterday to attend the Farmers' Congress. He Is a candidate for renomination as representative and says, of course, that he expects to win. "I have been patting myself on my back all week," he said, in speaking of the n -cent decisions that the apportionment act is Invalid. "becausM I was one of the few Republican members of the legislature who voted against that bill. I will not atjr that I opposed the biil because I believed it was clearly unconstitutional, but I was against it because I believed it was uniust to several districts in the State." J. W. Barlow, of Shelbyville, former superintendent of the Shelby county schools, who was at the Statehouse yesterday, says that the Democratic judicial fight in his county is waxing warmer every day. "The Democrats are now so divided between the Ray and Morris factions that they can never get together, no matter which side wins in the primary," he said. "Of course the Republicans are well satisfied with that situation, and I think it is a foregone conclusion that a Republican judge and prosecutor for the circuit wlil be elected." 4 V. K. Officer, of Madison, one of the deputy revenue collectors for the Law tenceburg district, was at the English last night. Some little agitation has been started for a special session of the Legislature to pass a new apportionment act in event the Supreme Court sustains the decisions of Judges Art::. an and Downey that the act of 1903 is unconstitutional, but Governor Durbin announced yesterday that no special session will be called. The Governor stated that at no time had he any thought of convening the General Assembly in special session. The apportionment of 1&97 is a fair one, in his opinion, and it will stand until the next regular session of the Legislature, if the act of 19u3 is knocked out. 44 A special to the Journal from Muncle says: "In an interview Walter L. Ball, for eight years senator from Delaware county in the State Legislature, announces that he would not be a candidate for any political office at the coming election. He said that he would not be a candidate for the office of mayor of Muncie, and that he had no political aspirations at present. He said that a person that had held political offics as long as he had should retire In favor of some one else. Senator Ball has been strongly talked of as a candidate for mayor of Muncle. When asked If he would be a Republican candidate for the nomination for lieutenant governor he said that he had not considered the matter at ail. "Dr. W. J. Baird. of Albany, at present the representative from this county in the State Legislature, has announced his withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination. This leaves three other candidatesOliver Carmichael. present representative ami colleague of Mr Baird, C. A. McGonagle, a Muncie attorney. Hnd Iv s O. Co win if . a well-known farmer. Delaware county has two representatives In the Legislature." 4 4 4 "Hamilton county la now enjoying her biennial contest for nominations for county offices," aays a Noblesville dispatch. "The county primary will be held Tuesday, Feb. 16. The contest is not as spirited as usual as there is not so much at stake and not so many candidates.. Township conventions are now being held over the county for the selection of delegates to the various conventions and to transact township business. Jackson township was held to-day at Atlanta. Deiawure will be held on the 6th, Clay on the oth. Adams, al Sheridan, the loth; Washington, at Westfleld. the 12th, and Noblesvllle on the 13th. A county mass convention will be held hre on Saturday, Feb. 13, as a love feast and round-up for the candidates. Attractinf more attention just now in Noblesvllle township la the election here next Tuesday on s subsidy of 1 per cent., or about $40.JUU. to the Fort Wayne and Southwest, rn Railroad. The fight is very warm. The farmers almost to a man will vote against the subsidy, but the people of the city are divided on the question, it looks now like the subsidy would be defeated." PAX AM A MESSAGE IN ABSOLUTE SECRECY President Forwards Executive Correspondence Under the Culberson Resolution. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4-The President to-day sent to the Senate additional cor respondence relating to Panama in response to the Culberson resolution. The correspondence was marked "executive" and was considereri absolutely confidential. It was not ordered printe-d and was not eves a b rred to the committee on foreign relations, remaining in the possession of the Senate. The secrecy was carried so Imr that the Presidents rn was not read or entered on the Journal ef the Senate. The President said In the message that no correspondence called for has been withheld from the Senate. It is stated ih tt the c : : I. nee does not contain anything new relating to Panama or the revolution. i .m Uran Nit) llne Walkover. Ni:V TORK T o 4 - No nomination was made by the Republican congressional conion of the Twelftb New York dlstrnt to-night, and it la probable that W Bourke '..kran. Democrat, will have no opposition at lAe polls. Hie vacancy It caused by the resignation of George B. McCleliau.