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There are indications in Servia that King Karageorrvitch would like to return instantly to that dear Geneva, Switzerland. If he could only find someone willing to help him let lo It may help to an understanding of Japanese geographical names to know that the termination yama means mountain, shima means island, saki is cape; nada, sea; ko, lake, and hama. shore. Democratic success this fall is po.-sible, thinks Grover Cleveland. This is a euphemistic way of saying that if all the Republicans die between now and November, the Democrats may win. Australia has long been known as a "cranks' paradise." but she is evidently anxious to redeem herself from the stigma. This anxiety may explain the recent mobbing of Dowie In Sydney. The English papers are beginning to see n resemblance between Port Arthur to-day and Iidysmith at the beginniug of the Boer war. It is a very good place for the Russians to get away from. They say that Senator Morgan Is still waving his arms and muttering "Nicaragua or nothing:" from sheer force of habit. Probably the m ws was not broken to him as gently as It should have been. "War scare reaches Spain." is the Information conveyed by headlines in a New York paper. And nobody can realize in full the significance of the term until it is applied to Spain. A "war scare" there is a scare indeed. It is all over but the digging. The noise of the hammer in the Senate chamber should be immediately succeeded by the more pleasing sound of pick and shovel on the Isthmus. Let us begin our ditching without delay. There is something objectionable about alluding to the San Domingo mob as revolutionists. It is too honorable' a name for a gang of Irresponsible Anarchists who care not what government is in power, but are only eager for blood and loot. Poultney Bigelow has announced that his sympathies are with Russia. Of course: the Journal prophesied it some time ago. Poultney always waits to see which side everybody else likes, then he gets on the other side and writes magasine articles about it. Boston will hold an international peace congress in October. The Russian delegate has wired that owiug to a pressure of business at home he will be unable to be present, but the Jap representative says he will come if he can finish up his present duties In time. The statue of Frederick the Great, presented by Emperor William to the United States, is to be unveiled at Washington no later than next October. The reason for the delay has been that the site could not be made ready any sooner; but certain Berlin newspapers have accused this country of unfriendliness. The Kaiser knows better. M. Bunau-Vsrilla is wonderfully puffed np over the Senate's ratification of the canal treaty. His joy is excusable, but it is rather amusing to note the constant incurrence of the word "I" in his message to Amador. His request to his government to withhold his salary to form the nucleus of a De Lesseps monument fund shows that he Is a truti Freu hman with the loyalty as well as the vanity of his rare. After an exhaustive search for new sacred songs, the committee appointed to revise the Methodist hymnal reports that no new hymns worth incorporating in the book have appeared in the last twenty-five years Many reasons for this fact have ästen advanced, but the truth is, prubably.

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Kooa hymns nnd it more proruaoie 10 write something elte. The literary spirit of the ag-e Is certainly not of a devotional character. N I NJl T VI I K 0 III II AMKKK At a celebration of Washington's birthday by a local society in New York the toastmaster and principal speaker was Walter S. Logan, a New York lawyer. His spsech consisted mainly of an attack upon the rich men of the country for their alleged lack of patriotism. He said he was not worrying about the patriotism of the poor and the people of moderate means. The great trouble is. he said, whether we have patriotic dollars in the Nation and whether the men of wealth represented by Wall street would be as ready to shed their iividtnds as the common people are to shed their blood for the country. The speaker continued: The great strength of Japan to-day in her struggle with the mighty Slav is not -mly in tho fact that the Japanese citizens themselves are ready to shed their blood for their country, but the men of wealth are ready to shed every dollar for their country. Japan will win, if she does win. not so much because her people are ready to give up their blood, but because every dollar in Japan is pledged to the success of the Japanese cause. This Nation needs' more than anything else a patriotic Wall street. It is the one thing this country lacks. This sort of talk Is the worst kind of demagogy and panders to class hatred. Common sense teaches and experience and history prove that there is as much patriotism among the rich of this country as there is among the poor. The United States has never had a war in which the banks and capitalists have not responded promptly and generously to appeals for financial aid, sometimes offering it even before it was asked. They have been of material assistance in equipping troops and have contributed their quota of fighting material. The speaker's allusion to Wall street was simply intended to excite prejudice. Wall street has enough to be responsible for, but the financial diabolism of the country does not all originute there, and when occasion requires Wall street can rise to great heights of patriotism, as it has done more than once. Better than tho pessimistic view which represents patriotism and civic virtue as decaying is that which sees steady progress In these qualities. L'x-Secretary of War Elihu Root said in an address on Washington's birthday: From reading history wo find a steady progress along the pathway of American Ideals. The evils in public life which are being criticised now are evils which passed unnoticed fifty years ago. There never was a time when public morality in America was purer, when the conscience of the American people was more sensitive to the rules applied to the conduct of public men. If public morality is purer now than ever before there has been no falling off in patriotism, and even Wall street has its share. In the third year of the revolutionary war Washington, writing from Philadelphia to a friend, said: "If I acre to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard and in part know. I should say in one word that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration and almost every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the grat business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money and want of credit are but secondary considerations, and postponed from day to day, from week to week, as if all our affairs wore the most promising aspect." There has been no time in the last hundred years when such a picture as that of lack of patriotism among Americans could have been drawn. Patriotism is not decaying, and our rich men have their share of it. THE YELLOW PKHII. A I) OTHERS. A recent dispatch from Berlin says it is common talk in ministerial quarters there that the Russo-Japanese war is not a single contest ror territory in Korea or Manchuria, but rather a combat of civiliza tions, and that If choice must be made be tween the white and the yellow races Ger many will stand by the white. A high official Is quoted as expressing the. belief that If Japan should be victorious Japanese influence would be supreme in China and that the cry would go up "Asia for the Asiatics," economically as well as terri torially, in matters of trade as well as of empire. German statesmen believe that in that event Great Britain, Germany and the I'nited States would be expelled from the East and that the epen door of trade would become a closed on''. All this Is matter of pure speculation, and when it comes to guessing one person may guess as well as another. The German view seems to see a new "yellow peril." The original one of that name was an ap I rehended overflow of the Asiatic races by which they were to spread over Europe like a tidal wave until Western civilization should be engulfed. That was too fantastic to last long and soon ran its course. Tho new yellow peril is based entirely on eco nomic ideas and commercial Interests. As all commercial countries are now waiting. watching and planning to capture Eastern trade, it is natural that anything which threatens to close the partly open door to that trade should be regarded with extreme solicitude. But the new German yellow peril theory seems even more visionary than the original one. It assumes first that if the Japanese should be victorious in the present war they would become supreme in China, and, second, that they would use their supremacy to monopolize Chinese trade to the exclusion of other nations, and perhaps to train and utilize Chinese labor in establishing the manufacturing supremacy of Japan. Both of these seem to be violent suppositions. There is no reason to suppose that Japan in her wildest dreams of success has ever entertained the idea of dominating China. She would be more than content with driving Russia out of Manchuria and restoring that territory to China, except a elice for herself which she was cheated out of after the Chinese war of 1S95. To speak of Japan absorbing or dominating China Is as preposterous as to talk of Cuba doing the same by the I'nited States. China is a very unprogressiv, and unwarllke country, but It is far too vast and populous to be absorbed or dominated by the little island empire. Moreover, Japan has befome a liberal and progressive power, and no matter how great her Influence in the East might become there Is reason to believe it would be used In favor of the open door and fair trade for all nations. But suppose Russia should be victorious?

If there is a possible yellow peril for Western interests in the success of Japan though it seems very remote Is there uot also a possible peril In the success of Russia? Indeed, is there not even more peril from the Muscovite than from the Mongolian? Russia is the most aggressive and

exclusive nation in the world. Her whole history has been one of acquisition of territory and dominating peoples she has subjected by what she calls peaceable conquest. Japan and China combined would not cast such a shadow over Europe as Russia does to-day, and she casts a larger shadow in the far East than all the European powers combined. If she succeeds in this war she will hold Manchuria, seize Korea, dominate China and threaten Japan. In that case there will be an end of the open-door policy in the East, and an attempt to extend American trade in the countries she controls would be almost as successful as publishing a republican newspaper in St. Petersburg. While we are discussing yellow perils let us remember there are others. Napoleon once predicted that Europe would become all republican or all Cossack. The latter is more prob able than the former. THE EMPLOYERS WILL PI RSI E LAW HltKAKEKS. If the Journal understands correctly the aim and object of the association of employ ers which has just been formed, it is to oppose and put an end to what they regard as the illegal practices of labor unions. The employers do not deny the right of workmen to organize for the promotion of their interests by legitimate means. Nobody de nies this, and it would be stupid for employers to do so. Neither do they deny the right of men to strike or quit work for any cause that may seem good to them. That is an individual right which it would be absurd to deny. What the employers deny is the right of organized labor to attempt to enforce its demands or control the action of employers by intimidation and coercion, and by resort to boycotting and picketing with their usual accompaniments of violence. When these tilings are done by bodies or numbers of men acting together for a common object they constitute a conspiracy in the eyes of the law and are punishable as such. Labor unions have a right to accomplish all they can by legal methods, but when they resort to illegal methods by interfering with the rights and trying to injure the business of others, they are in violation of law. The employers declare they only intend to oppose these illegal methods. At its closing session the association adopted the following: Resolved, That the executive committee shall organize a department to be known as the law and order department, whose duty and especial business it shall be to aid the local organisations in apprehending and prosecuting the party or parties guilty of violence in labor disputes. Resolved, That no case of violence when One taken up shall be allowed to drop until the criminal has been satisfactorily disposed of by the courts. This makes the association a sort of law and order league to secure the prosecution of persons who are guilty of violence in labor disputes. This is a legitimate and commendable purpose. During the last fifteen or twenty years there have been dozens of murders committed by strikers or persons in sympathy with them of nonunion men. and many other crimes short of murder have been committed. It is not recalled that any person has been punished for these crimes, though possibly there may have been one or two convictions. This condition should not be permitted to exist. It should be the duty of some person to see that such crimes are punished, and as local authorities do not act in the matter employers have a perfect right to. Organisations of citizens for the enforcement of law and punishment of crime are always In order. The declaration that no case of violence, when once taken up, shall be allowed to drop until the criminal has been satisfactorily disposed of by the courts shows the employers mean business. If they adhere to their purpose of causing violators of the law In labor disputes to be prosecujted and of pushing the cases to final decision by the courts there will soon be an end of that sort of violence. Republicanism In the far and fiery South is an article of distinctly higher grade than it was a quarter of a century ago. At the recent State convention in Louisiana a Confederate veteran was nominated for Governor and the remainder of the ticket included the names of many men well-fitted for the responsibilities of ofticeholding. A New Orleans paper spoke of the convention as "a body of respectable citizens." The ticket, of course, stands no show of election, but the improvement gives promise for the future. The scandal of reconstruction days is over forever. The report of the sinking of the six Japanese ships by the Russians was not credited by many people yesterday. This was because the story came from St. Petersburg. It is probably necessary to tell the Russian people of a big victory once In a while in order to keep them contented. Otherwise they are likely to get peevish and revolutionary. All news of Japanese reverses from the Russian capital must be taken "cum grano sails." MINOR TOPICS. When the New York Herald wants to, it can be as mean as the Sun or even the Post. Witness the following brief notice: "Mrs. Louise S. Cable, wife of George W. Cable, an author, is ill in the German hospital." Not "the author," or "the wellknown writer." but merely and baldly "an author!" This is worse than being damned with faint praise. Emperor William called the work of the German impressionists "gutter art." Now, Herr Muller, of the Reichstag, gets back at him by applying the expression, "a monumental marble quarry," to the group of Hohenznllern statues erected by Emperor William. Is not the critic of royalty In danger of arrest? The New York Legislature Is too big a thing to waste its time in discussion of small questions. Representative Phillips lias introduced a bill forbidding bootblacks to ply their trade after 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoons. It is such burning questions as this that lift State Assemblies above the status of mere local bodies. The evidence in the Shafroth ease shows that five young women repeaters "made faces" at one who challenged them when they voted a second time. No wonder Shafroth resigned. The election frauds wer, 1 . i i Ii.. ugh. I'Ut this thing of makiii-,' facts was adding insult to injury. The Kansas City Star reminds Mr. Kipling that Alexieff rhymes admirably with "came to grief." Now the people would be interested tu know where the Star gets its

authority for any such pronunciation as that. Can it be possible that the experts who pronounce it "Alex-i-eff" have been wrong all this time?

Radium may not be of any account in determining sex; it may be useless in disease, and Impracticable as a producer of heat and light; all this may be true, and yet it is of immense value. It makes more Interesting newspaper paragraphs than anything except the Russo-Jap war. The name of the Emperor of Korea ic Hi Li. and yet nobody seems to have thought of his value as a war correspondent. If there is anything in a name he would stand in the same relation to the common liar as the "high financier" stands to the porch climber. Why doesn't Prof. Triggs join forces with Dr. Briggs in a double lecture bill? Both Chicago men lost their jobs on account of literary and theological heterodoxy, and the Triggs-Briggs combination might be a winner for some lecture bureaus. A Connecticut taxidermist shot a loon, and dissected it preparatory to inserting the stuffing. When he opened the crop, out hopped five live frogs. If they' could only be interviewed, what a light they could throw on the sensation of Jonah! The Mikado has obtained complete control of the camphor supply of commerce. If he will ordy keep the prices up, that great army of men who prefer the moths to the scent of the camphor balls will rise up and call him blessed. Uruguay has announced Its Intention of maintaining a strict neutrality in the war between Russia and Japan. Cannot you hear both Czar and Mikado drawing deep sighs of relief and turning their thankful attention elsewhere? Damage suits have been filed against Alfonso XIII of Spain in consequence of some youthful pranks he played at the carnival in Madrid. It Is evident that "lese majesty" doesn't operate in Spain as it does in Germany. "The most fearful accusation we have seen against William Randolph Hearst." says the Atlanta Constitution. "Is that his paper 'made' Harry Lehr." Well, at any rate that relieves the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility. "Mme. Rejane," says a Paris telegram, "received a severe shock to her nerves because her automobile injured a man." The shock to the man's nerves, it will be noticed, was not considered worth inquiring about. Lorenzo Crosby, a Mormon missionary in Kansas, attempted to commit suicide the other day. The newspapers suggest domestic troubles as the cause of his crime and It seems altogether likely, doesn't it? Dowager Empress Tsi An may be dead, as the dispatches indicate, but it would be well not to bank on it. There is a woman with whose career a little incident like death is not going to interfere. It is reported from Baltimore that the demand for vehicles is so great that beer is being carried in hearses. The stricken city develops original ways of showing her adaptability every day. It is indeed a color conflict that is raging on the Yellow sea. The yellow peril Is more perilous than ever, but the great White Czar Is gradually changing his hue to black and blue. The Chinese government has sent forty students to Europe to study methods of warfare. It is not thought that the students will choose Russia as a place to learn how to fight. The report that Admiral Alexieff had fallen down and stepped on himself, breaking his neck, proves to be false. But the story bore all the ear marks of veracity. A child was born in the sleeping car of an express between Washington and New ik the other night. Talk about your natural-born traveling men! "Scatter the sunshine" is very good advice, but if you can't do that, scatter a few coal ashes on your sidewalk. It makes a very good substitute. In the Japanese language "Ohio" means "good morning." The fact only strengthens the bond of sympathy between Japan and the United States. "The end of the cold snap is in sight," says the Weather Bureau. Ah, but which end? DISTANT FIRING. As soon as Russia lands in Korea, it is prob able that the Japanese will land on Russia, St Louis Globe-Democrat. While Russia is reading the minutes of the previous meeting Japan is tackling the unfinished business. Memphis Commercial Appeal. Cheer up. Some of the Japanese pole balancers that we see in the vaudeville shows may be drafted for the war. Cincinnati Enquirer. Korea is "the land of the morning calm." But Its hisiory is getting on toward a very exciting afternoon and evening. Washington Star. General Priug can a man with such a name be a great adviser? It is imposible. Be may, how ever, sit for a photograph. Birmingham Age Herald. Russia's embarrassment over the attitude of the United States is nothing to that she should feel because of the attitude of Japan. Detroit Free Press. Japan has asked that Russia's abandoned space at the exposition be given her. It is thought that she needs more room for her naval exhibit. At lanta Journal. The news that General Kuropatkin Is to "hast en East" Is plainly an error. He must make the journey on tho Transslberian Railroad. Kan sas City Times. When the Jap wants to say "Hurrah!" he says "HamaC" Rut what the Russian says when he wants to say "Hurrah!" nobody secms to know. Boston Globe. Why. do your know, these Irrepressible Japs go out and tight in the rain, and the snow, and violate all the rules and regulations! What sort of conduct is that ? Brooklyn Ragle. Now that Captain Mahan has approved of everything that Japan ha done thus far it is in order i'or the little brown men to hand out another one for Russia. Cnicago Chronicle. The historian of the future will be able to trace the movements of the Rusrian and Japanese armies by the empty tin cans that once contained things made in Chicago. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Yalu river is getting so close to the footlights of the theater of war that an asbestos cuitain will soon be In order there If there is a )oard of building construction In the vicinity. --Pittsburg LMtatch. THE HUMORISTS. Fearful. "I always hate." The mermaid said, 'To swim upon the seas. And often pause In doubt because I fear a spanking breeze." Harvard Lampoon. The fl !" PR. The hushand of the mother of the Gracchi stalked tragical !y into the room. This. of course, was before his much-lamented d. , . ' "Where are the Jewels?" he hoarsely shouted. "The jewtla art in soak," she whimpered, fall-

in at his sandalled feet and clutching at his toga with a faltering hand. "How often have I told you not to let those boys go swimming ia the Tiber?" he howled. peevishly. And then, naturally enough, out he stalked again New York 8un.

A Winter Note. Now. the saddest refrain That e'er shoots through our crown Is this line, full of pain. That our fancy can't drown: Oh, the snowftake we'll never see rising ao4 the coal we'll ne'er see coming down." Judge. A Postponement. Editor (of magaalne) What's the delay about my getting in? St. Peter You paid on publication, didn't you? "Yes." ' Well, some of your contributors are inside, and I've agreed to let you wait until all their stories have appeared." Life. The Cheerful Idiot. "I hope," began the Cheerful Idiot "Indeed." remarked the Tired Citizen, "I thought you were beyond hope!" "I hope," continued the Cheerful Idiot, Ignoring the roast, "that the additional frogs on the Army overcoats will not lead to any Increase In military toadyism. "-Baltimore American. Fact of the Case. Pick up a pin. you'll have good luck. Is what we used to say Before we'd grown to be so wise As we are now-a-day. Pick up a pin. you'll have good luck; These are old-fashioned' terms. Pick up a pin. and what you'll have. In point of fact, is germs. Washington Post. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Reason Knnagli. Joseph Jefferson's son William one? had a per iod of being something of a spendthrift. On the occasion of a trip abroad his funds, which were supposed to be ample, had a habit of giving out with mysterious frequency, when it would be come necessary to call upon his father for a re newed supply. These pitiful appeals for aid were endured patiently and responded to most prompt ly for a time, but at last parental authority be gan to exhibit itself, and. instead of a remit tance, came a "cable" which read: "What for?" The reply was swiftly cabled across the water: "For Willie."-New York Commercial. Stopping; the Press. "Sam" Davis, the editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, was once annoyed by a rival who was continually "stopping the press" in order to insert a piece of late news. There was hardly a day that the rival did not say. "We stop the press to announce that" somebody had died. moved, b;en born, runaway, lost money at cards, sold a mine, bought a new hat or been arrested. So one day Davis inserted the following on the front page of his paper, double leaded and under the heading "Important:" "We stop the press to announce that there is no news of sufficient importance to Justify us in stopping the press. Giddap." Philadelphia Ledger. Something; Tillman Forgot. When the Washington friends of the bill to give former Queen Ialiuokalani $150,000 were talking the matter over in the Senate lobby after the adverse vote Monday Mr. Tillman. who had voted against the measure, expressed regret that the dusky daughter of savage kings did not seem able to understand the strong prejudice existing in some parts of the country against the black races. "Now, if she could show a strain of white blood," he exclaimed and looked defiantly around. "Beg your pardon, Tillman," retorted Senator Lodge. "Have you forgotten that her great -gianduncle ate Captain Cook?" In the roar that followed Mr. Tillman said something about reconsidering the vote. New York Mail and Express. And lie Wasn't from Ireland. Two serious-looking gentlemen sat near me in a car bound for the Capitol on Wednesday morning, and their conversation was devoted to the war in the Orient. Russia's chances looked very slim to them. The difficulties of safe-guarding the railway appeared insurmountable. "There are a thousand miles of it," said one gentleman, "that run through a perfectly uninhabited country." "That's so." said the other. "And the worst of it is," went on the first speaker, "that all the people in that country are unfriendly." He wasn't from Ireland, either. He was a I'nited Staus senator from a far Western State. Washington Post. The Ruling Passion Strong-. "Old Adam Forepaugh," said a friend of the veteran showman, "once had a big white parrot that had learned to say: " 'One at a time, gentleman, one at a time don't crush.' "The bird had. of course, acquired this sentence from the ticket taker of the show. Well, one day the parrot got lost in the country, and Mr. Forepaugh leaped into his buggy and started out post-haste to hunt for it. "People here and there who had seen the parrot directed him in his quest, and finally, as he was driving by a cornfield, he was overjoyed to hear a familiar voice. "He got out and entered the field, and found the parrot in the middle of a flock of crows that had pecked him till he was almost featherless. As the crows bit and nipped away the parrot, lying on his side, repeated over and over: " 'One at a time, gentleman, one at a time don't crush.' "-New York Tribune. USES OF ELECTRICITY. Magnetic Sharpener. Mr T. Davis. of New York, has patented an unusual knife and razor sharpener. The implement knife, razor or chisel is first magnetized, and then held near a bar of soft Iron. The rough, irregular, ragged condition which een the finest edge shows under the microscoje is converted by the action of the magnetism into an even, regular line which makes a fim keen edge. Electrical World. Electrical Heating Device. A novel heating apparatus has recently been patented by R. A. Flless. It consists of an electrical device for heating steering and other handles which have to be grasped out of doors In cold weather, such as those on automobiles and trolley cars. The FUess handle simply consists of a miniature electric stove inside a glazed or polished substance, which composes the grip. In the case of an electric automobile, a current is sent through the resistance inside the handle, and the latter is thu readily maintained at a temperature which keeps the hand and fingers of the operator perfectly warm and supple during even the coldest weather Electric World. Telephone Lock. A new variety of telephone lock has been patented by ti. J. Larned and J. S. Ford. This lock is to serve for the protection of the telephone company, rather than for that of the subscriber, as It is to be used to lock a telephone from service in case of nonpayment. A bolt or block is designed to All the escutcheon above the switch hook, being held in place by a hasp Mnged thereto and threaded through the rings now customary upon the ends of the prongs of switchboards. The hasp is then secured by a padlock. The lock not only holds the hook in the depressed position, but prevents the removal of the receiver from the hook. To the American Telephone and Telegraph Company has been assigned the patent. New York Press. ontlnunua Paasasre. M. F. de Mare, says the Electro, of Brussels, suggests a system of operating railroads, particularly suitable for those using electric power, which will avoid the loss of time due to stoppages to let off and take on passengers. The train, which may be drawn by any power, has attached to the rear end a car equipped with motors, enabling ' to attain a speed somewhat above that o4 he train. Before approaching a station, th passengers and baggage intended for that point are transferred to the rear car. The ratter is then detached from the train and brought to a stop at the station, the train proceeding at full speed. Passengers who

S SUCCESSOR AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN Contest Seems to Lie Retween Senator Scott and Representative Dick. SCOTT HANNA'S FRIEND WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 There has been considerable discussion around the Senate and House about the probable successor to Senator Hanna as chairman of the Repub lican national committee and the names of Senator Scott, of West Virginia, Sen. t Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Representative Charles Dick, who is slated to be Senator Hanna's successor in the Senate from Ohio, are most frequently mentioned. A suggestion is also made that Senator Aldrich no doubt will be connected with the committee in some capacity, probably as chairman of the finance committee. It ia Haid of both Senator Scott and Ret r -sentative Dick that they were eloser politically to Senator Hanna than any other men, and that having been through two national campaigns with him. know more about his methods and his connection with national politics than any other man. Col. Swords, who for a long time was sergcant-at-arms of the national committee. roceotly wrote a letter to Senator Bcott concerning Senator Hanna. In which he said: "In the last conversation I had with Senator Hanna. just before he went to Ohio previous to his election, and the last time he was in New York. I congratulated him upon appointing you as chairman of the subcommittee on arranging for the convention in Chicago, and he said: "Scottie. why. he knows more about running a national convention than any man in the country, and he is closer to mo than any friend I have. He is a great, big-hearted fellow, as good as gold and as true as steel, and I cherish him as one of my best friends Postmaster General Payne, ns acting chairman of the Republican national committee to-day formally appointed Klmer Dover secretary of the national commit let. He will serve until the meeting of the committee preceding the Republican convention. INJUNCTION AGAINST CENTRAL LABOR UNION Order Restrains Sympathizers from Rendering Aid to the Strikers. CHICAGO. Feb. 24. On the sworn statement of officials of the Dearborn Duster Company that the Chicago Federation of Labor was engaged in assisting strikers in unlawful acts of intimidation and violence. Judge Jesse Holdom to-day issued an injunction against the Central Labor Union. President William G. Schaidt and Secretary Edward H. Nockels are specially named as defendants, together with a host of girls and men strikers belonging to the Feather Duster Makers' I'nion. The attempt of the company to connect the Federation of Labor with the acts complained of is the first of its kind in Chicago. If succespful it will connect that body with the alleged conspiracy to put employers out of business unless they grant union demands. All criminal acts will, it is claimed, render every member of a labor union responsible. Judge Holdom's injunction is said to be one of the most sweeping ever issued in Chicago. EDUCATORS ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR Next Meeting of Association Will Be Held at Milwaukee Considered Routine Work. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 24. Of tho Meoitf day of the annual meeting of the department of superintendents of the Nitional Educational Association the election of officers, iho choice of the place for the next annual meeting and the transaction of business were the features. Milwaukee, Wis., wi.s selected as the place for next year's meeting, her only competitor for the honor bfintf Columbus, O. The annual election reaull 9 as follows: President. Superintendent E. Q. Cooley. Chicago; first vice president. Professor Lawton B. Evans. Auusta. Ga.; second vice president. Professer J. W. Carr, Anderson, Ind.; secretary, Angeline E. Whitney, NeW York. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS Grover Cleveland's Message and W. J. Aryan's Reply Has Made Trouble. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Feb. 34 -The Democratic leaders in Congress are very unhappy. For months they have been busy at work making capital foi the coming campaign, but from present indications they are not hopeful of success, no matter how great the sinning of the enemy. Everything was peaceful until Grover Cleveland took his pen In hand and wrote a story telling how the party could fret together. William Jennings Bryan replitd to the "Message to Democracy" in characteristic style, and while his pronouncement had no title its text was that the "calamity howlers" must either rule or ruin. John Sharpe Williams, the minority leader In the House, does not believe that the Democrats will rule the next four years. He Is of opinion that betwe. n the conservatives, represented by CleveLand, and the radicals, led by liryan, the old party will be ground to pieces. There is a feeling of pronounced gloom among the Democrats In 'onxress. One representative from the middle West baa g remedy which he believes would rehabilitate the party and put it once more on its feet as a working" organisation, "if it Wi re not for the humiliation of such a move." he said. "I would advocate the nomlnati-n of Hearst. With him at the head of the ticket the Democrats would sustain the most crushing defeat in the history of any political party. But out of the ashes of that catastrophe would rise an organization which would r.ot tolerate the leadership of Bryan or the ultra-oonscrvati-m of Cleveland. Hearst ia Bryan's candidate. With the defeat of Hearst the Nebraska man would le relegated to the rear, while Cleveland is too old to take any active part in politics or to expect any further honors." wish to take the train at other points are placed on a car similar to that detache.l from the train. This stands on a sidetrack, and on the approach of the train gets under way. As soon as the train has passed the station the car proceeds out upon the track at full spend, catches the train and is coupU-d to It, transfers Its passengers to the train and recoivos those for the next stop, when the process is repeated. Brooklyn Kagle. More Safety in Speed. Street railway experts have determined that within certain limits the hierher the averaa rate of speeds of cars in cities the fewer th number and the less serious the accidents. This eemine paradox ia explained on the ground that when the cars are run at a very moderate rate of apeed. motormen. thinking they have the car under perfect and instant control, allow their attenton to be distracted, and the riding and walking public take greater liberties and lun greater risks with slow moving cars. When the speed is increased every one is on the alert and as a consequence fewer accidents occur. This unexpected development has induced the municipal and State legislators and railway commissioners to increase the limit of speed so that, whereas several years ago seven miles an hour waa the usual maximum in citlea. the limit is now generally placed at ten. and the Massachusetts railroad oonuulsaiwuei Late re-

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France Anxious to Arrange Agreement with This Country to Dispose of Trouble. SLOW WORK FOR PRESENT PARIS. Feb. 24. It was confirmed in official circles in Paris to-day that negotiations were actually in progress between the I'nited States and France for so arbitration treaty. The French Parliamentary group favoring international arbitration ia said, however, to be oversanguin in the belief that a treaty will shortly be signed. It is pointed out here that the Russo-Japanese war and the possibility of complications growing out of that struggle rather tend to cause hesitation of the negotiators of the arbitration treaty instead of hastening its signature. With respect to the exchangee between France and the United States, it if understood that these occurred hi Washington. Harou D' Estournclles de Constant, the leader of the Parliamentary group, favoring arbitration, has had several personal conversations with I'nited States Ambassador Portei in addition t knteresttag the authorities in Washington in the matter by means of letters. But no official conversations on the subject of arbitration have occurred between Foreign Minister Deleasse and General Porter, so far as can be ascertained. The officials who do not anticipate the imnu diate signature of a treaty, say the exchanges which have taken place have at least formed a base upon whh h a treaty at a more favorable opportunity can be consummated. WASHINGTON. Feb 24 -It is further stated that similar propositions have been made to this government by tho diplomatio representatives of On-at llritain. Itnly and Holland All of these have likewise been taken under careful consideration by the President. Although earnestly favortnjr the principle uf arbitration. i'r. .-M r.t Roosevelt is indisposed to submit an arbitration treaty until he is assured of its approval. Having lost one arbitration treaty with Great Britain through the Serate's nonaction, the administration is loath to submit others in the same line until it is assured there has been a change of sentiment among the senators sufficient to wan ant the belief that the treaty can be ratified. It Is said that so far such assmajfccea are lacking, so that while the arbitration propositions have been kept in mind at the State Department, formal negotiations have not been Initiated. OFFICIAL CALL FOR POPULIST MEETING National Convention Summoned to Meet in Springfield, 111., on July 4 Next. ST. iAriS. Feb. 24 -The joint committees of the fusionists and the mlddle-of-the-road Populists, representing the People" party of the I'nited States, to-day issued the official call for a national convention of the People s party, to meet in Springfield. 111., on July 4. 1904. at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the Cnited States and for the formulation of a national platform. Prior to the joint conference of the two committees the following resolution of the fusion committee, in the nature of a pledge to the middle-of-the-road committee, signed by J. H. Edminston as chairman and i'harha De France as secretary pro tern., was presented: "Resolved. By the People's party in its national committee meeting, held at St. Louis Feb. 22 and 21, 1904. that we do fix the 4th day tf July as the date of holding the national convention of the People's party, and we further declare ourselves determined to name as our candidates for President and Vice President only members ef the People's party; and further resolved, that we shall give the same our undivided support. "Resolved, It is our most earnest and sincere desire that r.il persons who are iu favor of the principles of populism will jointly assist this committee in its efforts to perform the duties above outlined." Deed of a Jealoaa Man. CHICAGO, Feb. 24 Frank Lewandowskl cut his wife's throat and then attempted to kill himself in the same manner to-night. He was removed to a hospital in a critical condition. Jealousy of a son of Mrs. Lewandowski by a former marriage is said to have been the cause of the crime. GOSSIP ABOUT PERRY S, HEATJTSRETIREMENT An Energetic, Able Young Man 'ow Out of National Politics His Resignation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 34 -Perry 8. Heath hat) made his exit from the stage of national politics. That he retired from the secret iryship of the Republican national committer under pressure is no longer a secret in Washington. There is a good deal of gossip here to the effect that the intimation to Heath that he ought to retit was conveyed about the time or soon after the death of the late Senator Hanna. But from all that can be learned there is no truth in this. The plan for the r. tirement of Mr. Heath was formulated several weeka ago. It is true that Mr Hanna was among those who had no desire to unduly humiliate a man who occupied for several yeart a conspicuous position in the party organization. So Mr. Heath awaited an opportune time. When Senator Hanna died ho filed his resignation, and it was promptly accepted by Vice Chairman Payne. The rotironeal of Heath iakea from tho arena of national politics one of its most picturesque character. Suave, keen and energetic, a knowledge of men and with ability to handle them. Heath possessed unusual qualittcatlons for the secretaryship i if the national committee. He was a suc cess In that piace He carried oVit orders witiiout question, and enjoyed the confi dence of his superiors. H fall il S was colneid nt with the postal scanda namo was linked with those of Mi I'.. . i vers and others, and he was tucondemned in that widely ad vert 1st erary production. the Bristow r Heath attributes all hia trouble to ti ter, peisonal enmity of Joe Bristow administration headsman." lrort. bittho cently promulgated a rule allowlrg troller cars to make fifteen miles outside of strictly business districts and twenty miles where the railway is at one side of a traveled road New York World. Inland Wireleaa Telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy has been the means ef bringing the citiea of Chicago and St. Louis In closer connection with each other. Georgs & IMgirott of Chicago, is the Inventor of a wireless system which he claims requires neither a great height to operate effectively nor ej tions for operation Mr rMffott recently m manifest his scheme by transmitting a sage from hit home In latoago to that of a friend in tit. Iuls. whore the proper instiuments for receiving messages had hwen installed The inventor also made many other eeriments with his system, about f"hira- ar: 1 to joints In Wisconsin, and all of them resulted successfully. The inventor is now preparing for a transatlantic test. He contemplates leaving this country early next summer for Kngland There ha expects to set up a station and experiment wttH messages across the Atlantic owing to the ineinenslvenesa of the stations and the small amount of conveniences necessary Mr llgcott hopes to hsve his invention taken up by tho pffpfM1 authorities, who will Install more statten for the further deveJepsjaeiu X iL iswee I