Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1904 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOUHNAL WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2. 19C4.

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Viaduct Nsws Stand. 30 High street. DATTON. O street. V. Wllkle. 20 South Jefferson DKNVER. Co!. Louthaln & Jackson. Fifteenth and Iawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1657 Chan: (a street. DES 1IC IN ES. Ia.-Moae Jacobs. 809 Fifth street. LOS ANGELES. Cal Harry Drapkln. LOUISVILLE C. T Deerin?. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Bluefeid Bras., 442 West Market street. NEW TORK Astor House. ST. LOT IS Union News Company. Union Depot. ST. JOSEPH. Mo. F. B. Carriel. Station D. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlgzs Ho-is. Ebbltt Hisse. Fairfax Hotel. Wlllard Hotel. The President has already selected men who are to start the work on the Panama canal. He is evidently determined that there shall be no delay whatever in making the dirt fly. To those who are Interested in the march of science and civilization there Is something very disappointing in the fact that neitner Japan nor Russia has so far organized an automobile corps. "Indiana and Illinois." says the Birmingham Age-Herald, "are manifesting signs of Republican unrest." Yes. Indiana Republicans are of the unresting sort that is the reason they always "get there." Three contests having been decided in favor of Democratic claimants, it should be admitted by everybody that the elections committee of the House has freed Itself from any charge of partisanship. Admiral Alexieff and Czar Nicholas exchange notes of congratulation with the samt fearless nonchalance exhibited by two small boys who whistle loud y to keep up their courage when going though the woods St night. Russian papers threaten that the trade Of that country with the United States will be cut down because of American sympathy with Japan. But it will not; tradespeople do not trade on sentiment, but with a view to profit. It is easy to see that the Japanese government is committed to a wise policy of extreme secrecy. Russian officials are doing a great deal more talking than Japanese leaders and they have a great deal more to explain. Japan is well known as a polite and obliging patlon. and she is working hard on experiments with a view to discovering some jrwthod of warfare that Russia will not consider treacherous. The Japs are always anxious to please. The ratification of the canal treaty awoke Colombia, long enough for some talk of invasion and fighting. Colombia is like a third-rate pugilist, in whom the news of a big ring victory always produces more or less superheated atmosphere. The little son of Prince rienry. who died the other day. was the healthieat of the prince's children. And the eldest son. who survives, is a hopeless invalid. Truly, even kings are not exempt from th heart-break-tng ironies and tragedies of life. The open season for Macedonians has gain arrived In the Balkans and Moslem sportsmen are taking early advantage of the splendid shooting. If they exceed the game limit it Is because the Russian game commissioner is elsewhere engaged. Count Leo Tolstoi has promulgated his war platform. It is Just what waa to be expected, and it sounds genuttpv Ha says: T am neither for Rusaia nor Japen. hut for the laboring people of both countries, deceived by their governments and obliged to fight against their welfare, conscience and religion." It Is much easier for the Russians to obtain victories nowadays than for the Japanese. The latter sail Into Port Arthur harbor, pepper the town for a few hours and then go back for more coal and powder. This going back always constitutes a Russian victory and It is so reported to the Sheering mob at St. Petersburg. The publication Is announced of a novel by Hildegard Hawthorne. She is the daughter ot Julian Hawthorne, who Ii I son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; and thus we have three generations of novelists. It is undoubtedly the fact that, however pleasant this may be to contemplate, the younger generations are hindered rather than helped by their name. It ia a caa of the Giant's Robe. This is not fair to them. hut the comparison will alwaya exist. Both sfeoold have taken pen names. There Is a ridiculous notion in the minds of many people and some newspapers that war Is a source of prosperity. This is the earn kind of logic which declares that a spendthrift la a good thing for a coniiuun-

ity '"because he puts money in circulation." Wa3te is waste, and extravagance In one spot means a terrible drain In another. A Chinese proverb says that for every man who lives In idleness and luxury another man starves to death; and this Is a terse way of putting a great economic truth. War is wasteful and cannot be a source of prosperity.

H1M S OPPOSIT ION TO A St BM - rim: :; i i A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that if an attempt is made to lay a cable from the Island of Guam to Japan during the continuance of hostilities it will be regarded by Rusaia as contraband of war under the proclamation recently promulgated. This implies that Russia would protest against the act as a violation of neutrality and one that she would have a right to resist. The question is a new one with the weight of argument decidedly against the Russian contention. As reference is made to the rulea of war recently promulgated by Russia, it Is worth while to quote the one defining what is contraband of war, viz: (a). Every kind of small arms and guns, complete or in separat- parts, and armor; (b) parts of fin-arms and ammunition. fuses, shells and bullets; (c caps, cartridges, cartridge cases, powder, saltpeter, sulphur, explosives or materials for purposes of explosion, such as mines, dynamite, pyroxilin, various explosive substances, conductors and everything for exploding mines; (d) I m rvthing appertaining to artillery, engineering and troop trains, such as gun carriages, limbers, cartridge ammunition, field smithies, field kitchens, instrument wagons, pontoons, bridges, trestles, barbed wire, horse harness for transport service, etc.; (e) material for equipment and clothing of troops, such as bandoliers, kmpsacks, sword belts, cuirasses, intrenching tools, drums, field kettles, saddles, harness, uniforms, tents, etc.; (f ships bound ror the enemy s ports, even if sailing under neutral commTcial flags, if their construction and internal arms or any other indication makes it apparent that they have been built for warlike purposea or are for sale or are destined to be handed over to the enemy on reaching their destination; (g) every kind of ship's machinery or boilers, mounted or in parts; (h) every kind of fuel, such as coal, naphtha, spirits, etc.; (i) telegraph and telephone materials; (k) everything intended for warfare on land or on sea; also rice, foodstuffs, horses, beasts of burden and any other animals Intended for war purposes. If they are sent at the enemy's coat or order. This is a much more specific and detailed definition of contraband of war than has ever been made by any government before. In the main it is correct, because, for the most part, it includes only articles that could be used in prosecuting hostilities. That all such articles are contraband of war and that a neutral may not ship them to a belligerent Is undoubtedly true. But the definition above quoted goes beyond this in at least one respect. "Telegraph and telephone materials" are as necessary to peaceful pursuits as they are to war, and cannot fairly be considered contraband of war unless there is something about their shipment to indicate that they are intended for military use. A submarine cable seems to be still more outside a fair definition of contraband of war than telegraph and telephone supplies. Such a cable is far removed from the scene of hostilities and is controlled at both ends by civil authorities. It is a means of communication between far separated countries. A cable from Japan to Guam could not possibly be used for military purposes. Its primary object Is evidently commercial. It stands on the same footing as mail steamers, which, although they might carry military correspondence or even orders for contraband goods, could never be themselves held as contraband of war. A cable from Guam to Japan would give the latter a free means of communication with the rest of the world and would promote world' s commerce. For Russia to hold it contraband of war would furnish additional evidence of her narrowness and illiberality. Permission to lay the cable from Guam has not yet been granted, and if Russia should enter a protest perhaps this government would think it better to with hold permission for the present rather than have any controversy over it. The cable can wait, and the United States can much better afford to waive its rights in the mat ter than Russia can to go on record as op posing an ocean cable as contraband of war. It takes the consensus of nations to make international law, and It is doubtful if any other power would sustain the Rus sian view. m LW-r,FOH( SOI TH EH GOV ERNOR. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, has set an example of law enforcement which is worthy of imitation in other States and is sure to have a beneficial influence in the South. His action in calling out the militia to prevent the lynching of two negroes was. in the circumstances, very notable. In the first place. Governor Vardan.an has been outspoken in his hostility to negroes and was elected on a strong antinegro platform. His known views on the question were such as to lead a certain class of people to believe that he would not go out of the way to prevent the lynching of a negro who had shown himself eligible for that kind of treatment. Then, the crime committed by the two negroes in this case was a peculiarly atrocious one the murder of one white man, a highly respected citizen, and the fatal wounding of another. They deserved the full penalty of the law and there would have been more justification for their lynching than for many others that have occurred in the South. But for the prompt action of Governor Vardaman both of the negro-'s would doubtless have been lynched. One of them had already been seized by a mob when the Governor caused his rescue and had him taken by special train to a place of safety. The other one also was in Imminent peril of his life when he was sayed by the militia, who were also used to guard the prison where the negroes were confined. A special from Meridian. Miss., says: "All Mississippi Is to-night ringing with praise of Governor Vardaman." This shows that courageous performance of duty elicits the approval of law-abiding citizens everywhere. In an interview on Monday the Governor is reported as saying: I can sympathize thoroughly with one w nose rrienl or relative has been outraged or atrociously mur dered by a black brute, and I am not going to censure people who art a little imlisiT-ri-ly under the influence of assbm thus aroused, but there is one thing certain: the law nr. ; b upheld, and SB long as I occupy the gubernatorial chair I shall do all within my p w. r to see that th.- laws arenforced. Th courts must perforin their functions. When this is done the people will be satisfied. This is good doctrine, and. coming from a Governor who is known as a negro hater, it will go far toward strengthening the antllynchlng sentiment in the South. There have been Indications during the las; year

or two that this sentiment was growing,

and Governor Vardaman's action will give it fmsh impetus. A SOUTH mi R POSTOFFICE DT -RMVIUfc The white people of Clarendon, Ark., or some of them, have furnished another evidence of the incurable savagery of the class to which they belong by dynamiting and destroying the postoffice at that place. Clarendon Is the county seat of Monroe county and a place of about one thousand population. The cause assigned for the destruction of the postoffice is that the postmaster is a colored man. By the last census Monroe coifnty had a population of 16.S16, of whom 5.S21 were white and 10.9(6 were colored. Waiving all questions of social or political equality. It cannot be claimed that the government perpetrated a wrong by appointing a postmaster from the race that outnumbers the other by nearly two to one. This is on the assumption that the postmaster was fit and fompet nt, and there is no averment to the contrary. The only complaint is against his color. Suppose a white man had b'-en appointed postmaster; would not the colored people and patrons of the office, who greatly outnumber the whites, have had as good or better cause for dynamiting the postoffice than the whites had when a colored man was appointed? The question of appointing colored men to office in the South is a very perplexing one. On one hand. It must be remembered that under the Constitution they stand on the same footing as white citizens, and a President who should ignore or discriminate against them on account of color would violate his oath of office and be subject to impeachment. It must be remembered, also. that in many localities the colored people outnumber the whites and are entitled to recognition on that score. On the other hand, their appointment to office is very offensive to the Southern people, especially to the "hoodlum" element, and calculated to make trouble. Between a desire to do his duty by all classes of citizens, regardless of the color question, and a desire to avoid causing trouble, the President is placed in a very embarras.-ing position. In this case the crime was a very foolish one. The destruction of the postoffice will hurt, first, the owner of the building, and. second, the entire community. It will not hurt the government. If the people of Clar endon, or some of them, will not tolerate a colored postmaster, the government will simply abolish the office and let them get their mail through somo other channel. The government is under no obligation to furnish mall service to a people who dynamite the postoffice. MINOR TOPICS. A correspondent wants to know how to make maple sugar. First, get your sap. This involves the ownership of a farm containing the requisite number of sugarmaple trees, the more the better. Next, watch the weather. The sap has its times a.-.d seasons. It declines to respond in midwinter, but after several months of cold weather a spring thaw and the earliest mild days in February or March start it running. Then bore holes In your sugar trees and Insert small spigots in such a way that the sap in ascending the tree will run into them. Place a wooden trough or other vessel under each spigot to collect the sap. To avoid waste see that the troughs are not permitted to overflow. This can be prevented by having men, women, boys and girls enough to collect and empty them Just in time. The sap must be emptied Into huge kettles over a steady hot fire. The fire should be replenished from time to time by branches of trees and chunks from the forest. By steady boiling and evaporation the sap is reduced to the consistency of syrup, when it should be strained and poured Into molds to crystallize into sugar. Then it may be eaten. This is the entelechy of the whole procedure. Although there is a great deal of recreation and hilarity connected with the making of maple syrup it is not made for this reason. It is made to be eaten. The process of making is simply preparatory. The eating is the entelechy. The starting point of the whole business is to get your sap. This is sugar weather and now is the time to begin. The faculty of Northwestern University will take steps to prevent the students from "spooning" between lectures. Those professors must think they can have all the advantages of co-education with none of its annoyauces. If they aucceod in putting a stop to the courting they will do some thing which the united wisdom of guardians, chaperons and duennas for agea has failed in accomplishing. Down in Florida those who can afford it are enjoying the aunshine and the sea breezes and all the delights of a balmy svimmer. Those who can afford it for these things come high in America. The hotel charges in Florida are double what they are at European winter resorts. A visitor can live at Monte Carlo, Nice or Cannes for half the money he paj-s in Florida. The London "Female" has done Just as was prophesied, and changed its form and uppoai. That Is, though it still professes to be a women's paper. It no longer differs from the ordinary daily. There is an added evidence that a women's newspaper is a men's newspaper: A success in journalism cannot be made with an exclusive appeal to either sex. A Chicago coffln maker has won $60.000 in a lottery. Truly "to him that hath shall be given." There is a man whose business is never dull; the demand for coffins never fails and there are no hard times in that trade. And a blind fate swoops down on him with $00,000. It's awfully discouraging. France alone bought 3,000,000 bushels of Amerhan apples last year. This, thinks the Washington Post, practically assures the champagne crop. However, for the sake of the reputation of American apples it is to be hoped that not more than one or two barrels were Ben Daviscs. The War Department will increase the number of "frogs" on the uniform overeoats of army officers. The orders do not state whether these frogs arc the same which have recently been declared birds by the Treasury Lepartmont. A New York man has been discovered who has moved 110 times in seven years. It almost seems as if it would be easier to pay rent than to keep on the go like that. The day will come when all these tales of fights with ships already sunk and such like legends from the Orient will be known as "The Port Arthurian Cycle." "Is there no law compelling servants to be decently polite to their employers?" groans a householder In a New York paper. Weil, there's the civil-service law. "Many people think the Japanese and the Chinese are very much alike." saya a Japanese student in an American university, "but ttuit Is not so. They are aa

different as is an American Indian from a

Malay." Or as a japanned trousers' button from a china ditto. A St. Louis clergyman declared the other day that rich men were a curse to the church, and that poverty was essential to salvation. Maybe all of John D. Rockefeller's Sunday schooling isn't going to do him any good. Japan pays for her drinks like a true sport. She has just settled an American whisky claim of $115.000 without a murmur. THE HUMORISTS. He Would lie Satisfied. "You can't fool all the people all the time." "Lord! I don't want to. If I could only fool my wife for five minutes occasionally I'd be satisfied." Puck. No (hanre for a Shortage "What puzzles you?" "Oh. I was Just wondering what kind of an excuse the iceman will give for putting up prices next summer." Chicago Post. atnrnl Remark. Rip Van Winkle had Just been takln a nap. Placing a hand upon his beard, he murmured, drowsily. "How this grows on me." After which he fell into a second doze, that he might sleep out the remaining tn years. Yale Record. Trials of Novelists. Scott had just completed the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." "I should like to portray him with a lone;, fin win er beard." he mused, "but I fear the gentle reader will take him for a Populist." Turning from his manuscript, he blew out the gas and retired. Milwaukee Sentinel. When Greek Meets Greek. "I was taken in last night," says the first footpad. "Get pinched?" asked the second. "Xo," is the scornful answer. "Think I don't know the cops better than that? It was this way: I Weld up a guy and too his leather and ticker away from him, and rtrst thing I knew he was talking about how dangerous my work was and how I ought to provide for the future, and. blow me. If he didn't get me to sign an application for life Insurance and give him all the money I had collected during the evenirg as a first payment on the policy." Judge. A Thing Apart. "George!" "What?" "George!" "O what do you want? "George, you don't love me any more." "O. of course, 1 do. Let me alone. I'm read ing the paper." "George, if you do love me as you used to why don't you tell m so?" "Deuce take it all! I love you. love you, love you. love you, love you. love you. love, ioe. love, love, love you, you, you, you. you. you you. you: Now. for heaven s snxe. snur up ana 'emme read." Philadelphia Telegraph. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CHILDREN. A Modest Petition. Little Johnnie had been taught to ask a bless ing at the table. One morning there was com pany present to breakfast, and Johnnie, being a little embarrassed, made the following brief petition: "Oh. Lord, forgive us for this food. March Llpplncott's. Poor Mrs. Woodby. "So you're little Willie Woodby?" said the new minister after Sunday school. "I called to see your mother yesterday, but unfortunately she was not at home." "Oh. yes. she was." replied the boy, "but guess she took you for the installment man You look somethln' like him." Philadelphia Press. Privilege of Invnlidiam. Little Jane had heard her mother say that sick people demanded a great deal of attention. A few days later Jane said: "Mamma. I think it would be lovely to be sick." "Why?" asked her mother. "Oh, because sick people command so much consternation." Little Chronicle. She Tho.iKht He Was Too Busy. The little maid leaped Into bed the moment she had said "Amen." "Don't you think." asked her aunt, who had been superintending her devotions, "that you might mention me in particular in your prayers?" "Well." answered the flve-year-old, "I did say. 'Hless all the uncles and aunts.' " "But don't you think you might have offered a special prayer for me?" "I will to-morrow night." "Not now?" "Oh. what' the use of bothering God row? Just think how much He has to attend to with all the little children asking Him for things every evening between 7 and 8 o'clock." Paid for Pleasure. Down at the Gospel settlement in Clinton street each of the kindergarten children Is sup posed, if possible, to bring a penny with him at each session of the school, the money going to pay for the milk with which the children ora regaled during the intermission. One diminutive son of Italy made his appearance the other morning minus the cent. He was perfectly aware that the proceeding was out of the ordinary, and ai well, doubtless, his conscience told him that that all-day sucker which had Just sweetened his stomach was literally a stolen sweet. 8o he stoically marched up to the kindergartner ou his arrival and remarked, briefly : "Hain't got no ctnt. Don't want no milk. I've et." New York Telegram. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Facetious. "I was coming down the steps of the criminal courts building a few mornings ago. accompanied by a friend of mine who Is a bit waggishly inclined sometimes," aid A. H. Hummel, the lawyer, "when he quite suddenly turned to me and inquired: W$ the way. have you ever heard the yarn about the three wells?' On my admitting my ignorance, he exclaimed: " 'What, never heard the story of the three wells?' " 'No.' I repeated. For a moment he gazed at me with a look of contempt mingled with pity, and then muttered, softly but most deliberately, W. II, well, well.' "New York Globe. Where He Sined His Money. Senator Quay seldom tells a story, but when he does it is usually a good one. His latest is a yarn told in the Senate cloakroom to illustrate the high standard of morality in the Keystone State. An old Pennsylvania Dutchman, a thrifty but not wealthy formt r. was elected to the Legislature. Several "meaty" railroad and other corporation measures came up for consideration, and after the session had closed the old farmer surprised everybody by buying and living cash for property worth $30.000. Some one asked if a fortune had been left to him. "Oh, no," was the reply. "I have just been saving money while in Hanishurg at the Legislature." "Why, Hans." aid his friend, "you could not save $30.000 In three months when your salary was only $3 a day." "Ah. but you forget," explained the old man as he stroked his BSaVi complacently, "my wife didn't keep a hired girl all that time." Brooklyn Eagle. Itevenue of a Nt.im Villain. Richard Mansfield was discussing- the subject of vengeance. "Vengeance, as a rule," he raid, should b left to the gods. I can't help sympathizing, though, with the venyeance that a stage villain took on hi; manager last ye-tr in the West. "The villain was supposed, at the end of the fifth act, to plunge a knife in his heart and to die very hard, roiling and kicking all over the stage. When his cue came ha did plunge in the knife, but then, instead of dying, he lay down on the floor, crossed his legs and burst into loud, long laughter, the dasger still sticking, mind you. In his breast. "The audience was amazed and stupelled al

su"h unreasonable conduct. The actors on the

stage could not go on. for they were amased and stupefied, too. The manager, nearly beside himself, hissed from the wings in 4 loud whisper: " 'You fool, what are you laughing at? This is your death scene. " "Death scene V said the recumbent villain. 'Yes. I know it is. and with such a salary as you give me death comes as a nappy release. New York Tribune. Told of Mr. Hanns. Mr. Ilanna complained several years ago that he had never seen a good picture of himself In a paper. Immediately the -ride-awake city editors of several Cleveland papers sent photographers to his office. As they entered Mr. Hanna said: "Thank the Lord! At last I am going to have a good picture In a paper. Stop the machinery of the national committee and let's get going." The camera was set up in a corner of the stars and stripes draped and McKinley and Hobart lithograph-papered room. "Where are you going to shoot from?" was the Jolly fat man's remark to the photographer. One photographer said: "Mr. Hanna, please look as you would If Mr. Piatt, of New York, should announce himself against Mr. McKinley." "Cut li out. son, cut it out." answered the statesman, with a smUe. Snap! went the camera.. "Next!" said Mr. Hanna, and the photographer faded out one door mhile a bank president came in from an anteroom. Kansas City Times. ot Ail There. Dennis, the apple man, who has long been a familiar figure in and about the financial center of Fourth street, the other day caught a young street arab engaged in abstracting apples from the cart when the owner's back was turned. Immediately Dennis seized the lad by the collar and with a practiced hand prepared to inrtict j that punishment which he believed fitted the crime. The boy kicked and bellowed. "O mister." he howled, "please don't do nothln' to me! I'm net to blame for this here!" Dennis paused for a moment. "Ye' re not to blame?" he repeated. "An", faith, how's that?" "Uecause," blubbered the arab, "folks say I'm not all there." ' Dennis regarded him suspiciously. "Ah. well." he said, "If ye're not all here I'll have to do the best I can with what is." And he proceeded with the thrashing Philadelphia Press. The Jew in Trade I'nions. The position of the Jewish race in industry is a peculiarly interesting one. Their activities are almost entirely confined in this country to a few trades, such as tailoring, cigar making and the like. This is not due to any previous industrial training, for scarcely more than 10 per cent, of the Jewish immigrants seem to have been tailors, for example, at home; while In New York until recently practically all of the clothing manufacture was in their hands. The race is In fact condemned to follow these sedentary trades because of their physical disabilities. Iy reason of their predominance in thee few choben occupations the condition of trade-unionism therein plainly reflects certain racial peculiarities of the people. Professor Commons, in his excellent report on Immigration to the United States Industrial Commission, aptly described the situation in the assertion that even in his role of trade-unionist the Jewish conception is that of a tradesman rather than a workman. The Jew will Join a union only when there is a bargain dhectly in sight in the shape of material advancement. William Z. Kipley, in March Atlantic. . This May Be True. A certain underwriting syndicate Involving a good many minions was organized on the eve of Mr. Morgan's departure for Europe, but not completed when he sailed. Upon his return he asked to see the subscription list and the balance sheets, the work of the syndicate having been completed and the books closed. As he glanced over the list, he noticed that one name which he presumed would be there was missing, and he said to his partner: "I do not see the name of here." The reply was: "We were able to organize the syndicate without them, and we therefore did so." Instantly Mr. Morgan replied: "Kut I promised them that they should come In." Then, making a rapid computation of what these bankers' profits would have been had they been admitted to the syndicate, Mr. Morgan drew his company's check for the amount, which involved several hundred thousands, and sen'. It to them. Everybody's Magazine for March. A Melancholy Monarch. In personal conversation with the Czar one is struck immediately with the shrinking shyness and softly apprehensive, almost feminihe sweetness of the Russian Emperor. The contrast between the melancholy and reflective CSSjr and the exuberantly vital Kaiser, bubbling and boiling with unexpended life power, can be appreciated only by those who have conversed with both. It must not be supposed that the Czar Nicholas IT. is destitute of strength because his habitual outlook on life Is rather one of Oriental resignation than of the hopefulness that might be exrected from the head of a ;rreut Christian nation. The Czar i is remarkable for a dignity which is the more noticeable because he is small in size, and his voice is gentle and womanly. The dignity is likb the dignity of Queen Victoria, which impressed every one who entered the presence. Everybody's Magaz'ne. Novel und Cheap Scheme. The Daily Paper Benefit Association of London is. according to its advertisements, the very simplest form of organization. There are no religious tests, no social caste and no party politics. The payment of 1 guinea a year secnes to each subscriber the following miscellaneous services: A penny daily evening paper delivered at the house; service by the girls' messenger brigade; use of district depots of social co-operation, with Its telephone, poste restante, reading and rest room, employment bureau and library. An Insurance policy of $500 against death by accident in train, tram. etc. The Review of Reviews; the American Century Home, described as the latest novelty; American Sixpenny Home Journal; The Portfolio of twelve beautifully colored pictures. At but little over $5 a year this looks like a good bargain on its face. London Mail. Testlmg Hngrlncs by Pinno. Pointing to a piano that was standing in the locomotive roundhouse of the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Kansas City, an English visitor remarked: "Ah. I see your road supplies you with musical entertainment." "Guess not." replied the formean. "That piano Is for testing engines." The Englishman thought It a joke, but when a uniformed pianist struck a note which harmonized with the noise of vibration In each part of the locomotive as it was tested, he understood that there could be no flaws or cracks in tho enaine. He was informed that if the noise of the locomotive made a discord with the musical note the locomotive would be thus proved defective. The method has been discovered to be more accurate than the old wa of hammering each part. World's Work. Paint has on a Grain of Corn. , . . . . . A Jrlcnilsn artist r.as proaucea what is said to be the smallest painting In the world. It is a picture of a miller mounting the stairs of his mill and carrying a sack of corn on his back. The mill is depicted as standing near a terrace. Close at hand are a horse and cart, with a few groups of peasants idling in the road near by. All this is painted on the smooth side of a grain of ordinary white corn. It Is necestary to examine It under a microscope, and it is drawn with perfect accuracy. It does not cover a ha!f-i::ch epuare, and it is in many respects one of the mort remarkable art products of the day. London Tit-Bits. r aiaiia ittu DaafaL Has anybody of late rtcen to remark that the ase of canals is over? The rattling of gravel along the Erie and the isthmus, to be heard as boon as the tools arrive, will be. the only needed answer. The signs are that thse waterways, old as they are. are only now beginning to assume the importance in th concerns of mankind to which they are entitled New York Tribune. Good Advice. The name of the Emperor of Korea is Hl-Li. For the next few months his highness had better lie low. Kansas City Journal.

S AS RIVALS OF RICH GOLD MINES Long Islanders Believe in Them as Good Money-Makers and Invest Capital. LARGE PROFITS ARE MADE Thomas G. Cay ton. in Washington Star. "A good sand bank for mine." said the Long Islander, as he looked down into the 100-foot pit. where a score of men wer shoveling the golden eerth into carts, "and the dickens take the goid mines." Long Islanders who live along the sound have been firm in the belief that a sand bank beats "color" as a monev maker ever since a shrewd Quaker restored the fortunes of his family by digging up the dune on the seafront of his farm, loading it on barges and sending it to New York to be used for building purposes. That was the inception of a systematic Bee SaUfcd Industry that has brought riches to hundreds ot men, and especially to the- BUSBSrowS uoseendants of many of the hrst white owners of the land. It waa likewise the opening up -r America's biggest sand field and the beginning of the end of the effort to supply NW Yorks demand for sand by digging it up along the beaches around Coney inland and in upper New Jersey. The original set tiers on Manhasset neck, where sea sand fortunes were first made, and around Hempstead harbor, where nutn oral hsa co( V. L o aa . ssbbs hnine IV nrkt tl wUh as much meth0ll as ,s a Kid mine. and which have netted their owners approximate $2,U00.ow within the- la.i six years, were Quakers. The QuahTS invariably portion their property equally among thdr children. Vast farming tracts had thus become divided into small farms -r mere garden patches fifteen years ago. and many an owner of a few acres of land was having a hard time making a living. Among the number was the man who started the sand industry. He had a large family, two of the children were all but ready to go to college, and he had not the money to send them; his farm furnish- d just enough to keeo him and his supplied with the necessities. In the midst of his anxiety over his children's future he thought of the sand hill at the sea end of his property. Then it occurred to him that sand is used for building purposes. "The very thing." he said, "i 11 get thut sand to New York somehow and the money that it brings will educate my children. It did more. It made the man wealthy; he left a will that gave to each of his offspring an Inheritance worth not a few thousands of dollars. The sand-bank region is full of similar cases. There is a story of the manufacturer who failed and had left only his ancestors' farm, the pride of his heart, a. id that was heavily mortgaged, and in danger of being taken from him He pocketed his pride, sought out the two men wh had been trying to buy the sea end ot the farm for a sand bank and sold them fifty acres for $1.000 an acre and a small but profitable share in the business. For farming purposes the land was hardly worth $30 an acre. Now the man has paid off all his old indebtedness and is rapidly accumulating another fortune, although it has been only four years since he met financial disaster. This man's rise and that of many others to wealth through sand.- are invariably told to the visitor in such towns as Roslyn and Port Washington in this fashion: "See that man over there? Four years ago he was as poor as Job's turkey. Now he owns that big place yonder and heaps besides. Sand did it. "Morning, Mr. Hicks. He's another one of 'em. Turned his farm into a sand pit, and tells me that he and the men who are in with him are making $100 a day clear money. "Tisn't so long ago since he was wondering where his next dollar would come from." NONE CAN ESCAPE. Ani so it goes, until the visitor wonders how any one in the sand-bank country has escaped making his "pile" out of sand. But not a few who could have sedulously refrained from doing so. In the language of the Swedish foreman of one of the sand banks, "It's their funny ideas about ani stors that keep them poor." There's many an id Long islaud family that will not sell its ancestral home for love or money, no matter now mmn it neeos tne latter, and that looks askance upon the neighbor who will permit of such desecration for material gain. It was this attitude on the part of land owners that six years ago caused the sand industry to shift from Manhasset neck to Hempstead harbor. This shift gave rl?e to a systematic and scientific sand industry. The banks on Manhasset were worked in a primitive way. The sand, with no attempt to separate it from gravel and loam and other extraneous ei-.bstances, was worked by hand, loaded into carts and dumped on to barges drawn up at the eud of a rickety pier leading from the pit. Then it was towed to New York, where it found a ready market, and later on was screened by hand in frout of some building under construction, just before it became a compouent part 4of the piaster beitig mixed In a mortar bed. The sand is still towed to the metropolis 16.0U tons, or 32.000,000 pounds of it dailyhut that is the only part of the old method that still generally obtains. A few spades and carts are no louser all that is neces sary to get out the sand; their place has been taken by a mechanical plant that represents an investment of all the way from a few thousand to many thousands of dollars. This radical change was caused by one sand bank owner believing that he could get the better portion of the si;tiil trade by sending his s-.tnd to market all reauy for use. And by this scheme he got it and kept It until his rivals were able to put machinery in operation that also made it possible for them to supply clean sand to customers. A typio.nl sand bank plant looks like nothing SO mach as the exterior works of au anthracite coal mine, only the structures, instead of crowning un elevation, are on the floor of the nit, the scml-circfllar wail of which not infrequently towers 100 feet above. The washer Is largely responsible lor this similarity in appearance. It is built on the same general plan as a coal breaker, has the latter's ample proportions and is pyramidal and towers like it. In addition to the washer each pit has one or more screens fed by an eft4!esa chain of cups rillt-el by hand and steasa shovels, and various nutans of transporting the products tine and rough sand and gravel to the barges anchored by the pier. Sometimes this is done by carts; again toy locomotives and cars puff from s rasa to washer and steam shovels for freight and then pull out over the b-jrges and free themselves of their bunh ns But one lirm has gone a step further it hauls its sand by trolley, and in this way ioads betwe. n ten and twelve barges a day. HIGH ACREAGE PMCB. This is by far the largest sand bank on Long Island, and one of the biggest in America. The bank itself consists of nearly 500 acres, bought at prices varying from $1,000 to $1.500 an acre, and the plant is so large that the great pit. which begins almost at the water's edge, extends back a quarter of a mile, and is nearly a third of a mile at its widest part, is not capable .f holding it all. three buildings having th.-ir foundations in the bottom of Hempstead harbor. At this plnnt the sand is not or.ly screened and washed free of loam and other foreign substances; it is dried. An endless belt carries a steady stream f sand higti v,.r the shore road inte one of the buildings out over the water and on a ret. -not metal surfare, which evaporates the moisture in the very few seconds; it taxes tne sand to tray. ! M. ' w h e..ii rlown a honnr l-.t boat. Then, when the boat is rilled, the hatches are battened down and five hours later the sand is delivered perfectly dry to the wharf of the New York consignee. An innovation at another sund bank is a centrifugal machin that blows up toi. sand a day Into screens and the washer, and that does away with a grvt portion f i the hand labor that i? necessarily required where even steam shovels and steam railroads and trolley systems are employed. At the average Rasspstead harbor hand bank forty men find work, and at least ens bank has a pay roll that contains over 200 nat l s Scarcely any of tne employes or the sand H!Jre.n;ltirnfffirLan(lcrFr,,m the beginning, d -spite offers ..r .... p.iy. they have steadfastly refused to work in them. The roremen are usually Swedes and the men under tb.-m always it uians. They And pretty steady ctr.p'oym nt all the year around. Bad wea'her and holtdays cause th" only Interruptions. Ruildlng strikes have no terrors for thm or their employers, for If the sand is not wanted for consumption in the in ar.-t market New York and the suburb.- it finds ready sale in Philadelphia, Boston and other eastern cities. As a result the amounts of sand taken out of a pit In a year is staggering. The average daily output of a bank employing forty men ia I, C00 or 1.500 tons That moans a yearly output of some 100,000 tons or COO.vJOO.uOO pounds of sand. Ai.d us LöüO tons

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yields a profit of 100. a bank producing that amount dally clears to ita owners something like $3h.000 a year on 45fl.W ton. According t the sand bank owner who furnished these figures, 16.000 tons of Hempstead harbor sand are marketed In New York nearly every working day by a dozen or so sand banks. Roughly estlmated. that gives 4.9S0.0M tons a year, the) net profit rn which reaches close to $400,000. No wonder that the Long Islander, as he stands on the hill at the head of Hempstead harbor and beholds the- sand bank on both sides and the piers leading from them to deep water, exclaims: A good sand bank for mine, and the dicken take the gold mines." SBNSBS OF ANIMALS.

How Beasts, Birds and Insects Can Find One Another. New York Post. In walking through a looioglcal park or a natural history museum, the great difference between birds and animals or moro correctly mammals in regard to color Is noticeable. Many of the feathered creatures have brilliant tints and hues, and the coats of hair of the four-footed kindred, the deer, the bears, the monkeys, are cempa:atlvely dull colored. The reason for all this is most Interesting, and when unlocked from its hard sheathing of scientific words, will add pleasure to any visit we may pay hereafter to a boo, a museum, or even a circus. Birds and animals have no system of postotiiees. n letters, or even addresses; when the children of the jungle and desert are lost no ooliceman or detective hastens to find them, no telephone or t.-l- -srai.k aids the search. Yet without any o' the. i.- eeasaries the wild creatures have wonderful systems of communicationmore accurate and trustworthy than any we can ever hope to invent. The flve senses (and perhaps a my?terious sixth of which we can only guess are the telephones and police, the automatic alarms aiul sentinels of our wild friends. Our owa abilities In using eyes, nose and ears are pitiful rhea potts prod with the same func tions in birds and animals. Eyes and noses are important keys to the bright colors of the birds and the comparative sombreness of hairy -coated crvatur Tnke a ting and an oriole aa good examples of the two extremes. When a deg has lost his master he first looks a'-'-i.t. H" sti.iins his eyes with the intense expression of a short-siuhted person, and after a few moments of this usually yelns with disappointment, drops his nose to the gioiiT.d. and with unfailing sccuraey follows the track of his master. When the freshness of the trail tells hira that he is :n ar its end he resorts to eyea again, and is now near enough to recognise the face he seeks. A fox, when running before a hound, may double back a;al mak- a close reconnoissance near his trail, passing; in full view without the hound's seeing him or stopping in following out the full curve of the trail ahead, so completely does th wonderful power of smell absorb the entile attention of the dog. N w turn to the oriole. As we might imagine, the nostrils Incased in horn render the sense of smell of slight account. It ia hard to tell how much a bird can distinguish in this way probably only the odor of food near at hand. When we examine the eye of our bird we find a sense organ of a very high order. Bright, intelligent, full-circled, of great size compared to the bulk of the skull, protected by three complete eyelids; we realize that this must play an important part in the life of the bird. There are, of course, many exceptions to such a generalization as this. For instance, many species of sparrows are dull-colored. We must remember that the voice the calls and songs of birds Is highly developed, and in many instances renders bright coloring needless in attracting the mate or locating a young bird. As we have seen, the sense of smell la very highly developed among our fourfooted animals, but to make this efficient there must be something for it to act on. and in this regard we find some interesting facta of which little has been written outside of scientific text-books. Birds have only one gland on the entire body the oil gland above the base of the tail, which supplies an unctuoua dressing for the feathers. Birds, therefore, have not the power of sweating, but make up for thia by very rapid breathing. Four-footed animals, on the contrary, have glands on many portions of the body. Nature la seldom contented with the one function, which aa organ or tissue primarily performs, but adjusts and adapts it to other? In most ingenious ways. Hence, wher. an animal P r;ires the pores of the skin allow the contained moisture to escane and moisten the surface of the body, but In addition to this. In many animals, collections of these pores in the shape of large glands secrete various odors which serve important uses. In the skunk, such a gland ia a practically perfect protection against attacks from his enemies. He never hurries, and does not know what fear is a single wave of his conspicuous danger signal a sufficient to clear his path. It is said that the puma, great horned owl. and harpy eagles have been known to attack and kill skunks. They must have been very hungry, indeed. In certain species of tne rhinoceros there are large glanda In the foot. These animals live among grass and herbage, which they brush against as they w - Ik. and thus "blaze" a plain trail for the mate or young to follow. There are few, if any. animals which care to face a rhinoceros, so the scent is incidentally useful to other creatures as a warning. It is believed that the hard callosities on the legs of horses are the remains of glands which were, once upon a time, useful. "Civet." which Is obtained from the civet cat. and "musk" from the queer little hornless musk deer, are secretions of glands. It has been suggested that the defenseless musk deer escapes from many of its enemies from the similarity of Ita secretion to the musky odor of a crocodile. In many animals, which live together In herds, such as deer and antelopes, and which have neither bright colors nor farr aching calls to aid straying members to repain the flock, there are large and active cent glands. The next time you see a live antelope in a zoological park look closely at the head, and between the eyea arid the nostrils a large opening will be seen on each aide, which closes now and then, a flap of skin shutting it tightly. Among pigs the fierce pecarry Ts a very social animal. goiiiR in large packs, and on the back i.found a large gland from which a clear watery fluid is secreted. Dogs and wolves also have their odor-accreting glanda on the back, and the "wolf pack" Is proverbial. The gland of the elephant is on the tcmplo. and s ( retes only when th animal is in a dangerous mood a hint, therefore, of I 'sit i bgah eass la th it of the herding animals, aa this says: "Let me alone! Btajr away"' Certain low species of monkys. the lemurs, have a remarkable bare patch on the forearm, which covers a gland serving some use. If we marvel at the ker-nnsa of scesft among animals, how Incredible seems the similar scent In insects similar in function, however different the medium of structure may be. Think of the scent fron f-male moth, so delicate that we can distinguish nothing even near Its 1h!. attracting a male of the same species from a nice of a mile or Btore. It la surely true that the cr ,:t-st marvels are not always a.-:-". Iate-d with mete balk. UNION Mil X MAY Bll DISMISSED IN OHIO Law Providing a Penally of $100 and Six Months in Prison Is Void. COLFMBrs. O.. March !.-Th Court has declared unconstitutional the la .v which provides a pt natty of $10 tine and six months' incpris. u r.. nt for any one who discharges a workman because he Is a member of a labor union. The case gr-w out of the Amalgamated Steel Workers' Association strike of two rears co. when I .-;: r IlrvHikman, of WeUsviUe, superintendent of the mills of the American She t Steel ( -mpinv, dlssharped Leonard hacfer. and was later indicted under the section named. REYES NOT PRESIDENT. . Velez Was Elected lw Colombians at the Recent Election. C'oi,in, March 1. Persons who have arrived here from Savanilla and Cartagena, in Colombia. s;iy tie re w;n much uncertainty the early part of last week as to whether Joa-iuin Velx or Oeii. Kiph.iel Keyea had b-en elected President of Colombia. Th- y declare, however, that the latest dispatches received from Boaots assert authoritatively that Joaquin lea was elected President and Vasques Cobo Vice President of the countryIt his pesrloaaly been announced from the Isthmus as well as from Colombia that Genual Heyes had bteu elected President.