Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1904 — Page 4

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She has evidently had enough fighting with Anglo-Saxons to last tier for the rest of time Still another assault on Dowle raises our estimation of Australia another notch. The young commonwealth is really showing a remarkable advance in taste and culture. Russia respects the autonomy of Manchuria by issuing a proclamation that if ny MSnchu fails to help her she will murder him. Russia is so rough and rude! Admiral Alexieff has quit signing the letters home, and General Pflug's name appears at the bottom of the dispatches. The admiral will probably send all the good Hears himself and let Pflug send the regrets Mr. Machen wept the other day when he was convicted of postal frauds. It is not known whether the tears were caused by repentance for his misdeeds or by remorse for not having taken a change of venue to Missouri. According to Admiral Walker it will take eight years to dig the Panama canal; but long before that time all those papers that have been condemning the action of the administration as "hasty" will be howling bout "criminal delay." This is inevitable. An article on the case of Caleb Powers In the current McClure's gives a complete exposition of the facta in that cause celebre. Any one who reads it will grow sick at heart at the gross and criminal manner in which "Justice" is dispensed in our sister BUte. Senator Beveridge, in "The Russian Advance," quotes a Russian officer as saying that Russia has never waged a war except for an ideal. But there are ideals And ideals, so that doesn't help much. Russia's present idea! Is to grab everything In ight and then hunt about for more. A Princeton school teacher became Insane the other day because the principal whipped thirty pupils In her presence. Such wholesale castigation would drive almost any nervous young woman Insane. Is this the sort of discipline that obtains in Indiana Khools? If so, an investigation would do BO harm. The Czar has a talisman or charm whiHi he la sending to the front, hoping it will hange his luck. It Is called th Troitzkon Thon, and it is a Jpwel sludd d chromo. twelve Inches by twelve. At the latest accounts the Japs were overlooking works of art and shipping heavy guns Instead. But the "hoke" may help some. There Is a bit of delicious naivete in the report of Chaung Kuei Ti. leader of the guard of the court of Peking. He says that ate troops "are unable to shoot, because they have never been supplied with ammunition and io are quite unaccustomed to the sound of a rifle." If one of those toy guns should go off by accident the Whole regiment woul l take to the woods. The communication in another column from Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, stating the financial condition of that great industrial school and Its urgent need of aid. should appeal to every one who Is Interested in the advancement of the colored race. A work of unmeasured good Is being done in that school. In it young negro men and women are trained to habits of Industry and frugality and are taught not only how to provide for themselves, but are made useful members of their respective communities. The Influence of the institution extends far beyond its boundaries and affects the live of those who uere never among Its students. Some speeches made by those who attend Its conferences and quoted in the Journal yesterday, show the character

of this lnIluT.fi'. Wh.it ver tends -to elevate the negro benefits white men as well, and a gift to this school is a gift to the community. There is no more inviting and promising field for the exercise of benevolence than Tuskegee. s i Süll si MSIDY. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, has presented to the Senate resolutions adopted by the Board of Trade of Kansas City defining the attitude of the board on the shipbuilding question. The resolutions declare that: We are in hearty sympathy with the movement calling for f ncoiiragenunt and friendly legislation on the part of Congress to enlarge and extend the American merchant marine; to remove, as far as possible, any impediment or discrimination to the American merchant marine now existing and to put It upon an equality before the i.f.v v.ith ;iny merchant marine F.iilinn unter the flag of the most favortd nation; provided, however, that this Board of Trade is unalterably opposed to any enactment by Congress that shall involve the iayment of any subsidy, it being the firm conviction

that the magnitude of the commerce to be carrbd, the unlimited supply of material ; mithin our own borders for the construction of vessels, and the unequaled ability of our l ;,;; in the construction r in-' same, together with their recognized superior seamanship, place the people of this Nation upon a footing on which they are able to cope with all the world without material aid. The resolution seems to have been Judiciously framed to favor the upbuilding of our merchant marine by every means except the payment of a money subsidy. This Is safe middle ground, and probably represents the views of business men in the interior of the country not directly connected with ocean commerce, and especially of those in the West. Among the classes named there Is a prevalent feeling that our merchant marine has reached a deplorably low stage of development and that It deserves to be encouraged by favorable legislation of every kind except granting a money subsidy. That has never been done in favor of any business Interest, and there is a feeling that the practice should not be begun. Congress granted land subsidies to the Union and Central Pacific railways, but that was dif ferent. More than fifty years ago Congress also granted subsidies to United States steamships to carry the ocean mails, and the government still pays for that service. This, however, is different from a subsidy to build up a private business. The decadence of our ocean carrying trade Is not a matter for Americans to contemplate with pride. President Harrison said in one of his annual messages: "There is nothing more justly humiliating to the national pride and nothing more hurtful to the national prosperity than the Inferiority of our merchant marine compared with that of other nations whose general resources, wealth and seacoast lines do not suggest any reason for their supremacy on the sea. It was not always so, and our people are agreed, I think, that it shall not continue to be so." But, while everybody agrees that the United States ought to regain, its former supremacy In the ocean-carrying trade, opinions differ as to how it should be done, whether by a money subsidy to promote shipbuilding or by removing existing Impediments and discriminations against the American merchant marine and leaving it to develop In obedience to natural laws without a money subsidy. The latter would seem to be the better plan and more in accordance with American ideas. The Republican national platform of 18 declared: We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping In the foreign carrying trade so that American ships the product of American labor employed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. The Republican platform of 1300 declared that "our present dependence upon foreign shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign carrying Is a great loss to the industry of this country," and favored legislation "which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade-carrying fleets of the world." It was claimed by some that these resolutions favored a direct ship subsidy. but clearly they did not. The early American policy of discriminating duties in favor of the American marine had no element of subsidy in it. It was under that policy that our merchant marine and ocean-carrying trade attained their greatest development, and there is reason to believe that a return to it would have similar results now. At all events, that policy should be given a thorough trial before resorting to direct subsidies. FOLLOWING THE BUTCHER. It has been suggested by a number of more or less able American newspaper strategists that Russia is making a great mistake in putting General Kuropatkin in command of the active land forces at the front. It Is pointed out that he is merely a brutal fighter; that he possesses none of the finer qualities of intellect and genius that fit a man to be a great general; that he is simply a fearless, bloody-minded, red-handed bruiser, whose place is In the ranks where he can do more bayonet work and less head work. This is a hasty conclusion, drawn from descriptions of General Kuropatkln's exploits in former times. That he is a butcher there can be no doubt; but there is no evidence that he does not possess other qualities. The Russian soldiers are in need of a leader of Just his kind. He will get out of his men the stoutest, most merciless kind of fighting. There is not a man of them who does not know his record, and his strong, if ferocious personality, will impress itself on the big boarded men that follow him as no leas distinguished sort of character could do. It has been twenty-two years since the capture of Geok Tepe; perhaps Kuropatkin has become somewhat less sanguinary with age. But if he should live to be a hundred, and In that time should become as mild mannered and soft hearted as any humanitarian of the age, he could never live down the memory of that dreadful day Geok Tepe was a fortress in central Asia held by the Turkomans and besieged for a mouth by Russian forces under Skobeleff. Kuropatkin was the active commander, and when at last the stronghold fell he gave orders to give no quarter on account of age or sex. And here he added the crowning touch to the unlovely reputation as a human tiger which he had gained in the Russo-Turkish war. The words of an eyewitness give a faint idea of the glories of civilised warfare as exemplified by this famous general. He says: "The whole country was covered with corpses. The morning after the battle they lay In rows like freshly mown hay, as they had been swept down by the mitrail lours and artillery. Hundreds of women were sabered, and I myself saw little babies bayoneted or slashed to piece. M .ny women were dishonored before bcin- killed. The trucks.

mad with drink and the lust of fighting. were allowed to plunder and kill for three days after the assault." It Is an inspiring picture. The knowledge of facte like this will give the Japanese an idea of the sort of hero their land forces must meet. And that his theory of warfare has not much aittred may be read between the lines of his recent announcementthat "arrangements would be made that not a single Japanese soldier who landed in Manchuria should ever return home again." This plainly means that the Russian army does not intend to wage war according to the rules of civilization, but like the bloodiest of savage tribes. The Japanese know what to expect: perhaps this will make their task the easier. Fer they will not feel twinges of conscience if any little irregularities are perpetrated against such fees as these. Incidentally, perhaps the Japanese are smiling grimly at the Russian protests

against sundry rapidly executed tricks which marked the beginning of the present conflict. HAVE DISFRANCHISED NEGROES ANY RKMKDY f A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court shows it is going to be difficult to obtain a decision directly on the constitutionality of the laws of some Southern States discriminating against and disfranchising negroes. This is not because the court has dodged the question or the responsibility involved, but because of its strict adherence to the law in declining to take unwarrantable Jurisdiction. The case is that of Jackson W. Giles, of Montgomery, Ala., against the Board of Registration of that county. The law requires that applicants for registration must be able to explain their whereabouts for the twelve months preceding the registration. Giles is an old resident, but, as he failed to satisfy the board on the point named he was refused registration. He Drought suit against the board in the State Court and carried it to the S'ute Supreme Court, but got no relief. Then he appealed to the Federal Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the board to accept his registration and carried this suit to the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court, Justice Harlan alone dissenting. The court said: We are of the opiuion that the State Court decided the case for reasons independent of the federal right claimed, and hence its action is not reviewable here. In the case for a writ of mandamus, the same attack was made upon the action of the State of Alabama in adopting and enforcing the provisions of the State Constitution which, it was charged, were adopted for the purpose of disfranchising the negroes and permitting white men only to exercise the elective franchise. We do not perceive here in the mandamus case that the decision of the State Court involved the adjudication claimed under the federal Constitution against the appellant, It denies the relief by way of mandamus, admitting the allegations of the petition as to the illegal character of the registration, authorized in pursuance of the Alabama Constitution. This is ground adequate to sustain the decision, and wholly Independent of the rights set up by the plaintiff as secured to him by the constitutional amendments for his protection. The court said it was perfectly settled that unless federal right has been set up and denied in the State Court the Supreme Court had no right to review the decision of the State Court, "and after a very careful examination of this matter and a due appreciation of the gravity of the charge made as to the political action of the State, we see no ground to distinguish from the universal rule as applied in this court af fecting writs of error of this kind." Perhaps Giles's attorney erred in the preparation of his case or in not presenting it in the State Court in such a way as to make a distinct issue on the question of the denial of a federal right, but it looks as If the State courts might be able to prevent the question from reaching the Supreme Court in a form that will bring a decision on the constitutional points involved. Between State rights and the limitations on Supreme Court Jurisdiction they seem to be pretty well protected. MINOR TOPICS. This is the limit. It is now asserted that Signor Marconi has invented a machine which will render "our thoughts transparently clear to ourselves." That settles It. When it comes to a place where a man can't even fool himself, whom can he ever hope to delude? But there is some consolation in the idea that if this Invention is perfected it will ruin the business of the modern magazine poet. If he gets an inkling of what he is thinking about or enough to make his thoughts "transparently clear" his occupation will be gone. Three cheers for the Sanitary Bulletin! Give ear to its wisdom: "It is true that coffee does not agree with all persons; neither do strawberries. But that is no reason for their sweeping condemnation. To a great majority of people coffee is wholesome, invigorating, exhilarating without reaction and, indeed, almost indispensable at the breakfast table. Those who caunot use it without ill effects should let it alone; if strawberries make you ill, shun them." This is, indeed, reasoning. A little less sugar this time, please! Scientists announce the discovery that certain fish chauge their color like chameleons to harmonize with their environment. Careful thought will show that this is Uue. Take a sucker; in his native haunts he is fSftsBj but when he realizes that he has been taken in his hue changes to a deep cerulean. Lobsters, too, are green at first, red in the salad and dark brown the morning after. How wonderful is science! New York papers are noting a strange new fashion which has been brought in oy Conried. Women who go to hear "Parsifal" make a regular business of fainting. At a recent performance twenty-five swooned away. At this rate futuro performances will not be considered a complete success until everybody In the house is down aud out. The Denver Times says: "Denver seems to be the only real live thorn in the sides of some of the Eastern editors, who never fail to squirm when they are reminded of this city's groat strides toward influence in the commercial circles of the country." Yes, we are getting nervous suppose Denver should want to annex Indianapolis! It is rumored that Weber & Fields are going to dissolve partnership. That seems impossible; Weber without Fields would be Damon without Pythias Tweedledum without Tweedlt'dee buckwheat cakes without maple syrup a. cheese sandwich without lager beer! The New York Post sometimes asks silly questions; for instance: "Who sees in Chicago European hams and sausages for sale?" Can't say; but if P. D. Armour saw such things he would think he was having a nightmare. A Moscow tobacconist has sent two milUous of cigarettes to the liuu-un at ivy at

the front. It is an open question as to whether he is a generous patriot or a Japanese sympathixer in disguise.

President Harper, of Chicago University. says that he only needs fifty millions more to make his school a great institution. Dr. Harper evidently considers "great" and "big" to be synonymous. Young Vanderbilt is going to run a public coach from New York to the races at Wbm pshead Bay. charging $5 for the trip. But why pay $5. when a real driver can be had for half the motu y? A popular actress puts in a bill for $164 for eight nightgowns. And yet people who know about these things say she could have bought cheaper ones and still been able to leep very comfortably. Chicago grave diggers being out oa strike, the citizens of that city are more careful than ever to boil their water. They are taking no chances of dying at an inopportune moment. "February," says the weather reports, "contained more unpleasant days than any February for years." Of course it did there were more days, and they were all unpleasant "Russian Sentiment More Pronounced" Is the information conveyed by the headlines of a Southern contemporary. Well, the sentiment may be, but the names are not. This is a bad season for State capitols. Is our Statehouse safely guarded against conflagrations? Indianapolis has no wish to emulate Des Moines and Madison. A report comes from Egypt of a fatal automobile accident on the road to the Pyramids. "And the Egyptian shall be overthrown with his chariots." French enthusiasts propose to lay out an Immense automobile course on the Desert of Sahara. There is no doubt that would be a good place for scorching. An old Cherokee chief is laid up with the gout, and now there is no longer any doubt that we have given the Indians the benefit of the highest civilization. The local penny whistle of Democracy alludes to the Journal as "the pipe organ of Republicanism." Thanks. The contrast is significant. The great white Czar seems a shade or two whiter than he did at the beginning of the contest And you can scarcely blame him. It is gradually dawning on the Russian board of strategy that the Japanese must have some sort of designs on Port Arthur. THE HUMORISTS. Its Commercial Valne, Knicker "Do you believe in a college education?" Bocker "Yes; it teaches a boy's father how to take care of his money." The Gateway. Ills Cariosity. "There's one thing I'd like to know," said the Russian general. Indignantly. "What is It?" Inquired the trembling Inferior. "Who started that story about the Japanese being the most polite and deferential people in the world?" Washington Star. De fined. "Dad." said little Reginald, "what is a bucket shop?" "A bucket shop, my son." said the father feelingly, "a bucket shop is a modern cooperage establishment to which a man takes a barrel and brings back the bunghole." Town Topics. Punctiintiomilly Speaking. There was once a ,cal fellow Who grew .ically mellow; With a he was gone To the town of : To write for a sheet that was yellow. Baltimore American. Couldn't Imagine. "What's that rng you've got on your head?" asked the new husband. "That rag." rejoined the young wife. In a tone redolent with sarcasm, "is called a fascinator." "Why?" queried the inquisitive man. Chicago News. A Revelation. "Do you remember how Quivers, before marriage was wont to speak of his wife as a selfmade woman?" "Yea indeed." "Well, he told me the other day that he had found out his mistake; he's convinced now that she's made to order." Boston Courier. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Tissandier, the aeronaut, relates that at a high altitude he once dined on a chicken and a bottle of wine. He threw out a bone of the lormer and the balloon at once rose thirty yards. He was reproached by his companion for wasting ballast. Steel is taking the place of wood in construction. Many freight cars are now built entirely of steel. Bteel hopper coal cars are In use on most of the coal roads huge things larger than the old box cars, holding fifty tons of ooal and capable of being rapidly unloaded by means of the hoppers in the bottoms. A locomotive engineer on an Eastern railroad said one day to his two firemen: "Supose you fellows work as if you. and not the company, were paying the coal bills." During six months, merely by careful firing, the men caused a saving in coal, over the average consumption of the engine, equal to almost four times the amount of wages paid the men for that period. The engine was the same; the men worked differently. The World's Work. All the larsre railway companies of Switzerland, with the exception of the Oothard Railway which cannot be purchased by the government by virtue of the original contract before 1&09 are now the property of the state. The tunnel through the Simpion li approaching completion in spite of the many and unusual difficulties that must be overcome. Extreme heat, the volume of water met with on the southern side, hot springs, etc. only about four kilometers (two and a half miles) remaining to be tunneled. The American engineers who were employed to do the constructing of the power transmission from the Convery Falls to the Kolar gold mines in Mysore, India, had some uncommon problems to deal with. The line, ninety-two miles long. Is carried on lofty poles through the jungle. Here the depredations of white ants and wild elephants had to be prevented. The ants attacked the poles and the elephants pulled at the wires. Iron sockets seven feet high were found to be effective against the ants, and after careful measurements of the highest reach of the elephants' trunks the wires were strung at a safe elevation. Near Sydowsane, Germany, is a plant for mak ing silk from wood, which is at present turning out fifty pounds of skein silk a day. which product can be increased in quantity to 2.000 pounds. The silk is soft in texture, and creamy In color. Each thread Is made up of eighteen single strands. A single strand is hardly perceptible to the naked eye. In strength it is but one-third that of the real silk. When woven into pieces the new substitute Is said to have the appearance of real silk. The pulp undergoes a chemical process, and is pressed through very fine tubes by hydraulic pressure, forming the single strands which go to make up the thread. Radiations from the Unman llodr. The discovery and study of new forms of radiation is the order of the day. Some time ago It was found by Messrs. Charpentlcr and Blondlot. two French Investigators, that rays apparently unlike any others previously known are given off by the human body. It has now been discovered that these are closely analogous to the form of radiation found io the

liht of the YVelshach mantle and in that fmm some other sources, and they have been named by Blondlot "N-rays," in honor of the University of Nancy. Both forms increase the luminosity of a fluorescent screen, and In the case

of the body-rays thl increase is proportional to the degree of contraction of the muscle that gives off the rays (Success. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. A Budding Drunwttist. Brander Matthews, who has the chair of dramatic literature in Columbia University, recently listened to the reading of a paper by one of his most promising pupils. "Kardou represents a distinct typo of the drama which he originated," said the young man. What description of that type do you offer?" asked the professor. "Theatrical plays closely packed with Interest mark the Sardine drama," replied the young man, promptly and earnestly. "Young man." laughed Professor Matthews, "with a can opener you may yet evolve the great American play." New York Times. Historic Accuracy. William Jennings Bryan visited Warwick castle in course of his recent tour of Europe. A tall young soldier took Mr. Bryan through the historic house, pointing out each object of interest with a long stick. " 'Ere. sir," he said, in one of the state chambers, " 'ere is an ancient old portrait of Queen Bess. A fine work." Mr. Bryan looked at the portrait, and there was a long. Impressive silence. To break this silence more than for any other reason the visitor finally said: "Queen Bess, eh? She was a pretty old lady when she died, wasn't she " The guide shook his head. "Not pretty, sir; but very old," he said. NewYork Tribune. Turning; the Tables. The late Charles Denby, former minister to China, practiced law in Indiana before the outbreak of the civil war, and a lawyer of Evansville said of him the other day: "Colonel Denby, as a lawyer.was particularly good in cross-examination. He could confuse and frighten a witness and make him contradict himself in nine cases out of ten. One day, though, the tables were turned. "The witness on this occasion was a mild young man, with a slow, careful way of speaking. Colonel Denby put him through a terrific ordeal in the way of a cross-examination, but to no effect. The young fellow couldn't be swerved an inch from his first statement. " 'Now, young man, look here,' said Colonel Denby. finally; 'is it, or is it not, the truth that an effort has been made to induce you to tell the court a different story from this?' " 'Yes, sir; It's the truth.' " 'Ha! Nqw. on your oath.' said Denby, T demand to know who the persons are who attempted this heinous thing?' " 'Why.' said the witness, 'you're the principal one, I guess." "Buffalo Enquirer. Preachers Stretcli Blanket. "Preachers as well as other folks will sometimes stretch the blanket in order to carry a point." says Representative Dick, of Ohio. "I have been told of a minister named Charles Schorme who was stationed at New Lisbon, my State, many years ago. and who added to his clerical duties the agency for a certain religious magazine. One day at the close of the service he asked the congregation to remain a few minutes after benediction, and then he held up the periodical, told of Its attractions for old and young, and asked for subscriptions. 'If each of you had the desire for knowledge which I had when a young man you would not hesitate a moment to subscribe for this excellent publication. In my young days I used to work all night to get money to buy books and papers and would get up before daylight to read them.' Ferhaps he was telling the truth, but I doubt It. There was a fellow out here in the big printery owned by Uncle Sam who turned in twenty-five hours' time for a day and night. and when the timekeeper got after him to know how ho could work in twenty-five hours he said he worked during lunch hour." New York Telegram. Matches Scared Him. Asher Caruth, of Louisville, used to tell a story about the early portion of he last century. when great droves of hogs were driven from Tennessee and Kentucky to the gulf, or sold in the Gulf States. One night a boss drover halted at a farmhouse and made arrangements for feeding his hogs and helpers, and also for his own accommodation. The hogs were fed, the drovers, who had been on foot all day, had their suppers and went to bed. The boss drover had his supper and sat on the front porch with the farmer, drew out his pipe, filled It and struck a lucifer match on his boot. He had been In his buggy all day and didn't need sleep so much as the fellows who had "hoofed it" all day. The farmer arose, looked at him as he lighted his pipe, and asked him If he could strike fire out of his foot again. The old fellow had never seen a match, nor ever heard of one. When the boss drover struck another match the old farmer said. "You an' you uns git out right quick. Wake "em all up. an git out. You uns Is the devil. I seed ye make the fire come outen your foot, an' I smells the sulphur. You uns cain't stay here." Philadelphia Press. NEEDS OF TUSKEGEE. Booker T. 'Washington Asks Assistance for the Institution. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: So many of your readers are Interested in the work of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute that I feel It Is my duty from time to time to keep them informed of the condition, the progress, of the institution. At present we have an average attend.-nce of 1.441 students in all of the departments, representing thirty-five States and seven foreign countries. In all the departments there are 143 instructors, officers and employes. Since the institution was founded we have sent out as workers in various fields about (5,000 men and women, who have finished a full or partial course and who are doing good work. The institution has property, including land, buildings and personal property, valued at $88t 316.36. The present endowment is 11,042.931.28. The annual current expense is about $1m,000. To meet this we have resources as follows: Income from endowment $40.000.00 Slate appropriation 4,500.00 John F. Slater fund... 12.000.00 General Education Board 10.000.00 Miscellaneous sources 5. 423.00 Total $71,9X3.00 Leaving to be collected each year $3.0t7.00 This amount has to be secured each year for current expenses, mainly by personal appeals, to say nothing of the large amount it is necessary to spend annually at a practically new institution for permanent Improvements and for Insurance, as weil. Our needs at present are mainly In two directions money for current expenses and increase of the endowment fund to $3.000.000. Contributions may be made to the current expense fund in the form of $50 scholarships in larger or smaller amounts. Contributions may be made to the endowment fund in the form of $1.000 for a permanent scholarship, or in smaller or larger amounts. Some of the special needs, aside from the two items mentioned, are improvement and equipment of the farm. $13.000; improvement of the steam plant and water works, lighting, etc., $12.000. There has seldom been a time when the institution was more in need of funds than It is at present. It Is hoped that this frank statement will result in a generous resftonse. Correspondence may be had with iiooker T. Washington, principal, or Warren Logan, treasurer, Tuskegee, Ala. DnllooninK 0er the Alps. Balloon trips from Switzerland over the Alps to Italy have been shown to be possible. Capt. Spelterlni. chief of the balloon corps of the S-.m.ss army, rose 10,000 feet from Zermatt one Saturday last September and sailed off above the peaks to the south. Monday afternoon he landed at Blgnasco. on the Italian side of ths mountains.--The World's Work. Failed to Pass. These schools for Journalism are grat things. Final examinations were recently held for the students at Kansas University who are taking the ccurse in journalism and only one student failed to pass. He was an experienced avwIMVttT man. Sprüigtit-ld Kepubiicaa.

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Republicans who attended the 8ixth district congressional convention at Shelbyville yesterday were at once highly entertained and Interested by the bitter fight now on among Shelby county Democrats over the nomination for judge of the circuit composed of thnt county and Rush. It has been generally known for some months throughout this part of the State that the Democrats of old Shelby were engaging In a knock-down-and-drag-out affair, but the visitors were surprised when they came in close range of the conflict to learn its real bitterness. The war between the Morris and Ray factions has reached the stage where it may best be likened to a Kentucky feud, and It is undoubtedly true that if Shelby county were in Kentucky Instead of in the heart of Indiana there would have been long since bloody developments. In Kentucky, when Democrats get to quarreling, .they lose their tempers, call each other names and then unlimbr their guns and there is more work for the undertaker. In Shelby county they call each other names, then unlimber thir dictionaries and studv out new adjectives and epithets, and more white paper is spoiled. For the most part they fight at long rangt . through the columns of the newspapers, but occasionally they indulge in fist fights and as the present controversy approaches the climax these encounters are expected to grow more frequent. The thing will reach a head March 12. the date of the primaries to nominate a canaidate for judge, and now the rivul organs, the Democrat, which has espoused the cause of Judge Morris, and George Ray's paper, the Liberal, which is making the fight for Albert F. Wray. are devoting column after column and the most startling headlines to charges and counterchaages and personal villificatlon and abuse. The day th" Republican crowd took possession of" Shelby ville the Demo : u made an exceptional display of its partisanship, closing with an editorial appeal to Democrats to defeat Wray for the judicial nomination. Th- editorial was headed, "For the Sake of the Party" and concluded: .4 "The Democrat has the best authority for the assertion that the Democrats of two of the strongest Democratic townships in Rush county have held mass meetings and resolved not to support Albert F. W ray if he secured the nomination for judge. Democrats, this means If Albert r . ray w nominated on March 12 this district will have a Republican Judge. "Shelby county Democrats are not responsible for the actions of their Rush count- brethren, and If Rush county Democrats bolt the ticket it is no fault of ours. The fact stares us in the face that in order to save the Democratic party in becoming election it is necessary to defeat Albert F. Wray at the convention. The Republicans of Shelby and Rush arc sitting quietly by. while their adversaries commit party hara-kiri and are biding their time to step in and realize on the Democratic factionalism. The Republican candidate for Judge will be chosen carefully, but without controversy, and the party will be in the best of shape for the campaign. There has been little speculation as to the Republican candidate, but it Is generally understood that David D. Wilson, of Shelbvville, ran have the nomination if he will take it and that he will take it unless his health, which is not the very best at present, forbids. A. M. Willoughby. postmaster of Greensburg, favors strongly the proposition to put the rural free delivery carriers on straight salaries, cutting off the package delivery and newspaper agency side lines, and he has any number of good arguments to advance in support of his position. "No better argument can be cited against the package delivery business than the troubles some of our carriers have experienced." said Mr. Willoughby yesterday. "For instance, one of our carriers was asked to deliver groceries to one of his patrons, and for several weeks did so. The farmer would send in his order by the carrier one day and the carrier would take the groceries out the next day. The carrier thought all the time that the groceries were being charged to the farmer, but he discovered one day that the grocer had charged everything to him and that he had a little bill of forty-odd dollars to settle. He tried to force a settlement with the farmer, but the best he could do was to get the farmer's note for the amount. There's one carrier who wants no more of the package delivery business. "Another carrier was making his round one day when a farmer's wife came down to his wagon and said she had a package she wanted him to take to her sister's, two or three miles up the road. He said he would take it, and the woman went back into the house. She came out in a few minutes and the package she had was a two-year-old baby. The carrier was so surprised that he took it and held It on his lap during the next two miles. I don't know whether he was paid for carrying that but the chances are that he was not. for as a matter of fact the carriers are forced into carrying tnree pacKagea lor riAthincr tri (IUP that thv tret Dav for. "Another point to be: made is that the L OBJECT TO PENDING LEGISLATION Eight-Hour Bill and Anti-Injunc tion Bill the Subjects of Stron r Resolutions. TRANSPORTATION BUREAU WASHINGTON, March 3.-Committee reports at the morning session and proposed amendmeuts to the by-laws at the afternoon session occupied to-day's meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. A resolution was adopted to establish a transportation bureau for the protection of its members and the collection of claims against the railroads. The report of the committee on railroads recommended this bureau, as the result of complaints of Insufficient supply of cars, delay in delivery of carloads, excessive weights aud overcharges as the result of alleged carelessness of the railroads, delay caused by methods of adJusting overcharge claims, unwarranted demurrage charges and lack of uniformity of rates. A resolution in memoriam of Senator Hanna was adopted, expressing the sentiment of the association "that the business men of the country have been by his death deprived of their leading exponent." Resolutions wer adopted expressing unqualified disapproval of the eight-hour bill and the so-called anti-injunction bill, now being considered by Congress, and urin;? members of Congress, Individually and collectively, to defeat them. In the election of ottcers Lewis C. Blade. Saginaw. Mich., HWl chosen president and W. H. Runse, of Memphis, was elected on' of the trustees. To-ulght the annual banquet of the association was hHd, at which the principal speech was ma ie by Scr.- ;ry CorKly n. of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Secretary Shaw. Speaker Cannon and Senator Heyburnv of Idaho, also were present, the two latterNnaking addresses. Secretary Shaw was unable to speak because of a cold. Speaker Cannon entcrtahud th visitors in a witty speech, which w:is roundly applauded. He devoted some attention to Canada, and said that during one trip he made from Vancouver to Winnipeg there was not a moment of the time ho did not violate the tenth commandment, which says "Thou shalt not covet." Of Canada and the I'nlted States he declared: "There is a oneness of literature, a oneness of language, a oneness of aspiration, a oneness of civilization and a oneness of common interest which makes us oue aud the same people commercially aad financially, whether we are oue and the same politically or not." Nomination Confirmed. WASHINGTON, March 3. The Senate today confirmed the nominations of the isthmian canal commissioners and also the following: Lieut. Col. James F. RandKtt. U. 8. A., retired. California, agent for the Indians of the Kiowa agency in Oklahoma; J. Blair Shoenfelt. Wyoming, agent for the Indians of the L'niou agency in the Indiui. Territory,

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package delivery busine is heating th government out of a considerable amount of postage. A farmer telephones his doctor in town that he haa the grip. The doctor replies that he sill fill out a prescription and send it out by the rural carrier the next morning. The package la a small one so small that the carrier can't bring himself to ask anything for taking it and yet if it were sent by mail, as It should be. it SSsM bring the government 3 or 4 cents In postage. The carrier would deliver it Just the same, but the government would be paid for the service." Mr. Willoughby. by the way. is a newspaper man. as well as postmaster, and like all country editors he has had all sorts of experience with delinquent subscribers, but he thinks he had an experience at the congressional convention at ShelbyvUle jes ter lay that is a re cord -breaker. "I met a man to-day at tn convention w;ho owed me just twelve years' back subscription and he called me to one side and paid me every cent of it," said Mr. Willoughby. in reltlng his remarkable experience. "That may so undJn credible, but I've got the cash to prove it. I don't know what possessd the man to 'dig up.' but I suppose his action goes to show the beneflcient effects of a Republican love feast. I'm glad I Went to Shelbyville, for I made money on the trip and had a good time besides," Senator Fremont Good wine, of Williamsport, was a visitor at the Statehouse yesterday. Stnator C. C. Lyons, of Fairmount. Is in the city to be present at the meeting of the Reuublican state committee to-day. t Joseph B. Keaüng, A. A. Young and Floyd A. Woods went down to Shelbyville yesterday to attend the congressional convention. Shelby comity Democrats are turning toward W. R. Hearst as the man for the Democratic presidential nomination thl year. That county has always been a stronghold of Bryanitrs and Bryanism, and now that Bryan has been relegated to the rear Hearst is being taken up as his residuary legatee. Mayor J. H. Dietxer. . Shelbyville. is authority for the statement that II irst has a large following there. H himself Is a Hearst man. "Yes. I'm for Hearst." he said, when ths question was put to him "I regard him as the strongest man that could be put at the head of the Democratic ticket thia year." The Liberal, one of the trio of Democratic newspapers published in Shelbyville, baa come out for Hearst. Oscar H. Montgomery, of Seymour, called at Republican state headquarters yesterday. He intimated that an announcement of his candidacy for tne nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court from th S. -ond judicial district will be forthcoming in the near future. f Indiana Democrats are serving notice on their brethren in the East that Grover Cleveland won't do as a presidential proposition this year. Taking at its face value a dispatch from New York that stated that Chairman Murphy, of Tammany, had expressed the opinion that Cleveland Is the strongest man who could be named for President by the Democratic national convention, the local Democratic organ started out yesterday to find a Democrat who would go on record as saying that Cleveland could carry Indiana this year. It failed to find one who would express such an opinion. John Ragsdale, of Franklin, ventured the assertion that Cleveland could come about as near carrying Indiana as any other man who might be nominated by the Democrats, but that was far from saying that he could carry the State. Even Mayor John W. Hedtzman said It would be a mistake to nominate Cleveland, although he expressed the belief that Cleveland could poll 90 per cent, of the Democratic vote. Most of the Democrat interviewed by the Sentinel inclined to the opinion that Cle . -land's nomination would be followed by a Republican victory similar to the one in lyji. when the Democrats did not carry a single congressional district. J. A. M. Adair, of Portland, the Eighth district member of the Democratic täte committee, said he didn't know a business man or anyone else in the party who wanted Cleveland. 1'nquestlonably there are few Cleveland Democrats In Indiana, and on the other hand there are any number of active party men who, like Cipt. D. F. Allen, of Prankfort, would not vote for Cleveland to save his life or theirs. Captain Allen. In a recent interview in this column, stated accurately his attitude of the average Indiana Democrat toward the man who has been thrice honored by the Democratic pregidential nomination. The reliability of the report that the boss of Tammany favors Cleveland is questioned by most of the prominent party workers here. They have had assurances that Tammany is for Judge Parker, along with the majority of Eastern Democrats, and they are working to the end that a Parker delegation may be sent from Indiana to the St. Louis convention. INCREASE PREVENTED IT FEARS OE PUBLIC ANGER Members of Congress Receive Salaries Altogether Inadequate for Demands Upon Them. BILL FOR HIGHER PAY Special to the Indianapolis Journal. W ASHINGTON. March S Fear of public wrath prevents the national lawmakers from increasing their own salaries. Senator Hoar had the courage to declare on tha floor of the Senate that $6,000 a year vai not enough for a member of Congress. In the old days, he said, the amount was sufficient. Then, he argued, the cost of llvlnf was insignificant, compared to what it la to-day. It costs more to live in Washington now than ever before. Everybody has the dinner habit. The representative or senator Is required to give from three to six dinners each session. The custom Is fixed and no one can avoid it. It is doubtful, however, whether any attempt will be made at this session or lm some years to increase the salaries of senators and representatives. By many this Is regarded as unfortunate, because of the hardship it Imposes on men of limited means. The same thing holds true of Cablt t members. There is really not a poor man in the Cabinet to-day. A Cabinet minister as a rule expenda more for house rest every year that he receives from the government. As a result many men of ability are prevented rrom taking the council board of the Pre Senator Gallinger, of Nef believes that salaries should all along the lint. He has int fixing the salaries of the 1 re sident and senators and r as follows: Presideut. I75.0S9; 1 and members of the Cabinet. I of the House, $12.000. and se around in seJ a bill r vice entatlves President ; speaker ri preator Galsentatlves and del gate linger will use this measure as a basis for ing increased salaries for tne omnais MR. BRISTOll' WILL NOT BE ASKED TO EXP LAIS WASHINGTON. March 5. By a unanimous vote the House committee on postoffices and post roads has decided to rej..rt the Hay resolution calling for information touching the improper of "influence" by members of the House te secure Increase In salary for postmasters. additional with the re table. Tinafter the cc ing. probal r cc .mn: fid k hire etc.. to the House Hon that it lie n the til not be taken until as hdd another meetay at which it will ng for the use of the Houst f information in the possession of the committte on this point. This Information forms certain -exhibit s" in the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brlatow, and heretofore has been kept confidential. With the printing of this information the object of the Hay resolution will have been met and the Ssoii in to isjp It on the tabic will h$ satisfactory.