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Maybe it is trip, but it looks suspiciously like a dodge to keep the Jap.- from being so eager to get at em. This theory that WS are sympathizing with Japan because she is the under dog will have to bu given up. If Japan has been under at any time she has kept mighty still aiout it. Tort Arthur has been called the Gibraltar of the .;r Hast. But that doesn't daunt the Japs. who. perhaps, remember that Quebec was onee called tb I Gibraltar of America and one night it was taken. The inspired prophets still croak of a world-wide war which is to be precipitated at almost any mom-nt now. Well, if it really comes, there won't be a safer place in the world than central Indiana. The members of the Panama canal commission ar-- raerificlng higher s tlaries than they will receive in their new position, but they will get i aough honor out of It to make up for mere dollars especially if they do their work well. Edward VII writes to Nicholas II that he is sorry the Knglish newspapers are saying so many mean things about him. Nicholas will continue to have his own Ideas as to whether Edward is losing any great amount of sleep over it. however. How can they K't ahi ad of us? Japan h been ordering an Immense amount of rl.e from Manila, while Russia gets her meai in the United States. Thus, in the homely but expressive colloquialism of the vernacular, wo get them coming and going. Eight hundred pilgrims to the Holy Land embarked from New York on Tuesday to take part In a world's Sunday-school convention in Jerusalem next month. They will be more successful in taking possession of the Holy City than were ever Richard Coeur de Lion or Godfrey of Boulogne. If the Democrats are so terribly hard up for a campaign issue why do they not take up the length and severity of the present winter? They could pass resolutions condemning the party under whose administration it took place and promise the people milder weather in event of a Democratic victory. Kiazlrn Bey, Bjovernor of Jerusalem and Palestine, has promised to come to the St. Louis world's fair, but says it will be inconvenient for him to bring his thirty wives. In this respect he will conform to the American cudmn. our idygamistg do not take their wives with them when they tra L rror. nariea Edot Norton says that there is not a single handsome building in Harvard not one "which is likely to be held in admiration two generations hence. " Architectural taste seems to be at a low ebb down Last. Why not send a delegation out here to get some pointtrs on pretty college buildings? Of the proposed Rockefeller gift to the Nebraska t'niversity. Ida Tarbell has the following cogent remarks: "If the acceptance of a gift brings with it tacit recognition of the commercial principles which Mr Rockefeller has employed with more conspicuous success than any other man in the country if it closes the mouth of any man In Nebraska to the corrupting Influence of these principles no greater calamity can befall the university than to accept his money. Human experience seems to show that the receiver of a gift becomes, sooner sm , the apologist of the douor and his

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methods. "Where there is a possibility of such a result, jealous regard for the moral atmosphere of the institution make? the refusal of the, gift an Imperative duty.' Which is horse sense.

ioit nit c. it i'T. After five months of investigation into chargea of municipal corruption a committee of uine aldermen in Chicago has decided there is no systematic graft in that city and that such graft as exists there is sporadic. The public has heard a good deal about graft m various cities and has a pretty deilnite Idea of what it means, viz.. any form of municipal blackmailing or making money at the expense of the city or the people. There are many kinds of grafts, but this is the first time they have been differentiated as systematic and sporadic. Municipal government in Chicago has been getting worse and worse for a long time. It has been an open secret that the police were standing in with certain classes of criminals, sympathizing with rioters and strikers nnd that some of the city officials were making money by illegitimate means. Mayor Harrison declared in an interview last fall, which preceded the investigation, that if be were to weed out corruptionists he would have grafters jumping out of every window In the city hall. Finally a committee of aldermen were appointed to invest iant - the subject. The committee inquired into nll-night saloons and other night haunts of vice, such as BWVbWI of ill fame, gambling houses, etc., and found that they were very little interfered with. It is not stated whether the police or othrr officials profited by the non interference. The committee does not think it possible to suppress vice, but "it should be possible to prevent practically all flaunting of vice on the streets or in public places of any kind, including saloons." The committee seems tö think vice Is not so very bad, but flaunting is naughty. As to winerooms and side doors the committee says: Your committee has no sympathy with the proposition to exclude women, from saloons in all cases, or to bar the side door entrances. In some quarters of Chicago it is common for reputable women to go into saloons. Some of the down-town restaurants frequented by respectable women are nothing but saloons with restaurants attaqhed. While the side door entrance in many cases is an entrance to an objectionable resort, there is no justification for condemning the side door or women's entrance in all cases. The committee thinks that while many nil-night saloons are breeding places of crime it is unjust to include all of them in that category, and it recommends that "a limited number of saloons be allowed to remain open all night, on payment of a small additional license where the saloons are located In centers of all-night industrial activity." It thinks the practice of policemen selling benefit tickets to the keepers of saloons and Immoral places should be prohibited. On the question of graft the committee says: "It is the opinion of your committee, judging from the evidence heard, that there is in Chicago no such systematic graft, involving high officials, as was shown by the Lexow Investigating committee to have existed in New York some years ago. buch gtuft as exists in Chicago appears to be sporadic rather than systematic." Perhaps the term sporadic is not ns generally understood as graft. As used by phy sicians relative to disease it means a separate or isolated outbreak as distinguished from an endemic or epidemic disease. A sporadic disease is not universal or even general; it occurs now and then and here and there. The inference from the commit tee's report is that while graft exists in Chicago it does not pervade and permeate the whole city government. It exists in places, but there are places where it does not exist. This is comforting. It must be gratifying to decent people in Chicago who have thought the whole city government was rotten to learn that there are some sound spots. Sporadic cases of diser.se are not as hard for physicians to handle as an epidemic, but as scattered cases always tend towards an epidemic they are always alarming. Chicago will be fortunate if her sporadic graft can be prevented from becoming epidemic. N WAL BATTLE PHOB WILY FOUGHT. Late dispatches from the se. t of war in the East make it highly probable that a great naval battle has occurred in the waters southeast of Vladivostok, perhaps near Possiet bay. Reports to this effect have reached Loudnu, and they are partially confirmed by a press dispatch from Tokio, which claims a decisive Japanese victory and says that details are anxiously a Waited. It is evident now that the recent bombardment of Vladivostok, in which the Japanese ships tired $100.000 worth of shells at long range, was for the purpose of locating the Russian squadron or ascertaining whether It was in the harbor or noL Havi-ig satisfied themselves that it was not in the harbor, part of the Japanese ships steamed away to find and engage it. It i laimed at Tokio that the Japanese squad nm was strong enough to divide, one porticn start ing in search of the Russian ships and the other remaining to guard the approaches of Vladivostok. If the Russian ships are outside of Vladivostok harbor, which is their base and which they would doubtless try to re enter, they are bound to tight, for if not found by the Japanese ships which are cruising in search of them they would encounter the portion of the squadron that is guarding the harbor. It is only about a huudred miles from Posslet bay to Vladi vostok. and it is probable the Japanese have engaged the Russian squadron in the m ar vi lnity of Posslet bay. In this event uews of n great naval battle may be ex peeled any hour. TIP-: MMtl GEIEI 11 . Hl(i. The Springtield. O.. lynching and riot is one of the most disgraceful affairs of the kind that has ever occurred. The lynching alone was bud enough and accompanied by as many barbarous details as have ever characterised any Southern lynching, but the subsequent rioting and burning of housts showed a kind and degree of vin dlctiveness that has not appeared in the South. The Southern people have often wreaked swift vengeance on the pcrpctra tors of outrageous crimes, but when the criminal is punished they stop. They have never followed up the crime of murder by wholesale arson. Such occurremts as this demonstrate two facts, first, that race and color prejudice prevail to a considerable extent in the North as well as in the South, and second, that there is in all cities a claaa of people who can on pretty slight provocation be worked into a fury of lawlessness and crime. Perhaps this element exists in some degree even in small towns, but it requires numbers tu make it deliaut

and dangerous. Human nature is much the same under all circumstances, and. making due allowance for difference of climate, temperament and environment, Ierhaps Northern people are not much more law-abiditig than those of the South. It must be remembered that the proportion of colored people to whites is vastly greater in the South than in the North and the crimes which appeal to the evil spirit much more frequent. In the present case there was no justification for an appeal to mob law. The killing of a policeman by a white man is not an uncommon occurrence, and the fact that in this case the killing was done by a negro did not make the crime any more heinous. The murderer was In jail and would doubtless have received merited punishment by legal methods if the mob had not murdered him. If he had been a white man there would have been no lynching and no subsequent burning of houses. The occurrence shows that among a certain class of people race hatred is as prevalent in the North as it is in the South. In both sections it can only be cured by time and education. The cure may come slowly, but it will come. MINOR TOPICS.

Among other details in a recent character sketch of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, we are told that he ' has a trick of gesture, drawing a foivnnger rapidly across his nose when he has made a telling point." Yes we have seen boys in America use the same gesture. But they are poor boys who cannot afford handkerchiefs, and Mr. Cham berlain can. These Mormons are not especially good at their own game. Look at this New Jersey street car conductor who on his own confession has been married ' about fortyseven times." If the Senate wants some real fun, let it try New Jersey. "I am a plural wife, and I am proud of It," says one of the little llock known col lectively as Mrs. Joseph F. Smith. But she isn't really a plural wife. She is only the fraction of a wife. Now is she as proud as she was? Toledo is having the time of her life, and pointing with pride to the fact that she is the wettest city in the Union. She never was a "dry" town, but. as Laertes said, "Too much of water hast thou, fair Toledo." An old dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who has, by the way, twice bolted the ticketnow says that he will vote for his party's nominee, even if he is a yellow dog. Wow! but that's a slam at W m R-n-d-h Ht! There are lots of new books being pub lished every day, but if you wish to be considered up-to-date, the proper thing to read is "Naml-Ko-San," by Kenjiro Tokutomi, of the Min-Yu-8ha. It's just lovely. Here is a doctor who says the best remedy in the world for baldness is plain kerosene. The truth of the old proverb that shoemakers' children go barefoot may be realized by glancing at John D. Rockefeller. "If any nation attempts to interfere with operations in any part of Manchuria," asserts Pilug, who seems to be something of a fire-eater, "it will get war." Which, according to Shermanoff, is hellsky vitch. The Italian government issues some new stamps which were designed by a famous artist. The United States government is sued some awhile ago which appear to have been designed by a blacksmith. Iowa contemplates a law whereby it will be a misdemeanor for any able-bodied man to refuse a job when It is offered. It's a safe bet that the next census shows an immense increase in cripples. It is said that red neckties are unfashionable in the Kaiser's domain on account of their connection with anarchy. This is probably the first good thing anarchy has ever accomplished. If the Senate wa its to do this country a great favor right now, it will obtain information as to what the apostles are in the habit of doing about Easter bonnets at this time of year. "What is the war zone?" asks a correspondent. Well, it has been a frigid zone up to this time, but both parties are expecting a great degree of torridity from now on. "Thousands of Jews leave Russia," announce the evening papers. That's right for goodness sake don't bring it with you. We have troubles of our own. They say that it has been several weeks since Arthur Pue Gorman was heard to sing his favorite song of olden days, "Maryland. My Maryland!" "Lent is in our midst," says a Boston paper. What's the matter got that empty leeling? We don't notice it much, here in Indiana. Chicago brewers are threatening to strike. And Just as the bock is beginning to get ripe, too this is too cruel ! By the way. it is no wonder, now that all is known, that the directories are so full of Smiths, is it? THE HUMORISTS. Partial Acquaintance. Niblick Do you understand golf? Footle Yea, but I don't speak Tiantcript. it. Boston BsMsUpr Done. "How did she get so tangled up In history? That was one of her favorite studies at school and sht always stnd high in it?" "True, but she has been reading historical novels recently." Chicago Post. Fn i I u re. I never wrote a limerick, 1 never could quite see the trick, I've often t-ied Until I erud. And gone tu bed a-feelin' sick. New Yurk Globe. I i co u rn Keilte n t. "You look discouraged." f "I am. I'vi' a icgular Korea feeling." "How's that ." : : ' n walking all over me to day without considering whether I'd like it or not. Cir.ioago Tribune. Ihr beeret Out. Friend Why do you mark things ninety-nine cents when they are acMally worth one doPar? Men ham W ell. u , customers hate to leave without that odd cent, and. by keeping them watir.s fur th :r hanrc. thry generally see so lething else tluy want. New Yurk Weekly. Ii lear tinin. When writing by the column. With so much space to nil. it helps ail up the measure To write down hill Hebrew Standard. Suspicion Mun. 'A nan should have some cuufldence In his Sftta." ssid Mts. Maiiitdlong. "sad sb in hun.

That 1 the only way that happiness can be secured." Yes." replied Mrs. Girlbride. with tears in her eyes, "and that is Just what Charley hadn't got. I anted to try and shave him the other morning to save barber's bills, and he wouldn't even let nm try :" Cincinnati Times-Star.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The true name of Korea is "Choson." moaning j "land of the morning sun." It is by this name that the country is designated In dipli.natic j papers at the State Department at Washington. ! For a dowry Herr Duckatscheck. of Düsseldorf, gave his daughter a present r.f her weight in j silver. At her wedding she was solemnly j weighed in presence of the eomian.v. She was j foun-l to tern the scales at 140 pounds and to be 1 worth 1.800. Charles Runner, of Kkagway. has orpanizod I an expedition to investigate the report tnai a , well-preserved body of a mammoth has wen lounu ny moians BS a glacier near ni ,....:.-. , An effort will be made to exhibit the f.nd at j the St. Louis world's fair. j Dinners of souls are the latest amusement of the smart set in Paris, at least that part of the i smart set which has intellectual pretensions. The invited guests each impersonates some celebrity, not by means of clothes or other masquerading follies, but by speech and manner, by accent, tricks of voice or attitude and by repeating celebrated speeches or parts of speeches of the celebrities, providing the quotations are apropos. Admiral Stark, the Russian commander, who suffered so severely at Port Arthur, is of Scotch descent, a fact which moves the London Chronicle to remark that the name Stark is pure Scotch, "though most of those who made i? famous attained their celebrity in England." Possibly the Chronicle did not care to recall that one John Stark won at least a certain kind of celebrity at Bennington, Vt. in revolutionary times. In looking up arguments favorable to a bill to expedite law business a member of the New York legislature finds that twenty-three London Justices disposed of nearly twice as many cass in a year as forty-three New York judges. Furthermore English justices are able to try their cases under their system so that only 10 per cent, of those tried are appealed, while at hast ;:3 per cent, of the New York cases are appealed. The Kaiser's latest role is that of the Prophet Daniel. Such, at least, is the conclusion reached by thosu who have examined the new sculptured figure of Daniel on the facade of the cathedral at Metz. "It didn't require more than two glances," says the New York Sun, "to enable people to see that the face presented as Daniel's was that of Emperor William. The unofficial newspapers mentioned It, plain folks gossiped about it privately and the foreign critics of the Emperor seized upon the fact as another instance of the absorbing egotism of the strenuous ruler of Germany." STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Patti as a Mnsic Teacher. In Syracuse the other day Adclina Tatti told a reporter how she had recently been teaching music to a little American girl. "This little girl," she said, "is a delight. Her questions and answers ars as entertaining as a comedy. The other day I was explaining to her the menning of the signs f and ff. " 'F,' I said, 'means forte. Now, if f means forte, what does ff mean ." -Eighty.' said the little girl.' "Now York Tribune. 'ot Interested. On the car the other morning I happened to hang by the strap next to Himmelstein's. lietwecn begging pardons of and granting pardons to my near neightH.it s, I managed to read a few paragraphs in my newspaper. One of them told of a remarkable find by a Nippur expedition of the Cnlversity of Pennsy 1 ania. It was nothing less than a well-preserved and thoroughly authenticated tailor's bill nearly 5,000 years old. Since Bimmelstein himself is engaged in the clothing business, I thought he would be interested in this ancient relic, so I told hint about it, but the story seemed to make no impression on him. "Jiang It, man," said I, "don't you understand? It's a tailor's bill almost 5,000 years old?" "Veil, ' he answered, "vot iss it good for? Dey can't gollect it." Brooklyn Eagle. Yoorhces mid Hoke Smith. In the Georgia delegation they often recall the good old days when Hoke Smith was secretary of the interior and filled every place he had to fill with Georgians. They say that you couldn't throw a stick in the department without hitting a Georgia man. One day. they relate, the late Senator Voorhees, who had been vainly trying to get a place for an Indiana man, came down the corridor as Secretary Smith came up. The senator was whistling "Marching through Georgia" in a disconsolate way. That tune was no., pleasing to Hoke Smith's sensitive Georgia ears, and he looked at Yoorhees In a reproachful way. "What are you whistling that for?" said Hoke, and his tone was bunKned with reproach. "I just can't rfelp it," explained Senator Voorhees. "Whenever I come through your department I feel as if I was marching through Georgia." That day Yoorhecs's Indiana friend was appointed. New York Times. Ilm Ho Cheated llimaelf. Edward Atkinson, of Roston. the aotsu economist, was talking about tricksters. "They who descend to trickery," he said, "have small minds always. That is why they don't succeed. They dupe others now and then, hut they dupe themselves just as often. "That man was, perhaps, a typical trickster who once bought here, in Brookline, twentyseven loads of flour from the railroad. He had a heavy plank or his wagon, and he kept the plank there during the weighing of each load. Then, when the flour was all weighed and he was setting off for home, he said, in great excitement, to the friend who was with him: " 'Say nothin'. MB: I shaved that feller. I never deducted the plank but once. Keep sP-ady. Say nothin'.' "And Bill, indeed, had a hard time to convince the foolish old fellow that he had bought from the railroad thirty pounds of plank twenty-six times." New York Tribune. Senatorial Repartee. Representative J. Adam 13ede. of Minnesota, whose initial Low as an orator in the House won him instant recognition as a prince of raconteurs, and John Wesley Go Ines, of Tennessee, who pofes as the Adonis of the lower House, were boasting of their respective political parties. "Jadam" Bede, as he has been nicknamed, is a rock-ribbed Republican, while John Wesley is a young exponent of Democratic principles. "What." asked Gaines of Bede, "did you do with the ma.wr of one of our great cities in Minnesota? Is he in for twenty-five years or for life?" Every Democrat within hearing laughed at this sally. ' He's not In yet." letortc-d Ped. "and I hope he Is innocent. H was recently a Democrat, and had been a Republican only for six months when convicted." "That shows what a good man does when he gets into bad comapr.y." persisted Gaines. ' Fact is." replied Bede. smilingly, "ne hadn t had tunc to reform him." Harper's Weekly. SSI Alert Hiidne lnn. John W. Crawford a real-estate dealer of Pittsburg, was at the Fifth Avenue yesterday.. He told this story nnent the retnt fire in Ro heater, where he happened to be at the time it occurred: "Although an outbuak of fire and its possible consequence have an alarming e.Tect u.un the imagination there is ree'.iy some fun to be derived from t lie n marks of bystanders. To gi- u a sample: "While I was staniing wntch'.ng Intently the fire the other day in Rochester my eyes fell on an exceedingly stout old fellow, who was looking at th? flames with equal intentness. when a man with a pronounced Scotch biogue standing next me asked at the rame moment if I ken'd who that was. Of course I told him I did not hsve the pleasure of the man's acquaintance, whereupon he volunteered the information that he was the 'msist up-tae-date business man in Rochester." " in whst line of business Is he?' I asked. 'He s an undertaker, an' Ibsre be U already

Ist n watchin' his chsnee of s Jos.' "New York Glole.

T hose At ful n rues. The man who was writing paused. "Say." he queried, "do you spell that Korean name 'Wee Joo W-i-J-u?" "You spell it any way you please." was the answer. "Oh. come off! What do ycu mean?" "I mean Just what I say. You can spell It W-l-J-u, or B-u-l-j-u. or v -u-i D-J-o-u. and you'll be right in any case. The first way's the American; the second's eccordinp to an English method of transliteration and the third is the French contortion. Those French inapmakers are beauties. They spell Fuan F-o-u-s-a-n. and Kunsan K-o-u-n-s-a-n. That's why the Russian di?natohes coming lj' way of Paris are often so unintelligible. "Why." the speaker continued, "those war names are driving me crazy. There's always at leaft th;fe ways Qf spelln8 them Even Anju the Knglish often spll A-n-c-h-y-u. or A-n-g-u. tnre.8 Kiu-8hu, with the hyphen and wphnut ,t and Kr,. There's Chemulpo, cemulpho and T-c-h--ni-o-u-l-p-o and Ta Lien Wan. Tallenwan and. Tallen Ouan. Can you best that? Why. even plain little Newhang can be spelled N-e-w-c-h-w-a-n-g. N-e-w-e-h-u-a-n-g or N-i-o-u-T-c-h-o-u-a-n-g. "The other day a fellow told me that the Emperor of Korea had been advised to remove to a place that sounded like Chy jn-Chyou'. I got a map of Korea to look up the place and within about an inch of each other on a large scale map 1 found Cdiyung-chyu, Chyong-chyu. Chyukchyou. Chyou-Tung, Chin chyou. Chyon-an, Chyong-an, Chyon-ew, Chyong-yang and Ohyongsan. Now, after that. I d about made up my mind where the Emperor of Krea ought to go. but what I still want to find out is where he actually did go, anyhow." "If he didn't want to get lost," said the man who had been writing, "he'd better have stayed in Seoul. "-Philadelphia Pns I.anilaetipe Advertising. The associated billposters rf the United States and Canada now officially condemn the practice at Ialnting signs upon rocks and other natural objects in picturesque landscapes, although they seem to offer no objection to putting a loarding for posters and paintings in front of the natural object. The distinction is a fine one. but it means some gain. Several railroads have prohibited the erection of billboards on their own property, and although this scarcely disturbs the advertiser, who can still use the private property on either side of the right of way, it shuts out one possible extension of the abuse that has tremendous possibilities. In at least one case, also, a great railroad company has taken to planting quickly growing trees at 8ui.h places as to hide the boardings erected on adjacent land. The Boston & Albany road has gained a like end in the suburbs of Boston by planting screens of shrubs or a hedge at the top of the cut; and it has become no unusual thing for a railroad company, conscious of the popular feeling, to exert its influence, as far as it can, upon the. adjacent property owners to induce them to refuse to lease advertising rights. But a public opinion that very unanimously considers the extension of hospitality to advertisements by a barn or other outbuilding, or even by a field, as a badge of the farmer's poverty, is perhaps doing more than is anything else to remedy this abuse. Charles Multord Robiason, in March Atlantic. A Good Honda Appropriation. Senator Latimer made a journey out to Iowa months ago. speaking in favor of good roads. lie appeared in the congressional district of Ilepresentative Hedge, who secnn to take little stock in the proposition. Mr. Hedge, however, is a friendly man. He Introduced the senator to a large audience, at the same time explaining that he would not be responsible for what the visitor had to say. The glories of an appropriation of $40,000,000 by the federal government were eloquently set forth by the South Carolinian. The Iowa farmers present were delighted. The district is one of the largcyi in the State, has thousands of miles of highways, and the residents from the country were greatly pleased with Mr. Latimer's advocacy of federal appropriations. But Mr. Hedge, who is a very practical man. had a turn later. Proceeding on the assumption that the government should appropriate $10,OOQ,003 for good roads, to be distributed pro rata among the States, he figured out that his district would receive as its quota enough money to build about three miles of good highway. "And now," said Mr. Hedge, after he had explained how far the appropriation would go. "where do you want those thtee miles of road built?" He declared that some of those farmers are still discussing which part of the district shall have the benefit of the money. Washington Post. Disastrous ItaMiit lultnre. "No more rabbit culture for me," said a Roxborough man yesterday. "I've hsd all I want. My experiments hereafter will be along different lines. Some time ago I stocked my yard I have quite an extensive place with rabbits, thinking to raise them for the market. Well, my stock seemed rather unhappy. A lot of the young ones died, and the older ones moped and didn't seem to take much interest in life, even at feeding time. Well, a friend of mine, who professed to know all about rabbits, told me the other day that they had to have a run. 'What's a run?' I asked. He explained to me what a run was, a subterranean passage, a sort of tunnel, through which the rabbits might run, and that it supplied a characterisilc want on the part of the annua',. Well, I built the 'run.' as he called it. and sure enough all the rabbits disappeared Into the opening. It waa really much like a sewer, except that It had no graded outlet, and the water from last Sunday's rain ran down in it to beat the band. I watched for the rabbits, but they didn't come out. The next day, fearing the worst, I tore up the tunnel, and there was every blessed one of them drowned as dead as a door nail! Don't talk to me any more about raising rabbits." Philadelphia llecord. Polygamy in I tith. It is doubtful if any substantial results can follow the investigation. Even if Mr. Smoot should be deprived of his seat, it would do little or nothing to affect the practices of the Mormons, the political tyranny of their hierarchy or ecen their selection of some other polygamist to succeed Mr. Smoot. 'Wien ''iigres-s .-aw lit to admit a state that was thoroughly dominated by the Mormon organisation it made the admission of Mormons to both branches of Oongfi . inevitable, and it knew perfectly well that Mormonism meant olygamy and it meant heirarchical politics. If Congress could not break up polygamy while t'tah were a Territory, It was quite certain that it could accomplish even less after the Mormons acquired the right of sclf-gov ernn' .-nt ami obtained representation in Ooaajftca, About all that can be hoped for is that Mermonism can be kept, for the most part, out of Idaho and Arizona, and that its foul fires may burn themselves out In Utah Philadelphia Record. Hol to Be Ontdone. Seera! yee-s ago the late Col. Gabe Bouck. of Oshkosh. Wis . was trying a case before judge noted for his arbitrary rulings. The judge, becoming weaiy. taid he would postpone a further hearing till the following Friday. "But that is Good Friday," suggested Colonel Bouck. "We'll hear the care then, anyway." said the jurist. "You'll break a record that has stood since the Christian eia." said Bouck. "Pontius Pilate is the only other judge who held court on fjsoq Friday." On one occasion during the civil war it was reported in camp that six men of a N' v Jersey regiment in the brigade had been baptized that morning. When Colonel Bouck heard it he called his adjutant and issued this command: "Adjutant, detail twelve men for oaptism to-morrow morning. I'm not going to have any blank New Jersey regiment get ahead of the Eighteenth Wisconsin." New York Press. The World'n Gift to Lincoln. The world gave him Abraham Lincoln) more than it gae to any other man of his century. In spite of his humble origin and his extreme poverty, it gave hini a eh-ince. and has crowned him one of the in. mortals. His life was pathetic to a degree, and. terrible as was his death, it saved him doubtless from much distress the Infidelity of btJ friends sn.l the bitterness of Ingratitude. But the wor!': gave him everything It could give a living, the highest honors possible to any man and perpetual place among the great of all the sgss. Charleston ig. C.j News and Courier.

THE DRIFT

James P. Goodrich, of Winchester, chairman of the Republican state committee, was in the city yesterday h.ng enough to issue the call for the state convention, which will be found In another column f the Journal, and to transact other busin -- at state headquarters. Mr. Goodrich L far from well, and when he left lor hi home yesterday afternoon he had orders from his physician that he should not atttmpt to give any attention to lwint .-s matters for the next week or ten days. While here yesterday Chairman Goodrich and Secretary Sims decided that the offices of the rdate committee shall be removed from the Staie Life building to the Knglish Hotel. This matter has been under en-.-dderiition by the commluw for sev ral weeks, an-! at the recent m ting Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Sims w?re constituted a (MMsV mittee with power to act. The change will l made at once, and Secretary Sims - pects to be In the new offices by next Monday. Rooms 201' and ,n the third tl.r of the English, at the M ri. Han-street end of the building, have been secured for the offices of Chairman Goodrich and ret ry Sims. A suite of five adjoining rooms will be used b the clerical force employed by the state committee. The Knglish was chosen as official Republican state headquarters several months ago, i.nd the establishing cd the uli - of the committee there has been urged by leading party workers. The new offices wili be more convenient of access and !nre satisfactory, inasmuch as it will oe ;hsslble for the committee t secure just as many rooms as will be needed at any Time tluring the campaign. Senator O. C. Lyons, of Fairmount. who was at the head of the speakers' bureau maintained by the Republican state ommittee during the last campaign, came down to the city yesterday and Identified himself wiih the committee's office force. The senator may not take charge of the speakers' bureau this campaign, but he will be actively engaged at headquarters. e Kd Hancock, editor of the Rushvllle Republican, was a caller at state headquarters yesterday. He says that the Republicans of Rush county are comparatively quiet at present, but that they are prepared to unite with their brethren in Shelby county and elect the successor to Judge Morris this year as a result of the Democratic factional fight. It is a somewhat peculiar coincidence that Judge Morris was first elected In th circuit composed of Rush and Decatur counties as a result of p. factional fight among the Republicans, anc! that he is now confronted with inevitable defeat this year as a consequence of a split in his own party. Mr. Hancock has this week launches daily paper at Rushville a ste j at which the publishers of country weeklbs have always hesitated but he says that he felt compelled to make the departure and that he is assured of support that will justify his entrance into the da My field. Harmon L. Hutson. who was the secretary of the Senate during the last session of the Legislature, has been covering the State during the last few months almost as thoroughly as the candidates for state offices. Incidentally he has inquired into the political situation in the various counties ho has visited and hac paid especial attention to the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. "The race is an interesting one," he said last evening, "and at this stage it is difficult to pick a winner. Hanly and Taylor and their friends are making a hard tight and arc claiming everything in eight, and I think there is little question but that they arc making more headway than either of the other candidates. I have visited almost every county in the S'.nlo within the last three months, and it is mv opinion that ot the two Taylor has a Shade tin- 1 lter of it. None of the counties thtt have selected delegates had instructed its .iel-f,ates for him. and for that reason Hanly s friends have been able to make more ot a showing of strength, but I have neard more Taylor talk than Hanly talk, and I think ine Indianapolis man will have a majority of the uninstructed delegates to far selected. I know that be won out in St. Joseph county, for 1 was up there when the primary light was made. I am satisiied, too, thai be will have a substantial majority of the delegates from Marshall county, "Down in the southern end of the State Hanly has made great headway. The Warrick county delegates were instructed for him, and it is probable that he will have the most ot the delegates from the First district, although Taylor will be strong in Vanderburg county. Hanly will probably be stronger in the First district thanln any other outside his own, the Tenth. Over in the Sixth it has been about an even break so far between Taylor and Hanly. "I realize, however, that it is a difficult matter to get a line on the gubernatorial situation. A man goes into a county, and if he gets in with one crowd he will hear nothing but talk for one candidate, whili II he meets another crowd he will hear of nothing but the other fellow's strength. In the close counties, where the forces of the rivnl candidates qre about evenly divided, it will be next to impossible to tell where the votes will go until the first roll is called in the state convention." It was learned yesterday that the report of the visit of John C. Eastman, of Chicago, to the city on Tuesday was correct. Mr. Eastman was here, although he kept under cover, and he held conferences with a number of the Democratic leaders concerning the attitude Indiana Democrats are taking toward the presidential aspirations of his employer, William R. Hearst. Mr. Eastman is the business manager of Hearst's I'hlcago newspaper properties. Mr. Eastman, it is said, did not receive much encouragement from the men with whom he talked. It is understock that he had a long interview with Thomas Taggart Although Mr. Taggart last evening affected the utmost surprise when asked about the matter and that the wily boss told him that Hearst was persona mm grata with Indiana Democracy. Ben F. Shivoly, of South Bond, and Henry A. Barnhardt, of Rochester, are, in fact, the only Democrats in the Stale entitled to recognition as party leaders who look upon Hearst's candidacy with favor, and they are understood to have little enthusiasm in the matter. Despite the ehilly reception from the party leaders, however, iiearst'e lieutenants will continue their operations in Indiana in the hope that the rank and file will b innre susceptible tri the arguments advanced by the candidate armed, as some Democrats have put it. solely by "cheek and checkbook." The checkbook argument has leen found so potent in Michigan. Kentucky and a few of the Southern St.itthat it is believed It will bring about good results in Indiana. The Hearst boomers are diligently circulating the report that Bryan has esioused the cause of the "yellow peril" and that also hears fruit in this State. John W. Kern said yesterday in the Journal ihe rank and file of Indiana Democrats are for Bryan and anything that Bryan wants, and once tiny are convinced that Bryan wants Haaret as the candidate for Press1 den this jroai they will be for Hearst. However, while Mr. Kern's standing in the party la such as to entitle his opinions to respect, there are other things to be taken into coitetderation. For instance, the successful antiBryan movement in Hancock county in Which the autis secured control of the party organization. If similar movements in CATHOLIC RIGHTS ARE RESTORED IN GERMANY Bill Passed by the Bundesrath Authorizing the Return of Jesuijts to the Bmpirt. BERLIN. March 9. The Hund.srath today assented to the bill, passed by the Reichstag, reptuling the anti-Jesuit paragraph of the law of July I. 17L prohibitive the Jesuit.- from settling in Germany. The decision of the Bundesrath destroys th- last fragment of the lat- Bismarck's last war with the clergy, and gives Cutholics an equal position before the law with Protestants. sHronn political considerations hav- been at work beea-is. the g,. r!:rii--nt had to rely greatly on the Center party. They passed the naval bills and when th- Reichstag and the novfrnxnent wene deadl-u k d over the tariff bill, a year ago. th. lea of the 'enter party reached an understato!uig with the government to ijcrtult the I Jesuits to return.

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other Democratic strongholds are attended by like eure Kryau's Influence in Indiana will amount to nothing, for without a hold on the party machinery he cannot hope to have a hand in the selection of del. -gates to the St. Louis convention. Clay W. M tsker. .if Plymouth. Who. at the recent meeting of the Demoeratlc Editorial Association, delivered a carefully prepared address that virtually read Bryan out of the party, continues to hammer away at the prophet from Nebraska and every time he takes a rap at the discredited leader he hits Hearst equally hard. In the last i.-s'. ' his paper, the Plymouth Independent. Mr. Metskr says: "Wisdom on the part of Democrats ealle for a candidate that all can unite upon Cleveland is too extreme in the direction f c onservatism; Hearst is too extreme in t Indirection of radicalism. The happy medium is what is desired by the thinking Democrats of the country. New York will pret Judge Parker as the man upon whom all Democrats can unite. If Park cannot be nominated, then Indiana can logically ak that Benjamin Shively be the nomln- . Either Parker or Shively are capable f uniting the different elements of the DemOCraUc party. If not Shively for the head of the ticket, sensible reasoning will command a ticket reading; 'Parker and Shively.' Democrats should not be too de- : . mined in their prejudices. Let us ha a ticket that will command general support." Then he continues in an attempt to shoW that tfearef was not loyal to Bryan and that he- Hearst haa nothing to commend him to the support of the Democrats who stood by Byran in 18 and 196U. quitting from H. arst's paper, the Chicago American, an editorial condemning Bryan for clinging to the dead Issue of free silver and inking the policy of cutting loose from the Philippines. The Huntington Herald, which is actively supporting Representative Landis in the Eleventh district congressional contest, takes exception to the st.it ments that Dr. Charles 11. Good, of Warren, is to be regarded as a "neutral" in the fight, or that lu may I" a dark h-rse in the convention. It says: "Dr. Good is earnestly and heartily in favor of the renomination of Mr. Landis and is actively at work in his inures t." a Y. Oliver Marks, of Salem, secretary of the Washington county Republican central committee , was a call r at state headtjuarters yesterday. He reported that the organization in his county is in excellent shape and that the Republicans there are confident of making an unusually good showing this y-ar. The bitter nght Ih -twoew Zenor and Cox for the Demociatia congressional nomination, he said, will result decidedly to the advantage of the Republicans. Frank E. Hering, who was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth district two years ago. has decided to ask that he le sent as a delegate to the St. Ijuuis convention this year. The South Bend Tribune. Republican, saya of the primaries htdd Monday in St. Joseph county: "The primaries were for the purpose of electing delegates to the Thirteenth district convention at Knox, Starke county, next Tuesday and to the state convention to bj held in Indianapolis April 26. The distric t delegates arc unanimously in favor of th renomlnation of Congressman Brick, snd it is thought a large majority of the state dclegltil are in favor of J. Frank Hanly as the candidate for Governor. Joseph M. Crav. ns, of Madison, mho represented Jefferson county in the House dur. ing the last session of the Legislature, ia at the Claypool. For several months Mr. ravens was regarded as s prospective . indicate for the Fourth district Democratic congressional nomination, but he says ho is not to be considered as an sspirant for j a i s-nt .uive Griffith's toga. V. L. Taylor, of this city, returned .--tcrday from a brief trip to Washington and New York. He says that he was cslled to New York on legal business and visit. 1 Washington only Incidentally, and that there was no political end to his trip. T Finlcy P. Mount, one of the well-known Republican workers of Crawfordsvllle, who was at th Columbia Club last evening, was askel to answer the mooted question as i the stand ihe Montgomery county delegate to the stale convention will take in tho gubernatorial ru"I'm not the man to answor that question." he n plb d. "I don't know that any one can t-ll just where every delegate will stand. I know that a majority of the delegates from Union township the city of Crawfordsvllle favor th' candidacy of W. L. Taylor. Union township has nine cut of the twenty-one delegates In the county. I do not know how the delegates from th out townships will line up. but I imagine that Frank Hanly will come in for his full share." M. A. Brouse, mayor of Kokomo, wa at the Columbia Club last evening R. E. Breed, of Marion, was at the Olajrpool yesterday to att nd the monthly meeting of the Western Flint Gia-s Bottle Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Breed takes an active hand in Republican politics, and, like other Grant county Republicans, is chiefly interested at present in the ccngr--sional contest bet wen landis and Steel-. "The fight is growing warm, he hald. "and the Peru convntion promts- to be almost &s interesting as the state convention." "The magnanimity shown by Congressman Hemenway, of our district, toward his political opponents, instanced by hit earnest endeavor in 1900 to secure a pension for Alfred Dale Owen, the candidate against him on the Democratic ticket, and his untiring efforts to further the Interests of the district and State are bearing fruit in the shape of conversions from the Democratic ranks." said J. M. Gray, of Boonviile, yesterday. "Prominent amonaj those who have recently declared themm Ives as converts to Republicanism to TboMaa W. Lindsay, of our county, who has l.ecn on.- of the leading Den.oeruts of the First district. Mr. Lindsay haB servc4 as chairman of the Warrick county Democratic committee, and was elected prosecuting attorney by the Democrats, hut at our r - tit countv convention h'- came -ut squarely as a Republican He made great speech at the convention, snd although the Domoernfs are now denouncing" him as an ingiate and saying that they will le better off without him. there can be no j i.stion but that his loss is a severe one to then. Captain W E. Stone Is an-oth'-r ot nur Democrats who is for Mr. H- rr.enway. He says that he votes for Mr. " ri.'hwav from principle because he dee not wish to throw his vote away on Democratic candidate "Mr. Hemenwav has auch a hold uj the district now that I believe he could not b. def. e.t. d v.-n in a Democratic land-Mi-as (iv. i v. helming aw t h- Republican ! l.ui i f lsM. His position in Congi-ee . h that even the Dem- rats coneeoe that it Is for the best Interests of the district and State to keep hint there." CUBA WAX TS TOGBT RID OF MONGOOSES Mow Offering Bounty of 25 Cents fur the Kat-Killcrs, Kither Dead r Alive. HAVANA. March 9.-Some years mongooses were Imported into Cuba for the puriose of killing rats on the sugar estates. They have now become so numerous and ar- destroying so much poultry thst the government is offering 25 cents for each of the animals caught dead or alive. The . ; . 1 1 nee of Cube with this animal is tie same as that of Jamal a, where it Is such a plague that means of getting rid ot it !: - . : a s- nous I i stion for e !:;; time. Hetmlilienns Carried Seattle. SKATTl.fcl. Wash.. March t. Complete ......... uli.iw iKut lit. l( ,i.ilill.-anii .arrU.I I K 1.1 . .'II - " ...... . - - - . H V .- - ... Urse mi hrrtsf