Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1904 — Page 4

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1 J resentaiions to Turkey against carrying

out the Sultan's plans for the suppression and probable extermination of a conoid ' erable portion of the Armenians. It has been some time since there has been a wholesale massacre of Armenians, and the Oultan probably feels that it will not do to get out of the habit. Ills troops must have employment and practice The dispatches say that while the sig- ' natory powers hope that some reports of Turkish atrocities in Armenia have gone

lv too far, they have reason to believe there

Is necessity of staying Turkey's hand within a month, as the main programme

for the "suppression" is to commence about ' a month hence. "The authorities," it is

aaid, "do not share the belief in many of the recent statements of Turkish atrocities, but they have good reason to believe that such atrocities will begin In earnest In the course of another month, when the real work of repression .win be started.' If the French authorities think the reports of Turkish atrocities in Armenia have been exaggerated they take a very optimistic view. The evidence of the atroc lties at the time was such as to shock the civilized world, and it has not been contradicted since. From what is known of Turkish character, government and methods there is now reason to believe that th- contemporaneous reports of massacres and atrocities underestimated the facts rather than exaggerated them. The policy of the Sultan seems to be gradual extermination of the Armenians. Since the great atrocities of ISOt and 1SD5 the programme has seemed to be to supplant the wholesale butchery, which might attract too much attention from foreign govern ments, with massacre in detail. Span lh tyranny and cruelties in Cuba were nothing compared to those of Turkey In Armenia. In the former case the United States intervened in the Interest of humanity and drove Sjialn out of the western hemisphere. iVVead of mildly renonatraUng against kUü atrocities lu

Armenia the powers ought to combine in

the interests of humanity and drive Tur key out of Kufope, hi:ahst ami tiii: lahoh voti. The Hon. J. O. Henderson says the Hearst boomers have reason to believe that he Is strong with worklngmen and if nomnatfd will receive the bulk of the labor vote. It would be Interesting to know Mr. Henderson's reasons, or thoue of any other rrson, for entertaining this view. The Hearst newspapers make the assertion very confidently and constantly, but that does not signify anything. They make so many ridiculous claims for him as to discredit all. If his boomers dared to tell the truth it probably would rppear that they claim he s strong with worklngmen because his pa pers are all socialistic and more earnest in promoting discontent and class hatred than they are in advocating any healthy political doctrin?. In fact, it is a peculiarity of the Hearst papers that they do not discuss na tional questions nor advocate or oppose any of the established policies of either party. They simply try to sow the seeds of discontent and clasa hatred. They are not party papers nor political papers they are simply Hearst papers. They are not even independent, because they subordinate everything to Hearstlsm. The Hearst boomers pay a poor compli ment to the worklngmen when they assume that a candidate for ofllcj can make himself solid with them by advocating socialistic doctrines and fomenting clas3 hatred. True, there is a socialistic element in the labor unions, but it is not numerous ncr powerful. It lacks very much of being the controlling element. Time and again it has been outvoted on test questions cr In attempts to get control of labor organizations. And if Socialists are in a minority in labor unions they scarcely constitute a perceptible element in the great body ct workingmen and laborers composed of nonunlor hien. These vastly outnumber the union men, and äs they are i'ouid mostly outside of large cities, they are very little affected by socialistic idea. Hearst1 s socialistic doctrines may take well with a certain city clement in labor unions, b:it they will meet with no favor among the great body of workingmen and wage-earners. ' The theory of the Hearst boomers in volves another fallacy besides tnat of thinking that the so-cilled labor vote can be captured by preaching socialism. It as sumes that organized labir votes as a unit and can be switched of! hero and there and delivered to any candidate for a consideration. This is a great mistake. Inasfar as the phrase "labor vote" implies such a condition it la a misnomer. Properly speaking, there Is no such thing as a labo. vote, any more than there la a lawyer vote, a farmer .vote or a merchant vote. All of these classes and all others in Amer ican society are composed of individuals, who do their own thinking and vote ac cording to their personal convictions, preferences and tastes. The workingmen of the country divide on political lines Just as the farmers and all other classes do, and It is misleading to speak of them as if they voted in droves. The man who speaks of the labor vote in the sense of a vote that can be swung here and there as a mass, or hived like a swarm of bees, shows very little appreciation of American character. The prediction of the Hearst boomers that he will capture the labor vote by his advocacy of socialistic ideas will not be verified. THE EASTERN WAR MAY BE A LONG ONE. It begins to look as If the Russo-Japanese war might be one of the longest of recent times. It might be that andjstill be short compared with some ot the wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some of which lasted from thirty to fifty years. The great improvement in machine implements of war, projectiles, etc., has tended to shorten wars while Increasing the casualties. All the wars of the last fifty or sixty years have been comparatively short. The Crimean war lasted only two years, 1S34 to 1S36; the Franco-German war less than a year, from July, 1870, to May, 1S71; the war between Russia and Turkey one year, from 1S76 to 1S77; the war between Japan and China about seven months from September, 1894, to April, 1SD5; the war between the United States and Spain eight months, from April to December, 1S0S. All of these wars were very short compared with many of those of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One thing that will tend to make the pres tnt war in the East comparatively a long one is the fundamental character of the causes that led to it. It is not about a mere boundary dispute, a question of Internation al etiquette, or some claim that could be adjudicated by the" Geneva tribunal. It is a question of life- or death on both sides. Russia is fighting for an outlet and open harbor on the Tacific, and Japan is fighting for self-preservation and national exist ence. The latter is the higher motive of the two, but that of Russia will inspire her to the gieatest possible efforts. Japan will fight as long as she has a man or a dollar left, and Russia will never relinquish her cherished scheme as long as there is the slightest hope of realizing it. Moreover, Japan is fighting for recognition as a firstclass power and Russia against the humiliation of being beaten by a second-class power. The disparity of force between the two combatants is largely counterbalanced in favor of Japan by her nearness to the scene of action and by the now established superiority of her navy. Russian soldiers are undoubtedly brave, but the Japanese are equally so, with the added inspiration of intense hatred of a traditional enemy and utter indifference to danger or death. For these reasons it looks as if the war might last longer than any war of recent years before reaching a point where either of the belligerents will be willing to yield. MINOR TOPICS. Foor old. John Leftover Sullivan is rapid ly going blind, and is not long for this world. The great heavy-weight has been knocked out by the world's champion, John Barleycorn: he is taking the full count, and even the gong cannot save him. Blind as he is. he can easily see his finish. "There are no middle-aged ladles," said a speaker at the Chicago dressmakers' con vention. There are no middle-aged ladies who will admit it, anyhow. A woman as serts that she is young until she Is ready to confess that she is old. The golden mean has no charm for the fair sex. "The cannon about the Imperial palace at Tokio," writes a correspondent, "are anti quated, and would be of no service in case of fiese. They are there for ornamental

purposes only." .'This seems to explain

what a Japanese Shcg-un is. Maybe that story about Tadercwskl being kicked out of Russia is not true, after all. Ferhaps it is merely the song of a blithe some press agent, cautiously feeling his way oward another American tour. Stranger hings have been. The President' has cut off the harem maintenance pension of the Sultan of Sulu. Probably President Joe Smith was demandng the same courtesy, and Roosevelt saw that if he favored one he would have to favor all. A trolley car dashed into a minstrel band n Keokuk, la., killed one man, injured five and smashed all the instrumeuts. This is a ittle severe; it seems as if the nui?ance might have been stopped by gentler means. Tr?e bacillus who builds his lair among the rustling folds of our paper currency Is no ordinary germ: he is called staphylococcus. In spite of his Russian-souuding name he is said to be very dangerous. There has been plenty of talk about the seedless apple, which a Western man has succeeded in producing. But nobody appears to have asked the only question of real importance is it good to eat? A Marion man pawned his false teeth to a bartender for 30 cents' worth of that which biteth like an adder. He has to use a knife to cut off a chew of tobacco now. The latest society fad in Florence. Italy, is the introduction of donkeys in the ballroom. It is a custom which has had more or less vogue in this country also. The Japanese have- won some important victories, but it will pot do for them to get unduly puffed up. There is an imposing battery of ikons yet to be passed. A St. Paul, Minn., man has become violently insane from drinking too much water. Milwaukee (Wis.,) and Louisville (Ky.) papers please copy. There is also a Mormon statesman named Cannon, but he is not a big gun, afo dou't confuse him with Uncle Joe. He Is just au old smooth bore. Mme. Adellua Tatti told a London news paper that she will positively never visit America again. Who broke the news to her? The doctors agree that the free lunch is unsanitary. Never mind a good antiseptic goes with each sandwich. Premier Balfour, says a London dispatch, is working toward a base of reorganization. Balfour take your base! A Chicago University professor declares that the crying of a baby Is the sweetest iXlc in the world. The old fiend! THE HUMORISTS. Small Bills. Friend If your washerwoman charges by the piece it must be rather expensive. Young Housekeeper Oh, no. She loses so many things that her bills are never high. New York Weekly. Washington Saved Ills Reputation. George Washington cut down the cherry tree. "Yes," he Informed the reporters, "I told pa right off. If I hadn't, Riis would have given Roosevelt thecredtt." Thus George outwitted, Jacob. New York Sun. Those Awful Dances. First Young Blood These aw-dance are fear ful. Second Young Blood Awfully fearful. First Young Blood The worst of it la one feels so awful. Second Young Blood Oh! fearfully awful. Black and White. In the Museum. Visitor What is that big sheep's horn? Proprietor That is the ram's horn with which Joshua threw the walls of Jericho. 'And ibat big straight affair there V "That's "the harp that once threw Tara'i halls." Baltimore American. Au It Might Be. "Why is she in mourning?" "For her husband." "Is he dead?" "Weil, he's dead to her. She got a divorce, you know, and mourning is so becoming to her." Chicago Post. Dovrn and Out. "Don't be too quick to strike another, my boy," said the kindly old man, who had interrupted the fight. "Always count ten before you do It and then ' ." "Yeh," replied the boy, contemptuously, "an den it'll be de referee dat'll be countln ten on you." Philadelphia Preps'. Boycotted. Chaucer was sitting in his apartments, playing sevenup with his valet. "Why aren't you at work?" asked a friend who dropped in. . "What's the use?" said Chaucer. "The United Proofreaders have boycotted me oh account of my spelling." So saying, he turned a jack and went out. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Old Carpet Baa. When Senator Blackburn goes to the capitol these days he. has an old-fashioned carpet bag. of the kind in vogue twenty-five or thirty years ago. Probably such another carpet bag could not be found now in Washington. It has the familiar red stripes, and Its capacity is great. The senator totes the carpet bag himself, apparently guarding its contents with care. As the Senate prepared to go Into executive session recently, he had the ancient carpet bag on his desk. It bulged with papers and documents, which he Is supposed to have consulted during the secret debate on the confirmation of Leonard Wood as a major general. Washington Post. Hearst a Cat's Paw. There if- but little reason to doubt that the Hearst movement Is a conspiracy against the Democratic party devised and fostered for its overthrow by Bryan whose resentment against the most loyal and patriotic representatives of the Democracy who refused him their support la both his presidential campaigns is as virile and wrathful to-day as it was in the hour of his last ignominious defeat in 1300. Hearst does not know it. yet all the same he is, as a presidential candidate, the mere cat's paw of Bryan, for whom he is pulling the sweet chestnuts of revenue out of the fire. Philadelphia Ledger. "Won't Eat 'Poam. A human being Is a queer animal after all. We eat 'possums and pay fancy prices for them, yet a vulture will not touch one. During a long season of snow some years ago a farmer said the buzzards in his locality were almost starved and to test the matter he killed a 'possrm and put it out where he could bo easily found. The vultures would not touch it. though they "examined" the carcass. Not satis fied, the farmer cooked another 'possum up brown and spread it out. but the buzzards de clined the feast. Greensboro (Tenn. Record. A Little 3llstake. During the excitement of a physical examina tion of candidates für places on the police foree yesterday In City ?iall. a mild-mannered man wandered into tne room ana somenow got mixed ud with the aspirants for places on the force He was instructed to remove his clothes nartlv. and la a few minutes was hard at work with the other men in the room raising dumb-bells. Inflating his chest and undergoing1 a general physical examination. 'Run around the room." he was commanded, and, on a trot, he made the irruit nf the room a doien times. Almost nn I r fct-Mth. ha stonned then, and inuulrej; "Look

at here, what else have I got to do to get my

licenser "What license?" queried the surgeon. n surprise. "Why, my marriage license. That s what I came in for," was the reply. "Fay." said the surgeon, "you're in the wrong room. I thought you wanted to le a policeman. The li cense bureau Is downstairs." The man was mute lor a moment, and then said: "I'd rather never marry than take this examination again." Phil adelphia Record. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. "IlentlnK" n ltnllrond. One of the favorite stories of the late Charles P. Clark, president of the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad, concerned an Irishman employed at the New Haven station. For some reason Pat was discharged. The day after losing his job he appeared at the ticket window. Smiling broadly he laid down'3 and ordered two tickets to New York. On his way out to board the train he said to the special of ficer: "There, now! I got the best of the con solidated road for once. I bought two tickets to New York and I ain't goln to use but one of 'em." New York Times. nnie "Was Familiar. A. J. Montague, the Governor of Virginia, had occasion recently to visit Kinsale, a small town in Westmoreland county. To reach Kinsale It was necessary for Gov ernor Montague to ride several miles by stage. The driver of the stage was an old colored man and the Governor, entering into conversation with him, asked him his name. "Mah name, sah," said the driver, "am George Washington. "George Washington, eh?" repeated Governor Montague. "That is a very familiar name." "It probably am. sah," said the driver. "Ah's been drlvin' dlshyer stage foh twenty-nine years." New aork Times. He Felt Sore. Congressman Sheppard, of Texas, has grown tired of hearing Republicans claim that national prosperity may all be traced to the beneficent Influence of high protection. The other day Mr. Sheppard felt unable to refrain from replying to the off-repeated declarations of this kind. "Why. Mr. Speaker," he exclaimed, "the next thing I expect to see is some Republican rising in his place here and proposing to amend the Old Testament. I expect some prophet of prosperity will rise In his place and move to strike the name of the Deity from the first line of the first chapter of the book of Genesis, so that it will read: 'In the beginning the Republican party created the heavens and the earth.' "Kansas City Star. Superlatively Foor. Bourke Cockran was condemning a certain popular novel. "This novel," he said, "is as poor and barren as Elmo county land." "Is Elmo county land very poor and barren?" asked one of Mr. CqcLran's Interlocutors. "Is it?" said he. "Well, I should say it Is. Once two strangers rode on horseback through HI mo county and the barrenness of the land amazed them. Nothing but weeds and rocks everywhere. As they passed a farmhouse they saw an old -man sitting in the garden, and they said: " 'Poor chap! Poor, poverty stricken old fel low!' "The old man overheard them and called out in a shrill voice: " 'Gents, I hain't so poor an' poverty stricken as ye think. I don't own none o' this land.' " New York Tribune. He Lets the Other Fellow "Worry. It Is well known that many men in public life worry themselves : almost sick over the distribution of "plums" to office-seekers. Sena tor Beveridge, author of "The Russian Advance," lets the other men do the worrying, and has a method which is illustrated by this anecdote. He was receiving delegations who were booming various men for postmasters in their respective towns. Finally, a delegation arrived from a district where the fight for the postmastership was very hot. The- v senator listened intently to the leader's remarks, and replied: "I am going to decide this matter your way." The man was delighted. "Yes," continued Senator Beveridge. "I am going to submit the case to you and let you decide it." Whereupon he recited one set of facts after another, each time getting the leader's crestfallen confirmation of the statements made. Finally, having calmly made out his case, the senator said. "Now, what la your decision?" "Oh, hang it all," said the man, "if you're going to put It that way I suppose I'll have to say the other fellow ought to have the office." "Very well," said the senator, "I shall, as I said, decide the case your way." And the delegation, all except the leader, went off laughing. Harper's Weekly. An Agricultural Scientist. Professor Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Agricultural Department arid something of a humorist, was before the House agricultural committee. "What is a scientific agriculturist?" Inquired one of the rural members, desirous of enlightenment and also of drawing the professor out. "A scientific agriculturist," replied Professor Wiley tagely, "is a gentleman In the employ, of the government who can make two dollars grow on an appropriation bill where only one dollar grew before," which reply members of the committee now profess to believe explains the reason for the great increase in agricultural appropriation bills during the last decade. Washington Tost. Too Much Zeal. There is a cartoon in one of our exchanges the name escapes us illustrating the danger of "too much zeal." The young housekeeper had warned her general housemaid and cook against letting on to the neighbors about her employers being freshly married. But the curiosity of the neighborhood as shown by bobbing heads at the windows grew oppressive and the youthful missus said one day: "Bridget! I hope you have not been giving us away to the neighbors!" "Indeed I've not. Miss," said the loyal Bridget. "Faith. I says, they're not married at all. I says." Buffalo Commercial. v Always the Newspapers. Almost any publicity scheme win bring some returns, but it is the growing opinion that without the aid of newspapers any method must fall short of its possibilities. Elaborate booklets. catalogues, circulars, calendars and various trinkets fail to reach the people for whom they are Intended without being advertised in the newspapers. Thus a whisky company issues an advertising paper intended to take the place of newspaper advertising, but the manager says it was not until he bought newspaper space that he received calls for his sheet. Philadelphia Record. An American Dnlreuth. In a recent lecture on the moral and rellgrious significance of "Parsifal," the Rev. Dr. Heber Newton advocated the erection of a great temple In which the Wagnerian "sacred festival play" and similar compositions might be presented without doing violence to the religious aspects of such dramas. "It has been said that the actor and the musician are about to take up the work of the clergy." said Dr. Newton. "If I have to drop my mantle on the shoulders of vthe actor, I want him to have a church to act In." Public Opinion. Xothlnf? lint Money. In the case of the Hearst candidacy there Is nothing to commend It, nothing; to excuse it. nothing to give it hope of success except colossal fortune and such countenance as money dubiously used can purchase. From William J. Bryan at the head of the movement down through the whole line of mercenaries to the lowest toucher whose valuable services have been enlisted there is not a man engaged in this enterprise who Is not actually or potentially on the pay roll. Chicago Chronicle (Dem). Emperor William and Ills ripe. With his characteristic enthusiasm. the German Emperor's newly-acquired smoking habit Is absorbing his att?ntion and he Is forming quite a collection of pipes. One of them Is a "verlta ble Jewel," made by a Berlin artist from designs furnished by the Kaiser. The bowl Is of meerschaum, while the stem Is of Turkish wild cheery- Tne rP la ornamented with a W, on wbich. Is erched a tlrO. the whole la silver.

A carved branch winds round the bowl. In this"

pipe the Emperor use. only the finest Havana totacoc Leslie's Weekly. Landlord Blacked Dickens's Eye. Josh Hutchinson, who for thirty-five years has been head bellboy at the Gait Hou?e. is down and out from a physical ailment. He is. the most original character among the Louisville bellboys, and was In the hotel on the day that Colonel Throckmorton had his famous set-to with Charles Dickens. Dickens was writing in his room and Colonel Throckmorton, a courtly Southern gentleman, thought he would go to the room and see if he could not' assist in giving Dickens all the comforts of the hotel. The landlord went to the room of the great writer and knocked at the door. "Come in!" sail Dickens, gruffly. Looking up, he saw Throckmorton. "Well, what do you want?" he asked, gruffly. for he had his English ideas about the standing of an innkeeper. "I thought I would ask if there was anything I could do for you." "No! not a damn thing!" Dickens answered. churlishly, not looking up from his writing. Colonel Throckmorton was growing heated about the collar at this time. However, he thought he had been misunderstood, and again asked Dickens If there was anything that he could do for him. "Nc. Didn't you hear me?" answered Dick ens, growing excited and gazing at the land lord as if he were a bellboy. "If there is anything I want I'll ring for iL You can go." That was enoagh. Colonel Throckmorton walked quickly over to Dicken, grasped his coat collar and pulled him out of the chair. Dickens's manuscript fell all over the floor and the Ink spattered on the carpet. He was game, however, and the men fought all over the room. "Dat Mr. Dickens were no gem'man," said Josh recently in telling about the occurrence. And how de cunnel did black his eye." Louisville Herald. I'ncle Sam's Foresters. The making of plans for a forest's manage ment requires a decidedly even combination of mathematics, cool-headed nerve and endurance. Besides the education of a professor the forester must have courage and ability to roam the forests, such as characterized the leather-stock ings. Unless he is able to follow half dis tinguishable trails for miles upon miles through woods he has never seen before he will be fortunate, often, to get pine boughs for a bed instead of lying out upon a damp and inhospitable granite ledge. The tendency of men In town to Imagine good weather a continuous forest state, and to dwell entirely on the bright side of outdoor life re sults In applications from a great number of young men of Imperfect constitutions for places as students of forestry. Now and then one Of these stays and is benefited. But In gen eral one week of rainy weather is enough. They live two In a tent and gather morning and evening at the cook tent for meals. A sand wich carried in the pocket serves for lunch. They leave camp at seven in the morning and return at five In the afternoon. Their food is as good as can be had In camp. There is ham and bacon, rice, oatmeal and hominy. For vegetables are potatoes, beans and onions. The cook has a way of making good stews from canned beef and appetizing desserts from dried fruits. I noted a dozen contrivances for making the tents more comfortable. One man had manufactured a sleeping bag from a tarpaulin and a blanket. Another had Invented a stove made of stones, clay and a piece of tin.. There were three or four patterns of writing desks and tables. Garments that need washing were tied to a rope and anchored in a stream. March Outing. Simplicity of the Pope. One morning early a friend of mine, a Venetian nobleman, called on him. Monslgnor Sarto had said mass and settled down to work. His sisters had gone out to mass, or for the house hold marketing, which they were doing at the Rlalte on Aug. 4, 1903, the day of wonders in their simple life. "Has the count taken coffee?" asked the bishop. "Well, to tell the truth, no, because the. busi ness was urgent, and I have come straight from the railway station," the guest replied. No excuse availed and Monsignor Sarto rose and went into the kitchen. So the bishop of ducal Mantua and his guest might have been seen there talking and laughing while monslgnor coaxed the charcoal with a black kitchen fan. the coffee fizzed In a tin pot on the range and the count got out cups and saucers, in order to save his distinguished host what menial service he could. Then they had coffee together at the kitchen table. W. J. D. Croke, in the Century Magazine. The Important Comma. A Philadelphia business man thinks he has an exceedingly bright office boy, and nothing pleases him better than to tell how he acquired the youngster's services. A short time ago he posted in his shop window a notice which read' as follows: "Boy wanted kbout fourteen years." A lad of that age, with little that was prepossessing Jn his appearance, came" into 'the office and stated that he had read the notice. "Well, do you think you would like to have the position, my boy?" asked the merchant, gazing patronizingly over the rims of his spectacles at the unabashed youth. "Yes," came the prompt answer, "I want the job. but I don't know that I can promise to keep it for the full fourteen years." Then the merchant remembered that he had left out a comma on his sign; but he told the boy he might have the position. Philadelphia Telegraph. The Russian's Stoical Bravery. An Illustration of the stoical bravery of Russian soldiers is given by the story of a captain who was unsuccessfully shelling a battery at the siege of Varsovle. Field Marshal Pashkievltch galloped up to the captain and sternly asked why his firing did not have some effect. The captain "replied that the shells did not Ignite. The marshal scoffed that theory and threatened to degrade the officer. The captain picked up one of the shells, Ignited Jthe fuse, and holding it In the palm of his hand, said to he marshal: ''See for yourself, sir." .The marshal, folding his arms across his breast, stood looking at the smoking shell. It was a solemn moment. Both men stood motionless, awaiting the result. Finally the fuse birned out and the captain threw the shell to the ground. "It's true," remarked the marshal, turning-away to consider other measures to silence the enemy's fire. In the evening. Instead of punishment the captain receled the cross of the Order of St4 Vladimir. Kansas City Journal. An Appreciated Advantage, The bribery cares against Senators Fanis. Smith and Matthews have been continued until April. Only six or eight more postponements are necessary to carry the cases beyond the of flcial tenure of Attorney General Crow and Clr cuit Attorney Folk, an advantage of which the boodlers are fully aware. Kansas City Times. I Tliey Worship Heroes. Many young girls are reported to be daily visitors to tne place in which the Smoot trial Is being held. It is 'hard to. get the girls to give up the habit of showing their admiration for "heroes." Chicago Record-Herald. Probably Yelling for a Fight. Representative Augustine Owsley Stanley de scribed labor and capital fighting to the death. and the Democrats cheered: but nobody found out whether they were cheering labor or capital, or Just yelling for a fight. Washington Times. A Hard World. What is a man to do In this world anyway? There is Judge Parker, of New York, who is objected to because he haa no record. Most of the other aspirants are unavailable because they have records. "hieago Record-Herald. Severn! to Be Heard From. The dispatches say that Willie Hearst has car ried Rhode Island. There are still forty-four States to be heard from that are too big to be wheeled into New York In a pushcart. Phila delphia Telegraph. A Theory. One of the government inspectors has reported that he finds "little change in the Indians." Probably the grafter saw ths Indian ßrt. Washington Post.

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County officers from all parts of the State will meet at the Denison Hotel this after- ! noon to discuss plana for an organized do- : fensc of the law enacted by the last L Islature extending the terms of certain county and judicial officers. Cyrus J. Clark, audtor of Marion county, Font out the letters calling to-day's meeting, and the replies he has received indicate a large attend ance. There are about 2O0 ofllcersj iu the State that are affected by the law. The question of the constitutionality cf the law was raised several months ago, and the attorneys of both the Republican and Democratic state committees advi?ed the organizations that it would not stand the test of the courts. Proceeding on this ad vice, both state organizations notified the county organizations to have nominations for all offices made this year as usual, while the Republican state committee took steps to get the question into the courts. A test suit was recently brought in Warren countj. The county officers have engaged Hawkins & Smith, Robert W. McBride and Merrill Moores to look after their interests, and purpose, in addition to making a vigorous defense in the Warren county case, to in stitute an offensive fight In Hendricks county. County Auditor Clark yesterday expressed confidence that the law will be held constitutional by the Supreme Court. "We have secured the opinions of some of the best lawyers in the State, and we believe that a final decision will show the law to be constitutional," he s-aid. "Some of us think that the opposition of the state committees to the new law may only be a scheme to make us contribute to the campaign fund by taking the nominations again and going through another campaign. We don't propose to do this if wo can help it." The object of the law in question was not to give the officers affected a longer tenure, but to secure uniformity in the beginning of the torms of all county and judicial offices. Under the present law some of the terms begin the day after the election, others the first of the year, and others at various dates throughout the year. It was deemed advisable that the terms should all begin the first of the -yeaj and the law was drafted and enacted for that purpose. While a few officers may receive slight benefits from it no one has taken the position that the object of the law is not commendable and desirable. The question raised is whether the Legislature has the authority to extend or shorten the terms of constitutional officers. 4The Prohibitionists of Indiana are ex pecting great things of their state convention, which will be held April 5 and 6 in Tomlinson Hall. Unusual efforts have been made by the state organization to arouse Interest in the convention and Chairman C. E. Newlin says he has assurances that the efforts will bear fruit. "We are ambitious this year," he said, "and we have shown our confidence in the party's growth by arranging to hold our convention in Tomlinson Hall. This will be the first Prohibition state convention ever held in that hall. Tile smaller halls of the city have always answered our purposes heretofore. But this, year we have, found that instead of meeting with difficulty in securing men to go as delegates to the state convention there havo been contests for positions on the delegations in many counties. We will have 1.0S5 delegates in the convention and with the alter nates and visitors we feel that Tomlinson Hall will be none too large. The fact that the national convention is coming to this city June 29 is helping us out with our state convention." The first session of the state convention will be held at 1 o'clock April 5. Chairman Newlin will call the convention to order and then a temporary chairman will be chosen, who will sound the campaign slogan. The permanent organization will be effected at this session. In the afternoon the various district caucuses will be heldvand at most of these caucuses candidates for Congress will be nominated and delegates to the national convention selected. In the Eighth and Thirteenth districts conventions have already been held and congressional tickets named, but the other districts will do this work through their delegates to the state convention. All the caucuses will be held in the Statehouse, except that of the Seventh district, which will be In the Criminal Court room at the courthouse. W. G. Caldefwood, of Minneapolis, sec retary of the state committee of Minnesota, who Is rated as. one of the ablest speakers in the party, will deliver an address in Tomlinson Hall on the night of April 5. The next day the regular business of the convention will be transacted and that night a ratification meeting will be held, at which the candidates selected will be accorded a hearing and National Chairman Oliver W. Stewart, of Chicago, will deliver an addresss. There are at present no avowed candidates for the places on the Prohibition state ticket. F. T. McWhlrter, of this city, has been mentioned as the possible nominee for Governor, but it is understood that he desires the vice presidential nomination and will not permit his friends to use his name in connection with the gubernatorial nomination. It is generally expected that the delegates to the national convention will be instructed for General Miles for President and for Mr. McWhlrter for Vice President, f Positive statements that W. R, Hearst will start a newspaper in Indianapolis were made at Evansville yesterday by men who claim to speak with authority, according to the following dispatch from that city to a local afternoon paper: "It is authoritatively announced In Democratic circles, as one of the results of extended conferences of First district Democrats with Edgar L. Maines of Zionsville, WHERE MAGICIANS FAIL. Cannot Prevent Other Magicians from Stealing Their Tricks. New York Sun. "We are always on the alert," said a local dealer in magicians' supplies, "to introduce something new In the way of tricks and novelties. Rut It Is hard to get up anything novel. "The death of Beautier De Kolta, the French magician., removed one of the greatest prestidigitators, In my opinion, in the world, not even barring the late Alexander Hermann or Kellar. De Kolta invented more original tricks than any other magician. "Yet he never got the full credit du bcause of his belief In the honesty of hu man nature. De Kolta never patented any of his tricks. It would not have done hlmany good if he had, because no matter what means are taken to protect tricks, there is no redress If someone comes along and steals them. The least bit of improvement makes the person or persons who steal them Immune from any prosecution. De Kolta was very ingenious, and had he lived he might have given the world, one of. the greatest tricks it has ever known: De Kolta's best trick was the flying birdcage, which gave him a wide reputation. "Holding an ordinary cage In his hand with a live bird In it he made bird, cage and all disappear before your very eyes. It was a great deception, and was always certain of making a hit when produced. De Kolta sold the trick to Kellar. "Another of De Kolta's Inventions was to produce 5.000 artificial flowers from an empty piece of paper in the shape of a cone. De Kolta said that the principle of this trick was not palming, although he could palm 500 flowers, which is considered a great feat. "The cocoon is another trick that De Kolta originated. He took an ordinary wooden frame and placed a piece of white paper on it. On the paper he drew a picture of a silkworm. After he had completed the picture the paper would break and a silk cocoon appeared. "Gradually the cocoon opened and a young woman stepped out upon the stage. This was another great trick, but the idea of It was stolen and soon several other magicians Introduced It. "The vanishing lady was also De Kolta's idea. A woman, usually his wife, sat on a chair In full view of the audience and disappeared. This trick also was stolen, and De Kolta was almost heartbroken. A cood Illusion costs a lot of money. i Some magicians are willing to pay as high as J3.000 for one. "I receive letters from persons every day who say that they have invented new tricks. Of course, I answer all of them, and when I receive a reply I learn that they are simply the ideas with the principle reversed. Of course, they don't amount to anything aud are never brought out."

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that a plan had been formed among Indiana Rryan-Hearst Democrat to ftart a newspaper at Indianapolis within fif te n days to antagonize Thomas Taggart and Mho state organization and espouse the Pryan and Htarst ou5e. "Hearst will back the project, but will not appear in the management. J- 0.car Henderson ly understood to 1 the ctive head and editor of the paper. Other prominent Democrats have b-.-n invited to take nominal stock. A meeting of I!ryan-Heart Democrats from the whole State Is scheduled to take place in Indianapolis on Friday or Saturday, when df tails of the paper, with other plans for an active campaign will be discussed. William Heister, a First district Democrat, and a Pryan-Hearst man. said tu-day: 'The new paper planned at Indianapolis will 1m? radical, as our wing of the party i called.' " J. Oscar Henderson, who has assumed direction of Hearst's campaign in this State, denies the report. He said he had not heard that Hear.-t would start a newspaper here and did not believe that such a step would be taken. 4- 4"The bulk of the Democrats of our county seem to favor Judge Parker for the presidential nomination," said A. W. Kamsey. editor of the Tipton Tribune, while at the Grand Hotel. "There are a good many for Gorman and a few for Cleveland, but veryfew who belitve there is any chance of hi nomination. Even those who are sincerely friendly to Cleveland Iwdieve that it woulJ not be advisable to mention his name at the convention, as the very mention of the exPresident would arouse antagonism which might be dangerous to Democratic success. Many of the Gorman enthusiasts are beginning to turn to Parker as the most available man. though they insist that Gorman Is the logical candidate." The Marlon County Democratic Club will give a smoker to-nlplH at the clubrooms'ln West Washington street, at which addresses will be made .by a number of the local spellbinders of the party. Among thdse on the list are M. A. Ryan. Henry Warrum. Joseph E. Roll, County Chairman Charles H. Clarke, W. W. Spencer. J. W. McCullough. A. G. Smith. T. L. Sullivan. Elliott Hooten nd John E. Christian. With that list of speakers it is a foregone conclusion that there will be no inflating of the Hearst boom at the smoker. The advice of former United States Senator David Turpie, the sage of Ipdiana, Democracy, is being widely quoted by the Taggart forces in their attacks on the Hearst Invaders. Like many other Jndlana Democrats, Senator Turpi resents the interference of officers of the national comi mlttee in party affairs in this State. Ho says: "The Democratic party in Indiana Is competent to select its own delegates to the national convention, and the gentlemen selected having the conttdence of the peonie who are their constituents can. at th 1 proper time, make the best choice of a candidate for tne presidency. "There has been no former instance of a formal and organized effort by members of the national committee outside of the State to influence the voters or the delegation of our party, and such interference is outside of the prudence -and propriety which should control those who are acting In .a matter of such moment. "Except In the case of having a candidate for our own State, which we havo not. It Is Imprudent and Impolltlcal to determine prematurely as to the nomination. He will doubtless be a Democrat sound in the fundamental principles of the party, equally opposed to monopoly and to socialism or communism, iri any of their forms, pledged to the support of the constitutional limitation, and in favor of freo personal government without combination or other Influence detrimental to the growth and prosperity of the government and people of the United States. "If the delegation from New York presents such a man by their free and harmonious action as a candidate for the presidency It would be well for the delegation from our State that It should be free and altogether united in the support of a candidate so presented." -f It la announced .that George Pleasants, of Seymour, will succeed Lincoln Dixon as the member of the Democratic state committer from the Fourth district. Mr. Dixon was recently re-elected, but it was not Intended that he should serve longer than was necessary to perfect a täte organization thoroughly under control of Mr. Taggart and his crowd and to put the final touches on the deal whereby Representative Marion Griffiths would retire from Congress and turn over his toga to Mr. Dixon. Some little gossip has been occasioned by the report from Evansville that the name f John W. Brady, of Princeton, would be presented to the Republican state convention as a candidate for the nomination for lieutenant governor. Mr. Brady has not been suspected of a desire to get on th 6tate tick;t,' but on the contrary it has r been understood that he was biding his time to enter the congressional arena in the. First district. He was a candidate for. Circuit judge in the strongly Democratic circuit of Gibson and Posey counties, two years ago and made a remarkable showing. He is at present chairman of the central committee of Gibson county, and was the permanent chairman of the recent convention at Mount Vernon, delivering a speech that was characterized as one of the best that has been heard in the district for years. J. A. Kautz, editor of the Kokomo Tribune, was at the English yesterday. 4Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, and J. Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, and their gubernatorial booms were at the English yesterday. Mr. Sayre was In the city only a short time, but Mr. Hanly ipent the afternoon and evening here, and met a large number of his close personal friends. A COLONY SCHEME. Union Workmen to Be Established on Five-Acre Tracts. Chicago Post, Union workers are to have an opportunity to return to the soil soil in America. E. P. Dwyer, a Chicago labor organizer, has conceived this plan to raise wages in the great industrial centers. An agricul tural company has been organized. Thirty thousand acres of land. near Wellman. Miss., has been secured and it is the purpose to put 6,000 Chicago unionists and their families on live-acre tracts, each settler to own his small farm. According to the promoters of the scheme five acres and a cow, with possibly a pig, will iupport in com-. parative comfort and certainty in peace any strong-limbed union worker. Property is to be sold to union members on the easy-payment plan, and provision is made for the return of the investment, if after trying farming they prefer th turmoil and excitement of city life. "If 10,000 union workers buy farms la Mississippi." said Mr. Dwyer to-day, "th men now forced to be Idle can get work.Competition for Jobs will be reduced, and the law of supply and demand will force wages up. The fact that thousands of idle men can be found in Chicago at any time Is proved by the newspapers almost every day. It doesn't make any difference how many men strike there are always enough men Idle but willing to work who are prepared to take the vacancies, even if some risk Is Involved. "In the country man fixed expenses of city life are at once eliminated." he continued. "There is no car fare to pay. im milk to buy, and cabbage does not cost 5 . centb a head. A simpler life is possible. There are no demoralizing dive rlous ( to take money from pockets of worklnTryeu. Husking bees In a neinhbor's barn and -picnics without beer, family vislttug aud local Politics enliven life without being expensive and degrading. "Many thinss thought nectary in Chicago are fend useless on Southern farms. There Is no reason why any . lalloual man or woman cannot live in u goHl mighVorhood upon the product of five aura, of good land." The plan Is to form land "unJona" of ten men ach. One of this number will be elected to go South and examine the prop. erty and the pro.jectn of farming in that section. The land will be sold fur $10 an acre, the fc required for a five-acre farm to Im? paid in weekly installment. A fvre of men will be encased to Xilant fruit trees and shrubs and build four-reom houses, and. in short, prepare the property for the exrnlus of unionists. The migration U ex pected to take place within eightetsi

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