Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1904 — Page 4

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It has now been definitely proved that radium will not cure cancer at alL But perhaps these rumors are for the purpose of bearing the market. 1 Russia has announced that she has no Intention of sending soldiers into Korea. Why didn't she say so before then there wouldn't have been any war. It Is said that John W. Gates has a plan to corner the rice market. Stop It; that would be a gross violation of our neutrality treaties. What would Japan do? It Is reported from St, Petersburg that the Japanese cavalry north of Anju can not keep In touch with the Russians. The Czar, should order another Te Deura. Somebody has discovered that no man who parted his "hair in the middle was ever a President of the United States. Another handicap for Willie Millions to overcome. Another Russian warship has been blown ud. Tho correspondents will inform us which one it was as soon as enough fragments are gathered to admit of identifica tion. A Chicago witness swears that out of more than a hundred jurors in the courts of that city three refused to be bribed. So Chicago isn't so bad as some people would have us believe. A Chicago professor now arises to remark that beer fits students' minds for study. The professor, it is understood-, will be reCutsteoMo return immediately to that dear Heidelberg, Germany. Senator Gorman's friends are attaching themselves to the Parker boom.v Pretty coon Parker will have all fifty-seven va. rieties of Democrats, but Hearst will retain th men who need the money. American battleships have just broken all records in target practice. The results clsht be more convincing if it were arranged so that the targets could return the fire; but we can't have everything. . Toso is called 'The Japanese Nelson" end llakaroff "The Russian Dewey." Not civch; if two such men as Dewey and Nelcon ever came together well, you know rrhat happened to the Kilkenny cats. Plans have been drawn for a canal concocting the Black and the Baltic seas, a distance of 1.4GS miles. It will cost two hundred millions, and if it la completed will cake the Panama canal look like a county ditch. One of the Indians who called on Roosevelt was called "Man-Afraid-of-Empty-tottlc." That's the trouble with those C'oux. If they were afraid of the other tlnd it would be better for them and their friends. The question is again being agitated an to the establishment of some method by uhich American sailors may exercise their risht of suffrage. Politicians who start tMa are suspected cf being in need of the Coating vote. General Kuropatkln says there will be many a vacant chair in Russia before peace Is declared. The fact that the general has not been ordered to stop over in Siberia hows that the Czar does not think ho alluded to the throne. Charles M. Schwab says it is all a lie tbout him breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. In the first place he never visited Ilonaco, end in the second place he never ' C5 obles. Well, we are willing to believe tine first statement, but as to the other remember the shipbuilding trust, " After making a really gallant fight under Cd verse) circumstances the street-car cornran was compelled, late yesterday afternr3, ta give up temporarily. The ele-

merits were too much for it. Few cities, if any, have better street-ear service than Indianapolis. The company has handled great crowds successfully and come out ahead in many trying cinergencios, but it had to succumb to this one. As the suspension of service will last only a short time,

it can be borne patiently. PARTY I'l HS! IM) llV ITS PLATFORMS. One of the questions now dividing the Democratic party, not as against the Republican party, but among themselves, is whether the Kansas City platform shall be reaffirmed or not. One of the disadvantages of a party that changes its principles every year or two and makes a paramount issue of any piece of political driftwood that promises to last during a campaign is that it is apt to be continually confronted with the question of what to do with its last platform. A platform that has con tributed to a victory is entitled to some what of the same gratitude as a bridge that carries one over a stream, but one that has brought defeat and then becomes obsolete, as all the Democratic platforms of recent years have, is an incumbrance that is hard to get rid of. In regard to the Kansas City platform both wings of the Democracy are disposed to stand pat, the Eryanites in support of and the anti-Bryanites in opposition of it. Mr. Bryan himself makes reaffirmation of the platform the test of Democracy. It certainly is of Bryan Democracy. Not to reaffirm the platform would be virtually to repudiate him, and he has no idea of permitting: that. Though not a candidate this year he Intends to keep himself and the party in fine for the future. He knows that Mr. Hearst, his political residuary legatee for the time being, is willing to stand on any kind of a platform, provided only he can be nominated, and that with millions of money to spend he would be as apt to succeed on a twice repudiated plat form as on any other. Therefore Bryan Is for reaffirming the Kansas City platform, touching it up a little in spots and putting Hearst on it. The conservative Democrats who were gold-standard rren in 1S06 and 1900 from principle occupy the same position now that they did then. To them reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform would be to reaffirm Bryanism, Populism, free silver and all the socialistic heresies and. classhatred doctrines promulgated by Bryan during the campa'gn of 1000. They would not support any candidate on a platform reaffirming the Kansas City platform. They could not without stultifying themselves. They might support Judge Parker, of New York, or some other Eastern Demo crat with the knowledge that he voted for Bryan, but it would have to be on a new platform without any reaffirmation of that of 1000. Bryan says that platform must be reaffirmed and conservative Democrats say it must not be, so there you are. Mr. Kern tries to bridge the matter over and suggest a way out. In his recent harmony statement he says: "The Indiana Democracy are still in favor of every principle declared in the last national platform that is applicable to existing issues, and will be in favor of so declaring in the next national platform." This sounds like har mony, but what does its mean and how would it be put in practice? "Would either the Bryanltes or the conservatives be satisfied with a resolution that the Democratic party is in favor of every principle declared in the Kansas City platform that is applicable to existing issues? The Kansas City platform declared in favor of "the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1." It denounced the national bank currency as "a scheme for fastening upon the taxpayers a perpetual and growing debt for the benefit of the banks." It denounced the administration's Cuban policy as a violation of the pledge that the United States did not intend to exercise permanent sovereignty or control over the island. It declared that "the burning issue of imperialism" was "the paramount issue of the campaign." It declared that ' the Philippine policy of the administration moans conquest abroad and intimidation and op pression at home and would result in maintaining a large standing army which would be "a constant menace to our liberties." It Is not surprising that both conservative and progressive Democrats are anx ious to get away from a platform that events have rendered obsolete. The contention that it shall be reaffirmed is solely in the interest of Bryan. Mr. Kern's sugges tion that the party declare in favor of every principle in the Kansas City plat form that is applicable to existing issues is equivalent to a confession that most of it was put in for "buncombe." VIEWS CONCERNING TIIE FAR EASTKRN WAR. The possible results of the Russo-Japanese war were the subject of a sort of fourcornered debate between the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia a few nights ago. One of the speakers was Hon. William Dudley Foulke, of this State, an outline of whose address was given in the press dispatches on Satur day. The other speakers were Professor Keasby, of Bryn Mawr, former Postmas ter General Charles Emory Smith, and Gen. James IL Wilson, on the retired list of the United States army. Mr. Foulke treated the subject mainly frcm the viewpoint of our commercial In tel ests. He said the Chinese empire may remain independent, it may fall under the leadership or control of Japan, it may be divided among the groat powers or it may fall under the dominion of Russia. Of these possible results of the war he thought the best fcr American trade would be that China remain independent, and the next best that it pass under the leadership or control of Japan. In either case we should have to deal with a friendly power and would be In a better position to secure special advantages than any European power. If China should fall under the control of Russia he believed American commerce there would soon become extinct. The predominance of Japan In China would interfere with the growth of our commerce less than the predominance of any other power. Japan is an Island empire, a commercial power, friendly J.o the "open door" from motives of interest, while France, Germany and Russia, all devoted to the protective policy, would exploit their own possessions In China for the benefit of their own icopIe to the exclusion of our commerce. Russia Is most exclusive of all. as he produces all the raw materials necessary for her commercial independ ence, although she cannot manufacture on equal terms with England or America. Therefore fhe must protect herself by high tariffs, which she has done in European Russia., ana win do in cmna. Her promise to respect the "open door" cannot be relied upon, but even if it could. it would not prevent Russia from shutting out American commerce in the interior of

the country by discriminating' rates upon her railway. Mr. Foulke attached no importance to. the so-called "yellow peril" involved in a possible alliance between Japan and China, and thought it far less dangerous than the Muscovite peril which would develop if Russia succeeded In her designs. Professor Keasby treated the subject entirely from an academic and sentimental point of view, taking no notice of the commercial aspects. He admitted that in sympathizing with Russia he had the unpopular side of the case, but he said: "Whatever may be said about the Russian, he is after all t. white man, and this means much in the matter of sympathy." This is not a very broad nor a very strong argument. Since the present war begun the Japanese have shown on several occasions that if they are not altogether white they can act white. Charles Emory Smith thought the large question involved was the destiny of China, over which Japan, if she won, would gain an ascendancy. If Russia won, he said, she would undoubtedly hold Manchuria and fasten a grip on Korea, but the other powers of Europe would not acquiesce in her complete domination over China. The morp, probable result, he thought, would be an agreement for the partition of China, In this division each power would control its own territory, and as the United States docs not want and would not have any territory in China, it would not have an equal chance. General Wilson thought if Japan won she would become the leader and teacher of China in the arts of peace and war and there would be a practical alliance between them. "The only power able to stand for

an hour against that combination," he said, "would be Russia, Every one of the aggressive powers of Europe would have to make a settlement. What it would be no one can tell, but it might give the yellow alliance Siberia as an outlet through which to pour it3 hordes into Europe." This is carrying the yellow peril Idea to an extreme. These views are interesting because they arc from representative men, but they are not binding on anybody. History cannot be made to order nor in advance. It is enough to know that '"through the ages one increasing purpose runs" and that it makes steadily for the advancement of civilization. AS TO THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY. It has been suggested or hinted that some of the flood sufferers might bring suits for damages against the city. Such a suit would lie only in a case of contributory negligence on tho part of the city. Of course, the city could not be held responsible for the results of a flood any more than it could be for a cyclone or a stroke of lightning unless it had done something to bring about or aggravate the damage. It is a legitimate municipal function to improve the beds and banks of streams within the city limits, but if such improvements prove inadequate to restrain a cloudburst or extraordinary flood it could hardly be claimed that the city was responsible in damages. The city docs not undertake to make all localities Inhabitable and safe against all possible emergencies. Protect ing levees are often built by private realestate owners and those who buy property or build houses relying upon them do so at their own risk. The only case in which the city could be held liable for damages would be if it had contributed thereto by its own act. A city is responsible for injuries or damages caused by a defective street, sidewalk, bridge, culvert or sewer built by the city. Such -improvements are not only within the proper sphere of municipal action, but are part of a city's duty, and if the city makes them in such a way as to contribute to the injury of person or property it is liable in damages. A sewer is built to meet the ordinary demands of city life. Whether its failure to- meet the demands of an extraordinary flood would make the cHy liable for damages would be a close question. Whatever the law of the case may be a person who attempted to hold the city lia ble for flood damages would be generally regarded as actuated by greed. All dwell ers in cities, including the smallest tax payer and those who pay no taxes at all, share in the police and fire protection and other benefits extended to the entire popu lation. These benefits are constant, while a flood like that of the last few days comes only once in a generation or two. The re cipients of municipal benefits should not seek to recover damages against the city unless they have a very clear case. MINOR TOPICS. It is reported that emissaries of the Czar arc making a house-to-house canvass in Poland to ascertain what, proportion of the population is disaffected. Russia ap pears to be determined to extend her power from, Tole to role. A story comets from New Jersey of a milk man who has thirty tame eels which come from under the water when he snaps his fingers. He denies vigorously the imputa tlon that he caught them in his milk cans. hen Santos-Dumont arrived in this country he found that his sweetheart's mother had taken her to Europe to ; avoid I him. So his dream of flying with her is rudely shattered. The Philadelphia Telegraph alludes to Senator Dick as a "Dicktator." What do you think of that? A pun is all right at times, but there is no use in making them so ridickulous. A New York paper has started again the old discussion "What shall men wear on Sunday night?" That doesn't bother Indiana people. Some of us wear nightshirts and some pajamas. The burglar who robbed Mrs. Eddy's house has confessed. Send all absent treatment and success vibrations to him in care I of the Massachusetts State Penitentiary. Japan's foreign secretary is named Godama. His reputation is based on the fact that he is one of the few profane expressions in the Japanese language. " . A Philadelphia policeman died the ther day, leaving a fortune of p),000. Pity he d'.dn't get a chance before he died to go to some city and spend a little of it. The regulation prescribing pocketless trousers for the marines is all right as far as it goes, but why not make it apply to postofiice officials, too? General" Pflug is still doing his best to guard the Tung pass. General Kuropatkln may talk all he wants to, but Pflug intends to hold his Tung. Professor Langley insists, in spite of all reverses, that his airship is the coming

machine. Professor Langley Is getting altogether too fly.

Wouldn't it be a great thing for the newspapers if the walking delegates of the Press Censers' Union should order a strike of all employes? A member of the Rockefeller Sundayschool class has been put in prison for larceny. The least John can do now s to send violets. The London Lancet asks: "Is love a disease?" Perhaps it is; only it would sound cynical to suggest marriage as an effective cure. THE HUMORISTS. Parrot. There once was a young female Dr. Whose parrot occasionally Mr. She said: "My fine bird. You act quite absurd." When Polly said something that Shr. The Sphinx. A Dlllsent Worker. "What are you doing there? Why aren't you at work?" "I AM workin'." "Why, you haven't struck a lick In two hours. I've been watching you." "I am a Christian Scientist. Our creed says if you think you're doin' a thing, you're doin' it. I think I'm workin. an " "What you want is the abaent treatment. Git!" New York Press. As the JuiUe Understood It. A lawyer, addressing a Jury in a Billville justice court, quoted, in defense of his client: "Hon! soit qui mal y pense," whereupon ' the justice, striking the desk a thundering blow with his fiat, shouted: "You'll never do it, sir not In this court!" "Do what, your Honor?" asked the surprised attorney. "Hit 'em a swat an pitch 'em over the fence, sir!" replied the justice. Atlanta Constitution. IIIm Status. "In my native land," explains the pundit. humanity is divided Into castes. Thus, one family will do nothing but menial labor, because their caste prescribes and proscribes their occupation. Another family will do no menial work for the same reason." "Then." tlrnidly asks tho earnest yours lady who hopes to gather sufficient material fur a club paper on sociology, "I suppose the. people who put mortar on the walls belong to the plas ter cast, do they?" Judge. Their Mnny Children. Two youne women sat together fn a Euclid car. "How many children have you?" asked one. "Twenty-two." was the reply. "How many have you?" "Thirty-one." replied the other. This attracted the attention of a motherlyappearing woman seated near the stove. "Did I understand you to tay that one of you had twenty-two children and you thirty-one?" she said. "Why. you don't look to me more than twenty-five years old apiece. "We're echool teachers," said one of the young women. Cleveland (O.) Leader. Dy Elimination. One day, as Pat halted at the top of the river bank, a man, famous for his inquisitive mind. stopped and asked: "How long have you hauled water for the village, my good man?" "Tin years, sor." "Ah! How many loads do you take in a day?" "From tin to fifteen, sor." "Ah, yes! Now, I have a problem for you. How much water, at this rate, have you hauled In all. sir?" The driver of the watering cart Jerked his thumb backward toward the river and replied, "All the wather yez don't see there now, sor. Christian Advocate. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Not Firmly Grounded. Bishop Duley. of Kentucky, who has just died. and nau ...ui.j - --- , used to delight in a story of a colored girl in his church. "Supposing," he asked her, "that you were walking along the road and saw a lowhanging branch, and on that low branch was a nice fat chicken. What would you do?'. "Don't ask me dat question, boss," she begged. "Oh, yes; tell me, what would you do?" "Well, boss, you know I's only Just an Infant in de kingdom. Which ended the conversation. Boston Record. The Two Washingtona. Senator Foster has a constituent, Mr. Samuel Hill, of Seattle, who tells an anecdote of how some people in this country distinguish between Washington that is a State of the Union and Washington that is the federal a capital. "When I was speaking, at one time, to an as sociation of farmers in the State of Washing ton," ald Mr. Hill, "an old man came forward and said: " 'Young man, where do you live? " T live in Washington, sir was my reply. " 'Which Washington.' he asked, 'tax-eatin' Washington or tax-payln Washington?' " Washington Post. He Caught It. A southern Missouri exchange tells of a trav eling man who stopped one night in a hotel in a small Ozark county town and asked to be callrd at 3:30 o'clock so that he might catch a trahi. In order to accede to the guest's request. the landlord had to remain up all night, as he had no clerk and no alarm clock. lie found it harl to keep awalgs, and when 3:30 o'clock finally did come he was In a surly frame of mind. Knocking on the guest's door, he said: "Git up. It's 3:30." In a sleepy , tone of voice the guest replied: "Oh. I guess I'll let that train go and sleep until 7 o'clock." "Well, I guess not," said the landlord. "I've stayed up all night to git you up and you're goin to git up." The guest caught the early train. Kansas City Star. He Drew Ilia Sword. Prof. E. G. Dexter, of the University of Illi nois, whose Interesting investigations have proved football to be a harmless game, ispopular on account of his geniality. After a certain football victory Professor Dexter entertained, one night, a group of students at his residence. A magnificent sword hung over the fireplace of the library, and during a space of -silence Professor Dexter took down this sword and brandished It impressively. "Never will I forget," he exclaimed, "the day I drew this blade for the first time." "Where did you draw it, sir?" a freshman asked, respectfully. "At a raffle," said Professor Dexter. Kansas City Journal. The Ex-Preaident Pun. Grover Cleveland was on his way to the Grand Central Station one morning several years tefore he became President of the United States. At the further end of the Madison-avenue car were its only other passengers, several saucy specimens of the genus rmall boy. They tittered and whlsiered as they noticed the future President's great size. Then they became bolder and said to each other something about being "fed on yeast." Mr. Cleveland seemed to be much amused at the Impudence of the lads. Yet, as they left the car at Thirty-fourth street, he could not re&ibt a joke at their expense. "It's a pity, my boys," he said, "that your mothers couldn't have fed you on yeast. Perhaps yoid have been better bred." New lork Times. The 3iew Stenographer. "I have had a stenographer only two weeks," said the young real-estate man, "and so far I have found It a bit wearing to live up to her. She's a nice young thing, with a big pompadour and a bead neck chain, and I woufdn't for worlds hurt her feelinRS, "but there are times when It seems to me I'd save trouble If I wrote my letters myself. She has ideas of her own about spelling, and if I didn't look over every page, ehe type-writes ray correspondent are likely to get doses of really Chaucerian early English. Yesterday I dictated something about forty-

acres of land out in Maryland. When she brought me the letter to sign I found forty spelled fourty.' " "There's a word you haven't spelled right, I said, pointing jt out "The r.lcc young thing looked at it a moment and then the smiled. " "Why. sure enough.1 she said. 'I've left out the "gh. Washington Post.

Conveniently Denf. There is a clergyman in the archdiocese of New York especially earnest in his advocacy of temperance. Anything even remotely related to the success cf the movement appeals to Mm. He is a frequent visitor to the city, and no man enjoys a good dinner or a good story better than he does. In the cabin or smoking room of an ocean liner he often makes transatlantic trir his company Is deemed delightful, and his fame as a raconteur spreads. In the rlace where he is asslgnwi to duty there is a large Irish element, and he claims to have made great headway among them in his temperance crusade. There are backsliders occasionally, he says; but he is not discouraged on that account, and keeps hammering away all the time. Not preaching tctal abstinence, he is not himself a total abstainer; but still he can't bear 'to see one of his parishioners go into a saloon Sunday. One man, a stonemason, and a good all-around fellow, though "fond o' th dhrop," he took especial pains In reclaiming, and had succeeded to a certain extent. Recently he found that he was falling away again, and so eet a watch oa him. lie saw him make for a saloon one day. "Mike!" he shouted. "Mike. I say!" Mike. unheeding, went in, and after a little came out, wiping his mouth. The clergyman had waited. Mike," he said, reprovingly, "didn't you hear me call you?" "I did. yer reverence," declared Mike; "but to tell ye the God's truth, I had only the price of wan." New York News. CHUECH AFFAIRS. The Penalty of Arc Bishop Merrill is afraid the young men in the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Conference will crowd some of the veterans out of the more desirable assignments, and they probably will. The worid was a very comfortable one for the old men three or four thousand years ago say, about the period of Job and still is In China. But In the progressive part of the world length of days Is not a strong claim upon consideration or preferment, and the churches cannot afford to be too kind and generous. They have their work to do, and they must get the best men to do it, even though a senior is occasionally displaced by a junior. Philadelphia Record. Ministers and Unions. An attempt by the Chicago Tresbyterian Min isters Association to break into the Central Federated Labor Union has been held up for a time byV the board of walking delegates who represent the hodcarriers, bricklayers, trolley drivers, streetsweepers, aldermen and other or ganizations with whom the clergy want' to as similate more closely. The delegates are unable to determine whether ministers are creators or parasites. If they are creators their place is with the farmers, authors, artists, inventors and such like, who are not yet amalgamated, but may have to be; but If they are parasites they are to be boycotted, as many of them are by the unions already. The question is a stumper for the delegates, though we imagine that the ministers will be able to answer it If the union gives a chance to them. Meanwhile the outside and unamalgamated public is growing uneasy. Strikes have become common in every other branch of Industry, but it remains for Chicago to begin a strike of the preachers. Brooklyn Eagle. Acquaintance vith the Bible. Readers ought to know the Bible thoroughly. but they ought to know it for what it is, and nothing that modern scholarship can disclose about its derivation and authorship should be either shunned or coacealed by its friends. That the rising generation should know it less famil iarly than their fathers did is a loss, but unless they know it more truly and Intelligently than their fathers did, it will not be a loss that is entirely without compensations. It will be ob served that the Mormon chiefs who have been testifying recently know their Bibles well. It can hardly be doubted that the old habit of ac- . opinis as auiuuiiminc uu iiuaiiiutc emuuus v.,......, .1,0 r K nivu vailing fact that made poasible the astonishing reer, of jenh smith nd Briehm Tun.. , -------- - " They simply adapted a prevailing habit to their own uses. They could hardly have made their forged Bible go except among people who were trained from infancy to accept a Bible without question as a book to be taken as it stood as the handiwork of the Deity and obeyed as their preachers interpreted it. The Old Testament is a remarkable depository of ancient tradition,. history and literature. To know it familiarly for what it is is vastly, worth while. To wor ship it. In conjunction with the New Testament, as a fetich, was always a mistake and has al ways, at times, led ignorant people into error and enabled astute and unscrupulous deceivers to beguile them. Harper's Weekly. Itellfrjona Notes. Dr. Richard G. Moulton, of the University of Chicago, advocates a revision of the Bible that will bring out the chronology and literary form Fanaticism has broken out on Beal's island. off the Maine coast. Excited by a pseudo-religious revival, the islanders were barely pre vented from killing a child as a sacrifice. A manuscript entitled "Apocalypsls S. Johannis" was recently sold in London for $4,750. It was executed by monks In the tenth or eleventh century and is a fine specimen of early Flemish illumination. . The finance committee of the Philippine Con ference (Methodist) will erect a fine building in Manila for its native work, which will cost about P),000 and is to be called the Knox Me mortal Church The committee has secured from the government a forty-year lease of the ground on which the church Is to be built. There are fifty-three women ministers In the Congregational denomination cf the United States, while many more are in actual pastoral work. Antoinette Brown, the pioneer in this profession, who graduated from Oberlln's theo logical department in 1SÖ0, was refused licensure but three years after was ordained In New York State. A Japanese union hymn book has been pu lishei which will be adopted by nearly 40,000 Protestant Christians. Six Japanese and six foreigners, representing the Baptist, Congregational, Methodist. Disciples of Christ and Presbyterians, were intrusted with the preparation of this hymnal. It is thought this will help greatly in the - unification of the Japanese Protestant Church. There are now in the world 64.380 Christian Endeavor societies, with a membership of 3.250,000. Amos R. Wells gives, in the Christian Endeavor World this week, "a bird's-eye view of Christian Endeavor on its twenty-third anniversary," which shows the marvelous growth of the society since Feb. 2, 1SS1, when -it was founded in Portland, Me., and yet "It is the infant among the great institutions of the church," says Mr. Wells. The prudential committee of the American board has decided to secure a new vessel for the prosecution of missionary work in the islands of the Faclflc. The plan is to build a vessel of wood of about 300 tons burden, with auxiliary power, to remain in Micronesian

waters. It is believed that the children of the Sunday schools of to-day will gladly help to raise the money needed for the new vessel. The children of the United States have built since 1S6 four vessels, each bearing the name Morning Star. For these four vessels the children have contributed) $114.003.33. The new vessel will cost about $3S,000, of which $1S,000 is provided for. The Interdenominational Bureau of Missions, one of the permanent results of the Ecumenical Conference, has chosen as its corresponding secretary the Bev. Henry Otis Dwlght. who wa3 for thirty-four years a missionary of the American Board In Turkey and has since given much time to a systematic study of the facts and methods of missions throughout the world. He bore a large part in editing the report of the Ecumenical Conference and has been revising Bliss's "Encyclopaedia of Mission." of which a new edition is about to appear under the auspices of the bureau. The object of this bureau is to gather, collate and furnish information about foreign missions in every put of the world, 4

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Judge William L. Penfieid, of Auburn, thTwelfth district candidate for the Republican gubernatorial romlnation, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon! from Washington and announced that he was here to take up his canvass and continue it to the hour of the convention. He .opened his headquarters in a suite of rooms on the second floor of the English Hotel and will keep them open until the fight is over. G. W. Duncan, of Greenfield, will be in charge, as Judge Penfieid will spend practically all his. time in traveling over the State, putting the finishing touches- on his organisation and lining up his friends. The Judge has opened a bureau that is sending his literature to the Republican voters in every district and is prepared to make his campaign an aggressive one. In every respect. Judge Penfieid expresses every confidence that he will be the winner of the interesting contest for the honor of heading the Republican ticket in Indiana. "I do not expect to go into the conven tion with more votes pledged to me for the first ballot than any other candidate," said the judge last evening. "But the nomination will not be made on the first ballot, nor on the second. The successful candidate will be the man who is the second choice of most delegates, and I believe I shall be that man.' I would not venture to express that confidence without some assurances to justify It. I do not care to give any figures. whicn i mignt do,, to show where my strength will lie, but I have reasons to believe that I shall be the second choice of more delegates than either of my opponents, and on that I base my confidence tnat I snail receive the nomination. "I was perhaps slightly handicapped on entering the race because my personal acquaintance over the State was not so large as that of other candidates, but I expect to be pretty well acquainted with the Republicans of Indiana by the time the convention is held and the delegates will not be asked to vote for a man whom they do not know and "with whose private and public record they are not acquainted." Mr. Duncan, of Greenfield, who will look after Judge Penfield's interests at his headquarters here, will be one of the delegates from Hancock county In the .tate convention. He is a brother-in-law of the judge and has been campaigning actively for him lor some time. He was asked how the Hancock county delegation will stand on the gubernatorial question, but he would give no figures other than to say that "at the right time'' Judge Penfieid will receive more than one vote from the county. It has been claimed by friends of J. Frank Ilanly that he would receive nine out of the ten votes from Hancock. Peru will be the Mecca of the candidates for state offices to-day, provided the floods do not so seriously impair the railroad service that it will be extremely difficult or impossible to reach the capital of Miami county. The Eleventh district Republican congressional convention in that city tomorrow will attract an unusually large crowd of party workers and the candidates feel free to go Into the district for the first time, now that the congressional contest is practically at an end. Frank Smith, of Brookville, one of the candidates for reporter of the Supreme Court, was in the city last night en route to Peru. The result of the primaries in Miami, Wabash and Huntington counties predicates the defeat of Major Steele In this congressional struggle, which 'has been one of the most spectacular primary campaigns the State has ever had. The friends of Representative Frederick Landis, of Logansport, are jubilantly claiming that his renomlnation Is assured by an overwhelm ing majority 78 votes out of 121 with 61 necessary for the nomination. They claim 20 votes in Cass, 16 in Miami, 2D in Wabash, 19 in Huntington and 3 in Blackford, giv ing Major Steele S3 in Grant, 6 In Black ford and 2 in Miami. The friends of Major Steele do not concede that these figures are correct, but they are making no counter-claims. It is generally accepted that the Landis forces have won the fight, althqugh there are those who say that Major Steele may nave "something up his sleeve," i aiiu liiöi uns vtrieittll politician ITOm orrani has nilllpd nut rf Hsrhtor hnloe than tho one in which he now finds himself. Numerous reports nave reached this city I OI. maneuvers to nominate a "aarK norse" at peru to-morrow. Dr. Charles M. Goode. I of Huntington, has been frequently pointed to as the man who could defeat Mr. Landis if the Steele forces would throw their en tire strength to him, and it can be readily shown on paper how the major might nominate a man from Huntington or Wabash counties, and possibly a man from Miami. Conceded that the major has a total of 43 votes 35 from Grant. 6 from Blackford and 2 from Miami he can nominate a man who can command the solid delegation from cither Huntington or Wabash, as the former has 19 votes and the latter 20, and id are required to win. The ouestion is. what would the delegates from Huntington or abash do if a man from their own county should come to them and say, "Give me your votes and I can have the nomina tion." The friends of Representative Landis claim that such a coup will be absolutely impossible. They say that the fight for trie delegates was waged on such close lines that the men elected on the Landis elates in Miami, Wabash or Huntington will stand by Landis under any and all circum stances. On the face of the returns from the pri S"lis'? Pn.ce-5w!rIHmPh foJ", the V--w--uFI"Tfr"iry. "8 aoie u force Wabash county to divide its vote equally between the two candidates in the interest of Warren G. Sayre's gubernatorial aspirations, and then making inroads on the Landis forces in Cass county and getting a few scattering votes now claimed for Landis In Miami and Huntington. -IA man who is more deeply interested in the gubernatorial struggle than in anything else of a political nature at present points to the situation In the Eleventh district to substantiate his claim that little faith should be pinned to the predictions of the politicians. "I haven't met a politician in the last thirty days who didn't predict that Major bteele would wjn the fight in the Eleventh district," he said, "and I am strengthened in my belief that the politicians don't know much more about what is going to be done than the rest of us. The3' make their gueses, and that's about all there is to it. Politics is all that General Sherman said of war, and it's a blamed sight more uncertain And it's been my observation, too, that the politicians propose and the voters dispose, if you will stand for a revision of the old proverb." P. H. McCormack, of Columbus, who has been frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic congressional nomination in the Fourth district, and who has not yet said that he will not get into the race, takes a firm stand on the Hearst proposition He will have none of Hearst, and says his faith in Indiana Democracy is such as to make him confident that the Hearst Invaders will make no headway in this State. "This Hearst invasion, as it is caned, is an outrage," said Mr. McCormack last evening at the Grand. "The country has never witnessed such an undignified, unprincipled campaign for a presidential nom ination, and 1 am confident the solid, sub-. stantlal element of the party will rebuke such methods. I know there is little or no Hearst sentiment In Columbus or Bartholomew county, and do not believe the campaign will make any progress in the Fourth district. "The Hearst boom may make considerable of a showing for a little while, but it is my opinion that it will fall decidedly flat within the next two or three weeks. " Lincoln Dixon, of North Vernon, who has been slated as the man who would carry off the Democratic congressional nomination in the Fourth district, succeeding to Representative Griffith's honors and emoluments, is reported to be seriously sick at his home. His sickness at this time may take him out of the congressional race, although up to date he has had no avowed opposition and there has ben every indication that he would be nominated by acclamation. In event he cannot make the race there are numerous "stalwarts" in the Fourth who could be persuaded to sacrifice themselves on the altar of the party. The managers of Hearst's campaign in Indiana have endeavored to keep tho iden-

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tity of their district managers secret, but one by one Jt leaks out who is looking after the invasion in this or that dbtrlct. It dcve lopes .now that former State Senator Frank J. Heller, of Whitley county. Is organizing the Twelfth oistrlct. and that ho is making consi ierable headway, acrding to th following dispatch to the Journal from Fort Wayne: "There can be no doubt of the substantial character of the Hrnrst Mm in this part of the State, particularly In other counties in this district. The real leaders here followed Palmer and Buckner in KI and have never warmed up to Bryan, though fome of thcra supported him four years ajo when he made imperialism hi3 Flogan. The Hearst sentiment now develops among those who are loyal to Bryan and who are opposed to the reorganizes. Senator Heller, of Whitley county, is charged with the responsibility of lining up tho voters for Hearst and is traveling over the district fr that purpose. "The Columbia City Post, the Democratic organ of that county, and the only Democratic daily outside of Fort Wayne, shows strong inclinations to Hearst, it is edited by William Adams, brother of Andrew A. Adams, member of the Democratic state committee. Dr. Parkt r. editor of fhe Kendallville News, the strong Democratic weekly of NoiIe county. Is outspoken for Hearst. The Albion Democrat, published at the county seat, is also for Hearst, bat it is believed that the Ugonler Banner, edited by former Senator James B. McDonald, will favor Parker. The Auburn Courier, tho Democratic organ of De Kalb county, says it is looking for the man who can poll the most votes, but it quotes Dr. Parker ap provingly. The aterloo Dawn, however, is a red-hot Hearst organ. 'There is no disputing.' it pays, 'that P5 per cent, cf the Democrats of De Kalb are for Iieart. The Steuben county organ, the Angola Herald,is also for Hearst. The Lagrange county Democratic chairman. Frank J. Dunten. has already declared for what he calls the 'matchless Hearst "Sid Moon, former reporter of the Su preme Court, made a trip over this part" of the State last week and found a most satisfactory condition outside of this city. Here the old-line Democrats will have to fight the Hearst members of the party In the ranks of organized labor, and it is by. no means a foregone conclusion that tht reorganizers will control affairs. Except the Journal-Gazetje, of this city, and the Banner, of Llgonier, every Democratic pa per in the district has cither declared for Hearst or is in sympathy with the Hearst movement. In that they are encouraged by James M. Robinson, member of Congress, who accompanied Hearst on his junket to the West last year and whoIs one of his nearest friends." T. Taggart will be in the city from French Lick to-day and the report was circulated by Hearst people last night that he would start at once on another trip East. This story was denied by close friends of Mr. Taggart. who said that he was not contemplating a trip East at this time. "Howard county Democrats are up in the air' over the Parker-Hearst contest." says a dispatch to tho Journal from Kokomo, -"and are at a loss where to land. The position assumed by J. Oscar Hender son in consenting to lead the Hearst forces was a big surprise to local politicians of both parties. Mr. Henderson was born and reared in this county and nearly all his business interests are here. He is the se nior proprietor of the Kokorao Dispatch, the organ of local Democracy, but there is so little Hearst sentiment hereabouts that the Dispatch has not and does not now advocate Hearst's cause. There are many Democrats ready to fall in line as soon as thev iret t'uht. of the bunghole and spigot of the famous barrel, but they are await ing developments. "The influence of Mr. Henderson will be largely if not wholly neutralized by the position taken by John W. Kern, who is also a Howard county man, born and bred. Mr. Kern has great influence at his cid home here and has a large following. There are no signs of a Hearst boom in this county as yet, but the barrel is being watcheu for with anxiety by many 'stalwarts.' " Clay W. Metsker, editor of the Tlymouth Independent and one of the prominent members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, discredits the reports that TTparst has caDtured the Democracy or Marshall county and will have the deleI , . . -nirontlnn Tr fftVpr 1 tm l"v . was in the city yesterday and last evening at the Grand discussed the Hearst movement at length. "Hearst's methods are such as to make considerable of a showing at first, but they can bring no permanent success," he said. "I haven't the slightest apprehension that he will be able to get the Indiana delegation to the St. Louis convention, or that he will be nominated, and I think I take his candidacy as seriously as any one need take it. I have watched his boom swell and collapse in Marshall county, and I take that as a fair indication of what will happen elsewhere.- Hearst's representatives came Into our county some time ago and organized a Hearst club. Their methods were such that they got numerous, signatures to their enrollment, but they counted scores of men as members and Hearst sympathizers who did not know what they were doing when they signed their names and who havo since come to their senses. "Hearst will not get our delegates to the state convention. I am sure of that, and if every county in the State is as ecur against the Hearst invasion as ours he will not be able to secure a single delegate from Indiana to the national convention. His campaign has caught the younger element in the party, in some instances, and the hot headed ones who thought they saw a winner in Hearst, but the saner counsels of th veterans in the party will prevail in the end. The position taken by John W. Kern, S. M. Ralston, Ren F. Shlvely, State Chairman O'Brien, Mr. Taggart and others will have a tremendous influence with the rank and file of Indiana Democracy a far more potent influence than that of the hired agents of Hearst and officers of the national organization who come Into the State to tell us what to do and to show us how to do it," A dispatch to the Journal from Marion says: "The Journal correspondent called upon Major Steele to-night, requesting a statement on the congressional situation. Th major stated that he waa now in communication with his friends over the district, and that he did not care to make a statement for publication until he had heard from more of them. Reforming the Dyapeptlcs Medical Record. The Dyspeptic Club, recently formed In Jersey City, alms evidently to create a new "department of the interior," and to manage It on advanced and economic theories. So far there are only fifty-seven members in the organization, although a very much greater number, mostly Americans, are plainly eligible. Each member must make quarterly written reports of experiences. The diversity of these should certainly give due variety to the sessions. The actions of different foods must be duly estimated. Pie and ixiln. buckwheat and bloat, sausage and suffering, pickle and pang, cabbage and colic, ham and heartburn, must tdiow their proper relations. The humiliating part of th business is that each culprit must confess to his weak will and his misplaced confidences, while pork, pie and pudding will still hold their own against all odds. Thus, no member should be trusted to give absolutely impartial testimony unless he can prove that he was free from cramp, hyperacidity, headache or borlorygmus when his report was written. Gastralgia Ls as apt. In a reflex way, to affect the higher morll sense as is colic to warp sound Judgment on the ordinary relation of causae and effect. The only time for good resolutions Is when the paroxysm Is on. Health Fads on the Drain. Medical Talk. To get all sorts of health fads on the brain Is a disease in itself. It Is a very prevalent disease, too. With a few f oolish rules to obse rve, a whole lot of hyglenio quirks to adjust to and a sc!dule of superstitious sanitary notions diligently followed by day and d roamed of by night, is a malady which begins as a mental derangement and ends in a complete physical flzile. No room left for a spontaneous life, no place for free. Juyous liberty. Not a minute's space for rollicking disregard. Everything fixed, every minute dis;os'd of. introspections without number. Forebodings, misgivings, hovering vaguely about the mind like flocks of carrion crows. Such a life is not worth living. One might a thousand times U tter go back to the rcckleza regime of u roiuhridor.