Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1904 — Page 4

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CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley Grand lloteL it 4., Arcade. ' COLUMBUS, a Viaduct News Stand. 330 High street. DAYTOX, O.-J. V. Wllkle. 23 South Jefferson ' street. DENVER. Col.-Louthaln L Jackson, Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 16i7 Champa, street. DES MOINES, la, Mose Jacobs. S09 Fifth street. LOS ANGELES. CaL Hairy Drapkln. " liOUIsTVILLE C. T. Deerin;. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Uluefeld , Bros.. 412 West Market street. , HEW YORK Astor House. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. ST. JOSEPH. Mo. F. 11. Carriel, Station D. .WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rltrgs House. Ebbltt House. Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel. Arthur P. Gorman Is lor Parker. And that I the hardest blow the Parker boom has received, go far. When they hauled down the American Has at Nieu-Chwang old General Dix must have turned in his grave and murmured, "Shoot him on the-spot!" Dr. Dowie has cabled from Australia asking his followers to- pray for him. Ills "affairs have evidently reached a desperate "condition. And then, again, perhaps the reason Judge Parker does not say anything is because his friends have not left him anything to say. It took Kuropatkln two weeks to get from Moscow to Harbin by the fastest ' train. How lone would it take to transvjort Russian troops In case of immediate Champ Clark predicts a split In the Republican party after the election. So long as he can detect no fissures before the election, however, nobody is going to lose any sleep. - - Andrew Carnegie has been assessed for C3.000.0W) of personal property in New York, and he intends to let it stand. That man just doesn't seem to care how much money he gives away. The Chicago Bartenders Union has protested against working on Sundays. The closing laws may be enforced, after all; but won't it seem strange for the bartenders to succeed where the temperance forces failed? Henry Loomis Nelson writes that Roosevelt Is the most unpopular President. And all the delegates but forty-five are instructed for him; he will be nominated by acclamation and elected by the biggest majority on record. Yes, he is unpopular ' with the Democrats. The public is gradually coming to an understanding of Russo-Jap war terminology "A naval duel" means that a warship sent a couple of shells at a black pot on the horizon; a sharp skirmish" refers to an interchange of shots in the air between three Russians and two Japs; when a dozen Cossacks get drunk and ride through the streets of a village it is "a fierce onslaughL" But "a terrific land battle" means that somebody was hurt, or at least severely injured. An article by William Allen White, of Kansas, makes & terrible presentment of the political crimes of United States Senator Joseph Tt. Burton. If the charges are true, and the writer of the article claims to be solid on the facts, the offense of which TJurtpn was recently convicted in the Federal Court at St. Louis was directly : In line with other things he did before and since his election to the Senate. Of the . latter Mr. White says: His election was due to the Influence of railroads in state politics. Every local attorney for the Rock Island, the Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe ami the Union Pacific : who had any Influence was at Topeka ; ' working for Burton. Peremptory orders came out of Chicago and St. Louis in the campaign which ended with Burton's elec lotion demanding that local Kansas railroad lawyers support Burton or lose their places. The only possible excuse for railroads to engage In politics is to prevent threatened Injustice. ' Their charters give them certain rights which they are justified In conserv ing and protecting, but beyond this they have no right to engage in politics at all. rhey seem to have done a great deal of ?iarm in Kansas. i 4 The amount of foolish talk Russian newspapers are doing would stem to indicate cither that they are badly at sea in their Information or else are badly scared. The latest instance of the kind is that of a .leading journal in St. Petersburg warn ing Great Britain that in cultivating friendly relations with the United States and sympathizing with Japan she is sowing . the seeds of future disaster. The article rays: "The Americans wish to convert the Pacific into an American Mediterranean," tmd asks if that would be to the advantage cf "England. "Does England not underCtand." It asks, "that In her bnd policy end hatred toward Russia that she Is turnzj this cctaa Into an Amcricaa iiediter-

ranean? Sooner or later the European countries will recognize that America is their mutual enemy." Such articles will make the rest of the world think the Russian papers are conjuring up commercial bugaboos to frighten England into sympathizing with her.

SKXATOR GOR3IAX REDIVIVtS. Senator Gorman has come to life again. At the beginning of the present session of Congress he showed signs of great political activity and was about the most prominent of Democratic presidential possibilities. He led off in an aggressive attempt to line up the Democratic senators against the President's Tanama canal policy. His utter failure and the discovery . that he had no control over what he supposed to "be a faithful following left him in a debilitated condition. Then followed the election of the Hon. Isador Rayner as United States senator from Maryland over Senator Gorman's determined opposition. This was a body blow to Mr. Gorman. Shortly afterward came the announcement from Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, that that State had changed its preference from Gorman to Parker. This knocked Mr. Gorman clear out and rendered him unconscious for quite a length of time. His first sign of returning consciousness was an authorized announcement by Senator Bacon, of Georgia, a few days ago, that he, Gorman, was not a candidate for the presidency and that the Georgia Democrats should go ahead with the organization for Parker. Senator Bacon explains that Mr. Gorman did not say in so many words that he was not a candidate, nor did he declare himself personally In favor of Parker, but what he said was fairly susceptible of that construction. Senator Gorman's friends insist that what he said leaves his possible candidacy Just where it has been all along, namely, that he would accept the nomination if it should come to him as the voice of his party, but that he will not scramble for delegates nor encourage his friends to do so. Modesr Mr. Gorman! He will not decline a nomination before It is offered and will let the office seek him if It wants to. The Maryland senator has further signalized his return to political consciousness by making a vicious and unparliamentary attack on the President. His experience in attacking the Panama canal treaty ought to have taught him that President Roosevelt Is a hard proposition to tackle in a fight. This time, under the pretense of discussing the postoffice appropriation bill, Mr. Gorman charged the President with executive usurpation, with violation of the Constitution, with arbitrary exercise of power and with lack of Judgment and discretion. Practically all of these charges were made by Mr. Gorman in different form in his attack on the President's Panama canal policy, but his arrows all fell short of the mark. He will have the same experience again. Senator Gorman bases his present attack on the President's recent order regarding the construction of the pension law and on the alleged fact that the President has discouraged certain legislation and urged an early adjournment of Congress. There is no evidence that the President has done this certainly he has not talked to Sen ator Gorman about it but if he had there would have been nothing improper In It. A President Is not barred from having opin ions regarding public affairs and expressing them to members of Congress. Many Presidents have done so. Senator Gorman treats it as an unauthorized Interference with the legislative department, says "a mysterious order was sent out that Congress must adjourn," and asks, "How long are we to submit to such a system?" The whole tenor of Mr. Gorman's speech was to charge the President with being regardless of the constitutional rights of Congress and unfit for the office he fills. The object of this speech is precisely the same as that of Mr. Gorman's speech against the Panama canal treaty. He is trying to find an issue and to reinstate himself in the leadership of his party. He will not succeed in doing so by making a pergonal attack on 'President Roosevelt, for the country has absolute confidence in his honesty and patriotism, and would much rather accept his construction of official duty than that of Senator Gorman. The latter has signalized his return to political activity by another bad break. . HISTORIC ACT BY A CONNECTICUT JUDGE. Connecticut is one of the smallest States in the Union, but it has an honorable history and many points of Interest." It leads all the States of the Union in per capita value of its manufactures and in the number of patents issued per capita. It has produced Its share of patriots, statesmen and inventors. It is the native State of the inventor of the cotton gin, of Colt's revolver and of vulcanized rubber. It is the home of Yale College and the distributing point for the celebrated Terry and Thomas clocks, whose Inventors were bom there. But the greatest thing In Connecticut is the Judge who made William J. Bryan stop talking and sit down while another man talked. His full name is Edwin B. Gager. The Journal regrets that there is no biographical sketch of Judge Gager at hand, as it would like very much to make the people of Indiana better acquainted with a man who has done what no person ever did before and perhaps will never do again, unless the same- Judge should have occasion to repeat the operation during the trial now going on at Ne ar Haven. During the four years from 1S36 to 1900 Mr. Bryan probably did more talking than any other person has ever done in the same length of time. He commenced talking at the Chicago convention in 1S96 and kept it up with little intermission during his waking hours until after the presidential election in 1900. He talked in halls and in the open air, at political meetings, at county fairs and at old settlers. meetings: froni all kinds of rlatforms. including rear car, and at all hours of the day and night. During these four years of unparalleled loquacity he was never once called down nor showed a disposition to yield the floor. It remained for Judge Gager, of Connecticut, to do the great act of muzzling: the Nebraska statesman. At a certain point in the proceedings, when Mr. Bryan had I Jumped to his feet and demanded to be heard in reply to some statement of counsel, the court declined to hear him, and when Bryan Insisted and was . proceeding to talk the court said: "Mr. Bryan, you ought to know that when the court makes a ruling it must be obeyed. Please sit down." And Mr. Bryan sat down, while

the lawyer whom he had insisted on interrupting went on with hi3 talk. Next to being twice defeated for the presidency, it was the geratest jolt the Nebraska statesman evr received. The name of Judge Edwin B. Gager should be written high on the scroll of fame among "the few, the Immortal names that were not born to die."

THE RED YIRGIX. The approaching death of Louise Michel will close a stormy life. France has produced many of these warlike women, even from the time of Joan of Arc; and Louiso Michel was even such a one as La Pucelle an Amazon, fighting in the thick of the battle. Her rebellion against existing conditions, however, was not the result of dreams and meditation. She was an Anarchist from her youth; perhaps the very circumstances of her birth contributed to her hatred of the ruling class. Her father was the master of the Chateau of Vroncourt; her mother was nobody, and she i had no name of her own. It must be said for her father that he cared well for hi3 illegitimate child. He provided the means of giving her a good education, and when her school days were over she herself taught in Paris. Then came the rising of the Communists in 1S71. She joined their ranks and fought with them, shoulder to shoulder, until taken a prisoner by the Versailles troops. A courtmartial sentenced "the Red Virgin" to death, hut the sentence was commuted to transportation. She was freed in 1SS0 and since then her life has been a history of Anarchist agitation, imprisonment and exile. At the close of one prison term she was-compelled to go to England, but she carried on her propaganda vigorously in London. Since 1S05 she has been back in Paris. Her sixty-fifth birthday occurred a few weeks ago. Louiso Michel fought not only with musket and tongue, but with her pen as well. She possessed considerable literary and poetic talent, as her memoirs, two novels, two plays and many verses attest. Victor Hugo was attracted by her poems, which ho praised warmly. So France's greatest poet became the friend of its most picturesque "Red." Hugo himself was such a vigorous fighter for liberty, such an ardent Republican that he could not help being attracted by the passionate assertions of freedom in the stirring lines of this revolutionary Amazon. Her anarchism was a religion. Under different circumstances she might have been a nun; indeed, it is said that she wished to enter a convent In her youth. Those who imagine her as a vulgar petroleuse a fierce demagogue in petticoats a voluble sensationalist intoxicated with wild theories are mistaken. She believed in her cause and was an immense force In It. Misguided, it may be, she was nevertheless a born leader, impassioned, intellectual, firm. There are scandalous stories about her youth, but they are only stories. No one who knew; her could believe her bad. She presents an interesting case of sadly misdirected genius. The Idea of holding two Democratic state conventions, one before and one after the national convention, was an inspiration on the part of the anti-Hearst managers. For originality and boldness it would be hard to beat in the political annals of any party, and its object is so apparent that its originators ought not to put forward any other motive for it than the real one. It knocks the bottom out of the Hearst plan of campaign, eliminates the possibility of the Hearst crowd trading on the state ticket, an( puts the conservative wing of the party firmly in the saddle. MINOR TOPICS. Few people know why April 1 is called "All Fool's day." It is believed , to have originated In France in 1564. In that year the reformed calendar was adopted, changing New Year's day from April 1 to Jan. 1. As it was customary to make gifts and visits on the New Year many people "got their dates mixed," and others made mock gifts to unsuspecting persons. The custom was' kept up, but its origin was soon forgotten. A woman lecturing in Chicago says that hatred is a real poison, and that by thinking hard about a pet hatred for ten minutes the experimenter can breathe on a. glass tube and produce a brown streak. What kind of thinking produces that yellow streak we hear so much about? Sir Philip Burne-Jones is In England again, but he is mourning the loss of the American bath tub; which renews our wonder at the fact that the greatest "tubbers" in the world are still content to take their baths in portable tin pans. The Journal apologizes to Dr. Hfor printing his name, for not knowing he was an Indianapolis ' man, and for altering a word or two In his very clever limerick. But editors have the blue-pencil habit. A Chicago minister bought mileage at "preachers rates," sold it to scalpers and gave the money to the poor. And that is about as complete a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul as any on record. A Baltimore man who lost two ribs has had them replaced by hard rubber tubes. If Adam's ribs had been made that way Eve's curiosity In regard to that fruit could be easily explained. A Boston boy ten years of age is now ready to enter Harvard. Poor child! He probably can't swim, play ball, fight bumble-bees or steal birds' eggs. A Cleveland preacher said there was no hell, and his congregation assaulted him and threw him iHto the streeL Wonder what he thinks about it now? A Cleveland minister claims that 700,000 divorces have been granted during one generation. Cheer up just think of how many people are married yet. Whenever the Japanese make an attempt to bottle up Port Arthur they thus con firm the suspicion that Tort Arthur is not already bottled. A Colorado woman the other day killed a wildcat with a single shot. And. everybody swears that she was shooting at the wildcat, too. A Kansas City girl wants $10,000 damages for one kiss. A decision in her favor will make a lot of new converts to the microbe theory. Thomas W. Lawson tells of making $15, 000,000 in one deal. He must have done the dealing himself, and out of. a cold deck at that. What a i incongruous thing it is to have Good Friday coming on April Fool's day! Deny yourself the pleasure of a practical Joke. One Kansas editor alludes to another as "our half-witted friend with the chronic

brain-fas' This warming up of old-fashioned journalism is a sure sign that an election is near.

One of the latest books Is entitled "The Rainbow Chasers." Hearst literature, probably. THE HUMORISTS. Truly Heroic. "He had a p!ay produced by an amateur company the other night. I believe. Who was the hero of it, do you know?" "I was one. I sat through it." Philadelphia Ledger. Foresight. .'"To-day," said he minister, "I think you'd better take up the collection before I preach my sermon." "Vhy so!" asked the vestryman. "I'm going to preach on 'Economy.' "Philadelphia Press. Vaefnl These. Grinder What! Asleep at your desk, and work so pressing? Meekly Excuse me, .sir; baby kept tne awake all night. Grinder Then you should have brought it with you to the office. Atchison Globe. Leading a. Donble Life. , "Klymer has a farm a short distance out in the country, hasn't he 7" "Yes." "Then what is he practicing medicine in town for?" "He has to do it to make money enough to pay what he loses by his farming." Chicago Tribune. Unrecorded History. Esau had sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. "Jacob said the cook had given notice," he apologized, "so I thought I had better take it while I couldV' Considering the bete noir of suburban life, it was easy to see how he had fallen into the ruse. Brooklyn Life. Social Item front Utah. Elder Brown tat the telephone) Tabitha, I thought I'd tell you I've Just ordered a grocery store, sixteen coops of chicken, and four dressed cows sent up to the house. Sister Brown Why, Hiram! What on earth do you mean? Elder Brown Why er I I've Just invited Elder Smith and forty-two of his children. Atlanta Constitution. Lemon in Geography. "How far is it around the world?" In girlish innoOnce asked she; "Ah, I will measure it," he said, "If you will permit me to, and see." Then when his strong right arm he placed About her waist so small and trim. He found it wasn't very far For she was all the world to him. Town Topics. THE FUNir YOUNGSTERS. Psychological. The cat and the Infant sat upon the hearth rug and regarded each other long and seriously. The cat's attitude was that of pure contempla tion, .her look as of one whose rule it la neither to ask nor answer. The infant mind plainly struggled with a thought, of which the outcome was presently this profound question: "Does a cat know she's a cat?" Harper's Marazine. An Apt Pupil. Teacher James, you were lata yesterday morn ing. Pupil Yes; but as you were saying to the class to-day, we should let bygones be bygones. Teacher But have you no excuse to offer? Pupil In that eame talk you said that one who was g xd at excuses was usually' good at nothing else. Under the circumstances. I think it better for me not to do anything that will lower me In your estimation. Boston Transcript. Remunerative. "Well. Bobby, how-do you like church?" asked his father as they walked homeward from the sanctuary, to which Bobby had just paid his first visit. "It's fine! ejaculated the young man. "How much did you get, father?" "How much did I get? Why, what do you mean? How much what?" asked the astonished parent at, this evident irreverence. "Why, don't you remember when the funny old man passed the money around? I only got 10 cents. March Llpplncott's. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Dr. W. O. Anderson, director of the Yale gymnasium, has Invented a muscle bed which is at tracting considerable attention among athletes. Princess Louise of Saxony, with her child, ia expected to leave the Isle of Wight in May for herv father's house at 'Lindau, on Eake Constance, where, it is reported, she will be allowed to meet her other children. Drawings of a curious drinking cup, discovered a fortnight ago by gravel diggers In a field at Springfield, Essex, were sent to the British Museum. The authorities have replied that the cup belongs possibly to the Neolithic period, and that one cannot go very far wrong in assigning an age of 3.000 years to it. The annual exhibition of the American Women's Art Association of Tarls has Just closed at the gallery of the American Students Club in Paris. The officers of the association are: President, Mrs. Frederick MacMonies; vice president. Miss Elizabeth Kruseman Van Elten; secretary and treasurer. Miss Caroline Mint urn Hall. The British Postoffice Department has just successfully put in operation the system In vogue in the United States for several years of issuing low-value postage stamps in small books. Books containing !1 penny stamps are on sale at 2s Vi each, practically the same as the price of a book of twenty-four 2-cent stamps In this country, which is 49 cents. The Vicar ;of Great Marlow has Just discovered, in a London curiosity shop, a remarkable wooden bas relief of a former vicar Dr. Cleoburey, who was presented to the living by George II,- and when he died was the senior magistrate for the county of Bucks. In- the vestry of Marlow Church there now hang the names of all Its vicars from 1204 and the por traits of those who have held the living during the last ISO years. Facta About- Ruiiia, Two and one-half times as large as the United States and Alaska. Thirty thousand miles of coast line, half of It ice-bound. Thlrty-s'.x thousand miles of railroad, twothirds of it owned by the government. The United States has fifty-three times as many miles of telegraph and sends fifteen times as much mall. The Vnited States has twenty-three times as many factories. One-twentlfth as much coal produced and onesixth as much iron as in the United States. Total exports, $330,000.000. Next 'to the United States as a graln-produe-ing country. Population in 1903. 141.00,000. Russians B6 per cent.. Poles 7 per cent.. Finns 5 per cent., Turco Tartars 9 per cent, and Jews 3 per cent. Average laborer gets one-fourth as much wages as in the United States. Only ninety daily papers, The World' Work. Chnrchcn Without Spires. Dr. Tarkhurst's church is not the only one that will abandon the steeple feature, because it would be dwarfed by the high buildings around it. In the erection of the new edifice of the First United Presbyterian Church no attempt at the usual lofty steeple will be made, the extreme height of the front elevation being only sixty-three feet above the sidewalk. The site on which the church is to be erected is anything but favorable to' this type of building. Practically In the middle of the block, it is bounded on either side by lofty apartment houses. The new church will have a large dome, which will be broken by eight penetrations, doing away with all possibility of an echo. On hundred and twenty electric lights la the "eye" of the dome will b bunched ia six

enormous holoplane globes, the light from which is said to be similar to moonlight, due to a peculiar quality of the glass. New York Letter. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.

Weight of a .Gentleman. Secretary Taft is huge. He is tall, amd broad, and thick. At Senator Foraker's reception In his honor Saturday night somebody looked the secretary over and asked, "Mr. Secretary, how much do you weigh V "You remember that Speaker Keed told a simi lar inquirer that no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds, don't your said the tecretary. "Yes, I believe he did say something of that kind." "Well." boomed the secretary, "I have revised that. I tell everybody that no gentleman weighs more than COO pounds." New York World. The Woman nud the Jndge. In a recent letter from Japan Lafcadto Hearn speaks of Oyama, the chief of the Japanese gen eral staff. "A pretty story of Oyama." he says, "has been told of late. During his sen-ice as judge advocate at Tokio he attended a ball one night. He was standing near a doorway at this ball when a beautiful European woman . swept by, and so greatly did her charm impress Judge Oyama that he exclaimed Involuntarily: . 'What a lovely woman! "She overheard him. With a little smile she looked back over her white shoulder, and, recognizing him, she t&ll: " 'What an excellent Judge!' "New York Tribune. Didn't Know Her Name. Mo 1 men know how to spell the name of the woman they are about to marry. One that lacked this ability applied for a license this morning at the county courthouse and for a time it looked as if he would have to go back home and get the girl's name. When the clerk asked the usual question the prospective groom replied, after some thought, "Well, by goodness, I never supposedwhy, spell it the usual way, of course Cyrher."' "There's no mla for spelling proper names," said the clerk. 'Maybe it's Cipher or Sighfor." The applicant was much confused, but finally agreed to spell the name "Cypher." The clerk told him it would cost (2 for a new license if a mistake were made, but he took the risk. "The name is unusual." he laughed, as ha left the recorder's ofilce. Kansas City Times. Floored in Spelling-. Dr. Vaughan, for many years head master at Harrow, once had an amusing encounter with a small boy who carried off the honors of the occasion. The incident greatly pleased the doctor. A frightened child named -Dodd was bi ought before Dr. Vaughan, charged with some dire scholastic offense. "What is your name?" asked the master, with yflue severity. Mjoaa, sir, answerea tne tremDung ooy. "Dodd! Do you spell it with one d,' or with two?" "No, sir; three," answered the boy. The doctor put his head upon the desk, covered it with his hands a moment, and then dismissed the dangerous criminal with a warning. He said afterward: "I could no more have punished that boy than I could have flown. Nobody before ever gave me such a lesson in spelling." Short Stories. Ills Family Record. Representative Llttlefield. of Maine, tells this: "A really good minister generally has a ready answer for him who would cast a slur on the Bible or on religion. It seems that the good Lord has furnished them with the ammunition which is always ready to be fired into the scoffer and sinner. "In my Sttte a good minister had an appointment to preach at one of the small places, a reueh and ready sort of Joint, where the men didn't care much how things went. It was Saturday evening when the minister rode up to the only hotel or boarding house In the place, and he was soon surrounded by several of the men who had been imbibing in the speak-easy. One of them asked: " 'Be you the parson who has come here to preach?' ",'Yes, sir calmly and politely replied the minister. . ' " 'Well, parson, can you tell me and my friends how old the devil is? " 'Keep j-our own family record, my friend,' was the quick answer al the minister dismounted and walked into the house." Washington Times. Corruption as a System. What, then, is the system of Missouri? Just as in the city, the system in the State Is corruption settled into a "custom of the country;" betrayal of trust established as the form of government. The people elect, to govern for them, representatives who are to care for the common Interests of all. But the confessing senators confessed that they were paid by a lobby 'to serve special interests. Naturally enough, the Jurors, good citizens, were incensed especially at the public servants "who sold them out." But who did the buying? Who are the lobby? The confessions name Col. William H. Phelps, John J. Carroll, and others, lawyers and citizens of standing at the bar and in the State, and they were the agents of the commanding business enterprises of the State. Lincoln Steffens, in April McClure's.Knee Breeches for Men. Knee breeches are to be the fashion for men. Such a rumor, at least, vague as yet and uncertain as to source, is in the air. It comes as regularly with the gloomy forecast of returning hoop skirts as the bluebird with March. Should it materiallze periwigs and perukes and hair powder will undoubtedly become part of the barber's staples, and the tailor will talk as glibly of Van Dyke and Hogarth effects as the dressmaker and milliner do now of Gainsboroughs and Romneys. Lest the worst should happen and masculine creation find itself thus attired, it might be well for the men to practice up that little side step and bow which middle-aged gentlemen will recall as a part of their early training. For "courtly dress roust be graced with polished manners." The. bridge at rush hours is recommended as an excellent training ground for such airs and graces. New York Sun. Wanted to Relieve the Somberneis. Lord Arthur Hill, who seems anxious to relieve the ordinary sombemess of the masculine garb, appeared at a public function the other day wearing light check trousers and a cutaway black coat of original style. In the waistcoat bright crimson was the predominating hue, while across its wide expanse he wore a large watch chain. A black and white tie of ample proportions was adorned by a turquoise and diamond pin. On two fingers of each hand were wide gold rings and a bracelet of gold encircled his wrist. Philadelphia Press. The SIde' They Put On. Atchison Is growing tired of the people who grumble because they can't get a private bath in the town. Do they have individual bath tubs at home? Do. they have bath tubs at all at home, or do they have to wait till the kitchen work is done and the room is deserted to take a bath by the kitchen stove? We know positively of Atchison people who demand a room with a bath when they go to Kansas City, who do all their washing and wiping by the kitchen stove at home. Atchison Globe. Facta About Korea. The area is 82,000 square miles. There are nine treaty ports. Gold the great mineral wealth nearly $3,000,000 worth exported annually. The population is 17.000.000 including 2S.000 Japanes who control the country's' activities. Education costs J165.000 and religious sacrifices $1S5.000. The navy consists of twenty-five admirals and one iron-built coal barge. The World's Work. Profitable Danlness. G. W. Easter, a farmer of Dickinson county. marketed 51.000 pounds of milk from ten cows during the past year. Each cow gave nearly six times her own weight in milk. The cow business must be something like the drug business. which Governor Anthony used to characterize as the only business in the world where the net profits exceeded the gross receipts. Kansas City JoumaL Lack of Enthusiasm. The proposition to let the South pull the Demo cratic party's chestnuts out of the fire this year is not awakening as much Southern enthusiasm as was anticiDaled. Chicaa-o Tribun.

THE DRIFT

General Charles II. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who has represented the Eleventh district of that State in the lower branch of Congress for the last twenty years, is entitled to an invitation to attend the coming Republican state convention as one of the survivors of the first Republican convention held in Indiana, in 1S55. W. S. Wright, formerly the editor of the Logansport Journal, recently noted In this column the announcement that State Chairman Goodrich was sending out invitations to survivors of that first convention to. attend the convention this year as guests of honor, and he has written to his old paper to call attention to the fact that General Grosvenor should be included in the list. General Grosvenor came to Indiana in 1S33, says Mr. Wright, and located at Lafayette. He was a Democrat at that time, but joined in the movement for the formation of a new party, to be known as the Republican party, and attended tne first mass convention of the new party in Indianapolis the year following his arrival at Lafayette. He was twenty-three years of age at that time. Biographical sketches of General (,rosvenor. including the one in the Congres sional Directory, contain no reference to the fact that he was for a short, time a resident of Indiana, but In n speech which he delivered in this city a few years ago the general spoke of his brief residence in this State. State Chairman Goodrich will at once ex tend to General Grosvenor an invitation to be present at the coming convention as one of th3 guests of honor and every effort will be made to induce the distinguished Ohloan to accept. The Seventh district Republican congres sional convention, to be held to-morrow afternoon in the Criminal Court room, will be the political event of the week locally, and will undoubtedly attract a large crowd. No contests are in prospect, but the con vention will be none the less interestinj;'. Representative Jesse Overstreet, who will be the central figure in the" affair, will ar rive in the city from Washington early this afternoon in time to cast his vote this evening in the primaries for the selection of delegates to the convention. William L. Taylor, former attorney gen eral, and the -Tlistrict's candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, will wield the gavel as chairman of the con vention and will contribute to the oratory for the occasion. District Chairman Floyd A. Woods will call the convention to order. A. if. Higglns, of Terre Haute, who has been suspected of designs on the Republican congressional nomination in the Fifth district, was in the city yesterday on business he was too busy, in fact, he said, to talk politics, but he did. "I have been so busy for the last two months that I really have not had time to think of politics," he declared, when asked if he expected to get into the con gressional fight. "I can't say now that I shall or shall not be a candidate. "There has been little congressional talk in Terre Haute, so far as I know." continued Mr. Higglns. "We have Just finished a municipal primary campaign, and that has engrossed everybody's attention to the exclusion of district affairs. Edward J. Bidaman Is our nominee for mayor. He is a strong man and will be able, I believe, to retire Mr. Steeg." Referring to business matters, Mr. Higglns said that Terre Haute people are now claiming that their city ranks as the second city in the State in point of population. "We've got the people now, and a census will show that we do not have to take our hats off to any city in Indiana except Indianapolis," he said. "Terre Haute has grown marvelously during the last two years. It has hustled us to take care of our newcomers, and it is almost impossible to get a house in any part of the city for Jove or money to-day." r r Carey E. Cowgill, of Wabash, was in the city last night, wearing a smile and a Sayre button, among other things. The smile-has been fixed on Mr. Cowgill's countenance ever since the congressional primaries in his county, the result of which practically assured that Representative Landis would have a substantial majority of the delegates in the Peru convention. while the button is an earnest of the intention of Wabash Republicans to capture the gubernatorial nomination for their fellow-townsman. Warren G. Sayre. Mr. Cowgill took an active part in the spectacular- congressional contest, working aggressively and openly in the Interest of Representative Landis. When It was apparent that Major Steele could not be nominated and there was talk of a third candidate, with Mr. Cowgill named as a possible dark horse, he declined to listen to the suggestion and stood firmly by Landis. "I believed that Mr. Landis was entitled to a renomination, had said that I would support him and under no circumstances would I have been a candidate after I had taken that position," said Mr. Cowgill last evening at the Columbia Club, "kven if I had wanted to be a candidate I could not have been after our primary. Our delegates were elected as Landis men, and no one could have taken a single man of them away from Landis. Rut I did not want to be a candidate, and have not wanted to be a candidate at any time. I shall be glad to see Mr. Landis continued in Congress Indefinitely. He has the right kind of stuff in him, is young, forceful and able, and now that he will have a chance t am satisfied that he will measure up as one of the strong members of the Indiana delegation." Mr. Cowgill says that Mr. Sayre's friends are greatly pleased with the indorsement given him at Peru. "Under the circumstances," he said, "when everybody was at a high tension and the congressional right had been such a hard one, it was remarkable that there was s much enthusiasm for Mr. Sayre as there was and that his candidacy was given such a rousing sendoff." . 4 4 Ninth ward Republicans held a largelyattended meeting last night at the clubrooms on Shelby street and effected an organization for the coming campaign. The officers elected are: President, H. M Wright: vice president. John Albright'; secretary, Charles Banworth; treasurer, Neal Despo. County Chairman Harry R. Smith and a number of the candidates for county and township officers were present at the meeting and made brief speeches. Henry W. Marshall, of Lafayette, was at the English last evening, mingling with the politicians and telling them of the enthusiastic delegation Tippecanoe county Republicans will have at the state convention to head the fight to land the gubernatorial nomination for J, Frank Hanly. 4- 4- 4E. O. Rose, editor of the Angola Magnet, is wasting no time in opening an aggressive campaign in the interest of Lieutenant Governor Newton W. Gilbert, the Twelfth district Republican candidate for Congress, and he is emphasizing the point that Mr. Gilbert Is entitled to recognition as a "soldier candidate." "There is a dispositon on the part of many to regard the Spanish-American war boys as ITALY AND AUSTRIA MAKE AN AGREEMENT Neither 'Government Will Undertake Territorial Occupation in 1 the Balkans. ROME, March 31. The ' governments of Italy and Austria have concluded a complete agreement regarding affairs in the Balkans by which the status quo in those states is assured, both powers pledging themselves not to undertake territorial occupation. They have also decided upon the manner of the assignment to- the different Macedonian vilayets of the international gendarmerie created under the RussianAustrian reorganization Scheme. The Italian gendarmerie will be intrusted with the occupation of the Vilayet of Monastlr. The powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin have been notified of the AustroItalian agreement, which is considered as putting an effectual stop to the troubles in the Balkan states and as eliminating the possibility of their being used as instruments for aiding a Macedonian uprising in thd spring.

OF POLITICS

only holiday soldiers, and the old fellows of forty-odd years ago as. the only genuine, article," said Mr. Rose to the Journal.. "I was one of the 'old fellow?,' and was wounded near Chattanooga, but I certainly have an exalted estimate of the young fellows. The Twelfth district had tight companies in the Spanish-American war six of them In the One-hundred-and-flfty-frcventh Indiana, along with Lieutenant Governor Gilbert." N In a similar vein Mr. Rose said editorially in a recent issue of his paper: "Some people are disposed to regard the Spanish-American veteran as a sort of dress-parade soldier as a man whose military record isn't worth mentioning but each man acted his part In a war that has no parallel In history. It matters nt whether It was his lot to go to Cuba or Porto Rico, or to be assigned to the defence of our Southern soacoast towns against possible attack and invasion by the enemy, he performed the task assigned to him. aud that is all any soldier can do. "Captain Gilbert and his Steuben county comrades were among the first to enlist, and there's no blot upon their record. They performed well the work set before them; and when it comes to a measurement of patriotism and a willingness to do and die if need Ik in defense of their country and its flag, they are entitled to the same credit that is accorded the men who enlisted forty-odd years ago. Suppose it had been the lot of the One-hundred-and-flfty-seventh Regiment to meet the enemy on San Juan hill, or tr undergo the dangers and protracted hardships of the war of the rebellion, docs anybody think, for a moment that Its record would have been one of which cither 'the boys or their friends would bo ashamed? Six companies of that regiment were raised in the Twelfth congressional district, and they were up to the standard in everything that constitutes the typical American soldier; and we respectfully suggest that when people talk of 'a soldier candidate. the Spanish-American war veteran should not be entirely ignored. "That Lieutenant Governor Gilbert is admirably equipped for the office he eeks will be generally concluded. His eight years' experience in the Indiana Senate, with four years as presiding officer of that body, making him thoroughly familiar with parliamentary law and legislative methods, is a schooling which falls to the lot of comparatively few men. Added to that Is his tireless energy and his extended acquaintance with public men and measures, making him all in all a most desirable man to represent this district in the lower branch of the national Congress." ' The managers cf Hearst's campaign in Indiana received a severe jolt in the chilly reception accorded Clarence Darrow on Wednesday night at Terre Haute. Darrow, who is a Chicago attorney, was billed to open Hearst's campaign in Terre Haute with a speech at the opera house, but when heppeared at the meeting the crowd numbered only about 4"0 and there was not a single Democrat of prominence in attendance. There was no one to introduce Darrow and finally he was presented to the audience in a perfunctory way by an attache of the opera house. His speech waa one of the typical Hearst bureau laudations, of the chvek and checkbook candidate. Harrow was billed for a speech last night at Evansville. but his reception at Terre Haute evidently discouraged him to such a degree that he decided to teer clear cf Indiana, for the Evansville dat was canceled on short notice. Apparently it is up to the Hearst bureau in this city to prepare the way in better shape for the Hearst orators. i Col. Isaac Strouse, of the Rockville Tribune, who is the most enthusiastic advocate of Hearst in the ranks of Indiana Democracy, makes a feature of Rryan'a "summons to arms" in the current issue of his paper. Mr. Strouse takes the following quotation from the Commoner and puts it in italics, "first page, top of column, next to pure reading matter:" "The rcorganizers are trying to securo uninstructed delegations, filled up with men secretly pledged to Cleveland, Hill, Parker, Gorman. Olney or some other representative of the reactionary element in the party. Why do they not asl for instructions? Simply because they know that their candidates are not stronc with the people. Let the friends of the Kansas City platform instruct for the reaffirmation of the platform, no matter whether they meet in a caucus, a county convention, a district convention or a state convention. If the friends of the Kansas City platform can agree upon a presidential candidate it U well enough to instruct for him also. Instructions are Democratic. They express the will of the voters and the voters have a right to bind their representatives. If a would-be delegate objects to instructions, let him stay at home. If the rcorganizers believe in honest politics let them come out into the open and present the issue to the people. They dar not do that for they cannot appeal to the masses." 4- 4- 4Colonel Strouse also takes occasion to score the Democratic state organ for its attitude toward Ifearst, saying that the Sentinel persists in printing interviews from only such Democrats as are opposed to Hearst, and that it takes particular pains to print everything even remotely favorable to Judge Parker. The Rockville Republican. Colonel Strouse's contemporary, c-onstributes the following to the gayety of the campaign: "A man named T. A. Worm came down to Terre Haute from Chicago last Friday to start the Hearst ball to rolling In the Fifth district. A number of Democrats from the .district ?arly birds wishing to rapture a worm including our own oi. Ike Strouse and J. S. McFaddin. resiondeI Lto a telegraphic summons and met the Worm. It was noticeable, nowever, uiai the real district leaders, such as John E. Lamb. John Bcasley and Gil McNutt. of Terre Haute, and others from the different counties, were conspicuous by their absence. But the Hearst boom Is on. That fact might as well be recognized now by those Democrats who wihh to save their time-honored party from total destruction and thev must prepare to meet it. Will Colonel Strouse be able to deliver the Democratic party of Parke county, bound hand and foot, to lh multi-millionaire of yellow newspaper fame? If not. those opposed will have to bestir themselves." 4-4-S. Taul Poynter, publisher of the Sullivan Democrat, is one of the latest converts to the Hearst doctrine. Mr. Poynter was until recently a conservative cf conservatives, and was charged with disloyalty to the ticket four years ago. but by a slow but sure process of editorial reasoning he has at last brought himself to an espousal of the cause of the "yellow peril." . - 4In view of the floods that have visited Indiana Immediately following the Hearst invasion a suspicion has been aroused that the Hearst barrel is a rain barrel. 4 4' The local Hearst bureau has received a consignment of Hearst buttons red, white and blue carnations bearing a likeness of the candidate and the Inscription. "Hearst for President" that will be scattered broadcast over the city and State. It was also announced at the headquarters yesterday that Indianapolis wld be made the headquarters for southern Indiana news for Hearst's Chicago paper, and that the circulation of the paper In all parts of the State will be pushed. MERGER J'UXXED FOR DIG TRUST COMPANIES The Citizens and the Prudential, of Cleveland, Will Consolidate Their Interests. CLEVELAND, March 21. It Is announced that an agreement has been reached whereby the Citizens Eaving Be. Trust Company will absorb the Prudential Trust Company. The Prudential Trust Company Is capitalized at iwvn. with S1.VV0 In deposits. The consolidation will result in giving the Citizens Saving & Trust Company deposits agsn gating $J0.r.X) in its banking department, and resources of lCH.r"0.(x exclusive of Its trust department, which carries about $7mV0. The Irudentlal stockholders7 will receive a total of shares of the Citi zens' stcnk. or on a basis of 43 per cenL, through the transaction. J Police Court Judge Drops DeaU. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. March ) 21. Police Court Judge William H. Haggetv. a wtil-known citizen, dropped dead tiay while leaving the municipal buildinH Ha was nxiy years uo.