Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1904 — Page 4

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DAYTON, O. street. V. Wilkle, 33 South Jefferson DENVER. Col. Louthaln & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1607 Champa street. DES MOINES. Ia. Mose Jacobs, SOD Fifth street. LOS ANGELES, Cat-Harry Drapkln. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlnsr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Bluefeld Bros.. 412 West Market street. NET YORK As tar House. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot; world's Fair Newspaper Wagons; Louisiana News Company Exchange. BT. JOSEPH. Mo. F. 13. Carrlel. Station D. WASHINGTON. D. C.-RJss House. Ebbltt H.ue. Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel. Spain Ja sending a minister to Cuba, and the two countries are on friendly terms again officially, at least. Republican indorsements of Roosevelt Indicate that victory is to be so easy this fall that It seems almost a shame to take it. The Republicans of Madison, Wis., have indorsed the Democratic candidate for mayor. If that isn't harmony, what is? Those Dattos who are visiting the St. Louis exposition appear to have escaped General Wood only to run Into pneumonia. According to Colonel Watterson it appears that President Roosevelt Is an honest, sturdy, clean man. who ought to be hanged. Perhaps Judge Parker is keeping quiet be cause he knows that as soon as he gets In the garae( he will have to pay a campaign assessment. It must be particularly maddening to Mr. Bryan to consider that a year's salary as President would put him even with what he lost on that Bennett will case. The revolver carried by Jesse James when he was killed will be on exhibition at St. Louis. Why not exhibit them all? There must be several thousand in existence. With the Frohlbitionists and the saloon keepers both attacking the Nicholson lawthere seems to be nothing left for' other people but a declaration of neutrality. Senator Bard, of California, has introduced a bill offering prizes amounting to 1150,000 for the most accurate weather forecast. Is this government going to run guessing contests? John L. Sullivan says: "I'd like to get into office so some decent laws could be passed." We do naed a few legal heavyweights, but to enforce the decent laws we have, not to pass new ones. Wars proceed by well-defined stages, like orations, from introduction to conclusion. In the far East we have had the preliminary etage and the preparatory stage. The next will be the comic opera stage. As th: war of words and rivalry of candidates for the Democratic nomination goes men-ily on, a few faithful souls may be noticed unobtrusively but vigorously using the bicycle pump on the Judge Gray boom. King reter of Servia has had' made one of the finest crowns in existence, from an artistic standpoint. He wants a good one "While he is about it, for he doesn't know how long he may have a head to wear it on. The national Prohibition chairman says that General Miles cannot become that rarty's candidate until he becomes a Prohibitionist. That is the trouble with these things there is always such an awful price to pay. A frightened woman arrived in Brooklyn the other day to escape her Christian Scientist enemies, who. she says, are trying to think her to death. That is impossible. The concentrated thought of several thousand Democrats has not succeeded in giving Willie Hearst' a bad headache. Senator Beveridge is a fine lawyer and a killful questioner, but with all his detective powers he was not able to elicit any information as to the Democratic candidate, the Democratic platform or a single party issue. He would have found out had the Democrats themselves known anything about it. The only question of general Interest !n the Chicago municipal election of yesterday was whether the city should take advantage of a state law authorizing cities In Illinois to construct, own. operate and Jease street railways. Another feature of the law is that any franchise for more than five years must, on the request of 10 er cent of the voters, be submitted to a referendum or popular vote. The law Is !y applicable in cities that choose to make A co. The indications are that it has been adopted in Chicago. Yeuterday morning the Wtune of ibzi city e4: "Chicago at the

present time is just about as ready for municipal ownership as the inhabitants of Senegambia are for universal suffrage." It is doubtful if municipal management of public utilities will succeed In a city offering as large a field for municipal corruption as Chicago does. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRESIDENT. . The New York World, which jecently transferred Its support from Mr. Cleveland as its presidential choice to Judge Parker, signalizes its change of allegiance by a, full page description and character sketch of the new Moses. In the first place, let us get his name right. When Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for Vice President it took the Democrats several weeks to master his first name so they could know whom to "holler" for. Judge Parker's nme is Alton Brooks Parker. It can be remembered by recalling the Chicago & Alton railroad or thinking of the post town of Alton, Anderson county, Kentucky. Biographical dictionaries differ as to the date of Judge Parker's birth, and unfortunately the World sketch does not settle the controversy. It says: "The Judge was born on the farm near Cortland almost fifty-two years ago." That is quite

indefinite. The sketch was published on April 3. Could it be possible that the judge was born on April 1 and that his boomers are trying to conceal the exact date for political reasons? Waiving this point, however, the evidence is conclusive that he was born. The World sketch tells how some time after he was born he lived on the farm, then attended village school and afterwards taught school, studied law, engaged in the practice, became chairman of the Democratic state committee in the campaign in which David B. Hill was elected Governor and was appointed by Governor Hill to a seat on the Supreme Court bench. So Judge Parker was started on his judicial career as a partisan in return for party services rendered David B. inn. Of the judge's personal appearance we learn thaj he i3 "six feet tall, strong and well proportioned." The Constitution does not prescribe the physical qualifications of a President, but it is-Interesting to learn that Judge Parker is not a monstrosity neither a dwarf nor a giant. The Democratic party would hardly venture to nominate a freak for President. As for other physical features we are told that "the Judge's nose Is aquiline;" that "he has high cheek bones" and that "his high, broad forehead slopes back without a bump." This is better than if it sloped forward with bumps. We are further told that "the block head is not large and is somewhat straight, so that it does not balance with the great Jaws and the fighting chin." That Is not a happy characterization. The only definitions of "block head" are "a dull-witted or stupid person." and "a head of wood for shaping hats or wigs." Judge Parker is neither of these. He is a lawyer. in good standing and a Democrat of fully average intelligence. Judge Parker is a farmer as well as a lawyer, and the. time that he is not holding court or visiting New York to talk politics with the boys he spends on hi3 farm near Cortland. The World says: Here Judge Parker walks among his bulls and cows, In top boots and peajacket, the incarnation of strength and vitality. He strides through the sorghum and hay fields, visits the great barn, tends the eick cow or fondles the latest calf, and helps his men to clear up the leaves or stubble. None of his eight farm hands knows half as much as he about the trees, the crops, the cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys or ducks. Whether in the peach or apple orchard, in the cow pasture, barn or sty, he is. the master of all in knowledge, as well as in energy. That is a pleasing picture of a stern judge unbending in the privacy of farm life a sort of judicial Cincinnatus, as it were, waiting for the people to call him from the plow to the White House. Whoever drew that picture Intended that nothing should be missing to impress the public with Judge Parker's agricultural knowledge and experience. For the rest we learn that the judge "is a confirmed magazine reader;" that "his musical tastes are very simple and classical compositions are apt to bore him;" that "he rises usually at half-past six o'clock in the morning, takes his cold plunge and shaves and dresses himself in thirty minutes." That is pretty qufck time, but taking a cold, plunge every morning will not help him any as a Democratic candidate. "After taking a cup of coffee without sugar he is ready for his ride." After a rido on horseback "he cats a hearty breakfast, usually of fruit, oatmeal porridge, beefsteak or sausages or bacon and eggs, with buckwheat cakes, maple syrup, hot corn bread and two cups of coffee." Then, if court is in session, he goes to Albany or otherwise works on his opinions. "His ordinary lunch consists of thin soup, tea without milk or sugar, fruit and custard or pumpkin pie." One more meal completes the day. "Ills dinner is generally made up of soup and a roast, such as beef. Iamb or spareribs principally of his own killing followed by a salad and fruit or pie." Finally "Judge Parker does not retire before 11 o'clock or midnight. He sleeps soundly." The writer of the sketch omitted to state whether the Judge snores or not, but if ho does no doubt he would agree to quit if the people object. Such are the personal traits and characteristics, physical and mental, of the newly discovered statesman on whom the Democratic party is rapidly uniting as its candidate for President. His friends claim that they constitute rare equipment for the office. WHAT 15 HEARST PLAYIXG FOR? William It. Hearst has engaged 330 rooms in two leading hotels of St. Louis for the period immediately before and including the week of the Democratic national convention. In one hotel he has reserved two floors and two-thirds of another, and in the other hotel three entire floors, at a total cost of $3.500 a day. The rooms are taken on the European plan and meals for the occupants will be extra, adding materially to the expense. The managers of the hotels profess Ignorance as to who will occupy the rooms. It is enough for them to know they are reserved and payment guaranteed. This is characteristic of the Hearst plan of campaign, which seeks to accomplish by bribery, bluff and a profuse expenditure of money .what has generally been done through legitimate political organization and management. Politics is none too clean a business at best, but Hearst's methods are as much worse than ordinary political methods as the black mud which has been passing through our water pipes lately Is

than the purest spring water that bubbles from a rock. It would be interesting to know what Hearst expects to accomplish by this lavish expenditure of money. Even a man who has money to burn docs not usually spend great sums without expecting to accomplish something or get It backdn some way. At the figures above stated, if Hearst retains the rooms he has engaged in St. Louis for the entire convention week of six days, they will cost him $21.000. and this is a small amount compared with what he has been spending for months past through his literary bureaus working up an artificial following in various States and buying delegates. He will not have nearly enough delegates at St. Louis to fill the rooms he has engaged, and he must expect to fill them with paid claquers, boomers and persons who will shout for him at so much per shout. But again the question recurs, what does he expect to accomplish? 'There is not the slightest prospect of his receiving, controlling or dictating the nomination at St. Louis, and yet he must have some definite plan in view. It is by no means Improbable that William J. Bryan is using Hearst with the latter's knowledge and consent to organize the Bryan faction with a view, if the St. Louis convention repudiates Bryanism, of heading a bolt that will defeat the nominee. Bryan's ultimatum is reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform, 16-to-l and all. No matter whom the convention may nominate failure to reaffirm the Kansas City platform will be construed by Bryan as cause for bolting, and then the true leader of the Hearst movement will step to the front and head the bolt. The Hearst movement may simply be a Bryan movement in disguise with an understanding between them that Hearst is to furnish the money and Bryan the brains for a political coup that will make them joint dictators of the party four years hence. What else does Hearst expect to accomplish if not this? What is his game if not this? What is he playing for?

The Journal feels moved to congratulate the local Democratic managers on the second knock-out blow administered to the Hearst organizers. The first was when the state, committee decided on two state conventions, one before the national convention to elect delegates, and another afterwards, to nominate a state ticket. That was a stunning blow to the Hearst crowd, but they pulled themselves together and resumed operations with as good grace as possible. Now comes the second blow In the call fixing the county primaries to elect delegates to the state convention on next Friday. As the Hearst people have no local organization this call puts them practically out of the fight as far as this county is concerned. The Hearst boomers are getting some valuable lessons in politics. The city is to be congratulated that the work of organizing the National Technical Institute to be located here has fallen into the han Is of men whose names command confidence and whose broad and liberal views appear in every step they take. Yesterday's meeting of the directors showed that gratifying progress Is being made in securing special endowment funds. The directors have shown excellent judgment in employing Mr. F. L. Olmsted, the wellknown landscape gardener of Boston, to make plans for the improvement and decoration of the grounds. They are founding an Institute which the city will some day be very proud of. MINOR TOPICS. London physicians have discovered a new disease, said to be caused by the vibration of a speeding automobile. It is expected to take the place of appendicitis as a fashionable complaint; it will certainly be years before the common people catch it. A New York man has sued the city because . a city official buncoed him into burying another woman in mistake for his wife, who has since been found alive and well. He wants $250 to make up for his dlsarpoiutment. i Dr. Harroun, of Denver, fell heir to Jl.OQO.OOO, and gave it all to his sister, saying that he did not need it. This man certainly must be descended from the Caliph Haroun, surnamed al Raschid, or "The Just." . Only 10 per cent, of the Harvard, students have indigestion, as against 30 per cent, at Yale. And neither one has to swallow the things that are fed to the' Chicago University student body. The Russians at Vladivostok have an easy way of detecting Japanese spies. When a Chinaman acts suspiciously they pull his plgstail. If the hair comes off the head soon follows it. In a pistol-shooting affray between an editor and a colonel in Lawton, O. .T., the latter came out second best. Oklahoma is evidently trying to even things up with South Carolina. The doctors say that N-rays produce an abnormal thirst. We may expect to see the N-rays substituted for the salted peanuts and pretzel on the free lunch counters. If the St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya doesn't quit saying mean things about us we shall quit believing the Novoe Vremya'a war news. It never did. seem very likely, anyway. An American heiress will marry the Russian Count Reizenstein Gyzlclkl. Those Russian names don't all sound like sneezessome of them sound like hiccoughs. A poor baker's apprentice in New Rochelle, N. Y., has fallen heir to $23.000 left him by an uncle in Australia. He will never knead any more dough. St. Louis will open its exposition with an ode. Just as Chicago did. Probably it will be closed with an "owed" as was also the case with Chicago. Two hundred Cossacks under General Artamareff have occupied Unsan, and the inhabitants are moving out on account of unsanitary conditions. London scientists are puzzling over recent remarkable changes in canals of Mars. Probably the Martian Morgan had his own way in the Senate. The Russians are desirous of changing the name of Tort Arthur. All right; it will probably be known as Togovtlle in a few weeks now. Emperor William Is going to have a training school for policemen, but it will do him little good. The Irish don't emigrate to Germany. An ardent London lover coukl not wait for the object of his affection to raise her veil, but bit pieces out of it in order to kiss her. The municipality should see that

these swains are properly muzzled before issuing a license.

Yesterday was the sixty-seventh birthday of the poet Swinburne, and not the sixtythird as the printer made the Journal assert. An honest bushel of wheat should contain !yS0,720 grains. To avoid mistakes, count your grams before leaving the window. Sprlns Flowers) and Things. N3v doth the crocus crow. And doth the blow cuss blow. And doth the snow cuss snow. And doth t'-a hocus hoe, And doth the shad cuss roe. And doth the showcus show. And doth the joke us. jo. And doth the know cuss know That all these things are so. W. J. L.. in New York Sun. THE HUMORISTS. One Kind. Ta, what's poetic license?" "Making 'again rhyme with 'pain' in the first stanza and with 'men In the second." Chicago Record-Herald. Limit of Kindness. "He was such a kind man always so thoughtful and considerate of his friends." "Indeed?" "Yes. Why, he even died In the summer time, when flowers were cheapest." New York Times. Security. Miranda Marie's steady co. Declares himself ready to tho. Persons who jeer, . While Miranda can hear Steps In the hall and not jo. ruck. Tho inns Jefferson'M Stenographer, Jefferson had Just fired the stenographer. "I had to," he said sadly; "see what she made of the Declaration of Independence." "We hold these tooths to the shelf of a dentist the tall men are ci.ited quail." Sighing heavily, he finished the rest with his fist. New York Sun. Anecdotal. The minister of marine was all things to all men. Once it fell to him to select the warship which should go to the rescue of some missionaries who had become embroiled with the heathen they were saving. "Send a converted cruiser," said his Excellency, with rare delicacy and tact. Puck. Sure to Do It. "And you say you saw the man knocked insensible by footpads and deliberately left him In th:it condition In a lonely place?" "Sire; that's Just what I did. I knew he'd come 'round all right." "What reason had you to be so certain that he'd come 'round?" "Reason! Why theman was a bill collector!" New Orleans Times-Democrat. I The End of the Rainbow. Ho! for the end of the rainbow. Ho! for the pot of gold. We'll Journey along With a smile and a pong And we'll hark to the stories of old. Ho! for the end of the rainbow. With hearts that are stout and strong! . .Though the gold we miss We have had the bliss Of the smile and the story and song. The Gateway. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Breaking of the Emperor's Tooth. During a. feast which he gave not long ago the Emperor of Korea had the misfortune to break a tooth. His august Majesty at once threw the chief cook and all the latter's assistants into prison. A dentist who was touring the Hermit Kingdom heard of the trouble and gave relief to the royal sufferer and was paid l.OX) yen (about $000) for his services. Then the Imprisoned kitchen force was set at liberty, but the chief cook was sentenced to serve three months without pay. The Emperor ordered another feast to celebrate the fact that the Imperial Jaw no longer ached. Salt Lake Tribune. Great Tliine in Little Thlngi. Velpeau, the eminent French surgeon, successfully performed a perilous operation on a little child five years old. The mother, overJoyed, called at the surgeon's office and said to him: "Monsieur, my son is saved, and I really know not how to express my gratitude. Allow me. however, to present you this pocketbook, embroidered by my own hands." 'Madame." replied Velpeau, In a somewhat bitter tone, "my art is not merely a matter of feeling; my life has its necessities like yours, and sentiment must give way to these requirements. Allow me, therefore, to decline your chaiming little present, and. if agreeable to you, to rerjuest a more substantial remuneration." "But, monsieur, what remuneration do you desire? Fix the fee yourself." "Five thousand francs.lmadame." The lady very quietly opened the pocketbook. which contained ten one thousand franc notes, counted out five, and, politely handing them to Velpeau. retired. Short Stories. It Wnn Almost Too Late. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee. who has taken a party of ten Red Cross nurses to Japan, was talking In Philadelphia about the perils of war nursing. "I wish heartily." said Dr. McGee, "that soldiers could shoot no better than my cousin." She paused, smiled and resumed: "My cousin went gunning last fall for the first time. He bagged nothing; every shot missed. But he was ashamed to go home empty-handed, and therefore he stopped at a grocer's and bought a rabbit. " 'Good luck!' he cried to Ms wife on his return. 'Look at the rabbit. Se where the bullet went through him. "My cousin's wife took hold of the rabbit, and at the same time she sniffed, grimaced and turned away her head. " 'You were wise, my dear,' she said, 'to shoot this rabbit to-day. To-morrow would have been too late. "New York Tribune. John Mitchell's Way. Astute political men who have had relations with John Mitchell say that the longer they are acquainted with him the less they know him. One labor politician thought to make capital with Mr. Mitchell by confiding in him. He began by slapping him on the back and calling him Jack. Like ex-Senator Carlisle, the labor leader is of the type of John who is never a Jack. "I say. Jack" noticing that he had not made a hit, the politician stammered: "I mean John I'm In labor and politics, too, and I can't make them gee." "No?" answered the other. "I want to find out how you do It. You see, there's Jobs to be done, and one's friends are sure to be In them. The thing is. how'a a feller to keep his promises?" "Do as I C" returned Mr. Mitchell. "Make no promises at all. and keep them." New York Times. Seattle and Tnrom n Rivals. Notwithstanding the disparity In size between Seattle and Tacoma. the rivalry in other respects between the two cities is as keen as In their earlier days, when they were young "boom" towns. A curious Instance of this is seen in the names by which the towering mountain that lifts its tall pak to the southeast is known In the two places. In Tacoma It Is treason to call It anything else than "Mount Tacoma," while in Seattle it is "Mount Rainier." A traveler, when about half way between the two cities, saw two boys fighting, by tho roadside. De fore he could separate them one of the boys got the other down. and. after banging the victim's face into the soft ground, sat panting but victorious astride of him. "What's the name o that mountain now?" the victor demanded, in exultant tones. "It's ." humbly replied the vanauished

lad. The effort to free his mouth from the jnud and grass which his opponent had rubbed Into it made the answer unintelligible to the traveler, but the victor was satisfied and let him up. Youth's Companion. April. The swallows circle, the robin calls; The lark's song rises, faints and falls; The peach-boughs blush with rosiest blocm; Like ghosts, in tht twilight, tne rr-trees loom; Tho maples glow, and the daffodils Wear the same hue that the west sky fills; The moon's young crescent, thin and bright. Shines In the blue of the early night; And over all, through all, April bears A hope that smiles at the winter's fears. Sara Andrew Shafer, in the Outlock. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Prof. Alexander Agassiz. director of the Harvard University Museum, has just been elected one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences, taking the i lace made vacant by the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Dr. Maximilian Nltze, who. Just a quarter of a century ago, invented a luminous apparatus for looking into the stomach and other internal organs, Is still living in Berlin, where he Is an instructor at the university. He has invented several other Implements that are of great use in modern surgery. One of the largest and most expensive mineral collections in existence, owned by John F. Campion, of Leadville. Col., will be a part of Colorado's exhibit at the world's fair. The collection is valued at $230,000. The bullion value of it alone Is SO.Ot'O. It has never been placed on exhibition before. Listen to what the famous money-maker. Andrew Carnegie, said the other day: "It would be a great mistake to put the pursuit of moneygetting on a level with the professions, because the object of business is self and ends with self. With professions It is different. The first end of professions is not mere money-getting." Among the curious antique fire arms exhibit that the government will make at the world's fair Is the old percussion rifle carried by Jefferson Davis. President of the Confederate States of America, when he was taken prisoner by troops under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in May, 1SC5. The gun was presented to President Davis by a French friend and admirer, P. Devisme, of Paris. Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, is an expert embroiderer, as Is also the Grand Duke of Hesse. The Emperor is too busy to spend much time at this feminine pastime, but the grand duke occupies many leisure hours at It, even making pieces for charity bazars. Recently he gave a handsome shawl in twelve colors to one of these entertainments. It sold for $1,230. and subsequently a rich American gave double that sum for the wrap. When Joseph Chamberlain traveled to De La Ray's country in South Africa he found that the only hall available was very small for the audience he wished to address, and accepted De La Ray's oSer of "his parlor." When he reached the ruins of De La Ray's house, however, he found a platform built out on to the open veldt. "But where is the parlor?" asked the statesman. "That la the only parlor you have left me," replied the soldier. How to Get Sleep. When we are not necessarily overtired but rerhaps only a little tired from the day's work, It is not uncommon to be kept awake by a flapping curtain or a swinging door, by unusual noises In th. streets, or by people talking. If we are willing that the curtain should go on flapping, the door go on slamming, or the noise in the street continue steadily on, our brains yield to the conditions and so sleep naturally, because the noise goes through us, so to speak, and does not run hard against our unwillingness to hear it. There are three facts which may help to remove this resistance. One is that in almost every sound there is a certain rhythm. If we yield to the sound enough to become sensitive to its rhythm, that, in itself, is soothing, and what before was keeping us awake now helps us to go to sleep. The rhythm of sound and motion in sleeping cars and steamers Is. in itself, soothing. If you keep your mind steadily on it, you will probably be asleep in less than an hour, and, when the car stops, you will wake only enough to settle comfortably into the sense of motion when It starts again. It is pleasant to notice the gentleness with which a good engineer starts his train at night, and gives us many a lesson on the use of gentle beginnings, with other thiags besides locomotive engines. The cecond fact with regard to yielding, instead cf resisting. In ordr to get to sleep ia that listening alone, apart from rhythm, tends to make one sleepy, and this leads us at once to the third fact, that getting to sleep is nothing but a healthy form of concentration. Annie Payson Call, in Leslie's Monthly. The Antarctic Continent. That a vast Antarctic continent exists, perhaps twice as large as that of Europe, would seem to be proved by the reports now appearing of th recent explorations In that region. The American Commander Wilkes, returning from the far south In 181. asserted the existence, of a vast south polar continent, and described his voyage of 1,500 miles in sight of the coast. Ross, however. returning soon after, discredited Wilkes's conclusions, saving that the land seen by Wilkes was merely a great wall office. The world has been in doubt which to believed That Ross was wrong and Wilkes right Is very evident from the report of Captain Scott, of the Dritish Antarctic expedition of 1901-04. Captain Scott shows that the mass of Ice seen by Ross is, in reality, an extensive glacier resting on land and covering the land like the ice cap of Greenland. The glacier is about 700 miles wide and reaches the sea through a plain lying between Victoria Land and Edward VII Land. The German expedition under Von Drygalskl. working 83 degrees of longitude farther west, also found a somewhat similar expanse of ice-capped land, whose limits they were unable to trace, but which is apparently a part of the same Antarctic continent. National Geographic Magazine. Drinking "Water from a Cactus. Mr. F. V. Covllle. in the National Geographic Magazine for April (Washington, D. C), gives an Interesting account of how the Indians of the desert obtain drinking water from the barrel cactus. It was among the desert hills west of Torres, Mex. The Indian cut the top from a plant about five feet high, and with a blunt stake of palo verde pounded to a pulp the upper six or eight Inches of white flesh in the standing trunk. From this, handful by handful, he squeezed the water into the bowl he had made In the top of the trunk, throwing the discharged pulp on the ground. By this process he secured two or three quarts of clear water, slightly salty and slightly bittej- to the taste, but of far better quality than some of the water a desert traveler is occasionally compelled to use. The rapago, dipping this water up In his hands, drank It with evident pleasure and said that his people were accustomed, not only to secure their drinking water In this way in times of extreme drouth, but that they used It also to mix their meal preparatory to cooking it into bread. HeverldR; for Chairman. The desire of the President to have Senator Beveridge chosen by the national Republican committee as temporary chairman of the national Republican convention is a graceful tribute to the Junior senator from Indiana. It Insures for the party a keynote speech not only of fervid eloquence, but full of reflective thought. It Insures for the President the services of a loyal friend and enthusiastic supporter, one capable as a presiding officer and matchless as an orator. The honor is a rare badge of distinction, but is the more so in this case because the leader of the party has asked for it unsought by its probable distinguished recipient. Cincinnati Enquirer. This from Doston. What can be expected from the remainder of the country when the Transcript, one of tho chief newspapers in the Athens of America. Boston, permits tlfe following In Its editorial columns? "There Is an attempt now making to further monkey with civil service. In the shape of a bill to abolish the limit of height and weight for all applicants for flr departments." Think of an attempt now "making" in Boston! And as though the use of the expression "to monkey" were not bad. the Transc-rfpt inekes matters worse by splitting the Infinitive and inserting "further." Tovcka Capital.

THE DRIFT

According to Hearst's Chicago American It may be neeessary to call out the National Guard to maintain order and quiet the popular uprising that has resulted from the action of the Democratic county committee of Marion county in calling the primaries for the selection of delegates to the state convention for next Friday, thus giving the bare three days' notice required by law. A "special" under an Indianapolis date line in yesterday's Chicago American denounces the action of the county committee as an "old Tagsrart trick." and says that the streets of this city have been thronged with people "denouncing in the severest terms the snap methods resorted to," and that "indignation pervaded the whole city." The article in the American is a revelation of Hearst methods, Hearst exaggeration and Hearst yellowness, and Hearst's local managers made the most cf it by Hooding the city yesterday with copies of the paper containing it. The papers were distributed free and by this means the Hearst people seek to provoke a revolt against the regular party organization, threatening to bolt the primaries called by County Chairman Charles B. Clarke and to hold a convention of their own to select a delegation from Marion county to the state convention. Such a contesting delegation would be seated in event Hearst controlled the state convention. The entire Hearst article ia worthy reproduction as a curiosity. It follows: "INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 5. No political action in recent j ears has so aroused and inflammed the great mass of Indiana people, regardless of political affiliation, as has the calling of the Seventh congressional primaries at Indianapolis for Friday of this week. County Chairman Clarke, a Taggart henchman, issued a call late this afternoon for these primaries to be held Friday only three days' notice. Snap conventions are an old Taggart dodge and have done more to disrupt the Democratic party in Indiana than any one agency. As soon as this call was issued people thronged the streets, denouncing in the severest terms the snap methods resorted to. It has been the custom since time immemorial to hold the Marlon county primaries on the eve of the state convention, and it was supposed that this time they would be held on May 10, the convention being on May 11. "Indignation pervaded the whole city when Chairman Clark issued the call for Friday, five weeks prior to the dual state convention, a deal which was concocted in the Interest of the "Eastern mugwumps, who, thoroughly alarmed at Hearst's popularity and frightened by the demand of the common people for his nomination, are reporting to all the trickery conceivable to frustrate the will of the people. "Three years ago a snap convention similar to this was forced on the people. of this city. It nominated men the people did not want and delivered the city over to the Republicans for the first time iu years. "This year, with the rebuke to their trickery still stinging their checks, they were forced fnto an honest city primary and Democracy again marched triumphantly into the city hall. "Now they return to their ancient tricks and call a three days primary to select delegates to a state convention that nominates a state ticket and names delegates to the national convention. "Thousands of Indiana Democrats are flocking to Hearst. The state headquarters at the Claypool Hotel are filled to overflowing. Hundreds of denunciatory telegrams have been received and already there is talk of calling a second convention, giving the people time for sober thought and sending a contesting delegation to the state convention on May 12. "That body is the final tribunal for the annulment of unfair practices. There is no doubt that Hearst will control that convention. At least eight of the Indiana disUNSPEAKABLE CRUELTIES U LEOPOLDS SOLDIERS Presbyterian Missionary fTells Louisville Ministers of Belgian Outrages in the Congo State. RAIDS TO SECURE SLAVES LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 5. Dr. William Morrison, a Southern Presbyterian minister to the Congo Free State, in speaking before the Presbyterian Ministers' Association here, gave am impressive recital of the alleged barbarities practiced on the natives of the Congo State by those holding the power, and of the obstacles thrown in the way of their correction by the authorities. "I lived with these people for seven years. I know what I am talking about," said Dr. Morrison. "Leopold has thero o. native cannibal army of 20,000 men, officered by white Belgians and armed with repeating rifles. These men, representing the worst and most savage type of the natives, were first caught and then carried far away from their homes and forced into this military service. There, in truth, this cannibal soldiery Is used to compel the natives to bring in enormous tribute of ivory and India rubber. It is worth noting that the King of Belgium is to-day reputed to be the largest dealer in ivory and rubber in the world. "As a result of this forced labor and military service, great and unspeakable cruelties are practiced on the native people. I have seen a number of times at least 50.000 fleeing Into the forests to escape from the cannibal soldiers of King Leopold; I have seen these soldiers scouring through the forests, and after catching a number of men whom the government wanted as laborers, going away with the captives tied together by ropes around their necks. Raids on villages are being constantly made, some of the people are killed and eaten, others are carried away into captivity and old. others are forced into labor and military service. I could buy all the slaves you want at Luebo at from 510 to $15 apiece. "When these raids are made the most awful cruelties are practiced. Innocent women and children are killed or captured; hands are cut off to be taken back to the white Belgian officers to show that the workhas been well done. One of these raids v.as made near one of our mission stations one of our missionaries went to the scene and counted eighty-one hands cut off and drying over a fire to be taken back to the Belgian officer; forty-five dead bodies were counted lying nearby. "The Belgian government makes the usual stereotyped denial of all those? charges. "Consul Roger C. Casement, who. as English and acting American representative in the Congo State, has just made a tour of investigation, in his report, now in thr hands of our government at Washington, presented a most deplorable situation ef affairs. As a government we owe something to- the 20.ooo.000 black people in the Congo State. What are we going to do?" CONVICTED OF FRAUDS UNDER EXCLUSION ACT San Francisco Deputies and a Chinaman Substituted Celestials in Evading Orders to Deport. SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-In the United States District Court to-day former Deputy Sheriffs William T. Nash and Thomas K. Dempsey, aud Horn Toon, a ChiucKe. were convicted of conspiracy against the government. They will be sentenced on Thursday. They were fornd guilty of deporting old Chinese, anxious to return to China for young men who had trk-d to evade the immigration laws ami üai been onlere-d to be deiorted. The testimony showed th.it about had teen paid for each case of substitution. lcputy biienrr T. T. Burnett, also indicted for the wme offense, turned states' evidence after securing a separate trial for himself. First Ilont of the Season. CLEVELAND. O.. April .'.The steamer City of Detroit arrived here from Deiroit late this afternoon, being the iirt boat to cross Lake Erie this M-ason. She matie the run between the two cities in about schedule time. Very little Ice wan eneeuntertd on the passa;,'. thr vessel beir.g compelled to flow down ouly cntc on that account.

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tricts and posrihly ten of the thirteen will be rej i e-st-nted by the common p"'ple. and the Indiar.aj-olis ring will meet it Waterloo when the jxople out over the State moot lire in sober Judgment to reflect the deems vt Hit ir constituents." Hearst's local managers have not yet decided whether they will put up slates in the primaries next Friday. If they reoelv any encouragement in their scheme to bolt and hold a "rump" convention they will probably rcfu?e to participate in Friday's primaries, and will then carry out their plan to send a contesting delegation to the state convention. The organization crowd Kaders affect tt bo wholiv undisturbed by the torm tne Hearst people are attempting ?. arouisw- hui that they are concerned is shown by their strenuous efforts to counteract the efiVct of the storv in vsterdays Chicago Amrrican. copies of which reached almost every Democrat in the city. One of the organization crowd declared confidently last night that his element would not only control the nrimnri u IViJiv hilt that if the Hearst ron? .'ittomnt ta carry out their hnltlnf ri-. Arrni.i tion crowd would get its forces out in full force and pack the Hearst convention and take possession of It. He boasted that Hearst coul.l not command suflicient followers in Marion county to make a respectable showing for a ward primary. Charles Magulre. former member of the Board of Public Works, who was the Democratic candidate for mayor in 1D01, hat been placed in charge of the Hearst organization for this city and county, and h.5 opened headquarters in the llrandon blockt at Washington and Delaware streets He has Hearst buttons and Hearst literature published in half a dozen different languages to distribute broadcast. Mr Maguire declared yesterday that he was an "original Hearst man." The Hearst bureau is advertising that the following Democratic papers of the State are supporting Hearst's presidential aspirations: The Albion Democrat, Bloomfield Democrat, Brazil Orthonomic, Butler Herald, Bluffton News, Cayuga Blue Pencil. Charlestown Citizen. Cloverdale Graphic, Kvansville Courier. Fowler Review, Frankfort Standard. Franklin People's Paper, Kendallville News, Kokomo Dispatch. Lafayette Democrat, Linton Call, Lngansport Democrat, New Albany Public Press Peru Chronicle, Portland Sun, Princeton Democrat. Rochester Sentinel, Rushville Evening Star, Rockville Tribune, Seymour Democrat-Sun, Sullivan Democrat, Tell City News, Vernon- Journal, Wabash TimeStar, Wlnslow Dispatch, Waterloo Dawn, Jamestown Press and the Jasonville News, -r J. Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, whose candidacy for Governor was formally espoused by the Republicans of the Tenth district at ycstei day's convention at Laporte, arrived in the city late last night and is a guest at the English. b "I have read with interest the communications and comments in the Journal on those ancient and loyal Republicans who attended the first convention of 1S56." says Frank S. Jones, of Versailles. "Ripley county will certainly carry off the honors .at the next convention on its showing of party loyalty and service. Capt. Charles 13. Johnson, of Napoleon. Ripley county, attended the convention of 1K56 as a delegate. He has attended every Republican state convention held since that time, save tlToso held in the years 1S! and 1S61. when he was in the Union army fighting that his country might survive. Captain Johnson has been selected as a delegate to the coming convention and will be on hand hale, hearty and full of enthusiasm. Let the party show him such honors as ho deserves." 110 MISSOURI DOGS FOR THE SAVAGE IGORROTES Woman's Humane Society Threatens to Prosecute Governor of the Colony. AGENT, DECLINES SOUP ST. LOUIS. April 5. After investigating and holding a meeting to discuss the intenUons expressed by those having in charge tho savage Igorrotes from the Philippine islands, to furnish the savages with dogs for food during the world's fair, the Humane Society of St Louis to-day formally gave notification that prosecution would follow every attempt to furnish dogs as food. The society said that if the Igorrotes must have dog meat it must be imported in cans from their native country. John II. Finnell, special agent of the Woman's Humane Society of Missouri, announced to-day that cither he or one of his deputies will constantly watch tho Igorroto reservation at the world's fair and the first dog that Is taken Into tho reservation will immediately be followed. If the dog Is killed and baked for tribal repast Mr. Finnell says he will immediately Institute proceedings against Dr. J. K. Hunt, governor of the colony, on the charge of violating the section of the revised ordinance ..o. 1002 forbidding cruelty to anlmilas.. "I am Instructed by my secretary to do this," Mr. Finnell explained, "and I am going to sve that the law is enforced." Mr. Finnell further stated that he was offered a bowl of dog soup by the camp cook for the; Igorrot!!, but he decline-d to partake of it, and at the name time could not collect sufficient evidence on which to base a case. BARE FAILURE OF PLOT TO WRECK A STEAMER Infernal Machine Fuse Burned Nearly to the Detonator and Then Went Out.

TORTLAND, Ore., April 5.-A bomb containing two pounds of powder, heavily charged with nitroglycerin aud containing a box of 100 detonating caps, vas found on the guard rail of the steamer Albany of tho Western Transportation "Company's line' to-day. The fuse had burned almost to the caps but had gone out. Had the bomb exploded tne Albany doubtlessly would have Ixn wrecked. From the fact that a quantity of Chinese tissue pai-r, aud a white sock such as Is worn bv Chinese was wrapped round tho infernal machine, it is thought that a plot to destroy the steamer v.as evolved by the Chinese. The transportation company has persistently refused to employ Chiucte. WIDOWS FILE SUITS FOR $95,000 DAMAGES KNOXVILLi;. Tenn.. ,April 5.-I)amage suits fcr turns aggregating J:5.0u were filed at Clinton, Term., to-day by the widows of the men killed in the riot at Coal Creek. Tenn., on Sunday, Feb. 7, and aI.o by two men shot at the same time. The suits ara bremght against the Coal Creek Coal Com. p.inv, President E. C. Camp. iersonaIly, and'jud Reedt-r, guard and detective, who. it is charged, begun the nhooting. Widows of James Black. Jacob Sliarp and W. W. Taylor iue for SZM each, and A. R. Watt?, u merchant, who was shot, asks $10,')i damagi-3 und Mo- re Cx nue for tho same Mim. The suits are a wquel to tho bleiod shed when the guard of the Coal Creek Coal Company tired on union miners. Jnpnneft Student Ilrneh St. Loa I a. ST. LOriS. Ap;il 5. Fifteen Japanese students from the Tokio University, Japan, arriei to-day to work for the Japan-? exhibitors during the world's fair.. The ttudfiits, wear'.ng their mortar board'c;ps, M-t up u wild t heer as on um thc- left thoir train at tle Union Station ami aw thvir native il:g waving ia the crgnu to &Tect them.

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