Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1904 — Page 4

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Georgia paper aays that "some new candidate is scared up almost every day." Politics In Georgia Is a sanguinary pursulL The army and the navy may not be doing much good, but It appears that the Russian hospital corps Is getting all the active serv ice It wants. The Japanese and the Russians are makfcasf war while the Koreans spend their time defining It and Serman's Idea was mild to what they think. Mr. Bryan says it requires a brave man to "stand up against error In his own party." Not much bravery; the party Is up against it, too. The Chicago boy bandits had to be re sentenced on account of a technical error It Is to be hoped that no error will neces eitate their rehanging. The reason General Kuropatkin reached the front so much sooner than he expected was that the front came to meet him. The Taps helped it along from the rear. The death rate in Panama is ninety in Ihe 1.000. But Just wait until a little Amer lean fcanitatlon is Introduced, and we'll all be going there for our health. Remember Havana. A man one hundred years old was arrested 'for vagrancy in New York and spent his' birthday In Jail. The metropoll tan brand of charity is something truly Inspiring. v The Chinese government decrees that anyone creating wild rumors calculated to alarm the people shall be beheaded. Isn't It strange to see the yellow peril attack ing a yellow peril? Senator Gorman Is sitting up nights composing a new party slogan.. It Is said that he will not sleep until he has succeeded la working Booker Washington and Pana ma canal Into the same sentence. Two or three of the Panama commis sioners cannot speak a word of Spanish. -Aoey are Renins' iweive tnousand a year of what - will talk very intelligently for them, however, so nobody is worrying. Judge Parker says he was born in Worcester, Mass., but his mother says he was born In Cortland, N. Y. There Is room for an argument there, but reoplc will be inclined to accept Mrs. Parker's version as the more nearly correct. The Judge was very young at the time and cannot be expected to remember all about it. The Thibetan country is described as covered with stones, without vegetation and swept by a bitter wind bearing clouds of dust." And for this barren waste England Is sacrificing and taking hundreds of lives. She doesn't need it and can't use It, tut she cannot break herself of the habit of stealing any land that happens to be lying about handy. Good sometimes comes out of evil. The Hearst movement represents a very vicious phase of politics, but it reserves a credit nark- for defeating Tom L. Johnson In Ohio. Scientists have found that the rav ajres of destructive insects can sometimes be stopped by introducing a new bug that exterminates the first one. It was not altogether an unkind providence that sent llearstism to destroy Tom Johnsonism. The sentence imposed on Senator Burton by United States Judge Adams is not as heavy as it might have been, but its moral effect Is a? great as If It had been much mere severe. Six months' Imprisonment and a fine of imposed on a United States crnator for corrupt practices meets all the requirements of Justice as completely as if

a maximum sentence had been Imposed. The defendant will appeal, but with little likelihood of success.

ATTACKS OX THE PK ES ID EXT. It is a rare day now when home Demo cratic member of Congress, either senator or reprc5entative, does not take advantage of the license of debate to makc an un warranted attack on President Roosevelt. They recognize the fact that he is the man they have got to beat, and they are beginning early. Representative Livcrnash, of California, worked off a speech on the labor question under pretense of discussing the military academy appropriation bill. It would have fitted as -well in a discussion of the French spoliation claims or the Improvement of the Mississippi river, but that is the congressional way. It requires a good many safety valves to let off all the campaign oratory. The California member attacked the Presi dent for having, as he declared, turned the executive arm of the government against the men who work. The President, he said. had arrayed the executive branch of the government on the side of special privilege and despotism and allied it with the men who hire and against the men who are hired. Mr. Livcrnash cited the Miller case in the Government Printing Offlce, and said the President had embraced the opportunity in a letter to Secretary Cortelyou regarding the findings of the anthracite coal strike commission to express himself in language which clearly identified him with, the "open shop" in private employment. He declared that a President who goes forth and seeks to place a barrier in the way of labor unions by encouraging nonunionism under the guise of an "open shop" is the deadliest common foe of labor. Mr. L4vernash began life as a printer, but at the time of his election to Congress he was employed on the editorial staff of the San Francisco Examiner, owned by William R. Hearst. He was elected as the candidate of the Union Labor party, and of course Is trying to make good with his constituents. The Miller case, which he made the basis of his attack on the President, grew out of a demand by the labor unions for the discharge of a man holding an important position in the Government Printing Office for reasons not affecting his competence or efficiency and mainly be cause he wa3 offensivo to the union. The public printer declined to discharge him and tho President sustained the public printer on the ground that the government could not make any distinction between union and nonunion men; that in public cm ployment all citizens stood on the same footing and the government could not dis criminate for or against any class by reason of membership or nonmembership in any organization. In effect the President declared that the Government Printing Of flee must be an "open shop" in-as far as drawing a fine between union and nonunion men was concerned, and that the govern mcnt could not lend itself to that sort of class discrimination. Of course, the President was right. He did not deny or question the right of work ingmen to organize for self-protection, nor did he discuss the relations between employers and employes generally. He simply defined the position of the government and stated the rule by which It must be gov erned in all its branches. Because he de clared this Just rule of nondiscrimination between union and "nonunion men and the independence nt the government of all prl vate organizations Representative Llvernash charges him with having "turned the executive arm of the government against the men who work" and placed himself "on the side of special privilege and despotism." Organized labor will not be benefited by bringing such an unfounded charge against President Roosevelt, nor will he be injured by it. Sensible labor leaders will recognize the Injustice of the charge and the pre posterousness of the claim that the Government Printing Office should be run as a union office to the exclusion of nonunion men. Honest labor of all kinds has no better friend than Mr. Roosevelt, but as President he could not allow any discrimination in the government service between union and nonunion men. The California man went a long way to find the basis of an attack on the President, and found a very poor one at last. S : THE DIABOLICAL PLOT AGAINST HEARST. Probably he people of this city never had such a realizing sense of the value of news and the importance of presenting it in its true perspective as when they read the account, copied in yesterday's Journal from William R. Hearst's Chicago organ, of the intense indignation and popular excitement caused by the action of the Democratic county committee In calling primaries for to-morrow to elect delegates to the state convention. Some old citizens still living here can recall the exciting days of the civil war period. Since then we have had floods and fires, labor riots and incipient mobs, but nothing to compare With the excitement caused by the attempt of tho county committee to head off the popular tide in favor of Hearst. At least, that is the tay Hearst's Chicago organ puts it. Mr. Hearst's skilled corps of news gatherers and truthful reporters of events declared that "no political action in recent years has so aroused and inflamed the great mass of Indiana people" as this dastardly attempt to head off the popular boom for Hearst. "As soon as the call was issued," says the Hearst organ, "people thronged the streets, denouncing in tho severest terms the methods resorted to." One can almost see them, "in my mind's eye, Horatio," as they come swarming out of their business offices and leisure resorts to protest against the deep damnation of the taking off of Hearst by the snap primary method. It is sad to think that a great popular movement in favor of a candidate for President, or aspirant for the nomination to the office, should be crippled by such methods as this, but it must be remembered that the movement Itself had its origin in still worse motives. Of course, Mr. Hearst's Chicago organ knows nothing about these and is only concerned in giving the public a true account of how the anti-Hearst. politicians are trying to thwart the popular demand for him as a leader. In its fearless expose of the scheme and its truthful account of the local excitement it caused, the Hearst organ's 3tory is characteristic of his papers. General Pflug, Viceroy Alexleff's chief of staff, telegraphs to St. Petersburg a denial of the report that Japanese forces are operating in Manchuria. He says there are no Japanese in Manchuria. Tossibly that is true, but it U not o significant as the fact

that there are no Russians in Korea. If

there are no Japanese in Manchuria it is because they have not jet made a serious attempt to land troops in that territory, but the Russiar.3 did send considerable bodies of troops into Korea and they have been driven out. As far as appears from kfcown results, the Japanese have the advantage in land operations thus far as clearly as they have at sea. They have more men un der arms and have their forces better in hand. The expulsion of the Russians from Korea by driving them to the north side of the Yalu river is a distinct victory for the Japanese unless it should prove to be part, of the Russian plan to draw them on to a point where they can inflict a crush ing blow. The Japanese, however, are not likely to be trapped in that way. In a tame of w its they, are more than equal to the Russians, and if it comes to a waiting game they can probably play that as long as their antagonists: . M x ' mm x There is some reason to fear that the city authorities may not take a sufficiently broad view of the situation caused by the recent floods. The Journal has already expressed the opinion that the City Council erred in reducing the proposed bond issue from $200,000 to $123,000, and every day's developments confirm that opinion. The only estimates on the subject that are worth considering are those of the city engineer, and when he places the necessary expenditures at nearly $J0O,(X) it is very unwise for the Council to cut his estimate down. Tho situation is not one for cheese-paring economy. There has been too much of that in the past, and the recent disaster shows there should be no more of it. There should be no undue haste in making the repairs rendered necessary by the recent floods, because haste implies inefficiency. If the Council thinks it is representing public opinion in cutting down the appropriation for repairs it is mistaken. The people are willing to pay all that is necessary for repairs, improvements and protection, but they want the work done thoroughly and not on a cheap or shoddy plan. i MINOR TOPICS. There are forty million cats in the United States, unless somebody's been padding the census. That would be one cat for every other man, woman and child in the United States were it not for the fact that on warm spring nights 39,000,000 of them hold concerts in Indianapolis. A New Jersey woman suing her husband for, divorce defines his habit of smoking a pipe in the house as "cruel and inhuman treatment." If he had smoked cigarettes she would probably have called it assault and battery with Intent to kill. A new metal called radiumite has been discovered in Montana. It is said that it will keep a man well as long as he carries it. Some people carry buckeyes for tho same purpose, so this report is a kind of horse chestnut. The president of the National Baseball League has Just appointed the five official umpires. At the end of the season they will be Ave of the most unpopular men on earth, and they know It. They are in a way heroes. The Atlantic City High School has decided in debate that the freedom of the press should be restricted. This will come as a cruel blow to those who have been hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they may. Science, has discovered a new disease. "the sleeping k sickness," the early symp toms of which are a disinclination to work. That may be a new one, but it sounds like old-fashioned spring fever. The latest fad from Tarls is for the young man to have his inamorata's face photo graphed on his fiuger nail. If the pair quarrel, he can go to a manicurist for consolation. The question of "uniform marriage laws" for the various States is being agitated That won't do: a lot of men will refuse to get married at all if they have to wear uniforms. Expectant Prefect LI Slats, of the Chinese court, will visit the St. Louis fair. When he gets back his title will be changed to "Satisfied" or "Disappointed," whichever he chooses. Beef on the hoof i3 going down, and beef on the block continues to rise. Before long we shall all be slaughtering our own steaks and buying license tags for our own sau sages. That mountain which disappeared in Maine has been found again, and the story proved false. But it was founded on fact; a man named Hill is missing from home. Duluth has prohibited dynamite canes as racket-makers for Independence day. Civil ization progresses slowly, but the outlook is brighter every day. A New Jersey man paid $100 a pound for a .dog. Those Filipinos at St. Louis have evidently started a food fad. Mme. Janauschek has asked to be ad mitted to the Actors Home. A tragic finish for a tragic actress! Mr. Hearst, It Is said, would like to have Mr. Hog-g for a running mate. Mr. Hearst is "the whole thing. Sprint? Collar Shapes for Men. The high fold collar has been put out of business Extremely low collars are not in vogue either. Fold collars of moderate height as well as wings of moderate shape will be best for the summer. The wlr.g will 'undoubtedly be the smart negligee collar for summer wear. The smartest shape of turn down collar is one with a more than usually high band, opening very narrow and points cut sharp and angular at the bottom. It is next to impossible to wear a broad four-in-hand tie of- heavy silk, especially if It be of the folded kind under such a collar and a lightweight silk that, may be pulled into a long narrow knot Is strongly advised. If the silk is not heavy, tho tie need not be narrow; indeed a narrow tie cannot possibly be made to form a long knot. Wing collars remain as much in vogue as ever, and tne large wings are more fashionable than the small. Both sharp and rounded corners are correct, but the former are most worn. New York Commercial. A Pet Wolf. Orrin Worral. living three miles south of Pawnee, has a civilized wolf, which has been bred to a dog, and is now the mother of six pups. She will follow Mr. Worral half way to town nearly every day, and then take to the woods and return home. So long as Mr. Worral is in sight the wolf will keep in the road, but as soon as he is gone she seeks the timber and wends her way back home. Kansas City Journal. Sudden Conversion. The New York district attorney has. since coming out for Parker, become a veritable St. Jerome to a good many people who not long ago were referring to him as America's chief political mountebank. Chicago Record-Herald. A Coat of Mnll. Thrre is a certain young lady in Stringtown who is laid up with a sore neck, the result of a young man's coat sleeve coming In contact with IL Savanna UU-J Times.

THE HUM0BISTS.

j Jnt the Wrong; Speech. "Re mine." he pleaded, "and I will be as true as the stars above." "Cut the stars above." she protested, "lie In all directions." Chicago News. Confused Ilia Listener. "Will you," thundered the stump orator "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel?" The thoughtful citizen on the rront scat knit his brows, anxiously. "Are they both sterilized?" he asked. Puck. Xo Xeed of Concealment. Miss llampacke A penny for your thoughts, Mr. Ftockbond. ' Mrs. llampacke (whispers to daughter) Offer him a dollar, Gertie; we've got money and it's Just as well to let people know it. Life. Concerning Don Qnlxote. "Don Quixote would have a hard time if he lived now." "How so?" "Why, I'll bet he'd have to get a card In the "Windmill Tilters Union before he could do business." Exchange. Credit Where Due. , "Yes," faid the' amateur actor, "I created the part. It was all mine; that Is. all except the make-up. The costumer fixed that for me." "Yes," replied the friend, "I heard several people say your make-up was g-ood." Philadel phia Tress. Snre to Be a Iii One. "She is going to organize a new society of In ternational scope that, she says, will be the largest In existence." "What is she going to call it?" "The Daughters of the South American Revolu tions." New York Globe. Side JA Klit on History. It was during the hot days In July. Praxiteles was walking along Main street. Athens, when he met Phidias. "Isn't it hot?" said Praxiteles. "Yes." responded Phidias; "let Us cool our-selvi-K by the frieze of the Tarthenon. Now, he ndded. as they arrived there and were gazing at It. "don't you feel better?" "Yes," answered Thidlas, "this is a great re lief." This shows that even the Greeks knew the art oi the double entendre. Chicago Journal. ! Iucrensc In Patent Medicine Trnde. The cost of making proprietary medicines has been pushed well to the front of late and Is causing considerable discussion in drug circles. The trade, it Is stated, is suffering from a super abundance of remedies, and so keen has competi tion become that the concoction and manufacture of a mixture is regarded as a mere unimportant detail, nearly all the necessary energy being expended in finding or making a market. Besides the standard preparations of the pharmacists. and the national formulary, there are from 30.000 to 50,000 proprietary remedies, each ostensibly differing, from all others and all offered for sale to the public to cure disease. The exact relation between the cost of manu facturing and marketing a successful proprietary preparation is difficult to determine, but it has been asserted repeatedly that the majority of the country's newspapers would fail if it wer not for the nupport derived from proprietary medicine advertisements. The expense of mar keting is already out of all proportion to the original cost and " the question now well to the front in drug trade circles Is, where will it all end? There are those In the trade who ex pect to see the great proprietary remedy In; dustry topple and crumble and the vast number of struggling weaklings will perish, the stronger only surviving. New York Commercial. InionndneiR of Christian Science. The essential unsoundness of practical Christ ian Science lies here: that a philosophy Is pro posed which assumes man made purposely for perfect happiness in this dispensation an assumption at once gratuitous if observation base philosophy, and groundless If. holy writ be the standard. It is not, as Dr. Wace said In a very different connection, that things ought not to be so explained, but that they cannot be. Mrs. Eddy's opposition to the spirit of the Bible Is even more fundamentally heretical than her contradictions of its letter; and the evidence of infidelity to professed standards, corroborating the evidence of historical, philosophical and scientific weakness, points to the fact or, if knowl edge may never get higher than probability to the extremely well-founded probability, that Christian Science is, at the best, a long, long way from the truth. John W. Churchman in the April Atlantic. ' For Teople Who Play Cards. Dr. James E. Edwards, one of the leading men In his profession In Boston, stopped at the Albemarle yesterday on his return home from a month's visit to the South, accompanied by his wife. In the course of a conversation, the doctor made the startling statement that dangerous diseases are often disseminated by means of playing cards. "It Is the practice, as you know, of many players to moisten the fingers before dealing, and by that means transfer germs to them which a later dealer transfers to his own lips. In that way diseases are frequently transmitted from one player to another, and 'play the deuce' with him. The disease transmitted, too, is most frequently consumption." New York Globe. Radium for Advertising. Radium has round a new neia. since its won derful properties have been made public, almost everything incurable has been overcome on paper, and It Is. therefore, startling to see phials of it sandwiched among merchandise, even in these days of expensive advertising. The price of a. pound of this precious stuff would seem to the ordinary individual beyond the reach of the rank and file, but a firm has a bottle of It on exhibition in the show windows of each of Its stores. The alleged certificate of a college pro fessor guaranteeing the genuineness of the article Is exhibited. Otherwise, of course, it might possibly be suspected that no one could afford to advertise at a few million dollars a pound. New York Tost. How to Knjny Poetry. The following is an cxeernt from "The Gentle Reader." the volume of delightful essays by Samuel M. Crothers, of Doston, who is to ad dress the Contemporary Club of this city on Fri day evening: "The first essential to the enjoyment of poetry Is leisure, me aemon iiurry is the tempter. and knowledge Is the forbidden fruit in the r-oet's paradise. To enjoy poetry you must re nounce not only your easily besetting sins, but your easily begetting virtues a well. You must not be industrious, or argumentative, or consci entious, or strenuous. I do not mean that you must be a person or unlimited leisure and with out visible means of support. I have known some very conscientious students of literature who. when off duty, found time to enlov noetrr. I mean that if you have only half an hour for poetry for that half hour you must be in a leisurely frame of mind. "The poet differs from the novelist in that he reouires us to rest from our labors. The ordi nary novel Is easy reading because it takes us as we are, in trie miasi or our hurry. The mind has been going at express speed all the day: what the novelist dos is to turn the switch, and off we go cn another track. The steam is up. and the wheels po rounl Jut the same. The ereat thine is still action, and we easerly turn the pages to see what Is going to happen next unless we are reading some of our modern realistic studies of character. Even then we are lured on by the expectation tp,at. at the last mo ment, snmetnmg mar nappn. nut when we turn to the poets we are in the land of the lotus eaters. The atmosphere is that of a perfect day, " 'Wherein It Is enough for me Not to be doing, but to be. "Into this land our dally cares cannot follow us. It is an 'Enchanted land, we know not where, T.ut lovely as a landscape In a dream.' "Once in this enchanted country, haste seems foolish. Why should we toil on as If we were walking for a Mager? It Is as If one had the privilege of Joining lzaak Walton as he loiters in the cool shade of a sweet honeysuckle hedge, and should churlishly trudge on alone the 1u?tr highway rather than accept the gentle angler's Invitation: 'Pray, let us rest ourselves In this mveet. . shady arbor of Jessamine and myrtle. and I will reoulte you with a bottle of sack, and when you have pledged me I will repeat the verses I promised you.' One may. as a matter of strict conscience, re notn a pedestrian and a pro hibitionist, ana yet not nna u in nis neart to de cline fcuch an invitation." The Word Graft. In connection with the discussion of the origin of the word "graft." it may bo said that the tame word Is in use in, Australia and New Zealand, with exactly the opposite meaning. Its origin appears to be uncertain there as here, la th colonics "graft" means working yourself.

and not. as here, working somebody else. One speaks of a Job as a "hard graft." meaning that It Is genuine work, and to call a man a "good little grafter" is a compliment implying that he Is able at his work. New York Post.

Hut He iet There. The Jap ne'er seems unduly rush'd. Yet quickness he contrives He's mt o s.ow as others who Are Russian all their lives. Harvard Lampoon. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. The Job Suited Him. Tim and Pat had been friend3 in the old country. Tim came to this country first. Soon after his arrival Pat Joined him. As Pat got off the ship he met Tim. "Have yc got a job, Tim?" he said. "tfure." said Tim. "A good wan?" tald Pat. "Sure," said Tim; "I've got the finest Job in Ameriky. I've got a job where I'm gettin' two dollars and a half a day .for doln what I'd do fornothln'I" "What's that?" "Pullin' down a Protestant church." Brooklyn Eagle. What Iowa Irls Fear. Captain Lamb, of Richmond, while telling how he was often mistaken for Representative Lacey, of Iowa, whose bill stopped game selling and shipments. Inserted this: "Lacey's a mighty fine fellow, although he is a Republican. lie can brag. too. wny, arm the Virginian chuckled audibly, "we were over to Wilmington together not long ago. Lacey was bragging to me about what a splendid coun try there Is In Iowa. ' 'Do you know, said he, 'there never was such a fertile soil anywhere else on earth. It is so rich that the girls will not walk over the newly plowed ground. They know it Mill make their feet grow.' "Pittsburg Dispatch. The Gentleman Farmer. A. J. Cassatt. the president of the Pennsylva nia Railroad, has a stock farm on the outskirts of Philadelphia, and at a recent dinner of the Philadelphia Clover Club a friend of the eminent railroader said: "Mr. Cassatt has a fine stock farm, and he runs it on a businesslike basis. Sometimes he makes money out of it. "Last year he bought a pig for $27, fed it forty bushels of corn at $1 a bushel, and then sold it for J31.50. ' 'I made $4.M out of that pig,' he said to me the day after the animal was taken away. ' 'But,' said I, 'how about the forty bushels of corn at $1 a bushel that you fed him? ' 'Oh. said Mr. Cassatt, I didn't expect to make anything on the corn. "Collier's Weekly. Getting Too Xear Home. Reginald Vanderbilt sat in the Newport read ing room. These Socialists." he said, "are like the rest of us when a thing comes home to them. 'An old Rhode Island farmer, having lost all his money, turned Socialist. He Bet out to convert a neighbor of his. ' "Now, Ezra, said the neighbor, 'let me un derstand ye. Do you mean everything should be shared V ' " 'That there's precisely what I mean.' said Ezra. ' Well, if ye had two heifers, would ys give me one? " 'I would.' " 'If ye had two horses, would ye give me one?' " 'Certainly, sir; certainly.' " 'If ye had two pigs, would ye give me oner " 'Ah said the old Socialist, reproachfully. there yere gettin too near home. Ye know I've got two pigs.' "New York Tribune. EASTER AFTERMATH. Diversity of Pulpit Opinion as to the Central Fact. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Nothing could better illustrate the diver sity, or perhaps the perversity, of the hu man mind and the claim of the Catholics that that church should be and is an ulti mate authority to settle all questions of faith and morals, and which should not be questioned, than two sermons delivered day before yesterday by a couple of Indianapolis preachers concerning the historical fact, whether true or not, of our Savinr's resurrection. The Rev. Mr. Newbert quotes with ap proval Kenan's celebrated mot to the effect that one of the greatest of our church festivals, Easter, is based "upon some thing white seen by three hysterical women at day dawn near our Savior's tomb." Mr. Newbert then remarks that "Easter is the remnant of a springtide festival by the old pagan nations taken over into Christianity." He uses these words: "Yet from a viewpoint of science or experience or critical scholarship how Impossible an event" that Is, of our Savior's resurrec tion. In an adjolnirfg column tho Rev. Mr. Stanley says: "If there was not such a man as Jesus Christ who rose from the dead then history Is but a romance." The Rev. Dr. Hurlstone is just as absolute and enthusiastic in passionately affirming the literal and circumstantial truth of our otiwui & i correction as Mr. Stanley. Mr. Newbert represents science, which will accept nothing without a preponderance of proof based upon actual observation and tested by impartial discussion, while the other erentlemen rpnrpnt tht wider field in which Mr. Newbert's premises iniaisiu uj iiiciuuing inese Intuitions and spiritual perceptions of mankind which for short can be usefully classified as "the heart." Unitarianism's main guide is the head: orthodoxy, when applied to such problems as the resurrection, calls upon the heart to aid the head. Mr. Newbert representing his church. Insists that the resurrection is one of the fairy tales of etYlyvC,1?rl?UlItyVHe thlnks tht those who believe that the dead can ever come to life again have parted with their common sense. He asks: "Did Deity defeat death at the tomb? If so, how does the incident help Immortal man?" These two views represent the difference between science and religion. We shall believe or disbelieve in Easter as a "pagan festival taken over into Christianity" according to our estimate and need of our Savior If we find in Him nothing to worship "and are satisfied with our eyes and ears and brain as an ultimate test of truth then we shall agree with Mr. Newbert To him and the scientists Christ was simply a great teacher, and hence Renan was right in repudiating the resurrection and science was, and is, right in treating our Savior's miracles as myth?. Rut the majority of us mortals are not built that way. This world is not to us simply a bundle of puweis. .or is uoa "tne ultimate power not ourselves, which makes for righteous ness. i me majority or us Ood --'.. person, and the ultimate something which lies back of the universe Is not our own personality projected upon the canvas of infinity, but a real person in whose image we were originally made and who rightly demands our worship. Man does not, as science teaches, make his own God On the contrary, Christians believe that God made man. And to those who take this latter view our Savior was God manifest in the flesh, as far as the limitations of humanity would permit, and. therefore is rightfully an object of worship in addition to being a great teacher, and His "defeat of death at the tomb" was, and is, a historical fact proven not only by tiie testimony of the three Marys but a score of other witnesses and corroborated by the great historic movement which started that Sunday morning and has continued now for nearly nineteen .centuries, and which we, for short, call Christianity and the Church. The Unitarian church has done a splendid work. It has successfully taken the bones out of dogmatics. And having accomplished this, that enterprising denomination has now set itself to the larger task of taking the Divinity out of Jesus Christ in any other or further sense than that we are all divine, and that He reached the highest point that has yet been given mortal man to attain. When it Hays that the resurrection is u myth and that Easter is simply paganism "taken over into Christianity" it says no more than it has been saying since Emerson's famous address in 1S37. when he-affirmed that all miracles are monsters and that God is not a person. The Concord sage followed this famous address by a significant bit of poetry: N "Vex the gods with questions pert Immensely curious whether you Our rulers are or mildew." D. P. BALDWIN. Logansport, lnd.t April U

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In a formal statement, which will appear to-day in the form of an advertisement in all the Indianapolis papers, Hearst's local managers announce thit Hearst will establish a newspaper in this city within the near future. No date is given for the appearance of the local Hearst organ, the announcement being limited to the statement that Hearst will establish a paper here, as well as in Üt. Louis and a number of other cities. J. Oscar Henderson, who is at the head of the Hearst bureau, said last nfht that I he had nothing to add to the formal statement. "I can give you no further information at this time," he said. "Mr. Hearst will have a paper here in the near future. That is all tlHTe is to be said." The rumor that Hearst would start or buy a newspaper in Indianapolis has been persistent ever since the Hearst bureau was opened in this city, but the local managers of the campaign have heretofore discredited the reports, saying that they knew nothing of any such project. The only inference that Is drawn from the announcement that Hearst will have an Indianapolis organ within the near future is that Hearst ha3 decided to make his campaign in Indiana cyen more aggressive than was at first contemplated, and that at the same time he is lighting for the Indiana delegates to the Democratic national convention he will start a newspaper war on the local Democratic State organ now controlled by Thomas Taggart. who is recognized as the head and front of the Parker movement in the State. When Mr. Taggart was informed last evening of the Hearst . announcement he smiled grimly and said: "Let them come on. We will welcome the competition. If they bring their advertisement to the Sentinel we'll publish it at the usual rates. Mr. Henderson said that the advertisement would be published in the Sentinel, or that, at least, it would bo offered to the Sentinel. Some of Mr. Taggart's friends appeared incredulous when told that Hearst had announced that he would establish a paper here. They expressed the opinion that the announcement was nothing but a "bluff" an atempt to frighten Mr. Taggart into according the Hearst people better showing in the columns of the Sentinel. And they added that Mr. Taggart could not bo bluffed." "Tom is an old hand at that game." said one of the wily boss's close associates last evening at the Grand, "and it's a safe bet that he will call Hearst's bluff. It's his play to stand pat and let them -do their bluffing. Hearst couldn't get a paper started here in time to do him any good in the. fight for the Indiana delegates, and after he's beaten in that fight and beaten at St. Louis, as he will be, he won't be very anxious to pour his money into a hole here in Indianapolis. There Isn't room' here for two Democratic newspapers, and Hearst's peculiar .brand of Journalism will never tako in Indiana." The next move Hearst will make in his campaign in Indiana will be to file a suit against the beef trust in Indianapolis. It was learned last night that Hearst has made his preparations for this "grandstand play," and that the suit will be instituted at an early date. The papers necessary are now In the hands of In dianapolis attorneys, who will act as" asso elates of Hearst's Chicago attorneys. Tho proceedings will be filed in the Federal Court. The suit will be similar to the actions Hearst has brought against the so-called beef trust in Chicago and other cities. It is an attack on the Armours and Swifts and what is known in the Hearst papers as the "packers combine." The suits have been looked upon purely as advertising dodges on the part of Hearst, who has made it a prominent part of his campaign for the presidential nomination to get him self before the public as the opponent of all the trusts. It is understood that the men who have charge of Hearst's interests here have decided to abandon practically all efforts, to accomplish anything in either the Seventh or Fourth district. They have been forced to the conclusion, it is said, that they can rot hope to make sufficient of a showing in either of these districts to justify the light and they will concentrate their efforts on districts where there is more Hearst senti ment. xxx C. F. S. Neal, of Lebanon, who was at the Hearst headquarters in the Claypool Hotel last evening, said that Hearst did not get the worst of it in the demonstra tions at the Jefferson Club banquet Tues day night in his city. "The Parker psople had their plans laid carefully to make the banquet a Parker affair," said Mr. Neal, "but they failed signally. There- was a demonstration when Hf-arst's name was mentioned and there was another demonstration when Tarker was mentioned. To be truthful. I believe that the demonstrations were about equal in volume, but I know that of i.n crowd at the banuuet the Hearst people were largely in the majority. They did not show this in their demonstration merely because thev had not planned to mako such a showing." v 4 T In a speech before the Second district Republican Congressional convention two weeks ago, W. L. Taylor, of this city. referred to ,the discord within the Democratic party and said that the Democrats were so divided that theylid not dare hang the pictures of any of their living leaders ou the walls of the halls in which they hold their conventions or other meetings "Why," said Mr. Taylor, "they dare not hancr'the pictures of Ilryan and Cleveland on the wall together for fear the pictures will short-circuit and start a riot. The truth of Mr. Taylor's statement was fullv borne out-b.v the ludicrous experience the decorating committee had in making preparations for the Lebanon banquet. The committee was forced to reject, one by one. the pictures of the party's leaders, living and dead, until that of Thomas Jefferson was the only one left In the hall. The Journal's Lebanon correspondent says of the affair: "Some of the local Democratic leaders tried to pour oil on the troubled waters and succeeded finally in patching up a provisional truce, between the factions Trouble arose at the very outset, however. over the question of whose picture Fhould be hung on the walls of the convention hall. One bv one the decorating committee eliminated the pictures of Cleveland and Bryan, Hearst and Parkrr. S. M. Ralston's picture, which has had a place among tne decorations of the hall at nearly every banquet In the past, was llk(wle rejected The Hearst people raised a vigorous pro test against 'the picture, claiming that in asmuch ns Ralston was a Parkrr man his picture should not be given a place unless the Hearst following wero accorded a sim ilar privilege. The final result of the wranele was that the picture of Jeffersou was the only one that had a place on the wall." The affair was announced as a Demo cratlc love feast, but little love was lost between the rival factions. "Hryan's name. which was frequently mentioned through out the evening, was enthusiastically cheered." continues the Journal's corrc spondent. "The strength of the Hearst sentiment manifested also was a surprise SIVARMS OF LOCUSTS IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA Most Terrible Snowstorm Would Not Give Any Idea of Number of Insects. BERLIN, April 6. Swarms of locusts have devastated the valleys of Usumbara in German East Africa. They were first noticed coming from Wombo on Feb. 22. It is semi-officially stated that the most terrible snowstorm would not give any idea of the numbers of the locusts. The trees on which they settled have broken down and banana and mulberry trees have been stripped, even the bark of the mulberry trees being eaten. Scarcely a green blade or leaf has been left In the forests or on the farms except in the case of coffee plants, which the locusts tried, but dislike

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to the Parker men. and when the name of the New Yorker was mentioned his followers started a counter demonstration. The main feature, however, of the iovc feast was the. earnest manner in which all the f per-ken pleaded for harmony within the Democratic ranks, and the equally earnest manner in which they disrfgarded their own advice." Democratic State Chairman O'Drlen and others of the leaders of the Parker forces arc chuckling over several moves recently made by Edgar L. Maines, of JcfTerspn League fame, who is one of the mere active of .the Hearst organizers In Indiana. They say that Maines recently went into a county arjd sper.t several days In working up a Hearst club where the delegates to the state convention had nlreadv been se lected and every one of them pledged to) Judge Parker, and that he did the mhw thing in another county where the delegates had been chosen for weeks and rlshte.n out of nineteen of them were strong Parker men. The Hearst people are now realizing the full force of the trick turned by Mr. Tag gart and his associates in control of the . party organization throughout the State, . as county conventions and primaries to se lect delegates to the state convention are being called hot and fast. In settling the . date for the state convention at May 12. six weeks in the future, at the time the state committee took the action the Hearst people were ostensibly given all the tlmo the5 could reasonably ask in which to pertect tneir organization and make their fight. However, while willing to nold off the state convention, the organization crowd would not delay the selection of tho delegates to that convention, and not a day is being lost In a single county where conditions seemed ripe for a Parker victory. H. R. Lucas, cf Rushville. who is now in his eightieth year, Is a survivor of the first Republican state convention In 1, and was also one of those present at the mass meeting in 1S5I which gave birth to the Republican party in Indiana. "I see that much is being said In the Jour nal about the birth of the Republican party and the first Republican state convention and delegates thereto," writes Mr. Lucas. "I remember the mass convention in In dianapolis in 1S54 and the enthusiasm with" which the nucleus of the present great Republican party was formed. I was pres ent at the meeting, and well do I remember the subsequent overthrowing of Democracy in the old 'Billy Holman district and the sending of a man then about twenty-nine years old, the eminent v ill Cumback. to Congress. The 'Know-Nothings' of that, year played no little part In politics. I also attended the first Republican state convention in 1S5C not as a regular delegate. for at that time every Republican felt it his duty to be at every Republican convention or meeting of county or township, for tho approach of grave questions of a national character was plainly to be seen on the political horizon. f Judge Marin L Bundy, of New Castle. who was a member of the first state conven-. tion. states that J. C. Hudelson. one of his fellow-townsmen, is alro a survivor of thej convention. Judge Bundy is of the opinion that there must be a large number of these veteran Republicans still living. There must have been a thousand or more members of the convention," he say. "and as yet we have no reports from such counties as ' Hendricks, Howard. Grant, Wabash, Kosciusko, Randolph, Wayne and Fayette, always foremost in good works, which must have some survivors." Democratic County Chairman Charles B. Clarke, Mr. Taggart and Secretary Reilly, of the. state committee, held a conference last night at the Grand with the Democratic precinct committeemen of the Ninth ward. -f A meeting of Eleventh ward Democrats who favor Hearst for the presidential nom ination was held last evening at 602 Buchanan street. Richard Bradley presided as chairman. It was decided that ' determined effort should be put forth to carry the primaries to-morrow afternoon for Hearst and send delegates to the siato convention who will favor Hearst delegates to the national convention. Senator Cyrus E. Davis, of Bloomfleld, one of the Democratic leaders of the Sec ond district, who is at the Grand, an nounced last night that he is opposed to Hearst. When the question was put to him as to whether he favored Hearst, the senator at first side-stepped by saying that he would be for Hearst If he should bo nominated at St. Loul?, but when pressed as to whether he favored Hearst for th nomination he stated explicitly that he did not. "I am opposed to the nomination of Hearst," said Senator Davis, "but If ha should be nominated I shall, of course, support him." Senator Davis would not express hia choice for the nomination, stating that ho had not committed himself as a supporter of any of the candidates. "Gil" McNutt, of Terre Haute, member of the Democratic state committee for the Fifth district, was here last night in consultation with State Chairman O'Brien and Mr. Taggart. He says that the Hearst managers have made little headway in Terre Haute or Vigo county, 4 " Senator Will II. Johnston, of Crawfordavllle, is in the city, a guest at the Grand. f James Leroy Keach and Thomas Taggart, who have been at loggerheads, politically, for the last ear, are at last agreed upon ono proposition. Both aro opposed to Hearst and both favor the candidacy of Judge Parker, of New York. Mr. Taggart has never made a formal statement of his position, but his views are well known. Mr, Keach, speaking for himself and not officially as chairman of the Democratic city committee, yesterday gave out a statement in which he said: "I am for Parker and opposed to Hearst. I think Parker is the better candidate, anil I shah go to thj primaries Friday to cast my vote in that direction." "I have been for Parker all the time." continued the city chairman. "I hava looked upon Hearst's ambition as a sort of farce, but at th same time I recegnlze that anybody who desires has the right to vote to advance Hearst's Interests. I regret that the organization taw fit to call the primaries on such short notice. I find very little Hearst sentiment here, and what little there is seems to grow out of the feeling that snap primaries were called. No cause for complaint should be given to any element of the party. This is a tim for all Democrats to get together." A number of the Republican editors of the Sixth district were in the city yesterday afternoon and held a meeting at stat headquarters with Secretary Sims, of th state committee. The question of perfecting a district organization of the Republican editorial fcrces for the coming campaign was under discussion. Among thosa here for the meeting were Walter S. Montgomery, of Greenfield. Ed H.'incoek. of Rushville. John Wingate, of Shelbyvlile, and A. M. Willoughby and James Caskej. of Greensburg. TIN WORKERS AGAIN TO FIX WAGE SCALB Delegates and Executive Board Are in Session at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, April 6. The expanded conference of the sheet and tin plate lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers conveaed to-day. The question of accepting the lower wag rate offered to the unions by the American Sheet and Tin Plate company is being discussed. About sixty delegates and the executive board arc In attendance. To-morrow the delegates and the American and Independent Sheet and Tin Plate companies will hold a Joint conference and an effort win be made to amicably adjust tag. dC; enccA.