Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1904 — Page 4

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O.-Vladact News Stand, ISO High treat. DAYTON, O.-J. V. Wllkie. 33 South Jefferson street. DENVER. Col. Louthaln A Jackson, Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith. I-' Cliaicpa street. PES MOINES, U.-M0B6 Jacobs, 3 Fifth street. LOS ANGELES. Cal. Harry Drapkln. LOUISVILLE C T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Bluefeld Brom., 442 Weat Market street. XZVr YORK Astof' House. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot; World's Fair Newsparxr Wagons; Louisiana New Company Exchange. 6T. JSEPIL Mo. F. B. CarrleL Etation D. -WABHlNOTOr. t. c.-Rtirpi House. Ehbltt House. Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel. "Judge Parker has no past - to assail." And" no future to worry about happy man! Mr. Bryan ays New York and New Jersey are not needed to win. Xo not by a good party. St. Louis expects to pay $40,000 for the Democratic convention. The fun will be worth every cent it costs. Emperor William's career does not appear to affect him half so much as it does the European correspondents. Bryan says I will not talk any more." Judge Parker has not lived in vain if he has been able to teach William J. such a lessen as that. King Edward la said to be anxious to have the Russo-Japanese war ended; so he has one thins at least in common with Nicholas II. Indianapolis has now a population of 191,C33. The next official estimate will bring her well over the 3)0,000 mark unless all signs fail utterly. . If General Miles gets the Prohibition nomination, does he Intend to run on his army canteen record? Let us hear from him on that subject. Bryan has gone back to the farm, where he will spend a few weeks pretending he is Clncinnätus. The only trouble Is that nobody will keep up the illusion. It is to be hoped that no unscrupulous financier will try to corner the quinine market this summer. If reports are true, there is going to be a big market for it In Panama. St. Louis points with pride to the fact that there are fewer prisoners than usual in her jails. It is getting easier every year to get ball, vindication" or technicalities in Missouri The bad roads in Korea are acting as protection to the Russians against Japanese attacks. That is no argument against the good roads movement, however. Indiana is not expecting any Invasions but Hearst's. The Russian cruiser Boyarin was struck seventy times, "but not seriously injured." This report which comes from St. Petersburgleads to the suspicion that the Japs were amusing themselves by throwing snow balls. If Easter were a fixed, and not a movable feast, to-day would be Easter day. The church arranged that the celebration should always fall on Sunday, but the date of the resurrection was. many centuries ago, ofHcially fixed at April 0. The Supreme Court's decision against the coal trust was by a vote of 8 to 1; which beats the Northern Securities case. And every time a thing like this happens the Democrats, who demanded that it be done, ffet angrier and more nervous. There's no satisfying some people. Convinced that he is a modern Cassandra. John Alexander Dowie, general overseer of Zion. sol disant Elijah, etc.. has announced hi wish and Intention to return immediately to that dear Zion City, Wis. He is convinced that there is only one place in the world where genius is appreciated. When General Bragg, of Wisconsin, put Grover Cleveland in nomination ut the Democratic convention of 1SS4 he said: "We love him for the enemies he has made." Now. many Democrats arp saying that Mr. Cleveland's declaration in favor of Parker has turned thousands of supporters from him. It is pretty hard lines for an exrresident when his declaration in favor of a candidate makes enemies for him. A dispatch from St. Petersburg a day or two ago reported on the authority of Rusclan officers at the front that "All is quiet on the Yalu." The quietness may have been part of the secretive policy of the Japanese, or It may have been the calm that precedes a storm. Things could not have been very quiet on the south side of the Yalu while the Japanese were massing a force sufficient to enable them to control every strategic point along the river and

perhaps to Invade Manchuria by crossing it. The Japs have been very successful in maintaining the aggressive and thus far have outgeneraled as well as outfought the Russians.

coe;m:ss axd the i:iciiiT-iiotu HILL. For some months past the House labor committee has been giving hearings on the question of establishing an eight-hour day in all government establishments and contracts. The hearings have brought out a variety of views from manufacturers, employers, labor leaders and experts of dif ferent kinds. The demand for an eight-hour day comes from the labor unions and leaders. and they are unanimously in favor of It. while manufacturers and employers are solid against it. Of course. Congress cannot pass a law on tne subject for the dirrerent btates. ii I can only legislate for the Territories, the District of Columbia and government estab- I lishments or contracts. The latter would include contracts for shipbuilding and many, other large works. The bill before the House provides that every contract made on behalf of the United States government, or any Territory or the District of Columbia, which involves the employment of laborers or mechanics, shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or of any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work shall bo required or permitted to work any more than eight hours in any one calendar day I upon such work; and every such contract I shall stimulate a nenaltv for each violasnau stipulate a penalty ror eacn vioiatlon of such provision in the contract of 53 for each laborer or mechanic for every cal endar day in which he shall be required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon such work. The government has for several years enforced the eight-hour day In Its own working establishments, but this bill would extend it to all private establishments doing any kind of government work. There are several thousand such establishments that take contracts or subcontracts for such work, but they do a great deal of other work besides. The bill would compel them I to make eight-hour contracts on government work, while applying a nine or tenhour day on other work. Men could not be shifted from one job to another, and great embarrassment would ensue. Experts say the law would mean an increase I of 23 per cent. In the cost of government work. Indirectly, it would increase the cost of work In all private establishments. If the eight-hour day could be made uni- I versal, that Is, applied in other countries as well as In this, there would be some justice in it, but to enforce it in the United States alone, which is the purpose and intent of the labor leaders, would put this country at a great disadvantage in competing with others for control of the world's markets. American manufacturers have spent millions and millions of dollars in developing foreign trade. To hold and ex- I tend this trade has become a matter of vital importance to them. Unless our for eign trade is extended many factories may be compelled to close. This would hurt workmen as well as employers. It would seem to be unwise for Congress to inaugurate a policy that may result in materially increasing the cost of manufacturing and In weakening our hold on foreign markets without carefully counting the cost. The question Is one of great economic importance. ' The long hearings pro and con which the labor committee has given have not enabled it to reach a decision, and it has decided to refer the matter to Secretary of Com merce and Labor Cortelyou, with a request for a report on the following points, to be made to the committee at the next ses sion of Congress: What would be the additional rost tr fhe United States under the bill on articles which it customarily obtains by contract? nai udmuge wuuiu u miiici on me man- i ufacturing Interests? Would contractors who now supply the government continue to contract with the government? What. effect would it have on the shipbuilding in xerestsT w nat errect would It have on ex ort trade? Are laboring neonle willing to have taken from them tho right to labor more than eight hours? What effect will it have on the aericultural Interest? I This looks like a wise disposition of the subject, at least for the present. Before taking any step in a matter so vitally af fecting the manufacturing interests of the lummy, uugica Eiiuuia gei an me in formation and light possible. The Depart ... a3 tne muchinery for a thorough investigation of tho subject, and the work Is .precisely in the line for which it was created. When the secretary shall have investigated and re ported on the points above named. Con gress can act intelligently, and it is to be hoped it will act solely with reference to public and national interests. A YIULLOW CANDIDATE AXD A REAL ONE. The New York Herald publishes a letter fmm a -,,,,. DrioK.r. -rn.s lUua w. transcendent qualities of William R. Hearst v tiid r cav um v viaiiiia vii tut; itiJi dency.V Mr. Brisbane is one of the earliest discoverers of Hearst and has furnished the brains and the hot air for his boom since it was first launched. To give him due credit, he has come nearer converting a nonentity into a real political factor than would have been deemed possible before the experiment was tried. In the screed referred to he says: The American people like all people are Interested in personality. If they are asked to vote they want to know whom and what they are voting for. Is there an other candidate conspicuously mentioned concerning whom the American people have any information at all? Hearst is known. The entire country knows him. Every storekeeper, cab driver. lawyer, doctor every Intelligent citizen in this country knows about Hearst, and knows what you are talking about when you auvuiaie ms nomination tor wie pre&idency. What other candidate do they know anything about? And this about a man who is serving his flref t r r m lr fiinpre.c vViro Vir Vi 'i c? tint made a speech or introduced a bill, and who before he went there had never done anything to win the confidence or respect of decent people. It is true, if the Ameriran nrnnlo are akeil t r vnte thrv m-iint , . . , . . , to know whom and what they are voting for. but It is not true that Hearst is known. Within the last few weeks the people have learned a good deal about an Imaginary hero, patriot and statesman of that name. but they know nothing of the rj?al Hearst His boonier-ln-chief asks, "Is there any uinrr la.iu.u conspicuous mentioned . . . 1 . , . . . . . concerning wnom tne American people have any Information at all?" And "What other candidate do they know anything about?" If he meant Democratic candidates, the iuc.-uiuii is uui aiiuzs. u uiucr owns Sev eral 3 enow newspapers to advertise himself or has an army of horn blowers and

paymasters in hi3 employ. The people know next to nothing abou. the other Democratic candidates, though they are gradually getting on to the fact that Judge Parker, of New York, is a real entity. But when one gets outside of the Democratic party the fog lifts. There is a candidate named Theodore Roosevelt that the people know a good deal about, lie docs not own any yellow newspapers, but he does not have to be introduced in that way. He has a record for real ability, real courage, real patriotism, real statesmanship.

for things düne and accomplished that makes it unnecessary to invest him with imaginary virtues. The people know pure goW rom piachbeck. They are not so casily fooled as the 1Iearst boomers Ira aginc. MR. .MITCHELL OX STRIKES. .air. jonn .Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, was in Louisville yesterday trying to settle a dispute be tween the miners and operators of western Kentucky and avert a strike. ' While there he addressed an audience in the Council chamber, which included many union men in other lines than mining, and business men who were curious to hear the noted labor leader speak. In beginning Mr. f Mitchell said he was always glad to talk to men who were honestly trying to bring about an adjustment of differences between capital and labor. He said he believed in the organization of capital as well as labor. and that the interests of both sides were promoted by the organization of both. Continuing, he said: It has always been my experience that in f.J ,nKe Doin slfl0S KCl eked. I be ,eve in the r, h lieve in the right of the employer to lock out his men. There may come a time when me wornman can maintain his standing and self-respect only by striking, and so ! . , .... v "T" J ' IU IWR UUl me men. I think, though, that a strike i th last weapon which should be used, and that it snouia do used then only after all efforts for a peaceful settlement have failed. I heartily favor a strike where necessary, but I think nothing should bo left undone that could avoid the strike. "It has always been my experience that in every strike both skies get licked" Is-a significant statement to come from one of the foremost labor leaders of the time. It was an original and unique way of saying t.it in his opinion neither side In a labor controversy gained as much by a strike as they could have done by conciliation and compromise. Strikes usually end in compromises in which both sides make concessions which, if made nt the beginning. would probably have prevented the strike and all its losses. Mr. Mitchell's expert" encc nas taught him that these are very Kreat, and because they fall on both sides alike h says that in every strike "both sides get licked." War has been called the last argument Kings. A strike is war. The world is coming to believe that war, with its tremendous destruction of life and property and the concomitants that make it hell, is unnecessary and could be prevented by ar bitration. If war, why not strikes, in which, as Mr. Mitchell says, both sides get licked? A party which passed through the city yesterday on the way to St. Louis consisted of British and Boer soldiers who fought on opposite sides during the Boer war and several natives of South Africa. There were about 200 Boer officers and sol diers and 120 British, and they fraternized perfectly. When they landed at Newport News a few days ago General Cronje was asked if the Boers were prospering now, had they fully accepted British rule, and were they happy? He answered through an interpreter: "The spirit of peace and industry has settled over the land. Every one has his farm back, and the people are now at work cultivating them. As iu all countries at the close of a war, there are some dissatisfied spirits, but the great majority of the people are reconciled and happy." While the war was going on many Americans, more zealous than wise, wanted tns government to intervene and prevent England from "enslaving" the Boers. The ... ... Democratic national convention of 1900 de clared that "We view with indignation the purpose of England to overwhelm with force the South African republics." The conservative sense oi tne country was inai England was s'mply enforcing her just rights, and that the interests of good gov ernment and of the Boers themselves would be promotod by her succeKs. Events have proved that this view was correct. In is:)7t whcn the New York Democratic commIttcc met t0 consider a candidate for th(J Court Qf AppcalSf Judge Parker was the only avowed candidate for the nomina tion. In order to ascertain where he stood In the presidential campaign of 1896 tho chairman of the committee addressed a I . A A1 . , . ... - note to the judge, who replied as follows: My Dear Danforth It was entirely right for you to bring to my attention the ques tion which the sincere friends of Mr. Bryan are pressing upon you. I can say to you frankly and sincerely that you can assure I them that I voted for the last national I nominees of the Democratic party, as I t d f all the regular Democratic nom I inees since I had a vote. Yours very sincerely. ALTON B. PARKER. i . Sept. 22, 1S07. "Frankly and sincerely," that was a very adroit dodging of the question. The able jurist forgot to state which one of the factions he regarded as the Democratic party. It was bad enough for members of the Democratic national committee in other States to Invade Indiana in the interest of the Hearst boom, but the irruption of Hearst repeaters from Chicago Is even worse. MINOR TOPICS. "Is it right for England to be In Thibet?" asks an afternoon contemporary. No a thousand times, no! It would rend the hcarts cf an to sec such violence done to i . . , . . , . . geography. As long as England t tays be twecn Scotland and the Channel, wc shall not anticipate a universal cataclysm. A New ork naner alludes to David B lim as a ..varnrire Well, he may be "a ragr ami a bone," but a close examination of his picture falls to reveal any signs of the "hank of hair. 10 encourage man liiiuny, a -ncw xorK . , . , . , .. , , . . I church has added a "woolns: parlor." And ,a th t religion? Don't forget the coolng parlor or the goo-gooing parlor let's have them all. They have just found a man who has lived for twenty years with a knife blade in hta brain. lie knew tbern w:i jnmrt hlnt I - - - - - " . ..., on Ms m,Rd but cou,dn.t Qutc ,wal A Roston dispatch says 100 detectives are on the tral1 of Mi5S .lKe's flayer. It is 10 horHHl tnat tnis army has boen Invcs' l t irru i cw i iiioir rwtrnrA ntinop wtimw-i The Japanese fleet has disappeared from Port Arthur. A. large proportion of tho

Russian fleet has done the same, but It may easily be found with the proper kind of dredges.

While the past winter has been extremely fatal to bees, not all of them were killed. Every State in the Union has a Democrat who hears one buzzing about his ears. Kuropatkin has a new and gorgeous uniform. It is likely to get soiled and mussed almost any day now: and not a tailor shop for versts and versts! A woman in Wisconsin committed suicide by a forty days' fast. They may call that fast in Wisconsin, but down here it would be considered dead slow. The pastor of a church at Windfall. Ind., has been notified that a fortune of $200,000 awaits him. How would you like a windfall of that kiud? ft is reported that Gen. Kuropatkin U well pleased with the conditions existing in Nieu-Chwang. That man must be a regular Mark Tapley. The two great branches of Spiritualists have consolidated. The spirits themselves still remain extremely tenuous. ' "Six border Korean towns have been sacked by the Russians." Cossacked? I,qnnl to Them All. The night has a thousand eyes And your wife but two! But really I shouldn't advise. My friend, that you Draw any conclusions neat; You can bet your socks That she has the thousand beat liy a million blocks. New Orleans Times-Democrat. THE HUMORISTS. . Quite ItlRht. full of trials." said the melancholy "Life is citizen. "Yes," answered' Mr. Grafton Grabb, "and the worst of It Is that a whole lot of the trials are resulting in convictions." Washington Star. Ill Opportunity. Scribbler In declining my poems the editor aid I had no literary ability and advised me to go in for something else. PenfieM Did he nujunt anything? Scribbler Yes; told me to try my hand at a popular novel. Judge. The Surprise Fe?ature. Askem Did you hear about the surprise recital given by Mr. De Spoute, the elocutionist, last Thursday night? Grabbit No. What was the surprise feature? Askem None of the invited guests showed up. Baltimore American. A Better Scheme. The young clergyman was under the impression that there had been some criticism because he preached extemporaneously. "Do you think I ought to write my sermons?" he asked. "No." replied the sarcastic deacon. "I think you ought to buy them." Chicago Post. Waltlne. "Shay, off'sherl" the man with the liquid burden remarked to the policeman, "shee all 'em round houses runnln by?" "Sure!" replied the policeman good humoredly, "I see them." Well, when num'r slx-twent'-fl, comesh "long shtop it, 'caushe 'at's mine." Philadelphia Press. In Trouble Agnin. "I wonder." said the plump young woman. preparing to venture out upon the frozen surface of the park lagoon, "if the ice is safe?" "You needn't be the least bit afraid as to that," Mr. Makinbrakes hastened to assure her. "I am certain it will hold you. When I was here yesterday I saw the bnys chasing a runaway steer all over it. The animal must have weighed 1.S00 pounds. Of course," he added, nervously, "I don't mean that you that the steer, you know, mightn't have broken through if It had been on skates, but, still well, anyhow, there can't be any harm in trying, because I see other girls out there that are even more er do the skates fit you all right. Miss Biggin?" Philadelphia Telegraph. April. Quoth Time, "Permit me to return Your Hat; it is, I take It, Quite empty now, as you will learn If you will Kindly shake it." Old Mr. World, suspecting naught. Obeyed unto the letter And such an April shower he caught He couldn't have been wetter! Oliver Horford. In Metropolitan Magaslne. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good" what a feast is In store for bridge contractors. Bloom field Newa. It is the accuracy and reliability of the voting machine that should determine its adoption, not the promptness with which its figures are recorded and announced. Elkhart Review. When General Miles is elected President on the Prohibition ticket, prohibition will be enforced among the workers on the Tanama canal. It will be soon enough when the general Is elected. Terre Haute Tribune. Greencastle has supported a free kindergarten by charity for seven years, and Attica's kindergartens are a rart of her public school system paid for by taxation. CrawforJsvllle has something to learn from her smaller neighbors. Crawfordsville Journal. With a population equal to England's, the Japanese have only 21,000 paupers, according to recent statistics. A "yellow peril" that will teach the "European peril" how to bring this state of a flairs about should be welcomed by an enlightened country desl'lns civilization. Logansport Journa 1. It is by no means Improbable that the time will come when many of the judges now elected by the people will be appointed by the Governor. That vas the method of selecting Judges in some of the Eastern Stales years ago, and some sentiment is being developed In favor of returning to the same. South Eend Times. The agreement on using a common system of poles by the municipal and the private electric light plants of the city Is a step In the right direction. There need be no extra expense assumed, by either of the concerns in the combination. It will curtail the number of poles in the city to a considerable extent. It would now be In order for the telephone companies and the telegraph lines to do likewise where practicable. Richmond Sua Telegram. INDIANA VIEWS OF HEARST. The Hearst boom goes marching merrily on. The barrel is beir.g liberally tapped. Noblesvllle Ledger. South Dakota and Rhode Island have clasped hands over the Hearst bar'l. It is an odd combination, but consider the queerness of the party. Hartford City Times. If the reorRanizers really want to defeat the Hiarst movement in this State of anywhere else, the less they advertise that bar'l and check book the better. Vinctnnes CommercJal. Because his mother gave fl.OOO.OOO as an endowment fund to the University of California. Willie Hearst thinks he should be made President of the United States. Columbua Republican. The Democracy cf Perry county ought to get a refrigerator to put that Hearst Indorsement in cold storage until it is needed. It's liable to spile" on their hands from old age. Cannelton Enquirer. Indiana Democrats are In the habit of thinking for themselves and the Indiana Democracy cannot be "turned over" bodily to any cne candidate, until he Is the nominee of the party. Evansville Courler Dem.) So far as the Democratic central committee of tht.4 inutitv was able to do It. tha Drmorrati of 1 1 this mik of the woods have been delivered body

and breeches to William R. Hearst. It was a bold proceeding, but it was reKUlar, and those who do not like It will have to submit or kick out of the traces. Lafayette Journal. Check-book Hearst Is perhaps new sorry that he originated the idea of clothing Republican leaders in cartoons In suits made of checks. If ever there as a candidate for office who literally b-.u?ht his strength. Hearst la the man. Starke County Republican. The Hearst noise In this State Is made from surface wind. Down deep In the Democratic mind there is no responsive echo to the appeals of the Hearst management. Messrs. Henderson and Neal are obliged to make a noise the Hearst managers expect tome music from this quarter, since the State has been invaded and put In their l ands. The i-orle believe that these gentlemen are under ray, fur it is altogether unlikely that any presidential bureau, us aggressive as the Hearst piece of furniture is showing itself to be, can be run without a lubricant of tome sort, and hence the force of the HendcrronNeal output of argument is no; showing itself to be very effective upon the pitlic mind. Martinsville Democrat. The Review sincertly regrets the apparent sentiment In Klkhart for Hearst. This regret is not based on partisan opposition to Hearst, for. of course, the Review would oppose any Democratic candidate for the presidency. Hearst represents nothing but demagogy, uncertainty of motive. Instability of purpose, satisfaction with low ideals of government. Immature development of n-al citizenship, class prejudice, sectional divisions for personal ends and a low type of liberty. He represents nothing good, nothing elevating, nothing useful to class, section or Nation. He plans only for temporary success, and does not look ahead to what may come In the future. He

would never be steadied by responsibility nor ... t sobered by necessity. He would be unsaie iu policy and destructive in effort. Elkhart Review. Sotldet od SprlK. I sig the Joys of soft ad suddy sprig; il sis them through the dose.) A welcob warb We tedder to her spilig. verdal charb; (She deeds the warpth), the robid's od the wig; The blossobs their cobbiggled scet exhale Upod the air, ad everythig here blows The plk adebbodee. the pikker dose. The Easter boddet id Dorth-easter gale. The frogs are id the pod (ad Id the throat). The yug sprig labkld id the beadow sprigs, (Ah, warb, the all-wool labkld!) Ol the breeze A byriad gerbs of ldfluedza float; Ad by the stove, id witter fladdel thlgs. I pedHhls soddet ere by Aggers freeze! -Life. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. Russian Hallway Schools. The railway schools of Russia are among the most Interesting of all nations. When the great Siberian Railway la completed it will form a practical westward continuation of the American trunk lines, connected by international ferries in the form of gigantic steamship lines. It was the construction of the wonderful Siberian Railway which largely liberalized all Russia and turned Its attention to the education of children. At the latest report Russia was teaching 6.000 children of railway men all branches of modern railway construction and operation. Russia recently sent two eminent ministers of affairs to this country to examine the workings of the railway branches of the Young Men's Christian Association for the immediate introduction of the service at division points of the railways of all Russia. Harper's Weekly. cw Tuition Plan at Harvard. Owing to a1 deficit this year In the finances of Harvard University, the corporation has been obliged to Impose upon the student body one of the most stringent measures taken in recent years. As against the eaty-payment system In vogue to the present time, whereby the firstterm bill, consisting of two-thirds of the annual charges, has been payable on or before Feb. 21, d. containing the balance of charges, on or before Oct. 10, of the next aca demic year, the students will be required to pay three-fifths of their tuition fees for the year within two weeks of the opening of the college term, and the remainder before the be ginning of the second half year. If they fall to pay these dues on a specified day they shall bo debarred of all privileges or services of the uni versity "until their financial relations with the university are satisfactorily arranged with the bursar." For other bills due the university. such as rent of college rooms and board at Memorial and Randall halls, a shorter time will be given the students for meeting them. Springfield Republican. First School Farm In New York City. Facing the Hudson, on the west side of New York city, is a piece of condemned land awaiting improvement, ironically called the De Witt Clinton Tark. The most vivid imagination could not have conceived a more desolate spot than this was In the summer of 1902. Approached from the east, through filthy streets crowded with noisy, dirty urchins. It loomed up a dark blot upon the beautiful background of cool river, green hills and blue sky. Rows of tumble-down houses, dis used carts, piles of rubbish, stonea, rags and litter, among which the children played, made even the atreeta seem neat and orderly by conv parison. In the center of this plot of ground It was evident that eomething of more than ordinary importance was occurring. The air was black with flying missiles, while excited groups of children ran hither and thither. To all Inquiries came the reply, "We are getting ready for our farm." The idea of a farm in that unfavorable spot might have made the inquirer slightly skeptical; but had he stayed to see, the changes wrought were little short of marvelous. The children's ready hands, assisted by those of older brothers and sisters, and by workmen from the tark department of Manhattan, ac complished wonders. Stones and rubbish van ished. The hard earth yielded to the plow and harrow. Load after load of rich loam was brought. A fence inclosed the selectea space. Walks were laid out and plots marked, and after days of earnest work, the "farm was ready to receive. the seed. Twenty-five children filed in at the gate and received a practical lesson in planting from the gardener. Teachers, meanwhile. registered names and properly tagged each "farmer." These tags, upon each of which the name of the child and the number of the plot assigned were registered, were cer tificates of ownership to be presented at the gate as a pass to enter. The lesson over, the children marched to their respective plots and planted the seeds given to them as they had been shown how to do by the gardener. New groups followed them, and soon in that desert waste rose an oasis of living green, orderly. neat and picturesque the first children's achool farm in New York city, conceived and directed by Mrs. Henry Farsons, a member of the local School Board of the Eleventh School District of Manhattan. Review of Reviews. Kdncatlon Notes. In twenty-one of the large American colleges there are 60.000 students. The alumni of the architectural school of the University of Pennsylvania will build anew hall ut a cost of $:i00.000 to meet the Increased demands of that department. Students of the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that foreigners be excluded from the men's dormitory. The petition followed the announcement that an Egyptian student at the university had Induced several of his coun trymen to enter the university next year. Following is the present total enrollment of the universities named: Harvard, 6,013; Columbia. 4.5S7; Chicago. 4.14$; Michigan. . 3. 926; California, 3.6W: Illinois. 3.661; Minnesota, 3.330; Cornell. 2,i2S; Wisconsin, 3.21; Yale, 2.900; Northwestern. 2,740; Pennsylvania. ' 2.611; Ne braska. 2.247; Syracuse. Z,Z. Several additional letters commending the proposition to endow a chair of political science in Western Reserve University at, Cleveland to bear the name of the late Senator Hanna have heen received from James J. Hill, Senator Fairbanks of Indiana, Senator Allison of Iowa, Qeorge W. Cable and Congressman Jesse Overstreet. Mr. Hill's letter says the proposition Is commendable and that after the association has arrived at a definite plan to let him hear from it further, Mr. Cable's letter said that the chair of political science would be "an appropriate monument to honor him who so notedly carried in hli heart the promotion, of right and happy social relations between all aorta and conditions of men."

THE DRIFT

An Indianapolis paper yesterday printed a story to the effect that William Randolph Hearst would probably withdraw from the presidential race as a result of the setback he had received in Kansas on Thursday, when he secured but rix of twenty of the delegates from that State to the St. Louis convention. The story was based on a elcgram, alleged to have been sent by Hearst to Andrew M. Lawrence, managing editor of the Chicago American, and received by Lawrence while he was in this city Thursday. This telegram was said to contain the expressions, "Kansas no good," and "(Juess we had better confine ourselves to journalism." Mr. Lawrence, in a long-distance telephone message to R. M. Isherwood. one of tho men in charge of the local Hearst headquarters, last night denounced the ftory as an unqualified fake and asked that his denial be given to the Indianapolis papers. "Mr. Lawrence spoke most emphatically and most explicitly," said Mr. Isherwood. "He eaid that the story was absolutely without foundation, that no such telegram had been sent to him by Mr. Hearst, and that Mr. Hearst would neither abandon his campaign for delegates in Indiana nor withdraw from the presidential race. He said that he made this statement on the authority of Mr. Hearst." In commenting on the withdrawal story Mr. Isherwood expressed the opinion that it had emanated from Parker sources, and was intended to hurt Hearst in yesterday's primaries in thi3 city and county. T. Taggart, the loader of the Parker forces in Indiana, discredits the report that Hearst is about to withdraw from tho fight for the presidential nomination. "I have no definite information about the matter, but I don't believe there's anything in tho Ftory," said Mr. Taggart last night. "I sec that one of the Chicago papers lias a story from Washington to the effect that Mr. Hearst is making overtures to Judge Parker in which he intimates he will withdraw from the race if assured that he will be given a place in the Cabinet in event of Judge Parker's nomination and

Walter Brown on Stand Testifying in

Own Behalf in (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) 'Yes, sir. I was in Judge Van Fleet's office, immediately above the bank." "uia you take any part In the consultation that night?" I did not.V "Were you at the hank on the nicht of Nov. 18, the night when the meeting was held with the bankers?" ies sir. I came to the bank near 11 o'clock. Mr. Brodrlck had asked mc to come on some business matters and I wanted to see Mr. Bucklen." "Did you take part in that meeting with the bankers?" 'No. sir. I think I talked a few minutes with some of the men but not about bank affairs." 'Did you take anvthine away from tho bank that night?" 'Not a thing, but the JG7.000 of Elkhart Power Company bonds." .testimony introduced by the prosecution was to the effect that Brown had carried away that night the Alford. Tousley, IJ. C. Brown and several other notes. Collins gave this testimony. ENTRIES IN BANK BOOKS. "Mr. Brown," continued Ketcham "what was said that night about making entries in the bank books?" ' "Mr. Brodrick eaid to Mr. Collins: 'Will. we must get to work on these books. No entries have been made to-day and we must put them in.' Mr. Collins, who was sitting down in the corner of the room and had up to that time said nothing to me, said he was tired and suggested that Thomas be sent for to make "the entries. I had my papers and was ready to go home when Collins asked me to go with him to Thomas's home. I did and returned to the bank with him, Thomas arriving a few minutes later. Mr. Brodrlck said: Dan, I suppose you know the bank is In trouble and we have got some entries to go on the books. Thomas replied that he had suspected some thing was wrong but believed no one elso did unless it was John Krau. Further than that I heard no other words spoken about entries." "Did you see any entries made on tho books that night?" Ketcham asked. "No, sir, I did not, replied Brown. "When did you know of the entries made by Thomas after you left?" "I knew nothing of them until after I was indicted." "Did you make any notes that evening?" "Not a single note." Collins testified on the previous day that Brown had made notes of the Consolidated Paper and Bag Company that night and left them in place of the Alford and Tousley notes. Collins also testified that Brown was present when the false entries wcro made on the books. In explaining the Alford and Tousley notes Brown said that in order to keep the building accounts separate arrangements were made with the. bank to run an "M. Alford building account' the money being paid by the bank on the notes. He said he told Alford at the time that he would not be responsible for tho notes, as they were Consolidated notes. The arrangement was temporary. Brown said, and the notes were simply accommodation notes. Alford signed them before him. the witness said, and he counter-signed them. "I took those notes STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. ! It Did A'ot Please Lodge. Senator Lodge la a great whist player. Not long ago a friend who entertains certain extremely revolutionary ideas with reference to the game published a brochure embodying his views thereon, a copy of which work he for warded to the ienator. The author as a little taken back when, shortly afterward, meeting Mr. Lodge, he asked the senator what he thought of the work, and the statesman re plied : "Rlank, I have read the book carefully. It seems to be a pretty good game, but not so good a one as whist." Denver Times. I'rHonrr Could Not Talk. Representative Wade, who humorously styles himself the "solid Democratic delegation in Congress from Iowa." by reason of the fact that he is the lone Democrat from the Hawkeye State, Is serving his first term, but has already established a reputation as a story teller which makes him a worthy successor of Private John Allen as the wit of the House. This Is one of Mr. Wade's stories: An Irish policeman picked up an Inebriate In the streets and carried him to the police station. The' next morning he took his prisoner ir.to court. The effect of the pro longed "Jag" bad. apparently, affected the roan's powers of speech, for all that he could say when brought before the court was "sh-shee-sh." "What Is your name?" asked the court. "Sh-bhee-sh." said the prisoner struggling to talk. "Where do you live?" Again. "Sh-shee-sh." "How old are you?" Same effort to reply. "Are you married?" "Sh-shee-sh." "Officer," exclaimed the court In disgust. "what Is this man charged with?" "Kaith. yen honor, sur." replied the police man, "I don't know, sur. unless he is charged with soda wather." Washington Timea. One Wny Only. Here Is a good story about the late United Statea Senator Sewcll and Colonel "Jim" Scovel. The colonel, who was a stirring orator, but very erratic, bad been for years a thorn in Sewcll's tide when Scwell was commander-in-chief of the Republican forces of the State. They did not even know each other when they met on the streets. In time Scovel Joined the Salvation Army and mellowed toward the senator enough to feel encouraged to ask Sewcll for a pass to Chicago. "I'll send It to you." the general said, and the next morning there was a letter in Seovel'a mail from Sewcll's West Jersey railroad office. Scovel dashed out tho mo:nent he broke the envelope seal. "See. here, general!" he exclaimed, as be rushed Into the (Senator's presence. "I have the pass to Chicago, but there is no return coupon to It." "i am Milling, air," tha senator returned with

OF POLITICS

flection. I am reasonably certain there Is nothing in that story. I don't believe Mr. Hearst would make such a proposition, and I am sure Judge Parker would not listen to it if he did." Representative James R. Williams, of Carml. III., member of Congress from tho Fourth Illinois district and one of the Democratic leaders in the House, wan In the city yesterday to attend the sessions of the Phi Kappa P$d convention. He was busily engaged talking "frnt" and rt calling the old crllge days m.t of the time, but he talked poütic long enough to express the conviction thrt Hearst will get no support from Illinois In the St. IjnulS convention. "HtarM will not get a vote from Illinois." said Representative Williams. "The Hearst campaign has been noiny everywhere and n great deal of money has boon fpent, but it has not made much headway. In some of the countless the Hearst force went in where the county organizations wera in!ii?erent and had d-U-gates elected to tha ?tnt convention, but they will get no more. The Hearst papers have lcen claiming everything, but claiming is one thin and gcttlnc i. another." Mr. Williams has been frequently mentioned hü the man who would probably leccive the support of the Illinois delegation for the presidency, on the first ballot, at least. Senator A. D. Ogborn, of New Castle, was at the Columbia Club yesterday. f Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, former secretary of state, was in the city yesterday, and It was announced that he will ba one of the men in charge of J. Frank Hanly's gubernatorial campaign headquarters in this city during the remainder of the ante-convention fight. Mr. Hanly, who was at the English last evening, confirmed the report. "Mr. Hunt will be here part of the time, and Senator Wood, of Itayette. will also be hero-part of the time." he said. Mr. Hanly said that after this week h expects to spend much of his time at hij neauquancrs ncrc. I. P. New by, of Knightstown, and Hugh Th. Miller, of Columbus, two of the asrpirnnts for the nomination ff Lieutenant Governor, were in the city lart nighL the Bank Failure Case out of the bank Sunday afternoon, Nov. 1". stating that the dobt was the Consolidated Faper and Bag Company's and not Alford's." WHAT ALFORD SAID. Brown paid he met Alford on the street after the indictment had been returned and he then stoutly denied signing any notes and sild he knew nothing about them. One of Alford's statements, Brown testified, was, "I swore before the grand Jury that I didn't sign any notes and by God I'm going to stick by the statement." Brown admitted that his two companies were greatly Indebted to Ihe bank, but g,-ave figures to show that every cent of indebtedness was covered by liabilities. He) said that in making the Indebtedness he did not know the bank was loaning great sums of money to the Elkhart Paper Company and other Insolvent concerns, or that it was in a shaky condition. He said he? could never ascertain the exact status of his own account, as Brodrlck or Collins would not give him his pass-book, although he tried repeatedly to get It. ."Were you ever able to get that passbook?" Ketcham asked. "I was not," Brown responded. Brown went into an explanation of all the false and illegal notes with which ha is alleged to have been connected and gave detailed figures as to the worth of his concerns and their bus-inoFS.showine; that they were making money at the time of tho bank" failure. "Why did your d(bts increase, if you were making money?" Ketcham asked. "Our business was expanding rapidly and our line of machinery was embarrassing nnd I had a lot of money locked up in the Consolidated and the White Line Paper Company." "How much money did you have, tied up In these companies?" "About rO.u00." CHARGES DENIED. Ketcham then went through the sixtyseven counts of the indictment item by Item and Brown emphatically denied tho charges. He swore that when he made his indebtedness to the bank he believed his companies were solvent and was not aware that Brodrlck was intentionally and knowingly defrauding the concern and abstracting notes of the bank. Contrary to expectations. Brown in hi testimony unloaded the greater part of the blame for the crooked transactions uiiori the shoulders of J. L. Brodrick, president of the bank, who pleaded guilty reveral weeks ago. It had ben reported that thi defense would hold Collins as the responsible man. After his long siege of testifying Brown stepped from the stand seemingly in gool condition. To all outward a pi tea ranees ht was not under any strain and the long dsy upon the stand loft no signs of cxhaustiou. Whether he will be able to maintain h: composure anil self-reliance during the cross-examination to-day is a jucstlori awaited as the most interesting event of the trial. Mrs. Walter Brown and hrr n Gilbert were In the courtroom throughout the iay, sitting again just inside the court railing. freezing dignity, "I Hm willing, sir, to id yoj willing, sir, to 4id yo. fool enough t hcli to Chicago. Dut I'm not you get luck." The old-time coolness was on again at once. New York Tribune. Mnilil)' lliliiiloua Ilevenjce. Some of the hotels In Washington have schedule of restaurant and cafe charges that wouM make a Broadway ho:;t ahamed of his amateurish attempts to g-t money from bis pation. J. IL Maddy, of the Halt I more & ehio Kaliroal. had an exjeriene a night or two ago. uhera the check became monumental with little iasn. Next morning he wa'ked into th lr at tht hotel a:1 said nik!y to th lartcnW : "Will you kindly give me a glass of wuterT" "Certainly. Mr. Maddy," the bartender repüM. and he pa'Wd out the water. Th'-reupnn Mr! Maddy dived down Into his coat po ket. to-k out one of the little tattles for Individual drlr.ka ued on railroad cafe cars, pulled the cork anl poured out the contents of the tattle, while th Uirtrnd.-r stool speechless. "Much obliged." aid Madly, after he had sipped his drink. Pittsbutg Dispatch. TO GUT VOICE CULTURB STUDENT SHOULD TEACH New York Sun. There Is a singing teacher in town who urges her pupils to take pupil themselves, ü.s Foon as she thinks they have reached a sufficiently advanced stage in their progless to Justify their giving instruction. "The help to one's own voice derived from teaching is invaluable.' she said th other aay. "1 was a whol? year trying to get an important idea on vo!ce-placin Into tne in-aa oi one oi rny pupils. I was beginning to get discouraged when one day the came to her lesson with the announcement that he had a pupil, a girl frienl who couldn't afc'ord to pay for lessons from a regular teacher. She. had already given two lessons. "The htrugglc she had had with her pupil to get her to produce the tones correctly had cleare-d her own brain so that without any effort hhe accomplished In her l sson with me what 1 had tuen struggling for to lo;ig to get her to do. "Most of my pupils are of the leisure clas-s. They have had no experience to rouse the practical possibilities of their minds. This exix-rlence comes to them iuickly through having a pupil. All thJr pride, common sense and wit comes into play when they face their pupils. Most pupils, even the Htupid on-, know a lot more than they think they do. Teaching will prove thi? to thtm quickly. " "I do not mean, of course, that n girl who dots not have to support herself should ask for money for her instruction until h has reached a high level. Hut there are) bo many women who want to ring, but for some reason cannot afford to do s.o. that surely every singing pupil of the lelsuro class can nr.d one or two such women la her circle to teach. "There are friends who would like Instruction; then. too. If a girl is really looking for a pupil hc nay rind one among girl who havo to work hard for their livtlihood anl to whom instruction In singing would brlas increased Joy in living."