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It 13 pleasing to the friends of Russia to note that all these Japanese successes "have teen provided for "in General Kuropatkin's . plans." aSSBSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSBBBaSBBSBBBBBSBSBBBSBBBBBS "We are now Wlju." remarked the Japs after they had crossed the Yalu, but the Russians, as they did a rapid disappearing act, said they were not so sure of that. The extent to which Secretary of War Taft is being wined and dined over in St. Louis is in a fair way to make him a living illustration of the principle of expansion. The confident manner in which the Japanese have started out to drive the Russians back looks as If they had some notion of following them to the very gates of St. Petersburg. The Japanese seem to be Just as handy on land as they have proven themselves on the sea. They are exhibiting a state of preparedness that grows more amazing with each new development. The Democratic party has had plenty of leisure in which to repent the hasty impulse that nominated Bryan in 1SD6, and the prospects are excellent for plenty more leisure of the same kind. Boston women are no longer to be allowed to drink liquor in Boston saloons. With the bread supply cut off and nothing but water to drink it is pretty hard lines for the female population of the hub. The campaign committees are getting ready to distribute tons of literature under congressional frank, of courseand those great rpeeches that were not delivered in Congress will soon begin to see the light of day. What has become of the German war lord, while the bullets are flying thick and fast in the East? If It were not for some bridge to be opened or some cornerstone .to be laid occasionally the world might think he had fallen off the map. The perennial feud between the Kurds and Armenians has broken out again, and the Kurds have destroyed the usual number of Armenian villages. Can it be that the Armenians have been palming off their tpurious "antique rugs" among these wild soldiers of the Sultan? Southern Democratic papers are still demanding to know what Parker stands for Well, for one thing, he stands for big contributions to the Democratic camnalen fund from merger mag-iates who do not like Roosevelt. And then but Democrat are not Interested in anything else he ma, ctand for. ' Now that the law has succeeded in crippling the power of the alley saloon to tempt clerks and other employes of the merca tile districts, can it not do something toward eliminating the doggery that thriv In proximity to the factory and regularly robs the wives and children -of worklngmen or the fruits of their breadwinners' toil? It is not at all an unusual thing for R publican speeches to receive approval from the pulpit, but there was an especial lit ness in the commendation of Represent ative James E. Watson's recent address by th pastor of Roberts Park Church. Su sound political law and gospel have ch a close relation to the law and gospel laid down for moral guidance. To follow one fj not to deviate from the other. It Is arT unpleasant fact that Indiana can fcs depended on to furnish a continuous performance in the murder trial line There XTXM the Terrell case, then the Seward case; the Gillespie trial Is Just opening, and by the time it is over the McDonald case at Dcdford will be coming on. When that Is ended some gentleman will no doubt have ctlUfingly supplied the material for another

trial, and so the legal drama will go on.

The one thing to be glad of is that the ac cused persons are tried and not hanged out of hand. Southern fashion. tiii: rinns insi uhkctiox op imm. It would be interesting to know Just why ex-President Cleveland chose to discuss the Chicago labor riots of at this particular time, and the part taken by his administration in putting an end to them. The episode was an important one in the country's history, since it resulted in estab lishing beyond question the right of the national government to . govern where national Interests are involved, its right to supersede all state or other local governments in regulating matters that concern the general public. The calling out of the United States troops and their prompt dis persal of a mob that was interfering with United States mails and was encouraging a state of anarchy aroused great interest and excitement at the time all over the country, but its chief importance was rot in the quieting of a disturbance that was beyond the power of local authorities to control and that threatened to spread throughout the country, but in the perma nent settlement of a great principle of government. Mr. Cleveland has no need to recall the episode for the sake of defending his own action therein, since he had the approval of the law-abiding people1 of the country at the time without regard to party. No other act of his administration so established him in public esteem or gave him so clear a right to be called the President of a nation rather than of one of its political divisions. But, while he cannot Lave told the story for the sake of putting himself right, and while it is a narrative of deep interest, especially as told by him. and is well worth while for every Ameiican to read, there is reason for questioning his political wisdom in drawing attention Just now to thi3 bit of history. For the chief actor in the quelling of the Chicago mob. the man who represented the Cleveland ad ministration, was Mr. Richard Olney, attor ney general of the United States. Whether or not he wa3 the moving spirit in the proceedings and inspired Mr. Cleveland to' his course, the fact remains that he willingly and actively co-operated with the President and shared in the obloquy that was visited on him by the lawless labor element. And now Mr. Richard Olney is likely to be brought before the St. Louis convention as a candidate for the presidency, Massachusetts Democrats having instructed for him, and official testimony as to the part he took In the matter, thus formally set forth, may have a direct influence against him. Though he was right, the circumstance that an element In his party is opposed to him because of his course is a matter to be considered. The political scale must be balanced delicately, especially in the Democratic party, and, unwittingly, Mr. Cleveland may have succeeded in permanently sidetracking his old friend and, adviser. ' If Mr. Debs, whose head has Just come above water again in the Socialistic party, had any political chances the ex-Prcsi-dent's statement might have a disconcerting effect in his case also. Under the circumstances the allusion to his course only sends his name down to ignoble fame as that of a riotous lawbreaker. THE Japanese CENSORSHIP. While the highly civilized peoples of the Occident are studying the military and naval lessons of the war in the East, it might be well for them to pause and ponder on the eftect of the marvelous press censorship exercised by the Japanese. Nothing like It has ever been known in the world before. The Japanese government has used for its own purposes all the facilities for quick communication and intelligence provided by modern science, but, so far as satisfying the curiosity of the rest of the world has gone, these facilities might as well have never existed. Army after army and fleet after fleet has been mobilized and vanished from Japan, lost absolutely to the ken of the rest of mankind, until it has turned up at some point to do quickly and well the work cut out for It long in advance. And has this remarkable secrecy helped the Japanese military operations? Ask the Russian commanders, who have been compelled by this very uncertainty to string their forces from Vladivostok to the mouth of the Turnen; who have had to guard the coast of the China sea, all the way from Nieu-Chwang to Aa-Tung; who have been compelled to guard every mile of railway in Manchuria 'and every rod of the Yalu river. It has made concentration in any one place impossible and has meant such a thinning of the Russian line of defense that the Japanese have had practically no difficulty in maneuvering the Russians clear out of Korea, and have met but slight re sistance in passing the greatest natural barrier to Manchuria, the Yalu river. Nothing, not even her wonderful state of preparedness, has been more helpful to Japan than the censorship that has kept the eAemy absolutely in the dark as to Japanese intentions until it was too late to concentrate at the point of attack. MILK niPl'IUTIES. Some years ago, when enterprising dairy mer. began to deliver their milk in bot ties, housekeepers rejoiced over the sui-e-rior cleanliness of the arrangement; doc tors gave orders that only bottled milk. because of its purity, should bo fed to bcbles under their care; health authorities approved the bottling plan; and the result was that all dealers were forced to adopt it or lose their customers. Just why the purity of such milk was accepted without question is not quite clear. There was al ways the possibility, of course, that the bottles would not be. properly washed and that 'the handling of the fluid previous to placing it in the bottles would not be all that could be desired in the interest of cleanliness. If these thoughts occurred to the consumers, presumably they put them aside as unjust to the dairymen, for they have continued to purchase the bottled milk in preference to any other. If the housewife has occasionally found a dark foreign subfetance in the bottom of the bottles, she has even then not seriously questioned the superiority of the method of putting up the milk, but has ascribed the existence of this sediment to accident, or has transferred her patronage to another milkman with other bottles, and has maintained her feeling of security in the healthful character of the bottles contents. Now comes the Wabash board of health and shatters this beautiful faith by "forbidding dairymen to sell milk in bottles and compelling them to go back to the old-fashioned can and ladle on the ground that bottles in many instances are unclean, and that the noxious

matter that collects in them and the milk left in tlum when they are not properly wa3htd are deleterious to the health of infants and others. Doubtless tho health board Is correct, doubtle?3 it has inspected milk bottles whose contents were capable of supplying devastating germs to a whole community, doubtless bottles are often Imperfectly cleansed but what then? Who will vouch for the can and the ladle that are to take their place? Can a dairyman who will not wash hi3 bottles he depended on to wash his cans? Will not evil microbes, seeking what they may devour, (make haste to enter those cans when the milkman opens them at door after door in the gsrm-laden dust of the street? On the whole, is it not better to trut to bottles that may be clean and that the dairymen might be compelled to keep so if customers

and health officers were watchful and ex acting, than to go back to a system that at best cannot insure cleanliness. Or may it be still better to abandon a beverage whose purity is always more or less open to doubt and which, when impure, is so in jurious to the human creature, and take to beer? MAY DAY AXIl LA BOH. Apparently the terrors of May day in the labor world of America are no more. It was a foolish proposition at best to ape European socialism by making this a day for threatening demonstrations and the inauguration of strikes. Labor has its own special holiday in the United States, coming in the autumn, but it is a day for rejoicing and celebration, not one for threats and warfare. Labor still has necessity for struggle to win its share of the fruits of industry, but it is more rational to take these things as they come, one at a time and each in its proper season and dispose of them thus, "than to set a single day for a general stoppage of industry of all kinds, until the last and smallest dispute shall have been adjusted. This is what the promoters of the May day demonstrations in Europe have been aiming at, and this is what the movement meant in its incipiency on this side of the Atlantic. But as labor has become better organized and drifted into wiser leadership, the notion of a general convulsion once a year has been quietly dropped, until now it is almost entirely confined to the building trades, for which it comes in proper season; and with them it is by no means general, being confined to such unions in various cities as have cause for dispute. Yesterday's newspapers noted somewhat less than a dozen such disputes throughout the whole country, scarcely more than are likely to turn up on almost any day of the year. The disappearance of the May day threat does not by any means mean that the labor problem has been solved, and that all is to be industrial peace henceforth, but it is a straw plainly showing that nowadays there is more of calm logic and less of blind sentiment and prejudice in the movement to win and hold advantages for the man that works with his hands. ( Thus reads a Tokio dispatch: "There was little indication of a rout, but the Czar's commanders, evidently seeing themselves outmaneuvered and overpowered, preferred a retreat to a further sacrifice of their men." The Japanese are generous and showno disposition to "rub it in" to their enemy. The Ruians did not run, they merely got" into a safe place as rapidly as possible. A dispatch from Shanghai declares that certain Chinese officials about to start for the United States to buy machinery for a government arsenal have changed their minds on account of the restrictions enforced at San Francisco against Chinese immigrants and travelers and will proceed to England to spend their money. Now will we be good? It is not only the difficulty of pronouncing the remarkable names of the places where things happen in the war region that makes war news so painful; the impossibility of finding the places on tho map after they have been laboriously spelled out in the dispatches leads readers of newspapers to agree for the 983th time with General Sherman's opinion of war. WITH BOOKS AND WRITERS. Not a big-selling novel in two years is a statement reported to have come from book publishers. What is one to think, then, of their advertisements reporting innumerable editions and phenomenal. sales? "One has but to glance over the list of papers and magazines devoted to nature and out-of-door recreation," writes John Burroughs in a current magazine, "to see what a host of nature lovers there are In the country." Perhaps all who read these periodicals are nature lovers, but a good many who write for them convey the impression that they are patrons oZ nature. One New York publishing house, which produces some of the best fiction of the day, is about to" issue paper-covered editions of its novels to sell for 25 cents a copy. It would, perhaps, be money in the pockets of all the publishers if they would issue their fiction in this shape in the beginning. So few of the current novels are worth a permanent place In a library thatmany persons who might buy them for passing entertainment at a cost of half a dollar or less hesitate to spend a dollar and a. half each for the books. It Is too great a waste of good money to put so much Into ephemeral literature. People who are opposed to the study of dead languages will find encouragement in Herbert Spencer's autobiography. "To think," he says, "that after these thousands of years of civilization the prevailing belief should still be that, while knowledge of his own nature, bodily and mental, and of the world physical and social in which he has to live is of no moment to a man. it Is of great moment that he should master the languages of two extinct peoples and become familiar with their legends, battles and superstitions, as well as the achievements, mostly sanguinary, of their men and the crimes of their gods!" W. D. Howells, who is now in London, was recently interviewed on the subject of literary matters., in America, and remarked, among other things, that one of the bad signs is the Immense amount of trashy fiction issued "the glorification of the dime novel." "Take the ordinary dime novel." he said, "and sell it for a dollar and a half, and there you have the bulk of the M . A - Ä Ä a a fiction reau in America io-ciay. lie notes he promising fact, however, that the success of the bad novels does not interfere with that of the good ones. In specifying some of these good novels and their authors he ays: "There is Edith Wharton and poor Frank Norris to the mystical side of whose nature no one has done justice and Brand Whitlock, who has written the best American political novel that has ever been done, 'The Thirteenth District.' " Herbert Spencer's autobiography contains some things that must be very shock ing to the people who affect to be "literary," not in the sense of producing, but of valuing literature, and who accept conventional ideas about books. He does not like Carlyle, for instance. "Carlyle has, strange to say. been classed as a philosopher," remarks Mr. Spencer, and adds: "Considering that he either could not or would not think coherently, never set out

from premises and reasoned his way to conclusions, but habitually dealt in intuitions and 'dogmatic assertions. he lacked the trait which, perhaps, more than any other, distinguishes the philosopher properly so called. He lacked also a further trait. Instead of thinking calmly, as the philosopher, above all others, does, he thought in a passion. It would take much seeking to find one whose intellect was perturbed by emotion in th? same degree." After beginning six books of Homer Mr. Spencer felt that he would rather give a large sum than to read to the end. Of Ruskin he says: "Doubtless he has a tine style, write passages of great eloquence, and here and there expresses truths; but that one who has written and uttered such multitudinous absurdities should have acquired so great an influence is to me both surprising and disheartening." THE HUMORISTS.

Same Price. "What are you going to do this summer?" "Well, we haven't quite decided whether to go to St. Louis for two days or to the seashore for a month." Chicago I'ost. The Senator's Chief Concern. "Our colleague. Steele." observed Senator SnifTkinds. "doesn't seem to be bothering about another term." "No." replied Senator Shugar. 'what he wants is another trial." rittsburp Tost. Then mid N'ov. Tatience In fitting a girl for society it used to be considered essential to teach her dancing, so she could enter and leave a room gracefully. Patrice Now, I believe they think it necessary that she should learn to play basketball, so she will be able to reach the refreshment table at a swell reception. Yonkers Statesman. Good Old Times. The days are coming on full soon When daring graduates will rise And soar above the silvery moon. Up yonder In the starry skies. Oh. would that I once more could make My sanguine graduation bow. And for my essay bravely take A theme that would appall me now! Brooklyn Eagle. An Early Trasedy. The Assyrian maiden was in tears! "What is the matter?" asked her girl friend. "Herbert wrote me a seven-page love letter and threw it over the garden wall. It was written on the finest terra cotta he could find. Pape No. 3 struck father, who was asleep on a bench, and novr he and Herbert are throwing my love letter back and forth with all their might, and unless a policeman comes pretty soon I don't believe I'll ever know a word of what was In it:" Washington Star. Appropriate. "What are you doing?" asks the husband, watching his wife snipping Into some goods with her scissors. "Cutting out my spring suit." He laughs merrily at her. "Good Joke on you." he says. "You have mistaken a map of the war In Manchuria for the pattern." "It will not make so much difference," she smiles, putting some more pins in her mouth. "It is to have a Iiussian-blouse effect." Judge. a SCIENCE AND INVENTION. New Wnr to Study Cloud. A correspondent of Nature suggests that much knowledge of the processes of cloud formation and other facts that would be Important to meteorologists might be gained by taking, say, 600 successive photographs of a "cloudscape" In the course of an hour, and then putting them rapidly through a kinematograph, so that in one minute all the changes would be observed that nature had required sixty minutes to bring about. A similar-suggestion has been made with regard to the growth of plants and other natural processes which are so slow that we lose the sense of successive and related steps In development. Youth's Companion. N'ew French Smokeless Fuel. The new smokeless fuel recently exhibited at Nantes means not only ease, comfort and cleanliness In housekeeping, but. what is still more important to the French nation, smokeless war vessels, thus suppressing the tell-tale column which often discloses one's presence to the enemy. This new fuel, said to be made of coal dust and oil, treated by a secret process to render it smokeless, may already be seen in stoves set up in one of the public galleries of Nantes, the company at rresent manufacturing It only in small quantities, but claiming that Its cost will not exceed that of ordinary grate and stove coal. The Petit Fhare. To Further Science. In a report on the German estimates for this yea." a secretary to the British embassy in Berlin states that in the new estimates a sum of J40.CO0 is Inserted under the head "furtherance of scientific, especially ethnological, studies In China." In explanation It is mentioned that, as the opening of China advances, a more exact study of the Individuality of East Asiatic nations is becoming a necessity. It is. therefore, advisable to station permanently in China a German scholar well acquainted with etftnology ana" the Chinese language, whose object is to develop Intellectual relations with a little-known form of civilization. Philadelphia Record. Why the Dead Sea Is Snlt. What makes the Dead sea stlt Is a question that has been discussed for centuries, and the most recent explanation Is that advanced by William Ac'kroyd, who assigns as the most important cause the atmospheric transportation of salt from the Mediterranean sea. Previously it has been assumed that the saltness of this historic body of water was due to the soil and rocks. " which, it is now thought, would not be able to furnish the amount required, and that the Dead sea was once a part of the Red sea, which had been cut oft by the rising of Talestine and concentrated by evaporation, a hypothesis which Is not supported by facts. According to Ackroyd's theory, the winds blowing from the Mediterranean would bring rain charged with salt. In proof of this it Is stated that the proportion of chlorin to bromln is the same In the Dead sea that it Is in the Mediterranean. Harper's Weekly. Science Brevities. A Manlius. N. Y. genius has constructed an automobile of two tandem bicycles rigidly braced together and propelled by an air-cooled gasoline engine. One of the interesting exhibits at the recent Crystal Palace, London, automobile show was a carbureter which, fitted to any machine, prevented It from attaining a speed in excess of the lepal limit of twenty miles an hour. "Every day In London." Fays Popular Mechanics, "scores of workmen's kettles are boiled in lime that will - afterward be used for Its proper purpose. Just before the breakfast hour, say, one of the workmen empties a quantity of the dry lime from a sack. In the center of this lime he makes a hole, and into it water Is poured. Then he puts his kettles into the water, and in a few minutes the kettles boil. In thousands of cases a fire is thus spared." The French Academy of Sciences has recently discussed the question of rat destruction, and scientists of high repute demonstrated to the academy that these animals are able to resist the effects of arsenic for an extraordinarily long period. They can absorb a dose seven times greater than any other animal of the same size, and may become accustomed to doses of It which seem Incredible. In fact, the confiding French farmer "who has been pinning his faith to arsenical rat-killing prorations has been feeding them on something on which they appear to thrive." "Mr. George Tullman once said, when asked the secret of easy riding, that the secrets are so many that no one can keep them. This is true," says the World's Work, "but the easing of curves Is one of them. The engineers of the last few years, in relaying tracks instead of starting a true circle curve with the sudden lift of the outer rail that causes the jolt and lurch that travelers know, have laid a slight parabolic curve from a point a hundred yards back on the straight track, and have elevated the outer rail imperceptibly along that curve to the maximum. The result of the device in practice quite new ha been the annlallatjon

of curves as regards a passer.ger'3 sense. With eyes shut he cannot tell whether the track is straight or curved."

STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. 0tcrhnus Compliments. General Osterhaus is having a pleasant time in Washington in meeting with old comrades who served with him in the we.- of the rebellion. Colonel McE'roy related, to-day. a humorous story told of the general during the war. "At the bettle of Pea Ridge." said Colonel McElror, "an officer under command of Osterhaus was not acting to the satisfaction of the general at an Important period of the engagement. When the general wai mad hi3 language wes very German. The enemy was moving forward unopposed when an ofücer from the federal force that was expected to resist the advance rode up to General Osterhaus and asked for orders. 'Go back mit my complements. said Gen. Osterhaus, 'and cay I vill out dere be and make him hell smell pretty quick already "New York Times. Anxious About Xoah. Strangers having to cross the East Twenty-third-street ferry often ask about the' bulky old naval militia ship New Hampshire, lying alongside the Recreation pier at Twenty-fourth street. It is not generally known that the old craft Is now ninety years old. She was launched at Kittrick. Mass.. In 1S11. She has lost her masts, and her fore and aft roofing seems to add to her size and antiquity. The vessel has now and then been moved to Tompklnsvllle, Staten island, or to Whitestone, Long island, when boat drills and excursions of a semi-naval character have been held there. Two or three years ago the ship was towed to Whitestone, and naturally she attracted a lot of attention as she floated up the sound in tow of three big navy tugs. While she was anchored off Whitestone a fisherman in his dory paddled under her stern and sang out to a man on deck. "Hello! Is the old man aboard?" "What?" "1 3 the old man aboard?" "What old man?" "Noah. Ain't this the ark?"-N"ew York Sun. How He Did It. "What would you do If. having taken a stateroom on one of the Sound boats, you found that sleep was Impossible because of the goings-on of a half-dozen Intoxicated men in the next room?" a Broadway merchant asked his friend the other day. ( "Complain to the purser, you say? I've got that beaten to a standstill. I made the trip one night last week and found the situation simply unbearable because of the loud talking, not to say yelling, next door. I was tired out, after a hard day's work, but after suffering' until 2 o'clock I dressed and called on the purser. He was sympathetic, but really he could do nothing for me. " "Eetter call for the watch and have the men arrested. he finally advised me. "I didn't like to do that, so I walked up and down the deck, smoking and thinking. Then the idea came, and how good It was you can judge for yourself. I knocked at the door of the stateroom occupied by the disturbers, and when It was opened I told the five men I found inside that I had heard a passenger complain of their noise and had heard the purser advise him to call out the watch. " T didn't like to have you boys get Into trouble,' I went on, 'so I thought I'd tip you off. The watch hasn't been called out yet, and probably If you keep quiet there will be no trouble." "They couldn't do enough for me. I had a cigar and a drink forced on me and was thanked profusely for saving them. Then I went back to bed and slept the sleep of the just." New York Evening Tost. THE FUNNY YOUNGSTERS. Was Xot n Deliberate Lie. "Johnny," said his mother, "I'm afraid you told me a deliberate falsehood." "No, I didn't, mamma," protested Johnny. "I told it In an awful hurry." St. Taul Dispatch. A n Omission. Clara overheard her parents talking about Bible names. "Is my name In the Bible?" she asked. "No. dear." "Didn't God make me." "Yes." "Then why didn't He say something about it." Harper's Magazine. A llnchiavelli of the Pots. Mistress Look here, Miranda, I've been teaching you these same things now for three weeks. Is it possible that you are so dumb that I'll have to keep right on staying In the kitchen with you? Miranda Law sakes, missis, it hain't dumbness. I knows jes as well as kin be how to do dat wuk. but I jes so fond o' yo s'ciety dat I jes hadn't de haht f tell you-all dat I kin do it, case I knows you-all' 11 quit a-comin in de kitchen. Baltimore American. Only Too True. He was a boy of twelve and his- sister was about to be married, and the wedding breakfast was to be served by a caterer, an entirely new experience for the brother. In his anxiety lest he shouldn't get his share of the good things he asked his sister about it, and she, of course, assured him that V.e could have all he wanted to eat. After she returned home she asked him how he fared, if he had eaten all he wanted, and he replied: "I didn't eat all I wanted, but I ate all I could." Philadelphia Ledger. Small Boy on Roosevelt. As showing the ability of the American boy to grasp the elements of a proposition, the answer made to an examination paper by a small boy in Anthony is interesting. "Who Is President and what are his chief characteristics?" was the question given. And the answer by the boy was as follows: "Roosevelt. He was one of the Rough Riders in our late war with Spain. He delights in hunting and any like sports. He makes a noble President. He has a mind of his own and bids others not to bother. He has strong will power. He enjoys a good horseback ride. He was a good soldier and hunter and Is now a good President. Help send him back." Kansas City Journal. The' Life Call. Wave trees, quiver and strain. Till th hard bark bulges and breaks! Reach high your bare brown fingers to sky! Cry your longing for buds, for fruit! Now! Now! while moist winds hold you, enfold you. Lapping your bare brown limbs, Oh, why are you mute? Hard seeds, buried in xnold. Do you stir? Are you bursting? Oh, hear! Throats, throats, tilling the air with mad notes! Mate-seeking wings In wild flight! Cry now! Let the earth, shaken, awaken! Let your green shoots of desire Struggle to light! Heart! Heart! quicken and throb! Fill each vein to bursting! Oh. feel! Blight! Drlght! Flooding the earth comes the light! Claim your life's fullness. Its fruit! Cry out your need till the heavens hearken and darken! Why lie you so still, unstirred? Oh. poor tuneless lute! Maude Morrison Huey, In National Magazine. More "Imperialism. Uncle Sam has acquired title to a strip of land fifty miles long and ten miles wide on the Isthmus, an area of 500 square miles. Including the interoceanic canal it is quite a likely addition to the old Jarm. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. YfarnltiK for Reform. A Chicago newspaper is clamoring for a Legislature "that washes its neck and does not carry brass knuckles." Thi is not an extravagant demand, but It shows a real desire for an Improvement. Providence Journal. Judicial Wisdom. A Pennsylvania Judge has suspended sentence on a dead man who was recently tried for assault and battery. There is no longer room to doubt the wudom of some judges. Philadelphia Telegraph.

THE DRIFT

The municipal elections throughout Indiana to-day will be the event of the week politically, even though the results are not doomed of groat political Import so far as party lines 'are concerned. Almost every city has witnessed a lively campaign, for the most part on local issues, and unusual efforts are being made to get out a heavy vote everywhere. In Terre Haute. South Bend, Lafayette, Anderson, Marion, Kokomo, Columbus and thr-e or four other cities the contests have been especially vigorous, and it is anticipated that the results will be unusually close. In Tone Haute the fight is one against the Democratic Tammany, of which Mayor Steeg has been the head for the last six years, and the Republicans are more than hopeful of success on a platform declaring fcr a business administration of municipal affairs and the abolishment of the "wide-open" plan of running the city. The result in South Bend is watched with general interest, for upon it depends the entrance of Edward J. Fogr.rty. the present mavor, into the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Fogarty is making the race for re-election, not because he wants to serve as mayor for two years longer, but because he wants to have something on which to base his candidacy for Governor. The Republicans hope to puncture Foarty's gubernatorial boom. In Marion the contest takes on more than ordinary importance because the Republicans are seeking to redeem the blot on their record made by the election of John Kilej-, Democrat, as mayor two years ago. Kiley is not a candidate for re-election, an attorney. C. C. Gordon, heading the Democratic ticket. Field V. Swezey. a wellknown attorney, is the Republican nominee. A special to The Journal from Anderson says of the elections in that city and in FJlwocd and Alexandria: "The city campaign here and in Klwood and Alexandria have aroused great interest, as it is claimed by some that the results will forecast the way Madison county will go next November. The situation has been complicated by the exodus of factory people in large numbers in the last two years, and it is a question which party has suffered the more. The Republican prospects are brighter in Anderson and Klwood than in Alexandria. Mayor Forkner. who is the Democratic candidate for re-election, won two years ago by about 500 votes. The recent poll, however, showed a Republican majority of over 20V The Democratic economy platform of two years ago has not been carried out, as improvements of all sorts have been put through. The Republican Council of the preceding term lowere-d the city debt. The present Democratic Council has increased it. That fact is bringing manv voters into the Republican fold. Alexander 1. McKee, the Republican candidate for mayor, has a good labor record, on which the Republican leaders base much hope. Mr. McKee is president of the Flint Glass Company. He has been an employer of labor in Anderson for twenty-hve years, and in all that time he has never had a strike." Many temporary residents of Indianapolis will go to the cities in which they hold their legal residence to vote to-day. Governor Durbin will go to Anderson to do his part toward giving that city a Republican administration. Fred A. Sims, secretary of the Republican state committee, left yesterday for his home in Frankfort, where he will vote todiy. Congressman James E. Watson, of Rushvllle, who presided as permanent chairman of the recent Republican state convention and delivered the keynote address that attracted so much attention, was In the city yesterday. He said that he came over merely to look after a little personal business, but he dropped out of sight for three hours in the afternoon and when he put in an appearance a few minutes before 5 o'clock he pleaded guilty to the charge of having attended the circus. Dan V. Simms, of Lafayette, the Democratic leader, w ho was at one time counted on by Hearst's managers as one who would lend his influence and support to their campaign, showed yesterday unmistakably that he is not only a Parker man, but a good Parker general, and that the Tenth district, where he is looking after the Parker end of the light, may be safely classed in the Parker column. Denton county Democrats selected their deleg-ates to the state convention, and as a result of Simms's shrewd manipulations the Hearst people got what the little boy shot at. A dispatch to the Journal from Fowler tells the story as follows: "The corn-fed Democrats of Benton county administered a rebuke to Hearstism today that puts George L. Roby, the editor of the Benton Review and Democratic county chairman, into a state of innocuous desuetude and makes it certain that the Democrats of this great agricultural community will have nothing to do with radicalism in any form. The mass convention at the courthouse in the afternoon to select delegates to the state convention was the largest of its kind ever held here. The editor of the Democratic organ and his lieutenants attempted to stampede the party for Hearst, but the Parker men, under the instructions of Dan W. Simm3, of Lafayette, headed off every effort, put in Fletcher Smith, a Parker man from Fowler, as chairman of the meeting, and with a w hoop and hurrah elected a delegation of tight, olid to a man for Judge Parker. "Editor Roby then attempted to fix up a second delegation' for Hearst, claiming that the action of the main convention was not regular and according to call, but tho sentiment of nine out ol every ten of the Democrats present was against him and the effort ended in failure. Dan Simms's neat little coup was thoroughly executed. On the Parker delegation are the names of John Flynn. Everett Gray and George Menefee and other stalwarts of the party in this county. Editor Roby has been repeatedly warned that to try the Hearst racket on Benton Democrats would end in disaster, as many Democrats here in 1J6 and 1W0 were lukc-warm on uryan, ana naa denounced Hearst early in the year as a Socialist and a jingoist. The rebuke administered to Roby to-day means business here. The Democrats say they will do no more fooling, but get down to work on square principles. The convention passed a strong resolution favoring Dan Simms as delegate at large to the St. Iou!s convention, and the Hon. John Ross, who was the Hearst candidate from this district, was not mentioned." E. J. Robison, who has been in the race for the Republican nomination for treasurer of Marion county, announced last evening that he would withdraw from the contest. He was led to thi3 step, he Mid, bv tho complications arising out of the question of the validity of the law enacted by the last Legislature extending the terms of certain county and judicial officers, the office of treasurer of this county being one of those affected by the law. He said that the situation was such that ho Jid not see the end of the fight even when the Supreme Court had passed on the constitutionality of the law, and under the circumstances had decided to withdraw. "My withdrawal from the contest at this time Is not to be taken to mean that my defelre to be treasurer of Marion county has abated in the least." said Mr. Robison. "I expect to be in the race two years hence and will be, unless some circumstances now unforeseen should arise to prevent." The withdrawal of Mr. Robison leaves the contest between O. P. Ensley, who is a candidate for renomination, and Fred C. Gardner. Republican State Chairman James P. Goodrich spent the day in the city, looking after some business matters at headquarters. He returned to his home in Winchester last evening, in order to be on haml3 bright and early to-day for the municipal election. Congressman James M. Robinson, of the Twelfth district, has returned to his home in Fort Wayne and has celebrated his arrival by relieving himself of a two-column interview on the session of Congress just closed. In the course of the interview he fairly grows hysterical over what he considers the extravagance of the Republican administration of national affairs and winds up with the assertion: "The appropriations have grown enormously till we find in a time of peace that every man, woman and child pays a tax of $10 a head into the national treasury." Under the circumstances it were not amlsa to ask Mr. Robinson if he has paid this tax for himself and tha members of his family, or avolde-d it in the adroit man

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ner he avoided paying freight or express charges on 1.5 pounds of his persona! effects which he sent t Washington under his postolhce frank. A dispatch to the Journal from Washington says of the meeting of the subcommittee of the Republican national committee there on Wednesday, which will Ie attended by Capt. Harry S. New, of this city: "The subcommittee of the Republican national committee having in charge the arrangements for the convention in Chicago will hold a meeting here on Wednesday for the purpose of completing the preliminary details. The headquarters of the national committee here is assuming an active, business-like appearance on account of these arrangements, although little in the way of information regarding the choice of delegates has yet reached the committee headquarters. The first worlt to be gone over will bo the selecting of minor offices, the parceling of seUs and other details incident to the convention plans. "The members of the national committee; who have visited Chicago are pleased with the situation there and assert that the convention hall, while not so large as that at 1 mladelphia. will be mvre satisfactory to the delegates and to the public. The seating arrangements will be much better and the pUtform facilities will be such that the average shaker can be heard bv the. entire audience of S.ftm jrsons. While it. is generally conceded here that the reliction of former Secretarv of wiir Elihu Root to I temporary chairman has leen agreed upon and that this is the choice of President Roosevelt, the permanent chairmanship is still held open, awaiting further developments. The names of Senator Spooler. Speaker Cannon and Senator Beveridge have been considered on the suggestion of the President." Felix T. McWhirter. candidate for Governor on the Prohibition ticket, in announcing that his party will open its campaign in Indianapolis about tho 1st of August, says that he exp"Cts to challenge' J. Frank li.mly. the Republican gubernatorial nominee, to a series of joint debates. Senator Fairbanks will leave this .afternoon for Washington and New York. In the latter city he will attend a meeting of the McKinley Monument Association on May 0 at the Manhattan Hotel. At this meeting it is expected that a decision will be reached as to the kind of a monument to be erected in memory of the late President. About $000, ow has been raised for the monument, and of t hiss amount Indiana jx'ople contributed some 111. um. It is expected that tho fund will be increased before the monument is erected, as the Carnation League has undertaken to raise ar. additional sum. The monument will bo erected In the cemetery at Canton, O., where McKinley was buried. The Democratic county central committer has engaged a suite of seven rooms on tho fourth floor of the Grand Opera House building for headquarters during the coming camjiaign. The new headquarters will be opened the last of this week, with Secretary Pettijohn in charge. W. E. Ogden, a clerk in the quartermaster's depot ti.i Jeffcrsonville, has been trans- ' ferred to Fot Morgan, Ala., and influential Jeffcrsonville people are up In arms to have the transfer order rescinded. Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge have Ixdh received a large number of letters asking them to take tho matter up with the proper department at Washington. Mr. OgIcn U popular in Jeffcrsonville, where he has livtl for a number of years and his fellow-townsmen are anxious to have him continued at the depot there. Governor Durbin will go to Lafayette tomorrow to attend the ceremonies incident to the dedication of Fowler Hall, the new chapel at Purdue University. Senator Beveridge yesterday received letters from Senator Chauncey M. Deiew and former Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff, of New York, asking him to deliver an address or lecture on the Eastern question before the Montauk Club of Brooklyn some time during the latter part of this month. The club Is one that has given Senator Deiew a birthday dinner every year for the last thirteen years. Mr.' Woodruff Is at present at the head of the organization. Senator Beveridge will be unable to accept the invitation. 4 Capt. D. F. Allen, of Frankfort, was at tho Grand yesterday and met' several of the local Democratic leaders. Captain Allen Is slated to be one of the Ninth district delegates to the St. Louis convention, and he is, of course, a Tarker man. It is also reported that the gubernatorial bee is troubling the doughty captain, and that his name may be presented to the Dcmocratio state convention on July 'J). T. Taggart, when asked last night about the situation in the Twelfth district, where the Hearst people claim thej' have won out and will have the two delegates to tho national convention, replied that he had not had sufficiently complete reports from all the counties in the district to enablo him to express an opinion. "The Twelfth district is very close I'll say that much," he said. "It may take th caucus here on the night before the statu convention to tell which side will win out." The Hearst people are still celebrating what they term their "glorious victory" in Allen county and the Twelfth district, and have reported to' Hearst's managers in Chicago that the district is theirs beyond question. The Parker people are not doing so much claiming, but are Intimating that there may be many a slip 'twixt now and the state convention, and that the Hearst peeple may have occasion to tile a supplemental report at Chicago beginning, "Vo regret," etc. W. F. Cassady, a prominent Democrat of Spencer, was at the Grand last evening. Ho said that the Second district delegates to the national convention will probably be T. J. Vollmer, of Knox county, and Senator W. N. Matthews, of Bedford, both Parker men. Mr. Cassady was formerly treasurer of Owen county, and it is understood that ho is figuring on going after the Dcmocratio nomination for Ftate treasurer this year, provided the situation in Indiana is at all encouraging to Democrats after their national convention. The Parker pple in the East have romo back at W. J. Bryan for his Chicago speech, denouncing JudRe Parker and the New 1'ork platform with the charse that in 10 Bryan sought Parker as his running mate. Bryan, however, "denies the allegation and defies the allogator" in a vigorous statement published In Hearst's Chicago organ. "I want to make it clear that never In) any wav, either directly or indirectly, through Judge Parker or any of his friends, did I seek him as a vtVe presidential candidate with me in the 1" campaign, says Mr. Brvan. "My opinion of him at that time wäs along the lino of a man who would seek to evade great questions a man of whom perhaps nothing much could txj said either way." LOCAL COMPANY GUTS IMPORTAXT CONTRACT Ohio Street to Be Widened from Delaware to Capitol Avenue and Asphalt Resurfaced. The Marion County Construction Company was yesterday given the contract for the, widening of Ohio street, from Delaware street to Capitol avenue. The consideration is i a cubic yard for the binders, and .V7 a lineal foot. Two other companies made bids, the Western Construction Company and the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. Besides widening, the contract provides for the resurfacing of Ohio street with phalL The street will be widened from forty feet to slxtj feet in order to accommodate the treet railway tracks from Pcnnsvlvnala and Ohio streets to the uew laterurban station.

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