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In spite of his loss of State after State, Hearst e till hammers away with all the pathetic hopefulness of a hen sitting on a china, egg. The longer this war continues the more respect one gains for the brains of Czar Nicholas. It will be remembered that he "did not want to. have a war. Either the St. Louis fair is proving unexpectedly large or they have employed one of the most expert circulation managers in the country to give out the figures. " , .It would be better, in alluding to Demo cratlc delegates, to fay "unpledged" instead of "inlnstructed." The latter term Is too generalit applies to the whole party. . The limit of "anti-imperialism" is reached In a poena In the Washington Post which compares Aguinaldo to Christ and Funston to Judas. The supreme vulgarity of it detracts from the sublimity of its .unconscious humor. Great Britain has Anally awakened to - the fact that the Germans are making a hard struggle for the mastery in the. transatlantic shipping trade and Is fighting hard to retain her control. Bhe is a little late, but with her prestige and resources he should win the fight. The Scientific American notes the fact that an Knglishman has Invented a clock to be operated by a small portion of radium whose power will not be dissipated for 30 years. But time will be no more for all of us in 30.0tX year?, and who wants a clock that will run so long? Hoch der Kaiser! He never did a more graceful thing than when he sent the Indianapolis Maennerchor a gold medal. When It cornea to getting right next to royalty Indianapolis is the only real thing. All these emperors, princes and things lie awake nights to think about us; The foreign residents of Tangier evidently do not take either the British or th French view of the results of the sending of American warships to that port. The correspondent of the London Times cables that the American ships have brought a feeling of fecurity among Jhe foreign residents, who express the hope that they will not be withdrawn until the binds of Moorish bandits have been broken up. Mr. Cleveland's original judgment, according to a recent Interview with the sage Of Princeton, was. that either Judge Gray or Mr. Olney might have proved the strongest candidate f- the Democracy, but that Circumstances and the state of public sentiment made it apparent that Judge Parker Was the man upon whom the conservative element should concentrate, and therefore be favored that gentleman's nomination at St. Louis. People who are saying that Cleveland is for Parker can hardly call .this a warm indorsement. J The opening of the excursion season ''Crlnss its railroad wrecks, as usual. The Investigation into the Purdue wreck in this City showed a looseness of system in running extra trains, as well as violations of speed ordinances that were nothing more nor ls than criminal. When some of the responsible officers begin to f uffer the right kind of penaltits for this carelessness we may xpect to hear of fewer wricks. There la not another system of government In the world where such Indifference to human life la the operation of railroads would be tol erated for n moment. And yet we have not Cuch a dense population that we can afford to hold human life irt a cheap thing. The Philadelphia Hoard of Heaith has a tending offer to private physicians to ap!y the Widal test, free of charge, to such J?r.ts as may be thought to be suffering

with tj-phid fever, and many doctors are Faia to avail themselves of the privilege, as the test is admitted to be trustworthy and they are themselves saved the trouble of such investigation. The teet is bacteriological, an examination of a few drops of the patient's blood, taken from the finger tips or the lobe of the car, being used. Curiously enough, however, it is not typhoid germs that are looked for, but othf bacteria known to feed upon typhoid germs and whose presence in the blood usually develops soon after the disease manifests itself. In view of the difficulty of diagnosing typhoid fever in its early stages by ordinary observation it might be well for the Indianapolis health board to assist physicians in the same way, now that typhoid is becoming so prevalent in the city. No measures that can be taken to aid in getting the disease well In hand should be neglected, and an early and conclusive diagnosis of each suspected case would seem to be a step in this direction.

CO LO II A I0 LAWLIS ESS. Probably few persons outside of Colorado have followed the ins and outs of the complicated labor troubles in that State, but the entire country knows that a bad state of affairs has existed in the mining districts there for several yeers and that a crisis was reached when the state militia was called out some months ago. The presence of the troops caused great dissatisfaction and anger among the miners, and their withdrawal seerned to promise a period of quiet. The explosion of dynamite, with evident murderous intent, resulting in the death of twelve nonunion miners and the maiming of many more shows that the spirit of lawlessness is more violent than ever. The Indications are that the dynamite was exploded by union men, but the character of the affair, is such that unionism or nonunionism are elements that need rot be considered. The murder of the Wn at Independence is a crime against tae- State, a terrible crime, whose perpetrators It is the part of the authorities to seek out and punish without fear or favor, and at any cost. Whatever wrongs or Injustice the miners have suffered, nothing can. excuse or condone such horrible retaliation. The country was already tired of hearing of Colorado labor riots and more than suspected that peace could have been restored long since If law had been properly enforced. If It is not enforced to the uttermost limit in this cas and the guilty men brought to justice Colorado will be permanently disgraced and will stand, before the country as a State which will not protect "its citizens, and should-there-fore be passed by by the army of homeseekers looking to the West. WJIKHi: WILL RUSSIA TRY IV EXT f The objective point of Russian diplomacy and of every war in which she has been engaged la recent years has been to obtain permanent and undisputed possession of an open seaport, ice free all the year. This is the one thing needful to give her respectable rank as a commercial and naval power. At present, industrially she is sunk in the sloth of peasant agriculture. She possesses great resources, but has no rank as a commercial power. With a toast line equal to half the circumference of the earth she has no position as a naval power because the ships she has are either ice-locked or unable to go to sea for lack of coaling station. Every nation that stands between Russia and the sea has a Russian problem on Its hands that will have to be met sooner or later. There is nothing in human government more persistent than Russian policy, and she will continue to try every way of reaching the open sea until one Is found or all are found impossible. That is the cause of trie present war. Vladivostok has proved to bo ice-bound, and even Port Arthur and Dalny, the latter now abandoned, were but partially free. Russia's objective point was the possession of Korea, which would give her capacious ports or-en the year round. To defeat this object, the accomplishment of which would have been a direct menace to Japan and fatal to her own commercial expansion, the latter appealed to arms. If Russia fs defeated in this war and driven out of Manchuria, or at least back from the coast, where will she try next to gain access to the sea? A glance at the map wiil l5ww that an arm or neck of Russia in Europe extends nearly a hundred miles weetm-ard between Norway and Sweden. If this neck were surrounded by water it would be callea a peninsula, but it is surrounded by land owned and occupied by a hardy people. Within about fifty miles from the western end of this neck lies 'A'romsoe, in Norway, a port that is absolutely ice free all the year. Owing to the peculiar course of the Russian boundary line this port lies much nearer to Russian territory than any other. Its possession would be of incalculable value to Russia, who would pay any price for the narrow strip between the Russian boundary and the sea, x?r would go to war for it if she thought it could be done without provoking European Intervention. If she falls in her present attempt to reach the open sea through Manchuria she may, after taking a long rest, try to break through the narrow strip that separates her from -romsoe. DKMOCRATIC EXTREMISTS. Happily it begins to look somewhat as if the effort to put Judge Alton B. Parker at the head of the Democratic ticket might fall. In Indiana the movement in his behalf, gained its strength mainly from the fear among the more substantial Democrats that Hearst might win. They were willing to join any movement that looked to baving their party in the State from that disgraae. Evidently , some such feeling was general throughout the country east of the Mississippi, for, now that the Hearst movement has waned, conservative Democratic leaders in various quarters are beginning to seriouslv question whether the nomination of Parker would not be quite as grave a mistake as that of Hearst. Unquestionably it would. The swinging of the pendulum would be too violent. It is as plain to the masses of the Democrats now as It was in 1S93 and 1S06 that the Cleveland administration.; In so far as It touched upon questions of financo and kindred subjects, was practically In the hands of the leaders of high finance in Wall etreet. To the great body of Democratic business men it is much plainer now than then. The free silver movement and Bryanism divorced the Democratic party pretty thoroughly from the Wall-street Influence for the time being, but it took it so far the otner way that not onlyithe big specula tive financiers of the metropolis, but Democratic business men and farmers having neither connections nor: sympathy with

Wall street, could not follow to such depths of radicalism and financial heresy. The Republican partj-, keeping in the middle of the road of conservative common sen5c. has worked for the welfare of the whole people, and by so doing has displeased the radicals of both extremes, the Populitic element on the one hand and the Wall-street speculators on the other. In the displeasure of the latter over the trust regulations and merger suits and strike ?ettlements lies the genesis of the Parker boom. It Is known of everybody that knows anything of the doings of Wall street that this boom was started in the back office of the Helmonts, American representatives of the Rothschilds, and prominent for many years in the management of the Democratic party until ISO'S, when they were among tho leaders of the Gold Democratic movement. Here it was that Hill, Taggart and other Democratic politicians standing as sponsors for Parker went for their inspiration and for the money to make their fight. Should Parker be nominated the machinery of the Democratic party would be as absolutely in the hands of the "money devil" as t has for the past eight years been In the hands of the ropulistic leaders of the party. This wDuld mean another fight as desperate. as that of ISM, and the people do not want another such struggle. With such a man as Judge Tarker the Democratic party would stand in this campaign as a menace to the liberties of the people as a threat against their right to pursue legitimate lines of industry and commerce without interference from towering combinations of banking capital, just as it has stood in the last two campaigns as a menace against property interests and sound money. It would be a good thing for the industrial activity and prosperity of the country if the Democratic party would cast aside the extremists on both sides of the controversy that is raging within it and select some sober, sensible man. not incumbered with alliances on either side.

AX ILL131IXATIXG IXCIDEXT. The Incident of the burning of a temporary bull-fighting arena by a 'mob at St. Louis throws some interesting side lights ou American civilization in general and upon St. Louis police efficiency in particular. A Spanish bull fight had been announced. The police authorities of St. Louis had made no objection, but the Governor of the State, in response to numerous protests, had ordered the county peace officers to stop it. Whether they warned the managers in advance is not stated. A crowd of somo 2.500 bloodthirsty men and boys of the kind that attend prize fights paid their money and were admitted to the arena. At the psychic moment a deputy sheriff served notice on the manager that the show should not proceed. The crowd surged into the ring, demanding that its money be refunded. Failing in this the mob stoned the office of the concern in a detached building and set fire to the arena building, which was consumed. J The first interesting point to be noted is not particularly new, but is brought out here in a somewhat striking fashion. Our scheme of democratic government has not prevented our civilization from developing precisely the same sort of dregs and driftwood that every other civilization has developed In its centers of population. Here was a crowd of 2,500 people ready to witness a bloody and barbarous exhibition, and so disappointed when it failed to 'materialize that they wreaked vengeance by forming themselves into a mob and committing arson. From beginning to end they showed themselves barbarians of the worst sort in the midst of one of the great centers of civilization. Next In importance Is the strong light the incident throws on one of the greatest weaknesses of our system. of government. The municipal authorities evidently did not carp to interfere with this lawless exhibition, and the Governor could command only the county constabulary, which is dependent on the posse for its strength in emergencies, unless there be time to appeal to the Governor for the militia. In this difference of opinion between "peace authorities almost independent of each other there was a total lack of police arrangements at a point where the merest tyro in police management might have known there was danger of an outbreak of vicious mob spirit. The outbreak came, and it was more through good luck than through good sense or good governmental system that it did not result in great loss of life and wldeppread damage, for the mob spirit, once aroused among tho vicious element of a great city, is more dangerous than a conflagration. The NewB is emulating Mr. Bumble in its efforts to provo that the law is an ass. The more it thinks about that gao trust decision the more it is sure that the law is an ass, and it waxes tearful as it discusses the subject through long columns of editorial space. But it is wrong in charging the Journal with taking a similar attitude toward the law than it now assumes, when, several years ago, it disagreed with certain legal lights as to the status of the trust. Also, it misunderstands the Journal attitude in regard to the respective merits of the lay and the legal mind. The Journal never admitted for a moment that tho lay mind was necessarily inferior to the legal mind In its reasoning powers; on the contrary, it may often be superior, as when the Journal took issue with Mr. Fishback, Mr. Butler and other lawyers on the occasion mentioned. But taking issue with lawyers is quite a different thing from taking issue. Bumble-like, with the law after it has passed into the form of decision. This is what the Xews is doing now. and, as the Journal remarked on Sunday, nothing could be sillier or more futile. MINOR TOPICS. It is not necessary to read the news; Just look at the date line. If the dispatch is dated from Tokio, it's a Jap victory; If it is dated from St. Petersburg, there Is "a persistent rumor, believed to be true," that the Russians fought courageously and expect to do something soon. A New York woman drank from a mysterious bottle of "Elixir of Youth" the other day, and at once began to dance and sing and play childish tricks. The police say they can find nothing about the Ingredients of the elixir; can you make a good guess? This new sect of Sun Worshipers In Chicago is bound to lose a lot of members this summer. Walt till that Chicago sun really begins to get In its deadly heat, and half the church will desert to the ice man. South .Dakota boasts an "iron-Jawed" man. who can lift S00 pounds with his teeth. It Is only the Journal's kindness "X heart

find overwhelming good nature that keeps it from mentioning a certain -public man who has that record for jaw work beaten to death.

Rhode. Island says "our form of government is b'-ing poisoned at its very source." If Rhode Island had boiled its politicians some years ago it would not be suffering from its present epidemic of political typhoid. Nogrof-s are emigrating to the Pacific coast, it is saiJ, because "racial equality is recognizee: there." Yes. we've all noticed with what brotherly regard those Califormar.s treat the Chinese, for instance. A New York man tried to borrow $irAC'A failed to do so and committed suicide. The ordinary man would have died of heart failure had he succeeded in making a touch like that. What shall we do to bt saved? "Buffalo Bill" Cody's autobiography will appoar in a few weeks. It will recount hi:? brilliant victories and all of his thrilling fights but one the battle of the divorce court, where he came out second best. The family of a Chicago man, who died from eating too much mince pie, is trying to collect damages from the pie foundry. Which is as if a man should hang himself and then sue the rope maker. When the Chicago Journal said that the Indians who were injured in the railway accident on the Northwestern were about to Sioux for damages. It was guilty of adding insult to injury. The Diet at Buda-Pesth presents an estimate of J23S,CO0,(M) as its expenses for the coming year. But, then, the diet of a Hungary man is always expensive. Those ho proposed the man who eloped with his mother-in-law as a Carnegie f und beneficiary made the common error of be ing unable to distinguish between a hero and an insane person. A New York paper expresses the fear that Judfe Parker has been "thrown down" by dark-horse sympathizers. Would It be unfair to point to D. B. Hill as the power behind the thrown? The Marquis of Anglesey is now penniless, having spent $2,750,00() since 1S0S. Is it premature to announce that the Marquis of Anglesey will soon start on a trip to America? "Some sorrows," sings the poet, "are too deep for vain regrets." That is probably the reason General Kuropatkin has quit beginning his dispatches with "I regret to report." The Atlanta Constitution is evidently trying to create hard feeling between Prince Pu Lain and Indianapolis. But what is the Constitution between friends? Among the paradoxes of the campaign, the Democratic fear that the "dark horse" will be Gray might be mentioned as particularly humorous. The claim that the Japs are vegetarians seems to be disproved by the manner In which they are eatin up those "raw troops" of Kuropatkin's. "Mr. Nicholas Romanoff, Dear Sir: I beg leave to report to your Majesty that things are coming my way now. Hastily yours, Kuropatkin." Russell Sage tells the papers that there Is not much sense in vacations. And no dollars at all that's what worries Uncle R. General Funston says the Jap soldiers are the best in the world. Funston is not a very big man, physically, himself. To continue the merry Morocco Jest, It will be none the worse for being tanned anyhow, will it? A Baltimore business man has been fined $100 for stealing a kiss. Grand larceny! THE HUMORISTS. Easily Accommodated. She Have you a copy of "Prometheus Bound ? He No. m'am; but we can get It for you bound any way you like. Minneapolis Tribune. Shrewd Move. Lady Caller But I thought children were not tolerated In these apartments. Hostess Ah, but, you see, we named the baby after the Janitor. Town Topics. Accounted For. Jane I wonder what makes Mayme look so sour? Edythe IIr new lemon-colored shoes, I suppose. They are probably too small. Chicago News. ' Pn'i Conundrum for Mn. "Say, ma, don't pop tell you lots of conundrums?" "Why do you ask that, Bobby?" "Well, I heard him tell Mr. Smith, iast night, that he had you guessing." Sioux Falls Press. At the African Bethel. Parson Johnson De choir will now sing, "I'm Glad Salvation's Free," while Deacon Ketcham passes de hat. De congregation will please to membah dat, while salvation am free, we hab tp pay de choir for singing about it. All please contribute accordin to yo means. Puck. Worse Yet. Ta, Is retribution the worst thing a person can have?" "No. It Isn't half as bad as the feeling one has after he has confessed and then discovered that he wouldn't have been found out If he had kept quiet." Chicago Record-Herald. Reward of Merit. It was at the close of a long-winded Sundayschool spee-ch to the children., The visitor had been telling the history of a "good little boy." "And now, children," he finished, "where do you suppose that little boy is?" "In heaven," was piped up, promptly. "No, no, my little man: he's clerking in a grocery store!" What to Eat.. The Lmul of Lone Ago. ' The Land of Eong Ago. Where harpy hours sleep, Where languid rivers glide. With stately flow and deep; Where fadeless roses blow. And Love sits azure-eyed. There comes no frost, nor snow. But balmy breezes sweep O'er gardens fair and wide. And slow the waters creep Through blossoms bending low Above the charmed tide. How sweet to rise and go From ways where mortals weep. From love so long denied. To dreams that roses heap. Where crystal waters flow. And golden days abide. R. G. T. Coventry, in English Country Life. A Cond Word for Old Men. In his recent eloquent and suggestive speech at the Montauk Club dinner given In celebration of his feventleth Mrthday Senator Depew waa able to offer a strong array of facts In refutation of the oft-repeated statement that all the best work of the world Is being carried on by young men. "A coterie of elderly senators." Raid Mr. Depew, "in conjunction with the speaker of the Houe of Representatives, who Is of tnelr period, are the real rulers cf our Republic. Roberts, in his seventieth year, conducted the South African campaign and. retrieved, as far as possible, the blunders of the Juniors, hll in another sphere Commodore Vandrbllt. who up to the age of venty-oni had accumulated J1T.OQO.000, added to it rv0.0W.0O)

more from seventy-one to eighty-three." No better evidence, it may be addM, could have been afforded in support of this same contention than th? presence of Senator Depew himsolf. to whom the years seem to bring no change nor any diminution of activity rn many fieids of thought and effort. Those people who have undertaken to establish a "dead-line" at seventy In a man's capacity for usefulness must surely leave the Junior senator from New York out of their reckoning. Leslie's Weekly. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Clock to Run About 3MWO Year. A radium clock, which will keep time indefinitely, has been constructed by Harrison Martindale, of England. The clock comprises a small tube, in which is placed a minute quantity of radium supported in an exhausted glass vessel by a quartz rod. To the loer end of the tube, which is colored violet by th action of the radium, an f It-ctroscope formed of . two long leaves or strips of silver is attached. A charge of electricity in which there are no heat rays is transmitted through the activity of the radium into the leaves, and the latter thereby expand until they touch the sids of the vessel, connect ei to earth by wires, which instantly conduct the electric charge, and the haves fall together. This simple operation is repeated incessantly every two minutes until the radium is exhausted, which in this instance, it is computed, will occupy 30,000 years. Scientific American. Minute Measurement. Because the balance-wheels of watches expand and contract with changes of temperature, they run slower or faster, according to circumstances. By making them of different kinds of metal, having different degrees kof expansion with increase of temperatui'e, the effect of their changes on the running of watches may be almost entirely eliminated. But in dealing with such a problem it is necessary to know the expansibility of the metal employed'. A means of measuring it Is furnished by an instrument called a dilatometer, in which a system of delicate levers, or a chain of gear wheels, magnifies the motion of a pointer over a graduated scale hundreds of times. At A moUing of the Physical Society in London lately a dilatometer was exhibited which had a magnification of 1.500 times, so that the change in a length of a piece of steel caused by a single degree of rise or fall of temperature was clearly measured by it. Youth's Companion. Heating; a House with One Stove. A young machinist bought a tiny cottage and believed that Its four rooms could be heated from the cooking range, which had a water-tank attachment. Pipes for hot water were laid and connected with the tank of the range and a radiator placed in each room. An ordinary fire of hard wood was kept In the range, and that little cottage was warm and cozy even In the most severe weather of the winter. National Magazine for June. "Why Age I Conservative. Everybody knows that it is quite difficult to change the opinions, the beliefs and the ideas generally of old people.. This Is quite as true of scientific men as It is of ordinary persons, for unfortunately, be it said scientific men cannot divest themselves of metabolism. It Is only the comparatively young scientists that readily accept new theories. The old ones are always doubters. Old biologists laughed at Darwin, as old Darwinians now scoff at Weismann. And sometimes the old man will abandon the views of his youth, or middle age, and go over to the camp of the common, unscientific world. These interesting facts are caused by the Increase of c&tabolism (or waste) in the brain of the old man. He Is losing his mental power, and when he lives to be very old he often becomes childish and inconsequentially talkative. His brain weakens as his bones harden and his muscles wither. Michael A. Lane, in National Magazine for June. Locating Fractures by Tnning Fork. A very simple method of locating fractures In bones, particularly in long ones, by the aid of a tuning fork, is proposed by a Chicago surgeon. A stethoscope Is placed over the bone as near as possible to the point of suspected fracture and on the side where the skin Is thinnest. Then. a vibrating tuning fork is placed against the flesh pear the bone, but on the other side of the fracture if possible. If the bono is continuous a distinct, clear sound will be heard In the stethoscope, but If the break Is between the two this sound will be faint and irregular, as the vibrations will not be transmitted past the break. Of course, this method depends upon the fact that hard bone Is an excellent conductor of vibration, while tissue is not. Perhaps even a more valuable application of. this idea would be in finding out when a break has knitted properly, for when the Joining is again perfect the sound will be as clear as that of an unbroken bone. Collier's Weekly. Science Brevities. "A prolific cause of chronic Indigestion Is eating from habit, and simply because it Is mealtime and others are eating," says the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. "To eat when not hungry, is to eat without relish, and food taken without relish Is worse than wasted. Without relish the salivary glands do not act. the gastric fluids are not freely secreted, and the best of foods will not be digested. Many perfectly harmless dishes are severely condemned for r.o other reason than they were eaten perfunctorily and without relish and due Insallvatlon." "The mat at tho front door Is necessarily the receptacle of all kinds of filth picked up from tho streets." says the Lancet. "In dry weather there Is little use for the mat, but in wet weather all cleanly-disposed persons use It. The time comes when the mat is loaded with dirt In a more or less dried state, and the simplest way of removing the burden is to submit the mat to shaking, generally on the curbstone, or to bring it into sharp contact with a wall. This Is the modus operandi generally adopted, much to the annoyance and discomfort of the passers-by. Frequently a most offensive cloud of dust is thus raised, and that this can be a source of illhealth cannot be disputed." A scenic tunnel under Niagara from Table Rock house out under the Horseshoe falls has Just been completed. "This work," says a technical paper, "was undertaken for the Niagara Falls Queen Victoria Park Commission In order to provide a perfejjtly safe view of the cataract from below. A shaft was sunk 127 feet and from this a tunnel was constructed curving out under the Horseshoe falls $00 feet. From this laterals were run Into the gorge, where large observation rooms will be constructed of glass where tourists can sit in easy chairs and look out. " A large electric elevator has been put into the shaft and from the bottom a large board walk has been constructed to the mouths of the various lateral tunnels." ForglveneM. Now bury with the dead years conflicts dead. And w ith fresh days let air begin anew. Why longer amid shriveled leaf drifts tread. When buds are swelling, flower sheaths peeping through? Seen through the vista of the vanished years. How trivial seem the struggle and the crown. How vain past feuds, when reconciling tears Course down the channel worn by vanished frown. How few mean half the bitterness they speak! Words more than feeling keep us still apart. And. In the heat of passion and of pique. The tongue Is far more cruel than the heart. Since love alone makes It worth while to live. Let all be now forgiven and forgive. Alfred Austin. In the Independent. Chinese Ad. The following epic ad. blows In from the salty wilds of Woo-Sung: "We open at Woo-Sung In the South of the Telegraph Co.. for sale the Foreign Milk, the taste are sweet, the milk are pure and the price are Just. We haven't put any water In It, if examine out- v.on't pay a single cash. If you want to buy so you will know the Foreign Cows chop. Gen Sung Kee." Wouldn't that curdle you! Shanghai Times. Municipal Dorrowlng. Municipal borrowing Is advancing at a terrific rate. and. though it U pleaded that most of the outlay is on so-called remunerative projects, nobody who watches the rapid development ef scientific discoveries will feel quite certain that a great proportion of this municipal expenditure sanctioned, as a rule, by persons of little practical experience-will not rank aa a dead los In a ftw years to come. -London Telegraph.

THE DRIFT

In two Republican; senatorial conventions held yesterday one incumbent was renominated and one was defeated. Senator Fremont Goodwine, of Willlamsjort, was renominated after a hard fight in the district composed of Warren, Benton and Fountain counties, while in the district composed of Jasper. Newton and White Senator Eben H Wolcott, of Wolcott, was defeated by R. C. McCain, of Newton county. Senator Goodwine's long and valuable service in the Legislature was both a source of strength and weakness to him in his light. It was recognized that he was one of the most efficient members of the upper branch of the General Assembly, but his opponents argued that two terms were enough for any man. no matter how valuable his services might be. In the end, however, he and his friends carried the day. The second term proposition defeated Senator Wolcott. The precedent in the district was against the renomiuatlon of a member of the Senate and the light was waged almost solely on that issue. Senator Wolcott was reeognizfd as one of the leading mmbefs of the Senate during the two sessions In which he served, and his friends in this city find throughout the State were anxious that he be returned. The Washington Post publishes the following interview with Congressman A. L. Brick, of South Bend: "It does not seem to me that there is any reason to apprehend Republican defeat in the corning elections," said Hon. A. L. Brick, the well-known young Indiana congressman, at the New Willard. "As far as Indiana is concerned we count with conlidence on the usual majority. Times are good, and the people generally do not wish to -make any change in the administration of the government lest it might tend to unsettle existing conditions and Interfere with national prosperity. I feel that President Roosevelt's election is a foregone conclusion, and think It equally certain that there will be a safe working majority for the Republicans in the next House of Representatives." the English yesterday. Mr. Marshall was one of the prominent figures in the exercises incident to the dedication of the Indiana building at the exposition last week. Charles O. WJlIets, of Kokorho, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for representative in the district- composed of Howard, Grant, Miami, Wabash and Huntington counties, was In the city yesterday calling on some Indianapolis politicians. Mr. Willets will be in the thick of the light in the convention at Peru to-mor-row, and he expresses conlldence that he will come away with the nomination dangling at his belt. The convention will attract almost as much attention as either of the two Eleventh district conventions which were held this year at Teru. The same forces that were involved in the contest for the district chairmanship and in the right fey: the congressional nomination are mixed up in this fight, but this fight Is more complicated because one county outside the Eleventh district Howard is interested. And then, while the differences created in the Eleventh district struggles are to be threshed HEARD REPORT FROM NATjOHAL DELEGATES State Executive Committee of the Y. M. C. A. in Quarterly Session. G. M. WELLS TCT RETURN At a meeting of the state executive committee of the y. M. C. A. at the Claypool Hotel last night Teports were heard from the state delegates who attended the fiftieth anniversary of the international convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, which, was held in Buffalo, May 11 to 15. This convention was the most important thai the association has ever held in that questions relating to the local and central ized government of the association were discussed at length. A full report of the discussion of this question, which attracted so much attention at Buffalo, was given by the Indiana delegates. - The executive committee went into fccsslon yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and after taking dinner at the Claypool began a night session, which lasted until 10:30. Those attending the meeting were: Samuel O. Pickens, A. M. Glossbrenner, C. S. Rhoades, J. F, WTalllck. John F. Habbe, E. E. Stacy and A. W. Hanson, Indianapolis; O. M. Gregtr. CrawfordRville; H. P. Townley, Terre Haute; Dr. B. A. Brown, Brlghtwood: Sharon E. Jone3, Richmond, and John C. Haswell, Marlon. As a result of a compromise effected at the international convention a recommendation was passed by it creating an advisory board composed of members from each State. The Indiana representative will be appointed later. C. S. Rhoades was last night appointed as the Indiana representative . of the committee in charge of the Volunteer Workers' Conference at Lake Geneva. Dr. B. A. Brown W'as also appointed on a similar committee in charge of the boys' conference. A memorial service was held by the executive committee for Dr. J. K. Jameson, of Shelbyville, whose death recently occurred at Los Angeles. Personal tributes were paid to his services to the association and resolutions of sympathy were prepared, copies of which will be sent to the family. Dr. Jameson was at one time a member of the state committee and later-a member of the advisory board. It was reported to the committee last night that Guy M. Wells, a former assistant state secretary, would return to resume his work in Indiana, and that, according to the present plans he would be here by Sept. 1. Wells is a graduate of Wabash College and for the last year has been one of the secretaries in New York city. PU LUN SPENDS A FBJV MINUTES IN THE CITY Chinese Royalty Again Glimpses Hoosierdom and Grasps Welcoming Hands. A second but brief visit to Indianapolis was made yesterday morning by his Royal Highness, Prince Pu Lun, imperial commissioner of China to .the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, when the prince and his party, accompanied by Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese minister to the United States, stopped for a few minutes in the Union Station, while their private Pullman car. the Montezuma, was being switched. The prince was on hla way from the East to St. Iuls. After a week at the exposition, the entire party will return to New York, when the prince will sail for Europe on June 16. Prince Pu Lun was welcomed at the station by a party composed of Maj-or Holtzman. his brother. Lee Holtzman. Hugh J. McGowan. .Clemens Vonnegut, jr., C. C. Foster, Alfred Potts and William Fortune. When questioned concerning the alleged toast to the Japanese navy which was drunk at a banquet of naval officers in New York at which he was the guest of honor, the prince denied any knowledge of such a toast at the banquet. HENRY SMITH LEASES HIS RESTAURANT AND SALOON His Son, William, and . George Townsend, of Marion, Are the New Proprietors. Henry Smith, whose restaurant and bar on Illinois street have been one of the headquarters of the "Levee" ever since there has been a "Levee" in Indianapolis, has decided to retire, apd has leased hi business for a term of ten years to his son. William Smith, and Georg Townsend. of Marlon. The lessees will make extensive improvements in the place.

OF POLITICS

over again, there is another element Involved the s-truzKle for the United State senatorshlp which may be left vacant by tho nomination and election of Senator Fairbanks to the vi presidency. Of the avowed candidates Wilk-ts. of Howard; McHenry. of Wabash; Chamberlain, of Grant, and Kline, of Huntington it is said that the first namej is the only one who can be definitely located on tho senatorial proposition. As a Ninth district man. it is undt-rstood that he will be for Congressman C. B. Landls for senator in event Mr. L&ndis is a candidate. Several Indianapolis mn will go to Peru to-morrow for the convention, among them be;ng George B. Lock wood, Cyrus W. Neal and Senator C. C Lyons. M. C. Garber and L. V. Cravens, of Madison, were callers at the Republican state headquarters yesterday. State Chairman Goodrich was at Republican headquarters yesterday. He announce the complete committee of members of the Indiana delegation to the national convfntiou that is to take charge of the arrangements for badges, decoration of the delegation's headquarters at the Auditorium. tc as follows: John B. Cockrum. Indianapolis, chairman; Georg? T. Dinwiddle, of Frankfort; L. C. lavenport. of BlufTton; Francis T. Roots, of Connersvllle. and lam H. Wulfmattn. of Huntingburg. Mr. Goodrich held a conference with Mr. Cockrura during the day. after which it was announced that the committee would go to Chicago the latter part cf this week and hold a meeting Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the Auditorium. Mr. Goodrica may meet with the committee. Dan W. Sims, of Lafayette, who bore the) brunt of the fight for the Tarker forces ia the Tenth district during the recent fight in the Democratic state convention, was here yesterday. He was bent solely on legal business, however, and said that politics would be a scaled book with him until the national convention at St. Louis, where) he will go as one of the Indiana delegation Instructed for Tarker. Staling R. Holt, of this city, r'ns hi .... . - i .a & yif A a t a m ; raitn nrmiy. io iormer itcmuchi newu as the only man to lead the Democratlo hosts this year. Last evening at the Grand he was met with the question: "Who will be nominated tX St. Louis?" "Cleveland oight to be," he replied quickly"What would Cleveland do In Indiana?" "He would come nearer carrying Indiana khan Bryan did in the two efforts he made," ..4ln.4 ( 1!oU 4 rjwuiru tu, iiuiu "Would he come nearer carrying Indiana than Parker would?" "He undoubtedly would. He would come nearer carrying Indiana than any man the) party could nominate. He would come nearer carrying Illinois than any other man. He would come nearer carryMig Wisconsin than any other man. He would come nearer carrying Michigan than any other .man. He would carry New York. New Jersey and Connecticut, hands down." Mr. Holt, however, is not as optimistic concerning Cleveland's chances of nomination as he is over the former President's chances of election were he but nominated. OF BOARD OF TRADE H0LDLAST MEETIIIG Communications from National Grain Dealers and from Negroes' Business League. ! m i i t THANKS VOTED TO PERRY, A communication was received last night by the board of governors of the Indianapolis Board of Trade from the National Grain Dealers' Association asking the local Board of. Trade to concur in the resolution adopted by the National Grain Dealers in their annual meeting In January. This resolution protested against placing the inspection of grain in the hands of the Agricultural Department of the United States. At the last session of Congress a bill was Introduced to this effect. Accompanying tha resolutions to the local Board of Trade was a complete report on the uniform rules for the inspection of grain. The communication was referred to the grain committee. The Grain Dealers' Association opposes placing the Inspection in the hands of the government because it Is believed that by changing officers with every change of administration the greatest good could not be accomplished. "A communication from the National Negroes Business "League, of which Booker T. Washington is president, was received asking the co-operaticn of the Board of Trade at the time of the national convention to bo held in Indianapolis Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. The communication was favorably received, and the secretary 'was so Instructed to report back to the Negro League. This meeting will be attended by several thousand colored men from all over the country. Last night was the last meeting of tho fiscal year for the board of governors of the Board of Trade, and the last one over which Charles C. Perry could preside as president. As a reward for the efficiency with which he. has conducted the meeUngs he was tendered a vote of thanks. The election of offleers for the ensuing year will be held at the Board of Trade building next Monday. The polls will bo open between the hours of 9 a. m. and 6 p. m. Up to date there has only been one ticket posted, that selected by the nominating committee. It is believed, however, before next Monday there will be an independent ticket posted. A general meeting of all members of the Board of Trade will be seid Saturday night, when the financial report of the secretary and the report of the auditing committee will bo heard. The auditing committee, appointed by President IVrry last night, is composed of Vestal W. Woodward. Willis R. Miner and Frank W. Wood. CO UN CIL PRO VI DES FOR 1 HOSPITAL REPAIRS WITH REDUCED APPROPRIATION (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) is annexed to the city the residents cannot be assessed for its construction. The ordinance was referred to the committee oa ordinances. Councilman Eppert Introduced an ordinance which requires all drayman or persons engaged in the moving business to report to the chief of police the names and addresses of all families moved by them. .The reports are to be made within twenty-four hours after the moving has been done. The ordinance also provides that all persons so moved must give their proper names to the draymen. It was referred to the committee on ordinances. Another ordinance was referred to the committee on public aafety and comfort, which, if passed, will make it unlawful to distribute or scatter circulars, handbills and advertising matter- of any kind upon the streets or public places of the city, or porches and yards without first securing from the owners or occupants permlsrtoa to do so. A fine of $10 Is fixed for violation of the measure. Permission was given by the Council to Willie F. Smith to lay a switch across Columbia avenue to his coal yards, and to W. J Roache to lay a switch from the Lake Erie & Western tracks across Lewis street to his coal yards. Councilman Lew W. Cooper, who has ben absent from Council meetings for many weeks on account of sickness, was able to attend the session last nlht. Mr. Cooper was elected laat night to represent the Indianapolis City Council upon the Councllmen's Auxiliary 'of the Municipal League, compowl of one councilman from evry City Council in the State. Horse Show Directors Meet. A number of the directors and officers of the Indianapolis Horse Show Association bestirred themselves yesterday afternoon and held a meeting for the purpose of determining the advisability of holding another horse how this summer. All of the otllcers were not present, however, and no dertnite action was taken. The officers at the meeting were Charlea Downing, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture; R, P. Van Qamp, F. &L Murphy and liu-b Ho Gowao,

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