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SO SFOItS REVIVAL 1 We efacereiy troet that the Governor I* realty *ea>klo* to make party or perapotio out of the penal and benavolaatltutiono of the State Hla In:toterest In the ripper Mil waa omtncma; and the appointment of Mr. X* P. known to the Static aa a ehrewd and ambition* politician, to the Reformatory hoard tend* to confirm previous apprehenetona Mr, Newby, however, talk* well of Ma purposes, and we •hall hope tot the beet [ Bat on top of thle oomes the perform- \ mmem %t the Soathorn Inaane hospital. The hoard baa been reconstituted, the superintendent has been replaced with a man known rather for hla skill in politics than for special knowledge of the insane, and aQ the subordinate officers bars been forced by the board to resign or been dismissed This certainly does not look wall. The board, moreover, appears to have exceeded its authority, as the superintendent is charged with ths duty of eeleeting and dtemiablng subordinates. All this wlU be credited to the Governor, aa he has so recently changed ths board of

trustees

.; We wialt to say wlfh^ail emphasis that the people of Indiana will not etand for a revival of the spoils system in our penal fand benevolent institutions. We have got beyond tbft, and it will not be well for the politician of any party that seeks to turn os back. The platform on which Governor Durbin was nominated took : credit and praise for “the emancipation . of the penal and benevolent institutions I from partisan control/* When Oovernoi T j Mount succeeded a Democratic Governor, tremendous pressure was brought to bear | on him to partlaanlao the State's Instituj lions. Hs refused steadfastly, and gained i great honor thereby. Oovomor Durbin, on the other hand, has seemed to display a willingness to use the public sendee for the furthering of his political Interaets. j We warn him again that the people of i Indiana want their business attended to strictly on busineas principles.

RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. The drillsed world has been of late so greatly absorbed with the stories of the murders In Armenia and Bulgaria that It has paid little attention to what Is going ■ on In Russia. But the tortures that have :|been Inflicted on the Jews of the empirt. are known to all the world. Only a few weekaago we had reports of a great massacr/of Jews at Klschinefl. On May 9 the Russian government authorised a denial of ths whole story, and this denial was transmitted to our embassador at St. s|j Petersburg. But now the Russian Minister of the Interior admits that there were forty-flve persons killed and hundreds Injured, and that Jews were the victims. Seven hundred dwellings and 000 shop* were entered and looted. The sensational papers in this country describe ths affair tn the most lurid fashion. Yet It may be that in this case they fio not exaggerate. For when Russia herself admits so much, a great deal more must lie behind. The New York American. which la to send Michael Davltt to Investigate the situation, says that the 8t Petersburg papers have at last printed the “horrible details of the Jewish massacre." The particulars given are too hideous to set forth except under ■tress of necessity, and after absolute proof of their truth. It Is said that at Isast four thousand families are tn absolute Want. The Jews In this country who have heard directly from Russia are greatly distressed, and are taking steps to relieve their suffering brethren. One of them, a banker, says that when the facta are alt known, "dvUliatlon will Whudder.’. It Is well that the case should be Inquired into. Of course It would be wrong to condemn the Russian government until It la known that tin agents were parties to the outrages, or connived at them, or until the government has refused to pun(fgMtfce tullty es far as possible.

A TIM Elf WARNING.

t night a movement wag started In W York loosing to the organisation of employers la the building trades for the purpose of offering effective resistance ths demands of orgsnlsed labor. Seven hundred people were preeent at the meeting. and the interest In the proceedings was keen. In the statement given to the attention is called to 'the complete of the building industry" which gad to “irresponsible combinations, through a tyrannical board of . delegatee or buslnesn agents.

The public is told:

This question la not a question of wages * hour*, hut a question of whether irrebodlea of men are to be pert» conduct the business of the emend in so doing make it impossible “ to axecute his contracts and to 'the obligations and responsiblliwhloh he assumes, and to which the l the law of the land bind him.

the new custom house. A very serious situation Is time presented. There has likely that there will be mors. It fa net surprising that the employer* are beginning to form counter orga Titration*. And the question for the workers Is whether they will see the danger that confronts them. The world’s work must be don*,

and, of course. It win be done.

It ought also to be remembered that there are probably more workers outside the unions than there are to them, and that among these Is growing up a feeling of determined opposition to the unions. Indeed, tbe non-union men have already begun to organise for thetr own protection. Mow far this movement aha!! go. and how formidable the combination of employers

read It. who rapport the theaters, who

who set

keep our club Bla eotng. who set the

fashions, who sbaoluUiy control society. the

who spend our money, who sustain tbe ^ &

way tn which the union workers conduct themselves. We believe that at tbe present moment they are In danger of losing far more than they can possibly gain even if they should win every strike in which they are now engaged. Boms of the leaders in the strikes now on are playing directly though, of course, unconsciously — Into the hands of the bitterest enemies of organised labor. Kvery sensei*** and unreasonable strike, every violation of contracts, every act of vtolenee serves to strengthen the position of those who insist that trades unions can not hs trusted. Bettering, as ws do most firmly, that labor organizations are necessary to tbe welfare of labor, and that it is only through them that combinations of capital can be successfully-dealt with, we regret exceedingly any conduct on tbe part of union men that weakens their cause. Bo it is in the most friendly spirit that we remind them that they are facing great dangers — greater than many of them realise. It is time that they understood thla

LOGSDON AND THE CONTRACTORS. In his testimony before the Council committee W. H. Newby sold that when be talked to Logsdon about bis bid for street sprinkling, Logsdon declared that Kennington’s bid waa the lowest received. “But/* Newby continued, “he (Logsdon) told ire that hs would use his Influence with Kennlngton to give me part of the work." This confirms tbe atory told by Logsdon, who admitted when he was on the stand In the Newby Injunction suit that Kennlngton was probably the lowest bidder, and would in all probability get the contract. Ixtgedon eaid that on the day the Wds were finally yjected he called Martin Hugg up by telephone and told him that bo would try to persuade Kenmngton to give Newby part of the work. The date of thla telephone conversation with Hugg was given aa March IS. At first Logsdon gave a day prior to March 4 as the time when he had heard from Floyd Woods that Newby had tried to hire him to get the sprinkling contracts; and It was beoauso of his supposed connection with Woods that Logsdon and the other members of the board thought that Newby was not a nt man to get tho contract. It Is but fair to nay. however, that Logsdon was very much mixed In his dates, and that be ftnallv aaid that at the time be promised to urge Kennlngton to share hla contract with Newby, he did not know of the attempt of Newby to get Woods to influence the board. But though Woods thought that Newby waa not the right sort of man to have a public contract, he said, when asked on tbe stand whether Newby had made to him any corrupt or Improper offer: No. Mr. Newby ha* never made any such offer or proposition to me aa that. He never talked to me with reference to Influencing any members of the board, except aa I personally had some influence with them. He never made any proposition to me to corrupt any member of the board, and I have never heard of hla doing such a thing. Yst Woods thought he ought not to be considered, not because he had attempted anything corrupt, but because he had asked Woods to help him and was bringing presaure to bear to get the con-

tract!

Of oourte, the Important question Is whether Logsdon had made up his mind that Newby should not have the contract becauee of his own unfltnes* when hs promised, on his own testimony and that of Nswby, that he would do what he ooukl to get Newby work under Kennington. As we have said, the dates are somewhat mixed. But there can be no doubt of the promise. Thus we have a member of the board whose business It w«« to let contracts, interceding or promising to Intercede with one contractor In behalf of another. Perhaps we may leave the case here. It is not surprising that contractors should wish to stand well with the members of the Board of Public Works when those members could fine them out of all their earnings, and when they did not hesitate to ask —or to promise to ask - successful bidders to divide the work with those who were unsuccessful. WOMEN IN THE UNITED^STATES. Those people who know anything of the position of women In our American social life must have rubbed their eyes with astonishment when they read tn Mrs. Kate Trimble Wooleey's book entitled “Republics vs. Women,** that “Presidents have bad a grand opportunity to uplift women, but there Is nothing In any of their public utterances that recognises the presence of women as a factor tn American political Ufa" Mrs. Wools*) denounces “Americas attitude toward women." and Calls attention to the fact that President Roosevelt “has never mentioned women or attributed anything good to thorn in any of his speeches on the tour he hat been making through the country /’ And she asks him to point out to her anything that "womankind has gained by forsaking a monarchical form of government for the American republic.” Mrs. Wootoey specially wants to

summer resorts and who regulate pretty much the whole conduct of life. There is hardly a foreigner that comes here who does not raasric on the slaristaess of the average man toward his women folk, and on tbe dictatorial manner of the latter. American husbands —so we are told— submn to things that the men of no other nation would put up with for a moment. The plain truth is that in tbe United States women are thinking altogether too much about themselves. Their own personality fills too large a space in their vision. And it all comes of the pernicious habit of contrasting women with men. Certain women think that men have rights and privileges that they do not hare, and they at once become querulous and unhappy. They, of course, ignore wholly the rights and privileges that are theirs, and so the conclusion is that they are much abused creatures. If they find that there are places to which men go and from which they are supposed to be barred, they do not rest until they gain admission to those places, although quite as desirable accommodations may be provided for them elsewhere. So they throng hotel offices and men’s cafes for no other reason than that they are used by the men. Many of them regard It as a great hardship that they should be excluded from men’s clubs. They want to go to men's colleges though there are quite as good colleges for women. Ail this, of course, is very pitiful and childish. It Is so for another reason than any yet pointed out. The individual, whether he be man or woman, who really does good work, does not stop to ask people to admire It or to wonder at it He Is quite content to do his Job and let It go at that If It Is appreciated, he is glad, but he wants It to be appreciated as good work, and not as the work ol man or woman. We believe that man) women are coming to look at things in this light So we do not think that Mrs. Woolsey speaks for a large class. We certainly hope she does not From the earliest glimmer of the dawn of civilisation to the present moment, there has never been a country in which women have bad such a chance as they have In this country. They are protected, cared for, worked for. respected and reverenced as nowhere else in the world. We wonder If there are not a few American duchesses who long for their native land. However this may be. we are convinced that the great majority of our women are entirely content with conditions In the

great republic.

And the weather is still with us!

Germany Is much agitated over our determination to bar out adulterated food aud drinks, which Just shows what a guilty conscience will do to pefcple when they are in danger of being found out

Popular government In France doesn’t seem to be very popular when It comes to executing repressive measures against unauthorized congregations.

The good people of Howard county are Justly indignant over the outrageous stories circulated by the yellow preas concerning the murder of Lewis Clifton Yeager. The whole desire of the correspondents for the saffrons waa to make “a good story” regardless of the facts, and In filling this story In, the people of Howard county were painted in a very unenviable light. A staff correspondent of The Indianapolis News made an allday investigation to get the facts, and while the “saffrons” were sending out romances of love and Jealousy and of town feuds and were endeavoring to fasten the crime on three young men ol good families, The Indianapolis News solved the mystery by showing how Lewis Yeager was killed. Part of the story was told in yesterday s Newa The rest appears to-day. The President Is pretty well tired out after his strenuous program in San Francisco, say the dispatches from California Is the President losing his grip?

The effort to change England’s free trade policy doesn't seem to make much headway with the present government. And •till the Islands command a pretty good share of the world's trade and would command a still greater share If the workingmen there devoted more attention to working than to getting along by doing as little work as possible. Even If the machine should, by any hook or crook, hold its place. It would require a good many repairs. If Frans Josef of Austria said, as he is reported to have said: “I don’t know what to do any more,” surely he Is losing his sense of the requirements of his position, for no leader oi men should ever admit a truth of this kind. Even when this point Is reached, a well-played game of bluff will keep up the front for some time and possibly tide him over until he gets a tip on a new policy. After the meeting of the Democratic committee to-night It should be remembered by some persons that, even though one lose, one may acquire merit by bowing to the Inevitable gracefully. At no time Is a good, reliable amlle of more value.

The organization of the employers in the building trades for the purpose of offering united resistance to the demands of labor unions, makes It look Is if there were busy days ahead of the National Civic Federation.

pfattnf* were Justly caused during Taggart's last aAmhilstratfam. bat look at tbe present admintetratien! It la up to tbe Democracy to redeem tbe situation. It can name a man that will pot have to be

In Extremis.

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“I* the door wefi barred? And the window?” And tbe outer gats, is R firm and tost? There was eas role fcy on tbe bitter blast , That cried, ‘Beware! I shall enter there I And art my aeai ere the dawn of day.' "

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alleged cruelty to a mule? Tbe mule is *<<***: cover ass dose and sit oa guard, not a sensitive beast, but still it has its Aad ggdd my dghL tor I sesm to see limita and even some righto which Justice j H f, mtod. should respect. { Oh. how coaid he enter if all Is barred T’

The best families of Chicago are still doing their own washing. Meantime there is a dally increase in the demand for celluloid wearing apparel. Instead of trying to beat tbe Kaiser and the Czar to this country, as Mr. Stead advises, why couldn’t King Edward, tbe Kaiser and the Char get together and make arrangements to visit us in a bunch ? We’ve got plenty of room over here for any number of kings, temporarily, and as they could sleep m their private cars, there needn’t be any trouble about their hotel Mils at SV Louis.

The Colombians are no doubt right in believing that immigration into Colombia from this country will be a good thing for Colombia, but what kind of thing will it be for the immigrants? The persistent impertinence with which Milwaukee keeps assuming our place at the top of the column is deserving of something more than a reprimand. Mr. Walking

Things are certainly doing In the labor world. Strikes are numerous; Injunctions are busy, and reaching out for new worlds to conquer; and employers are getting together in more efficient counterorganisations. Unreasonable demands of the men can result in only one thing — the employers will simply quit work for the time being. We have got to live and let live.

The confession of State Senator Busch, of Missouri, shows that membership in that State's Legislature is even a better thing than most people suspected. There is & steadiness about the Income that must be very comfortable as long as a man is not In danger of being found out. Of course, a 130,000 reproduction of the Soldiers' Monument in corn would muira a very striking feature of the Indiana exhibit at SL Louis, but wouldn’t It be cheaper to send the monument Itself to the exposition ?

Through the Microscope

‘There is now ha* entered, betoved. Oast These are bat ristens that vtat year peace. " “Ok hold mj band, for to part is pain. You to* it not, but there’* Ctoe defies Oar bolts and bars and bids me rise And fare with him thro’ tbe Talley dim. Whence nose may ever return again.” Ok strange aad sad! Ere I answered “Nay.” Dark Death had stoteti a soul awsy. L-Susie M. Beet, to Independent.

POETRY AND BOSSES. I've writ a lot of poetry, you bet. sine* I was

born.

From Kalamazoo to Kankakee, from cucklebura

to corn.

I’ve made the ragweed fragrant a* the yaUer

jaasamlne,

And boneset taste like sugar er a sparklin' glass of wine. I’ve turned mud Into medders where tbe trumpet creeper grows. And I’ve made tbe swamps and marshes blossom like a crimson rote. I've made tbe reekin' stable yard smell like a

hollyhock.

And I’ve filled the air with honey from hose-

mint and sour-e-dock,

I’ve filled the woods, with laftsr from some

babblin' little brook.

In fact, I've filled most ev’rything, except my

pocket book.

I filled myself with glory while my thrifty

neighbor's steers

Billed tholr hides up on my cabbage and IQ-

randy's eyes with tears.

I raked the golden sunset tn and stored It up

in bags,

While Mirandy and the children dressed la tat-

ters and in

I walked among

yer blue,

While Mirandy took In wash in’ fur to pull the fam'ly through. I Jist kep on a writln’, meet In’ lose right after loss, TUI I hadn’t nothin’ left me but an ole hipshotten boas.

rags.

the starlets to the dome of as-

fashioned wife.

aten a heap of comfort In my liter-

So we talked the matter over, me and my old-

fashlonr' '' Fur she’s bi

ary life,

Though she may not be exactly up to date on dress and style. I said to her: “Mirandy, I believe I’ll change a

while

And Just go to swoppln' hoeses.” My, It nearly took her breath. Then 1 gently stroked her gray hair when she tucked her bead beneath My right arm, and whispered, softly, aa the crept close up to me: "Won’t you lose your reputation a* to writln’ poetry?” \ Well, I went to swoppln’ bosses and you bet, I made my jack. I made a clean flve-dollar bill, the first day out and back, I laid that greenback William In Mlrandy’a wrinkled ban’, And said: “Jist keep It, will ye, till I fleece another man.” 1 skinned ole Ab McCarthy almost outen hoof and hide, And 1 roped in Eben Sanderson. Great Seeaer. how I lied! •'Well, that’s part of the business,” said the feller at the store. Then 1 swapped for his roan Ally and made JUt five dollars more. Then I skinned Jake Case alive, because he traded wtdder May A spavined muckle clay bank fur her little dapple gray. Jake was stingy as a miser and as sllp’ry as an

eel.

And when I socked It to him, gosh, you ort to heerd him squeal! I peeled ole Deacon Stubbins for an even thir-ty-nine, *Twaa worth a pewter dollar bill to hear the feller whine. “The deacon used to take delight In makin’ fun of me Because I pass away the time a writln’ poetry. I’m still a swoppln’ bosses, kind o’ hanker that away. And I bought a bran new buggy for Mirandy, t’other day, The chtldern’s lookin’ better and they’re wearin’ better cloze. Maybe they’ll be somebody ytt, by crimlny, who knows ? The world is movin' onward In the world’s peculiar way. And the* man that’s rich to-morrow was a pauper yesterday. If you're keep in’ any tradin’ stock, I ain’t too old to learn. If it’s poetry you’re after. I've got poetry to burn. —Charles As bury Robinson. The books show that the people of this country spend CO,412,775 a year for imported gems. In making the per capita allowance, however, there are several of us that should he omitted from the estimate in order to arrive at correct figures, A few daring pioneers have appeared on the streets in their last year's panamas, but the movement still lacks the enthusiasm that a little more ardent sunshine will give it.

One Joseph Letter, for a brief period the Napoleon of the Chicago wheat pit,

now offers to compromise with his cred- Lyman J. Gage, former Secretary of the itors at the rate of » cents on the dollar. Treasury, has been discussing the queson which basis papa guarantees pay- tion - ' l8 money supply of the United to Helena, and the traveler generally ar- « before, but that may be the reason this rives with a terrible Jolt, the effects of *pWemic of prosperity doesn’t take with which are felt by other people besides 801X16 of 08

A Song of Duty.

Sorrow comes sad sorrow goes. Life is flecked with shine sad shower, Now the tear of grieving flows. Now w« smile to happy hour; Death awaits us. every oae— Toiler, dreamer, preacher, writer— Let us, then, ere life be done. Make the world a little brighter! Burdeng. that oar neighbors bear. Easier let us try to make them; Chains, perhaps, our neighbors wear. Let us do our best to break them. From the straitened brain and mind Let ns tooae the binding fetter. Let us, as tbe Lord designed. Make the world a little better! Selfish brooding sears the aouL Make* the heart a nest of sorrows. Darkening the shining goal Of the Min-Illumined morrows; Wherefore should our lives be spent Daily growing blind and blinder? Let us, as the Master meant. Make the world a little Under! —Deni* A McCarthy, to Good Couawl M zlna

SCRAPS.

himself.

ware adopted declaring that K,ww wh y t*»» President has never “taken

up the cudgels for woman and given her her proper place In public affairs of the nation/' And so forth and so on. We aupooaa that President Roosevelt did not feel that woman needed to have

present condition of the building ta-

' makes it imperative that: shell he made more secure conduct of their business, work-

re from Interference With y »ecure > ftt>m n fnt«riUpBon any o®®* take up the cudgels for her. that

there was no special reason for “mentioning" one who is so often “mentioned” In the society columns of our papers, and that he. poor, innocent man, felt that “America's attitude toward women” was about what it should be. As for the other question — whether the women have done

If all the onions in Denver go on sympathetic strike. It will be a nice leisurely town, where each man wilt be busy doing everything himself that he expects to get done at all. This may be a return to first principles, but they are a long.

Jong way back.

The fact that Mr. Cleveland has made a contribution to the fund to erect a statue of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart at Richmo n. Va.. will also be regarded as looking suspicious by the suspicious ones. * The London Practitioner has discover-

ed that pipe smokers are liable to cancer . .. j his tissues are more liable to become satof the Up. Also, if they are of the po- th , WMt< , rvroriucta of * ’

One in four Albanians dies by violence. Scarlet fever is unknown in the tropics. The average American uses 126 pins a

year.

In Paris 256,(00 families occupy but one room each. • Japan’s shipyards turned out forty-one steamers last year. A person, can now go from New York city to Seattle, on Puget sound, in. four

days.

There are six canals connected with ths Thames, which extend altogether 334

miles.

German manufacturers are Inquiring in this country for bones suitable for knife handies. A fcenny of Ethelred’g reign, found near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, has been sold for £61. It has been estimated that no less than 25.000,000 people annually attend the circuses of America. It has been decided that aliens in British prisons are not to be taught anjr trade in the future. Bedsteads with alarm clocJts aa part of the headrail are being made for South London early risers. The production of pig iron in the United States last year was 17,821,307 gross tons, in 1901 it was 15,878,364, and In 1900 it was 13,789,242 tonsGerman trade statistics already show the serious damage done to trade with Latin American countries by the action of the Kaiser against Venesuela. Joseph Vallot, the French scientist, whose observatory Is located on Mount Blanc, has the highest home in the world, being 14,000 feet above the sea level. The prevalence of rabies has reached such dangerous proportions in Chicago that education of policemen in the symptoms of the disease is urged as neces-

sary.

Queen Wilhelmina, patroness and founder of the Incubator institute at The Hague has been sued for 2,500 guldens by Francis Gerhard because the latter’s boy baby was exchanged for a girl while in the oven. Maryhattyana, an Arkansas postofflee recently discontinued for lack of business, was named in honor of the three daughters of its first, last and only postmaster, who were called respectively Mary, Hatty and Anna Prof. Henry 8. Graves, director of the Yale School of Forestry, has gone abroad for the purpose of making special studies of the methods of scientific forestry on the continent. He will visit the forestry schools and museums in Germany, Austria, Hungary and France. There are now in custody in England and Wales, undergoing terms of Imprisonment for crimes, 625 aliens of comparatively recent importation. An investigation into the antecedents of these criminals shows that in a majority of instances they were driven or assisted out of their own countries and entered Great Britain unchallenged. The annual demand for railway ties is 400 for each mile of track and the aver-

ye&i

an unusual acre of forest that has 300 trees that will make three ties each, and It takes fifty years to grow & tree that will make three ties. Therefore, twentyfive acres of forest are necessary for every mile of track. Elctrlc railways Included, there are in the United States

about 250,000 miles of road.

The commissioner of patents, Frederick I. Allen, stated positively that the patent office will not under any circumstances issue patents on so-called “perpetual motion” machines, and that no patents for such machines have been issued by the patent office for the last forty years. 11118 statement of the commissioner was made in response to an Inquiry regarding the alleged issue of a patent for a per-

petual machine.

Edison has made but one speech in his life; It was not a brilliant one. He had agreed to lecture on electricity before a girls seminary, and had engaged a friend named Adams to work the apparatus while he talked. But when the inventor arose to address his audience he felt so dazed that he simply said: “Ladies, Mr. Adams will now address you on electricity and I will demonstrate what he has to say with the apparatus.” Harriet Martlneau visited the United States In 1840 and reported that only seven occupations were open to women. They were teaching, needlework, keeping boardera, working in cotton factories,. typesetting, bookbinding and household service. On account of the generosity of the late Joseph Park, millionaire merchant, in building thirty miles of macadamized roads for the town of Rye, N. Y.^ at his own cost, a number qf persons are about to raise funds to erect a monument to

his memory.

The annual report of the Nitrate Association of Chile, which controls the world's supply of nitrate of soda, shows the production in 1902 to have been 2.&S2.522.80 pounds from seventy-eight works. The nitrate beds are near the surface and are, worked as stone quarries. It is anticipated that the immense amount of nitrate the United States now gets from Chile for use in fertilizers will ultimately be supplied by factories making it by electrical process from the air, as is being done at Niagara Falls. A Western politician is authority for the following story: Mark Hanna once gave a banquet in Ohio to fifty farmers. The dessert was to be twenty-five luscious Georgia watermelons. The day before the dinner Mr. Hanna had tbe melons plugged and poured a pint of champagne into each melon, then placed them on ice. After the dinner each fanner got half a melon. They began tasting them, winked at each other, looked wise and before the affair was over every farmer was slipping the seeds Into his vest

pocket.

It is possible that the school child may be quite as readily fatigued by inspiring the waste products of his fellows as by hi* own. and that the business man Is more liable than the agricultural laborer

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Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts, is k> pessimist, so when he takes a gloomy view of the religious situation one can

but believe that

Qtttrdl find there must be somer,_ . thing to be said In reopie support of It. In his ' |§ convention address Bishop Lawrence said that “so fhr as sta tisttes can show It is doubtful If the church is more than keeping pace with the population." In his opinion “the ministry Is nqt apparently increasing In num bers or power." and he is obviously right in saying that “a great proportion of the intelligent men and leaders of our communities have no active interest in the church.” This is true even of many men who are professedly members of the church. It is, of course, easy to hold the world responsible for all this, and Bishop Lawrence rather seems to do so. He tells us that "the interest in commercial, material, social and intellectual life is gaining a stronger hold on the people”; that “the tests of life among many are in social and financial success,*’ and that “sport and amusement are malting great inroads on our Sunday congregations. But has not it always been so to a certain extent? When was there a time in which there was not enmity between the church and the world? Long ago it was written that “the friendship of the world is enmity with God.” Even so It is to-day. The trouble is no doubt in part due to the world, but the church Is not blameless. Instead of splendidly challenging the world and the world spirit, it too often complains of both—complains In a way that is at least not dignified. The question is not merely one of what we sometimes call a declining faith, though, of course, honest men think that Christian people should really believe what they pretend to believe. There may be some fault here. But the most serious obstacle tn the way of church growth Is the fact that people refuse even to do the church the honor of persecuting It They simply let it go-are indifferent to it. This Is true of very many nominal Christian people. So many of them seem merely to play with their religion, to patronise the church, to join it and adhere to it for unworthy reasons, and to make it a cloak and cover for their ambitions, that conscientious men on the outside are disgusted ahd repelled. The church Itself is much to blame for this condition of things. It does not demand—It begs. It is content with so much less than it has a right to Insist on. The mere matter of r&mng money for church purposes has some bearing on this question. When you present a good proposition to a business man he does not hesitate to invest his money in it But the church, which, if It la anything, is the light of the world, the ark of safety, the teacher of mankind and their divinely Inspired guide into truth, Is forced to beg for its very life, and to resort to fairs, lotteries, grab-bags and entertainments of all sorts In or$$ to wheedle money out of the pockets of men who, on the Christian theory, owe all that they have to the church. Is not the Idea that tbe church can not successfully compete with golf and other Sunday .sports a humiliating thing to think about? Surely it Is. The church must live up to its claims. It must not all the while be seeking the aid and protection of the law. The men who stay away from church because they want to Indulge In Sunday sports would, we may be very sure, find an excuse, even though there were no Sunday sports, for staying at home on Sunday. If the church was ever needed in the history of the world, it is needed to-day. But It must find some way to demonstrate to an exceedingly practical and much-absorbed generation that it fills a great need. To do this It must be earnest, must believe Its own gospel and enforce its discipline on rich and poor alike. We are In danger of having a commercialized church. Men, of course, are greatly to blame for their Indifference to things spiritual. But our religious teachers are also somewhat to blame.

may go further and say con be commanded at any time man who la master of himself, though, of course, rest can not. “Give unto thy , servants," we pray, “that peace which the world can not give/* Such peace la always at hand. So whether ere ever get rest or not, we can know the blessedness

of peace.

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nously and therefore personally manufactures more waste products, but because

strikes or lockouts in to arrange for body of employof the trade, certainly Is that there

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To tho people of this city the fight that

for Us control means a fight between the machine and the rank and file. It is important to Indianapolis because it has within It the possibilities of good and bad government. If James L. Keaeh has won

his fight the people will look to him to

wisely la abandoning a monarchy for »j «toe that a strong, honest man is nomin-

republic — we leave that to the Daughters of tbh American Revolution, or the Daughters of the Revolution, or both. But on the main proposition there Is much that may he said. We have had the aptooitsh Idea that this was pre-

, „ _ urated with the waste product* of him lltical variety, they are liafc.e to a se- self and others derived from the confined vere jar, when the light goes out. A atmosphere in which he works. Excessive

ln th6 1>&r i ly practical demonstration of this will be [^ e n0 S tf^^^croSd^ir

ill ventilated.

If the slightly curved, extended tendril of a young leaf of pea or vetch be watched carefully It will be found that it is slowly

round and round .1 comes into con-

, _ bends toward it and

machines that are trying to burnthe. eventually takes several turns around ft.

^Even a slight temporary irritation is suf-

ficient to cause a bending toward any

side. Finally the tendril becomes woody irrrwers and irwerhante \ an d strong and forms a secure anchor

Japanese growers and merchants have, fcr th * plant. >-<* only does the

young tendril rotate; the whole leaf on which it is borne is tn continual motion,

a ted for mayor. There are plenty of good men tn the Democratic party for this office. If in the final manipulations it should prove that Taggart after all gets control he will be held responsible and the people will only be satisfied with a

given in this city. October 13, next. At East Ashtabula. O., hi an emergency, j

an automobile was successfully used to drag a plow. Something like this would ; but incessantly moving r< be mighty good training for some of the | ln a dfcl®- If the tendril 7 * .__T , “ \ tact with a twig it bends

aehines that are trying to burn the 1 vements off some of tbe streets. Seems a pity that such a provision wasn’t to-1

eluded in the ordinance

A boedthg ccuncltman to a danger to his city. Hornst men endeavor to do

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The Commoner Is discussing a number of Democratic presidential possibilities with a brief biographical sketch of each one. Among the names given consideration so far are Stone, Head and Williams The Democrat* of Indiana are as intelligent as those in any State of the Union, and yet the chances are that not one in a score of them can locate all three of these men or any two of them, or for that matter any one of them.—Anderson Herald. Mr. Byers, the warden of the Jeffersonville Reformatory, whom the smoothbore* politicians of the State would have removed In order to find a place for a rlngster. was elected secretary of the ( National Association of Charities and Correction, at Atlanta. For Indiana t© turn him out of his position at Jeffersonville in order to aid the Governor in forming a political machine will be a disgrace to the State and an incult to its

intelligence.—Richmond Item.

Now that the proud Caucasians of Georgia have raised a puree of money for the Indianapolis chambermaid who was discharged for refusing to make up

Booker ’

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Booker T. Washington's bed. the popularity of this distinguished negro to likely to grow at a tremendous rats among hotel girls. The privilege of refusing to make his bed to well worth seeking. Possibly the citizens of Georgia do not perceive that they are making themselves ridiculous. -Crawfordsville Journal.

Timely Hint [Tuscoa (Aria) Citizen ] It to discovered that English schoolboys are bigger than the average of twen-ty-five years ago. Here’s a powerful hint for Yankee hoys to quit cigarettes and resume growing. Entitled to It rru-iHtoi “My dear.” said a lady to a friend who was complaining of a servant, "you can’t expect all the virtues for £12 a year/* “But I pay £121“ was the practical response.

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formed a powerful trust to control the sale of tea in foreign countries. Is t>e

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good nomination. Deep and bitter com-^panned in thla manner without reprisal?

The London Spectator somewhat impatiently asks, “Will this Generation Rest?” The question is important, for

rest is a necessity,

Rest and and it Is quite posslp ble for events to rCaCC move so rapidly as

to have a bad effect

on the human spirit. Among the evils consequent on our present rush and hur-

ry, the Spectator names these:

The thoughtful people of Europe sigh for a period ot rest and quiescence, for they see, or think they see, that a generation Is growing up with an inaptitude for reflection, whose thoughts are like atoms of quicksilver, which form no solid, and whose characters axe not buildings, but sand-heaps. It is not in a dust storm, they say, that healthiness is generated, or that men acquire the ability to do anything. Nothing-gets settled in all this welter and whirl, and it is when the world to settled and change Is not expected that great minds gather their strength. We all perceive this In the present aspect of literature, which produces everything except great poems, great dramas and great ideas; and it is equally true of that perpetual rush of events which has followed the modern pooling of the world. It pulverizes rather

than solidifies character.

What an old and familiar complaint this is! Thousands of years ago the Psalmist wrote. “O, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.” And again he said that God would keep those whom He loved “from the strife of tongues.” The craving for rest to universal, and as old as the race. Thoughtful men have always felt that the rush and whirl of the world were at least not conducive to reflection and meditation. They were right —they are right now. But has the situation really changed? The Spectator thinks that “the stream of events to running faster’’ now than ever before. But to admit this is not to admit the whole case. For nothing is clearer than that there to a marvelous capacity in men to adapt their pace to the movement of events. The question then is not whether events move faster, but whether there has been any growing disproportion between the movements of men and their minds, and the movements of events. And that. It must be admitted, is by no means easy to show. The minds of men, even if they do not grow — and surely they must grow — at least change and become more acute and complex. Always there Is correspondence between the abilities of men and the work they have to do. The old promise endures—“Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days so shall thy strength be.” Nor is it quite

to become run down, not so much be- true that - nt i3 while the world Is settled cause he works harder or more monoto- ^ change not expected that great

minds gather their strength.” At least the best work has been done in times of stress, and in eras of expansion and sometimes of feverish activity. Of course, it may be said that the minds of men had been prepared for their work In preceding periods of rest and quiet ■ but that to a mere assumption. It would be quite as easily proved that minds get their impetus and inspiration from contact with great and rushing events, and that they do their work whenever time serves. We know what an awakening came to England during the time df Elisabeth. Finally there is some tendency to confuse rest with peace. The Spec-

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