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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900. THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1000. Telephone Call. Buiicft Office 22$ I Editorial Rooms 8 terms of subscription, daily bt mail. . Dally only. cn month ............ -70 rally cnlr, three months 2-W Tally only. ens year ' M raily. Includes; Sunday, one year 10 M Eucday only, one year.. .4 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BT AGENTS. Dally, t'-r week, by carrier 15 eta Funday, alrjle ropy t Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts VCEEKLT. t1 5er year 11-00 Redaeed Rates to Clubs. , Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mal'.i In the United Stau should rut on n lght-page paper & ONE-CENT potaje etair.p; 1 twelve cr sliteen-pase paper a TWO-CENT postage tamp. Foreign pcatag la usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned tn leta postage Is Inclosed for that purpose. TUB INDIANAPOLIS JOlll.XAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK Astor House. CHICAGO Palmer House. P. O. Newa Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grsnd Pacific HoteL CINCINNATI J. It. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Cook Co.. TZt Fourth avenue. , BT. LOUIS Union Newt Company, Union Depot. .Washington, d. c Riggs House. Ebbitt House and WUIard'a Hotel. One of our senators resents the Idea that the United States Is under any ob ligation to Providence to do anything to better mankind In the Philippines or else where. Admiral Dewey has promised to visit Chicago May 1 and attend the G. A. R. Encampment at Jacksonville, 111. on May 3. Why should not Indianapolis secure a date and have a Dewey day? It Is announced from time to time that "Coin" Harvey has issued or Is about to Issue a new book. There are no signs of It la the bookstores, nor are dealers giving large orders In advance. Most people have had, enough of Mr. Harvey's literature. Ex-Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, cays: "I am a loyal Democrat, but an American citizen and stand by the flag and the soldier who Is fighting for it." When a Republican asserts his loyalty he doesn't have to preface It with an apologetic "but." As the commission provided by the last Congress to consider the various routes for a transisthmian canal has not report ed, the reporting of the Hepburn bill In the House may be regarded as an at- A A. A. - M A. M a xempi ai snap judgment so lar as 11 nxes any particular route. George Westlnghouse Is reported to have said that, by a newly invented process, the garbage of cities can be converted econom ically into a fuel which can be used to drive gas engines to generate electricity. If Mr. Westlnghouse has made such a discovery as is indicated, he has solved a problem that baa troubled cities throughout the world for many years About the beginning of the year It was stated in a foreign dispatch that during 1S9S no less than 330 persons were impris oned in Germany for lese majesty, or speak ing disrespectfully of th Emperor. Now it is announced that on his approaching birthday he will pardon a majority of these offenders. Thus his exercise of vindictive punishment is made a foil for his exercise of mercy. A Washington correspondent who is not always careful about facts declared that the Paris peace commission was opposed to taking the Philippines in the treaty. Negotiations had not proceeded far when it was learned that Spain was trying to in duce some European government to take the Islands in order to escape the humil iation of ceding them to the United States. Thus it became a question between having the Philippines fall into the hands of Ger many, to whom they were offered, or in sisting upon their cession to the United States as a part of the treaty. The list of delinquent taxes published in the Journal yesterday contained a thou sand less pieces of property upon which taxes are delinquent than the list pub lished a year ago. This either means that real estate owners have been more careful to pay. their taxes or that they have more ready money which they can devote to that purpose probably the latter. "The contrac tion of the lists in the country townships is the most significant. There are but nine pieces of property In Franklin and Pike townships upon wh.cn the taxes are de linquent; in Warren township, eight, and in Decatur, seven. In the latter the total de linquency is but $32.03. The calamity howler alone will find no satisfaction in such facts. The Detroit Free Press publishes statis tics showing that the pine forests of that State, once regarded as inexhaustibfe, are fast nearing destruction and the lumber trade of the State Is falling off in propor tion. The ruthless slaughter of pines, so often and so vainly protested against, has nearly accomplished its work. "As a ro sult of this situation." says the Free Press editorially. "Michigan Is a chief sufferer. Many of her mills have shut down or fin ally gone out of commission. Entire fleets owned by private Interests and formerly employed in the lumber trade, have been laid up or converted to other service." A similar process of forest destruction is .going on in other States to an extent that will make coming generations wonder why the present one did not inaugurate some policy to repair the waste it causes. The out-and-out 15-to-l Bryanites regard the re-election of Parks M. Martin, as chairman of the Democratic state commit tee, as a distinctive victory for the Chi cago platform of Those who know de clare that the chief opposition to Mr. Mar tin came from Mayor Taggart, Mr. Morss, of the Sentinel, and the element that sees the hopelessness of making the campaign of 1W) on the silver Issue. This element toped to make Mr. Murdock, an antl ellver man, chairman, but with all the in fluence of the able men who are scattered over the State they could control but two or possibly three of the members of the committee. - The silver element is said to be much elated over the election of Mr. Martin, and predict that the Indiana le gation to the Democratic national conven tion will be soidly In favor of an out-and-out declaration for the free coinage of sil ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. In this the sll verltes may be overconfident unless the majority enforces the unit rule, as It Is probable that antlIlver delegates may be chosen from this district. Mr. Margin In an interview expresses the opinion that the Democrats of Indiana will be as enthusi astic for free silver in 1D00 as they were In 1S0S. If Mr. Martin believes this he is the victim of his own delusion. Four years ago Democrats and others, whenever they met, talked of nothing else but 16 to L Long before Mr. Bryan's nomination the party was so decidedly for silver that in Indianapolis it defeated Mayor Taggart, backed by all his close political friends. At the present time the sllverites in this dis trict cannot put up a respectable fight against him and Mr. Morss. The Repub licans are pleased with the election of Mr. Martin. He has a rare capacity for predict ing things that never come about. A WORK OF NATIONAL - NECESSITY. As it looks now one of the valuable re sults of our war with Spain will be to Insure and hasten the construction of the Nicaraguan canal. There could be no more striking evidence of this slow evolution of the United States from a comparatively isolated to a world power than the long neglect of the great work. As long as we were merely an agricultural people with the seat of empire near the Atlantic sea board or in the Mississippi valley, the urgency of this work was not pressing. The growth of the Pacific States made it important, and our new relation to the far East has made it essential to national progress and protection. It is the one great interoceanic waterway on the globe whose importance to commerce has always been recognized and the completion of which will add enormously to the naval and com mercial prestige of a power already among the greatest. It must not be assumed, however, because the canal has not been constructed before this that American statesmen have not long recognized It as among the necessary works of the future. In one form or another the project has been approved by Presidents and discussed In Congress for more than fifty years past. As long ago as 1847 a treaty between the United States and New Granada secured for the former a right of way for a canal across the isthmus. President Polk trans mitted the treaty to the Senate on Feb. 10, 1S47, with a special message Iii which, alluding to the canal feature, he said: The Importance of this concession to the commercial and political Interests of the United States cannot easily be overrated. The vast advantages to our commerce which would result from such a com munication, not only with the west coast of America, but with Asia and the Islands of the Pacific, are too obvious to require any detail. Such a passage would relieve us from a long and dangerous navigation of more than 9,000 miles around Cape Horn and render our communication with the possessions on the northwest coast of Arc erica comparatively easy and speedy. The President then proceeded to point out the advantageous features of the treaty and urged the undertaking of the work. Since then It has been approved, either as the Panama or the Nicaraguan canal in messages by Presidents Taylor, Pierce, Filmore, Buchanan, Hayes, Arthur, Cleve land, Harrison and McKinley, and has been the subject of a great deal of discussion in Congress and diplomatic correspond ence. But during all this time no real prog ress was made toward the consummation of the work. Its Importance was recog nized, but apparently not its necessity. The war with Spain has shown that the time has come when it can no longer be neglected without Injury to national pres tige and danger to the national interests. The present session of Congress should not be permitted to end without definite steps being taken to insure the early commence ment of the work and its completion as soon as practicable. Not to speak of its Importance to the commerce of the world it is so plainly a work of national protec tion and defense for the United States. that to neglect or postpone it longer would be In the highest degree discreditable to American statesmanship. DETERMINED TO FIND FAULT, The speech of Representative Richardson in the House on Tuesday should not cause surprise. Leading a party in that body and in the country which has no Issues upon which it can agree to go to the coun try, he and his associates are forced to di vert attention from the humiliating posi tion of their party by assailing the acts and motives of high officials of the admin istration. Secretary Gage has done what any other treasurer or business man would have done under the circumstances. He sold a piece of property by. direction of Congress lo the highest bidder. There was no favoritism in this. The bids show that. The purchasers were required to pay in cash about one-third of the amount bid for the property. Instead, they paid the whole within a few thousand dollars. They paid the United States treasurer with a certi fied check upon the bank of which they are stockholders and managers. That bank having been for a long time one of the depositories of United States funds, the draft was deposited to the credit of the government. The Secretary of the Treas ury might have taken ine money from the bank and had it locked up in the sub treasury, but years ago Congress learned that the locking up of all the revenues of the United States in the subtreasuries would, when collections were large, draw from the channels of business so much money as to cause a stringency, so It au thorized the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit the funds of' the government in national banks which would offer security in United States bonds. This power was conferred upon the Secretary of the Treas ury that he might do Just what he did with the money received from the sale of the property In New York, and that which all of Mr. Gage's predecessors have done; namely, put the fund3 where they could be used in the business of the country Mr. Richardson must know these facts. He must hav known them years ago. when there were Democratic houses and when Democratic secretaries were doing the same thing that Mr. Gage has done. If it was such an offense to deposit the money In banks which would loan It, why did he not present a bill repealing the present law or amending it so that a part of the interest received by the banks should be paid over to the United States? If the Tennessee statesman regards the law as unwise why does he not denounce the law for seek Its repeal? Simply because ho is not opposed to the law. If Mr. Gage had locked up the surplus of the government in the subtreasuries. thus keeping it out of circulation, he would have been denounced by Mr. Richardson for conspiring with the money-dealers to create a stringency that they might ex tort an exorbitant' rate of interest from borrowers. Now that Mr. Gage has depos ited the money with all the national banks asking for deposits upon security of bonds, he is denounced for allowing the banks to have money to loan to the people, and It is stigmatized as gross favoritism to the money power. The Richardsons of the opposition would have been indignant in any event because they are anxious to divert the attention of the country from party leaders who have not an issue on which they can agree to go before the peo ple. That is the reason for Mr. Richard son's asault upon Mr. Gage. It is one of many that will' be made. Testimony to the efficiency of the exami nation system used by the Civil-service Commission comes from an unexpected quarter. An official connected with the commission says business men avail them selves of, it to a surprising extent. "Al though few people know It," he says, "we are being called on every day by dry goods merchants, brokers and men in all branches of trade and professions for information regarding available young men whom they can employ. Our published register of eliglbles for various positions is in constant demand and I am continually hearing of men who get employment through this list." It stands to reason that a person who has passed successfully the government, examination and been placed on the eligi ble list for appointment is above the aver age of those "hunting jobs" in business. History repeats itself in more ways than one. President James K. Polk, in his sec ond annual message, sent to Congress Dec. 8, 1S46, made the following allusion to the opposition some Americans were making to the Mexican war: The war has been represented as unjust and unnecessary and as one of aggression on our part upon a weak and injured enemy. Such erroneous views, though en tertained by but few, have been widely and extensively circulated, not only at home, but have been spread throughout Mexico and the whole world. A more effectual means could not have been devised to en courage the enemy and protract the war than to advocate and adhere to their cause, and thus give them "aid and comfort." That fits the Hpar-Pettigrew faction of Aguinaldlst sympathizers perfectly. There are other ways of giving "aid and comfort" to the enemies of the government than by sending them munitions of war. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Forecast. When we have such nice weather, 'tis this way, perhaps The office boy runs things, while the boss takes nice naps. Keeping: It Up. "Well, how are things In Kentucky?" "No better; I believe both parties have a cordial understanding that a lively fight Is really about all the fun there Is in politics." Just Wise Enongh. In war's concerns as facts befall A middle-weight we need 'Twlxt those who'd never move at all And those whcfcd rush with speed. Ineffective. "Do you believe that social ostracism will wipe out trusts?" "Pooh, no; if a man belongs to a trust he's got money to buy his own cake and Ice cream." A Society Tragedy. "Tlffington had a queer experience on New Year's day." "What was It?' "He 13 so popular everyone thought he would be Invited somewhere else, so he wasn't Invited anywhere." Wise, Sure Enough. "Pa, why do xoIks call the owl the bird of wisdom?" "Because he's got sense enough not to come out and fly around until all boys about your size are in bed. ' MUST HELP OUR FELLOWS. Thomas D. Reed Discusses) the Duties of the Human Race, NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Thomas B. Reed, speaking at the annual meeting of the Uni versity Settlement Society, in this city, said he had always been attracted by the studyof what might be termed the genesis of the human race, and, in fact, he had talked and written a great deal more on the subject than he ever knew trying to put property In the place of knowledge. "There is something in the nature of man," he said, "that makes us stop and succor the weaker man or, if we do not, we suffer pains and penalties ourselves. Men are bound together, I say, by the Almighty. If not out of courtesy or kindliness, then for our own sake we must help our fel lows. It is not merely charity which con strains us it is something stronger, selfish ness, the great master of the human race. Selfishness will accomplish more thin the saintiier virtues. o it is to tne interest or each one of us that all should be lifted to our own level, and that interest certainly applies to this spot, where there are more people to the square mile I had almost said to the square yard than anywhere else on the globe." Mr. Reed then discussed the old ques tion as to why people will flock to the cities, in spite of . the fact that poets in all ages have sung the advantages of the country and all literature is filled with accounts of the squalor of the cities. As an Illustration of the difficulty of raising people to a higher level he spoke -of the slight progress made by the first genera tion of negroes born since the civil war. So with the first serious efforts to educate the Indians. "We educated one here and there," said Mr .Reed, "and then sent them back to their own country, expecting them to civilize the others. We did not know that It took education to apreclate educa tion. There should be education enough to keep the other countenance or none at all. All over the world we must work to bring our fellows forward. That, in fact, Is the one great work of men. and all earthly monuments will pass away before the re sult of the work of that kind will cease, lor whenever man ceases to help his fellow men the race will be no more." A HERO IN THE P00RH0USE. Henry Ilnsres, 03 Years Old, Who Saved Commodore Perry's Life. CHESTER. Pa., Jan.' 17. Henry Hughes, a hero of the eld navy, has been admitted into the county almshouse, at the age of ninety-five years. When nineteen years old Hughes enlisted for a three years' cruise on the sloop of war Levant as a sail maker. When the Mexican war broke out he sailed to Mexico on ne sloop of war St. Mary. He once saved the life of Commodore Matthew G. Perry, who had been am bushed by twelve Mexicans. He served on the Kearsarge. the brig Somers, the frigate Congress and the sloop of war John Adams. He was on the Kearsarge when Admiral Schley was a lieutenant on the same warship. After leaving the navy Hughes resumed his business of sail mak ing and continued it until old age inter fered, j BIG CROWDS NIGHTLY AT. ST. DAVID'S CHURCH TO HEAR FATHER HUNTINGTON. To-r!orrow at Noon He Will Talk at ' Christ Church nt the Request of Prominent CltJsens. Father Huntington, superior of the Order of the Holy Cross, of the Episcopal Church, has been In the city all week, preaching at St. David's Church, corner of Talbott ave nue and East Twenty-fourth street. His preaching has created a very deep lmpres Elon, not alone by reason of the charm of his manner, but also from the clearness and forcef ulness of his thought and the ripeness of his scholarship. There have been large audiences nightly at St. David's. The theme of Father Huntington's dis course last night to a crowded house was "Venial and Mortal Sins and Their Effects." He showed how persistence in small sins puts one in condition to commit larger sins by rendering one insensible to their enormity. He offered a definition of sin, saying: "It is the contradiction in thought or word or deed of the holy word of God by the free will of the intelligent creature." A very sharp line was drawn by the speaker between faults committed without intent or with slight Intent and wrongs done deliberately. He said, however, that there is but a hair's breadth between venial and mortal sin, and the devil loves a venial sinner because he knows that if he persists In his course he is always within easy reach. MORTAL, SIN DESCRIBED. Father Huntington gave the following vivid description of, a mortal sin: "If you have done a wrong with your eyes wide open, done it against your con science, done it against the pleadings of the Holy Spirit, then you know how you felt the sense of having lost content with God, the sense of bejng in a strange world, the sense of being cut off from God you did not know yourself, as it were, after you had committed that sin. Perhaps you were already feeling something of the pleasure of it, the unjust gain or the revenge you had taken and they say revenge Is sweet and yet, in spite of that consciousness of pleasure, there was deeper than that a consciousness of pain, a wrench, a tearing of yourself away from your true center, a consciousness of misgiving and perhaps fear. I appeal to your own conscience and your own memory whether that is not so, whether you did not feel, perhaps even an hour after you had committed that wrong, that you would give anything in the world if you had not done it. Perhaps In that hour you were laughing and talking and carrying on gaily with those about you, but there was a feeling of bitterness in your heart you had lost your sense f peace, you had lost your sense of being right with God. Now, that is mortal sin." The minister then stated the effects of mortal sin in this world to be five: (1) It cuts the soul off from God. (2) destroys all previous merit, (3) makes It impossible for the soul to merit grace and favor with God, (4) ruins the soul, (5) brings penalty and guilt. AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE. Before entering upon the second division of his subject the effect of mortal sin upon the soul after death Father Huntington asked the congregation to send up a silent prayer that he might speak humbly and not unworthily. The scene was .very im pressive. The ensuing discussion of the fu ture life was prefaced by some strikingly original observations: "Now, In considering that subject, my friends, we have' first of all to take stock of ourselves, to know .where we stand. Are there any reasons , whyo we. should be likely to be biased in regard tor this matter? Yes, there are three reasons why we should be very likely to look at this matter in a one sided way not In an impartial and just spirit. The first Is that we live in an age that has gone half mad with pity for phys ical sufferings, pity for temporal woes an age when we are compassionate to a fault. I do not mean every one, but I mean to say that the spirit of the age in which we live is a spirit that is keenly sensitive to suffering on the part of other people. More Is being done to-day for the alleviation of suffering of others than has ever been done before. And it is not always wise pity or sympathy; sometimes it is weak and fool ish. There are women to-day who will send bouquets of flowers to murderers; who will be so filled with a sense of regret for their unhappy fate that they will make them the objects almost of their adulation,' as t if they were heroes instead of felons. And in an age that is so sensitive to suffering we are very likely to be biased when we come to think of a suffering that has no end. Then, again, we live in an age that has made enormous advance, in knowledge of the external world. We have found out a great many things about the universe in which we live that we did not know before, and in an age in which scientific knowledge is so vastly increased we are very apt to suppose that we are much wiser in all mat ters than our fathers were, but that is not true. While we have greatly increased our knowledge In regard to the material uni verse, we have not Increased our knowledge one whit in regard to the spiritual universe. FATE OF THE SOUL "As to what befalls the soul after death we are In no better position to know than men who lived 1,800 years ago We are not advanced in that direction. We have had no facts brought in from that field. I am not forgetting the assertions of certain among us who claim to be in direct connec nection with the unseen world, but can they point to one contribution made to human knowledge or: art or literature from those realms from which they purport to have messages? Has one noble poem been added to our literature? Has one secret of another been revealed? Has one truth they have not held before dawned upon the human mind? It seems to me not too much to say that in regard to the knowledge of the soul after death we have not advanced anything through all the Investigations of the human mind, through all the philoso phers that have made their clamor in the world for 1.S00 years. And there is another thought that must always be present when we come to consider the condition of the Impenitent soul after death, and that Is that we ourselves are sinners, and that sin is pleasant and penitence is hard. There is no doubt about it, sin is pleasant and peni tence is hard, and therefore we would be very willing to believe that sin is not dan gerous and penitence i3 not necessary. If you had to Impanel a jury to tlecide this case, where would you find your twelve impartial men? Where would you find your twelve men who had not some bias in the matter and who would not be glad to be lieve If they could that sin bore no fruit of everlasting misery and that penitence is nothing but a bit of melodrama?" In concluding his sermon Father Hunt ington said: "Some one wrote to Voltaire, the celebrated unbeliever: I have at last proved the impossibility of hell.' Voltaire wrote back: 'I congratulate you.- I am very far from having proved It.' So we come back to the utterance of the church: There is a hardness and Impenitence of heart that Is fraught with everlasting evil to those who willfully persist in it, and such obdurats sinners will ultimately be ex cluded from the presence of God and con demned to a state of misery that knows no end.' If we know anything about ourselves, we shall learn to say that is true, and from everlasting condemnation good Lord deliver us." SENTENCES CULLED. The sermon fairly bristled with senten ces that were almost epigrammatic, some of the most unique of which follow: "The more we love God the less we shall leve self, but also the less we love self the less we shall love God." "It U not by their natural life that orange trees bear sweet oranjees: it Is be- cause they received that life from a sweet orange tree because they have been grafted." "We can render to God In kind when we leve Him; in other things we aannot do so. If He commands, we do not dare to command Him; we must obey. If God re wards, we cannot give Him anything; we can only thank Him and praise His name. If God threatens, we can only entreat; we cannot threaten Him. But God loves, and we can love Him; we can return in kind to God when we give love for love. and that love for God is a friendship, a love in which we are mutually related with God as friend with friend; and therefore our human friendships are an analogy of God's friendship." "It may seem a hard thing that when you commit a mortal sin you wipe out all you ever did for God, all the prayers you ever said, all the sacrifices you ever made for Him. but would it not be so in an earthly friendship?" "The soul is not to cease to exist, and that means it is not to cease to feel." "When a man has been robbed by some powerful corporation, when he finds him self a victim of some gigantic fraud. In this age when Juries are packed and judges are bad he is apt to appeal to a Judgment towards which he looks and where he be lieves the cause will be reopened and a Just verdict given." "There is only one soul that has ever left this world of whom we have author itative witness as to its final portion, only one soul about which we have a clear and definite statement that it is lost forever, and that Is the soul of Judas. He went to his own place. " "It Is not so difficult, not so mysterious to think that evil should not end as that evil should have started." TO-MORROW AT NOON Father Huntington Will Address Men at Christ Church. Several prominent citizens who are anx ious to hear Father Huntington yesterday sent him the following request: ' "We, busi ness men and others, being desirous of hearing you speak In our city, and having been prevented from press of business and otherwise, would request that you should address us and others at noon on some day of the current week, at such place as may be named by you." This was signed by James A. Mount, J. M. Winters, B. B. Peck, Thomas L. Sullivan, E. C. Miller, E. B. Porter, A. Q. Jones, Larz A. Whit comb, F. M. Herron, James W. Hess E. B. Martindale, Charles A. Sudlow, Allison Maxwell, C. E. Ilollenbeck, George ' W. Sloan, Charles R. Williams, B.'C. Kelsey, George C. Hitt, T. Taggart, Evans Wool len. John S. Lazarus. Edward L. McKee, George A. Gay, Charles M. Merrill, S. E. Morss. Father Huntington replied as follows: "Such an invitation as yours would con strain my acceptance under almost any cir cumstance. Here, In your city, where al ready much kindness has been shown me, acceptance is not only a duty, but a pleas ure. "It is particularly gratifying to me that so many of the names appended to your call are those of men in the midst of busi ness responsibilities and financial cares. I can well understand that life under such conditions must, in this age, engross almost every moment of time must exhaust every mental faculty. To look beyond the present, the visible, the material, must be proportionately difficult. Yet your request to me implies that other things have weight with you than efforts to Increase wealth or to lose as little of it as possible. That augurs well for your community. "It has seemed to me that what men un der such pressure need. Is a very definite and dogmatic faith, as sbstantial and solid as the actualities with which they grap ple every day, and a faith finding expres sion in tangible forms, and in uncompro mising obligations to render to God Ulis due. Vagueness in religion and a theology of platitudes must be profoundly unsatis factory to practical men. "It is In this belief that with humility. ,but yet with the confidence of well-tried convictions, I accept your Invitation, and I shall be glad to meet as large a number of you, . and your fellow-citizens, as may be possible, next Friday, Jan. 19, at ten minutes past 12 o'clock, In Christ Church, which has been placed at my disposal by the courtesy of the rector. . Will you kindly let it be known that the meeting is for men exclusively and that It will end precisely at half past 12." WILL ORGANIZE. Upholstered Furniture and Lounge Workers Have a Conference, About twenty Indianapolis manufactur ers, representing the upholstered furniture and lounge makers of this city met yester day and Tuesday in the Century Clubroom at the Denison to make arrangements to join the association now being formed in Chicago to embrace all similar manufac turers in the-country. The firms represented yesterday were the Kramer Manufacturing Company, the Indianapolis Lounge Company, Thomas Madden & Son, -3 L. W. Ott Manufac turing Company, O. E. Ward and several of less importance. The objects sought for are said to be a better regulation of sales and a better and more uniform system of terms and credits. In addition to this the association about to be organized in Chicago which will be the parent organization will take on many of the features of a similar association In New York by which members in different cities are given the benefit of a system of buying by which all the members are sup plied from one source at prices lower than it would be possible to secure from Job bers or from manufacturers were each to act independently. As yet no name has been given to either the Indianapolis association or the Chi cago body, as it is understood from infor mation given out last night that consid able still remains to be done in the. way of organization. FUNERAL OF MAJOR EHHETT. Services at Whitsett's Chapel and Durlal at Crown Hill. The funeral of Major Robert Emmett was held yesterday afternoon from Whitsett's Chapel, which was profusely decorated with beautiful floral designs. The services were conducted by Rev. W. D. Engle, who was assisted by a quartet, led by General Richardson, which sang "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Bear Him Away Tenderly." The closing hymn was composed by Gen eral Richardson In memory of his de ceased comrade. Major Emmett had many intimate friends here, and the attendance was beyond thq capacity of the chapel. The-burial was at Crown Hill. The serv ices at the grave were also largsly attend ed. The Indianapolis Light Infantry, one company of the Uniform Rank. Knights of Pythias, the George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., and the Masonic Mystic Tie Lodge com posed the escort to the burial place. The Masonic order conducted its burial rites, and was followed by G. 11. Thomas Post, G. A. R., which held its usual burial serv ice. A military salute by the Light Infan try, followed by "taps" by the Infantry trumpeter, concluded the ceremony. The pallbearers were George W. Powell, W. L. Helskell, A. A. Womack, Thomas' Wlnterowd. Dr. Benene. W. T. Walker. General McKee, General Richardson and General J. R. Carnahan. all of whom served on the staff with Major Emmett during his military service. SENATOR ELLISON Will Represent Indiana at the Brus sels Prison Congress. . The Board of State Charities held its quarterly meeting yesterday. The meeting was devoted almost entirely to the reports of Secretary Butler of his visits to the various institutes in the State, all of which were received with favorable comment. The secretary reported thirty-five boards of county charities appointed in the last quarter. Governor Mount, who presided at the meeting, announced that he had appointed Senator Ellison to represent Indiana at the International Prison Congress to be held in Brussels next June. The Senator has been invited by the Congress to prepare a report on the prison work in Indiana. Perry Township Meeting. Rev. J. R. Henry, pastor of the Baptist Chuich at Southport, has called a citizens' mass meeting for to-morrow night, at the schuolhouso In Southport. to consider remonstrances against roadhouses in that vicinity. DRUGGISTS ARE SCORED DU. J. F. CALLE N ADDRESSES A SMALL ANTI-SALOON 3IEETING. He Says They Dally Violate the Nich olson Law A Plea for the Saloon Keeper. The meeting of the Anti-saloon League held. in the Sunday-school rooms of the Meridian-street Church last evening, was very poorly attended, but the people who were there were treated to a very inter esting diatribe directed against the drug gists of Indiana, and especially of Indian apolis, by J. F. Callen, ex-secretary of the State Liquor League. According to a state ment made by Dr. Callen. the St&te is befng cheated every year out of more than $300,000 by retail liquor dealers who have evaded paying thheir licenses required under the Nicholson law. He said there were 7,178 liquor dealers who paid a government license every year, which should yield to the school fund of the State $717,800, but Instead of that, the report of the superintendent xf public in struction for 1KO showed that the State had only collected $403,244.08. He said this deficit could be attributed to the fact that nearly one-half of the retail dealers who took out a government license were drug gists, who could run SC5 days in the year and sell whisky all day and all night, and yet, under the Nicholson law, they were not amenable to the law because they were supposed to sell by prescription. He said he would like to inform his audience that on last Christmas day he visited forty five drug stores in Indianapolis and In ev ery , one of them he purchased, without any false pretense that he was sick, a bottle of whisky, ranging all the way from four ounces to a pint. Dr. Callen said he presented the figures showing the shortage in the school fund to Governor Mount, who expressed himself as being very much surprised, "and," said Dr. Callen, "I was very much surprised that he was surprised, because I had told him these facts on previous occasions." PREDICTION BORNE OUT. Dr. Callen said the shortage In the school fund bore out the prediction he made in 1895 that the Nicholson law might do away with a. part of the saloons, but It would cause hundreds of drug stores to sell whis ky, and the State would not receive any benefit in the way of licenses. Said he: "If it were not for the NlAiolson law there would be no excuse for the drug stores to lay In four or five barrels of whis ky at a time. One of the best evidences that the druggist is evading the law of In diana," said Dr. Callen, "is the govern ment license you see tacked up in his store." He said that before the druggist could procure a license from the govern ment it is necessary for him to make an affidavit that he was a retail liquor dealer. Dr. Callen said that in many of the drug stores it was a common custom to carry on a dice game behind the prescription counter. He said three bills were intro duced in the last Legislature, any one of which, had it passed, would have caused police surveillance to be exercised over ev ery drug store exhibiting a government li cense, but like all the rest of the bills which were not wanted by the politicians, they were defeated. He said that during the last session of the Legislature he was called before the temperance committee of the House and Invited to make statements of his observa tions, and when he entered the room he found about a dozen of the druggists of this city. He said he made a truthful statement of the conditions as he found them, and when he had finished the drug gists arose, in great indignation and apos trophized his remarks as an Insult to the druggists In the State of Indiana, saying that there might be a few who would sell without prescription, but that was to be expected, as there were unscrupulous men In every walk of life. Dr. Callen said that he asked them if they could point out the honorable members of the profession who would not sell without a prescription, and when they declined to do this, he asked them if the very officers of the State Board of Pharmacy were above doing such a thing, and when they emphatically in sisted that they were. Dr. Callen said, he brought into the room a basket containing a number of bottles of whisky, the very first one of which he had purchased from a member of the pharmacy board at his drug store. THE CLUBS. Said Dr. Callen: "Our honorable Mayor says that he don't believe any law should be enacted that would interfere with the respectable clubs in the city, for it seemed just like invading a man's home, but I want to say that if Mr. Taggert had seen the sight I saw the other night when a certain prominent gentleman was being driven home from one of the fashionable clubs, so beastlly Intoxicated that he could not recognize his own wife, bye' might have entertained a different opinion." Dr. .Callen said that lor some reason or other there seemed to be a disinclination on the part of the State, county and city officials to interfere with the drug store trade. Said he: "Since the facts before alluded to were placed before the Governor, he has had several consultations with the attorney general, and that gentleman has informed me that Governor Mount intends to Impress upon the next Legislature the necessity of taking some definite action In the matter, but as there will be anothei Governor when the next Legislature con venes. I doubt very much if that function ary will consent to Governor Mount giving advice in a matter in which he might have taken some definite action when he uad the opportunity." Dr. Callen said that too much attention was given to the saloon keeper, who was being persecuted by the misguided members of the Anti-saloon League and other tem perance organizations, when their efforts should be directed to the party most bene fited In the liquor traffic, which was none other than the government. ARE PERSECUTED. He said the saloon keeper made less money than any one, and yet they were perse cuted by the government, the breweries whose vassals they are, and by the tem perance people, and all the time the drug gists who sold more liquor, kept open 3C3 days in the year and paid no license to the State were treated with reverence by all. Said he: "The question may be asked why It is that the work oi reform has never produced the results expected of it, and I think the answer is simply that we who profess to be doing something for the bet terment of the people, have forgotten en tirely the spirit in which the work shouh be done; we have forgotten to follow li the steps of the Christ who taught us to take our brother by the hand and show him the error of his way, and have sought to drive the saloon keeper, who is the possessor of as much heart and soul as any of. us, into complying with our de mand." Dr. Callen said that the salooi keeper did not have to go far to see. the fallacy of our religious professions, fo even in the window of a room owned by the Y. M. C. A. was to be seen a sign adver tising u gambling scheme, in which a bi cycle was to be raffled off at some future tfate. He said the work of the present tem perance societies was like "killing a sturdy oak by chopping off a leaf here and there." The only way to get at the root of the matter," said he, "is to become master of the political situation, and I want to say that the conditions to be met with In thl3 city are as bad as those to be met with in any city of the United States." For the Katherlne Home. "A Lecture on Egypt." by Dr. C. I. Fletcher, Illustrated by 150 original stereop- tlcon views representing a personal visit to the tombs, temples and pyramids of the "land of the Pharoahs," will be given for the benefit of the Katharine Home, at Plymouth Church, to-morrow evening. at S o'clock. As indications point to the non fulfillment of Louis IL Adams's contract for an entertainment for the home on Jan. 27, all tickets sold for sue entertain ment, will be honored on piesentation at Plymouth Church, Jan. 19. for Dr. Fletch er's lecture, and two admissions will bo allowed on each of such tickets. Admis sion, 50 cents; children, 25 cents; gallery tickets for children, 15 cents. TWO ANDERSON W0HEN Are Supposed to Know Something About Missing- Diamonds Edna Crutchfleld and Amanda Meyers, who came here from Anderson, were ar rested yesterday by Detectives Gerber and Fort. They are charged with a minor of fense, but the women are believed to have been implicated in the disappearance ot two hundred dolars worth of diamonds and jewelry belonging to Miss Lydia Meyer, of Covington, Ind., who is the guest of Mrs. M. C. Baker. 103 West Walnut street. Miss Meyer went to Rink's cloak house Tuesday afternoon, and while In the fitting room left her shopping bag and wraps on a chair. In a small chamois sack was the Jewelry. When she went out she neglected to pick up the bag containing the Jewels, and when she returned a few moments later it was missing. The women under arrest were known to have been In the store at the time, and c-s of them, who was having a coat fitted, left, intending to return yesterday morning." She did not. And It was thought she knew something of the jewelry- The women were found at 507 4 East Washington street, in company with two men. who were also ar rested. They gave the names of George Snyder. 50TH East Washington street, and Irwin Beltzner. Anderson, lnd. The women allege ignorance of the theft. WILL DISINFECT MAILS DR. HURTY RECEIVES WORD FROH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. The Postmaster at Lesterville Ha Smallpox and Is Still t Work the Developments. The smallpox situation in Clay county has excited the attention of the govern ment authorities at Washington. Late yesterday afternoon Dr. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, received a telegram from Gen. Walter Wyman. chief of the marine service at Washlgton, stat ing that the government would dislDfect the malls at all points designated by the Indiana Board of Health. The telegram received was in reply to a message sent by Dr. Hurty to the authorities at Washing ton, informing them that the postmaster at Lestervlile had smallpox and was continu ing in the performance of his duties, with an utter disregard of the fact that he might be spreading the contagion all over the United States. Yesterday reports were brought in from Washington county by Dr. Ferguson, who was sent to investigate rumors of small pox. He says that the disease Is prevail ing to an alarming extent and he earnestly advised Dr. Hurty to establish a rigid quarantine. The authorities at Clay City advised the State Doard of Health yes terday morning that many of the citizens of the town were escaping to other towns despite the strict measures of quarantine in force. Dr. Hurty immediately tele phoned Dr. Davis, the president of th board at Richmond, advising him of the situation and asking that a meeting of the board be called. In speaking of a communication in one of the afternoon papers from the citizens of Clay City in which they express them selves as being highly indignant at Dr. Hurty for causing such excitement throughout the State over the smallpox situation, when in reality the disease is very mild, resulting In no fatalities. Dr. Hurty said that It was not the policy of the State Board of Health to wait for fatalities before taking action, and the citizens of Clay City would have to abide by the action of the board. Cases of Smallpox Reported. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Jan. 17. Several cases of what is believed to be the same disease, thought to have been chicken-pox at Clay City, but declared by Df. Hurty to be smallpox, have been reported north of town. The persons afflicted came from Clay City, and the symptoms of their dis ease are the same as in the hundred or more cases reported at Clay City. Clay City Is Not Excited. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: An undue amount of excitement has been caused by the published reports concern ing the prevalence of smallpox at this place. The News of yesterday says: "Res idents of the town are almost panic-stricken, bdt the quarantine prevents them from escaping." It also states that the popula tion of the town is 700, and that the dis ease had attacked nearly a third of the population. There has been no excitement here. There has been no quarantine, and people have not tried to escape. There have been between 200 and 300 cases, beginning with the early part of the fall. The phy sicians have treated for chickennox and. cured every case. We have a population, of about 2.500. instead of 700. Many of the patients never went to bed or even quit work. The Journal's Informant was in error when he stated that "when the citizens of the town became aware that the dis ease had been diagnosed as smallpox, they became frantic with fear and excitement, and many rushed home and began packing their cflects, with the intention of escap ing from the town, but they were too late. Acting under the Instructions of Dr. Hurty the officials immediately began the en forcement of the quarantine laws and no citizen who had come in contact with the disease was permitted to leave," The utmost freedom prevails as to the coming and going of our citizens no person being denied the privilege of going where he pleases. No one has heard of any person attempting to get away on account of Dr. Hurty's announcement. The disease, what ever it is. Is not half so severe as many cases of vaccination. There have been no fatalities from the disease. A great injustice has been done our town by these exaggerated statements, and in order that the public may know the true condition of affairs your informant offers the above-correction, without denying any official statement by Dr. Hurty. Our phy sicians report no cases of the confluent form. M. MARKLE. Clay City, Ind., Jan. 15. HR. STEELE INSTRUCTS Members of the Y. M. C. A. Camen Club In an Interesting; Talle T. C. Steele, the artist, talked last night before the Y. M. C. A. Camera Club. Nine members of the club were In attendance and Mr. Steele took his place in their midst and talked to them as an Instructor In a manner vastly more interesting than he could have done as a "lecturer." He took for his subject "Selection and Compo sition," and after he had finished telling what his subject meant In art generally, and especially in amateur photography, the points brought out were discussed by all present. The club is composed chiefly of young people, and in their eagerness to learn more of the art questions galore were asked. The club has planned for a series of talks, such as the one last night, by prom inent artists, on professional and amatuer photographers. Mattle Gideon Takes Poison. Mattle Gideon, living at the corner of West and Maryland streets, quarreled with her husband last night and swallowed a quantity of corrosive sublimate. She was in great agony until the dlnpensary . phy sicians arrived and relieved her.