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If tha United Miners would kindly con
Bent to furnish smokeless coal they would
earn the everlasting- gratitude of the coun
try The date of Mr. Bryan's acquisition of a
conscience may safely be fixed as subse
quent to the dlcision In the Bennett will
Bryan says that he has a candidate, but
he begs to be excused from mentioning his
name at the present time. This modesty is
s unexpected as it is becoming.
About all the countries on the globe have
now Intimated that they have rights in
Korea which must be respected. That Is,
Of course, all the countries except Korea.
Wrrliam Jennings Bryan is convinced that
his party Issue is Man vs. Mammon. In the
Btle drama which he is acting out in his
brain. Man is enacted by W. J. Bryan and
Mammon by W. R. Hearst.
"Things are already warming up in prep
aration for the national convention," re
marks a Democratic contemporary. A hot
time Is undoubtedly in store, for any kind
of a meeting held in St. Louis in July could
scarcely have chilly qualities.
It is particularly maddening to some of
the anti-administration newspapers that
after they have taken the pains to explain
the iniquity of the whole Panama affair
the American people should continue to
look at the matter so calmly and to de
mand the digging of the canal.
"The yellow peril" originally referred to
yellow fever. Afterwards it was used to
signify the danger of the encroachment of
the Mongolian race over the whole world.
Recently the Democrats have been applying
the term to Hearst and his string of saffron
sheets, from which they are fleeing about
the country as from the wrath to come.
The man Is merely the servant of the par
ty, and. however great the man may be,
public opinion is ever more important than
his Individual prejudice. As between the
Panama canal and Senator Morgan, the
Democrats are giving unmistakable signs of
preferring the canal. A philosophical ac
ceptance of the situation is up to Morgan.
Attorney General Knox has sperrt all the
money he could in fighting the trusts, but
he did not spend every cent of the appro
priation In that way, so the Democratic
papers are howling. If he had spent every
cent the Democratic papers would still have
howled at his "needless extravagance."
They certainly get the attorney general
coming and going.
Mr. Wu. of China, i.- now junior vice pres
ident of the Foreign Office. In China the
government amuses itself during quiet pe
riods by depriving its brainy men of office,
peacock feathers, yellow Jackets and things;
but as soon as affairs get shaky all these
articles are sent back by special delivery.
With an extra p rize package for good meus-
The recent payment of 1308,000 on the State
debt reduces it to tl.86S,15. 12. This is the
lowest point the debt has reached for more
than fifty years. In 1M84. when the Demo
cratic party last had control of State af
fairs, the debt was $7.436.615. The pay
ments on it during the last three years
have amount-d to $2.552,000. If nothing
foreseen happens to prevent, the debt
will b wiped out within the next two
pears.
The taxpayers of Chicago are about to
feel the results of allowing an inefficient
municipal administration to exist. Suits
for (iamag.s against the management of
the Iroquois theater and also against the
city, have been filed by the dozen by sur
viving victims, and the chances are that
more will follow. It will doubtless be held
that the city is liable for damages because
of rts failure to enforce the ordinances.
Slipshod city government is a costly thing.
A Missouri Judge has decided that col
leges have no Jurisdiction over the heart
affairs of their students and that they can
not legally withhold a diploma from on.'
who has fallen in love prior to the date set
far his graduation, it Is difficult to lmag-
lne why such t case should ever have ome
up, or why a college should take su?h a
step a the one which led to the suit.
Whatever may have been the Idea of the
college authorities, they have lost; and the
decision will be hailed with glee by "co-eds"
all over the land.
IHI VIM Hs M THK SO I VLIST
MOl I MF. NT.
As an attempt may be made to commit
the United Miners' convention to the Social
ist movement It may be well for the con
vention to be forewarned. The objects of the
movement are to get control of the ma
chinery of government and by legislation
put their scheme of public ownership Into
operation at once. Their platform for 1902
demauded:
(1). The public ownership of all means
of transportation and communication and
ail other public utilities, as well as all in
dustries controlled by monopolies, trusts
and combines, the revenue from such in
dustries to be applied to the increase of
wages and shortening the hours of labor
and to the improvement of the service cnd
diminishing the rates to consumers; (2),
the progressive reduction of the hours of
labor and the Increase of wages; (3), State
or national insurance of working people
In case of accidents, lack of employment,
sickness and want in old age, the funds
for thlsj purpose to be furnished by the gov
ernment, and to be administered under the
control of the working class; (4), the in
auguration of a system of public indus
tries, public credit being used for that pur
pose; (5, the education of all children up
to the age of eighteen years, and State and
municipal aid for books, clothing and food;
(6. equal civil and political rights for men
and women; (7. the initiative and referen
dum, proportional representation, nnd the
light of recall by their representatives.
These are the doctrines of socialism as
promulgated by the Social Democratic
party, which is the only Socialist party in
this country having any strength to speak
of. In the presidential election of lduO this
party polled 97.730 votes for Eugene V.
Debbs for President, and In 1902 it polled
231,000 votes in State elections. In 1903 the
American Federation of Labor defeated a
resolution to organize the labor unions Into
a Socialist party by a vote of 4.S65 to 4,303.
The objects and aims of the Socialists
contain some germs of good, but they are
opposed to the genius of American insti
tutions and go much too far in the direc
tion of government control of both capital
and labor. The adoption of their programme
by the labor unions would plunge the latter
into politics, make them a mere political
machine and probably be their ruin. The
most intelligent and conservative labor
leaders of the country. Including John
Mitchell and Samuel Gompers, are op
posed to the movement. In an address de
livered at the close of the miners' conven
tion In this city a year ago. President
Mit hell said:
I do not believe in the heresies that peo
ple are trying to inject into the trades
union movement. I believe that In this
country there is an evolutionary movement
in our industrial affairs. The trades union
movement is revolutionizing the affairs of
the union. We are gradually drifting to a
better condition, but we cannot advance
that movement by passing resolutions. It
cannot be helped nor retarded. I want to
see the mine workers keep away from such
movements. I don't want this organization
to chase after false gods nor pursue rain
bows. Stick to the trodden pr.ths of con
servatism and steer clear of the rocks on
which the wrecks of other labor organiza
tions are found.
Read between the lines this was a warn
ing to the miners not to run off after the
false lights of socialism. If it shows Its
head in this convention, the miners should
hit it, good and hard.
THK PROIIIHITIO t liOWL ( OV-
Ml 0H.
The decision of the national committee of
the Prohibition party to hold the national
convention in this city is a distinct recogni
tion of the merits of Indianapolis as a con
vention city. The peculiar feature of the
case is that the convention came here with
out requiring any financial guarantee. At
first it was decided to hold the convention
in Kansas City, and that city was given
thirty days to make good the financial
guarantee. That failing, it was decided to
hold the convention here without any guar
antee, the central location and accessibility
of the city and its reputation as a conven
tion city standing as an offset to such
guarantee.
The Prohibition managers are to be con
gratulated on the wisdom of their decision,
as the city is upon getting a national con
vention which will bring here quite a large
assemblage of the best class of people, and
yet not too large for the city to handle.
At present, Indianapolis has not the hall
nor the hotel accommodations for a na
tional convention of either of the two lead
ing political parties, but It can handle the
Prohibition convention very easily. As the
committee paid a compliment to the city
by locating the convention here without a
financial guarantee the city government
and citizens should reciprocate by giving it
a cordial welcome and hospitable treat
ment. The convention will meet June 28
and be in session three days.
a ew nuoiL
The latest labor organization promises to
be more formidable In its demands and per
sonnel than any that has yet been formed.
Orange, N. J., is the scene of this new
union's start, and servant ladies are the
members. The union demands a minimum
of $25 a month for eight hours a day, with
Thursday afternoons and Sundays off. One
servant is to be employed for every three
members in a family. None but union food
is to be used, and no remnants saved. The
woman of the house is to give her servant
ladies the use of the parlor three nights in
the week, and the use of the piano for
practice for an hour each morning. The
union will include 11 maids, laundresses,
cooks, chambermaids, waitresses and extra
help.
These terms seem to be reasonable. There
Is a generosity in allowing the employer to
use her own parlor four nights in the week
which indicates that the union ladles are not
going to be too severe right at the sturt. If
a family of nine has three servants and
there cannot be fewer under the union
rules each one must have an hour at the
piano each morning. This would leave no
time for the members of the family to prac
tice, but any well-regulated family could
get around this difficulty by having three
pianos.
Of coun e. the people who employ union
ladies will be obliged to make some changes
in their household economy and habits.
The custcm of having a more elaborate
dinner than usuaj on Sunday would have to
be discontinued, because the cook lady and
the waiting lady would both be off on that
day. This custom is a relic of barbarism,
anyway, and now is as good a time as any
to shake it off. Then, again, that rule
about saving no remnants is bound to be
followed by tremendous results. It will
have the effect of abolishing coread pud
dings, hash, zweiback, warmed-over pota
toes, cold chicken and other articles too
numerous to mention. The rules do not
specify what is to be done with those
things, but the families of the cook ladles
will probably be able to take care of this
side of the problem.
Another rule which cannot fail to have
an effect upon the social life of the woman
of the house Is the one which says: "If the
employer has more than four callers In one
afternoon she must answer the bell her
self." This rule will, of course, tend to
lessen the number of afternoon calls, and
thus do away with another social bore which
has always been more or less perfunctory.
Thus, it will be seen that, while at first
sight the rules of this new union may ap
pear startling, if one thinks them over for
a time and looks on the bright side; one will
see how beneficent they are. And, even If
certain inconveniences do arise at first, the
employer will soon get accustomed to
them, and In the course of time will forget
that any different state of affairs ever ex
isted. The father of the previously men
tioned family of nine is invited to think
how much he will be benefited. Perhaps he
is getting $150 a month. With such fair
wages and such a large family he must
keep a servant. But, if he has one, the
rules say he must have three. A minimum
of $25 a month to each will cut his salary in
half. At least $15 more must go for pay
ments on his three pianos. That will leave
him $60 to clothe and feed himself and his
family and servants. He cannot economize
on food, for no remnants can be used, and
he must buy union food, on which there is
no cut rates. So he will positively be
obliged to have a raise in salary, and there
is where the benefit comes in. You see, the
system will actually result in his being bet
ter paid.
With "Citizen" George Francis Train dies
one of the most extraordinary personalities
of modern times. After a life of ceaseless,
nervous activities in strangely diverse
linos, having taken prominent part in crit
ical points of the history of his own coun
try and of France, this traveler, writer,
lecturer and financier dies, "constructively"
insane and undoubtedly arrived at the limit
of eccentricity. His connection with the
Credit Mobilier, his record-making trips
around the world, the fact that he was the
prime mover in the founding of the Paris
Commune of 1871 any one of them and
other incidents In his eventful wife would
suffice to make him an interesting charac
ter. Perhaps he would have been one of
the greatest men of his age had there not
been "a screw loose somewhere."
Having become alarmed at the rapid
drying up of the Sea of Azof, the Russian
minister of public works has approved a
scheme for building a stone dam between
Azof and the Black sea. It is estimated
that the work will cost $500,000,000. The sur
face of the sea will be raised ten feet, and
three million acres which have been turned
to swamp during the last five years will
again bo made navigable. It is highly im
Iortant that the route from Azof via tho
Black sea to the Mediterranean be kept
open. If American engineers show tbetr
usual enterprise the contract may bo
awarded to this country, as bids are to be
advertised for here, as well as in Europe.
A society of New York women has de
cided to ostracise all women who play
bridge whist, who wear decollete gowns,
who have been divorced, or who use liquor
other than wines at the table. Their con
demnation is too sweeping to be effective.
Public sentiment may at length declare di
vorces bad form; ethical progress may ban
ish gambling; and even the seductive cock
tail and the joyous highball may no longer
be considered the thing in polite society;
but decollete gowns will never go as long
as necks are plump and shoulders round
and white. If it were closely looked into it
would no doubt be found that that particu
lar sin was proscribed by women whose
collar-bones are prominent.
The Rev. Dr. Stires, a New York Episco
pal clergyman, at a banquet in that city the
other night, defined a pessimist as "a man
who would not bet on a royal flush." Dr.
Stires's definition is epigrammatic, and,
from a minister, somewhat startling; but
is he quite right? A man who would not
bet on a royal flush may be a pessimist,
and then again, he may be a gentleman.
A royal flush is a sure thing. No true gen
tleman and sportsman will bet on a sure
thing. Dr. Stires is a practical and profes
sional optimist just as Dr. Parkhurst is
a practical and professional pessimist but
doubtless he did not stop to think of this
side of the question.
Life, thinks Professor Matthews, of Chi
cago, may be produced from an artificial
chemical combination. Perhaps this dis
covery may be perfected until future gen
erations will be able to produce from the
laboratories, bugs, birds, beasts and even
babies. Then along will come a trust and
monopolize the method aud another home
industry will be taken out of the hands of
the poor laboring man. and individual en
terprise will receive the hardest blow of all.
The Pure Food Commission reports that
cornmcal is now being used to adulterate
sausages. Nobody should object to such
an innocent adulteration as that cornm;il
is much more wholesome than the sausage.
And pure sausage has a good deal of corn
meal in it anyhow it is put there before
the hog is killed.
The Cnlversity of Michigan has won an
oratorical contest over the University of
Minnesota, but it must not be supposed for
a minute that either college regards this
victory as an adequate return for the drub
bing Michigan got in football.
A New York man's cook boiled his sus
penders, and this so enraged him that he
emptied his revolver at the cook. His de
fense will probably be that the cook was
endeavoring to deprive him of his prim i; al
means of support.
Japan may not be as 3trong as she ap
pears, but she certainly grows more and
more impressive. Lately uhe has impressed
three Pacific liners for war purposes, and
hopes to make a still more decided impres
sion on Russia.
The afternoon pap. rs tell of a collision
between "a way freight and a heavily loaded
passenger." What was the heavily loaded
passenger doing ou the track, and why did
he not stay in the smoking car, where he
belonged ?
USES OF ELECTRICITY.
ew Form of Vre Lamp.
Inventors have been trying for many years,
to improve the ordinary electric arc lamp, and
they have met with varying success. A recent
modification that promises well Is what is called
the "flame lamp," in which the carbons are Im
pregnated with metallic salts that vaporize In
the Intense heat and give a very bright light.
In spite of Its name, the light from the ordinary
arc lamp comes chiefly from the white-hot ends
of the carbon points, the arc itself furnishing
very little of it. In the new lamp the luminous
vapor Is highly conductive, so that a much longer
arc can be used, giving the namelike appearance
that suggested the name. The device is said to
be economical and effective. The color of the
light may be controlled, to some
by the
preparation of the carbons, but it is generally
milk-white or yellow. The iolet rn s are not
present to such a legree as in the ordinary arc;
hencp. the nM form is preferable for photog
raphy. Success.
What Is SlllSllJ I
Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent English phys
icist, thinks It is time to stop asking this ques
tion. We know vastly more about electricity,
he thinks, than about ordinary matter. In fact,
in trying to state the relations between matter
and electricity, Sir Oliver has defined the former
in terms of the latter, instead of vice versa. In
other wo ds. he asks the question: "What Is
matter?" and answers it by telling us that mat
ter is probably made up of units of electricity.
Success.
C henp Kleetrlelty.
Of his new invention for the cheap production
of electricity Mr. Edison says in part: "You
can wire your house for electric bells, tele
phones from room to room, or for anything that
electricity will do, and the batteries in your
automobile will operate them. The cost? It is
so trifling, after you are provided with your
plant, that it is not worth mentioning. We will
use the word fuel for the want of a better term
Just at present to apply to the means by which
it Is operated. The fuel used In this machine is
one that has never before been used for fuel
under these conditions." New York Press.
Germany's High-Speed Road.
The following Is a description of the road fmm
Mariefelde to Zossen, on which the astonishing
speed of 130 miles an hour was reached by an
electric car: On a good, strong bed of gravel
fifteen strong cross-sleepers have been laid for
every rail twelve meters long, on which rails 9t
forty-two kilogrammes weight are fastened by
means of hardwood pins and screws. At the
side of every rail lies a guide rail on cast-iron
chairs, which prevents any lurching of the
bogies and contributes considerably toward
strengthening the whole permanent way. The
wheels can only make very mKute oscillations
of a few millimeter. The whole superstructure.
Including sleepers, etc., weighs 300 kilogrammes
per meter. But not only the permanent way.
but the cars themselves had to be improved.
For this purpose new bogie tracks had to be
made. After repeated experiments a construc
tion was selected Invented by the engineers,
Lochner and Von Borrles. On these new con
structions all experiences have been utilized:
the distance between the axles, which as yet
amounted to 3.S metres, was increased to five
meters. The result of these Improvements was
Shown at the recent experiment:.- and turned out
very satisfactory- After every trip with ac
celerated speed It was proved that the perma
nent way not only answered all expectations,
but the difference between the running now and
formerly was very striking. Whereas during
the trials in the year 1901 disturbing motions
set in from 1Z0 kilometers, and at 160 kilometers
a tremendous oscillation look place, the car now
runs with a surprisingly smooth and safe mo
tion over the track, the rail joints not being
felt at all. Scientliic Age.
ITlf ntllnal Notes.
An electric fan that heats the air current that
It delivers has been devised by M. De Mare, a
Belgian electrician. The apparatus consists of
an electric motor and a rotating fan. the blades
of which are of mica. Upon these mica blades
are fastened resistance coils, which are heated
by the passage through them of a current of
electricity.
An elaborate system of electrical coal roads
in Indiana is projected. The filing of a $5,000,000
mortpaRe marked the first step.
The fees charged foreigners In many of the
schools of Germany have been increased. In
some Institutions they are now double those
charged Germans.
The report from France that a new method of
felling trees by means of a platinum wire headed
by electricity has leen tried with success calls
to mind a similar announcement that came hot
over the wires from Iake Superior a few weeks
ago to the effect that the Canadian forests are
beinjr electrocuted as. rnpidly as dynamos can
be Installed In the woods. When it is a matter
of bringing down timber the Frenchman will
have to get up early to be ahead of the Ameri
can lumberman.
An Interesting paper on Mr. Kdlson's new al
kaline storage battery, which attracted consid
erable attention some time ago, was read be
fore the London Institution of Electrical En
gineers by Mr. W. Hibbert. A long series of
f laboratory and road tests were described, and a
very favorable report on the new cell made.
In closing his address Mr. Hibbert said: "Hav
ing had these cells under close observation now
for suine months. I believe they will live in
working order for much longer time than is
usual. How much longer I cannot say. but I
look forward with some confidence to such a
duration as will make the Edison cell a perma
nent and valuablo addition to the resources of
electrical engineers."
A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES.
Huxley Driver.
Two gentlemen alighted from a hansom In the
Blackfriars road. One of them held out a gen
erous fee to the driver. "No, sir, beggin' your
paidon, sir," said the Jarvey, "I've had too
much pleasure listening to your lecture to take
any money from your pocket proud to have
driven you, sir." The "fare" was Thomas Hux
ley, come to address a meeting of workiugmen.
Rochester Post-Express.
Wasn't On the Grand Jury.
"If we ratify that canal treaty what are you
going to do for something to talk about?" asked
Senator Spooner of Senator Gorman.
"Oh," said Gorman. "Providence will provide."
"That." said Spooner. "reminds me of the
mar. out in Wisconsin who went to a revival and
was pressed to repent. He wavered for a time
and finally arose and said:
" 'Friends, I want to repent and tell how bad
I have been, but I dassn't do it when the grand
jury is in session.'
" 'The Lord will forgive the revivalist
shouted.
" 'Probably He will," answered the sinner, 'but
He ain't on that grand jury.' "New York
I World,
AYlilstliiiK Fiend.
Some one was whistling rag time In the car,
and presently there were scores of sour looks.
Eyes wandered cautiously from face to face,
and finally settled u'on a smooth-visaged man
of some fifty years. Passengers rattled their
newspapers ominously and shiited in their seats.
There were scowls, wicked thoughts, muttered
imprecations. Down S uth or In the far Wait
a lynching party might have been organized
right then; but In good-naturad New York
everything goes. Whittling comes as near "not
going" as anything. Finally the suspected per
son arose hastily, saw that all eyes were upon
him. and nervously exclaimed: "I am not the
guilty party! I don't know how to whistle!"
The offender proved to be a messenger boy In
the cubby hole where the motorman does not sit
when he is at the other end of the car. New
Yurk Press.
One l'luce Hfl Wu Horn.
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist's wife,
is a great traveler. She has In her California
home a collection of bells from every quarter of
the world, and she has In her memory a collec
tion of odd incidents and sayings gathered In as
many and diverse places as the bells were.
Mrs. Burdette says that, while touring In the
Scottish highlands un summer, she was taken to
aWS in which Macbeth vas said to have been
born.
She examined the cave attentively. She lis
tened to th eloquent, speech of her guide. At
the end she said to the man:
"Come. now. tell me truly is this really the
place where Macbeth was born?"
The guide smiled awkwardly. He shifted about
a little.
Weel." he said, "it's one of the places."
-New York Tribune.
Saw Mif.htv Serpent.
"I was a witness of the great fire In Hong
Kong." said a New York merchant. "With three
friends I tried to get ashore ahead of the reg
ular boat from the steamer, and we anchored a
short distance out while the fire raged. Some
thing kept beating our keel until we got nervous.
In the dim light we saw an enormous serpent
stretching away on both sides of the vessel. It
appeared in convolutions, rising and falling upon
the waves. It was black and so ugly! We got
ready to leap overboard and swim for shore,
as the terrible mossier threatened to break our
1 boat to pieces. To me that serpent seemed to
be a mile In Pncth. and It never ceased one
minute to swim ai.d pound against us. Ah!
Horrible! We were at times transfix with
fear. Some wanted to Commit suicide as an
escape. No night of my whole life was so filled
with torture as that." "What finally happened?"
h. I forgot to tell you; that serpent turned
ut to be a rubber hose rsed to fight the flr
with. It was sent ashore from a steamsaip In
the harbor and the nozzle end went astray."
--New York Press.
Hoaxed ty His Own Hoax.
When Rufus Hatch was in his prime there was
a little restaurant downtown where the men
of finance took luncheon. Hatch went in one day
and found every table occupied. He was In a
hurry. There seemed to le no chance. So he
said to the nan In charge, loud enough to be
heard all over the small room: "Terrible acci
dent down at the Battery."
"What?" asked the manager.
"Full-rigged ship has Just gone down In the
channel with a lot of people on board."
There was an immtdiate rush for the door. Ta
tae were deserted and the men who were eating
ran pell-mell down Broadway. Hatch sat down
and ate a quiet luncheon. Then he paid his
check and went out. The street was full of peo
ple running toward the Battery.
What's the matter," asked Hatch.
"Ship's gone down with a lot of people on
board!" gasped a runner.
"Gracious!" shouted Hatch, "is that so? I
must see that," and he, too. ran down the street,
hoaxed by his own hoax. Philadelphia Post.
THE HUMORISTS.
In F.di-n.
The Parrot Adam. Is everybody going to wear
fig leaves this season?
Adam I should say
Baltimore American.
so. Eve'n' I wear 'em.
The XKay of It.
'Tis hard to get along in life
If fortune smile or frown.
For first you live your income up.
Then try to live it down.
-Life.
Admonished.
Lowscads (despondently) I might just as well
be dead. What good am I. anyway? Why, I
believe that I've been refused by every girl in
town!
Henpekke (excitedly) Touch wood! touch wood,
quick, or your luck will change! Smart Set.
The Rest He Could Do for Friday.
Robinson Crusoe had just named his man Fri
day. "It was the only one left," he explained. "The
cook takes the other six days out."
Herein we see how the burdens of civilization
still weighed upon his spirit. New York Sun.
Barr d from Boston Society.
Columbus had just landed when his sailors
observed him weeping.
"Tell us," they Implored, "what is the mat
ter." "I have made an awful mistake," he groaned.
"I should have come over In the Mayflower!"
Realizing that henceforth he must be a no
body, he finished his task with a heavy heart.
New York Times.
Kot to Be Baffled.
Mrs. Bangs So that pretty widow is really
married so soon again, eh?
Old Bangs You bet!
Mrs. Bangs But her late husband's will ex
pressly stipulated that. If she took a second hus
band, her legacy was to revert to his most dis
tant relative.
Old Bangs That's where she was foxy. She
hunted up the relative and married him. Smart
Set. .
The Improved Diary.
"This." explained the bookseller. "Is our latest
patent diary. We think it is the cleverest thing
in that line ever devised."
The shopper turns the leaves idly.
"But I can't see where It is different from any
other," she observes.
No? Well, If you will look at all the dates
after Jan. L'3, you will see that in each space
has been printed, 'Got up. ate breakfast, lunch
and dinner and went to bed.' That insures a
complete diary for the year." Judge.
The Pay of Professors.
Whether it is or Is not In accord with the
eternal fitness of things that college professors
t-hould be kept poor, the fact Is that they are
so. One who had studied the subject with some
care was heard to assert not long since that he
failed to see how s college teacher could marry
without skimping his laundry bills. Hugo Mun
sterberg, of Harvard, dreams of a day when
American professors shall be paid as German
professors are, $20,000 a year or thereabouts. To
most ieople this seems not merely a dream,
out something very close to what is vulgarly
termed a "plre dream," that Is, a hallucination
induced by some powerful narcotic.
Tho Harvard Graduates' Magazine goes so
far as to declare that the college professors of
the present day are more poorly paid than the
college professors of half a century ago, when
the president of Harvard got $2.500 a year, and
James Russell Lowell $1.200 for teaching belles
lettres and bringing up the Cambridge youths In
the paths of French and Spanish language and
literature. The best Harvard professors of to
day receives $5.000 a year at the culmination of
their career, but in purchasing power this is
not the equivalent of the $2,200 which the best
men were paid in 1856. Syracuse Post-Standard.
Much H. liunna for Vice President.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
There can be no impropriety in leading
and influential Republicans of the State can
vassing the political situation and for those
who are intimately acquainted with the
President to cordially confer with him and
for him to encourage such conferences. The
fact that one has been elevated to the high
est position of a public servant does not de
prive him of any rights of citizenship. Other
Republicans may take a different view of
the situation. Perhaps no one stands higher
in the estimation of Republicans of Indiana
than Senator Hanna, of Ohio, but are not all
well satisfied with the present administra
tion? If a change were desired would they
not favor our own Senator Fairbanks,
worthy and qualified for the position? In
diana is highly lionor d in having two of
the most influential members in the Senate,
and our congressmen compare favorably
with those from any other State. Indiana
OOttM fill other natiinal offices to th' credit
of the State. It would be highly proper for
Indiana to furnish the running mate for
Roosevelt on the national ticket. Indiana
has a Hanna of national reputation who
would honor the State and the Republican
party as Vice President, and would make a
strong combination with Roosevelt for an
honorable and successful campaign. The
senators from Ohio and from Indiana are
the right men in the right place. The nom
ination of Roosevelt and Hugh H. Hanna. of
Indiana, would Insure the right men for the
head of the Nation's administration. They
would be elected because the people would
have confidence in their worth.
A REPUBLICAN.
Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 19.
Why He Favors Hoosevelt.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Seeing so much in your paper from poli
ticians claiming that Senator Hanna would
be a more popular candidate for Presid-nt
of the United States than President Roose
velt in Indiana. I desire to give the opinion
of one of the rank and file of the Republican
party, and 1 am certain it voices the opinion
of most of the people in the State. Theo
dore Roosevelt has made, so far, one of the
very best PMs8Aeats this country ever had.
First He is the President of all the peo
ple, rich or poor, white or black.
Second He enforces the laws and demands
honesty In all the public officials.
Third He has the courage of his convic
tions, shown by appointing Democrats to
otfiee In preferance to questionable Repub
licans. Fourth His messages are able, compre
hensive, unanswerable documents.
Fifth He i a w. of the highest
order.
Sixth He is chuck full of good, practical
common sense.
Seventh He is the embodiment of a typ
ical American citizen.
Eighth lit is physically and morally fear-
Ninth His character is above reproach.
Tenth Iast, but not least, a Christian.
B. M MURRAY.
Huntington, Ind., Jan. IS.
THE DRIFT
The entrance of Judge William L. Penrteld,
of Auburn, into the race fr the Republican
nomination for Governor was the chief topic
of conversation among politicians in the city
yesterday and last night. It had been gen
erally anticipated for the last thirty days
that Judge Penfleld would become a candi
date, as he visited Indiana at the time of the
recent love-feast with the avowed purpose
of looking the field over with the view of
getting into the race, consequently his for
mal announcement from Washington occa
sioned little surprise. However, in the gos
sip and speculation anent the gubernat ori 1
contest the Judge has been reckoned with
merely as a possibility, and, now that it is
definitely known that he will be a candidate,
the political wiseacres find it necessary to
revise their figures on the situation.
Judge Pentteld lives in the Twelfth dis
trict, and it Is conceded that his candidacy
will first affect tht chances of William 1..
Taylor, of this city, who was a former resi
dent of the Twelfth and had received many
assurances of support from tint district.
Other sections of the State are pointed out.
however, where the Judge will cut into the
strength of J. Frank Hanly. of Lafayette.
anl it Is argued by many that his candidacy
will not a fleet the candidacy of one of his
rivals more than that of the other. Judge
Penfleld's return to Indiana to enter upon
an active campaign will be the next event of
interest in the gubernatorial race, unle.-
another candidate should appear in the
meanwhile.
The gubernatorial contest this year pre
sents a marked contrast with the contests of
former vears. by the way. Heretofore,
there have been a half dozen or more
avowed candidates for the nomination at
this stage of the campaign, and the further
progress of the contest has. bevii marked
by a narrowing of the field. Thi- time the
contest has been left to two men up until
Judge Penfleid's entrance, and It is possible
that there will be other entries within the
near future, as John L. Griffiths. f this city,
and G. A. H. Shldeler. of Marion, have said
that they were considering the advisability
of becoming candidates, but have yet to
make definite announcements as to their in
tentions. Senator Beveridgo and Representative
James B. Watson, of Rushville. who were
on the programme for toasts at the banquet
of the Indiana Republican Editorial Asso
ciation at the midwinter meeting, which
opens at the Claypool to-morrow, have
been compelled to cancel the engagements
because of pressure of congressional duties.
Senator Beveridge yesterday telegraphed
Walter S. Montgomery, of Greenfield, the
secretary of the association, that he would
be unable to be present at the meeting, and
R- pr.s.ntat iv Watson :ilso notified Mr.
Montgomery that an Important meeting of
the wavs and means committee of the House
will detain him in Washington at this time.
Republican State Chairman James V.
Goodrich will return Friday night from a
week's trip to Salt Lake City. Utah, and on
Saturday he will leave for Washington, to
spend a few days at the capital.
Rome C. Stephenson, of Rochester, who
was a candiate for the Republican chair
manship in the Thirteenth district and went
down In defeat by one vote, after making a
vigorous campaign, was in the city yester
dav. in consultation with Attorney General
C W. Miller.
Amos T. Stout, of Paoli, who was here
yesterday to attend a session of the com
mission that has charge of the erection of
a new institution for the Industrial School
for Girls, says that the Republicans of
Orange county are chiefly interested at
present in watching the progress of the
lively fight between Judge Cox. of Jasper,
and Representative Zenor. of Corydon, for
the Democratic congressional nomination.
"The Democrats of the Third district are
getting Into the bitterest fight our iart of
the State has known in years," said Mr.
Stout. "Our county is in the thick of it,
for Cox must have the delegates from our
county to secure the nomination. I am in
clined to believe he will get them. Judging
lrom the expressions I have heard and the
way the factions are lining up,
"We are interested in irterurban proposi
tions down our way now." cmtinued Mr.
Stout. "We are promised an electric line
from Columbus to Paoli this year and one
or two other roads are projected."
A. V. Randall, a well-known business man
and active Republican of Shelbyville, was a
caller at State headquarters, in the Steven
son building, yesterday.
"There is nothing doing in politics in
Shelby county at present outside of the
fight among the Democrats over the nomi
nation for judge of the circuit composed
of Shcdby and Rush counties." he said.
"That fight overshadows everything else
and is one of the most interesting we have
had in years. The Republicans are well
content to let the Democrats have the ti
ter of the st ago now our time will come
a little later when we'll step in and elect
both the judge and prosecutor."
Mr. Randall says there has been little
talk concerning candidates for the Repub
lican nomination for judge. "One or two
men have been mentioned in that connec
tion," he said, "but no one has announced
his candidacy and there really has been lit
tle done toward bringing out candhlates.
When the right time comes we'll get to
gether on a good strong man who will
command the support of all the Repub
licans of the circuit as well as that of a
considerable number of Democrats who are
disgusted with the endless squabble in their
own party."
It has been reported that George M. Ray,
who is leading the fight fjr Albert F.
Wray against the Morris faction for the
Democratic judicial nomination, has threat
ened that his faction will see that Judge
Morris Is defeated at the polls if he should
be renominated. Mr. Randall said he knew
nothing of the report.
Major George W. Steele and Carey E.
Cowgill, the two doughty warriors of the
Eleventh district, who have measured
strength time and again in Republican
primaries and conventions, were both in the
city yesterday. They did not arrive to
gether, however, and were not here at
the same time. The major was here dur
ing the day. while Mr. Cowgill put In ap
pearance at the Columbia Club in the
evening.
It had been reported that immediately
after the Peru convention Major St. 1 s
announcement that he would be a candi
date for the congressional nomination
would be forthcoming and that he would
lay aside his agricultural pursuits to pay
strict attention to pi!itlcs for the next few
months. But he still talks of the farm
and the activities, interests, joys and tribu
lations of farm life. When asked when an
announcement as to his' congressional in
tentions might be expected, he said:
"For the past w-ek I have been sj busy
trying to find a tenant for a farm that I
haven t thought of anything else. 1 ad
vertised for a tenant and had seventy-one
applications, so it will be readily s n that
KING EDWARD'S CHOICE.
Makes Careful Inquiries Before He
Attends a IMny.
N w York Herald.
Prior to deciding on visiting any partic
ular theater King Edward makes close in
quiiies as to the nature of the entertain
ment presented thert. Ev en then he rr -quently
takes the further precaution of
sending some friend, on whose judgintnt
he relies, to sample the performance be
iorehand. It is on the report of this "tas
tes'generally, by the way. some memoer
of his household that the ultimate choice
Is made.
As it is well known. His Majesty's pref
erence in these matters is for the lighter
forms of dramatic fare, and like the ma
jority of his subjects. It is comedy rath- r
than tragedy that appeals to him most
strongly. This has always been the case
v. ith him. and in the days w hen he u
Prince of Wales, he was a particularly ar
dent supporter of a popular theater that
for a long time has been associated almist
exclusively with the "sacred lamp of bur
lesque." Accompanied by two or three of
his intimates, he Is said to have seen more
than one of the pieces produced there half
a dozen iim b over In the course of as many
weeks.
The actual arrangements for a royal visit
to a theater are carried out by Mr. George
Ashton. the head of a well-known tick t
agenc y In London. He is an extremely Im
portant person tn the eyes of theater man
agers and is by many reported to . . .in
considerable influence In the matter of de-
; Img the particular entertainment ofl
which royalty s choice is ultimately ii v
Owing to a variety of circumstances, it
OF POLITICS
I have been busv. However. Til take up
the congressional' matter before lone."
little Are scare yester
nt a few anxious min
atory of the fire In the
Ion to see if there was
injured, and if Mr-.
day morning
utes In scanr
Colonial fiat
it.. ,.y . ,
a usi oi Kiuen or
!t'- le's name were Ii
in Chicago Monday
occurred, but did not
y night, when tne nre
not learn of it until yes
n route home when ha
of the Journal and saw
and Mrs. Steele live in
i glance at the headlines
apt of a shoek. followed
f when h' found that no
terdny morr.l
picked up a
the story. 1
the Colonial i
gave him soi
by a decided
one had been injured in the fire. Upon
his arrival in Marion he learned that Mrs.
Steele had been one of the several women
in the burning building who escaped by
means of ladders raised to their wimlows.
f
Mr. Cowgill aas not Inclined to talk poli
tics last evening, aside from making a few
comments on the Peru convention, in whi h
he went down in defeat with the Land!
and Beck forces. "Mr. Beck should ha"
been elected, and would hav been had
our people not been caught napping with
that motion to consider the report of the
credentials committee by sections instead
of as a whole." he said. "That motion
should never have gone through without
a challenge, but it did and that settled
the fight for the chairmanship. 1 still be
Uavs that Mr. Beck was entitled to a re
election by all precedent and by reason of
faithful and satisfactory party service.
There should have been no opposition to
him in the first place."
Mr. Cowgill is not inclined to discuss ths
congressional niestion and It is not known
whether he will be a candidate in event
Major Steele ent r- th. r,t . It has been
r iorted that he will be a candidate if the
major sets out for the nomination, and
again it has been said that he will not enter
the contest this year and will let the fight,
if there should be one. be a straight out-and-out
contest between Represvntatlva
l.audis and Major Steele.
Lawrence Lyons, of Bro k. who is in ths
city as a member of the federal grand Jury,
will lead the Republican forces in N wton
county in the coming campaign, as he has
just been elected chairman of the county
central committee. He is a young man.
but has been an active party worker for
several years and the Republicans of his
county are congratulating themselves that
they have put the right man in the right
place.
"Uttle att ntlon is being paid to jolitica
up our way at present. said Mr. Lyons
last evening at th English, "but we'll
guarantee to do our share when the real
work of the campaign opens. Some in
terest lias bt-en aroused in the question f
candidates for Joint senator, to succeed
Senator Eben H. Wolcott, but I believe it
has been generally agreed that Senator
Wolcott is the man to succeed himself."
f
Members of the Indiana Democrat ic Cluhi
are making arrangements to charter a
special train to take the members tf the
club and other Indiana I-moerats to St.
Louis for the Democratic national conven
tion July 6. A committee has be n ap
pointed to take the mattt r up with the rail
roads. Senator Eben H. Wolcott. of Wolcott,
was at the Columbia Club last evening.
"I have been pretty busy lately with busi
ness affairs, but I am trying not to let my
friends in my district lose sight of the fact
that I am a candidate for renominatlon."
he said, with a smiU-. wh n asked abut
politics. "I do not know that 1 shall have
any opposition, and, of course, I am hoping
that I shadl not."
f
J. A. M. Adair, of Portland, member of
the Democratic state committee from tho
Eighth district and representative frm
Jay county in the last Legislature, an
nounced last evening that he will not seek
a renomination as representative. "W
have just organised a new national bank at
Portland, and I have been elected piesl
dent," ho said. "That moans that I will
not have time to make a race for ofltc., or
time go come down here to Indianapolis
for sixty days if I should be ra elected, '
he said.
Mr. Adair was persuaded to aecep4 the
nomination two years ago on the ground
that he was the only Democrat who could
carry the county. He did carry the county
by a close vote, but the Republicans f.Jajr
are confident that neither Mr. Adair nor
any ether Democrat can turn the trick
again this year.
Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffton. is one of
the few Democratic leaders in Indiana who
are for Richard Olney for the Democratic
presidential nomination. "I have said all
along that Olney is the best man we could
nominate," he said last evening at the
Claypool. "I confess, though, that Olney
has left his friends in the lurch by his
speech in which he urges the nomination
of Cleveland. There la no use talking of
Cleveland. He has been three times nom
inated and twice elected President and the
Democrats of the country will not give
him a fourth nomination."
John B. Stoll, of Suth Bend, is making
rapid progress toward becoming as much
of a disturbing factor in Indiana Democ
racy as he says W. J. Bryan has been. Mr.
Stoll has the utmost contempt for William
R. Hearst, a decided aversion to Bryan, a
lukewarm feeling toward Thorn - Taggnrt
and a lack of sympathy with the manner
In which Indiana Democracy Is being ma
nipulated, and he lets few days pass with
out giving editorial expression to his views
on all these points. Monday he gave Tag
gart his first thrust in the following:
"The State central committee having
twice declared itself in regard to the chair
manship of the national committee, it may
perhaps be taken for granted that the pre
cinct committees will not need to wrestle
with that subject for the next tav
months."
In the same issue of his pap r Mr. Stoll
gave Hearst a "trimming" and "roasts'
Bryan and the Democratic state organ in
another paragraph. In referring t Bryan
and the Sentinel Mr. Stoll quotes the Oo
sh'n Democrat to the effect that Bryan's
recent speech in this city was of no politi
cal consequence, and then makes this com
in nt:
"Not so sure about that. Duly analyzed
and fairly interpreted the speech amounts
to a declaration of war, but along n w
lines. In the Sentinel's report the peppery
parts of the Bryan speech w r carefully
eliminated and the omissions marked by
asterisks. This ostrich act may serve th
Sentinel's Immediate purHses. but in th
final roundup such ?elf-de option will le
found to have lcen poor policy. Bett-r
look the situation squarely in th- face SJTsi
be pr pared to take the bull by the horns.
Palaver anl fiapd.
w.m t help in this
instance. Mr. Wo
member of the De
mitte-, disdains to
buncombe. He ma
' . img the fact ths
and Mr. Woodson I
the Nebraska oratot
man from Indiana.'
dson, the Kentucky
locratic national com
i.duliie in that sort of
ft re- attempt at c ai
Brvar. means to fiahf,
a good deal closer ta
than is the committee-
Is seldom possih! to give more than a few
hours' notice of the honor in store for him
to the manager of the theater which has
been singled out for the King's patronage.
In many instant t , '. the only Intima
tion that he receives is a t I- vram on tha
same day as that of his Majesty's visit.
This is to the effect that the royal box will
be required that night, and also gives a
list of those who will be included in tha
party occupying it.
As may be Imagined, as soon as the grat
ifying inteliig. i.i . is received, there is
plenty of work for every one connected
with the theater. For example, the d an-
ing staff is hastily summoned
in imparting as smart an I
possible to the upholstery o
ium. These are followed b;
and decorators, who soon re
giness which may exist on
woodwork.
-mpb d
ppearari" as
the audltor
th s
n v . i n y din
the walls or
Then the lighting arran
nr.' ver-
hauled, und nnaliv a s 1
nn conclave takes
sr and the official
This is for the
means
nee a most im
the occasion of a
in . i : t b- 1 x 1
; , - '1 d. t rmmln
of securing a good au
lortant consideration
visit from royalty.
If by any mischance the piece be not at
tracting full houses, it must at least ap
pear to do o on this particular night. The
usual method adopted Is that of "dressing
the house." I. e.. sending out Invitations
broadcust to people who may safely be
counted uion to accept them. Such re
cipients of the managerial hospitality min
gle with the remainder of the audience,
and perform the usual function of ftllmg
such scats .is v. uld b otherwise unoccu
pied. A further service that they render Is that
of materially contributing t the applause,
for thty naturally feel that this is the leset
they can do in return fr the opportunity
of witnessing tho play without charge