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Mr.. Harris as once Boy.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The unexpected nomination of Hon. A. G.
Harris to an important foreign mission re-
calls my first acquaintance with him. One
cold morning in the early sixties 1 called,
about 10 o'clock, at the law office of Barbour
4 Rowland, then in two small rooms over
No. West Washington street The en-
trance was by way of narrow stairs, which
landed you at the door of the back room.
Passing through this room L saw young
man wrapped in a heavy coarse OvercOat
absorbed in a book. He seemed not to no
tice me, and / passed on to the front room,
to find Mr. Rowland tinkering with an old
cannon office stove, trying to evoke some
heat from it by the aid of poker and tOngs
He was evidently not in his most amiable
mood. The stove seemed to defy his ma
nipuations, for it needed a thorough clean
ing out, pipe, stove and all, and the office
would have looked more tidy with little
sweeping and busting I'VE expected the
young man who is reading law with us to
build the fires and sweep Quit was not
in the contract, however. He started the
fire this morning for his own comfort, but
finding it not disposed to burn without extra
trouble he has deliberately put on his over
coat and taken his books into the back room
and left the fire to its fate. He will make
a first-class lawyer some day, but as an Of
flee boy he is not worth continental was
the way he explained the situation.
Indianapolis, Jan. H. u. l.. SEE.
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AN INDUSTRY LANGUISHlNG.
Secretary NOrth's Report on the Con-
ditiOn of WOODEN business.

BOSTON. Jan. 1.-THE thirty-fourth an
nual meeting of the National Wool Manu-
facturers' Association was held here to-day.
William H. Halle was reelected president,
Benjamin Phipps treasurer and S. n. D.
North secretary Secretary North's report
was an exhaustive review of the year.
with all classes Of mills, he said. 'it has
been year of small business, of much
anxiety and often of hardship and embar-
rassment The chief exceptions have been
in mills where large orders for the army
and navy have been obtained but the ex-
traordinary demands of the government
have failed to exert any such influence upon
the market as would ordinarily have fol-
lowed them The number of failures and
assignments in the wool manufacture have
beef irgor probably than in any previous
year since the pane of 1871 These many
disasters among wooden mills are not due
merely to the bad business conditions of the
current year. They are the elimination of
a series of years of short business at less
than living prices In the year and a half
since the new tariff became operative the
imports have been the smallest in quantity
for fifty years and not of the character
to disturb the market for staple goods The
years experience has again sharply raised
the question whether it is not possible by
concerted action to provide and enforce
some remedy for the vicious methods of
business which have crept into the trade
There is no valid reason why a contract
should not be a contract in this industry
as binding and final as in any other.
The secretary then gave statistics showing
the total foreign value of the imports of
WoOlens of every description for cOnSump-
ton under the present tariff under the Nc
Kinley tariff and under the Wilson tariff.
and said; 'HThese figures enable us to be
sure that foreign goods are TO longer a
serious element in the market situation eX-
cept as a few of those eighteen months old
impOrtatiOns may be still unsold.
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10 Avoid a Danger-

All concede the danger to health from the
use Of alum baking powder. But how to
avoid it? 1t is difficult to identify the alum
powders, and the danger is increased by
their close resemblance to a cream of tartar
powder Then the grocer, unaware of their
true character, sometimes recommends them
because OF their low Cost; IL IS a startling
fact that brands of baking powder which
are labeled alum when sold in those States
where the law requires alum powders TO be
so branded, are sold i'm this city as pure
cream of tartar powders!
Ii is a safe practice to select brand Of
baking powder az wel-established reputa-
tiOn and then make sure that Ii exclusively
is used in the kitchen.
The United States government after elab-
crate public tests placed the Royal at the
head Of all powders for purity and strength,
and health officers and physicians who have
used il in their families for a quarter of a
century are its most enthusiastic advocates
the alum danger.
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AZTEC TEMPLE IN TEXAS.
Ruins of an. Ancient Building Found
in the City of EI PasO.

Ell PASO. Tex, Jan. n.-An Aztec temple
long buried beneath the surface of the earth
has been uncovered within the limits of this
city, according to DR., Leo Berson, a gradu-
ate of Oxford University and an archaeol-
ogist of note, who is connected with the
Prepato University of the City of Mexico.
At his solicitation he was sent by the Next
can government to search for the remains
of an Aztec temple and village which he
learned from ancient records in the archives
of Mexico were situated somewhere near
here on the left bank of the Rio Grande.
Recently the scientist unearthed several
stones covered with hieroglyphics within the
corporate limits of the town, and at a depth
of ten feet wall of solid masonry was I'M
covered The scientist is confident he has
discovered the Aztec temple, and expects
to unearth many relics Of great value.
DR.. Berson has discovered MANY valuable
Aztec relics in Mexico, among them the
famous god PaXt, now in the City of Mex
leo, and a number of tablets of stone COW
cred with hieroglyphics which, when de-
Ciphered, proved to be of great benefit his
tOriCally.
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CLASH IN JAPANESE DIET.
The Mikado's Legislators Trying to
Guido French Deputies.

VANCOUVER, 2. c., Jan. 1.-THE steam
er Empress of Japan, which arrived to-day
from Hong-Kong and Yokohama, brought
news of a serious clashing in the Japanese
Diet. Recently Tanakana Shozo became so
violent that he had to be removed from the
House of Representatives. THEN Kudo Ke-
han assembled the rostrum and gave details
Of the forcibe dissolution of meeting held
that morning at the Maple Club by anti
taxationists. on the conclusion of the
speech scene of serious disorder and con-
fusion ensued. The president demanded or
der, but his voice was drowned by yells and
shrieks Momma, Sato and Sugeno We're
ordered to leave the house but refused
Momma shouted at the top of his voice:
i have an urgent motion.
The Sergeant-at-aTmS and several assist
ants were then called into the chamber to
remove MOmma whom they tried to pull
out by the arms, but he refused to GO TAX
ing hold of a desk, still crying: urgent
motion" Sato and Sugeno. who sat ON Ell
Their side Of MOmma were finally removed
by force from their seats on refusing TO
make room for the sergeant. Then all the
progressiVeS left their seats and surrounded
the disturbers ready to strike them down
if they resisted. Confusion had reached a
climax, when some person from the peers
box in the gallery encouraged MOmma to
proceed. The latter was. however. ordered
by the president out of the chamber, and
the president announcing a recess, quilted
the chamber Then Mr.. Tanakana ran up
to the platform and rushed out of the cham
Der in pursuit of the president. When the
House reaSsembled the president ordered
MOmma TO be handed over to the diSciplin-
airy committee and the House rose. The
following day the rioting was renewed for a
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0ENTTCT DR.. A. E. BUCHANAN
DAAi AANA 1888 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.

After several weeks of negotiations the
Grand stock company has secured the lead
ing man it has so long wanted. and yester-
day a telegram from him announced that
he would arrive here tonight, coming direct
from New York. This is Howell Hansel
who for number Of seasons played prom
ihent parts in some of the best Frohman
companies, and who recently created one
of the leading parts in Marie Correllrs
THE Sorrows of Satan," in New York In
the cast of this production he was associated
with Miller Kent, Grace FillIins Ida Yer
non, John Kellard, Mary Barker and others
Mr.. Hansel has been a member of the
Brooklyn stock company for some time. He
Is man OF fine stage presence, tall and
good looking and one of the best of the
younger actors. He will appear for the
Hrst time Monday night with the Grand
stock company, PLAYING the part of lack
Paden in Friends" This is the character
heretofore assumed by Edwin Milton Royle,
the author of the play. Mr.. Paulding, who
IS playing Strebelow in THE Bankers
Daughter, this week, was engaged tempo
rariy He is under contract with the
Miller stock company, of Milwaukee, and
VIII return to that city Sunday.
Paul Wilstach, who is Richard Mans
fields Hoosier press agent, was in the city
yesterday for a few hours looking after
some early business prior to the perform
ance OF .'Cyrano de Bergerac." which comes
TO Englishs for one performance Monday
nlght, jan 20 indianapolis will be the fifth
city TO have this famous production since it
opened in New York.
The Park has a change of bill this after
noon, when John Martins Secret" will be
seen for the first time in this city. 1t tells a
strong dramatic story of the diamond mines
OF Africa, and contains a thrilling sensa-
uOnal effect where a woman Jumps twenty
feet and is caught by the heroine who is
speeding along an elevated car in a mine.
Clay Clement. in his new play. "A South
ern Gentleman" will be at Engishs the
last half of next week Mr.. Clements
two engagements in this city last season
gave a most favorable Introduction of this
excellent actor to Indianapolis theater-
gOers. He returns in his second play writ
ten and staged by himself.
Franz Ebert, the star comedian of the IiI-
rutians, who bring their new play. THE
Golden Horseshoe" to English's Friday
night for the rest of the week. has become
q bridegroom since he was last seen in this
city. his wife being one of the little come
diennes in the Lihputian company.
I'm Old Kentucky" with its band of orig
inal pickaninnes. its famous horse-race
scene and the other novel features of this
successful mclOdrama, viii be at EnglSh's
next Tuesday and Wednesday, with Lulu
Tabor in the principal role for the first time
IN this city.
Mr.. B. A. Myers, manager of the Bowery
Burlesquers, which will be at the Empire
next week, is here In advance CT his COM
pany.
The Empire Is dark, theatrically the rest
of the week. the sporting events o. tonight
and Saturday night being the only attrac-
tons.
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Admiral Sampson. in his speech at the
Colonial Club banquet i'm New York on
Saturday night, said: Victories We're not
won by excessive bravery, although Draw
cry was important and necessary thing.
The thing to do was to bring a superior
force against the force of the enemy. With
out that the chances of victory
are small" From the destruction of
the Spanish Armada to the present
moment nine-tenths of the naval VIC
tories have been due to the courage and
GOODNESS Of the commanders who achieved
them, and in very many, if not large ma
jor1ty of instances the weaker force has
whipped the stronger. This was the case
in Englands conflict with the Armada: IL
was so in nearly all Of Nelson's battles, and
in those of John Paul Jones; and the early
naval history of the United States abounds
in instances where the American command
er won against odds
In Dewey's fight at Manila, the Spaniards
were not as strong the Americans, but
the marvel of that encounter was not in the
fact that the Americans won. hut that they
annihilated the enemy without any injury
of note to themselves. II was the cool,
calculating work of the commander
which so directed the forces at his command
TO accomplish these results. It was the
same way at Santiago. There the forces
were nearly equal, but the cool. calculating
courage of Schley directed the forces under
him and annihilatcd the Spanish fleet with
out receiving appreciable damage.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

Mr. George G. Gabbert father of Mrs
Daniel 6. Williams of this city died at
Gate, O. T., Jan. 9. His remains will be
taken TO Columbus. Ind.
Mr.. r. d. Braden and Mrs. Minnie G.. Will
son. of this city, were married in Chicago
on Monday and will make their home for
the present at the Hotel English.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
OF Roberts Park Church will meet with
Mrs. c. +. Bacon, &l2 North New Jersey
street, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock.
Patrolman Todd arrested Bert Brown of
No. S44 Miey avenue, yesterday charging
him with stealing zoo cigars from Buchan-
ans barber shop, al No. POI West Michigan
street.
The annual meeting of Plymouth Church
will be held this evening a $50 O'Clock in
stead of Friday evening, as published There
viii be supper in the parlors of the church
preceding the meeting.
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CANcnLED sTAMP FRAUD.
1t Was SOwn in Honor, but 1t Has Been
Raised in DishonOr.
New York Press.

New York Press.
Like the poor and unfortunate it pro-
fesses to serve the lone MILAN Cancelled
postage stamps wanted fraud is ever with
us. The first of these advertisements, 1t Is
believed. appeared in London about forty
five years ago, and was genuine. AT thaC
time London had daily newspaper in
which anybody could insert advertisements
for nothing. It's owners relied for IFS pronts
on its sales to people who wanted some
thing and for a number OF years the paper
prospered, though finally it deCayed through
bad management after its founder died, ana
his heirs tried to run it their own way
The curiosity of the chaTitably- minded
was aroused one day by an advertisement
that appeared in this paper, stating that a
crippled boy, the son of an old sailor, would
be grateful to people who would send nm
postage stamps, which were then a novelty,
as his one pleasure while his father was
away at sea was in collecting them. The
advertisement said that the lad had no
mother and few friends, and lived by HIM
self in a cheap garrett down by Rotherhithe.
The boys name was given as Hobson
The collection thus formed by the sailors
son was genuine, according to stamp coli
lector of this city, to whom the collection
came by purchase many years later. The
collector from whom he secured 1t had
bought 1t from young Hobson in his thir-
tieth year for G200 1t was a fine one, as
old sailors who received letters in strange
countries had been generous in their CONTRIB
buttons to the collection of sailors son.
The boy youth and man never pretended to
want the stamps for any other purpose than
to own them, and sold them only when he
knew, from the positive assurance of his
doctor, that he could not live another year.
His father had then been dead, it is said,
two years, and the poor fellow was desti-
tute.
A few years after Hobson started his coli
lection on this novel plan other collectors OF
the same order cropped up in Great Britain
and on the continent. Later a bright
American began to collect stamps in this
manner, and his imitators have been many,
and even now, when the novelty of the
scheme is somewhat worn, some new rival
of the crippled son of the English sailor
comes forth. The demand for stamps has
come to be regarded as a fraud. 1t is gem
orally q nuisance and often both.
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MANGLED ON THE TRACK.
Four People Run Down by an Express
Train and Killed.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. n.-Four persons
We're run down and instantly killed by eX-
press train No. 10, near Larimer Station, on
the Pennsylvania, twenty-five miles east of
Pittsburg The dead are: Mary Miller, Thos.
Miller. Albert Wilson and Walter Brown.
The train dashed into the group of unfortu-
mates at full speed and the bodies were ter
ribly mangled. After being gathered up,
On account of a freight wreck near Lari-
mer, it was necessary to switch the west
bound passenger trains to the east-bound
tracks. The express was running at full
speed and the engineer blew the whistle,
but the alarm was unheard, as the victims
evidently thought the train would run on
the west-bOund track as usual. They were
all reSidentS of Larimer.
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Spanish cortes to Be Invoked.

LONDON, Jan. 12-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says: "Senor
Sagasta denies that any negotiations are in
progress for the sale of the Carolines re-
marking that the previous consent of the
Cortes would be necessary. This is not to
be taken, however, as indicative of any in
tention to sell. The premier intends to con-
woke the COrtes as soon as the United
States has approved the peace treaty.
BARCELONA, Jan. lei Diario de Bar
celona urges such modification of the Gus
toms dues as would allow Russian petro-
leum to compete with American. 1t also
insists upon the necessity of the govern
ment aiding the development of tobacco Gull
ture in Spain, as otherwise Spain will have
to pay the United States for the tobacco
she consumes.
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FIRST TRIP SINCE THE WAR.
Former Cruiser Harvard Starts for
SOuthamptOn-A Disabled Steamer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE American
liner New York formerly the auxiliary
cruiser Harvard, started to-day on her first
passage since the Spanish war as a mer-
chairman to England, and the transatlan-
tic service of the line was thus saved from
interruption.
The Dutch steamship Rotterdam, which
arrived to-day from Rotterdam and Bou-
logne reports that on Jan. Z, at 12:45 a. M,
in latitude so, longitude $3.50, the lookout
saw two steamers, one of which had a tar
bucket, or something similar. burning near
the funnel, and had no masthead or side
lights burning and seemed to be disabled.
Captain Van de See, of the Rotterdam, was
unable to get any reply to his offers Of help,
and proceeded on his course, convinced that
the disabled vessel had proper assistance.
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MODEST ST. L0UISIANS.
Want Congress to Appropriate $5.OOO,-
600 for Their Centennial Fair.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.-THE convention of
delegates from States and Territories in the
Louisiana purchase" which yesterday Sc
lected St. Louis as the place to celebrate
the one-hundredth anniversary of that event
in 1903, completed its business and adjourned
to-day subject to the call of the chairman
of the executive committee. David r. Fran
els, of St. Louis. secretary of the interior
under President Cleveland, was made chair
man of the executive committee. with James
Knox, also of this city, secretary IT was
decided 10 ask Congress for an appropra-
ton of S50C0.0G0 with which to help build
the exposition. Governor Francis's position
corresponds to that held by Director General
George r. Davis, of the worlds fair at
Chicago.
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He replied that there had been no develop
ments whatever. he having spent most Of the
day with the attorneys Of the company City
officials asserted that neither company had
made any proposition for a compromise.
City Attorney Kern said that he had seen
neither the stockholders of the street car
companies nor their attorneys. Controller
Johnson seemed to believe that something
was being done. Notwithstanding denials of
various street car stockholders. Mr.. Tur-
ner said last night that he hoped to be able
to return to PHILADELPHIA to-day.
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Movements of Steamers.

NEW YORK, Jan 11-Arrived: Ems,
from Naples; Cymric, from Liverpool.
Liverpool; New York, for Southampton;
Majestic, for Liverpool; Noordland, for Ant
werp.
SOUTHAMPTON. Jan. f1.-Arrived: Paris,
York.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11.-Arrived:
Waesland from Liverpool
MARSEILLES, Jan. n.-Arrived: Bur-
gundia, from New York.
GLASGOW, Jan. 11-Arrived: Anchoria,
from New York.
sTETTIN, Jan. 11.-sailed: Thingvalla for
New York.
LIVERPOOL Jan. 11-sailed: Cutie, for
New York
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OHIO Wool Growers.

COLUMBUS, o. Jan 1.-THE Ohio Wool
Growers tonight adopted resolutions ask
ing Congress to revise the wool and wooden
goods schedule of the tariff law so as to
equalze the protection to manufacturers
and to wool; advocating the establishment
posing the appointment of 5. n. d. North
secretary of the National Association of
Wool Manufacturers, as superintendent of
the census, for the alleged reason that his
sympathies are adverse to the wool growers
Judge Lawrence, of Bellefontane, was re-
elected president, and w. n. Cowden, of
Quaker City, secretary.
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Lively Fight in Nevndn.

CARSON, New. Jan 1.-THE senatorial
contest for the seat now occupied by VIM.
M. Stewart is being vigorously waged The
rumors to the effect that the partisans of
both Stewart and Congressman Newlands
have imported gun fighters and desperadoes
TO take part in the fight is strenuously de-
MED by principals and followers. Predic-
lions as to the probability of personal en-
counters ut the meeting Of the silver state
central committee tomorrow are likewise
discredited. A number of the members of
both houses arrived to-day and a caucus is
announced for Sunday night.
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The War Lord ON Parade.

BERLIN, Jan. n.-Upon the occasion Of
the jubilee appointment of Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria as honorary colonel of the
Kaiser Franz Grenadiers, Emperor William
paraded the regiment to-day. The Austrian
Emperor telegraphed to his Majesty his
sympathy with the latter and with the army
and wishing the regiment d brilliant future
Emperor William replied that the regiment
was honored in having in the Austrian EN-
peror a shining example of a man of SOL
dierly virtues, and that it would always
proudly seek to honor the name it bore.
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LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE United States
cruiser Albany purchased here previous to
the war with Spain, viii be launched at
New Castle on Saturday. Henry White the
United States charge d'affaires, Lieut. Col
We'll, the United States naval attache here.
and a number of distinguished Americans
viii attend the ceremony. The Albany will
be christened by Mrs. Colwell and will sail
for the United States in April.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE American
Bowling Congress has adopted a large num-
Der Of changes In the playing rules of bowl
ing. In the dispute in the Chicago League,
where a club failed TO play a schedule game
because of removal to new alley. the game
was ordered rolled over. With the eXcep-
ton Of the executive committee last year 3
officers We're reelected for 1899 The exec
utive committee consists Of julius Myers.
of Boston, Van Thiesen. of Brooklyn:
George p Weed. OF Dayton. o.. Thomas
Curtis. of BROOKLYN T. 9. Johansmeyer Of
New York. and j. H. Zwangzer. Of Balti-
more. The next congress will assemble at
Baltimore Jan g. 1900.
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Mr.. HARRIS WILL ACCEPT.
New Minister Cheered by Law School
Students.

Addison C. Harris announced yesterday
that he would accept the appointment of
minister to Austria-Hungary. The students
of the Indiana Law School cheered him
nightly yesterday morning when he APP
peared to lecture, and he made a short
speech to them. He received many cOngrat-
uations from all over the country.