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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-04
TELEPHONE TROUBLES.
Worry Caused by Having an Instru-
ment I'm the mi

Worry Caused by Having an Instru-
ment in the Country.
Detroit Free Press.
"City people whose neighbors use their
telephones think they know all about
trouble" said a ruddy-faced amateur farm
er. but I'll compare notes with them any
day. If you are not obliging to your neigh
bors in the country you had better move
back to town: so this is what we go
through with in order to be obliging. We
lave the only telephone in our vicinity, and
my wife and 4 ought TO draw salaries as
rural messengers.
1.-THE other day a call came to our tele-
phone from some one in town who wished
to talk with Mrs. Jinks. our tenants wife.
So my wife had to leave her sewing, don
her sunbonnet and plod across the rough
fields a third of a mile to tell Mrs. links
to come to the phone. When Mrs. links
got ready she numbered up to our house
with a fat baby under each arm, and found
out that Rosey. a friend of hers in town,
wanted her to come and bring her out to
spend the day.
Nav bawled back Mrs. links. 'ain't
I'm a day or so another friend of the
links family ~telephoned out to say that
she and three children would spend SUM-
day with the Jinkses, and Mr.. links must
come in with the wagon to bring them out.
My wife could not answ that the Jinkses
had no horse. as they had just got one; so
she promised to deliver the message. She
gave the errand over to the Jinkses TO me;
/ intended TO attend to IL, and forgot IL.
The folks I'm town got ready and waited
all day Sunday, but no Mr.. links appeared.
About Tuesday there was a great disturb
ance on the farm, involving all the Jinkses,
my brother and myself. and both of our
wives. The message hadn't been carried,
and everybody was to blame.
This is only a sample. We have other
neighbors near and far; but our house is
the telephone office of the district. People
IT. town get mad at us, and people in the
country get mad at us; our lot is hard"
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Harper's Weekly.
The credit primarily belongs to two men,
who represented neither the operators nor
the union mine workers, nor the nonunion
workers, but exclusively the consumers Of
coal. already exposed to extortion and
threatened with a ruinous dearth of the
needed c~ombustible. Those men were Pres
ident Roosevelt, and, ii is but simple JUS
tice to add. ]. Pierpont Morgan. Up to
the date of the interview between those two
men in Washington all attempts to settle
that interview a settlement was effected.
Every effort TO mislead public opinion on
that point will prove fruitless. AS TO ques-
ions wherein the American people are
vitality concerned, their insight is unerring.
The credit for the settlement of the strike
will be awarded with the same intuitive
correctness with which the responsibility
for its continuance has been apportIoned.
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Effects of q Famous Church Debt
Raiser Sold for Charges

New York Special to Philadelphia Press.
Within two blocks Of the ~Second-street
Methodist Church. where he was once pas
tor and from which a few years ago he
raised a debt of 5000. the Rev. Alonzo
Church Morehouse. eighty-two years old.
to-day stood in the reviewing room of q
storage warehouse in an old black over
coat and frayed silk hat while his personal
property and library went under the auc-
tioneer's hammer to pay a debt of $50 for
their storage for the last two years.
Not one of DR.. Warehouses; Second
street Church Pensioners came TO offer
assistance or sympathy.
This is a new experience he said. 1T
is as Joshua said when he stood by the side
of the Jordan: We have not passed this
way before / nave served my God and he
will bring Ii out right in the end.
- have a place TO lay my head, for the
kind brother, Rev. A. s. Henning, has let
me have a parlor and a back kitchen in his
home at Ossining. near the camp meeting
ground, and there my wife and i live"
While he was speaking his wife moved
among the cherished chattels OF a lifetime.
re~arranging here and busting there. that
they might look more attractive to pros
pective buyers.
Brave as the couple appeared in their ad-
versity. they broke down when an old
ineiodeon was sold for So.
w paid sl2 for that fifty years ago.
and it's been good ever since. II was Hor-
ace Walters's best" Mrs. Morehouse said
After an hour of half-hearted bidding
the household goods and most of the IL
brary brought $50. Old clothes men did
most of the bidding. The library OF 400
books brought an average of 5 cents a
volume.
In the course of forty-six years In the
ministry the Rev. DIR. Alonzo Church
Morehouse gained a reputation as one OF
the most successful debt-raisers In the
Methodist denomination. But like the
shoemaker's children who go barefoot. ne
quite forgot to look after his own finances.
About seven years ago DR.. Morehouse
wrote an autobiography. which was pub
lished by the Methodist Book Concern.
II had a glowing Introduction by Bishop
Newman. From one of the early chap
tiers 1t appears that DR.. Morehouse be-
gan to be a good giver early In life. He
was a mighty hunter in his youth up In
Schohaire county. and a mighty reader
of the Bible, too. He made up his mind
that it was his duty to give tithes, so ex-
actly one-tenth of all the proceeds of the
mink, fox and muskrat skins and the wild
honey which he sold was devoted to re-
ligious purposes.
That was long before he became q
preacher. He was a carpenter and a
builder first and a minister afterward.
Ia 1856 he was preaching in Roxbury
where Jay Gould came from, and where
he preached the funeral sermon for Jay
Gould's father.
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Brooklyn Eagle.
In Massachusetts, they propose to incor-
porate the labor unions. like other societies,
and believe that by this method they will
benefit both the unions and the public. At
present the unions are irresponsible. They
give accounting to nobody except their
own officers. and If a walking delegate or a
strike committee orders a great public work
to be held up, or a great industry discon-
tinued, thereby putting the whole country
to suffering and inconvenience, there APP
pears 10 be no legal remedy for the dis
tressed. Nor does there even appear TO be
any way In which the unions can hold their
own officers TO an accounting, when they
are compelled TO close the doors OF their
shops against themselves. and retire TO
their homes TO be supported for an indef-
mite period by taxes on other workmen. III
the unions can be Incorporated they become
responsible TO the state and the people for
their conduct. They can claim their rights
in the courts. IL they have been maltreated.
and the people can claim rights against
them by suit.
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VOTING MACHINES.


An Expert Shows What Can BE Done
with the Figures.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Il wonder how many elections are incor-
rectly decided when the results of the bal
loting are figured out?' said a man yester-
day afternoon. Every one knows that
many questionable things are done during
the progress of a campaign, but we trust
to the honesty Of the election officials
How about voting m~achines?' asked a
man who was a strange to the first
speaker.
THAT is exactly what 1 was thinking of
when 1 started the conversation. 1 am
from Buffalo and the voting machine ques-
ton has received attention there as it
probably has in other cities. Abou a week
ago the representative of one of the COM
panies which are trying to establish these
machines appeared before the Democratic
advisory committee and urged the adop-
ton OF the machine because 1T would give
an absolutely correct count at the close of
the election booth and he laid special stress
on the fact that it could not be tempered
with and made TO show a false return.
This, of course, was a strong argument
but Just at this moment a stranger who
was an interested listener said he thought
he could do a few things with the machine
that would surprise them. The represent
alive said that 1t was impossible to change
the totals and that for instance If it was
wished to set the totals at 800 instead of
goo that the lever would have to be moved
800 times to do 1t, and that the operation
would require at the least forty-five min
utes. The stranger, who must have been
an expert machinist. stepped behind the
curtain and in ninety minutes was back
again, having set three totals at 900 and
having changed two others. He did a num-
Der OF other things with the machine. with
thQ cOmmiffQa mon hahind tha ct,rtoin "a
In the end he clearly demonstrated that
that make of machine. at least, had not
solved the difficulty and that we must still
depend upon the honesty of the election
officials"
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New York Press.
William o. Mcdowell, LII. D., proposes a
controller of commerce, who shall have the
same jurisdiction over corporations as the
controller of the currency has over ma
tional banks. He wants a law that no COR
poration shall be allowed to trade or manu-
facture outside of the State in which it is
incorporated unless ii has secured a ma
tional certificate. and all water must be
squeezed out of the stock before such GER
tiflcate Is issued. In this manner would he
control the trusts. years ago." says Mr..
Mcdowell. 81 made a very thorough in
vestigation with Governor Tilden TO know
the results Of the practical working of the
office of controller of the currency, upon
the distribution of national bank stock,
and we found two very important outcomes
of this method of governmental supervision
of financial corporations. The first was that
a majority of all national bank stock was
held by owners of 5000 or less of stock.
The second was that national bank stock
was an investment security and was not
speculated in in Wall street"
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q Friday, Nov. 2, the Journal VIII begin
nd serial publication of this story OF the
.ivS war. by Gen. Charles King. The en-
G. . lining quality of this authors novels
5 Sell known. They deal invariably with
or phase of army life. and one secret OF
hi charm Is undoubtedly the writer's
,liarity with this life on all Of its sides.
Scte Of his stories is lacking In incident
IND action, but "The Iron Brigade" owing
20 Sae character of the events in which the
al bus brigade of that name figured. Is
IN Ssually stirring. The story will have an
.sJE cial interest for the Journals readers
1e.f use the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment
VIZ a part Of the brigade and shared in
fortunes. Many thrilling events are
LEI ribbed In the tale. and Lincoln, Stanton,
Mcclellan. Meade. Grant and
,tlfrs pass before the reader in striking
and episodes. The story Is woven
abb Ut the fortunes of an officer of the bril-
yaks who was captured early in the war
an3 fell in love with a beautiful Southern
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TO Congress in this county was: Overstreet.
Republican. 2S.4sS: Burke. Democrat, g, 7ss;
Allen, Prohibition. 6s1; Kuerst. Social La
Dor. las: Miller. Social Democrat. lse. Mr..
overstreet's plurality in Marion county was
4.112. Johnson county was a part of the
Seventh district two years ago and gave 736
plurality against Mr.. overstreet. Thus Mr..
overstreet's plurality in the two counties
comprising the district was 1876. The dis
tr.ct is now composed of Marion county
alone.
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There is no possible reason why any
Republican should vote for the Demo-
cratic candidate for Circuit Judge in prefer
ence to Judge Henry Clay Allen. who is
as his opponent. Neither is there any rea-
son why Republicans SHOULD vote for ex-
Judge Brown in preference to Judge Leath-
ers. who is, to say the least, as upright
and able a Judge as was Mr.. Brown. Be
hcans to mark a whole ticket and run the
risk of Acknowledgement simply to please one
man. who has always been a Democrat,
and another man who believed himself too
good to remain in the Republican party.
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Ing. Captain Hampton was in the volun.
teer army during the war with Spain, and
he spent considerable time in the Philip
pines. In the campaign of 800" said the
captain: the Democrats made an issue OF
the Philippines, and the people by a pro-
nounced majority declared for the retention
of the islands. At the beginning OF this
campaign 1 thought the Democrats would
again advocate the abandonment or the
Philippines, but they lave wisely dropped
that subject. / regard Manila as the step,
ping stone to the trade with China ana
Japan.
Already the attention of our merchants
has been directed to the possibilities or the
Eastern trade, and / think that within the
next few years we will control the larger
part of the with the Orient. The
Philippines have proved a great boon TO our
business men in the West. and this is espe-
cially noticeable on the Pacific coast. l am
optimistic enough to believe that ume VIII
prove that the Philippines were a good In
vestment. The islands are as yet unoe-
veloped. They are rich in natural resources,
which will be fully developed by American
pluck and ENTERPRISE"
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How the Pope Gets the News.

New York Times.
A New York priest. recently returned
from Rome. tells how Pope Leo XIII hears
the news of the world every day without
reading a newspaper. He reads a journal
published in the Vatican, or has a secretary
reaG il 10 him. This journal consists of
brief abstracts of everything interesting
which the papers published In Germany.
England, France, America and other lands
have recorded. A large staff of secretaries.
each one an adept linguist. prepares the
Vatican's news sheet. One man translates
and abstracts German articles, another
works over the French papers. still an
other the English and American. The re-
sulting publication in Italian is intended
not only for his holiness. but for all the
hundreds of Vatican attaches. Such news
as would not be of interest TO Vatican cir
Giles is overlooked I'm resume.
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Representative Miers. in the Second dis
trict, telegraphs that he has been misrep-
resented by a correspondent of the Journal
at Shoals who sent Information that he
CMr. Miers) voted against the appropriation
for soldiers barracks in the Philippines.
Mr.. Miers spoke and voted for the appro-
priation, as the Journal finds by examining
the pages of the Congressional Record to
which he refers, and it regrets that he was
misrepresented. Misrepresentation is not
the Journals method of advocating its par
ty principles.
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There is no law on the statute books re-
curing that oroners should be physicians.
and as a matter of fact in other States
coroners nave been elected time and again
who are not physicians. The coroners In
Springfield. O., in Denver, COL, in Pough-
keepsie. N. Y, are undertakers. Hancock
county has had a farmer for coroner, and 1t
is stated that the Democratic candidate
for coroner in Fort Wayne is an under
taker. In several Eastern States where
coroners are appointed many of them are
not physicians Mr.. Tutewiler is the fairly
nominated Republican candidate, and there
is no reason why he should not have the
support of his party.
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The Bible I'm Public schools.
The Independent.

The IndEpenueht-
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has de-
cided that the reading of the Bible and the
singing of religious hymns in the public
schools is forbidden by the Constitution OF
that State. We are not surprised: we are
not grieved. The decision pleases us and
we believe IL 10 be good law and I'm the in
terest of both justice and religion. Our
readers know perfectly we'll that we hold
that I'm public schools supported by Chris
tians, Jews and inhdels. men OF all faiths
dren, Ii is unfair and unwise 10 have any
sort of religion selected and inculcated.
We believe that IL Is the business OF the
church and not OF the state 10 teach re-
ligion: and for the church to confess its
incompetency and TO ask the state.
through such miscellaneous teachers as We
have. to supplement It's lack OF cerviee. Is
Illuminating and shameful We will trust
and ask no tax-paid haphazard teachers
10 do the work Of parents and the church.
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GIFT. to the United states.

New York Press.
Good people are emotional. Miss Helen
Gould is good. and was highly emotional In
1898 when she gave the United States $4,000
with which 10 prosecute the war against
Spain. This entire personal contribution 10
that cause was $40, 6s2. q. An Englishman
sent a pound sterling from his home In
Bristol. A man in Seattle was moved three
times 10 give-sl00 on June q. $50 on July Z.
and $50 on Aug. 10. How very SINGULAR Two
contributions besides Miss Gould's came
from Francis G.. Moore. president OF the
Continental Fire Insurance Company. Of
this city, 500. and Emily III. NOR. also Of
his city, Sl.0o0. What has been done with
this money? Some good people give money
10 Uncle sam on general principles. and all
such presents are recorded In the Treasury
E-ss>"
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Poor Business Man.

New York Sun.
Esau had just sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage.
ITO think" he exclaimed, lust ordinary pot
tage. when I might have had that new breakfast
food"
Indignantly he declared IL was a skin game,
though that episode was to come later.
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The Republican judicial ticket, made up
of men who have filled the positions for
which they are renominated. is an excep-
tionally good one. Judge Allen, Of the Cir
cult Court, has made a record for judicial
ability which has not been surpassed by
any of the able men who have preceded
him on that bench. Judges McMaster and
Carter are too generally respected as citi-
zens and magistrates to need a word in
their favor. Judge feathers has been
marked for defeat by the News, not that
it has any objection to Judge Leathers. but
be represented on the judiciary. II any of
the Republican candidates for judges had
been partisans OF the bench there would
be ground for this recommendation, but
M such charge can be brought. So far as
Judge Leathers is concerned. he displayed
as high qualities for the position as any
of his colleagues, n Is an ADLER man
than ex-Judge Brown. who is seeking
votes outside his party. Judge Afford has
been as able and fearless a judge Of the
riminal Court as has ever presided over
that court. 1t may be added that in Sep
TENDER and October. 1893. when Judge Sui
ivan was a candidate for reelection as
mayor, the News gave its readers more
reasons than the Journal should be willing
to repeat why he should not De elected
to any responsible position. Republicans
owe it to the upright and able men on their
judicial ticket to give them all their votes.
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their party. as was rumored they might.
they would be dubbed. As all these officers
were approved by that chairman it shows
that he has a very poor opinion of the in
tegrity Of the Democrats whom he picked
out for responsible positions, while his
threat cannot but be regarded by all such
officers as an imputation which must be
considered an insult
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president Roosevelt. in refusing to al
a his connection with the adjustment
, fthe coal strike TO be used in the cam
plgn through any agency of his own. did
u Of the matter. So far as the President
connected with the AFFAIR he desires a
sSflement In the interest % the people.
clIasrs are not able TO see IL thus. For in
nee. a candidate for Governor In a
estsxn State ~teiegraphsd the President
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Six years ago a business man who was
asked to give some time to the Republican
cause promptly replied that he would do
so. as he had lots of time and nothing
else. If seen to-day in the midst of his
active business he would tell the commit
tee that he had no time to give. The
change, however. is a reason for voting
the Republican ticket to-day.
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Pie Sentinel elected a Democrat in every
district yesterday. contingent
iIFn all Democrats voting and a large
M Dlber of Republicans staying at home.
sell the Republicans vote nine or ten of
thirteen members of the new House
Va be Republicans.
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Scots VIVA Haze.

Scottish American.
Naturalization. it's awful! McOats ~yonder's
gaen clean daft: I saw him wi ma ain cen gle
ava saxpence tae a beggar mon.
MacNeal-Be COX! He's no daft; he's followin'
the evil. eenequitous example set up by Carnegie.
o. Skibo. What's becomin' o. Bonnie Scotlan'
at a., at ar
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His Opinion.
Washington Star.

do you think We have dealt literally b. the
noble red MANI"
"Of course answered Senator Sorghum. The
noble red man gets his rations regularly, and
doesn't even have to go to the polls and deliver
a vote in return"
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20 candidate in this county ever had
> bore representative Republican indorse-
N t than that which Oliver p. Ensley
hif received. If these men did not know
tbkt Mr.. Ensley is an honest n capable
mfn they would not have given him that
M sualihed Endorsement.
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efore any reader of the Journal attempts
tok vote a mixed ticket to-day let him ask
hi self If he is quite certain how to mark
II 4,nd not disfranchise himself. Use the
big pencil of the clerk and make the X
intshe circle with the eagle. and all will
bfyyelI.
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fbout 2e.00 voters in Indiana will put
X in the qua to the left of the first
on the ballot and leave the voting
&c with the conviction that they have
ked the entire party ticket. when they
W have voted for the first name only.
Pf the X in the circle with the eagle.
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Itpr all the purposes which q representa-
tszs in Congress can be useful to a district
th0e is no superior in the House TO Jesse
.Jfrstreet- He should receive the votes of
Rifmen who desire to have an able and
pr x~ctical man to represent them in the next
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Philadeiphia Press.
mot much In this life,'' complained the
chronic kicker; mot much for me. Everybody
else I know seems to get along, but I'm left out
In the cold."
well. that won't happen to you in the life to
come remarked the sly Mr.. Peppery.
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xhe Sentinel carried New York for the
nocrats yesterday morning, but the bet
IN In the city being in favor of the Re
licans by ? TO / there is reason to be-
e that when the votes are counted to.
FIT New York will be Republican. Our
AZ kir. however. is to carry Indiana.
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&hose Democratic heEchmen who are go
about some counties inducing a class
ofk voters TO sign a contract to vote the
ticket. TO the end that they
nSy bring suits for Acknowledgement
inst them and get 800 for each man
ti1s trapped. seem to have struck a profit
= 4 Democratic Industry.