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reason why they should not repeat the
success in some other store at an early
date.
People who are puzzled as to what
they shall buy for Christmas presents.
will doubtless be relieved to know that
it's quite the proper thing to give 10000
bills. This simplifies matters wonder
fully. They are convenient, too, and
can be sent in a simple envelope costing
but cents postage One of the chief
annoyances about sending presents is
the trouble of wrapping them proper
~, and the fear that, if fragile, they will
break. A s10OO0-bill is neither heavy
nor fragile. In fact, so pronounced is
the non-breakable quality Of these bills
that they communicate 1t to the man
who possesses one or more of them. They
are convenient, too, for slipping into
the toe of a stocking. being preferable.
in that respect to a grand piano, or
even a canary in a cage. Why would
it not be a good idea each Christmas
for the public to settle upon some one
gift that would be considered the proper
caper for anyone in doubt as TO selec-
ton? Such a fashion would rob Christ
mas of it's chief burden. At any rate.
this year. it's the $4,000 bill. and we're
mighty glad to know it in time.
Canada is making a deal Of a fuss
becaus this Government refuses to en-
ter into a parcels arrangec.0nt with it.
Canadians who desire to send parcels
to places south of US, mpst ship them
first to London, as they are rot allowed
to pass through this country Our
~. 20 81
impatient over little andoyances like
this. Everything viii come right when
they enter the fold, and begin to cele-
brate the Glorious Fourth in Quebec and
Ottawa
A reader of The Times. in a communi-
cation published yesterday in its col
umns. expresses his appreciation of a
recent editorial. entitled Washington
as Home City" but he takes exception
to the fact that the rapid growth of the
northern portion OF the city was men,
toned. This gentleman. who says he
has no lots for SALE takes up the cudgels
for the southeastern portion, which ha.
a great futuee before it, he says II the
people out that way can only have some
sort OF transportation facilities. We
should explain that the northern Sec
ton was mentioned merely by way Of
example, and our correspondents bright
remarks serve as confirmation and ex-
pansion OF the editorial to which he re-
fers AS for the railroad charter.
which lived FIVE years and expired on
the night of June 1s, II is possibly not
really dead. but sleepeth. Railroads
have a way of appearing in Washing
ton almost as mysteriously as spider
webs. and our correspondent is likely
to find one running by his house almost
before he realizes the fact.
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convince anyone.

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COLONY
TO FORM SOCIETY

About thirty members Of the Wiscon-
sin colony here met in the Dewey Hotel
on Saturday night for the purpose of
forming a social organization. Several
Of the Wisconsin Congress delegation
were present. including Representatives
Davidson. Stafford. and welsse.
committee or organization was ap-
pointed. with instructions 10 make a re-
port at a meeting to be held Januarv o
II Is probable that public headquarIers
Will be established. The meeting was
presided oTer By Representative David
son.
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CONGRATULATE COL. Balm
ON HIS REELECTION

Unanimously reelected to the high
est Office Of Hancock Regiment, No. ],
Union Veterans Union. Col. ?. G. BAN
was the recipient of congratulations at
the meeting OF the command last even
ing Thomas B. Taught was chosen
lieutenant colonel;s Thomas 3. Evans,
major; William Howard Mills. chaplain,
and James II. Barber. quartermaster.
Maj. Gen. John Hammond. the divis-
ion commander. and his stan visited the
hall and were received with appropriate
ceremony
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Facts in the Case.

1.-THE facts of the situation which will
be considered are these:
I'VE have raised in the city Of Wash
ington upward of $40. 900 in cash and
unconditional pledges. We have condi-
tional pledges from philanthropic friends
of the cause outside of Washington,
namely. from Messrs. Rockefeller, Pea
body. and Converse. as published by the
press. amounting TO S57, 900 more. the
condition being that the entire amount
is raised on or before January l, 1904
In other words. We have about $3.50. 900 IN
sight. and must raise the remaining
$4,000 Of the 100000 total within the
space Of sixteen days. or else lose the
$4,000 conditionally pledged outside Of
the city. 1t is to perfect a plan to com
plete the work that you are called TO
this meeting.
THAT the cause for which this move
ment is organized is worthy, needy, and
urgent will appear plain 20 all who take
Into consideration that the Y. NJ. c. A.
Of the National Capital is In member
ship one Of the largest In America. and
is in scope and volume Of effective work
one of the leading associations in the
world. and that its chief and in fact
only material. handicap is a building
lacking in size. equipment. and adapta-
bility both to the broad field which II
occupies, and to the heavy practical de-
mands made upon II for local work
Consider. for example. that there are
only dozen larger cities than Washing
ton in America. and not half a dozen
with as large Y. NJ. c. A. MEMBERSHIPS.
while there are forty-six American cities
with larger, better equipped. and more
costly 7. NJ. c A homes.
Investments Elsewhere.
Consider for a moment that the v
n c. A investment of New York ex-
ceeds S2,5OO,0O0. of Chicago S2OOOO 200. Of
philadelphia $1,50oOOO, of Cleveland
$4,000. Of Boston. $500, 900, of San Fran
cisco 100000. while small cities like
New Haven and Scranton have over
$4,000 invested, as compared with the
present $4,000 property and equipment
OF Washington
The Y. NJ. c. A of the city Of wash
ington needs a new home worthy Of its
work and field, wherein ii may serve
5000 members, where it now serves
$500; wherein it may give practical
evening class work to 1000 hard-work-
ing night students, where It now gives
instruction 70 400 In lily equipped rented
quarters; wherein IL may give physical
lAa-iiiihs ~ S'VVV hedAtn-Seehlng men ana
boys. where it now barely has accom-
modations for 100; wherein with social
clubs. educational clubs. dormitories,
reading rooms, and entertainments. il
can offer an attractive home and
friendly environment TO every deserv-
ing young man who comes to it. and
thereby fulfill its mission as a powerful
uplifting force in the community.
IF you believe in these things and
this cause. attend the meeting and help
us with your voice. your enthusiasm,
your presence, and advice
The officers Of the association are: 8.
w. Woodward. president; John B. Lar
ner, hrst vice president; II. r.. +. Mac
Iarland, second vice president; George
Gus Smith, recording secretary, and W
H. Kerr, treasurer.
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Marcus Baker.

The funeral Of Marcus Baker. assist
ut secretary OF the Carnegie Institu-
IN, who died OF heart trouble at his
ONE, 1906 Sixteenth Street northwest,
turday morning, took place yesterday
B ie services were conducted by the Rev.
: unis s. Hamlin, pastor OF the Church
the Covenant.
Among the floral offerings was a de-
sen from his friends in the United
q, stes Geological Survey and the Car
ttsgie Institution. The body will be
crefnated
The palibearers were Charles d. Wal
colt. q. K Gilbert, Henry Gannett,
John Joy Edison. Dr. G. Il Merriam,
and DR.. William II. Dale.
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HEADACHES FROM COLDS.
Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause To
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Rear Admiral Gherardi.

ANNAPOLIS. Nd, Dec. 1.-THE fun
eral of Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi
United States Navy (retired). took place
at the Naval Academy yesterday with
full naval honors. The officers and civ
ilian professors attached to the Acad-
envy. the brigade OF midshipmen. the
battalion OF marines. a detachment Of
sailors. with the Naval Academy Band
I'm the lead. formed the funeral cortege
The remains OF the dead admiral arriv-
ed IN Annapolis az $50 o'clock and were
met at the depot by a detachment Of
marines and Of enlisted men from the
Santee- Besides the near relatives of
the deceased. Admiral Higginson, com
mandant OF the Washington navy yard
and Admiral H c. Taylor. Chief OF the
Bureau Of Navigation. accompanied the
remains. The funeral services took
place IN the Naval Academy Chapel. and
were conducted by Chaplain H H
Clark The hymns sung were: Rock
OF Ages' end Lead. Kindly Light" Az
ter the services in the chapel the pro-
c~ssion to the cemetery began. the bril-
ode Of midshipmen and the battalion Of
arines acting as an escort AS the
rtege left the chapel the firing of the
" irteen minute guns began.
rhe palIbearers were Rear Admiral A.
Mccormick (retired) Col McIane
-flton. United States Marine Corps Ere
tired; Rear Admiral T. T. CasweIl IRE
tired. Rear Admiral T. c. Walton Cre-
tired. Commander W. T. Halsey. and
Commander J. K. Barton.
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DERAILED IN DRIFT.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Dec. ia
passenger train on the Deloraine branch
Of the Canadian Pacific Railroad yes
terday ran into hard snow and left the
rails at Killarney. killing the engineer
and severely inJuring the fireman and
baggageman.
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INFORMAL CONFERENCE
OF THE Y. NJ. C. A.
Asks Friends TO Consider
Financial Plans.
$4,000 IN SIXTEEN DAYS
Conditional Pledges Amounting to s57,-
600 Can Be Secured ty Raising
This Additional Sum.

At the monthly meeting Of the board
of directors Of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association. held last evening, an
invitation and call was extended to the
friends of the association TO attend an
informal conference in the assembly
room of the New Willard on Wednesday
evening.
The officers of the association an
nounce that ~ notice of an intention to
attend is required, although a telephone
message to the Y. NJ. c. A, Main 1912,
Of such intention would be appreciated.
The invitation follows:
ITO the Citizens Of Washington and the
Friends of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association of the National
Capital:
You are cordially invited and ear
nestly requested to attend a meeting of
the board of directors and friends of
the association on Wednesday evening.
December 16, in the assembly room in
tSe New Willard Hotel at s o'clock to
consider plans and perfect organization
for the closing days of the campaign to
complete the $4,000 fund for a new.
modern and much-needed home for the
Young Mems Christian Association of
the city of Washington. This invitation
is extended to all who read this call
and are ready to support and indorse
the cause here named in any way pos
sible
There will be no solicitation of money
at the meeting. for the meeting is held
not to raise funds, but TO review the
work done and consider plans for its
most effective completion. To this end
we need every friend of the city and Of
the project
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-30

In their new-found fervor for organiza-
ton the employers of the country are GER
tainly getting a multiplicity of organiza-
tons. whether they are making them eff
fective or not. In Chicago a number of
them have now gathered from various
parts of the country for the purpose of or
ganizing the National Federation of EN-
ployers, and this follows quickly on the
change of the National Association of Man.
ufacturers from it's original purpose to an
organization to deal with labor. the estab-
lishment of a mutual strike insurance COM
pany and the rapid organization of asso-
Citations in the various lines of manufacture
ing Possibly the new federation will re-
lieve the Manufacturers Association of its
new burden and permit it to return to it's
old purpose Of promoting markets for
American products. and, IL so. 1t is good
thing.
The cause for all this organizing activity
of employers to handle the labor question
is not far to seek. They have felt the pinch
pretty severely during the recent years of
prosperity. With everything at high tide.
with our warehouses and yards cleaned
bare of stock and anxious customers clam
oring for deliveries of goods not yet pro-
duced, they have been in no position to deal
with the demands of organized labor for
higher wages, for favorable conditions and
for regulations calculated to limit the ca
pacity of plants. 1t was everything to keep
men at work and get the orders out, and
they were not even in a position to object
to the woeful decrease in efficiency of the
individual worker. for the workers threat
of quitting was more terrible than the en-
ployer's threat of discharge for inefficient
work
Now the tide has changed. Partly through
vastly increased facilities and partly
through falling off in demand. many in
dustries have not only caught up with their
sales but have accumulated goodly stock
The dispatches daily show reductions of
WORKING forces, and 1t is evident that very
many manufacturers are making the dis
covery, as the end OF the year approaches,
that they have been manufacturing on a
very much narrower margin Of profit than
they thought. or on no margin at ALL Justly
or unjustly, they are disposed to believe
that this big advance in their manufacture
ing costs is due TO the exactions of organ
lied labor increasing costs from the time
the ore comes out OF the ground. the timber
off the STUMP or the cotton out of the boil
The belief is very prevalent among them
that there must be period of dullness in
the labor world before the manufacturer
can have the chance OF his life. Hence a
very general disincliination TO follow the
former practice OF going to great lengths
and making great sacrifices in order to
keep the shop running"
All during the years OF prosperity. while
the manufactures was making one conces-
sion after another TO organized labor. ne
has felt that when the next depression
| came along the whole question must be
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JAPAN'S GREAT ARMY.
Can Throw Half a Million Soldiers to
the Front Inside of Two Weeks.

Augusta Chronicle.
Japan can put nearly 10000 men in the
field i'm two or three weeks time" said
Rev. r. w. Peery, a Lutheran missionary
from this country to Japan, in a lecture at
ST. Matthew's Lutheran Church, last night.
DIR. Peery made no references 20 the
Russo-Japanese war talk when he made
this allusion. but was citing this as the
great claim the Japanese were making
concerning their strides in civilization in
the past thirty or forty years.
The speaker said that Japan has a
standing army of well-trained soldiers of
over 100000 men, and reserve force of
over 100000 more, and. therefore. she could
put nearly half million well-trained troops
in the field in that time.
The Japanese, he said, are very proud
of their army and navy, and that the lat
ter was superior to any navy maintained
in the far East, in fact, that il was their
determination to keep their navy the equal
of that of any other two countries i'm the
East England Russia or America, and
that her navy was now near that standard
in the East.
While Japan has made great strides in
this and many other material things. that
her civilization was sadly lacking in many
others, he asserted
The Japanese, he said were woefully
lacking in morals, and that very little
solemnity was attached to the marital re-
lation no legal forms being necessary for
a divorce. the husband being enabled to
send his wife home on some seven or eight
slight pretexts, among them being that she
talked too much, or that she was not ODE
dent to the husbands father or mother.
IL was an idolatrous nation, he said. it
being claimed that there were over 10000
images of idols in the empire. These were
of gold. iron, silver. brass and wood, and
that they were often to be found along
the public highways, particularly in the
mountains, where the people thought these
images would protect them from Wild
beasts. These idols were in nearly all the
homes.
In spiritual things, the speaker said, the
japanese were where they were five hun
dred years ago. and that they still believed
and taught in their public schools that the
Emperor of Japan was of divine origin and
that he came down from heaven, and was
apart from any other mortal on earth.
Still they have system of compulsory ed
ucatiOu.
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The statement of Judge r. s. Taylor, of
ton at New Orleans was demanding the
impossible in its proposed request to the
federal government to take over the system
of levees and complete them should have
created no surprise. Judge Taylor has a
habit of telling the plain truth under all
circumstances, even if it does involve wet
blanket on wild hopes occasionally. The
American people are willing that the gov
eminent should do a reasonable amount of
work in the preservation ana Improvement
of this great waterway, but they are not
willing that it should bear the whole burden
of its maintenance when so many private
interests are directly benefited thereby.
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INDIANA COURT DECISION


Rochester Post Express.
The decision handed down last week by
a Circuit Court in Indiana on the respon-
sibiIity OF a labor union sued for boycott
damages is being read with sreat interest
in this city. where eight actions growing
out of such conditions are now waiting
trial The suits are those begun by the
Davis Machine Company against the ma
chinists union for $1,000. and the seven
suits instituted by the sash. door and blind
manufacturers against the unions in that
branch of trade. These seven actions ag-
gregate damages for $1,000 In each case
manufacturers and thereby damaging their
business
The case In Indiana on which the de-
eision was made Is similar 10 the Rochester
cases, and is along the same lines as those
rendered by the Vermont and English
courts. The decision reads in substance:
THE fact that labor union Is not incor-
porated does not necessarily prevent q
jury from holding IL responsible for in
jures TO a third party wnen the injuries
complained Of are the result OF an act for
which the union as an association OF IN
dividuals Is responsible; for the law VIII
assume that an injurious act. coming as
direct result Of a resolution, rule or settled
policy OF an organization. must be COM
pensated for by the body from whose reso-
luton. rule or settled policy IL results
Rochester lawyers are now unable TO see
any ground on which the unions can base
q defense.
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GRAFT GAME WORKED.
Police and Politicians Accused OF
Sharing i'm the Proceeds.

Chicago News.
Pullman has been swindled out Of thou
sands of dollars by the most powerful or
ganization of confidence men and thieves
operating in the United States. They
worked under the protection of the police
and politicians. If any money or work is
needed to bring this story of graft before
the council investigating committee am
willing to furnish both. Anyhow, there
won't be another street carnival out here"
This statement was made to-day by John
Brunzell member of the South End Mer-
chants Association. II is backed up by the
association and prominent residents of that
portion of the Thirtythird ward, which Is
represented by Pullman, kensington and
Roseland. Nearly every citizen in those
suburbs is talking of disclosures which
have come To light since the ullman street
which took at least $4,000 from the pock-
cts of the residents has been uncovered
The charge is openly made that thieves
and "blackleg' gamblers were imported
into Pullman for the express purpose OF
working the crowds which attended the
carnival, and that part of the plumber Sc
cured was divided among certain poiiti-
that the 'skin-game artists" were not dis
turbed The system is said to have been
worked also i'm South Chicago and WASH
ington Heights and at other places where
street fairs were held on the south side.
The same gamblers are said TO have had a
finger in all the affairs OF the different
street carnival and through the protec-
estimated profit OF not less than
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New York World.
A Canadian furnishes the following cure
for hay fever:
1T is well-known fact to all suf-
ferers of hay fever that the disease disap-
pears with the frost. Therefore could the
frost be secured during August, when the
trouble generally commences, or after il
has been in existence for a week or two,
the victim would be relieved. Such was the
experience of the writer who was cured
completely simply by going into a cold
storage room in large refrigerating plant,
where the temperature was down one de
gree below freezing, and remaining there
one hour and half. keeping his crcula-
ton Up by walking briskly, and breathing
through the nose.
ut is necessary TO be clothed as warm
ly as In winter especially with wooden
underclofhes, and care should be taken
not TO catch cold.
1.-The above are all the directions to fol-
low and / believe, il observed, will result
in the cure of cases of hay fever of ten
years standing. several others whom
| know have been cured"
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Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
1t is interesting fact that the former
Dowieite, Pierson, who was fined $500 for
letting his daughter die without medical
attendance, has deserted Dowie, but has
not returned TO the ranks of common place
and common-sensible people. He has moved
to Shiloh, Me-, and joined the Holy Ghost
and U.s. society. under leader who is pos
sibIy more of a crank than Elijah ILL.,
sensations is far too simple and rational a
thing for some people-they cannot be con-
tented unless they duped by some SUI
perstition or fanaticism If they lose
faith In the peculiarities Of Zion City they
plunge into the insanities of Shiloh