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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23

DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANTS FOR May
Orally RACE THINKING.
Hoffman VIII Have No Announce
ment to Make Until Next Week.
Candidates for Council.

Democratic politics has subsidized into
condition of wariness. Mr.. Mccullough
having made his entries in the Reach free
for-all others are weighing the chances of
success. The readiness of Mr. Mccullough
to consider entrance into the race and the
formal announcement of his candidacy two
days later has caused other candidates or
those being urged to become candidates to
think. John w. Hoffman is one of those
who are thinking. He has announced that
this is the time for aspirants to think and
he says he will make no announcement of
his intention until next week. In connec-
ton with Mr.. Holtzman's notice that he
will think until next week it must be re-
mem5ered that Mr.. Reach said he would
announce the date of the city convention
next week. Mr. Hoffman may want to
see what distance he is to be asked to sprint
before making his nomination.
Joseph z. Bell maintains his splendid iso-
latlon. He is as noncommittal as to his
intention as 7. Taggart ever was If he is
to be a candidate he evidently intends to
enter as the dark horse and know that he
Is prepared before he enters.
Candidates for other offices are not
numerous, in spite of the Democratic boast
that this Is the year of all years for DEM
ocratic success. Few have announced
making any great noise about it, which is
taken evidence that until the Taggart
element makes some kind Of demonstration
as to Its purposes candidates will be dubi-
Gus. The Taggart cohorts have been silent
since their rout in the primaries except
for the expressions indicating that Reach
must elect his candidate. There is belief
in the Taggart ranks that Mccullough is
the Reach candidate and that any other
who enters the race for mayor will find
himself up against ii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23
PADDING SKELETONS.
That's Posturn's Job.

The rapidity with which pure food and
drink will win a hard battle against III
health makes people stare sometimes The
most wonderful medicines in the world may
be tried without success so long as the body
is slugged with coffee. After lying 10 months
in bed from his third attack OF La Grfppe.
a gentleman Of Bridgeport. VT. recovered
his health almost entirely in two wooks by
leaving OF coffee and drinking Postum
Cereal Coffee at meal times. He says:
'T was reduced in weight from 100 TO about
less skeleton for s months Notwithstanding
my physicians liberal prescriptions. besides
many boxes and bottles of extensively adj
vertised remedies and dozens OF bottles of
malt and other tonics.
Finally. in April. / stopped using coffee
and other drugs and medicines OF every
kind and adopted diet OF plenty OF Postum
and Grape-Nuts To my surprise In a short
time / was able 20 eat and digest soft
boiled eggs for breakfast and beefsteak for
dinner. / gained flesh and strength rapidly
of my residence for the first time IN 10
months and nine days. Two weeks later I
left the city for my boyhood's home In the
old Green Mountain State. where am now
living in better health and strength than 1
Grippe In 1882. regard my case as having
been hopeless so far as medical science was
concerned by reason OF heart failure nerv-
Gus prostration and. as my physician
termed 1t. nearly total paralysis OF certain
caused by coffee drinking
Before found Postum ! was 20 years
old. now feel 20 years young" Name 1uf>
nished by Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23
WESTERN COAL TRADE.
May Business Is Good and June Ii
ExDected to Be Busy.

CHICAGO, May 22.-The Black Diamond.
reviewing the Western coal trade. to-mor>
row will say:
The two branches Of the coal trade, as
reflected by conditions in the West. are the
antithesis of activity and stagnation. The
anthracite situation continues TO De pro,
coming forward by lake and rail INSULT
cient to meet the requirements or the trade
or to fill all of the orders which have been
booked the present month.
In the bituminous trade the stagnation Of
demand is more complete than 1t was a
week ago. There is one redeemiHg feature,
however, which saves the market from
utter decentralization, and that is the un-
usual confidence which leading operating
interests are maintaining in the future or
the market and the unanimous desire on
the part Of the coal trade. especially that
part of 1t which comes under the head OF
sellers of coal, to maintain prices and thus
make at least reasonable al, Rrom n, mex. Win
the present time. there Is little question but
that prices would be abnormally low AS
1t is however, btuminous prices nave not
gone off much during the week, and where
lower than former figures have been named
they have occurred in isolated cases, with
very little tonnage involved. II the oper-
States can hold the market on the present
level for three or four weeks longer-until
after the middle or latter part of June, the
trouble will be over. and ii is not believed
there will be much further dlfnculty on the
score of low prices.
The anthracite market continues very
active. An indication of this is seen in the
local retail situation at Chicago and other
leading Western cities. Retail dealers.
who booked orders for delivery in April,
in the majority of instances are refusing
to accept new business. because they have
not yet taken care of their April business.
In some instances dealers who have been
interviewed this week have said that un-
less there was an increase in the tonnage
moved forward to them they would not be
able to take care Of all their April business
until well into June, owing to the fact that
the demand was so unusually heavy.
AS the month of May advances il is more
than ever apparent that June will be one
of the most active months of the year. A
large number of untitled May orders will
be carried over into next month, and even
with almost a complete falling off in de-
mand during that period the anthracite
Shipping interests will have all the business
they can take care of. Even the pessimists
in the trade OF whom there are a few,
have set the time for dullness in the an
thracite trade ahead month or two.
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an insulting way. 1t is the first duty to
render your humanity intelligent and eff
fective. AS a nation we have no ground
whatever for making diplomatic representa-
tons to Russia. Moreover, Count Lams-
dorff knows his Bible as well as Secretary
Hay-if not as we'll as the impulsive
preachers-and would be ready with the
Scriptural retort about the comparative
binding effect of the beam and the mote in
the eye. The State Department has no
other duty in the premises than TO collect
information through its consular and other
agents. Such protests and appeals as go
from this country must be purely from in
dividuals; and even the latter, II they are
honest, will have to admit. In view of the
lynchings and race massacres which have
stained our own annals, that we cannot
condemn the Russian government and So
cial order without at the same time con-
demning our own.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23

Topic for May "a: Power and Prayer
Acts A. 13-l4: 2 - Al

That prayer means power In national affairs
has been proved many times, but probably never
more remarkably than IN the case of Abraham
Lincoln. 1t came out when the President visited
General sIckles as he lay wounded after the bat
tie OF Gettysburg.
What were you thinking OF while we were
lighting up there?' SickIes asked
''oh. / wasn't much concerned about your
Lincoln replied; and then he went on 10 explain
solemny how. at the height Of the campaign
as he was wrestling with God on his knees for
victory. there had come 10 him the sweet COM
fort that IL was all 10 result favorably as Il did
The great President had the same assurance
given him regarding vicksburg before that cru
cial battle won.
Time and again. in the large affairs OF mis-
sons. prayer has been proved mean power.
classic instance is that crisis in the Telugu
field of India when Dr.. clough was threatened
their support II he received into his nilsson
school some low-oaste applicants DR. CIOugh
and his wife. praying over the matter in differ
ent rooms. were simultaneously led by God to
open TO 1 Cor. 1, 2e-2s. God hath chosen the
weak things OF the world" etc. They received
the low castles lost all their scholars and speed
lily came the greatest revival since Pentecost
and church Of 10000 communicates
That prayer means power in money affairs is
abundantly proved by the experience OF George
Muller and his successor in the MANAGEMENT OF
his great orphansges. He made vast plans. re-
curing an annual expediture OF $3.50 00a He never
went into debt. Ee had not cent Of assured
income And yet his orphans never went hungry
to bed. He reckoned some 30. 900 direct and won
derfrl answers to prayers received on the very
day of his asking. He made a request
Of man, but he received In this way OF private
prayer more than si.oo0.ooo TO carry on his vast
undertakings. William 7. Stead considers George
Muller's life TO be a triumphant scientific ex-
pertinent regarding the power OF prayer
Prayer means power In sickness. II is a
famous story now Luther. visiting Melancthon
when the latter was TO all appearances dying.
prayed him back to life again by more than an
hour OF strong pleading with God Dear
Luther, why don't you let me depart In peaceg''
cried the suffering Melancthon. I'VE can't
spare you yet. Philip" was his friends reply:
and Melancthon. given back as Luther firmly
believed. in answer to'his prayers. labored for
years afterwards in the cause OF the Protestant
Reformation. We to in sickness all the
means that God gives us. such as medicine and
surgery; but prayer Is also a means, powerful
and 10 be omitted.
In short, let never forget that. as Philips
Brooks SO wisely said. Prayer Is not the con-
Quering of Gods reluctance but the taking hold
Of Gods willingness" That is why there Is
power in it-because there Is all power in God
and all willingness 70 bestow upon man
AMOS r.. WELLS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23
PENNYPAcKER AND PARKER.
Good Judge May Not Make Good
Executive Omcer.

washington Star.
VIII Judge Parkers presidential boom be
injured by the exhibition which Governor
Pennypacksr has just made of himself?
Last year the Republicans of Pennsyl-
yania were in greatly disturbed state.
Serious party divisions existed. and Ii
looked for while as IL the Democrats
might win at the polls. At any rate, Mr.
Quay was forced TO go outside of machine
circles, and against machine protests, for
his candidate. But the reformers were
brought forward. and they turned in and
helped elect him. His majority was graft
fyingly large, and the people were con-
graduated on the choice they had made
the place. OF high personal character, Of
fine attainments, of long experience op the
bench, not politician in any sense of the
word, ne would steer a straight course, be
his own master know the right thing and
have the courage to do it. and in every
way acquit himself we'll of his important
duties; So great was the confidence in
him that a degree of ;mpatience existed
for his administration TO begin. The feel
ing was that from that day, new and
rich atmosphere would surround the guber-
Material mansion at Harrisburg.
What is the feeling to-day? Consult the
press of Pennsylvania, regardless of party
or faction, and you'll find that the trans
fer of that excellent man from the bench
10 politics was a sad day for his party and
a ruinous one for him. He is the jest of
the commonwealth. His offense is such
that public duty supersedes ceremony and
courtesy, and requires that the offender,
though occupying the seat of honor, be
covered with ridcule.
Those Democrats who are turning to
Judge Parker explain their course by say
ing that no politician can win next year.
The party is faction mad. Every leader of
any consequence has a weak spot in his
armor. If he supported Mr.. Bryan the
Cleveland men diStrust him. If he adhered
to Mr.. Cleveland the Bryan men distrust
him. If he sulked, both in 1896 and 1900,
both factions distrust him. Parker. there
fore, is their cry. He was on the bench,
and not in the turmoil. His personal char
acter is high. His attachments are of the
first order. In the White House he would
know no faction, no master, bat administer
affairs calmly and eQuitably and wisely, as
ne has been doing on the bench.
But here comes this ominous warning
from Pennsylvania. Your great judge may
make a very small Governor Would not
the presidency be even more trying? Judge
Parker in the White House might commit
Pennypacker-which is now the word for
political suicide.
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IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT.
p. III. Mccormack and Other Democrats
Want to Go to Congress.

There promises to be a plethora of can
didates for the Democratic nomination for
Congress from the FOuth district next
year. p II. Mccormack, of Columbus a
well-known contractor and business man,
announced while in the city yesterday that
he would make the race. Judge Willard
New, OF North Vernon, has indicated that
he will be in the fight; while L. Ert Slack
OF Franklin; Joe" Cravens. of Madison;
J. F. Cox, OF Columbus, and Lincoln Dixon,
OF North Vernon. are credited with con-
gressionaI aspirations. and there are sew
eraI Democratic stalwarts of the district
vet TO be heard from.
Under the circumstances Representative
Francis NJ. Griffith, of Vevay, will prob
ably have a lively time within the next
eighteen months and he needs to keep
close grasp on his toga or IL will be
snatched from him to adorn other shout
ders.
Mr. Mccormack. in announcing his candi-
dacy said he had not word of criticism
for Representative Grifhth, VINO has, In his
opinion. served the district long and well.
but said the Columbus man, Mr.. Grit
fifth has served three and half terms and
i believe that he has had the office long
enough II L am elected l shall not eX-
pect the office longer than two terms.
Should like, naturally, 10 have the indorse-
ment of one reelection. / think that /
could have defeated Mr. Griffith last year
if L had cared TO make thorough cam
paign.'
p A. Remy, editor of the Seymour Re-
nublican who was here for the meeting
Of the executive committee of the Indiana
Republican Editorial Association last night,
Confirmed the reports of the unusually
large number of Democrats who are will
ing and anxious 10 devote themselves 10
the service of the Fourth district in Con-
gress Every county in the district, ex-
cept Brown. Dearborn and Ohio, has a
Candidate" he said, land some of them
have two or three. The fight will probably
get close enough and bitter enough to make
il possible for the Republican nominee TO
overcome that Democratic plurality of
some twenty-odd hundred.
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noon for Los Angeles, Cal While in this
city Monsignor Folconio settled the much
yexed question respecting the use OF ma
tonal flags in the Catholic Church in the
burial ceremony. The question has arisen
in this city in the past over the regulation
OF the Grand Army Of the Republic and
Confederate veterans respecting the draping
interpretations given this regulation by
church authorities has been that IL was
part of a religious ceremony, and as such
II could not be introduced into the church
The apostolic delegate has ruled that not
only may the flag go into the church but
into the Catholic cemetery as well. and
that after the priest has oficiated accord
ing TO the Roman ritual. the civil oreani-
cation may take charge and conclude its
ceremonies over the grave
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-23
AN EXAMPLE FOR BARRIERS.
President Roosevelt Chose One Who
Was Silent Man.

Denver Post
That man may start I'm life and by close
attention to duty raise himself from an
humble to an exalted position is again dem
onstrated by William Hamilton, President
Roosevelt's private barber.
'I knew Hamilton when he was a boy at
Plymouth. o., and he learned the barbering
business under me-" said James G. Graham.
proprietor of the barber shop in the Mark
ham Hotel block, yesterday. Even that
long ago he was a careful workman and,
what is more, he was silent man, not
given much TO talking
such a position as he now has? was asked.
Yes he did," replied Mr.. Graham.
Those who knew Hamilton knew that he
would never be content TO remain In the
quiet Ohio town. Everybody knew that he
would get out and do something for him
self He was in no hurry. however. He
trade before he went out into the world TO
carve a name for himself on the temple OF
fame as IL were
then to Cleveland. and from there / know
little about his movements until i heard
only the other day that he was the private
barber to the President of the United
States.
Mr.. Graham called on Mr.. Hamilton. and
the latter expressed himself as very glad
to see him. However. President Roosevelt
was not i'm the car and, therefore. Mr..
Graham was not introduced TO the Presi-
dent.
not seem at all "uppish because of his po-
sition After he left Cleveland he went 20
New York, and there Mr.. Roosevelt. then
police commissioner OF New York. met him.
Mr. Roosevelt was so well pleased with the
work of the tonsorial artist that he be-
came a regular patron OF that particular
man When Mr.. Roosevelt was appointed
assistant secretary of war Hamilton went
to washington, but the services OF the bar
her were dispensed with during the Cuban
campaisn Mr. Roosevelt was too busy
at that time for barber.
When the war ended and Mr.. Roosevelt
became Governor of New York Hamilton
removed to Albany and resumed his old
nosition as Mr. Roosevelt's barber. and he
followed Mr. Roosevelt TO Washington
when the latter became Vice President. and
he has since continued in the position
"Hamilton Is fine hair cutter and an
easy shaver" was Mr.. Graham's tribute to
PRESIDENT Roosevelt's private barber
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TOPICS in THE CHURCHES.
Lesson and Christian Endeavor Work |
to the practiced eye Of Paul dying m'
addressed dying men.
THE TEACHERS LANTERN.

addressed dying men
THE TEACHERS LANTERN.
Paul did his utmost Cor Festus and those
whom he represented. He set forth astonishing
truths in such astonishing manner as 70
draw from the lips OF the procurator loud cry
like that OF the centurion the crueihxion. only
not so candid-an ejaculation which checked
the majestic stream OF the apostles eioQuence.
but did not otherwise ruffe his exquisite cour-
tesy"
But the ambassador in chains addressed him.
self chiefly TO Agrippa. whom he recognized
the Official representative OF his loved nation
He was consciously bearing his last testimony
on the soil OF the Holy Land. IL a swan
song. the last recorded address OF Paul. In IL
lac poured out his hearts desire and prayer that
his kingly nearer had to conceal his inward
emotion with form OF pleasantly and hastily
prorogue the mimic parliament
Both Festus and Agrippa, unlike Paul, were
disabedient 10 the heavenly vision they had
that day. But its influence followed them. BY
reason Of IL the procurator. with the Kings
help probably. 50 drafted the Official statement
OF the case 70 the Emperor that when II was
reached In Its turn. on the long docket OF Nero's
court. Paul instsntly acquitted and came
down from the Golden House on the Palatine a
free man once more. after four years OF unjust
Imprisonment.
The influence OF Paurs plea on Agrippa is ap-
parent in the Kings pronounced bias toward
Christianity and his kindness TO the Christians
during the siege OF Jerusalem.
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Gregg. In Everybody's Magazine

Until a short time ago +. w. Russell. the
apostle of the new land movement in Ire
land. was a very unpopular person. He is
a man of intense conviction, a born fighter
giving no quarter and asking none. When
he removed TO Dublin from Cupar-Fife in
Scotland, where he was born in 1S41, ne be-
came an officer of one of the temperance
associations of the city. For twenty-eight
strenuous years he was the unrelenting foe
of the publicans or saloon keepers AT
every licensing session there was Russell
What he didn't know ABOUT the liquor busi-
ness wasn't worth knowing. The best law
yers that the trade could obtain might as
well have butted their heads against stone
walls as try TO break him down when he
appeared as a witness against applicants
for new licenses or as an applicant to have
old ones revoked. AS he sat on the witness
chair. alert, alvsays ready with the right
retorf. always ready with the facts and
figures, he went through practical train
ing that stood him In good stead when he
went into politics later on.
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Henry Ward Beecher's Ghost.
Every5ody's Magazine.


The recent discussion of spiritualism, in
which we are told that the ghost of Henry
Ward Beecher has appeared to a former
friend and confined himself in his mes
sage to complaining that a certain coin,
known as the widows mite" had not been
returned to him, reminds us of an inter-
esting incident in Mr.. Beechers life while
he was still in the flesh. The great preach
er was in England, as the story goes, and
was being entertained by a gentleman who
believed in spritualism and was himself a
medium. One day he. asked If Beecher
would like to talk with the spirit of his
father, Dr. Lyman Beecher. Mr.. Beecher
replied that 1t would please him immense
w After the seance over he was
asked how it had impressed him. at which,
with a twinkle in his eye. Beecher re-
sponded: "All I have to say is, that If I
deteriorate as fast for the first ten years
after / am dead as my father has 1 shall
be a stark-naked fool" When one con-
siders the high and noble purposes TO which
Mr. Beecher devoted himself while on
earth, and the things on which his mind
seems to run now. We are constrained to re-
call this incident.
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Would Learn Something.
Philadelphia Record.

If the Governor Of Pennsylvania had been
compelled Tor one day 10 edit the markets
or the state news. or the sporting intelli-
gence. or any other special department Of
the multifarious mass of reading crammed
into the columns Of a morning paper under
the penalty Of error in the ascertainment Of
fact which he seeks to impose upon news
paper publishers, he never would have ap-
proved the obnoxious libel law Neither
his personal griefs because OF newspaper
cartoons and criticisms nor his fealfy 10
Statesman Quay would have compelled him
TO participation IN such rank injustice
The Record is persuaded that IL is not
craft or cruelty that has made the Cover
nor the victim Of pernicious advisers
against the counsel and remonstrance OF
his faithful friends. He has sinned In stub
born innocence and ignorance. None the
less ne has made wreck OF his reputation.
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We're pleased 10 state that Mr.. Wren
And wife arc back. and at the Eaves.
The Robins occupy again
Their summer home at Maple Leaves.
THE Gardens restaurant reports
a fresh supply OF angleworms.
The Eims-that fav'rite of resorts
Has boughs 10 rent on easy terms.
we learn that Mrs. Early Bee
Is sull quite lame with frosted wings.
We Editor thanks Cherry Tree
Fer suncry floral offerings
Down Cistern-way waterspout
Pas been source OF active foods
We hear of rumored comings out
OF some of Springville's choicest buds.
In case you run across Green Lawn.
Don't wonder why he looks so queer
sTis only that he's undergone
His first short haircut Of the year.
Edwin L. sabin. In st. Nicholas