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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-07-03

The different styles and qualities of shoes and slip
pers excludes the possibility of quoting shoe in
but these goods counters where its
trouble look through the entire stock and
the Herald Shoe Store during this days whether
are buy Nothing reserved the prices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

One of the main objects of the present
city charter was to establish government
by boards 1t took all executive and adj
ministrative power away from the Council
and vested 1t in the mayor with authority
to delegate it TO boards to be appointed
by him. In this way 1t was hoped to Sc
cure a high class of executive ability and
better work in each department. The char
ter creates six departments. two of which
consist of one person and the other four of
three persons, each AS to the latter the
charter provides that not more than two
members of each of the boards shall be of
the same political party. The object of this
was. of course. to insure bipartisan boards
and presumably better service. 1t evidently
contemplated also. that the members of all
the boards OF both parties should be Sc
lected with reference to their fitness for the
particular work and without reference to
their personal services to the mayor. The
boards of two Democrats and one Republic
an under Democratic mayor. and of two
Republicans and one Democrat under a Re-
publican mayor. The charter evidently con-
templates that the members OF all the
boards, of whatever party, shall be repre-
sentative men, also in addition 20 their
recognized political standing shall possess
some special qualifications for the particu-
lar work to which they are assigned. This
seems to have been the idea of Mayor Sui
Ivan, who was elected in the fall of 1889
and the charter took effect in the spring
appoint the best boards. he could. He had
made no pledges and was under no cam
paign obligations. For the Republican
member of the Board of Public Works he Sc
lected member of the party in good stand
ing, who was a civil engineer. Since then
there has been no engineer on the Board Of
Public Works. nor any person of either
party who had any technical knowledge.
Mayor Sullivan's other board appointments
showed a disposition to comply with the
spirit as well as the letter of the charter
and to subordinate political agrandizement
and personal favoritism to the public service.
Since then there has been distinct retro
gression in this regard until the spirit of
the charter has become practically extinct.
Mayor Taggart's boards were notoriously
constituted with view of rewarding politi-
cal workers and personal friends. The DEM
ocratic members earned their appointments
before they received them, and most of the
Republican members were Taggart Repub-
leans. There Is no reason to expect any
| departure from the Taggart standard un-
der this administration. All Of Mayor
Holtzman's appointments thus far show a
| greater desire to reward personal and po-
| litical friends than to secure frst-rate
public service. He is simply following along
in the trail of the worst of his predeces-
/ sors
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

were paroled from the Indiana Reform
atory 1884 men. Twenty-one per cent. OF the
paroles proved to be unsatisfactory and
only II per cent. were returned for viola
ton of the parole. From this institution
the paroled men earned in the same period
s291. s37. From the State Prison 753 men
were paroled. Work was found for all
but three. Sixteen per cent. of the paroles
were unsatisfactory and . per cent. were
returned for violation of parole. During
the six years the men earned while on
parole s176. s10.51. When these men were
finally discharged they had to their credit
over $i5.0 On their face these figures seem
to make In favor of the indeterminate SEN
tence law, but IL must be remembered that
most of the paroled men have not been out
of prison long enough yet to pronounce
them permanently reformed. Yet preach
ers can find good text in the mere effort
to make honest men out of criminals. If
accounts are true the preachers in some
localities might excoriate the local authori-
ties for the shameful condition and man
agement of county jails.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
PUTTING US TO SLEEP.

Sir Thomas Upton Is the latest English
man to tell us with tears in his
voice that the British are a decaying
nation. while we are up and coming.
and that he rather expects to live
to see us assume our natural position as
1.-The whole thing in the commerce of the
world; and naturally we drink this all in
with great eagerness. make cartoons TO
emphasize the situation, and indulge In
more cackling than ambitious young
hen that thinks she has laid an egg. Our
British friends are very fond of this sort
of talk. 1t seems to serve the double pur-
pose of squirting the efforts of their own
people and dosing us with the soothing
narcotic of our own national vanity: and
then 1t must be vastly entertaining to them
as well as profitable in Its results.
In competitive manufacturing or trading
he is a lucky man that can put his chief
competitor to sleep on the job by making
him believe that he has everything his own
way. 1t gives opportunity to hustle and
get the business while the other fellow is
dreaming of what he will do with the
profits of the business that is getting away
from him. Commercial prestige is a very
valuable asset for an individual. firm, cor
poration or nation. but it is not by any
means a lasting possession. 1t requires as
much. If not more. of struggle to hold it
as il does to win il. The one that has Ii
is shining mark for competition and must
be very much alive IL all corners are to be
met and vanquished.
The very Englishman that tells us what
fine fellows we are and what wide swath
we are cutting understands this principle
better than anybody. 1t was a long and
severe struggle for them to win from the
enterprising Dutch the scepter of commercial
supremacy. and they have fought a few
notion that your Englishman has any idea
OF surrendering IT. let him get into foreign
trade for month or two and he will learn
things. He could forget more than we
ever knew about going after foreign trade
and still have big advantages: but. he Is
forgetting nothing, and where we beat him
once in neutral market he bests us hall
a dozen times-and then comes and give:
US jolt in our own domestic market or
the selfsame dunghill from which We ar,
Growing. We have tremendously big ear.
with which TO hear all the beautiful thing.
they tell us about our progress in foreign
trade. but when all is said and done, abou
the only things We sell abroad are som,
| OF the agricultural and mineral product,
that nature has iavishly poured int,
our lap. so slightly workedCup that the,
| may well be classed raw materials
When 1t comes to selling the product o
American labor abroad it Is hard struggl
: to do more than sell . few models TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
CHECK FORGER ESCAPES.


PHILADELPHIA. Oct ia. E. Bell. the
confessed mail-pouch robber and check
forger, who was arrested in Denver, Col.
escaped from Pullman car to-day just be-
fore the train to which 1t was attached ar
rived at the Pennsylvania Railroad station
here. Bell was In the custody OF two United
States deputy marshals and was on his way
to the United States marshafs Office in this
city. He made an excuse 10 go 10 the wash
room, and after locking himself in opened
the window and made his escape. Bell was
also known Crosby and Hammond After
his arrest in Denver he admitted having
stolen mail pouch from u Pennsylvania
Railroad train. The pouch was in transit
from this city TO Harrisburg, Pa. and dis
appeared on Sept. s. 1t contained large
number of checks for small sums and later
these came back to the banks. when IL was
learned that they had been raised to large
amounts. The authorities assert that Bell
must have realized nearly half million
dollars by this robbery.
Bell was held in $4,000 bail by United
States Commissioner Hinsdale. in Denver,
for his appearance in the United States
District Court here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

DR.. John Alexander Dow.e gave the key
60 the whole Zion proposition when he re-
marked TO a New York crowd OF reporters
that zion is the best investment on earth"
The millions he has accumulated In a very
few years demonstrate the truth of this
statement. The reason it is such a good
investment is because the religious side OF
the scheme brings him the cheapest labor
On earth. efficiency considered. His present
crusade to New York is a quest for more
converts and more cheap labor. and the
amount OF free advertising he is getting
out OF II must make Wanamaker. Post, OF
Battle Creek. and the others that spend
their millions annually for publicity turn
green with envy. Mr.. Dowie has the pro-
fessional advertisers beaten several miles.
and In his Industrial organization he is
fully abreast of the best of the captains of
industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
SHAW IN KENTUCKY.


LEXINGTON. KY. Oct. ls-Seeretary OF
the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw delivered the
first Of series of three speeches In Ken
lucky at this place to-day. Mr.. Shaw.
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue Yerkes
and other speakers were heard by a large
crowd.
When Mr.. Shaw appeared on the PLATFORM
he was given an enthusiastic reception. His
address was a short one and was mainly
confined TO the tariff with a brief reference
10 the trusts. The currency question was
not touched upo. by him. He prefaced
briefly on issues touching on the welfare
or the people and declared that II the sole
purpose OF political campaigns was simply
TO elect men 10 Office he would not particle
pate therein. In UNFOLDING the present
tarin policy OF the Republican party he
stated that the party appeals to the citizen
as A producer and promises the best mar
ket in the world in which TO sell. IL in
sists that it is relatively OF no Importance
what price we pay provided we produce the
goods ourselves. as the wages OF the laborer
always keep pace with any increase. The
secretary characterized the stand OF the
Democratic party on the trust question
futile, contending that everyone possessing
common sense knows IL takes time 10 kill
a trust. pointing out in this connection that
effective measures launched for this pur-
pose by the present administration have
made satisfactory progress.
At the close of the meeting Secretary
Shaw departed for Louisville. He will
speak at greensboro tomorrow and at
Louisville on the following day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
HARD WORK FOR TROOPS
REGULAR INFANTRY MARCHED
NEARLY A SCORE OF MILES,
While the Cavalrymen Rode Thirty to
rty-Five-Features Of the Camp
Sanger Maneuvers.

FORT RILEY, Kan, Oct 19.-To-day's
work in the maneuver camp might with
moderation be termed highly strenuous.
Only regular troops were out and even for
seasoned men they went through an ordeal
calculated to test the enduring qualities in
every one.
There were two exercises similar in char
acter and in one of these. where Lieut. Col
Kingsbury commanded the Brown cavalry
it is conservative to say that from the time
of leaving camp until the return, his troop
ers rode thirty to thirty-five miles, Much
of this march was over broken ground and
up and down steep hillsides where the men
at times had much difficulty in retaining
their saddles. The majority Of the infantry
engaged tramped fifteen to eighteen miles
in heavy marching order.
None of the National Guard regiments was
in the days maneuvers, and it is not likely
that the majority Of their men would have
been able to endure what the regulars went
through to-day. The national guardsmen
will not be taken into the actual work of
the maneuvers for two or three days. To-
morrow they will be drilled along the Paw
nee fats, marched UP and down the steep
hills a few times just to get them into good
form. After this preliminary course they
will go to work to war in the manner OF
the regular troops
To-days exercises which occupied the
troops from $50 a.. m, to 4:30 ID. M, We're
similar. One was held over the hills and
many miles away, to the south of the Re-
publican river, and the other was far away
in the dim and distant north, too far for
anybody but trained tramper to walk. and
much too far for sad sensitive soul TO
ride.
The problems In effect were that a Blue
force should march out into the country
of their old-time foes, the Browns, have a
small brush with them, and then fall back
to the camp wherever they came Ii was the
understanding that the Brown force which
in each instance consisted entirely of cav
airy, was to follow up the retreating army
very closely and harass them as much as
possible. 1t was not expected that the cav
airy would be able TO interrupt the infant
ry. Its sole object was to worry il and be
inean generally and this mission was amply
fulfilled.
There was little of the spectacular In to-
days fight.
The artillery, which makes the biggest
show as well as the greatest noise had lit
tie to do save run around the hills
The advancing and retreating Blue army
on the north was commanded by Col Kline
of the Twenty-first Infantry. and the at.
lacking Brown cavalry by Col. Steever, OF
the adjutant generals office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Exanrelicar Conferences.

BERLIN, Ont. Oct. 19.-The worlds evnn-
gelical conference was continued to-day. A
spirited canvass is going among the
delegates for the convention In 1907. The
Oregon delegates are pressing their claims
hard and so are those from Chicago
Church literature and the duties OF pas
tors were the topics under consideration
to-day The conference voted down over
Whelmingly the request OF the Young Pco-
pies Alliance for a weekly publication or
the Herald. The extension OF the time
limit OF a preachers stay In a congrega-
ton came up this evening on recommehoa-
ton that the limit be changed from four to
five years. The European delegates favor
the extension. The Northwest is opposed.
No conclusion has been reached. The
church Discipline was amended to empower
the preacher in charge TO call meeting OF
40 trustees
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Marquis Ito Holding Ont for the In
tegrity of Korea and the Open
Door I'm Manchuria.
VIEWS OF MINISTER ALLEN
REPORTS FROM THE FAR EAST ARE
EXAGGERATED, HE SAYS.
Korea Regarded as the storm Center
of Asia-Russia's Good Work
I'm Manchuria.

YOKOHAMA, Oct. 1s.-The negotiations
between Russia and Japan have come to
another standstill. 1t is thought doubtful
that the Marquis Ito's view of the military
occupation of Manchuria Is Endorsed py
the whole country, but IT is understood
that Ito is strong enough to carry his
point owing to the paramount stand taken
for the integrity of Korea and the open
door in Manchuria for all nations.
PEKING, Oct. 19.-Like other cities in the
far East, Picking is perplexed by the re-
ports from various points of events portend-
ing a Russo-Japanese war. Most of these
reports upon investigation prove to be UNI
founded. The opinion prevails here that
Russia proposes TO hold all she has gained
in Manchuria and refrain for the present
from future advances into Korea. IL is
also believed that Russia is convinced that
no ma ton except Japan thinks OF contesting
her position and having assembled fleet
and army which she considers strong
enough to repel any Japan attack, she Is
awaiting Developments in Japans policy.
A majority of the Russian ships have left
Port Arthur since the maneuvers for an
unknown destination, but it is supposed
that some of them are cruising. on the
shores of Kore watching Mah-San-Pho and
other ports. The Japanese ships whose
presence at Mah-San-Pho caused the re-
port that Japan had occupied the port
have sailed probably in the direction Of
Saseho, Japan.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 1s-A story is
current in military and diplomatic circles
here that in answer 10 a telegram in which
the Car instructed Admiral Alexieff Rus
sian viceroy in the far East. that Russian
interests must be maintained by force of
arms if necessary, the viceroy at once de-
manded $4,000 additional troops
LONDON, Oct. 20.-The Daily Mail this
morning says that since Oct. IL eight
steamships have been chartered i'm the
United Kingdom 70 carry steam coal TO
Japan and that two other consignments
are reported. The Port Arthur and Vlad-
livestock freight rates have risen three
shilings as a result af competition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

The Journal of last Sunday contained two
very interesting articles in relation to
Abyssinia, the one an interview with Con-
sui General Skinner, of Marseiles. who is
to head a government expedition TO
Abyssinia, and the other sketch of the
Negus Negast Menelik, remarkable de-
scendant of what has evidently been a
remarkable line of kings, claiming lineal
descent from Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba.
Some centuries ago. when the emissaries
of the great King John of Portugal rounded
the Cape of Good Hope and sailed up the
eastern coast of Africa one of those
marvellous voyages of discovery that car
ried Portuguese trade as far as China, they
were surprised to find what appeared
to be slice of the ancient Roman Empire
cut off and laid away in distant and in
accessible part of the earth. Here men
wore the toga and soldiers bore the arms
of the Roman of the third century, and the
rites of the Coptic Church of the Christian
religion were observed in their ancient
purity. Nor Gaul, Goth. vandal. Hun.
Frank nor Lombard, who had swept down
from the North to overwhelm the Roman
civilization, nor either of the successive
waves of Saracens and Turks and Tartar
hordes that had overrun southeast, IN Eu-
rope Asia Minor and Egypt from the East
and swept away almost every vestige of
what once was Roman, had ever pene-
trated the Businesses of mountain and
stream that divided the ancient Ethiopia
from Egypt. While there had apparently
been no progress in centuries there had,
on the other hand, been no recession to-
ward barbarism. The Portuguese visit
| made little or no impression on the king
dom and its people and, indeed, subsequent
| contact with modern civilization has not
made so much change here as it has with
other peoples, and barring modern fire.
| arms and a very few other innovations,
| Ethiopia to-day is thought to be a very
| fair example of what the outlying African
| dependencies of Rome were in the time of
| Constantine and his earlier successors. Ger
tainly an official exchange of courtesies be-
! tween the newest civilization and one dat
! ing back to before the Christian era is a
| matter of curious interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

About the most useless suggestion that
has been made in regard to currency legisla-
tfon Is that Congress provide for a COM
mission TO inquire into the subject and
report its findings. This would mean mere
" a large appropriation to pay the salaries
Of commission and corps of clerks, and
another considerable addition to the gov
eminent printing bill Not one member of
Congress I'm twenty would ever read the
report. They do not read one-tenth of the
eflicial reports now presented to them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

There is a consensus of opinion among
those who have made study of the indus
trial situation that troublous times are
ahead. A gradually falling market and
steadily increasing wages have created a
situation where large employers of all
kinds have found it necessary to call a
halt. A great many men are being laid
off by railroads and manufacturers, espe-
cially unskilled laborers, and many en-
ployers declare that the maximum limit of
wages has already been passed. Organized
labor is not in mood to submit to any re-
duction of wages without struggle, and it
looks very much as if such a struggle were
approaching. 1t may be averted or in
definitely postponed by a conciliatory spir-
1T on both sides, but If organized labor con-
tinues to crowd employers as it has been
doing for the last few years and demand
ing increase after increase of wages for a
great army of unskilled laborers, it will
render certain a disaster which even now
seems almost inevitable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

On election day the News had long and
very earnest editorial denouncing in
measured terms the villainous performance
of some scoundrel in getting out a letter
with Chairman Keach's name signed to it,
1t was discovered. few hours later, that
Mr.. Keach's affidavit denouncing this as
a forgery was dated two days before the
letter was mailed and two days before
Reach told anybody about it, but the lately
indignant News has made no COM
ment. How about it? Is there no inten-
ton of running the rascal down? If any
body forged the good Mr.. Keach's name he
should be duly punished therefor. If there
be anything in the dreadful suspicion aris-
ing from Mr.. Keach's long and mysterious
silence after discovering the thing and
making his affidavit, the people should
know what sort of game they were being
made the victims of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

The governments failure to prove a con-
spiracy in the case of Miller and Johns. at
Cincinnati. makes II highly probable that it
viii fail on the same point in the other
postofiice cases. 1t will unless the evidence
Is more direct and conclusive than it was
IN the case referred to. 1t is hard to prove
. conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt by
merely circumstantial evidence Perhaps
the Scotch verdict of guilty but not
proven would fit most OF the cases
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Came All Right.

Petoskey Aiich.) Tyre.
Mrs. Hayfo-k Gin country postofice)-Anything
for meI
Postmaster-I don't nothin'.
Mrs. Hayfork-I was eApectin' a letter post
card from Aunt Spriggs, telin what day she
was comm
Rural Postmaster calling to his wife)-Did
you see postcard from Mrs Hayforks Aunt
Salle?
His Wife-Yes; she's comm on Thursday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
DUCKS COLLIDE WITH SAIL.
Crew OF N Pilot Boat Provision Their
Larder with waterfowl.

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct l9--The pilot
boat Pathfinder had an unusual experience
while cruising of the heads the other night
in a dense fog. A large flock Of wild ducks.
making for the harbor, eoliided with the
mainsail OF the schooner and large num-
Der fell dead or stunned on the deck. The
man at the helm did not know what they
We're aud was engaged In kicking the ducks
over the side OF the vessel until stopped by
one of the pilots. who. hearing the disturb
ance, had rushed on deck d. ascertain the
cause. Enough birds were secured 10 proyi.
sion the larder FOR some time 90 come
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20

The establishment of public Fairgrounds
in Chicago has, 1t is claimed, resulted in a
distinct reduction in the patronage of
saloons. The city superintendent of the
Fairgrounds says that hundreds of men
who spent their evenings playing poker in
the corner saloon and losing their small
earnings now go to the Fairgrounds for
recreation and play football and engage
in other. athletic games by electric light.
The police say the Fairgrounds have re-
duced vagrancy and petty crimes. Here is
something for reformers to think about
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Nothing Doing.

Lippincott's Magazine.
Foreman Ito sweeper who is leaning on his
broom and gazing into blank space)-What are
you doing, William?
Misunderstanding Cooley. sir.
Foreman walking down aisle and seeing Coo
ley's smutty face emerging from under a benchl
What are you doing. Cooley?
Gooley-Nothng. sir.