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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
MIR. JARRETT DIDN'T SAY THIS.
A Contradiction, Officially, of His Reported
Birmingham Speech.

Birmingham Speech
Philadelphia Press.
The New York Sun last Sunday, in its
cable letter from London, had the following
paragraph which has been widely CON-
mented on by the Democratic newspapers:
1T would be interesting to know, In view
of young Harrisons enthusiastic reception
over here, whether he has by. any chance,
been indulging in such twaddle as John
Jarrett, of Pittsburg, the new consul at
Birmingham. is credited with in the Bir-
mingham Times. Jarrett starts Oft by say
ing that President Harrison's last insfruc.
tons to him before he left. America W.. to
seize every opportunity of removing any
impression that Americans dislike Eng.
land or wish to be on other than the most,
cordial terms with her. These instructions
so fully accorded with his own views that
he had the greatest pleasure possible
in repeating them. OF course he
continued, Il know some of our people ara
very fond at election time of performing
the operation known as twisting, the Brit
ish lions tail. Mr.. Cleveland and the
Democrats did it pretty freely in the last
election, but it made their defeat ali the
more crushing. The Sackville incident. az
suppose everybody over here knows very
we'll now. was only an election trick. and a
very shabby and stupid one, too. There IS
not respectable American IN the states
that does not sincerely regret the incldent.
and with a meaning smile) should thnS
those responsible for the episode are more
sorry than any one else.
Mr.. James NJ. Swank. of the American
Iron and Steel Association. telegraphed I'D
Consul Jarrett asking whether he had
ever uttered the sentiments attributed 10
him by the Birmingham Times ~ reply
was received by cable from Mr.. Jarrett
Yesterday He said that he never uttered
the words or sentiments, ana tnat the Lon
don correspondent of the New York sun
had promised to send that paper a contra
diction of tho report that he had ever
uttered them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
FALSE SOCIAL STANDARDS.

1t is debatable whether the alleged
defense of Mrs. John Mackay, recently
published in London, in the Pail Mall
Gazette, and wired to this country as
special informatiOn,u savOrs more largely
of absurdity or culpability. That friends
of Mrs. Mackay should feel called upon
to refute the statement that she was
formerly laundry woman or boarding
house keeper. and to assure an alarmed
English public that she was the daugh-
ter of an American army officer, highly
educated, and speaking French and
English fuently, is sufficiently ridicu-
lous, but that such matter should be
sent across the ocean as news of value to
an American public is certainly sorrows
crown of sorrow. 1t is to be profoundly
regretted that Americans who go abroad
cannot carry with them the true Amer
lean spirit, and present it everywhere, not
in Haunting mood, but in self-respecting
insistance, in opposition to the false and
unreliable society standards of effete dy-
nasties. On a true republican basis, an
cestry amounts to but little; men of a
long line of noble ancestors have Occa-
siOnally Ornamented the penitentiary,
and men of the Obscurest origin have
sat in the highest seats of national
honor. The most interchangeable lineage
hunter can trace no further back than
Adam, who was of the labOring class
a mere gardener, and of questionable
20 hot
universal standpoint, then, the nature
of Mrs. Mackay's origin is wholly unim-
portant and irrelevant. If she is the
daughter of an American army officer,
reared in cultured home, and
qualified to say boo to for
eign goose in many languages,
she. is to be congratulated upon
her good fortune in life. If, on the
other hand, she formerly occupied
the inconspicuous lot of washerwoman
or Neutrality-suspicious., she is still
more to be felicitated upon her accession
to the ease and comfort implied in the
Mackay millions. Mrs. Mackay's father
might have been an American army off,
Ger, and still have been deficient In some
of the finest elements of true manhood;
andeven as alaundry- woman or landlady,
she herself could have been, consistently,
true and respect-inspiring woman.
Millions of American men are incompar-
ably the superiors of some of the foreign
princes, and grand-niece of Thomas
Jefferson has been known to keep a
clearinghouse In the United States
with credit to herself and no stain upon
her illustrious ancestor. Nevertheless,
there is a circle, known incorrectly as
'the best society,"" and whose standards
are borne in contempt by just-minded
people, which would receive on Bonded
knee the profligate prince, and debar
with cold shoulder the landlady niece of
jefferson. 1t was, doubtless, by this
class that the careful exposition of Mrs.
Mackay's origin was rendered requisite
and considered acceptable; and only in
the process of suns can the extermina-
ton of such faulty standards be hoped
for by the saner varieties of mankind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

trip. The Indian potentate of Singpors
has never been on the continent before,
and he seems to like Paris so well that his
stay bids fair Co be long one. Partisan
tradesmen sincerely hope that the affairs
of Singapore will not soon recall him to his
native land.
THERE was once charming young Nine.
VINO hao never been told about Anne.
AT the serpent aad Eve
...- She laughed In her sleeve.
And said, 20 that poor creature hme."
80 -Lawrence American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
frightened About Virginia.

Augusta tGa) Cnrunicie.
The Republicans have their eyes upon vir-
ginia Senator MatQuay and Assistant POST
master general Clarkson are trying TO hatch
mn a scheme TO capture Virginia this fall.
Under the spoils system Virginia becomes
an uncomfortably close State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
Ice-Water Perils.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Yes" said the doctor. as he drew q cup
full at the tank. 'ice-water is very danger
GUS. have known it TO suddenly kill three
persons in one day. They broke through
while skating and were drowned" And
the doctors smile was cold and sarcastic as
he slid ont.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

ANEAT thingis credited to DR.. W. Howard
Russell, the British correspondent once
famous as Bull Run" Russell. At recent
dinner party in London some one asked
Russell, supposing him, to be authority on
American matters, why Mr.. Patrick Egan
should have been sent to Chill as United
States minister. DR.. Russell replied: "Well.
Chilli is famous for its earthquakes, and if
any man understands land agitation it is
Egan." This was very good. for an En-
plishman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
JOURNAL SUNDAY

enlightenment without any sacrifice of
ones autonomy. 1t was through contact
with them that the Kansas lady discov-
cred her mistake and gained some in
formation that she is not likely to for
GOT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

unto the day. etc., and. besides, the predic-
ton may not be correct. If the mugwump
theory of the survival of the fittest, the
fittest, of course, being those truly good
people. is to be accepted, the United States
will be bowling wilderness in the year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

AGAIN comes word that the Yellow river.
the terror of China, has broken it's banks,
entailing widespread devastation and vast
loss of life. If the news the civiliz ed world
receives from China is reliable, that un-
fortunate country has suffered within the
past twoyears no less than five disasters.
any one of which exceeds the JohnstOwn
catastrophe in loss of life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

MIR. j. c. FLETCHER, in recent letter to
the Journal. states that ''The New Pur-
chase. or Life in the Far West was pub
lished "in 1S43. q thousand miles away, in
New York" The book was republished in
improved and with picters to
match" as the author states in the preface
by John r. Nunemacher, in New Albany,
Ind, and had an extended sale throughout
the State. 1t is still interesting reading
as chronicle of early times in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
TWELVE PAGES.

The Sunday journal has double the circn-
Iation of any Sunday paper In Indiana.
Price five cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

THE Territorial Board of Education at
Sitka, Alaska, has recently concluded Its
work of selecting teachers for the schools
supported in whole or in part by the gov
eminent in Alaska. There were over 100
applications from teachers in the United
States. The last Congress made an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the support of these
schools. This is placed under the control
of the Commissioner of Education at Wash
ington. Some of the schools have only
white pupils, and others again are attended
solely by natives or Indians, as they are
often called. The schools are conducted
under great difficulties, and the results in
an educational way are exceedingly eager.
A correspondent writes:
The men here IN official life who are doing all
that human energy can do with the means at
their disposal to educate and ciyiiZe these peO-
pie are often thus confronted with obstacles and
problems that sink them to the very lowest
depths Of dependency. The fact is that the ail-
thorities here are not given either the means or
the money to reach these points In the discharge
of their duty. There is not the slightest posi-
bility of going by land. There is only one way,
that is by water. The mail steamers touch at
only few points, and those not the most i'm
pOrtant ones In connection with the education
of the natives. If the many ladies who have
asked for positions as teachers in the native
schools of Alaska had the slightest idea of the
isolation which they invite, with not human
being nearer than 100 miles, except three
fOnr hundred Indians, shut out from the world
for six months Of the year, with not even the
power TO communicate with these barbarians
except by signs, they would shudder at their
own temerity.
A more filthy set of human beings cannot well
be conceived than the children of a native
Alaskan village, especially at points somewhat
remote from the important white settlements.
The regular morning task of the teacher begins
with the use OF soap, water, and the comb, most
generally with the fine -tOothed comb. A school
room partly filed with native children would be
intolerabe without such preparatory exercise
on the part OF the teacher. Occasionally the
mothers of these children can be enlisted to the
extent OF aiding in giving q halfway decent ap-
pearance 10 them, but this is rare that it Is a
remarkable exception. At the very moment
when a teacher imagines that he or she has got q
group OF pupils in condition TO make some prog
ress. the parents gather up their few traps, pack
them into the cedar canoes, bundle off their chill
dree. fasten up the hut or house, and away they
go hundreds of miles through the inlets to some
fishing grounds and do not reappear until win
Ter drives them home again. Even then feasting
and eating begins In one house or hut or another
in the village. and it is nearly spring again be-
fore the savage and often brutal orgies end.
This is as much fun for the children as for the
adults, and II the former can be got into the
neighboring school-house in the meantime IL is
regarded as a miracle OF success
----<~------
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

steamer from a neighboring port several
weeks ago an antique gold watch and chain
were found in a state-room. They were put
away in the general Office safe for their
owner to apply for them. A few days ago
the agent of the line received letter from
a woman in Elgin. She wrote: II find
my watch and chain are gone. ] have
thought of every place have been for six
weeks. and guess 1 left them ON your
boat. know had the watch six weeks
ago, but cannot remember wearing it
SINCE" Then followed description of a
watch and chain. The woman wasn't GER
tain If she had worn the watch for six
weekst
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

woMAN's way of using and taking care
of watch is one of the funny things of
life. As rule it may be said that wom-
ans watch is either never in repair, never
wound up or never running, or if running
is never right. An amusing illustration of
this female Characteristic occurred recent
ly in . Lake city. On the arrival of .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

THE figures of the Washington statisti-
cian who estimates that in one hundred
years the population of the United States
will have increased to an average of two
and one-half persons to an acre of area are
causing a good deal of anxiety to q num-
Der of esteemed contemporaries. Dear
friends, what's the use o. worry ing about
one hundred years from nowi Sufficient
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28

THE Norwegian element is large factor
of the population of North Dakota. 1t is
estimated that they constitute one-third of
the present population. They make good
citizens being generally industrious,
thrifty and temperate. Most of them come
with just money enough to get on the gov
eminent land and build "A sod house, but
they come to stay, and they get ahead very
fast. A correspondent says: Every county
has Norwegians who are worth from SIS 900
to $4,000, all made since settlement IN
Dakota. These people live economically
and work hard for the first years. but they
Americanize with wonderful rapidity and
take to the comforts and luxuries of life
just as soon as they find themselves able to
afford them. There are no poor-houses
where the Norwegians are thickest, and the
jails are mainly ornamental"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
THE TURNCOATS.

It has often been noted that very
many of the active manipulators of the
Republican party in North Dakota were
lifelong and incorrigible Democrats
before reaching that goOdly land, and
changed their politics for financial or
other lucrative reasons. The Fargo Re-
publican of Wednesday furnishes a
striking illustration in the case of one
of the most conspicuous candidates for
speaker of the house. The Republican
publishes the proceedings of Repub-
liean meeting held a couple of weeks
ago at the former home of the gentle
man in Illinois. in which the Dakota
Republicans are warned not to trust
him. The narrative asserts that while
Mr.. CLEVELAND was candidate for
president, the Dakota Republican and
Illinois Democrat visited that place and
made a speech at Democratic meeting
as he had been in the habit of doing. al
though at the time Republican can di-
date for the legislature in Dakot a. This
shows the versatility of the Dakota pol
iticians, and that they are mot there
for their health"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
THE OLD DODGE.

The approaching silver convention.
which will be held in st. Louis the Goth
Of this month. has started the gold
worshipers to work in figuring out
statistics to show what wonderful in
crease in gold circulation there has
been within the last year. The Finan-
cial Chronicle, very able journal, and
ordinarily very good authority in mat
tiers of finance, undertakes to show that
from July to Nov. there has been
actual increase in gold circulation of
s., lis, $40, while there was also an in
crease of $3.50, 900 in the amount in the
treasury. This is most excellent
showing for the gold advocates, the only
difficulty about it being that the figures
lie. 1t is singular fact that these ''gOld
bOOmS" never occur except when the sill
yer men are on the warpath, and then
they only occur on paper. Silver is good
enough money for the masses; and as the
great and good God has given US album
dance of the ore, why should we not avail
ourselves of His benefieence and make
for ourselves all the money that we
want?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
NATURES NOBLEMEN.
knights of Labor Make Import
ant Changes i'm Their Laws.

Au1S0tS Oh LABOR MAKE InpOrt~
ant Changes in Their Laws.
ATLANTA, Nov. 1.-THE report of
the committee on laws occupied the
general assembly of the Knights of
Labor this morning. It was de-
cided that on Saturday the con-
yention will go into committee of
the whole to consider the state
of the order. Several committees were
appointed, but only routine work was
done. This afternoon the assembly re-
eeived a delegation from the city and
state w. c. L. u. societies. A speech
was made by Miss Stokes, during
which she congratulated Master
Workman Powderly on having FIX
cluded rumsellers from the order
and on being himself prohibitiOniSt.
Mr. Po~derly renlied by answering that
they would always find their firmest al
lies among the Knights of Labor.
When the ladies had withdrawn, the re-
port of the law committee, the reading
of which was commenced at the nIOrn-
ing session was resumed. Some very
important changes IN the the bylaws
and constitution were suggested.
The most important change
made was to allow the transfer of a
local assembly to any other district as
sembly, or to the general assembly
without the consent of either the dis
triet, national. trade or state assembly.
as heretofore required. 1t was pro-
posed to amend the fourth plank of the
platform, and discussion arose which
lasted until adjournment. Tire subject
will be taken up again Monday and I'm
ally settled.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
Legal Battle Between a Mis-
souri, Woman's Paramour
and Her Creditors.
It Develops a Scandal That
Shocks Society in Two
States.
Bandit Holiday Attributes
His Criminal Exploits to
"Queer" Spells.
Fire-Bugs by Their Boldness
TerroPize the Citizens OF
an Illinois Town.
Snaciai IN the Clone

Special TO the GLOBE.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 14.-About
year ago Mrs. Louise Reithmuller, a
handsome, dashing blonde. kept a fine
millinery establishment OH Twelfth
street, in this city. From this fashion
able place sprang causes that brought
about replevin proceedings that opened
in court to-day.
gentlemen of the jury" said Attorney
Mailman. 1.-The pleasure of visiting Paris is
not given every one. but III this case INTEND
giving you Partisan romance which VIII
answer for visit TO the gay metropolis"
The evidence in the case showed that
John Dean, a wealthy merchant OF
Providence, r, l., met Mrs. Reithmuller
through his agent. while here
in the spring of 1887. Dean was mar
ried, but nevertheless took great lik-
ing to the handsome milliner. Mrs.
Reithmuller reciprOcated bis affections.
Mr.. Reithmuller accepted $500 OF
Deans money to retire from the field.
The gay pair then left for the
east, going straight to the Hoffman
house, New York. In that hotel they
lived like sprigs of royalty for some
time when Reithmuller stepped in.
Dean then turned over some more
money and Reithmuller again left.
After this little episode the guilty pair
visited all of the eastern watering
places and the woman attracted great
deal of attention. Altar +, W weeks of
this sort of life Mrs. Reiluinuller re-
turned to this city and Dean sought
the bosom of his family in Providence.
Dean is now fighting the creditors of
Mrs. Rothmulier who closed the
woman's establishment. The former
wants to get his money back and says
he has prior claim on the goods.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
PAN-AMERICAN RAILROAD.

When man is set in his ways there
is not much use in endeavoring to
change his policy. But if Mr.. BLAINE
should be actuated solely by an unself-
ish motive in his endeavor to establish
better trade relations between the Pan
American states, and is not mixed up
in the business enterprises which viii
be profited by his steamship subsidy
plan, then we think he might listen pa
tiently to the arguments against the
proposed steamship subsidy. He is
deaf. however, to all argument, and re-
ceives all suggestions contrary to his
plan with marked indifference. and
sometimes with downright rudeness.
But as it is congress, and not Mr..
BLAINE, who will in the end determine
what policy this country will pursue,
those persons who are not infatuated
with the steamship subsidy proposition
will turn their attention to that body
and leave Mr.. BLAINE in the enjoyment
of his SecluSive greatness.
Among the various plans proposed
for establishing better commercial rela-
tons between the various American
states the one which strikes the average
American citizen as being the most prae-
teal, as we'll as the most practicable, is
the building of a Pan-Ameriean rail-
road. We have already established
railroad communication with the city
of Mexico, and it would not be such a
vast undertaking to extend a line on
down through Central America into
Peru and Brazil. If there is to be any
government subsidy, it would be great
deal better to grant it in aid of Pan
American railroad system than to line
of steamships. Then the various
Central and South American states
would doubtless be willing to help the
enterprise along with liberal land grants
and subsidies in one form or another,
so that the builders of the road
would not be bothered with the
expense of construction. For the
most part the line could be cheaply
constructed, because it would pass
through country favorable to railroad
building.
Then, too, such road would give US
an advantage over our European COM
petitors for the South American trade
that they could not overcome. With
New York and Boston connected with
Lima and Rio Janeiro by rail, we could
snap our fingers at the British and Ger
man merchants who are, now wrestling
the South American trade from us. If
we undertake to compete with them in
ocean traffic, they will surely beat us at
the game. But we can have mOnop-
oily of the land traffic, and why not avail
ourselves of it?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
THEY'RE NO INFANTS.
The Partisan and Non-Pa r, isan
w. @. T. U. Delegates Each Say
GOOD Riddance."

"G0O0 hiQQanCe.
The Minneapolis lady delegates who
went to the w. Z. T. U. national con-
vention in Chicago have returned. Mrs.
T. b. Walker, who has for some time
past been identified with the non-parti-
san movement in Minneapolis, and who
took the non-partiSan side of the issue
along with Mrs. Foster. of Iowa.
at the Chicago convention, comes
home more enthused Than ever
with the righteousness of the
non-partisan idea. She tells how, on
Tuesday night, after Mrs. Foster had
lett the convention, the nOn-partiSans,
over hfty in number, spent the night in
prayer and consultation. A meeting
was called for the next morning at 9
O'Clock, and at this meeting Mrs. Walker
presided. Plans were discussed and a
committee of eight was appointed to
select provisional committee of
seven, which will meet soon and
formulate a call for a national
non-partiSan meeting. Mrs. Walker
says that non-partisans are not infants
by any means. She counts the whole
Iowa delegation and thirty-five power
full Ohio unions, besides representa-
tons from seven other states. among
the strongest of which is the Minneapu-
lis union. Mrs. Russell, who is as
strong an advocate of the principles of
the main body of the w. C. t. u. de-
nounceS the newspaper reports of the
convention, and thinks that the move
ment is better off now that Mrs. Foster
with her followers and their pet notions
are out of The union, and thinks that
the body can do better work, as the
source of discord is removed.