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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
RETAINING THE DESERT.

When the epitaph of the Mormons
comes to be written, OF their proper
place in history defined, they must be
accorded the credit of discovering and
applying one idea of inestimable value.
They are the ~OriginatOrs in this country
OF artificial irrigation. Although the
system is still comparatively in its in
fancy, it is already a great factor in the
development of some sections of the
country, and is destined to be a much
greater one in the future. No doubt, if
the Mormons had not introduced arti-
fetal irrigation somebody else would
have done so, but the fact remains that
they did. The result has been to on
vert the desert of Utah into a region of
wonderful fertility, and to pave the way
for an extensive system of internal i'm
provement i'm other sections of the coun-
try. In the vast area of country former
" called the Great American Desert, en-
bracing alkali plains hundreds of miles
Interruptions, from the Mexican border
on the south to the British Amer
lean line on the north, there
are millions of acres of land
which, without artificial irrigation, are
utterly barren, but with that can be
made immensely productive. Not all
of this vast area can be reached and
utilized by irrigation, but a large part
can and will be. In Utah 600 miles of
canals have been constructed, at a cost
of more than Sc, % 900, and bringing
more than 100000 acres of arid land
under tillage. Arizona has about two
hundred miles of ~irrigating bitches
which, at a cost of 1000, 600, have re-
claimed 200, 900 acres of desert land.
Western Kansas has over 300 miles of
canals, one of which is fifty feet wide
and nearly one hundred miles long,
and another forty feet wide and fifty
miles long. The Eureka canal, 1900
feet long and ten feet high, diverts five
feet of water through the banks Of the
Arkansas river into another canal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

Ohio State Journal.
Sunset" Cox is not a very rugged figure
now, aud his hair is getting thin and gray,
but his eyes are as bright and his tongue as
ready as ever. Nobody is able to look on
Cox as anything but a youngster, because
his wit, and the variety and vivacity of his
humor never grow old, but he is past three
score. now. While a young man Cox
handled the present Mrs. w. C. Whitney
on his knee.
81 lave had a narrow escape from being
President of the United States" said Sun
set, the other day, stopping on the avenue
to talk with a group of his friends. IF
my mother hadn't refused the pr0ffered
hand of Gen. William Henry Harrison I
should be in the White House now. Gen.
Harrison asked my mother to marry him,
and though he had won some fame at that
time, she gave him the mitten, and stuck
to and finally married the printer boy to
whom she was engaged. See what a mar
row escape i lave had from being a great
man,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
GARRISON AT WORK.
Manners and Methods Of the New Assistant
POstmaster-Genera1.

6IlucI duu III VI OnC %
POstmaster-Genera1.
Washington Special.
Lord High Executioneer Clarkson is a
young man. l supposed, until ! saw him,
that he must be a gray-beard. Somehow or
other it seemed to me that the editor of a
paper called the Iowa State Register ought
to be old, just as | always felt sure that the
editor of the Burlington Hawkeye must be
very young and wide-awake. Then think
of the political work he has done, es-
pecially in the two last campaigns. Yet he
does not look to be over forty. although, |
enough to be appointed his private secre-
tary the other day.
He is a handsome man, not tall, but
symmetrical and well built. His hair
his mustache, while his face is
fresh and unwrinkled. He has a
bright eye and q pleasant voice. He takes
his work ~methodically and easily, even if
he did succumb to the weight of it for q
day or two. He receives on an average 500
visitors a day at his office. He makes from
100 to 200 changes in the ~fourth-class post
offices. 1t is hard wOrk-"harder work than
running a campaign" he said the other day.
Yet he never gets cross. He is Tory much
like his predecessor, General Stevenson in
the calmness with which he does his work.
Swiftly and silently" is his motto as well
as the bicycle clubs His Office is a small
room on the southeast corner of the second
behind a big desk, with his private secre-
tary opposite him. On either side of his
chair is an armchair. Around the walls
are a sofa and six or seven chairs. The
office-seekers, professional and personal,
Congressman and constituents can walk
right in. There is nothing exclusive
about Clarkson. and, besides, he believes
that ofice-seeking is the inalienable right
of every American citizen. native and nat
uralized. They sit or stand until Clark
son can get around to them. Rising with
the greatest courtesy to his feet. C1arkson
! will beckon them to him and shake hands
with them cordially. If it is an individual
Clarkson will ask him to sit down beside
him in one of the arm-chairs. If it is a dell
egation he will stand up to it. In either
| event he takes up his ditorial-looking
blue pencil and proc eeds to note the re-
| quest made of him. Sometimes he settles
it then and there; sometimes says: ssIll
look into this" but whatever he does IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

London Standard.
b oldest bank notes are the flying
in China 2697 Ii. c. Originally these notes
were issued by the Treasury, but expert
ence dictated a change to the banks
under government inspection and control.
early Chinese "~greenbacksp were in all es-
~sentials similar 10 the modern bank notes,
bearing the name of the bank, date of issue,
the number of the note, the signature of
the official issuing it, indications of its
value in figures, in words, and in the
pictorial representation in coins or heaps
of coins equal in amount to its face
value, and a notice of the pains and penal
ties of counterfeiting. Over and above all
was a laconic exh0rtation to industry and
thrift: Produce all you can; spend with
economy" The notes were printed in blne
ink on paper made from the fiber of the
mulberry tree. One issued in 1929 b. G.. is
still carefully preserved in the Asiatic
Museum, at ST. Petersburg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

hcIDIu-
Judge Thayer yesterday awarded the
child of Job Moseley TO the care of her
mother. Moseley thought so little of his
baby girl when she was born that he of
ter's services. He was so disappointed be-
cause the child was not a boy that he would
not look at her for three weeks after she
had been born. Moseley's disappointment
increased with the child's age, and the wife
told hejudge a shocking story of cruelty yes
terday. She said she had been beaten and
kicked until she had been obliged to fee
from her home with her baby, which is now
nineteen months old. She works in a mill.
and about two weeks ago her baby was
taken from her home by her husband, and
she brought suit to recover possession of
the little one. The husband acknow lodged
that he had struck his wife, and once had
knocked her teeth out of her mouth. But
that didn't matter" he added; they were
false" The judge looked at the matter in
another light. and so Mrs. Moseley c
cred her child.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

A QUESTION having been raised in Can
ada as to the purity of the American
lard sold in that market, the Department
of Inland Revenue caused an inspection
and analysis to be made of sixty samples
obtained at random. Of this number
only n was pure lard, that one being
put up by a Boston firm. The remain
ing fi~fty-nine were adulterated, mostly
with cotton-seed oil. In consequence Of
this discovery the revenue authorities
have recommended an increase of the
duty on American lard. If the finding
of the analysis was correct the authori-
ties were right in their action, and it is
a good lesson for American lard manu-
facturers. In fact, it is a good lesson
for manufacturers of all kinds hat hon.
~sty is the best policy. The adultera-
zion of food articles is one of the most
3sUicable forms of fraud. Cotton-seed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

CoNGREssMEN ought not to be too Sc
we're upon the residents of their districts
who impartially sign every candidates
recommendation to Office. congressman,
in moments of ante-election abstraction,
have been known to make more prom
Uses than there were ~postofices, and if
busy private citizens, who are supposed
to be less familiar with the official sup
ply and demand, are equally careless,
they should not be blamed too greatly.
Besides, the private citizen would often
be just as happy with one good man as
another for postmaster, and sees no
reason why he should discriminate
against one neighbor and in favor of
another, when the Representative de-
clines to do so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

The rush of immigration to Okla
homa and the Northwest does not indi-
cate a rapid growth of popularity in
Henry Georges theory of common
ownership in land. Every immigrant
means to gain a personal title in a tract
of land, and the possibility of doing this
is the sole explanation of his eagerness.
The desire to own real estate in fee
simple is so ingrained in he American
mind that there is little likelihood of a
speedy revolution of opinion in favor of
the single-tax or the rental system.
Henry George will not live to see his
theories adopted into practical use.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

their advantage to work in concert than
independently of each other and that is
all there is to syndicates and trusts.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
THE brand of an American firm should be
a guarantee of honest goods abroad as we'll
aslin this country. There is no better way
of extending the markets for our surplus
productions than to sufficiently guarantee
their purity and superiority. The efforts
of all foreign countries to exclude impure
or imperfect American goods will have the
countenance and sympathy of all true
MISUNDERSTANDING Leader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

PRINCE BIsMARCK's approval of the
bill furnishing newspaper editors who
speak lightly of government officials
shows that even so stolid a person as
the great Chancellor is not impervious
to the criticisms of the press. 1t is
lucky for the sensitive German that he is
not within close range of the unmuzzled
American newspapers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

oil in itself is neither unwholesome nor
repulsive, but it is not lard, and no hon
est dealer would sell it as such. If
American manufacturer adulterate their
lard they have no right to complain if
foreign markets are closed against them,
as, indeed, all markets ought to be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

THE Youngstown, o., man who went to
the poor-house and selected from among
the inmates a woman who agreed to be-
come his wife and the step.mOther of his
nine children, had probably read the late
Z. P. ROe's story, HE Fell in Love with
His Wife," 1t is hardly probable, however.
that the pleasing idyl described by MI. Roe
is the invariable sequence of a marriage of
that character. Besides, the nine children,
are likely to detract somewhat from the TO-
nance of the situation. There is reason to
fear that the Ohio man, to say nothing of
his bride, will fail to realize his blissful an
formations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
A More Creditable Qualification.
PittsburC Dispatch.

As regards hereditary honors in the dis
tribution of foreign missions, it is pertinent
to remark that to be descended from an
American statesman, is a more creditable
qualification than a purchased pedigree
showing a remote connection with the no
bility and aristocracy of Great Britain
which was reported to be the requisite for
preferment under Secretary Bayard's adj
IhinistratiOn. d.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
Should Consult Greedy.

The four Indi ana men who propose to en-
ter Oklahoma by means of a balloon the
moment it becomes open for settle ment,
would do well to get a pledge from Gen.
Greedy that south winds shall be pre-
dicted for the Indian Territory region on
April %. If the probabilities are officially
stated to be unfavorable. it will be pretty
safe for the aeronauts to count on the fair
breeze from the north, which they must
have to make their scheme work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

THE suggestion that natural gas is a
"stered force,n and therefore exhaust
IDLE and constantly diminishing, is mere
guess-work. The mineral waters Of
Saratoga Springs have been known
more than a hundred years, and during
that time the flow has been continual
and the analysis of the water has not
changed. Similar causes might produce
a continuing supply of natural gas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08


1t is rather a curious commentary upon
the character of Rhode Island Democrats
have been lost to the Democrats in the
heavy Democratic wards of Providence be-
cause the men believed the yarns of the
Democratic leaders about Republican at
aronnd All dav waiting for a chance TO be
corrupted, until it was too late for them to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
Playing Into Their Enemies Hands.
uro IL. -4o., nonA

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The Prohibition party in the West may
now pretty fairly be set down as the anti
Temperance element of this country. All
that political sagacity could devise to de-
regularity and precision which has finally
made clear their platform. To defeat legis-
lation against whisky by putting the Demo-
cratic party in power is a stroke of diplo-
macy. They pose as reformers, and at the
same time have all the unlicensed saloons
they desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

done pleasantly. Clarkson seems to have
concluded to stay awhile with us, for he
has rented one of Senator Sherman's
houses, next door to Sherman's own resi-
dence, on Franklin square.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

President Harrison seems to us to have
indicated in all he has lone a sincere desire
to make the country a good President. We
think we have seen in him, further, an in
tention to be something more than the
President of his party. He appreciates the
dignity of his Office, and realizes the re-
spOnsibility attending it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

CINCINNATI papers record the death of
Mrs. Groesbeck, wife of Hon. w. S. Groes.
beck. She was a daughter of Hon. Jacob
Burnet, one of the pioneers of Cincinnati,
and her sister was wife Of Justice Nc.
Lean. of the United States Supreme Court.
The deceased lady possessed rare graces
and accomplishments of character, and
was noted for her charities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
Doesn't Mean What He Says.

washington Post.
The man who goes about proclaiming that
there is no office within the Presidents gift
that he could be induced TO accept is prob
ably lying low for a place as assistant
door-keeper IN the next Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

THE press and people outside of Indi-
ana are having a good deal to say about
'the Indiana man. in connection with
Offices and appointments. 1t is broadly
limited, if not openly asserted, that In
diana is coming to the front too fast,
that the Indiana man is numerous and
aggressive, and that he abOunds not
only in the State but out of it, and turns
up Unexpectedly in distant States and
Territories. Weare rather proud to adj
NIT that there is some foundation for
these charges, not in the that In
diana is getting or likely to get more
political recognition than she deserves,
but that she is getting more than ever
before, and something near her deserts.
The Indiana man need not be humiliat-
ed nor discouraged by the fippant refer
ences to his ubiquity, or the envious in
situations that he is getting more than
his share of the official plums. Such is
the way of the world. The Ohio man
stood this sort of thing for many years,
but he went right along pushing his way
to the front, and commonly he got there.
Now it is Indiana's turn. The center of
population and the star of empire have
moved westward, and they now rest in
and over Indiana, instead of Ohio.
Eventually they will move on westward,
but not for some time yet. Meanwhile
we are free to admit and proud to claim
that Indiana is a great State, and there
is every reason why the Indiana man
should be as numerous and aggressive
as ever the Ohio man was. AS long as
the logic of events assigns the Indiana
man to the front he must maintain his
place-firmly and kindly, of course, with
malice towards none and with charity for
all; but let him get there and stay there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
He Discovers Himself.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Every time that Stanley has been discov-
cred, so far, he has had to discover him
self, and it will probably be so 10 the end.
Stanley is generally too much pressed for
time to wait for the other fellows to dis
cover him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
Do Not Recognize the Distin ction.

Straws are faithful indicators, of course,
but those of our esteemed contemporaries
that are figuring out a Democratic majority
in the next Congress from the result of the
Rhode Island election, it seems to us, fail
to recognize the distinction between a CT
der barrel and a cyclone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.

Leavenworth (kan) Times.
Cleveland made charges of offensive
partisanship" a sufficient cause for dismiss
sal. Harrison accepts charges of 'ineHi-
cheney" There is a world of progress right
here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
A Natural Sequence.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t is, perhaps. only a coincidence that
about the time the State Legislatures begin
to finish their debates and 60 home the
cyclone season begins to unfold its windy
wonders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
The Best Plan for Many States.

1t is probably true, as suggested by Gov.
Fletcher, that the best way to beat Nor
monism in Utah is to encourage intelligent
best way to beat Bourbonism in Missouri.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08

eighty miles long and thirty feet wide
at the bottom, which by side canals
fertilizes a large extent of country. In
Colorado more than a million acres of
land have been brought under artificial
irrigation, and in Arizona and southern
California some of the irrigating- enter
prises are of great extent. The curious
thing about these reclaimed arid lands
is that under irrigation they become
more productive than the best of lands
watered by natural means. When the
tidal wav of emigration, waiting to
break into and over Oklahoma, has oc-
cupied that and other good lands avail
able to settlement, it will probably be
diverted into the irrigated regions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
What High License Will Do for ST. Louis.
Omaha Republicap.

O1naha HepuDncan.
The Missouri high-license bill, which has
Democratic support in the Legislature.
is a pretty radical measure. There is, to
begin with, a uniform tax of $500 per year,
in addition to which saloons in the towns
and cities must procure a special license
tax. amounting, in st. Louis, to $500 per
year. 1t is expected that the enforcing of
the tax in st. Louis will reduce the number
of saloons from 1000 to 1000, yielding the
city 50. 0O0, 900 annual income.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
But the Mugwumps Reyile wanamaler

Kansas City Journal (Rep)
The time has not yet come in this coun-
try when a man is an object of scorn be-
cause be is o Christian wexkess = 1
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Telephone Calls.
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Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
Deserved

The well known firm Of Chamberlain,
Anderson & O'Counell, OF POS and 2l0
North Sixteenth street, have for the
past six years occupied q promlnen t
place among the business firms Of this
popular street. Their trade has been
very satisfactory to them and has grown
to such proportions as to necessitate
ampler quarters. They have secured
the large store room Just south, thus
making them one of the finest sales
rooms in Omaha. Their large stock
occupying three large double floors. In
rank they are third among furniture
houses in the city, and carry a stock
which in style, quality and finish, will
compare most favorably with any stock
kept in the city. They have just
ordered Il magnificent stock Of spring
goods, which will arrive in due time,
among which, in addition to q complete
line of furniture, will be found a hand
some stock Of baby cabs of the very
latest patterns. These gentlemen study
the wants of their customers, and will
spare no pains to make their store in
the future as it has been in the past,
the most popular furniture house in
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
HAYDEN BROS.
SpeciaI Sale OF Silks Monday

On Monday morning at 8 O'Clock we
will offer the largest stock of silks
which was aver displayed on u coun-
ters. a large line of gros grain silks
in all c%olors, worth from soc to 81 35,
reduced TO 65c per yard. The most de-
sirable shades in Faille Franchise,
worth 81. 25, reduced to Coo per yard.
The handsomest line of colors and the
largest variety of new shades in Surrah
silk worth from 81 to $l.35 a yard, re-
duced to 65c a yard. A large assort-
ment of colors in satin Rhademas worth
all the way from 81 to 81 .35, all reduced
down to 65c u yard. Among this lot of
silks you will find positively the best
bargains YER offered by any house in
Omaha. Besides these we have a lot of
short ends and odd lots OF brocaded
silks and satins in all colors. which will
be offered on Monday at 25c a yard;
they are worth from S5c to 81. 30 a yard,
but they all go on Monday at 25c a yard.
We would advise you to be on hand
promptly at 8 Il. m. on Monday and get
first choise of this great silk sale at
HAYDEN BROS.