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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

THE Journal has had many compli-
ments for the name in which it con-
Quoted its share of the late campaign,
and is in constant receipt of express
sions of good will from friends through
ont the State. In return for these words
of appreciation it can only promise that
it will continue to use its energies with
equal zeal and to the best of its ability
in every cause that looks to the best in
terests of the people of the State and of
the Republican party-interests that are
identical In every respect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
Gi..nuo IRRIGATION scheme.

FoRT COLLINS. Ia. Oct la.-The water
storage and supply company has under
taken the most gigantic irrigation scheme
IN the history of the West. which means
the diversion of the waters OF the Grand
river to the eastern slope. A tunnel will
be bored through the range "a tap the
stream and the water conveyed 10 the
plans by small creeks and prehistoric
streams To a natural reservoir which will
hold millions of gallons of water. The
people of western Colorado threaten a law
suit n the scheme is carried out, as the
Grand river is the main source of their
water supply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
Wholesale Firms Boycotted.

WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. 1.-The bow
colt against the Wholesale firms of this
city, declared by the W~arehousemen's
Union and Endorsed by the Ohio Valley
Trades Assembly, went into effect to-day.
1t will be very sweeping In its effect. and
will be prosecuted by every class of or
ganized labor, who will withdraw their
patronage from all retailers who patronize
the Wheeling wholesalers who refuse the
demands OF the striking warehousemen.
The merchants lave had no trouble in ILL
ing the places of the strikers. The whole
sale men paw better wages than any where
else in the Ohio valley, and claim the strike
ia unreasonable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

Mrs. RHoADES, State superintendent
of young woman's work in the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Penn
%sylvania, made this statement in a
speech at the Bradford convention last
week:
Wehave given up the idea of ever gain
ing anything by politics, and are now CON-
timing ourselves TO individual work. We
ex pect nothing, or very little. from legis-
lation. 1t has been shown that the law
cannot make a sober man out of a drunk
ard.
These words of wisdom are commend
ed to Miss Willard and the w. C.. II. u.
generally. The sooner this organiza-
ton learns that its power and influence
lie in the direction of Individual work
and moral ~suasion the sooner will it's
usefulness be increased. In all the period
of it's existence it has never done so
much TO create a sentiment in favor of
temperance as in it's earlier years, be-
fore it became part of a political ma
chine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

Ii Simeon Coy's failureIto support Sui
livan was sufficient reason for his ex-
pulsion from two Democratic clubs,
then by the same token Mr.. r. F. Cat
terson's support OF Sullivan in two cleo
tons entities him to be regarded as a
Democrat in good standing. Mr.. Cat
terson's retention on the Board of Pub
lie Safety as a Republican is a continu-
ing violation of law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
.~applfa Taurna1.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Last winter I paid % cents a gallon for boiled
linseed oil. Friday I paid IS cents for a gallon
of the same oil, a difference of 20 cents. How
can you account Tor the reduced c)stl Is not the
tariff a taxi A. I. w.
The present tariff has been in force a lit
tie more than a year. Under the old law
the duty on linseed oil was % cents per
gallon. while now it is 30 cents. 1t is evil
lent that the increase of the duty has not
increased the price.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
reason that he attended the tbeater or read
Artemus Wards letters-he wanted amuse-
m ent and relaxation.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD. the distinguished
poet and journalist. assured IN inter
viewer a few days ago that he was looking
forward to his visit to the United States
with pleasure. THE American people, he
said. ARE SO highly cultured that it will be
delightful to appear before them. | have
never met In the course of my life such a
degree of intelligence as upon my former
visit to America. / shall never forget the
charming men and women met there. and
it has been my desire since to return and
renew my acquaintance with the American
people" This is frankly said, and as Mr..
Arnold passes for at honest man it may be
taken as sincere. He is already on his way
to this country. having sailed on the 14th
inst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
What bid He Saw

was one of those horrid society
reporters here to-day. He said that he had
heard that we were-eDgaged-and he thought
1t would only be right to inquire before printing
i. He is coming again to-m0rrOw-an l do not
know what to tell him. Do you'll
L.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
They Do Not

Chollie-Aw. heah's something fine, m deah
boy; genuine Egyptian cigawettes-cost dollah q
bCx.
Dollie-Hawi Wonder do the fellahs oveh
fheah smoke fheml
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

ANOTHER literary honor has come to
Indiana. Not long ago sixty-six sing
ing societies of New York. embracing a
total membership of 5000. and organized
under the name of United League of New
York" offered a prize Of 5000 for the best
cantata In German on the discovery of
America by Columbus The offer was open
TO all writers in the United States, and the
prize has been awarded to Prof. William
Keilmann, of Evansville.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
As to His Head.

"You should not be so sensitive. You do not
find me walking around with a chip on my
shoulder"
That's so. should cali that thing you carry
on your shoulders q block"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

WHATEVER may be said of baseball as
the national game. football is rapidly TAX
ing rank as the Indiana game. No educa-
tional institution is complete without a
foot ball team" Is it because HOosiers
are born kickers that the game so t1ourishes
among them?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
pARIs-Amercan Exchange in Paris. 90 Boulevard
de CapucinesL
NEW YORK-GfIsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHrLApELpHIA-A. p. kemble. gas Lancaster
avenue
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
ICINCINNATI-y. r. Hawley & Co, 14 Vine street.
LoUIsyILLE-c. T. Deering. northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. IoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON. ID. C.-Higss House and Ebbits
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

RECORDER BRINK can find out some
thing about how much the Republican
campaign injured the real-estate BUSH
ness by looking at his record for yester-
day, when the transfers amounted to
S103. 426, the heaviest of any day for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
BUBBLES in THE AIR.


The Mistionary Spirit.
Mrs. Watts-I suppose it is owing to lack OF
time that you never wash your facet
Hungry Higgins-Yes'm. I'm too busy scour-
in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
THE New York Recorder, which has
been exposing the fraudulent schemes of

the Democracy in that city, says:
From every quarter of the city comes
new proof that lo~dging-houses are being
packed with illegal voters, and that fraud
ulent registration is being openly carried
on under the supervision of Tammany COM
mitteemen on a scale unprecedented since
the palmy days of the Tweed ring. Voters
are being regularly bought ut a fixed scale
for each registration and a corresponding
bonus for every vote. The clerks of all the
low lod ging-hOuses have been subsidized
to see that every ramp is duly registered,
even If he has not been in the city twenty
four hours. Heelers travel from house to
house, holding out glowing Inducements to
voters and assuring the half-hearted ones
of police protection.
Again we remark, as in the case of
Chicago, that there must be some mis-
take about this. for we have it on the
authority of the two Democratic organs
of this city that the Democratic party is
heartily in favor of honest elections.
Besides, they have substantially the
Australian ballot law in New York,
which, we are assured, is fraud-proof.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

TIE New York Herald says the ex-
p~enditures of the United States govern
ment for pensions for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1891. amounted to 1884,
4l5.95l, and adds. "the cost of the Ger
man army, it may be interesting to note,
is Tor this year estimated at $50. 979, 1885,"
The conclusion implied by this sheer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

AN attempt is made in some quarters
TO construe the result of the recent cleo
ton in this city as an administration de-
feat, "a rebuke to Harrison" etc. It
was nothing of the kind. No municipal
campaign was ever conducted on lines
so strictly and exclusively local. This
is true of both sides, national issues not
being referred to by either. II the Re-
publicans had carried the city it could
not have been claimed in any proper
sense as an administration victory, and
their failure to carry it is not an admin
istration defeat. No Democrat who is
familiar with the situation claims it as
such. There is nothing in the result of
the election to justify the claim that
Indianapolis is certainly Democratic on
national issues. The Republicans car
Tied the city in the last presidential
election, and there is no reason why
they should not carry it in the next one.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

appreciate the now invention. 1t Is a
stylish cane which would give distinc-
ton to young clerk taking his usual
Sunday walk on Fifth avenue. There
is miniature electric battery hidden
in the end of the cane, and an electric
light concealed under the top OF the
cane.
When, after pursuing a zig-zag course,
the lucky owner of one OF these canes
arrives at his lodgings and finds that
the key-hole has gone around the block,
he unserews the top OF the cane. Then
he touches little button in the cane
and instantly an electric flame glows
and throws food OF light on the key
hole. The young man walks upstairs
and goes to bed by the light OF his cleo
trio cane. 1t is pleasanter than falling
over the porch. ringing up the house
and carrying the stairs up to bed with
yon.
II the young man drops his last one
cent piece az the Bridge entrance, he
may light his electric cane and look for
it. II he drops his po,ket-book he may
find it by the aid Of this ingenious in
vention. He may pick his way through
the little side streets on a dark night
by following this luminous cane. II he
should encounter ighwayman, the
terrified footpad would throw up his
hands and run as soon as be saw the
electric light glittering and flashing
from the head OF the electric walking
stick. The modern Dick Turpins would
suppose that it was an enchanted cane,
and that the fortunate possessor of it
was not real person, but some weird
avenging spirit.
Every one knows that one OF the
greatest objects of dread in life is to get
up out of bed on cold winter morning
and kindle fire. This is o5yiated now
by the electric fre-kindler. All the
head OF the family has to do now is to
turn over on his pillow and touch an
electric button. The fire lights in the
kitchen stove, the pot boils. the kettle
sings 1t is great improvement over
the old way When this comes into
general use such wives as Poor Pearl"
will be unknown. and our readers will
not be called on to decide whether wife
or husband should build the six o'clock
a m. FIRE Science will be Cupids hand
maid
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

brated snow-shoer, and is credited with
mile run in minutes and 81 seconds.
Another. also an Iroquois is White
Eagle. who is said to have run hum
bred yards in less than II seconds.
There are hurdle races also. 1t seems
to us impossible TO jump a hurdle with
snow-shoes such as are worn at Mont
real. These shoes are the kind we see
most commonly in the United States,
and are noticeable for their long
heels" which would be in the way
when jumping.
Nor are the white men who enter
in anywise inferior to their red COM
petitors in running or jumping.
For hundred yards on track the
amateur record is less than 10 seconds;
with racing snow-shoes, l1IS seconds.
One thousand yards on track. about ?
minutes IL seconds; with ordinary snow
shows. 3 minutes Is seconds. One mile.
track. minutes rs 2'5 seconds; with
ordinary snow-shoes. minutes 4SK
seconds Two miles. track, Q minutes
II 2-5 seconds; with racing shoe. IL min
utes 52s1 seconds Five miles. track, 25
minutes as seconds: with ordinary
snow-shoe. 80 minutes Is seconds. In
the hurdle races the long snow-shoe
would naturally be at disadvantage.
As the hurdles used differ as to number
and height, the real difference in time
can not be so readily seen. The s-ounce
skeleton shoe is used. One hundred
yards, track, s hurdles 81 feet high.
l4ss seconds; with snow-shoes, 4 hurdles
81 feet high, 1917 seconds. One hun
bred and twenty yards, track. 10 hurdles
So feet high. 16 seconds; with snow
shoes. hurdles 81 feet high, Is sec
onds. Four hundred and forty yards,
track. 10 hurdles 81 feet high. minute
~ seconds: with snow-shoes. hurdles
81 feet high. l minute 26sl seconds.
In the winter of 1875 one OF the long
est tramps on record was made. A party
of surveyors who were seeking a route
for the Canadian Pacific railway trav-
eled from British Columbia across tho
Rocky Mountains, a distance of 900
miles.
Nothing is more awkward for a be-
ginner than learning to keep right side
up on snow-shoes- II is not necessary
10 walk with legs stretched wide apart.
for one shoe is lifted over instead of
around the other. The tracks lie one
in front of the other almost as in ordi-
nary walking. BY taking long steps
one need never founder in the snow as
a beginner does who lets the toe of one
shoe get caught under the heel of the
other. = Tappan Adney, in Harper's
Young People.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19
MY DREAM AND ITS MEANING.

] had dream one night that seemed 50 queer
laughed until wcpt. and walked my spouse
Who was thereat so flied with sudden fear
That she in turn awakened all the house.
The dream was this: | thought lived in Spain
With all my ancestors. from now to Shem.
And some Likewise back there before the rain
That fell for forty days, destroy ng them
The house we lived in had q single room.
And one small bed therein in which VIC all,
When night had STEPPED the valley in itS
gloom.
would-evcry one OF us-contented crawl;
And there we'd sleep. with Adam on one side,
And l. the youngest Of the line, on t'othor.
And here's the fun whereat laughed and cried
Until my wife and family thought I'd smother;
pushed my father 'gainst any grandad: he
Pushed up against his father. with a snore;
And so il went up through my ancestry
Until old Adam fell out n the floor.
This reused his anger, and he turned about
And soundly spanked his baby for the trick.
Who thefeat on his own : took II out
by giving him u most tremendous kick
The kick was passed along from dad 20 son
And gathered force as nearer me it came
spank ancestral down the ages spun
feared would be so foreeful as To MAIN
And so, poor coward that / am, l slipt
Out on the floor; then speedily awoke
Just as my poor grandad was soundly clipt
And left my father victim OF my joke.
Ny wife. when she had heard the fearsome tale
Was sure some horrd omen she could trace
Therein. and pleaded with me not to fail
To have some doctor diagnose the case.
And so sought the doctor. and he said,
1.-THE dream is fraught with portent in my
sight
Ut means" he then observed. with shaking
head.
"That you must give up lobsterlate al night
Carlyle Smith, in Harper's Bazaar.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

and says: "A guess ri try the new res
taurant This is a regular Delmoni-
co.'s"
He rlances around at the door OF the
inn 1t remains open Then he looks
about with critical eye for the spring
Of the cage. The rat laughs-the trap
has no spring.
..Whoever heard OF rat-trap without
a spring. chuckles the rat 1t is like
a gun without a trigger" The rat
laughs again, for he knows as much
about springs as bank burglar does
about com bination locks
He looks at the cheese. "A No. l."
saws the rat; lit cost at least fourteen
cents a pound. Its just the cheese for
mer'
Then he looks Il the floor and OBJ
serves. ..My stars. it's zinc, and shines
like silver. They are getting up these
rat cages lrxuriously Of late. This is
lust the kind Of restaurant / like. and
It's good for years board or I'm No
prophetw
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

All unknown to the clever and philo-
sophical rat there is little battery on
shelf in the cellar, and two wires run
from IL 10 the cage. The positive wire
enters the cage and is the one which
the fragrant fresh cheese is on. The
negative wire connects with the zinc
floor which forms the bottom of the de-
ceptive cage.
Tho rat walks boldly up to the
cheese and says: Il have been lodging
cat all morning. and. CAD, cooks, but
I'm hungry. | guess III try little of
the cheese"
The rat who was fat and jolly, took
the cheese in his month. His teeth
touched the wire The moment ne did
so he completed the circuit between the
wire and the zinc floor Fifty volts Of
a continuous current went dancing
through him at the rate of a thousand
miles second.
His toes turned up His tail waved in
the air and twisted itself into forty
seven inexplicable knots. He dropped
down as dead as door nail-and the
cheese still hung on the nail. The res
taurant was still open for business as
usual.
A rat who had come along like a dep
uty coroner. just in time to see the
close OF the tragedy, said: what
hebetudinous crank that rat was The
old restaurant is good enough for me-
don't believe in the Kemmler sort of
execution"
1t is averred by an amateur natural
ist that the rats of New York have re-
Gently held large convention and pro-
tested against electrical execution. All
declared that if they must die they pre-
ferred to be killed in the good old
fashioned way by cats.
The new Omaha rat-trap IS merely
the electrical mooe of execution applied
to rats. Each rat that wanders in and
nibbles the cheese becomes link IN
the electric circuit and dies in the
same way that Kemmler died.
The principle being a simple one and
easy OF application, it may ultimately
be applied in the killing OF cattle and
pigs in the stock yards A four hun
dred-pound pig may walk into zinc
pen, start to eat an ear OF corn which
hides an electric wire, drop down. curl
up his tail and die.
Another useful invention is the cleo
trio cane. Young men who have gone
home in an exhilarated condition and
found the key-hole missing or SO elusive
that man couldn't have hunted IL
down with forty night keys, will highly
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

dangerous thing to use. The beginner
is as i'll at ease as cat with paper
shoes on, and more certain TO come 10
grief With the abject humility that
follows the first trial comes respect
for the snow-shoer Of only average aoii-
ity. awe and admiration for the expert
who shuiiies along unconscious OF the
great fat surfaces tied to his feet.
In the northern part of the United
States. and in Canada, where it is said
the year consists of 'eight months WIN
ter and four months poor sledding, the
snow-shoe is a necessity for hunters,
trappers and those who must travel the
unbrol1en snow. These men begin as
bows tramping about with long narrow
clapboards fastened TO their feet, setting
wire nooses for the little white rabbits
that track the snow with their own
broad feet. AS they grow older they
get their first pair Of rawhide snow
shoes, and with these they go beating
about the country on longer excursions
with gun on shoulder soaring away
every thing but the noisy squirrels and
impudent chickadees.
have heard from those who knew
him of certain lumberman in Canada
who was so good a snow-shoer that
there was not man in the whole coun-
try who, running on hard-beaten road
way with moccasins, could beat him as
he ran on his snow-shoes in the deep
snow alongside.
Karoniare. an lroquois, once won the
first race of two miles in II minutes Z
seconds, wearing a pair Of S-ounce
racing snow-shoes. This same fellow
ran ten miles easily in less than an
hour. big John. a chief whose real
name is Sewatis Aientonni, is one of the
best known of his tribe. He is a cele-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19
&YNrXT

mated BY a soft electric light ana made
cool by an electric fan, read message
from China sent by an electric wire,
and take moonlight ride on the Har-
lem 10 an electric boat before going to
bed, saws the New York Journal II he
is a member Of an electrical club he
N ay have his boots polished, his hair
combed and his coat brushed by cleo
tricity.
Electricity is the great new force that
modern int lligence has tanned and
harnessed for the sons OF Adam. The
Leyden jar may ultimately take the
place of the coal mine as the source OF
the force which moves the machinery
of the world. SO manifold are the uses
of electricity, small wonder is il that so
many ingenious electrical contrivances
have already been invented.
It may surprise the reader to learn
II at rats are put to death painlessly by
electrical execution. The new electric
rat-trap was invented after much study
by an ambitious young electrician Of
Omaha, Neb. II resembles the ordinary
rat-trap which is hardly more or less
than the quiet restaurant where the ex-
perienced old rat eats his meals. He
drops in three times day for a cheese
sandwich, nibbles it like a gourmand,
for he is connoisseur in old cheese.
and saunters out OF the little inn, leav-
ing the door open behind him. He
knows that the landlord will be around
on the morrow and replenish the cheese.
He regards himself MS steady board.
er, who may breakfast or dine whenever
he likes. and has never bill to pay.
Sometimes when he has dined heartily
he takes quiet and serene after-dinner
nap in the cage. Then he rises. yawns,
rubs his eyes and starts out to attend
congress Of rats that are planning to
raid pantry.
The new cage is most attractive lit.
tie restaurant for rat to look upon
from the outside. The cheese is fresh
and fragrant. The service seems to be
the best The floor is so bright that it
shines. The bon ripant rat saunters in
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

WEARY n e W
York clerk may
lay down his
electric p e n +,
take an electric
bath, board a
Madison avenue
street-car r Il n
by electricity
and ride home
through streets
lighted by cleo
tricify, ring an
electric door.
bell, enter a
r o o IN illumi-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

HOSE VINO look
for the first time
on the wide,
clumsy w
shoes that hang
crossed upon
the wall of a
young ba h e.
lor's apartment,
or are exhibited
in some museum
among other Gu
rious thin gs
from the north,
would regard
the as a n
awkward sort
of shoe, and a
difficult if not
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

were various
form S Of tele.
graphing, tbs.
is. OF communi-
eating MESSAGES
instantly to a
distance, before
the Morse tl
oranh was 10.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19

Miss Gossip hear your club had a
meeting last night
Miss Dorcas-Yes, indeed. We had a
splendid dinner at Delmonico's that
cost $50 plate, after which our presi-
dent read helpful paper on How to
Live on $500 Year. "-Munsey's Week.
l.