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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THERE is trouble all along the theo-
logical line. The synod of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church meets in Pittsburg
this week, with two hundred delegates
expected. Ordinarily these delegates
are entertained by the members of the
church, but on this occasion forty min
listers are left unprovided for. These
forty are the conservatives. while the
others are the liberals" and the Iber-
ais are welcomed while the conserva-
tives are left out in the cold. The cause
of the difference is not made clear, and
it is hard to say at this distance whether
more reform" or less is the immediate
need of the organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
THREE MUSICAL ARTISTS.

Franz WiIczek Likes indianapolis, but He Had
Better Keep Away from Pittsburg.
Franz Wilczek. the violinist. made q ia
vorable impression at the Music Festival
here q year ago. and 1T seems that Indian
apolIs audiences hav made o more than
favorable impression upon him. He 10 only
a boy, twenty-five years old. handsome.
enthusiastic, and talks with charming
vivscity. II was very happy to under
stand that i could come here be remarked
30 the reporter, yesterday. his eyes fairly
dancing behind his spectacles. for he il
very near-sighted. Il really would not
have gone on this trip at all unless Indian
apolis had been in il. and from here l do
not 90 to Chicago. but back to New York.
and then shall go into the country some
place and have my vacation"
What do you think of the Indianapolis
chorusgn
at is q splendid chorus; much better
than that Of Pittsburg, where i played a
week ago, There 10 more musical enthusi-
asm here than at Pittsburg. The audiences
there were very cold and unsy mpatbetic,
but perhaps that might have been because
of the great hall. q tremendous place. for
ten thousand people. lt was open at the
sparrows came in above our heads and
made a great noise. Then the audience
talked: not In a whisper. but quite as loudly
as we are now. The papers there were
droll; not much in the way of musical crit
icism. but they told what things cost One
paper estimated that the bonnets in the
audience cost $4,000. The people in that
city are rich. but l do not think very mn>
steal. But the hall was cold. The Last
evening the orchestra played in their over
coats. Your hall here 10 deli ghtful like
TO play in II. and the people are generous 20
me with applause. Last year i said TO my
self: oh. i would give five years of my
life If my people over in Austria could be
here and hear that applause lt warned
my heart. you may well believe"
You were q pupil of Joachim of Berlin.
were you notf"
yes" said the violinist. laughing. "but
j read In the printed programme hat / was
o pupil of the renowned Professor Jack
son.. which L supposed might be English
for the name of my master. 1 do nos un-
derstand English very well. for i came to
this country only two years and four
months ago. i came TO escape military
duty. ran away; perhaps that is what may
be called q deserter. My father wanted NE
to be q physlcian. and 1 studied medicine
quite q while; he was against my
becoming Q musician. but could
not help it, L had to be q
musician. i desire TO stay here and make
my residence in America. though / want 10
60 home and see my people. Last year /
could not speak English at all. When l
CAM over l could only say tea and oOffea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

Mr.. FRANZ WILCZEK is justly grleved
yer the biographical sketch of himself
that appears in the festival libretto and
represents him as q pupil of Professor
Jackson" of Berlin. when Joachim was
really the instructor. Mr.. Wilczek has not
been in this country long enough to be ia
miliar with the deprayed and iniauitous
practices of proof-readers. He must not
suppose for an instant that the persons
who compiled that sketch were not well ac-
quainted with Joachim.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE DIARY of a Rebel War Clerk
gives the experience of a man who was
in the South during that period, and
tells his fate as q salaried man. At the
beginning of the war s. of confederate
money would buy a pair of shoes and
so a barrel of flour; but the confederate
government went on issuing paper
money until there was scarcely any
limit to it, so that some time before the
close of the wal it took $50 to purchase
a pair Of shoes and $500 a barrel of -four.
In the case of the -four the high price
was not due to scarcity, but the too
great abundance of paper money. The
pay Of labor did not advance In proper
ton TO the initiation of the money. and
consequently the greater amount Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE Louisville Commercial says for
Consul Griffin, of Sydney, New South
Wales, who is now on a brief visit to his
home in that city, that he did not make
the remarks at a banquet which are at
tributed to him by a Sydney paper, by
which he was made to appear as repre-
senting himself as very active in infu-
encing Congress and as sharply CRITICS.
ing that body for not putting wool on
the free list, and as declaring that the
President has power under the recipro-
cal clause of the tariff law to make an
arrangement with New South Wales by
which it's wool can be admitted free of
duty. All statements of this character
which are attributed to him he did not
make. Mr.. Griffin has been in the con-
sular service since 1881, haying been
promoted for the efficiency he has shown
in the work, particularly in his efforts to
increase trade between this country and
New South Wales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

quent equitable distribution of the school
fund. and are therefore under obligations
to undertake the service. The teachers
may be benefited. but the board Is not act
ing for them but for the public interests,
and they are under no obligations what
ever to obey the order. Their contract
with the school authorities requires them
to teach, not to 80 into the census business.
IL is an unpleasant job that has been i'm
posed upon them. and the many who OBJ
ject to undertaking. it Ore entirely justified
in refusing to do so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE senatorial contest in Florida,
which ended, yesterday, by the re-elec-
ton of Senator Call, was n of the most
protracted, and, by far. the most bitter
that has occurred in the South. The
contest was a personal one, many promi-
uent men in the State having determined
to defeat him a year ago.. If any part of
the charges and counter -charges which
the leaders have made about each other
is true, they are rather o worse lot than
the Republicans have reported them
IN ha
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE Eastern press has discontinuedits
filings at the worlds fair enterprise and
It's predictions that Chicago will make q
failure Of it. The opinion is gaining
ground that it will be a worlds fair in
reality, and not in name only. All the
world is promising to take part and help
to make it a success, and petty local
jealousy of a great Western city cannot
hinder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

PROFESSOR PERRY. of Williams College,
who has written more alleged political
economy of the free-trade variety than any
man in the country, lost his temper. q few
days since. with q student. and gave him q
parting kick as he left mis- door. To avoid
the consequences he then rendered his
resignation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

If one of the main purposes for which
the commercial congress was held in
Denver was to give impetus to the free
coinage of silver. it was a failure, since
the Endorsement of that proposition was
carried by the close vote of SO to So,
which shows that the theory is not so
strong in the center of the silver pro-
ducing country as in Kansas City or the
PEOPLES convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE enumeration of school children
throughout the State is 702, 533 for 1891,
as against no. 24 in 1890, showing a de-
GREASE in the entire State of 6S,091.
Naturally, of course, there should be an
increase. The large decrease shows that
the padding of previous e~numerations
has not been confined to this city and
township. The decrease here is 1864,
leaving 1851 to be accounted for else
where. Vanderburg county falls off
1874, Clark county 1889. Decatur county
45O, Pike county 804, and SO on.
Some of the returns are hard to recon-
Gle with facts. Thus Allen county,
which returned 90, 359 children last year,
reports "a, 934 this year. If Allen county,
with a population by the recent United
States census of 1859, has "a, 934 chill
dren of school age, Marion, with a pOpu-
lation of 141, 1876, ought to have more
than 10, 204. The same may be said of
Vigo, which, with a population of 80, 1885,.
returns 21,367 school children. If the
new enumeration in this county is cor
rect, that of the other counties named
is padded. There is q screw loose some-
where.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE least the School Board could have
done. in all decency, in the matter of the
school enumeration. was to have reQuested
the teachers to perform the task. instead
of ordering them to do it. 1t will not do
to base their action ON the ground that the
teachers will be benefited by . proper ad-
justment Of the difficulty and the conss-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

A FEW Democrats have plucked up
sufficient courage to defend their tax
law, but they would defend general
homicide if the exigencies of the DEM
ocratic party should make it necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
LILLE IsDIANAPoLIs JOURNAL

THE
Can be found &C the following places
IS-A Exchange In Paris. 36 Boulevard
des Capuclaes.
NEW YORK-Gilsey House snd Windsor Hotel
avenue
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
cINCINNATI-J.R r. HswIey& Co, 154 Vine street
LOUIsvILLE-O. II. Deering. northwest corner
Third and Jefferson sfreets
ST. Louisiana News Company. Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Rigas House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

The fifty millions of gold which the
country has sent abroad has purchased
stocks held abroad IL debts to that
amount. The money of the commercial
world is not one of the things that are
given away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

SENATOR WoLcoTT, of Colorado, who
calls himself a Republican, is getting
some notoriety by his lippant and un-
gentlemanly expressions concerning
President Harrison. Statesmen of Mr..
Wolcott's caliber must do something to
gain notoriety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE Board of Public Works ought to
strain a point to give the Greenwood
company a satisfactory route into the
city. Every suburban road is a benefit
to the city, and n that promises to
benefit the South Side is especially
worthy of announcement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

No mugwump paper is noting the fact
that Secretary Foster is reducing the
official force in the Boston and other
custom-houses, which seems to have
been quietly increased during the Cleve-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Souvenir Spoons.

"Have you collected many souvenir spoons,
deari'
Mott many" answered the giddy girl; ~ have
accumulated quite q lot of spoon souvenirs,
though-principally solitaires."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

money made the condition of labor more
and more ~unfavorable with each new
issue. This is q recent warning for
those who may feel that they have the
symptoms of the PETER money grippe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

The latest report from Europe re-
garding the crops is that while winter
wheat will not yield largely. the SPRING
sown crops of France, Germany and
southern Russia promise more favorably
than a few weeks since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
The Third Party Drives Up.


am the Third Party!
Git onto my style,
Will y0ul
And my trimmin'sf
By gravy.
don't wear no socks,
And my galluses is
Fastened with a Inchpin,
But I'm cuttin'
A wide swath
Right down the middle,
And they can't head
Me off,
NOhOwl
Mebbe i am a sort of
A Farmers'-AllIance-C Citizens
Alliance-Knights-Of-Lab
Observation-Disclosures
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Prohibition WOman-Suffrage
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Potato-C urrency-Socialistic-
Grand-old- Peoples party,
But what if I aunt
What are they g0ln'
To DO about il!
That's what!
By zucks, L have come
To stay,
And no raZor-back Democrat,
Nor slab-sided Republican.
Nor ~ring-n0sed Mugwump
Kin root me out,
I'm a fOrty-acre field,
That you kin raise anything on
From q mortgage
To a bale of hay,
With a wagOn-l0ad
OF dressin' throwed in,
And l don't give q durn
Who knows IT.
i kin grub up q stump,
In two shakes of a lambs tail,
And the old political
Stumps has got to come,
IF / bust q britchin'
DOM of it,
You hear me.
Mebbe my clos don't fit,
And my ~cow-leather brogans
Hain't got no shine
On TO 'em,
But that won't stop
Their kickin!
And brains amt
In that eend
Neither
All the American eagle
Has got to do In this business
liz to set quiet on the fence
And watch my
Thrashln' machine go,
When hal OF mule
GIFTS done scratchin'
Ills back up agin the fence!
Hand me that whipl
Gimme them lines.
Eow!l
Wo-hawl
Jeewhillikins.
Gosh-all-heml0ckl
New YORK Dan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

The Memphis Appeal Avalanche says
that the Democracy may break away
from New York and take a Western
candidate for President, and that in
such event "Indiana's man would have
an excellent chance of nomination. This
may refer to Ex-Governor Gray, and if
it does it is the first favorable notice he
has had for months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
BUBBLES IN THE AIR

Overheard at the Wedding.
at was q case OF love ct first sight, was 1t
notG'
n sight about it. She got on the blind side
of him from the start"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Doubtful.

Chollie-what q bwute old Gotwox is! Told
me if did not sto phanging awound his daughter
he would bwain me. Fawncy he meant I'M
bwain me. don't you knows
Yabsley-N0; 1 don't think he did.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

IT has been 8 me time since a free
trade editor tearfully set forth the out
rage of the increased duty on pearl but
tons made In foreign prisons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

III is quite evident that the officers
and the official press of the Alliance are
not supporting the Peoples party. In
other words, the Alliance is divided over
the birth of the party at the outset.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

THE day when Mr.. Cleveland's patri-
otto impulses impel him to go fishing is
close at hand. As he is posing this year
perhaps he will resist the inclination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Trifes

There are a great many men who seem to have
gained nothing from the Bible but a long name.
These be degenerate days. From the olden-
time Jack the Giant-killer to the modern Jack
the Dude-kicker is a long descent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Lunch Hour Persidare.

Slug Seven-Just thought OF a good name for
these dialogue paragraphs. They might be
called double chins."
Slug Eleven-Becaus they are fatl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

2 per cent, a reduction of so per cent.
The act of 1880 imposed q penalty of $50
for each and every day that the ON
panies failed to make their report or
pay their tax. The act Of 1891 reduces
this penalty to S25 a day.
The language of the law is plain and
explicit, as any person can see who cares
to examine it. 1t reduces the taxes on
the gross receipts of express companies
30 per cent, on the gross receipts of
telegraph companies 80 per cent, on the
gross receipts of telephone companies rs
per cent, and on the gross receipts of
sleeping-car companies 80 per cent.
In the same letter from which the
above quotation is made the Attorney
general says: "Under the provisions of
the new tax law Indiana will receive
from corporations 60 to 100 per cent.
more than aver before" This falsehood
is refuted by the laws above cited. He
says: Railroads, instead of paying in
taxes on $70,O 200, 900, will pay on twice
that amount" If the taxes of railroads
will be doubled under the new law, so
are those of every individual taxpayer.
He says: Telegraph, telephone, x
press and sleeping-car companies will
be required to pay on their earnings as
well as on their tangible property" So
they were under the old law, the only
difference being that the new la reduces
the rate of taxation on their earnings from
90 to so per cent. They have always
been taxed on their tangible property.
None of these corporations had any ex-
emptions under the old law that they
have not under the present one. Attor-
n~ey-general Smith does not know the
law when he sees it. and his acquaintance
with the truth is about as limited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

GEN. j. b. GORDON has issued an adj
dress to ex-cOnfederates soliciting COZ
tributiOns for the erection of q Onu
ment to Jefferson Davis. He says:
With unfaItering fidelity to every inter-
est of our whole country and q sincere ap-
probation of all great Americans Of every
section, we will build monuments to our
own peerless heroes as an inspiration to
coming generations. and we will erect q
4 ting one to our great chieftain, whose
pablo and private life was without fear
or reprOach: whose services to his country,
in peace and war. will yet command the re-
spect and win the plaudits of all his c0un-
trymen; and whose dauntless devotion to
his convictions has scarcely q parallel in
history.
1t is difficult to see how the interests
Of the whole country are to be promoted
or the patriotism of coming generations
inspired by a monument to the man who
led the movement to destroy the Union
and perpetuate slavery. Southern prot
estations of loyalty would appear much
more consistent if they did not persist
in h~onoring and commemorating dis
loyalty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27

their manner of singing il last night was
exceptionally fine, the sopranos inging
nobly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Work Of the Soloists.

"Ork u INC SolOlotes
No music festival ever held here has been
favored with a finer quartet than that
which appeared upon tbs platform. last
night, and faced the magnificent audience.
Fine 1 ever sense, for their personal
appearance was attractive, and their
voices corresponded well. Miss Juch
and Mr.. LAWN were at Mr.. Barus's
left. and Nine. Poole and Mr..
Fischer at the right. Each of these artists
has sung to Indianapolis audiences be-
fore-Miss Juch in concert n opera. Nine.
Poole in opera. and Mr.. LAWN was here with
Gilmore's Band. while Mr.. Fischer was basso
at last years festival. Rossini's great
"Stabat Mater" opens with q quartet.
followed by solos and concerted bers
for each, and Mr.. LAWN, who sang the
''Cujus Amman" the theme of which has
been made familiar by Its frequent intro
duction es q cornet solo. has a voice of great
sympathetic to q degree. He rendered the
solo very acceptably. The great power
necessary TO fill 90 large a space as TOmlin-
son Hall. and against the volume of SO
large an orchestra. with it's heavy cres-
cen6os, was lacking. but with q soft accom-
paniment it filled the hall with sweetest
melody.
Another equally familiar theme was the
"Quis est Homo" for soprano and mezzo.
Miss Juch's and NINE. PooIe's voices blend
ing admirably. Both are acknowledged as
leading artists among the great singers of
the country. and well they may be so
ranked. Miss Juch never sang to better ad-
vantage in this city. and her pure, clear
tones throughout the entire composition
won for her great applause. In the thrilling
music of the "Indammatns." the power of
her voice, and perfect enunciation remind
ed one. in Its artistic conception, of q fine
ly-cut cameo. upon Q rich Background, SO
clearly and distinctly could it be heard
separately from the combined chorus and
orchestra.
Madame Clara Poole'e voice is delicious
to hear, of more than the usual compass,
flexible aud smooth. She rendered the
solos and her portions of the con-
certed numbers with rare good
taste. Particularly excellent was the
~csvstina, Il will Sing of Thy Great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-27
Expressions of Approval.


No audience could have listened with
more rapt attention than the magnificent
assemblage that thronged Tomlinson Hall
last night. When the intermission came
between the first and second parts of the
programme everyone was ready with ex-
pressions of delighted approval The cor
ridors were thronged with ladies and gen.
tlemen who We'd with each other in
saying pleasant things about the chorus,
about Barus and the four distinguished
~soloists who appeared in the first part.
The quality of Tornlinson Hall, for an
event of this kind, was never 30 well shown
as last evening. The chorus. the orchestra
AID the audience were each and all adj
mirably proportioned to the great
room. There was that nearness
and sympathy between the audience
and the musicians. vocalists and
instrumentalists that gave the music full
power and feeling. The efficiency of the
chorus met with special praise from all.
and none the less from those best qualified
to Judge. 1t was remarked. over and over
again, that the three music festivals had
been an education to the people of this city
The confidence and precision of
the chorus we're much beyond
last year and their attack is n~oticeably
prompt. The disposition of the chorus
upon the platform was remarked to be bet
ter than at either of the two preceding
festivals, and the fact that there were more
ladies dressed in coiors than has heretofore
been the case gave an additional delight to
the eve.