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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Car has presented President Carnot
with six magnificent thoroughbred horses.
According to Professor Garner, gorillas
and chimpanzees do not speak as they pass
by. not from an overplu of formality, or
pride OF caste, but because their languages
are diSSimilar.
A woman of Spokane. Wash, was fined
500 a few days ago for practical joking.
She perpetrated the exceedingly humorous,
though not exactly new joke OF mixing the
sugar and salt on the table Cf a public
dining room. The court called il disorder
ly nduct.
Charles Dickens nave been sold in London
recently. Among them were three of the
'Pickw1ck to~ddyladles' presented TO the
author by Messrs. Chapman c Hall on the
completion of Pickwick," and they real
lied %. 81 and 80 %guineas, respectively.
The old schoolboy who told his COM
panions OF the Boston Schoolbcys' Society
at its reunion last week that he went to
school in Boston ninety-two years ago was
Joseph d. Jones. He is ninety-seven years
old. No one can be q member Of the So
ciety who has not been out OF school a
full half century.
Some interesting "reminiscences of Emin
Pasha nave been made public by DR.. Franz
Stuhlmann. who was one OF the explorers
most intimate friends. Emin. he says, was
brave TO the extent of placing but small
value on his life, and possessed an un-
bending will. Latterly he became ca
PRECIOUS and whimsical-either too violent
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

AS the weather grows colder your charity
should grow warmer.-Baltimore American.
Some men like to sit In church behind a
woman wearing a large hat and sleep unob-
served.-Atchison Globe.
1t is about as wise to sit on the limb of
a. tree and saw it off as it is to worry about
things we cannot help.-Ram's Horn.
The tramp is a pretty enterprising fell
low, Notwithstanding his reputation for
shiftlessness. He always has a movement
on foot.-Lowell Courier.
The new tariff bill seems to be a protect
i've one, SO far as Mr.. Whitney's Nova
Scotia coal mines are concerned.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
There are some people who have to be
convinced with a club. The club has ar
rived, and it is labeled Democratic free
trade. ""-Philadelphia Press. ID.
Inasmuch as PATHS music all has to be
transposed lower, is 1t not about time to
effect a similar change In the prices?-NeW
York Comm rcial Advertiser.
Yer kin talk said a philosopher of the
East Side, "'bout it's bein' vulgar T. wear
di'mon's. but 1 notice that them that has
'em wears 'em. Buffalo Express.
Out of the horrible tumble Of Hawaiian
affairs comes one clear note Ineligible to
the feminine soul: Liliuokalani has sent
to San Francisco for a coronation robe.
Kate Field.
The statement is made that King Lo-
bengula drinks beer but this was before
John Bull aimed a machine gun at him.
His chief concern now is how to avoid a
bier.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
When a man has begun to go down hill
somebody is always on hand to give him a
several times already as the next PopuliSt
nominee for PreSident.-Chicago Tribune.
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AN INTERESTING CONGRESS.

1t Is now very evident that the session of
Congress which begins on Monday and will
continue into the summer will be watched
with more interest than any of its pred
ecessors for many years. The fact that
President, Senate n House are all pre-
sumably Democratic for the first time since
the first Congress under James Buchanan.
which was organized in December, 1857
thirty-seven years ago-would lend 1t in
terest in itself. But. beyond that, the most
important matter to the mass of the peo-
pie which has ever attracted popular at
tention will be brought before Congress IN
the form of the Wilson bill. Whatever peo-
pie may have thought a year ago about
the tariff, the masses to-day feel that it is
a subject of first Importance to them. They
have been TO school to experience. The
Hawaiian affair will necessarily come be-
fore Congress in a manner to attract the
attention of the people. A lesser number
of people will be Interested in the drift OF
political events. particularly the relations
between the PTeSluent ana MS party IN
Congress. Mr.. Cleveland. since the ad-
journment Of the extraordinary session,
has made a number of a. appointments indi-
eating a purpose to ignore, if not to punish,
Senator's and Representatives who voted
against the bill repeating the silver pur-
chase act. Will the breach widen? Will
the bitter hostility expressed by Demo-
cratic correspondents ard politicians about
Washington be kept out Of Congress? This
is a minor matter. but it will attract wide
attention.
As the years pass people who tax com
paratively little interest in active politics
arc taking a deeper interest in public af-
fairs. This is doubtless because they have
come to see that government policy and
legislation more widely affect their affairs
and their interests than they would have
believed years ago. This being the case,
the intelligent man who has a daily paper
which devotes special attention to Wash
ington affairs. as does the Journal. will
find in It's columns more to interest him
than ever before. Furthermore. he cannot
afford to be ignorant concerning events of
srch vital Importance.
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AN UNNECESSARY EVIL.

Really the most inspiring address made at
the banquet Of the officers Of the Marion
County Lincoln League Clubs. Thanksgiving
evening. was that of the gentleman who de-
clared that one of the duties of the men,
bers of the clubs is to attend the primaries,
delegates as can be depended on to NOM
mate a tickle of able and clean men. whose
word Is as good after election as before"
The speaker making this suggestion is no
novice in politics. but always a skirmish
line or front rank fighter. "It is easy" he
said, ito carry to victory a good ticket, but
a bad one is a terrible load" True and
timely words, particularly for the Repub-
lican party in Marion county and Indiana,
where the reform of abuses which have
been fostered by Democratic supremacy is
sure to be a factor in the canvass. The
Republican party contains the best, and it
should select it's tickets from that element
Moreover, the people of both parties know
the best. the poorest and all the grades
between the two extremes; and they know
them so well that the most effective or
ganization cannot make up by zeal and
activity for the dead weight of a bad or
even a weak ticket. All that organization
can do is to enroll the voters and look after
the ~stragglers. 1t cannot force to the polls
intelligent men who object to a ticket be-
cause 1t contains the names of men whose
regulations have shady spots, or who have
all their lives been most conspicuous as
failures in whatever they have undertaken.
More and more the intelligent voter is de-
handing positive character and qualifca-
tions in candidates. They will vote for a
est, whom they may not admire, but a con-
siderable percentage of Republicans or those
who act with them will no longer vote for
candidates whose regulations must be
always been unlucky or unfortunate in bust
ness. Men who have been failures all their
lives are very likely to continue their rec
ords Of inefficiency when they become
OOOAAty ANAAA6
and the like. And here it may be said that
there is now an aversion to a class of men
who are professional candidates, men who
have no vocation In particular, but are wait
ing for public employment. They are per-
ennial aspirants for every Office, and are
always weak candidates when nominated.
The Republican party was not organized for
the sole purpose of dispensing offices, and
that is not its mission In the future. 1t Is
and has been for a third of a century
the party whose patriotism and wisdom
have made the United States the most pro-
gressive and prosperous people in the world.
It's mission now is to insure to the people
all the conditions which can make a people
prosperous and give county, State and Ma
ton all that the term good government
frap1fac
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STATE PRESS OPINION.

The laborer is the first man to receive
a blow from the free trade club, and the
last man TO have his wounds cured.-Fow-
Ter Republican-Era-
Merchants say that business is dull and
that collections are slow" 1t has always
been thus when the Democratic party was
In full sway.-Virc ennes Commercial.
When the Wilson tariff bill becomes a
law, the laboring classes of the country
will discover to their sorrow that it is not
how much money, but how much work.
Warren Republican,
1t will be a great comfort to the man
who has TO pay an income tax, and a
hair of the goat has been put on the free
list.-Shelbyville Republican.
When the administration undertook to
help Gresham get even with General
Harrison it did not probably expect the
task to be SO dangerous as 1t has already
proven TO be.-Lebanon Patriot.
The Democratic party have always hated
reciprocity, because it refused to admit
foreigners to the American market unless
the foreigners in question extended equal
advantages to American products.-Goshen
Times.
Isn't it strange that the party that de-
clares against protection on the ground
that il discriminate against the farmer
should begin it's work of reform by strik-
ing down the tariff on wool?-AIonticello
Herald.
There is no encouragement in the Wilson
tariff bill for the American farmer, the
American laborer. or the American manu-
factUrer, but IL looks as though the i'm
porter will ave nothing TO complain of.
New Castle Courier.
The senseless, wicked and unprovoked
attacks on employers of labor by the DEM
ocratic party did much to estrange the en-
ployer and employee last fall. 1t made
many Democratic voters, and the reward
is the Wilson reform Chron-
icle.
If the Wilson bill becomes a law in
dustries must prepare for such a competi-
ton as they have never had before. 1t
means larger importations, smaller home
creased crop of labor troubles.-Crawfords-
VILE Journal.
The dog crossing the stream with the
meat-bone in his mouth which he dropped
to secure the shadow was not worse de-
ceived than the party In this country that
Is ready TO drop the home market to secure
that myth-''the markets of the world
-Muncie Times.
Compare the prices of sheep and wool
prior to the last presidential election with
the prices Of to-day and observe the diff
ference. The difference will show the eff
feet of the avowed Democratic policy on
that very large and important industry.
-Corydon Republican.
The Lincoln leagues are a power for
good and their best work can be lone
during the winter months while the voters
in the country have plenty of time to attend
the meetings., to hear speeches and be
instructed in the principles of the grand
old Republican party.-Rockville Repub-
lican.
The melancholy truth is now forced upon
the understanding of the people that steady
employment at high wages is at an end
until the people elect a Republican Con-
gress and declare anew their adherence
to the protective tariff policy under which
this country has prospered as no other ma
ton in the world ever did.-Kokomo Trib-
me
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Harvard House.
Harper's Weekly.

F0-
The recent action OF the Harvard Club
Of New York in building for itself a per-
manent home to be known as Harvard
House." has excited unusual interest among
college graduates, not only In this city but
throughout the country, because II Is prac-
ticalIy a new departure. University clubs
and fraternity buildings are 10 DC iouhd IN
almost every large city, but no single asSo-
ciation of college alumni has ever before
attempted the experiment or establishing
itself In a club house especially adapted to
its own purposes. and built by means OF a
fund raised by subscription among its own
members.
II is a fair Indication Of the interest taken
Harvard graduates OF New York-who a-e
probaly not so numerous as those OF other
of the large uEiveristies-raised by subscrip-
tions the sum of $1,000 as a free and un-
conditional gift TO the club. This accom-
plished, land fifty feet front was purchased
on Forty-fourth street, west OF Fifth ave-
nue., and the architectural work was in
trusted TO Mesrs. McKim, Mead & White.
this firm generously offering their designs
as Mr.. McKim's contribution TO the club
struction is OF the Boston type Of Colonial
architecture. buift Of what is known as
Harvard brick, with Indiana limestone trim
mings. 1t is three stories in height. and
provides on the first floor conversation
rooms and a griil-room: on the second z
for the monthly meetings of the club, and
on the third floor a billiard room, card
rooms, etc. The building has been so con-
structed that in the future an extension
room or grill-room on the first floor, with a
spacious hall on the second roOr, Wnere, In
connection with the present structure, IL is
hoped the annual dinners OF the ciuD may
be held. 1t is the purpose OF the arcnitects
TO make the Interior a pure example OF the
Colonial STYLE
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or too mid. too credulous or too suspicious.
AS a scientist he collected new fnforma-
value to ~geographers. et~hnologists, lin
gusts. biologists and b~otanists. and left be-
hind for postertty thick volumes OF notes
on African ornithology, meteorology and
travel, with invaluable maps.
President w. f. Harper, Of Chicago Uni
versity. is to deliver the address at the
dedication Of the new library building of
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, in jan
uary. The event will be OF great import
ance to the higher education In the West.
The structure is the gift Of Hon. \. P.
Coburn. of Newton, Mass, and is Of great
architectural beauty.
Miss Kate Irwin Wheeler. Of Wisconsin.
has a peculiar vocation. She is a native
of Green Bay, but removed to milwaukee,
ten years ago, and became a clerk in a
large store. She did not like the drudgery
and went West. taking up a land claim In
Dakota She tired of that and returned
to Milwaukee to begin teaching whist. She
has made a comfortable living out of 1t for
eight years.
Mrs. Matilda Simpson died in Harrods-
burg, KY, last week. She was known all
over that section as the sad lady" for the
reason that for thirty years she had never
been known to smile. Her husband mys-
their marriage and was never heard from
afterwards. This occurrence transformed
her from a merry young girl to a heart
broken woman.
1t is not generally known that the late
Sir Andrew Clark numbered among his
patients Mr.. Parnell, who consulted him
toward the end Of 1887 for a chest affec-
ton. Even when consulting a physician
Mr.. Parnells passion for secrecy displayed
Itself. On being asked whether Sir An
drew knew who his patient was, Mr.. Par
nell smiled and parried the question by
the reply: II do not think he did-at least
at first"
The Countess Tolstoi is intellectually the
superior of her husband. She is the finan-
cial manager of the family and conducts
all the affairs connected with the estate.
In fact. she is the money maker Of the
Tolstoi family. 1t was she who a few
years ago issued a cheap edition OF her
husbands novels. The wisdom Of this
movement is shown in the fact that the
household has been living off the ROYALTY
on these ever since.
Powder willows is the name in north
ern Delaware for those pollarded swamp
willows commonly seen in meadows. The
powder-making DuPonts established a mar
ket for this wood in Delaware a century
ago. and every stream for a dozen miles
about Wilmington is lined with these trees.
Some have grown to enormous size, and
all the older ones are picturesque with
great fluffy green balls of foliage in the
spring and dense spheres of misty gray
wigs in winter.
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THE DEBT TO THE NEGROES.

In his address to the National Council
OF Colored Men at Cincinnati. discussing
a proposition to ask an appropriation from
Congress to promote the emigration Of
negroes from the country. Bishop Turner
said: Il can prove by mathematical cal
c~ulation that this Nation owes us forty
billions of dollars for daily work per-
formed" The claim was. of course. based
on the fact that the white people were
morally responsible for holding the COL
ored race in slavery for many generations.
and were therefore liable to the latter for
what they might have earned IL they had
been free. That is scarcely a feir basis
of calculation. Admitting that the whites
were morally responsible for the enslave-
ment Of the colored race 1t would hardly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-02

L y lie EulCOr OF the indianapolis journal:
Please give the vote by parties on the
passage OF the Sherman purchase act; on
the attempt TO repeal it at the last session,
and repeating it at the special session.
A. w. H.
The bill was passed by a strict party
vote In both branches in July, 1890. The
attempt to repeal during the last session
in the Senate was not a fair test, several
Republicans voting against repeal who
voted for it last month. and such Demo-
Gratis as Turpie and voorhees,, who were
won over by Cleveland, also voted against
repeal. The repeal bill was passed in the
Senate by the votes of % Republicans and
20 Democrats, while 20 Democrats, 9 silver
State Republicans. / Republican Cameron
and 2 Populists voted against it. In the
House the vote stood: For repeal, 124 Dem
ocrats. 6S Republicans, 1 Populist; against,
70 Democrats, 10 Republicans and 9 Popu-
lists.
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PRIESTLY
French Restless Under Re-
strictiOns Imposed by the Church.
Montreal Special to New York Evening

strictions Imposed by the Church.
Montreal Special to New York Evening
Post.
A distressing case of religious intolerance
and persecution has just come to light in
this city. Mr.. Rouleau is one of the ablest
French writers on art subjects in Canada
His contributions have found their way into
many of the best publications, and he has
always been looked upon as an authority
on all matters connected with art. Some
time ago he held a leading position on one
city, but while there. he offended the eccle-
~siastical authorities by his writings, which
were of a purely secular nature. AS a
consequence he was placed under the ban
of the church.
The proprietor of the journal also re-
ceived a communication from the bishops
palace notifying him that if any more arti-
cles from the pen of Mr.. Rouleau were pub
have to be placed under the ban. The pro-
prietor felt that he had no other alterna-
tive than to dismiss his writer, as the paper
depended entirely on the Roman Catholics
for support.
Mr.. Rouleau obtained a situation on an
other journal, but with the same result
the proprietor being warned in like manner
and dismissal following in due course. The
same experience was melted out to the I'M
fortunate writer by all the other French
papers OF the city. until finally he was
forced to a k a place at Sc per week in
the employment of the Society of Arts of
Canada. But prosecution followed him even
bere. The manager received the usual mott
hcation from the bishops palace, dismissal
ensued, and now Mr.. Rouleau is once more
out Of work.
Mr.. J; 1. Tarte. NJ. p, publishes an arti-
Gle in the Cultivateur, holding that the Ro-
man Catholics of this province wish to
be governed by the bishops in religious mat
ters, and TO govern themselves in temporal
matters. He refers to the numerous con-
fictS with the religious authorities In a
large number of parishes. and adds:
THE situation can yet be saved by adopt
ing the programme that. In future, the
bishops will govern the church of this prov
ince. The bishops, and no others. Let
them assert their authority over the clergy,
let them give the direction themselves, and
they will find among the laity a good will
and submission that will astonish them.
AS much as the Catholics are disposed to
listen with respect to the bishops voice
and to help authority In the defense of re-
ligious rights, equally determined are they
to resist encroachment on their rights on
the part Of the clergymen who, through
unreasonable zeal, incauti,usly substitute
themselves for the naturSi leaders of the
church. The most recent example of an
encroachment of this kind is Father La
casse's pamphlet, which has just excommu-
nicated a number Of people against whom
their respective bishops did not make the
least reproach. To firmly place episcopal
authority at the head Of religious society
is to be right"
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1t Is only when the heart fails, when pub
lie spirit languishes, that our case Is in
deed desperate" This is very pathetic,
membered that Mr.. Foulke is one of those
highly fastidious gentlemen. who decided
in the last campaign that General Har-
rison was not a good enough candidate for
them. And yet General Harrison never
sold an of1ca
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The New York Sun says the Wilson tariff
bill "ofers as a gift TO Canada what she
should have bought with a great price"
And by the same token 1t does the same
which we have negotiated profitable treaties
OF reciprocity. getting from them valuable
concessions for admitting their products to
bill Is to give away everything and get
back nothing.
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The Only Hone.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
IL nannocratio nnonnharc nE Gorn-on

ItocneSter Democrat ana chronicle.
II Democratic members OF Congress were
free moral agents the Presidents ruinous
tariff bill would never pass the House of
Representatives. Democratic Representa-
tives, as a body, fear the President. His
peculiar methods are known. In the past
he has never hesitated to threaten with de-
feat or buy with patronage. He is a die
tator OF the most dangerous type, and
every Democratic Representative who re-
fuses to do his bidding will be opposed for
reelection by all the power the President
can bring TO bear. Cleveland literally owns
Congress-, and when he says, destroy
American Industries 10 please my friends
across the water, Representatives will
probably obey. The only hope is that Con-
gressmen may fear their constituents more
than the President. The last elections IN
dictated that the people are aroused. They
have had enough for the present.
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Doubtless hi municipal authorities are
watching the drift of financial affairs, and
will not let favorable opportunities pass
10 refund the overdue debt bearing a high
rate OF interest The wretched fiasco OF
the Sullivan regime may embarrass them a
little. but they ought to be able to show
the fact tina the bonds OF no city in the
country can be a safer Investment than
those OF indianapolis.
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this paper the following paragraph was
printed:
This will be a soup house winter. When
ever the Democratic party gets into power
and goes TO regulating the tariff We have
soup houses.
By some almost inexcusable inadvertence
this was credited TO the Courier-Journal,
when the Louisville Commercial was the
paper intended.
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HORRIBLE Accident.

Amt you working on the Bugle any
more, Brown
mo. They fired me for being absent
minded. / was going through the mail
sorting out the poetry, and accidentally
declined with thanks a five-dollar SUBJ
Scription."
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OF all the generous remembrance OF
Thanksgiving day none can be more touch
ing than the donation of the children in
town, by which two hundred poor children
in this city were bountifully fed. SO far as
the money was contributed by the chill
tie money that a dime is a treasure. Thus
taught, these orphans will be a blessing to
the State to which their fathers gave the
best periods of their lives.