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been told again and again by the news
papers hostile to pensions thai every
body who applies is sure of a pension.
The number of all claims pending Feb.
%. 1898, was 745,463. of which 240,-
927 are claims for increase, and
127, 92S are additional to applications on
file under pension acts prior TO the law
of June q, 1896. Therefore, Il get at
the actual number of claimants whose
cases have not been disposed of, 1877. 92S
must be subtracted from the total Of
745, 463, which leaves Gil, As 240. 927
are applications for increase of existing
pensions, it is evident that the number
of claimants who are not drawing pen
sioDs was, on Feb. rs. 1893, 376.60S. If
pensions are granted to these claimants
in the ratio existing during the past
four years, namely, 70 in 100. 274.023 of
the applicants will get upon the rolls.
The total number of pensioners On the
rolls Feb. 90, 1891, was 479.92O. Conse-
quently, ii none had died or been re-
moved for other causes during the four
years, the number of pensioners Feb.
%, 1893, would have been 1.35G, 635. AS
the actual number the latter date was
953, 34S, it is apparent that during the
four year the names of 403,2S6 were
dropped. These figures show how
RAPIDLY the pension rolls will be short
ened as the years pass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
Deserved Eare
An Valve
DOWN LIES GRADE TOGETHER.
Aged Couple Strike The Town En- Route from
Buffalo to Terre Haute to FrieniS

Withered, deorepit and gray, and with.
out even the shelter of the most miserable
howell to call their own. James Abbott and
bis wife Ann are quartered at the police
station awaiting the action of charity
organizations to assist them On their way.
James Abbott has seen eighty-two years of
existence. while his companion has passed
the sixty-fifth milestone. This old couple
were brought to the ~stationhouse Tuesday
night by q stranger who had over
Cling along with their earthly pos
sessions on their backs. Their story
is not romantic. and does not partake
of usual interest. but Is simply q plain mar
rative of Ill luck and adverse circrm-
stances. The couple left the city of Buffalo,
n. y, q month ago to make their way to
Terre Haute. where the old man has q
brother who is respected highly in social
and business life. To reach this brother
they started with no defined plan of travel
ing and with all they owned in the world
tied up In ragged coffee sacks. They pos
sessed q few dollars In money, which was
exhausted before half the distance had
been traversed. and they then threw them
selves upon the mercy of the charitable
public. At Fortville. Ind. the stranded
and helpless travellers secured of the town
ship trustee passage to this city, and on ar
rival here. they sought to get TO Terre
f1Aute Oy tho same means. ITustee Uoiu
refused TO send them further. hut agreed
to give them transportation back to Fort
Vile. This they dld not choose to
accept and started to walk. but were
persuaded to seek shelter in the station
house. Yesterday afternoon the police
matrOn communicated with the manage
ment of the Friendly Inn. and succeeded in
procuring admission for the couple in that
institution. About 5 O'Clock yesterday
evening they were bundled MP and sent
out to the inn. but in On hour were back.
Their complaint was that the asylum to
which they had been sent would take none
but men. and they had travelled hand in
hand in life's pathway too long to be sep
arated. Shelter was given the pair again
last night. and to-day 1t is expected that
they with receive assistance from their
friends at Terre Haute. The old man is o
native of Ireland, and claims to have
served through the war with Company b
of the Fourteenth New York ARTILLERY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
GRAND ARMY MATTERS.
Thomas Post eating Ready for the Encamp.
ment-Events at Evansville.

Thomas Post has voted TO raise the money
for the first cottage at the Soldiers Home
and to appoint q committee of fifty 10
raise So. 500 TO keep open house during the
National Encampment. General Carnshau
is TO prepare the report of the committee OF
the Grand Army on soldiers home TO DO
presented Co the encampment ut Evans
VILE. 1t will contain some Important
recommendations. Among the other at
fractions which the people of Evansville
offer the visitors during tine State encamp-
ment ~ a steamer excursion on the Ohio.
Al the regular meeting OF George IL.
Thomas Post, Tuesday night. IL was unanI.
mously voted TO tender TO the State en-
camp,nent q sufficient sum of money, 10 be-
raised by IN subscription. TO build q cottage
at the proposed soldiers home.
Hovey Post, of West Indianapolis. will
give an en- tertainment Friday evening. Is
has been intimated that when the soldiers
monument Is dedicated nc will be done
under the auspices OF the Governor.
The ladies of Major Robert Anderson
Post. Woman's Relief Corps. will give o
tea Thursday. from 3 TO 10 T. NJ. ne Mrs. l..
+. Hamiiton's home. corner New York and
Archer streets.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MRS. LOvEJOY ALDRICH. of Seattle.
Wash, is q widow of q soldier of the revO-
luton by her first marriage, and of o
soldier of the war OF 1912 by her second
marriage.
The Empress OF Austria has translated
Lear" Hamlet" and Tho Tempest" into
modern Greek. in which language she is
wonderfully proficient. talking and writ
ing 1T like an educated Athenian.
A FEW Milwaukee bachelors started q
home for themselves on the cooperative
housekeeping plan. but 1t was q dismal
failure. one of them getting married to
drown his misery and the others taking
refuge in ordinary boarding houses. where
ladies presided over the soup tureen.
MIR. MALLoCK has been estimating how
much money English people would have
apiece if all that there is In that country
were distributed equally. He states that
the gross income 10 5000 miltiSns Of dollars.
and that there gre :, 800. 600 families in the
United Kingdom. That would give Ss65 for
each family.
No Ountry can progress where the horee-
power of the iieas exceeds that of the in.
habitants. In Cubs the nimbie insects
keep up a close competition. The mosqui-
toes are abundant and wicked. They sing
little. bat are industrious nibblers. They
operate only at night, and curtained beds
afford protection.
THE famous LOndon circus. known as
Astley's. and familiar to all readers OF
Dickens and T~hackeray, is In process of
demolition. Ii was there that Adah Isaacs
Menken. the clown Grimaldl and other
historic stage and sewdust celebrities won
their greatest successes. and the name fig
ures in the pages of q dozen novels of Lon
don life.
lT 10 gravely asserted that the attend
ance &C the New port. r.. l.. High School has
fallen of tive hundred within q few years
because the head master writes ungram-
NAUTICAL English in biz annual reports. One
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
A WORD FOR THE PRESIDENT.

At a time when the State Democratic
organ, the always .infallible mugwump
press and the Civil service Chronicle are
either criticising Mr.. Cleveland for APP
pointing Senator Voorhees, man to the
office of district attorney or else ex-
cusing him on the ground of ignorance
regarding the exceeding sinfulness of
Mr.. Burke. it seems incumbent upon the
Journal to say a word for the President
on the score of fair play. The difficulty
with the organs, papers and teachers
referred to is that they have no ideas of
the public service above the distribu-
ton of patronage, and as spoilsmen they
either applaud OF condemn as their man
succeeds or fails. 1t is time to take a
higher view of federal politics. Presi-
dent Cleveland cares very little regard
ing who holds the offices, but he has
very positive views of the necessity of
the repeal of the Sherman silver act.
He believes that unless he can bring this
about his administration and the conn
try may be involved in danger. In COM
parison with this grave question the
name of the man who shall be United
States attorney in Indiana is of no i'm
p~ortance.
Senator Voorhees, is chairman of the
Senate finance committee. Upon him,
therefore. more than upon any other
Senator depends the fate of the admin
i%stration's financial policy. During the
past year the President and his friends
have won Mr.. Carlisle to their side.
Now the President and Secretary Car
Isle have joined to onvert Mr.. Voor-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
MRS. JOHNSON DEAD.
Heart Disease Carries of a Popular Ex-OHi-
cial of the Woman's Prison

Mrs. Elmina Louisa Johnson. the former
superintendent.o f the Female Refornatory,
died early yesterday morning at the home
of her mother. No. SO North State street.
For O long time she had been afflicted with
heart dIsease.. which caused her death.
Since 1873 until last February. when she re-
signed on account OF Ill health. Mrs. john
son has been identified with the woman
prison. and was considered one of the most
efficient and popular officers of the lnsti-
tuition. She was respected by the inmates
and beloved by her coworkers on account
of H. kind and charitable nature. She
was fifty-eiRht years old. ard was tho
widow of the late Joseph J.. Johnson. who
died in 1862. Her mother, Mrs. Hinshaw.
and o brother IN Kansas, are the immedi-
ately s%nrvivlng relatives. Her childhood
home was in Wayne county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THE editor of the Mobile Register is
anxious to learn if the "COlonei' Josiah
Quincy who is Secretary G~resham's first
assistant is the same Colonel" Josiah
Quincy who. when he had captured a
band of ~confederates, had his negro
soldiers cut the buttons off their coats.
No; that was an earlier Josiah Quincy.
This Josiah was then in the primary
schools of the town of Quincy, Mass.
There has been a Josiah Quincy since
the settlement of Massachusetts,. and
sometimes two. The Colonel Quincy
who got the confederate buttons was
one who earned his title by good service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

AND so the Cabinet officers are not
even to be allowed to make appoint
ments in their own departments without
having previously submitted tie names
of the candidates to Cleveland and re-
ceiving his approval of them. Under
the former administration members of
the Cabinet were known only as his
clerks, and at least one of these ex-
secretaries is understood to have de-
clined a reappointment on the ground
that he did not enjoy the position of a
Sub" The present corps of advisers"
seems likely to be held even more firmly
under the presidential thumb than the
other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THE unsophisticated Mr.. Swift thinks
1t strange that Senator Voorhees, should
have any influence with the administra-
ton when he, Voorhees,, cares nothing
about the public service and is working
eolely to secure his own election. The
editor of the Civil.service Chronicle
seems to have guilelessly accepted as
solemn truth all the ante-election mug
wlmp romances hat made the words
Cleveland and reform synonymous.
Your Uncle Voorhees, knew this was
twaddle, and proceeded to look after
the boys in the time-honored Demo-
cratic fashion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

MUGwUMPS fairly shrieked with JOY
over the appointment of Judge Gresham
as Secretary of State, hailing it as q
proof of the Presidents ardent love for
reform, and a step in the direction of
the millennium because of Gresham's
"well-kn0wn sympathy with civil
service reform principles" This SYM
pathy vas purely imaginary, since not
an act OF expression In the whole course
of his life indicated the slightestinterest
in this species of reform, but the mug
wumps. according to their custom, as
sumed that the thing was true. and then
swore to it. Now that he has shown an
anxiety to turn everybody out of the
consular and diplomatic service, which
above all other departments of service
should be permanent, the reformers say,
an honest expression of their views
concerning the great and good Secre-
tary would be in order, if an honest ex-
preston were possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

ONE of the last acts of the late Pension
COMMISSIONS Raum was to issue a
statement showing the work of the
bureau from March 1. 1889. just before
General Harrison became President, to
the close of February. 1893. The num-
Der of pension certificates issued during
that period was $50. 715. The aggregate
amount of the first payments upon these
certificates was S166, 1885. AL. 94. The
number of caaes rejected during that
period was $50. 104. making a total of
1.215,619 cases disposed of during the
four years. The fact that over q per
eases disposed of. were rejected. will be
. surprise TO those persons. who have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

1T is interesting to learn that in a
Cabinet consultation on the subject of
and consular service to serve out their
terms, Secretary Gresham was the only
in favor of immediate removals. The
zeal of the new convert is manifesting
itself in the usual way. The Judge.
who was proclaiming his Ropublicanism
80 loudly but a few short months ago, is
now an%xiousto prove that he is the "best
Democrat of them ALL"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has caused it
10 be given out that Senators shall no
longer control the patronage, but that
Congressman and even plain civilians
shall have their say; nevertheless, there
are unmistakable indications that Sena-
tor Daniel Wolsey Voorhees, still has a
pretty strong pull. Congressman and
private citizens may have the privilege
of speaking, but Indiana candidates will
do well to get Daniels recommendation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

IT is fortunate for this country that
General Harrison's ministers to France
and Germany, Mr.. Reid and MIR. Phelps.
by their ability and influence, were able
to remove the unjust determinations
against our pork products. Mr.. Cleve-
lands former ministers declared that
the determinations could not be re.
moved. and the second-rate men he has
now sent to these countries could not
ACCOMPLISH il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to William Merrick and Amanda Sanders.
John +. Kroft and Ida klumpf, Albert r.
Koch and Bertha Mueller, Marion W. Ham
aKer and Edith NJ. Robbins. Frank IL.
Mey er and Ameiia NJ. Weghorst. William
Lay and Lucy Tatman. Thomas Il. Mount
aud Sarah I. Wood. George Newh0use and
Friendly L. Divine. Clifton .. johnson and
Minnie 4. Keller.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THOSE who predicted that the Presi-
lent would recall the nomination of
Burke when he heard from Indiana will
be surprised to learn that the new dis
.trict attorney has been confirmed. Mr..
Voorhees, is not the man to let his foes
steal q march on his man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

By the way, now that Swift has
spoken, what does the other civil-service
reformer of Indiana, Hon. William Dud-
ley Foulke, think of the progress of re-
form as it is indicated by the appoint
ment of Gray, Burke and others, and the
wish of reformer Gresham to fire. Re-
publicans before their terms are out in
order to distribute the spoils? VIII
Foulke speak up7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THE term offensive partisan" is likely
to take on a new significance in this re-
giOn. Unless the Original Cleveland
men" quit kicking SO vigorously over
the appointments they will presently
become very offensive to the President.
He doesn't seem to have very much
affection for them to start with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

A DEMOCRATIC member of the last
House who now writes ex before repre-
Cleveland shrine. remarked the other
day, 1--WE of the last Congress do not APP
pear to be in it." He should have cried
aloud for the repeal of the Sherman law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

REFORMER SWIFT ought to have lived
mp to his name and telegraphed his pro-
tests against the appointment of Burke.
When President Cleveland reads the
Aprilnumber of the Civil service Chron-
icle and finds out that Burke doesn't
wish that he had known this sooner in
order hat he might have given him a
bigger plum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
Business

Articles of incorporation were yesterday
filed With the Secretary of State a. follows:
Madison Glass Company. Alexandria,. oap-
itsl stock. $4,000; Boilinger Nail Keg Stave
Company. Hoa1land. capital stock. $500;
ConnersyIllc Blower Company. capital
stock. $4,000; German building. Loan ard
COG,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

AFTER all thai is said about the new
district attorney, he will average with
the average Democratic politician of In
diana, but the average is appallingly
depressed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THE Pascagoula (Miss.) Star is not on
the exchange list of the Journal, but
there is such a paper. and from it the
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution derives the
following incident:
Ii seems that the other day Senator
George introduced MI. billiard. of Missis-
sippi, to Secretary Gresham as the coming
consul-general to Ecuador. The Senator
made reference to the fact that the position
is now held by Mr.. Sorsby, whereupon
Mr.. Gresham said briskly: why. we will
just turn that rascal out right noww
ThereupOn the Constitution. which
sees little to applaud in the Democratic
administration because it is not turning
Republicans out by thousands to make
room for a couple of Thousand Georgia
Democrats, mme as follows:
Much has been said about the zeal of new
converts, but many of our Democratic
brethren have animated liz advance that
they did not look for eny zeal from the
new Secretary of State, for the reason that
they were not satisfied thai ne had become
n convert. These dcubters need doubt no
longer. The Secretary's prompt response
to Senator George had the ring Of genuine
Democracy. why, we will Just turn that
rascal ont right now" That sentence re-
minds one of Adlai Stevenson's famous ak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

hees. 1t will be a Saul of Tarsus affair
if successful, but scarcely more remark
able than the conversion of the senior
Senator from an avowed protectionist
to a free-trader during Mr. Cleveland's
first term. 1t is vastly more important
to the country that some of the Presi-
dents ideas regarding silver should be
adopted than whether Mr.. Kern OF Mr..
Burke shall draw the salary of district
attorney. 1t is very gratifying to Mr..
Voorhees, to have the country know that
he has more influence with the Pres
ident than all the aspirants In indi-
ana who have been intimating that he
has no influence and should get down
and out. All Indiana knows that Mr..
Voorhees, is a kindly and appreciative
man. Therefore, when he sees the men
of his choice in office, Ex-Governor
Gray, ex-senator Burke. Joshua Jump.
and others, his heart will warm toward
Mr.. Cleveland. and naturally he will
approach the silver question with differ
ent feelings than heretofore. He will
lCdilLc thdt pOthctb VI Ck oO NV
underlie the wheat fields of Indiana.
By degrees he will come to the con-
clusiOn that the bonanza mine million
aires should be hung On the same gallows
with Carnegie. By the time that Con-
gress meets Mr.. Voorhees, will be in a
frame of mind to turn loose his %eioquence
upon the silver ~monopolists and become
the champion of the Cieveland-C Carlisle
financial scheme.
The President foresees this result. and
he ia wooing our senior Senator to sound
money and laying the corner stone of a
sound-money faction in the Democratic
party of Indiana which shall BIO CO.
extensive with the federal oficeholders'
influence. Will any one who recognizes
the Importance of sound currency say
that the President is not acting wiselyq
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23
TnE INDIANAPoLIs JOURNAL

SLY Mr.. Voorhees, did not leave any
time for protests to come in. and had his
friend Burke confirmed promptly. The
Senator is an old hand at those little
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

Truthful Answer

Truthful Answer.
"Is that Vienna bread done yeti" roaYed the
boss baker.
And his assistant who was suffering from q
cold, answered, Dough-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

THE temperance of the name of James
F. Legate among the witnesses before the
committee of the Kansas Senate In regard
to a charge of bribery recalls his story as q
g~o-be.ween In an alleged effort to get Sc.
John of the track as the Prohibition can
didate for President in 1884. According to
Legate. be received a proposition from ST.
John to 80 conduct himself during the rest
OF the campaign as not to hurt Mr.. Blaine
as he was doing in New York. A consider
alton of S25. 600 was involved in the propo-
eition. but when Legate applied to Mr..
Clarkson and others managing the Blaine
campaign. they would not furnish the
money. Legate. in subsequent years. was
won't TO denounce Garrison most vigorous
ly. because. as be alleged. be was TO have
$1,000 of the money. Many chapters In the
life of Legste. if all the incidents were IN
yeIlow-covered novel.
THE New York critics went into spssms
of admiration over the Italian actress,
Eleonora Duse. and gave out the impress
Sion that they really preferred the Italian
tongue To any other. No one would ever
guess from the comments on her acting
that the writers were not entirely familiar
with the language spoken. In Chicago
they are more frank. One critic confessea
that. SO far as the influence of speech went.
the auditors might have left their ears 1t
home and the actors might have been dumb.
She had not the fascinating manner of
Bernhardt. and the only way the audience
could follow her was by watching the play
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

ANEW YORK paper alludes to Mrs. Lease
as q "stateslady." As this is the aforesaid
papers first offense, it's name is withheld.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

PERHAPS if Mr.. Kern would get his name
changed to Fag Swat, or the like. there
might be some hope for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

The olumbia Envelope.
Small Boy-De boss wants quarters wort OF
envelopes.
Stamp Clerk-Whatk kinda
Small BOy-Dem wit de baseballs on.
That Is, at the Atmosphere.
Tho tune vas the same old ~"Boom-de-ay,"
The dancer was young. the.dancer was fair:
Though against its tenor she'd nothing to say,
1t must be confessed that she kicked at the air.
Deserved Fate.
young man addicted to rhyme,
Quoted this sort of stuff all the thyme;
Till the neighbOrs. in rage.
Locked him up in q cage.
Where he muses. and mourns for his crhyme.
An Escape Valve.
Shopper-Ah-excuse me, but have you q boil
er works connected with the store nows
FloOr-walker-Oh, no, ma'an. That noise you
hear is the typewriter girl. The boss gave her
fits for being late this morning, and she is taking
it out on the machine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-23

Mr.. JAMES j. CORBEST is quoted as say
ing that the late Squire Abingdon was q
perfect gentleman. AS Mr.. Charley Mitch
ell once Endorsed Mr.. Corbett as "a perfect
gentleman, but crooked" the champions
estimate may be acce pied as correct.