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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

INSTEAD of enforcing the Chinese ex-
clusion act, which compels all who live
In this country to register and have their
photographs taken. and which they have
generally ignored. AttorneY-general
Olney will test the constitutionality of
the law by having a case taken to the
Supreme Court. The law may be harsh,
but there is no reason Why, to make
sure of their identity and to prevent
others coming here on their papers
when those now holding them have
scraped together the few dollars which
make a fortune and leave. the Chinese
should not comply with the law. They
would but for the Six Companies, which
bring the Chinese to this country under
contracts which make them bondmen
until the Companies have collected their
exorbitant claims. The Six Companies
are defying the laws of the United
States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

congratulate itself that the preparation
and expenditures for the National En-
campment have been intrusted not
only to a man SO capable as Colonel
Lilly, but to n whose public spirit
and integrity place him far above the
suspicion of any intelligent citizen that
any personal motiye or Interior purpose
can influence him. 1t is equally fOrtu-
nate for the success of the enterprise
that all intelligent people have the full
est confidence in Colonel Lilly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
New Enterprises.

Articles of Incorporation were yesterday
filed with the Secretary of State. as fol.
lows: The Daily Record Company, of In
dianspolis. capital stock. $4,000; directors.
William A. wilkins. Max r. Hymsn. VIII
liam L. Lander aud Mark c. DAVIS. Cali
fornia Natural as Company. Hancock
county. capital stock. $40. 0O0. Milford Lum-
Der Company, kosciusko connty. capital
stock. $1,000: directors are Preston 4.
nell. Franklin Loan Fund ant Ssyings As
ISOLATION. capital stock. eD.t00: Citizens
Bank. Clinton. capital stock. $1,000; Mon
roe County Agricultural. Live stock and
DrivinG Association. capital stoek. $40. 1000:
Washington. capital stock. $50. 600: de
rectors. Joseph Cabel. Austin K. Cabel.
George Kaufman. John n. Cabel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

and not more than 70 per cent. received.
These defects will be remedied as fast
as possible. and the work of completion
will be pushed with the utmost energy,
but it is estimated that the great expo
sition will not present a completed APP
pearance before June /, or possibly
juno 10. Even in its present condition.
however. it presents greater attractions
that any other worlds fair ever did
when complet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

women in the State may have an oppor-
tunity to prepare themselves 60 appear be-
fore this jury the names of the advisory
committee on music are here again pub.
lished: Mrs. Helen NJ. Ames. EvansvilIet
Carl Barns, indianapolis; Miss Harries
Paige. Terre Haute: James Ii. Howe. Green.
castle; Z. +. w. Meyer, Fort Wayne.
The committee on woman's work hopes
that a large number of the musicians of
the State will avail themselves Of Tins OPP
portunity TO participate in the concerts TO
be rendered at the exposition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
MACHINISTs' CONVENTION.
Delegates Pouring ia from Every Part OF the
Continent-Public Meeting.

The delegates TO the Machinist's Union
convention. which begins tomorrow. i'm
English Hall. have begun to arrive In num-.
bers. They are CHARTERED at the hotel of
the same name. The first meeting to-mor-
row will be q public one. and will be adj
dressed by Mayor Sullivan. The numbsr
of delegates will be about leo. from all
pected TO hold proxies for az least one hum
dred more votes. The election of officers
will not occur until the latter part of the
convention. which may last ten days or
two weeks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

The worlds fair will be formally
opened tomorrow, but in q very in
complete condition as to buildings, ex-
hibits and improvements. A marvel
Gus amount of work has been done. but
the task was too great to be completed
within the appointed time. Then, ex-
hibitors have delayed matters by their
hardness. Its estimated that not moro
than 80 per cent of the exhibits in tho
nanufacturers building ere in place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
Musician. anu tho " orld.. Fair

The committee on woman's work of the
Indisna worlds fair commission wish to
notify all musicians who desire to appear
IN some of the concerts that will be rem
dered in Chicago during the months of the
exposition that the expert jury will hear no
one before May ]. and then only those who
can present q diploma or aletter Of recon-
mendation from some member of the adj
Sisory committee on music for this State.
TO whose Judgment they rave submitted
their powers as either vocalists or instru-
mentaiists. The address of the chairman
of the expert jury Is Mrs. Theodore 1homas.
No. 243S indiana avenue. Chicago. That ell
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
FROM HOSPITAL TO BASTiLE.
Patient of the City Hospital Comes to Towr
and Gets Drunk. Only 10 Be Arrested.

John Weber. o patient at the City Hos
pital. was feeling unusually cheerful yes
terdsy afternoon and applied TO the super
intendent for . pass to COME To
the city. he secured the neces-
cary credentials and spent q couple
OF hours down town with some
bosom friends. When he returned to the
hospital he was in n glorious state of i'm
ebriati0n. and. In fact. was 80 free from all
bodily ills that he made the assertion that
he could whip every body about the place.
The officials. fesrina that be might attempt
the feat, notified the police station, AMI
Captain Dawson and Ssrgeant HagerdorR
went out and brought him in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

lr. George Riddle rave the second of the

Mr.. George Riddle gave the second of the
series of readings, at Plymou-h Church..
yesterday afternoon. The sIhject was
excellence with which Mr.. Riddle reads
everything was not lacking in q single
point. Each individual character seems
standing before one so clearly that is
seems scarcely possible that one man can
command his voice TO such an extent.
The next reading will be angelo" and
will be gwen Tuesday evening. at 8
o'clock. at Plymouth Church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

THE School Board in Chicago has or
dered the discontinuance of the study
of German in all the primary schools
after the present year.. A foolish and
demagogical law prevents our School
Board from taking similar action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

THE Detroit Free Press says "the
present administration has thus far done
more toward restoring the financial CON
fidence of the country than can be just
ly credited to the entire record of its
immediate predecessor" And this does
not appear in the funny mans depart
ment, either.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

THE st. Louis Republic is advo-
eating the sale to the highest bidder of a
street-railway franchise about to be
granted in that city, and cites the recent
action of this city in proof of the FEAST
bility and wisdom of the policy. That
action has been widely commented on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

THE Milwaukee judge who cut down
q verdict of $500 to 500, rendered
against a butcher who accused a woman
of stealing. because the complainant
earned her living by scrubbing, and.
therefore, could not be hurt to the ex-
tent of $500. proves that the race of
Dogberry still survives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
He Is Due.

The weather may be warmer, and the trees may
be in bud,
The streets may be a sloppy sea Of subliques-
cent mud,
The nights be getting Shorter. to the length'ning
Of the days,
While exotic-looking neckties strike our much
affrighted gaze.
Yet the weather isn't organized upon q summer
plan.
Until there comes upon the scene the
Hoky
Poky
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

In rendering to the Secretary of the
Treasury the full amount of their gold
reserve. the banks of Columbus, Ga,
showed a patriotic spirit worthy of the
highest commentator. Although the
amount was not very large, $500 the
act was none the less commendable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

CHICAGO gave fitting rece ptions yes
terday to two distinguished guests
President Cleveland and the Duke of
Veragua. Both were received with the
honors due To their stations and the &C.
c%asion, and were given to understand
that Chicago's latch string was out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

Now that it is announced hat Secre-
tary Carlisle and the "Wall = street
sharks" are harmonious the remark of
Mr.. Cleveland's organ here to the effect
that "Wall street has been scourged cut
of the temple" should be erased.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

John w. Long yesterday filed suit for d.
vorce from his wife. Mamie Long. whom no
married in this city IN 1874 he asks she
decree on the grounds of cruelty and in
humanity, charging that she. ON two dtffer-
poisoning him. Margaret A. Higdon sues
tor divorces from Douglsss A. h'gdon. al
leging abandonment as o caaso for d.
Wnrca
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

Watts-I don't think Simmons showed good
Judgment in naming his boy William. / shouldn't
like a boy of mine to. be known through life by
the name of BILL"
Potts-Why. mar, II he should go into politics
IL would be the best thing imaginable for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

Every single woman." said the eminent lady
lecturess on l"How to Find Happiness, - SHOULD
study her faults and failings."
"But why not the married woman as welll"
asked one Of the audience.
There is no need of her studying her faults.
Her husband will attend to all that"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
u IN TIRE AIR
He Exnecsed L.

1.-THE air was rent" read Mr.. Jason. CT have
been lookin' fer something OF the kind tohappen.
i thought some one would be rentin' the air yet,
same as the land"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

The Society of Hygiene will hold its last
meeting of the year Wednesday evening.
at s o'clock, at the Propylseum. and every
body Is in vited. MIR. Louls H. Gibson will
read . paper before the society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

Said the end man: "The rope that hoists the
curtain broke last night just at the time the per-
Torrance should have begun"
"what did you doi' asked the innocent hotel
clerk.
s.Oh. We borrowed q chord from the orchestra
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

A A BILE case OF homicide was dis
posed of in a Philadelphia court last week.
A woman was ON trial for the killing of
her SOD. q boy of fifteen OF sixteen. The
story, as told by herself and amply corrob.
GRATED. was that when the boy came home
to his supper he complained. boy like. that
she did not sit down to the table with him.
She was preparing buckwheat cakes on q
stove near by, and answ erec impatlantly
that she was too busy to SIT down. where
upon he playfully snatched the knife from
her. She took up another, q sharper one.
and went on turning her cakes, and as he
continued his teasing. or what she at the
moment called his ''impudence." she struck
at him hastily, the knife still in her hand.
He rose, cried. Mamma. / am bleeding"
and fell into her arms in q dying condition,
the knife having penetrated his heart.
THIS was q terrible retaliation for q trivial
offense. but as the story went into details
the result seemed less un~accountabie. This
mother had that day, In addition to her
regular household labor, done three large
washings and had carried the water needed
up four flights of stairs. She loved her son,
but when be came in from his days work,
ready for supper and for her society, she
was in such a state of nervous exhaustion
that the slightest provooation magnifed
itself. Ii is probable that she was one of
the many mothers who govern by blows,
but she had no murder0us intention when
she struck at him; was indeed scarcely con-
scious that she held Q knife in her hand.
Philadelphia papers use the case as o text
for profound moral lessons to parents who
permit themselves TO strike their children;
but an equally obvious lesson Is that a
woman overworked to that extent Is hard
u in q responsible condition. The judge
recognized the mitigating circumstances
and said he was assured that she loved her
boy at all times. that she was honest and
industrious, and had brought her con up
well. He then IMPOSED o sentence of four
years and six months. which he consid cred
merciful. but which be wished TO DO severe
enough to show the estimate that ought to
be put upon the taking of human life.
Whatever the punishment might have been.
it would In oil probability seem light to
that mother compared with her own re-
morse and grief.
THEY have been having o beautiful
comic opera episode In Boston charity cir.
cles. A year or SO ago n benevolent woman
discovered that the hundreds of aged
female inmates of the almshouse were fur
nished with but o very limited supply OF
rocking chairs. Now. as a rocking chair
seems TO even the most thoughtless of per-
sons an almost indispensable article of fur
niture for aged persons, Is seemed TO this
visiting lady that it would only be neces.
sary to call the attention of the Board of
Charities TO the oversighs to have IL sup
piled. The notice was accordingly given.
hut il received no attention. and q year
went By with no moro cha:rs for the poor
women. Then a benevolent lady. thinking.
perhaps. that public funds were scarce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
SIXTEEN PAGES

THE Duke of Veragua has one ad-
vantage over President Cleveland: he
holds his office for life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30

o isle OF the sea.
o isle OF the sea.
Thought thou vert mine,
o sweet Hawaii.
The time was, I know,
You were ready to throw
Your sugary charms
Plump into my arms.
But. alas. all is changed.
All plans disarranged
By "My Special Commission"
Po%stponing fruition.
o isle OF the sea.
o isle OF the sea.
And thou may'st not be mine,
o sweet Hawaii. Il. II. w.
PERU, Ind.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-19

the North Woods, he still remained to
some extent in harness, line of cou-
riers connecting his camp whore he
went with the nearest telegraph office.
Mr.. Arthur was very fond Of the thea
ter, especially comedy, because he
liked to laugh Above all things he de-
lighted in giving little stag dinners at
the White House, to which he invited
the men who talked best and were most
congenial.
The billiard table on which Mr.. Cleve
land has played and will play again at
the White House was originally pur-
chased for President Garfield. Gen.
Garfield had the present billiard-room
in the basement OF the Executive Man
sion fitted up for that purpose, and he
played there a great deal with his most
particular friends. He was very fond of
all kinds of games. Ho was first-rate
horseback rider, and held an honorary
membership in the Washington Base
Ball Club. Before he became Presi-
dent he used to attend the baSe-ball
games regularly.
President Hayes was nothing Of a
sport. In fact, it may fairly be said
that he had no amusement whatever.
He cared nothing for driving, and he
was never known to play any games.
He was socially disposed, however, and
used to receive visitors commonly in
the evening together with Mrs. Hayes.
Gen. Grants favorite game was
"Boaston. He used to play 1T great
deal with Gen Van. Nliet and Gen.
Rufus Ingalls,, the latter formerly Chief
Ouartermaster of the Army OF the Poto-
mac. Both of these officers are still liv-
ing and on the retired list. The amuse-
ment in which the hero of Appomattox
found most pleasure, however, was
driving. He was extremely fond OF
speeding over the road holding the reins
Of a faster trotter Nearly every after
noon he drove out in buggy with his
fleet mare Julia" He also owned a. a
dark bav charger named "Cincinnatus, ="
and a pair of carriage horses of fine &C
ton, "St. Louis and Egypt" The
General carried into the White House
his army habits of regularity. After
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-19
Ennui of Officers.

Abiding to one or two conspicuous
recent instances, the New York World
says:
Neither neuralgia nor drink nor
insanity nor debt is necessary to make
a United States army officer feel like
committing suicide. Slow promotion
and lack Of occupation causes many
an ambitious man to occasionally
wonder if life is worth living. New
ertheless very few undertake to de-
eide practically that it is not.
Nothing is easier to demonstrate
than that men who are worth any
thing at all must sometimes vary
either their employment or their
enjoyment. The profession of arms
opens up the most glorious possibili-
ties in times of war, especially in the
service Of nation which is as well
calculated to take care of itself as
the United States. But it may prove
exceedingly lonesome as tits certainly
monotonous in times of peace in a
country like this, where the arts of
peace are always to the fore, except
in the very heat Of conflict
In Germany, on the contrary, these
hypochondriacs would be the jolliest
of fellows, having men whom they
could command almost absolutely
and having for their imperial master
a young fellow who may not correctly
understand the first principles of
campaigning, but who loves military
reviews better than he loves even the
empress and his children, and almost
as well as he loves his all-important
self.
In other armies in Europe also the
faded, lonesome American officer
turned European could reflect that
millions were toiling and delving for
him. Here he sees hundreds Of thou
sands coming money and getting cart
loads of enjoyment while he lives off
of reveille and taps. But, save for
the few thus inconvenienced, it is all
right A commercial nation, easily
mobilizable, does not need to initiate
tottering despotism in turning its
brave officers and men into mere
janizaries.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-19

"A. y.
that were ever framed. From the
very day it went into effect, however,
the quality of the milk used in the
principal cities in the State has
steadily improved, and now it is found
that the products Of the dairy there
are way above the legal standard.
Milk to be good must, according to
the law, contain 3 per cent. of butter
fat. During the month Of July, out
of the many tests that were made in
various parts of the State, there were
only four dealers whose milk was 1
per cent. higher than the legal figure,
while the bulk of the milk barely
passed the law. Tests made a month
later however, showed the milk Of
fifteen dealers to contain 4 per cent.
of butter fat, and now it is rarely
that the tests show less than $50 or
per cent. Commissioner Upper is
now satisfied that there is no State in
the Union where purer milk is sold.
The law provides that any person
who shall sell, or exchange, or ex-
pose for sale, deliver Or bring to an
other for domestic use, or to be con-
verified into any product Of human
food whatsoever, any unclean, i'm
pure, unhealthy, adulterated, I'M
wholesome or skinned milk, or milk
taken from an animal having disease,
or was taken from an animal fifteen
days before or less than five days after
parturition, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined not less than $25 nor
more than 800, and be liable in
double the amount of damages to the
persons on whom such fraud shall be
committed. The law authorizes the
dairy commissioners to appoint agents
in every city having over 10000 in
habitants, and to collect samples Of
the milk sold in such cities. 1t is
their duty to forward such samples to
the office of the commissioner in Des
Moines. The compensation of such
agent at any one time is not to be
more than SO for collecting and de-
livering the same to express compan-
les. The law also provides that the
number of times Samples are collected
in each city shall not exceed an aver
age of thirty times during any one
year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-19

always asked visitors to take something
from the sideboard in the dining-room,
which was garnished with decanters as
we'll as with bowl of juleps in summer
and bowl Of egg-nogg In winter. In
this sort of hospitality he expended
nearly all his salary, which was only
So, 900. He had one remarkable ex-
perience with a notorious woman named
Ann Royal. She edited paper called
the Paul Pry, and made herself SO
offensive in various ways that she was
indicted as common scold under the
old common law, and only by q very
narrow squeak escaped immersion by
the "ducking STOOL. One day she
caught Mr.. Tyler bathing in the Poto-
mic and succeeded in interviewing him
by sitting on his clothes until he told
her what she wanted. This exploit has
certainly not been excelled by the do
ings of any of the modern unterrified
female reporters who contribute SO
much that is interesting to contempt
rary journals.
Jacl<son's Cob Pipe.
The favorite solace of Andrew Jack
sons leisure was smoking a corn-cob
pipe. He declared that no other vehicle
for the absorption of tobacco smoke was
so sweet and delightful. 1t is said that
his wife also, during her lifetime, was
addicted to the n-cob AS will be re-
membered he introduced a new order OF
things at the White House, disdaining
aristocratic refinements and doing away
with the elaborate etiquette previously
in vogue. His favorite sport was cock
fighting, and at home he owned breed
of birds which were regarded as invinci-
BILE. Some of them he brought to Wash
ington to fight; but, much to his disgust,
they were defeated.
Little is known about the diversions
in which James Monroe found recrea-
ton. jefferson sought to escape from
the anxieties of government by playing
the fiddle. Neither he nor Madison
was a sport in any sense. John Quincy
Adams was the pedestrian President
and swimmer.
Gen. Washington was ~ his prime a
great sportsman. He as particularly
fond of fox hunting, keeping a pack of
hounds from imported stock and several
hunters. With these he hunted almost
every day. In fact, he lived in all re-
spects as does the typical country gen
tleman in Virginia at present. The
story that Washington once threw
stone across the Potomac was long ago