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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22
THE CRACKER, THE YANKEE AND
THE HOOSIER.

In the Chicago Magazine, the latest can
Mr.. II. W. Taylor. of Charlottesville, en-
titled THE Case Of the Cracker" meaning
the poor whites of the South during the
era OF slavery. the unsurpassed private
farmer or leaser of land of the present
period. Mr.. Taylor makes it appear that
the several millions of Crackers are those
who suffered most from slavery and whose
portance, even If forgotten by the Adolf
ZIONIST and the stakeholder. The name
Cracker comes from the fact that for
two and a half centuries, corn bread, made
of cracked corn, was his chief food. But
the chief interest in the article to many
readers will be that part of it in which
the author shows that the Crackers had
for ancestors the English immigrants in
dentured as servants to the landed pro-
prietors under a limited slavery, who were
sent hither by the courts on the restoration
Of Charles II because they had been SOL
diers In the regiments of Roundheads dis
banded when the Cromwell regime came to
an end. In other words. the Cracker is
Of Puritan origin, and was sent to Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas under various pre-
texts to get rid of him. Later. the writer
shows, the negro was preferred as a slave
to the Cracker as a servant and the latter
was turned adrift in poverty, but not
without the spirit of the Anglo-Saxon
which caused him to detest labor as
competitor of the slave But, what is of
more interest to Indiana and other States
that received so many settlers from Vir-
unsubdued Cracker, the follower of Crom-
well in England and in the South, who
seize,i large part of this State, and
whose progeny still hold it. Abraham Lin
cestor coming in a roundabout way from
the Puritan of New England and the other
from Virginia through Kentucky, the
Cracker whose ancestor was the brother
of the New England Puritan fighting under
the banner of Cromwell and exiled when
Cromwellism gave way to Charles II.
Thus, if Mr. Taylor is correct, and history
sustains him, the poor white of the South
and the original New Englander had the
same ancestry in England. And it
comes about that the two streams of i'm
migration which settled Indiana, instead
of being from two races or two elements
of the same race, are from the same
fountain. The Yankee and the Cracker
have a common ancestry. and in this State
the two are mingled to make the Hoosier.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

beetle can draw twenty times its
weight. So can mustard plaster.-Texas
Siftings.
The Democratic party is shrinking like
new flannel shirt on a June clothesline.
Kansas City Journal.
1t is with distinct regret that learn
that Rosebery writes poetry.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The great want Of the Democracy in the
present emergency is a first-grade fog
whistle-Philadelphia Press.
1t is little strange that the cranks are
the most active when the machinery is
still.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Democratic party seems to be loaded
down to the guards with danger and
trouble-Dallas News Dem)
Were you a bull or a bear?" asked an
acquaintance Of a speculator. Neither"
he replied; Il was an ass."-Tit Bits.
If Coxey's army ever reaches Washing
ton it can be frozen to death by shaking
hands with Senators.-New Orleans Plea
yune.
reckless punster remarks that Mrs
Lease Governor Lewelling. Senator PETER
and ex-senator Ingalls, Kan-sas.-New York
World.
VIII Mr.. Reed kindly look the other way
while the Democrats of the House put his
business rules into operation ?-kansas City
| Journal.
a heavy snowstorm in Wyoming. Great
Scottl is the snow never to cease during
| the Cleveland administrations Philadelphia
| Inquirer.
Washington city spring poet killed him
| self on Sunday, and by so doing put temp
| tation out of the way of others.-New York
| Advertiser.
The Democratic party hasn't much of a
past, but the Democrat finds 1t pleasanter
| TO contemplate than the future.-Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
| The attention of Vice President Steven
| son is tearfully directed to the fact that
| his Illinois home has just elected a Re-
| publican Washington Post.
| The industriless industrial armies should
be treated to work and water. and then
| they will dispense like a picnic before a
| wasp parade. They are coddled too much.
| New York Sun.
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had not changed the road which Wallace
took would have been somewhat shorter
to our right than the river road" AT noon
General Wallace, without knowing of the
change of front at Shiloh. started by the
shorter road. At o'clock he was informed
by General Grants aids OF the change in
the front and directed to approach Pitts
burg Landing by another road. which he
did. reaching the position to which he was
ordered after dark, having marched eighteen
miles, as measured a few days since, from
noon until he reached the position TO which
he was ordered The Register. upon the
authority of private, says that If Wal
lace had gone on to strike the enemy upon
the road he started, he would have struck
the flank and rear of the enemy and in
flicted serious injury. That is what Gen.
Wallace had in view when he was ordered
to come to the right of the army by an
other route. This attack upon the soldierly
character of General Wallace ignores or is
ignorant Of the fact that to the gallant
resistance Of General Wallace with hand
full of men, holding back the overwhelm-
ing force of the enemy in July. 1854 whole
day, General Grant attributes. very largely
the failure of Early to capture Washing
ton.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The oldest veteran Of the civil war is
said TO be Rudolph Kelker, who was bern
Dec; l, 1893, and enlisted at Pittsburg Aug
l, 1861.
Drunkenness Is very rare in Rio jan
Giro, the cause being that the people drink
coffee to the almost entire exclusion OF
alcoholic beverages.
The Rev. H. Wellesley Wesley, who has
been appointed by Queen Victoria tutor
and governor to the Duke of Albany is a
lineal descendant Of Mrs. John Wesley.
A Mrs Harris, of Topeka, KAN has
erected a fine granite monument over the
head Of her husbands grave. Ii bears
this simple inscription, Died Of Delirium
Trenens.''
John Barclay, a truckman, worth $4,000.
died in New York on Monday. He was
known to all bankers as Honest John Bar
clay, and in the past thirty years had
carted over 81 100000 worth of gold and
silver to and from the ocean steamers
Abraham Lincoln's autograph. IL is said
has been stolen by autograph hunters from
every paper on file in the county courts Of
Illinois. The distractions have been made
IL IS said, by connivance of the custodians
of the papers in very many instances
Thomas Carlyle once told young college
graduate in the presence of Gen. j. G. VIII
son, better continue at the pillow all vour
days than deDend on the wrftingeOf his
tory for a living" He abandoned liter
allure and is now a successful preacher in
Scotland.
The Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, a son
OF DR.. Talmage. OF Brooklyn, preached his
farewell sermon last Sunday as pastor of
the Olivet Presbyterian Church, Phladel-
phia. He has accepted call TO the pastor
ate Of the Second Presbyterian Church OF
Pittsburg, Pa
Mr.. Munro Ferguson. according to a
Scotch newspaper. said that after prod
ding Mr.. Gladstone the subject, the
ex-Premier said MY dear sir, 1 might as
well undertake to replace the first man in
the Garden OF Eden TO carry home rule
for Scotland"
The Duke OF Edinburgh. now OF SAKE
Coburg. said recently: II have never felt
at home in England. There is no warmth
! OF character in the English race. and there
! Is vein OF disloyalty running through the
4 length and breadth OF the land I am
/ therefore. proud OF my direct descent from
! the House OF Hanover. My love and SYM
pathies are all with the fatheriand."
| Prince Bismarck's birthday presents were
spread cut In a reception room or the
| caste on Saturday. Among them were
Leubach's portraits OF the Prince. several
| cases Of the costliest Rhine wines half a
/ dozen ioaves OF kneipp bread. a table
cover In the German. coiors. q long pipe,
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vorce court to be erected in every munich
pality of the commonwealth. Alice Stone
Blackwell disposes OF this very foolish
argument by citing the fact that in wyo-
ming. which has had full woman suffrage
since 1869. the increase of divorce between
the years 1870 and 1880 was less than half
During the same period the rate or d.
vorce in the United States at large In
creased three times as fast as the popula-
ton In the group of Western States. ex-
GLIDING Wyoming, ii increased nearly four
times as fast as the population. The next
time this able Massachusetts, statesman
speaks against equal suffrage he will need
a weightier argument.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22
sOPHOMORIC MATRIMONY.

Sedate Yale students, with their sense of
humor imperfectly developed. announce the
incorporation under Connecticut laws Of an
international collegiate matrimonial bureau,
whose purpose is to further the domestic
happiness of high-minded and intellectual
young men, and to save them from en-
tanglements with the institution known as
the college widow" 1t is well known that
the girls who reside in college towns are
apt to lack something of that lofty men,
serious turn of mind fiatters himself is
his distinguishing characteristic. Perhaps
the girls are so accustomed 10 students
that they are unable to regard them with
that degree of awe and admiration which
the young men feel that their superior
talents should inspire. AT all events, the
young women do not attempt to meet
them on classic ground, and have little dis
position to discuss the profound topics of
life and philosophy, but treat the boys"
as they persist in calling them, just as If
men and celebrities. The girls are open,
even, to the charge of being frivolous and
unappreciative of great thoughts. 1t is
true that the college students, even the
these giddy maidens and seem to enjoy it,
but IL can readily be understood, now that
the Yale gentlemen have called attention
to the matter, that their soaring souls and
throbbing intellects cannot be wholly salts
fled in communion with women who can
not take the same lofty flights. Perhaps
it is this failure to secure complete SYM
pathy which leads these yearning young
men to finally leave the girls of the coll
lege town to their gradual evolution into
college widows and to seek their affinities
elsewhere. It has occurred TO the Yale
youths that there is need for them to
waste their society in unappreciative quar-
tiers so. long as girls exist in the world who
can share in some degree at least, their
forays into high planes of thought. What
they desire is to bring about personal con-
ferences" for calm and judicious discus
sion of the higher concerns OF life and thus
permit each masculine Mind TO meet and
recognize its complementary feminine Mind.
out of this will come matrimony of the
soIhomcric ideal sort, anu perpetual in
tellectual bliss. The Yale scheme is a great
one, and if not interfered with by an I'M
sympathetic faculty it's workings will be
looked upon with interest by persons fond
of social studies and with no objections to
an occasional veally flavor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22
CHEAPNEss IN JAPAN.

Mr. Carpenters second letter from Japan,
published in this issue, is instructive
we'll as very interesting 1t sets forth that
every product OF labor and skill. particu-
larly those produced in that country, cost
but from one-twentieth to one-half as much
as in this country. For those who enjoy
fixed income Japan is. because of low
prices, the most attractive place in which
or six hundred dollars a year would pro-
cure a grade of living I'm Japan which
would cost two or three thousand dollars
here. But on reading the letter it appears
that a country which would be paradise
for those having assured incomes would be
the opposite for those living by wages
earned. The excessive cheapness of the
products of labor is due to the still greater
cheapness OF human skill and human mus
Gle. To make the comforts and luxuries
cheap for those who have means, but too
dear for those whose labor produces them,
human effort and toll are cheaper than
those Of the beast of burden. SO cheap is
human energy that the horse and the mule
cannot compete, and men and women, scan
tily clad and poorly fed. are yoked to the
pillow. Drays are unknown, because men
are cheaper than mules. Steam sawmnls
are unknown. because human effort is SO
| cheap that it is cheaper to employ twenty
men a week TO saw logs into boards
which would be done by a steam -sawnlil
| in a couple OF hours. Men toll and wear
| themselves to hoist heavy materials in
Japan which here are raised by steam, be-
| cause labor is so dear that steam and ma
chinery are cheaper. Most of the work
that is done in this country by animals
steam and machinery. in the field and IL
the shop. is done by cheap labor In Japan
Women, bareheaded and barefooted, worl
twelve hours day breaking stone for TIL
public streets for 10 cents; but. cheap a.
are the articles OF food. that pittance vii
not go far In the purchase OF those prod
ucts. IL labor were dearer In Japan. |
would be less severe. II the wages OF mel
and women were fifty or seventy-ive cent
day the horse would draw the pillow. tn
dray would haul the building stone an,
the lumber would be sawed by water o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22

According to the Outlook some enter
prising person has been writing TO minis
tiers. offering. for the small consideration
OF one dollar, TO give each of them an in
fallible receipt for securing large attend
ance at church every Sunday. by the
adoption OF this plan," he says, small
churches will become popular and strong.
The collections will become much larger
and the ecclesiastical treasures, as a nat
ural result, are soon full TO overlooking.
No more empty pews. no more church
stagnation no more financial deficiencies.
are some OF the many happy results OF this
plan when put into execution. Its uni
versal adoption win speedily, I sure.
evangelize the world and more rapidly
usher in the glorious millennial morning"
II the Outlook is In possession OF this one
dollar secret IL does not disclose IL, and the
public is left 10 wonder II IL Is similar in
character 10 that offered to farmers at the
same price some years ago by a genius
who knew how TO kill potato bugs. His in
structions were 10 first catch the bug, place
IL carefully on fiat stone and then press
another stone heavily upon IT. Is the
preacher advised 10 knock down and drag
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2. 600 CAMERON cigars, made in Rih.,s,.
paintings poems and six chests Of tea
The Gongregationalist tells story o. i,
church which is much given 10 setti,.
apart Sundays as special days" -
Easter day little girl Of the church Wen,
I'D 10 the pastor and said, Mr. $. sra-,.
we going 10 have anything In our chures
next Sunday?' "Why. yes: the rerrla,
service" said the pastor. We'll buf i
mean something extra" What far :
why. it's April FOOLS day. you knows
said the child.
] sing Of spring. a thing
That this year seems a hoax:
For the breeze doth freeze the trees
And the crocus croaks.
PHILADELPHIA Record
The iong-cut overcoat has proved
To him the best OF boons,
Since underneath IL he can wear
His baggy pantaloons.
New York Herald.
BY the carpets that are dangling.
BY the tendency TO angling.
BY the real estate men Wrangling
And the epithets they fling.
BY the hints the peppers throw forth
BY the way the ragmen go forth.
By the measles. rash, etc,
We conjecture IL is spring.
-Yonkers Gazette
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The Philadelphia Press says: From
neighboring counties in this State and New
Jersey come reports from every quarter
that the demand for farm labor Is much
greater than the supply" The farmers OF
the Northwest are also complaining that
they can get no help. Thus we have the
singular spectacle Of thousands of men in
the cities accepting charity because they
cannot get work. while farmers are COM
planning that they cannot get help There
aeems to be some defect in the distribution
NJ labor as well as OF wealth.
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this country than elsewhere in the world.
the severest and most exhausting tell is
performed by machinery to a greater ex-
the price Of labor has advanced machinery
has been made to perform tie most ex-
hausting Of the toll. Wages are higher in
the countries where machinery is made
to do most, and lowest where human mus
cles bear all the burden.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22

The rumors of dissensons among the
hierarchy of the Catholic Church in this
country, which were current few months
ago, now seem to have had a real founda-
ton. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York,
has been called TO Rome, ii Is said, on what
is claimed to be authority, TO answer to
the charges made by the Pope's representa-
tive, Mgr. Satoll to the effect that the
Archbishop has been scheming to destroy
the authority of that infallibe's legate in
this country. 1t was through the influence
of Satoli that Father McGlynn was re-
stored to the priesthood after having been
deposed for a long time through the infiu-
ence of Archbishop Corrigan. This action
on the part of Satoll and his interference
in behalf of other priests who had been dis
ciplned by the Archbishop, deeply incensed
that prelate, and he has since been oppos-
ing Satolli. For time little heed was
given to the hostility of the Archbishop,
but finally the Popes representative has
filed charges and the Archbishop has been
summoned to answer TO these. For some
time there has been a feud between Arch
bishop Ireland, representing the progressive
element. and Archbishop Corrigan, leading
the reactionary faction, regarding the pub
lie school question The supporters Of the
New York archbishop have constantly as
sailed the experiment of Archbishop Ire
land in Minnesota to have the public school
officers take charge of the parochial schools,
retaining the Catholic teachers and per-
hitting religion to be taught before and
after school hours, and they have done
so even after the Pope had approved of
the ireland plan. II this report proves TO
be true, il seems that leaders of the CathO-
lie Church, if they do not disagree regard
ing creeds, are at odds regarding matters
of much greater Importance.
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Why don't you agitate the removal of
the national capital to Indianapolis-or
don't you want 1t? j. L. l..
We don't want it. The Republicans of
this city look forward with a great deal of
pleasure to carrying it for many years to
come, which they could not do under a
District of Columbia non-voting form of
government. There is too much fun in In
diana politics to be sacrificed for an empty
honor like that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22

Among hundreds of letters received by the
Philadelphia workingmen before they start
ed for Washington was one from Clifton
O., stating that the town contains but go
Inhabitants; that two-thirds of them had
voted for Cleveland. and that they will
never vote the Democratic ticket again
They inclosed n petition against the Wilson
btu signed by 80 OF their number and re-
Questing that, as they were too poor TO
make the trip. they want the Philadelphia
league to present the petition for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22

The cause of dress reform may be said TO
have crawled up a notch when Harpers
Bazaar. a fashion paper which ignores re-
forms as such, boldly presents on its front
page a representation OF a Paris bicycle
suit, consisting of a jacket reaching the
waist and a pair Of Turkish trousers reach
ing TO the knee, with no skirt whatever
When fashion begins TO smile on undis-
guised feminine trousers the supremacy Of
the skirt is In danger
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The Iowa Register goes out of its way.
in its criticism of Gen. Lew wallace's part
in the battle of Shiloh, to assail his SOL
dierly character. The Register is not well
informed on the subject, and makes up
In malicious and ridiculous assertion
what IL lacks in current information. On
the first day of the battle Of Shiloh Gen.
wallaces division was not ordered TO
$50 OF his memoirs, General Grant says:
Hearing the sounds Of battle. General
Wallace early ordered his first and third
brigades 1.-TWO and half miles distant
each way from the secon6 to concentrate
on the second. II the position Of our front
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A Gentle Hint.

Reporter-Weren't you with Coxey's
army awhile?
Weary Watkins-Sure.
Reporter-Then you ought to be able to
give me a few interesting facts about the
way the affair is run.
"See here, amt you a noospaper man?'
II am"
well. l want to tell you right now that
you can't pump me-"
why not?''
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There is practically no difference between
the mendicant. or tramp who begs from
house to house and the Coxey leader who
demands money and the best food and
shelter for able-bodied men who are on a
FOOLS errand to Washington. Both are
alike beggars. except that the house-to-
house variety is satisfied with a meal,
while the other demands basketsful.
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pieces, an / fell down on my knees an
thanked the good Lord that / was alive
Seems TO me-" said the grocer, as sne
turned down the kerosene lamp. tnat
that there wouldn't be a bad thing Ter you
TO do every night an day In the week
I'm mighty certain they can't nobody else
do IL fer you. truthfully, no matter now
much they air surprised at 1t oein the
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THE INDIANAPoLIs JOURNAL
SIXTEEN PAGES
Cali for RepubIIcan Editors.

The executive committee Of he Repub-
lican Editorial Association will meet in
one Of the parlors OF the Denison Hotel in
indianapolis, Tuesday afternoon. April "a,
ct 1 O'Clock, for the purpose Of making ar
engagements for the summer meeting Of the
association at Lake Maxinkuckee. full
attendance of the committee and officers
OF the association is urged.
G. Il. lands. President.
JAMES A. KEMP, Secretary.
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Willie Wilde is quoted as saying: ST like
to detect intelligence in men: l don't like
to find ii in women. Their mission in life
is TO be beautiful-thats ALL" 1t might be
impertinent TO inquire, but curious people
may at least wonder, whether Willie chose
Mrs. Frank Leslie as his wife for her
beauty or his present spouse for her lack
OF intelligence
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in sinners? Or. perchance and this seems
probable. is the inquiring minister urged
to adopt the coupon system-a coupon to be
issued to every ten-cent subscription to the
church and a certain number OF coupons
to serve as a sure card of admission to
millennial gloriesc
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II the rule is enforced to dock Congress
mems pay when absent except for sick
ness most of them will get sick about the
time they want to go home and set things
up for denomination.
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An Execution.

Labor Orator-The time has gone by
when the workingman can be kept down
and satisfied with wind.
Horny Handed Man in the Audience
See here, friend, that don't go in my case.
why not?'
"'Cause l am a diver by trade. seer"