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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

The recent decision of the Supreme
of the school fund calls public attention
anew to the legalized robbery which for
some years past has been going on in the
Attorney-generaPs office. The fact that
law does not make it any less scandalous
Whatever goes into the pockets of a public
official in the way of exorbitant and un-
earned fees comes out of the pockets of
the people, no matter what route it travels
An act of March 3. 1893. required all town.
ship trustees and treasurers of school
boards in incorporated towns and cities to
report to and return to the county treas
urer all unexpended balances of tuition
revenue previously received from the State
under the general distribution, in excess
of 500. Township trustees and school off,
GERS neglecting to refund said balances
were made guilty of misdemeanor What
ever the ostensible object of this law may
have been. its real object was to put
money in the pocket of the Attorney-gen-
eral 1t might have been rightly entitled
IAN act to set trap for township trustees
and school officers. to scalp the school
fund and plumber the people of Indiana,
and to enrich the Attorney-generaL" The
Supreme Court has recently held the act
constitutional, thus confirming the right
of the Attorney-general to have a dividend
out of the school fund. Under drag-net-
provision of law he claims and receives
II per cent. on all sums recovered and COL
lected for the State without reference to
the justice of the allowance or the trouble
or labor involved in the collection. The
fee, besides being wrong in principle, is
exorbitant. In the case of the school fund
it will give the Encouragement from $jO,-
900 to 10000 for services which would have
been well repaid by $780, and which really
ought to have been rendered by virtue of
his Office. The law having been held con-
stitutional by the Supreme Court. there
Will be little or no further trouble in MAX
ing the collections. yet the Attorney-gen-
eral will get his commission on every
dollar returned, and it will all come out of
the school fund. This is only a sample of
the kind of plundering that is carried on
in the Attorney-genera office under cover
of law. 1t is vicious system and should
be abolished
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

tors in operation and within reach of every
person. the horse will go rapidly out of
fashion, and eventually will be relegated
10 farms. 10 race tracks and TO out-of-t town
driveways. Heswill not only not be needed
on the streets when electric and other NO.
tors come into use, but he will speedily
be considered Objectionable. The dust prob
lem Will then be solved; streets can be kept
clean without difficulty and one great cause
of municipal unhappiness be eliminated.
The final effect on human beings OF uni
versal possession of vehicles TO carry them
about is a thing yet to be considered. Hy
gienists may preach the benefits of pedss-
trianism. but so self-indulgent is the normal
man that he who will walk when, by touch
ing button, he can ride will be rare
creature. He will ride at all times, he will
not walk, and his legs will hence be COM
paratively useless. 1t is long look into the
future to ask whether the coming man will
have legs; but certainly il modern improve
ments continue to multiply and to tempt
luxury-loving and weak humanity the legs
in question will be in danger of diminishing
according to natural laws governing unused
organs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Every makes his wife believe he
knows all about the silver question.-Atch-
iscn Globe.
The weather is undoubtedly seasonable.
but the seasoning is a little high.-Wash-
ington Star.
One may live as conqueror, king or
magistrate, but he must die as a man.
Daniel Webster.
Don't you honestly think that those demi-
trained coats are everlasting nuisances,
anyway ?-Chicago Record.
One gift we'll given is as good as a thou.
sand; a thousand gifts i'll given hardly
better than none.-Dean Stanley.
AS byword the ancient fly in the oint-
ment is at present partly paralleled by the
Speck in the sugar.-Philadelphi Times.
Senator Quay is a Republican, but 1t
must be admitted that he has some strong
Democratic traits.-kansas City Journal.
What the Governor of South Carolina
might say to the Governor Of any other
State would probably not bear repeating.
New York World.
Mother-Now, Johnnie, / don't want to
ever catch you in that jam closet again.
Johnnie (sobbing)-An' / don't want you TO,
nuther-Detroit Free Press.
Now, little one, what would you say if
/ r7ere to give you these. Would you say
these is good oranges or these are good
oranges" How kin tell till / suck 'em. -
Life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Sarah Bernhardt never owned a pair of
corsets yet she is considered one of the
most graceful women in the world.
For the first time in the history of Cor
nell University the Stewart L. Woodford
prize in oratory has been won by wom-
The fortunate winner is Miss Har~
riet c. Connor, of Burlington, Ia.
A sister of Julia Marlowe Is one Of the
most talented members OF the opera COM
pany now performing at the fremont The
alter. Boston. Her stage name is Marie
Broughton. She is striking double of
her famous sister in beauty and in little
peculiarities Of speech and movement.
Rev. Samuel Plantz ID. D., pastor OF
the Tabernacle NJ. E. Church. OF Detroit,
was chosen president of Lawrence Uni
versity at Appleton. Wis. at a meeting
of the hoard OF trustees held on Wednes-
day In 1885 Dr. PlantZ was married TO
Miss Myra Goodwin. daughter of Rev. T..
A. Goodwin. of Indianapolis.
Alfred Kappes, the well-known artist.
has just died at hospital at Yonkers, n.
Y. from spinal meningitis. Mr.. Kappes.
who was forty-four years old. was an ar
tist of considerable ability. He had sew
eraI pictures in the worlds fair at Chi
cago last year, among them one called
Kent Day." which is his best known
work
It will surprise many 10 learn that since
the death of Henry Ward Beecher the
clergyman who breaches to the largest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

The problem of sanitation and clean
streets WILL perhaps, be helped to a solu-
ton some day by withdrawing the horse
from general circulation. Already this once
Indispensable public and domestic servant
has been superseded in many quarters. The
steam railway was the first TO relieve him
from long journeys; electricity next came
in TO take his place in operating street
cars: the bicycle has made him superfiu-
Gus in many families and now some genius
has devised an oil motor TO be attached 10
bicycles and to four-wheeled vehicles. which
will still further limit the equine field
People who. for various reasons. look with
dstrust on the bicycle have been waiting
hopefully for. the invention OF an electric
motor to operate carriages. Undoubtedly
this will come in time. but meanwhile
motor whose power is produced by oil may
serve as substitute. One gallon of oil.
SAYS the inventor. will drive single seat
motor two hundred miles. With such mo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

congregation in this country is Rev. Rus
sell H Conwell: Baptist OF Philadelphia:
Sunday, and he has established college
where 120 students are taking a regus )
course and $500 others are attending
Glasses In various subjects.
The English sparrow domesticated here
finds defender in Mr.. l. NJ. Pray. before
the American Naturalists' Society. who
says that it is not the evil-minded, ltigious,
greedy or pugnacious bird which IL has
been asserted to be, but a useful dilfgent
twice its weight in cuckoos or chickadees,
and of inestimable service in consuming
noxiouS varieties of tree-deStroying worms
and insects which other birds won't touch.
The Photographic Society of Geneva is
investigating the strong facial resemblance
which married couples who have lived har-
moniously for number of years so fire.
quently acquire In twenty-four cases out
of seventy-eght the pictures taken showed
a greater resemblance between husband
brother and sister. In thirty-four cases
the resemblance was about equal, while in
the remaining twenty-four there was no
likeness at ALL
Paris papers seem more eagerly and
largely read than ever, despite the hard
times. OF the penny papers lie Petit Jour-
nal has a daily circulation of 100000 to s00.
900 copies, and on Sundays and special &C.
casions of over 100000. lie Petit Parisien
has circulation of 100000, and L,Intransi-
geant tthe extreme journal edited by
Rochefort from his London exie) 10000.
Next in popularity comes the Soleil and the
Autorite. The issues of Figaro, lie Temps,
lie Matin and the Journal des Debats cost
more money.
'It is pity says an English writer.
that the Americans are not allowed to
buy Standardization and transport ii TO
the States. They would at least treat it
with the respect it deserves, which is more
than we do A short time ago the carved
oak doors which were placed at the north
end OF the church century before Shak-
moved; whereupon utilitarian church
warden sold them as lumber. The pur-
chaser intends to build pigsty with them.
Those of the inhabitants who have heard
of Shakespeare are indignant.
The following volumes, constituting the
Chautauqua course of reading for the
autumn and winter of 1S9i-95 are announced:
1.-The Growth of the English Nation" by
Profs. Katherine Conan and Elizabeth
Kendall, of Wellesley College; Europe in
the Nineteenth Century" by Prof. II. p.
Renaissance and Modern Art" by Prof.
William Goodyear, of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute; From Chaucer to Tennyson," by
Prof. Henry A. Beers, of Yale University:
Walks and Talks in the Geological
Field" by the late Prof Alexander Win
chell of the University of Michigan.
1t is fine to see the sunbeams overtop the
eastern hill;
bardn most aaIf EVER alw Sgng W 0i sunrise ana
But he who loves that morning nap will
certainly agree
That the jollest kind of sunrise is the kind
you do not see.
UToc III yart ton, to-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
POLITICS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Politics in South Carolina are at the boil
ing point. The Charleston News and Cou-
rier of Friday contains report of a poit-
ical meeting at Lancaster. the day before.
which reads very much like a report Of the
proceedings of a Donnybrook fair. The
on the hippodrome plan. The meetings are
held out Of doors, and the candidates. rep
resenting the Democratic and Populist par
ties, attend in a body and speak by turns
AS there are three candidates for Governor.
two or more for each State Office and two
for United States Senator. it will be seen
that the hippodrome is really a mammoth
organization. a regular double tent show.
as it were. The meetings. in spite of hot
weather and hotter words. are attended by
some women. At the Lancaster meeting
nounced that as he had not money enough
he would for the present drop out of the
campaign. He did this with the less regret
because his views were known and he
wanted it understood that he would be in
the race Ito the bitter end 1t is not
quite clear how he could be out of the race
and in 1t. too. but perhaps that is the South
Carolina way After the candidates for
Governor and State officers had spoken the
candidates for Senator were trotted out.
This seems TO be the big feature Of the
show. the great two-horse act. 1t were.
first. devoting himself principally TO State
affairs and Governor Tillman's record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

by majority of 100000 ON the issue Of the
Mckinley law. and now Colonel Conger
announces to the country that 1t will not
do to nominate Governor Mckinley for
President because the Republican party
is coming to believe that lower. or, as ne
puts IT, a philosophical tariff. must be
substituted for McKinleyism. Now, what is
the matter with Col. A L. Conger? Has
Governor Mckinley angered him by not
appointing some favorite TO a $500 office, or
rumor that Col. A. L. Conger has got it
into his head that his name would enthuse
the country as second on the ticket of
1896? 1t is more probable that it is the
former, as no man who is useful as a
business has ever been able to get
himself absurdly and viciously noisy
over small office as the Colonel Conger
who is filling so much space in the Anglo
maniac newspapers The Journal warns
Coloner Conger 10 drop the philosophical
tariff and return 10 Akron People who
of the excellent Akronlte are beginning
to laugh; they will roar with merriment
when they take in this last performance.
That the life of the President of the
French Republic has been taken by an as
sassin is evil news in more senses than one.
1t is too early yet. and too little is known
of the antecedents of the assassin to say
whether he acted from purely personal mo-
tives or whether his deed was inspired by
some revolutionary or anarchistic organiza-
ton of which he may be member. The
probability is that the latter surmise is the
correct one. and that the murder of Presi-
dent Carnot was decreed in revenge for the
recent sentences inflicted upon French An
archists. This being the case, no head of
government. republic or otherwise who
does his duty and enforces the laws is safe
from the fanatics who propose to reform
history of the United States has the head
Of the Nation been slain by the assassin,
and the American people will extend to
their French brethren the fullest sympathy
If it shall be shown that the killing of
President Carnot was either out of revenge
for the execution of Anarchists taken in
the act of murder. or was decreed by
society Of revolutionary tendencies, the
cause of law and liberty throughout the
world will have received a blow that will
good order and freedom are valued as price
less possessions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

The Hon. p. S. Kennedy. in a commune
cation printed elsewhere in this paper ar
CUES in favor of the adoption by the United
States OF aggressive policy in favor of
bimetallism. The main feature of that pol
ley, he thinks. should be an agreement
among all nations that favor bimetallism
TO unite in policy OF commercial dis
elimination in favor of one another and
against monometallic nations. To those
who say that we ought not to try TO coerce
other nations into adopting bimetallism.
Mr.. Kennedy makes the apt reply that as
England and Germany are trying to coerce
US into adopting monometallism ii is per-
fectly legitimate for us to meet them with
their own weapons. In short, Mr. Kennedy
has the courage of his convictions. Be
lieving that bmetallism is right and that
a large majority of the American people
desire IL. he would have Congress adopt
positive and aggressive measures to bring
IL about on an international basis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
Against Lynch Inv.

The General Synod of the Reformed
Church i'm America on June IL. 1894. during
the annual session at Asbury. n j.,
adopted the following action In reference
to lynch law:
"Resolved. That the General Synod de.
plores and deprecates the prevalence or
lynch law in many parts Of our country,
and requests our several classes and
churches to unite with the moral and re-
ligious press of our country 70 create a
to implore legislatures and our courts OF
Justice to so reform our laws and modes
of criminal procedure that Justice shall
for these summary and lawless proceed
inRs may be removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

lican convention courageously took the lead
in demanding discriminating duties on for
eign products from those countries which
refuse TO agree 10 an international stand
ard Of gold and silver. The Ohio conven-
tfcn followed with a resolution quite as
strong and explicit as the Indiana resolu-
ton. The Republican delegation in the
United States Senate voted solidiy
against laying Mr.. Lodges amendment to
the tariff bill the table and doubtless
would have voted for the amendment had
not the motion TO lay on the table pre-
vailed Such are the evidences OF rapidly
growing sentiment not only in favor OF in
ternational bimetallism. but the speedy
adoption OF such measures as will bring
about international binetallism i want to
see on all our banners in this campaign
the MOTTO Protection, and equal protec-
ton. 10 all our industries. North SOUTH
East and West; an international standard
OF value, composed OF gold and silver, for
all nations willing TO Cooperate with us
in securing il, with discriminating duties
against those nations which are not" Let
this motto be our platform and the text for
every campaign speech and we shall gain
a victory in November unparalleled in the
history OF the country.
II. s. KENNEDY.
Charlottesville, Ind, June %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
THE PRODUCTION OF GOLD.
Discrepancy Between the Mint Report
and Ffgurers of Statisticians.

The Outlook
Director of the Mint Preston has issued
most remarkable report respecting the
graphed all over the country give the i'm
preston that the gold available for none
tary purposes fully equals. If II does not
able yearly before silver ceased 10 be
universal money metal. In reply to this
to refer to the silver formerly available
for the currency. The following are Scot
beers figures for the annual production
of gold:
1910 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000. 900
1S71-9O.. n3.WO'VO
The production of gold since 1890 has. in
deed, increased. and the Director or the
MINIS estimate of 155,520.0o0 for the produc-
this figure is no greater than that for the
year 1883. despite the enormous expansion
of commerce during the intervening forty
years. IT is not, however, TO the compare
tive falling off in the production of gold
that bimetallists have directed especial at
tention. 1t is the falling on in the supply
available for money uses Here, again, we
give the figures of the monometallist Scot
Annual Non-mon- Used for
production etary con- money and
Period of gold. sumption reserves.
1S51-7O.. sl36.0O0,000 s440o0,000 100000
1Ssl-S5 100000 100000 24.0OO.0oo
The annual supply for currency is less
than a third what IL was a generation ago:
because the nonmcnetary consumption or
gold Qts use for jewelry, gliding, dentistry,
Oriental boarding, etc) mas increased by
leaps and bounds. while its production mas
1882 said 1.-The demand for gold for nom
monetary purposes appears almost equal
TO the entire annual production. such De-
ing the admissions OF the greatest Mono
metallist statisticians, II IS little trying
TO have the Director of the United states
Mint report that gold enough Is proSuce1
now to do the work formerly done by
both metals
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

Such men as Allen and Kyle in the Sem
ate make PETER respectable, and such
Bourbons as Harris and Vest would make
the wretched Governor Tillman half re-
Inundated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

Now that the free-trade press has made
Col. A. L. Conger, of Akron. o., leading
feature there is danger that that sometimes
useful and always vain and noisy little man
will lose his head and attempt TO be a sec
ond Carnegie. Evidently the Cleveland or
gans do not understand the position Col
Conger has occupied in the Republican par
ty. He Is not an oracle. He is not
party leader, scarcely a party file-closer.
In the past. during campaigns he went
up and down the country to be interviewed.
The words a L. Conger." in black type.
initiate his whole being. He shouts them
into his own ears. The best measure of the
man is the fact that for four years he
spent all of his spare time denouncing
President Harrison because he did not
make his man postmaster at Akron At
Minneapolis. after the Mckinley law had
been two years in force. ne demanded the
nomination OF Governor Mckinley for
President because he was the special ex-
ponent of the law which had done 50
much for the country. Two years have
passed away: the industries OF the coun-
try are paralyzed because the Mckinley
law is 10 be repealed. Ohio has been swept
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
A Coming Success.

Dadby-My boy is just beginning to read
the papers 1t is wonderful, too, how he
remembers everything he reads.
Cadby-He does, Ell? 1 should not be
surprised, Daddy. to see him develop into
one of the brightest and most original
after-dinner speakers of his time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

The Presidents organ-in-chief. the New
York Times. warns him that he is con-
fronted with a solemn duty. Solemnity of
the ponderous variety becomes Mr.. Cleve-
land; but he will sign the trust tariff bill
An spite OF all sorts of warnings
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

Commissioner Lochren boasts that the
appropriation for pensions will not be ex-
but while this boast is being made the
tariff reform administration is pushing
bill through Congress to give the Sugar
Trust $4O.OO0O0O.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

There is much in the claim that because
the property owners on such streets as
Delaware. Pennsylvania, Broadway and
these streets to the great advantage of the
whole city. those living on equally impor-
tant streets between them should not be
permitted to prevent similar improvements
at their expense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

Men everywhere want all the money they
can earn. these times. consequently Mr..
Debs had better not run the risk of disturb
ing all the railroads in the country by
throwing the Pullman cars out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

plantation manners" sneers the Demo-
cratic Senator Hill, OF New York. Tam
many tactics" retorts the Democratic Sem
ator and ex-Confederate Harris, of Ten
nessee. Both said the worst they could
say, and both told the truth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

In response to an editorial paragraph of
the Journal opposing an appropriation of
500. 600 for Southern exposition, the At
lanta Constitution says:
The 100000 appropriation asked for is a
mere tride. What Is really wanted Is the
authoritative sanction of the government
in a shape that will favorably impress the
SpaniSh-American countries and induce
them to take an active part in a move
ment which is intended 10 extend our
trade among them. This is the reason why
a government appropriation Is asked for
If that is all that Atlanta wants Con-
gress can pass a resolution declaring that
it sanctions the exposition. But having an
nuled, by the Senate tariff bill, all the
treaties with the Spanish American coun-
tries which would give us the advantage
in their markets their products in ours,
IL is now useless TO make one-horse exhib-
its. in which no great manufacturing State
Will take any considerable part, to Eek
tend our trade among them" This sort
of pretext is too gauzy to deceive small
children.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25

Even Tammany, in it's degradation. re-
CARDS it as greater humiliation than it can
bear in silence to have it go out that it
has invited Breckenridge to speak on July
4. but explains that it invited him with
many other Congressmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
Evolution.

''At your age. SIR said the indignant
parent, Il was glad to get cornbread and
bacon for my breakfast"
II don't doubt it. SIR" returned the duti-
full son. Nor do doubt that some of my
still more remote ancestors were glad to
eat eocoanuts and raw grasshoppers.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25
Studying to Please.

'Must l run these two scandals under
one head?" asked the foreman.
mo, indeed" replied the thoughtful ed
itor. Run one on the sporting page and
the other on the woman's page. Then the
two heads of the family can divide the
paper and keep peace between them"