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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DIR. William Howard Russell, the English
war correspondent. recently celebrated his
seventy-fourth birthday.
Prince Bismarck has very loud, harsh
voice, and generally speaks in a dogmatic.
dictatorial way that, admits of no contra
diction
The Turkish postal authorities seize and
destroy photographs OF Mr.. Gladstone and
Professor Bryce since the Armenian troubles
began on the ground that they are seditious
literature.
The Emperor of Germany is now trying
to win laurels with the brush. He sent
one of his paintngs-a marine view-to the
Berlin Academy of Arts the other day for
public exhibition.
The city of Richmond is about to erect
a monument to Lieut.. Gen. j. L. b. Stuart,
the cavalry commander of the Army of
Northern Virginia, who. was killed in battle
at Yellow Tavern in 1854
1t Is regarded as somewhat surprising that
Queen Victoria should have visited such few
places on the continent She has never
been in Russia. Denmark Austria Sweden.
and Norway, Spain, Switzerland, nor
her colonies. and the United stares have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

IN reserve and to get control Of all that
Is offered. Holding the bulk OF the bill
In the country when 1t started the rise
OF prices. 1t could afford to pay the
highest price and even to force prices up
for the small quantity Of oil that is held
by producers. The Standard needed that
small quantity to enable 1t to have the
market cornered. This done, the prices
of refined oil have been advanced. When
the speculative movement was started
by the advance of prices by the Stand
ard to secure all the little lots outside,
it held approximately twenty-five mill
lion barrels. An. average advance of
prices only cents gallon means
$3.50 barrel. and on twenty-five mill
lion barrels it means an advance of $685.
100000. If S12.5O0.000 is deducted for ex-
penses and contingencies, the Standard
has made $50. 100000 by its corner on re-
fined oil or kerosene. There are other
bi-products, like naphtha and gasoline.
which will add to the profits, SO that
men who are familiar with the matter
declare that the ultimate profits of the
Standard will not be less than SIS, oOO.0 0o
All of this money will come out of the
pockets of the consumers. and it will
come out of their pockets because of a
conspiracy on the part of a few men to
put up an article of necessity. The pro-
cess reminds one very much of those
other conspirators who travel dark ways
in pairs, and, while one holds pistol
at the head of the unfortunate traveller,
the other goes through his pockets.
That proceeding, however, is called high
way robbery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
1MposING ON SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Three or four years ago, when a spe-
cial school enumeration was wanted here
for some purpose, the teachers of the
public schools were ordered to make it,
a house-to-house canvass of the city be-
ing. of course. NECESSARY to the compile
ton of the task. AT another time the
teachers were ordered to appear in a
street parade at the head of their
schools. For years it has been the Gus
tom to withhold 20 per cent. of their
salaries until the end of the year in or
der that the custodian of the funds may
have the use of It, This outrage Is not
practiced upon any other class of pub
lie employees, and if any teacher had
the courage to put 1t to legal test her
right to her full salary at each monthly
pay day would doubtless be sustained.
To the outside observer it looks very
much as If the spelling test" described
elsewhere in this issue is another Of the
petty impositions to which public school
teachers are so frequently subjected by
those in authority. DR.. J. M. Rice, an
estimable gentleman, who writes mag
azine articles, presumably at good,
round price per article, wants, 1t APP
pears, to prepare paper on the study
of spelling. In order to do this "scien-
tifcally" he needs a variety Of data from
a large number of schools, and these
data the teachers in twenty-five cities,
including Indianapolis, are asked to pro-
vide for him. A year or so ago DIR. Rice.
visited the Indianapolis schools on an
unofficial tour of inspection and found
them good. 1t is but reasonable to as
sumo that his appreciation of the meth
DDS in vogue here led him to include
this city in the list of those whose sta
tistics would be useful in the prosecu-
ton of his studies, and 1t is proper that
he be allowed fair opportunity to en-
gage in the necessary researches, but
by what fairness are the teachers re-
quired to perform this labor for him?
The circular letter addressed to them
airily remarks that the task will not
require more than five or six hours of
their time; but by what right is stran-
ger. even though he be scientific in
vestigator. permitted to come in and de-
mand five or six hours of gratuitous
service from them? The blame for this
does not lie upon DR.. Rice, but upon
the School Board, or the superintendent,
or the principals, who permit themselves
to be misled by the specious plea Of
science into placing an unnecessary
burden upon already overtasked teach
ers. 1t may SAVIOR or gail" in the writer
OF magazine articles to ask the authori-
ties to do this. but when they make
haste to do it even the teachers cannot
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not been honored by a visit from the grand.
daughter Of their former sovereign.
George Latimer. the negro whose rescue
from slavery in 1872 stirred the North 70
his wife in Lynn, Mass. in an almost des-
titute condition, having recently suffered a
stroke of apolexy. The people OF Boston ara
raising fund for him.
s The Chinese Emperor. who Is still little
more than a boy has been continuing his
French lessons. in spite of the state Of mind
into which he has been thrown by the ad-
vance OF the victorious Japanese. Accord
ing to his professors, his Majesty has al
ready acquired a thorough mastery over the
Great embarra ssment was recently caused
in the royal courts OF London by an
Arabian witness who insisted on being
sworn on the Koran He was tried on a
Hebrew edition of the Pentateuch. but re-
fused to accept that, and as the court did
not happen TO have copy OF the Koran
handy the witness was excused
One day Professor Blackie was praisiug
Socrates, and assuring Mr.. Gladstone that
he had never half appreciated the Athenian
sage ..well, do you know said Mr.. Glad
stone. s'it has always seemed to me that
Socrates must have been a thorough domes-
tic bore, and. for my part, l always felt
strong sympathy with Xantippe."
The Economy Society, the famous organ
ization of celibates has come to the front
during the furry and has leased a great
deal of it's farm territory to oil prospectors
at handsome bonuses. Senior Trustee John
S. Duss says he has not been able to walk
a square in Ioittsburg for a week past with
out being accosted by somebody who wants
lease.
Cornell has tested the principle of coedu-
cation twenty years, and proved it a sue
cess 1t is stated that the number of young
women attending the university has in
creased, so that the accommodations in
Sage Hall, the womas's dormitory, have
become insufficient. The. trustees have de-
pense of about s5O.0c0. and the work will
be begun early in the spring in order to
have it completed by Sept. l.
Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison square,
When she found out that she'd only nothing
to wear,
Said: They may think that am left. but
1 amt"
and sent out her small brother for a can of
Cincinnati Tribune.
In spring we have the liar who sees the
In summer there's the fellow with the
mammoth ashland thirst;
In fall the election liar need never feel
But the weather prophet liar has all
seasons for his own.
-Yonkers Statesman.
There's soft mellifuous murmur
In the circumambient air;
There's a lazy. languorous feeling
That is spreading everywhere
There's a rustling of the robin
In the bushes and the hedge;
And the water fowl are piping
In the pond beyond the sedge.
The sunshines growing warmer
And the flies are getting tame;
While an all round combination
Seems to tell us spring have came
Detroit Free Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
THE PROPOSED ALLIANCE OF JAPAN
AND CHINA.

TIE declaration in the treaty of peace
which has been agreed upon by the rep
resentatives of Japan and China which
attracts the most attention in Europe is
that which makes arrangements for~an
offensive and defensive alliance between
the two governments. There seems no
good reason why the powers of Europe
should object, much less interfere with
such an arrangement. There can be no
good reason presented why two govern
ments with like peoples and interests
in Asia should not agree to stand by
each other if governments in Europe do
the same thing. On the contrary it is
natural and right that the two great
nations in the East should work, in har-
mony. The infusion of the modern
spirit of Japan into the antiquity Of
China will be likely to revolutionize the
latter. Japan has been struggling
toward Western civilization during a
third of a century. causing its few mil
lions Of people, compared with the pop
ulation of China, to be of more impor-
tance to the rest of the world than the
latter. The progressive spirit of Japan
infused into China will make both peo-
pies vastly more important to the COM
mercial world than the ambitions of any
European government. For years Great
Britain has held both these governments
to. "a treaty extorted at the lannon's
mouth, by which they could not impose
duty of over per cent. upon British
goods. That power has compelled at
least one of these governments to open
it's ports to an opium trade which it
protested against The civilized world
has reached stage of development
where the practical suppression of the
inherent rights of nations like Japan
and China will not be tolerated. Much
of this interference is no better than the
holding the nations which are thus
imposed upon in species of extended
spbjugation little better than slavery.
There are indications that the Euro
pean powers. strange as it may seem,
would like to interfere with this Of
fensive and defensive policy of Japan
and China. All of them have interests
in the East. Russia and France have
possessions in that quarter Of the globe
but any move on their part to interfere
with the concert of action proposed by
Japan and China would arouse Ger
many. More than any other power
Great Britain will regret her inability
to prevent the proposed alliance. but
she has interests opposed to those of
France and Germany in Africa, while
her interests in the East have long been
hostile to those of Russia, so that this
historic meddler with the affairs of
smaller nationalities cannot interfere to
prevent the cooperation of Japan and
China. All this is most fortunate for
the world at large and for the develop
ment of modern civilization in these ORR
. entail nations.
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blame him II he smile behind his hand
at the easy working Of his inexpensive
plan to secure material for his literary
work
There is no question but that Indian
spolis teachers are progressive, loyal and
ready to do anything in their power to
further the interests of the schools; but
the existence of this willing spirit af-
fords the greater reason why they
should not be imposed on. In this case
the benefit to be derived by the schools
is of the remotest sort. The service
asked is in one sense small matter.
but with every hour of a teachers time
taken in the performance of her regular
duties every extra task bears with un-
usual heaviness. especially ewhen the
thought is added that it may be repeat
ed at any time. For what assurance is
there that next term DR.. Rice or some
other scientific writer or lecturer will
not come along with a request, support
ed by an order from a superintendent,
to prepare data from which deductions
can be drawn as to the study of arith-
metic, or grammar, or geography, or
what not?
The Indianapolis schools have a high
reputation in outside communities, but
they have also the reputation of having
the hardest worked teachers of any
Western city. circumstance which it
would be well for superintendent and
supervisors to remember before laying
the smallest additional burden upon
fbay,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
.estmlnster Gazette.

The letter of Mrs. r. L. Stevenson which
appears In rather out-of-the-way corner
OF the Times to-day. will be of interest TO
many. MIS- stevenson cOntradlctS the
statement, made generally at the time
OF his death. that her husband was latter
was waning.'
He was" she says. .'haunted by no such
fear, no such thought From the first
stroke of his pen to. the last he worked as
an artist for his arts. sake. and the popu-
iarity that came to him unSought was
cause. of surprise as we'll as pleasure
think may say that he considered IN.
last book tonly fragment. alasl ms bes<
work"
This Is good news. 1t matters little now.
viii be glad TO learn that, so far as his own
IDEAS Of his reputation and work were con-
cefncu. his sun set--as the uminary Of the
day 50 often sets IN South pacst< seas
without single cloud in the 81
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The average impressionist is not as bad
as the pictures he's painted.-Puck
A small advertisement ought to be an
inspiring example of forceful, graceful En-
glish.-Printer's Ink.
All the silver leaders are beginning to
talk at once, probably because silence is
golden.-Washington Post
The plutocrat who can't dodge the tax
collector now must be indeed heavy on
his feet.-Detroit Tribune.
''I've had fully, dozen offers of mar
riage lately" mercy me. Good ones?"
Eyes. All from George. Life.
Beef is luxury that can now be af-
forded only by the owner of an oil well.
-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
In the diplomatic lexicon of Spain, APP
parently, there is no such word as apollo
gize-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
Japanning as a bright process takes on
new meaning from the way China has
been polished off.-Philadelphia Times.
An aggravating feature of the high price
of beef is that tough steak turns up
just as, frequently as before.-kansas City
Journal.
be heard direct by means of the micro
phone. But not with it's own ears.-Boston
Transcript
The work of reorganizing the Democratic
party should at least be prosecuted far
enough to stop hospital expenses.-Kansas
City Journal.
''Will you love me when. / am gomez
asked Mr.. Linger of his sweetheart. IF
you'll go soon,' replied the faithful girl
with a yawn.-Life.
If the sun had nothing else to do but
to shine on the righteous 1t would be hardly
worth while for him to rise as early as he
does.-Texas Siftings.
No woman has right to go to church
four times in one day, and thus make her
husband so mad that he will swear, and go
to hell.-Atchison Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
Chinese yarns.
Blackwoors MAGAZINE.

Blackwood's Magazine
The priest told stories OF tigers. and
of birds that turned to snakes and bit their
owners, and OF men whom devils seized
and thrust living into graves He also gave
an account of the capture of Picking in
1850 by a cuckoo clock, which. far as
1 remember, has escaped the attention OF
historians. "t And so the foreign
men, he said, emphasizing the last word
TO draw my attention to the compliment
implied, the foreign men, they made a
clock. Who shall say how big? And on
the top there was an iron bird that tapped
its wings and cried 'Kikaw, kikaw. A man
told me this. And inside there were wheels
and machinery and fire powder. So they
gave It to the. Emperor. The Emperor.
who shall say how pleased he was?-toolS
Il, and put 1t safe in his palace. Put It in
his palace; then not many days and II
burst to pieces. pow! and men were killed
past counting, and in rushed the foreign
soldiers. and plundered and killed and
burned.
But how did the foreign soldiers get
there?' / asked
The foreign soldiers had gone up river
one by one, feigning to do traffic in mer-
10 waw.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

1t is said that the April report of the
Agricultural Department, to be issued
in few days. will show that during the
ten-year period ending June 80, 1894,
there were imported into this country
rs. 495,415 bushels of potatoes, with an
aggregate value of $13,155,4 31, or an av-
erage of 44.6 cents per bushel. The net
excess of imports over exports for the
same period was 24.347, 405 bushels, with
a value of $9.296.345. During the year
1855 this country raised the largest crop
but one during the period above men,
toned, the crop being 202. 365,000 bushels
During the same year we imported H.
$50 600 bushels of potatoes. Here is
something for American farmers to
think about. The fact that for ten years
past we have imported an average Of
considerably more than $1.0O0,000 worth
of potatoes a year is calculated to re-
fleet on their intelligence or enterprise.
There may be good reason why we
should impor. early potatoes from Ber-
muda or the West Indies. though the
Southern States might supply even
these. but certainly the later and main
supply should be entirely Of home pro-
auction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

At the naval representation of the
world at Kiel, June 10, in honor of OPEN
ing the Baltic canal, the United States
will be represented by the cruisers New
York, Columbia, San Francisco and Mar
blehead. The New York is the most eff
cient armored cruiser in any navy in the
world, with her speed of twenty knots
an hour and eighteen guns. In their
classes the other ships which will rep
resent the government are the best ex-
amples Of navale architecture in the
world. And yet, not over twenty years
ago, New York papers advised that the
United States purchase it's war ships in
Europe. on the ground that any built in
this country would be inferior.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

Rascally tricks in trade are not confined
to any nationality. At an auction sale in
New York few days ago of sixteen thou
sand boxes of lemons recently imported
from Sicily 240 boxes. instead of containing
lemons were found to be filed with old
paper, ETC.. topped off with layers of
spheroidal stones of the shape and size Of
lemons, neatly wrapped in regulation fruit
wrapping paper. Under the order, which was
sent by reputable dealer in New York.
the swindlng shipper in Palermo had got
an advance from the importers bankers in
that city of 81 on each box of the stones
which were run in with the balance of the
shipment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21
EDUCATION OF THE coLoRED RACE.

The annual report of the Commission
er of Education contains some interest
ing statistics concerning the education
of the colored people in the South. They
show that in the sixteen Southern or
formerly slave States there were en-
rolled in public schools 3,55S,909 white
children and 1,S52,S16 colored. AS coll
ored children are estimated at one-third
of the entire number of children of
school age in these States it will be
seen that they furnish their full quota
of enrolment. In Mississippi and South
Carolina the number of colored children
in public schools exceeds the number of
white children, the proportions being
1884 to 1926 in the former State and
. 1929 to 80, 4S0 in the latter. These sta
tistics, 1T must be remembered, relate
only to the Southern States where there
are separate colored schools. The num-
Der of colored children in the public
schools of the Northern States is very
large. Passing to higher education. the
report shows SO normal schools, with 324
teachers and S,042 pupils; 72 academies,
with 800 teachers and 1921 pupils; 25
universities and colleges. with 1863 teach
ers and S.116 students; % schools of the
ology, with IS teachers and SIT students;
5 schools of law, with 16 teachers and
119 students; schools of medicine, with
81 teachers and 457 pupils. and Is schools
for deaf, dumb and blind, with IA teach
ers and 5S1 pupils, all devoted exclu-
+sively to the education of children and
young men and women of the colored
race. This is certainly remarkable
showing for a race whose emancipation
from slavery dates back only about
twenty-five years. and which has been
Handicapped and hampered in every pos
sible way.
The Commissioner of Education does
not believe in the theory of the essential
inferiority of the negro race or the con-
sequent conclusion that they cannot
take on the higher education. Facts
show that some OF the race can and do
take on the higher education and make
5 good use of it.. while the controversy
is going on as to whether the negro is
capable of receiving the higher educa-
ton" says the Commissioner. land
while many reasons are being advanced
why he is not. the colored man himself
Is saying nothing about 1t. but Ii going
forward learning an he can and endeav-
oring to increase the number Of object
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

The Bureau of Agriculture presents
some interesting statistics regarding the
price of wheat in this country for a
series of years. During the Ave years
ending with 1887. the average price was
"a cents. During the next five years,
ending with 1892. the average price was
7Sh cents. The average for 1890 and
1891 was nearly "a cents. which was
higher than any single year since 1883.
The price weakened in 1892, after the
big crop OF 1891. and it has DECLINED since
the change of administration because of
the business depression.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

Miss Oropp, the young violinist who
made her first appearance before a home
audience at the Press Club entertainment
last Tuesday, is of another order of being
from the ordinary musical prodigy. Many
children show remarkable talent in this
line and are greatly overpraised in con-
sequence, but the testimony of we'll
qualified and unprejudiced judges goes to
show that this girl of fifteen has enough
of the divine inspiration which goes to
make the great musician to justify their
prediction that she will make one of the
exceptional artists of her time. She is,
at all events SO highly gifted that her
career will be watched with interest by all
who have had the pleasure of listening
q her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-21

The new and seemingly commendable
tramp law of Pennsylvania, which pro-
vides that tramps shall be compelled
to work on the streets when arrested,
seems not to have worked well in one
town where it was tried. The tramps
were taken to the streets and provided
with tools. but they refused to work.
Finally they were taken hack to the
police station and a light supper was
given them. If they had been put in
cells and no supper given them they
would have promised to work after a
few hours of. fasting. When tramps are
made to work and are put to work
wherever they are found they will be
less numerous than they are. The
larger part of them, like some others
who are not tramps, do not propose to
work for a living.