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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11
A Laugh in Church.

She sat on sliding cushion,
The dear wee woman of four;
Her feet in their shiny slippers
Hung dangling over the floor.
She meant to be good she had promised
And so. with her big brown eyes,
She stared at the Westinghouse windows,
And counted the crawling flies.
She looked far up at the preacher.
But she thought of the honey bees
Dronng away in the blossoms
That whitened the cherry trees.
She thought of the broken basket,
Where curled in dusky heap.
Three sleek, round puppies. with fringy ears
Lay snuggled and fast asleep
Such soft, warm bodies to cuddle
Such queer little hearts to beat.
Such swift, round tongues to kiss YOU,
Such sprawling cushiony feet
She could feel in her clasping fingers
The touch of the satiny skin,
And a cold wet nose exploring
The dimples under her chin.
Then a sudden ripple of laughter
Ran the parted lios.
So quick that she could not catch il
With her rosy finger tips.
The people whispered: BLESS the child"
AS each one walked from a nap
But the dear wee woman hid her face
For shame. in her mothers lap.
Philadelphia American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


The trade journals say that it needs TO-,
100000 colored photographs of Queen Vic
toria and the Prince and Princess of Wales
to supply the annual demand.
The highest price paid at the sale of the
Levison collection of postage stamps in New
York city last week was $2S2, for a one
shilling scarlet Newfoundland stamp. The
total of the sale, lasting three nights, was
$l0,3114L
1t is stated that Ruskin believes in very
regular habits He said to friend a short
time ago that in the past two years the
time of his going to bed and getting up in
the morning had not varied over fifteen
minutes
There is fashionable Turkish bath in
New York that offers new luxury to its
patrons. 1t has several readers who are at
the disposal of the bathers, and you can be
read to sleep after your rubbing down II
you care to be.
Mrs. Kate Gannett Welks says that "nien
are quite as nagging women, and would
be more SO If they had TO wear women's
clothes. When men said to be disagree
able to their wives, 1t is often because the
latter are too weak. and do not assert their
rights at first"
Modjeska is spending a few weeks in
Rome. pending the decision of the Russian
authorities as to whether not she will
be allowed to appear in Warsaw. where she
has been prohibited from playing by, the
anti-RuSsian in her sentiments.
Major Calhoun, managing editor of the
Standard. the new Boston daily, is the au-
thor of Marching through Georgia" He
was an officer in Shernans army, and lost
a leg in battle. He was captured by the
rebels, and suffered for some time the hor-
rorS of prison life in the South.
4 Few persons are aware, doubtless, that
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism,
commenced his ministry in Savannah, and
was for several years rector of Christ Epis-
copal Church which stands in the center of
that city, just as it did then, with the ex-
terror unaltered, although the interior has
been remodeled and modernized.
Muzzles are used on refractory women in
the provincial penitentiary at Cologne. The
other day muzzled girl was found dead.
1t was alleged that the death was due to
suffocation and the director and physician
were charged with mansdaughter. 1t could
not however be proved that the death was
due to suffOcatiOn from the muZZIe, so the
pair were acquitted.
Bishop Pottes.'s daughters were all edu-
Gated with a view to doing at least one
thing we'll One girl became an expert
pianist another is an artist, and a third
has trained herself to the manifold duties
of secretary. She not only answers her
busy fathers letters, but receives callers,
answers all questions, which pour In by the
appointments and fulflls all the duties of
an expert Office woman. relieving her father
from much care.
Thar ain no use. in settin down
An simply wishin, wishin,
While thar's path that leads from town
To rivers full O. fshin.
Though Fortune keeps you waitin late,
Yet, whar the rivers swisfin
If YOU kin only find some bait,
You'll strike it fine Nv fish
Atlanta Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The proposed conversion of Capitol ave-
nue. into a boulevard is in harmony with
municipal progress and general system of
street Improvement but the merit of the
plan will be crippled If not destroyed If
the street is narrowed Some of our streets
have already been cut down to an extent
that detracts in small degree from their
beauty. The city has long been noted for
it's wide streets, and now that they are
beginning to be we'll paved this distinctive
feature should~not be abandoned. This is
particularly true Of a boulevard, which
should always be of especial width There
is ample room for parking the sides of Cap
itol avenue from Ohio to First street with
out reducing its width, which is not as
great now as thai of boulevards in some
other cities. 1t is to be hoped the Board of
Works will not listen to that proposition.
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HAZARDOUS JOURNEY
TWO WHITE MEN AND TWO INDIANS
WALK e,1OO MILES IN ALASKA.
The Thermometer - Degrees Pclew
Zero and the Canyons FILLED
with 400 Feet of snow.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. April 10.--One
of the windiest and most hazardous jour
neys ever made in Alaska was accomplished
this winter by I. J. Healy and a companion
named Hooper, two traders who have stores
on the tributaries of the Yukon river. They
left Circle City. which is situated just
within the arctic circle. Feb. p, accom-
panied by two Indians, who were taken
along to carry their baggage. The Their
mometer was seventy-four degrees below
zero and to form adequate idea of the
fall of snow in that part of the world. it
us but necessary to state that Circle City
is a. canyon abo,,tg four hundred feet deep
and half a mile in width. which was filed
entirely to the level, causing the country
to resemble an undulating plain.
The nonarrival of the steamer Arctic from
st. Michaeps island, at the outlet of the
Yukon, caused the supply of provisions to
become exhausted before the winter was
half over. The captain of the vessel be-
came angered at some trivial occurrences
and deliberately abandoned the steamer at
Fort Yukon, 1850 miles from the mines.
The summer season was fast coming to
close and before another man could be
obtained to take his place the river froze
and left the vessel fast in the ice which
jeopardized the lives OF over one Thousand
put on limited rations and when the new
year dawned there were only nine sacks of
f1our in all the camps. Several days pre-
vious the supply of bacon and beans had
been exhausted. However, there was ample
coffee and salt On hand. and an abundance
of wild game insured the miners against
actual starvation though they fully rea.
lized that such diet, for six months would
incapacitate them doing n vigorous sum-
mers work in the mines.
The situation became desperate and they
decided to brave the terrors of an arctic
winter and travel two thousand one hun
dred miles to Port Townsend to order sup
plies as soon as possible for the starving
miners. Healy and his companion, accom-
panied by two Indians, who were each
paid $40 a day, We're provided with strong.
substantial snow shoes and light packs.
They were dressed in heavy arctic furs.
Leaving Fort Cudahy, Northwest Territory.
Canada. twenty four miles from the ALASKA
boundary, the party descended forty miles s
n, the Yukon, thence up Miller creek to
Circle City Leaving Circle City they as
cended the Yukon river and crossed several
lakes. Travelling was difficult, too. on ac-
count of the darkness. The weather was
intensely cold and penetrating. I in tni iy
two days the party travelled $40 miles,
reaching tidewater at Dyer inlet, near
n r eau where they embarked on the steam-
err AL XII for Puget Sound.
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In Favor Of sound Money.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
l wish that we would have more daily
papers like the Journal advocating the pres
ervation of the gold dollar and showing
the Importance of the stability of our meas
ure of values. The silver mine interest
and the fiat money advocates who are for
free coinage at is to 1 seem to show great
activity in publishing and circulating free
silver doctrines. We want more sound lit
erature. which will promote the cause of
stability and honesty, TO go INTO the hands
election and to counterfeit erroneous mis-
chief-making information hope that the
Republican party may nominate preSl-
Dental candidate next year VINO Is pledged
to uphold the present money standard and
maintain that our money snail De as good
and as full if purchasing power as that
of any other country, and that the Repub-
lican platform viii set forth IN strong, UNI
mist akable words that
We will protect American labor and there
by promote prosperity.
We will uphold the parity OF the present
dollar and thereby promote stability and
encoura cement to honest enterprises
We are the only true bimetaliists, for
If the European nations-Great Britain,
Germany Austria. the scandinavian and
Latin countries-adopt bimetailism we will
toin them and accept the same ratio of
the two metals adopted by the European
countries.
We will advocate and promote interna-
tional bimetaIlism, as set forth above, but
we will decidedly oppose the Tree coinage
of silver at l6. to by our nation single
lism of silver. HONEST HONEY.
Evansyille Ind, April 10.
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a Law OF MONEY.


To reach an intelligent solution of the
money question it must be remembered
that the economic world is as much
subject to fixed laws as is the moral or
the natural world The law that two
and two make four. that water will
find its level, that light travels in
straight lines or that the angle of incl
dence Is equal to the angle of reflection
is not more certain and unerring in
operation than some of the laws of the
economic world. One of these. known
as Gresham's law. has a distinct appli-
cation and an important bearing on
some phases of the currency question.
Greshams law is named from the per-
son who first observed and called atten-
ton to it's operation. The law itself re-
lates to the tendency of the inferior of
two forms or classes of currency in cir
collation. together to circulate more free
ly than the superior. Uncommon phrase
1T may be shortly stated in the form
that bad money drives out good, and
cheap money the more valuable. The
discoverer of the law was Sir Thomas
Gresham, an English financier of the
sixteenth century, and master of the
mint. 1t had long been observed in
England that new coins as they came
from the mint, silver as well as gold,
they being then at par would soon dis
appear from the channels of circula-
ton. and that it was only those which
were considerably worn by use that
were generally handled by the people
in everyday business. The authorities
IA - I'll
weight coins should disappear while the
lighter and much worn ones continued
in active circulation. Upon investiga-
ton it was found that only the new and
full-weight coins could be exported with
out loss to the owner. because when re-
ceived in other countries it was only
bullion and went by weight and not by
count. II worn coins were exported, al
though they bore the stamp Of the gov
eminent as to name and fineness. the
exporter would lose in the transaction
by abrasion or USE 1t was also dis
covered that manufacturers in selecting
gold and silver coins for melting up al
ways took new ones because, while
they cos. no more than the worn ones,
they had more metal in them. The mas
ter of the mint who made these observa
lions followed them up until he deduced
the principle which, taking his name,
has since been known as Gresham's
law.
Under the operation Of this law and
of free coinage at the present ratio by
the United States alone it would be inn
possible to keep in circulation gold and
silver dollars of unequal value. both
possessing the lega1-tender quality. Peo-
pie will always pay their debts with the
money that costs them the least if it
has the debt-paying power. Under the
conditions described gold would disap-
pear from circulation as fast as it
might be coined and the country would
presently ! be on single silver basis.
What that implies let the situation in
Mexico testify. If it is desirable that
gold be entirely eliminated from our
currency system and the country placed
on. a single silver basis 1T can be accom-
plished with absolute certainty by the
free coinage of silver at the present
ratio and without any international
agreement
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sea- But his fate is of small weight or
worth by the side of the sad fact that
he stands for a class and does not hold
his creed alone. No such man does The
foul deed for which he falls is his alone,
but it came in due course from the creed
he held, and this is shared by men and
women, aghast at his Deeds who. with him.
hold in art for arts sake" His guilt Is
not theirs. His creed is. His scheme and
of self and set aside right and wrong as
Things for which there is no place in art
Is held by many. They are in art schools.
They write. They paint. They thrill to all
that IS fair and forget that ali things fair
are foul and lead to the pit of death If they
De not built on right. There is no field from
which right and wrong can be shut out on
the plea that art has world of it's own,
IN which the. law of beauty bears rule
pushed to its 9ar sure fruit the end is some
such fall as Wilde's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11
UNPLEASANT REPORTS.

If the report to the effect that Gov
ernor Matthews allowed the superin-
tendents of the northern hospital, the
eastern hospital and the Institution for
the Blind to select Republican trustees
who would not remove them is true he
has not only been guilty of greater
offense against the constitutional pre-
pointments than any Legislature has
ever conceived. but of piece of peanut
politics for which there is no excuse.
So far as the superintendent of the
two hospitals are concerned the reports
of the Republican legislative committee
commended them. and ii was generally
asserted by those who led in the move-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The fact that hundreds of people have
written letters to Mr.. Gage, of Chicago,
to ascertain If he was present at Pro-
fessor Coins school shows how gross
ly deceived thousands have been by the
Chicago Inter Oceans publication. To
state that prominent man was at a
meeting which was never held and to
make him answer questions that were
never asked him is indefensible because
it is no better than forgery to give cur
rency to statement as coming from a
man who never made it.
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shifting the Blame.
Philadelphia Record Dem.)

PhfladeIphia Record DENY
The income tax measure did not commend
itself to the Judgment of the wiser leaders
in the Democratic Congress. II was a weak
concession to populism, impairing by neces-
sary modification the symmetry of contem-
poraneous tariff and internal revenue legis-
iation. The collection of what remains of
the tax will be odious because of the lack
of uniformity in its imposition. 1t is great
ly to be regretted. Notwithstanding the
crippled condition of the treasury, that the
court could not have thrust the whole body
of the law out of the statute book. There
are many worse things for nation TO get
along with than lean treasury. The taxes
that people cannot be called upon TO pay at
least remain in the pockets of the tax
payerS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The advance on the price of meat is
eIiciting comment all over the country.
An advance of % To SO per cent. in the
cost of an article of universal diet is a
serious matter. If 1t is due to natural
causes. as the weight of evidence seems
to indicate. there is nothing for people
to do but accept the situation until such
time as an increase in the supply of
beef animals. may bring prices down
again. But III IL Is due in whole or in
part to corner or combination of pack
ers they should be proceeded against in
the courts Such combination TO put
up the price of a prime necessary of
life would be monstrous. and could be
broken uo under the common law, even
without a statutory remedy.
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JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY,
Indianapolis, Ind.
rHE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Tan be found at the following places
PARIS-American Exchange In Paris, 30 Boulevard de
tapueines.
MN YORk--Gilsey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor
House.
and Barring ~.
CHICAGO-Palner House, Auditorium Hotel and y.
O. News Co., ~ Adams street.
CINCINNATI. Il. HawIey & Co., isf Vine street
IoUIsyILIE-C T. Deerng, northwest corner OF
Third and jefferson SITS, and Louisville Book Co., 800
Fourth ave-
81. L0UIs-Union News Company Union Depot
WASHINGTON, u. C.--Riggs House, Ebbstt House.
Wizards Hotel and the Washington News Exchange,
1sth street, bet. Penn. ave. and 4 street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The decision of Judge Taft. of the
United States Court in Cincinnati,
affirming the constitutionality of the
Ohio law providing for the special taxa
ton of express. telephone and telegraph
companies is very important one. The
Adams Express Company returned $685.
900 taxable property, but the Ohio board
or appraisers Increased the assessment
to 100000 under the new law of that
Efsfe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

Senator Voorhees,, the chairman of the
Senate finance committee. is announced
from the income tax. while another
financier equally as reliable-Senator
Peffer--estimated the amount at $l5,0oo,-
900. Here is wide difference between
the estimates OF two men who pose as
statesmen. As a matter of fact, how
ever. the Pcpultst statesman is nearer
the Official estimate before the Supreme
Court passed upon the law than is the
Democratic statesman who was at the
head OF the tiuance committee Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

One thing which will tend to promote
peace is the fact that a rife with which
troops in this country are being armed
is capable of forcing a bullet through
over twenty-four inches of oak and a
human body behind IL at a distance of
1900 yards and that these rifles can be
discharged by an expert five times as
rapidly as the muzzle leaders used dur
ing the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

just before Great Britain adopted it's
present free-trade policy the per capita
wealth of her people was 5000 to $465
In France. France has stood by protec-
ton for the most part, and has had sew
eral reverses since 1870. but the per
capita wealth has increased to $1.2s0,
while that of England is s1,24o These
are the figures of the Royal Statistical
Society of England
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

DIR. Depew has achieved wide repu-
tation as an after-dinner orator, but his
real forte is skinning demagogues. The
artistic manner in which he decorticated
Governor Altgeld was calculated to de-
light everybody except the subject of
the opera tim
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

Atlanta, Ca, in preparing an EXPOSE
tion which will cost s2.oOo,0oo is pro-
claiming the energy which has come to
q portion of the South along all indus
trial lines. The whole North will help
to make the enterprise a success
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The selection of such streets as East and
Walnut, which intersect, for improvement
the same year, will involve so heavy tax
upon people paying on both that, instead of
being tax, it becomes mortgage equal to
one-ffth or one-sixth the value of the prop
nrf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The last report of the precious metals
in the treasury shows $369.0o9,1s2 in
standard silver dollars. sl6.oT7 510.7s in
subsidiary silver coin and $124. 673. 1876. "a
in silver bars, and $131, 4s6. 496.0S in gold
in the possession of the government
And yet there are those who insist that
silver is demonetized in this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

Watts-I have often wondered why Henry
Clay with all his great attachments, was
never able to reach the presidency.
Potts-I guess ii was because there was
no Populist party in his day.
WHAT
II said because there was no Populist
party in his day. Didn't you know that
it is a well-attested fact that Henry blew
out the gas in his hotel bedroom once, and
was nearly suffocated ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The latest report is that the managers
of the silver party are trying to secure
the late Representative Bland for can
didate for President. Mr.. Sibley, of
Pennsylvania. only allowing the use of
his name until the consent Of Mr.. Bland
can be secured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

If there is one thing that is more en-
barrassing to the Democrats of the last
\ Congress than another just now it is
a reference to tire income tax law, or
the mangled remains Of It.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

A Boston federal office holder has dis
covered that Mr.. Cleveland is the man
for the Democratic nomination in 1896.
Here in Indiana a Democratic federal
officer cannot be found with that amount
OF gall
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Senate, the former putting his estimate
so per cent. below that of the treasury
experts and Mr.. Voorhees, 233 per cent.
above. But accuracy was never point
with Indfana,s senior Senator
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A Guess at 1t.

Teacher-Tommy, will you explain the
meaning of the sentence. Seek and We shall
fiDd?'
Tommy-It don't mean the man who is
looking for trouble, does it?
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sublime seIf-sncrifice.

"You look pale said the sharp-nosed
girl
Il feel pale" sighed the fluffy girl. But
/ am happy, anyway. You know that stingy
little CholIie Tapetie? Well, he did open
his heart enough to take me to the food
show, and, of course. 1 sampled the SAM
PIES What are samples for? And after /
had eaten this and drunk that and the
ether till / just couldn't stand any more.
we started home. Then he thought he saw
his chance So he asked me TO have some
ice cream.
And did you accept asked the sharp
nosed girl.
Accept? / ate three plates. With cake.
And lemonade. They had to call the doctor
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sensation. His inaugural message was
only twelve lines long. and on the first
day of his installment in office he dis
missed an even thousand of tax eaters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

The Governor Of a State being fined
in iusticcs court $50 for assault is not
an inspiring spectacle elsewhere than in
Arkarsas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

Silver is now the principal part Of our
currency in coin in daily use, but it
never was until within ten years. In
fact, the larger part of the paper money
is silver certificates or coin notes issued
in payment for silver bullion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-11

II corn is 20 cents bushel higher and
beef from 20 to 80 per cent. higher than
a few years ago have these articles APP
preciated or has gold depreciated?