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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
TRACED Rack TO NOAH.
Some European Families Start Thef
Genealogical Trees at the Flood.

Some European Families Start Their
Genealogical Trees at the Flood.
London Standard.
Some of the old continental families lit
flood. The French family of Croy possessed
at one time a fine picture representing
Noah. with one foot in the ark, exclaiming,
''Sauvez les papiers de la maison de Grow
The pedigree of a Welsh family the Mos
tynes of Mostyn, is equally remarkable It
has been preserved among their papers for
more than three centuries, is inscribed on
illuminated parchment and measures over
twenty feet long by about foot broad. II
begins with Noah, and, as Hayward re-
marks, after passing through most of the
priEcely houses mentioned in the Old Tesla
ment, is made to flow through sundry rovaI
and imperial channels till it reaches Ed
ward III, where it stops; so that ii would
fit any family claiming descent from the
Plantagenets. But ins spite of absurdities
of this kind, probably no Croy or Mostyn
ever descended to the depth or Stiffness of
supposing his her blood was literally
blue The fact was that in Spain the
Moorish invasion drove the mobiles into
every kind of extremity. Many families
in their distress allied themselves with those
OF African, Indian Jewish blood In
this manner their descendants gained what
is commonly called a dash of the tar
brush
When the Moorish yoke was eventually
thrown off the old families who dated from
time previous to the Moorish invasion
were particularly anxious to maintain the
purity of their descent. The bare idea of
the slightest Jalnt or African Jewish
blood filled them with horror. Yet nearly
everybodys blood was so tainted when the
Mo0rs were overthrown and the Jews ex-
PEELED at the end of the fifteenth century
Those, however, who were conscious of
their pure descent were naturally inclined
to be proud of it. There was no trace of
the loath, dark-faced Moors in their veins:
they had never intermarried with the de-
spised Jew. But all around them were men
who were partly Jewish, and VINO, whatever
they might say, bore the signs of their
mixed origin in their faces. Perhaps
therefore, it was not altogether astonishing
absurd as 1t seems to US, that the
Spaniard of pure descent should come to
imagine that the blood of quadroon as
well as his complexion. dark in color
though how they came to fix on blue as
the color of their own blood must still re-
main a mystery. If they really thought
it was blue they must have shed it far less
often in their own country's cause than
history would lead us to believe Nor can
they have been very keen observers in other
respects. Presumably the cheeks of their
children were not blue nor did the high
born Spanish maiden blush blue when some
Spanish Lord Tolloller pressed her to share
his heart and home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
One of Grants Grandsons.
Philadelphia Press.


1t has been said of the grandson of Gen.
Grant, who bears the name u. S. Grant and
is the son Of Col, Fred Grant, that he seems
to have inherited much of his grandfather's
military ability. As little boy he was
fond of playing soldier, and even now upon
a stormy day he will amuse himself all day
long with his lead soldiers, Of which he has
more than 1000. He arranges them by bril-
gades in line of battle. deploys them as
skirmishers and plans methods of attack
and defense. and his father has no doubt
that by and by when he is old enough he
will enter West Point and take up the pro-
fession of soldier.
Just now, however, the boy is very great
" interested in his work as an editor and
IL he should develop hereafter abilities as
great as he already shows. he may decide
that the pen rather than the sword Is the
weapon with which he will win success He
is the editor of paper called the Junior
Monthly" which is published In the interest
of the Youths School. of which young Grant
is a member. He IS not only the editor, but
the business manager He has solicited and
obtained paying advertisements He has di-
rected the editorial policy OF the paper,
and in simple but vigorous English has writ
ten the salutatory announcement over his
initials. He seems also to have keen nose
for news, since the paper is filed with para
graphs containing gOssips which must be OF
Interest to the lads OF the school and to
many others. The 10y has shown great en-
thusiasm In getting this newspaper out. and
eonsIderable busInes s talent ss well II deal
09<kV&1Ms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Not an Elevator Trip to Arouse En-.
thusiasm Just Now.
London Telegraph,


We have not the remotest conception
whether the plan is practicable, or even
whether anybody supposes it to be So The
protector may be either a mechanical gem
ius or an unhappy monomaniac Or he
may be- merely hoaxing the Continental
engineering paper or, again, the Continent
conceived the idea Of taking a
rise rise out off, a the public in an
whether the sinking of such shaft is a
sober possibility or fantastic absurdity
and, even when the expert had told that
it was one or the other, his story would
only be good until the next expert came
along. To the outsider, in any sense of the
word, it would not appear hopeful enter
prise to begin boring snow-covered rock
at vertical height of some three miles
above the level of the sea; nor for opposite
should think, to an outsider proposing to
start from the bowels of the earth. Equally
difficult is 1t for the most attentive scruti-
nicer Of the imaginary shaft to discern any
money in it," One peers into its depths
Coldstream's inspection of the crater Of
Vesuvius. A railway enterprise which has
to start by boring distance considerably
tunnel. which cost f2,6e0,0o0 to make and
then proceeds at an indefinite but certainly
enormous cost to connect it with frozen
mountain peak by a shaft neary two miles
deep, does not, at the first blush of the
thing. strike one as an undertaking in which
the entire capital of a widow and her or
phan family you'd be ivested by careful
and conscientious trustee. What would be
charged for the journey, lift included; and
how many trains, with what number of pas
sengers. would it be necessary to run daily
In order to secure a decent dividend to the
shareholders? OF mountain raiIways-that
is of railways which ascend the outsides of
mountains-the world has now had plenty Of
experience, and the conditions of their finan-
cial success are tolerably well known: but
this method of climbing by way of the in
terror would be. literally. as well figura-
lively an entirely new departure and il IS
impossible to predict the results at which
it would arrive. The Napoleonic engineer
may have figured out the scheme to his
own satisfaction, and convinced himself that
the shares would rise with thee first lift: but
other and less sanguine people, will be much
more apt to believe that they would imi-
tate the reversed motion of the mechanism,
and the bottom OF the shaft would effective
ly symbolic the court of bankruptcy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
THE COUNTRY STORE.
1t Is Simply the Modern City EN-
pOrium" on a. Small Scale.
Waterbury American.

Waterbury American. a.
How the old country store used to be
laughed at. The idea that people should
buy everything at one place from hair
pin to pound of sugar was cause to 'city
folks" of inextinguishable merriment Yet
what country folks were "joked" for doing
city folks to-day doing, and no one
thinks 1t strange at all. The modern dry
SS store or odg s, Ike to ea
it an emporium as miscellaneous
an assortment of all sorts and conditions of
fed of country stores, and vindicates the
country store by the imprint Of the most
advanced nineteenth century enterprise.
idea is carried in the cities is impressed
upon us every once in awhue in general
way, but few of us appreciate that extent
when it comes down to particulars The
book trade has undoubtedly suffered the
most from the bargain counter. A city of
Mass, has no longer any book store The
last one has succumbed to the rivalry of
were complaints that the dry-goods stores
in Brooklyn were selling liquors, and there
was talk Of boyc0tting them by the
we do not recall. But the matter IS q
striking, illustration of the revived country
store. There was a. well-known family Of
Litchfield whose wealth can be traced back
to country store, one that made its money
largely by selling rum in addition to dry
articles. And this country store actually
grew 70 such dinensions that it used itselr
did considerable wholesale business in
all this section. or course, the old country
domestic crockery. and this is the latest
branch of trade in New York to Complain
stores. All of this goes to show that we
live in circle. We move to a city end
laugh at the old country ideas we left
have tecorsa pretty well settled we go
back to those discarded IDEAS and work
country store, but the closeness of COM
petition and the chance to make money
by offering bargains" induces the city
dry golds shop to become country store
again. and sell as remarkable a variety of
articles as ever We're sheltered at some
crossroads store. The country moves to
the city and the city turns country. There
is nothing new under the SUM-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Dollars Lost to Gain Pennies.

This Is the age of wisdom. The con-
ductors and motormen of Knoxville
(Tenn) railroad have struck because of a
dispute as to when their pay begins each
morning. 1t Is a question of three minutes
between them and the company, and the
total of the amount involved after adding
all the claims together is 2la cents a day.
For that the men have given up their po-
sitionS For that they have surrendered
the dollars that they could earn. For that
the company has permitted its services 10
be crippled.
MY employer has cut off my finger"
says the employee. Therefore, / will have
revenge by cutting off my head This
is the logic of the walking delegate. but IL
never VIII be popular with the wives sof the
Norkmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
MISS MARLOWE'S SUIT.
A Hint Which the Actress Might Do
Well to Consider.

Prompter in New York Recorder.
Julia Marlowe-Taber is bringing $4,000
libel suit against the Indianapolis Journal
This appears to me rather foolish and
costly proceeding. Newspaper libel suits
are wearisome affairs, and before Miss
Marlowe is through she will discover that
it would have been wiser not to notice the
adverse criticism in question.
Dramatic criticism in this country IS es-
pecially privileged. Remarks are made
about an actors or actresses personal APP
pearance that in England would precipitate
half dozen suits for libel.
1 understand that Miss Marlowe bases
her suit on paragraph that declared her
company inferior, and very bold statement
that Mrs Taber has been trif1ing with the
good will of the public and her friends.
This is considered as sufficient cause Tor
a suit for damages. There will be. no
doubt lots of fun for the lawyers, but what
a waste of time and money all around
TO my mind such a criticism is not &C
tionable; but, then, a suit for libel can De
brought against a newspaper for printing
the obituary of your mother-in-law.
l say you can bring the suit-but getting
damages is something different. Il can
marked Glendower to Hotspur, who replied
that so could any man, but what he wanted
to know was whether they would come
when summoned.
/ commend this nugget OIL wisdom 10 MISS
Nar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Something Must Have Been Wrong

GreencastIe Banner-Times.
Julia Marlowe Taber has sued the In
dianapolis Journal for libel on account of
a severe criticism. When an actor or act
ress has to sue wel-known newspapers be-
cause the same have the termerity to criti-
else stage acting, there is surely something
wrong with the acting. There is entirely
too much rocky support and not few poor
stars on the stage to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Implement Company ASSIGNS.

COLUMBUS. o., Feb 2s-The Columbus
Implement Company assigned to-day to
Thomas e. Knouss. Liabilities $75.eo0;
assets in excess of debts. Only few thou
Cause. bills payable and no ready money
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Lacking the Authority.

IT was sorry WILLIE" said his Sunday
school teacher, ITO see you keep your seat
when the superintendent asked all those
who wanted 10 go to heaven to rise. Don't
you want to go to heavenw
'sYes'in.''
s.Therl why didn't you rise -
Cos he didn't have nc right to tell me
to rise, ma ara, answered While. HE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24

price for the privilege of witnessing
city. 1t is perhaps proper to add in this
connection that The Paper Chase had no
reference to an actress getting after
newspaper with legal demand for dam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Should Go Slow.

Indianapolis Independent.
Julia Marlowe has got up on her little
pink ear and sued the Indianapolis Journal
for big stakes for daring to criticise her
company when here in December. Julia
wants $4,000 damages because the critic
said some of her company was made up of
people who, in other companies, performed
parts requiring them to say My Lord, the
carriage waits" This hurt Julia's feelings
so bad that she punched her hubby in the
ribs, walked him up in a dream in which
he was counting box-office receipts and
ordered him to sue the Journal before sun
down. All this comes of newspapers indis-
criminateIy putting every vealy girl with a
doll-baby face who imagines she is going
learned to recite .tOstler joe with only a
dozen mistakes. They get SO used to the
honest critic rubs the hair the other way
they think they have been Hbeled. julia
should go slow. Much bigger women than
she have had to submit patiently TO crit
icism and she need MT imagine that the
theatrical road is lined exclusively with
pearls and "cheStnutS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Better Stick to Lost Diamonds.

Cincinnati Tribune.
Julia Marlowe will find that advertising
by means of libel suits against NEWSPAPERS
is more costly and less effective than that
secured by the lost diamonds method
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
Thinks of Suing Julia.

Delphi journal.
The indianapolis Journal has been sued
for $4,000 by Julia Marlowe, the actress,
because the Journal criticised Miss Mar
loves acting While we not hankering
for a s25,O 600 libel suit. yet candor counsels
MS TO state that there are a thousand Indi-
and diamonds and beat her clean out of
sight as an actress. The editor of this
naner once paid admission to Julia, who
was advertised as "a gifted actress, and
has felt ever since If he had good
grounds for bringing suit against her for
obtaining money under false pretenses.
what VIII Marlowe Say to This:
Columbus Dispatch
About two months ago the indianapolis
Journal published an article which ex-
pressed the opinion that the company which
supports Mrs Julia Marlowe-Taber. the
actress is poor Mrs. Taber demanded a
retraction and, failing to get 1t. sued the
journal for SIS 900 damage on account of
libel If the case comes to trial the issue
will establish valuable precedent Under
a favorable verdict for the plaintiff it will
be written down that newspaper cannot
criticise theatrical performances and that
would be as much as saying that criticism
of street-car service. for an example, must
be stopped
witnesses from the Star City.
Lafayette Courier.
The indianapolis Journal may secure a
large number OF witnesses In behalf Of its
defepee OF the Marlowe suit for s., 900 dam
ages BY having subpoenas issued Tor d
thousand persons who recently paid : high
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
TUNNELLING MT. BLAN

cleverness; and besides, everyone kno
that 1T is merely a mask.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24


A great many of the smaller fur-bear-
ing animals are trapped in the foothills
of the Rocky mountains. AS an illustra-
ton of the microscopic powers of OBJ
servation possessed by the Indian, and
perhaps also of the minuteness and ac-
curacy of description which his aggluti-
native language allows, one of them
will tell where he has set his traps amid
the rocks and underbrush, bluffs and
canyons, covering a space four or five
miles in area, and another is able solely
from the narrative to go and visit then,
all. just as If he had set them himself.
The beaver may be said to have depart
ed altogether from the older settled
part of Canada. and is being thinned
out in the far north. The late Arch
bishop Tache of st. Boniface an intre-
pid missionary and naturalist, main
tanned that the disappearance of the
beaver led to the conversion of forests
into prairie. His theory was that the
water in the immense number Of small
lakes or ponds formed by beaver dams
preserved the humidity of soil and at
mosphere essential to the growth of
trees. but now the water runs off, the
forests wither from dryness and are
easily swept by fire.
York Factory is the headquarters of
the traffic in ermine. mink. otter and
silver fox. One or two vessels arrive
with supplies during the three months
OF open water in Hudson strait. and re-
turn with peltries. The profits on the
barter are large. and the cost or Ship
formidable item In the price to the wear
e. The seals In Canadian waters are
principally harp seals; when young they
have coat ot white eur tinEed with
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-02-15

The resolution was adopted by a
vote of S to 5, those voting in the
affirmative being Wilson, of West
Virginia, Thurber, of Georgia;
Cochran, of New York, Montgom-
cry, of Kentucky; Stevens, of Mas
sachusetts, Tarnsey. of Missouri,
Democrats; Reed, of Maine; Payne,
of New York, Republicans. Nay
vote was cast by McMillin, often
nessee; Bryan, of Nebraska; Whee
Ter, of Alabama; Whiting, of
Michigan, Democrats; Hopkins, Of
Illinois, Republicans. Grosvenor,
Republican, of Ohio, who was
present. did not vote, in as much
as he was opposed to the PROPOSE
ton, but was willing that it should
be brought before the House. I'm
mediately after taking this vote the
committee adjourned.
The report accompanying the
resolution will be written by Mr..
Wilson, of West Virginia, chair
man If the committee. and will
probably be submitted to the
House this afternoon. There was
discussion when the committee
went over the resolution iniroduc-
ed Yesterday by Mr.. Wheeler, of
Alabama, which characterized the
issuance of gold bonds as an aban-
donment Of the principle Of BIZ
metallism, his contention being
that no nation has ever issued gold
bonds. He said that Secretary
Carlisle had said this in answer to
him yesterday by Mr.. Wheeler,
when the Secretary was before the
ways and means committee.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-02-15
WHY GOLD GOES OUT.
Reasons for the Efflns Of Gold
From the United States.

An eminent authority, writing
in the February number of the Fo.
rum, undertakes to give the rea-
son for the etflux of gold from the
United States to Europe.
The underlying reason given is
the want of confidence in the 6nan-
cial condition of this country. He
shows that the balance of trade IN
favor of the United States with
Europe, SO far es commercial trans
actions are concerned, is $264,
100000. But to offset this are the
following good items in favor of
the foreigners:
Amount spent by American
tourists in Europe annually, $780,
100000.
Amount paid foreign ships car
rying United States merchandise,
500, ,000. 600.
Amount paid foreigners as divi-
dends on American securities, $75,-
100000.
Amount due foreigners on profits
of business done in this country,
! SIS, 100000.
This makes a total of $3.50, ,Q0Q,-
600 against our commercial bal
ance of 64,000,000. The differ.
ence in favor of the foreigners
therefore, is $50, 100000.
If business in this country were
as good as it hes been in year;
past, this balance would be main
" reinvested in American enter.
prises, but since the present de
preston set in, it has been with.
drawn to foreign countries.
1t has been principally with.
drawn in the shape Of gold, as that
is the money of Europe.
This state of affairs will doubt
less continue until a more prosper
Gus era sets in on this side of the
Atlantic. The gold will then be
allowed to remain here or will bt
returned for investment in Amerl.
can securities or business enter.
prises.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-02-15
SENSITIVE STATESMEN.
Many Politicians Object to Being
Mado Ridiculous.
And That Is Why Thay Look with Loath-
Ing Upon Caricatures-Eut They
All Like to See the "Other
Follow Roasted.
Especial Washington Lettcr.1

All men who achieve distinction in
this country are caricatured. 1t makes
no difference whether the subject is @
statesman, a capitalist, politician or a
clergyman, the caricaturist is relcnt-
less. He is no respector of persons.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, Of New York,
whose persistent work in the exposure
of police corruption in the great city
has been ratified by the people at the
polls, has been mercilessly caricaturcd.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, whose reputation as
a pulpit orator has but few equals, has
been ridiculed by the pencils of the
critical picture-makers.
When James G. Blaine was candi-
date for the presidency he was villain
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-02-15
ORIGIN or FAANKlNE.
'sarago Tribes To-Day Are ctn In Fs,r1-
itiye state.


If tic eating Of flesh food be in
stanccd as distinction that separates
nan from anthropoids, it can be urged
on the other side that the latter feed
On insects, and when in captivity tE no
5acans Gcspise Gc5A food The first
raep, TOO, was probably q 'ycgcta"i@a.'
but necessity ard the absence OF srt.!-
cient vegetable feed for his augmenting
species may have driven hila to L2sA
diet
The cooking or roasting Of 1catnCs1
be boroGardcd as an acquisition OF later
epoch, because in the earliest stages OF
mans development thero was undouOt-
cdly q very long lreless period, and
because there are said to he drcless
people oven in the present day, such as
the Do!ios, in Abyssiuia. observes Fort
nightly Review. The Australians, too,
too, knew nothing Of the boiling and
roasting of food until The advent Of the
Europeans. For the rest, all the savages
know how 20 kindla fire by the well
known method OF friction OF two sticks,
or. what is still simpler, they take .
torch alonFwi5h them on their wander
ings that never gees o0t. The Anda-
nantes preserve thvir fire by consura-
ing the interiors OF hollow trees.
Since the Andamanites have como in
contact with Europeans they have SUI
perseded this method OF preserving Ere
bv the Use of llnt.hcs which are very
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-02-15
a Centenar...a ronkPy.

Herbivorous animals arc generally
thought to outlivc c&rlivorous ones.
and of the former class those dedicated
to labor appear to furnish the largest
number Of instances Of longevity, \
few years ago a donkey dicI at Gro
marty which was known to be at least
10G years old. 1t could be traced back
to the year 1T79, when, at an unknown
age, it camc into the hands Of the then
Ross Of Cromarty, and it lived il the
same family, hale and hearty until
a kick from a horse ended its career
No horse ia known to have attained to
anything like such an age as this, but
4 few have lived from ages varying from
forty to City years.