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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
Feature. of Michigpp Legislature.


CONCORD. N. H.. Jan. 10.-Hon. William
F. Chandler was nominated tonight in a
Republican caucus of the Legislature to
succeed himself as United States Senator
for the term of six years. He received POI
votes to IS for Henry w. Blair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
PICTURE OF SIBERIA
FAR DIFFERENT FROM THAT PAINT
ED BY GEORGE KEENAN,.
Harry DeWindt Says ExiIcs Are Well
Treated and Live a Happy Life
The Armenian Troubles.

LONDON, Jan. 10.-Harry de Windt, a
traveller and journalist, who intends to
lecture in America to refute the state
ments of George Kennan in regard to
Siberian prison life, gives q surprisingly
attractive picture of the life of prisoners
in Siberia. Describing a typical political
prison, that at Akuta, in the N~ertschins
mining district. he says that the prisoners
are confined in roomy, well lighted and
warmed cells, decorated with jugs filled
with flowers that had been picked by the
prisoners while en- route to their work
in the mines, a mile distant. The con-
victs march to- their work daily, smoking
and singing choruses. Tho have three
good meals daily and are supplied with an
unlimited quantity of beer at dinner. Only
three of the prisoners wore chains, which
weighed seven pounds and these were re-
moved during their work in the mines,
The condition of the mines is quite. as
good and the labor less than in English
mines. The men sleep on mattresses and
pillows. There is no work done on sundays
and saints days and concerts and plays
are given.
Mr.. De Windt gives the following in
stances to show the cheerful existence of
even the most desperate convicts Coffee,
in 1889. lives in q large wetl-Iighte adiu cell.
He is supplied with writing materials and
receives parcels of Russian, French, Ger.
mar and English books. His wife lives in
the village and is allowed to see him week
~. Slayinsky; one Of the heads of inter
national Nihilism, who was implicated in
nearly all the recent explosions, is in SIM
liar quarters. He also receives books and
has his own medicine chest. Eminonoliff,
who was implicated In the murder of Car
Alexander II. now lives at liberty in
kharovsk. Kaloujin, an ex-officer of the
navy, who attempted to blow up the Cars
yacht. serves in a bank and has a cir
c~ulating library.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11

corporations and combinations seem deter
mined to crush labor organizations. In re-
cent years the Constitution seems to have
become an unsurmountable barrier to ev-
cry measure intended for the protection or
the public, while the most plainly ex-
pressed provisions for the protection OF the
liberty and the personal rights OF the citi-
zens are blown away with a breath, This
suhserNiency on the part of the federal
judiciary when dealing with corporations.
followed by usurpation OF power, when
dealing with men who have to earn their
bread by the sweat of their brows, is not
calculated to produce respect for the law or
its machinery. If these conditions are to
continue the fate of the American laborer
is sealed. He must be reduced to the low
est conditions of existence and this must
destroy that very capital which is now
pushing him down, for. with the destruc-
ton of the purchasing power OF the Amer
lean laborer will disappear our American
market. For this process must produce dis
content, disturbance and hatred and will
greatly increase the expense of govern
ment and, consequently, taxes. Russianiz-
ing a government Is an expensive busi-
ness and has never yet succeeded-not even
in Russia. Our government is not in the
slightest danger from the anarchy OF a
mob. Our LANCER comes from that corrup-
ton. usurpation, in~solence and oppression
that go hand in hand with vast concentra-
ton of wealth welded by INSCRIPTIONS
men. and 1t behooves every friend of re-
publican institutions to give these things
most serious consideration"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
Cable Notes.

The conversion of the Gillian currency
to gold at the coinage rate of 16 pence to
the dollar, on June 1 next, is practically
settled.
The civil marriage of Signorina Josephine,
daughter of Prime Minister Crispi, of Italy,
to Prince Linsualossa was celebrated at
Naples last evening.
Judge Thomas Hughes, Q. c., the author
of TON Browns School Days" ETC., has
Joined the Anti-Gambling league. and has
sent that organization a check to assist in
furtnering its work.
1t is announced. from Belgrade that King
Alexander, of Servia. will shortly be. be-
trothed to Princess Sibyle, of Hesse. The
Princess was born June 3, 1877. King Alex
ander was born Aug. IA, 1876.
The Pacific mail steamer City of Rio De
Janeiro. Captain Smith, which went ashore
near Nazaski on Monday while on a voy-
age from San Francisco to Hong Kong via
Yokohama, has; been hoated.
The Pope is about to announce the beati-
fcation of Christopher Columbus. The prop
osition was seriously considered for more
than a year previous to the recent ami
versary of the discovery of America, but
the college OF cardinals then voted against
it.
Nizam Ulmulk, Mehtar of Chitral, has
been murdered by his younger brother. Amir
of Chitral. Chitra. or Little Cashgar, is a
country of Asia, consisting of the Kooner
valley on the south slope of the Hindoo-
Koosh.
At the next consistory, the Pope is likely
to raise two of the Oriental patriarchs to
the dignity of the cardinalate. The digna-
taries who are believed to have been Sc
lected for the honor are Mgr. Azarian, the
Armenian patriarch, and Mgr. Yuseff, q
patriarch of Antioch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
GRANDMOTHER,S DOLLARS.
What Her Might Have
Had in Interest from Them

Worcester Gazette.
A woman recently died in a neighboring
town, and besides a granddaughter and a
cynical husband she left a few relatives
woman was over n~inety-ive when she
died, and the $50 was included among her
wedding presents. Like many persons in
eagles and had them for nearly seventy
seven years. When she died, of course,
the coins were distributed among the heirs.
This cynical husband. who was married
to the old lady's favorite granddaughter,
unused upon the $50 in gold and stripped
his thoughts of all sentiment as he specu-
lated in his mind what might have been.
his constant query is, If grandmother had
only put that $50 in bank when she first
got it. what a clutch of golden eagles we
got ready on cold mornings to go to work,
and his favorite topic of thought was sug-
gested as he jingled a nickel and a bunch
of keys looking for his car fare. Then he
began to figure that money at 6 per cent.
doubles in about eleven years, and he lost
sleep as he thought how many times eleven
years went into seventy-seyen years. When
the cynical husband finally referred the
question of his losses to a bank man he
learned that in fifty years the $50 in gold
figuring any further on the problem the
bank man said he would easily consider
that SIC. 900 was lost by saving the $50.
1t is not an unusual hing in some of the
old banks to have an account doubled many
times over and over again. One day last
week. in the Worcester County Institution
for Savings an account was reckoned at
$214.03, which originally was but $10.65.
Nothing has ever been added to or taken
from the bank account, and it was left
TO accumulate. 1t took about fifty years
for the original sum to gather all that
moss. There was another recent instance
in the same bank where thirty-one times
No one wonders that somebody discovered
and said that money makes money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE.
1t Is Not n Simple Dialect of the Chi-
nese, as Many

Scientific American.
The Japanese language was long regarded
nese, or, at least, as having the same relation
to it that the Italian has TO Spanish or that
both have TO their common parent. the Latin.
understand written Chinese, it is true. be-
cause Chinese characters form a part or
several systems of writing used in Japan.
This is Ineligible enough when We reflect
that the Chinese characters represent. not
letters, or sounds without meaning, which
are simple elements constituting words, but
the words themselves, or rather the ideas
which these words express; and. conse-
same ideas. even though expressed by diff
ferent words, to all who understand tina
the figures ], z. 8 express the same idea Of
numbers to the inhabitants of differenc
countries. The deeper and more extensive
knowledge of Asian tongues that has been
glsts has rectified many of the errors that
Japanese. The learned Klaproth, in Asia
states that this language diff
fers to such a degree from every other in
its construction, grammar and other char
acteristics, that we might justly conclude
that the people by whom it is spoken form
FISCHER states that the sounds of the
Japanese language are soft and agreeable.
and the construction of it admits of very
important notifications as regards eu-
phony. Written in European letters, near
ty eoagy en eome together rs h s9 and v oNa ars
omitted it is generally the case that tina
consonantS in this relation are easily pros
nounced. as shrano for shirano, though tha
rule has many exceptions.
Meylan says that, unless born in Japan.
it is impossible for one to pronounce GER
tain letters correctly. This author adds
that there are no pronouns in Japanese,
and that the words are declined by means
of short words affixed. In fact, the prepo-
sition changes the name and character in
Japanese, although it follows instead OF
precedes the word. AS for the verbs, they
change neither in number nor person, but
are modified by time and voice.
The language is very rich and copious.
for not only may its writer's employ its
own resources. but they may also have
recourse to those of the Chinese, and the
two tongues are easily combined OF sepa-
rated, according to caprice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
A "Grand Old Woman
Boston Transcript.

Mrs. Livermore will preside at the three
sessions of the twenty-sixth annual meeting
of the Woman Suffrage Association at the
Park-street Church tomorrow. Having
reached her seventy-third birthday. Mrs;
Livermore has made at least a partial
promise to her family and friends not to go
far from home on lecturing trips again.
The splendid energy which has carried her
through many useful campaigns and on
long journeys in all sorts of weather is not
SO much diminished that retirement is abb
solutely necessary, but possibly the truth
is that 1.-The art of being, a grandmother
grows more and more charming to Mrs.
Livermore as she practices it. Her book
gives the story of her active life, but full
of interest as il is. it is still more interest
ing to hear from her own lips the story Of
her most eventful years, during the war.
More than most public speakers of our
day Mrs. Livermore has the true persuasive
gift of oratory, and deserves for her public
spirit and her private great-heartedness the
title bestowed upon her by an admirer of
Gladstone who once introduced her at a
meeting in Naine-''the Grand Old Woman"
Age does not dismay her at all and nobody
appreciated more than she the unconscious
" humorous note in that compliment. 1t
is easy to imagine Mrs. Livernlore at nine
ty-three smiling serenely at the funny side
of life, and giving when occasion calls the
blessings of her presence or her purse TO
humanity's needs or to private and un-
heraided good.
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made several passes with his fan in the di-
Capped his hands three times, after which
he fndl!sed a little on the flute. Then he
grotlncd again. Strengthened himself. re-
tiret a few PAGES, took several PAGES to the
LEFT and right. then advanced again,
groase ard footed. He then requested by
u sign one of the mourners TO advance ana
take his place.
He then handed one of the branches of
foliage to the gentleman and retired. The
small table in front of the altar, then sa-
lute6 and moved away. to allow another
mouTiler to take his place. When all the
branches were placed on the table the black
cases were opened and the small square
boxes taken out by the coolies and care
fully Inferred. The Shinto priest retired to
the besom of his family, with the saki bot
tie, the live rooster and the rest of the
caew. In lieu of tombstones the Japs use,
mark the resting place of their dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
RITES.
A Correspondent Describes Funerals
After the Battle of Ping Yang.
Frederick VilliprS.

A Correspondent Describes Funerals
After tho Battle of Ping Yang.
Frederick villiers.
Many of the sick and wounded who die
are cremated: their ashes are collected.
placed in small square boxes, inferred for a
time in the little cemetery outside the for
eign settlement at Chemulpo, and after a
while exhumed and sent to Japan. The
ceremony / beheld at Chemulpo after the
solemn, but simply curious. Eighty bodies
had been cremated in various parts of the
country and forwarded to the treaty port
in small boxes. They were placed in two
large. black cases at the hospital, and. pre-
coded by a motley group of coolies. citizens
and soldiers, were carried to the burial
plot.
First came coolies with branches Of foil
age and white streamers in their hands.
Then a few soldiers. marching with re-
versed arms. Immediately preceding the
black cases was a Shinto priest in yellow
kimono and a black gauze shake. Round
his neck vas a purple cord, at the end of
which hung a fan. In his right hand was q
flute. which from time to time as the pro-
ducing an inharmonious sound which re-
minded me of my own attempts on that in
strument when a boy. The coolies, the fol-
lowers and the iookers-on seemed to treat
the whole thing more as a good joke than
a solemn function, and chatted and laughed
tostheir hearts content
Arrived at the cemetery, the procession
placed bottles of saki, fruits. eggs and
birds of various kinds. including a live
rooster. Behind this hospitable board were
placed the remains of the eighty bodies.
The Shinto priest. who stood alone before
the edibles. stretched out his hands and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
THE LOVE.
EGypt's Ruler Soon to he Welded to
a Circassfan Slave.
New York Special TO San Francisco Chron-

Egypt's Ruler Soon to he Welded to
a Circassfan Slave.
New York Special to San Francisco Chron-
In connection with the approaching mar
rage of the gay young Khedive OF Egypt
to Lady Ikabal Hanum Is an interesting
descendant, by patience and diplomacy.
traversed the way to the shadow or q
throne. The news is conveyed In a dispatch,
which merely states that the nuptials VIII
be celebrated Immediately and that the
young bride will ccompan Egypts Sfuler
in his travels a privilege never before &C
however, the depth of affection entertained
by the young monarch for his future Queen
Attached to the British staff at Cairo Is
an oficial who, for years, has had the en-
tree to the royal household-that Is, as far
as an outsider may penetrate-and IL IS
from a letter written by hin recently to
sister in New York that the Chronicle
learned how Lady IkabaI Hanum won her
royal lover. The Khedive's mother, ten or
twelve years ago, purchased several Cir
cassian slave girls as upper servants Tor
her children. These Circassians, who were
very young, were brought up in the palace.
On the accession of the present Khedive
one of the young women, the present Lady
Ikabal Hanum. was assigned to the apart
his wardrobe. The Khedive took a great
fancy to the girl, but she steadfastiy re-
fused to enter his harem. Neither threats
or persuasion prevailed and the khedive,
in despair, went to Constantinople last
year to WOO a Turkish princess. His love
for Lady Ikabai was TOO strong, however,
and he returned to Cairo without giving
his troth to the daughte of the sultan.
Then it was by secret rites that the Cir
cassian slave became the wife of the Khe-
dive. knowing that If a son were the re-
suit of the union she could proclaim the
child as Crown Prince.
When the news reached the ears of the
Khedivah, the khedive's mother she was
very angry, but upon her son asking her
forgiveness and declaring that he wished
to make Lady Ikabai his wife, she relented
and consented to the union. The public
ceremonies will take place Immediately as
the ACCOMPLISHMENT of Lady Ikabal Is not
far distant. and it is necessary to insure
of the Khedtve's family are furious as
they had fondly hoped that their brother
the Khedive, would die childless.