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depends ON the Joke.

Heardso-'They say every hearty laugh adds
a day to ones life
Saidso-"That depends: I had at least a
week kicked out of me for laughing at a
man who fell in the mud."-Fearson's Weekly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10

THE question of a temporary supply,
also, should be taken up IN earnest
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10

At the theatre-Said a spectator to his
friend: sWhy are you looking through
the wrong end of your opera glass?'
ssTo keep q credito at a distance
Albany observation-disclosures.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
roe SALE.

FOR sALE-FIRST-cLASS SALOON, DOING
good business. Inquire Muller &c Company,
No. 2N2 Pavonia avenue.
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WANTED.


TTANDs WANTED FOR BEADIN VETS AND
IL laces. Work given out. Weekly deliveries.
~ ii. L. OPPER & Bros,
1914 Green ST., New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
THE LIMIT OF INCAPACITY.

The President and the Democratic
Congress must now have reached the
limit of incapacity. When the fear OF
Its proclaimed tariff policy paralyzed
the industries of the country the Presi-
Gent and his advisers declared that
the Sherman silver purchase law was
the cause of the trouble, and after it's
repeal confidence would return and
business would revive. 1t was repealed
because repeal is a tearing down. but
the President and his party could put
nothing in its place. Confidence did
not return. Then the Democratic Con-
gress set out to change a protective
to a revenue tariff. spending seven
months at the work. and when 1t was
completed even the Democratic Presi-
dent would not indorse it. and to-day
no man defends the present tariff. Be-
cause of this laundering the country
rejected the Democracy in November
by majorities never before equaled.
In the hope of diverting public atten-
ton from its tariff laundering the adj
ministration a project for
currency reform weeks before the as
sembling of Congress. With a monthly
treasury deficit of seven or eight mill
lions. which needed All immediate
remedy. the administration assailed the
present u system of currency and
announced a scheme which would be
sure to put the issue and control of the
paper money of the country into the
hands of State banks organized under
as many different laws as there are
CtQfoo Ac cnNn nc kHo 7nkofI. - ~
administrations plan We're made known
the fears it melted tended to check the
improvement of business. At the out
set the Administrations bill vas found
to be SO defective after a days debate
hat 1T was recalled for amendment.
The discussion which followed disclosed
that not half of the Democratic mem
bers of the House are in favor of the
Presidents plan, and not fifty in favor
of any plan which would meet the APP
prevail of the business men of the coun-
try. Powerful to destroy. the Demo-
cratic Congress seems utterly incapable
lieve the treasury. running behind at
the rate of nearly 800, 600, 900 a year.
Thus the currency scheme designed
as a blind to its tariff failure has made
matters even worse than they were
three weeks after the election. OBJ
Ivious or Indifferent concerning the
condition of the treasury, the Demo-
cratic Senate is discussing the Nicar-
aqua canal bill. The Democratic men,
bers of the Senate finance committee
are talking of a compromise measure
for the very dead Carlisle currency
bill, but at the outset it appears that
no two Of them can agree upon the de-
tails of a. measure. AS for the Demo-
cratic House. since the defeat of the
. Carlisle bin It declares it's incapacity
by admitting that, with a hundred ma
jority. h party cannot unite upon any
measure. In the history of the coun-
try there was never UGH a confession
of incapacity as the President and the
Democratic Congress are making daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
4 DISMAL

The Democratic party is maintaining
it's record as an enemy of the public
credit and of national prestige at home
to make against any class of Ameri-
can citizens. but it is true. There are
and always have been a great many
individual Democrats who are sound on
financial questions. but the party as a
whole is not. 1t is a matter of history
and of record that during the last
twenty-five years it has opposed all
measures intended to establish. main
tain and strengthen the public credit
and to give the people a sound and uni
form currency. 1t was responsible for
the suspension of specie payments in
1861. and it opposed resumption eighteen
years later. There has been no time
for thirty years past when the Demo-
cratic party as a party has not been
dangerously wrong on financial ques-
tions and a serious menace to the pub
lie credit at home and abroad.
The present attitude of the admin
istration and the majority in Congress
is one of mingled imbecility and vicious
ness. They seem to be divided between
a desire to do something mischievous
and to do nothing at all. The first Car
Isle bill. which had Mr.. Cleveland's
unqualified approval was an attempt
to re-establish State banks of issue,
his second bill was only a slight i'm
provement on the first and since that
has been killed there is talk of maxi
ing such concessions to the silver men
as will secure their support for some
sort of a mongrel scheme not yet formu-
lated. Meanwhile the treasury reserve
continues to shrink. gold is flowing out
of the country, government expendi-
lures exceed the revenue there is a
deficit of several millions every month.
n the tension increases daily. The
adjustment OF the trade balance with
Europe during the next three or four
months will require the shipment of
thirty or forty million dollars worth
of gold, and the London Financial
Times asks: IF under the existing cir
cumstances the treasury n 1t i'm
possible to retain its gold what will
happen when the gold export begins
| in earnest?" This seems 10 hint at q
suspension of specie payments. as does
! also a sentence in the weekly nancia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11

the establishment of a dam across the st.
Louis and Cloquet rivers, transmitted BY
the secretary OF War In pursuance or a
House resolution, Was referred to the COM
mitttee on Judiciary.
On motion Of Mr.. Turner, Saturday. Feb.
:, was set aside for paying tribute to the
memory OF the late Senator Coiquitt. OF
Georgia.
On motion of Mr.. Curtis. a bin was passed
to define the crimes of murder I'm the first
and second degrees and m~anslauGhter.
rape, mutiny and desertion, and providing
punishment therefor. and 10 abolish the
death penalties on other crimes.
On motion OF Mr. Flynn. = resoIutio9
was adopted calling on the Secretary OF
the Interior for the causes of delay in
opening to settlement the lands received
from the Kickapoo Indians under the
agreement OF June IL 1891; ratified by Con-
gress March, 1905.
The Senate bill repeating the law provid-
ing for bonds for registry of vessels was
passed, also Senate bill providing ar
American register for the steamer Empress.
A bill to repeal the shipping act of Aug.
10, 1890, precipitated opposition and. under
agreement, 1T was decided to postpone it's
consideration until tomorrow.
"A bill to provide for appendices to the
passed.
The House then went into committee OF
the whole, Mr.. Outhwaite. of Ohio, in the
chair. and took up the District of Colurn-
bia appropriation bin. Mr.. Williams, in
charge of the bill, explained that 1t car
ried $3.50. 107. or $2f5.031 less than the ap-
preparation for the current year. OF this
amount half the expense OF the District
government is betrayed by the District and
half by the general government. The bill
was passed without substantial amend-
meiit.
The pension bills, ten in number. favor
session, were taken up and passed, and
then, at 4:l0, the House adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11

cfal figures to deceive the public. Sew
cral weeks & the journal indicated
what the drift of the speech would be.
basirg its statements upon the subject
chosen. Every fiction he presented to
make 1t appear that the price of silver
affects the price or wheat is years old.
All his tables have been presented in
every free coinage speech sent from
Congress d frank. Does the Board
Of agriculture pay for that sort Of ad-
dresses? Has it become an annex of the
organization of sixty or seventy men
who control the silver mining interest?
Does the board imagine that it will
promotes the interests Of agriculture in
Indiana to ave the United States put
upon a silver money basis? Do they
think that it will be better for the
farmers to have the mass of their con-
sumers paid in dollars which will not
purchase much more than half as much
OF the articles the price of which is made
in gold-using countries? If the board
has Joined the free silver coinage party
1T should revoke it's vote to ask an APP
preparation from the Legislature. Corn
is higher this year than last because
there is less than two-thirds a full
crop, and wheat is lower because there
is a larger surplus than has aver been
in sight. Cut the wheat crop 10 per
cent. and prices will go up. Increase
1t 10 per cent. and it would be difficult
to retain present prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
CROP STATISTICS.
Area, and Value Given by the
Agricultural Department.


WASHINGTON, jan. 10-The estimates
of the area, product and value by States and
Territories of the cereal crops, together
with those OF hay, potatoes and tobacco.
have been completed by the statistician OF
the Agricultural Department and present.
ed as follows:
The corn crop of 1894 in rate of yield was
one of the lowest on record. In the past
thirteen wears the yield per acre OF but
one year, namely, 1881, was lower, the yield
for that year having been 1876 against 1874
for the year 1894. Severe drouth and dry
winds in a few of the principal corn pro-
ducing States reduced the area harvested
76, 0Oe acres planted. The product garn-
cred was In, N 1000 bushels having an esti-
mate farm value of 1854, 719 1000.
The wheat crop was above an average
yield per acre. The entire product for the
country was AGO, 467, 416 bushels, which is be-
low the average for the five years 1880 to
1854 inclusive. The farm value of the crop
is s225. 902, 025. TIL area, according to re-
vised estimates, is 1852, 436 acres. In the
revision of acres the principal changes have
been made in the spring wheat States. The
average yield is 1920 bushels per acre. The
average value per bushel is AL cents.
The estimate for oats are: %. 023.553 acres:
product. CO., 0s6, 9as; value, s2l4. Sic, 800; yield
per acre, PAS bushels.
Rye-Area, 1.944, $50 acres; product. ST.
615 bushels; value, 1884 76.
~Barley-Area, 3.370,602 acres; product, 6l,-
40c, 465 bushels; value, $27, 134. 127.
Observation-Disclosures, 7S9, 232 acres; product,
Potatoes-Area, 7,737,973 acres; product,
10. 49, 1913 bushels; value, $91 ,526. 7S7.
Tobacco-Area, 523, 103 acres; product, 1885,
CTS, 3S5 pounds; value. ST ,720, 739-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
MAGAZINE NOTES.

A bright letter from Rembrandt Steele,
son of T. c. Steele, the artist, himself an
art student In Paris, is an entertaining
feature of the current issue of Modern Art.
The American School and College Jour-
nal, published at st. Louis. is a very hand
some publication geographically. 1t under
takes to supply teachers with good inter-
allure and good advice.
Napoleon so pervades the magazines that
he has even broken out on the covers. He
appears on the Century cover mounted on
a White steed, whose moving name sug-
gests the Sutherland sisters.
THE idea" says Mr.. Richard Harding
Davis in darper's Magazine, 1.-THE idea OF
thinking a man could have no eyes but for
one woman.' The idea may be there, Mr..
Davis, but haven't you expressed, it in
rather a peculiar way:
The brief chapter in Harper by Henry
Cabot Lodge on "shakspeare's American
isms'' might be read with advantage by
Anglomaniacs who drop words and phrases
of classic origin and adopt less expressive
and characteristic ones merely because the
latter are now used in England.
Mr.. Hazlett Alva Cuppy, a young gentle
man well known in certain college and
literary circles in Indiana. has united his
Altruistic Review, which he has been pub
fishing in Chicago, with Our Day anG
the new periodical. bearing the double title.
will henceforth be issued from Springfield,
O. The name. of Rev. Joseph Cook APP
pears as editor-in-chfef.
Indianapolis is we'll represented i'm the
magazine literature of the month. In the
Century is a clever short story by Har-
riet Allen, which name, it is reported, but
partially eonceals the personality Of a we'll
titled "Wanted-A Situation" gives the ex-
perience Of a young woman OF ton,
T TeeRing to earn anq s sep liv s2gsa' 1t s IS really IA a
dissertation on the ~hreadbare topic of
employment for women. but the new pre-
sentation gives the subject a fresh inter-
est.
In the Century are these poetic chords
by Meredith Nicholson:
Thoughts of deep p~ine-woods and of chant
Follow the magic hand-touch on the keys;
Now tits the violin that loudest rings,
And now in saddest key the cello sings,
Blent with the lonely challenge of the horn,
Echoed in seeming from some height for
Again. the drums and viols with sullen
Break with their sound-waves on the
minds dim shore.
And suddenly die away. It's then there
Out from the cymbal-clash and roll OF
drums
Chords that are love and life, and even the
Hard pain of death-chords OF the golden
Mr.. Bowles's egsogy in Modern Art OF
William Morris as a printer is open to
question. The merit OF the Morris types,
or, rather the Morris reproductions OF
ancient styles. is at least a matter of taste
rather than an absolute quality The colder
improved. say. by a little wider spacing
between the Words And does IL imply .
lack OF artistic feeling to prefer a letter
with a lighter face? For special uses the
Troy type has its attractions. but for prsc
teal use in a book meant to be read anc
not exhibited as a costly work OF art It il
not desirable. Mr. Morris S an artist in til
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production OF wall papers and carpets, but
no man can be a master OF all trades, and
aItnougn q book from the m ZEN rstber press less
cause 1t is the fashion than because of its
positive beauty.
Mrs. Mary Jameson Judah's Adventure
of a Lady of Quality in the January
Harper leaves the reader in the state of
mind dattering to authors, namely, that OF
wishing for more. Though SO brief that it
may be called an impression. a fragment,
a skit. it carries with it a bit of the at
mosphere of the woman's literary club.
the clash and fury of a sudden street row,
touches OF satire and wit. and is alto
ans club were talking of the effect of GER
tain sentiments when enunciated by the
to 60 by its own strength without any
charming woman to fire il OFF. For myself,
! try to listen to everything ! hear as If It
were uttered by a young man with big
feet, no chin and a prominent Adams
apple Which, when you come to think
of 1t, is a pretty severe test Of the abstract
The question of income is very cleverly
treated by Robert Grant in Scribner's Mag
azine. He boldly supports the view that
the saving of money is not the supreme
virtue that it is commonly called, but that
even fathers of families cannot afford to
save too much. Are we,' he says. ito
toll and MOL all our days., go without
Europe or Japan because We wish to make
sure that our sons and daughters will be
amply provided for, as the obituary notices
put it?' Even If the family consists of a
number of daughters he thinks the father
should give himself rest and not be driven
into dyspepsia or Bright's disease through
daughters may or may not marry, but
there are SO many things for women to
fond father ought to let his nervous sys-
TEN recuperate now and then"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
MUST PRACTICE ECONOMY.
MI. Holman Kinks Indians Should Do
the Same as Whites.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Work on the
Indian appropriation bill was finished to-
day by the House committee on Indian af-
fairs, and the bill viii be reported to the
House this week. AS previously stated the
appropriation comes about $780, 900 below the
estimates. Representative Holman, chair
man of the committee. explains that pro-
visions are cheaper this year than usual;
that most of the inhabitants of the United
States are forced to practice unusual econ
omy, and that the indian should share
the same conditions. The principal legis-
lation embodied III the bill provides thas a
committee of five nlembers-elect of the Fiji
ty-fourth Congress who are also members
of this Congress and Of the Indian COM
mittee shall, before the first Monday in De-
cember, investigate all Indian expenditures
by the government. The IN is to
have a Clerk and its expenses are limited
to $4,000. 1t is empowered to travel and
embody its conclusions in the form of q
bill. States or Territories entitled to in
demnity school lands may select them from
surplus land or reservations within their
borders after ~allotments have been made
to the Indians according to another pro-
vision. Thirty thousand dollars are appro-
vations which are suitable for agricultural
or grazing purposes and to complete the al
lotment, The provisions, applying to lands
allotted in severalty under the act of Feb
ruary. 1887. the surveys. to be made under.
the supervision of the director of the geo.
60 wy ~ lhC Lie IA
terror thinks advisable. All conflicting laws
are declared imperative, but there is a
clause restraining the geological survey
from using any moneys for Indian land sur
veys. except as directed by the Indian Com
missioner. The Secretary is empowered to
apply $4,000 of the sum in his hands for
the relief of destitute Indians and to the
necessities of the Sisseton Indians of South
Dakota. Thirty thousand dollars is to ba
applied for irrigat.ng machinery for reser-
vations. No purchases of supplies for mora
than $500 is to be made without three
weeks notice by advertisement, except in
cases of special exigeney, when the Sec
rotary may expend 5000 in open market.
but he must report the same 10 Congress
and the purchases must be made, If prac-
ticable. from Indians. Amounts appropri-
ated for subsistence and not used for that
purpose may be expended for stock cattle
or to assist Indians who have taken al
lotments to build houses and start farm
ing. Government properly reservations not
needed may, under the bill, be transferred
to others. If the Secretary thinks tribes
receiving rations and clothing are stiffi-
GENTLY advanced to purchase for themselves
he may distribute the money to thera per
c2p..a-
Under the appropriations for schools is
included a condition that no Indian child
shall be taken to a school outside of the
State or Territory without the voluntary
consent of the parents or nearest kin, GER
tilted to by the agent, and it is made I'M
lawful for an agent to seek to induce them
to give this consent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A society for the suppression of hand
shaking has been formed in Russia Its
founder is a physician who believes the
practice to be dangerous on account of the
probable transmission of dangerous bacilli.
T.. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New
York Age, is about the most conspicuous
journalist of the colored race. He was born
in Florida thirty-eight years ago and has
been actively in newspaper work fourteen
years.
Nobody ever tries to whisper in the
presence of Queen Victoria. It would not
only be in bad taste, but useless. The old
lady's ears are supernaturally sharp and
she could almost hear a person winkinS IN
the next room.
Mrs. Maddocks, a Sydney wheel woman,
has won international fame by riding a
bicycle all the way from sydney to Mel
bourne, a distance of six hundred miles.
She was accompanied by her husband and
they rode into Melbourne twelve days after
the start from sydney was made.
Somebody has discovered the curious fact
that the reluctance of women to tell their
age is no piece of modern sensitiveness. 1t
is as old as the hills. In the Old Testa-
ment. although great numbers of women
Abraham's wife-whose age is recorded.
Here is a Russian story: A young widow
put up a costly monument to her late hus-
band and inscribed upon it: MY grief
is SO great that 1 cannot bear it," A year
OF 50 idteT, however, Sne married again,
and feeling a little awkwardness about the
inscription. she solved the difficulty by
adding one word to it, alone"
In one of the letters which Edward Fitz-
gerald wrote to Fanny Kemble, and which
Temple Bar is giving to the world. the
translator of Omar Khayzan says: do
you know that one of Burns's few almost
perfect stanzas was perfect till he added
two syllables to each alternate line to fit it
to the lovely music which almost excuses
such a dilution of the verse:
I'VE banks and braes o. bonnie Doom,
How can We bloom ESQ fresh) so fair?
Ye little birds how can We sing,
And / SO tweary) full of carei
Thoult break my heart, thou little bird,
That sings (singest sol upon the thorn.
Thou minds me of departed days
That never shall return
departed never toy return"
That a cow, as per rune,
Should jump over the moon,
Has excited both wonder and mirth;
Perhaps, found to be
Tuberculosis, she
Was compelled to get off the earth.
Detroit Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-11
The Deb. aud the Gordon riots.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonf
DR.. w. B. Fletcher, in his letter published
in your issue OF. to-day, is mistaken in say
ing that Lord George Gordon was a mem
Der of the House of Lords in 1850, and that
he presented petitions to that body. Gordon
was a member of the House of Commons
for Iverness-shire, Scotland. DIR. Fletcher
has fallen into an error which is not uncom-
mon in America-namely, believing that
every Lord, in England is a member of
the House of Peers. When the baptismai
name Of a. lord is correctly placed imme-
diately before his surname (aS Lord George
Gordon, Lord Randolph Churchill, it is the
surest evidence that he is not a peer, but a
peer is given. 1t is correct to place it before
the title, as George, Lord Gordon. Oc-
casionaaly we find 1ennyson STYLED Lord Al
fred Tennyson, instead of Alfred, Lord Ten
nyson. The eldest sons of dukes. mar
quises (but not earls) are permitted TO take.
to take the fathers second title, and the
quieses (but not earls) are permitted to take,
by courtesy, the title of Lord" Legally.
the courtesy of title of Lord does not
mean any more than the courtesy title of
Abercorn, before he succeeded to the htle,
was known as the Marquis of Hamilton
Der of the House of Commons. but on the
official ballot paper he was described as
sell was a member of the House of Com
mons until he was created Earl Russell.
and the Marquis of Harrington was
also an NJ. p. until he sue
ceeded his father as Duke of Devon
shire. Lord Palmeistor's title was an anom-
alous one. for he was an Irish peer and at
the same time a Commoner. Irish peers are
not peers. of Parliament, but are repre-
scented in the House of Lords by twenty
eight peers chosen out of their number. an
election occurring on the death of. each
representative peer. Irish peers are allowed
to sit for constituencies in Great Britain,
and 50. Lord Palmerston represented various
English constituencies during his pariia-
nlentary career. but he never sat in the
Upper House SCOUTS EEIGENA.
InSianapolis. Jan. 10.