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New-York tribune., 1896-07-22
BURIED SCULPTURE AT DELPHI.
,rom Tho London Standard.

From Tho London Stondard
French archaeologsts are exultng over the result
OF the latest excavations made on the 'lassic
ground Of Delphi under the super!ntcldcnce or NJ
Homoc. This gentleman. who directs the liencn
Art School Athens. is now in faris ana VIII
soon place an account of the excavations BEFORE
tho Minister OF Public Instruction. II appears that
a work Of sculpture representing liie"o. klng , ol
Syracuse, driving quadriga Is the principal reno
OF antiquity discovered. The figure Is complete tut
the chariot has not yet been fully brought TO ,gn,
In NJ Homeless opinion, the sculptor was Ase
adas who lived 40 years before christ In the
time OF the first Hero The director OF the rrench
School at Athens IL enthusiastic about ;he statue
which he compares to that OF Hermes by Praxit-
eles.
The newly found art treasure Will. OF course, re.
main In Greece. the French taking she 'redtt or
the discovery The excavations the rfgnt 10
carry out which nearly won by the Americans.
are directed by NJ Convert VINO has about 1o men
under his control More money IL needed. however,
by the French, who state that they have TO con
tend with the English and Americans. and notabiy
with the Germans. who are opening up the SOIL AZ
ten different points IN the Greek peninsula
New-York tribune., 1896-07-22
SOME MAGNIFICENT HARNESSES.
Prom Peareon's Weekly.


have, not once but many times know kn0wn ss, saoo; u,
sands Of pounds 10 be spent on slngle SET 80. y,
harness and I may .e you that at least Two
orders in LOndon.tor great s Part s o; ,rsss sSs
On Englardin respect Of the corcnaton or the Czar
OF Russia came to quite 5000 EACH said the man
eger Of OF the most fashionable harness makers
Before speaking Of these. however. should say
70 you that there few articles which admit OF
more luxurious mounting than harness. ana from
fl00 TO 1900 10 by means an uncomn on price 70
pay for any sort Of ceremonial harness where many
sets required t.,
Of pounds the set The former sum was paid
for the harness Of the first Napoeson and % mat
cluied In the making no fewer than 40 dozen
morocco skins besides MAGNIFICENT gold work
parts Of this harness being sold at all sorts Of
places and year or two back WAS onered po!-
lion with gold work upon Il. for a few pounds.
ing and magnifcently mounted. Aione 10 the value
Of some thousands Of pounds-bought this same
piece But could so for a long time telling you
Or magnificent harness. call TO mind one specimen:
Siyen BY a Russian TO q French actress. which had
precious stones as we'll god work upon IT. The
mere leather work OF this IS now used every
Quite recently the Khedive, OF Egypt placed q
f1COO order for harness IN London. chased gold
buckles and sold embroidered pafcloths being feat
ure IN this bu, 70 my knowledge. bOth the late
Hsharajah Dhueep Singh ana the present GaeSwar
OF Baroda have peid much larger sums Tor similar
articles made here.
was placed In England. aud the many sets OF
harness cost thousands. Besides gold. morocco
ekins and jeweed coats Of arms. a huge quantity
Of ostrich feathers were required. for each OF
14s horses sported a splendid plume Our Am
ba,sador, s. Nicholas OConor ordered new har-
ness costing a very large sum. and the Italians
their representatives, appearance at the coronation
New-York tribune., 1896-07-22

Nfanv neople have a genuine curiosity to know
II they would be seaslck in case they should take
an ocean voyage. An easy way 10 put the ihhttei
10 a test IS 10 stand before the ordinary bureau
mirror that turns in its frame. and let some one
move II slowly and slightly at irst, and graduaily
growing faster. while you look nxedly AZ your
own rejection II you feel effect whatever from
H. the chances that you can stand an ordinary
sea voyage without any Qualm.-tSan Francisco
pot -
New-York tribune., 1896-07-22

regulations Of tho liquor law. This Is plainly no.
right and we propose to fight them on that score
as we'll as others wherein they are wrong
New-York tribune., 1896-07-22

The biush.ng bride-c,ect was rehearsing the cere-
mony about to take place ''Of course you will
give me away. papa" she said.
II sm afrsid ] have done II already Caroline"
replied tre old gentleman nervousy. 81 told your
Herbert THIS morning YOU had q disposition Just
Ike your Ilother's"f fyit-Bts-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
ABSURD AND INSULTING.

One-of the amusing features of the cam
paign' is the persistence with which the
Sentinel clings to the theory that the rail-
road men are being 'coerced' to join Nc
Kinley or sound-money clubs. The great
demonstration of railroad men Thursday
night, which filled Masonic Hall and left a
large crowd outside unable to get in
furnishes new proof to the silver organ of
the outrageous methods which are being
used to "intimidate" the railroad men. The
meeting is described as having been got
up by the Republican managers to stem
the reaction that is setting in among the
men against the infamous efforts of the
railroad officials to compel them to vote
against their convictions. According to
this theory large majority of railroad en-
ployes are really in favor of a policy which
will cripple or bankrupt the roads and COM
pei wholesale discharge of men and re-
duction of the wages of those who are re-
tanned but they are coerced into pretend
ing to be for sound money
Absurd as this theory is, two prominent
railroad officials have thought it worth
while to notice it, Hon. NJ. f. ingalls, said
in a recent address to the employees of one
of the roads of which he is president: IF
any employee of this road is removed for
voting as he pleases, let him come to me
and l will reinstate him and discharge the
person who removed him" Vice President
Brooks. of the Pennsylvania system, said
in his speech Thursday night:
l say to YOU vote as you please, and if
anybody over you tries to make you vote
otherwise, kindly report the matter TO me.
And as the Sentinel has referred to
statute in this State providing a penalty
for the employer who tries to coerce
employe, and thar the Sentinel may not
misunderstood, / hereby offer to engage the
editor as our agent with power to hire an
attorney to prosecute anyone intirnidating
an employee of the Pennsylvania road. We
with the subject in his hands. The COM
pany will pay all costs in every case where
he secures conviction.
The general superintendent of the Big
Four system has made an effective reply
to the coercion talk in another way viz.
by rendering a room in the general Office
building for the use of any political club
the employees may form during the cam
paign, irrespective of politics.
From one point of view the coercion
theory is amusing, but from another it is
insulting 1t assumes that the employees
are either cowardly enough TO surrender
their real convictions at the behest of their
superiors or else that they are hypocrtical
enough TO pretend to do while intend
ing all the time to vote another way One
view implies that the men are devoid of
independence and the other that they are
devoid of honesty. To. say that a man is
crerced into, voting against his convictions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19

Mr.. Bryan declares that the people of this
country have been outraged by bad legis-
lation by legislative crimes accomplished
by conspiracies or done secretly, that the
laborer has been despoiled and the farmer
oppressed. Now, if these things, or any OF
by representatives of the people, themselves
a part of the people. In this country the
people are the government and the govern
ment is part of the people So Mr. Bryan
charges that the people have outraged.
robbed and plundered themselves The
logical inference OF his assertions is that
republican government is a failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19

his Country. If he could be consulted. would
have to say of this sort of commemoration.
He and his advisers made careful study
or the markets of the world to ascertain
the relative values of gold and silver be-
Tore framing the first coinage law in ac
coEdance with the true ratio. What would
they think of proposition to resume free
coinage Of gold and silver. after a SuSpen-
sion OF more than forty years at a legal
mtited to be more than 80 to /? What
would be their opinion of a proposal to
ADOPT the financial system of Mexico and
emma In preference to that of Great
Britain and France? The Washington mon
unent and the million-dollar Capitol
might impress these ancient worthless with
some notion of the centurys progress. but
an hour spent with the Boy Orator of the
Fiatte would give them more uneasinesS for
the future of the Republic than any ex-
perience of their own stormy public life
Fepudiation was never favored by them as
the best method of restoring prosperity.
They would be profoundly shocked 20 find
that their descendants. having borrowed
Dilllons of dollars on government. corporate
ana Individual account proposed to
settle with all these creditors in 50-cent
toid that this monstrous act of bad faith
was justified the same patriotic revolt
from the dictation of England which they
had undertaken. that national perfidy and
ulshonor We're regarded a proper aSser-
uon or American independence of Euro
pean influence. that the party founded by
Jefferson had Inundated itself to the Lead
ersnlp OF candidate for the presidency of
the United States whose election would he
greater national calamity than war or
pestilence a n
Kingston Ind, Sept. IS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
BREACH OF COURTESY.
Bryan's Refusal to Speak from the
Capitol Steps Is Condemned.

Washington Special in Chicago Post
Bryan's refusal to speak from the Capitol
steps has thrown Washington politics and
politicians into a Juror of excitement So
ber-mfnded people regard ii as an inex-
eeusable breach of courtesy, TO Vice Presi-
were importuned in his behalf for permits
sion TO let him deliver a political speech
upon the spot. and equally discourteous to
the local committee of arrangements Ii is
true that the committee was impudent be-
yond measure in asking the powers that be
governing the use of the Capitol steps and
make an exception in Bryan's case. and it
is an open secret that the committees real
motive in preferring the request was to
make capital out of an anticipated refusal
on the part of Speaker Reed; but permission
having been given. it in worse form.
they argue, for the candidate to refuse
than 1T would have been for him to accept
they characterize the Bryan performance
donably bad manners
The local Democrats. while confesSedly
disappointed at the breach in their arrange
ments, are nevertheless. putting the best
race possible on the Bryan action and loud
~ prociaiming that their candidate and
idol did a wonderfully wise thing in refus-
ing TO accept privilege denied to Coxey
and his hobo army two years ago. Then 1t
was keep off the grass" and .tget off the
earth. Bryan is talking against class
preference and class privileges" said one
OF his admirers to-day. and he could not
" and Extensively refused Coxey without
laying himself liable to a charge of incon-
sistency. 1t would have been a personal
distinction and a personal honor for Bry-
an TO have spoken from the Capitol steps.
but when the excitement of it had
away and the fzZ had disappeared he
would have regretted it."
That puts both sides OF the case in a
nutshell The community is all torn up
over the incident and evenly divided in
opinion as to the propriety and wisdom of
Bryan's conduct in the matter 1t is un-
derstood he was influenced to take the
step he did by the advice of a Washington
correspondent of d St. Louis paper. who
wired him that he could not afford to ac-
cept the privilege of using the Capitol steps
for the deliverance of speech. The cor
respondent being one of Bryan's personal
friends. the candidate deemed it best to
take his advice
As the case STANDS at present writing
speaker Reed. whom it was designed to
put in the hole for refusing to join Vice
President Stevenson in according Bryan
the desired permission is the only one con-
nected with the affair who has the laugh
on anybody. The cunning district Demo-
Gratis present beautiful spectacle crawling
out of the pit they dug for the fat gentle
man from Maine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
A HUMELIATTnG FAILURE.

The Democratic managers are naturally
greatly exasperated because of their failure
to capture the Populists. For weeks their
agents have been after the members of the
conference committee. They have begged
them on their knees to agree upon an cleo
toral ticket. offering them one, two and
even three places thereon They would
have offered them more had they dared
and had they been able to remove Demo-
cratic candidates named by regular con-
ventions. They promised them offices in
the event of success. and every sort of
bride that did not involve money in hand
And when the committee had heard it all
all the arguments, the appeals and the ten
ders of bribes-the Populist committee in
ten minutes refused. The Bryanites were
not satisfied. so another committee pleaded
with the thirteen, but pleaded in vain.
Nothing but surrender to the Populist
demands could be made a basis of fusion.
No wonder the Popocratic managers are
chagrned and filled with wrath Still they
should not have permitted their organ to
charge that committee which they could
not bride with palaver and promises has
been purchased by others. That sort of
thing will only drive the Populists further
away.
But the while the public will laugh at the
failure of these managers it will not fail to
remember that they have offered to barter
every Democratic doctrine to win the sup
port of these men. They have driven Dem
ocrats from tickets in congressional dis
tricts. forced Democrats to accept such
men Cheadle for candidates, and recon-
structed Democratic county tickets to win
these Populist leaders.
With this humiliating failure to coax a
fusion is the recollection that these man
ayers have offered to put the name of Wat
son candidates for electors upon the Demo-
cratic tieket-a man who is devotfng his
days to denouncing the regular Democratic
candidate for Vice President. and who has
been the most bitter assailant of Demo-
Gratis in the South for six years. And these
are the men who are asking lifelong DEM
ocrats TO support them in the policy they
are pursuing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
NO GREAT FIGHT EXPECTED.
Engiand's Slow Advance on DOngOIa
Fine Piece of Work

Soudan Letter in London Standard
AS to the chances of a good fight at Abu
Fatmeh or Dongola, there are more dis
crepant views. Up to the ola tie of writing
tAug. y we have no information concern
ing any reinforcementS having been sent
from Omdurman, and the few thousand
now under Wad Bishara's command would
simply be maSSacred.
In any case. it is very unlikely that any
but the luckiest of the enemy will be able
to get away after the bombardment has
once commenced Either Dongola and the
whole country round will be deserted, or
there Will be fight. as no Dervishes have
ever yet surrendered a position; but we
are inclined to think that when the garri-
son sees the gunboats getting the other
side of them they will consider that it is
time to move. and there are bets offered
that the whole business will not last an
hour.
1t seems very little for so long and
tedious a preparation; but it is in fact be-
cause OF the minute care taken, and all the
difficulties overcome in that preparation,
that we hope to make short and sharp
ending. The credit of the Dongola expedi-
ton, when 1T passes into it's place in the
history of the Soudan. will always attach
more TO the crawling than to the fighting.
There has hardly been ina ginable diff
fculty spared to the Srdar all minor vexa-
now that that scourge is almost stamped
out, the Nile suddenly sinks. just when the
steamers are at the Great Gate and when
1t ought to be rising its fastest. Between
sickness and delay of the food. we are al
ready more than z fortnight behind our
originally planned dates: but. if the obsta-
cles are annoying, we all know that they
will be overcome. as their predecessors
have been. and every day brings us nearer
to cooler weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19

Two gentlemen of Peru, Ind, called at
the Journal office yesterday to say that the
language used by Mr.. Shively, Democratic
candidate for Governor, in his speech in
that city on Wednesday evening, was cor
rectly reported and could be substantateo
by scores of persons who heard 1t. In pre-
sentng the Popocratic side of the money
question Mr.. Shively declared that every
he -nosed Shylock from Jerusalem to
Omaha is boarding up his gold. The in
sulting alusion to particular nationality
is too pointed to have been accidental, and
stamps Mr.. Shively as person OF narrow
and nroscrintiYe nature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
September.

We are drinking the wine of the ages.
From cups that trimming
With the sweet of honey unbought with money
Distilled from the heart of the clover.
The flowers afrnge the waysde
Are in raiment of purple and gold;
To the rough hewn edge of the old stone ledge
The clinging brier-yines hold.
We are breaking life's fine elixir
In the watt OF the perfumed breeze.
The sudden showers the sunlit hours,
The rustic of leaves on the trees.
The fathomless blue Of the heaven.
The beauty and bloom of the day,
Are making us youn@--they waking the
tongue
OF the years that have passed away.
tbs the radiant September,
With the clusters ripe on the vine
With scents that uingle in spicy tingle
On the hill slopes glimmering line.
And summers a step behind us
And autumns a thought before
And each feet sweet day that we meet on the
way
Is an angel at the door.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
Dr.. a. II. Landis.s Services.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
/ see by this mornings Journal that Mr..
j. B. Cheade said in a speech at Ladoga
that DIR. A.sfIfsFLandis, of Logansport. was
never at any time in the United States
service. desire to say that L knew DR..
Lands in the service assistant surgeon
of the Thirty-ffth Ohio Regiment. was in
the same brigade for a while and the Doc
tor and myself and a number of other sur
geons were captured at the battle of Chick
amauga. j also knew him at the battle of
Kenesaw mountain, saw him when he was
wounded, was the first one to him when
wounded / dressed his fractured leg and
sent him to the field hospital. l take pleas
ure in saying that DR.. A. H. Lands was
an honorable and efficient officer in the
army. w E. GRAHAM,
Late Surgeon One hundred and first In
diana.
Noblesvile Ind Sept 49,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
A FEW. WORDS TO WORKERS.
The Purpose of Governments in Coin
ing and Stamping Metals.

MISUNDERSTANDING exchange by weight
of metals was found to be very neon
venient method, and perfectly honest ana
lust dealing was almost impossible OF at
tainment even when the intent was right,
the various grades in each of the two
metals presenting an almost insurmount-
able difficulty in determining the real value
of any nugget or fraction of 1t OF either;
and the rarity of very accurate scales made
it so that but few persons could give the
exact weight necessary for justice in COM
mon dealings. Such conditions gave every
opportunity for deception and fraud.
To remedy these defects and facilitate
exchanges governments instituted coinage,
the stamping of pieces Of given size and
quality with a given name. In a money
system for a free people it was desired It
should be simple and honest as possible.
They devised nothing new. They chose the
metrical numeration followed the English
in the use of metals and the Spanish unit
one dollar. The Spanish value for one was
also adopted-371H grains of pure silver in
the unit and halves quarters and dimes OF
silver in exact proportion OF weight. - Inc me
and aimed to be exactly ten times the
value of the dollar. The relative CONNER
cial value of the metals would determine
the number of grains of gold to nave ten
times the value of the dollar. and after
very careful investigation they concluae e5
that ratio and it was established Dy law.
371H grains of pure silver one dollar and
proportional amounts in halves, quarters
and dimes, and 2471a grains of pure gold an
eagle, halves and quarters a proportional
amount The purpose was to have easily
recognized honest money of both metals as
sured as to value by the honest stamp of
an honest government, simplifying and Ia
cilitating honest exchanges and uniform
measures of value to the highest degree.
To prevent differences between citizens of
differing natonalities to what money
should pay debt these coins, as to weight.
were made a lawful satisfaction for all
debts and claims This did not increase the
vaI11e of the coin any more than the stamp
did One facilitated knowledge of value
and the other prevented disputes in pay
ments 1t is well for us to remember the
charter of our liberties neither authorizes
nor recognizes any money but coin-value
absolute, permanent value.
ONE OF THE WORKERS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19

At this crisis in our history. when
storm of political and financial heresies is
class of voters who present solid front to
the attacks OF the enemies of sound money
and good government. The colored voters
are standing like stone wall for the true
Republican faith. They may not be learned
in finance. political economy or the science
OF government, though many of them know
as much about these things as some of the
Popocrat orators do, but they have too
much patriotism and good sense TO take up
with the false and vicious doctrines of the
Popocrats. The waves Of Organism. ALI
geldism, Tiiinanism, hatism and PopuIism
heat in vain against the ranks of the col
nred voters. In its Southern STATES. where
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
A FnrcicaI Conmemoration.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journals:
Perhaps Mr.. Reed was warranted in not
subjecting himself to the charge of parti-
san discourtesy in refusing the use of the
Capitol grounds for the Bryan demonstra-
tion yet there is something unpleasantly
grotesque in the idea of the centennial an
niversary of Washington's farewell address
being commemorated a. the Nations capt.
tai by the speech of candidate for Presi-
dent who represents more dangerous and
more unpatriotic tendencies than any
Washington warned his countryrnen
against. Think of orator lauding the
principles and wisdom of the fathers of the
Republic and then arguing in favor of the
reputation of public and private debts an
abandonment of the financial policy of all
enlightened nations, the packing of the SUI
prerre Court to secure the reversal of de-
cisions and withdrawal of the most vital
prerogative of the government they
founded--the power TO protect property and
preserve order. Think what the Father of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19

Among the Democrats of national repu-
tation who are opposed to the Popocratic
ticket are Grover Cleveland. John G.. Car
isle, Richard Olney, Daniel S. Lamont H.
A. Herbert, D. II. Francis, William d.
Wilson, Judson Harmon. J. Sterling Nor
ton, ex-Goyernor Flower, General John c.
Black, Henry Watterson, Senators Villas,
Gray, Caffery and Lindsay, ex-Secretary
Don Dickinson. Colonel James o. Brod-
head, General Daniel E. Sickles, Hon.
Bourke Cochran and General Franz Sigel.
The list of Democrats of national notori
ETY. supporting the Bryan ticket begins
with Governor Altgeld and Senator Ben
Tillman.