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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

From the Gentlewoman

From the GentleWoman.
Here are two courteous epitaphs worthy
of note for their quaintness. One is on
a tombstone in Ulster, and runs:
ITO the memory of Thomas Kelly, who
was accidentally shot by his brother as a
mark of respect"
The other epitaph is to be found at Gull
more, near Londonderry:
Here lies the remains of Thomas
Nichols, who died in Philadelphia. March,
1888. Had he lisved ne would have been
buried here"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
-Mavor Pingree of Detroit was nncl

Mayor Pingree of Detroit was much
shocked recently by a show at a local
theater one of the scene represented a
fire alarm at night in a young woman s
peared in white night gowns, as If Just
aroused from sleep. Mayor Pingree at
once, it is said, issued q. decree directing
that at future performances the young
women should appear in bright red silk
slippers, red stockings, red boomers. and
red oYerskirts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
BACON WON THE RACE.
Conner, the American Champion, De.
feated I'm a Three-MfIe Run.

DUBLIN. Oct. 3.-Frederick E. Bacon.
Thomas p. Connect, the American cham
pion. in the three-mile run this afternoon
Oil the track of the Ballsbridge grounds.
Connect retired after covering a mile and
300 yards. The time was 1929 3-5. The race
thus decided is the first of a series of three
events for $500 a side in each case, in which
Bacon and Conneff are to compete. The
second race is to take place at Manchester,
and the distance will be one mile. The
third race, distance two miles, may take
place at Glasgow. Conneff has been under
the care of Al Bowling, of the Suffolk A.
e., OF Boston, and Bacon has been looked
after by William Cummings, who was at
one time a rival of w. G. George.
Bacon won the toss and took the inside
OF the track. After the men had been pho
tographed they were started at 4:47. Con-
neff took the lead, quickly increased it to
two yards and held the same lead for over
AT the end of the first mile Bacon took
command, leading by three yards, and
when the runners had covered a mile and
three hundred yards Connect became weak
and stopped while Bacon completed the
distance in 1929 3-5.
The betting before the start was three to
one on Bacon, and both men were vigor-
ously applauded when they appeared. Con-
neff has been affected by the climate. He
has been suffering from fever and tooth
ache, and it was only during the past week
that he was able to do hard training. On
the other hand, Bacon was in the pink of
condition and felt confident of success.
The weather was fine, but the track was a
trifie soggy- Whatever the outcome of the
present series of races, it is probable that
Bacon and Conneff to take place in the
United States during 1897
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BEGAN WITH NOTHING.
Successful Men Who ega Life as
Poor Boys.

New York Letter in Philadelphia Press.
Governor Flower in Speaking OF this at
tempt of Bryan's to persuade men that the
opportunities for getting on in life were
closed to all but those who had associa-
ton with the favored classes said that if
a census were taken of the men who had
New York city. in business. in the profess
sionS or in politics it would be found that
nine out of every ten began life as poor as
he himself did. And this statement is un-
doubtedly TRUE. On Saturday afternoon a
little company was discussing these asser-
tionS of Bryan'S and were led by them to
look about them and select the representa-
tive men in New York city in the profess
gained fame and fortune. With few ex-
ceptioRS. numbering not more than could
be counted upon the fingers of both hands.
every man of prominence and great in
fiuence in this city began life as a humble
member of the oppressed class for which
Mr.. Bryan expresses so much sympathy.
BY far the greater number of organizers
and managers of our railway systems came
from the ranks. OF the leaders of the bar
the greater number began life poor.
Frederic Coudert was so poor that he was
for the newspapers in order that ne might
support himself while studying for the bar
Judge Daniels, who will next month retire
from Congress of his own accord. earned
and an itinerant one at that. Russell Sage
began life without a dollar. as did jaw
Gould. The genius who gave the world
electric Illumination was within the MEM
operator. The Republican candidate for
Governor of this State was. fifteen years
ago, supporting himself while studying law
by writing for the newspapers. Bourke
that he was content to make his lunch With
a penny roll. and sometimes had not even
that. and Il is safe To say that a majority
of the ablest merchants Of this city began
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
The Etiquette of the Road.

I1dI ES > N0NhtS
The minor or unwritten rules of cycling
road etiquette have to deal more with the
social side of the sport. Should wheelmen
other in passing. especially when they so
pass on country roads? Does the fact that
a mar and woman are cyclists allow the
man to tender assistance to the woman If
her wheel has gone wrong in any way?
How should men and women dress when
wheeling? All these and a hundred other
questions which are daily answering them
selves, or are being answered by the cy-
cliStS of the country, constitute. when
solved by the large number of men and
women cyclists, the etiquette of the road.
have fully established an etiquette, and
there are situations which almost daily
confront the cyclist. experienced as he or
she may be in the refinements which gov
ern the intercourse of cultivated people.
which are puzZiing ones to solve. 1t would
be far easier to compile the etiquette of
the road from the negative than from the
positive standpoint, and, unfortunately, the
cycling craze affords every day on our
streets and highways too many evidences
or examples of bad banners and inappro-
pirate dress, which would enable the OBJ
servant man or woman to treat the whole
haauing CT .Don'ts." The men or women
of natural or acquired refinement. who
know how to conduct themselves in the
parlor, dining room and in other depart
ments of life. are not likely TO misbehave
on the wheel; and those who are sincerely
DESTROYS of knowing what is the proper
thing to do should study the manners and
procedure OF the most refined person of
their acquaintance when on the wheel.
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their careers with a few dollars savings.
One of those who has been often alluded tol
as q type Of a Republican capitalist. and
who was present in this company which
was speaking about these things, said that
he began life in Maine when he was TWEEN
ty-one years of age, in a little store, in
which he took in the first year 1,40 and
saved 500, and in the next year he took IN
s., 600 and saved 1880, and that he had
never. in all his experience, found that any
one or any influence stood in the way. of his
success. That man is Seth NJ. Milliken.
sometimes pointed to as an illustration of
the money power. Every dollar that he
gained, he said, was won in a free field
and in a fair struggle, and the opportuni-
ties which were his were also the oppor-
gence. honorable ambition, frugality and a
good business sense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
a Times in the Horse Market.


Our ancient and honorable friend the
horse seems to be in a bad way. The De-
partment of Agriculture has been looking
into his condition and expectations. and
lust at hand are that there will shortly be
noted a large increase of Houyhnhnm sui
eide. From 1855 to 1893 the number of
horses in the United States grew steadily.
the creatures in the country. The number
has now fallen to 10. 124, 057. In 1854 the aver
age value of the horses in the country was
Sf464. From that year down to 1892 there
was a decline in average value of about a
dollar a head every year. In 1882 the aver
age price was $50 a head. Then came a
sharp cutting down in the values. In 1893
the average price had fallen to SCI. p. In
1894 it was only s4T-S3. In 1885 it was $50. %.
and in 1896 the average up TO the middle of
the year was $500.
Comparing the range. of prices for horses
during these years with the fluctuations In
the prices of COWS and sheep, one fines
that these food animals nave also declined
in value. But the declines are not ALWAYS
gradual, as in the case Of prices fer horses
Their values are apparently affected by
different causes The highest average
price of milk COWS recorded is $S1.3T in
1884. There was a slow decline to 81 40
advance year by year until now it is
S22. 50. Sheep, which in 1854 were valued at
S2.37 a head. dropped to S1.a1 in 1886. rose
to $2.66 in 1888, fell to s1.5s in 1895 and are
row Sl.10.
The failing off in the price of horses be-
gan to be most marked in the years which
saw the first general substitution of cleo
tricity for horse power on street. railways.
ing out of employment of thousands of
horses that used to drag us through the
streets at six miles an hour. The bicycle
has done something towards i~essening the
demand for horses. but IL is a question
whether it has been so influential In that
respect as some persons maintain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Our Merchant Maripe.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 3-The merchant
marine of the United States on June 30.
1896, according TO the completed tabulation
of the Bureau of Navigation. comprised
%. eos vessels of 4.703,ss0 gross tons, a de-
crease of $50 vessels. but an increase of 6S,-
900 tons over the previous year. Wooden
sailing vessels numbered 16. pa, of 2,310.S19
gross tons Iron and steel steamers num-
bered $50. of 1,004. 113 gross tons. Vessels
~doeumented at the Atlantic and gulf ports
numbered 16. 7S6. OF 1861 .313 gross tons; at
Pacific coast ports. 1850. of 4&.. 972 tons: on
the great lakes. 2.333, of ], 324. 06S tons. and
or the Western rivers. I.229 vessels. of ga
ST tons. Vessels registered for the foreign
trade numbered l.25I. of S44. 954 tons. of
which "a are Vessels built and
docunented during the year number 723.
of ct .096 gross tens, or more than double
the great lakes. III vessels. of los. lS2 tons
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Advice that Is Easy to Follow.
Pail Mall Gazette.

l. Cal @At~A
A highly unconventional conference, Stat
which DR.. Schweninger, the Bismarckian
body physician. has been giving in Berlin.
The Doctor told Berlin that he did not be-
lieve much in the yaunted discoveries of
modern medical science. He thought that
fifty years hence they would be laughed
at just as much as those of fifty years ago
were now. He didn't believe in hygiene.
either: nor in corsets, which he held to be
the invention of a ~humpback: nor in tall
hats. which were as effective as having
your hair cut for the production of bald
ness. Cut hats. and don't cut your hair. If
YOU want to keep it, was his advice. AS to
eating. If you had d weak stomach it must
do what 1t liked with you. II you had a
strong one. you might do what you liked
with it. The Doctor said nothing about
drinking. but he made it pretty plain he
did not think much Of regimens- You
ought to be a law unto yourself. He was
once. the Doctor said, In a country which
he left undesignated. where some sheep and
goats had nothing but flint stones to eat,
and contrived to get fattcr on that diet
than other sheep and goats in .fowery
meals. IT was simply n case of what you
found suit you best just so. We quite
agree. So. no doubt. does Prince Bismarck.
and this Is why he and his physician get
along so well together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04

In behalf of this Populistic doctrine of free
silver. is it not equally cogent in favor of
the Republican doctrine of protection?
Having been present more than once
when he has discussed the views of those
from whom he differs, / can well imagine
the smile, so child-like and bland with
which he welcomed your Excellency's con-
fiding letter, and the outburst of Titanic
laughter with which he would hear that
he had ensnared the great American Re-
pubic by answering YOU"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Postomce Fraud Orders.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 3.-The Postofice
Department has issued fraud orders against
Wilcox & Co, and A. ii. Wilcox. No. 80
Broadway, New York. and G.. G.. Corey.
Brewster, N. Y. Wilcox, il was claimed.
was using the name to defraud another
firm. A fraud order has been issued againsr
Thomas IL Andersen, South Bend. Ind. The
firm was advertising an alleged valueless
medicine.
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similar classes, and hereafter vacancies in
the grade of chief yeoman will be filed
from the men of firSt-class grade, who for
merly found 1t impossible to rise above the
rank OF first-class writer's. The order is ex-
pected to stimulate the zeal of these OFF,
GERS, who have heretofore been subject to
ing of1cerS by making them permanent
members of an established corps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Building Permits.

81, GOO.
Mary schad. frame cottage~North Preston
street. $500.
II. Wilson. frame house. IS jefferson avenue,
George LANCE. repairs. as South Est street,
1865.
William ID. Eof. 81, 500.
Clifton Parker. frame shed. 5Is addison street.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. IA small applica-
ton of civil-service principles to the navy
is indicated in an order made by the Presi-
dent placing ship writer's in line of pro-
motion to the grade of chief yeoman. whose
compensation is $50 per month. This was
done by simply designating the first. Sec
ond and third-class writer's Is yeomep Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Pardon Denied by the President.

WASHINGTON Oct. 3.-In denying the
application for pardon made for Irving A.
Pulse sentenced in northern Illinois TO one
year and five months imprisonment for en-
bezzling postal and money order funds
while ostmaster at Glen Ellyn, ILL.,. the
President says in part: The embezzle-
ment. of government funds by postmasters
is so common that | do not feel that I
ought to interfere with the lelient sem
tence imposed by the court. | believe that
any deliberate <embezzlement of public
money by y postmaster is lightly punished
by one years imprisonment."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
September Coinage.

WASHINGTON Oct. 3. The monthly
s~tatement"of the Director OF the Mint
shows the total coinage at the United
States minis during the month of Septem-
Der. 1896, to have been $5,9l5, $3.50. which
Yer. 81, 754. 1855; minor coins. 500. PIG. OF the
silver coined 81, 700. 100 was in standard dol
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Conductor Mccarthy Free.
Railway Tickets Forged.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 3.-One of the bold
est ticket forgeries on record here was I'M
earthed to-day by the detective depart
ment. AS d result, j. Todd, who claims
Charlotte, N. c., as his home, is under ar
rest. The name of superintendent +.
Chester, of the Lenoir railroad. was written
on tickets which. Todd tried to sell, and
which were pronounced by the authorities
of the company to be bogus. Where they
were printed is not known, but they We're
correctly filled out, stamped punched and
signed. 1t is believed that there has been
a number of them circulated in Atlanta.
The tickets read from Yorkville, S. c., to
Portland. Ore,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Presfdent VIII soon Hc,urn

BUZZARD'S BAY. Mass. Oct. at is re-
ported to-day that President Cleveland and
family will take their departure from Gray
Gables next week. but the day has not been
decided upon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Prince khilkon win Not Play stoker

= 81. TEI EIIObOING OCl- O.-I TITIUG XIII
koff, the Minister. of Communications has,
it is stated here. Abandoned his projected
visit to the United States, during which
he was to make a further study of the
working of American railroads. The prince
some years ago secured employment on a
railroad in the United States, beginning as
assistant stoker in order to study American
railroad methods. He recently started on
a tour of inspection of the transsiberian
railroad and from Siberia was to have gone
to Japan and thence to San Francisco, New
York, London and Paris.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Settled 1t.
Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar.
us Miss Calhoots in?" inquired the caller.
THAT depends on you. Are you Mister
Jones?" said Bridget. Yes" 'Shes gone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3.-Judge Ache
son, in the United States Court, to-day
confirmed the sale of the property of the
Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron Com
panies under the foreclosure proceedings.
He overruled all the motions for arrest of
Judgment and other proceedings instituted
in opposition to the sale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
LAND OFFICE WORK.
Report and Recommendations of Com
missioner LamOreaux.

missioner LamOreauX.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. = Commissioner
Lamoreaux, of the General Land Office,
has made his annual report to the Secre-
tary of the Interior for the past fiscal year.
The total land selections during the year
were 13, 209, 522 acres, of which 4.S30, 915 were
homestead entries and 6, 7S9, 591 railroad Sc
l~ections. The increase in selections over
the previous year was 4,S02, 673 acres. The
cash receipts were 81, LOG, 3S1, an increase of
$72, 907. Lands patented to railroads in sat-
i~sfaction of grants, IL, PSI, S44 acres, an in
crease of 7,343, sos acres over last year; ag-
ricultural patNnts, $40, 400, a decrease of
2.62S, 480 acres. The total number of acres
patented was ~ 669, 9SJ. The total vacant
public land in the United States is 600, 040,-
GIL acres, of which BIG, COL. SCI are surveyed
and 233, 3SS, so unsurveyed. The amount of
land surveyed during the year was $3.50, sos
acres. Considerable attention has been
given during the year to correct surveying,
and in nearly every public-land State re-
surveys have been ordered upon reports OF
the examiners.
Commissioner Lamoreaux makes the fol-
lowing recommendations: That approprfa-
ton for surveys and resurveyS of public
lands be made continuous; that laws be
passed creating the office of surveyor-gen-
eral of Alaska; establishing a national irri-
CATION commission; for the compulsory at
tendance of witnesses at the hearings in
contests before the district land office; for
the protection of timber on public forest
reservations; to regulate timber on public
lands not embraced within forest reserva-
tons. and for the protection of timber and
other growth on the public domain from
destruction by fire. Nearly all the legisla-
ton recommended is now pending In Con-
gress. The report contains a review OF
the entire work of the General Land Office,
and decisions of the Supreme Court on
land cases.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
LOW RATES TO CANTON
CHEAP FARES FOR PILGRIMS BOUND
TO THE OHIO MECCA.
ern Passenger AssociatiOn-Rail-
WY Forged.

CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-The chairman of the
Western Passenger Association has grant
ed relief to a number of roads in his or
ganization in the matter of reduced rates
to Canton, O. Some time since the Western
roads adopted a one-fare rate, to be added
to the reduced rate made by the lines in
the Central Passenger for par
ties going to Canton. Some of the roads
were of the opinion that the reduced rates
of the Western roads began at the West
ern terminals Of the Eastern roads instead
of the Eastern gateways of the Western
lines. This would make the one-fare rate
adopted by the Western roads available for
basing purposes at points on the Missis-
sippi river. The chairman has announced
that this was not the meaning of the reso-
luton under which the one-fare rates were
made, but as many of the roads, in the
opinion that that was the meaning of
the resolution, have made the one-fare rate
good from the river points, he has given
permission to all of the roads in the asso-
citation to do likewise.
The next regular meeting of the Western
Passenger Association was to have been
held next Tuesday, but on account of the
impossibility of some of the St. Louis roads
to be represented at that time the meeting
has been adjourned for one week.
The Union Pacific has given notice that
for political meetings in the State of Ne
braska it will make a rate of one fare for
the round trip from points within fifty
miles of the place in which the meeting is
to be held.
Conductor Mccarthy Free.
AGL PASS, Tex, Oct. 3.-Conductor
Jerry Mccarthy, who has been in prison in
Ciudad Perfurio Diaz the past forty-eight
days, has been released. The papers cover
ing the whole of the proceedings in his
oo.1 -,a-o foru, I'D - NToU;ao No. d:-oo4
ly after a test made with a dummy, in
| which it was proved that it was impossible
to kill a man who was thrown from a train
in the manner. the prosecuting witness tes-
titled that Mccarthy threw a man off his
train. The Mexico City authorities issued a
certificate completely generating McCar-
thy and stating that the suit should never
Rave been instituted. Thus a long and
tedious case which has been of interest to
railroad men throughout the United States,
has been disposed of, and there is much re-
joicing on the border, though Mccarthy
was the recipient of many courtesies at the
hands of the Mexican authorities during
his Imprisonment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
"Nnde In Germany"

WASHINGTON, Oct. United States
Consul Moore, of Weimar. Germany. has
made a report to the State Department on
the trade rivalry between Great Britain
and Germany, using as his text a remark
able work, entitled Made in Germany"
which is just now giving rise to a great
discussion in England and has had the eff
feet of rousing the British merchants to
the necessity of making extensive reforms
in present methods in order to retain the
trade they have at present. Mr.. Moore calls
attention to the curious fact that whereas
the British government in special act pro-
vided for the stamping of all goods import
ed into England from Germany with the
words made in Germany with the DELHI
crate purpose of reducing their importa-
tioAs. the effect has been exactly the re-
verse, as is shown clearly in the report.
The report gives many figures to show
the enormous inroads the Germans have
been making of late years into British
trade. and the reasons assigned are not
that Germans pay lower wages. but that
cost of production is less in Germany, ow-
ing to the superior technical processes and
great economics in manufacturing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
Children's Suits
and Refers

The surest way to win a mothers
heart is through her child. Beauty
the child and your case is won. Our
Clothing beauties children. Dainti-
ness and art go hand in hand in this
department. Real swell creations in
Boys Clothing, at prices ranging from
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:. 81 to $40. :.

Our goods are all guaranteed tt
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