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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Mr.. Stanley Waterloo is newspaper man
of Chicago who finds time in the midst Of
his professional duties. to do some literary
work of a different class He has written
several stories which give evidence of
strength and originality, and his latest, THE
Story of Alb" possesses these qualities in
very high degree. 1t is a story of the
Stone Age, and the personages who figure
in it are supposed to have lived so long ago
that we cannot closely fix the date. AL
though highly imaginative work it differs
in toto from the ordinary novel, in that it
essays to describe the lives and characters.
the loves and adventures of people who lived
when the world was young and when hui
man beings did not differ greatly from the
animals around them. In doing this the
author has adhered pretty closely to the
lines of ascertained knowledge and to scien-
tifjc conclusions regarding the period re-
ferred to and the conditions of prehistoric
times. Into these conditions and environ
ments he has introduced human beings of
his own creation-wild beings who, hungry
and cold slew the fierce beasts which were
scarcely more savage than they, and were
fed and clothed by their flesh and fur.
These people lived in caves, but, being hui
man, they were Swayed by love, in some
form at least by jealousy, fear, revenge
and by the memory of Benefits and wrongs.
Out of these strange materials the author
has woven a strong ard obstructive story.
Chicago: Way & WiHidfns2 e7- ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

that the opponents OF civil-service reform
Planned national convention, TO be held
In this very city of Cincinnati. for the pur-
pose or organizing a grand movement for
the overthrow of the eivi-service law.
Nothlng could be q more striking object
lesson than a grand muster of the enemies
OF clvil-Servfee reform In bodily exhibition.
Their leading statesman. Representative
GrosVenor. has already sounded the key
note OF their movement Mr.. Grosvenor
says: The battle cry of Van Wyck (the
Tammany candidate for mayor is liberal
political education to the people OF the
United States. He won a victory unprece-
denied, and he gave out but one battle cry,
and that thrilled through the hearts of a.
great body of the American people and an
echo will be heard. That battle cry was II
will put none but Democrats into Office in
New York F"
Mr.. Grosvenor admonishes the Repub-
ncan party to follow Tammanys example.
The battle cry from which political parties
are to receive their strongest inspiration is
10 be: To the victor belongs the spoils. and
every government employment shall be
SPOIL The kindred battle cry. To hell with
REFORM will soon follow. And the result?
A great Democratic Tammany on one side
and a great Republican Tamrnany the
other fighting for plumber and casting lots
for the garments of the crucified Republic.
Whoever still fights for the spoils system
sacrifices himself for a lost cause. The
final victory cannot fail to be with sound
democratic principles, reason and civiliza-
tiOn"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Not all members of Congress think that
repeal of the civil-service law would be the
beginning of a political millennium. The
Washington correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Press quotes a prominent member
from Pennsylvania as saying:
| declare right now that should this
law be repealed / would decline to stand
for reelection TO Congress. The pres
sure for appointments to fourth-class post
Offices is bad enough. but my life would not
be worth living if l had to contend with
the thousand more officeseekers who
would swoop down from my district de-
handing places in the departments in
Washington. If there is one class of men
of the civil-service law it is members OF
Congress. 1t has given them an oppor-
tunity to pay some attention to legislation
that is of more Importance to their constit-
uents generally than the appointment of a
few men
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

The important fact contained in the above
figures is that more than one-half of the
matter carried in the mails in 1896 yielded
the government little less than &c. 0O0, 0OO
while a little more than 10 per cent, meas
ured by weight, yielded over $6O,OOO,OOO 1t
cost the government about Is cents a pound
to carry its mails, and it received over 1876
cents a pound If the second-class matter
had paid Is cents pound the government
would have received $50, 100000. If it had
received one-fourth as much as it pays for
carriage it would have received $13, 600, 900
instead of 100000, and the postal service
wouId have been self-sustaining.
The bill which the House passed last
year. and which will be presented again
this session, prohibits the admission of
books reprints to second-class rates and
abolishes the sample copy privilege. 1t
costs 8 cents pound to send legitimate
books through the mails, but under the
guise of serials, numbers of periodical pub
lications and all sorts of books are sent
through the mails at the rate of l cent a
pound. Worse than the serial abuse is that
of the sample copy of alleged newspa-
pers. One firm in Augusta, Me-, a city of
1900 inhabitants sent through the mails 2
per cent. of the total second-cass matter.
On the outside page of the paper is printed
the words sample copy The proprietors
of this paper do not claim that half their
circulation goes to paid subscribers. Adver-
tisers band together and issue editions of
thousands marked sample copies. There is
ter, the bulk of the publications being adj
vertisements. These are the abuses to which
the Loud bill is designed to put an end. Mr..
Loud says that of the $40,O00,0O0 which it
costs to transport the mails $24, 600 900 is
chargeable to second-class matter, and of
the $50 100000 which represents the cost of
handling the mails $16,6O0OO0 is likewise
chargeable to second-class matter From
figures available at the Postoftice Depart
ment Mr. Loud says that about one-third
of these two amounts could be saved by the
passage of the bill which he champions,
namely, $13500,0o0. The Newspaper Pub
fishers Association has twice recommended
the abolition of the sample-copy privilege.
About year ago the Republican Editorial
Association of this State made vigorous
seen if the lobby can again defeat the bill
by preventing it's consideration in the Sem
ate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
REASSEMBLING OF THE MONETARY
CONVENTION.

In deciding to call together again the
monetary convention which met in this city
in January last the Journal believes the ex-
ecutive committee has acted wisely. In
deed the accession seems appropriate for
saying thaV4he committee has acted wisely
at every stage Of the business No popular
movement in favor of any governmental
policy was ever more judiciously organized
and handled than this movement for cur
rency reform has been. The result has been
a steady growth of popular respect for the
commission and of sentiment in favor of
the movement itself. The Journal believes
the reassembling of the convention will con-
tribute further in the same direction. The
report of the commission will be made pub
lie in a few days, together with its plan
of currency reform, and from present indi-
cations they will excite general interest and
discussion The convention will reassemble
in this city on the 18th of January. 1t will
be the same convention that met here
year ago, yet not the same. 1t will reas-
semble at the call of the executive COM
mittee appointed at the first meeting, and
will have the same officers and largely the
same personnel, but there will be many
cities and commercial organizations repre-
sented in the next meeting that We're not
represented in the first one. 1t will be a
much larger convention and therefore
more representative. With the moral effect
of the first convention and the growth of
currency reform sentiment during the past
year the next meeting will attract even
more attention than the first one did, and
its proceedings will excite more interest.
The report and plan of the commission will
have been before the public for a month
when the convention reassembes, ana the
sense of the country, especially of bust
ness men, will have been fairly well as
certained. Coming together again under
such circumstances the convention will
have the ear of the country to an unusual
degree, and it's action will carry great
weight The time and place of the next
meeting have been well chosen. The move
ment which originated with the Indianap-
oils convention of 1897 and which has be-
come known as the Indianapolis currency
reform movement will be strengthened and
advanced by the Indianapolis convention of
$685. The Journal congratulates the execu-
tive committee on it's wise action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
The American Couere.

1.-The American College in American Life"
by President Thwing, of the Western Re-
serve University, is designed to show that
the growth of institutions of higher oduca-
ton in this country has kept pace with the
growth of American life. The primary aim
of the writer has been to bring the Ameri-
can college into closer relations with Amer
lean life and, as far as may be, TO bring
American life into more vital touch with
the American college. In nine chapters he
shows the increasing power, the results and
the present conditions of higher institutions
of learning. The chapter concerning the in
creasng cost of college education has
wider application in economics than to the
college. published by c. p. Putnam's Sons,
New York r.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Hawaii, Our New Possessions, is very
timely book, even if there is some doubt
concerning the prediction contained in the
last part of the titles 1t is ltimely because
Hawaii is unknown to the mass of intelli-
gent people and the issue of annexation has
awakened a desire to know about the ISL
ands. The author, John. r. Musick, in his
travels and voyages in and about Hawaii
was the companion of the late Kate Field.
The description of the country is full and
complete Hawaii is a region of wonder
full climate and fertility of soil, capable of
sustaining half a million people. Its COM
merce with the United States is $15 000,0 900 a
year, and may, in the judgment of the
writer, be increased to SIS, coo 900. In his es
timatiOn, Hawaii is the fParadise of the
Pacific" The book contains the tradition
authentic history from the discovery of the
islands by Captain Cook until the present
time. chapter is given to the overthrow
of the Queen, in which the details of the
affair are given impartially. a chapter is
given to Mr.. Blounts visit and another to
eX-President Cleveland's effort to restore
monarchy to the Hawaiian islands. The
chapters devoted to accounts of the at
tempts of Captain Rookie, of the British
war ship Champion, and of the British min
lister to restore the Queen, are intensely in
teresting. If his account were not sustained
by ample evidence it would he doubted.
question of annexation is fairly discussed.
The book is copiously illustrated and is
published by the Funk a. WagnallS Com
pany, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
"CHAlN LETTERS" AGAIN.
Iowa School Ma'am Works an Old
Scheme to Get Higher Education.


OTTUMWA, Ia, Dec 16.-The old scheme
of "ckain letters" has been put to new Use
by Rosa Leech, poor school teacher at
Smoky Hollow, mining camp, near Abba.
Ia Miss Leech considered that large num-
Der of charitable people over the country
would not hesitate to contribute one penny
for the sake of securing college education
for poor girl. With this in mind she wrote
to number of her friends, explaining her
circumstances and her desire to acquire a
college education. Each of these she asked
to contribute one penny, and to write to
three of their friends, asking them to do
likewise. At first the answers came slowly,
but as the letters became more widely cir
culated by the "chain system" her mail
grew larger each day. until at present she
is receiving over one hundred letters a day
and the fund has reached something ike
$500.
The answers come from all parts of the
country and some of them are unique. Some
come from unknown admirers, asking for
photograph of herself. Others have Oilers
of steady correspondence, proposals of mar
riage and expressions Of admiration of all
kinds and degree. All the letters contain
pennies, many of them nickels, dimes, quar-
ters and one benevolent Ohio man inclosed
81 along with an offer of his hand and
heart. A young man in Doylestown. o., sug-
gests that their town would afford her ex-
cellent facilities IN the college line, and as
an extra inducement she might live with
them and work for her board, as his mother
was growing old and he was thinking T Sc
curing a helpmeet. A Mentor, o., man, with
q big bank account and a meat market
sends full description of his business and
invites her to become his wife. Sandusly
o. has a citizen who wants a wife and
thinks Rosa would do first rate He is the
manufacturer of sure cure for rheuma-
tism, says he is handsome and has large
bank account He is widOwer and says he
is looking for another wife. He refers Miss
Leech to Senators Foraker and Hanna as to
his social and financial standing.
Miss Leech is quiet, unassum1g girl
and her head has not been turned by the
number of proposals she has received. Her
only object is to secure a college education,
which, from present indications, she is in a
sure way to secure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

the other day, Senator Butler. OF North
Carolina, declared that "such system will
insure greater comfort in the homes of the
plain people of the land, cultivate among
them thrift and economy, and enable them
easily to provide for themselves in illness
and old age" No doubt the habit of saw
ing tends to give character to those who
have learned IT. but how the mere passage
Of q law will change the spend-all and those
who have nothing to spend into economists
is one OF the things which needs further
explanation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

duced bill which provides for the super
vision of insurance companies by the Treas
ury Department. The measure applies to
all regular insurance companies doing bust
ness outside the States in which they are
organized. AS the information which the
proposed United States commissioner of in
surance will collect will be just what state
officials desire, and will save them the cost
of collecting it separately. the bill may be
regarded with favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

William Doxey. a San Francisco pub
Usher. who is doing. some good book work,
has issued idle Hours in Library" by
Prof. VIM. H. Hudson, of Stanford Univer-
sity, neat volume, containing four essays,
sptitled respectively London Life ri, in
Diary Two Novelists of the English
Restoration and "A Glimpse of Bohemia. 8"
Also, "Petrarch and Other Essays" on lit
erary topics. by Timothy II Rearden. a
California writer of fine quality and THE
Voice of the Valley" by Youe Noguchi, a
poet of the Walt Whitman school. These
books are published in good form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

The Journal repeats that the opponents
of the annexation of Hawaii are really in
duty bound to- present some substitute for
annexation which will keep the islands out
of the hands of any other nation. If the
United States does not annex or protect Ha-
wall some other government will do so,
and that is the thing we do not want
and which we should not permit The OPP
ponents of the treaty seem not to care if
Japan or any other government shall seize
the key to the North Pacific. What SUBJ
stitute will the opponents of annexation
offer?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
From the Inland publishing Co.

The Inland Publishing Company, Terre
Haute, Ind, have publishedg;'A Syllabus of
European History" by Prof, Andrew Steph-
enson, of De PAW University. 1t is an out
line for the study of European history by
the laboratory method. References are
given to the volume and page of all the best
and most early accessible authorities on the
points under discussion BY the aid of the
book the teacher will be able to cover more
satisfactorily a larger portion of history
than could otherwise be accomplished.
while for the general reader it will afford
safe guidance in private study 1t is a
very helpful work. The same publishers
issue "Oliver and His Friends, by David
Wilson Anderson, pleasant little story of
pioneer school days in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
preserved

1t seems that the National Board of Trade
does not share the opinion of some news
papers that the postal savings banks would
be a good thing. By the way, the methods
of obtaining signatures to the petitions sent
to Congress were interesting. The cam
vassers in some localities were paid 1 cent
each for signatures of citizens. The friends
of the solicitors of signatures were anxious
that they do well in this work, and some
times signed the petitions two or three times
each per day. Such petitions do not sig
Nifty a great and burning desire on the part
of the common people for that form Of in
vestment. Another solicitor, or even the
same solicitor if he were paid the same
or little more per name, could perhaps
get the same signatures on a remonstrance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
The Magic Art.

A volume entitled Hermann, The Ma
gician; His Life, His Secrets will interest
persons who like to know how things are
done, especially mysterious and incompre-
hensible things The Hermann referred to
is Carl Hermann, the greatest magician of
recent times. He came of a race of con-
jurors, his father. uncle and brother having
all been in that line, but he was the great
est of all. In this volume, by II. G.. Bur-
lingame, the inventor and maker of most
of the apparatus used by up-to-date con-
jurors. Hermann's most puZzling tricks are
explained in clear. simple language. so that
one can easily see they are nothing but
tricks. The book is entertaining, and, in a
way, Instructive. Chicago Laird & Lee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Stranger things have happened than a war
between the United States and Japan, which
Gen. Lew Wallace predicts will be the next
war we shall have. 1t has been fifty years
since we had a foreign war; and more than
some foreign country is about due, and none
seems to hold out more eligible prospect
at present than Japan. Such a war would
be interesting on account of its oddly, and
at its conclusion Japan would have to pay a
war indemnity big enough to cover the en-
tire expense of the thrashing she would get.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

eRebekah: A Tale of the Times of Nero, .
by M. p Jones. Cincinnati: The Editor
Publishing Company.
"A Cuban Amazon a novel, by Virginia
L. Dunbar. Cincinnati: The Editor Pub
fishing Company
BEST Methods of Promoting Spiritual
Life" a communion address. by the late
Phillips Brooks. New York: Thomas Whit
taker, No. Bible House.
1.-The Death of Falstaff and Other
Poems," by l.. Brace Moore. Baltimore:
Gushing & Co.
phyllis in Bohemia" novel, by l.. H.
Bickford and Richard S. Powell Chicago:
Herbert S. Stone & Co.
"Whitelaws Improved Interest Tables
and Charts containing correct interest
tables up to the fifth decimal by j. II.
Whtelaw Chicago: Laird & Lee.
Beyond the Pale" a. novel, by B. NJ.
Croker author of Pretty Miss Neville,
etc. New York: r. F. Fenno & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
Arrested for Embexniement.

LOUISVILLE. Dec. ia sensation was
caused ON Main street this morning when
Louis Altman was arrested on a charge OF
embezziing $4,000 from the firm of Charles
Rosenheim a. CO.. wholesale chinaware
merchants at No 746 West Main street for
whom he was confidential clerk. An ex-
animation of the books is alleged TO show
series OF embellishments extending over
seven or eight years and may reach So, 900
Altman was arrested at his desk and made
a partial confession which he afterward
retracted when placed in jail. He Is about
thirty-two years old and has been In the
firms employ for nearly twenty years. He
began as q messenger boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Originally chatelaine was an ornamental
hook or clasp worn by lady at her waist
and having a show chain or chains attached
for watch, keys, trinkets, etc. In figura-
tive sense, it is rot appropriately applied
to a miscellaneous collection of literary
fragments strung together arbitrarily by a
slender chain of sentiment. The Chate-
laine," by G. +. X, is of this character.
osophy and many fine sentiments well ex-
pressed, some clever sketches and some
pretty verses, making altogether literary
symposium of unrelated, yet harmonious
thoughts. Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book
COmDanY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

The fact that a considerable number of
men seventy years of age and more are in
the departments at Washington as clerks,
who are no longer serviceable, shows two
things. One Of these is that after many
years of service such officials have been
able to make no provision for old age.
Years 30. when Mr.. Blaine was just out of
college his uncle was secretary of the In
terror Mr. Blaine went 10 him for clerk
ship and was refused on the ground that
the worst thing that could be done for q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
The Financial Weak Spot.
Philadelphia Record.

Controller Eckels has once more exposed.
with his accustomed ability the weakness
OF the country's system of currency and
finance. Nothing more completely reveals
the danger of the system than the fact so
strongly presented by Mr.. Eckels. that its
stability is dependent upon the will of one
man. Bryan in the Office of President
could topple over the whole structure by his
mere decree ordering the payment of treas
ury obligations in silver. While doing JUS
tice to the good intentions Of President Nc
Kinley in regard TO currency reform, Con-
troler Eckes thinks that the President does
not go far enough and this opinion is shared
by many friends of monetary reform. But
perhaps the President prefers to obtain the
little that may be within reach TO losing all
in attempting too much. Events viii de-
termine whether this judgment be correct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
ECONOMY IN THE POSTAL SERVICE.

In the December issue of the Forum Rep
resentative Loud, of California, chairman
of the House committee on postofiices, has
an article in which he makes it clear that
Congress should pass the bill bearing his
name, designed to curtail the abuses in re-
gard to second-class matter. Mr. Loud be-
lieves that the postal service should pay
its way, and to show the reason why it
does not he presents the following figures
from the postoffice report for 1896:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

If the men taken into the police force and
fire department were required to present
testimonials of good character and to pass
an examination as to their qualifications,
better men would be secured than some of
those whom the Board of Safety has been
selecting. When fitness is not the prime
consideration favoritism rules, and it often
happens that the most Objectionable men
have the most persistent backing.