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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
French secret Police Methods.

Harper's Weekly.
| once spent an afternoon in a pleasant
little villa on the banks of the River Marine
with the former chief of police in the time
of Napoleon III, up to the proclamation of
the republic. No one would have thought
to look at the peaceful figure of the propre-
tor little man in sabots. with gray beard
a Ia Millet absorbed in cutivating the mag
nificent hortensas that covered his terraces,
reaching to the waters edge, that his head
had been a storehouse for all the Snachina-
tions and turpitudes of that period OF deca-
dence which ended in a disastrous war and
a revolution 1t was on that afternoon that
l learned how the fatal olivier Ministry
was decided upon by NJ Theirs and his po-
ltical friends one evening in the conserva-
tory of beautiful French woman, living
not far from the opera. Two brothers, well
known in the best Paris society. meanwhile
distracted the attention of the guests in the
salon by straightforward tricks and gymnas-
tic feats on q Persian rug. And when |
asked the old man how he knew all this
with such precision. From d femme de
chambre." he answered, TRANQUILITY; ''ali
personages Of Importance at that time. at
their own request, took their servants only
from my hand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Secretary Sherman says he issued the APP
peal for aid for the Cubans at the sugges-
ton of the President. Some time ago Con-
sui General Lee at Havana, and our con-
suls in other parts of the island were re-
quested to advise the State Department
as to the exact condition of the people.
1.-The reports, without exception" says the
secretary, showed that the destitute con-
dition of the people was horrible, and that
it seemed beyond the power of the Spanish
government to ameliorate the suffering"
So far as recalled, this is the first time
such a statement or appeal has come from
the government. Relief has been sent at
different times to famine sufferers in Ire
land, China and India, but in none of these
cases was there any appeal from the gov
eminent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The correspondent of the Boston Journal
who has been investigating cotton manu-
featuring in the South finds that 80 per cent
less is paid for ten or twelve hours more
labor in week, that children of all ages
are employed. because there is no law to
prevent, and because the parents. who
come from the farming sections, are
anxious that every child who can shall
earn something. The attempt to organize
labor in the Southern cotton mills has
failed, the native employees preferring to
keep on good terms with their employers.
He finds that when the mill owners ask it
the employees will work fifteen hours day
to fill an order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

One by one the organs of the body are
being treated to the scornful 'ha-ha'' of
the scientist. The tonsils and the spleen
were long ago relegated to the realm of
mystery, and the of the throat 10
breathe through and to swallow with had
been proved to be entirely a matter of
choice and economy. The feet and hands
have been replaced with successful and
practical counterfeits. the appendicitis at
tachment" of man has been successfully
removed. and the removal mas proved
greater blessing than the vermiform APP
pendix ever did 1t has also been frequent
" demonstrated that person can live and
thrive physically and practically without
any evidence of gray matter. However.
1t has been supposed that the stomach was
an essential without which life could not
be for an hour sustained. Nav 'lat tie
old standby has been discarded by Il wom-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

We are sorry one of our reporters found
it necessary so early in his experience to
defend his honor by defending his person
with his fists. But such things are COM
mon TO the profession, and experiences in
such matters are essential to repOrtorial
success.-Rochester Republican.
Prompt settlements make long friends. It
is a grave mistake TO allow accounts to
run so long that memory fails, and then
dispute a book account made at the time.
Prompt settlement would avoid alf such un-
pleasant possibilities, and this is the sea-
son of the year when settlements should
be made.-Bedford Mail.
NJ c.. Messick, a popular Center town
ship farmer. called last Saturday. He be-
lieves the News a good advertising medium.
for last Fridays paper contained a cow
for sale" ad., and it brought him two buy
ers before Monday noon. That's the way
farmers should do-advertise and bring the
buyer TO you, instead Of you hunting the
buyer.-Bloomtield News.
The editor of the News incurred an in
debtedness OF about $500 in improving his
farm property during the second reign of
GLORIOUS Grover" and the hard times and
low prices which followed have kept him
I'm the slough OF dependency so to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Mr. William NJ. Singerly. president of the
national bank which failed a few days
ago in Philadelphia, and proprietor of the
Philadelphia Record, says in personal
statement:
The earnings of this journal during the
year 1896 in excess of all expenditure, were
1910 eco. With such a money maker to fall
back upon. and with a grim determination
to pay every dollar he owes he hopes to re-
deem his credit and satisfy his creditQrs
This is well said, and it should be added
that Mr. Singerlys reputation and record
his word good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Colonel Wright labor commissioner, who
has been giving much attention to the sub
ject of wages at the present time has in
wages are not as high now as in 1891, there
fas been gratifying increase the past year
in many directions. The increase of wages
has been from 5 to % per cent. and the
percentage Of employed is greater than
this, owing to the establishment of new en-
ferprises and the reopening of suspended
works. The only reductions are in the cot
ton industry, and even there Colonel Wright
does not believe that present conditions
will long prevail. The encouraging feature
OF the present situation is the quite general
disposition OF manufacturers to increase
wages voluntarily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The worst feature of bank failures is that
they nlmost always involve the loss of
y whom the loss meaps a great deal. In
THE case of the Chestnut-street National
Tank, Of Philadelphia. which failed few
days ago. the money for the January pay
nents OF the teachers annuity fund had
been deposited In the bank. This fund is
raised largely by teachers. while in active
work, paying percentage of their salaries.
which enables them, after certain term
Of service. to retire on a small pension.
There are now a large number on the PEN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The midwinter season of holiday trade,
which has been exceptionally good. is like
~ to be followed by period of compare
tive dizziness. This will be no cause for dis
couragement, for it is incident to the
season. There is reason to believe that the
favorable influences which nave been OPP
Grating to produce better conditions will
continue. and that spring trade and bust
ness will open early with marked re-
VfYal all along the line
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Rosa Nouchette Carey does not venture
into the higher paths of fiction, but takes
for her theme the simple happenings of
commonplace lives, and, weaving around
them an abundance of sentiment produces
surprisingly entertaining tales. In Other
Peoples Lives she offers a series of
sketches of the little town of Sandilands
and its people, and presents some pleasing
features Of English village life. The book
has been placed in handsome binding by
the J. b. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Patriotism.

law, you know, you may celebrate
Christmas as best you know how" said the
superciious Englishman, but you cawn't
come up to the old English plum pudding,
you know
Sir" said the patriotic American, with
asperity, our homemade. or still more the
bakery-made, mince pies can produce as
fine a line of green and purple nightmares
as any English plum pudding ever boiled"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

1t is cause for sincere regret that glass
eating men and telephone linemen went
into one of Mayor Taggart's citadels of law
and order. known as a barrel house on
Christmas, to interrupt the proprietor in
his efforts to keep the town orderly by
breaking the state law. The mayors po-
lice, however, carried out the mayors idea
by arresting the glass-eateFs and linemen
and leaving the keeper of the barrel house
to continue the struggle TO win the COM
mendation of Mr.. Taggart, as a deserving
promoter of peace and good will.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

sion list. many of them women of advanced
age, who have taught from thirty-five to
fifty years, and who receive annuities which
average about $3.50 each Whether the bank
pays out eventually or not, the failure will
tie up the fund for some time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

According to the austere habit of Jewish
thought, whose first idea was the greatness
of God, He is the Potter and human beings
are the clay, and as for the innumerable
and inexplicable circumstances of life, they
are simply the whirling wheel ON which the
clay is changed and shaped till the Potter's
design is finally accomplished. The Pot
ters Wheel is the title given to collection
of essays by Rev. John Watson Gan Mac
Laren) in which many of the common
phases and lessons Of life are treated in a
devout and instructive way. New York:
Dodd Mead e. Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Fairy Tales.

Thomas Dunn English borrows many of
his ideas from earlier fairy lore and adds
nothing especially new, but nevertheless
has produced series of tales that the
small reader will. no doubt accept approv-
ingly. The author avoids the fault of maxi
ing the moral Extensively obtruslve. and,
with varied adventure and merit duly re-
warded, the youthful critic is likely TO be
pleased. The Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany publishers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Mr.. T. c. De Leon, author of Creole and
Puritan and other novels, has new one.
THE Pride of the MERGERS 1t is u story
of Southern life, in which figure creoles.
octoroons and whites full of the foolish pride
that goeth before destruction and which
is so often found in the South. The story
has a distinctly Southern atmosphere, and
is interesting. Philadelphia: j. b. Lippin-
colt Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Commissioner of Pensions Evans esti-
mates that it viii cost about 100000 to
publish tho names Of all the pensioners,
giving their ailments and postoffice adj
dresses. He thinks, however, it Is a good
scheme, and will ask Congress to author
lie it done. 1t is not likely Congress will
look at the matter in that light.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
The Daughter of Hundred Millions.

This is the story of young American
heiress who was wooed and won by titled
Engishman for herself alone and not for
her wealth. The manner in which the
heiress became convinced that the wooer
had no mercenary motives and he that she
did not care for his title form the incidents
OF the tale which is written by Virginia
Niles Leeds and published by +. Tennyson
Nat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

1t is said that the Postoffice Department
will, within the next twelve months, prac-
tically double the number OK money order
Offices in the United States, adding to the
list at the rate OF about one thousand
month This will result in a great extern
sion of the benefits and conveniences of the
o,,etarn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Anfi-Chriat.

Any book written by Ernest Renau, author
of the Life of Jesus" which has attracted
so much attention. will be sure to commend
itself to readers who will not soon forget
the brilliant man. The period covered by
the present volume is, after the three of
four years OF the public life OF Jesus, the
most extraordinary in the entire develop
ment of Christianity. The work covers
much of the same ground and treats of the
same characters as does Quo Vadis," but
in altogether a different manner. Anti
christ is history or the facts of history Wv
idly treated. Published by Roberts Brothers,
BOSTON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

washington I1lnes.
England, aged and in isolation would be
glad TO have a European mate. She has
proposed marriage TO Italy, and offered a
Joint honeymoon trip TO Chusan. China. But
Italy declines, and announces previous en-
gagement TO Germany. 1t appears that
england will have to live and die Dolisical
old maid. Not one of the continentals viii
b0ve her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The late troubles that have arisen by
reason OF some dnwise and pestilent spir-
its that have found their way into the Sal
walton Army and that have manifested
themselves unpieasantly in Chicago are apt
to be misconstrued and given undue and
improper significance ny unth:a~sng pcr-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Virginia F.. Townsend has written stories
for a generation or so of readers and has
many admirers. She writes of the respect
able, conventional, everyday people that
we all know, and INDUCES in no psyche
logical study, but tells a straightforward
story with not too much tragedy, but a
deal of sentiment and always a happy end
ing Dorothy Draycott's To-morrows is
no exception to the rule, and will doubtless
prove to be as popular as the authors
earlier works. Published by Lee & Shepard,
BOSTON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

Those who are talking of adding a dollar
a barrel to the tax on beer seem not to real
ize that amending the postal laws as to
escape the abuse of second-class matter
and to postpone new schemes of river and
harbor Improvement will save nearly as
much as the beer tax would add to the rev.
anna
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

There is a good deal of rather trying Yam
kee and French-Canadian dialect in this
story by Rowland Robinson, but there is
also a good deal of fun and out-of-door
sport and adventure which Will please boy
readers Duck hunting boating, camping
story telling and incidents connect
ed with such life make up the sprightly tale.
Published by HOughton, Miffiin g. Co, Bos-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Progress in Indianapolis.
Springfield CMass) Republican.

OpTIHSIItIu UNREST INtpuUIICaH.
indianapolis appears to be Il very progress
sive city. Its City Council has just passed
a curfeW ordinance. and is now about to
wrestle with a law prohibiting the main
tenance of undertaking establishments on
any block or square of the city where more
than two-thrds of the buildings are resi-
der ces. without the written consent OF the
majority of property owners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

A wild story comes from Kentucky that
Democratic gold-bug Judge in "a county
near but not adjoining Breckenridge" re-
fused to let the advocates of free silver sit
on jury to try case affecting a business
concern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Other HOOKS Received.

Couch New York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
"A Daughter of Strife" q novel by Jane
Helen Fndlater. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.
''The Outlaws OF the Marshes" a novel
by Lord Ernest Hamilton, illustrated with
photographers. New York: Dodd, Mead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

England had better devote some of her
conquest money to the very humane pur-
pose of taking care of those she has al
ready partly subjugated. There is a strong
probability that the victims of the late
plague in India have not yet reached
state of opulence sufficient to send them to
bed with the govt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Heroine of the Greek Revolution.

Edwin A Grosvenor. professor of Euro
pean history in Amherst College, who wrote
q valuable book upon Constantinople, for
which General Wallace furnished the intro
duction, has translated novel of the pc
riod of the Greek revolution entitled, AN
dronike. the Heroine of the Greek Revolu-
ton" 1t is romance of love and adven-
ture, into which is woven the story of the
struggles between the Christian and the
Musselman, the Greek and the Turk of the
period of a revolution which attracted the
attention of the world and called forth the
sympathies of the lovers of freedom. Pub
lished by Roberts Brothers. Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The story of coalition between the
Democrats and free-silver Republicans in
Ohio to defeat Senator Hanna with Gov.
Bushnell should put Ohio Republicans on
the alert. Whatever Senator Hanna's
faults may be, he is sound on the money
question, and if there is a movement of
that kind on foot every sound money Re
publican in Ohio should rally to his sup
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The Cuban insurgent policy of shooting
Spanish emissaries who come with prof
fers of home rule may be a violation of
civilized warfare, but it emphasizes in a
very grim manner their determipation to
fight to the death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

To-day, 121 years ago, George Washing
ton and his patriot followers were rejoic-
ing over the great victory gained in the
battle of Trenton, fought Dec. &c, 177e That
battle was the turning point of the revo-
luton, and is worth commemorating. 1t
was on Christmas day 1776, that Washing
ton made the celebrated crossing of the
Delaware. made so familiar by paintings
and pictures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
an be found at the following places:
zW YORK-Astor House.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House. =. q. News Co., PIT
Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel
cNcINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. ia Vine
street.
LOUkvILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest: corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, end Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Rlggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

A scientist has said that the chances for
a mans going crazy are lessened by mar
riage. That may be accounted for by the
fact that when most men marry they he
come poor that they are unable TO go
insane or anywhere else.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

an, with the aid of a Swiss scientist one
hardly knows what to call his physical es-
sentials or whether still to believe that
old Biblical saying as TO the usefulness of
everything that has been created. The
remedies for toothache and for stomach
ache are henceforth to be identical
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The withdrawal from the Bank of Eng
land of $1.0i5,nCO in American eagles for
transmission to the Unitah States shows
that the national emblem is coming home
to roost. May it arrive safely. with finan-
cial healing on its wings
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

THE Effect of Altitude on Man" might be
studied from new standpoint in the lynch
ing belt. In that part of the country some
of the men most loftily 'Selevated by popU
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
A Little Discussion.

Boomers" said the thin memberess,
"are positively insupportable"
Really" cooed the plump memberess.
Il never found any difficulty"
AT this juncture the president raped for
order
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

II fear" said the manager, as the living
skeleton sat OH him and Internationally
hammered him. Il fear that my curiosity
has got the best Of me-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

1t is very evident that Charles DENLY, ir.,
thinks that the doctrines of Confucius are
about to give way to those of confusion
among the CeleStials
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

There's no fear that the Prince Of Mora
co will ever succeed in getting the tax on
fools so high as to be prohibitive or to dis
courage the industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
would BE Reslgned.

Kansas City Journal
1t is believed that If Senator Bill Chandler
should conclude to walk out of the Repub-
lican party. the Republican party would
suppress its grief in a most mastery man
ner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

The people in the shoestring district in
Alabama are in need of souls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27

1t is time that the habit of going to Con-
gress to have brooks made navigable for
fish and to make state exhibitions success
full be broken off,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
The Great stone Of sardis.

Frank Stockton, in this. his latest story
does not look backward but forward, and
describes events that take place in the year
1947. Scientific research has by that time
arrived at an amazing state of development
and the discovery of the "Stone of Sardis"
is the elimination of the labors of the HERO
who has been experimenting with the AR
tesian ray which penetrates the interior
of the earth and shows all it's treasures
The story is full of Stockton absurdities and
quaint humor. and will be welcomed by the
not to acquire sociological. psycho'og or
philosophc lore. The book is published by
the HarperS,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
Use for the Aerial War ship.

Philadelphia Record
The aerial war ship invented by an In
diana man will be an ideal craft for lighting
war clouds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
BOOKS OF THE TIME.


The Surprising Adventures of SIR Toady
Lion. with Those of General Napoleon
Smith" is an improving history for boys,
old and young" written by S. r. Crockett.
the novelist. Sir Toady, otherwise Arthur
George Smith, was five years old at the
time the story opens. and Napoleon Smith,
better known as Hugh John. was somewhat
older. The two boys, together with their
friends and other members of their own
families. had a great number of remark
able adventures-some pleasant, some 9TH
erwise. but on the whole going to make up
a Doyhood TO be happily remembered AS
Napoleon at the end of the volume, has
reached an age where he snatches a kiss
from young girl, who processes great in
dignation, but really likes it. the promise
is that SO far as he is concerned. the pleas
ant time will continue. There is none of the
tragedy in the story that Mr. Crockett is
so fond of working into his novels Pub
lished by the Frederick Stokes Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

The latest name for the Iynching region is
1.-The gasp belt"
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AlimOmN


HAS she left her husband long?"
Il think he was left pretty short"