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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
1t Diners i'm Some Respects from the
Regulation Article.

Detroit Free Press.
She is poor. She is also a heroine. Hero
ines are always poor
She stands right center"
gown of Henrietta CLOTH without an
underskirt, as can be told from the way it
elings, envelops her willowy form. A shawl,
cid and tattered, nearly conceals her face,
but now and then through ii the light from
the wings glints on her silken tresseS. She
wears patent leather slippers and her stock
ings are silk, drop-sttched.
She has been turned out upon the streets
by the man whose trousers are creased and
who smokes cigarettes.
A child S hand is clasped in hers. A hero
inc always has a child with her-either
hers or someone's else.
The little ones frock is bingham, though
it is the dead of winter, and 60 her right
stocking is sewed bit Of pink calico IN lieu
OF a hole.
just as if the cheeild didn't know it.
Gold" is the cue for the man w in the
rigging loft TO snow. lie forthwith SHOWS.
As mas been recorded, the woman and the
child take their stand at right CENTER
therefore 1t SHOWS hardest at right CEN
ter
it isn't showing cup stage" but it never
occurs to the mother to go there.
The child turns its tiny, beautiful face up
to the woman. A snowflake falls into the
open mouth and chokeS her. She coughs.
Faster, faster fall the flakes. The man up
in the rigging loft never worked harder
The woman clutches the child closer to
shield her from the cold. though the audi
ence who are not sleeping are plying PALM
leaf fans for all they are worth.
BY and by, after the woman has concluded
a few imprisoned speeches, she decides to
go L. L. Il.
The storm sheers off. There must have
been a breeze from somewhere, for it has
stopped showing at RICH center and is now
falling in blankets at l.. Z. L. The flakes
follow the poor woman up stage.
There she stands, alone, torsaken at the
mercy OF the fakes.
Il viii knock here" The woman and the
child so to the door of the set cottage on
the left
They are admitted and doubtless given
shelter for the night. for the Snow stops sud
denly, as III ii didn't expect them out again
that evening. Possibly il followed them up
stairs, for stage snow seems to care a great
deal for the poor bonnetless heroine with
her Siamcse little one
The man up in the rigging loft takes a
recess. The moon breaks through the
clouds and shines fun down upon the face
OF the heroine who is looking out Of an up
stairs window Ga the set cottage on the left
Then the curtain goes down.
The next act is six months later. 1t is
June, and all about the flowers bloom in
the PAPER mache urns and the air is per-
fumed with lilac and violet.
The heroine appears. She has regained her
health. She wears a light gown of organdy,
but the patent leather slippers and the drop
stitched silk stockings are the same. Ii is in
this act that the enduring qualities of
stage snow become apparent. Though the
Thermometer registers 96ia in the shade.
four flakes OF the snow OF the previous
winter still cling 10 the glistening tresses of
the heroine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
Need of Country Police.
New York Evening Post.

L
All over the country we have no country
police 1t is only in the cities that any
body stands ready to arrest a malefactor.
Out in the rural districts every man has
really TO be his own policeman. There is,
to be sure, q sheriff, but the sheriff is an
officer elected without the slightest refer
ence to his fitness for police duty. and he,
if he can be reached in time, pursues Grim
mails, if at all, with as much or little zeal
as his convenience or temperament viii
permit He cannot be called to account
for neglect or misconduct except by a trial
before the Governor on charges which
hardly anybody is ever willing to make
The result is crimes committed in the coun-
try unless they are murderous, are rarely
punished. What we need in all country
districts is what is called a Country police
in England and "gendarmerie" in France
that is uniformed and salaried police
whose business it is to patrol country roads
and pursue criminals In England every
village has at least one uniformed con-
stable, and the whole are under the orders
of a single county superintendent. These
police are to be met everywhere. and no
burglar or highway robber can make more
than one stroke without finding them on
his track. We are perseVering in maintain
ing in this country the same belief in the
continuance of our early simplicity which
in the cities has ended in making municipal
government such a farce. In the mean
time people are learning more and more to
take the law into their own hands in sheer
self-defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
ARMOR MAKING.
Reasons Why the Government Should
Not Engage in the Business.

New York Times
1t is understood that the naval officers
recently appointed Dy Secretary Long TO
prepare plans for the erection OF an armor
plant to be operated by the United States
government are prepared to make their re-
port. If the government Is earnest IN It's
purpose to enter upon a new field OF manu-
facture it is open 10 the sharpest criticism.
The Mckinley administration IS committed
to the protection of the manufactures of
the country, as laid down in the ST. Louis
platform and affirmed by the passage of
the Dngley tariff bill. Thut is the Repub-
lican polIcy and doctrine. That the govern
ment should enter into the business Of
manufacturing and place itself in competi-
ton with private corporations which have
expended millions of dollars in the con-
struction of plants and during the past
depressed decade succeeded in merely Keep
ing them alive by heavy outlay, is prop
osition that does violence to the distinguish
ing article of the Republican creed 1t is
too swift and violent change of policy TO
be entertained by so thorougn-gOing d pro-
tectionist as William Mckinley, We should
say.
The government has already some expe-
rience in manufacturing, notably arms and
ammunition, chiefly IN the factories or
Springfield, Frankfort and Rock Island,
and it is safe 70 say that If the cost of
their product be reckOned on commercial
principles it would be found to exceed
largely what it could be contracted for
from private factories. For reasons OBJ
vious to those familiar with manufacture
ing, no government factory can turn out
goods IS cheaply as the private manufac-
turer 1t should be the policy of our gov
eminent, by its patronage, TO foster and
build UP the existing large manufacturing
establishments of the country particularly
those engaged in manufacturing war ma
terial. not only that 1t may command their
output in time Of emergency, but that we
may compete with the nations of Europe
in supplying the arms and ammunition re-
quired by Japan, China and the South
American states. thereby largely adding TO
the commerce OF the country. This is the
policy of England, France. Germany and
Belgium which has enabled these countries
TO secure the trade in this important in
dustry. Krupps establishment in Prussia
is one of the largest manufactures in the
world. giving employment 70 over thirty
thousand men, with their families aggre-
eating upward of 10000 souls
This threatened departure OF the admin
istration into the plating armor business
appears to be either a reckless and ill
another field of government patronage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

LONDON Sept. 1S.--The fact that no less
than ten batteries of horse and field ar
tillery have been ordered to embark Tor
India during the months Of September ana
October is much commented on in military
circles Under ordinary circumstances the
four batteries now in India would nave
been relieved this month. Bat these pat
teries have been ordered to remain in In
dia and, therefore, there will shortly be on
the frontier fourteen batteries or artillery.
a full complement for an army corps. AS
the British force now assembled on thS
frontier is of ample strength 10 wipe OUT al
visible resistance, the only conclusion that
can be reached in relation TO the despatch
of reinforcements Of artillery is that the au-
thorities are possessed of information OF
a serious character -
The intimation conveyed by the war Ol-
flee on Monday last to the London COM
mercial agent Of the Ameer of Afghaaistan
that no war material or machinery Tor the
manufacture thereof will be allowed 10
cross the frontier during the present crisis
indicates that the British government has
by no means entire confidence in the
Ameer's fidelity, and K is limited the gov
eminent has learned that while processing
friendliness to Great Britain the Ameer has
been secretly preparing for war. Well-ln-
formed circles are also discussing the story
of secret correspondence between Russia
and Afghanistan which is said TO have
fallen into the hands OF British officials,
and 1t is further intimated that wide
spread plot embracing the Beluchis and
others has been discovered. The truth or
otherwise Of these stories viii develop here
after, but the fact remains that the large
increase in the strength OF the British ar
tillery in India cannot be intended fcr use
against the AfridlS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

The following shows the shipments from
Indianapolis over the fifteen railway lines
for the month of August, as reported to the
Board of Trade: Flour 24.194 barrels;
wheat, 1890 bushels; corn, $4,000 bushels;
oats, $4,000 bushels; rye, 600 bushels; hay,
81 cars; cement, $3.50 barrels; coal, 357 cars
coke, III cars; cooperage, 80 cars; corn
meal and hominy i2,793,O7o pounds; cattle,
5.543 head hogs, 80, 943 head horses, LIS
head; mules, 359 head; sheep, S,741 head /;
eggs, 1850 cases; fruit 2,57S5 $50 pounds /;
7o0 nornds. ice 81 cars ron IA ,sr
SIG tierces; lath, l car; lime, l6 cars; lIlm-
Der, Iii cars; machinery, 207 cars; meats,
bulk, 13,S11000 pounds; oil, 5,223 barrels !;
pork STA barrels; potatoes, 400 bushels /;
poultry, 800 pounds; provisions, 40O12S lbs /;
salt, 1860 barrels; spirits and liquors. 1G,-
459 barrels; starch. 1929 200 pounds; stone,
80 cars; tallow, $4,000 pounds; tobacco,
$685. pounds 80 wool 10000 pounds; miscel-
laneous 2950S,065 pounds; merchandise,
$50, 129 4l6 pounds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
NEWS in SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume of Chief Events Printed i'm
the Issue of Sept. 10.

Another big oil well has been struck at
Peru, Ind
The Governor of Mississippi has been
barred out OF the state capital by the yellow
fever quarantine.
E. B. Baldwin, an authority on polar ex-
petitions, thinks Balloonist Andree Is safe
somewhere in Russia
Germans are advocating a tariff war
against the United States. They may be-
gin by excluding all American meats.
Troops have been called out in Missis-
sippi to prevent the burning of trestles
and tearing UP of railway tracks by people
who want to stop the running OF trains
from yellow fever infected towns.
Baseball aturday-Western League: In
dianapolis &c. Grand Rapids 8: Indianapolis
u, Grand Rapids H. Milwaukee s. st. Paul
/; Columbus IL Detroit s.; Minneapolis 13,
Kansas City 6. National League: Cleve-
land g. Cincinnati 0; Cleveland A. Cincinnati
3; Boston 8, New York 3; Baltimore s, Phil
adelphia 3; Pittsburg Is, St Louis 10; Chi
cago 4, Louisville 2; Washington 10, Brook
lyn 9.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

Michael had the lead and slowly crept up
on both Lesna and McDuffee. In the
twelfth mile Michael was rapidly overhaul
ing McDuffee and was watching the
Frenchman. Lesna had trailed a short
distance behind McDuffee until early In
the opening of the eighth mile, when he
passed the latter. Michael made his sec
ond lap on McDuffee in the fifteenth mile
right at the tape. The struggle between
the two men there was exciting. Lesna
was riding half a lap ahead of McDuifee:
caught Lesna and was IN the lead again,
and so the positions stood until he swept
over the finish line in 45:58 AS, q winner,
leading Lesna over a third of mile and
over two-thirds of a mile ahead of Nc
Duffee. Up to this time Lesna had held
practically all records from three miles to
twenty-five, except the twentieth-Enile rec
ord, which was broken on Thurs
day last by Michael in his twenty
mile contest against Lesna at Springfield.
Every American and worlds record, from
three to twenty-five, inclusive, is now cred
tied to Michael. Summary:
INwentv-fVe miles: international race:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

The Two-Center VIII Probably Not Be
Changed to Green, After All.


During the last week a good deal of black
ink has been wasted in the green-stamp
discussion. 1t has been authOritatiVely an
nounced that the everyday 2-cent stamp
would be changed to green, and after every
body had expressed his opinion for or
against the idea some erudite individual in
the postal service discovered that the re-
cent postal congress here had adopted
resolution with which the proposed change
would conflict The nations of the earth
are gradually working toward uniform coll
ors for stamps of a like denomination,
project which has long been favored by our
best postal experts, and to that end the
recent postal congress DECIDED that car
mine ought to be the color the world over
for the 2-cent grade. In the various changes
heretofore made from time TO time in colOrs
and designs of postage stamps no particu-
lar method or underlying purpose has been
discoyerabfe. Each postmaster general,
with more or less assistance, has selected
what suited his fancy best.
In adopting something in a red color
for the everyday stamp the international
congress conformed to our own general
practice, despite the common impression
that green has been our favorite color
Since postage stamps were introduced, in
1S47. the popular stamp has more often been
in red. pink, rose color or something of tie
kind than anything else. The 2-cent stamp
itself was first issued in 1863 for newspa-
per postage and Jackson's head in black
ink was the design. In 1869 the color was
changed to bronze, and the design TO what
was known as the horse ana rider" This
was soon superseded, however, by Jack
son 5 likeness again, which remained on
the twos till Oct I. 1883. During this period
jackson was III bronze and his likeness that
taken from his statue at Memphis. BY 1883
the 2-cent stamp had become the one Of
first Importance, owing to the reduction in
1852 Of a letter postage from cents. A pro-
file likeness of Washington. taken from
H0udon's statue, which had been on the
old 3-eent stamp, was then adopted for the
2-cenl.
In September 1857, the color was changed
to green, and the newspapers badgered the
department considerably about the green
arsenic" stamp. Bat green was not an UNI
known color because ii had been that of
the old 3-eent stamp since 1875. In 1890 Mr..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
AN INCREASE IN TONNAGE
THE LOADED-CAR MOVEMENT OF
RAILWAYS CONTINUES LARGE.
Two Canadian Lines at War-New
York scalpers Paying Little Atten-
ton to the Anti-ScaIping Law.

The train records show that there were
received and forwarded at indianapolis last
week 1882 cars, 10 POP being loaded, an in
crease over the week ending Sept. II of 421
loaded cars and 2.170 more than were han
died at this point in the corresponding week
Of 1886, and 105 more than in the CORE
spending week Of 1885, when freight rates
eastbound were so much demoralized. The
best feature of the present situation rs that
business would be much heavier if cars
were to be had to move it, In no one line
does there seem to be cars in sufficient num-
bers to meet the pressing demand. In addi-
ton to the heavy grain, live stock and
dressed meat traffic and the large increase
in tonnage of miscellaneous freights, a
large demand has set i'm for furniture and
hay cars for cars to ship coal in. and it is
thought the coal car famine win be upon
the roads before they are really aware of it.
so great viii the demand be for cars in
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois.
The grain movement has been cut down
somewhat by the advance in rates, but the
price of corn. which is the most affected,
is advancing to such figures as to more
than overcome the increase in rates and
before the week is out ii is thought the
grain movement Will be very heavy, that is.
If cars can be had. Unfortunately the roads
running between Buffalo and New York
and Buffalo and Philadelphia are retaining
cars of Western lines in their local bust
ness Westbo business. on the higher
class freights is the heaviest in some years,
and in lower class freights much improve
ment is shown. North-and-south roads are
handling the largest business in any Sep
tember of many Vpars and if is made uD
of lumber and merchandise largely, is
chiefly local in character, and paying good
rates. So far as Indianapolis is concerned
seldom have the city freight depots handled
or their platforms as large a tonnage of
freights in the week ending Sept Is.
Every day the inbound business was good
and the outbound business heavy beyond
parallel. Many merchants attended the
state fair and purchased large quantities
Of goods. At every city freight depot plat
forms were loaded to their full capacity and
the platform men worked overtime. On the
bulk tracks seldom We're more cars loaded
and unloaded than last week. Below is
given the ear movement for the week end
ing Sept. is and for the corresponding pc
RODS IF 1905 1864.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

BOSTON, Sept. 1S.-Jmmy Michael to-day
won the greatest cycling event ever run Oh
national twenty-tiVe-mile race at Charles
River Park and was run in the fastest cy-
cling time the world ever saw. MichaePs
and Eddie McDuffee, Of Cambridge. II was
a superb day, and 1900 people Witnessed
the race. In the start-off the three riders
in the big race caught their quads for
fast lap. and Lesna took the lead, making
the first mile fifteen yards ahead of Me-
Duffee. who beat out Michael at the tape
by a few feet McDufiee took the second
raile by fifty yards over Michael. In the
third mile a chain McDuffee's sextet
the lap. and he lost the lead Michael hn-
ished the third mile a quarter OF lap
ahead of McDuffee. From this time out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
Personal, Local and General Notes.

A new Glass p engine was in service on
the Chicago division of tie Panhandle on
Saturday.
Last week five firemen on the Michigan
division of the Big Four were promoted to
engineers.
The Pullman Company has increased the
force in it's shops in the last sixty days
80 per cent.
c. A. Hayes, of Boston, general manager
of the National Despatch fast freight line,
spent Sunday ia the city
Arrangements have been perfected for
building a new union station at Pekin, on
ground donated by citizens.
There are twenty-seven tunnels on the
Queen &c Crescent, their aggregate length
being 26424 feet, or five miles
The Interstate-commerce Commission has
demanded that all companies report con-
corning safety appliances by Oct. 1.
w c. Arp superintendent of the motive
power of the Nandalia, is at Martinsville
trying to rid himself of rheumatism
w. A. Jenkins has been appointed agent
of the Panhandle at RoXanna, on the Gin
cinnati division, vice Z. Nj. Harner re-
signed.
On Saturday the American Express Com
pany began TO operate over the Ohio Val
ley road, now under control of tho Illinois
Central.
The opinion prevails in legal circles that
the prosperity of the railways viii lessen
the probabilities of getting pooling bill
through Congress.
william T. Bruner. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Nandalia at ST. Louis.
on Saturday returned from his two weeks
vacation trip East.
Col T. L. Russell. vice president Of the
Mobile & Ohio. has moved his headquarters
from Mobile to st. Louis until the yellow
fever scare has passed.
The Queen a Crescent was operated its
last fiscal year ending June 30 on 6S.l1 per
cent. Of its gross earnings. against Ills per
cent in the preceding year.
NJ w. Mansfield. superintendent of the
Indianapolis a Vincennes. who has, with
his wife been at Atlantic City for ten
days. returned on Saturday
c. G. Spaulding. who has been appointed
to represent the st. Louis d Francisco at
Cincinnati. was for years with the Van
dala lines in an official capacity.
Mr.. Fred r. Novelty, formerly passenger
agent at st. Louis for the Burlington. has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
Death os John u. FinIay.

NEW YORK, Sept 1s-John b. Finlay,
sixty-five years old, president of the Page
Gold-mining Company. died to-day in the
HudsOn-street Hospital from cerebral hem
orrhage. caused by a fractured skull, the
result of falling or being thrown from a
cable car
MIR Finlay was born in Ireland. In 1853
degree IL. ID. and y. G. l.. on him. In 1864.
at Kittanning. Pa, he organized and equip
ped from his private purse the Seventy
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. Later he
organized the acknowledgements third Regi-
ment of Pennsylvania Cavalry He was
commissioner from Pennsylvania to the
Paris worlds fair in 1860. and 10 the univer-
sal exposition at Vienna in 1873. Before the
war he was a Presbyterian minister In
2rnnl.ltn lie Mrnla aaNnral hooks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
IndianaDOIis.

Indianapolis defeated Grand Rapids in
two games Saturday, closing the champion
ship season as far as the Hoosiers are con-
cerned.
Treasurer Lewis, of the Weber & Fields
Vaudeville Company, which played at the
Empire last week, claimed his room at the
DensOn was robbed of 1891.
Star Pointer broke all harness race rec
ordS by defeating Joe Patchen at the state
fair grounds in a 2:01 heat, each horse
having won heat the day before.
Governor Mount intimates that the at
torney general may conduct an investiga-
ton before the Ripley county grand jury
if that body fails to make a report on the
recent lynching.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
Ehnses Of .ae Andre,ys case.
Record.

LTIclEO IlFEOTH.
The progress of the President Andrew
case is marked by these stages;
First Stage-The president resigns.
Second Stage The president wIthdraws
his resignation and decides 10 go back TO
work
Third Stage-The president withdraws the
Withdrawal Of his resignation and asserts
that he'll be blamed ii he'll accept a job
from such an outfit
Fourth Stage The president withdraws
the withdrawal Of the Withdrawal OF his
resignation and decides that old friends are
the best friends after all
This brings the affair down to date, but II
Is understood that three more stages are to
BE- added within the next Two weeks.