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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
BENEFITS of THE NEW TEA LAW.
1t VIII Result I'm Improving the QuaI-
ify of Teas Sold
New York Journal of Commerce.

new 1OTk journal OF commerce.
Mr. Thomas A. Phelan, chairman OF the
committee of tea experts who were ap-
pointed by the Treasury Department to es-
tabltsh standards upon which the new tea
law has been administered. was yesterday
asked by a representative Of the Journal of
Commerce and Commercial Bulletin for a
statement showing the effect the new law
has thus FAR had. Mr.. Phelan said: "At this
date last year it seemed to be in fair way
to go out OF consumption owing to the in
creased amount of low grades of tea i'm
ported. The tendency had been towards
these grades for number of years until
finally two-thirds Of the crop were teas sold
at 20 cents per pound at retail. and which
cost under 10 cents per pound to import.
Hence these teas We're a species of green
and species of black, which were a httls
more than weed. The green was called
Pngsuey and the black Annoy Oolong. In
addition to which there We're very low
grades of Japan and Congou largely brought
"By this one act Of Congress all these de-
scriptionS-which might come under the
head Of trash-have been prohibited. and a
remarkable fact in this connection is that
the price OF tea has not been materially
raised by this exclusion, so that while tho
consumer is now guaranteed that he cannot
buy hereafter teas which are unfit for uss
the prices have not been advanced materi-
ally;
has been rigfdly enforced in all the four
ports of entry where tea examiners are sta
toned, namely. New York, Chicago. san
francisco and Tacoma, and, consequently,
the finest crop of tea ever imported into The
United States is now coming forward. It has
been found that of 10000 half chests Of
Pingsuey, previously imported annually, not
more than half this quantity will be ad-
mirted under the new law. More than this
proportion of Annoy Oolong will also be ex-
cluded, and also the lowest grades Of Ja-
pans and COngous. In other words, the
sweepings of China, Japan and India can
no more be unloaded upon us. The result
viii be a diminution of supplies amounting
to probably twelve to thirteen millions Of
pounds, covering all descriptions of tea, but
as the country has always had from ten 10
twenty millions Of pounds of superfiuous
tea, and generally in the lowest grades. the
kinds excluded will not be sufficient 20
change the market TO anv marked darrne.-
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19

with scraper on the back, a water
ing can. a short shovel and a scraper
when ne has asphalt TO look after.
With these tools he Is expected to
keep q definite area of pavement clean. The
blown about by the wind and scattered by
wagon wheels. but are placed in the bag on
the little truck. When one bag is flied it
another put in its place. These bags are
collected by the wagons which take away
done under the supervision of foremen, in
spectors and other officers. who report how
each man Is doing his duty. In case the
their case to a committee Of forty-one driv-
ers and sweepers. II that committee can
rot decide the case it goes to a committee
of five drivers and sweepers and five Off
GERS Of the department and in case that
body does not come TO a decision the mat
ter is settled by Colonel Waring. So far he
has had one case come before him.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
NEW YORK STREET CLEANING.
Military Training Helps the Efficiency
of the Force.
Engineering Record.

There were some three thousand employees
in the department when COlonel WaflnS
took it in hand. Most Of them had prop
ably been put on a broom" in return Tor
political work for district leaders. sweep
ers and drivers are not skilled men ana
their places are readily filled. so the men
were well aware that contributions from
their scanty pay and political activity We're
necessary to retain their places. Conse-
ouentlv the street cleaning department be-
came a sort Of political pasture for keeping
voters, and not an efficient branch OF mu,
nicipal management As soon as Colonel
Waring was in power he did not begin ms
Investigation with the drivers and sweepers,
who were expecting wholesale discharge in
accordance with the usual custom where
political parties are strongly organized Tor
snoils and not for good government. lie
examined the general superintendent, for
tunately an efficient man. ana the other OF.
fCerS in the higher POSITIONS. Many or
them were incompetent or Indifferent and
were summarily dismissed. and their places
filled by men with military or tecnnlcal
training. according to the duties to which
they were assigned. Then word was sent
to the men that they must really work:
they were told to clean the streets, ana
keep their political opinions for spare mo-
ments when the city did not need them. 1t
was hard to teach them they were no
longer subject to assessment. that the de-
nartment did not care anything at all about
their politics but that it did intend them to
keen New York clean and wholesome. They
,iiiSer seni-n1ilitarv discipline and technic-
ally-trained supervision they have changed
from a derided, slovenly gang into we'll
set-up brigade Of industrial workmen i'm
bued with strong sense of esprit de corps.
New Workers. were inclined TO laugh at first.
and when the department decided to have
parade last year there was a large gather
ing Of people who expected something like
Falstaff's army. Those who came to hoot
remained to cheer for they say that
Colonel Waring had changed his voters
into self-respecting efficient woriSmen.
Street cleaning. like any other work of
the class, is not eleyating to a laborer's
spirit unless done in such a manner IS to
make them take some pride in doing 1t well
Military organization is the most success
fui method Of instliing this pride in good
work vet tried. Colonel Warnings men wear
q conspicuous white uniform, and most of
them Keep II surprisingly clean in spite of
the work they do. They are in responsible
charge OF work II they shirk it the fact is
recorded against them. while good work Is
also noticed and reported. Each sweeper
has little wheeled framework. to which
he attaches a bag OF coarse cloth. broom
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
Mother on the wheel.

New York Times.
The bicycle, or rather the bicycle rider, is
even yet something of a surprise. At Pros
pect Park the other day, at the bicycle rest
at the head of the bicycle path, two young
women bicychsts rode in, and, putting their
wheels in the rack, each had a drink of
water at the fountain and then sat down on
one of the benches for few moments rest
They were not particularly young girls, so
when one of them, looking around, re-
marked, There comes mother" the
ina gination pictured stately old lady TAX
ing q matutinal ramble in the park and
strOlling down to that part where she would
be most likely to see her athletic daugh-
ters But nothing could have been more diff
ferent. AS the other rest-takers turned
their heads in the direction indicated by the
daughters, there wheeled into the opening
in front of the benches a jauntily dressed
woman in short skirt and high boots who
as she came up to the bicycle rack stopped
her wheel easily and stepped from it in
that composed manner and entire absence
of whirr and jump which characterizes an
experienced rider. The two young women
welcomed her with smiles and jests and
she was undoubtedly the expected mother,
but except that she was somewhat more
matronly in figure it would have taken
second glance to show that she was the
Oldest of the three riders.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
GEORGIA PEOPLE INDEPENDENT.
They Have Learned How to Live az
Home and Buy Little.
( Commercial Advertiser

New 1Ork COmInefcldl advertiser.
''I1he people in Georgia have learned how
10 live at home and this has made them
independent in a period of great industrial
depression" said l.. F. Garard, ex-speaker
of the Georgia Legislature and a progress
sive Democrat to-day, at the Fifth-avenue
Hotel He lives in Columbus, one of the
largest manufacturing towns in his State,
and is well known as a lawyer and orator.
Our State,' he continued has not suf-
fered to any considerable extent during
the hard times. The people, it is true had
little money. but they raised what they
needed and bought few things. About
twenty years ago, when the people began
this economical plan, 1t hurt the railroads,
because they had for years been doing
large business bringing in provisions to
supply the farmers. Carloads of bacon,
cereals, flour and other products, that had
been transported almost daily for the
farmers, suddenly stopped and the roads
suffered financially. Now we have stuff to
sell, and when Kansas suffered from a
drought several years ago Georgia con-
tributed a carload of corn. 1t surprised
the let that we have the finest country in
the world. Since then many families from
Kansas have moved into our State, where
total crop failures are unknown. They
have never regretted coming.
I'VE have the best substitute for clover
that was ever known, the cow pea, and it
grows in prodigal way. After the corn is
laid by the cow pea is planted and it
grows in such great profusion that the field
cows and cattle generally five upon the pea
vines and it makes excellent fodder. The
value of the COW pea crop each year Is
great, and has aided the farmers to be In
dependent Some of the peas come up the
following year as volunteers. A people
who live. at home can never know absolute
want. If cotton should go up in price to
cents pound the farmers In my State
will have surplus Of money. All they ask
over this country and you cannot find
climate more delightful than Georgia's.
and lands better adapted for raising every
thing. meyer suffer from heat in summer
in Georgia"
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19

coal regions have a dread of any gathering
of the wives and other female relatives Of
women have fought more fiercely than the
men. Bricks ard stones are their favorite
weapons, and, despite the general belief that
OF the coal fields have proved that they can
hurl them very effectively The soldiers
dare not fire into a mob of women because
of the antagonistie sentiment that would be
aroused, and they generally either retreat
or form a circle around the women with
their bayonets to prevent them from re-
plenishing their supply of missiles. During
the great strike of 1877 a mob OF women on
both sides of the deep railway cut at Read
ing, through which some militia companies
were compelled to pass, almost incapaci-
tated the detachment for further service by
hurting upon them a shower of heavy
stones. Scores of men We're badly hurt. Such
mobs practically terrify the soldiers, be-
cause they cannot fight back.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19

Judge Ellsworth, of Oakland, Cal, has
ruled that bicycle is personal property,
and that it is exempt from execution if
used by the owner in his daily business.
Greene county. Indiana, has appropriated
$163,000 for the construction OF eighty miles
of gravel road in a single township. The
county'S roads are among the best in that
part of the State.
Few persons are aware of the amount of
money which is expended annually on bicy
Gle racing in this country rider who is
well informed estimates that it takes $780,
900 during the riding season to meet the
expenses of the forty-Odd racing men who
follow the circuit; and that if the prize
money and gate receipts be added. the total
sum expended Will exceed 81 ,000.0O0 To this
must be added the cost of amount expended
on bicycle tracks within the last two years,
amounting to nearly 81, 600, 900. In 1892 A. A.
Zimmerman won about $25 0C0 in prizes.
This stands to-day as the record.
DR.. Cyrus Edison. of New York, in speak
ing Of the recent triple century run, in
which two women were among the surviv-
ors thus deprecates the suicidal folly of
such journeys Every person has so much
nervous strength in reserve, and If he or
she goes on a physical spree and exhausts
that in foolish eXertion. the natural result
is that he or she is left a physical bank
rupt." A bankruptcy law to prevent such
collapses might properly be passed in all
the States. But it would be wiser and bet
ter if the wheelmen's organizations would
of their own volition put a stop to a folly
that has already been carried beyond all
bounds of reason and sanity.
Bicycle tubes are now Delng made or pa
per, according to an English authority. The
process of manufacture is ingenious. The
paper is wound upon a mandrel. Each lay
er is coated with glue put on by means Of
a spray. This insures the absolute joining
of the material which is made solid by great
pressure. Some forty layers of paper are
required for each tube. When the tubes are
constructed the mandrel is withdrawn and
they are placed in a strong mold and sub
jected to great pressure from the inside.
The outer layers of paper are acted upon
by rolling machine winch hardens them,
and the tubes are then polished in lathe
and stained to the desired color When
Yarnished they are ready for use
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
Rival Attractions.
Chicago Pos

chicago 9OSt-
Chicago is a big and progressive town,
but we have doubts as to the wisdom of
holding the Luetgert trial and the national
golf tournament the same week. We have
endeavored to induce Judge Tuthill and the
opposing lawyers to take a recess for ten
days, yet while the matter is under con-
sideration we have faint hopes that our mo-
ton will not be overruled. Greatly as we
dislike to discount the future, it is our de-
liberate opinion that the forthcoming golf
champion will be a bigger man for a time
than Mr.. Luetgert. If there is anything IN
life that iustifes a man in swelling out his
chest and posing for the 20 mys'' and 20
dears'' Of the ladies, it is the conviction
that he can knock a small ball into eighteen
holes with less trouble than any other man
in the country. Realizing the gories that
await the golf champion, we linger in the
delightful expectancy that Chicago will
maintain its prestige on the links We a9-
nit that when it comes to knocking a bali
around an horseback we have our limita-
tions, due to the fact that the horse in Chi
cago has been superseded TO a great extent
by the wheel but in the matter Of making
time and progress over the green sward and
bulging bunkers we defy all comers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
Troy Budget.


Here is wrinkle which may prove of use
to the touring cyclist- When you are hot
and tired, and the nearest town is a long
way off, and you feel compelled to stop and
rest beside the tempting little wayside
spring that bubbles up by the side of the
dusty road, a refreshing drink follows as a
matter of course. But how to get at that
drink is a question that is often not too
easily solved. Few people carry travelling
cups; leaves and claspsd hands make very
unsatisfying drinking vessels, as the most
Of the refreshing draught is sure to be
spilled-possibly down the drlnker neck
before it reaches its proper destination-and
it is a very choking and apoplectlc process
TO squat down on all fours and put ones
face into the stream. In this emergency
search the pockets. and see if there Is not
a stray envelope from the mornings 5 let
ters to be found there This will make a
very useful temporary drinking cup-in-
deed even a stiff sheet of paper, folded
into a cone, will do at a pinch, and save
the drinker from the necessity or those
tantalizing sips conveyed in lea1y palmfuls
that never really satisfy.
better drinking cup, which can always
be relied on, is carried by every eyclist, and
can always be found on the bicycle The
cyclists bell is about as perfect a drinking
cilp as anything could be, which was made
for so vastly different use.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
WHERE EUROPEANS CANNOT LIVE.
Millions of White People Have Sue
cumbed to Disease in Java.
Nenturv Ma gazine.

Century Magazine.
No Europeans live at Tandjon Uriok, nor
in the old city of Batavia, Java, which,
from the frightful mortality during two
centuries was known as the graveyard OF
Europeans. B." The banks and business
houses, the Chinese and Arab quarters, are
in the "old town." but Europeans desert
that quarter before sundown and betake
themselves to the new town. suburbs
where every house is in a park Of it's own,
and the avenues are broad and straight,
and all the distances are magnificent; The
city Of Batavia literally fair meadows"
grandiloquently ",he queen of the East"
and without exaggeration 'the gridirOn of
the East" dates from 1921, when the Dutch
removed from Bantam, where quarrelS be-
tween Portuguese, Javanese and the East
India Company had been disturbing the
trade for fifteen years. and built Fort ia
catra, at the mouth of a river, off which
cluster of islands sheltered fine harbor.
It's position in the midst of swamps was
unhealthy, and the mortaLli1ty was so ap-
ords tell of $1,000 soldiers and sailors dying
in the government hospital between 17l4 and
1776, and that more than 1000,O 600 people died
within the city walls between 1870 and 1752,
the place at no time claiming over 10000
Inhabitants all told. The people were long
In learning that those who went away to
the higher suburbs to sleep, and who built
houses of the most open construction, to
admit the fullest sweep of air, were free
from the fever of the walled town sur
rounded by SWampS, cut by Stagnant ca
nails and facing a harbor the mud banks of
which were exposed at low tide. The city
walls were DESTROYED in this century the
quaint old air-tight Dutch buildings were
torn down and streets were widened and
there is now a great outspread town of red
roofed whitewashed houses, with no spe-
cial features or picturesqueness to make its
street scenes either distinctively Dutch or
tropical. Modern Batavia has 100 600 in
habitantS, less than tenth OF whom are
Europeans. While the last century stad-
huls might have been brought from Hol-
land entire, a steam tramway starts from
its door and thence shreks its way to the
farthest suburb the telephone hellos from
center to suburb. and modern inventions
make tropical living possible.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
CUSTOM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY.
Origin of the Practice of kissing the
Bible In Oath-Taking Is Lost.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Pa1I Mall Gazette.
1t is generally assumed that kissing the
book is, or at any rate was until recently,
a necessary part of the legal ceremony OF
oath-taking. This assumption, however,
probably is not justified. 1t would appear
that the most ancient form of swearing in
the Christian Church was to lay the hand
upon the gospels and say, $50 help me God
and these holy gospels" This seems TO have
been the usual ceremony accompanying
judicial oath, until, at all events, the end
Of the sixteenth century, for Lord Coke
he (the witness) tOucheth with his hand
some part Of the Holy Scriptures Coke
says not one word about kissing the book.
When the practice of kissing the book be-
gan Is, says the Law Journal, undetermined.
1t has been stated that this form was frSt
prescribed as part of the ceremony OF tax
ing the oaths of allegiance and supremacy.
It is interesting and may be significant 70
note that Shakespeare only once alludes to
occasion turns it into ridicule. Whatever the
origin Of the practice there can be no doubt
that kissing the book was the ceremony that
usually accompanied the taking of an oath
in an English court of justice in the seven
teenth century.
But in 1857 there occurred a case which is
of some Importance. 1t appears that on
jury trial DR.. Owen, vice chancellor of OK
ford University, being called as Il witness,
refused to be sworn in the usual way, by
laying his right hand on the book and after
ward kissing it. but he caused the book to
be held open before him and he raised his
right hand. The jury doubling what credit
Iuey OuSnJ TO give 10 HIS bdtti, the 4hot1ct
was referred to the chief justice, who ruled
that DR.. owen had taken as good an oath
as any other witness" And then the chief
Justice added an observation which, in
Cowper's Reports in "Macnally on Evi-
dence'' and elsewhere, is nisquoted as fol-
lows: IF were to be sworn | would KISS
the book" Now. that is not at all what the
chief justice said. The words in Sderin s
report are these: I'll dit 81 il fuit destre Jure
il VOLT deponer sa main dexter sur le liver
rnesme." Thus the chief justice says not one
word about kissing the book
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
COMING ADJUSTMENTS
FAMOUS TONY PASTOR AND HIS
VAUDEVILLE SHOW Ar THE PARK.
"SFiaco,s city Club" of BurIesquers
Opens the Empire-Change of
Bills Wednesday.

Tony Pastor who has just started out
on the road with his newly organized COM
pany of leading vaudeville stars, will pay
his annual visit to Indianapolis. at the
Park Theater, the first half OF the week.
opening with the matinee tomorrow. Tony
Pastors company this season is said to be
one of the very best of the many he has
organized for years, and is composed OF
the following well-known comedians: Wat
son and Hutchings. Dutch impersonators
and popular singing soubrettes; Ed Ed
wards, a well-known comedian; Maud Ray
mend, a favorite serio-comic; the Gilmore
sisters, Irish lady comedians. in a new
school of comedy; Edwin Latelle, clever
musical comedian; The worlds trio, with
novelties and surprises; N. and Nine. De
Phillippi, foreign dancers; Barnes and Sis
son, 'the singer and the maid;" George e.
Austin, funny slack-wire comedian; AL
bertus and Weston, the clever expert and
artistic club jugglers and dancers. and last
Tony Pastor Americas own favorite sing
er, introducing his latest up-to-date comic
songs and topical sayings. That Tony Pas
tor always has good company is we'll
known. His name is a standard in the
vaudeville world and has been for many
years. The company he brings to the Park
tomorrow is the strongest and highest
salaried one he has ever taken on the road.
There are more real novelties in his pro-
granme this year than ever before 1t is
high class In every particular. In New
York Tony Pastors refined vaudeville per-
formances draw out many theater parties.
A succession of crowded houses may be
looked for during his three days engage
pent
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-19
The Summer Girl spoiIs a Myth.

New York Evening Sun.
The fanciful yellow journals and kindred
publications are now printing pictures or
the summer girl returning to town" That
glorious, if highly imaginative creature. Is
represented bearing in her hands string or
hearts, the spOilS OF the past season. The
young person must feel rather sad as she
contemplates one OF these pictures. The his
tory Of the summer has been very dtterent
from this presentation OF II. To capture
hearts there must be hearts 10 capture. one
report has been received from places an
along the coast. Men have been rarer thah
ever before. In some localities young men
were as extinct as the lamented dOdo. 10
judge from appearances. Any amount OF
feminine iovelincss was wasting It's sweet
ness on the desert air. What WAS the use OF
having pretty evening frocks. and fascinet-
ing bathing suits. and ideal shirt waists
when there was nobody to see them out we
elderly or the safely married2 In spite OK li.S
imaginative artists the alleged summer slI
had little cause for satisfaction this SUM
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