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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
Harper's Bazaar.

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For nearly thirty years there have been
no important changes in the English meth
DDS of regulating the liquor trade. In fact,
the changes made in the course of a CEN
fury are exceedingly few. and in it's main
features the English licensing system is
pretty much in the condition that it was
when the century opened. From 1928 to
1863 England tried the experiment of free
trade in beer. For forty years almost any
body who liked could set up a beer shop.
But the experiment was a direful failure.
In 1869 it was finally abandoned, not, how
ever, without leaving disagreeable traces,
which are easily discoverable to-day in eY-
cry old English town. Wherever half a
dozen squalid beer houses stand side by
side there is a monument of one of the
most daring experiments ever made in re-
gard to the liquor trade. In 1870 grocers
were permitted 10 retail beer, and in 1874
the hours of closing of public houses at
nights and on Sundays were fixed by Par
lament. These are the only important
changes of the century. In other respects
English public houses are controlled by
laws which were passed last century, and
now, as then, the local magistrates APP
pointed by the lord chancellor administer
the licensing laws and issue licenses for
the retail sale of all intoxicating drink.
Quite recently the English people have
been taking stock, as it were, of their
licensing system. Lord Peel, the late
speaker OF the House of Commons, is at
the head of a royal commission which has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Competition with American Makes Is
Already Felt in the Trade.
Nv York Commercial Advertiser.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The competition of japanese matches Is
already being severely feltin European mar
kets. After supplying the home market the
of the world, mostly. however, to Asia.
This has destroyed the European match
trade in India, China and Hong-Kong, but
so far has not affected the trade in Amer
lea to any extent. That ii will shortly do
so, however, is, in the opinion of Robert +.
Porter, certain. Mr.. Porter says that dur
ing his stay in Japan, on an official mission
of investigation, the output of at least one
large match concern at Osaka was secured
by an American syndicate. Osaka produced
last year LOG. 000. COO dozen boxes of matches,
employing 1923 men and all women, to
say nothing of the innumerable children,
who earn q few sen per day in the work.
One of the largest factories employs $500
hands. The sticks are cut by machinery.
They are sifted into little boxes by women
and collected and put in frames by tiny
waits of children. some of whom do not
look over three or four years old and the
majority of whom are under ten. The
sulphur and paraf1n are put on by
little girls. whose fingers are so nimble
that the human eye is incapable of fol-
lowing their movements, as the purple and
yellow boxes drop, more than one a Sec
ond, into the huge baskets at their side.
over twelve hours a day these little cfea-
lures labor for wages which range from l
cent to 5 cents of our money. Here the Won
derfully cheerful temperament of the Japs
is seen to perfection. They sing and chat
ter, and laugh. and eat their titiin, consist
us u ltSS anu .uSIls from ltiS .bOAeS "NAti
chopsticks, which they handle with as much
dexterity as they do matches. Here they
sit the twelve long hours on the floor in
small pens, about four feet square, marked
off by bamboo poles, and no expression of
discomfort is ever seen. There are no fac
tory laws, no regulations as to the age at
which children should begin work, and no
limitations of hours of labor in Japan. FOR
a moment there is a scramble to utilize
every pair of bright eyes and dextrous
hands. regardless of future consequences;
but the government and the sanitary au-
thoritieS have taken the matter up, and in
a few years, in all likelihood, a more hui
name system will be evolved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

English representatives to the union nave
objected. Their opposition was based on
the calculation that while in Great Britain
an English sovereign would buy ninety-six
stamps for foreign postage, the same
sovereign exchanged into French money
equals % francs, which would buy one hun-
dred stamps; exchanged into German
money it would buy 101, while in United
States currency-$4S5-it would buy ninety
seven stamps. This slight difference in
money valuations opens an opportunity for
speculation and has been considered of
enough Importance to prevent action on
the matter. The need of such a stamp is,
however. so great that a special effort will
be made this time to overcome the objec-
tons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Some statistics have been published con-
corning the deaths from consumption in
Atlanta, which show that this disease, at
least in that city, is rapidly increasing
among the colored people and declining
among the whites. The writer attributes
the increase to the emancipation of the
negroes, since that disease was rare among
colored people when in slavery. The statis-
tician of a life insurance company finds
similar conditions. This may be true in re-
gard to the colored population in the larger
cities, because poverty ccmpels many of
them to live in wretched tenements. but it
may be doubted if thousands of colored
people in cities who are able to live COM
fortahly are the victims of disease in
larger numbers than when the race was
in slavery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
sIipshod English.
Leslie,s Weekly.

Perhaps the crucial test of a thorough
knowledge of English may be found In the
use of the verb lie with its various par
ticiples. In "a modern story occurs the sem
tence. The angel lain it in her arms"
Perhaps a majority OF decently educated
people talk Of laying down to rest. or
remark that they laid down. As for
will" and shall" only the finest literary
sense seems to be adequate to their proper
use. Gotten is in dlsrepute IN good quar-
tiers. and yet some OF our leading writer's
persist in using il. Mr.. Howells begs US
not 10 say Il don't know as and let us
hope that all will heed his request. But
Mr.. Howells has been known To use loan
as a verb, and he gives his unhlushing
sanction 10 lunch as a noun. lit is graft
flying 10 know that lie. the dean of lit
erature' in this country, makes a plea now
and then for the purity of cur language.
We fear that his natural inclination is
towards a dangerous liherality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

A resourcefuI man in the East suggests
that disastrous floods might partially be
averted by detecting the Missouri river at
Kansas City, causing that stream to take
a southerly course direct to the gulf, thus
providing the West with another great
waterway. This person seems to lose sight
of the fact that the digging of a channel
for the Missouri would be a costly enter
prise, even if it were possible to make that
river run six hundred miles along a side
hill, several hundred feet above the place
which nature has designed. A watershed is
much like the roof of a building.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Have those citizens who have declared in
favor Of rotation in office considered the
number of years which will be required
for a single revolution of the rotating ma
chinery? There is one federal position to
about FIVE thousand voters i'll the last
election. If the rotation were gagged at a
four-years' term it would take four thou
sand years for each of the voters at the
last election to have a chance at the public
crib. Four thousand years, or half of it,
is q long time to wait for a turn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

In the country, as well as in the city. the
attendance on church is constantly falling
off. 1t is, however, most marked in rural
quarters. The great bulk of the population
does not attend church. In the cities the
attendance upon Protestant churches is
lessening with the year. 1t may be doubted
if the New England delinquency has ex-
tended to the West. At least the recent
church censuses do not Indicate a general
falling off in religious interest, but the re-
xrerSa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
Washington Letter.

w dSliiil5 vi 1cllGl.
There is still another man in town who
knew the major so well that his neighbors
in western Pennsylvania raised $50 by sub
scription to send him on to Washington.
This man was an old schoolmate of Will
liam Mckinley. He assured his neighborS
that their intimacy was such that could
he once see William a government position
with a good salary would surely be his.
AS the old sch0olmate was very poor his
~neighbOrs thought it would be charity of a
very practical form to raise enough money
himself of this great and unique oppor-
tunity. He was somewhat disappointed on
reaching here in not having a talk with
William on inauguration day, but he
started for the White House bright and
early the next morning. The first piece OF
good fortune that came his way, after be-
ing buffeted about by the crowd. was a
sight of the Presidents sister, who was
then visiting at the White House. She,
too, had been q schoolmate forty years be-
fore. Miss Mckinley was making her way
from the door of the White House TO the
space through which she could pass. The
old schoolmate was pretty well back III this
crowd, and there was comparative stiffness.
AS Miss Mckinley came in view, however,
50 enthusiastic did he become at the sight
of a partly familiar face that he essayed to
attract her attention by crying in a clear
voice, that rose distinctly above the crowd:
Hello, Helen; don't you remember me?"
"A cheer of laughter went up from the ass
sembled throng. Miss Mckinley smiled and
bowed very pleasantly. but did not seek to
extrioate her old friend from the surging
crowd. A day or two later, when this man
reached the President, he found that the
memory of their old school acquaintance
was very much less distinct to William
than to him. In fact, he said, in explain-
ing away his disappointment: You see,
| was SO much older in school than William
that he may not have known me at all, but
| can remember how his father looked just
as well as if he was standing before me
now" This man, too, has gone home, and
henceforth when his neighbors take up a
substitution 1t Will be Tor immediate relleT.
and not to capitalize his acquaintance with
the President of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Among the things the international
Postal Union may do at its approaching
meeting in Washington is TO authorize the
issuing of an international postage stamp.
This is not a special stamp to be used on
all letters Cor foreign mails. the stamp of
each country where the letter is mailed
answering every purpose, but for forward
ing to business correspondents in other
countries where it is desirable to prepay the
reply. At present it is impossible to do
this, the stamps of one country being
valueless in another and great %inconven-
fence is experienced in consequence. 1t
seems strange that so simple a remedy as
an International stamp has not been pro-
vided long ago, but 1t seems tina hereto
fore when the plan has been discussed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Many people seem to be laboring under
the delusion that passing an anti-cigarette
law will put an end to the use of it by
boys. Unless the law is enforced the cigar
cite will be sold as freely as ever. There
is an old-fashioned belief that parents who
do not wish to have their sons injured by
the habit should rely less upon law and
exercise more of the natural parental au-
thority. With some of the Old-time penal
ties the cigarette evil could be materially
lassened
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

been inqufring with much detail into the
working Of the licensing laws. with a view
to discovering at what point they stand in
need of amendment. The commission is
one of the most interesting Of the numer-
Gus royal commissions of the Queens long
reign. It has thrown much light on the
; ocial and economic changes which have
leen taking place I'm England during the
last two or three generations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

A mass meeting will be held in Chicago
tomorrow night to raise money to send
ferers in India. The Western world does
not hear much from India, but private kat
ters from missionaries show that there is
great suffering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

sence at the ball ga-on business. Do you
think you could fill the placer
II guesso," said the barber out of work.
Now. l want to ask you. In case of a
row between a regular customer and a
stranger who looked good for a tip about
who was next which one would you
Payor95t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

ciety. in looking after an attraction that
viii draw, are said to be divided between
the merits of a bull fight and a prize fight
as a stimulant for progressive agriculture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

An Arkansas man writes to the Wash
ington Post that he has a three-year-old
boy who can make a free-silver speech and
a. Bryan speech. The writer thinks his
child is a mental wonder, but he is mis-
taken. All silver speeches suggest ar
rested development at the age of three.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

She-You stay out later and later every
night.
He-You do not mind that, do you?
She-Oh. no. l am glad to see you do so.
If you keep on in the way you are going
you will eventually be coming home early
again, when you nave completed the circle
of tho bO,trS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
IN THE AIR.

Passing of the BivaIve.
The last month with an "r" has fed
And Joined the has-beenfband;
The ostreophagous maid is now
A pariah in the land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

The Spaniards are no longer making war
In Cuba. They are trying to starve the in
habitants by %corralling them in towns and
to impoverish the island by stealing every
thing they can lay their hands on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

The Nashville exposition. which has just
been opened, is so up-to-date in all re-
spects that the public has lost sight of the
fact that it is a centennial exposition. In
respect of early settlement Tennessee ante
dates by many years any other State west
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

1t is said that counting the expense of
legislative sessions the new senator from
Kentucky has cost the State 100000. 1t is
to be hoped he will prove worth it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Commander Booth-Tucker's plan of
transporting the poor of cities to the arid
lands of the West seems unnecessarily
cruel. The poor wretches will nave to
work out their own salvation twice over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Letters of inquiry were sent by a Cincin-
natl firm to representative business men
in different parts of the flooded region in
the South asking their opinion as to what
effect the flood would probably have on
general business in the Mississippi valley
this summer and fall. The replies are
unanimous that if the fosd subsidies as
soon as it is now expected the usual
crops will be made and general business
will not suffer materially. Some of the
writer's say the loss of property has been
greatly ov~erestimated and that the country
will recuperate very rapidly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
twenty Pages

The assertion that the Sultan's navy is
not modern seems to be disproved by the
fact that several of his war ships are
aground in the Dardanelles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

The Journal is in receipt of a forty
eight page Passover edition of the Jewish
Gazette, which bears upon it's upper mar
gin the legend: This reaches a class of
people that cannot be reached by any other
paper published" Inasmuch as it is
printed in Hebrew text for the special ben
eft of the Russian Jews it's assertion is one
to be accepted without dispute. The Ga
zette appears to be a very able paper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

The well-informed correspondent of the
London Daily News says the recent disas-
tiers of the Greeks were due entirely to
blundering leadership and the incapacity
of the staff officers. OF the line officers and
men he says: There can be no shadow
cast upon the %gallantry and fighting of the
Greek officers and men in this painful
crisis. The Greek soldier is undeniably
brave. intelligent. abstemious and endur-
ing" The general staff, he says, lis by
far the weakest point in the Greek army"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
ImnnssihIR.

Here said the managing editor, this
won't do, about the new superintendent of
the telegraph beginning as a messenger
boy
But pleaded the biographer, "he did
begin as d messenger, and is quite proud
of it
Il don't dispute that fact, retorted the
editor. with the air of one who has to
maintain discipline, but you say he be-
gan active service"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

The announcement comes from the Geor-
gle home of Hon. Thomas E. Watson, late
Populist candidate for. Vice President, that
he has just completed the second volume of
his history of France, the manuscript of
which will now go to the printer. This is
the first the public has known that he was
writing such a history. AS Mr.. Watson
has never been in France and is not ac-
quainted with the French language one
might question his fitness for the task, but
it seems he does not. 1t is said h has
written the book not in the expectation Of
realizing a fortune. out of it, but in the
hope of familiarizing the Populist readers
of America with the earlier revolutions and
powerful social u~prisings in the old world
that had so potent an influence in shaping
history. The book is designed for a school
as well as a popular history, and is in
tended to teach the young Populist idea
how to shoot. AS history it will probably
be unique.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

If the queen of the May ventured out
yesterday she found it necessary to wear
her sealskin sacque.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02


Professor Thurber, of the University of
Chicago, has been 10 the trouble of asking
three thousand children in the public
schools of that city: What books have you
read since school began last September"
(which one did you like best?' Uncle
Toms Cabin is the first book in the list
of answers, and Longfellow's "Evange-
line stands No. 10, while many books
written especially for children come in at
the end of the list. The boys above Elirteen
years of age pay a high tribute to Profess
sor Ffske's History of the United States"
putting it No. Is in a list of one hundred
favorite books. The answers indicate that
the boys, as well as the girls of Chicago,
are no longer reading dime novels, which,
a few years ago, We're filed with accounts
of fights with Indians, in which redskins,
robbers, daring riders and perilous adven-
lures fired the youthful imagination. 1t is
hoped that this is the case, but is it not
possible that the Chicago boys, when ad-
dressed by a university professor, have
temporarily assumed a love of that litera-
ture to which boys do not naturally take?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the malIs
inathe United States should put on an e:ght-paee
paper a ONE-cENT postage stamp; on a twelve
or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENF postage
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rates.
All communication intended for publication in
this paper muAt. in order to receive attention. 3e
accompanied by the name and address OF Tue
writer. II 1t is desired that rejected manuscripts
be returned, postage must in all cases he lp:ciosed
Tor that purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

of the ~Alleghenies. It was settled by white
emigrants from North Carolina in 1856 and
was represented in the colonial Legisla-
ture of that State in 1T76 as the district of
Washington. 1t continued as a part of
North Carolina until 1875, when, the people
becoming dissatisfied with the state gov
inner organized the State of Franklin
and set up a government of their own. This
lasted three years, when it reunited with
North Carolina. In 1889 that State coded
the territory to the United States and in
1890 it was organized. together with Ken
lucky, as the Territory of the United
States south of the Ohio In 1894 a sepa-
rate territorial government was granted to
Tennessee, and in 1876 a state constitution
was formed and the State was admitted
to the Union, its admission ante-dating that
of Indiana twenty years. No other State
has a more curious and interesting early
history than Tennessee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
A PuxzIing Question.

Yes" said the barber, II want a man
who could act as foreman during my alb :
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

~ '7 Cleveland Leader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

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