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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

then they could not only rob US of our gas.
but take all our oil, too. Since locating the
pumping station here. our pressure has
been cut down about one-half, and II Affects
the whole territory for miles on either SIDE
of the pipe line. They are extending their
lines every day. and II is only a question
of time when they will have drawn out the
full pressure for all manufacturing pur-
poses.
1t is unlawful to burn natural gas from
tiambeaux. then if there is any fairness or
justice in the law it surely ought TO be I'M
lawful to sink a gas Well near your neiSn-
hor's line and draw out all he has OF any
value underneath his premises. The way
those companies operate when a person re-
fuses TO lease them land is 10 encircle them
with wells placed as near the line as possl-
Bile. attach them 10 their main lines, start
the pump at work. and that process soon
opens the eyes of the farmer and ne con-
cludeS that he might as we'll lease and get
what he can while it is going. and so the
great monopoly goes on its way rejoicing.
But should another ompany come along
and start it's drills TO work in order to OBJ
tam a part OF TINS vast wealth., me nrSt
company and all interested parties in the
big. steal raise their hands in holy horror
and exclaim in thunGerous tones, What a
great wrong you are perpetrating upon
the dear people," and If there Is no other
way to prevent it let us unite in asking the
Governor to call a special session of the
Legislature to make some laws 20 suit the
occasion, and let the poor people pay the
iddlers while the millionaires dance. L
had the pleasure of hearing the late
Thomas A. Hendricks make a speech at
New Castle, Ind, a number of years ago,
and | remember one thing he said with a
great deal OF emphasis. He said that he
was proud TO know that this great govern
ment of ours gave to every owner of land
all there was above it aad all there was
beneath it. and no man had a right 10
say nay. If that is not the law 1t IS surely
good common sense: and the people should
be protected in IL. The common people are
getting very tired of the organized trusts
and monopolies. and of the consolidated
wealth of the great organizations through
out the land debating laws and robbing the
people Of their just deserts. 1t would seem
70 me, under the present circumstances,
that the best way to do would be TO turn
everything loose. and every man for HIM
self and the devil take the hindmost.
ReGkey, Ind. Nav 13. f. NJ. III.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

Among the changes in the Dingley tariff
bill made by the Senate finance committee
was a reduction of the duties on French
brandy and wines. AS these French prod
ucts come in direct competition with Cali
fornia products, which are said to be fully
as good, they should be required to pay a
high duty. Aside from the folly of throwing
away a revenue derived from a tax on a
foreign product which displaces an Amer
lean product. France is the last country that
has any right to ask tariff fay ors from the
United States. She imposes heavy discrim-
mating duties against products of the
business in Paris, who imports machinery
and other manufactures of iron and steel
from his country, writes as follows:
The United States are nearly the sole coun-
try charged on the French tariff general -
which means p per cent. more than other
countries. Besides, we are charged a sur
tax of 8 francs 60 centimes per hundred kilo-
grams ii our goods come by steamers call
The consequence is that we have to pay
the fancy freight charges of the French
line of steamers direct to Havre. 1t costs
almost three times more than for goods
taken from New York to England.
1t is difficult to understand why the SEN
ate committee should have made tariff re-
auctions in favor of a country that dis
eliminates against the United States and
on products which come in direct competi-
ton with those of American labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

1t is a common remark of novel readers
that the average English novel is 80 con-
v~entional." That is largely true and yet
the average English novel is more interest
ing than the average American novel be-
cause, as a general rule, the story is bet
ter told and put together in better form.
There is a sort of professional ease in the
manner of telling. 1t is this chiefly that
mond, a readab e story. 1t is conventional
to a degree and is in no sense a strong
story, and yet is interesting and perhaps
all the more because it is not a moral
purpose story. New York: Dodd. Mead &
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
A Marital Liability.

The first chapter of "A Marital Liabil-
ity," by Elizabeth p. Train, author of "A
Social Highwayman," introduces the read
er to the interior of a penitentiary from
which Murray Van Worst, known there as
No. 757, was about to depart, having
served out his time. Well born and bred
and heir to a fortune he had been unjust
~ convicted of q crime of which he was
not guilty. His return to the world, his
meeting with his daughter. his escape from
an unhappy marriage, his Vindication and
maj marriage to the woman he loved fur
nish the basis of a story which is full of
dramati movement and well written. Pol
lShed buckram, gilt top. deckle edges, 81.
Philadelphia: j. b. Lippincott Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

During the last week two important
American products nave been publicly de-
nounced in Germany and England, respect
lively. In the upper house of the Prussian
Diet a member made a violent attack on
American oleomargarine, declaring that
"the stuff is poison and unfit for human
food and a London paper contained an
attack on the Standard Oil Trust in which
it said:
The Paris horrors are surpassed. Men,
women and children here are roasted alive
in order to put money into the pockets of
the American Trust. Rockefeller has OBJ
tanned absolute control of the oil trade of
Great Britain by forcing retailers to sell
the refuse oils prohibited in America and
is responsible for the terrible series of lamp
explosions.
Both Of these attacks are doubtless in
American products. Count Won Franker-
berg, who declared that American oleomar-
garine is poison and unfit for human food,
either did not know what he was talking
about or made a willful misstatement.
Oleomargarine is not poisonous. 1t is made
of excellent materials by clearly processes,
and there is nothing deleterious about it.
IL 10 llO( q SOOu az Tx pCSl ~ OuI
it is far more palatable and less injurious
than much of the butter that is sold as
genuine. If it does not hurt American
stomachs, as hundreds of thousands of liv-
ing witnesses can testify it does not, there
is no danger of it's injuring German
stomachs, which are probably the strongest
in the world. The attack on American re-
fined oils is equally ~unfounded. Americans
have no reason to love the Standard Oil
Company. but all will admit that they have
greatly improved the quality and cheapened
the price of burning oil, and they are too
smart to sell inferior oils in a market they
are trying to capture. If the British peo-
pie are being roasted alive by lamp ex-
plosions it is due to some other cause than
the inferiority Of American coal oil. Per-
haps the men get drunk and throw the
lamps at their wives heads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

The Republicans in the Maine district
which has so long been represented by Mr..
Millikin, who died a few weeks since, have
nominated Ex-Governor Burleigh by accla-
nation. 1t is probable that Burleigh will
represent the district for years, because. of
that sensible policy which prevails in that
small State of keeping a good man in Con-
gress term after term. 1t is a policy which
gives a State and the country the services
Of such men as Reed and Dingley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

The Chicago News may not be a Demo-
cratic authority, but it says the Wilson
bill, as it came from the House, was "a
fair middling piece of Democratic tariff
work" AS that bill imposed no duty on
and the treasury obtains, under the
Gorman-Wilson law, $25, 900, 600 of duties
from that article, "a fair middling piece of
Democratic tariff work. would nave in
creased the deficit that amount in addition
to the average of years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
A Romance of Old New York.

A new story by Edgar Fawcett is we'll
named "a Romance of Old New York. for
it is a delightfully."- quaint romance of the
American metropolis during the first decade
of the present century. One of the leading
characters is the celebrated Aaron Burr,
then about sixty years old, who had re-
Gently returned from Wanderings abroad
under a social stigma. The treatment of
his character is very delicate, and that
of others in the story is skillful. The story
and is we'll told. Philadelphia: j. B. Lip
pincOtt Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

he became well acquainted, and was
charmed with him. They spent several days
together when Holmes was last in England.
land wondered how it was that men so
often misunderstood one another. l told
him 1t was the badness of our language;
he said it was the badnes of our tempers.
Perhaps we were both right He adds
some amusing "reminiscences of Macaulay
and some humorous and rather cynical
fiarffU
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

The declaration of Senator Morgan that
his Cuban resolution is not intended to
embarrass the President, but to support his
efforts, is sustained by his willingness to
not press it to a vote until after the Presi-
dent has time to hear from his special COM
missioner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

The attorney general of New York has be-
gun to enforce the antitrust law in that
State by proceeding against the railroads
which are charged with being a combina-
ton to control the supply of coal so as to
maintain prices. 1t is the first effort in
that line, consequently the result will be
awaited with much interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

Judge Sheldon, of the Massachusetts Su-
prerne Court, has decided that improperly
of the Boston T-heosophical Society is not
exempt from taxation as a religious society.
The officers have appealed on the ground
that if the society is not religious then it
is literary or scientific. If the leaders are
be blamed for inability to understand
fheosonhv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
Following Instructions.

'Um-ah," said the Rev. Mr.. Wilgus, as
he looked over the scanty missionary col
lection; Il asked this congregation TO AID
in the illumination of the benighted heathen
mind. And l must say that such a lot OF
light givers it has never before been my
o-poriapoa RI meet D.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

Did you ever try to learn the plcVcle'
Captain Barnacles?'
do you think" roared the ola sallor'
chat L would be found aboard a craft that
had it's rudder in front?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

There is abundant testimony from all
parts of the State that the G. A. r. en-
campmen was most Hospitality and royalty
treated at Richmond, but in some instances
this sentiment is accompanied by an ex-
preston of preference for indianapolis on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
The Very Thing for Him.

Father-I want a boys story book; some
thing a healthy boy will enjoy.
Bookseller-Here is the very thing. There
is a man or two killed in every chapter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

Defeat seems TO have not only soured ex-
Postmaster General Wanamaker. if he has
been correctly reported, but to have put
him in an unreasonable frame of mind.
lie remarks, with the unreason OF a silver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Implication as to Age.

Brownies, Miss Smythe and were BOY
and girl sweethearts in the long ago.
Miss Smythe-Not so very long ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
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1t is announced that Senator GaIlinger
will present an amendment to the tariff
bill prohibiting the importation of goods
made by convict labor. 1t should be adopt
ed without dissent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17

The demand for THE Damnation of The
ron Ware continues. A report seems to
have gone the rounds that the Messrs. Serb
ner had acquired this book from Stone &
Kimball. This report is not true, but it
probably rose from the fact that the Serb
ners had recently issued the four of Mr..
publishers uniform in makeup. with
THE Damnation of Theron Ware This
edition was made with the knowledge and
consent of Messrs. Stone q kimball-
Elementary Drawing: A Series of Prac-
teal Papers for Beginners" by Elizabeth
Moore Hallowell, is the name of a work
Company. They also announce the publi-
cation at an early day of a supplementary
volume to the Oxford Chaucer in all re-
spects uniform with that edition of Chau-
GERS works in six volumes. 1884. It's title is
''Chaucerianand Other Pieces" Another an
nouncement is a book with the name Life
Histories of American Insects" There
is no book precisely like this in the
field, and the author of this one is ex-
ceptionally well qualified by previous ex-
p~erience, both as an observer and as an au-
thor.
Messrs. Lampson, Wolfe & Co. announce
that they have just secured for publication,
in book form only (the serial rights having
been suppressed, a new historical novel of
about ninety thousand words by Mrs. Bur-
ton Harrison. "A Son of the Old Domin-
ion Mrs. Harrison has had in mind for
a number of years and has actually been
writing it during the last year. 1t deals
with the pre-revolutionary period, and is
QlSIl1CIlV a. cOiOIldl iONelt QeSCTlDllR uTd-
matically the early border warfare between
the Indians and the colonists and showing
what led up to the revolution by the col
onists in Virginia. 1t describes graphically
famous scenes, meetings, historical charac-
tiers and places prominent in the early revo-
luton.
Some new announcements of d. Appleton
& Company are: '"The Outgoing Turk" by
II. c. Thompson, author of THE ChitraI
Campaign with many Illustrations
Woman and the Republic by Helen Ken
drick Johnson; Beauty and Art" by Adam
Heaton: THE Story of Germ Life a new
volume in the Useful Story series. by Prof.
Fl. w. Conn: Some -Unrecognized Laws Of
Nature" by /. Singer and L.. H.. Berens:
England" by Frances E.. Cooke, and
Germany" by Kate F.. Krocker-two vol
umes in a new series called History for
Young Readers" "Fierceheart. the Sol
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author of Mistress Dorothy Marvin; -
"Nulma." an Australian romance, by Mrs.
Campbell-Praed, and The Folly of Pen
Harrington a novel by Julian Sturgis.
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other hooks Rcceived.

Glamour" a novel by Meta Orred. au-
thor of "Berthold." etc. Philadelphia: J. b.
Lippincott Company.
Ruth Farmer" a novel by Agnes March
bank. Published in theUnion-square Lii
hrary by the Cassell Publishing Company.
Paper, so cents.
Perfection City, "a novel by Mrs. Orpen,
author of ''The Chronicles of the Cid" Pub
lished in d. Appleton & Co.'S Town and
Country Library series. Paper, so cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
The Ape. the Idiot and other People

This rather far-fetched title is given to
a volume of stories by w. c.. Morrow.
There are fourteen of them, and they APP
peared originally in Lippincott's Magazine,
the Overland Monthly and other periodi-
Gals. The stories have merit and in their
collected form they make d pretty volume.
Philadelphia; j. B.. LippinCott Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
The Coming of Chloe.

Under the pen name of THE Duchess
Mrs. Hungerford earned the reputation of
being one of the most fascinating ~novelists
of her day. The stories fall considerably
short of being great, but they please a
very large class of novel readers because
they are airy, light, bright and interesting,
full of spirit and with enough of pathos to
touch the feelings. The Coming of Chloe
was next to the last story she wrote. 1t
possesses the characteristics of all her 9TH
er novels and is published in uniform style
with them. Philadelphia j. b. Lippincott
COmnanV.
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because it commands following which
will make it effective in sweeping this
country in 1900"
1 condemn a Socialist who advocates
silver as being both dishonest and i'm
polite. He has nothing to gain for his
cause either in the event of silver losing
or winning the day. If it loses he will.
be impressed into further battles for a
remedy which he knows is futile, and if
it wins he will suffer the discredit OF
having led his supporters into battle
only to win victory absolutely barren
of promised results.
1t is not true, as Mr. Bowman asserts.
that "a political party too small to COM
mand respect has the inevitable effect
to keep that party and it's policy in a
hopeless minority"
Was the policy of the old Abolition
party such that it kept the policy of
abolition forever in hopeless minority?
Is Mr. Bowman so ignorant of the course
of modern political life as to not know
the marvellous growth of the socialist
party in Germany from nothing a few
years ago to nearly two millions today
has been entirely accomplished by their
sticking straight to a platform of pure
socialism with no compromises and no
entangling alliances Sin order to sweep
the country" The parallel he draws
about the failure of the Prohibition
party to accomplish their aim by means
of a separate party is not apropos. If
so then his advice would be for them TO
join the Populists and whoop it up for
silver even if they don't believe in 1t In
the hope of getting in position some day
to swing the silver crowd into the blue
ribbon crusade.
AS to the charge that the socialists
propose the impossible of immediate at
tainment and that sudden changes are
against nature, 1 would simply ask Mr..
Bowman to name one single item in the
socialist platform that is impossible of
attainment.
l would also ask If Mr.. Bowman con-
siders the Matching of chicken or the
birth of a child particularly unnatural
acts or does he think that if he had the
making of things instead of Dame Ma
ture he would prolong the pains of par
turition from hours to months in order
to prevent what he calls "cataclysm 4"
Even his argument about the gradual
betterment of fruits flowers birds, etc.,
is not based on fact. Almost every great
advance has been quite sudden, unex-
pected and accidental.
Unexpectedly and without mans
guidance tree in the orange grove
bears a seedless orange. 1t is chris
tened the navel and the buds from this
one "cataclysm" in nature are the be-
ginning Of all our navel oranges. Ma
| ture has created sport" From these
sports are derived nearly every ad-
vance in nature from orchids to pouter
pigeons. True enough, after Nature
has produced the sport man can inn
prove slowly and gradually but the
origin of the new species is always one
of Mr.. Bowmans unheard of births or
cataclysms. "KLONDYKE."
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Populations of Great Britain and
Russia

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
ald-Some months ago I forwarded to
you the official census of London, Eng
land, and casually mentioned that our
newspapers had the habit of speaking of
the population of England and Wales
as the total population of the British
Isles. l notice a few days since that
you have fallen into the same error in an
article on per capita money circulation
You give thirty-two millions, the popula
ton Of England and Wales, as the total
population, which is, nstead, in round
numbers forty millions, that of Scot
land and Ireland, ETC., making UP the
difference.
Another common misconception is
speaking of the total population of the
Russian empire, made up of many races.
as if it We're the population of Russia in
Europe. 1t is a curious habit attempting
to magnify one empire and detract from
the other. The population of the Rus
sian empire is about one-thrd only of
that of the British empire. The num-
Der of white people in the British en-
pire is at least equal to that in the United
States, and probably more. Yours faith
fully, A. l.. BROWNE.
Ontario, Cal, July %, 1897.
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LINES OF TRAVEL
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP co.

The Company's elegant steamers Santa
Rosa and Corona leave Redondo at II a.
m. and Port Los Angeles at 2:30 p. m. for
San Francisco via Santa Barbara and Port
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August 4. 8, -. 16, 20, "a, %, September 1.
5, Q. Is, II, 81, 25, 20. Leave Port Los Ange-
les at a. m. and Redondo at II a. m. for
San Diego July 1, 5. 9. 10, II. 81, rs, 20.
August 2. G, 10. IA, IS, 90 2e, 80, September 8,
Z, II, Is, 10, 20. 81. The Corona calls also at
Newport. Cars connect via Redondo leave
Santa F'e depot at 9:45 a. m. or from Re-
dondo Ry. depot at $3.50 a. m.
Cars connect via Port Los Angeles leave
S. p. r. r. depot at 1:35 p m. for steamers
north bound.
The steamers Eureka and Coos Bay leave
San Pedro and East San Pedro for San
Francisco via Ventura, Carpenteria, San
Ia Barbara, Gaviota, Port Hartford, Cay
ucos, San Simeon. Monterey and Santa
Cruz at $3.50 p m. July 4, g. IL. 49, 20, p rs.
August /, 5, 9. Is, II, q, 25, 49, September q,
g. 10. A. IS. %, 26, 80. Cars connect with
steamers via San Pedro leave s. P. R. r.
(Arcade depot at SOB p. m. and Terminal
Ry depot at $40 p. m. The Company re-
serves right to change, without previous
notice, steamers, sailing dates and hours
of sailing.
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