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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
The Liquor BUSINESS in Politics.

Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. in the Atlantic
The liquor business does not stand on
the same footing with other occupatio
IT always tends to produce criminality in
the population at large, and aw-hreaking
among the saloon keepers themselves. Ii
IS absolutely necessary to supervise il rigid
~ and to impose restrictions upon the traf-
nc In large cities the traffic cannot be-
stopped, but the evils can at least be mini
mized. In New York the saloon keepers
have always stood high among professional
politicians. Nearly two-thirds of the polit-
ical leaders of Tammany Hall have been in
the liquor business at one time or another.
The saloon is the natural club and meeting
place for the ward heelers and leaders, and
the barroom politician is one of the most
common and best recognized factors in local
government. The saloon keepers are al
ways hand in glove with the professional
politicians, and occupy toward them such
a position as is not held by any other class
of men. The influence they WELD in local
politics has always been very great, and
until our board took office man ever
dared seriously TO threaten them for their
fragrant violations of the law. The powerful
and influential saloon keeper was glad to
see the shops of his neighbors closed, for 1t
gave him business. On the other hand. a
corrupt police captain or the corrupt poll
tician who controlled him could always eX-
tort money from saloon keeper by threat
ening TO close his place and let his neigh
bOr's remain open.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
An Invention of Envy.
New York Sun.

The report that the Hon. William Jen-
speech at the silver camp meeting in
Springfield o., must be rejected as an in
Vention Of envy or malice. Mr.. Bryan be-
lieves that no man can earn honestly moro
than S. 900 a year. With his industry as a
speechmaker he would become a plutocrat
OF enormous proportions if he could find
silver plutocrats enough to give him $1,50
a speech. But he doesn't wish to become
a plutocrat, and still less does he wish to
make only three speeches and a third
year an amount which. at the quoted
Springfield rate, would give him the 5000.
beyond which he doesn't wish to 60 Many
camp meeting. and probably any one of
them would cheerfully pay Sl,5OO rather
than lose the privilege. Perhaps Mr.. Bry-
an is to pay $500. He would not encour-
age plutocracy by consentng TO receive
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Harper & Brothers publish volume Of selec-
tions from the works Of the late Thomas Wharton
under the title of ''Bobbo and Other Fancies."
Mr.. Wharton journalist by profession, but
he did some excellent literary work outside Of
that line, in both prose and verse. This volume
contains three other short stories besides
'Bobbo." "Bobbo'' is a fanciful story of a
dream had by Paul Patureau, clerk of a magls-
trate's court in Paris; The Last Sonnet of
Prinzivalle di Cembino." has for its theme the
purity of the love of the hero for Madonna Ghita
the wife Of Ugo degli Carrecci; 'Ratu Tanito's
Wooing' is a tale of the south seas; the other
story is called 'Old and New and has lis scene
at Bar Harbor. number of verses are included
in the volume. There is appreciative sketch
Of the Deceased author by owen Mester.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Hannibal.

Hannibal. the great Carthaginian general. is
supreme the soldiers and statesmen Of his
time, including those of Rome. Like Napoleon
ard even more decidedly than Napoleon, he
towers over all the figures of an age Of war in
its grandest aspects. He a consummate war
rior. illustrous statesman. patriot sus-
tanned through a career which proved every ex-
IRENE Of fortune by devotion to his country, and
intense hatred of its impacable foe, and that
too, apparently without thought Of ambition and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Hannibal is the title
given to a new life Of him by William O Connor
Morris 1t is a comprehensive sketch Of his char
acter and and of the crisis OF the struggle
between Carthage and Rome. The work is pub
lshed in Heroes of the Nations SERIES by G. p
me-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

claim the full protection OF the law in doing
so. No matter how just the present claims
of the miners are or how great their griev-
ances have been, they will not be permitted
by force or intimidation to prevent the
operators from operating their mines An
attempt to do so would result in the latter
demanding the protection of the law, as
they would be entitled to do, and it
would be extended. Such a contest could
only end in the suppression and failure of
the strike. If the miners are wise they will
agree to arbitrate..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Mr.. Gowdy VIII Drive.
Rushville Republican.

Consul General Gowdy has sent an order
to Cicero Vance for span of carriage
horses, able TO trot a mile inside of three
minutes double, for his use in Paris After
visiting Illinois and Ohio, travelling about
a thousand miles Vance found pair of
handsome bright bay Wilkes horses, five
West Elkton o., and bought them. They
viii cost 5000 delivered in Rushville
ard $500 additional in Paris The team
streets next Saturday. and trained before
shipment. Jesse Vance will go with the
team to Paris about the middle of Septem-
Der. The horses will also be shown at the
fair in this county and some Of the neigh
boring ones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
MIR. Pages New story.

The large number of persons who like to read
everything that Thomas Nelson Page writes will
be interested in a story by him, The Old
Gentleman in the Black Stock" The scene OF the
story is in a quaint old town and the story is
told in a quaint style. 1t is quiet and effective
by its simplicity 1t is a story of which is
apt to remember the characters. the plot and
the ending; a small picture, but highly finished
In merit it follows Mr. Nelson's Virginia
Sketches" but its good qualities its clear style
it's love-maklng. have certain tenderness. and
the figure OF the old bachelor Mr.. Miles, who
has loved the heroine's mother With a lifelong
love. affords sufficient pathos to give Il stand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Mr.. Peters.

novel entitled Mr. Peters," by Ricardo
Stephens, opens with a prologue the scene of
which is supposed to be a Western camp. An
Italian who cannot speak English is accused of
having stolen horses. The real thief, J. Bun
combe, acts interpreter, and Hector Inch, a
young Scotsman, is the prosecutor before Judge
Lynch's court. The accused is hung, and it is
afterwards found out he was innocent His
widow learns the of Buncombe and Inch,
and disappears with her boy The scene changes
to Edinburgh, some twenty years afterwards
The boy, now Giuseppe Peters, appears and be-
gins his search for the two men, one OF whom
is Lord Justice Inch. Buncombe tries to
blackman the lord justice the. strength of the
lynching, but the latter, who has heart disease
dies in court when he hears Peters sing the air
sung by his father just before he was hung
Peters entices Buncombe to come to him alone at
hight, tells him who he is, and then hangs him.
Peters is accidentally drowned while on his way
to the steamer. One this is a very i'm
probable story and it rather drags in the telling
Harper & Brothers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The rapid rise of wheat during the last
few days has given point to the familiar
phrase There's millions in it," The best
feature of the rise is the gain TO the farm
ers. Comparatively little of the new wheat
crop has been marketed as yet and with
what is left over OF last years crop 1t is
safe to say the farmers are holding fully
450,000000 bushels. AS rise of one cent a
bushel on this quantity represents an ag-
gregate advance of $500, 600 il is easy to see
what a stream of gold has poured into the
pockets of the farmers One year ago wheat
was selling at IS cenls, while on Saturday
it touched $l.O7. The difference to the
farmers on the estimated holding of 45o 0O0, :
900 bushels is $3.50. 600 900. The rise of seven
cents on Saturday alone meant a gain TO
them OF S3l 500, 900. If their present holdings
could be marketed to-day at the closing
quotations OF Saturday they would be $751;
100000 better OFF than If they had sold on
Friday And the farmers are not the only
ones who have prohted by the rise. A great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

General conditions present pleasing con-
trast with those of a year ago. Then one
might search the country over for an evil
dence of hopefulness in business. Factories
were closing, prices were falling and there
was no confidence in business. Those who
had money dared not lend it, and man
of intelligence desired to make an invest
ment in any sort of business or industry.
For years labor had not been so poorly
employed or so inadequately remunerated
Not since the war were there so many peo-
pie for whom there was apparently no
hope. The scene has changed. There is
buoyancy in the markets and confidence
and courage all along the line Towns
which were languishing year ago now
break forth in rejoicing over the hum of
factories, the briskness of trade and the
general improvement which has so suddenly
come to them. There is joy in the land
the farmer who has been telling his woes
for four years now smiles as his value in
wheat rises day after day. Even before
the heat of summer is over briskness has
entered the retail trade. Where it was re-
ported mo good" a year ago it has sud-
denly become satisfactory. In many lines
of production wages, which fell month after
month year ago, have recently been adj
vanced. In short, the change has been
feeling of thankfulness in all and especially
in those who have no faith in advance
agents of prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

many dealers have made sums ranging
from $4,000 to 5000 0O, and some spectators
cleared millions. The profit of a man who
bought million bushels on a margin before
the rise started and sold out on Saturday
at an advance of % cents would be 1920, 600
Some of the shrewdest judges of the market
think prices will go considerably higher
but the Journal does not advise anybody
TO speculate on this opinion. Bona fde
holders ought to be satisfied with the pres
ant f,rffsa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Arnaud'. Masterpieces.

In this medieval romance the author, Walter
c. Larned, has pictured the struggle of a young
painter to escape from the influence of purely
sensuous beauty and to learn the secret of the
spiritual side of his These opposing in
fiuences are typihed by two maiGens, each of
whom inspires in the hero different passion for
beauty a subtitle designates the story "A
Romance of the Pyrenees 20 which it distinctly is.
Cloth, 81. New York: Charles Scrlbner's Sons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
A Valparaiso Ind, paper publishes the
following:

A Valparaiso, Ind, paper publishes the
following:
Any one wishing to throw stones
through my windows, smash the furniture,
tear the roof off my house or take off the
siding, overturn my barn, Kill my horse,
hitch COWS to my trees, pasture my yard
or tear up the sidewalk, is at perfect lib
erty TO do so. l renounce all claims to any
property rights. Should any one get hurt
while engaged in any of these pleaSurable
and legitimate occupations l will consider it
a pleasure as well a duty to pay all eX-
penses during recovery. Further, if any
one who tears up my walk should fall and
hurt himself because of the missing boards,
| will consider it an inViolate duty to pay
the very best obtainabe surgeon, a trained
nurse, and all expenses incurred by the
accident w. NJ. BUNDY.
The writer of the notice says it was the
outcome of unavailing efforts on his part
to get the city authorities of Valparaiso
to protect him and his property against
the operations of some halfgrown boys
who call themselves the sidewalk gang
and amuse themselves at night by commit
ting all sorts of depredations. Valparaiso
would seem to offer good field Cor the
curfew law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Iniuring Induces Boom.

San Francisco Chronicle
The East was very slow to catch the
Klondike fever but now it is raging like
an epidemic. Old Joe Ladue is entertaining
New York with fairy tales about the Arc
tic and incidentally booming town lots in
Dawson City There will be more in real
estate for Ladue next spring than in min
ing, unless the tide of discovery should
carry most of the miners to new camp.
1t would not be surprising if Ladue should
find his pet town In the condition Of Circle
City next year when he returns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Kansas City Journal
Il have been familiar with the grain
business In Kansas City for many years
known o the price rice Of wheat to go W so de-
cidedly while the entire crop was in tho
hands of the farmers" said Webster With
bulk of the crop to be got under the
control of the spectators, who would then
force the market up and get all the profit.
The market appears to have gone from UNI
der their control this year, and here in
August. with practically all of the crop in
the hands of the farmers the price goes
bounding up just as if it meant to hit the
dollar mark It's nice for the farmers OF
the West who have grain to sell"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
An Editors "Reminiscences.

"A Chat About Celebrities is the title given
to a volume Of personal reflections and rem
iniscences by Curtis Guild. for long time editor
OF the Boston Commercial Bulletin. The rem
iniscences are the fruitage of active ex-
perience of nearly fifty years in Journalism, and
they describe many interesting persons and events
in a pleasant way. The parts OF the book which
are not personal "reminiscences are not marked
by any originality. Boston: Lee * Shepard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The United States consul at the city of
Nuevo Laredo, on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande, reports that the fall in the
price of silver has been attended by rise
in all commodities in Mexico, domestic as
well as foreign Even rents have risen; ev-
erything, in fact, but labor. Wages are
the same as when the Mexican dollar was
worth rs cents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

men is a madness which no science has
ever yet been able to understan The pig
IN the poke seems to be the favorite pig.
poor men in Kansas and Missouri to paper
the whole blue sky. Six per cent. on a
sure security has been despised as against
a thousand per cent. promised by liar
with security on fake. Every farm mort
gage IN Kansas and Missouri ought to be
owned IN Kansas and Missouri to-day. The
vested in that wav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

IL the leaders of organized labor are
really discreet they will call off the St
Louis meeting to consider sympathetic
strike to paralyze the industry of the coun-
try. So level-headed man as President
Gompers has shown himself to be should
not be associating with such person as
Sovereign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

A Mexican dispatch states that the Mex
lean government is giving anxious consid-
Grafton to the currency question. We
would nave been in company with Mexico
II Mr.. Bryan had been elected and the silver
SPECTATORS 16-to-1 policy had been adopted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

After nearly two months of idleness the
coal mine operators in Pittsburg have sug-
gested an arbitration to bring the strike to
an end. The officers of the miners agree,
but not with any manifestation of cordial
ity. Why was not arbitration suggested
before the men left the mines?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Shon in society.

Dollie Footlite-No you will never catch
me again going out to supper with an ed
itor.
Cholle Headlight - He wasn't - aW -
bwoke?
Il don't know whether he was or not, but
he ran blue pencil through about half
nv order"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
THE FUNDAMENTALS JOURNAL

C2n be found the following places:
NEW YORK Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
C1ICAGO-Pa.mer House and +. 0. News Co..
~ Dearborn street
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine
street.
AOUISNILLE-C. r. Deering. northwest corner
OF 1hlrd and jefferson streets and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
81. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Perm. avenue and L street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
The sweet Thing.

Kansas City Journal.
There is nothing quite so delightful as
a womans idea of courts, and law, and
judicial procedure generally. The papers
have been full of accounts of those three
women chosen as jurors in the district
court at Fort Scott. One of them is Miss
Cora Wheeler. Last Monday the sheriff
served her with the usual summons to be
and appear at court on the day set. She
said: "Oh, thank you so much. Please
tell the dear. kind judge that will surely
accept his invitation or send a substitute.
Isn't il funnY?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Mr. John Fox jr., author Of "A Cumberland
Vendetta" has made considerable reputation by
his stories and character sketches OF rough South
ern life new volume entitled 'Hell-fer-S ar-
tain contains ION Hell-fer-sartaip Creek and
some other short sketches. They are stories Of
persons living in the mountains which lie in West
Virginia and Kentucky. and besides being for the
most part told in dialect. they full Of al
Iusions TO customs peculiar TO that section OF
the country. The stories show originality and
power Harper < Brothers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The deputy fish commissioner of Della
ware county, who went to Eaton to inves-
tgate reports as to the killing of fish in the
Mississinewa by refuse from the Albany
paper mill, reports that he found at least a
ton of. dead fish. The factories guilty of
this practice should be vigorously prose-
cuted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The number of excursion trains to this
city yesterday and the large number OF peo-
pie brought by them indicate that Indian
apolis is a popular resort. The excursion
lists were so quiet that it would not have
been known they were in the city but for
the large number of strangers on the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Other Rocks Received

For Another's Sin," novel by Bertha NJ.
Clay. Chicago: Rand. McNaly * CO.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, publish Mari
eta S Marriage" a novel by w. u. Norris. and
Dear tausteria, novel by Rhoda Broughton.
Eotn are issued in the popular ''Iown and Coun-
try Library series Paper, ~ cents each.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

rs that young one going to stay awake
all night?' asked Mr. Lushforth. indig-
nantly.
There is no right for you TO complain, -
retorted his wife. HE inherits the habit
from you"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Kansas Cltv Ionrnal.

Kansas City Journal.
If Missouri and Kansas people now had
ell the money they have invested in blind
bunco deals presented by strangers in the
past twenty years they would have more
money than the farmers have hay. The
madness of the men who exchange their
hard earned money for shares in the un-
known properties and schemes Of unknown
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
McKinIey's Discretion.
Chicago News.

Chicago NEWS.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, the newly appointed
minister to Russia, is IAN old personal
friend of President Mckinley" Up to the
hour of going to press we had not heard
of any old personal enemy of President
Mckinley getting enough favors to make
him humpbacked carrying them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Possible jolt to His Faith.

Ph1IadeIphla PresS.
John D. Rockefeller. says an exchange,
is a firm believer in the Bible. And yet
one would fancy that the sentence the
earth is the Lords" might cause him to
WAIVER a moment in favor of the Standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

For the first time in four years the mar
ket page of the daily paper has more read
ers and more pleasant sensations than any
other part of the issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Dealers in musical instruments report the
outlook as the best in many years, and
teachers of music are anticipating full
classes this season AS music is a luxury.
this is another sign of better times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
IN the United states should put on an eight page
PAPER 9 ONE-CENT postage stamp; on twelve
or si&teen-lage paper TMO-iE%T postage
rates.
All communications intended FOR publication IN
TINS paper must in order TO receive attention, be
acScIhpanled by the name and address Of the
,"Flter II ii is desired that rejected manuscripts
- returned. postage must in all cases be Enclosed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The effect of the squirt of good times has
been miraculous-the little knots of silverites
no longer shout Bryans maxims at the top
of their voices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

"I never felt SO cheap in all my life,'
said the gentleman behind the bars
Why should he not? He had just real
lied that his pal had given him away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Even the demagogues who went up and
down the country year ago braying about
wheat and silver being tied together ought
now to see the shadow of their ears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Detroit Free Press.
1t cannot be expected that everything Will
he on the boom at one and the same time in
this country The bicycle market is little
Wobbly and free-siver stock is shrinking at
an alarming rate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

The temptation to speculate in wheat is
very great, but those who have made a few
dollars should remember that there will be
Q sharp turn in the road
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Kansas City Journal.
The Mckinley administration is not yet
six months old. yet a tariff bin has been
enacted prosperity restored and the EN-
poria postoffice question settled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

Item in half a dozen Kansas papers at
once: 1.-The bank remained open last night
until O'Clock in order to give the farmers
who are hauling wheat a chance TO de-
post"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
Fair Warning.

Ossawatomie (Kan) Journal.
If old "hook-nose" John Malone don't
work out our road tax this week or pay his
subscription we are going to tell about ms
chasing respectable women after dark ana
soaring the wits out of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23

has already taken me in They have failed
owing me back salary for three months.
Hadn't you heard of it?''