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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The speaker of the Michigan House of
Representatives.. i'm bis speech on assum-
ing office, suggested that in order TO waste
no time Members should be in their places
at least five days i'm the week. What is
the matter with six?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Perhaps" said the elderly gentleman
with the shiny coat, perhaps if L had not
had such d circus in my youth would
have more of a show now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

IL the Republican party is TO be better
than the Democratic. some men in it should
cease to urge certain lines of action be-
cause the Democrats had made them a
precedent.
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His Excuse.

Mrs. Figg-Tommy, | am ashamed of you.
L thought you knew better than to talk at
the same time with Mrs. Brown.
TOMMY thought she was SO busy, ma,
that she wouldn't notice il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
Guild Pro Quo.

The Junior Partner-Did you see Grinder
about extending that note?
The Senior Partner-Yes. He said he was
willing to extend the time if we would ex-
tend the size. f1--,Fo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

No sympathy need be wasted on ex-Gov-
ernor Altgeld for the snubbing he got from
the Illinois Legislature. On general prin-
cipIes nobody ever deserved a snubbing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

This city has given away too many fran
chises. charters and streets i'm the past.
Hereafter it's rule should be the people first
and corporations afterwards. If at all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

III any lobby organized for the purpose of
putting an unworthy measure through the
Legislature eontemplates trying to utilize
Governor Mount. the Journals advice is.
ssDon't
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

1t must be a bad year for the lobbyists
when IL is asserted that the fact that the
Huntington lobby in Washington killed
the funding bill by being i'm favor of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

X looks very much as If Congress pro-
posed to test the question whether the Pa
cifc railroads are bigger than the gov
m
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THE INDIANApoLIs JOURNAL

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One Of the best features OF the none
tary conference. and a result already APP
aarenI Is that it stirs the commercial
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Persons sending the Journal through the mails
IN the United States should put on an eight-page
paper a postage stamp. on a twelve
or sixteen-page paper a postage
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An communication intended for publication in
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accompanied by the name and address OF the
writer
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

it's government. be made AS nearly UNI
changeable as possible. always pointing
true, as points the needle 20, the pole. Gold
has its uses. and so has silver. ana SILVER
will continue to have its uses. not only In
arts. but in the coinage of the world; but
the civilized world will never consent that
it shall be so used as to destroy the equiiib-
rum of the balance or TO give Il raise
weight by which al value shall De Welsheu.
LIMITING INTEREST ON
But. sir. | am treading on dangerous
ground. and am ill-fitted to solve so serious
a monetary problem as now confronts the
Nation. So far as /. personally, am con-
cerned as representing, in a measure. the
interests of the saving banks i'm the State
of New York. / feel deeply moved and seri-
ouslv disturbed over the monetary condi-
tions now existing. There are now on de-
posit i'm the savings banks of the State of
New York about $3.50. 0Oo. 900. and. bear in
mind that in this State and throughout
the Eastern States the institutions for the
savings of the people are purely. eieemo-
svnary I'm their character. They nave no
capital. The whole of their profits accrue
to the benefit of their depositors. They
have no interests TO serve but the interests
of the people al large. They are
State authorities. while their in-
are strictly limited I'm character
TO the most secure which can be found; in
fact, the moneys 50 deposited constitute a
sacred trust. being largely the savings OF
the thrifty working classes. The laws OF
nearly ali the Eastern States forbid the
having of interest on deposits In excess Of
S3 eco and i'm some cases make the limit at
s1.5o0. This system. in my Judgment. should
be extended TO every State in the Union.
and. II so extended. IL would form a nucleus
for the gathering together of The thrift OF
the Nation, which. il time, would add
enormously TO the wealth OF the people and
aid largely in the development OF the conn
try. But the people who make thes-; de,
posts are often ignorant. easily ala aed,
and. when frightened. act on the impulses
its: therefore. IL becomes of the greatest i'm
portance that the currency OF the country
should be of the best, thoroughly stable I'm
ifs character. The interests Of the working
Classes demand this. their security rests
upon this. their prosperity requires IL. and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-03

island. Soda water establishments are
multiplying, in successful competition
with the national beverage Of tea.
One of the street sights was funer-
al procession. The japanese coffin is
more like a tub, in which is carried
the corpse in a sitting posture. There
is no musical display in any such pro-
cession we have seen: but many BAN
merits, long strips of cloth with various
inscriptions unreliable by US, On long
bamboo poles. Shinto or Buddhist
priests and acolytes in their peculiar
attire form prominent feature. A
long array of ''jinrikishas" is the equi-
valent of our line of carriages. Chris
tan believers are beginning to adopt
our conventional form of coffin, and to
substitute boughs of flowers for the
banners more commonly used.
The papers tell of some cases of
double suicide, which is one of the
queer superstitions of the people, the
belief being that persons dying togeth>
er will be sure of living together in
the world beyond. In the tables of
mortality published by the govern
ment suicide is enumerated among the
diseases, mentioned as the causes of
death. The suicides are high on the
list in point of number, and are fur
Their classified as from arrangement,
poverty, illness, love, disgrace. The
tabulation Of statistics is one of the
fads in which the Japanese imagine
they are showing high scientific ability.
Riding along the streets one day l
saw two little tots trying to read from
bulletin board which was headed
Weather Bulletin for October In
one Of the papers appeared CONNER
cial forecast of the course of trade for
the next three months, written in
similar language to the meteorological
forecasts of the Weather Bureau. The
Census of Osaka reports g.. 056 persons
without occupation; 5,77S loafers: 1894
vagabonds.
There is a conference of missionaries
of different societies to be held here
next Tuesday. Rev. Mr.. Carey is to
read a paper on Tracts. One of the
most popular, useful and largely cir
culated tracts is Mr.. Taro Ando's ac-
count of his conversion. It has passed
through many editions. The copy |
saw has a good portrait of Mr.. Ando
as a frontispiece. The annual meeting
of the American Mission is held in
Kobe College, when the girls have left
for their homes during the summer
vacation. Sunday school work does not
seem to flourish just now. The teach
ers in the Government schools warn
the scholars not to attend these places
where foreign teachers do not incul-
cate patriotism, which seems now to be
the virtue most lauded in Japan. But
praising any goodness and practising
it are two very different things. The
Japanese are fond of building ShrineS
on high places where they can have
beautiful views, but they live on the
mud flats, and the paddy fields OF
japan are far from being the elysian
fields one would imagine them to be
from the fancy sketches of romancing
litterateurs. H.
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TO SAVE LIFE.
Scheme of Stretching Chain Above
Niagara Falls.

Scheme of Stretching Chain Above
Niagara Falls.
A recent idea of John S. Macklem
for protecting life at Niagara Falls is
told in the Philadelphia Record as fol-
lows:
The recent disaster on the upper Nj
agara River, whereby two residents of
Chicago and one Buffalo man were
carried down to death through the up
per rapids and swept over the Horse
shoe Falls, has awakened the residents
of the locality to the fact that there
should be some means provided for the
rescue of people, who, while out sail
ing on those waters, suddenly find
themselves facing death by being car
ried down stream too far on the rapid
current To those who are not famil-
lar with the shore lines this is very
apt to occur, and more than one death
may be attributed to this cause. In
the past many lives have been sac
rificed at the Falls, but seldom in its
being lost at one time.
Letters have been written to the
Governor of New York State, and also
to the Ontario Government, advocating
the placing of safety cable from
mainland to mainland, across the up
per Niagara, above the danger lines
above the head of Goat Island. The
man who has interested himself in
having this safety cable erected is
John S. Macklem, and he has written
as above stated. All the years of his
life Mr.. Macklem has lived on the
banks of the Niagara, and in his mem
DRY there is a record of all the poor
unfOrtunates who have been carried
down to death in the awful waters of
the Niagara precipice. This latest ia
tally prompted him to move in the in
terest of humanity. He advocates
stretching light wire cable below the
line of navigation, and in order to hold
it above above the water at an equal
distance all the way across the stream
he would run a light rubber or metal
tube about three-eighths of an inch
in diameter, at intervals along which
he would place rubber bulbs, the tube
and bulbs be inflated with gas. He
would then place incandescent electric
lights along its course in order that the
cable could be found at night by any
person being carried down the river.
The electric current for the lamps
could be sent over wires concealed in
the rubber tube, the rubber acting as
an efficient insulation to protect a per-
son from injury in grasping hold of it.
Mr.. Macklem believes that the expense
of erecting this life-saving cable would
be but a few thousand dollars, which
expense could be paid jointly by the
Government of New York State and
the Province of Ontario, or by the
United States Government and the
Government of the Dominion of Can
ada. The points on the shore from
which it would probably be strung are
within two great free parks, and there
is little doubt but what the device
would be the means of rescuing many
people who otherwise would be swept
over the cataract to death.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-03

The frescoes in the Houses of Par
lament, London, have been decaying
noticeably lately. Experts say this is
due to the use of plaster which was
prepared from limestone from Durd
ham Down, near Bristol, which is of
marine origin. The marine salt, which
still remains in the limestone, is blam-
ed for the decay Of the plaster.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-03
p. C. JONES. e. A. JONES'
HQWQIQn SQIe Deposit Qld
Investment C0|Dp0ny.
BROKERS AND FIRE INSURANCE
AGENTS.
E. A. JONES.

Stocks and Bonds bought and sold
on commission.
Parties desiring to either buy or sell
Bonds and Stocks would do well to
consult us, as we have facilities for
purchasing or selling at the best pre-
vailing market rates.
Safe Deposit Boxes to rent by the
month or year.
Money to loan on approved security.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-03
FOR SALE.

House and lot on Young street; lot
has frontage of Is feet, by a depth
Of 1855 feet inches; house contains
parlor, 8 bed rooms. hallway. large
lanai, dining room, kitchen, pantry,
patent W. c., bath and servants quar-.
tiers; stable on premises, 2Sx30 feet.
containing box stall, open stall and
room for three carriages. INQUIRE NJ
L. H. DEE & CO.
City Feed Store. Punchbowl and Bere-
tania Streets. I7AI-te
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c. BREWER ! CO.. Id.

Queen Street, Honolulu, H. 1.
AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, Honomu Sugar
Company, Wailuku Sugar Company,
Waihee Sugar Company, Makee Su-
gar Company, Haleakala Ranch Com
pany, Kapapala Ranch.
Planters Line, San Francisco Packets;
Charles Brewer & Co.'s Line of Bos-
ton Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwrit-
erS.
Agents for Philadelphia Board Of I'm
derWriters.
LIST OF OFFICERS:
P. c. Jones, President; George H.
Robertson, Manager; e. F. Bishop,
Treasurer and Secretary; Col. w. f..
Allen, Auditor; G. M. Cooke, H. Water
house, G. r. Carter, Directors.
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r W. MartinoH.
EXPERT ACCOUNTANT.

EXPERT ACCOUNTANT,
THE QUEEN" Nuuanu street
Books exported, new sets of books
opened, accounts examined, differences
adjusted etc.
For many years connected with tha
anglo Californian Bank, Ltd. of San
Francisco, Cal. Reference; ~
MESSRS. BISHOP E 90
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13
TOPICS OF THE TIMES,

TWO Maine game Wardens have just
returned to Augusta after three hun
dred mile tramp on snowshoes through
the forests in the northern and north
eastern parts of the state. They made
the journey for the purpose of investi-
eating the winter slaughter of game,
and We're successful in securing evil
dence that may result in the arrest,
conviction and punishment of lot of
men who have been illegally killing
large numbers of moose, caribou and
common deer. The wardens We're cor
daily welcomed and we'll treated by
the better class of hunters whom they
encountered, but the Canadian poach-
ers, who invade the Maine woods every
year to kill the big game for their hides.
kept carefully out of the visitors way
In many places the wardens found
deer caught in rope nooses suspended
along paths frequented by the animals.
and at several logging camps evidences
of ruthless slaughter were discovered,
They report that moose are scarce.
and will soon be exterminated if strin-
gent laws for their preservation are not
passed and entered at once The carl
bou are holding their own fairly we'll,
while relentless war is waged upon them.
One curious incident of the trip was the
! finding Of a well populated beaver dam.
with a hermit encalnped near it, and
| living on terms of considerable intima-
! cy with these now rare animals.-New
York Times
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HE KEPT THE RECEIPT.

And an Unjust Suspicion, Eighteen
Years Old, Was Dispelled.
THAT time when I was dumped and
robbed in the house of my friends" said
the old politician, IT was so disguised
that pulled up stakes and decided to
try new community in the west.
While | was out there prospecting for
a location 1 came across a country
judge whom 1 had known as boy,
He had stolen my knife, my rabbits
and my pigeons. He became incorrigi-
BILE and was sent to the reform school.
1t was the popular verdict that he
would never be any good, and he was
held up as a terrible example to the
rest of us boys.
Il thought it my duty to give the
good epople out there warning and
took a prominent man of the place into
my confidence. He had implicit faith
in the squire and believed him as good
a man as they had in the state.
Its easily tested l said, and you
can't afford to have dishonest man
in his position. Here's promissory
note given me twenty years ago, and |
endorsed it at the time. ] loaned that
fellow money to get out of town and
turn over a new leaf. He vowed by all
that's good that he'd repay me, and
this is ALL had to show for my invest
ment. If he's an honest man. he'll
make some settlement
SO Well see,' said the squire's friend.
In an hour they came back together,
and the squire gave my hand wiring
that started the tears i paid that
paper eighteen years ago., he declared,
Here's the receipt. / wondered why
you never wrote me- There it was.
With 1t was letter from the man that
was then my lawyer, saying that the
note had been mislaid and that the re-
ceipt would serve.
I'm five days the squire and | were
back to the old town. The man who
had bought the nomination from under
me was the rascally lawyer to whom
the money had been paid. You should
have heard the squire comb the sneak
down and then make him resign in
my favor We don't need men any
more honest than that same justice OF
the peace that / suspected, "--Detroit
Free Press
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13
A CHINA CLOSET.

A three-cornered closet fitted with
dark blue backing, against which china
and glass CLEAN prettily, is not within
the reach of every woman. Neither
are cupboards with loaded, diamond
shaped panes possible to every little
housekeeper. But she Is lacking In in
genuity who does not have her dining
room walls adorned with shelves for
the display of her prettiest wares.
Any ordinary set of swinging book
shelves will serve as foundation.
these may be had at prices ranging
from fifty cents for small ones to $3
or "a for more commodious ones. They
are, however, made without backs, and
this deficiency must be supplied. A
thin board cut to fit over the shelves
may be screwed on. If the maker de-
sires she may cover this on the exposed
side by velvet" wall paper of some
deep, rich coler, which will bring out
all the delicate tones in the china.
On each shelf, about two inches from
the back, a very narrow bit of moldlng
should be tackled. This is to prevent
the plates and platters, which stand on
the shelves from sliding forward.
On the board back, about four inches
above the shelves, and three inches
apart, small brass hooks should be
screwed. From these dainty cups and
very small pitchers may be suspended
Larger pieces-big pitchers, bowls and
the like-may stand here and there on
| the shelves. Wise housewives put shot
in the bottom of all tipable dishes to
prevent them from blowing over in a
breeze and to protect them against the
| overturning action of the girls feather
| buster.
When she has made her china cabinet
the woman who combines both thrift
and artistic instinct will find little diff
I Guilty in filling it. She will be apt to
make most of her purchases at the
Japanese shops, for cheap American
and English china does not compare in
daintiness of color or design with the
oriental. She may purchase little coffee
and tea cups sprigged with meandering
Japanese blue flowers from 10 cents
apiece up. Now and then she strikes a
blue salad bowl of fine, rich shades for
| SO or rs cents. A delicate green vase
for Is cents will give variety to one
shelf, and jug of strange, flaming
orange color will add tone to second
New York Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13
AMASA NJ. MAIN.
Something About the Man Who Be
lieves in Killing Eagles

Something About the Man Who Be
lieves in Killing Eagles.
Mr.. Amasa M. Main of North Ston-
ington who has come to the front in
the legislature on account of his bill re-
pealing the law with regard to the de-
struction of eagles, was born in Led
yard, August 80. 1881. He was educated
in that town and married Lucy 0.
Trink, August 20, 1850. There are eight
children by the marriage, three sons
and five daughters. The children are:
Everett A, lawyer, Iowa City, Ia; La
fayette F.. farmer, North Stonington;
Luther, who lives with his parents; Ell
len. Mrs. Irving Q. Whitford, Ledyard;
Betsey, Mrs. Isaac Main, North Ston-
ington: Lillian, Mrs. Park B. Main,
North Stonington; Fannie, Mrs. Otis
Chapman, South Stonington, and Hat
tie B., Mars. Edward Durew. Preston.
Mr.. Main took an interest in the war
and gave every poor man a substitute,
who did not want to go. In this way
he enlisted 15S men. He has been del"
egate to congressional. state and sena-
torial district conventions for the past
thirty-fye years. He has over 1000
peach trees On his ldEfll anu maui NO
money in the peach and turkey bust
ness. Some years North Stonington
ships, eighty tons of turkeys and Mr..
Main has shipped forty tons of the
amount He is considered to be worth
from $4,000 to 100000. His fad, is no.
horn cattle He has twenty-five head
now. He killed a pair last month which
weighed 4,4o0 pounds.
Mr.. Main has been selectman and
member Of the board OF relief. also
game warden He was prominent
member of the last Legislature, served
on the committee on Temperance and
made one of the most famous speeches
of the session Mr.. Main has taken
special interest in the eagle, peach yell
lows and pillow gogger bills.
Representative Eagle" Main was 50
elated with his fiattering success with
the eagle bill that he had his picture
taken yesterday afternoon for Tayior's
souvenir of the capitol. Many of his
admirers of the house urged him TO be
represented in the book as they wanted
his portrait in particular.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-13
SOME POPLAR SONGS
A writer for an eastern weekly ha
traced the origin and history of a mum

A writer for an eastern weekly has
traced the origin and history of a num-
Der Of popular songs as follow
Marching Through Georgia. was
written in Chicago in 1865, by Henry C.
Work, a printer, who often composed
the words of a song at the ease" as he
set up the type and then if he had ac-
cess of the music type would also com
pose and set up the music. marching
Through Georgia" was composed in this
way, without ever being written out in
manuscript. Henry Work also wrote
Father, Dear Father, Come Home"
and MY Grandfather Clock
"Old Folks at Home" was written by
Stephen G. Foster, but Z. P. Christy,
the minstrel, paid for having his name
put forth as author and composer on
the first edition. Foster wrote also
my Old Kentucky Home and the
words and music of nearly 300 other
songs, many of them composed on
pieces of brown wrapping paper in the
back room of little grocery store in
New York.
DIR. Thomas Dunn English wrote
ben Bolt'' in 1S42 at the request of MP.
Willis. who wanted a sea song for the
New York Mirror.
Home, Sweet Hooe," was also the
work of an American, in spite of a pre-
vailing idea among Englishmen to the
contrary. The author was John How
ard Payne, an American exile inEurope
and the song was written for Charles
Kemble, then manager of C6vent Gar
den theater in London. Tt was an in
slant success. and brought the author
fame but little money.
Listen to the Mocl1ing Bird" was writ
ten by Septimus Winner for Dick Mil
burn. colored man, who used to wan
der about Philadelphia whistling like a
hooking bird. The song paid its
publishers over 800 600