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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-22

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l1ubIie Notices.
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DIiBIIC NOTICE.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-22

J,OR SAI.E-Farms: large. small. half cash good OF
i p1riuniiy TO secure county homes FIELDER III
lvnN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-22
LIMITING THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS.

Senator Page has introduced in TIE Legislature Mt
Albany the two following bills restricting the height
OF buildings:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

tactics of evasion and delay would not be
tolerated. and that gross insult to the
United States flag must be atoned for i'm
mediately. The dates show that the Ban
croft was fired upon on Dec. 4 and the
apology was made on Sunday last the 18th.
SO that it took just two weeks to bring the
incident to a close by an apology and the
dismissal and arrest of the guilty officers.
European governments ought to thank the
United States for giving the Sultan this les
son In international manners and also for
teaching them how to deal with him. Early
in the century, when the United States
took Tripoli in hand and, after a sharp war,
compelled her to stop levying tribute on
commerce in the Mediterranean sea, Pope
Plus VII declared that the Americans had
done more for Christendom against the
North African pirates than all the powers
of Europe combined. Perhaps the same
might be said regarding this affair with
Turkey
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
Harper,n Ronnd Table.

The bound numbers Of Harper's Round
Table for 1897 make a volume of nearly 800
pages that contains a store of reading to
which children turn again, always finding
something new or something at least of
perennial interest. Besides; the fiction, of
which there is goodly supply including
eight complete serials and many short sto-
ries, there is a vast fund of information on
all sorts of subjects of especial interest to
boys. Instruction is offered the amateur
photographer, the stamp collector receives
attention, and there are practical direc-
tons for the making of many useful arti-
Giles by those who have a taste for me-
chanics There is, besides, much matter re-
lating to public questions, and no child with
the opportunity to pore over this book can
remain in ignorance of subjects of patriot
ic Importance. The big quarto volume is,
in fact, a dozen books intOne. and is a mine
of information and entertainment. The
youngster who has had the Round Table
each week during the year. or will have it
in its new monthly form hereafter. enjoys
a special pleasure with each Issue, but it is
doubtful if it exceeds that experienced by
the one fortunate enough to come into pos
session of all these at one time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

Mr.. G. w. Smalley, for many years Lon
don correspondent of the New York Trib-
une, is an object lesson as to how thorough
ly native-born American may become
Anglici.ed. The English are not bad sort
of people, but they are not so superior that
Americans should truckle to them. Mr..
Smalley's speech at the anniversary dinner
of the New England Society in Brooklyn
savored very much of this trucking spirit.
1t comes with very poor grace from an
American citizen to represent the United
States as "a menace to the peace of the
world" and as inviting European COM
bination against it. Senator Hawley's pro-
test against this un-American view was
well-timed. Mr.. Smalley has lived too long
abroad and been too susceptible to foreign
Influences
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
BOOKS OF THE TIME.


Mr.. Walter Wyckoff, the author of this
book, when a young college graduate, sew
eral years ago, undertook to learn some
thing of the life of the unskilled laborer by
actual experience. Accordingly, he left his
home on the Hudson without a cent in his
pocket and with intenti to work his way
West by trying whatever fonest occupation
came in his way. The several chapters of
his experience as a ditch digger, a hotel
porter. hired man ae an asylum. a farm
hand and hand in logging camp APP
peared in Scribner's Magazine and are gath
cred into book form by the Scribnsrs 1t
is not often that the laborer's view Of labor
and of the world he works for gets into
literature. and. though this mans thoughts
on the subjects must have been modified to
some extent by the knowledge that he was
there voluntarily and could escape from his
environment. the ideas he gained are not
those of the outsider and are in sympathy
with the worker. The account of this lex
pertinent in reality attracted much atten-
ton it appeared in serial FORM and in
it's present shape will no doubt be widely
read Mr.. Wyckoff, who is now a lecturer
on sociology in Princeton University. is pre-
pairing q history of his several years eX
Derience as a laborer, which will appear
later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
PROMOTED OUT OF JOBS
MIR. SAHM'S NEW SUBSTITUTE CAR
RIERS WILL BE DROPPED.
Postmaster Put Suburban Delivery
from Washington, 1t Is Claimed.

Some days ago the people of Haughville.
North indianapolis and Brightwood were
much gratifed one morning when the gray
coated employees of Uncle Sam approached
their residences with their mail. and
they felicitated themselves in obtaining
their first tangible taste of what it means
to belong to metropolitan city. But their
pleasure was short-lived, for the next day
the letter carriers failed to appear, and
ever since then the people have had TO re-
turn to their old custom of calling at tho
postoffice for their letters. The reasons for
all this would make an interesting story
1t seems that Postmaster Sahm, either i'll
his zeal TO see the free-delivery extension
actually in operation or for some other rea-
son, neglected to await permission from
Washington before setting the thing going.
The free-delivery extension was not TO be
Mr.. Sahm proceeded to promote the substi-
tute carriers to the regular force and APP
point twenty new substitutes from the ELI
gihle list of 1897, and also in the meantime
ordered all mail matter consigned to the
suburban offices to be brought to the CEN
trail Office. The suburban poStmasterS were
thus out of office before their time, the IN
tention having been not TO abolish these
offices before Feb. /. AS soon as news or
the postEnaSter'S action reached Wasnlng-
ton there was some hteavy tSsi a, nuns
promptly rescnded. 1t now appears mat
the newly appointed substitute carriers Will
all have to go, as they were taken from tne
eligible list of lhe current .ear, ana s sl1
the new list already printed. which goes
into effect the first OF the year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

The fact that the British government
went to Kansas City for large supply of
canned beef for its army leads newspaper
advocate of free trade to utter q fresh warn
ing against the wall of protection which it
assumes prevents foreign customers from
coming to us. The one fallacy which the
theoretical free-trader cannot rid himself
of is that trade is still barter-an exchange
of one kind of merchandise for another. 1t
is an assumption that when a European
merchant desires the products of the United
States he straightway collects an assort-
ment of the goods of his country and comes
to us for barter, just as the Indians, years
ago, were accustomed to go to the trading
posts on the frontier and exchange their
furs for guns, ammunition, fire water and
gaudy clothes. The Kansas City free-trade
editor should be able to satisfy himself that
foreign trade is no more an exchange of
goods than is domestic trade. He could do
this by going to the Kansas City packers
who have received the British order for
canned beef and asking them If they took
British goods in exchange. He would find
that they did not and that they were not
he would have a basis for an investigation
If he could drop the theoretical free-trade
habit of assuming.
The truth is the idea of barter is no part
of the original free-trade theory which is
ito sell in the highest and buy in the lowest
market" If Great Britain needs beef for
its army in India it will go to the market
where the best article be obtained at
the lowest price The fact of a protective
tariff which imposes Il high duty on British
competing goods will have nothing to do
with the matter. Under the guise Of retail
iation Germany and France may place our
meat products at disadvantage, but they
would do it just the same if we had no tar
if, their purpose being to give home prod
ucts an advantage. We selling pig
iron. machinery and other manufactures in
Europe in spite of the Dingley law, because
we can undersell other competitors or be-
cause we have the advantage in the produc-
ton of certain inventions. All of which
means that the world trade is not a swap
ping Of merchandise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR DEMOCRATS.

The result of the municipal election in
Boston should be studied by those Demo-
cratic managers in Indiana and other States
who, in their judgment, cannot approve of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver as
the leading party issue. There are scores
of prominent men in the party who do not
approve of the scheme which they know
would put their country silver basis
To them the Boston election affords sug-
gestion. Mayor Quincy, Democrat, has
been reelected upon platform which was
made by those who refused to include in it
an Endorsement of the 16-to-1 heresy. Mr..
Quincy has never Endorsed the financial
features of the Chicago platform. and he
is not particularly popular man. Never
theless he received the bulk of the Demo-
cratic vote on Tuesday, and 1900 more
votes than did George Fred Williams, the
free-silver candidate for Governor, six
weeks before. Determined to defeat Mr..
Quincy because he is a gold bug" the
free-silver element in the party placed Mr.
Riley in Nominations very popular Dem
ocrat with the Democratic masses and far
superior to Mr.. Quincy as campaigner.
Mr.. Riley had the open Endorsement of
George Fred Williams. who is the recog-
nized leader of the silver Democracy in
Massachusetts, and the recent candidate for
Governor. In addition to such potential in
dorsement as this seemed to be, Mr. Riley
had the hearty cooperation of half dozen
of the most popular and effective Demo-
Gratis in the city in addressing his meetings
His meetings were largely attended and
very enthusiastic. What was the result?
Mr. Riley. Bryan Democrat, received 2,4S6
votes while Mayor Quincy, denounced as an
anti-Bryanite, received 1888. II may he
added that few Republicans voted for Mr..
Quincy. since the Republican candidate re-
ceived one of the largest votes that the Re-
publicans have ever poled in Boston.
The foregoing facts and figures should set
a class of Democrats who are not reckless
to thinking. If they scrutinize carefully
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
The Cruikshank Taary Book.

No illustrator ever entered more sympa-
thetically into the spirit inf juvenile liter
ature than George Cruiks hank, and G.. p.
Futnam's Sons have done the children OF
this generation a service by making them
acquainted with his versions of the four
classics. "Puss in Boots Jack and the
Beanstalk,' Hoppe my -thhnb'' and Gin
derella,'' and his drawings accompanying
them. The versions differ in many respects
from the tales as ordinarily related, being
greatly amplifled, but as they contain many
particulars concerning the, personages who
figure therein that young readers have al
ways wished to know, no fault will be found
with them by these mostaexactng critics.
AS for the drawings, 'Pussr in Boots" looks
exactly as he must have looked while en-
gagged in his remarkable adventures; the
giant whom Jack found at the top of the
beanstalk and vanquishedsis precisely as
the children have pictured him in their
minds, and after seeing the likeness of the
beanstalk no one. need doubt again that it
could be climbed. The characters in the
other tales are equally well portrayed. The
book is handsomely printed and bound, and
is altogether one of the most pleasing juv-
emile books of the season..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
Another Herd of Buffalo.
Kansas City Journal.

There are 300 buffalo in one herd down
seem to have heard Of said r. b. Hulin
last night at the Midland Hotel. Mr.. Hulln
is the cowboy glove drummer of Texas.
He went on to say:
Once in awhile 1 see it in print that the
buffalo is almost extinct, and the reports
always state that the only government buff
faIO are a few on the government reServa-
ton in Yellowstone Park and a few more
that are scattered in geological gardens in
dinerent cities. l have never seen men
ton in print of the herd of $50 on the
ranch of Charles L. Goodnight. at Good
night, Tex. | stop off once a year to sell
gloves to Goodnight and the eighty or nine
ty cowboys who work for him. He has a
ranch of $1,000 acres, and 1900 acres of that
is fenced off Il buffalo ranch. You often
hear it said that in a few years more there
will not be a single specimen of the buffalo
left alive, because they do not breed well
in captivity. 1t may be true that they do
not increase rapidly when they are penned
up in parks and geological gardens, but on
Goodnight 1900 acre range they increase
almost as rapidly, ! expect as they used
to when they ran wild over the prairieS.
Goodnight Started with twenty-five head of
buffalo few years ago, and now he has
about three hundred and the family is
steadily increasing. He will not allow one
to be killed, and he expects in a few years
to have a big herd of several thousand
When 1t becomes necessary he will enlarge
their range, and ! don't see any reason
why he shouldn't make a big thing out Of
his buffalo herd"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

Prominent Republicans to BE Here
Next Tuesday.

George F. McCulloch. chairman OF the
Republican state committee, came over
from Muncie yesterday to look after the
preliminary arrangements for the Republic
an love feast" of next Tuesday There
will be a general gathering of the Repub-
licans in attendance at some convenient
hall in the afternoon, with a number of
brief speeches and interchange of views as
to the situation in the State. After the
adjournment of the public meeting the
state committee will meet to fix the dates
and places for reorganization meetings.
Senator Fairbanks and nearly ali the Re
publican members of Congress from Indi-
ana will be in attendance, and number
of other distinguished members OF the
party will be on hand. 1t is the expecta-
ton to confine the talking TO very brief
speeches, in order that the crowd may hear
the views of many different men as
possible.
These biennial gatherings always serve to
bring to the front the aspirants for nofni-
nation before the state convention, and
there are number of men, in addition to
the candidates already announced, awaiting
this occasion to turn loose" their booms.
AS yet there have been formal an
nouncements of candidates for tne offices
of secretary of state and attorney general,
but it is said there Will be two three
announcements for each of these offices at
this time.
The committee, at its meeting, will nix
a date for the primaries. To be held by
precinct or township, which Will elect mem-
bers of the county committees and dele
gates to the district conventions. 1t will
fix q date for the meeting of the members
of county committees to elect county chair
men, a date for the district conventions and
a time for the meeting OF the new state
committee. The convention in each con-
gressional district will elect a member
of the state committee and the new COM
mittee will meet in indianapolis week
officers.
ing the state convention and transact 9TH
err business. MIR. McCulloch has not been
asked to be reelected as chairman, but
no other name than his has been yet
suggested. No candidates for secretary of
the committee have yet appeared. r.. f.
Mansfield is not candidate for reelection.
THE primaries will be held early in jan
uary, and il is thought the reorganization
can be completed by the end of the month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

Chicago Post.


This is the season of the year when many
of us, with strong New England pride,
get out the family record and run back to
the time when they were having cold
weather and pneumonia and Indian troubles
and bronchial affections on the Massachu-
Setts coast. The sufferings of the pilgrim
fathers are more or less recalled by those
who come do Nntown on Mr. Yerkes's North
Side cars, and if Mr.. YerkeS would station
a few employees along the route to shoot ar
rows into the car windows We might easily
imagine that we were in ''meetin' house"
of those halloWed times. We have been
reading the various tributes to our fore
fathers. always delivered at this time in
December. and We should be very proud to
know that VIE come from such admirable
stock. They were indeed excellent people to
be descended from. even if they must have
been rather uncomfortable to live with.
One of the orators remarks in a burst of
enthusiasm that he wishes we could go
back to those simple glorious times" He
fer to stay here and fight cold and Yerkes
rather than Indians and other phases of
trouble. Yet we should glory in our ances-
try, with due allowance for mistakes of
judgment and deficiency of education, and
we should not withhold from the fathers
any amount of praise on the Goth of Decem-
Der. But we are thinking that if while
any minister of the gospel should be apos-
trophizing our glorious ancestors two or
three of them should suddenly appear and
proceed to run the meetin' there would
be perceptible frigidity in the emotions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
The Letter Family Affection.
Chicago Post.


The facsimile of Levi 2. Letters letter on
the wheat situation recalls in a measure
Mark Twain's comments on the handwrit-
ing of Christopher Columbus. with the COM
parison in favor of Mr.. Letter. 1t is our
opinion that if it were left to Joseph to de-
eide between the autograph of Mr.. Letter
and Mr. Columbus at this moment of emer-
gency he would unheStatingly give the
award to his honored father. We are glad
to have Mr.. Letter with us during this
merry Christmas season. and we think 1t
was beautiful evidence of paternal affec-
ton on his part to give up the social gayety
of the national capital in order to spend the
holidays with his son. We hear that Joseph
is extremely busy nowadays looking after
his crops, and is putting in his time trying
to find a place to store his Christmas pres
ent of seven or eight million bushels of
wheat-a good, dry place secure from the
Industrious weevil and other pests. We are
very much interested in Joseph's agricul-
tural experiments, and we are glad that he
has enough wheat on hand to feed all the
worthy poor in Chicago if the opportunity
presents. And we hope that his time will
not be so occupied that he cannot give a
little of it to the entertainment of his
father for even business should not be al
lowed to interfere entirely with filiai obli-
cations. We believe that Christmas is a
time when families should be united and
joyous and we congratulate our fellow
citizens. the Letters, on this happy re-
union, wishing them a merry Christmas
and, more particularly, happy New Year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

The resolution introduced by Senator Can
tary of the treasury for information con"
corning the employment of revenue cutters
to watch and capture vessels carrying arms
and munitions of war to the Cuban insur-
gents, may bring out some interesting
facts. If pushed it will show that this gov
eminent has not only gone to the verge of
neutral obligations, but has exceeded them
in its desire to prevent the departure of
so-called tlibustering expeditions. AS a
matter of fact, it has exceeded the require
ments of international law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
st. NicI.oIhs.

The two bound volumes of ST. Nicholas
for 1897, in their familiar red and gold bind
ings, will bring delight to many youth
full heart. There is the advantage to their
possessor of not having his patience tried by
waiting from one month to another for the
next chapter of thrilling story, and there
are number of such in these volumes.
There is also the merit in the book of not
being so easily lost or nliSlaid as ID single
magazine, and to many, children, to say
nothing of their elders, the contents of a
portance that the separate numbers fail to
give The stories, sketches, poems, instruc-
tive articles and tales of travel contained in
these two books are the work of The best
writer's of juvenile literature. and, with the
fine illustrations, make them among the
most attractive of children's publications.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

Some of the speakers at the forefath-
ers' dinner were, unfortunate in mingling
the Puritans and the Pilgrims, when in
history they constitute two distinct types.
The Pilgrim is the person who landed on
Plymouth Rock, and 1t was in his honor,
presumably, that Tuesday nights exercises
were held. The Puritan did not come to
Massachusetts bay until some years later.
He was a more aggressive character, his
religion was more austeres.a He it was who
banished Baptsts and prosecuted Quakers.
The Pilgrims did not become SO numerous,
but they stand forth as heroic and kindly
characters. When the distinctive Puritan
anniversary is celebrated it will not be on
the 21st day of December. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

they will find that an active silver cam
paign did not weaken candidate refusing
cratic vote-probably not per cent, as the
Populists voted for Riley. They will see
that a not over popular man, running on a
platform considered hostile to free silver,
received nearly a third more votes than did
the very popular exponent of 16 to in New
England. George Fred williams, for Gov
ernor. Such results might not be expected
in Indiana. but the mass of the Democratic
party will vote the ticket whatever the
platform may be. This being the case, why
distract the country with campaign in be-
half of the free coinage of silver?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
The Century Magaxine.

Half years numbers of the Century
Magazine make an imposing volume when
gathered together and offer an amount and
variety of excellent reading matter that
makes valuable addition to library.
Seldom number of this magazine but con-
tains matter of such interest and imper-
lance that the reader sees il with regret in
the form of transient ratHre. The six
numbers making up tho .. .ty-fourth volume
have many of these art Giles which ought to
be saved, as well as numerous illuStra-
tions too good to go the way OF "old maya
zines" Among them are parts of Porter S
"reminiscences of Grant, the -Cathedrals OF
France by Mrs. Van Rensselaer, papers
by Theodore Roosevelt on the New York po-
ice force, accounts of Scientific kite-hy-
ing John Muirs papers on Alaska papers
on the Shaw Memorial and variety OF
good fiction 1t is a book to afford enter
tainment in the dullest hours.