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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

In the estimation of many people one of
the chief disadvantages of farm life is the
inconvenience, and often the impossibility,
of making daily trips to the distant post
Office for the mail A daily paper keeps its
readers in touch with the world as nothing
else can do, and the lack Of it isolates them
to a far greater degree than mere absence
from the scenes of activity. 1t supplies at
once a social, educational and business
need. 1t is very much 10 know what is going
on in the centers of population, even if one
lives apart from them. AS a matter of fact,
farmers and their families who take a daily
paper are apt to read it more carefully and
to be better posted on current events than
city residents. who, in their habitual rush,
content themselves with hasty glances at
headlines or mere Swimming of the pages.
The chances are that country readers of In
dianapolis daily papers are better informed
concerning occurrences in this city than an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

the last conference held in this city. The
same is true of the general meeting of the
Presbyterians. Only last week several
columns were given to the meeting of Pres
byterians in this city. All the season faith
full reports were given of camp meetings in
the vicinity, and the members of the Chris
tian Church who attended the missionary
meetings of the denomination in this city
the thought that secular paper would so
much as intimate advice to such a flaming
adversary of Satan, but there is text Of
Scripture which reads, Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbor,"
by which even he might profit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

New York Evening Post.
The Princeton Inn babe fair to arouse
a fercer discussion in the Presbyterian
Church than ever the Princeton theology
excited, but Prof. Shields cut all short by
promptly Withdrawing from the church.
He maintained that the persecution to
which he was being subjected for having
signed an application for a liquor license
for the Inn was an unjustfable interfer-
ence with his personal rights and in this
position he was supported by so good an
ecclesiastical lawyer as President Patton,
but rather than precipitate a long wrangle.
and trial, he stepped out incontinently. OF
course the Presbytery had to indulge In
some Of the current compliments of theo-
logical parting and if it did not ban and
anathematize Prof. Shields it took occa-
sion to remind him, and other brethren be-
loved, that to sign an application for a
liquor license was to be guilty of ''repre-
hensible completely" with evil But much
more so, according to other deliverances of
the General Assembly, is drinking or offer
ing drink to others, and at least equally
so is theater-going. Yet Prof. Shields might
point to honored officers of the church who
do these things unrebuked. But the point
was that an ecclesiastical fury had been
stirred up on the subject of the Princeton
Inn, and that victim was necessary Prof.
Shields'S immol on of himself should
serve; though the whisky-drinking diyines
of earlier Presbyterian days would be puz-
zled to make out what the row was all
about.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

A correspondent of the New York Post
in Kansas presents a vivid picture of the
change which has taken place within a
year. The purchase of goods has been very
large, and the whole effect upon politics is
given in the following paragraph:
AS the farmers buy new huggies they drop
calamity politics. The Populist speakers
have had the smallest audiences in the his
tory of the party The Governor and the
congressman at large have been out and
have had hundreds where there used to be
thousands and most of the time there has
been less than hundred for either of the
speakers. The Republican farmers and
speakers are very pronounced in their re-
marks as to the predictions of the campaign
last fall, and there is little answer to be
made. In the town of Marion the other day
they sent on parade through the streets
a banner used in the PopuliSt parade last
year reading: IF Mckinley is elected,
wheat will be 20 cents" The farmers who
passed the banner were getting 80 cents for
the wheat on their wagons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
Washington Post.

Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, who
has just come home from Europe has
brought with her at least one series of pic
lures whose publication will be awaited
with interest. She spent several months in
tied the village OF Broadway, where Mrs
Mary Anderson Navarro's home is Mrs
Navarro is an old friend of Miss Johnstons
mother, who was dramatic critic in Bal
timore, l believe, where Mary Anderson
made her debut as Juliet. For one whole day
she posed before the young photographer S
graphed more than once or twice before
since she left the stage. The trunks that
hold her stage wardrobe We're dragged from
their attic corner. and Juliet Perdita Rosa
lind and Galatea lived again for the cam
era's benefit. Best of all, the wonderful
Navarro baby was photographed in his
beautiful mothers arms. and Miss john
ston declared that Mrs. Navarro is really
much more beautiful than Mary Anderson
ever Was.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
yellow Journalism in 1900.
Fresno (cal.) Republican.

FRESNO (Cal.) KepuDllcan.
Following is the announcement of a yell
low journal of the year 1900:
In our Sunday supplement we will fur
nish to our patrons the following interest
ing reading:
How the special confidence man of this
paper (the Saffron Sewerbird) bunkoed the
President of the United States.
How our commission of Jail breakers res
cued Durrant, whom we know to be as in
nocent as an unborn babe, from San Quen-
tin prison.
THE clever manner In which our squad OF
ipcendiaries reduced the buildings of our es-
teemed contemporaries to ashes.
How our train wrecker wrecked an ex-
persons.
How we poisoned the water Of the Spring
Valley Water Company. One ton of rough
on-rats used -
1.-The Sunday after we hope to give a
startling account of the assassination by
our special corps OF bomb throwers or the
Car of Russia. Now is the time to SUBJ
SCRIBE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Almost one-third of our criminals are
found to be between the ages OF twelve and
twenty years and almost invariably they
have got their suggestions of crime out OF
the columns of the daily press. Those in
charge of reformetories find 1t impossible
TO accomplish anything in the way of ref
ormation while the inmates have access
10 the leading daily papers, with their ssl-
lacious setting of criminal news.
The Journal would like to see the Rev.
DR.. Lasby's authority for the above state
ments-the names OF the officers of courts
and of reformatories who have made such
declarations. with the facts upon which
they are based. 1t is probably as true as
Is HIS statement that the daily papers give
little Of religious news. and then only tho
driest details II he will turn to the In
dlanapolis dailies. DIR. Lasby will find that
many columns were devoted to the news
OF the last General Conference of his church
held ia Cleveland. O.. and fair space TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
The New Episcopal Bishop.
New York Tribune.


Bishop Ethebert Talbot (EpiscopaD. who
has just been elected bishop of central Penn
Sylvania, is forty-seVen years old. He has
years, and has brought the diocese up to a.
high standard of excellence He is de-
scI1bed as possessing a particularly winning
and attractive manner, whole sorled and
generous-hearted In presence Bishop Tai
bot is tall and commanding, and possessed
of remarkable physical vigor He was
elected bishop of Georgia several years ago.
but declined, as the work in the West
needed his attention. 1t was argued by his
supporters at the convention that the
diocese needed a strong stalwart man to
attend the many widely separated parishes
The late Bishop RulisOn's death is believed
TO have been FASTENED by the overwork and
eXertion entailed upon him, and this argl-
ment was used by delegates to the eonyen-
ton who deemed a division of the diocese
expedient. The action of the convention in
fixing the salary of the bishop at $4,000 per
year, g, ZOO less than Bishop Rulison re-
ceived is believed to be a step toward a
division of the diocese and to show the
trend in that direction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Is 1897

us 10 charge them with barbarism because
they have the bull fight while our savagery
takes some other mode of expression.
Undoubtedly we are an excellent people,
as good as the best by comparison. but not
so wonderfully good that we can pose all
the time as boiler than all others.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Certain causes will still continue to bring
about certain effects. Had the Supreme
Court of California not consented to give
William Henry Theodore etc. Durrant a
new lease of life it is possible that the two
lynchings recorded within the past two days
would never have occurred The people
cannot stand everything.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
Unique Record of a Wheelman.
I .eslie's Weekly.

Irving Harrison Is a street-hght inspec-
tor in Hackensack n. j., and member of
the local club of wheelmen. Mr.. Harrison's
duties compel him to ride over his route
of forty-five miles at least once day and
sometimes twice. In the earlier part of the
year he averaged sixty miles day. but
iatterly his daily average has been eighty
miles Up to the 18th of October his total
mileage. for a little less than ten months,
was 10 498 miles. Before the end of the year
he will easily have covered $4,000 miles, or
a distance of more than the circumference
of the earth. What gives distinction TO this
record of Mr. Harrison's is the fact that
most of the time he carries on his shoulder
a ladder sixteen feet long and weighing
twenty-eight pounds Thus far he has never
had a break down nor puncture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
WARNING.

Patrons OF the Journal wiz take mo-
eice that this paper has but one trav-
cling agent, Mr.. Smith King. MIR.
King at all times carries with him his
credentials, and is the only travelling
man authorized to collect money for
the Journal Newspapers Company.
Anyone else representing himself
as a travelling agent of the Journal
As a fraud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
Important Information.
Harpers Bazaar.

The girls have got an idea into their heads
this season that it is not at all the thing
to have a long string of bridesmaids walking
up the aisle before them when they go TO
the altar TO be married. The chic thing now
Is to have a maid of honor only. AT three
of the largest weddings this autumn the
bride win have 70 bridesmaids Her maid
of honor will be her only attendant. The
reason for this sudden change Is that IL
has been proved a very difficult matter for
the girls TO choose among their own rela-
tons the cousins of their fiance and other
intimate friends without having more
bridesmaids than were either necessary or
consistent with the occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

At first the Bryanite papers declared that
nothing but wheat had risen in price, but
recently some Of them have been complain
ing that other articles have advanced. This
Is true, but when they go forth to proclaim
it they abandon their strongest point of
last year. which was that the prices of
everything will continue to fall so long as
gold is the measure of values.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Rev. Mr.. Lasby charges that the man
whose comments on his sermon were,quoted
in yesterdays Journal is totally void of
the instincts of a gentleman. And what,
pray, are the instincts of a preacher who
publicly denounces newspaper reporters as
''carrion crows9''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

1t is predicted that the next campaign
will be fought on the silver question, and
that the silver men will be in a better 5po-
sition to gain because many of those who
opposed is to 1 in 1886 with spiri5 Svill, be
Indifferent now that good times have come.
This may be true. but the voting in Iowa,
where the issue was made on silver, did
moi show that indifference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

A movement is on foot to preserve the
old Levi Coffin homestead at Fountain City
formerly Newport. in Wayne county. This
house was the most important underground
railway station in this State in the inter-
val just preceding the war; Money has al
ready been subscribed for the purpose of its
preservation. The effort is one worthy of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

The Postoffice Department can reduce the
deficit very much by taking off newspaper
trains for large cities which do not pay
half their cost. 1t can reduce the deficit to
inconsequential proportions if it can induce
Congress to pass the Loud bill, which was
passed by the last House. That large de-
felt, due to these two extrayagances, is a
vastly more important matter for Congress
70 consider than any affair in relation to
Cuba
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Senator Carter, of Montana, whose term
is drawing to close, says that the Re-
publicans must do something for bimetal-
lsm or lose in the elections of 1898. The
only thing which can be done for real BIZ
metallism-the fullest possible use of both
metals for money-is now being done in
this country. Anything like free coinage
at any ratio other than the present mar
ket value, about SO to /. would be silver
rnonometailism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Say" said the customer with the fine red
nose, the white mustache and goatee, this
must be pretty old whisky"
MY grandfather said the saloon keep
er, bought that whisky the same year the
Kentucky colonel joke was. invented
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

The cashier of the Crawford County
Bank is ready with a compromise of IS
cents on the dollar provided he is insured
safety and the people do nothing violent.
That is, he will compromise for one-fourth
Of the 100000 of deposits. That is quite
generous. but $125OOO will make a million
ARE in some parts of Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
REV YORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
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217 Dearborn street.
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street.
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Of Third and Jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co, 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoU1s-Union News Company, Union Depot.
House Willards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
IN the United States should put on an eight-page
paper ONE-CENT postage stamp: on twelve
or sixteen-page paper n TWO-CENT postage
stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these
rates.
All communications intended for publication in
this paper must. in order to receive attention, be
accompanied by the and address of the
writer. If is desired that rejected manuscripts
be returned postage must in all cases be inclosed
4.r hot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

New York jury decided a damage case
in favor of railroad company because the
plaintiff, young woman, had been seen to
swim out to "a buoy in the surf at Coney
island, and could not, therefore, be injured
so badly as she claimed to be. The fact that
it was "a buoy that she swan after
should have been mitigating circumstance
for the young woman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

erage of some sort that was dispensed when
coin was dropped in. The character of
the beverage is not known, but the proba-
bility is that it was not water, the Prohi-
bition party not being in control in Alexan-
dria
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

1t is now said that the vote of the gold
Democrats for the fusion candidate for
Judge of Nebraska saved Bryan's party
from defeat at the late election The Dem
ocratic candidate was a gold man, until
1896, and gold Democrats supported him
because his conversion was not believed to
ba q 1asfino one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

He-What is called society has a good
many high-handed ways that 1 don't like.
She-Goodness gracious, weren't you
aware that the elevated handshake had
gone clear out of style? '
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Great sport Is made of the occasional
cautious citizen who declines to trust his
money to bank but prefers to salt it down
in a stocking, but he has his innings when
ne sees his confiding neighbors done up
by plausible gentlemen like Messrs. Willett
and Weathers. bankers, of English, Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

The Governor of North Dakota has now
a duty to perform, namely, the discovery
and punishment of lynchers. Although the
victims were Indians they were none the
less under the protection of the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
The Mean Thing.

YES" admitted the Aged Girl, ST will
admit that at a church fair 1 kissed a gen.
tleman in the interest of charity
Another instance" said the Mean
Thing, 'of charity beginning at home"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Wonders will never cease to bob up. There
is now in New York a beautiful Cuban
girl who escaped from her native land with
out the assistance of any of the yellow
newspapers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Rev. Mr.. Lasby made at least a half dozen
misstatements in his Incorporate attack on
newspapers on Sunday. He. will hardly
venture to say that he learned TO be I'M
truthful through reading the papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

The foreign correspondents without a
war cloud to drag about the European
horizon would lack occupation. That cloud
is their most useful stage property and
greatest treasure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

From this time until the meeting of Con-
Rress ambitious correspondents in Washing
ton will be furnishing the President with
the messages which he will deliver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

If the Indiana Board of Education really
knew how much curiosity exists among the
people as to the cause of its failure to get
the revised school history for which it con-
4racted it would unravel the mystery
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Brother Lasby really ought to break him
self of the habit of reading yellow newspa-
pers. They seem to have done him moral
injury already
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

So long as Canada purchases 100000
year of us, and $4O,OOO,OOO more than we
purchase of her, we can afford to make a
Few concessions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

Wheat will vibrate from day to day as
IT may please the men who control the
wheat pits, but, if the advices from Eu-
rope are correct. higher prices as the sea-
son advances are inevitable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
RUBBLEs IN TIE AIR.
he COrnfed PhilOsOphe1

Nothing" said the Cornfed Philosopher,
more pleases one of these good, nice, mild
girls than to have man tell her that she
is a Gree"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

was in use in Alexandria two thousand
years ago. ard what Is more. it was bev-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
WASHINGTON Posi-.

Washington Post.
We feel warranted In announr .lg that
young Dick Cleveland was not named in
honor Of Dick Croker.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-06
RERELs VICTORIOUS.

New York, May "a dispatch to the
Herald from Montevedio says:
Advices have reached here to the eff
feet that body of troops, command
ed by Gen. Escobar had an engagement
with a body of rebels on May 3, and
the government troops were defeat
ed. The extent of the rebel victory
is not yet kown.
Another engagement between Gen.
Villars' forces and a band of rebels
commanded by Lamas,is reported from
Macaurembo. There the Ievolutionists
won a decisive victory.
The Uruguayan government has de-
cided to issue bonds to the extent of
81, 900, 900 to cover the present war ex-
Denses.
1t is reported in MOntevideO, on
what seems to be good authority, that
Col. Munez who recently abandoned
the rebel forces, has been murdered.
He is missing and has been for several
DAYS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-06
MUSEUM IN HIS POCKETS.

Curios Character UnIoadad at Police
Station this Morning.
Police officer McGoldricE, of the Ala
mo plaza beat, took in Chas. Lohse
who gave his occupation as a laborer
and nationality as German, to the po-
lice station this morning about $3.50
o'clock and lodged him in Jail with the
charge Of suspicious character oppO-
site his name on the police book.
The Teutonic gentleman became very
indignant upon his arrival at the sta
ton, that he should be thus treated,
and fairly ragged when officers Mitchell
and McGoldrick began unloading his
pockets which contained a variety of
articles enough to start a ten-cent mu-
scum.
He had a fine umbrella and a silver
mounted walking cane, carrying with
him, and in his pockets were razor,
a knife, pocketbook, large backing
brush, tobacco and papers, Cincinna-
ii Enquirer and another large news
paper, a paper of lacks, 3 handker-
chiefs, a shoe heel, 3 letters, two pieces
of soap and about 1000 feet of string
of various sizes and descriptions, be-
side other small articles too numerous
to mention.
He was arrested on complaint of per-
sons who said he had been exposing
his person in the rear of the old Nav
erick printing office on Avenue d. He
said he had several articles of
clothing hidden there which he asked
the police to bring to him.
He attempted to run when he saw
that the officer wanted to arrest him.
Recorders Court Clerk Hertzberg
says he was in court a short while ago,
under another name for being drunk
and down.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-06
HUNTING AN ISLAND.

San Francisco, May 6.-The Oceanic
Phosphate company has chartered the
schooner Louisa D., which wiH tomor-
row start in search for an island rep
uted to be rich in guanO and located
on some maps as southeast of the Ha
waiian Islands, in latitude 16, north,
longitude 1877 degrees, west. For
years sailors have tried in vain to To-
cate the island, and last year the pro-
jectors of the present search sent the
schooner Moonlight" to discover the
treasure but the captain lost his
bearings. The island is named simply
New Island. The schooner is equipp-
ed with provisions to last eight months.