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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Frederic Harrison has begun agitation for
a worthy national celebration in England in
1901, of the millenary of the death of the
great King Alfred:
OF the 976,O14 pensioners on the govern
ment rolls only 1850 receive as much as
$50 month. Altogether this number draw
about So 100000 q year, against a total pen
sion expenditure of nearly $140,OO0,000.
Verdi hates hand organs, and at Montcal-
Teri, where he summers, he gets rid of the
instruments of torture by hiring all in the
district and storing them for the season in
his home. The ninety-five which he sup
pressed last summer cost him $500.
John Philip Sousa, the famous composer,
said recently: after a continuous struggle,
extending over nearly a score Of years, I
have finally succeeded in living down the
title OF professor, which was bestowed on
me me as a mark Of esteem by unthinking
friends In my younger days
President Faure has already sent presents
of scarf pins and photographs of himself to
Russian officers and others. as souvenirs
of his visit to their country. He row in
tends to send brooches to a certain number
Of Russian ladies who were very attentive
bouquets.
THE face of every woman is a history
or prophecy" said Mrs. Margaret Sang
ster at the annual banquet of the Emma
Willard Association recently. Il have no
sympathy with the women who try to eff
face wrinkles. A woman has no business to
look younger than she Is There is a his
tory in every line of her face"
The Prince of Wales has ordered a riding
school built at Sandrin CHAM, around the
extreme circumference of which is to be
cycling track, for use in winter or wet
weather. Last winter the constant rain re-
dUced the roads to such a state that the
Sandringham household were unable to in
dulge in their fayorite pastime out of doors.
On Prince Bismarck's etghtieth birthday a
sum of 100000 marks was collected for a
statue of the Founder of the German
Unity" to be set up in front of the new
Reichstag building The jury on the monu-
ment was informed that the kaiSerS taste
preferred Prof. Begas's model and made
the award in consequence. Franz Won Len
bach, the painter, and Paul Wallot, archi-
tect OF the Reichstag building, refused to
vote with the jury.
Sister Mary Ellen Ellis, whose death in
England in her eightyrsecond year Is re-
ported, was almost the last survivor of the
devoted band of Roman Catholic sisters
who accompanied Miss Nightingale on her
memorable mission Of mercy TO the Crimea.
On returning TO England after the war, Sis
Ter Mary vas attached TO the Hospital of
ST. John and ST. Elizabeth, in Great Or
rond street, London. Only In the present
jubilee year was she decorated by
Ter Majesty IN person with the Or
Ter of the Royal Red Cross in recognition
CT her services to the wounded in the east.
OF these heroic nuns only one-Sister Mary
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OUR EXPOSITION RECORDS.

The Journal commented yesterday on the
mistaken action, not to use harsher term,
of the Worlds Columbian Exposition Com
pany in refusing to pay a claim of the
French government for damage done by fire
to valuable exhibits while they were still
in the exposition grounds. Under the judg-
ment of the United States Court France
will recover her claim, but there will re-
main feeling that the exposition company
acted very shabbily and that the United
States government, which fathered the ex-
position. was not wholly without blame for
allowing foreign exhibitors to be forced to
go to law to collect so plainly equitable a
claim. So far as the government is con-
cerned this feeling is unjust, because it
never assumed any part of the responsible
ity for the protection of the exhibits. but
it is difficult to make foreigners understand
such distinctions. They knew that Congress
had appropriated money in aid of the ex-
position and that the government had in
vited foreign nations to participate in it,
and it was a natural conclusion on their
part that the government would see that
they were rightly treated and their goods
protected while they were in this country.
or at least while they were on the EXPOSE
ton grounds That is the European way of
doing things, and it is natural they should
think it would be the American way. In
these circumstances, even if the French
government and exhibitors recover their
claim, there will be feeling that they have
been dscourteously, if not dishonesty,
treated.
In marked contrast with the action of the
exposition company is that of France re-
specting the coming Paris exposition in 1900.
On the very day that Judge Grosscup rem
dered his decision in favor of the French ex-
hibitors Major Handy. United States COM
missioner, arrived in New York from Paris,
where he had gone to make arrangements
for the American exhibit in the exposition
of 1900. Congress ignored the invitation of
the French government whole year and
then responded in half-hearted way by
making very small appropriation and APP
pointing one commissioner to engage space
and make preliminary arrangements.
Every other civilized government in the
world accepted the invitation of France be-
fore the United States did. That in itself
would have justified the exposition authori-
ties in treating the United States commits
sioner coolly and cutting him off with very
little space. But they did not do so. Al
though suit was then pending in Chicago
to recover damages to French exhibits at
the Columbian Exposition. and although the
United States was behind all other govern
ments in accepting the invitation of France
for 1900 Major Handy was treated very con-
siderately. II succeeded" he says, be
yond expectation in securing space in the
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Lovejoy and His Friends.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In the newspaper accounts of the dedica-
ton Monday, Nov. g. of monument to the
memory of Elijah P Lovejoy at Alton,
ILL.,, together with the story of the events
surrounding his tragic DEATH appears the
following:
1.-THE last surviving defender of the last
press d. Bert LOOMS, then clerk with
Godfrey & Gilman, died last autumn at his
home in Minneapolis, MINI. Benjamin God
frey, senior member of the firm of Godfrey
& Gilman, was then one of the best-known
business men in the West and his name
is further endeared to posterity as the
founder Of Monticello Seminary.
The other member of this firm, Winthrop
s Gilman, settled in Alton. ILL.,, in 1929. He
was the father Of Winthrop Sargent Gill
man, of New York city. and Arthur Gil
man, the author and historian. who was
associated for some time with the publish
ing house of Haughton, Miffiin & Co, and
School, Cambridge, Mass.
In 1869 Arthur Gilman wrote concerning
his father and the Lovejoy incident.
During his residence in Alton the ex-
element ran high on the subject of the
abolition of negro slavery, and Rev. Elijah
p. Lovejoy, editor of a religious newspa-
per called the Alton Observer, was violent
ly p6ISeCulGQ, anu Ills printing press uC-
stroyed A new press was procured by his
friends, and on it's arrival Mr.. Gilman.
though not a member of the Abolition party.
opened his warehouse and received 1t on
storage An enraged and armed mob de-
termined to destroy the press. Under the
authority of the mayor of the city, num-
Der of the citizens assembled in the build
ing to defend the press, among whom was
Mr. Gilman On the night of Nov. 7, 1887, the
celebrated Lovejoy riot occurred which re-
suited in the killing of Mr. Lovejoy, the
wounding of others, the firing of the build
ing and the destruction of the press. The
commercial interests of Alton were pros
trated by these events, causing the removal
Of Mr.. Gilman to St. Louis, where he was
very successful in his business affairs. In
1849 he removed to the city of New York,
which place he had left just twenty years
before, where he has for many years been
engaged in the business of banking.
Systematic in his benefcence, prudent in
his counsel, and warm in his religious feel
ings many are they who have been bene-
flied by his acquaintance. The writer's rela-
ton to the subject of this notice and re-
spect for his wel-known wishes in this re-
gard, have set the seal of silence where
he would be glad to speak" S. c. G.
Jndian3pOIis Nov TO-
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at that time in the history OF the United
States. One year later, on Oct. 3. 1893, six
Cleveland, they had fallen to $1,451. 124. $50.
The shrinkage OF more than 1914. 900, 900 in
one year represented actual losses or with
drawals of deposits from lack of confidence
During the next three years they fluctuated
with generally upward tendency, but
after the election of Mckinley they in
creased very rapidly. The bank statements
of last Oct show that the individual de-
posits had reached the enormous total Of
1851, 1929, a total greater by $253, 3O1, 81
than it was one year ago, and S., 200, 600
more than the high-water mark of 1892
These figures furnish unmistakable evidence
OF the return Of prosperity and confidence
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exposition. was handicapped somewhat
by the fact that the American government
did not accept the invitation of France for
an award of space until one year after the
invitation was extended. The European
countries were a little quicker with their
acceptances. and thus when 1 arrived on the
field it was to find eighteen other commits
sioners there The United States received
altogether 100000 square feet of space" I'm
der the circumstances most persons will
agree that the United States commissioner
received better treatment than he had any
reason to expect.
1t remains for the United States govern
ment to make such amends as it properly
can to the French government and people
for the shabby treatment they have received
at our hands 1t need not make an apology
in words, but 1t can show by it's acts that it
desires to set itself right with France on
the exposition question. One OF the first
acts of Congress when it meets next month
should be to pass the bill appropriating
100000 for the exhibit of the United States
at the Paris exposition in 1900. which has
already passed the Senate, and it might also
adopt a resolution urging the fullest posi-
Bile exhibit of American industries on that
occasion. The appropriation has been de-
ferred too long already. If it could be
passed on the first business day of the next
session it would be a partial atonement to
France for our heretofore shabby treatment
of her in exposition matters
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The public school authorities of Alton,
Ill, seem to be victims of incurable Bour-
bonism or dense stupidity. A short time ago
they caused an open rebellion among the
colored people by refusing to let colored
children attend the white schools, and now
they have given another needless offense
by an order separating the white and coll
ored school children at the dedication of
tho Lovejoy monument. The result was
dedication of a monument to a man who
gave his life for their race. The school au-
thorities of Alton do not seem to have
heard that the soul of John Brown is
marching on.
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DECISION BY APPRAISERS.
Hour at which the DingIey Tariff
Law Went Into Effect.

NEW YORK. Nov. l0.-The board of
United States general appraisers to-day
made the following decision: 'Importations
Of goods which arrived at New York or at
any other original port of entry and were
duly entered for consumption prior to 4:O6
p. m. washington time). July "a 1897, are
dutiable under the tariff act of 1894 Where
goods arrived prior to said hour. but were
not entered and duties not paid until after
ward. they are dutiabe under the tariff
act of 1891. Where such goods arrived at
any original port of entry prior to said
hour and were entered under bond for
warehousing. transportation 10 interior
ports or any other purpose (without pay
ment of duty and issue OF permit of deliv-
ery) they are dutiable on Withdrawal from
bond or warehouse. under the act of 1897.
The phrase 'for which no entry has been
made and previously entered occurring
in Section 80. refer TO the entry of the mer-
chandise, ana not TO the entry of the YES
sell"
The numerous protests made to the board
on these matters have all been overruled.
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The POntfus plate Fake.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Your editorial in to-day's Journal and also
the article on Page 5, entitled "Cribbed
from Book relating to the fake" Pom
thus PLATE report to Lberius Caesar, pub
lished by the New York Journal and ex-
posed by the New York World, is inter-
eeting reading. The general public is not
supposed to be familiar with the apocryphal
and apocalyptic writings. Indeed few min
listers have thought them worthy of more
than passing attention. But this production
belongs to neither class, and is clearly spur
ious. The correspondent from Sedalia, Mo-,
to the New York World, says that Rev. W.
d. Mahan, D. D., first published it in book
form, but this must be the same document
which appeared in 1879 in book form under
the title "Acta Plate" 1t was published
by the M. 3. Robins Publishing Company,
of Shelbyville, Ind, the author being Rev.
Geo. Sluter, A. M, at one time secretary
of missions Of the Presbyterian synod of
Missouri, at the time the book was pub
lished pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Shelbyville. The book attracted
no special attention. The document contains
near three thousand words and is annotated
by copious notes J. r. L. LATHROP.
INDIANAPOLIS Nov TO-
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Aloysius-is now alive. From her retreat
in the Convent of Mercy, County Galway.
she has Just been persuaded to publish her
Memories of the Crinea.''
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
tells this story of Calvin s. Brlce: A friend
Of his had scheme for building tramway
ecross the White pass to connect with the
lakes leading up to the Klondike. This man
teiegrs phed Brice a description of the
project that fairly made the wires glow.
All he wanted was 100000 to put the scheme
through, and it was sure to yield 100000
profit every month right from the start.
How much of the 100000 would Brice take?
BY return wire came the message: You
needn't look any further. I'll take the
whole of it. Pay for it out of the first
months earnings. Send en- the $4,000 sur
plus at once
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

Figures published by the Philadelphia
Record show that that city has nothing to
complain of in the way of foreign trade.
During last week nine steamers cleared
from there for foreign ports with cargoes
Of wheat, corn and oats aggregatins 1000, 745
bushels. In addition, there are twenty
seven steamships now in port or under
charter to load grain there, most OF which
will sail during the next few weeks. Thus
far this year the shipments OF corn from
Philadelphia have aggregated nearly 22,0OO,-
600 bushels. as against less than 10000
bushels during the entire year 1896, and Of
wheat 3ss3.SSS bushels, against 3s40.6l6 last
year All this means big money in the
pockets OF American farmers.
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now sitting in Washington were simply to
decide upon an ideal currency and banking
system and report a plan accordingly, its
task would be comparatively simple. But
II has a much more difficult work in hand.
1t has got to try and formulate plan that
win go through Congress, command popu-
lar approval and accomplish the needed re-
form without such radical changes in the
monetary system as will produce fiuctuation
of prices or disturb public confidence. All
this can be done, but it is not an easy
fnsk
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

It is stated on seemingly good authority
that Senior Depuy de LONE, Spanish minis
ter at Washington, has become persona non
grata to the administration and that his
recall would be asked for but for the desire
Of the government to avoid rupture with
Spain. His offense is said to have been send
furious statements regarding so-called fill
clustering expeditions from the United
States and the governments responsibility
therefor
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1t is said that Mr.. Powderly. commits
sioner of immigration, will call the atten-
ton of Congress to the necessity of shut
ting out undesirable immigration to the
United States by the way of Canada. He is
right. Steamship companies bringing i'm
migrants to Canada prepare their manifest
lists to show certain immigrants bound for
the United States. Under the laws our in
spectors can examine only the immigrants
SO recorded. Those whose destination is not
so recorded go unmolested- When they get
ready they go from Quebec or Montreal t.
some point near the border and slip across
into the United States without difficulty.
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It is impossible to conceive that any coal
mine owners in Illinois can be so devoid of
all kinds of sense and feeling as to bring
Chinese to take the places of strikers i'll
liable information is received, it wall be
fair to discredit such reports. 1t would be
necessary to bring the Cinnamon from the
Pacific coast or from China The former
would be expensive and the latter would
be unlawful as well as costly.
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A Creature of Habit.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

INV
A curious incident occurred last night at
the Manhattan Hospital. An engineer in a
fire engine company fractured his ankle on
election day when attending fire, and was
taken to. the hospital, where his ankle was
was awakened by the sound of a fire bell
and imagining himself back in the engine
house dormitory, where an iron post eX-
tends down to the horses and engines, upon
which the firemen slide, he sprang out of
bed and threw his arms around the iron
post of his cot and tried to wrap his legs
around it. He fell to the floor and the
bones of his ankle Were again broken.
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LIE INDIANAPOLIS journal

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
cHIcAGo-Palmer House and P. o. News Co.,
2f7 Dearborn street.
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. r. Deering, northwest corner
of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Back Co. 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, D, C-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and + street.
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The Lady or the Tiger.

At the New York Juvenile Asylum. the
other evening, one of the girls recited
when Maria Jane Is Mayor In an ad-
dress which he delivered later, Mayor
Strong declared he was looking forward to
the day when Maria Jane should be mayor
literally, and he thought New York would
be the better for it. 1t certainly could be
no worse under a lady than it is likely to
be under the domination of the tiger.
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In Advance of His Time.

Il have been thinking" observed Brutus,
dal heel against the dry goods box on which
he was sitting what an elegant bicycle
path that Appian Way would make" But
you seem to forget" sneeringly replied Cas-
sius, that bicycles haven't been invented
yet" That was too true. Brutus was in
advance of his time, and, drawing his toga
about him, the noblest Roman of them all
relapsed into his customary, pessimistic
broOding on Caesars ambition.
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What Tennyson mia Not sa,

Q bark! Q hear! rtass urs
How thin and queer,
And thinner, queerer. farther going,
There sounds from far
With many jar
The voice that late in CAB was flowing.
Blow, bazoo, blow
Who is this miscreaa4t fiyin'?
Blow, bazoo! Answer echoes Brya
BRYAN BRYAN
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The swindler is the most abused and I'M
derrated of the practical philanthropists.
He comes periodically, culhng out the suck
ers from the mass of humanity with the
precision and effectiveness of a magnet
searching for particles of iron in a mass of
dirt. He is a necessary evil, and many are
the divertiag surprises he unearths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

A few days ago it was stated that one
half the members of the state boards are
Catholics. If it were so it would be a mat
ter of no consequence of they were faithful
officials. 1t is not so. and those who make
and tell such stories should be thankful
that the Ananias penalty-is not in force
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

The babble of the once incsive Senator
Chandler, of New Hampshire continues to
be the only Republican utterance which can
give the silverites a grain of consolation.
For him TO predict, just after the telling re-
suits in Ohio, Iowa and Kansas, that Bryan
will be elected in 1900 if the Republicans
cling to gold is at least inopportune.
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Watts-I am afraid the chainless wheel
will hardly win.
Potts-Oh, there will be good many sold
next season. Every actress who can raise
the price will have to have one to get it
mentioned in the dramatic column of the
nanerS sea2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

The confession of 1.-The woman in the
case viii probably relieve the public from
the infiction of mass of repulsive evil
dence in detail that would have followed if
the Thorn trial had gone on in New York.
The wretched woman is probably telling
the truth in the main. garnished with CO.
plous lies Her story proves anew that the
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SeasOnabIe Note.
Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
There is a great improvement in this
wears chrysanthemums Most of the new
ones seem to have used a comb and brush
before appearing in public.
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A Pointed Illustration.

NEW I
sound money let him look at Iowa, where
a Republican candidate for Governor made
a square fight on the national platform UNI
embarrassed by bosses and won against
fusion opposition by the largest plurality
ever secured by a state ticket in Iowa.
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There is one sort of gas about the waste
Of which the Governor is not worrying in the
least. and that is the gas wasted by his
Democratic enemies in Numbering about
his gubernatorial policy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

The result in the counties in Kansas,
when figured up. gives the Republicans that
State by good plurality. Good times and
a second dose of Populism in state affairs
are certain cures.
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often with the connivance of Canadian rail-
ways. 1t is useless to guard our front doors
against undesirable immigration when our
side door by the Canadian route, is prac-
ticallv wide omen
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is likely to be confronted soon with Carl
ist uprising. Don Carlos, at Venice, is said
to be directing the movement and prepar-
ing a proclamation.
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Perhaps we might induce China to join
value of the worlds burden of silver by
adopting free and unlimited coinage of that
metal