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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

Spades and shovels, together with
scoops, are found depicted on the walls of
Egyptian catacombs, and all three are fre-
quently mentioned by Roman and Greek
agricultural writers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
Death of M. J. Crooks.
May Lose an Eye.

OAKLAND. CAL, March 25--Deputy
Coroner Henry Quellin met with serious
accident to-day which may cause him the
loss of one eye. He was engaged in en-
banning corpse, and in forcing the fluid
into the body the tube burst Some of
the corrosive poison few into his right
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.

eve and burned the skin of his face. Re-
lief was speedily obtained. but there is
great danger that one eye may be rem
deTed useless,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
Baseball Games.

BERKELEY, CAL, March 25.-The
university will play baseball tomorrow
afternoon with the nine of the Institution
for the Deaf and the Blind. The following
are the deaf-mute players:
Koch, pitcher; Daggett, first base; Ducas,
second base; Murphy, third base; Bean.
left field: Much, center field; Baker, right
field; Fritz (captsin), shortstop; Demartini,
catcher.
On Saturday the Varsity will cross bats
at Central Park, San Francisco with the
Santa Clara Team.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
Reason for with drawal.

BERKELEY, CAL, March 25.-The
reason for the University of California
withdrawing from the Pacific Amateur
Athletic Association is in the new rules
adopted by the association. Among them
is q regulation requiring athletes to regis
sessment OF 81. This, which, It is stated,
was designed to protect amateurs, is de-
clared by Berkeley to be in reality a tax
on amateurism. Hereafter Berkeley will
hold all sports under the auspices OF the
intercollegiate Association.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
Good News for Pilgrims.

OAKLAND, CAL, March 25-Piigrim
Congregational church has extended q
unanimous call to Rev. ]. R. Knowdell OF
San Bernardino. The church has been
m made happy by the gift OF Mrs. ]. p.
Agard, who voluntarily released mort
gage on the property of $4,000.
The new pastor is native OF Nova
Scotia, and mas occasionally preached IN
this city. He will assume his duties on
April /.
Death of M. j. Crooks.
OAKLAND, CAL, March 25.-Matthew
J. Crooks, who has lived in Oakland for
twenty years, died last night at his home,
of cere bral meningitis. He was only sick
week, and leaves widow and four daug b.
ters. He was a brother of Jackson Crooks,
who accidentally shot himself at Santa
Cruz about year ago.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
CANDIDATE WHITES APPEAL.

Tho sunporters of Mr.. John f. White for
mavor are circulating card, three by six
inches IN one side of which are printed
the names of the candidates on the Citizens
ticket while on the other side are given
some of the reasons why those who eeieVe
in the free and unlimited coinage OF silver
should vote for Mr.. White. The address
contains a few statements which should IN
terest those who are yet the victims OF the
16-to-1 delusion. 1t declares, for instance,
that 'the man whose position is uncertain
is a gold man. This is meant for Mr.. Tag
CART.
Mr. Taggart's position on the silver ques-
tion can scarcely be called uncertain. True
he has declared for the silver mine owners
demand. but so frequent and so emphatic
have been his protests that there is very
general suspicion that his Honor is labor
ing TO convince himself that he Is silver
tie. The truth is that the devotion of Mr..
Taggart to silver was part of the scheme
adopted by the old leaders year ago to re-
tain control of the organization in Marion
county. Had they all gone out of the or
ganization a year ago they would now be
nearly out of politics. They saw this. and
arranged that certain leaders should re-
main inside the Democratic lines to con-
troll the organization.
This Mr. Taggart has been able to do A
year ago he was beaten in the state con-
yention. but the element which cast him out
has lost its grip. The blatant silver push
was beaten by Mr.. Taggart in the primaries
to elect the city committee. Many members
of the push" have recovered from the 10
toll paroxysm. The others are silent, while
the gold Democrats are Mr.. Taggart's con-
fdential advisers in his canvass They fur
nish that portion OF the campaign fund
which is not taken out Of the city treasury
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

time. we are more firmly convinced now
than ever that Hinshaw alone is the only
person that can shed any light on the
tragedy, and until such time as he sees
mt to divulge all it will remain a secret as
now.--Plaintield Progress.
Dehs cannot understand why so little was
contributed to the miners with much
sympathy expressed for them. If Debs
and Sovereign will keep hands off the
next strike they may be able to draw con-
illusions that will explain why so little was
donated. The public sympathy that Went
out to the miners was decidedly suspicious
of several of the self-appointed leaders,
Lafayette Courier.
AS each new class enters the Rose Poly
technic Institute we are again reminded
of the great scope of the career offered to
the graduates and regard regretfully the
rush of young men to the Normal Scnooi,
excellent as it is, when so few in compare
son turn to engineering and mechanics.
The latter are not yet oVercroWued: IuelI
field is world wide but that of English
teaching is not.-Terre Haute Mail.
When a whole community makes up IT'S
mind to violate the law or to shield those
who violate it, it is next to impossible to
find indictments against the guilty or to
convict them if indicted. That is the SIT
uation in Ripley county, this state, ana OF
the two hundred men who paruclpaleu III
the murderous lynching of five men TWO
weeks ago, not one has been lndlctea.
Some having committed murder others 90
not hesitate to commit perjury 10 protecl
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
A NEw AND RoLD CLAIM.

The boldest claim yet made in the inter-
est of street-railroad company is the one
set up by the president of the consolidated
companies in Chicago that the city has no
right to demand an equivalent for a fran
chise or any compensation for the use of its
streets beyond license tax on the cars run.
This is new and startling claim. At the
beginning of street-railroad construction in
this country most cities granted franchises
and gave the use of their streets without
asking or receiving any equivalent except
the service which in many cases was poor.
The immense value of these franchises was
not realized at first, and the doctrine that
they should be paid for was yet to come.
But during the last few years there has
been a great change in this regard. The
commonly received doctrine now is that the
streets of a city belong to the people and
that a franchise granting the occupation
and use of them for street-rairoad purposes
is immensely valuable and should be paid
for either in a round sum or by percentage
of the gross receipts, or in some other way
The new claim set up in Chicago is that a
city has right to do anything of the kind
1t may grant valuable franchises and ex-
elusive privileges to a street-railroad COM
pany for a long term of years or in per-
petuity, but it cannot exact any equivalent
or compensation. It does not appear yet
on what Ground the claim is based, but prob
ably it is on the ground that the powers of
a city are restricted to the functions of
municipal government and that even the
Legislature cannot confer on a municipal
corporation any but strictly municipal pow
ers This would be bold claim, but not
more so than many others that corporations
have made 1t is not likely, however, that
the courts will sustain it. If the Legislature
can confer the right to make contracts on
one corporation it can on another, munich
company. 1t would be strange. indeed if
a city may grant the use of it's streets for a
special purpose for nothing, but may not do
so for pay. If the claim is good it applies
to telegraph, telephone and other franchises
and there would be an end of all payments
by such corporations except in the form of
the only power cities have in such matters
it's vigorous exercise would become very
popular. 1t is more likely, however, that
the courts will deny the claim and establish
the doctEine that cities have some rights
as well as other corporations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

published by D. Appleton Co. as the next
volume in the successful Story of the West
series
Messrs. Way G. Williams, Chicago. have
just published Miracles of Madame ST.
Katherine of Fierbois," which is transIa-
ton by Andrew Lang from the old French.
1t is register of the miracles as they oc-
Cured C300-15OO), and furnishes a series OF
vignettes of life during the hundred years
war The work is little known and is de-
scribed as very humorous. Mr.. Lang writes
an introduction. The edition will be small
one.
The Doubleday e. Mcclure Company Is
practically a new publishing house. though
setting out as merely an enlarged enter
prise on the part of the Mcclure syndicate
in establishing a book department. Their
first publications will be ready by Oct. 1.
and include Little Masterpieces" the be-
ginning of collection of books of the high
est standing in literature, bound in flexible
cloth and leather and edited by Prof. Bliss
Perry, of Princeton. who has selected the
most characteristic sketches and stories CT
each author The first volumes are devoted
to Poe, Irving and Hawthorne
The third edition of that dainty and artis-
tic piece of Japanese book making, Karma;
a Story of Early Buddhism by Dr. Paul
Carus, is announced by the Open Court Pub
fishing Company. This is the same tale that
was translated into Russian by Count Leo
Tolstoi, and so made its way back into En-
glish through the French with Count
false impression Count Tolstoi said: Il
should be very happy indeed were l the
author of this tale; 1t is one Of the. best
products of national wisdom and ought TO
be bequeathed to all mankind" The same
authors ''Nirvana" is also TO be published
in an illustrated Japanese edition.
Among the new books to be published by
Little, Brown & Co during the autumn or
this year are the following: Romance and
Reality of the Puritan Coast new Illus
trated volume on the favorite North
Shore" of the Massachusetts coast, by Ed
mund H. Garrett; new story (of the pres
ent day. by Maud Wilder Goodwin, author
of white Aprons" etc. entitled Flint:
His Faults. His Friendships and His For.
tunes" an illustrated edition of the great
success of the year, "Quo Vadis, in two
volumes including pictures by Howard
Pyle. Edmund IL. Garrett and Evert van
Muyden, reproductions from ancient
sculptures and maps and plans; also, Inc
Horoscope a Romance of the Reign Y
Francois H.. ''sylvandire,. Romance OF
e'hauveiin's win and "The Woman with
the Velvet Necklace" a new volume by
HENRIK Sienkiewicz, author Of Quo Vadis,
with Fire and Sword ETC.; a new oooK
by Captain Mahan dealing with the posi-
bilities of sea power In the development OF
the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

Why is it that Republican is expected
to be better mayor than is a Democrat?
Such is the fact, but why is it the fact? If
q Republican candidate for mayor should
do the things which Mr.. Taggart is doing
hundreds of excellent people would be we'll
nigh beside themselves with righteous
rage. They would hold public meetings.
adopt resolutions and pillory the Repub-
lican official. If a Republican mayor
should go to a society picnic on Sunday
where intoxicants were sold, give his check
for a few free drinks and be carried about
the grounds on the shoulders of admiring
imbibers the defunct organization once
known as good citizens would experience
a resurrection and plans would be devised
that would surely lose him thousands of
votes If a Republican mayor should ig-
more the sections of the charter requiring
the selection OF SubordinateS in the city
service after competitive examinations
every independent and self-proclaimed re-
former would set upon him as a rascal.
When jealous good citizen organizations
suspect that Republican administration
does not watch every saloon to see that 1t
closes at the hour set down in the law,
they send out spies to find ground for any
sort of accusation. When Democratic
administration permits open violation of
laws for the regulation of saloons and al
lows gamblers to run their games without
fear. not only is not word said, but it is
known that some of the salt of the earth
take occasion to approve of the mayor,
probably because things are not as bad as
they can be.
It is said to the credit of the Republican
marty that it's candidates must be so much
better than their Democratic opponents
in order to receive the cordial support OF
those who call themselves and who really
are the best people in communities. Still,
manv fail to understand why it is that such
neople will rail at a Republican candidate
who in every respect is the superior of the
Democratic candidate for whom they Will
vote without question.
This query is one which it Will be pront-
able for the people alluded to to consider.
If any one of them can find an explanation
for this seeming inconsistency it would be
well worth publishing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

for Pogue's run frauds. Mr.. Whites friends
who have issued the card understand this,
and, understanding it, they close their APP
peal with this wall: THE cause of bimetal-
lism will be strangled to death in this city
on Oct. u. unles large vote shall be polled
for John F. White"
Except that an outsider at one Democrat
ic meeting made a 16-to-1 speech, no
mention has been made of it as an issue.
Mayor Taggart in his speeches has made no
alluson to it. Indeed it is altogether prob
able that, now that Messrs. Holt, Frenzel,
Reach and other gold Democrats are giving
Mayor Taggart his most effective backing,
the silver mine owners fad will not cut
much figure in the future with the Marion
county Democracy. They see that the free
coinage of silver will not be the chief is
sue in 1900 Consequently. if Mr.. Whites
friends had said that the cause of bimetal-
lism-that is, silver monometallism-has
been strangled in Marion county by the
TaSsart leaders they would have correctly
stated the case
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Lady JRckson'S Latest Book, The
Court of the Tufleries.

In the interesting series of works on
French history by Lady Jackson THE Court
of the Tuileries" follows chronologically the
summary of the events of the reign of Louis
XIV and the first empire, as recorded in
The French Court and Society,"" The pres
ent work opens with the entry of the allied
sovereigns into Paris-with Napoleon five
leagues away, two hours too late to prevent
the equalization and the signing of the
treaty-and closes with the flight of Louis
Philippe. The period covered is one that is
full of political intrigue and dramatic events
and Lady Jackson gives an animated, gos-
sipy account of its happenings. All the great
personages of the time march and counter
march before us, giving US brief but fasci-
mating glimpses of their well-l1nown charac-
tiers with new and piquant interest There
are vivid descriptions of Louis XVIII and
the scenes IN Paris on his return from exile,
destitute OF everything, without a suite,
without guards, without wealth, with moth
ing TO give, almost nothing to PROMISE I'M
able TO walk two yards without assistance
the victim OF giuttony, disgusting TO be-
hold. Chateaubriand, Constant the great ar
list, Talleyrand-scores of the wits. the diplo-
matiStS, the authors and actors of the age
are remembered in anecdote and achieve
ment, mingled with the political story of
the times The work is in two Volumes
the cover design being the fieur de lis of
France, and there are sixteen portraits
photo etchings after famous paintings. Bos-
ton: L. c. Page & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard, the whilom
Prohibition candidate for Governor in Ohio,
Is after Bishop Newman for a speech he
made at Saratoga before the New York
Temperance Society Aug. Is. AS reported
in the Tribune, the bishop said: There are
three concessions which temperance advo-
Gates are bound to make; namely, that
while wine and liquors are not indispensa-
BILE to the welfare of mankind, they, not
withstanding, had their legitimate uses;
that the occasional drinking of wines and
liquors was not drunkenness as denounced
in the Bible and while it is true that all
dFunkardS were once moderate drinkers,
yet all moderate drinkers do not become
drunkards." The speech was such an Of
Tense to DR.. Leonard that he introduced
resolution at the late session of the Cincin-
natl conference, asking the bishop if he
really did say these things. The bishop has
not yet answered, but, if he ever does. he
will most probably say he did, or words to
the same effect, and then what is DR.. Leon
ard going to say or do about it? He will
certainly not question the truth of the bish-
ops statement, though he may insist that
temperance people should not make the
concession, but hold to their indefensible
dogmas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
VETERANS AND BoNDHOLDERs.
The Government Has Paid More in In
terest than in Pensions.

Charles K Radcliffe, in Detroit Tribune.
During the period when the veterans
were at the front sacrihcing nome COM
forts the chances to gain wealth, business
prospects, health, their limbs and their
lives, the expenditures OF the government
in excess Of income was 2,6l4 39l, wv. In tno
last year Of the war the excess was near
~ 1864 900, 0O0 But there was no complaint
about the soldier being burden on the
country then. For decade aIter the waI,
the aggregate paid in interest to the bond
holders was 81, 235 40l, 600; while the aggre-
gate of pensions was $261,97z, 600 The soldier
was certainly not to blame for this excess
of nearly a billion of dollars as usury to
bondholderS over the aggregate PAID pen
sioners. Since 1860 the aggregate OF S2.VOS-
092 ODO has been paid as interest to bond
holders: while So, 140 1928 600 has been paid
in pensions. over half q billion more TO
the bond holders for the use OF their money
than to the veterans for pensions, as
gratuity for invaluable service, the risk or
their lives. the sacrifice OF health, loss OF
limbs, eyes, feet and tncurable wounds or
ali sorts And 1t is a question as TO
when the aggregate of pensions paid
and to be paid EQUALS the amount or
bondholders' interest paid and to be paid.
The high water mark of pensions was
reached in 1S93-$159, 357, 600. 1t receded to
S141 900 for the fiscal year of 1897. The
interest on the public debt was higher for
the fiscal year of 1S97-$37, 79l 600 than it had
been for any one. of the seven preceding
years The United States treasurers esti-
mate Of interest on the debt for the year
ending June 30, 1898, is 036, 10000.
The record of internal revenue collections
DeBttlS With the hoSdl Jc"i Va lopo- LiOpC
who were adults at that time remember the
stamps required to be placed on the many
articles of common use 1t was tax that
its highest in 1866, 5000, COG. For the first
decade of the internal revenue tax the ag-
gregate collected in this manner was ST.
no 1874, 600. The interest paid during that de-
cade was 81, 0S3, 140 600. Paid in pensions,
500, 500, 900.
So it seems that thus far the bondhold-
ers' usury has been a greater burden upon
the people than the pensioners, and yet il
Is to the credit of the Nation that II has
kept its pledges to the capitalists IN full
letter and spirit. A greater and more vitality
important glory is that II has rewarded
and will reward the men without whose
self-sacrfiing services the billions of money
would have awaited absolutely nothing
whatever in saving our beloved Union from
dissolution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04
Gen. Grants Characteristics.
General Porter, in the Century.

General Porter, in the Century
He was possessed of a moral and physical
courage which was equal to every emergen-
cy in which he was placed He was calm
amid excitement, patient under trials, sure
in Judgment, clear in foresight, never de-
pressed by reVerseS or unduly elated by sue
cess. He was fruitful in eXpedients, and
had a facility of resource and d faculty of
adapting the means at hand to the accom-
pliShment of an end which never failed him.
He possessed an intuitive knowledge of to-
Biography which prevented him from ever
becoming confused as to locality or direction
in conducting even the most complicated
movements in the field. His singular self
reliance enabled him at critical junctures
to decide instantly questions of vital mo-
ment without dangerous delay in seeking
advice from others, and to assume the
grayest responsibilities without asking any
one to share them.
His habits of life were simple, and he en-
joyed a physical constitution which enabled
him to endure every form of fatigue and
privation incident to military service in the
field His soldiers always knew that he was
ready to rough it with them, and share
their hardShipS on the march. He wore no
better clothes than they, and often ate no
better food There was nothing in his man
ner to suggest that there was any gulf be-
tween him and the men who were winning
his Victories He never tired of giving I'M
stinted praise to his subordinates He was
at all times loyal to them. His fidelity pro-
duced a reciprocal effect, and is one of the
chief reasons why they became so loyalty
attached to him. He was never betrayed
by success into Boosting of his triumphS.
He never moderated himself in battle;
he never overrated himself in a report.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04

In a saloon in the city yesterday after
noon, which, if it was not filled with men,
contained a number of persons who were
drinking, man was killed 1t was not
murder, but the victim was struck a blow
which, as the report goes, felled him and
he was picked up dead. The saloon, like
scores of others, was open in violation of
law on Sunday afternoon. Attention is
called to this matter because there are men
who object to the violation of the Sun
day laws VINO are told by Mr. Taggart's
more respectable followers that these laws
are being honestly enforced. These excel
lent people do not go about town to see
for themselves, else they would know that
what is here affirmed Is true, namely, that
scores of the most disreputable saloons are
open on Sunday in violation of law. Mayor
Taggart knows this, the police know it and
the violators of the law know that both
know it, These saloon keepers know that
they can violate the law with impunity.
Security in violating the law is the bride
paid them by the Taggart regime for their
support in the election. The Journal calls
the special attention of those excellent peo-
pie who are so jealous in stirring up Re
publican officials without real cause to this
death in saloon yesterday-Sunday. If
they are silent hereafter they may be sus-
pected of at least acquiescing in these vio-
lations Of law.