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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

was made to run the telegraph line to ST.
IBERIA through one corner of Human, but
native prejudice was still so strong that the
wire and poles were destroyed and the
workmen were driven beyond the boundary
OF the province and warned under pain OF
death not 10 return. 1t Is only within the
last year that an imperial decree was is
sued ordering the Hunanese not TO modest
the builders of the telegraph. 1t is expect
ed that Chang-Sha in few months will
be connected with the rest of the world by
telegraph.
1t was at Chang-Sha that the atrocious
books attacking the Christian religion were
published a bout eight years ago. Chou Han,
a literary graduate and man of means,
was the author of these libels on Christian
ity, which were illustrated with pictures
too vile to describe. DR. Griffin John a
well-known missionary, exposed the author
ship of the books and described the pub
Usher who was sending them out Through
Ii Hung Chang an imperial decree was Sc
cured prohibiting any further publication
or the books. and an order was issued for
the destruction of the wooden type from
which they We're printed. This order was
eVaded by Chou Han removing the type to
his country place fOrty-five miles away, but
a curious feature of the matter was the
change of heart on the part of Chou Han.
DIR. John sent him letters calling his atten-
ton to the injusticeS of attacking a religion
of which he knew nothing personally. He
also sent Chou Han the Bible in Chinese.
with considerable literature that explained
the chief tenets of Christianity. Chou Han
made no reply but his publisher, who is
now one of DR.. Johns friends. assured the
missionary that Chou Han had ceased to
rail against the Christian religion though
the story of his conversion was without
foundation. Chou Han appears 10 be man
of much nobility of character for he has
given away in charity the greater part of a
large fortune, retaining only a small farm
Sufhcient for the support of himself and
his son. Formerly when he visited Chang
Sna he put up al one of the temples; now
he stays at a cheap hotel.
1t Is the general opinion that DR.. Wolfes
persistence in entering Chang-Sha has
aroused the enmity of the people, and that
his conduct will make it more difficult for
any other traveller to penetrate into the in
terror of Human. DR.. Wolfe waited fifteen
days for permission to enter Chang-Sha,
and on March 10 this was granted. In a
closed chair he was taken through the gate
at 3:45 p. m. and at 5:45 p. m. he was
brought out in the same way, his chair
curtains being let down all around so that
he was in absolute darkness, unable to see
anything. After leaving Chang he went
to Heng-Chou, where a street mob hooted
at him and pelted him with elods of earth.
They tried to pull him down to the water
to drown him. but he escaped and reached
Lyntang. There his three bearers became
alarmed at the violence of the people. and
deserted him. Left alone, with no knowl-
edge of the language, DR.. Wolfe was forced
to make his way by water back to Hand
tow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

had beer content to stand by the terms Of
the charter there would have been no
trouble, but it ignored the plain agreement
to the period it should be in force and
in every way showed a disposition to ig-
more every provision of the charter and
every obligation which the city might i'm
pose. Citizens have rights as we'll as pro-
moters, even if the latter often forget that
important fact.
On a property which seems not to have
cost them $3C0O,00O these promoters issued
100000 of per cent bonds and 100000 Of
stock. Like promoters and investors are
writing warning letters to the effect that
no more investors will come into Indiana to
purchase street railway and like property
if companies are not permitted perpetual
charters and to charge fares which will
enable the promoters to pay themselves in
terest on SO for every 81 invested.
1t is scarcely necessary~,to say that in
State in the Union are legitimate in
vestments better protected by law than in
Indiana. In no State are the rights Of
property more secure than in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The London Daily Mail reviles the parsl-
mony of the English War Office in its treat
ment OF the troops that were on board the
Warren Hastings, an Indian transport
which was wrecked last January. over l2VJ
people including many women and children
and several hundred soldiers were on board
the ship, which went down in
a very short time after striking a rock off
Reunion island. There was no time for
boats, but in the darkness and storm the
passengers were removed by passing them
along a line attached to the shore. Without
the most perfect discipline this could not
have been done, but the troops, drawn up
in line, obeyed orders with the same pre-
cision that they observed when on parade,
and the result was that only two lives were
lost out of all on board. At the last a large
number were obliged to leap into the water,
and much heroism was shown by those who
could swim in risking their lives to help
others who could not battle with the
waves. AS a matter of course they lost all
their personal possessions, and after six
months the War Office has reimbursed them
for these by allowing each man the muniil-
cent sum OF 10 shillings. The Mail does not
assume that the men had very valuable
property, but it resents the niggardIiness
of the government and its careless accept
ance of the fact of the bravery of Tommy
Atkins as matter of course, and heroism
as a part of his business which deserved
no special recognition. 1t says Indignantly:
It is impossible to believe that soldiers
like Sir Evelyn Wood and Sir RedVers
Butler have drawn up this precious scale or
compensation 1t is impossible to believe
that the paltry sum of $1,000 was all that
could be wrung from the treasury for the
loss of the private belongings of a ship full
of heroes. But the subordinate officials
know how necessary 1t Is that the soldiers
should not be pampered and taught to eX-
pect anything in the nature of reward for
bravery and discipline, and so heroism plus
the worldly belongings of heroes work out
at 10 shillings apiece, or two for soVer-
eign by taking a quantity. OF course the
point of the whole thing is that the 10-shill-
ing Tommy has no claim from the War
Office point of view. He has no right to
have private property; red tape does. not
recognize that he has any, and If he loses
it incidentally to behaving like hero, why
that IS his look out The War Office has
something else to do than to bother about
his beggarly belongings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
THE WARNING OF PROMOTERS.

1t is said that persons outside the State,
calling themselves investors, have been
writing to parties in Indiana to the effect
that the 3-cent-fare law has caused a dis
trust which will cause investors to avoid
the State in the future. 1t is hoped that
no one will be frightened by such repre-
sensations. All the bonds issued by Indiana
or its cities and counties are as sound as are
those of Massachusetts. The credit of
Indiana and of it's leading cities, measured
by the rates of interest paid on bonds, was
never higher than it has been the past few
years.
The 3-cent-fare law is the outcome of a
bitter struggle between a coterie of profess
sional promoters on the one side and the
residents of a city on the other The pro-
motors purchased q property which is val
ued at $1,900,000, and issued 100000 of
bonds and 100000 of stock on the plant.
When the promoters came in it was a qucs-
ton if their charter was good for more than
few months. They exasperated the peo-
pie, however, by claiming that it was per-
petual. AS the result of a suit the court
has decided that the charter can be ter
minated in 1901.
From the day these promoters got the
property. they have, in addition to bond
ing it for twice it's taxable valuation and
issuing IS, 0OOO of stock representing no
paid-in value, acted upon the assumption
that the city and the streets are theirs
They have resisted successfully the at
tempt to compel their company to pave
between their tracks, to the great cost Of
property owners. They have claimed the
right to take any street in the city for
tracks, without permission of the City
Council but the courts have set aside such
an assumption. 1t was not until the citi-
zens of indianapolis were aroused to the
fact that these promoters were determined
TO make them pay fares which would give
value TO five or six millions OF dollars
of fraudulent capitalization, under claim
of perpetual charter, that they began to
resist their schemes. The citizens were
compelled to do one of two things-yeld to
tho exactions of the greedy combination,
involving a perpetu al charter scent fares
and freedom from taxation for paving. or
to make hght for their rights. The peo-
pie resolved to resist The 3-eent-fare law
is one Of the results. For 1t the promoters
who constitute the Citizens street-railroad
Company are responsible. II the company
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
ENTERING a FORBIDDEN CITY.
DIR. Wolfe, IL German Traveller, Spends
Two Hours in Chang-Sha.
New York Sun.

Some curious details are given in letters
from missionaries in regard TO the visit of
a German traveller, DR.. Wolfe to Chang
Sha, the capital Of Human, which never
before had been entered by a foreigner. 1t
seems that the doctor gained his point and
entered the forbidden city, but his visit was
mere farce, as he was not permitted
to go about the city or to see any Of it's
features. He simply was carried in closed
chair to the projects room in one of the
government halls. where he was enter
tanned with refreshments. and an hour
later was taken back swiftly in the same
way
Human is the province of Chica which
has gained notoriety as the most bitterly
anti-foreign and anti-Christian of any In
the empire For years the mandarin in
charge of the telegraph service attempted
to connect Chang-Sha with the other large
cities of China, but he was forced to give
up, as the people burned his poles and
threw his workmen into the nearest river
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

If MIR. Bellamy, the author of Equality"
could give good and sufficient bonds that
his scheme will work successfully. most
people would favor it. His plan is to abol-
ish all forms of property and individual
enterprise, put the government in charge of
everybody and everything and pay every
man and woman $4,000 year. If work is
what IS meant by having everything put in
charge of the government, many will object
to the Bellamy plan, but $4,000 year is an
aIluring proposition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

recognize its relations to what has gone be-
fore nor its bearings upon future develop
ments; to them it is a dull or meaningless
record of unimportant proceedings. 1t is
safe TO say that when the Irvngton club
gets through with its years reading and
discussion the members will read of the
proceedings of the various departments Of
the government with greatly increased in
terest, though. as residents of a university
town, they may be assumed to have al
ready breadth of culture and power of
appreciation beyond the ordinary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

London Daily Mail.

Few people who saw Nine. Patti at the
Albert Hall last night in brilliant pink and
silver, with beautiful diamonds ablaze in
her hair and on her dress, and who heard
her sing as only she can sing. had any idea
of the anxiety she was suffering on ac-
count of her husbands health. The tears In
her voice may well have been real tears;
and when she sang Home, Sweet Home"
with even more than usual tenderness and
pathos, the whole house positively rose at
her as though i'm sympathy with what she
was actually feeling. In the end was such
a scene as 1t is almost impossible TO de-
scribe The diva was Obliged TO return
again and again TO the platform. and siiI
the audience would not let her go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Within certain limitations a shrinking
from notoriety is commemorate in women
but when it is carried to the point of letting
a man go to prison for life and remain
there for fifteen years because of re-
luctance to mixing up in a case by ap-
pearing as a witness when the testimony
would have cleared him, it may be regarded
as shyness gone to seed. The new woman
with her sometimes obtrusive fearlessness
is an Improvement on this overwrought
type of femininity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Whenever the governments of Europe
consent to consider bimetallism they will
not consider it upon the basis of any such
ratio as 1872 to /. Since that was made the
quite general European ratio the CONNER
cial ratio has changed to 80 to l. Finan-
ciers in Europe will never attempt to
double the present commercial value OF sill
yer by an arbitrary coinage ratio. Because
the silver mine owners are aware of that
fact they have turned their backs upon in
Lernational bmetallism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

and Walker. The seals stamped on these
notes resembled very much the seal In uAe
at the present time
a tull set of this fractional currency has
race value of S6.0S but in all probability
SET would be worth from four to six times
as hucn as souvenir or to a collector Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Ex-Governor Boiess declaration that
'the Chicago platform is no longer binding
on the conscience, political or otherwise, of
any Democrat in the United States" will
attract the attention of many men who
voted for BRYAN simply to be regular
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

print, it has been found that they consist
of seventy pages of reports of the British
Bimetallic League. and speeches of Bryan
and George Fred williams on the same sub
ject. Thus the Congressional Record is
made the cover for the free printing Of
the speeches of men who are not in Con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Nothing is SO difficult to recall as physical
sensations. Everybody remembers that
they suffered with the heat last week, but
with the present invigorating temperature
the discomfort is already half forgotten.
However, no one wants a memory that is
too vivid in this respect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The clause of the pending tariff which
prohibits European tourists bringing home
more than $100 worth of clothing free of
duty will have tendency to cut down the
aggregate of American expenditures in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Ex-Judge Campbell. of Ohio declaring
that the Democrats viii carry the State
this year, recalls his predictions to that eff
feet in 1895, when the Republican plurality
was $4,000 and last year when it was A.
600, every Populist voting with the Demo-
Gratis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Within a few months the New York Cen
trail. the Lake Shore and the Chicago &
Northwestern managers have refunded
600 of bonds at and 31s per cent,
the largest transactions of the kind on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The American Economist reminds the
public that Mr.. Havemeyer has said that
the American Refining Company can refine
sugar cheaper than any competitor in the
world. Mr.. Aldrlch should remember this
Saot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Those Democrats who succeeded in hav-
ing cotton ties, etc. placed on the free list
and then did not vote for the tariff bill must
not complain if the conference committee
restores them to the duty list yet they
threaten to delay the passage of the bill
if it does not contain free cotton ties and
burlaps. which will give 81, 0O0, 03O revenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
No wonder.

KANSAS CITY JOErDtI.
TO get a conviction that magazine editors
are subject to fits of mental alienation. or
that they sometimes put a very low esti-
mate on the intellect and taste OF their
readers, glance at Miss Eurita Fleason's
Relaxation" in the July Harper's, or at
Jolly in the July Cosmopolitan. No won-
der that young people have the impression
that any one can make literature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

1t misdemeanor for any member of Con-
gress to accept free transportation, will
never come to a vote which will make
personal record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The indianapolis correspondent of the
Chicago Record says that General Harrison
appeared in person before committee Of
the Legislature for the Citizens Street.
railroad Company which is not true.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The Cleveland Leader declares that the
next election in Ohio will be more than
usually interesting because it is certain to
be a 16-to-1 funeral In that event it will
be most fortunate for the whole country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Although Count Castellane, Anna Goulds
husband, received 28S blackballs in Par
isian club, the circumstance does not prove
anything against his character. 1t may be,
merely, that he is from the provinces and
is not in the Paris class.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13


The Irvington Womans Club has set
good example to it's sister organizations
Instead of delving into ancient history,
tackling the deep questions of philosophy or
grasping at the unknowable, as such clubs
are apt TO do, it's work for the coming year
is confined to the history and character
istics of the United States government. The
programme begins with the colonial govern
ment, includes the history of the federal
Constitution papers and discussions on the
various branches of the government and
their functions, the most striking episodes
in the countrys history, together with in
cidental biographies of leading statesmen.
1t is rather formidable programme every
thing considered for though it covers
ground with which people who have had
a common-school education are supposed to
be more or less familiar, ii is likely that at
the end of the year the members of the
club will have learned that another year
might be spent advantageously in the same
line of study. 1t is an unfortunate fact
that vagueness characteriZes the average
woman's information concerning her coun-
try and its institutions, though she may
be well grounded in foreign history and alb
struction on the subject would not be
wasted on the average man. but his more
direct participation in politics necessarily
causes him to absorb some facts in this line
that he might not acquire otherwise. One
effect of this ignorance of the beginnings
of national history and of its later phases
is the indifference of women to the polit-
icaI news in the daily papers. They do not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The newspaper prophets are saying that
"the Turk will have to CO." This is prob
ably true, but his going has not yet at
tanned the gait called rapid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Usually an outflow of gold characterizes
this season of the year, but last week the
imports of the yellow metal exceeded the
exports
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Watts-You surely do have a good time;
nothing to do but eat and sleep.
Weary Watkins-Yas, that's all i got to
do, but I'd druther put in some Of the time
driOkiu'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

While the worlds population is increas-
ing at the rate of l per cent. a year, the
output of the gold mines increases Is per
cent a year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
IN the United States should put on an eight-page
paper ONE-CENT hostage stamp; on twelve
or slxteen-page pepper a TWO-GENT postage
stamp Foreign postage is usually double these
rates.
All communications intended for publication In
TINS paper must. In order receive attention, De
accompanied by the and address OF tne
writer II 1t is desired that rejected manuscripts
pe returned, postage must in all cases be inclosed
Tor that purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

Typewriter am rapid enough, and un-
derstand business forms all right, but 1
must admit that / cannot spell
Business Man-You won't do, then, even
at the price L can't spell, either.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
The Cornfed PHILOSOPHER.

Whether man is happier working for
his own good, or fer the good of others,
is merely a matter of temperament" said
the Cornfed Philosopher. "It all depends on
whether a man would rather have money
or a monument"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

The other day Senator Jones got the
floor to speak upon the tariff bill. He did
not proceed far when he announced that
he would print his remarks in the Record
NOW that his remarks have appeared in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13

It is said that one of the objects of the
Queens jubilee was to interest the leaders
in the colonies in the scheme OF British
federation. and that the colonial leaders
did not take to the proposition. They are
intensely loyal to the mother country, but
the colonies prefer the independence which
they enjoy under the present British policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
NEW YORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House
CHICAGO-Palmer House and P. o. News CO.,
"a Dearborn street
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street.
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OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book CO., 80 Fourth avenue.
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ltouss, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and F street
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ST, LoUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, should get
himself interested in more gold mines. His
single idea of silver must grow tiresome.
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BUBBLES ~ THE AIR.
Boston, of Course.

Pretty Polly!" said the lady. Can Polly
talk?"
Polly" replied the Boston parrot, ''can
converse"