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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
PAY OF TRUANCY OFFICERS.
They Are Not Entitled to Compensa-
ton for the Entire school Term.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
I understand that l am quoted In the
newspapers as having decided that the
truant officers appointed under the recently
enacted compulsory educational law are en-
titled to receive, as compensation. 81 per
day for every day of the school year dur
ing their term Of Office. and that this al
legged decision is being used by truant OFF,
GERS in some localities as authority for
claiming from their counties 81 per day
for every day their schools have been in
session for this year Tor their SCI wees as,
such truant officers. regardless of the time
they have actually been employed in the
discharge of their duties as such, and
desire, through The columns of your paper
to correct this statement. Ii is not true
that ] any other judge in the State.s to
my knowledge has placed any such con-
Struction on the statute in question The
GERS has been presented To me- and / have
decided that such officers were entitled
TO receive the sum OF 81 per day for every
day they We're actually and necessarily
employed in dischargng the duties of their
office. but that the law did not contem-
plate that all OF their time during the
school year should be SO employed and
paid 81 per day for every day of the school
year If you viii kindly give this card a
place in the columns OF your paper you
will very much 0blige me and perhaps ren-
der the public some service.
JOSEPH NJ RABB.
Judge Twenty-first Circuit.
Wllliamsport. Ind. Jan s. +
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
BRYAN At HOME.
The Wandering POpOcrat Receives a
welcome and Makes IL Speech.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 4.-W. ]. Bryan's
Homecoming from his Mexican trip this
evening was the occasion of a more marked
display of enthusiasm on the part of his
political and social friends than has been
shown since his return from Chicago follow
ing his nomination for the presidency. This
being the night of the complimentary ban
quet rendered him by the Bryan Travelling
Mems Club, a number of distinguished men
who participated in that function were on
hand at the station to greet him. To
reporter Mr.. Bryan said he was not yet
ready to express his impression of Mexico
and that, furthermore, his speech tonight
would be extemporaneous. 1t was nearly 10
o'clock when the banquet hall of the Lin
coin Hotel was thrown open. For an hour
previous reception was rendered to nota-
BILE guests from abroad-Hon. George Fred
Williams, Of Boston; Hon. David Over
myer and Hon. j. II. Atwood, of Kansas
Covers were laid for two hundred guests
and over an hour was spent in discussion
of the menu. The principal address of the
evening was by Mr.. Overmyer, on the sub
ject THE National Democrats. Among
other speakers were George w. Berge, of
Lincoln; Governor HOlcomb, Of Nebraska;
G. NJ Hitchcock of Omaha; Hon. w. f.
Thompson of Grand Island; John H. At
wood of Kansas. Mr. Bryan responded to
the toast Our Guest"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

The Washington Post discussing the mon
etary commissions plan of currency re-
form, says:
The patriotism of the convention, its ex-
ecutive committee and it's commission
should not be doubted, but, for reasons
well known to all readers of the Post no
such plan can get favorable consideration
from the Fifty-fifth Congress.
The Post should state the reasons why
the plan cannot get favorable considera-
ton from the Fifty-fifth Congress. If it is
for political reasons, because the Senate
will not agree to any plan of currency re-
form aiming at the continuation of the gold
standard and gradual retirement of the
greenbacks, that is understandable, but if
it means that Congress deems itself too
wise to accept suggestions from a commits
sion not composed of its own members, that
is contemplate. The people are greater
than Congress, and there is an immense
amount of intelligence. patriotism: and wis
dom outside of Washington, even when
Congress is in session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

The restoration of Lii Hung Chang to
office and power in China shows that the
Emperor is not altogether insensible to the
threatening aspect of affairs. Ii Hung
Chang is the one statesman in China who
Is thoroughly informed regarding the situa-
ton and who has intelligent ideas, ac-
quired by contact with other peoples, as to
how to deal with it. dispatch says that
a memorial relative to national defenses,
prepared by him after his return from this
country but pigeon-holed till now, has
been taken up and is being considered, to-
on the same subject. "All China is awak-
ening, says the dispatch. All China means
upwards of four hundred million people,
and, while they are not warlike they have,
if aroused, a wonderful amount of resist
ant force. 1t would take a good while
for common emotion to penetrate the
vast mass of humanity constituting the
Chinese people, but once penetrated it
might become resistless force The COM
mon theory has been that they are devoid
of patriotism, but the menace of in aston
and dismemberment may develop a senti-
ment that will astonish the world. There
are nc indications of this at present, but
it is possible. The Chinese people, united
and aroused. would sweep the German in
vaders into the sea as easily as a herd Of
millions of buffaloes would trample down a
squad of policemen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

The tendency of young men born and
reared on farms to leave the country for
towns and cities was a suitable topic for
discussion before the State Board of Agri.
culture. 1t. has been noted for many years
as an important factor in the increasing
migration from the country to cities
whose populations are already congested-
certainly an unhealthy movement in a large
sense and Improbable to many of those
who embark In it. Properly and steadily.
farming, nor any more certain to yield sat
isfactory results In very many instances
they who abandon it for city life live to
regret the change. The cause of the move
ment and how to check it are important
questions. No doubt whatever would tend
to make farm life more interesting and at
tractive would help in that direction. but
even that does not always avail. Very few
farmers have done as much in that way as
Gov Mount, yet his son has quit the farm
for professional life. 1t stands to reason
that the professions must recruit a consid-
cradle part of their best material from the
country, but that does not account for the
continual increase of city populations at
the expense of the country. The farmers
Institutes and farmers themselves ought to
be able TO develop higher interest in the
occupation and more of certain sort of
esprit du corps among those who follow it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Louis. and it has its Mack. But why go
into further details? There is a mystery
here that needs explanation, but who shall
explain it? Are the sanitary people all
wrong and their talk about wicked bacteria
a bluff? is dirt healthful and water with
a sewer flavor stimulating? Shall we have
to unlearn all the supposed facts that we
have SO painfully acquired concerning the
n.icrobe? Is science a fake and Waring a
delusion? And if not, will somebody, then,
please tell us why it is New York, clean,
is more deadly than Chicago in its CRIME?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

which explains and elucidates it is a clear
and succint review of the crucial monetary
issues and very perspicuous and cogent
exposition of the decisive principles which
should govern their determinariOn.-Phlid
delphia Press (Rep)
1t represents the best thought of the
f1nanciers of the country. who it must be
admitted. have had the largest opportuni-
ties in their daily business to observe the
deficiencies of the existing conditions. and
ought to be the best equipped to suggest
the most practical way of solving the great
problems. There is, unfortunately, in some
quarters a disposition TO discredit any Sug-
means-and to attempt TO create the inn
preston that they are designed to pro-
mote their own interests, to the disad-
vantage of the masses. As a matter u
be benefited only by what makes the conf
munity at large Observation-Disclosures
American (Rep.)
1t will be seen that the plan OF the none
tary commission differs in some important
respects from that of Secretary Gage,
though the basis of both is the same and
their ultimate purpose identical. Whether
or not it is the best that can be devised,
it certainly possesses the merit of being a
Straightforward practical plan for placing
our currency on a gold basis, taking the
government out of the business of issuing
paper money based upon its own credit or
lack of credit and furnishing a reasonably
safe banking currency that will expand or
contract in response to the demands or
legitimate trade 1t presents the essential
lines of currency reform with the highest
possible authority, and whatever the action
or inaction of the present Congress it is
on these lines that safety for public and
private credit must ultimately be sought.
philadelphia Times (Dem.)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
Frost in FIorida.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 4.-The cold
weather of Jan. 1 and did considerable
temporary damage to vegetables, but none
of a permanent character. Orange trees
will in some instances lose their foliage
and where situated in exposed places in
the northern border of the orange belt will
lose O. part of their tender growth. Owing
to the fact, however. that the sap was
down, the trees themselves were able to re-
sist unscathed even lower Temperatures
Blooms on strawberries were killed. Early
Strawberries in the northern section We're
frozen on the vines and the plants set back
fully six weeks. The tenderest garden
crops in all sections far south as Tampa.
where lacking protection by forests,
streams or lakes, were badly injured but
exposed gardens did not represent more
than half the area in truck growers hav-
ing learned by experience the wisdom of
selecting well-protected spots.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
A HEATHEN,s PROTEST.

1t is not likely that the closing years of
the nineteenth century will furnish any in
cident more remarkable than the protest of
China's greatest statesman Ii Hung Chang,
against the threatened dismemberment OF
the empire by European powers. Bearing
in mind that he speaks in the name of a
people we call heather and that the Euro
pean powers represent Christian civiliza-
ton, il is surprising to note the forbear-
ance, dignity and almost gentleness with
which he reminds the powers that in seiz-
ing Chinese territory they are acting the
part of pirates and robbers. After remark
ing that the recent acts of Germany and
France are direct violation of existing
treaties and international law. and calling
attention to the fact that the Chinese gov
eminent sincerely deprecated the attack OF
some outlaws on German missionaries and
had done all in it's power to atone for it,
he says:
OF late years, from instruction and OBJ
servation. the Chinese have come to regard
the countries of the Western wor d as mod
els, and even greater in justice than in
arms. Is it just to Cypress us while we are
struggling to emerge from the restraints of
our ancient civilization while improvement
and progress steadily continue? Should
China be distressed by having her shores
invaded and her territory occupied because
of an occurrence which Western countries
would deal with by law and not by war
an unexpected incident, depored by my
government and followed by full redress.
This wise and even tempered old heather,
whom General Grant regarded as the great
est man he came in contact with during
his trip around the world, is not versed in
the doctrines of the Bible, but those of
Confucius have taught hin. that the power
full should not Cypress the weak, that the
stealing of territory is robbery as much as
the stealing of anything else, and that it
would be nober in the Western powers to
lend China a helping hand in her efforts to
attain a higher civilization than to hang
upon her TANKS ike a pack of wolves
anxious to pull down and devour her. The
cid heather seems unable to comprehend
the spirit of Christianity as expounded by
German ironclads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Snowfalls in Indianapolis are not heavy
enough or frequent enough to justify the
purchase of an expensive outfit by the city
for its removal from the streets. but when
snow does come it is the cause of much
inconvenience, and measures should at least
be taken to secure clear sidewalks and
crossings. AS matters now are, about one
half the residents can be depended on to
clean their walks of snow, but even these
are apt to slight the work. with the result
that successive thaws and freezes leave the
pavements alternately slushy or danger
ously icy. AS for the crossings except on
three or four downtown squares, they are
in thaw almost impossible. The miles
of cement payements which make pedes-
trianism so easy lose half their benefit
when thawing snow five or six inches deep
Is 10 be passed through at the end of every
block. Various ordinances have been passed
by city councils concerning these matters,
and just which are In existence now the
Journal cannot say. but it surely seems
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

later the child got by post from the genial
President handsome doll. with a note
stating his belief should she remain good
her mother would never have occasion to
lock ii away. By that time the girls par
ents had got wind of the message 10 DIaz,
and they wrote TO him expressing regret
that their willfu child had taken 1t into her
head to communicate with him. note
was received in reply from the President >
secretary assuring the worthy people that
his exalted superior had quite enjoyed the
experience, and was pleased to have the
worry of holding office relieved occasionally
by such a quaint episode.
Now married men in offices.
To make each wife rejoice
Should carry home all calendars
And let her have first choice.
Chicago Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Senator Teller talks very fiercely in favor
of the United States adopting a policy in
regard to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China
which would lead inevitably to war He
also opposes currency reform and advocates
a financial policy which, in the event OF
war, would cause an immediate suspension
of specie payments, a resort to further
issues of government notes and the possible
bankruptcy of the government. Modern
warfare says the report of the monetary
commission, lis so expensive that it is al
most as much matter of money as of men,
nation suddenly confronted by the alter
native of war or dishonor would be greatly
handicapped by large demand debt which
it must provide for at once This obvious
fact does not seem to nave occurred to
Senator Teller
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
FORECAST FOR TO-DAY.
Fair Weather Predicted for Indian
apoIis and Vicinity.

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for
the twenty-four hours ending II p. m. Jan.
5--Fair weather on Wednesday,
General Conditions Yesterday--High baro-
metric pressure prevails. except over the
British possessions. where the pressure is
low. The temperature fell west and rose
east of the Mississippi and fair weather
prevailed everywhere.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-For Ohio
Threatening weather with light snow on
the lakes, fresh westerly Winds
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair; probably
colder in extreme southern portion; west
erly winds, becoming variable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Here is woman's club in new role-that
of a censor of public and private morals.
A Miss Gillette, of Fitchburg, Mass, after
due preparation, applied for admission to
the bar of the county. According to the law
protest may be made ii the candidate is
unfit, and at the last moment a protest did
come against her admission. The objection
was made by the president of the woman s
club in the name OF the club. No charges
were made, but personal interviews with
members of the club disclosed the fact that
Miss Gillette had been in the employ of
the mayor of the town as his clerk and
stenographer, that she had been seen IN his
company, and that as his wife had left his
home the members of the club concluded
that Miss Gillette was to blame and was
therefore not fit to be lawyer. The mayor
Indignantly resents the insinuations and ex-
plains the matter on the ground that the
president of the club is the wife of the man
whom he defeated in the race for office.
Miss Gillette only remarks significantly that
she is glad some of.the names on the petit
ton being circulated against her belong to
women with property in their own names.
There is trouble ahead for the Fitchburg
women that will make them wish they had
attended strictly to their literary business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Rev Mr.. Graham is quite right in init
mating that the talk of outsiders about
Christ Church is cheap. He would be right
if he would go further and assert that pro-
tests against the sale ard destruction of
the building, and criticisms of the congre-
cation for permitting it, are not in order
unless accompanied by a cash contribution
to the church treasury. For however
beautiful the building may be, the primary
purpose of it's existence is not that of be-
ing looked at from the outside. 1t is in
tended as place of worship for a congre-
cation, but, as time has gone on adding
to rather than lessening the architectural
charm Of the outside walls, this intention is
nc longer fulfilled. The beauty of the Goth
ic exterior is not matched by the con-
venience within. With new times come new
needs. There is lack of space for the pres
ent congregation and room for growth
TIE parish house, lecture rooms, etc. inn
portant adjuncts to the social life of the
modern church, do not exist here, and there
is no money with which to build them. The
members of the congregation love their
church, but they see dissatisfaction grow
ing under present conditions and know that
without the improvements desired there will
come stagnation and gradual diminution
of membership. II is not the husk, however
fair, but the kernel, that is the seed: not
the house, but the souls whose prayers as
cend within, that make the true church. 1t
is a simple question with these most con-
cerned whether they shall sacrifice religious
work and duty to a mere aesthetic taste,
and it is a matter in which the public has
no right to interfere. Outsiders may re-
greet the demolition of so pleasing a land
mark, but unless they are prepared to offer
the II cans of preserving it they should not
have the effrontery to criticise those who
have made the effort to save it and have
received 10 encouragement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
December weather.

Following is summary of the meteoro.ogi-
cal conditions prevailing during the month
of December as recorded by the Indian
apolis Weather Bureau.
Mean atmospheric pressure, 1918; highest,
30.61 on the 18th; lowest, 29.6s, on the 18th.
Mean temperature, 81; highest, 81, on the
9Th; lowest g. on the 24th; greatest daily
range, 81, on the Sth; least daily range,
8, on the 21st and 3Oth. Mean temperature
for this month in 1871, %; 1872, "a; 1873, 81;
1874 81; 1876 Al; 1876. %, 1877, As; 1878, q;
1879 &c. $780, "a 1881. 40; 1882. 30; 1888, 34 1884
30; 1885, 90; 1885, Is; 1887. 30; 1888, 35: 1889,
All; 1890 &c. 1891 Al 1892, 80; 1893, SO; 1894. SO;
1896, "a: 1895 SO: 1897 81. Mean temperature
for this month for twenty-six years, 80;
ture during the month, 20; accumulated ex-
cess since Jan. l, 154; average daily excess
since Jan. J., GA.
Prevailing direction of wind northwest
total movement of wind 1851 miles; MAXI
mum velocity of wind, direction, and date,
thirty miles, southwest, on the 18th.
Total precipitation, 3.09 inches; number of
days with OF inch or more of precipita-
ton, fourteen Total precipitation lin inches)
for this month in 1871, 2.39; 1872, 210; 1873,
$50; 1874 2.79; 1875 4.01; 1876, $50; 1877, 2.55:
1878 1886; 1879 $40; 1890 LA; 1881. $40; 1882,
2.53; 1883, 434; 1884, 500; 1885,. 245; 1886, 20;
296; 1892, 1S4; 1898, 223; 1894, 2.O9; 1895. 4S6
1896, lib; 1897, 800. Average precipitation
for this month for twenty-six years, 3.O1
inches total deficiency in precipitation dur
ing the month"; 06 inches: accumulated de-
ficiency since Jan. O.81 inches.
Number of clear days, 2; partly cloudy s;
cloudy, Fl.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Accurate figures for the fire losses in the
united States last year are not yet made
up but the usual estimate at the end of
each month sets the December loss at ST.
10000 and the loss for the year at 500, S24.-
500 This makes the year 1897 a record
breaker for many years. The losses in 1887
were $120, 2S5. 055. and since then they have
not fallen below Sos, 100000 in any year and
have been as high as $167 600 OOO The COM
paratively small losses in 1897 indicate either
that we are building more safely than for
merly or else that our fire departments are
becoming more efficient
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

An advocate of postal savings banks
thinks they would help to kill off the cheap
money heresies and build up sound-money
sentiment. He argues that every depositor
would at once become interested in main
tanning a sound and stable currency. That
may be so, but it is equally true of every
depositor in a private savings bank, build
ing and loan association or any other
money institution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
RUES HIS BARGAIN.
Jerseyman Who Decided His Property
to HeartIess JiIt.

TRENTON, n. j., Jan. A.. Michael II.
Collins. Of South Brunswick township. to-
day brought suit in the Court of chancery
to have set aside deed made by him con-
veying all his property to Agnes Allen. The
property was conveyed in July, 1896, for 81
and .other valuable considerations" The
other valuable consideration was her agree
ment to marry him. The bin charges that
afterwards the woman only laughed at him
and had him elected from one Of the houses
he had decided 10 her. Collins therefore asks
that the deed be set aside.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

of the Journal exactly With the revenues
of the government exceeding its exlendi-
lures, as they soon will. and with the be-
ginning OF a feasible plan of currency re-
form adopted, business will open next
spring with boom all along the line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

Mr.. Bryan tries to invest his views re-
garding the operation of free silver in Mex
leo with a great deal of Importance and
mystery. AS usual. he is playing to the
galleries. Everybody knows he went to
Mexico in search of arguments in favor of
the absurd i5-to-1 theory and that every
thing he saw will be twisted that way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

There is nothing in the world that so wor-
ries and embarrasses the Ohio Republicans
as big victory. Two in succession simply
madden them and they at once begin
frantically to make arrangements for d
wholesale defeat at the next election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

The latest information regarding Wanna
maker and his New England farm scheme
is that the Humane Society will perhaps
take hand in the matter to prevent the
placing of inexperienced people upon the
farms where farmers born and bred found
the soil too poor to raise even a disturb
ance, and We're starved out.