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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-17
THE 1893 LESSON.
A Colonial Policy as 1t Will Affect
Banking.
New York Fnancier.

New York Fnancier.
The banks of this country do not need to
be reminded that there is nothing so decep-
tive as long continuing prosperity. When
the crash Of 1898 came, it found many IN
stitutions supposedly conservative in their
management, loaded to the doors with coll
lateral the fiimsiness and general worthless
ness of which created amazement when the
facts were made public through LIQUIDATION
in business life. but the judgment which
took under bank protection many OF the
schemes and enterprises OF that Inflated
year ran far beyond the line or SAFETY
Why SO many institutions SuccumDed TO the
temptation of quick and profitable returns
on capital is not to be discussed here. The
fact that they did, with enormous losses to
themselves and others, is the pertinent point
and the one that justifes further reference
here. The panic Of 1893 did not occur as an
Unforeseen Incident. 1t was caused, in large
part by the laundering policy pursued with
reference to our currency, put apove th a.
We had reached a period OF expansion great
than ever known previously, and with the
seemed to think that a reverse was impos-
sible No man can say what that panic
cost. New England investors alone lost mil
lions upon millions of dollars in rotten
Western schemes and the almost universal
bankruptcy which overwhelmed the rail-
roads revealed a condition of affairs which
need not be enlarged upon. This, however,
is ancient history but is appropriate, for
the reason that we are now approaching
period which resembles strikngly the pre-
the 1898 panic. The country is richer than
it was in 1892. and opportunities for invest
ment are quite as abundant and aluring
as at that time. The United States Is
branching out in a new policy which bids
fair to dazzle many otherwise conserva tive
people Moderate reflection, however. would
indicate that this policy is too hazardous TO
receive tile support of banking interests.
We may be able to enlarge our trade, espe-
cially in the direction of recently acquired
territory but not in single year, and per-
haps not in a decade. At any rate the eX-
pertinent offers considerable risk. For that
reason conservative interests will await the
results of the first few trials before sane
tioning support. Englands greatness. 1t is
true comes largely from her colonial trade,
hut the losses have been enormous, and at
times have shaken the sovency of the ma
ton to the center. The United States can
not in the very nature of things, hope TO
initiate England in a system Of colonial
expansion. our resources at home have been
so imperfectly developed that up to the
present time we have been glad to call in
foreign capital to exploit them. Within the
past few years a great deal of this capital
has been withdrawn, and replaced by local
money, but that we have reached q stage
where opportunities for steady profit must
be sought after abroad, no one who has any
acquaintance with existing circumstances
viii admit. We have. 1t 10 true, approached
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to the construction of the myriad access
series which go to make the hideous home.
/ myself am. alas all unskilled in these
arts. / cannot cut pig out of flannel stuff
it with sawdust and call it a pincushion. /
cannot use enamel paint; the smell makes
me i'll. Art muslin has to be sewn they tell
me. and cannot sew; and never have any
luck with wall pockets.
II | could photograph my room for you it
would be shock. for it is terribly unlike
the jumbled sameness of those drawing
rooms OF celebrities which you admire so
much in your favorite journal: Secrets
Revealed, or the Real Life of the Arstoc-
racy'
It is big room with three windows.
There are curtains, because one must be
able sometimes to shut out the dear sun,
when he grows too lovingly importunate.
Books line one side of the room On an
other side there is an old mahogany bureau
with drawers, where l keep my papers.
Under one of the windows is a carpenter s
bench; beside another window is a writing
short well this side of the shavings from
the bench. There are three Windsor arm
chairs worn bright and smooth with age.
There are cushions if you want them and
boxes stuffed with bags of oat chaff and
covered with something which, think used
tulips on the writing table, and jug of
scarlet tulips on the mantelpiece. They
show up We'll against the dark brown pa
per with which the walls are covered There
is a hearthrug and a fender and things and
a strong four-legged table to put teatrays
on. That is all. When l think of the wall
pockets and the art muslin and all the rest
of it, feel that l am sadly behind the
times. But can work in my room at two
trades, and can walk about in it.
/ am old-fashiOned. If / am to make home
hideous will do it in my own way; broad,
uncompromising way, with no nonsense
about 1T, and above all, no art muslin and
no wall pockets, and only one japanese fan
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little Men Were Handy in 1861.


eve fellows were enlisted down on the
Penobscot," said Mr.. D. p. Cressey, of
Lewiston, to-day, land there were twenty
five of us boys who were too small TO do
the work. so the enlisting officer said
1--WE went down to Augusta and were
thrown out while a lot Of heavy wood
choppers and farmers were put in our
places.
Governor ROBBIE, who was paymaster
then got us back. And. do you know We
made better soldiers than all those heavy
fellows because we could get there When
night came we were always the first In
camp while the fellows who had the meat
to lug around were coming in all night long.
Well. we were down in Louisiana one time
and q raid into the enenys country was
proposed 1t was to be made with cavalry
and they went through the regiments pick
ing out the smallest men TO make the raid
There were 1900 of us, and not man
weighed over 1870 pounds. Ii was queer
looking crowd. but II got there. for the men
did not tire the horses out. and at night
they were as fresh could be expected
think the light men make the best soldiers
ia the long run for many branches OF army
life
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HOW TO MAKE HOME HrDEoUs.
Simple and Sure Directions for This
Peculiarly Feminine Industry.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Mail 0dZetle.
In order to make home hdeous it is neces-
sary that everything should pretend to be
something else or should actually turn
itself into that which it was never meant to
be- You get good big useful garden hat
and twist it out of shape, do something to
it with pins and red ribbon Then it is a
wall pocket and you stick a fern in it and
let the poor green thing die slowly, dread
ful death of dust and drynesS. Or you get
good, honest brown pickle Jars, the kind
that used to stand in rows on the dark
shelves Of the store cupboard at home that
mysterious treasure house of a cupboard
where the preserved ginger lived and the
candied peel, and the tea chest, and the
almonds and biscuits and all the locked
up things. You take these brown jars
away from their natural and wholesome
vocation, you make it impossible for picked
onions OF cabbage ever again to fill their
depths with penetrating fragrance. For
you paint them inside and out with enamel
paint till they pretend to be Italian faience;
Syou stick bulrushes or dried sedge in them
and when you have done you find that
home is getting on. Bulrushes skillfully
manipulated will go as far as most things
towards making home hideous. Only cut
the long glaceful stems of them short
enough. let them stick out Of the vase at
angles IS oblique as possible and your aim
will be attained.
A little art muslin and a few Japanese
fans will do wonders Nothing gets dirty SO
quickly, nothing is so impossible to wash
Specific directions as to the employment of
these materials are not needed. for the
devil is always at hand to tell you how to
quality-they will rot look like anything but
what they are. rubbish and dust traps.
If you are filled with a single minded de-
sire to make home hideous at a. small cost
YOU can paint flowers on panels of doors,
on mirrors and on antimaccassars. The re-
suit will We'll repay any little trouble it may
cost. For a very few cents you may buy
quite a large number of china animals,
plush photograph frames, glass vases, PIN
trays, boxes and candlesticks: a little
thought will enable you to avoid the pur-
chase of any but the really useless, and
with these you can litter your mantel-
pieces and tables till there is no room left
to put down a book or a pipe or a teacup.
You can paint almost anything with enamel
paint. from a mahogany sideboard to
marble mantelpiece; if you are firm with
your mother she may even submit TO your
painting the walnut wardrobe in the best
bedroom, which is, as you know, shame
fully old fashioned.
One very good rule is never to let any
part of your house be bare. Don't let there
be room for work on the tables, or for
walking UP and down on the carpets. The
fancy shops will assist you in the first, and
IN the second three-legged tables az one
eleven-three and milkin~ stools at ten-and-
a-half will prove invaluable. ANY ladies'
paper will give you explicit information as
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Imports from
AN EMPIRE or wEATTg

Never has an American been honored with
so important foreign mission as General
Merritt The Philippine realm is an en-
pire of wealth. Experts declare the group
the richest islands in the world" In pro-
portion TO the area there are more miles of
seacoast, more fertile land. more valuable
forests, more fine mountain farming sites
and tiliable acres more natural resources.
with a marelously productive climate. than
In any other island domain.
But because of the riotous fertility, the
climatic OF perpetual summer and the three
harvests a year this problem of govern
menI there is all the more difficult for even
9 wise Governor to solve. The success
rul Governor should be first a soldier. a
lawyer and a man familiar with financial
and commercial affairs. Fortunately Gen
Merritt is an up-to-date American He has
been farmer. lawyer, soldier, commander
ana practically military governor on our
American frontier of lndians-the fiercest
and most unruly of races. General Merritt
nas been successful, and in war never lost
a battle He is a vigorous, we'll balanced
man, IN good health-tall, handsomely.
his manner and every inch a soldier
The American Governor will find scope for
All his genius in this ocean kingdom of
nearly 10000 square miles and 100000 poI,-
ulatlon, representing thirty-nine provinces
with names requiring two men and a bow
TO pronounce. The head of the administra-
ton In the Philippines is the captain ard
governor general, who resides at Manila
Next to the Governor of Cuba it has be- !.
the most important and lucrative position
at the disposal of the Madrid government, .
But these governors have been the subject
OF political removal with every change of
the Cabinet, the officials sometimes remain
ing in Office only few months. The church
officials, the real rulers of the country. gem
orally remain in power from decade to dec
ade, In thirty years there were but two
archbishops. The supremacy of the ec-
cles1ical branch Of the government and un-
certainty or political tenure. 1t is said. led
the ofiiceholders to loot the treasury and
rob the people remorselessly while tenn
porarlly In power; hence the corruption and
oppression ending I'm revolution.
Under the political system i'm the Philip
pines the heads of departments consider
themselves fortunate II able to keen their
positions one-quarter of the time allowed
Ecclesiastical officials OF a corresponding
grade. There, as in Spain, a Niagara OF
bombast and social display is noticeable.
II helps hide the rottenness of the admin
ietration. The titles alone of the captain
general fill page embracing all the at
tributes Of government except authority
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Taedium vitae.

Weary of life? All, wherefore live
If Age ana Suffering rack the frame,
II Pleasure hold no gain TO give
If Honors pail. and with them Fame7
II Riches fly. and Love be gone,
Nor ray of sunshine gild the gloom,
Why linger mserably on?
Why longer cheat the open tomb?
But Pain may cease, and Time bring Health,
And rising Hope expel Despair.
Again the golden glow of wealth
May rout the gathered clouds of care.
Not these have power to breed disgust
OF living; but the ingratitude
OF child friend. the shattered trust,
The links once severed, ne er renewed;
The Faiths once living drowned and dead.
Too long on LIES dark tempests tost
The glory dimmed, the vision fed,
The inner voices mute and lost;
~
These leave us lonely, desolate, ,
Bankrupt of hope and love and friend,
With nothing from the wreck of Fate
But one dull longing for the End.
Lewis Morris, in Literature
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A PrOfit-Sharing Viii.
New York Evening Post.


About so per cent of the employees of the
Bourne mills in Fall River shared on Sat
Erday last in the eighteenth semi-annua
dividend undo" the profit-sharing system
This was the largest proportion since the
scheme was inaugurated. and. considering
the conditions imposed. it is good evidence
of the success of the plan in securing faith
full service. These conditions require each
employee to be faithful in service to the
corporation during the six months and to
promote it's interests by acts ard influence
both in and out of the mill The dividend
paid on Saturday amounts to per cent Of
the wages earned between December IL
1897 and June H. 1893 That is to say, if Z
man earned $500 as weaver during the time
stated. he received in addition to thai
amount per cent, of $500. or S. This is the
smallest dividend paid. due. of course, II
the depressed state of the trade. Last year
Just before Christmas, the employees re,
ceived a dividend of 4 per cent. on the
wages earned during the previous six
months. In the nine years the profit-shar.
ing plan has been in use at the Bourne 81
FER cent of the wages received by the par
Elephants has ben paid out in gratuities In
the WaV indicated.
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a period where high interest rates have
been abandoned permanently. This is only
another way of expressing the idea that
capital is abundant but it is not so plenti-
full that it is to be driven out of the coun-
try for investment. Those who predict that
the local exchanges will shortly be selling
international bonds, take a short-sighted
view of the situation. We are not yet ready
to furnish capital to Europe, although tenn
porarily, while balances are being adjusted
the larger banks in New York and Chicago
have been doing so. If we wish to avoid
the experience of 1893 it will be wise, per-
haps, to abandon ideas of international con-
quest, and pay closer attention to our own
development scanning closely the nature OF
new enterprises. and not attempting 10
force trade beyond its natural lines. When
the proper time comes the forcing process
will be unnecessary.
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as saying that the Philippines were original
ly colonized by inhabitants of America. The
number Of Malayan words in Tagal and
Bisayan is greater than any to be traced to
American dialect
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almost as great as that of the church, and
probably greater than that of the press, and
it ought to be free from every form of
tyranny and to be administered not as a
corner grocery, but in the most intellectual
spirit as an educational force
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
FOUND FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
A Case on Alleged Breach of Contract
Involving n Large Amount
of Money.

Boston, Dec. 2O.-Judge Blodgett, in
the second jury session of the superior
court, yesterday, directed the jury in
the $75O,OO0 action brought by C. W.
Norton against William A. Neville,
William H. Martin and John Ballard,
of California, to render a verdict for
the defendants, and the jury did so.
The suit was brought to recover
damages in that sum for an alleged
breach of contract by defeAdantsin their
refusal to sell plaintiff 100000 shares
of the capital stock in the Raw Hide
Gold Mining Co. at SIS per share, or
for 81, 100000, a price agreed upon with
an agent on a certain date. The de-
tense was that the defendants had, af-
ter their agreement, changed the mini
mum price at which they would sell to
$50 per share, as they had reserved the
right to do, and that the plaintiff had
notice of the change.
The case will be taken to the su
preme court.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
INDIAN EDUCATION.
VIII Petition Congress TO Preserve the
Line Of Demarkation Between
Church and State.

New York, Dec. 21.-A meeting OF
the representatives of che evangelical
missionary societies has been held in
the rooms of the Presbyterian Mis-
sionary society, this city, the object Of
which was to consider the effort now
making in congress to re-establish che
contract school, system among the
Indians.
Secretaries Baird and Ryder repre-
scented the American Missionary asso-
citation, which the Congregational So
ciety entrusted with the work among
the Indians.
The result reached by the meeting
of Evangelical Protestants vas the
drawing up of a petition to congress
urging that church and state be kept
separate in religious, missionary and
educational work, and that every de-
nomination have the same fair field
and opportunity. They state that it
would DE a pity if the reaction would
be 20 great as to c u the re-estab-
lishment of the principle declared by
them to be false, hat UNCONVENTIONAL
institutions must be supported by ma
tional funds.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
Suggestive of Retaliation.

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Ma
son, of Illinois, introduced in the SEN
ate a resolution directing the commit
tee on agriculture to inquire into GER
tain legislation pending before the
German reichstag calculated to pro-
bibit the importation into Germany of
American sausages and other meat
products, and directing the committee,
should the legislation become law, to
report Immediately a bill to require
the inspection of sugar, meats, wines
and other food products which are i'm
ported into this country from Ger
many. The resolution went over.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
Mu,t SHOW lin or Go 70 .I.u.

Cleveland, o., Dec. 21.-According to
Special Master Commissioner A. T.
Brinsmade, the Standard Oil ~investiga-
ton will likely be resumed here to-day,
when the company's officials must
bring forward their books or stand
charged with contempt.
The last order of the supreme court
says that the Standard must produce
its books, and that the company's
gross earnings from March ., 1892, to
November 9, 1897, must be shown, as
well as to whom they have been dis
tributed each year, and also the dis
tribution of dividends made March II,
1892.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
A PRACTICAL REDUCTION.
The Pennsylvania Road Endeavoring to
Meet Competition by Granting
Extra Accommodations.

Philadelphia, Dec. 21.-The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co. yesterday an
nounced that, beginning next Monday,
tickets will Be sold from New York to
Chicago, via Washington, with a ten
days stop over privilege at the ma
tional capital at the same rate now
charged for the direct route. This will
be a reduction of 81, and the cut will
be made in order to meet competition
in this direction by the Baltimore &
Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio roads.
At Chicago, and at all other cities
between that city and Columbus,
tickets for New York will be sold
with the same privilege. On the east
ward trip a stop over is also allowed
IN this city. The Pennsylvania rail-
road will also sell tickets from New
York to Pittsburgh, with a stop over
at Washington, at a rate of $3.50, and
from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, by
the same route, at S11.5O.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
A SLIDE ON THE CHILKO0T.
Six Persons, Including q Woman and
Her Two Sons, Killed In the
Avalanche.

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 21.-The steam
er Al HI, which arrived here yesterday
from Alaska, brings meagerparticulars
of an avalanche on the CEilkoot pass,
in which at least six persons were
killed. Five bodies have been recov
cred, as follows:
Mrs. Darling and two sons, of Lake
Linderman.
Bert Johns, Juneau.
Harry Shaw, of Skaguay.
The slide occurred on December Q at
Crater lake, about one mile beyond the
summit on the Lake Linderman side.
Had Arranged to Join Her Husband.
Mrs. Darling's husband was at Lake
Linderman, and she had arranged to
join him with their two sons, who had
almost reached manhood. Shaw was a
Skaguay man, who had business at the
lake. Bert Johns, o%fJuneau, was but 10
years old, and the reason for his TAX
ing the dangerous trip does lot ap-
pear. He was a friend of the Darling
boys. The name of the sixth person
has not been ascertained.
Made the Trip in Opposition to Advice.
Contrary to the advice of old timers,
who realized that the trip was a dam
gerous one in regard to the storms, the
party set out with light outfits. 1t was
storming very hard when they crossed
the summit, but they succeeded in
reaching Crater Lake, where the biz
gard forced them to camp, although it
was but seven miles to their destina-
ton. While encamped there tons of
ice and snow mixed with rocks and
timbers swept over them evidently
without warning, and went on down
the valley, leaving them buried under
several feet of hard snow.
Their bodies were found three days
later by a searching party. The bodies
were not bruised in the least.
Peculiar Condolences.
A peculiar coincidence is that the
news of the snow slide is brought by
the same steamer that brought word
of the terrible slide last spring, in
which nearly sixty persons persisted.
Another coincidence is that the two
slides occurred just about the same
distance from the summit, but on op-
posite sides.
Feet and Hands Badly Frozen.
Just before the Al Ri left Skaguay
G. Bald Mills, of London, England, and
F. T. Smith, of Melbourne, Australia,
arrived from Lake Atlin with their
feet and hands badly frozen. 1t is
feared that Mills will lose both feet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24

London, Dec. 21.-The Prince Of
Wales presided at a private meeting at
Marlborough house yesterday, con-
vened by him to promoted war against
tuberculosis. The Marquis of Sails
bury, the Earl of Rosebery and a num-
Der of noted scientists and physicians
spoke of the urgent necessity of edu-
eating the people in the means of pre-
venting consumption and checking the
spread of tuberculous disease among
cattle.
Special stress was laid upon the i'm
portance of erecting open air ana
taria.