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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Mr. Bryan is either reserving his views
and conclusions regarding Mexican finance
for future exploitation or else he has con-
cluded to maintain a judicious silence on
the subject In his speech at the Jackson
day banquet in Chicago he made no refer
ence to Mexico except the following:
Prescott tells us that the Aztecs were in
the habit of offering up human victims to
secure the favor OF their gods. Our Oppo-
nents sometimes speak in disparaglng terms
of those who inhabit the land of the AZtecs
but let it be remembered that the huge
sacrificial stone that once surrounded the
great Teocalli in the capital of the Monte
zumas now harmless and unused, forms
one of the most interesting exhibits in the
Mexican National Museum, while in the
United States fresh victims, in eVer-ln-
creasing numbers, are being imnsolated on
the affairs erected in honor of the gold
standard.
This is fustian of 'the cross of gold and
crown of thorns'' variety, a kind of rhe-
torical fapdoodle, affected by Bryan and
liked by his followers. He is strong on
that kind of figures of speech, but very shy
on figures of arithmetic and facts. With
some hundreds of thousands more men en-
ployed now than there were a year ago,
with an immense increase in the pay rolls
of the country, with business improving all
along the line, with thousands of farm
mortgages paid off last season. and with
every indication that 1898 will be a year of
great prosperity, it takes a man of Bryan
istic gall to declare that fresh victims, in
ever-increasing numbers, are being immo-
lated on ne affairs erected in honor of the
gold standard" He should have taken out
naturalization papers in Mexico, where
human sacrifices have ceased.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The intervention, by means OF charity, OF
the United States in Cuba may prove to be
the best and wisest move yet made towards
solving the Cuban problem.-Goshen Times.
The men who We're elected to the Ohio
Legislature as Republicans, but are now
playing into the hands of the Democrats.
are politically dishonest and have outlived
their days of usefulness as Republicans.
Seymour Republican.
If the revision of the civil-service laws
could be made by men like Mckinley Gage.
Cleveland. Harrison and others of their sort,
the fear of the destruction of its good fea
lures and substitution of bad ones would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Harper's Weekly says, admiringly, of the
Chicago wheat 'plunger': Mr.. Letter is d
young man of liberal education, and a
somewhat recent graduate of Harvard. His
taste in occupation is q useful example OF
the faulty of the impression which some
people have that an experience of the hui
manities disqualifies young men from TAX
ing an active and vigorous interest in
everyday concerns" The Weekly seems to
have the notion that going to school at
Harvard is an experience with the hui
manities." It isn't the prevailing idea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The weekly budget of local Industrial
rotes published in this issue of the Journal
will repay careful perusal. 1t shows an i'm
provement in business which, for the mid
winter season, is remarkable. Operations
at the stock yards and on the Belt road
last week were the heaviest on record. Some
employing more men than ever before, and
all report an activity among customers that
indicates an early and prosperous opening
of spring trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10


AS to the practical operation of the in
observation-disclosures law and parole sys-
tenn inaugurated under it. the Reflector, is
sued from the JeffersonviAo Reformatory,
says:
Sixty-two men have been released on pa
role, and Of these two have been returned
for violation thereof. One man returned of
his own accord when out of work, and was
released shortly after by expiration of SEN
tence. With two exceptions the remaining
ffty-nine report regularly and truthfully
as shown by the report of the state agent
after his recent visit to all These men
have ceased to be consumers only, and have
taken places in the ranks of producers.
Thus the State is saved the cost of their
maintenance and they are learning habits
of thrift and industry, while still under the
control and legal custody of the Reforma-
tory management.
For a beginning that is encouraging, but
it will take time TO develop the true quail
ity OF the law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

and has resulted in bringing several hun
bred children into school who had not at
tended before. Notwithstanding the in
creased attendance" he adds, 1.-THE disci-
pline in the schools has not been more diff
cult than it was last year. The many chill
dren who have heretofore not enjoyed
school privileges seem to appreciate the
schools to the fullest extent"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

balance of power between whatever two
great parties were in existence, and die
tate who shall be President. The grip Of
the Mormon Church upon Utah is absolute,
and it is as well organized for political
work as is Tammany. The church is reach
ing out into the neighboring States and
Territories. and has a hold on northern Ar
kansas. eastern Nebraska and western
Iowa He declares that polygamy is still
practiced the manifesto Of President Wood
ruff being only a blind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

One would have supposed that Kansas
had exhausted the list of troubles, but a
new one has arisen there. 1t is between
preachers and justices of the peace over
the fees to be charged for performing the
marriage ceremony. A new law limits a
Justices charge 10 $3.50, whereas they used
to charge S.. The preachers, who depend
on voluntary fees, complain that the JUS
tees are getting all the business by reason
of their low rates. AS there is but little
margin for profit to the justices. and no
chance for scalping by the preachers, the
ditto atty appears to be irreconcilaEle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Not to be outdone by Logansport, where
a man is said to have invented perpetual
light that feeds itself in vacuum and out
shines the sun, the Warsaw Times AYERS
that a resident OF that town has invented a
machine for the manufacture of button
holes which requires no material other
than a reasonable degree of purity in the
air which is fed into the machine and turns
out button holes of the first quality, and of
any size desired" The inventive spirit
seems to be abroad in the land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

become an old story, yet it is interesting to
learn that the output in the United States
in 1897 was As per cent greater than in
1896 and over so per cent of the entire con-
sumption in the country. Yet it has been
but few years since all Democratic edi-
tors and party leaders were declaring that
the tin-plate industry never could be estab-
lished in the United States and that the
Republican efforts in that direction were
mere bluff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The Democratic leaders in Louisiana are
devising a scheme to disfranchise the COL
ored man, as has been done in Mississippi
and South Carolina, by an educational test.
1t would be very easy if the reading-and-
writing test did not deprive many thou
sands of whites in that State of the right
to vote. How to exclude the illiterate negro
and retain the illiterate white as citizen
and voter is as vet an unsolved problem.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The utilization of the immense power of
Niagara Falls is at last an accomplished
fact. The Niagara Falls Power Company
is extending its plant to provide facilities
for developing thirty-five thousand horse
power in addition to the fifteen thousand
already in use, while the Niagara Falls Hy-
draulic Power and Manufacturing Com
pany is arranging for 1880 additional horse
power and over on the Canadian side Of
the river the Canadian Niagara Power
Company is making temporary development
of at least 1900 horse power, Most of this
power will be distributed long distances by
wire in the form of electric power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

A sealskin sacque now implies, or at least
necessitates. a good education in geography
The woman who is the proud possessor of
such a luxury must know where the seal
was captured that originally wore her gar
ment, and whether the particular spot of its
capture was within outside the treaty
limit. This is one instance in which educa-
ton, as we'll as beauty, may be only Skin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
The Guest of Happiness.

During the last months OF Philip Gilbert
Hamerton's life he was engaged upon
book entitled THE Quest OF Happiness"
and had completed it all but the closing
chapters. Their absence. however, does not
materially effect the interest of the work.
and that part which was completed has
been issued by Roberts Bros, Boston, IN a
colume of lS7 pages. The book has all THO
charm that made his intellectual life.
bis Thoughts About Art" and his HUI
man intercourse so keenly appreciated by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

President Mckinley has not granted a
pardon to which a district attorney prose-
cutting the case and the judge fixing the
sentence have objected. Every case has
been referred to such officials. The reason
that President McKinley's pardons have at
tracted so much more attention than those
of his predecessor is that those of the form
er are open to newspapers while those of
Mr.. Cleveland were not Yet the latter's
pardons were most numerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The fun which English newspapers are
making of the new code of social etiquette
recently issued from the White House at
Washington is not without ground. IN
fortunately, the present secretary to the
President is oppressed with sense of his
responsibility as the regulator of Washing
ton society. and it is he who is furnishing
foreign papers with just ground for ridicule.
After the President has found time to
amend the civil-service rules he should re-
yoke bis secretary's new code of etiquette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

From Bryanite point of view there is
an easy reply to the statement of the Lon
don statist that foreign capitalists will not
make investments in this country until the
currency question is settled. The Bryan
answer is: Let them keep their British
gold. What we want is plenty of cheap
money and American fiat currency that will
circulate at home"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The defeat of the Hon. Gil Shanklin's
free-siiver man by goldite in the Wander
burg Democratic convention is distinct
surprise to the public generally, but no one
who knows Mr.. Shanklin will be surprised
to learn that he denounced the victor. If
silverism is weakening in the Shanklin bal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Bryan and quinine are strangely alike
not alone in that they are both a bitter pill,
but also in that it requires constantly
increasing dose to be effective until finally
the largest dose doesn't create so much
of a stir in the system as two-grain cap
SuIa did at first
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

II Senator Teller has any bonds which he
desires to exchange for silver dollars it is
probable that Secretary Gage will direct his
subordinates to oblige the statesman. Mean
time, he might be appeased by having his
salary as senator paid to him in several
pounds of 4121s-grain dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

1t is surprising that such an up-to-date
paper as the Chicago Record should make
the mistake of assuming that the cotton
schedules of the present tariff are decidedly
higher than those of the Gorman-Wilson
law in order to maintain that there is no
connection between tariffs and wages. There
is no material difference in the cotton
schedules of the two tariffs. The cut in
wages in New England is due to the lower
wages paid and the longer hours to the day
which prevail in Southern cotton mills
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

In an interview in the New York Press
gentleman who has spent the past ten years
in Utah confirms the reports of the great
activity of the Mormons in sending out
missionaries and making converts. He has
heard prominent Mormon predict that
within fifty years his church would hold the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

An Eastern paper announces that vet
Grams in Indianapolis are generally signing
petitions to have twenty years pensions
given them in lump. AS matter of fact,
very few Indianapolis pensioners have seen
such petitions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
Sensational.

Rubberneck Bill-Purty sensational shoot
in ARRAY between them two boys of the
Bar X, hear
Pieface Johnson-Most sensational thing
ever see. They both emptied their guns an
never hit onSt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

A second appeal from the secretary Of
state in the name of the President for con-
tributions for the relief of the suffering
-Ctbans shows that the administration is
very much in earnest in the matter. No
doubt, there is very distressing condition
of affairs in Cuba, and as the government
has provided machinery for handling and
forwarding contributions, the country will
probably respond literally.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
IAN be found at the following places:
CIV YORk-Astor House.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Pamer House. p. 0. News Co., 217
Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel.
street.
LoUIsvILLE-c. T. Deering northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d c.-Rlggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The death of a cousin of President Nc
Kinley is becoming a daily event in this
State. No President yet has had OCCASION
to complain of lack of relatives, and it is
believed that there will be some spared to
the present Incumbent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

After learning that the bay of Kiaochau
would cost more to keep than it would ben
eft the owner, Great Britain has, with a
commendable degree of cheerfulness, con-
scented that Germany may have it and well
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
Not Superstition at AN.

us 1t superstition that makes you burn
the feathers after cleaning chicken, uncle?
1 have noticed you doing so on several oc-
casions."
mo superstition at all, sab; jes' wisdom,
dat's all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The motorwoman who was discharged
from the employ of An electric railroad
company in New York on account of an al
legged lack OF GOODNESS" was not from
Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

1t is safe to say that j.. b. Foraker, Asa
Bushnell and Charlie Kurtz will never again
indulge in the dangerous practice of sprink-
ling tacks in the mud slide that leads to
Mark Hanna's ''sWirnmin' hole
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Congressman Cummings, of New York,
coupled his attack on the civil-service law
with eulogy of Tammany. That was en-
inently Appropriate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Allen Q. Myers has had restless home
sick feeling ever since that time he was re-
leased from Jail. He is now humminG
Home, home. why did 1 leave thee?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
The Cornfed F.hilosopher.

''Why is it," asked the Cornfed Phil
osopher without the hope of an answer,
why is it that the small-bore politician is
such great bore otherwise?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

Senator Teller seems anxious to get into
war with some power. Is it because he
believes that long and costly war will
force the United States to silver basis?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The next time Mrs. Griffith, of Ohio.
claims she has been ill-treated she will
have to accompany the statement with af-
fidavits and much evidence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
Prohnhle Cnnse.

did you read about that spring down in
Kentucky that turns people to stone that
drink Of it's waters?'
'Petrifed with establishment, presume"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The new postal cars now being construct
ed are said to be burglar proof. The plat
forms are closed in. sides and ends, the
doors opening Only from the inside. A series
Of bars and bolts precludes the idea of an
entrance with the use of anything short
OF batterng ram. The side doors are
provided with chains and bolts. so that the
door being partly open cannot be pushed
back save from the inside, and the win
dows and glass doors are covered with
iron bars. A travelling fortress like that will
prove very discourag lng TO train robbers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

The emblem of Arkansas should be a
Inch pin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
News Center.

When II comes to a real news center, Ham
IA beats HAVANA all 70 pieces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10

The compulsory education law seems to
be almost executing itself, and with excel
lent results. The superintendent of schools
in Anderson reports that the law has met
with no opposition to speak of il that city
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-11-04
Best Made Saddles, Brides, Har-
ness and Whips.
JOHN III. MIC HOLLIS

GAITHER SBURG, Md.
1AVING ENLARGED HIS FACILITIES FOR MAMIE rrnr
of all Goods his line now prepared offer to the citizens
erycounty and the public generally, full line of
Saddles Harness, Collars, LapRobes, Whips Sleigh H.
and fact everything the Saddery All kinds
IN STOCK Also full line of the
CHAINS, SPREADERS TRACES &C.. constantly on hand
desiring anything line embrace present oppn
plying FREDERICK
USED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED in all cases. nhh
Address all orders Fl NICuO11c
Jan lo-no' D." Gaihersburg
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-11-04

whenever you're ready-we're prepared to
ut you out from head to toe aud with due
regard for your purse.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-14
NEW YORK MINING srocKs
BOSTON MINING SHARES
WALL STREET GOSSIP.

New York stock gossip, reported by r. Hol-
pert q Son bankers and brokers. 341 Robert
ing. st. Paul:
Post u Flagg wires US: War news has not
Deeh OF character today TO make specr-'
ias sI very brisk. The result has been a de-
c.uediy quiet and, except for a little weak
ness In the middle OF the day, a strong mar
ket. Money was weaker today and the out
LOOK Is Tor decidedly cheaper money. therefore.
PAIRING any setback In our war operations W.
look for much higher prices in Immediate
future. London has been a selIer CT our mar
Ket again, and the manipulation at the closs
market down for effect on Iondon rhe
c.ose was firm. although off from best prices.
FOREIGN FINANCIAL. e
NEW YORK, May 13-Evenine Post.s ION
don financial cablegram: The stock markers
mere opened nat. Subsequent prices rallied
on me good tone Of Paris bourse, the re-
ported American victory and the belief TINT
the British cabinet is more peacefuIiv In
clined. Americans closed dull again how
ever. Money was easier on the release ,-of
about az iboo goo in japanese money. More will
NEW YORK MONEY.
NEW YORK, May 1S-Money on call steady
at per cent; last loan, 2 per cent. Prim,
mercantile paper, 5lAge1s per cent. Sterling
bankers bills at s4s6A@4S5h for demana ~
and at $4.82@4.82A for sixty days. Posted
r rS1 3, $e4;;ss2h@4.se Commercial bills $3.50
koiAfei CcftiuCdleb, OO1zW0l12c. Bar Sill
yer, 66Bc. Mexican dollars, 45c. ~ 157a.
TREASURY STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-Today's state
ment Of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, s209. 0O1, ST. gold re-
serve, $17S.5 .475. =.
BANK CLEARINGs.
st. Paul. $616 49461.
Minneapolis, 50, 720, 256.
Chicago, S,279, 700
Boston, 81, 644,0 Oh
New York, $141, 4S2 GIL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-14
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 1s.-our speculative
wheat market opened little weak this
trade disposed to think current prices are too
high. For about fifteen minutes the course
of the market looked as though they were
right, but before 10 o'clock prices told q
different story The July future appeared
to be wanted by somebody and no one caring
to part with It as result that option ad-
vanced from 81 1864 to 1.411k per blu. This
was the top price up to mid-session.
Crop news was all favorable. Chicago adj
vised that contract wheat was coming in rap
idly, and that, II continued for a short while
longer, 1t would tend to depress values for
all nearby futures. These counter items of
news had a depressing effect on our market.
and by 11:30 the early advance was wiped
out. There was this about 1t, however. that
at II 80 o'clock, when some wheat was want
ed, prices quickly advanced.
May wheat opened at s1.4S, being the same
as Thursday, declined to s1.46 and firmed
up TO 81. AS by 11:5O a. m. Very little trading
was done in May.
July wheat opened at 81 .3e1s, against 81. 3SlA
Thursday, continued steady for g. few mo-
nents. then advanced sharply to Il ,4lk, de-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-14
ST. PAUL GRAIN.

Quotations on hay, grain, feed ETC., fur
nished by Griggs Bros, grain and seed mer-
chants:
Wheat-Yesterday's market was declining
one. No. l northern, s1.43@1. 46; No. 2 NORTH
ern, s1.19Q1.23
Corn-No. 2 yellow, 34@s5c; No. 3, Ss@s4c.
31Ac.
Barley and Rye-Sample barley, 4O144,;
No 2 red, 67@6Sc; No. j rye 65Gp66o.
Seed-No. ! fax, sl.So; timothy, $1.10@1 25;
red clover $3@3.60. 80
Flour-Patents, per bbl s7o0D74 40;
straghts . Sc. 60G6.90; bakers, $5.S0@6. 20; rye
-four s3.4093.7O.
Ground Feed and Milstuffs-No. / fe d,
$1450Q1475.
Coarse Cornmea,-s1S 25D13 so.
Bran in Bulk-$11. 5O@11.75.
Shorts in Bulk-$11 .5O@11.75.
Hay-Market very firm at the advanced
price; a sharp demand for all good .qualit SO
ties, s6@7; low grades, $4@5; good to choice