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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

The originator of the famous three ~
ALTERATION, reading, 'riting and 'rithme-
tic was Sir William Curtis. a lord mayor
of London. In 1855 he proposed 1t as toast
before the Board OF Education.
BY a curious chance the descendants of
Colonel Knowlton. who sent Nathan Hale,
the young revolutionary hero, on his fatal
mission, are now living next door 10 the
descendants of the young patriots family
in Chicago.
Some time ago one of President Kruger's
young relatives applied to him for an Office.
II am sorry, but 1 can do nothing" was
the grim reply Of the President The high
offices of the state are in good hands, and
for little clerkships you are too stupid.
Ibsen. the Norwegian dranlatist, is an ex-
traordinary looking man. Almost dwarf
in height. the upper part of his body is inn
mense. compared with his lowes limbs. He
has q huge head covered with bushy white
hair, and his keen blue eyes glare at his
interlocutor with piercing glance
The late Dean Liddell stood very high in
the esteem OF. Queen Victoria. During the
early decades Of his holding OF the deanery
of Christ Church he had on more than one
occasion the refusal OF a bishopric, and IN
1885, on the death of Dean Stanley the ac-
ceptance OF the deanery OF westminster W aS
pressed upon him by the Queen.
Ii Hung Chang IS deservedly regarded as
the most liberal statesman OF his country.
although in some respects he Is to the oe-
cidentaI mind inconsistently marrow. A
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

amount Of the Kansas Pacific debt. less the
interest, he was doing very well.
Mr.. Gear moved that the resolution be
referred to the committee on Pacific rail-
roads. Pending the vote on this motion Mr..
Turpie. declared that an effort was being
recoup out of the Kansas Pacific sale what
1t was compelled to pay for the Union Pa
cific main line in addition to wha, 1t had
expected TO pay. He maintained that the
Kansas Pacific branch was necessary TO
the owners of the main line, and that they
Were compelled to purchase the branch
road. In view Of this fact they ought to be
forced 10 pay the six millions of interest
due. Mr.. Turpie thea offered the following
resolution and asked that it lie over until
tomorrow:
Resolved. That It is the opinion of the
Senate that the sale of the Kansas Pacific
division of the Union Pacific Railroad made
on the terms that the original claim and
the interest thereon due to the United
States from said railroad company of the
Kansas Pacific division be paid in fun by
the bidders"
Mr.. Gears motion to refer the resolution
to the Pacific Railroad committee was sub
mitted TO the Senate and the motion was
defeated-19 TO a.
Two verbal amendments by Mr.. Chandler
We're agreed to and the resolution was
adopted without division. On motion OF Mr..
Chandler the preamble was then stricken
from the resolution. The resolution as
adopted reads:
Resolved, That the attorney general is
directed TO inform the Senate If he has
authorized the abandonment of any inten-
ton to redeem the first mortgage bonds is
sued by the Union Pacific Railroad. eastern
division, now the Kansas Pacific division OF
the Union Pacific Railway. and 10 ask
postponement of the sale thereof and the
appointment of a receiver therefor in the
interests of the government of the United
States; and also If he has authorized an
agreement by which said property is to be
sold for the face value of the subsidy bonds,
resulting in q loss to the government OF
a q n
has agreed not to be bidder at said sale
At 2:30 p. ma, on motion of Mr.. Davis.
the Senate went into executive session.
After the executive session the report OF
the attorney general on the Harris resolu-
ton was read.
A bill was passed TO create a local board
for the examination of steam vessels in
Alaska. The Senate, at $3.50 p. M, adj
journed.
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frage idea than women: they treat its advo
Gates with respect and courtesy, but when
It comes to action they have care to grant
them nothing. Year after year the subject
comes up in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Members grow eloquent in behalf of a bill
giving the ballot to Massachusetts women,
and 10 the uninitiated everything seems
favorable to its passage. It does pass one
house, in all probability, but never the
other. Pains are taken that it does not
pass the other. At one session, by some
mistake, there was momentary likelihood
of a bill carrying both houses, and great
was the CONSERVATION, but the blunder was
averted. The question is played with in
this way in all legislatures where it comes
up, and also in Congress, and the legislators
and congressman are not to blame. They
know that the majority of them do not
care for suffrage. So long as this indffer-
ence prevails that long will the labors of
tho Washington conventions be Intellectual
Indifference is far more difficult to fight
against than ridicule and active opposi
ton. How it is to be overcome it is inn
possible to say. Probably nothing the
champions of the cause can do will effect
anything. If full suffrage ever comes to
women of this country it will be when some
political emergency makes it party ques-
ton. That time is not yet in sight, and
meanwhile the active promoters of the
cause are likely to have what would be to
persons less sanguine several very discour-
aging seasons
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side. Last year 1t voted 81 for and 70
against the new method of voting by Sc
cret ballot contributing, it is thought to
the large negative vote, preachers voting
their own convictions unawed by the Iaity
of their respective charges. If the secret
ballotis again resorted to any change in re-
suits may be attributed to a growing favor
Of equal representation, for there is not
enough difference in the form in which it is
presented to change any mans vote.
But the most significant incident in this
affair appears in the Northwestern Chris
tan Advocate, the official paper 1T Chi
cago 1t appeared last week with eight ex-
ira pages, with the portrait of Judge
Fancher, of New York, leading layman
in the church, with the announcement on
the first page, Equal representation en-
phasized in this number" then follow
twelve pages devoted wholly to this ques-
ton, containing symposium of 122 answers
to the general question: What think you
of equal Representations" eleven of which
are from bishops. These all appear to be
in favor of the proposition, some consent
ing on certain conditions. Bishop Walden
says that when the preachers are satisfied
that it is for the best they will grant il.
DR.. Buckley thinks that if the agitation is
properly conducted on the simple question
alone it will ultimately prevail, and the less
the laymen say of an extravagant sort the
better for their cause. Most of the opinions
are from laymen, all but one of whom are
in favor of equal representation: he is not
opposed, but thinks the church had better
make haste slowly. 1t is possible that amy
layman who wants this interesting number
of the Northwestern can get a copy by
sending his address to the Chicago office.
He will get, also. the form of the resolution
now passing round, the appeal of the .iaity
to the ministers and TIE resolutions of the
Indiana convention, and also those of other
States and conferences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Hope springs eternal in the breasts of the
women suffragists. Undismayed by re-
peated failure to accomplish anything they
meet annually at the capital for the pur-
pose of besieging Congress, each time with
apparent enthusiasm and confidence in. ia
vorable results. They hold meetings and
congratulate each other OH the progress
their cause is making; they appear before
congressional committees and plead elo
quently for equal rights; they lay out a
plan of campaign for the year to come. and
adjourn with courage seemingly renewed
and energies stimulated for future effort.
On what their hope and expectancy are
founded is not quite clear TO outside OBJ
servers IT is undoubtedly true that their
cause has made some progress since the
movement began fifty years ago. but that it
keeps pace with the advancement OF women
in other lines is hardly true. Women gen.
orally are much better educated than they
were fifty years ago, and might be expected
to better understand and appreciate the
benefits of suffrage, yet it cannot be said
that educated women as a class are de-
manding political privileges. Women are
engaged in business to an extent that was
not dreamed of even twenty-five years ago,
but working women do not insist upon the
ballot. There is liberality of thought and
action in almost every direction. and agita-
ton Of the suffrage question rouses little
opposition but the actual political privileges
so far secured are comparatively few. In
three or four of the new States women
have equal political rights with men: in
one State they have municipal suffrage; in
many States they have some form Of school
suffrage 1t is in the old. thickly-settled
States, those in which women exceed the
men in numbers and are foremost in all
intellectual activities. that the least prog
ress is made. These women as a rule are
Indifferent to their so-caled rights. They
are seldom actively opposed to the suffrage
movement, and are even likely to admit
as an abstract proposition, that they ought
TO have the ballot, but they do not care
whether they have it or not and
so do not use any influence in
its favor. Fear of ridicule Is no longer a
power in lettering any woman from
declaring himself a sufffagist for though
the cause is not a popular one il is past
the period when its champions were scoffed
All as unnatural creatures. Men arc more
ant-to acknowledge the justice OF the suf-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
MISS ANTHONY'S BIRTHDAY.
The Venerable Woman Suffrage Lead
er Entertained at Luncheon

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-As the members
were engaged before the committees of
Congress this morning there was but one
meeting to-day of the National Woman s
Suffrage Association. This resolved itself
into work conference during which the
delegates discussed suggestions for obtain
ing the best results in the advancement of
woman suffrage and the class of matter
that should be sent to the newspapers Tor
publication Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait pre-
sided. Papers were read and remarks sub
mitted by the following: An ldeaf state
Association" Mrs. Gait; Juvenile Work.
]. Mary Pierson, superintendent of juvenile
work in New York Ideal Press Work,
Jessie j. Cassidy national press chairman;
plate Work" a paper prepared by Elnora
NJ Babcock the press superintendent IN
New York. and read by Jane Campbell. Of
Philadelphia: How to Utilize the Press OF
Large Cities" Ida II. Harper; Improve
ments over Present Methods Ida Porter
Bower of Philadelphia.
To-day is the seventy-eighth anniversary
of the birth of Miss Susan 3. Anthony, the
president of the association. and she was
given a luncheon by Mrs. John r. Mclean.
who afterwards received the members OF
the association at her home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

What do the astronomers and scientists
mean by letting thousands and thousands
of years pass before discovering that the
earth has a second satellite? From the be-
ginning of creation the human race has been
jogging along in the comfortable belief that
the earth had only one moon, the one that
Adam and Eve looked at, that shone for
millions of years before their time, and
that has been admired ever since. Now
comes a German astronomer and announces
the discovery of a second moon-a very lit
tie one and a very retiring, unobtrusive
one indeed, but still moon. The discovery
is calculated to shake our faith in science
and may cause great Confusion in the liter
airy world by compelling a reconstruction of
odes to the moon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Accounts differ as to the probable action
OF Spain regarding the disavowal OF the Of
fenslve expressions iii the De LONE letter.
AEadrid dispatches declare that she will not
do So while the best information from
Washington is that our government has as
surances that she will. If the government
had not demanded the disavowal in the first
instance it could AFFORD, now that De LONE
has resigned, 10 let it pass, but If the de-
mand for disavowal has been made it should
be insisted upon. Spain's refusal to disavow
the letter would be equivalent to indorsing
it, and would give the incident very seri-
ous aspect.
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The Attorney GENERALS reply.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Attorney Gem
eral Griggs replied to-day to the Harris
resolution, which passed the Senate This
attorney general says that the govern
ment has already complied with the decree
of the court emitting it to become bidder.
If the sale was allowed to proceed on the
adjourned day, with no assurance of bid
equal to the amount Of the principal of the
governments debt, it would be incumbent
eminent. This would have been attended
be that the government was not author
lied to operate the railroad in its own name
or through its agencies, and serious doubt
existed as to whether the court would, after
the sale, appoint and continue receivers for
the mere purpose of operating the road on
to what took place in st. Louis when the
reorganization committee offered TO bid the
amount of the principal or the govern
ment debt In conclusion ne says:
Answering specifically the questions
contained in the resolution of the Senate, I
agreement by which the property is to be
sold for the face value of the subsidy
bonds, nor has the government agreed not
to be a bidder at the sale. The only agree
for postponement redemption and the APP
pointment OF a receiver, upon the guar
antee that the minimum bid by the reor-
ganization committee should be the princi-
pal of the government. The property will
be sold at public sale in open competition
subject only to the stipulation obtained in
open court on Saturday last that the mini
mum bid will be Sc, S03 goo, instead of 81 $780,
OCO, as formerly fixed by the court"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Count Esterhazy, who testified in the lola
trial yesterday. is about equal parts adj
venturer crank and bgot. In conversation
on Monday he said: III Dreyfus We're ever
TO set foot in France again there would be
10000 corpses of Jews on the soil. IL lola
rs acquitted there viii be revolution in
Parts. The people will put me at their head
IN a massacre of the Jews a man who
talks that way and who is himself under
suspicion cannot be expected to tell the
fruth on the witness stand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

About this time of year look with more
than usual care after the health of aged
people. The obituary columns are full these
days OF the names OF men and women of
advanced years. Although there has been
none of the extreme cold weather which is
so depressing to the vitality of the aged,
the winter season is always more trying
to them than any other. and they succum5
easily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

wrong. Florida is very much too far South
to succeed in the dairy business, and the
State has not the grass for cattle or corn
for hogs. Oranges, tobacco, early vegetables
and some tropical fruits are Floridas best
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

AS a result of special trip to Florida
and investigation of it's agricultural re-
sources Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson is
reported as expressing the opinion that
straight farming viii be of more value 10
the people than the raising of tobacco.
sugar cane. vegetables, etc, and that the
staple industries OF the State would be
dairyfng. cattle raising, sheep raising. bacon
hog raising, etc. With due respect for the
secretary's opinion the Journal thinks he is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

NEW YORK, Feb. ia meeting of the
congregation of the Fifth-avenue Presby-
terrain Church, called to fill the vacancies
in the board of trustees, was held yesterday
and resulted in the unanimous election of
the following gentlemen: Samuel Thomas,
James Talcott Robert w. Stuart, George
Frederick Victor, John w. Auchincloss,
Charles p. Britton and George Bliss Agnew
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The corn convention which will meet in
Chicago to-day will be unique in it's way.
and the first of its kind ever held. Its OBJ
ject w.ll be 10 bring about wider recogni-
ton Of the value of corn foods and give new
impetus to the corn propaganda at home
and abroad. All the Western corn-growing
states viii be represented at the conven-
ton. and its action is likely to be felt III
many directions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Those persons who advocate war or war
measures with SS46 10000 of unredeemed
greenbacks outstanding lay themselves open
to the suspicion of wanting to bring on a
financial crisis and the suspension Of specie
payment by the quickest and most certain
means possible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

n the pork products of European coun-
tries are as carefully, thoroughly and
scientifically inspected as those exported
from the United States the people VINO use
them will never suffer any harm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The most pathetic feature about the lola
trial is that Captain Dreyfus, who is the
subject OF a controversy that IS shaking
France to its center, and whose name is in
millions of mouths, does not even know of
the trial The magnanimity of the French
government does not permit any MESA Sc
from the living world 10 penetrate the bars
OF the iron cage in which he is confined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Considering that Mr.. Overstreet was not
seeking the secreta-yship of the Republican
national congressional campaign committee,
his unanimous election was handsome and
deserved recognition of his fitness for the
r.nriffnr,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Indiana politicians have always been
noted for their energy and activity, but
probably the late Scott Ray is the only one
who ever reached out of the grave to pay a
noliticaI score.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Every day that passes without the intro
nuction Of practical currency reform bill
by the House committee on banking and
currency goes to strengthen the growing
popular belief that the committee is an un-
IF one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The salient features of the Cuban situa-
ton just now are the increased activity
and aggressiveness of the insurgents, the
growing imbecility of the Spanish authors
ties and the increasing number of success
full expeditions from this country. These
tracks all poiut one way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
The difference.

1.-THE difference between character and
reputation" repeated the student who had
been half asleep all through the study hour.
''Er-why, servant girl has to have one
and prize fighter has to have the other"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

goodbye forever" she

Don't say goodbye forever" she
pleaded.
There was reason in her request. He had
been nearly half an hour at it already, so
her suspicious that the process might pro-
ject into the boundless regions Of eternity
were well founded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

A dispatch in Chicago paper states that
1.-TWO doctors are in attendance upon Miss
Frances Willard, but she will probably re-
cover" Three New York doctors would
presumably make a fatal case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


"The greatest mystery of the century"
began the prosy boarder.
rs" the Cheerful Idiot interrupted, 1.-The
veracity of the cyclometer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

1t is time for Congress to stop making
appropriations for state fairs and local
spectacular shows. The only exposition in
sight at al worthy of government support
Is the Paris exposition of 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The Populist conclave at Minneapolis is
announced as a secret meeting. However,
as William j. Bryan is to be there, the
walls of the assembly room will have to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Miss Plumper, the ingenue, is such a
shrinking little creature said Johnnie.
II should twitter," replied Dollie Foot
lites. "She shrinks nearly 40 per cent after
the show IS OVER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The firmness of the President in his con-
sentative attitude on the Cuban qestion
has resulted in the decrease of the lingo
chorus until it amounts now to mere scat
tering fire, each howl containing an inn
piled proviso meaning TN shut up IL
there's any danger of my starting war"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

De Lome's successor is named Polo. 1t
will be even more consistent to club him
out of the country when occasion demands
than it was to kick out his predecessor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

A man who talks of the proposed anneXa-
ton of Hawaii as IAN international crime"
either does not speak in sincerity or needs
to study law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

Two years ago the Bryanites in Indiana
were for free silver at 1e 10 l or bust"
Now they are the Bimetallic League Of the
Ohio Valley. The world does move
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

1t is to be hoped the Bryanites in this
State viii not claim the published card of
the late W. Scott Ray against Judge Hack
ney as a message from the spirit land in
favor of free silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

If Spain will send to this country the two
last descendants OF Christopher Columbus,
now said to be in the poorhouse at Cadiz,
probably the Immigrant Bureau will make
an exception in the pauper clause of the
law and admit them. We do not need any
paupers to exercise benevolence on, but we
do owe something to Christopher, and since
we can't pay it to him it would be only fair
to do something for his relatives, particu-
larly as they are the last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The terrible condition Of China. spiritless
to defend herself with armed force yet
cruel and brutal in the relentless butchery
and persecution of inoffensive foreign citi-
offered i'll favor of the fostering of patriot
ism, national spirit and pride. AT present
there is not more contemplate relic of
former standardization and prosperity on
the globe than that now in evidence in the
aspect and attitude Of the Chinese empire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

The plan for building an asylum for Gu
ban orphans is good one. Cuba herself
would be the first candidate for admission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16

There seems to be a possibility that the
Shelby county fight against Judge Hackney
may develop into fight between the quick
and the dead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
M FemnIe Suffrage i'm Iowa.

DIES MONIES. la, Feb. 1.-THE bill to
submit a suffrage amendment was defeated
in the upper house of the General Assem-
bly, to-day-59 to Al.