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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
BRADsTREET's REVIEW.
Some of the Reasons why Business
Men should BE Cheerful To-day.

Some of the Reasons why Business
Men Should BE Cheerful To-Day.
NEW YORK, Dec 31.-Bradstreet to-
morrow will say: Holiday quiet and stock
taking close a year which, while not fully
realizing the most sanguine expectations,
certainly contained much that was crafty
ing and more that is full of promise for the
year 1898. Following a series of years of al
ternate panic, stagnation and slow and even
painful revival. 1897 presented a large vol
ume of business at prices which, while not
altogether satisfactory, resulted in a total
of trade larger than in any previous year
since 1892. Tariff changes restricted demand
but encouraged speculation and heavy i'm
ports in the first part Of 1897, while the en-
larged foreign demand for American bread
stuffs and for some varieties of manufac-
tured articles bettered the condition CT the
American farmer and therefore business
men quite materially, in the latter part of
the year. Price conditions have not favored
the Southern producer of cotton nor the
Northern manufacturer OF cotton goods The
best reports come from the West, North
west and the Pacific coast. Prices at the
close are as whole a higher range than
at the opening, advances being most num-
erous In food products, raw silk and wool,
while decreases are reported in raw cotton
and cotton goods, nearly all metals, anthra-
cite coal and petroleum Railroad interests
share in the revival of prosperity, with gross
and net earnings larger than any year since
1893. and the year 1898 opens with the bus
mess community, with the few exceptions
noted, insa very cheerful frame of mind.
A heavy falling off in number and in liza
bilities of individual firms or corporations
falling was shown in 1897 from 1896 and the
four preceding years. A partial return to
more. or less normal conditions is further
indicated by a drop in the percentage of as
commercial death rate as compared with
every year since and including 1898. The
total number of failures reported TO Brad
streets for the year just closed was 1909
a decrease of 1000 failures and over E3 per
cent. from 1896; a falling off OF Is per cent
from the panic year of 1898 and a decrease
of more than per cent from 1891 a year
of prosperous business but of numerous bus
mess embarrassments. Compared with 1885,
there was a gain in the number of failures
shown of about u of / per cent. while
compared with 1852 there was an increase Of
q per cent Liabilities of those falling con-
stituted one of the smallest totals of recent
years, amounting TO only $l56, 600. a de-
from 1885, and of 10 per cent from 1891, but
a gain of AZ per cent. over 1882. The least
favorable showing is made by the Eastern
States, which report increases In number
and liabilities over 1926. In spite of depres-
sion in cotton prices, Southern failures and
liabilities are smaller than year ago. while
the greatest falling off is reported in the
West and the Northwest. The percentage
of assets to liabilities of those falling IN 1897
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

What has the Democratic party ever done
tisement to Indiana and Indianapolis COM
pared with the stand taken by the Repub-
licans on the money question? The efforts
of the Greenbackers, fat-moneyists, Pop
ulists, Bryanites and free-silverites have
all tended to bring the State into disgrace
and impair it's credit at home and abroad.
It's Identification with the sound-money
and currency-reform movement, given it by
the Republicans has been the best adver-
tisement it ever had and raises it irnmeas-
urably in public esteem.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Much is being said about the adultera-
tion of wheat fiou- with fine corn meal or
-four Some millers are so excited over the
fraud that they predict that it will ruin the
wheat industry and will have a lobby in
Washington to urge plans to prevent the
adulteration. 1t seems that this could most
easily be accomplished by proper inspec-
ton or by some legislatioTs like the oleo-
margarine or filed cheese laws. There used
to be a -four inspection which was so ef-
feetive that consumers purchased upon the
lnspectors' brand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
NEW LAWS FOR RED MEN.
United States Courts Now Have Full
Power in Indian Territory.

United States Courts Now Have Full
Power in Indian Territory.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. = With sunset
to-day the most important part of the rule
of the Indian in the Indian Territory ex-
pired. The general Indian appropriation
act for the current year provides that on
and after Jan. l, $685. the United States
Courts in said Territory shall have original
and exclusive jurisdiction and authority TO
try and determine all civil cases in law and
equity thereafter instituted and all Grim
inal cases for the punishment of any offense
committed after JAM !, 1893, by any
person in said Territory" The same act
confers on United States commissioners the
full power within the Territory which they
exercise elsewhere under the federal law.
The laws of the United States and the
State of Arkansas, which are in force in
the Territory, are made applicable to all
persons, irrespective of race, and any cit
liens of any of the five civilized tribes,
otherwise qualified, who can speak and
understand the English language, may
serve as jurors in any of the courts. All
this was made dependent on the attitude
the Indian tribes in the Territory might
have assumed, meanwhile, towards the
governments efforts to reorganize the
Territory If the tribes had met the gov
eminent half way and entered into new
agreement with it, in which the judicial, as
well as the land allotment and other adj
ministratve features of the reorganization
plan had been satisfactorily adjusted, it
was the purpose of Congress to postpone
the operation of the law just quoted, the eff
feet of which is to shut the doors of the
Indian courts and send them out OF bust
ness. In the early part of December an
attempt was made to suspend the law In the
hope that the Choctaw and ChickasaW
agreement might have been ratified by the
Chickasaws at their popular elections, but
when the official reports came in, showing
conclusively that the popular verdict had
been against the agreement and that ali
negotiations would have to be started
afresh, Congress dropped the subject ana
let the law take it's course. 1t is believed at
the Interior Department that some of the
restless spirits in the Territory may goad
the Indian judges into opening their courts
after the beginning of the new year ana
assuming to do business as OF old. II That
is done the parties concerned VIII be arrest
ed and an effort will be made to procure
from the United States Supreme Court
final adjudication of the right of Congress
to make laws for the internal government
of the Territory Since last summer new
Federal Court has been organized in the
Territory, with John r. Thomas as judge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Persons who criticise the new electric
lights around the monument because they
do not illuminate the shaft to any consider
able height misapprehend their purpose
that is. to illuminate the approaches, pedes-
tai and immediate surroundings of the
monument, so as to prevent any acts of
vandalism or nuisance. For this purpose
the illumination is ample, and, it may be
added, it adds materially to the beauty of
the work at night. The power which runs
the lights is supplied by the monument en-
OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Mr.. H. H. Hanna, chairman of the ex-
ecuuve committee of the Indianapolis none
tary convention, has notified the various
boards of trade and commercial organiza-
tions throughout the country of the reas-
sembling of the convention on the 18th inst.
In the first convention 1O9 cities were rep
resented by upwards of three hundred dele
gates. In some cities different commercial
organizations sent delegations, as in Balti-
Commerce and the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association; in New York the
Board of Trade and Transportation, the
Coffee Exchange, the Cotton Exchange, the
Produce Exchange and the Chamber of
Commerce; in Boston, the Chamber of Com
merce, the Merchants Association, the
Massachusetts State Board of Trade and
the Commercial Club; in Cincinnati, the
Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial
Club; in Chicago, the Board of Trade and
the Commercial Club and so on. 1t is ex-
pected that all the cities and commercial
organizations which were represented in the
first convention will be represented in that
of the 18th inst, and many more besides.
The coming convention is practically an
adjourned session of the first one, and it
is expected that nearly all the delegates
who attended the other will attend this one,
besides many new delegates from other
cities. who will represent the growing in
terest in currency reform. The movement
has reached a point where it is of great
Importance that the business interests of
the country should rally to it's support, and
this they should do by seeing that all COM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
The Indiana "Love Feast"

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Fair
banks has made full report to the Presi-
dent of the splendid spirit which prevails
among the Indiana Republicans as ex-
pressed at the love feast" at indianapolis
on the 2Sth inst The President never had
any doubts about Indiana, but it was never
over again that the party organization
in the State is unyielding for sound
money and that it Is willing to make that
the paramount campaign issue for 1898.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

The New York Post thinks that eff the
dianapolis currency-reform movement give
It a hearty support it will be possible to lift
Congress out of the rut so far as 30 pass
some bill for Improvement of the currency
If not the particular bill recommended. ."
The lifting process has made considerable
progress already. Congress is far more IA
vorably disposed towards currency reform
than it was d year ago. 1t knows strong
popular movement when it sees one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Papers which abused the late President
Garfield when he was alive are now quot
ing him as hostile to annexation generally
just as they used to quote him as in favor
of free trade. The truth is that General
Garfield was a man who was Influenced
by argument. As he forsook free trade so
1t is probable that he would favor the ac-
QUESTION of Hawaii for a fortress to pro-
tect an entire coast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

In the absence of accurate information
the Journal is unable to say whether the
recent award of the printing contract by
the County Commissioners was fair or not
but there is certainly ground for criticism
in their manner of doing business Any
thing that savors of concealment and trick
cry in the transaction of public business is
calculated to raise suspicion. The very fact
that county commissioners are almost en-
tirely unchecked in the exercise of their
authority should make them careful to
avoid even the appearance of wrong.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Who peepeth in so cautiously
This early morning?
Her virgin self so modestly
In white adjoining.
So fresh. so new, so chaste.
Arise, Heart, and make haste
To give a greeting
TO this Sweeting.
The Baby Year.
What message brings she silently
This early morning?
What fairy tale, what augury
OF new life dawning?
Blot out the old with new
Blot out the false with true,
Thy soul enshrine
In light divine
And panoplied with hope and cheer
Welcome the tender baby year.
Sarah ). Pratt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Commissioner OF Pensions Evans says the
most demoraIizing feature of the pension
system and prolific source of fraud is the
existence Of fifty thousand pension attor-
neys, many of whom are utterly without
principle in working up and putting through
fraudulent pension claims. One OF the most
honorable pension attorneys who ever prac-
ticed in Indiana says practically the same
thing The commissioner has plan where
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

OF all the conventions which met in this
city in 1897 none attracted more attention
or gave the city a better advertisement
than the monetary convention. The reas-
sembling of the same convention on the 25th
inst. is likely to be one of the most nota-
bic of 1SsS-perhaps not in the way of num-
bers or spectacular display. but certainly
in the way of national Importance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Philadelphia Record.
Recent little experimental preSsures made
upon the presidential backbone in order to
ascertain its bending quality with refer
ence to the currency question have helped
to stiffen the public confidence in Mr. Nc
Kinley's spinal sufficiency. He said TO Sem
ator Fairbanks, of Indiana, the other day:
Il am going to keep the bond. | am going
St. Louis platform" If the President shall
not allow himself to be forced from this po-
sition he Will have the country behind him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. s1.-A young white
man, named Frank Kacheesld, was ar
rested at the White House this afternoon
and sent to the police station. His sanity
will be investigated. He told Doorkeeper
Cissel that the President had a lot of prop
His talk was rambling but he was not con-
sidered dangerous. Papers on Kacheeski's
person show that he was discharged from
the Boise, Ida, barracks on the 2Sd of
this month
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

over 1896. Russia's gold product for 1896 was
$21, $50 600; for 1887 it is estimated to approx
innate SIS 900, 900, an increase of $3.50 GOO.
Indications for the United States are that
Colorado will lead in the production of gold
for 1897, as it is estimated by. ex-Governor
Grant that 1t will not be less than so, OOo, OOO
California will follow with a product of
probably $19OO0,000. With the exception of
the States of the South Appalachian range,
1t is believed that there will be an increase
in every producing State and Territory or
the gold product over that of 1896.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Complaints are springing up all over the
State at the action of county commission
ers in awarding stationery contracts. This
business. which has been q source of corrup-
ton for a long time, seems to have reached
point that calls for reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

A statement by the local agency of r. G.
Dun & Co. of the business failures in this
city from 1892 TO 1897. inclusive. shows that
the failures during the year just closed
were fewer in number than in 1896, and but
for one which occurred a few days ago
they would have been less in liabilities.
The statement shows that 1898. the begin
ming of the Cleveland panic was the black
year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Secretary Gage has been invited to at
tend the monetary convention to be held in
this city on the 25th inst, and it is hoped
he may come. He has read the report and
his warm approval of both.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Mr.. Joseph Letter, of Chicago. begins the
new year with about $4,000 bushels of
wheat in his possession, which he feels con-
fident of selling at much higher prices than
present quotations. In that case farmers
who are stin holding wheat will profit also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
New Indiana Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Indiana fourth
class postmasters were appointed to-day
as follows: Hatfield, Spencer county, L.
s. Rothert, vice Louis Kastner, resigned;
Steele, Adams county, Amos Danner, vice
John r. Porter, resigned; GAINESVILLE, Wells
county, Robert Clark, vice O. K. CLANCY,
removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

The fact that the Cramps are about to
invest several millions in shipbuilding
plant at or near Seattle on the Pacific
coast, indicates that the United States is
already one of the leading competitors in
the building of iron ships.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
In the Arctics.

Walrus Bill-Klondike Ike's wife didn't
know him when he got home from our lit
tie swarray this morning.
Sealskin Sam-How could you expect her
to, after he had been out all night and
grown beard six months old?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

The country seems to relish a taste of
politics in an off year. The recent Repub-
lican conference in this city attracted more
attention throughout the country than
state convention would in an election year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Some hateful person." said the Sweet
Young Thing, has declared love is a spe-
cies of hypnotism.'
Il guess he is right said the Mean Man.
Fellow usually gets married with his eyes
shut -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

by their services can be dispei I'd with
entirely. including, of course, theirv ees, and
their work done by officials under govern
ment supervision.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
BANK CLEARINGs.
Gain at indianapolis This Week Was
4O2 Per Cent.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31-The following ta-
BILE, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank
clearings at eighty-seyen cities for the week
ended Dec. 81. with the percentage of in
crease and decrease, as compared with the
corresponding week of last year:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Mrs. Figg-Tommy, 1 am Mortified. no
think that you would cut the cats tail off,
Is that living up to the Golden Rule?
Tommy-Course it is. If L had a tail I'd
want somebody to cut it off.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

It was reserved for Spain in her barbarous
treatment of Cuba to write one of the
blacklist pages in the history of the nine
tenth century.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

The promises of 1898 are such that the
Journal can confidently say to it's patrons,
"a happy New Year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Method in His Madness.

Grinning, the mailman shook his chain.
Well" said the wheelman, ''if 1 could
do that, instead Of having to stick to my
81 pattern, l think I'd smile few my
self"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Japan ought not to complain if other
powers appropriate pieces of Chinese ter
ritory She set the example.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

A Philadelphia paper mentions Senator
Teller as-one of the Republican staIwarts
opposing Secretary Gage on the ground
that he is not a Republican. Since when did
Mr.. Teller become a Republican stalwart?
In the Colorado election he was a Populist
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
A Suspicion.
CITY Journal

Kansas City Journal.
1t is suspected that in private conversa-
tiOns Mr. Bryan assures his Mexican kosts
confdentally that the United States is the
best and most PROSPEROUS country on earth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
Worse than Vanderbilt.

Chicago Journal.
Vanderbilt now thinks that he ought to
have as ye, built less and not BiltmorJ in North
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deerng. northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. 255 Fourth avenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YCRk-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House T. Q. News Co, III
Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

Totals, United States. 81, 1SS, 351, 046
Totals, outside New
York .............. Sac, O52. 069
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-27

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The HSws thai Lady Curzon has been
spending a week and untold wealth at Paris
getting gowns, such as no vice refine ever
got before possesses a patriotic interest for
Americans. Lady Curzon established her.
self at a hotel and for a week held regular
receptions every Gay. to which she invited
After that, Lord Curzon Joined her. appar.
entity in improved health. but at the Eso-
MAN dinner given TO him shortly afterward
IL was noticed that the ominous hectic nush
that was remarked so much In parliament
last session returned 10 his cheeks. 1t io
sincerely 10 be hoped that the hectic flush
had no connection with so much millinery
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-27
To 4 FRIEND OF CHILDHOOD

fitting rhyme long to send
TO YOU who were my childhood's friend.
Who generous heard without Sneer
My verses read-to me SO dear.
And ah, those ilnes-those verses now
Can bring q flush across my brow;
They were so childish and SO young
You heard as though Sappho sung:
And you were then a man 'nong men.
And was but child OF ten.
You often said: Two Sits possessed
The soul Of art and poesy."
with awesome gaze and with surprise
7 searched the mirror with my eyes
In hopes that there strange sights I'd view
Forth peeping from my orbs OF blue.
Yet grave the thoughts came to me them
Tho / was but a child OF ten.
And once. when thro' the signing trees
There came a softly whispering breexe.
| said twas angels speaking low
TO God Of things we must not know.
You said with hand upon my head.
by such as these shall men be led"
My moods, not always mystic wise.
Still found approval In your eyes,
Tho you had cares. and ssrove nonE mw
And I WAS but child OF ten.
How oft with childish hand drew
Crude forms that cen could startle you
And placed them In their home or cline,
with each dedicated rhyme.
You fosiered all poetic lore
Of which my childhood had fun store:
From seeds you sowed bright flowers grew
fair
Some simple. Iowiy. some are rare.
A bright chain links thee now and then,
when ! was but child OF ten.
Those years that few so swift along.
With April tears and May-day song.
7 dreaming spend with brush and pen,
While ven marched upward 'mongst youo
ken.
nations halls with honor tread
who now lead men a child once led.
And now as then that child would rhyme
Could she but bridge the space called time,
And hear your voice ne Kind as then,
Ard be once more a child of ten.
MARIE WINSLOW.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-27

know IL the national beverage had once
more come into It's own.
Accordingly l summoned the head waiter.
Solemnly dlgnified. he approached. / was
truly almost overawed by this august per-
sonage. but managed to put the question.
Madame. coffee and not tea Is the proper
drink for o'clock"
No further information was vouchsa fed.
So 1 sauntered into one big establishment
after another on a tour of observation
Mon Dieu! thought l. If tea drinking is
obsolete what will become OF the Waldorf
supply OF dainty Dresden cups In which the
seductive cocktail Travelled '.incog' from
cafe siaeboard to gorgeous tearoom?