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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The teacher who holds the Wisconsin rec
ord for continuous service is Mrs. c. T.
Tracy, who has been connected with Ripon
College, in that State, for forty years.
Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge, who was
almost the only man to escape from the
Cumberland after her battle with the Mer-
rimac and who has just passed, by reason
of age, over to the navy's retired list, Will
live in Washington with his family. Il have
been in nearly every port in the world he
said recently, land now I'm tired of trav-
cling"
Lady Martin, whose death occurred last
week, in London, was the only member of
the dramatic profession who has ever been
honored with the personal friendship OF
Queen Victoria and received at the royal
court She was the daughter of actress
and was on the stage for twenty years be-
fore her marriage to Sir Theodore Martin,
who was the biographer of the Queens hus-
band.
Miss Helena s. Jewett Johnson, OF Rut-
land, Vt, has been notified that she is heir
to a fortune of $4,000, large number Of
diamonds a fully furnished house, and an
interest in other property In California.
While living in New Haven some years ago
she made the acquaintance or woman
lawyer, who was practicing IN California,
who lately died Miss Johnson became very
intimate with her while in New Haven. but
was somewhat surprised when summoned
to hear the will read.
AIurat Halstead says of Admiral Dewey:
Even the best photographs do not do JUS
tice to his fine eyes-large, dark and lurni-
nous-or to the solid mass of his head, with
iron brown hair, tinged with gray. He is
larger man than the portraits indicate; and
his figure. while that of a strong man in
good health and form and well nourished,
Is not stout and though full Is nrm; ana ms
step has elasticity in It.. His flean-snaVen
cheek ard chin are massive, am Drawn on
fine lines full of characterize fatty obscur-
alton. no decline Of power; ~ sterns put
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
Thanksgiving Day Abroad.

New York Evening POST.
81 can remember wildly my first Thanks
giving spent abroad said much-traveled
woman recently Il was in Florence, and
up to the day before Thanksgiving nad
been completely happy, whether wandering
in the Pitt palace or driving IN the caslnes
If nattered not. Suddenly our group or
Americans was called together by friend,
who invited us all to Thanksgiving
as visions of turkey, cranberry sauce, mlnce
and pumpkin pie and the rest arose before
us! Finally the hour arrived We were as
sembled our menus read, which were en-
hvened by clever and appropriate selections
from Italian writers, and the soup passed.
HeIasI 1t was plain, everyday boulllon In
stead of the oyster or clam broth that the
day called for This cleared, we already
tasted the turkey, when our host took the
keen edge of our disappointment off by re-
lating his adventures while hunting for tur-
KEY where the bird was not. He served us
roast chicken which was delicious and ten
der but not turkey. Neither did we have
cranberry, sauce nor baked squash, nor
well-reg1IIated Thanksgiving table should
er0an Under Instead there were the usual
haricot vert, the boiled marrons, the Brus-
sells sprouts and chicory that make up an
Italian menu
For dessert we had an ice, followed by
cafe noir and q thumb glass OF genuine
Chartreuse. AS we arose from the table all
realized the saying that absence makes the
heart grow fonder,' and while the flow OF
soul and good companionship had cheered
orr hearts we for the first time knew how
much the proper and time-honored vlands
add to the Thanksgiving celebration"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

The limited number of excellent gentle
men who have taken the name of ANTI
imperialists" for the name of their organiza-
ton are unfortunate because at the outset
they betray spirit of unfairness. Imper-
ialism is autocratic rule by an Emperor, or,
at best, rule which does not recognize the
will of the people. There is no body of men
in this country who favor government of
that sort. Furthermore. there are no people
in this country who believe that those who
now advocate expansion are in favor of any
rule in this or over any country which we
control different from what now exists here.
Consequently General Schurz, Mr.. Carnegie,
Edward Atkinson and few others who are
in the movement misrepresent the position
of those who oppose them. They are unfair
and dogmatic, and because they are so they
will have little influence. The considerable
number of conservative men who are in
doubt about annexing the Philippines are not
those who will be Influenced by name
which attributes to their opponents an in
tention to change the form of government
in the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
Kokomo, Ind, Nov. 10.
Democratic Losses in the Senate.
Chicago Tribune

In somewhat querulous article under
York World calls the attention of it's Demo-
cratic readers to the fact that in the upper
house of the F'ifty-fourth Congress (1895-1S97)
when the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and free
silver alliance was plotted, planned, and
perpetrated' were thirty-nine Demo-
Gratis Now it reminds them they have had
losses, either Immediately or prospectively,
of two each in the State of New York,
Maryland, Wisconsin and Indiana, and one
each from New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Hi
nois. North Dakota and California, making
a total of fourteen, with an offset of only
two from the polygamouS State of Utah.
This net loss of twelve senators leaves the
Democratic party with only twenty-seven in
the next Congress out of a total OF ninety
members and the World exclaims, with
symptoms of disgust:
''For free silver ,44e Democrats gave up
seats from the East, seats from the West
seats from the border States, seats from the
Northwest and the Pacific slope to gain
UTAH"
And yet in the late New York election
the World did it's best to perpetuate the
infamy which began in 1894 by supporting
al lot of so-called Democrats for Congress
Who while not daring to avow their senti-
mcnts upon the stump or in their plat
forms, were expected to vote for free silver
in case of their election. Because the same
game did not succeed in the choice OF leg
islators who will elect United States sena-
tors it is now filled with disgust, and vents
its scorn upon those who have been respon-
sible for the Democratic and Popullsuc ALL
anca of 1894.
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"WOrked" Their Employer.
a


mo, I am not going to give my em-
ployes turkeys this Thanksgiving" replied
a welI-known downtown manufactures in
response to question put to him by an
Inquirer man yesterday Il had an eX-
perience last year that made me cry quits
on that sort of thing. / announced week
before Thanksgiving day that | would
ried man in my employ. ! figured that out
of the the two hundred odd working for ms
probably one-half were benedicts. My fig
uring was based on an inquiry, although
not q very thorough one Well, when the
day for the distribution came, instead OF
one hundred married men | found that
every mothers son working in my factory
/ didn't have to take .helr words for 1t,
either. The wives themselves We're on
hand to carry the turkeys home. / had to
send in a hurry to the commission man
from whom / had purchased the first hum
dred turkeys for additional supply. |
never suspected anything. but If | had IT
wouldn't have done me much good, for OK
course I could hardly have demanded the
production of marriage certificates before
turning over the fowls A couple or weeks
after, however, ] was let into the secret
of the sudden increase in the number OF
married men in my employ. The wives
were simply borrowed for the occasion,
keepers and sisters, mothers or friends OF
the workmen. One boarding house, as l
discovered got three of my turkeys, the
landlady and two of her old maid daugh-
tiers enacting the role of wives to the
three workmen who boarded at the house.
This is the reason I have shut down on
the turkey-presenting practice, and don't
And the Inquirer man shook his head In
tha neQafiVe.
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likely it is to be so assailed that nothing but
a patient and exhaustive discussion by the
House and the Senate can save it, and that
it can never pass under the restrictions of
our present Constitution.
Besides this. what is to become of the bill
to be prepared by the attorney general to
provide for trying such offenders as the
Ripley county rioters; and what of the half
dozen or so bills from the Commercial Club?
If these gentlemen want to help the Legis-
lature and ultimately get better laws, let
them bend their energies to calling con-
stitutional convention which shall bring
our organic law from the pod-auger, cor
duroy. slow-coach period Of fifty years ago
to the age of railroads and electricity and
a thousand other things never dreamed of
by the people of the past generation; and
especially let it assume that a Legislature is
not necessarily composed of thieves who
will continue in session after their work is
finished, just fer the salary offered. But
some people who ought to have more sense
will object because it will cost so much
My answer is if we can't keep tavern, let
us take down the sign. If we can't afford
the expense of a convention once in fifty
years in this developing age. and Legis-
lature at least once in two years that can be
trusted to do the business of the State hon.
estly let us quit business entirely.
Indianapolis Nov 81 u. L. SEE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

to personal use is not one of principle. The
public officer whose skirts are so clear that
he is qualified to throw stones at the Poor
Farm superintendent is fortunate indeed
The latter parsonage was not discriminate
ing; his opportunities did not admit of the
use of much stationery" but, affected by
the common laxity. he took clumsy methods
and was detected. A very few travelling
bags, gold pens, engraved notepaper and
the like would cost as much as his roomful
Of coarse shoes, cheap lamps, etc., but
shoes and lamps are articles that cannot
well be classed as perquisites, and so he
must pay the penalty What is needed all
along the line and in all classes of society
is more strict sense of responsibility to
the public and a keener sense of honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

American labor. Mr.. Cages commercial
expansion Is .hindered. So much for im-
perialism and its foreign complications.
in order Ia hoId ne Phiiinninas e al hSs
to grant the open door, where will Sec
rotary Gage and mis- commercial expan-
sion stand then? What will labor In the
United States say TO the recreant Pres
ident? What compensation is 1t to have2
What justification can be pleaded for paT
ing $50 600. COO or $40, 000O 900 for the Philip
pines. and for sacrificing the blood of our
soldiers and the lives of our civil servants
tage accrues? What answer Will he make
TO the people upon whom he imposes adj
ditional taxation?
President Gompers. of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, is on the right track.
He denounces the policy of bringing tho
Republic into the zone of European strife
in the far East. He will win, ard 1t only
needs a few large employers of labor TO
laboring people of the Union against the
Presidents supposed treachery to the cause
of American labor.
The American people have always decided
rightly in a great crisis. The imperialistic
policy has not been properly discussed be-
cause the position of the President and the
government is not yet known; but the Presi-
dent has to come forward and decide this
question. This will be the deathblow OF
imperialism, either way he decdess
The Republic will escape the threatened
danger and hold fast to the policy of the
fathers, which has made it the most pros
porous nation the world ever saw and
brought the industrial supremacy of the
world within its grasp under the Aeg1s or
peace and security-the one industrial ma
ton free from the unceaSing danger OF wars
and rumors of wars. which keep every ship
yard every armor plant, every gun factory
in the world busy night and day. Saturdays
and Sundays, preparing engines for the
coming struggle between the nations OF Eu-
rope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
For THANKSGIVING Day.

New York Evening PoSt.
The decorations of the Thanksgiving din
ner table should be seasonable The fruits
and flowers that belong to the late autumn
are the ones that should grace the Novem-
Der board. ChrysanthemumS are particu-
larly appropriate, and their decorative effect
is excellent. a judicious use OF the homely
vegetables is admissible and can often be
made artistic. Golden ears of corn, small
squashes, carrots and other vegetables may
be levied upon to supplement the center
piece of fruits and leaves. The hostess OF
q last years dinner secured enough yellow
gourds to put one at each of the dozen COW
ers in stimulation of the Thanksgiving
pumpkin. Each of these gourds held a tiny
growing fern in it's little clay pot, the color
effect around the table being extremely
good. Florists will furnish horns Of plenty
made from fine straw that may typtfy the
bountiful harvests and these n ay hold low
ers or autumn fruits. A circular dinner
board of II recent Thanksgiving was deco
rated with golden brown chrysanthemumS.
These were tied together in rope fashion
and wandered over the table, wreathlng the
largest dishes and the centerpiece of lus-
cious fruits.
This season the national colors will be
abundantly used. A caterer says that all
his war molds for ices will be in demand
on Thanksgiving day, particularly the
American eagle rampant. This seems to be
a faVorite device, and the frozen cream in
this form, with a tiny flag thrust into the
head of the eagle is invariably greeted
with enthusiasm. 1t must not be forgotten
however that the waving of the stars and
bereft hearts. If any such are to gather
with the family about the Thanksgiving
board IL will be a kindly forethought TO
omit the Warlike decorations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
Reform in Local Government.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
Your editorial of to-day on reform in To-
cal government is hard blow in the right
direction. If you keep up the pace set and
accomplish desired results every taxpayer
in the State will at least owe you vote Of
thanks. AS one who knows little of the
official abuses resulting in combined tax
rate of SO on the 500 in some cities, feel
that the least 1 can do is TO say that your
efforts are heartily appreciated by many.
But do not let the high heads escape. Elk
orbitant allowances made for prosecution or
defense of pauper criminals is one of the
official abuses which should be smitten with
strong hand Allowances made in the
settlement of Estates assignments, receiv-
erships etc., are also frequently disgraceful
to courts and attorneys. A man who feels
that he has been legally or officially robbed
is generally ever after a bad citizen, if not
an actual Anarchist, He loses confidence in
courts, which is only one step toward the
belief that the whole government is fraud
There is a crying demand for reform from
the top down. Il. w.
Kokomo Ind, Nov. 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

The Journal desires to correct a state
ment to the effect that the News advocated
the bin vesting the appointment of IL
brary board in the judges of the county
courts. that paper having declared that it
did not. It fails, however, to meet the Jour-
nails point. which is. that Mayor Taggart
has never placed an able independent and
recognized Republican on any OF his boards
What he viii do in the future can only be
judged by what has been done in the past
A Republican of ability and independence
would have opposed the purchase of the
present park lands at prices twice their
market value. Either Mr.. Claypool or Col
Perry would have done so. To permit the
appointment Of a park board on which
those alleged-to-be Republicans will silently
permit money to be squandered, as half
the money expended on the new park has
been, is not the purpose of the real Repub-
Hcans Of the city. If Mayor Taggart will
satisfy Republicans that he will select two
men to represent them on the board OF the
Independence and integrity of the two who
we're on the last board. they viii probably
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
MEDICAL SCIENCE IN CHINA.
Celestial Hospital Called ''The Hall Of
Ten Thousand Virtues"

81 JameSS Gazette.
In an illustrated interview in the Young
Man. for July, with DIR. Charles Wenyon,
the famous medical missionary in China.
we are told that medical science in China
is not as advanced as it was in Rome two
thousand years ago. The so-called doctors
cannot tie an artery, open an abscess or
reduce dislocated limb. Every Chinaman
matter with him, and there was great curl
osity to see the methods of the foreigner;
therefore, when DR.. Wenyon arrived there
was no lack of patients. They came daily
by the hundreds from far and near-from
an area three or four times that of Eng
land. In seventeen years they numbered
many thousands, and some of them, as DIR.
Wenyon says, became the center of an intiu-
ence more or less favorable to Western
thought and Western men.
Dr. Wenyon has many curious stories to
tell in connection with the medical work.
The literati, who are the great instigators
of riot and murder in China, declared that
they ought to open rival hospital, and
they did open one. A staff of native doc
tors" was found, and the building was
called THE Hall of Ten Thousand Vir-
tues" 1t was splendid building, but some
how that did not assist the cures. Two
afflicted friends came to Fatshan, and they
decided, one to go to DIR. WenyonS hospf-
tai and the other to the rival place. In three
weeks DR.. Wenyon's patient was well, and,
found that he was dead The doctor tried
to console him by saying that they had
buried him in splendid coffin. In fact
coffins were great necessity at that hos
there found that they had laid in a good
stock So the people came to us. 1t was
question of coming to our hospital for a
cure or going 10 the Hall of Ten Thou
sand Virtues for coffin. One day there
came a stately gentleman, a learned man
belonging to the upper classes, having q
painful disorder needing surgical treatment
He hired private room, and 1 operated on
him and in fortnight he was we'll He had
not told me who he was but Before he went
away he said You might like to know who
I am, and want to tell you, because am
rro fofrI for hptn n
disease. l am the head doctor of the Hall
of Ten Thousand Virtues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

Judging from the State papers and from
other expressions of public opinion, there
will be an effort made to take from what
are known as the State schools the appro-
priations they have from the State. Several
causes might be given for the growth of
this sentiment of opposition. The chief Of
these is the suspicion that the friends of
the State University, instead of standing by
the understood compromise in the levy es-
tablished by the Legislature of 1895, will
move for larger and larger appropriations,
with the purpose of building up univer
sity on the scale of that in Michigan and
some other States This suspicion is
grounded upon the estimates of money
which the State University will need which
appear in the reports of the officers and in
the assertions of other educators that the
State must make much more liberal provi-
sion for liberal education for the few at
the expense of all. The Journal has always
combated the theory that the State should
provide higher education for the very few
at the public expense. The State University
however, has been operated upon the basis
of limited State aid. Consequently, in a
certain sense, the State is under obligation
to continue this moderate assistance, while
the building up of a modern university,
involving an expenditure of eight or ten
millions of dollars, has never been contem-
plated so that such suggestion is Wig
orously assaied
The Journal does not believe that 1t
would be just or wise to take from the State
schools the present levy for their assistance
The Terre Haute Normal School Is desig-
mated for the education of teachers for the
common schools. 1t is doing it's work in
a most satisfactory manner. Purdue is one
of the great schools in the country which
teaches the sciences upon which the in
dustries of the country rest. The money
expended is a good investment for Indiana.
For these reasons the levy made by the
Legislature Of 1895 as general compromise,
should stand, upon the assurance that the
representatives of these institutions will not
appear as lobby to get more money. 1t
is understood that the representatives of
the nonstate schools are of this opinion.
1t is sincerely hoped that the friends Of
the State schools will early make it known
that they will stand by the present arrange
ment. 1t will be fair, and it will save the
time of the Legislature and the really I'M
seemly lobbying of members by the heads Of
leading educational institutions would be
unnecessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

When the Indiana Soldiers Monument
Commission failed to secure the services of
Mr.. Macmonnies to design the groups Of
Peace" and War for that structure a
good many people felt that it was an artis-
tic misfortune. Some of these same people
have been criticising the War group by an
other sculptor, just completed, and find
fault with the combination of the symbolic
and realistic as shown by the heroic figure
Of the war goddess and the soldiers in ac-
ton. For their beneGt it may be mentioned
that a group IMPLYING WAR" designed by
Macmonnies for a Brooklyn soldiers memoir
ial shows the same coordination. Soldiers
and horses are shown in tangled mass in
the foreground, while back of them is a
winged and helmeted figure Of a war god
dess or Victory" blowing a trumpet Pic
lures of the group show it to be less simple
and effective than the one on the Indiana
monument
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22
BUSINESS Signs.
New York Evening Post.

WV 0E y = N111IEs ~
That business has taken a fresh start since
the election is a fact which becomes more
and more noticeable daily. meeting OF
the bankers of Indiana was held at Indian
week at which reports on the business sit
Uation were made by competent witnesses
from all parts of the State. These were uni
form in showing a satisfactory state OK
trade and industry; manufacturing estab-
lishments running on full time, jobbing
houses and retail stores doing a good busi-
ness and farmers generally unmortgaged
and having money to deposit in bank and to
lend. The most important railroad in the
State reported that its freight business was
10 to II per cent. heavier than II was at the
corresponding period last year The deposits
of the Indianapolis banks have increased
So, 367 900, as compared with last year. 1n-
diana has earned her share OF the general
Improvement by her steadfastness to sound
money in the election and by the unceasing
efforts of Mr.. II. II. Hanna and his as
sOciates in promoting the cause of currency
reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-22

Kansas City Journal.

hdIIsdS OIIy UUuI IIeI4s
One of the best things about Theodore
Roosevelt is that he has always preached
and constantly practiced the doctrine that
it is the duty of every citizen to take his
part in the affairs of government, and the
the man is Roosevelt may have been d
trifie spectacular in his career, but that
may be the nature of the man.. and he is
too good a man to object to because Of
a difference in tastes as to the kind of
clothes to campaign in. What this country
needs more than anything else Is the spirit
that has animated Roosevelt: that the
thing for good citizens to do is to spend
less time complaining and devote their en-
ergfes to doing-doing the best they can.