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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
Holiday BlackmniI.


Evidence that Captain A. T. Mahan's att
tention is not constantly directed toward
naval matters is given by note which ne
has sent to this Office in regard to the de-
mands for christmas money Whlch are
fast coming to be a most annoying feature
of this season of the year The captain
mentions only messenger boys and lamp
lighters, but he might have heightened the
list of sturdy beggars almost indefinitely, so
How far this is new, writes our distin-
guished correspondent, II do not know; nor
how far IL is likely to go. The special claims
Of these members of the community over
other servants of corporations, municipal or
otherwise are not apparent. Before our
comparatively new civilization Is grasped
firmly by an abuse, 1t may serve as time
ly warning to read what II has grown to
in an old community. Individual citizens
fore the yoke is fastened on US" THE time
ly warming consists of clippings from the
London Times in which this form OF black
mail is discussed as a peculiarly irksome
tax on both patience and purse Such exac-
lions are, of course, more numerous abroad
than here, but the difference Is fast disap-
pearing, and unless reform comes soon one
very good excuse for dissatisfaction Will
be lost TO us. How any American. particu-
larly one of native birth, can either ask
for or receive one of these always grudging
tips IS mystery not to be solved by any
self-respecting man. Wages for work are
honorable. but tips, at this or any other
time of year, are demoralizing, alike tn the
giver and the taker They make the one a
snob. the other a slave, and it is a disgrace
to the country that class after class of our
ence on the capricious charity of their en-
Movers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
RESULT OF VICIOUS SENTIMENT.

The report of the committee of the Board
of Charities, criticising the management or
mismanagement of the county Poor Farm,
has caused much comment which might
lead to the inference that the Marion coun-
ty conditions are exceptional. Such is not
the case. The Poor Farm has been as well
managed the past two years as it was at
any previous period. 1t needs, also, to be
added that there is every reason to be-
neve from the reports received from such
institutions, that large part of them are
not managed upon business principles.
Therefore, it is not wise to expend all the
public Indignation upon the recent manage
ment of the Marion County Poor Farm The
present County Commissioners have done
quite as we'll as have their predecessors in
this county and similar officers in most other
counties
The trouble lies in the fact that the
vicious system in vogue prevents the APP
plication of anything like business methods
to the management. Indeed, it is not too
much to say of many of such institutions
that they are not operated with view of
giving the best results to the public. Many
will deny this assel ton, but they cannot
find facts to sustain it. How often is the
superintendent selected solely because of
those qualities which are necessary to make
a competent officer? On the contrary is the
position not usually given to some favorite
of the commissioners or to some man whose
eager hackers have claims upon the board
outside OF the fitness of the appointee? Are
not such appointments often dictated by
considerations outside of fitness? In every
case where an appointment is not justified
by the personal fitness of the man, bad
management will result as it would in
large private establishment if its directors
should not make fitness the one test of Sc
lection.
In many instances which have come to
public attention through the papers, men
who have been fairly good officials have
been superseded at the end of two years.
Not long since an official resigned after two
years because the place was wanted for an
other At least, it was so stated, and was
not denied. 1t was also stated that he had
given satisfaction. Now, there cannot be
the slightest doubt regarding the cause of
this change. The practical removal of
man who was satisfactory officer to make
room for another of the same party was not
for the good of the service, but to answer
demand which seems TO be superior to the
intelligent and economical management Of
public institution Such system of
change has as it's motive the giving of a
chance to as many applicants as possible
Such a system means that one man is TO
have place one or two years to make the
most he can out of it. At any rate. such is
a fair inference. Upon the same principle
that such appointments are made the sup
plies are usually purchased individuals and
favorites being patronized regardless of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

Kansas City Journal.

LNdHSdS lily JOuIudi
At a recent district teachers association
in Kansas they had warm time over the
question, should married women teach in
public schools? Two married women, one
a county superintendent, argued that a
ciate the needs of children and to know
how to manage them than a young person
without a mothers experience. In the face
of this, Mr.. Lannsdon, of Fort Scott, had
the temerity to assert that every man
teacher should be married, and no woman
teacher should be married. In our opinion
this is a point on which no regulation
should be made. What the schools want is
the best possible teacher. Sometimes she is
married., sometimes not: The appointing
power should be competent and nonparti-
san, and should then be unhampered by
regulations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

icals whatsoever touched tne meat itseIf%
that we are without sufficient definite in
formation to answer your question respects
ing the mode adopted by other packers, but
Tor ourselves do state that at no time dur
ing the past, nor at present, do we use
chemicals of any kind whatsoever and
that therefore, the refrigerated meat fur
nished your department could not have
been touched by any chemical of any de-
scription.
In answer to your inquiry as to Whether
the meat has ever been treated by any
chemical process of any kind whatsoever
we beg to state that neither the meat fur
nished by us to your department nor that
supplied by us for consumption in almost
every State In the Union has never at any
time Eeen treated by us by any chemical
process of any kind whatsoever.
Hoping that the above will fully cover
all your inquiries, and in the event that We
can at any time supplement the above with
further information we beg to assure you
that we are at all times at your command.
and will be more than pleased to give you
further details. either for your own enight-
eminent or that of the general government.
Yours truly ARMOUR & co..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

New York Commercial Advertiser.

Much nonsense is written about how cheap
iy one can live in Paris. One can live cheap
ly in New York, too, if one is content to
put up with the same discomforts and in
conVeniences. The Americans who talk in
this strain are usually to be found in Paris
shivering over handful of sticks, away up
IN some nckety apartment house in some for
gotten quarter of the city They could com
mand the same discomforts at the same price
in New York. The Paris apartment which
rents for $40 and $50 a month has no bath
room, running water, except in the kitchen.
heat or gas Gas ranges are furnished free
by the gas companies, who run pipe into
the kitchen on the outside Of the wall and
ceiling. In the more expensive apartments
one has the water tax well as the rent
to Pay. In the hotels, which are not fur
nished with electricity-the majority-the
rooms are lighted by candles. for which one
has to pay extra, and a lamp costs a franc
night. Steam heat is a chimera, and a
tiny CRATE fire costs as much as a yule
log. Paris is a beautiful city, and the
cabs, and shops, and theaters, and streets
are alone inducement enough to attract the
nations Of the earth to it's gates But ii is
no cheaper to live in than New York-if one
lives as WELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

The record of the year which ends to-day
makes it one of the most prosperous in the
history of the country. There has not been
a business boom-a speculative and sudden
imitation of prices-but steady and accel-
Grating expansion of business and industry
growing out of natural conditions and causes.
The uncertainty regarding the war and
finally the event of war may have retarded
the growth for a season, but as it was
based upon general confidence and natural
conditions such an occurrence as the war
with Spain could not retard it's progress.
This widespread prosperity is not due to an
initiation of the currency, to overtrading nor
to an undue expansion of credit. 1t is based
upon the marvellous resources and produc-
tive power of the country. 1t is the prosper
ity which comes from the full employment
of labor at good wages, which has created
a demand and a volume of consumption that
the Wisest have never been able to compre-
bend, and which most persons entirely I'M
derrate. In addition to a vast home con-
sumption the markets of the world have
called for our products as never before.
In the past we have not counted for much
except to furnish food, cotton and other raw
products, but the past year the United States
has entered the markets as successful COM
petitor, making prices for staples which have
been made in Europe and figuratively selling
our Goals in every Newcastle in the world.
In the varied manufactures we have sold
the world more than we have bought. All
Europe has been rudely awakened at the
presence of a vigorous competitor in a ma
ton counted only as a purchaser in the
past In return the gold Of the world is
coming to us to pay trade balances. But
the amount which has come is but the be-
ginning for the large balances continue and
large amounts are still due From being a
debtor nation we have, during 1898, become
a creditor nation. Our metropolis is one of
the financial centers of the world and CAPT.
tai is so abundant that it is being loaned
abroad. All the statistics of transportation,
of bank clearings and production place 1898
far above any other year in our history.
From all over the country, in fact come
stories OF the rising tide Of prosperity top
ping all previous high-water marks
And the indications are that this natural
expansion of prosperity has just begun, and
that during the year 1899 the gratifying rec
ord of 1898 will be far surpassed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
TROUBLE IN THE TRANsvAAL.

The news from South Africa has become
interesting again. 1t has not been very long,
only three years since loom Paul" Kruger,
President of the TransvaaI Republic, became
famous by his vigorous repulse of the Jane
son raid and his equally vigorous treatment
of the ringleaders in the reform" move
ment which Jameson claimed to represent.
President Kruger's conduct in this crisis
and the attitude of sturdy independence
which he maintained towards the British
government excited universal admiration.
Later and more exciting events have almost
driven the Jameson raid out of public
memory. but current news from the Trans
vaal shows that the same trouble is liable
to break out again any time. The Jameson
raid was merely an incident of a much
wider struggle still going on, involving the
question of British supremacy in Africa
Whatever the British government may say,
its representatives in Africa are fixed in
their determination to extend England's
colonial empire so as to include the whole
of central South Africa. AS this would in
clude the Transvaal Republic a clash be-
tween them is almost sure to come, soon or
late. The Jameson raid in 1895 was pre-
mature and failed, but the same thing will
be tried again on similar lines. 1t is the
uitlanders, or foreigners against the Trans
vaal government The uitlanders include
not only the British residents in the Trans
vaal but number of Americans. Among
the members of the reform committee" ar
rested by President Kruger after the
Jameson raid was John Hays Hammond, a
well-known citizen of the United States and
consulting mining engineer to the British
South Africa Company. On representations
from Secretary Olney he received the pro-
lection of the British government and was
finally released, along with other prisoners.
The grievances of the uitlanders are the
same now that they were before. They COM
plain that though they constitute major
ity of the population and contribute nearly
all the revenue of the Transvaal Republic
they have no voice in legislation and no
rights as citizens. and that the government
gives no aid out of the public treasury to
any school except those in which the Dutch
language is used. This furnishes a pretty
good starting point for the organization OF
the uitlanders and when they feel strong
enough to attempt it the Jameson raid will
probably be repeated. Whenever it is there
will be some hard fighting between the
uitlanders and the Beers. and more sum-
mary measures by President Kruger. When
the next clash comes it may be the begin
ming of a war that will end in the solid
establishment of British supremacy in
Africa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
THE WAR BIRTH RATE.
DIR. Schenck Explains the Situation I'm
the United States.

Vienna Special to Chicago Tribune.
DR. Schenck was interviewed to-day re-
speeding the remarkable phenomenon of the
high proportion of male births in the United
States during the last two months. He
showed much interest in the facts and said:
II am quite disposed to attribute the in
creased male births to the martial enthusi
asm evoked by the war, but according to
my theory the enthusiasm must have been
strongest on the women's side. During the
East African campaign, when warriors made
prisoners of unwilling wives the ratio of
births was 40 boys to 403 girls. The result
was due to the enthusiasm inspiring the
men, while their captive wives were detected
and sorrowful. l think II clear that the
American women favored the late war more
strongly and more heartily than the Ameri-
can men, but this is not the only contribu-
tory cause to the excess of the male birth
rate now observable ] believe that at the
outbreak of the war the people at large
lived more copiously. This was particularly
the case with women, who took more nour-
ishment owing to the excitement caused by
the approach of war. Further, / think the
adoption of my system by American women
in large number also serves 10 account for
the high male birth rate. Nowhere outside
of Austria has the discovery excited more
interest or been utilized in more practical
spirit than In the United States. l have
received numerous approving letters within
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

Now that the commission of engineers Sc
leeted by order of Congress to make
careful survey of the Nicaraguan country
has made a report in favor of what is called
the Lull route over that of the Maritime
Canal Company. it seems that the latter
should have no further attention. Hitherto
it has engrossed nearly all the space and
time devoted to the subject. The report of
the commission of Congress, consisting of
Admiral Walker, Colonel Haines and Mr..
Houpt, shows that most thorough exam
ination has been made and that the route
favored is the better for several reasons. No
more competent engineers could have been
assigned to the work. Under such considera-
tions there can be no possible pretext for
refusing TO take the advice of this impartial
commission in preference to that of the en-
gineers in the pay OF the Maritime Canal
Company
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

the last couple of months which tally with
the first publication of my secret"
A totally different view is taken by Prof
Hernberg, chief of the Austrian Board of
Statistics. He said: ITO think that more
boys than girls are born after a war is abb
surd"
Professor Won Oettingen. an eminent
physiological authority, said he did not
doubt that all losses of men during wars are
compensated for by subsequently increased
male births In Holstein for 100 girls LOG boys
were born between 1885 and 1916. During
and after the wars of 1916 until 1858 the
birth rate Of boys rose to 107 In Prussia the
excess of boys over girls was 5.63 per cent.
TO 70 4S7 1867 ana 20 Immediately atterw YARD
1859 to 1852 to 100 girls. In Austria after
1866 boys births exceeded the rate for girls
by per cent, against before 1866. 1t is
particularly noticed that after 1886 Protest
ant male births increased by Lie per cent.
The war was most unpopular with Catholics,
while the Protestants favored it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

A Canadian paper affects fear that the
United States will annex Canada whether its
people and Great Britain consent or not. It's
fear is based upon a recent after-dinner ex-
pansion speech of General Wilson, in which
he predicted that ere long the Republic
would embrace the whole of North America.
The Toronto paper may cease to be troubled.
The people of the United States, as a whole.
are not anxious for the acquisition of Can
ada unless Great Britain should desire to
exchange real estate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

The death of Senator Morrill, has led sew
eral papers to refer to the tariff bearing his
name as a war measure. AS matter of
fact. the Morrill, tariff bill was passed by the
Republican House May 10. 1860. more than
eleven months before the firing on Fort
Sumter brought the North face to face with
"a. 1861. after the free-trade senator's opposed
TO It had seeded. II became law March
?. 1861. by the approval of James Buchanan.
AR Morrill, reported the bill TO the House
March Z. 1860, as substitute for the amend
ed Walker tarin. which Afforded neither
reysnue nor protection. The Morrill, bin was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
Germans Eating Yankee Frogs.

FFtl7III III6 lOII K7l7NNIeEI'
Jacob Fontz, gentleman who resides In
ST. Miehaei's, Md, little town not far from
Washington. on the banks of the Potomac.
makes a business of raising bunfrogs for
the market ana SHIPS them in crates con-
to the hotels and restaurants of New York
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities -
the East. IL is profitable business No
farmer In that part of the State makes half
as much money with double the labor as Mr..
Fontz. for with the assistance of two or three
thousand bullfrogs every month at the rate
of 81 a dozen, and the raw material costs
practically nothing. The fame of Mr.. Fontz
has been confined to dealers in delicacies and
epicures on this side of the ocean until re-
Gently but 1t appears that the Germans have
now heard of him, for he has Just received
an order from Berlin for 800 fat young frogs
u be shipped alive BY steamer from Bats
more TO Bremen. III Is doubtful Wnetner ne
can crafty the Teuton taste, because the de-
mands from domestic dealers are more than
he can supply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

designed as much to afford protection to
American industries as to yield revenue. 1t
marked the beginning of the protective pol
icy of the Republican party. The fact that
the United States is doing about one-third
of the manufacturing of the world is the
result OF that policy. 1t is best to give facts
when dealing with history
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

With a bonded debt of $751; 100000 France
is under bonds to keep peace with the world
except through the Paris newspapers. With
such debt and a slightly declining popu-
lation France comes near being decaying
nation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

General Mfles's Allegations Supported
by General GarretsOn.


CLEVELAND, Dec. 3O.-Gen. George A.
Garretson of this city, who commanded
division in Porto Rico. agreed to-day with
General Miles that the canned beef furnished
the army was, to large extent, unfit for
use. The general said to-day that a large
amount of the meat had to be thrown away
NV the commissary officers of his division.
'"rhe condition of affairs" said General
Garretson, was every bit as bad as was
reported. Considerable canned beef, utterly
unfit for the use of human beings was dis
covered by the commssary officer of the
division commanded. When the matter
was reported to me ordered s all meat Tsr,o unfit
for use to be DESTROYED l had previously oossas
were taken with the division These were sSae
slaughtered as they We're NEEDED. IOssi rlas
and used as little OF tho canned T stun as we
doubt that this bad meat was the cause OF
large part Of the sickness among the men:
In several instances whole lots Of the stun
had to be destroyed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
Tut, Tut!
Indianapolis Su

IIIuIdIItIpUIIo buIIs
Miss Marlowe played a splendid engage
ment at English's. AS the News has said
now for three days:
The idyllic poem of the rhythmic men
tality so masterfully and exquisitely faith
fully portrayed. most deeply appeals to our
interior sympathies and thoroughly grasps
as with hooks of the hardest steel, every
scintilla of human investure.''
The News is - on theatrical criticism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

by the way, what is your occupation?''
asked the police court attorney.
I'm variety actor" said the man who
was caught stealing a ham.
There is only one plea said the lawyer,
that | can put up; i might be able to con-
vince the court that you mistook it for your
long-lost brother
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

Senior Romero. Mexican ambassador to the
United States, who died in Washington yes
terday. was statesman of considerable abil-
ity, an accomplished diplomat and a stanch
friend OF the United States. He enjoyed the
confidence and friendship of Lincoln and
Grant, and was great admirer of both No
other person ever did much to promote
and maintain friendly relations between the
United States and Mexico as did Senior Ro-
Qnero
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

1t may be remarked that no more impor-
tant duty devolves upon the members of the
lower branch of the Legislature than the
selection of a speaker. With integrity he
should have discretion, capacity to control
and firmness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Hamme-Getting many mash notes now,
me boy?
Fatte-I got one yesterday from some guy
who threatens to mash me nose if 1 ever
make eyes at his wife again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

The wall of the anti-expansionists who
predict the failure of Our government if it
begins to acquire new possessions finds a
counterpart in the shrek of Toronto paper
that Canada is on the brink of annexation
by the United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

There is some talk of reviving the project
to build canal across the State from Lake
Michigan to the Ohio river, the work to be
done by convicts. The feasibility of the work
has been demonstrated from an engineering
r1nint of view
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

President David Starr Jordan has recently
written an article in which he opposes the
acquisition of the Philippines, but he would
"lend the islands our army, our navy and
our wisest councillors" That may not be an
nexation. but it involves the protectorate
which SO many favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-31

When so many people are in need and
disease turks in filthy streets, the Cubans in
Havana can do better with the $4,000 they
propose to expend in jollification than TO
waste it in noise They should thank Gen.
Brooke for prohibiting the demonstration.