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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
woMAN's FATAL SKILL.
One Explanation of ChicagO's Large
Divorce Record.
Washington Post.

Washington POST
Il don't wonder any longer at the fire.
Washington man who had lust returned
from the West and was relating his ex-
periences to some friends yesterday.
while l was there friend took me to
a school exhibit, to show that pork packing
was not the only industry of the place.
Along with the usual dfeary array of map
ship and that sort Of thing were boxes,
cabinets, rolling pins, hat racks and about
everything portable. that can be made of
wood. There We're all We'll made and showed
skill. was surprised to learn that they
were all made by young women in a nor
mai school They give an hour or more
the lathe.
The teachers all say it is an aid to text
DOCK study, that the pupils brains are rest
ed and they attack their books with fresh
vigor. Yet, as even the girl graduates of a
normal school are not Indifferent to love
and marriage. ! think the manual training
Is a mistake. am sure good many Chi
cago divorces might be traced to it.
The happiness of married life depends
very much on the husbands sense Of SUI
periority, at least in practical affairs. He
gives to his wife the first place in all ques-
lions of morals, music, art and even litera-
lure lie may be proud of her erudition,
out when 1t comes to knowledge and Opin-
ion in everyday, practical matters, in eco
Monies and the Sciences his inferiority is
calling. In these circumstances the saving
thing, the very pillar of married happiness
is the fact that she can't drive a nail
Maybe he can't either but he thinks he
can or says he. can, while she admits her
Ignorance and impotence. She admires or
pretends to admire his skill in the use of
tools, and there is peace. Marriage is never
failure where the wife has tact enough
to make her husband think she can't add
hgures or do things a man should be able
to do Now, the young woman who is
trained in the school to use hammer saw,
plane, chisel, knife and so is bound to
be more skilled than the average man. She
couldn't conceal it even if she had the spirit
of self-denial to try. This robs him of his
last ground of superiority or equality. She
ceases to be clinging vine. He knows she
smiles in derision when he smashes his
thumb This is the beginning of the end,
the forerunner Of divorce
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

Some Washington dispatches state that
President Mckinley is throwing the weight
of his influence in favor of the annexation
of Hawaii, and that it is understood to be
an administration measure. In one sense
this is right and in another it is wrong. AS
a measure of national Importance and pa
triotic policy, it is desirable that a Repub-
lican administration should favor so valua-
BILE an acquisition as that of Hawaii hut it
should not be made partisan question In
a question of such magnitude there is no
room for party politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Canadian Mining Negotiations.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. IA committee Of
the Cabinet has drawn up ncw regulations
regarding mining in the Yukon. which
make important changes. 1T is now stated
that the alternate-claim regulation has been
abandoned, and that the government pro-
poses to reserve alternate blocks of ten
claims which. 1t Is thought. will give
miners better opportunity 10 operate. The
present intention is TO reserve the govern
ment blocks until they are disposed of at
public auction. Another feature OF the new
regulations is the abandonment or the slid
ing scale Of royalties Instead. an even roy
atty of 10 per cent. will be exacted from all
miners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The City of Mexico Telegram, a well-con-
Quoted daily paper published in the Next
can capital. discusses Mr.. Bryans recent
visit to that country with the following con-
illusions:
/. That the conditions of Mexico and the
United States are so Numerically opposite
that comparison is not only impossible
but even absurd
2 That the fact that we have free
coinage is not responsible for our present
prosperity. In fact, probably under a gold
standard we should have done as well, if
not better
3. That the present rate of exchange has
accelerated investments here, remem boring,
however, that unless the very excellent gov
eminent we possess at present through the
grace of God and Porfirio Diaz did not ex-
list not cent2vo would be invested in this
republic, however favorable exchange
4. Even allowing that our prosperity is
due to our having unlimited coinage of sill
Yer, the conditions of every sort here are
so absolutely different from those prevailing
in the United States that the fact that the
white metal was source of benefit to Mex
leo would at the same time tend to prove
that it was an impossible benefit to our
great northern neighbor.
AS Mr.. Bryan has not yet announced his
conclusions regarding the effect of free sill
yer at 16 to 1 in Mexico it would not be fair
to impute any to him, but it is safe to pre-
dict that they will not be wiser than those
above quoted. The Mexican paper clearly
implies that whatever degree of prosperity
may exist in Mexico is not due to free sill
yer, and even if it were, the difference in
conditions in the two countries IS so great
as to put comparison out of the question.
No better argument against the Bryan folly
of defending free silver in the United States
by reference to Mexico has been made than
this which comes from a Mexican paper
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The New York Times, sound-money Dem
and Hannaism keeps alive in the West the
fondness for Bryan" This is said in COM
menting on the McEwen letter. But the
Times is mistaken. Many leaders in the
West are for him because they have not
the sagacity to see his weakness, while the
rank and file of the Democracy which voted
direct. If the leaders should be converted
to the McEwen avowal, 16 to 1 and Bryan
would not be heard Of in Indiana six months
hence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Jan. H-Adel-
phi Rink was crowded tonight to its ut
most capacity, fully two thousand men and
women attending the mass meeting OF the
union and nonunion weavers of the city.
The action OF the union in voting to strike
was voted to stay out until the abuses
claimed by the weavers are corrected. The
Weavers demand, first, restoration or
wages: second. the abolition of the fining
system. and, third, the adoption of unf-
form price list in all the mills of the city.
1t was the sentiment of all that the weavers
would not go to work Monday, even II the
notices were taken down tomorrow.
The union and nonunion card ana picker
room operatives held mass meeting To-
night. The vote to resist the cut-iown was
unanimous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

COLUMBUS. O.. jan A-Judge Taft to-
day. in the United States Court. temporar-
lily restrained Harry Brister, treasurer OF
jefferson county. from selling beer. horses
and wagons Of the Reymann Br wing Com
pany. OF Wheeling, w Va. ana attached
in Ohio. to make good a state tax on manu-
facturers Of beer outside of the State but
delivered within Ohio IN original packages.
the Dow law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The result Of the latest attack on the
civil-service law has been to prove what the
journal has asserted many times. viz. that
tration Of the law than in the law itself
The Civil-service Commission has been in
vested with too much power and has exer-
cised it too arbitrarily, and the Presidents.
one after another. have pushed too far their
power to make rules. These are the errors
that demand correction.
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The .True unlformity,, Agreement.

PITTSBURG, Jan. H.-At a meeting to-
day of Pittsburg coal operators favorable
to true uniformity conditions, commit
tee of five was appointed to nominate uni
fOrmity commission after which the meet
ing adjourned to assemble again at the call
of the committee. Secretary Johnston stated
that fifty-three operators, representing 40
per cent of the production of the Ptssburg
district had signed the uniformity agree
nent Among those present to-day were
John Little and Joseph Bishop, OF the OHIO
hoard of arbitration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

SEATTLE, Wash. Jan. 1.-THE Canadian
steamer Danube of Victoria voluntarily
placed herself in the custody of the United
States authorities to-day. Last December
the Danube violated the customs regula-
fions in Alaska Orders were issued to
seize her hut she sailed out of American
waters before seizure could be made. The
Danube wants TO enter the Alaska trade
this season, and her owners with a view OF
bring her and put her through seizure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
KIondiIxers Getting Ready.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER, Ind, Jan. 14.-Joseph d.
Lee, representing the Portland. Ore, Board
of Trade. was here yesterday. and made
rates with a party of Klondikers, composed
of MessrS. Harry Mount, II. A. Dodge. NJ.
]. Spenacy, Tim Spellacy, A. e. Linneman
and George Harmon, all prominent young
men of Montpelier. They will depart about
Feb. Is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. H.-James Jack
son has arrived from Boston with a num-
Der of carrier pigeons, whose homing in
stincts he hopes to utilize in the work of
establishing regular communication between
Dawson City and st. Michaes next winter.
lie intends taking his birds to St. Michaels
as soon as possible and will establish sta
tons at convenient intervals from there to
Dawson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The battle in the ranks of the Democracy
on the issue OF 1S to 1 will be sharper than
many expected a short time since The 16-
toll people may carry the organization of
the Democratic congressional committee,
but the ADLER men and those in all the
States which the Democracy needs are not
FOR the narrow issue of 16 to /
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The news of the improved condition Of
affairs in the Alaskan gold fields indicates
that by the time the government relief
expedition" shall arrive there the miners
and other inhabitants will be in a position
to feed them well and send them home with
good wishes and plenty Of provisions for
the return trip.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

AS far as can be gathered from the dis
patches from the Indian Territory, the In
dians have acted in a more civilized manner
than the whites. The latter lynched some
Indians in very cruel manner on suspicion
of having committed crime, including, as
it is now thought at least one innocent
man, while the Indians have not retaliated
at all. The balance of credit seems to be
decidedly in favor of the red man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

SEATTLE. Wash, JAN 1.-THE report of
Major Rucker. who was sent TO Dyea re-
Gently for the purpose of accommodating the
ground preparatory to starting the govern
ment relief expedition and interview persons
coming from Dawson on the need of relief,
has been received here and forwarded to
Brigadier General Merriam, at Vancouver
barracks. While the exact tenor of the re-
port is not known it is stated that il dis
courages any unnecessary expenditure of
energy and money in carrying out the pro-
posed expedition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

Sylvester Pennoyer, once Governor OF Ore
gon. in which position ne made himself ri
diculous. and now mayor of Portland, would
have been quite forgotten but for his dis
patch advising the monetary convention to
disperse. The currency reform movement
is fortunate in the enemies it has made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

1t is very off year nowadays when a
few ''tailors from Tooley street" do not get
together and form a new party. The self
appointed leaders of the Populist party have
just done this at st. Louis. They forget
that parties are not made to order like
omelettes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

NJ lola should remain in the world of tic-
ton and dreams, where the novelist be-
longs AS soon as he ventures into the
world of real things and real people and
says his novelistic things, using names that
are in the directory and not in the clouds,
he finds himself in the nasty meshes of a
libel suit. Cobbler, adhere to your pegging
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

would stand for associations and perhaps
for generous emulation among the pupils
of the different schools. The present nu-
merical nomenclature is conspicuously de-
void of originality and Imagination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

holds eighty-n.ne patents, improvements on
also invented other mechanical contriv-
ances, but none that brought him as much
fame as the Understanding machine. Mr.
Backstrom is Swede by birth. He has
spent about twenty years in this country,
for a number OF years being prominent as a
manufacturing in Trenton. ~ j
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Important Case.
New York Evening Sun.

NEW DIX E1NtIIIIIS sun.
1t is satisfactory to note that twelve good
men and Nsrue viii be called upon at an
early date to decide whether 1t IS legal cru
city to insist your wife living in a board
ing house. For all theorists on the subject
of the home" the question Will have deep
interest 1t will obtain the conservation OF
a leading case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Not So Lucky.

Brown is a lucky fellow. He has so lit
tie ear for music that he doesn't know one
popular air from another
I'm better off than Brown. I can recog-
nize one of them before it gets started. So
/ have a chance to run"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The recent decision of the Supreme Court
settles the fact that the Board of Tax Com
missioners is not a coordinate branch Of
the government. Perhaps it is just as well
TO have it understood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

what is your business?' asked the man
in the shiny suit
Change artist" said the man in the loud
checks.
Lightning, or short?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

plant, and the Board of Public Works
agrees with him. 1t is quite possible they
are right At all events. the matter is one
for careful consideration from a business
Doint of view
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The near approach of the time when the
guarantees on asphalt pavements will ex-
pire requires consideration of what shall
be done TO meet that condition. The general
system of Improvements must be continued.
and the street pavements already laid at
heavy expense must be kept in repair after
the contractors guaranty expires. To do
this city the engineer recommends that the
city should own and operate an asphalt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

1t appears that the report of sending war
ships to Cuba to protect the lives of Amer
lean citizens is not true, but it would have
been had they been in peril
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The Constitution of Indiana vests all Leg
islative power in the General Assembly. and
q careful reading of 1t does not show that
it gives any ministerial board law-making
power, not even the Board of Tax Commits
sioners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The rioting in Havana may subside or be
suppressed without important consequences,
but it looks very much like one of those
symptoms which precede the collapse of a
government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The loaning of money to China was Eng
lands idea, and now William of Germany
is trying to get in on the deal without in
fringing on the copyright.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

He-Oh am substantial citizen. There
is nothing comet-like about me.
She-Comets, l believe, are quite bright,
but not at all dense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. 1.-the steamer
George w. Elder sailed tonight for Skag-
and a full cargo. Six hundred horses and
nearly six hundred dogs go out by the Ell
der.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Waterman Shot a. unity.

PITTSBURG, Jan. i4-Rosarlo Iauso. a
Waterman at Unity. Pa, on the Pittsburg
Bessemer & Lake Erie road. was fatally
shot this morning by an unknown negro
because he refused 10 give him food or
money. The negro escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

" VANVtN , H7tt
aoItiyoora Arnarican

Baltimore American.
Next Monday Mr. Wolcott will address the
Senate on the work of his commission. 1t
ought to be entitled "Banquets, and How 10
Enjoy and Digest Them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

It seems absurd to the people at large
that the speeches in the Senate relative to
the annexation of Hawaii must be deliv-
cred in secret session. 1t is said that the
speech of Senator Davis in support of the
treaty was one of the most mastery argu-
ments ever heard in the Senate. 1t is alb
surd that it should be denied to the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

AS between Richard Croker. Tammany
chief and W. J. Bryan. Nebraska states
man, it is only difference of spelling. They
are both croakers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

Democratic party will sidatrack Bryan in
1900 or whether he will sidetrack the party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
BANK CLEARINGs HEAVY.
Increase of 41.0 Per Cent. at Indian
apOlfs This Week

NEW YORK. Jan. lathe following
table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the
bank clearngs at eghty-seven cities for
the week ended Jan. 10 with the percentage
of increase and decrease, as compared with
the corresponding week last year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

The body of Durrant has at last been ere
mated. With that final roast the world will
rest its case
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Reindeer for the KIondike.

NEW YORK. Jan. 14-Eleven reindeer ar
rived to-day on board the Wilson line
steamer Martelo, from Hull and will be
shipped to the Klondike region.
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waghington

Washington Post.
The New York Journal wants Mr.. Bryan
to broaden out. The journal ought to be
satisfied with the fiattening out process
through which he nassed In 1896.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Untimelx EnterprIse.
Kansas city Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
BY INDUCING in a tornado in the middle
of January Arkansas shows disposition
to unduly crowd the season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

process in order to block any similar at
tempt in Alaska. United States Attorney
Gay is preparing libel papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
AstrOnomicnl.

OOUEL atNu OOUTtIHBs
Tommy-Paw, what is a court fool?
Mr.. Tigg-As rule, it is the man.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
Can be found at the following places:

an be found at the following places
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Pamer House. p. o. News Co, 217
Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel
CINcINNATI-J. r. HawIey & Co.. 154 Vine
street.
LoUIsyILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co.. 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. c.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-Nearly 600 coal miners
and operators, representing IlliSois, Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, will meet in joint
convention in Chicago on Monday for the
purpose of bringing about, if possible, the
adoption of wage scale and working agree
ment in order to prevent a general strike
next summer. The majority of the miners
and operators agree that it will be difficult
to avoid a repetition of the troubles of last
year. Other questions beside the disputed
wage scale will enter into the controversy
It is said the largest operators in the East
cents for which the men struck last year.
This would mean an advance of about %
per cent. over the present prices While the
operators it has been said, on the authority
of one of the officials of the United Mine
Workers Of America, that the 69-cent scale
will not be accepted without other conces-
sions. and even then, the miners say, 1t will
be bitterly opposed by the union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
Prosperity Cannot He Restored by
Cutting Wages of Operatives.

BOSTON, Jan. H.-The Globe says that
the cutting down of wages will not solve
the difficulty with which the textile manu-
facttrers now find themselves confronted,
according to the opinion of men who are
regarded as authorities in textile manufac-
turing and who, having been brought Up in
the cotton business, have made it a life
time study. Reductions in wages, they
claim, tend to decrease the demand for the
product of the mills and affects cotton as
well as other industries. In support of this,
the Globe quotes Robert Howard, ong iden-
titled with the cotton industry at FAN River,
in which he says, among other things, that
1T is not wise to reduce wages now unless
the price of cloth is reduced in proportion
Il believe in high wages for the people,"
he says, land If the manufacturers would
advance wages 20 per cent. all along the
line it would soon start every spindle in
the country humming."
When asked how it was possible for man
ufacturers in this country to make their
goods cheaper, he said: THE situation in
England in many of the mills is somewhat
similar to that in the South The opera
tiveS run four looms in England and in the
South while in Fall River and other New
England cities they run six to eight on the
same class of work" Mr.. Howard believes
the weavers will strike in New Bedford and
thinks they ought to receive the support of
every person in the New England States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

Totals United States. 81, 443O.2, 129 Inc. S76
Totals outside n. -. 500 ,131. SAB Inc. $50