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, 1898-08-05

Dorothy under her care wheE we &C
away"
"Go awayl Who is going away" cried
Egerton sharply, with a keen glance like
\ a stab.
Don't suppose I am going to do any
thing desperate" said Callander, with a
grave smile. Mrs. Callander and | talk
Of going abroad for a month or two. |
want to have a look at the battlefelds on
the French frontier, and to go on into
Switzerland. OF course Dorothy will
stay here
The trio dispersed, Standish proceeding
along the beach to a long spit Which
stretched far into the waters.
Meanwhile Callander and Egerton walk
ed slowly toward the hotel where the
Dowager had established herself. Here
Egerton left him.
When Colonel Callander was ushered
into his mothers sitting room he found
aer as usual richly and deliberately dress
ed, and knitting a huge coverlet, while
Miss Boothby, her companion, read aloud.
She gave a cold straight ~unresponsiye
hand to her son.
Il hope you are all right after your
long day In the open ARP he said, as he
drew a chair near her work table.
AAuhA SOus L d1 us uSudl. 4 get
little sleep. My mind is too anxious TO
permit of repose!'
That's bad" said Colonel Callander.
vaguely.
You need not stay, Miss Boothby,"
SAID the Dowager. Il wish to converse
with my son." The meek companion rose
with a smile and disappeared.
Il came to. ask you If you have any
FOm m M I %ht1ix -
tomorrow. | want to arrange one or two
matters before going north"
North! Why, where are you going
nowY querulously.
Mabel and l think of taking a trip
through the Highlands, or to Switzerland.
l thinkeFhe wants a change as much as |
do" -
There I agree with you" observed Mrs
Callander, significantly. "She has had a
worn, distressed look ever since-I mean
for a considerable time"
You think SOP" said her son with n
quick, fiery flash from his dark eves-
warning which even his mother dared non
disregard. II trust she has no cause for
distress or anxiety-at all events she
seems to consider the panacea for her ills
IL q quiet journey with me-"
Il am sincerely glad to hear ito WITH
pointed emphasis-'pray, when do YOU
start?'
Early next week. May ask what
your plans are?"
IF zen are going away there is no par.
uc1iar object In ny remaining. l don't
suppose even when you return I shall see
much OF you."
There Is no reason why we should not
De as much together as you like" returned
khs Colonel dryly. However, If you are
comfortable here, and don't mind staying.
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Those who mould and move most the
minds and actions Of men are seldom seen.
They never head the procession.
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IS p aBdTHsI lI, TOO. FeFhaps Il
would be as well not to inform Mrs. Cal.
hinder, for instance. that I was able to
give your sister some repose."
.Oh, certainly not!!' cried Dorothy.
'SThe less said the better, people are SO i'll.
natured. I hope my dear sister will not
want your aid any more. l shall sit and
watch her till she wakes, and SO | must
say goodnight now
Ito be continued.)
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419 bVcIIOn OF uIil.
beggj ssist him in inducing
her tN nind. This Colonel
CallandN. Ansented to do, but
Paul stan show any great
aagernegs Influence on the
"The only p9 feel iHclines
to conide so N zee of intelli-
genee," said they to my
mother. 1t is right she es-
pecially as it is probable leave
Dorothy under her care wher we go
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with consideration of an important meas
ure is not right, but an interference with a
constitutional function of the House to con-
slider and act upon business before it. The
member whom the speaker called to order
was proceeding to make speech on poiiti-
cal matters. which he could have printed
at nominal cost and sent free TO his
constituents. The Loud bill is proposition
to put an end to an abuse in the mail ser
vice which is costing the treasury SIC, 600. 900
a year. No more important measure has
been before the House during the session.
If member has nothing to say for or
agains't this bill while it is pending he
should hold his peace, ana :t he has not
the good sense - do 1t the speaker should
enforce the rule against him, no matter to
which party he belongs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND. THINGS.

The trustees of Colby University, Water
Vile, Me-, have formally accepted a gift of
SIS 900 made by Chester w. Kingsley, Of
Cambridge, Mass
1T is said that the earliest mention made
of the use of coal as fuas is in the records
of the Abbey of Peterborough, in the year
$50 A. D., where is found an entry of twelve
cart loads of fossil fuel
Mrs. Lucinda NJ Hoff, of Boston, who
sued Roxbury hotel keeper for damages
On the ground that she caught pneumonia
in the hotel because the owner failed to
provide sufficient heat, has been awarded
ST. 900.
DR.. Edward Everett FIale told lecture
audience not long ago that the plan of Bos-
ton is almost perfect, and that its streets
were no doubt scientifically laid out. The
lecturer discredits the story that the thor
oughfareS of THE Hub' were marked out
by cows.
Mr. NJ M. Gillian, for number of years
head of advertising departments for Wan
amaker and Hilton, says that the best
advertising medium is the daily newspaper.
and every day and changed every day Is
my motto. for j would as soon print Ola
news as old advertising.
The discoveries of quinine and stIychnine.
NM. Pelletier and Cacentou, are to have
monument erected to them in Paris. Phar-
nacists in every part Of the world are in
vited to subscribe. The monument will take
the form OF Two statues, 10 We SttCLSu III
front OF the High School of Pharmacy,
Paris.
The hackmen of Topeka, Kan, have de-
clared war on Mayor Fellows. He gave
party few nights ago, and in order to
save his guests the expense of hiring hacks
to take them home, he called the hurry
up" wagon from the police station and or
dered the driver to make general delivery
of the guests at their respective places OF
abode.
An interesting relic of Goethe has just
been brought to light at Altoona. A mer-
chant of that place bought at sale an old
clock for % marks. He took 1t TO clock
maker. who. after cleaning 1t, stated that
the gold about it was worth 800 marks. But
this was rot ALL In the interior of the
clock was this inscriptions: Dem nchtef7
furstea j. w. Goethe gewjdmet tdedlcated
to the prince OF poets. j. w. Goethel Here
the history of the clock ends, for 1t Is not
known at Altoona how it came to be put UP
for sale.
Comic journalists all over the world are,
of course sympathizlng with Herr Trojan,
editor of the Kladderadatsch, who reused
the Emperor's ire by a caricature in which
the latter's grandfather was made to laugh
at William ths Incessant. In strong con-
trast to the present HmperorS SHY course
IN ordering Herr Trojan 10 be clapped INTO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
A TOPIC FOR THE MUNICIPAL RE-
FORM COMMITTEE.

Now that a committee of the State Board
Of Commences is considering measures which
will insure better municipal government
and greater advantages TO the people, it
seems that it should consider the future of
street railroads. One of the great evils of
street-railway management is the watering
of stock, or, more accurately speaking, the
issue of stock that is entirely fictitious
ver-capitalization, as it is called, is the
wrong which other corporations have per-
petrated to the sometime injury of the peo-
pie. but in street railways enormous issues
of stock, and even of bonds. representing
no value paid into the treasury, are the
rule to which there is scarcely any excep-
ton Take the Citizens Company of this
city: it is bonded for $4,0O0O0O and 1t has
issued So, 600 600 of stock-a total of 100000
When the company made this statement 1t
claimed to have one hundred miles or
track. This means that the street railroad
of Indianapolis is capitalized at $4,000
mile. And yet the company has not been
compelled to pay dollar for the right of
way where it uses the streets and nothing
for it's franchise. 1t is said that the plant
could be duplicated with ample power for
less than $50 goo a mile. 1t is not probable
that the present plant cost the company
over IS, OOO, COO, SO that $1,0000OO of bonds and
s5,COoO90 of stock represent no value ex-
pended whatever.
1t will be said that no dividends are paid
on the stock. The answer to this observa-
ton is that at some time the managers ex-
meet that a dividend will be paid, when the
stock will have a market value and make
the large holders wealthy. Lower fares, a
proportional share of the expense of the
maintenance of streets and other fair re-
quirements will be resisted, to the end that
this stock may be made to have value.
Electricity as a motor is sure to cheaper
with the years, so that, if high fares are
maintained dividends extorted from the
people may be paid or this bogus stock,
Already interest is being paid on $1,O00O90 of
bonds in excess of the probable cost of the
road to the company, so that the patrons
OF the road are now compelled TO pay $4,000
a year on bonds which represent nothing
in the cost of the road.
Doubtless other street railways in In
diana are thus fraudulently capitalized. If
they are not they will be, because it is an
easy way to wealth to issue lot of stock
which costs nothing but the printing. and
I'm time force the patrons OF the railway to
pay fares which viii pay dividends thereon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

paign lie of 1896, and an insult to all railroad
employees who voted for mckinley. General
Shattuc, of Ohio who for more than thirty
years was a railroad manager, resented the
charge. In doing so he said:
There is not in this country to-day more
independent, manly, courageous. world-wise
and generous class Of people than those in
the railway service. 1t would not be safe
for any one to undertake to control the Suf-
RACES or these people. These railway en-
ployes are as a rule, all educated. self-re-
lying, self-respecting, quick 10 resent any
move that appears to be AN infringement of
their personal rights, and am glad to say
that, from personal knowledge, they re-
sented very ernphaticaly similar ISLANDERS
in 1896, and they viii, | am sure. maintain
their manhood by resenting the SANDER
that has been repeated on this floor, and
made part of the record of this Congress,
just as soon as they get a chance.
As a railroad man of long experience he
declared that railroad employees had not
been and could not be eoereed into voting
against their wishes and convictions Popu-
list Greene, of Nebraska undertook to re-
peat the charge. and after General Shattuc
had silenced him Fox got the floor and re-
iterated it. Deny it as you WILL he said,
'it is a fact that the railroads and other
corporations controlled the vote of their
employees for Mckinley by intimidation,
threats and bribery. If the laboring men
Of the country had been allowed TO vote
their convictions VIM. ]. Bryan would now
be President of the United States" The
railroad employees and laboring men of the
country ought to feel complinented at be-
ing credited with the election of Mckinley,
but they ought also to remember and resent
the revival on the floor OF the House of the
insulting charge that they We're voted like
cattle. .sai74s
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
RIVERS AND HARBORs AND PUBLIC
BUILDINGS.

The probability that the House will not
pass a river and harbor appropriation bill
must give very general satisfaction to the
country. The creation OF rivers and har-
bors has increased faster than population.
There needs to be a reconstruction of the
whole system. For the Improvement of gem
eral waterways like those connecting the
northern lakes and of the larger rivers
which carry q large commerce, like the
Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi for the
opening of harbors like those at Calves
ton, Tex, which are the terminals of inter-
state railway systems, liberal appropria-
tons should be made, because they are
works of national Importance. Millions of
dollars have been expended upon inconse-
quential rivers, wholly within States, rivers
which half the year lack the water neces-
sary to make f1atboat navigation possible.
Every river and harbor appropriation bill
for years has contained appropriations for
scores of such rivers or creeks. If of any
use for the purposes Of navigation 1t is
entirely local and the traffic is of little
consequence. A few years ago case was
exposed where the appropriation was to
fit small river for log driving. At the
present time there are schemes pending
which simply private enterprises, like
the making of an artificial harbor near
Chicago. At no time should money be voted
to such schemes. yet the urgency for river
and harbor appropriations comes largely
from such sources.
When the United States has the money
to spare there are quite number of cities
in which there is considerable federal bust
ness which have wholly inadequate public
buildings. indianapolis is one of those
cities. Its postoff1ce facilities are probably
the most Inadequate of any city in the
civilized world of it's population. The Fed
eral Court rooms and offices are not only
inadequate, but Anticipated. The federal
government rents offices for the pension
agency and the weather observer. 1t would
be a good investment for the government
to erect public building at the capital of
Indiana which would afford suitable ac-
commodations for it's increasing business.
1t would be wise to suspend the work of
water and harbors which can have no COM
merce until such cities as indianapolis are
provided with public buildings. If, how
ever appropriations cannot be afforded
for much needed public buildings, let the
general river and harbor bill, except to
complete really national works, be thing
of the past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
Electric Fire Engines.
Washington Post.

washington GOSt.
''If the invention of Chief Barrett, OF the
INDIANAPOLIS fire department and Chle1 I'm
gineer Rail of the same city'S water WORKS:
proves a success, the heavy ana
clumsy steam fire engine will soon DE q
thing of the past" said Mr.. Kinney n;
Graham THESE gentlemen have invented
and will apply for patents on an electric
humping machine to take the place OF the
fire engine and may. in the near future,
Introduce the new machine into service IN
their own CITY Every one knows the d1Sad-
vantage of the heavy rolling steam ire en-
CINE which is slow to arrive at a ire ana
is sometimes very arbitrary iii the matter
~ raising sufficient pressure OF steam IN
The very short while that means thousands
RI dollars in a conhagration which might
ba.,a been nipped in it's bud. The electric
engine consists of an annular reservoir
TnoIlnted on wheels, and from which may
ha thrown as high as ten streams with SUI
dcent force to carry over ten-Story Dulid-
ing rotary pump forces water into the
reservoir at a high pressure. Attached ul-
rectlv TO the pump is the powerful electric
motor Arriving at the fire. connection Is
made nv lengths of wire to electric llght
1ircuits trolley wires or stations for the
Durnose near each water plug. the latter
heing the idea I'm perfecting the scheme:
The whole affair is very light and Is one or
the most practicable ideas that can DC
inaeined for doing away with the punlng
steam engines, with their flying sparks and
deafening noise This revolution in fire APP
narattls will of course, require much tune
before being finally adopted, but 1t VIII
surely come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
The Foreign wheat Crop.
Philadelphia Record.

Calcutta advices to the London Times IN
dictate an abundant wheat harvest in India.
Should these reports prove to be correct the
fact of Indias ability to contribute, more
largely to the needs of Europe would en-
courage continued conservatism on the part
of foreiOn buyers, although several months
must elapse before shipments of new wheat
from India could be laid down in Liverpool.
Europe's wheat reserves are very low, but
her buyers show disposition TO resist the
price imitation which mas been of late in
progress in Chicago and other speculative
markets They are encouraged in this at
titude by the fact that Argentine ard Pa
cfic coast shipments of wheat are now
offered to them at lower prices than the
figures fixed by speculation for the available
wheat supplies of Chicago and the Atlantic
ports.
wheat from the present United States crop
are very favorable: but improving crop
prospects in other countries, the outpour of
larger stocks than had been believed to re-
main ON farms in this country and the
growing use of American corn for human
consumption in Europe may easily defeat
the movement among spectators TO cor
ner'' the markets before the new crop shall
become available.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

It is to be regretted that wise friends of
abe administration did not head off the Gu
ban trip of senators and representatives be-
fore it started. Such trip at this time
seems ill-advised and is pretty sure to be
misunderstood or misrepresented by the
Spanish press and people. 1t is probably
true that the trip has no official signii-
eance, but it will b. hard to convince the
suspicious Dons of that fact. and this is
not time when the causes Of friction
should needlessly oe increased. The visit
ing statesmen should have done their jun
Reting in some other quarter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03


Il am an Englishman by birth. but an
American by inclination, affection and
adoption. [ believe that people who come
to this country from other countries, and
are always complaining about our laws and
our institutions, ought to be made to go
back to the country they came from. L
don't think such people ought to be allowed
to sing My Country IT'S of Thee
SO said Commander Ballington Booth, of
the Volunteers of America, during his adj
dress at the Woodward-avenue Baptist
Church last night, and the words epftomize
the spirit of his whole speech The adj
dress was a discourse on the condition and
progress of the organization which Balling-
ton Booth founded nearly two years ago,
and incidentally it was a vindication for
Darlington Booth and his followers for the
action they took in breaking away from
the organization headed by Ballington
Booths father.
This was Ballington Booths first appear
ance in Detroit since the famous split oc-
CURED in the ranks of the Salvation Army,
and the Volunteers of America came into
being.
1.-THE democratic spirit of this country
appealed to me- said Mr. Booth. II be-
lieve in democracy, in the rule of the many,
and not in one-man rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

The Financial Chronicle makes compu-
tation from all the railroad statistics of the
past year, which shows that of the gross
sum Of S1,1OO.OOoOOO earned by the roads
s7Js,00O,00O was distributed for wagess sup
plies and other expenses of operating leav-
ing nearly $3.50 10000 to bondholders and
shareholders. All Of which goes ito show
that the employees and general public are
more deeply interested in the roads than
the people who own them. Any policy
which interferes with the earning capacity
Of the roads harms the general public quite
as much as those who are called the mag
nafas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Philadelphia Times
There are two living ex-Presidents OF the
Renublic one a Democrat and the other u
Republican; both have been appealed 70 Ior
some expression on the present apprenep-
sion of war with Spain and both declined
to be interviewed for publication.
Ex-President Harrison when applied 10
l,v a newspaper correspondent for his opin-
i'm al 10 the duty of the hour, refused 20
give his views in detail. as Re did not wish
fo embarrass an administration that has
his unbounded confidence. He summed up
the duty of the hour. however, In two
words: ITO wait.
Ex-President Cleveland also declined 70
be interviewed the situation, but said
fhat in his Judgment nothing could be
more dangerous and reprehensible than
sensational statements constantly appear
ing Tia the press. based upon nothing bet
ter than mere guess. and desire TO eX-
hibit false and silly newspaper enterprise,
so-called.
Both Cleveland and Harrison were heroic
men as Presidents, aud brave men don't
babhle. They always walt Nntil action is
demanded and then they act. ana that is
Just what President Mckinley seems TO he
doing He won't invite war, but ne Is get-
ting the Nation fully prepared for war an
the best method of preserving peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

The regular press dispatches noticed re-
cent passage in the House of interest to
railroad employees, but did not disclose the
full scope of it, A few days ago Mr.. Fox,
a Democratic member from Mississippi as
serted in a speech that railroad magnates
vote their employees without reference to
the great principles of their party, Of which
prehension. This was revival Of cam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Old man Tackett has left the gold fields
of Brown county and started for the Klon-
dixie, taking with him the iron pan which
he had used in prospecting in Brown county.
AT first glance this may look discouraging
for the gold mining industry i'll Indiana, but
it is not. Old man Taclxett is not 1.-THE
whole thing" There is still gold in the
creeks and rivulets of Brown. county, and
for many years TO come visitors to Bean
Blossom will be able to- purchase of the
local jeweler rings made of Brown county
gold, the purity and origin of which are
more or less we'll substantiated. What
though old man Tackett be lost, all is not
lost He and his iron pan will be a ma
terial addition to the resources Of the KIon-
dixie, but gold hunting in Brown county viii
still go on. ,-4-.Ha
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Speaker Reed was clearly right in re-
fusing to permit a member to break into
the discussion of the merits Of the very inn
portant Loud bill with political speech
which had no reference whatever to the
measure under consideration. His declara-
tion that he will hereafter strictly enforce
fhe rlile against men on both sides of the
House viii meet with general approval.
The iuggestion OF Mr.. McMiIlin that the
enforcement Of the rule might lead 70 the
deniag OF the right CT speech is frivolous.
70 make political speeches which interfere
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

Upwards of 81 100000 a day is the record OF
the Dingley law for February-$2S,5 T2, 5SS in
twenty-eight days. This'is a larger revenue
than has been received in any February I'M
der any tariff law since the Inauguration of
Grover Cleveland. AS against this revenue
of $2S,572, 5S8 the expenditures of the govern
ment in February We're $26T27,C0o, leaving
a surplus of 81, $40, 53S. The Dingley law has
been in operation since August, 1897, and the
records show that the total receipts under
it have increased from $40, $685. 14 in August
to $2S,572.53S in February, the average daily
receipts increasing from $629,79 in August
to $l,02O,447 i'll February, During the first
seven months that the Wilson law was in
operation the total receipts We're 159,20l 1888
against $l75, SlS,7 ISL during the first seven
months of the Dingley law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03

In view of such evils. the able committee on
municipal reforms should devise some plan
by which the over-capitalization of street
railways shall be made a crime, and which
will provide remedy for wrongs already
perpetrated-a remedy which will wiring the
the Citizens Street-railroad Company.