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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
MONUMENT COMMITTEES
Met Last Night to Discuss Request of
Board of Regents.


The monument committees of both
branches held a meeting al the Statehouse
last evening to consider the request of the
board of regents for 100000 to complete
the soldiers and sailors monument as orig
inally designed. Nearly all of the members
of both committees were present. Senator
LEIGH. of Evansville. presided and Mr..
Thompson. secretary of the board of
regents, acted as secretary. Major Menzies,
of the board, was the first speaker. He
spoke of the great value of the monument
to the State and the importance of having
it completed according to the original de-
sign He said that some of the work of the
previous board had to be undone, which re-
suited in loss. He then called upon Secretary
Thompson to explain the features of the
work which should be completed. illustrat
ing the same by models He gave the esti-
mated cost of each as made by manufactur-
ers General Packard said that the Board
of Regents desired to have the work COM
pleted as soon as possible that the MEM
ners might be relieved of the duties. gem
eral interchange of opinions took place by
the members of the committee, all of whom
declared in favor OF completing work
which no other State had undertaken in
commemoration of the States 2060)0 men
who We're in the war for the Union. The
larger part of the two committees IS com
posed of veterans. but the younger men,
bers spoke earnestly for the completion Of
the work. AS the result of the conference the
committee voted unanimously to cause bill
TO be drawn appropriating 100000 and to
recommend it's passage. Several of those on
the committees expressed a purpose TO put
forth their best efforts 10 secure the pas
sage of the bill,
The Judiciary committee of the Senate
at it's meeting last night. besides recon-
mending the killing Of several unimportant
bills decided to give a hearing to-day to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
New Ficld for Nonpartisnn Reform.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
In these DAYS we see the subject of county
expense and high taxation discussed by leg
islatures and public press. Laws are en-
acted in a nonpartisan spirit 10 correct the
evils. Could the same nonpartisan spirit be
engaged TO make a law requiring the pay
ment Of taxes q voting qualification? Has it
occurred TO the legislators that county taxes
are from q to so per cent. higher on account
Of delinquences2 Here IS a broader field for
nOnpartisan reform than the wholesale
classification of public officials as public
piunderers. Men of all parties will vote to
make ard control government; then require
them 20 pay their taxes for the privilege.
indianapolis. Jan. y. r. WILDER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Bad Township Government.

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
AS an example of bad township govern
ment 1 desire to cite a case in this (John-
SOM county. -Four years ago most of the
retiring trustees retained $500 extra, and
in addition to their legal fees, for horse
hire. The trustee of Franklin township re-
tanned extra only SIS, he having no horse
and actually paying that much for horse
and buggy in attending to township bust
ness Some of the trustees who retained
the $500 afterwards returned it 10 the county
on account of the clamor of taxpayers, but
the most of them have kept the amount to
this day, Notwithstanding the cry or dis
honesty by their constituents
b. +. KINNICK.
CfreenWnnd Ind Ian ..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Hnrtr amid the Micrnhes.

As anticipated last Monday. Secretary
Hurry of the State Board of Health, started
his crusade against the microbes in the at
mosphere of the assembly halls in the State
house yesterday, and, although his APP
paratus was exposed only a few minutes
he secured what is likely to be a well-de-
Veloped crop. At the close of the session
yesterday afternoon he took a sample of the
air for analysis and while the result will
not be fully apparent until the microbes
have been cultured" and prepared for
microscopic examination, the legislative at
mosphere, judging from the amount of
life in It,, would suggest that there are
millions in it"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
A Democratic Caucus.

The Democratic members of the House
held caucus on Tuesday evening and dis
cussed at some length the advisabiity of
drawing up two bills to offer as substitutes
for the township and county reform bills.
The county bill is approved by many of the
has less friends. it was finally determined
that no new measures should be framed,
but that the changes which they desire shall
await the action on the bills by the com
mittee appointed in the Republican caucus.
AS one of the most prominent Democrats
said yesterday: I'VE will not ObStruct. We
are for reform and we will try our best to
help the Republicans frame good measures"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Indianapolis city Improvement bonds now
sell at a premium of g on the hundred.
and often higher These bonds are mort
gage, in most cases. on poor peoples prop
erty They bear per cent. interest. payable
semi-annually, and are as good as govern
ment bonds. Why not give the industrious
home-getters the benefit of good Republican
times and reduce the interest to at least .
per cent. in this city? The Legislature can
do this without harm TO any interest ana
much good TO thousands. The way to make
men believe in sound money is TO give them
some Of its benefits.
JEFFERSON ii. CLAYPOOIA
Indianapolis Jan %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
The New soldier of the Legion"

= soldier Of the legion lay starving in The camp
The girls were not around him, the grass it Was
tho damp;
And he Ioathed the cold potato aud the bread
which broke his fast,
And wept FOR the cold bottles and the not o'res
that We're past.
And a comrade knelt beside him in the chill and
falling dew,
AS he heard Of the deserters and he swore he'd
slip of, too;
While the bows went serenading Just to make the
colonel kind.
Playing softly, playing sadiy-playing Bacon on
the Itind."
Said the soldier of the legion he heard the
music's STORM
give my best girl the buttons which are on my
uniform
She fix her shirtwaist with them, she can
wear them a string,
ON the string whore she has had me for a year or
more by iing,
would dare an dangers for her-never show the
Zoe my back
But the bravest heart viii weaken after weeks
upon hanback,
Then the soldier Of the legion left the army far
behind
And the band kept MISUNDERSTANDING Bacon
the Rind
Thomas Carroll Boone in Springfield Repub-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Tbouebt to BE Edward Mays.

A rent receipt found in the pocket of a
coat worn by a man who was picked up
dead along the Big -Four tracks, near Shell
byville, Wednesday morning, indicated that
the victim might be Edward Mays of In
dianapolis. A tramp al Shelbyville declared
that the dead man had left Indianapolis the
night before for Louisville, KY, but the
directory does not give such name. The
marks on the body indicate that Mays was
struck by passing train. He was appar,,
entity about sixty-f1ve years old ana had
light gray whiskers and mustache and gray
I,.,f-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

John G. Neumann, of this city, has in
vented and patented a process of desic-
eating potatoes, and the Standard Food
Company has been organized to work out
Mr.. Neumann's process. The. product IS
the nutritious substance of the potato is
reserved and the impurities released. and
it never "spolls." 1t is dissolved in hot
water and then prepared in different forms
as food, just as the potato is prepared. The
factory at Nos. 1lS-120 South Delaware
street was opened Yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

The police have been asked by Mrs. Mag
gle Hin. AZ Virginia avenue. to look after
her daughter Lulu, seventeen years old. The
mother claims the girl has left her home
and Is with q girl named Dora Sharpe. The
mother has furnished the authorities with
a photograph cf her daughter and a descrip-
ton. with the aid Of which they are at
tempting 10 find her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Offers 5000 nm Acre.

T. J. Montgomery of the Board of Works,
yesterday received an offer of $500 an acre
for the small triangle of land that the city
owns connected with Garfield Park and
which lies across the j., M. & l. tracks.
Mr. Montgomery believes the land is worth
gardeners whose land abuts that which the
city desires to sell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

John Calderwood. repairs. 2Ols Prospect
street 800
r " and A. NJ Thornton house. BIG For.
rest avenue 81 CO.
Elisha Davis. dwelling, 214 Cornell avenue
$50.
John Gimm. shop. Linden street. $780,
Anna Boadd Walnut street, 500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

William Jay Turner, of the Citizens
Street-railroad Company, left the city yes
terday, after further conferences with rep
resentatives of the City Railway Company
Last night John p Frenzel Of the City
company, said that the negotiations We're
not far enough along for anything to be
madA public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.


The Board OF Trustees of the Central Indiana
Hospital for the Insane will receive sealed pro-
pOsais until Friday. jan q. al 10 a. m. for fur
nishing full line OF supplies for the month of
February. 1899
Requistion book will be on file at Room As
Statehouse from and after Monday, Jan % 1899
BY ORDER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

For cement sidewalks on Twenty-second
street, from Bellefontaine street to Martin
dale avenue.
For cement sidewalks on Twentieth
street from Park avenue to College avenue.
For the opening of Montcalm street, from
Twenty-first street to Twenty-second street,
also for the grading and crawling of said
street when opened.
For the opening of the first alley south of
Morris street, from West street to Dakota
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE.
Petitions Filed.

For a main sewer in the first alley east
of New Jersey street, from Twenty-tifth
street to Fall creek
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26

z. +. KREGELO FUNERAL DIRECTOR, fas
resumed business at his old establishment, 223
North Delaware street. Every thing and COM
piete Office telephone, No. 250.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Engineer's Plans Ordered

For cement walks on the north side
Washington street, from Rural street
Oxford street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
Cranky Vessels.

Even the best designers never know
how their ships will turn out when
completed. They may break all
records for speed, or they may be so
slow as to be entirely useless-a mere
waste of money.
Years ago two mud barges were
built at San Francisco, exactly alike,
constructed from one design. One Of
them was quite commonplace, but the
other raced every barge i'll the bay
and beat them all; raced every yacht
on the Pacific Coast and beat them.
She was so fast that yachts were built
on her lines, but turned out mere
barges for sloth. Nobody could see
how this craft differed from her crawl
ing sisters or from the yachts.
In 1851 the America went to Cowes,
England, and raced for prize cup.
She won that trophy, and then an
Englishman bought her and improved
her hull, stiffening it with knees
throughout. After that she lost
every race.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
The Sensitive Porsy.

The porgy, common as it is, is q
beautiful fish when seen in the water
in favorable light, and it is likewise
one OF the most sensitive of fishes. In
captivity it is easily frightened. 1t
will take alarm from something done
by a passing visitor, a thoughtless
touching of glass, or something of
that sort, and 60 rushing around un-
til it is exhausted. Sometimes q
porgy in tank may, when frightened
jump out of the water and bump its
nose against the wire screen over the
tank and be seemingly paralyzed by
the shock and rendered unable to
swim. In such condition it will lie
upon its back, motionless, except per-
haps for fiuttering of its fins, for an
hour, and then it may come back all
right again and swim about so lively
and in such good form that you can't
tell then which fish OF the lot it was
that had bumped its head.
A popularity of the porgy is its
liability to blindness. Blindness is
not uncommon among fishes, but
there are perhaps more blind porgies
than there are fish of any other kind.
There's saying among fishermen,
GAS blind as porgy."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
hot.Water Remedies.

Gone is never far from a pretty
good medicine-chest with hot water at
hand" says physician. at is a
most useful assistant to the mother of
a family of small children, who is
frightened often to find herself in the
summer wandering, confronted by the
sudden illness of one of her flock,
without her usual dependence-the
family doctor.
"If the baby has Group, fold strip
of flannel or soft napkin length
wise, dip it into very hot water. and
apply to the child's throat. Repeat
and continue the application till relief
is at hand, which will be almost at
once.
"For toothache, or for collie, or for a
threatened lung congestion, the hot
water treatment will be found prompt
ly eficacious when resorted to.
Mature needs only a little assist
ance at the first sign of trouble to
rally quickly in the average healthy
child, and often hot water is all that
is wanted"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
Spanish insOlence.

Smart life is very little seen in the
streets OF Madrid. Women never
walk about unattended and seldom dc
more than descend from and enter
their carriages. Men, as a rule, are
gravely polite, the best of them gen.
timely so, and the others with q
varnish which does very well when
not scratched. They stare out OF
countenance every woman who passes.
This, they explain, means nothing
and is indeed delicate sort of flattery
but by American ladies it is often
taken for insolence and is always very
trying.
In the Royal Opera House at Mad
rid an apparently well bred Spaniard
will not hesitate to walk down the
aisle during the entr'act, and, taking
favorable stand near the woman
he wishes to regard, stare at her for
two minutes at q time, with or with.
out glasses. No sooner is the curtain
down than nearly all the men in the
house-as rule handsome fellows
and we'll dressel-bunch together in
the middle aisle and take the measure
OF their surroundings. 1t is a solemn
moment. Nobody smiles or jokes,
and there does not seem to be much
talking. Hats are worn, and every
man looks about and stares. When
an acquaintance is deserted in one of
the boxes. he gravely lifts his hat and
replaces it, but his features retain
their impassive gravity.
The women, when one does see
them, seem to be handsomely gowned,
but they are not as good looking as
the men. They 60 about in fine look
ing carriages, drawn by spirited horses
or by spanking pair of mules.
have never seen such mules as are to
be seen at times on the shopping
streets of Madrid. You will often
find on these crowded thoroughfares
equipages that would look we'll on
Fifth avenue, fiocks OF sheep and
turkeys and slow moving oxen, not to
mention the omnipresent donkey.
The cafe life is an imitation of the
French article.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
Washington Irving.

Washington Irving was not a ready
after-dinner speaker. The author OF
" American Bookman" said that lie
Stunned public appearances. Yet
when Dickens came to New York, in
1912, Irving could not escape presid-
ing at the great dinner in his honor
They had already become friends
through correspondence, for Irving's
delight in Little Nell had to be ex-
pressed in letter to the author, and
Dickens, in his enthusiastic response,
had said:
Diedrich Knickerbocker' I have
worn to death in my pocket, and yet
I should show you his mutitated
carcass with joy beyond expression"
The night of the public dinner came,
and Irving's dread of the intr ductory
speech kept him murmuring through
out the repast. 81 shall certainly
break down."
At the proper time he rose to his
feet, began bravely but could only ut
ter few sentences, and ended by tax
ing refuge in the announcement of the
toast:
"Chsrles Dickens, the guest of the
nation"
The applause was generous and Irv-
ing took his seat.
"There" he said. "I told you ]
should break down, and l have done
itw
Later, while on his way to Madrid,
he found himself called upon at the
dinner of the Literary fund in Lon.
don to respond to the toast, "Wash.
ington Irving and American litera-
ture." All he could say in acknowl.
edgment of an enthusiastic reception
was:
II beg TO oreturn you my very sin.
cere thanks"
One Englishman at the table wa,
heard to make the laconic comment
Briefl"
"Yes," said another beside him,
"but you can tell the gentleman in the
the very tone of his voice."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14

If the invention of Mr.. Calver
proves to do all he claims for it, the
art of war may we'll be revolutionized.
No longer will it be necessary for the
maritime nations to have coaling sta
tions, and no longer will wars be
fought over the possession of small
islands, valuable only for such pur-
poses. When each man-of-war carries
its own machine for condensing the
suns rays vessel can remain away
from port 100 days. 2nn days, or year
for that matter, as long as provisions
last, cruising about the enemy's
coasts if necessary, no longer troubled
with the present great drawback to
foreign naval warfare, the difficulty of
obtaining a supply OF coal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14

The method Of suicide most popular
with males was shooting, while with
females poison was by far the most
frequent means OF self-destruction.
While 4O.3 per cent. OF the male sui
cides employed firearms as method
OF self-murder, only GA per cent. of
the females resorted to that method.
Poison was adopted by 55.l per cent.
of the female suicides, and was second
in popularity with the males, 1872 per
cent. OF whom used that means to &C.
complish their purpose. Illuminating
gas was more popular with the fe-
males than with the males, as was
also death by drowning and leaps.
Deaths by hanging and by cuts and
stabs were nearly twice as frequent
among males as among females in pro-
portion to the total number of sui.
cides of each sex.
Thirty-two of the 81 deaths from
cuts and stabs resulted from throat
cutting. Sixteen OF these were report
ed as having cut their throats with ra-
zors. Three of the five women who
cut their throats used razor, and it
was no: stated with what instrument
the other two committed the act.
The poison most popular as means
of self-destruction was carbolic acid.
OF the IA male suicides by poison, 81,
or 62.2 per cent, drank earbolic acid,
and this poison was even more popu-
lar with the females, o! whom 76, or
1913 per cent. of those dying by poison,
drank this fatal liquid. Paris green,
laudanum, morphine and strychnine
enjoyed fair degree of popularity.
The remaining deaths by poison re-
suited from the use of various poison
GUS substances. One woman ate spi-
ders with fatal consequences. A very
desperate man prepared q poisonous
drink by soaking 200 matches in
water. Both of these persons were in
prison, and hence the ingenious
methods adopted to extinguish the
spark of life.
Statements as to the cause of sui.
eide were generally unsatisfactory,
and a possible cause was specifically
mentioned is only 800 of the sos
cases. These may roughly be grouped
os follows: