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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
BILLS SIGNED YESTERDAY.
Many Minor Measures Approved by
The President

WASHINGTON, March 3.-President Nc
kinley will go TO the Capitol at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning and remain there dur
ing the closing hours OF Congress. This has
been a customary practice with many Presi-
dents at the close of the short session. when
the passage OF important bills are delayed
frequently until almost the constitutional
expiration OF the Congress. The executive
Is thus put In easy communication with the
legislators. with whom he can consult re-
specting the merits OF such measures as
might at first seem Objectionable. During
the day the President approved the follow
ing bills:
Authorizing Admiral Selfridge and other
officers OF the United States navy TO accept
medals presented 10 them by the Russian
government; creating the Mount Rainier Ma
tional Park. In the State of Washington;
the naval personnel bill; authorizing the
construction of public buildings at Nor
wich. Conn: St. Cloud. Mimi; Salem. ore. /;
Admission. Ala; Annapolis, Md; GAINESVILLE,
Wis: Eau Claire. Wis: Oskaloosa. Ia. !;
Creston. Ia: Streator. H.; Columbus. Ga;
Rome, y. Y; Leadville. CoL Newport, VT; /;
New Ibera. La: CarroIlton. Ky: Freeport,
ILL.,, Winston. n. c.: Cleveland. o.; Balti-
more, Md. custom house; New Brighton,
Pa; Lockport, Pa. Stockton. Cal: Los
Angeles, Cal, and enlarging building at
Macon. Ga; for taking the twelfth census:
the Buffalo exposition bill; TO reimburse
Governors Of States and Territories FOG ex-
penses incurred in the Spanish war; pro-
viding a new building for the Department
of Justice in Washington; making appro-
priations for fortifications and other works
OF defense; for a bridge across the Missouri
rfx af Nau II alt Of
international Cotton Press Company, New
Orleans; TO enable the city OF Albuquerque,
viding for the allowance of certain claims re-
ported by the accounting officers OF the
treasury; also. those bills authorizing First
Lieut. John r. Williams. Third Artillery,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
China Cannot Break Contract.

LONDON, March 4-The Daily Graphic
announces that the British minister to
China. Sir Claude Macdonald, acting upon
Lord Salisbury's instructions, has notified
the Tsung Ii Yamen (Chinese Foreign
Office that Great Britain will hold China to
the terms of the contract in the recent rail-
way loan, and will also support her in re-
sisting any aggression intended to force her
to repudiate her obligations under that con-
tract. AS the result of British action. ac-
cording to the Daily Graphic, Anglo-Russian
negotiations have been resumed, with the
prospect of an amicable arrangement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
Prince Henry Now i'm Command.

BERLIN, March 3.-Emperor William has
appointed Prince Henry of Prussia to suc-
ceed Vice Admiral Won Diedrichs IN COM
mand of the German squadron in Chinese
waters.
The Neueste Nachrichten, remarking upon
the importance of the appointment, says:
Prince Henry, being the brother-in-law of
the Car and grandson of Queen Victoria,
the appointment viii tend to assist the ad-
justment OF East Asian differences. We
anticipate that the Anglo-American press
intrigues against Admiral Won Diedrichs
will cease in the presence of a prince en-
joying such great popularity. especially in
the British navy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
Esterhaxy Tells u Long story.

LONDON, March 4.-The Daily Chronicle
publishes this morning ten columns of
story told by Major Count Ferdinand Wal
sin Esterhazy, under oath. of his evidence
in the Dreyfus affair before the Court OF
Cessation and OF his relations with the
French general staff. 1t is a tedious recital
regarding the mysterious letters. communi-
cations, interviews. facsimile letters, photo
graphs and the like bearing upon his rela-
tion TO the case. The ten columns are
described as an instaliment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
A JEALOUS HOSTLER.
Kills "a Servant Girl and Wounds n
Hotel Proprietor and His Wife.

ALLENTOWN. Pa. March 3.-In a fit of
jealousy tonight Frank Krause. a hos:ler
at the Cedar Hotel, three miles west of AL
lentown, shot and instantly killed Maggie
Good, a twenty-year-old servant at the ho-
tel He also shot Owen Kern, the pro-
prietor. in the head and abdomen, and ne
may die. Then he shot Mrs Kern in the
arm. Krause fled but was found at his
brothers house, hopeiessly drunk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04

LONDON. March 9.-It is officially an
nounced that as the treaty of 1862 gives
France equal rights with Great Britain in
Oman. Great Britain has withdrawn her
objections TO France placing coal sheds on
the shore similar to those Of Great Britain,
provided France does not attempt to obtain
territorial rights in Oman. This is under
stood to be part of general scheme for the
settlement of the various differences be-
tween France and Great Britain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04

carcerated in the military prison, pending
trial for their conduct at Manila. The gov
ernment has also ordered the prosecution OF
General Linares. who was in supreme COM
mand OF the Spanish forces at Santiago at
the time of the capitulation TO General
Ehafter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
Spanish omcers Imprisoned.

MADRID. March 3.-Admiral Montejo,
who was in command of the Spanish squad
ron destroyed by Admiral Dewey in the
battle OF Manila bay. and the commander
or the Cayite arsenal. were this evening In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
CLOSING SCENES OF THE LAST LEIS-
LATIyE DAY OF CONGRESS.
Much Confusion and some Display OF
III Temper In the House During
the Afternoon and Night.
Mr.. WALKERS vALEDlCTORY
CURRENCY COMMITTEE AND III. III.
HANNA's METHODS SCORED.

An Opportunity Given Henry u. John
son to Get in "a Parting shot
at the Administration.
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Wab casieafares by R James Wallace.

sential for the child s future welfare by very best educators. Besides, such things would tend to disarrange the mental capacities of the little dears.
 It is better for the five-year-old at his first day in school to hear dissertation on physiology, to learn how many bones there are in the human body, to under stand the difference between veins and arteries, to be able to estimate the con- dition of the health by the heart beats, even though they can't count the heart beats.
 In five years schooling the average bright child will have mastered physi- ology, natural history as taught in the public parks during the spring terms, they will be able to make beautiful pasteboard houses-the pasteboard and gummed paper supplied by the school board-they can tell the bestroute from Chicago or New York to San Francisco, and they can write their names beauti- fully, even though they can't spell it.
 But Chicago is progressive city, well up in education as well as in other things. And then there is an abun- dance of time for the child to get an education after he is out of school and in the business office.
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AOttu thSoC' RoP NASb or hear them read by coffee house nar- rators quite in the Arabian Nights style, are not Turks as rule. Some arc Syrian Jews, some Armenians, some pure Greeks from Crete and other places where the Greeks have become Mohammedans.
 Those who speak of the Armenians as a united nation do not understand that there are Armenians who speak and read Turkish, Armenians who use only Russian, others who read Armenian in the Greek characters, and only small proportion who read Armenian in the Armenian type. The Turkish speaking contingent is by far the largest; and they can no more understand the others than the others can understand them.
 The making and selling of rugs, can- dies and trinkets seem to be the usual pursuits of these men in New York. though in New England they have gone into homework and factory work.
 What impresses me is the readiness with which New York swallows up io.- 900 men of very far-away kind so ef- fectually that no one ever notices them. OWEN LANGDoN.
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Senatorial Conrtesies.

There is some quiet talk about Sen ator Hoar's recent magazine article, and especially his reference to Senator elect Depew's share in defeating Ali sons nomination to the presidency in 1892.
 Mir. Hoar's story is in brief that at preliminary meeting of heads of state delegations the nomination of Allison was agreed upon. Three of the Big Four" from New York attended the meeting and said that they would do what they could to bring about the termination. They saw MT. Depew, the other of the four, and he replied that his own nomination had been blocked by the Changers, and that he wasn't going to let them make one. Messrs. Platb, Miller and Hiscock were therefore obliged to drop Allison, who thus failed of an honor that seemed certain.
 Now this story is old enough; but the revival at this time, just when MT. De- pew has been chosen as colleague of several prominent actors in the incl dent-and by senator-seems like rather warm reception for him.
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 liar name, has Writers Are SfarVae. been advertising
 heavily in the newspapers. and 10000 people had simply bought the wrong thing by mistake. Now, if advertising brought 10000 readers to the other fellow, how many itmust have brought to the advertiser himself!
 Yes, advertising does pay. For some time two women have been con fined in the Tombs-Fayne Moore, charged with participating in the badger game; Mrs. yermeule with de frauding merchants. The other day a youth with straw-colored hair was peddling two short articles by these women about the newspaper offices. Together they were column long,. "But you can pad 'em out" said the agent. His price for his wares was $150-$75, less commission, for each. writer. It is fact that Mrs. Moore. for simply signing so-called story two. columns long, received $t20. These women have been well advertised. One of them is spoken, vulgar erea' ture, not worth a moments attention of anyone. But one of them is now to get $1,oOo week to show herself upon the variety stage.
 It's pretty tough that such prices should be paid to prisoners, while able people, who have never had the adgan- tage of incarceration. find jobs so hard to get.
 If we could only get five dollars week, we could live somehow" :" the wife of an able and experienced writer for the press said to me the other day, half crying as she said it. These are the contrasts of New York.
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Gordon has asked the post office department for an in crease of salary because of these won derful receipts, but we imagine he rather envies the fourth-class post masters who get for their services the amount of the stamps they cancel.
 Statistics show that the people of Chicago are dying off at the rate of 14 out of every thousand every year. But there is not much danger of the big town becoming depopulated, for there are some 600 babies born every week.
 To judge from the figures submitted in the annual report of Chieago's chief detective it would seem that the cry for increased police protection was not we'll founded. Capt Colleran says that his detectives arrested more than 1000 of the wicked during 1898, and recov- cred $165,000 worth of stolen property. The total value of stolen property re- covered by the entire police depart ment was $367 ,000. But Chicago's real wickedness is shown from the number of arrests made by the entire police force during last year, the total being over 70,00o. But still an unsatisfied public complain if one sinner escapes. And here is another which is unim- portant and interesting only as the product of mathematical crank, who says he was not educated in the Chicago public schools. He has carefully fig ured out the annual heart beats of Chicago, and finds that they amount to 5,5s4, ,0oo, ,o00, ,00o and a trife over. but the few extra ones do not count.
 WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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which they so conscientiously serve 10 keep themselves busy. They have conn mitted to memory that old proyerb which tells of the wicked things that Satan finds for idle hands to do. They are not anxious to be caught in any of Satan's traps, and 10 prevent them selves falling a prey to Satan's wiles they have decided to take upon them selves new labors-of congenial kind. They believe that way of spending their idle hours, profitable to them selves if not to the public, would be in drawing and counting an increased sal ary. In consideration of this desire to work they have themselves voted to each and every member of the county board an additional S1, ,0o0 per year.
 But while the county board are yot- ing themselves an increase of salary the public is agitating the subject of con solidating the city and county govern ments and abolishing the latter en- tirely. This is a selfish world, and the public is looking out only for it's own interests, and seemingly cares nothing for the county politicians. They see in the consolidation a chance to reduce taxes, but have never given thought to the salaries they will reduce to low a point that the poorest sweat shop em ploye would not work for it. We have heard of the politicians saying "the public be d. but in this case it is the public saying ''the politicians be d--.''
 Really there should be some way of arriving at an amicable agreement in this case, and we believe that the eoun-. ty board would, if approached in the right spirit, signify their willingness 10 work for the best interests of the county at their old salaries rather than see their offices abolished entirely.
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nine q. m. to ten
 D. m. The library contains some 25o,- 600 volumes, and the number is inereas- ing at the rate of close to 20,000 volumes each year. That the public appreciate the advantages offered is evidenced by the number of cards issued by the cir culating department, there being at the present time over 75,000 persons holding subscribers cards which en- title them to take books to their homes. The number of these cards out are in- creasing at the rate of about 5000 per year. The number of books taken from the library during 1898 by the holders of these cards was 1,471.95s volumes, 0 daily average of nearly 5000
 The library has 1T delivery stations from which one can draw books, and maintain six reading rooms in different portions of the city. The following are some of the figures submitted by the librarian for the year 1898;
 The use of books in the various ref erenee rooms has been about 100000 volumes, and of periodicals and news papers in the reading-rooms about 100000, making the aggregate use of books and periodicals in all depart ments of the library at least 3,000,o00. An hourly record of the attendance in the main reading and reference-rooms was kept each day from nine a. m. to ten p. m., and it shows that the average number of readers at the close of each hour was Al in the reading-room and 66 in the reference-room.
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on Hls Wall sign hangs upon tie wall of his office. The rest of the building is modern; here reigns the spirit of 100 years ago.
 The old China trading firm of A. A.. Low has gone out of business, Presi- dent Seth Low, of Columbia college, and his brother William having more important work than squabbling for money they do not need; but the office has neither been torn down nor rented. The old place, full of memories of days when tea-laden clipper ships raced home around the Horn, is kept just in its 50-year-ago condition, and rheu- matic pensioner hobbies about the silent room whose sole task is to take care of it.
 Something of the same sentiment is shown in the offices of the Astors. In stead of taking fine suites of rooms in some big downtown Babel tower, they completely occupy two compact build- ings only three stories high. upon q quiet uptown street. Their buildings are shrines whither come all who do business with these estates of $100,000,- 900 each. The clerks speak in awe struck whispers, and there is an air of solemn calm about them.
 A curious enmity between the two places, too, is an echo of the strained relations between the two branches of the family. The '.W. w." clerks are hardly on speaking terms with the 'J. J." outfit.
 Speaking of the Goelets, the widow of Ogden, who is perhaps to marry the earl of Chesterfield. is not so rich as the absurd stories told would indicate Mir Goelet left most of his $50, ,o00.0 900 to his son and daughter; his widow has an annuity of $150,o0o year and about S500,000 down.
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tered number, please 270,000 times each day, while in 1897 the number was only 220,e00 per day.
 The commercial traveller can tell the first of each year whether or not he is entitled to an increase in salary by the amount of his sales during the past year; the mechanic, by the work he has turned out and the prevailing prices for such work; the politician by what he can get, and the telephone girl by the talking she does.
 Women are proverbially fond of talk ing, according 10 prosaie man, but the hello girls say one can have too much of even a good thing, especially when conversations are limited to two words, and love is barred.
 Of course, it is pleasant to have a polite answer to your ring at the tel cphone, but if the girls cannot get raise, and feel that they are giving too much talk for the money that is paid them, they might leave out the please" Even that would be prefer able to the public to wasting car fare, time and postage that would be neees- sary if the girls were to quit and force the telephone company out of busi- ness.
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sc1OOt C Il l | q I t Il what's 0 m e s a ' fads, s Q m e sa y a Il y t h in g a n d everything but the three R's.
 This end -of-the- century education is a peculiar thing. Even more peculiar than the end-of-the- century notion of art, as Illustrated in the poster. and that is certainly
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 but he has shown and Joyous Wsistcoafs. much ability. As
 matter of fact, he is by no means a dude. In his youth he was poor and worked in fish store-and worked with a will. He attracted the atten- ton of a rich uncle, who helped him to get ar education, and the rest was easy. Mrs. Woodruff is one of the most beau tiful women in Brooklyn, and has had much to do with her husbands success. AS for waistcoats, have seen Roscoe Conkling wear green necktie that was as ugly as Japanese god. Tom Reeds tow suitsin summer have never subject ed him to more than playful comment, and Levi P. Morton's antiquated stove pipe hats have escaped calumny.
 Yet it is the rule in New York poli- tics that man must wear very sober but correct garb-black frock coat, high hat, black or dark tie. Even on the Bowery, where the garb of his hear CTS is sufficiently varied, a campaign speaker makes a mistake if he departs from the usual raiment of states man." And that raiment has not changed for 20 years in any essential particular.
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If that had happened in London, it would nave made mere of stir in New iorK. l nave inquired of our tailors about this innovation and one ana all say it is hopeless 10 try such a "re- orm" here. It took ten wears to make ne iuNedo jacket go, and even now t is only worn at club occa sions where nen alone are presest. And this is the only really new garment for men since the French revolut on abolished knee brooches.
 About all we car do 5 said one tailor nournfully, lis to cut off or put on a o1ple o1 inches tothe tail of coat, or
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characters. There is a Syrian Ladies' society formed for benevolent pur- poses. These peo- pie live mainly in Greenwich, which was for a long time the exclusive ly American part of the town. Many of them wear their picturesque n g. tional costumes.
 The people who
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interestln z ; K Heaven gra t e IT. t h e. y translate the word in Paris.
 outwardly like it's neighbors, it contains one re- hinder of old New York in Peter Goe- let's office, encys- ted, unehan g e q, with filial care in the new structure. You cannot see the exterior, of course but old Peters lit
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salary besides the ''hello" girls of the telephone c 0 m- pany, and what. is more have agreed among themselves not to go on strike to get it, but to give it to them selves.
 The members Of the county board of Cook county find that they have not sufficient to do to occupy all of their time. and above all things the politician ab- hors i'd l e Il c $ s. They feel that it is to the best inter- est of the public
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pig thlnSs that are popular in Sbi- cago.
 The men whom Postmaster Cor don has been in- sisting S h 0 u l d
 W e a T uniforms took in pennies, dimes, quarters and larger sums to the total of $S,- 0o0,000 for Uncle Sam during 1898. We have not yet heard that MT
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library does not. It is an ninstitution of learning that is a f f 0 r d in g the means of a liberal education to thou- sands every year. The large reading and r e f ere nee roomsare crowded every day from. early morning to late at night, the hours are from nina O. na 4a fnv4
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of Yale. The prop osition is not so ab- surd as it m a y sound to those who only think of MT. Woodruff a s { h e wearer of the most gaudy and joyous waisteoats in pub Lie life. He is really an able man.
 Woodruff was a tenderfoot in poli- ties when he began,
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changed little. And yet when the best dressed man in Paris was mar ried the other day, this is what he wore: A gray red iHg-te such as the first Nap o l e on wore, very tight at tae wal s t n d ladded about the shouldefs; a diree- toire collar, a vio- lst velvet satin tie snd other things
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The "hello" girls of the Chicago Tel 1 ephone company want an increase of

salary. Not that they have inti- mated that they intended to strike if they did not get it, for the tele-
 phone-using pub lie who are ae- customed to swear at "central'' would not permit 1t. But the girls figure that to them talk is money, and they
 are talking more than they did a year ago During 1898 the little tick CT in the central
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A4N s'As A se ~ es .
 an old, sleepy pulp lication of small circulation a n d settled ways. Re gently and unae- countably it's cir culation leaped up 50 perc e n | though there was nothing newin#it, nor had been for 50 years.
 The explanation was that another publication of diff ferent character, but somewhat sim
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amazing. To know how to read, spell and figure, to be able to multiply, add,
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unimportant Figures.

Chicago is a big town, and deals in large figures. In fact, it is only the
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 It Has No EnIIs.

If the public schools of Chicago teach more fads than education the public
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Down on lower Nassua street, where huge buildings shut out the light IS an
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A Chance for .tr1m" Woodruff.
 There is suggestion that Lieut. Gov. Tim Woodruff may become president
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The Turks in Tnwn.

There are three papers in town printed in Turkish, or rather Arabic
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HEARD AND SEEN IN GOTHAM Owen LangdOn Writes of Miionares, Dudes, NA S< politicians and Other Things in New York y


to modify the colors of neckties. Tba.. are no new styles. Scotch plaids wers the thing for ties year or two aeo ana ,s now they are not. Bat what does tbat amount to?"
 What, indeed, to soul thirstine 4os the good old days when men were lits peacocks for the glory of their attiras