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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

poses of the Art Association. but does not
cons:ds r II probable that 1t will purchase
this property nor desirable that ii should do
so. The Propylaeum is not adapted to the
purposes Of an art gallery. and the necessary
remodeiing would hardly result in such a
structure as the public has a right to ex.
pect from the Heron fund. The Art build
ing too. should be nearer the business cen
ter Of the city. 1t has been the opinion of
all who have had to do with The art exhibits
in recent years that the attendance would
have been much greater had the pictures
been down own and easy of access. That
a much greater number of persons visit the
Chicago Art building than if 1t were in Lin
coin Park or next door to the University
Is without question. 1t will be a mistake
to put the Heron building up town. And,
by the way. Is 1t not about time that the
association was making known its decision
on the site matter?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
UNDERSTANDS IN HAVANA.
Dress Reform Movement In that City
Going Rapidly On.


We note with pride that our authorities in
Havana have forbidden the appearance in
the streets or men wearing uncovered I'M
dershirts. IT has long been a matter OF re-
greet and pain among the truly esthetic That
the laboring men in Havana-men who
have to toll all day In a climate that would
make Washington faint. even during the
summer ~solstice, are given to very scanty
measures in the matter of clothing. To be
sure, the same spectacle is familiar in
Washington during June. July and August:
the capital has witnessed 1t year after year
without injurious results to himself or to
beneficient dispensation, is to be redeemed
from all such unpleasant demonstrations.
Havana Is to be made a model city. Sab
less severity. Gambling is to be suppressed.
The populace are to be robed In clean.
white pinafores.. and Puritan ob~servances
replace the ribald gayety OF four centuries
standing. Transfers, porters, laborers gen.
orally, are forbidden to adjust their raiment
to the climate. Nothing has been said about
furnishing them with Prince Albert coats
and high collars. but we are coming to that
in due time 1t Is. only a question OF logic
and evolution.
Meanwhile we are reminded of the master
stroke delivered by that great philanthrop-
ist and statesman, Porfirio Dfaz. President
of Mexico. some years ago, when he literally
stunned an innocent and artleSs population
by issuing an edict to the effect that natives
appearing in any town or city without trou-
sers should be arrested and imprisoned ac-
cording to the nature and extent of their
offending. Up to that time the average
Mexican peasant had limited his wardrobe
TO a hat. a poncho and a breechclout. He
was happy. He went nytng-ight- His
poncho covered him as he slept beneath the
arches OF Cortez's aqueducts. His breech-
clout was airy and salubrfous by day. In
the long afternoons, devoted to siesta. he
could chase the raveEous flea with every
prospect of success. The Presidents edict
fell upon him like a bucket OF wet water.
He became sullen, resentful and low-spir-
tied. In the presence of that narrowing
alternative-no trousers, no pulque or fam
dango-he beat his sun-burned brow and
shrieked "Carambai" to the callouS wind.
OF course, 1T was a mere coincidence that,
about that time, a number OF cotton mills,
subsidized by the Mexican government, had
on hand a large and unavailable supply of
plain brown stuff whose only possible voca-
ton was the adornment of the native legs.
The result, however, was that soon the
population appeared in trousers fearfully
and wonderfully made, and the breechclout
of poetry and tradition went into the cate
CORY with the Aztec pyramids. Let US hope
that some frugal and far-seeing traders In
Havana are now stocked up with shirts OF
cheap anc se-viceable calico. the aspect Of
which VIII appease the sensibihties of our
authorities, while Its use at once beauties
and ventilates the laboring classes OF the
Cuban capital.
In the name of the Prophet. figs!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
FAREWELL TO NEW YORK.


NEW YORK. May 16.-Mr. and Mrs. Brad
ley-Martin took their formal and final fare
well of New York society tonight at tbs
waidorf-Astoria- They took II in the form
of a sumptuous Dime 10 eighty-six persons.
1t is said the dinner cost $4,000. 1t went on
in a blaze of glory-viands. wines. flowers.
music, service. all were perfect, but II was
not a promiscuous function like the famous
fancy dress ball of several seasons ago..
The table had to be made especially II was
twenty feet broad and seventy-six feet long,
Table linen Of enormous size was procured.
Then came the decorating which had occu-
pied the attention Of an army Of florists all
the day. The hotel orchestra. hidden be-
hind a screen of palms. furnished music.
The Bradley-Martins will leave in the MORN
ing for Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
DIVORCE LAWS CONDEMNED.


CLEVELAND. O., May 1s--Bishop Leon
ard. in his annual address before the Ohio
Episcopalian diocesan convention here to-
day. scathingly denounced the divorce laws.
THE good people OF the United states are
raising a great cry" said the bishop.
against the admission of a member OF Con.
gress who is a polygamist. when practical
polygamy is being practiced all over this
country. Things have come to such a pass
that the nimsiest pretexts are made the
means CT securing a divorce. A slight quar-
rel or miserable lust are alike made a means
to this end" Bishop Leonard then went on
to say that he wanted the church laws so
severe that a divorced person cannot be
remarked az all by an Episcopal clergyman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Judge Bakers ruling. as reported on an
other page. in regard to the responsibility OF
4 county sheriff for the safety Of the prison.
ers in his charge will have a tendency to
discourage lynching in this State. The mob
may not be interested in the inancia well
fare Of the sheriff. but when that function
sry fully understands that he will be held
liable In money damages for any injury
tone TO the prisoner he Is extremely likely
to take such precautions to insure the safety
Of his charge as viii make jail breaking
per1lous to the gentry outside. Speaking in
vulgar pariance. there are more ways than
one Of skinning a cat. and Judge Baker
seer<s to have found a new one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

forecast in 1S3 the moral alliance OF 1899.
As far as the present situation Is concerned
1T would be of no great consequence IL JEFF
ferson's views had been what the Bryanites
and 'aunty" imperialists are claiming they
were. but as a matter of personal justice
n historic accuracy it is well enough to
show that he belonged to the class of
Americans who believe in American ideas
and institutions. and not to the class that
doubts their Vitality and opposes their ex-
tension
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Ambassador Choate was not particularly
happy in his choice OF an American naval
officer TO name in connection with Eng
lands favorite hero. Lord Nelson. Admiral
Sampson is a good officer and has done his
duty. but there is nothing SO dramatic or
Impressive in his career as to justify nam
ing him with the hero of Trafalgar. The
one American naval officer who could stand
thai comparison, and who is better known
In England than any other is Admiral
DeEey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

A Philadelphia paper urges the establish
ment In Pennsylvania of a separate prison
for women, and uses as an argument that
the State should not be behind the great
States of Ohio. New York and Massachu-
sets, which. Il says. have such institutions.
The paper does not name Indiana, which
established the first prison Of this descrip-
ton in the world. for the reason. perhaps.
that It knows how impossible 1t is for Penn
~sylvania 10 keep pace with this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Professor Sumner. of Yale. in an address
70 the New York Savings Bank Association,
while Iauding the deposition as "the hero Of
oHr civilization" said that the present rate
Of interest in the United States lis alb
normally and dangerously low" The rate
r. dangerously low because the savings bank
deposition has been saving more money than
there II q quick demand for. even In the
present times The Inference Is that Prof.
Sumner would have the savings bank de-
posltor rave less money. The demand for
leans On real estate In the West. 30 largely
supplied By savings nj In the East. has
ksl11o - tor the reason thai the stock Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

The arrest by the authorities OF the
Transvaal Republic of seven Englishmen
on the charge Of high treason probably fore
shadow the ~reopening of the exciting oc-
currences OF two years ago between the
Transvaal Republic and Great Britain.
There is an irrepressible conflict between
these interests In Southern Africa, and what
with British scheming and flibustering on
TIE one hand and President Kruger's fear
l~essness and determination on the other the
elements exist OF a serious conflict.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Following the line OF Greater New York
Chicago is to have a senatorial investigation
OF municipal affairs. The committee. con-
sIstIng of seven state senator's, viii investi-
gate the alleged police protection of illegal
resorts, the charges of colonization Of
voters ard other phases of municipal rotten
ness. From al accounts there will be no
difficulty in discovering enough Of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Sympathizers with the Filipinos who are
prating about the alleged c~ruelties of Amer
lean soldiers draw on their imaginations for
facts. A member of the First Regiment,
South Dakota Volunteers. now serving un-
der Macarthur, writes a letter home In
which, referring to the treacherous charac-
ter of the insurgents, he says:
They are worse than Indians to fight
against; they sneak up at night, lie around
behind bushes. and the wounded will lie as
If they were lead until we get nearly up to
them and sometimes past them. and then
they shoot at us or try to stop us as We go
by. but we treat them just as If they were
decent and take them to our hospitals to
cure them. while on The other hand We find
some of our boys with their hearts cut out
and cut all to pieces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Some persons will be apt to think that the
movement of a circus parade through the
streets Of Classic Princeton would not hurt
its traditional dignity more than a stu
dents mob filling the air with cannon
rackers eggs and other missiles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

ties 1t became generally known that the
First Kansas Regiment would make an adj
vance beyond Caloocan that afternoon
before the attack an orderly from brigade
headquarters was sent along the line 10
see how many fighting men there were IN
each company. In one company the captain
was uncertain, so he went along the
trenches and counted them. He had 1S.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

OF the zoo Daughters of Rebekah" who
grouped themselves on the monument steps
yesterday afternoon for the purpose of be-
ing photographed, probably 1876 wore shirt
waists. The varied and brilliant hues Of
these garments made a spectacle gay
enough to please the Oriental taste OF the
original Rebekah herself. The 1899 shirt
waist is a picturesque addition to the land
cpapa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Citizens of Madison will entertain the
Democratic editors Of the State this week.
Among the attractions provided is a steamer
trip on the Ohio Friday afternoon. Madi-
sonians are famed for hospitality, and or
this occasion Republican as well as Demo-
cratic editors will be warmly greeted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

There Is no occasion for popular grief
over the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States that deprived the officers
and crew Of the United States cruiser New
Orleans Of the prospective proceeds of a
Spanish ship captured during the war. They
all received their regular pay. and the in
centive Of prize money should not be needed
Cor the performance of duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Tie delimitation of British and Russian
spheres Of influence in China will never be
effective until they are surrounded with
high board fences Nothing else will keep
the Influence from running at large and
spreading I'm all directions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Latest dispatches report Aguinaldo as
having fed to a northern province of the
Island Of Luzon. retreating in a carriage.
At the same time a message from him to
the Filipino junta in London says: 1.-The
war will be continued at all costs" The
prosecution of a war by carriage is not
likely to be very vigorous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
The savage Bachelor.

The Missionary Boarder-Now, you know,
the man who governs himself Is greater
than he who takes a city.
The Savage Bachelor-No doubt OF that.
provided he's a married man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Russia's latest demand for a new conces-
sion In China, following soon after her
agreement with Great Britain, shows she
has not departed from her traditional idea
that promises are made to be broken. The
Gar can hardly expect European nations to
accept his disarmament suggestion serious
ly as long as he continues to go for every
thfng In sight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
kNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY,
indianapolis. Ind.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHIcAGO-PaImer House. p. o. News Co.. 27
Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel.
>CNcINNATI[. r. Hswley & Co.. I4 Vine
street.
SOuISv1LLESC- T. Deering. northwest corner
q Third and Jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co. 2S Fourth avenue
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. D. c.-Rigg House. Ebbitt
House and WIZARDS Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis writes ex-
citedly in the North American Review of
1.-The Curse in Education" Her illustrations
are not drawn from domestic life. Young
Richard Harding is not cursed with the
fatal gift of too much knowledge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
PANIC In A HOTEL.
Force Guests to Seek the Fire
An their Night Robes.

TOLEDO. May 1.-THE Madison. one OF
the largest hotels in the city. narrowly es-
capped total destruction by fire this morning.
the blaze originating from a disturbance In
electric-light wires disarranged by the storm
yesterday. There was a panic among the
sixty guests, bur they made their exit mainly
by firc escapes in their night clothes. and no
lives were lost. The loss viii be nominal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
Shameful

The Baron-It is nothing but a shame that
he should be so rich, the old ~scoundrel!
The Count-Especially when one takes into
consideration his having no daughters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

An outbreak OF manifestoes and pronun-
ciamentoes seems to be imminent In Cub
Since the Spaniards left there has been a
dearth OF that sort of thing. and the Gu
ban soul yearns for 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

1t looks as II the task Of saving the Gu
bans from themselves might prove more
dificult than delivering them from the
Speniards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Kansas City Journal.
Uncle Russell Sage does not agree with
Andrew Carnegie that IL Is a disgrace TO
die rich. At the same time Uncle Russ
Is in no hurry TO die In good circumstances.
Funerals in New York are so dreadfully ex-
peusiye.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
Minneapolis Journal.

A book. why I am a Vegetarian" has
appeared In Chicago. The author refuses
to slay and eat the gentle COW, but sacri-
hces the life OF the aspiring radish without
a qualm. The radish gets even afterward
however.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
.ore Vuformat,ou.

T~ommy-Paw, what do they put water in
stocks for?
Mr.. Figg-To soak the investors with. my
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

An unseen spirit in the trees
Swings high a censor sweet with musk,
And sets the tulips quick ablazes
n blossom dances down the breeze.
And wakes a oird<note In h dusk
That silvers all the lilac haze.
IA X 1cpuht&r5ek n Harper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
wtndow-Glass Plant Burned.

MONONGAHELA. Pa. May ie--The en-
tire plant Of the Monongahela Window glass
Company. consisting Of works. stockrooms
and Offices. was destroyed by IRE to-day.
Loss. $4,000; insurance. $500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

Philadelphia Telegraph.

PniIdueIpn1a 1eIegraph-
Admiral Dewey has laid the American
people under such lasting obligations hat
he should be conceded the right to restrics
their acknowledgements of these oblfrations
within the limits of human endurance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

of Life.

LESS thar a year ago." she unused. "he
said he would lay down his life for me. and
row he won't put up the window screens"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

PORT TOWNSEND. WASH. May N-Col-
Iector of Customs Heustis seized eleven bar
rels OF beer on tho steamer Humboldt last
night. Tho beer was consigned to the
colonel OF the Iwenty-fourtk 1nfantrys
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17

loanable money in the West has been in
creasing rapidly the past three or four
years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-17
One of Harrison's strong Points.
Journal.

There Is one admirable quality about ex-
President Harrison. He doesn't permff him
self TO be interviewed until he a ready 10
say eomethlng- When he says Il. IL imme-
oaaeeAy pecomes = matter or record.
The Lamar register., 1899-03-08
TO SUCCEED.
MADE ROCK ISLAND MANAGER.
Takes the Place of rruesdale. the Re
dEnink Executive Omcer-Promotions
All Along tho Line Civil servics
Principles Prevail.

H. A. Parker. second yice-president
OF the Rock Island road. was yesterday
appointed general manager of the road
vice w. H. Truesdale, who has been
elected president of the Lackawanna.
Mr.. Parker will have charge OF all
transportation matters, but reports and
communications relative to the freight
and passenger departments will be
handled by the heads of those depart
ments instead of by the general man
ager. The position of first viee-presf-
dent is left open for the present. The
following promotions were also an
haunced, all effective March l: II.
Cover, general freight agent, to be as
sistant freight traffic manager. with Of
fice at Chicago; Z. B. Boyd. general
freight agent lines west of the Missouri
river. to be general freight agent line.
east of the river, vice II. Cover. pro-
NOTED, II. II. Embry, commercial
agent at Buffalo. TO be general freight
agent lines west of the Missouri river.
with office at Topeka, vice E. B. Boyd.
promoted. 1t will be seen that all
these promotions have come to officials
already in the service of the company.
the management preferring to stand
by ciyil-service principles rather than
go outside for new men.
H. A. Parker has been in the contin-
uous service OF the Rock Island road
since 1866. with the exception of one
period of less than two years. He was
born at Du Plessis, N. Y. in 1S4I and
began his railroad career as chairman
on the Rock Island in 1866. Two years
'ater he was appointed divisional en-
gineer. During part of 1868 and 1869
he was resident engineer of the Fort
Wayne. Jackson & Saginaw rail-
way. but speedily returned to the Rock
Island road. with which he has since
remained. From 1869 until 1873 Mr..
Parker was engaged as extension and
divisional engineer and from 1873 to
1876 WIS chief engineer of the Oska
loosa g. Knoxville division. For the
next nine years he was divisional en-
gineer OF the Illinois division and from
1885 to 1889 vice-president and chief
engineer Of the Chicago. Kansas G.
Nebraska railway. part OF the Rock Is
land system. In 1883 he became assist
ant to the president and little later
was elected third vice-prestdent OF the
company. Two years ago he became
second yice-president.
The Lamar register., 1899-03-08
SAN TO.

to kill a man in San Francisco. he
stopped He brought the sword to his
side again. turned to the judges and
said: The culprit is dead"
The newly-executed got to his feet
and said something to the Judge. The
Judge did not heed-for the culprit
was dead. He tried to speak to the
Cinnamon. who were hurrying from
the hall. But he spoke to deaf ears.
To all intents and purposes he was n
dead man
He made his way into the street and
the first thing that caught his eye was
huge poster proclaiming to all China
men that he had been executed that
evening. No one would speak to him.
no one look at him-he was a dead
man-just as dead as II the execution
er's sword had In reality descended.
For a whole week that man wander
ed about Chinatown. the posters pro-
claiming his execution staring him in
the face at every turn. Not crust of
bread could he bes-not mouthful OF
water. His people knew him as dead
he was past. gone. buried
And so one day he wandered up into
the American portion OF San Francisco
and stole a revolver from a messenger
boy. who was showing it to some com
panions. Then he ran down into Chi
natown. sat down on the pavement be-
meath one OF his own death notices aad
blew his brains out