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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
Buffalo Jones.

This is narrative of pioneer life and per-
sonal adventure. Its complete title is, Buff
falo Joness Forty Years of Adventure: A
volume of facts gathered from experience,
by c. l. Jones, whose eventful life has been
devoted to the preservation of the Amer
lean bison and other wild ANIMALS; who
survived the perils Of the frozen north. the
land of the midnight sun, among Eskimos,
Indians and the ferocious beasts of North
America" This rather sensational title
does not confer any additional interest on
the book, which is sketch Of the life and
adventures of typical American frontiers
man. Charles j. Jones was born in Illinois
in 1874, and migrated thence successfully to
Missouri, Kansas and the further West. He
obtained his sObriQuet of Buffalo Jones from
his persistent efforts to save the American
buffalo from extinction. He did some inter-
esting work in that direction, and the best
chapters in the book are those which de-
scribe the habits Of the animals and relate
his adventures in connection with hunting
them and his efforts to domesticate and
breed them. There are only about 300 buff
faloes now left, and it is claimed the preser-
walton of these is due to the efforts of Mr..
Jones. The story of the passing Of the buff
falo and of Mr. Jones's romantic search for
the almost extinct musk-ox in the arctic re-
gons is very interesting. The work is COM
piled and edited by Col. H. Inman and pub
lished by Crane & Co., Topeka, Kan.
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deep and go down the south marsh TO the
Lake and Potter county line and then cross
into Lake county and use the Brown and
Singleton bitches TO the State line. Those
bitches will have to be widened sixty feet
and made deeper and then the great water
course for about twenty miles will be practi-
cally straight. and the force water will get
In the new channel cannot help but deepen
and widen the new river in short time
until IL will have the capacity to carry of
the great body of water that now holds full
sway there several months each year.-Val-
paradise Star-Vidette
John r. Pearson. the indianapolis gas
magnate. said yesterday that gas belt peo-
pie or rather some of the newspapers have
a mistaken idea of the object in the trip
which indianapolis people are now making
through the gas belt. He says there Is moth
Ing farther from the truth than the state
ment that that committee has been sent out
by the Indianapolis Commercial Club for
the purpose of inducing gas belt factories
to move to Indianapolis. I'VE have not
seen manufacturer and do not expect TO, '
exclaimed MI. Pearson. Our object" said
he, rs simply to investigate the gas supply
with view of, ascertaining the best plan
for handling the fuel in Indianapolis this
winter and whether or not TO adopt meter
measurement. That is all our visit contem-
plates. Anderson Herald.
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DETRIMENTAL TO ALL.

The strike which has so interfered with
the good order. business and industry of
Cleveland had it's origin in a dispute be-
tween the managers and the employees of the
company in regard to the employment and
discharge of men. The representatives of
the union demanded that men who are not
members of the union should not be en-
ployed and that no union men should be
discharged without the consent of the COM
mittee of the union. There was some con-
tention regarding the reinstatement of men
who had been discharged. The differences
could not be adjusted, so the employees
struck After several days CT disturbance
incident to attempts to put nonunion men
in the places of the strikers a compromise
was effected upon the basis of the employ
ment of five crews of union men to one
crew Of nonunion men. The officers of the
company complain that the union men in
the union men charge that the officers did
not keep their pledge In regard to the re-
employment of those who had struck. Out
Of this disagreement a second strike was
ordered. For nearly two weeks the city
has been filled with turmoil. Many persons
have been injured and the burdens of thou
sands have been increased because they are
compelled to walk long distances to BUSH
ness. The National Guard has been called
cut to prevent riots.
AT length. by the presence of the militia
the street cars are again running without
molestation, but few dare ride in them be-
cause to do so involves the danger of being
tiacklsted by the labor organizations. The
boycott extends to every branch of business
even to people who would simply ride in
the cars Retailers dare not supply the
militia with food. Thus far the street.
railway company, the. employees and many
others have lost thousands of dollars, the
State has been to the expense of calling
out the militia. and tens of thousands of
people who depend upon the street railways
have been put TO inconvenience and loss.
AS It now stands the street cars are run
ming. but few ride in them. and the hun
dreds of employees. while they are without
work. are able to prevent people from pat
ronizing the railways. How long these con-
ditions can continue II is impossible to
conjecture. In the nature of things an end
will come: when 1t does it will be by some
sort of compromise with which neither
party will be satisfied, but no compromise
can make good to railways. employees. re-
tailers and others the losses thus far in
Cured. If a compromise were effected to-
| day the employers will not be able to get
| back the money lost. and the employees will
! have lost a large amount In wages Re-
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the general direction of the divisions of the
army commanded by Generals Lawton.
Wheeler. Macarthur and other skillful
officers can be assigned TO some other man
he will not hesitate to do so. In 1854 there
were editors all over the country who de-
manded the removal of General Grant on
the ground of inefficiency. Some of them
were politicians who desired disaster for
There were more editors who denounced
the removal of General Mcclellan as a
monumental blunder than sustained Pres
ident Lincoln in making the change.
Now it must be admitted that Lincoln was
right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The securing of list Of candidates who
are qualified for the responsible positions
of school commissioners involves consider
able effort on the part of those who are
the real friends of public education. AS
rule men who are qualified for such posi-
tions will not circulate petitions to get the
two hundred names which are necessary to
have their names placed upon the ballots.
Consequently. If the best men for the posi-
lions are to be secured, there must be some
concert of action on the part of the friends
of the schools to circulate petitions for such
men that they may be candidates. 1t is a
natter which cannot be long deferred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
Criticism OF the Manila Campaign.
HarDer's Weekly

The protest Of the newspaper correspond
ents at Manila is unlikely to be needed by
those in power. The field operations In the
Philippines have been conducted with vigor
and intelligence. If they have not been sue
cessful it is because General Otis has not
had sufficient force, and IL is to be hoped
that this difficulty will be met during the
coming winter by the new volunteer regi-
ments which are now being recruited The
farther fact remains, however. that we have
not a thoroughly efficient military force,
and that we shall not have until Congress
does its full duty and enacts a law under
which the military establishment can be
made to meet the requirements of the occa-
sion. In the meantime the news seems to
Indicate that the rich mestizos who are
backing Aguinaldo are getting tired. which
may, in turn, indicate a speedy end OF the
conflict without further boodshed. IT, how
ever, the war must go on there must be
more troops and a vigorous pursuit of the
enemy that will definitely settle matters. If.
In order to accomplish this object, corre-
spondents must be censored or banished,
after the manner of Kitchener there is no
reason why that should not be done.
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1t is the proper thing just now for class
OF newspaper editors to declare that Gen.
eral Otis is incompetent and should be re-
called The only evidence of IL is the fact
that he has insisted that $1,000 men were
sufficient 10 quell the instruction. No man
whose judgment is worth anything will
maintain that the army mas not been well
looked after by General Otis. and there is
no evidence 10 show that his reports have
not represented the conditions as they ex-
listed. Whether or not he is competent, the
Journal Is In no position to judge. because 1t
does not claim infaIlibility. But of one thing
all may be certain: The President is better
informed than anyone else can be. unless
ne Is a military man and on the spot. II
the President comes TO the conclusion that
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than the Southern victories at the two
Bull Runs" Later on our great and success
ful generals muzzled or expelled them
AS was stated at the outset, Gen. King
was in position TO understand the man.
agement of affairs about Manila from the
1st of December until the heaviest OF the
fighting was over. No correspondent. how
ever able, had either the experience or the
facilities to enable him TO give facts that
General King had. He declared that our
army was we'll cared for and we'll handled.
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A B0ak Ah0uf BiYda.

A book that will interest lovers of birds.
not game birds cooked and served with
sauce but those one finds in forests and
fields. is ION the Birds Highway" by Reg
inald II. Howes, jr. 1t Is not scientific or
technical work on orni:hology, but rather a
character study of birds. with descriptions
observation in pleasant rambles in parts OF
New England and the East The book does
not contain much that Is new In the way OF
archaeological lore. but IL is pleasant read
ing and is prettily illustrated. Boston:
Small MAYNARD & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
THE sOUTH's NEED.
Practical Training That Will Make
Effective Workers.
Atlantic Monthly

Atlantic Monthly.
What the South has needed since the war
basis for civilization. The greater part or
the soil had become either very badly Gull
tivated or wholly neglected; and there was
needed the application OF Industry ana
brains to the agricultural reclamation of
what is by nature about the fairest ana
richest portion Of the country-or the PLAN
the majority of the mansion houses and
better class of homes outside of the large
towns completely ruined. while II also found
the negroes and the poor whites. living in
rude cabins and shanties. There was needed
young populati ton that had both the Will
and the skill to construct houses and make
homes. Slavery had of necessity made every
good plantation training school In agrf-
culture and in handicrafts. The negroes OF
tobacco how TO care for live stock, how 70
make and mend harness. to do plain black
smithing, to mold. burn and lay brick, to
do the palmer work of joiners, carpenters
and wheelwrights. and. indeed, to work at
many other useful trades and crafts. The
war destroyed the plantation system. which
had provided training In such trades and
crafts: and the rapid dying off of the old
generation Of blacks accordingly left the
South with a new generation on its hands
devoid of discipline, industry and practical
skill. What the young negroes OF the South
needed was not Latin and Greek, but the
practical training that would teach them
how to mend mule harness and the moral
training that would keep them from drink
ing whisky. It was the theory at the North
that the colored race needed the inspiration
of book-learning and of a purer system Of
religious and ethical instruction. In other
words. IT was the Northern view that the
negroes needed an educated ministry of
their own race and the most rapid possible
multiplication of negro school teachers
There was, of course, a certain amount Of
truth in all this: but it was, after all. not
more than a half truth. and probably con-
sderably less than half. Some Of the
institutions which were founded to teach
young negroes Latin, Greek and theology
were in the hands Of men who in time came
to see the situation as 1t actually was, and
who gradually enlarged the practical and
industrial departments Of their schools until
these features became predominant. Those
are the institutions which now best
entitled to Northern support and which
have won the approval and good will Of the
best and X,isest Southerp septimept
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
Last Fiscal Year the Most Remark.
able in Our Commercial History.
Neu York Journal Of Commerce.

The figures of the foreign trade Of the
United States for June are of special inter-
est. because they complete the record for
one of the most remarkable fiscal years in
our commercial history. The figures for the
complete year reveal an excess of exports
of merchandise amounting to about $780,
100000. as compared with an excess Of 1884,
100000 for the fiscal year 1898. The difference
is largely due to the increased volume OF
imports rather than a reduced volume of ex-
ports, although the latter has been one
of the elements of the problem.
The striking feature of the complete re-
turns for 1899 is the part which exports Of
manufactured goods have played in prop
ping up the total volume of exports. Manu-
featuring exports have almost doubled with
have played in the total domestic exports
appears in the following table, which gives
the total of all classes and the two most
important classes separately
EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
A school Dictionary.

THE Standard International School Die
tionary" is the title Of book Of less than
$50 pages. into which the author has put
5000 words and phrases in the speech and
literature CT the English-speaking peoples
The volume also contains 800 illustrations:
The book is an abridgment of the Standard
dictionary of the Funk & wagnalis Com
pany by one of the editors OF the original
work. All of the definitions of every word
are given concisely but clearly FUNK &
Wagnalls. publishers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

tailers who trust employees for groceries will
lose considerable part of their advances.
II the employees are taken back upon any
compromise the memory of the conflict will
rankle in their minds. so that they will not
give that prompt and effective service so
essential to the success of such companies
On the other hand, the officers of the COM
pany will distrust the employees. All this
loss and enmity came from seemingly in
consequential matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
MIR. Milo Bush.

"Mr. Milo Bush and Other Worthless
Their Recollections," is a collection of
twenty short stories by Hayden Carruth.
The sketches are humorous, with a ten
dency toward hyperbole that should crafty
every "stretcher Of the long bow" who reads
them But with all their whimsical exag-
geration, there is air of truth about the
tales. That is, they impress one as If they
might have happened. There is one intense
ly funny sketch of a Swede driving a city
visitor 10 catch a train in a suburb, and an
other about a Western coroner who used TO
go about with brace of loaded revolvers
for the accommodation of unarmed persons
who became involved in an alteration.
There is also tale of life in the office of
the fuckers Gulch Daily Prospector,
wherein one William Brewer, of Double
Eagle canyon. is alluded to as the genial
bill brewer" because the office is OF
upper case BIS" Next day Mr.. Brewer
comes In with the avowed intention of Civ
ing the street-clean ming department a vaca-
ton by wiping up the highways with the
editor of this yere shotgun wad Of a
paper" But when the pressman. who as
surnes editorial authority, gets through with
him he is content to be alluded TO as bill
in all future issues of the paper. The book
is light reading-light as soda water, and
just as suitable for summer. Few York:
Harper Brothers.
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The theory advanced by Governor Gambler,
OF Georgia. that Southern lynchings are due
TO negro suffrage. is very weak In view of
the fact that the lynchings have increased
as the suffrage has been denied. 1t Is worthy
Of remark. by the way. that there was no
race problem in the South nor lynching Of
negroes while they were slaves. Our South
ern friends were too thrifty to burn or
lynch men worth to their masters several
hundred dollars apiece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

Detroit Journal.

Once upon a time a Man CHANGED to be-
come the Lion of the Hour
He was theTeupon presented with swords
of being offered $4,000 a syllable for what.
ever he chose to write for the magazines
Unless / make Bear of myself" this
Lion exclaimed, sadly, my countrymen will
make Donkey of me.'
So he held aloof.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment will
arrive In San Francisco this week, and
preparations are making to give 1T royal
reception in Pittsburg. A committee left
that city yesterday and will reach San
Francisco by Wednesday to escort the regi-
ment home.
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PORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES.

The agricultural exports of 1899 still bear
the impress of the short crops in Europe and
the immense wheat movement of last year
1t is possible that this element will some
what disappear during the fiscal year which
began July /. and that the United States
will have to rely more and more in the flu
ture upon exports of finished goods to main
tain their favorable trade position.
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American newspapers owe 1t to Admiral
Dewey as well as to themselves not to dis
cuss seriously the statement attributed to
him that ''our next war will be with Ger
many until 1t is learned IL he ever made
IT. The chances are a hundred to one he
never did
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never did.

or course the United States will own Cuba
eventually. but it cannot be until after an
experiment in seif-goyernment by the Gu
bans and an expression from the people in
favor of annexation. Therefore, an oppor-
tunity for these preliminaries should be at
forded as soon as possible
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The Difference.

'If they arrest Christian Scientists for
trying to cure people by prayer, why don't
they arrest the ministers who pray for the
sick?"
"Oh-er-well the minister always advises
that doctor be called. in also. If the case
is serious
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

1t is reported that Attorney General
Griggs intends to appear in New Jersey
court next month in behalf of a labor or
ganization against which an Injunction has
been asked by a company employing its
members. The attorney general is quoted
as expressing the opinion that such use of
the power OF injunction is an abuse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The Washington correspondent who as
serts that 1t is the opinion of many Re-
publicans in Washington that the President
dare not send General Miles to the Phil
ippines for fear that his victories will make
him a dangerous competitor for the Re.
publican nomination belongs TO a class of
would-be liars who were born TO be fools
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
WattersOn's Timid Query.
Louisville Courier-Journal


For the first time since 1861 there Is not a
single Democrat in the United States Senate
from the great area between the Atlantic
and the Mississippi and the Ohio and Can
ada. This ought to show that there Is
something radically wrong in Democratic
leadership. Is ii treason to point out the
wrong and to urge amendment?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The writer Of an article In the Cincinnati
Enquirer setting forth the desperation and
malignity of class of place-seekers affirms
that the assassin Of Lincoln had his first
grievance against the President because he
would not pardon a Confederate who was
I'm prison
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

Secretary Long and those naval officers
who know Admiral Dewey do not believe
he has predicted that our next war will be
with Germany. In Washington the story
is characterized as absurd. The admiral is
not a talker: besides our relations with
Germany were never more cordial than at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
Mitigating Circumstance.
ilwaukee Sentinel.

milwaukee, SentIneI-
Perhaps we should not be to severe in
criticising the people Of Utah for their dis
regard of the marriage laws so long as they
punish their poly gamists with about the
same fines which are imposed upon wife
beaters in our more highly moral States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The worst feature of the Cleveland strike
Is the paralysis of municipal authority and
the Generalization of the public. 1t is as
tonishing that city Of that size should
not have developed a stronger public senti-
ment In favor OF the enforcement of law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

cences and historical facts, and contains
about all that any one could wish TO know
regarding the present status of the univer-
sity. The authors are Lewis s. WEIGH and
Walter Camp. Yale men. OF course. and the
book is published by l.. c. Page & Co.. Bos-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

A Kansas Populist paper declares that
crop conditions cannot be influenced by par
ties. which is true; but parties can be in
fuenced by crop conditions. Three good
crops have well-nigh ruined Populism in
Kansas
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New York Mail and Express.
Dark-red war clouds have begun to loom
up between Russia ana japan. In view OF
their number and texture the Gar will
probably not put his disarmament pro-
gramme into effect until these particular
clouds roll by.
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st. Louis objects to being made the back
door of Chicago. 1t is not so much the
drainage question that brings this back
door wall, but the undesirable prospect Of
proximity with the kitchen where they cook
that canned beef
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31

The vanquishing of the yellow fever at
Santiago in period of intensely hot wealth
er by a vigorous enforcement of sanitary
measures is one OF the most remarkable
triumphs of scientific methods on record
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j Justice.

Judge. they are accusing you Of favorlng
your friends and being too severe on your
enemies when you get chance at them"
"Oh, we'll, it will average UP all right in
the long run, justice in the abstract is
none the loser"
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The Harvard athletes speaking of inter-
national athletics. say they hope to chal-
lenge Cambridge ION the river" If this
were in Chicago, instead of elsewhere, the
banter might foreshadow a sprinting race
rather than an AQUATIC contest