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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
THE BRITISH WAY.

The Journal recently commented on Great
Britain's methods of colonial government,
emphasizing the fact that British officials
went as far as possible in recognizing ex-
listing customs, usages and traditions, with
view of making them conduce to British
sovereignty. An Illustration of this is found
in a dispatch from Cairo, published in the
Journal yesterday. 1t stated that Viscount
Cromer, British diplomatic agent in Egypt,
and General Kitchener, the srdar, had given
a reception to the native sheikhs and nota-
bes at which Lord Cromer made an ad-
dress. After informing the sheikhs that
hereafter the sirdar would be the sole rep
resentative of British authority in the Su-
dan he promised them perfect religious free
dom, and in reply to a shekh's question as
sured them that the Moslem sacred law
would be applied. Probably some good peo-
pie in England will be shocked at this
declaration of purpose to extend official
federation and recognition to .Moham-
mechanism and will insist that the British
government had better be sending mission
aries to convert the Moslems than states
men and generals to placate them. But the
good people are mistaken. The British gov
eminent has learned by experience that tact
is often more effective than force, and that
it is much better to compromise with ma
tional traditions and usages and gradually
bring them into line with its policy than
1t is TO invite their hostility by antagonistic
methods This principle is susceptible of
MANY apDlicationS and the present is a
good time for American statesmen to be
considering it.
An official letter from Lord Cromer to
Lord Salisbury. recently published, further
illustrates the same point. Referring to the
numerous applications he receives from
young Englishmen seeking employment I'M
der the government in Egypt or the Sudan
he says it is his policy to employ only a
very small number of EnglishTen in high
positions and to fill subordinate places with
natives. He advises that Englishmen be ap-
pointed only to positions which natives are
not competent to fill, and that the persons
so appointed should be selected on their
merits and not through home influence. He
argues that by keeping the number of Eng
lishmen in the local government service at
a minimum, and those chosen for their fit
ness, while large majority of subordinate
positions are filled with natives. good ad-
ministration is assured and the native peo-
pie are made to feel that it is chiefly their
own and not foreign. Again we remark,
this is something for American statesmen
70 consider
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The Journal has repeatedly expressed the
belief that large majority of the township
trustees and county commissioners in Indi-
ana are too honest to take advantage of a
bad system or allow themselves to be ap-
preached by the promoters of crooked prac-
tees 1t still adheres TO this belief, but
there is reason to fear that the number of
dishonest ones is greater than many sup
pose. There are various grades of official
dishonesty. Every act of 4 public official is
dishonest by which he or any of his friends
profits ilegitimately at the expense of the
public A bridge builder or other con-
tractor may profit legitimately under a con-
tract fairly and openly awarded to the low
est bidder. but every dollar Of profit under a
contract obtained by stealth or through IA
voritism is robbery. and the public Official
who connives at # is party to the crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Lazy Clerks Checl1mate Vanderbilt.


Assistant Secretary VanderIip's time clock
system, which is In effect in the Treasury
Department, received. its death blow to-day.
The House appropriations committee in
serted a clause in the legislative, executive
and judicial bill forbidding the use of re-
cordng clocks in any of the executive de-
partments here. Owing to the difficulty in
getting the department clerks to their desks
on time Mr. Vandelip introduced the scheme
of recording the time of their arrival and de-
parture through the instrumentality of these
clocks The scheme worked successfully
but was. of course, exceedingly unpopular
with the employees of the treasury, whose
disinclination to work is ZIP to the usual
government-clerk average. and they threat
ened to have them abolished if it were posi-
BILE. They appealed to Congress, with the re-
suit that the committee inserted the clause
forbiddng the use of the clocks. In all prob
ability it will remain in the measure when it
becomes a law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The Governor recommends additional pro-
vision for the insane and for insane con-
victs, for whom there is now no provision
whatever. Both recommendations are well
founded yet they emphasize the steady in
crease in the number of insane persons.
Twenty years ago the Central Hospital for
the Insane, the only one in the State, had
GA patients; now the State has four hospi-
tails and the number of patients is several
times as great as in 1873. That the present
provision for the insane is inadequate is
shown by the fact that there are many in
poorhouses and homes who ought to be un-
der treatment, yet the rapid increase in
their number IS calculated to attract the at
tention of taxpayers as we'll as sociolOgists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Few Rich Senators.

Washington Special.
Since the retirement of Senator Brice
Washington has had no royal entertainer
among it's list of senators or representa-
tiVes. Senator Brice spent $4,000 a year in
maintaining princely establishment. There
are men in Congress now as rich as Brice
was, but they do not run to lavish display
Senator Perkins of California; Senator
Jones, of Nevada; Senator Proctor, of YER
mont Senator Wetmore, of Rhode Island ;
Senator Hanna, of Ohio and Vice President
Hobart rank high up in the millionaire class,
but none Of them, with the exception of Mr..
Hobart, is a great entertainer Senator
Elkins, of West Virginia; Senator Fair
bank, of Indiana; and Senator Foraker, of
Ohio, probably do more in that line this
winter than any other members of Con-
gress. The majority of senators are poor
men. This is especially true of those repre-
senting Southern States. The South has not
had a rich senator since Governor Brown, of
Georgia, died There has not been a time
in many years when the average wealth of
senators was as low as now. A great ma
jority of them have practically nothing to
live on beyond their salaries, backed up by
moderate property holdings in their native
States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

There is obvious propriety in the resolu-
ton adopted by the Senate directing the
placing of a suitable inscription on the SOL
diers' monument to commemorate the serv-
ices of Indiana soldiers and sailors in the
recent war. As the resolution leaves the
manner and form of the inscription to the
regents, it will doubtless be done in such a
way as to harmonic with the work as
whole and with the features yet to be
added Anything that would detract from
the artistic unity of the design as now APP
preaching completion would be public dis
aster
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
The Perfaious Hobson.

Kansas City Journal
, Words are inadequate to express the base
ness of this whilom hero Hobson. After
running amuck among the feminine lips OF
the nSidcontinent he waits until he is safely
on board snip for Manila and then gives
forth an interview. doubtless under the goad
of some sharp rebuke from the Navy De
across the continent he accepted without
sufficient protest the kisses of half dozen
feminine fools 49, Half Il dozen, indeed
Without sufficient protest, indeed! The
perfidous wretchl We would gladly have
withheld this siandeFous language from The
knowledge of our local readers but il was
sure TO reach them at last. and it is best
that the news should come through a friend.
If he is discreet Mr. Hobson will not come
by way of Kansas City again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
An Improbable Hope.

j. r. Adams in North American Review
In looking into the future find ourselves
staring al a blank wall, for, with the eX-
ception of the phonograph and the type
writer no recent advance has been made in
lessing literary work. The Ideal method OF
composition would be the use of some ma
chine into which the operator could talk and
have his spoken word reproduced ~ once on
paper as the written word. but unfortunate
~. like printing photographs in colors, each
succeeding advance and discovery in the
world OF Invention seems 20 make this hope
more and more improbable. The insur-
mountable difficulty lies in the fact that
there is no connection between the sound 81
a word and its appearance on paper. We
will never reach this ideal state.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

gested that an arpropriation be made to
purchase ear trumpets for the members,
and then he entered into defense OF tho
reading clerk, calling attention 10 the faet
that This was his first days service and 10
reasonable man could expect biKa 10 at once
adjust himself TO the hall and the confusion.
From the Democratic side came a sugges-
ton of the purchase of "A megaphone. MIR.
James then said he would vote for the reso-
luton. but he would suggest that box
or something Of the kind be provided for
the clerk 20 stand on. Mr.. Herrold. of La
porte county. said that he could not hear
the clerk, although his hearing is so acute
that he can hear the mosquitoes sharpen
ing their bills on Kankakee creek when he
Is at Owl river" Mr.. Carroway tried to
put an end TO this display Of statesmanship
by offering a substitute that the whole mat
ter should be referred to a committee or
three. Capt. A NJ Scott, of L,adoga, at
this point took a hand in the matter and
straightened il out by a series of motions.
Through his efforts the substitute was laid
on the table and the original motion and the
amendment went through. The statesmen
were recovering their respective breaths and
preparing to take hold of the next problem,
for the settlement of which the people OF
Indiana are breathlessly waiting, when Mr..
Artman cruelty put stop TO further pro-
ceedings by a motion TO adjourn, IN which
all members cOncurred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

DR.. John Girdner, in North American Re
view

DR.. John Girdner, in North American Re-
view.
Insanity is now recognized as a disease
which is the result of some functional or
organic disturbance of the brain or of some
injury or maformatiOn of that organ. Be it
said to the everlasting credit of medical
science that it has rescued the whole sub
ject of the diseases of the brain and nervous
stition and placed it on a scientific plane
along with the other diseases and injuries
to which human flesh is heir. The old luna
jails, with all their horrors where the vic
Tins of dethroned reason used to be con-
fined and tortured, have been abolished and
in their place we now have the modern hos
pital for the insane. And it stands on the
same footing in every respect as hospital
for diseases of the eye and ear or any other
medical speciality. 1t was not the churches,
but medical science inspired by a desire to
benefit mankind, which taught the world
that the insane are our brothers still, and
ity and care as to any others in distress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
America at the Paris Exposition.


view
While the prime motive of Americas dis
play will be the extension and expansion Of
her trade with foreign countries-and to ac-
complish that a ereditable exhibit is neces-
sary--it must be borne in mind that other
nations are working TO the same end. and
their individual trade, even at the expense
Of other countries. including the~ United
States. They too, viii make magnificent
displays, and to counterfeit their influence
il is necessary that the United States should
get together an exhibit that Will truly rep
resent the progress Of this country and the
excellence of its products. as compared with
the exhibits Of other countries which will
be placed side by side with them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
socinI Distinctions.

but what is the reason you cannot rec
ognize her?" asked the woefully obtuse per-
son.
THE ideal" said the naughty lady. Can
/, who expend seven dollars on Rice's Re-
markable Remedy. be expected to recognize
one whose picture got in the papers merely
by taking a 25-cent box of Green Pills for
Gangrenous People-and like as not bought
AT n cut rate store?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

account instead of by contracts or being
housed in idleuess. and is substantially as
printed In the Journal several weeks ago 1t
provides for a special appropriation of
S25eo0
Other minor bills We're handed up as fol-
lows:
Senator Early-To legalize the acts of not
aries public whose commissions had expired.
The rules We're suspended and the bll was
passed
Senator Corr-To permit the parents or
guardians of insane people 10 bring action
for divorce in certain cases.
Senator Nusbaum-To provide for the in
spection of nursery stock for the purpose of
preventing Tie spread of the San Jose scale.
After lCading the bills the Senate adj
journed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The clearings of the New York banks
reached the enormous aggregate of $4,000 $1,000
on Wednesday-an amount far in excess of
any previous days clearing. 1t took but
ST 600 600 to pay off the balances between
the banks For these balances the debtor
banks gave checks, which, in turn may be
Cancelled by another days transactions, so
that these vast money transactions are car
ried on without the use of a large amount
of actual coin or legal-tender paper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

books of national bank Very naturally,
this remarkable action has called forth
much adverse criticism by jurists several
declaring that the judge has exceeded his
powers. II the testimony were commented
on it would be a different matter, but upon
the theory that newspapers shall not pub
fish the testimony the doors of the court
could be closed to spectators. lest they
should 60 out and tell what witnesses said.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

snecial to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE Terre
Haute justices Of the peace are going TO
Indianapolis in a body TO ask for law
by which their office will be made sa!aried
one. They think that $3.50 or $500 would
lust about fit Justice Bennett, who has just
retired announced that he would no longer
consent 10 serve when II was constantly evil
dent that the only way 20 make "A living
out of the office for himself and the officers
of the court was 10 give judgments against
the side which could pay the court costs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
A Man who Was.
- -Au II
Golfers Weekly


John Orth, forgotten to-day and long since
officially recognized as dead, is becoming
alive Some time ago an archduke disap-
peared not into tradesman, as the Duke
of Portland is alleged to have done, but into
a sailor What his reasons were have been
surmised but never known. Disappearance
ing a position quite as ideal as that of
wishes were spanels, who had but to motion
denly, without any motive more apparent
than that of an anxiety for contrast, put
rank behind and vanished. Subsequently
officially accepted and generally disbelieVed.
Stories were concocted by the yard, by the
acre even. He was said to be raising heXa-
meters in Terra del Fuego. He was said to
have developed into the Japanese general
Yamagata. There were people who had an
uncle whose nephew was intimately ac-
quanted with a man who had heard that
the archduke was fomenting revolutions in
Bolivia unless he happened to be running
a lift in New York. AS these stories could
not all be true, it is possible that all were
false In any event, there died the other
day at Gmunden a princess of the imperial
family who by a recent codcil to her will
left the archduke a third of her fortune.
The lady must have known what she was
about; she must have known too, that the
dead can't give to the dead, and she must
have added that codicil in preparation of the
temperance of the living. Meanwhile,
should this meet the eye of John Orth he
may learn of her executors something to his
advantage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The member of the Legislature who wishes
to undertake a piece of practical economy
should go into the basement of the State
house and view the pile of useless and worth
less public documents as big as a cottage,
and see that several thousand dollars are
saved by cutting down the number of vol
umes to the actual needs of the Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Some steps should be taken to prevent the
talked-of strike in the coal mines of the
country next April. when the present agree
ment shall end Even if the employers and
employees should not be affected by strikes,
the orderly operation of the laws should
not he interrupted by such collisions as fire.
quently attend mining strikes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Mr. Clevelands attempted wit on the
Philippine question is not only abored and
dun. but in very bad taste. An express
discuss a great national question in such
way as TO throw some light on it, or at
least show a desire to do so. Mr.. Cleve-
lands talk is that of soured statesman
who thinks that virtue departed from
American politics when he retired from
odlaa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

BY his present course General Gomez lays
himself open to the suspicion of wanting to
be dictator in Cuba. If he were disinterest-
ed he must see that cordial cooperation
with the Americans offers the surest and
speediest guaranty of stable government in
the island
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The stars and stripes seem to have brought
quiet and security to the people of Havana.
The presence of the American soldiers has
given a quetus to the spirit of lawlessness.
That presence will have the same result in
the Philippines when this far-away people
becomes better acquainted with the power it
-lepresents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Representative Amos j. Cummings has
written an article for a newspaper in which
he shows that representatives who do the
least talking in the House are to be count
ed among the more influential members.
Moreover Mr. Cummings finds that the 81
lent members have the least difficulty in
being reelected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The Brooklyn Eagle Qnd. Dem.) quotes the
presidential ticket of the Louisville Courier
Journal and remarks that "delirium tremens
cannot be said to be politics." and. further,
that proof is wanting that Dewey is a
Democrat" and that proof is also wanting
that Democracy will be Democratic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
sroNER-cnEGoR coNTEsT.
Interesting Testimony from Madison
County Promised.


The Senate elections committee yesterday
afternoon again took up the Stoner-Cregor
contest Capt J. 3. Curtis, representing
Mr.. Cregor, moved to strike out certain Sec
tons on the grounds that the service made
on Mr.. Cregor was improper and that the
statutes had not been followed. He claimed
that the service in the proceedings in Han
cock county was correct in the proceedings
before the magistrate, but that the service in
Madison county was imperfect The entire
afternoon session was consumed in arguing
this point by Captain Curtis and by A. c.
Harris, who represents Mr. Stoner. The
question was taken under adVisement and
the committee will meet again IT 10 o'clock
this morning in Room l12 and hand down its
decision.
To-day the taking of oral testimony VIII
begin The story that voters we're taken
from the polls IN Madison county and driven
out into the country ON bride Of 81 and a
days drunk TO be kept from voting for Mr..
Stoner, Will be taken up, ana il is under
stood that the man who hired them, the man
who drove them out and l0me of the men
who went out will appear and testify.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

If Colonel Bryan would take time to care
fully read the proclamation of President
Mckinley to the Filipinos he would find
that his claim regarding the robbing of
these people of their liberties by permanent
annexation has no more basis than did his
fear of the gold standard in 1896
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Following the citizens meeting in Shelby
willie to protest against the Illegal letting Of
bridge contracts by the county commission
ers comes a movement in Decatur county
70 discuss ways and means of reducing and
eaualizing the burdens of local taxation.
Meetings viii be held to-day in every town
ship Of the county to appoint delegates to a
county convention TO be held two weeks
hence This Is government by the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

The total losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during the year 1898
amounted to $ll9e5O 500, against $llO.sl965O
in 1897 and Sis 1855. 500 in 1896 indicating that
the average of carelessness is about the
same year after wear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

1t is d.screditable to the national govern
ment that it should be in arrears over ST.
eco for assessments on its property for
them due ten years ago. Government
debts of this kind should be treated as debts
of honor. and no technicality or red-tape
methods should stand in the way of their
prompt payment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

If it is true, as asserted. that the COM
bned protests of the British and United
States ministers have resulted in breaking
off the negotiations of the French with the
viceroy of Napkin to secure valuable
trade concessions. the cooperation of the
two powers will be regarded with favor, as
it is as much for our interest as that of any
other nation to have the doors to China
kent onon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
prompt payment

The Governor of Connecticut told the
Legislature that it costs 80 per cent more
10 educate the children of that State than
it cid fifteen years ago. and he expressed
doubts If the quality of the education has
improved in the same proportion. The same
complaint is made in so many other States
that it would be we'll for boards of educa-
ton to make comparisons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Az She EXPRESSED 1t.

Eyes" said the lady from Boston, speak
ing of her favoIite lecturer, "he is one whom
the laity would designate as a biscuit
john.
BEG pardon?' said the member of the
laity
"Or, to be explicit. a craekerjack.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

About every Southern paper that has A
right to speak for ex-Confederates has de-
nouncod Senator Buffers bill to pension Con-
federate veterans as the act of dema-
gogue which must be resented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
The Cornfed Philosopher.

''There are three expressions" said the
Cornfed Philosopher, too delicate for the
artist to seize; the look of a mother watch
ing over the sleep of her first born, young
mans expression as he meets the one wom-
an of all the world. and an old mans gloat
over a good dinner