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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

Because Indiana is not a seaboard State
it must not be assumed that its people have
no interest in the navy. Almost as long as
Indiana has been State it has had able
sons in the navy. During the war for the
Union no State had more gallant and useful
officers in the navy than had Indiana. The
ranking officer in the navy on his retirement
was Rear Admiral Brown. The State is
proud of the war ship bearing its name For
all these reasons Indiana desires to have
the personnel of the navy put on the same
basis as that of the army. For that reason
the bill pending in the House regarding the
kpersonnel of the navy should be enacted
All the abic men who have been at the head
Of the Navy Department the past ten years
favor the measure
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The Agricultural Department of the United
States government has been energetic in es-
tablishing weather and crop service in Porto
Rico and Cuba. Twenty voluntary stations
are already in operation in the first named
island, and arrangements are well unde~
way for the establishment of a greater num-
Der in Cuba. The crop report from San
Juan, dated Jan. 2, has some information
of character differing considerably from
the ordinary document of the kind in this
country The harvest of coffee, it is
recorded, ended early in December and pro-
duced an average of four quintals per
cuerda. In the district of Caguas it was
better than usual, but in the department Of
Arecibo it was very bad on account of the
bandits" Think of bandits on United
States territory so numerous and alarming
as to prevent farmers from cultivating their
crops! We have train robbers, to be sure
but they are sporadic and do not even dis
turb the schedule time of more than the one
train. But bandits and the tobacco crop!
Hereafter travellers who profess to have
petilous adventures on their journeys need
not so so far as Italy for the manufacture
of marvellous experiences. Bandits also in
terfere with the sugar crop, not, it appears,
by intimidating the planters, but by strip
ping the pldHIdtlOnS. AnOtner Item Will in
terest Kansas citizens and may interfere
with emigration from that State. Drought
is not unknown in Porto Rico, and grass
hoppers abound. They even devour tobacco
obliging the farmers to replant. They also
destroy young rice plants. These crop
bulletins are printed in Spanish and circu-
lated through the island, but it might be
well for English translat1ons to be dis
tributed among residents of the States who
think of moving over to the new posses
sions and engaging in agricultural pursuits
They would probably learn something to
their advantage. incidentally it may be
well to explain that the cuerda mentioned
in the reports is an old Spanish measure of
length equal to S25 varas The vara has
different values, but that in use in Porto
Rico is said to be equivalent to 1895 inches
Therefore the Porto Rican cuerda is 275. 426
inches, or 22.869 feet. The square cuerda
will, therefore, correspond to about 522
square feet. The quintal is one hundred
Spanish lbeas, or about 1O1. .45 English
pounds avordupOis. A harvest of four quin-
tails per cuertia is about the same as $40
quintals, or $500 pounds to the acre.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The suggestion that Great Britain will
mako an exchange of islands with us, Civ
ing us Jamaica and others for the Philip
pines, is rather too good to be true 1t
would be an excellent trade for us But,
favorable as it might be, it would not win
the support of the anti-expansionists. With
even more vehemence they would invoke
the consent of the governed" Speaking of
this theory. what a disastrous thing it
would have been for the Union cause in
1861 if Republicans had been captured by
that pleasing phrase when it was proposed
b, abraham Lincoln to force the seeding
States to stay in the Union. If at that time
that failacy had been accepted as a great
truth the South would have been allowed
to depart in peace. Because the friends of
the Union ignored the appeal of the South
10 govern itself the secessionists were as
sailed, beaten and compelled to remain a
part of the Republic. If Senator Hoar had
been as strenuous for 1.-The consent of the
governed at that period as he now is he
would have spent his time in denouncing
Abraham Lincoln instead of giving him
jealous support.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The Journal a few days ago alluded to
the Importance of publication of matters
relating to the management of public af-
fairs as means of correcting abuses Re
cent letters from various sections of the
State to the Indiana Bureau of Statistics
further show the value of this. The writer's
state that the bulletins compiled and issued
from the forthcoming report of the bureau
on local government have already given as
surance that there viii be lower levies of
taxes for several purposes I'm many locali-
ties, and that this work of the bureau will
be the means Of leaving hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars in the pockets of taxpay-
ers. This department in thus collecting
and presenting the facts to the public, is
contributing much to the proposed local re-
form, and shows It's value to the taxpayers
OF the state ia this as in other matters The
tabulation Of facts on economies in the re-
port, to be issued in a few days. occupies
over two hundred pages. covering itemized
receipts and expenditures OF the counties
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The professional educators are about the
Legislature in considerable force. The anti
state school men desire to have the heads of
the three state schools on the Board of Edu-
cation superseded by three friends of edu-
state school men are now willing to have
three members added to the board, but will
fight to have the heads of the schools aided
or supported by the State retained. This is a
concession which indicates that state school
champions have discovered the strength of
their opponents.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
STORMY SCENE IN SENATE
Arose Over Senator HOrner's ReOr-
ganizatiOn Bill.


ganfzation Bill.
According to anticipation, Senator Hor-
ner's bill for the reorganization of the State
Board of Education came up in the Senate
yesterday, and, as a result, the first stormy
scene of the session ensued. For few min
utes accusation, recrimination and other
things calculated to arouse the wrath of
senators. were INDUCED in with scant cere-
mony on both sides Of the question, and cul-
minated in Senator Hubbell taking the floor
and under cover of the question of personal
privilege, violently attacking Senators Win
field and Hogate, who had mentioned the
fact that there was strong lobby in the
city seeking to have the bill killed in the
hands of the committee.
The trouble all came about through the
motion by Senator Early to take the bill
from the committee on libraries and give it
into the hands of the committee on educa-
ton, where it was felt that it properly be-
longed No sooner had the motion been
made that Senator Horner began to dc some
energetic work to have the measure left
where 1t was. While the statement was not
n ade Openly the inference gathered was
that the bill would not he fairly treated in
the hands of the committee on education,
while the committee on libraries was favor
ably disposed toward IT, In explaining his
energetic effort to have the bill remain
where 1t was. Senator Horner urged that
the committee on education had an immense
amount of work on hand and could not give
it the attention it warranted. while the
committee on libraries had comparatively
rothing TO do, and as it was one of the most
vital questions that would come before the
Senate. it was desired to give it to COM
mittee which could devote ample time to it..
Senator Hogate added his support to Sen
ator Horner's views. and said that it was
suspicious that such an active effort WAS
being made at this time TO take the bill
away from the libraries committee, and
urged that it be left where 1t Is. Senator
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
UnfortuD.te Patriot.

Il amt agoin to be patriot no more"
wy not, Bill?"
wy, wen the judge asst me what ex-
cuse 1 had fer beatin' the old woman an
whether 1 was guilty er not, l tole i'm
dearly loved my country's flag, but he
socked on the fire jist the same"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
An AnnnIling Trngedx.

New York Mail and Express.
A late official statement from the city
Of Santa Clara. Cuba, shows that during
the three years of the revolution there
was a loss of 50 per cent. of the popula-
tion by death 1t is a brief statement,
occupying only three printed lines But
one reads between these lines an appall-
ing tragedy which is but a single item In
the awful story Of Cuba libre.'
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

and townships of the State This report
goes to all the public offices in all the coun-
ties, the several libraries of the State and
to others who are interested in the devel-
opment and growth of the State
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

Word comes from Washington that the
anti-Add;eks Republicans may unite with
the Democrats and rc-elect Senator Gray, a
gold Democrat, who voted for Mckinley
and sustains the Spanish treaty which he
helped to negotiate. 1t seems an excellent
way to get rid of the Objectionable Ad-
dicks who prevented the election of Re
nnhlicar In 1909
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

Governor Roosevelt asks that the special
counsel for the insane hospitals be dispensed
with and their duties be performed by the
attorney general. That is what the Repub-
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The stock of moHey in circulation in the
United States increased $50, ,3O3, 722 during the
month of November, the aggregate on Dec
/ heing 81, $50 S79,5Oi. The treasury statement
for the first week in January shows that
the money in circulation increased $40, ,421, ,9OS
The increase of currency during the year
was at the rate of $14,6OOOOa month-every
dollar as good as gold
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

The bill which the House passed to en-
grossment yesterday, relieving state officers
from the necessity of giving bonds for pay
ment of damages when alleged violators of
law like those at Roby and in the natural
gas district are proceeded against by in
junction suits seems consistent and logical.
A sovereign State should not be compelled
to give bond in order to proceed against
those who are in the position of violators of
the laws
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

A correspondent is informed that the
House which was elected when General Har-
rison was made President had a very small
Republican majority, which Speaker Reed
made the most of. The House which was
elected in 1880 was more than two-thirds
Democratic and Populist. In the Senate the
Republicans had a nominal lead, but not a
positive out-and-out majority in 1891 and
sooo
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

Now that the Young Mems Democratic
Club Of Massachusetts has declared that the
President should appoint European COM
mission to investigate the loss of the Maine
what is to be the next exhibition of pueril-
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
SurDrisinR.

''Thea it is true that his estate did not
come up to expectations"
Il should say it didn't. 1t barely passed
the amount it was rated at for taxation"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
Comment.

II am told that he is her fifth husband"
Say, it must be awful to a man to feel
that his wife looks on him as a mere habit I"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

what do you think of this theory that
lying is a disease?"
cit must be highly contagious"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17

United States that forbids the country to
grow.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
~ NJ w O1 ~ In ~
indianapolis, Ind.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
Can be found at the following places:
NV YORk-Astor House.

Lan be found at the following places.
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House, P. o. News Co., 217
Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel.
cINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine
street.
LOJ1SVILLE-C. T. DeerIng. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson Streets and Louisville
Book Co, 2s6 Fourth avenue.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rggs House. Ebbitt
House aRd Wizards Hotel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
An InhaopY Name.

remember hearing the following story from the late Canon Bardsley. author of English Names and Sur names There was once a woman "a little .craekey,' I think" said the canon. by way of parenthesis-wh had son whom she had christened What Her idea seems to have besn that when in after days he was asked his name, and kept saying What, :" amusing scenes would follow, which was likely enough, especially if the boy was careful to pronounce the as pirate Such a scene did, I believe, occur once when he went to school and was told, as a newcomer, to stand up and furnish certain particulars. What is yoar name?" asked the teacher What, blurted out the boy, amid the laughter of the class. What is your name" asked the master again. with more emphasis. What. ," replied the boy. Your name, sir!" roared back the infuriated pedagogue. What What!s roared back the terri fed urchin The sequel I forget, but l believe it one of those cases in which the foliies of the parents are visited on the children of the first generation Notes and Queries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
CASTORIA
 For Infants and Children. Taa Kind You Have Always Bought s's4sss1s ss.ss ses Of &zHAzzza<
That Game of Golf.

Last Saturday man missed a drive at golf and smashed the young lady who stood behind him in the mouth and knocked out all her front teeth; and then when she was being rapidly driven to the doctors by another man, the horse ran away and upset her and broke the mans leg and severely in- jured her besides. as an Irishman would say. Happening on Saturday as it did, this has nothing to do with the great Sunday golf question now rag ing in Boston. It does prove, how ever, in a showy and dramatic way, what true golhtes have always con- tended, the importance of learning to nit the ball.--New York Commercial A5sra~%inoz
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
COSTLY CAKES.

Four thousand five hundred dollars was the cost of the cake provided at the wedding of John Jacob Astor to Miss Willing of Philadelphia.
 The wedding cake provided on the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Duke Of Fife was also made by the queens own confeetioner; it weighed 136 pounds and was nearly six feet high.
 The Princess Beatrice's wedding cake was worth $1.500. It weighed 800 pounds, was nine feet high and five seet around Six months 1t took for modelling the ornaments, among which were l 1,800 sprays of sugared leaves of ivy, roses. clematis, honeysuckle and other plants. It was made in the royal kitchen and was sent to Osborne in a special van. twelve men lifting 1t.
 A leading firm made an enormous cake for presentation to Queen Vic toria on the occasion of her Jubilee. It measured nine feet six inches around ten feet high, and weighed over a quar- ter of a ton, without any ornaments 4 cake sent to Dr. Behrend by the congregation in Brooklyn upon his b0th birthday was valuable one for the top was ornamented with $500 in gold coins.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
New Test fur Coal.

A French experimenter suggests that tAs X-ray furnishes ready means to detect stony impurities in coal. Carbon is very transparent to the Roentgen rays. while silica is opaque to them. Consequently the silicates, which form slag when coal is burned, can be seen like skeleton when the shadow oS the coal is projected upon the fiuores- cent screen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
PsentY of Trees ln ParIs.

Paris contains more trees than any city in the world, which is tho reason why its streets and avenues are so beautiful These trees are principally of three #kinds-the chestnut and aea- cfa, such as line the Champs E1ysees, and the lime tree, which grows fn such abundance in the Bois de BoaIogne and on certain of the other boule- yards.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
Cotton Belt B Iletin.
PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
Via Cotton Belt Route

Leave Pine Bluff I;l0p. m. arrive Gmeaes t1i45 next day. only one change; through eleepefs,
 Grand EHea8pm [. Q. Q. F, of A1kaa8as Little Rock, 2 24. Rate. one and eHe-ta8=a fare for round rip Cu certificate piaH9 fsfS1as sf safe. 0etzl to 2 iuclusivei Return HNf Oct 2.
 National Be-Gnion of the Blue and fhe Gray. Evansville, Ind Oct ID 70 L. Rate. One fare for round trip; Dates Of sale. Oct and ih- Return linn [, Oct 1s.
 State Convention United Daughters af 1ha Confectionery. Pae Bluff 0ee Der. n 10 .: Rate. on a5 one-thir fare for round trip ou certificate pIaai Date. of sale. 0eU t9 5. inclusive. Return limit Oct ts.
 ". c. T=U. .Convention-Seattle Wash Oct % to 21. 1ss9 Rate, one first class fare for tae round trip. Dates of sale: Oct r B, Hand I5. lsg9. Limits going transit limited Oct20 Isaa. Final return limit Nov I6. isa8 ttop overs will be granted on going and re- turn tFIp al any point west of the Missauri river within the limit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
What Made Virginia Laurh.

What Made Virginia Laugh.
 Well, did you do 1t, 'Lexander Knox ?"
 NO, never-she just looked so- berer than eyer!"
 That's poetry!" laughed Phoebe. It was easy enough to make Phoebe laugh.
 Alexander plunged both grimy little hands into his pockets and looked gloomy
 T stood on my head three times a-runnin'-''
 "Oh, my, I couldn't do that!" cried Phoebe, mlschieyously.
 An I turned three somersauIts a-running'." continued 'Lexander, se- verely, and she never laughed one little smile-no, she never! l don't know what to do next"
 T couldn't make her, either" said Phoebe T tried and tried. Every body else laughed; grandma did and nurse and everybody but just Virginia. I guess we nights well give it up, 'Lexander.p
 It looked that way. Everybody in the house had been trying to make solemn-faeed little Virginia laugh. If they could just make her do it once, the backbone of the storm would De broken, grandma said, and the sun would have a chance to come out for good.
 It was quite a serious case. Virginia had really a good cause for being sor- rowful When one is only 4 years old and has had the croup and can't go to the next=door baby'N birthday party well, what is there to laugh at?
 Virginia pressed her tip-tiIted little nose fiat against the window-pane and cried quiet little raindrops that twink led in the sun. And everybody was so sorry for Virginia-why, even the chickens outside seemed sorry! There was one lanky3 half-grown little fellow in a yellow coat half feathers and half down and half bare skin (but that's too many balyes9 who seemed #espe. cialIy sorry for Virginia. He cooked his ridiculous little head at her and blinked one bright eye.
 That little girl ought not to be cry ing-dear me. =not,' he seemed to be thinking to himself. Somebody ought to put a stop to 1t at once. The idea of crying when there's just been a rain and the angleworas are so plenty. Somebody ought to entertain that lit= tie gir1. have Itts'
 And then Little Lanky Fellow strut ted away importantly. Just the thingi If anything would comfort the little girl, that would He auttered= upon to the Wheelbarrow and stood just un. der Enginia's window and Tapped his funny. bare wings and-croWedi It was hoarse. cracked, little baby crow but he stretched his long neck and opened his mouth to a frightfgt extent-aBd= =erowed and crowed and crow q. He was so very important and proud of himself, and the crow was so very zhoarse and off the key!
 Then Virginia laughed.
 ANNIE HAMILTON DONNEIB.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
Too Great a strain.

Doctor-@I find that you are doing too much brain work. How does this happen? I thought you said your du- ties required physical endurance more than anything e1se?e
 Patient-sThey do. The brain work Is due to the efforts I have put forth in remembering all the things my wife wants me to get for her downtown every day"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05

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  0 relic Brazilian be earfuly crippled my of blea Ba7e
  s5 lying down, entirely permanently soLo E A5z BK JACKSON CO., Indianapolis Ind
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05

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 The Misses Bells Complexion Tonic has amost exhilarating effect upon the cutiele, absorbing and carrying off all impurities which the blood by it's natural action Is constantly forcing to the surface of the skin. It is to the skin what a yitalizing :on;c is to the blood and nerves, . kind of new life that immediately exhilarates and strengthens wherever applied. its tonie eject is felt almost immediately and 1t speedily banishes foreve. rom the skin, freckles. pimples, bisekh, ads, moth patches, wrinkles, liver spots, roughness, oiliness, eruptions, and discolorations of any kind.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05
Iron Mountain Rates

St. Louis Fair. St Louis, Mo. Oct to 1. For this occasion the Iron Mtn. Ky. will sell tickets to st. Louis and return at one fare 6ll Il. Tickets on sale Oct To r. inclusive Limit for return Oct.9
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05

America's Import of Gloves. At rough estimate there are 15,00O.- 900 pairs of gloves imported into this country each year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-05

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 The Misses Bell have just published their new book, "Secrets of Beauty" This valuable work is free 10 all desiring it. The book treats exhaustively of the importance of good complexion; tells how a woman may acquire beauty and keep it. Special chapters on the care oi the hair; how to have luxuriant growth harmless methods of making the hair pre- serve its natural beauty and color. even to advanced age. Also instructions how to
 ,anl-E superfuous hair from the face. l4ee.. and arms without injury to the skin. This book will be mailed te. any address on request.
 FREE Trial Bottles of Wonderful Com. plexion Tonic free at parlors, or 25 cents (eost of packing and mailing) to those at a distance.
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