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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
At the Book Bargain Counter.

New York sun.
Mr.: B. Worm-Have you cheap edition
of The Iliad?
Miss jenkins first saleslady, shifting gum
Who by?
Mr.. Worm-Homer
Miss Jenkins-We got a cheap edition OF
THE idiot" by man named Homer, Miss
Smithers?
Mr.. Worm-Not ",rhe Idiot''-"The Iliad-
Ill-ee-ad."
Miss Jenkins-"The lily Add" Queer
name that; don't think i ever heard of the
book. Sounds Roosian. Bout Roosia, is it?
Mr. Worm-No think not; Greek mostly.
Miss Jenkins-Oh, it's Greek story Liz
zie. L think I've heard of it. Tells about
the war they've just had between Greece
and Japan, I b'lieve.
Miss Smithers Second saleslady)-The
name of the book you want is '"The Idiot"
You want it in paper cover?
Mr.. Worm-No: I'm sure it's THE Iliad.'
Miss Smithers-Well. l think you've got
1t wrong. 1t might be 1.-THE Kali Yard
I've heard of something like that Who do
you say the book is by? Homer? Don't
know his full name, do you?
Mr. Worm-No; that is, that's all there
is of the name.
Miss SmitEers-Oh. / see: norme de ploom
l never heard of him. must be some new
man amt got his reputation made. We
don't keep none but the real poplar books
Miss Jenkins, s'pose you look through that
pile in the corner.
Miss Jenkins (after three minutes search)
No; we amt got a copy of 1.-The Lizard"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
For n Women's College.

Ida III. Harper. in New York Sun.
The widow of Senator S. C. PomerOy who
has just died in Washington, willed $4,000 TO
Wellesley College 1t is refreshing to see a
woman leave her money TO woman's col
lege. In past years women have beqneathed
hundreds of thousands of dollars TO men S
colleges, not even making conditions in ia
vor of the admission of women. Conspicu-
Gus exceptions are the founding of Smith
College by a woman and the endowment of
the Johns Hopkins medical department by
Miss Mary Garrett, done on condition that
women should be admitted. Women Of
means could secure concessions for their sex
in many directions ii they should choose to
exert the influence commanded by wealth.
Women must help women. This is said with
out any disparagement of the assistance
which men are willing TO render There is
an old adage that the Lord helps those
who help themselves" The struggle for ex-
istence has been harder for women than for
men and they have been and still more
in need OF assistance. How can they expect
this in unstinted degree from men unless
they show their worthiness in standing by
each other? They are doing THIS to far
greater extent than the world gives them
credit for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
CONCERNING COPPERHEADs.

The Boston Herald recently remarked. ap-
provingly, that in some localities the word
'copperhead' is coming to be employed to
designate American sympathizers with
Aguinaldo. Another Boston paper, an organ
of the Aguinaldo cult, undertakes to show
that such application of the term is
wholly unauthorized. 1t says:
The term was employed during the civil
war to designate class of persons in the
Northern States who were in favor of she'd
ding human blood in order that several mil
lions OF people might be kept from the en-
joyment of the rights of self-government
The circumstance that now people of that
way of thinking bestow the opprobrious
term Upon those who continue to uphold the
principles for which the war of the Union
was waged, Is perhaps not greatly surpris-
ing. Human nature does not change much,
after all. 1t was observed very early in the
world s history that when a crowd is chas-
ing a pickpocket, ut not quite certain as
10 his Identity, the purse was apt to be
found in possession of the fellow who was
loudest In crying Stop thief.
This falls considerably short of mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration. but the inference
seems to be that the real "copperheads' are
the other fellowship people who are stand
ing by the government. Boston, or there
about, was the original home of Webster's
Dictionary. but the gift of accurate defini-
ton does not seem to have descended TO the
Aguinaldist organ. Webster or at least the
latest edition of his dictionary defines cop
perhead" as "a nickname applied to persons
in the Northern States who sympathized
with the South during the civil war" That
is a correct definition. Nicknames and cpl
thets do not prove anything, although dur
ing the civil war the one in question was
very expressive and very useful. The orig
class of persons in the Northern States who
were in favor OF shedding human blood in
order that several millions of people might
be kept from the enjoyment of the rights
of self-government' as they were a class
of persons opposed TO establishing and
maintaining the authority of the govern
ment by force and arms. This is the posi-
ton of the Aguinaldsts of to-day. In the
civil war the government fought to establish
its authority over several millions of people
without asking 1.-The consent of the gov
erned." 1t is doing the same in the Philip
pines, except that the number of people is
not as great. Constitutionally, by the law
of war and by international law, the Philip
pine islands are as much part of the ter
ritory of the United States to-day as the
seeding States were in 1861. and the in
surrection of the Filipinos calls for sup
preston by force as much as did that of
our erring brethren in the civil war. How
the sympathizers with Aguinaldo can claim
that they are upholding 1.-The principles for
which the war for the Union was waged"
is past understanding by any person not
of the cult In the broad sense that "a
copperhead' is a citizen of the country OPP
posed to establishing and maintaining the
authority of the government by force, the
term is not misplaced when applied to Amer
lean Aguinaldists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

In times Of business depression or panic
wage earners are apt 60 be the first to suffer
and the last to recover. The fact that there
has recently been a general increase of
wages in the leading industries of the coun-
try shows that the wave of prosperity has
reached that class. Or the Sd inst, accord
ing to the Boston Transcript. cotton mills
in the New England States, operating more
than three-quarters of the total number of
spindles in the North, began work under
an advanced schedule of wages The new
schedule is about the same as that which
existed prior to the general reduction made
in the early part of 1898. 1t affects about
$4,000 persons employed by more than 120
corporations. and will better the condition
of about 100000 people. A similar increase
of wages has taken place in other indus
tries. and the movement promises to con-
tinue. 1t means that all classes are sharing
in the new prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Etiauctte for Poets.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

New L Ork commercial Advertiser.
a respectable paper, whose chief claim to
distinction Is that il was founded by a GER
tain man in certain year, calls the minor
poets sharply to task for sending kipling so
many messages of coincidence when he was
i'll. 1t stigmatiZes them all as self-advertis-
ing. Larger poets, it intimates, may with
propriety send words of cheer to lesser
poets, because they will be helped by the
advertising of it; but lesser poets must bot
tie up their feelings until they have attained
higher grade. If this is poetical etiquette,
there ought to be an official list made, as
there is with tennis players, in order that
tender-hearted poet, when moved to ex-
press his sympathy for another in aff1iction,
may quickly consult the list and find out
whether he is eligible to send congra tula-
lions. This is especially necessary because
poets have way of oVer-eStimating their
own works, and withoutiSome official action
endless ordinations and determinations
would arise; since according to this etiquette
whenever one poet writes to another it
would imply that he was the greater and the
other the lesser poet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
SPOILED MEAT IN HAVANA.
some Thrown Away without Survey
Grievances of Soldiers.

HAVANA. April 6.-Captain Neal Gaines.
in charge of the relief of the destitute of
Havana and the provost of this city. has
declined to give "A report and thus make
himself accountable for 5000 cans of beef.
100000 cans of tomatoes and quantities of
dried apples and other stores. 1t is known
that part Of these provisions is spoiled. The
supplies are in warehouse No 3. at Regi-
ment a. Acting Chief Commissary Bart
lett. in the absence of Chief Commissary A.
l.. Smith. wrote TO Captain Gaines five days
ago, directing him. by order OF the division
commander. to receive from Mai. ]. c. Null
likan, of the subsistence department. these
stores. Captain Gaines. however saw "A lot
OF spoiled meat and asked General Ludlow
to cause inspection 10 be made. Major Null
likan was unwilling to wait for the insrec-
ton. as he was being mustered out and the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

and Labrador are found. Granite. gneiss,
syenite pOrphyry, lower and upper siurian
limestone. Potsdam sandstone and frag
merits OF archean limestone containing the
celebrated fossil known as the Cocoon Cana
denSe. described By Dawson. are found in
this immense gravel bed which is over 10
feet deep. and through which the new work
on the PittsburS d Western has cut great
gaps seVenty-five feet in depth which look
like small canyons.
Last week immense piece of the
Niagara limestone was taken out with cPar-
aeteristic silurian fossils. This rock, like the
others, was carried for miles by the great
prehistoric ice sheet which swept down over
half continent. Another curious thing is
the vast amount of coal in a comminuted
condition dug up in the gravel. This is a
hard kind of bituninous coal and has the
color and texture Of the Pittsburg coal bed.
Its presence in the glacial drift would APP
pear to indicate that the carboniferous
rocks were ground to pieces over a vast
area by the moving ice and that tens OF
thousands of square miles of coal was de-
strOyed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Easter Bonnet Tragedy.
Philadelphia Record.

A stylish young woman who lives in the
vicinity of Eleventh street and Columbia
avenue encountered very grave disappoint-
ment on Easter Sunday when she opened
the box in which her new bonnet had ar
rived the night before She had selected the
material, but had lett the details of make
up to the skill and taste of the milliner.
had expected, the hat was sorely disap-
pointing. Although il was a narrow-brim
shape, a huge bow of wildly colored ribbon
adorned one side OF il. Several yards of
gauZy looking stuff that was intended 10
drape gracefully about the hat was tied
about it like a string. The young woman,
the ribbon bow, whirled il in wild circles
about her head and cast it into the street
from a front window. She absolutely re-
fused TO go after it. and one of the MEM
bers of the family was forced to go out and
rescue il from the trolley track.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Plan for a Debtors Trust.

Chicago Tribune
1t is now possible for man to be declared
a bankrupt for the small sum of $25. This
is the price of the initiation fee to the Bank
rupt Club, which has for it's object the free
ing of its members from worrying debts, and
for its ritual the new bankrupt law of the
United States The founder of the organ
ization has given it publicity through the
following advertisement, which appeared
yesterday:
JOIN BANKRUPT CLUB: ATTORNEY
fees $25: experienced attorney. Address -,
Tribune
Under the new law the process Of securing
a decree of bankruptcy has been greatly
simplified, and attorneys say a SO fee for
each case would be profitable for a lawyer
who had time to make "A speciality of such
cases, as long litigation seldom is involved.
The new club resembles trust, except that
instead of its being Capitalization of cap
ital. it is a combination OF those whose
trouble is that they lack capital. The cap
ital stock in this instance will be debts and
not dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

In New York. where a single fare over
either Of the rapid-transit lines has hereto
fore been cents. the people are congratu-
lating themselves that an agreement has
been reached under which transfer tickets
will be issued for an additional cents. and
the Tribune says: 1T was predicted yester-
day that the time was not far distant VIXEN
as result of the stimulation to traffic which
would undoubtedly follow the reduction the
directors of the two companies would agree
upon the policy of one fare of cents over
their routes" Yet some people hereabout
think cents, with transfers. is too much.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
a Mayors Advisers.
hiladelphia North American.

Mayor Ashbridge scarcely had time to
warm his office chair after his Inauguration
before stream of letters and communica-
tions from cranks of all kinds began to pour
in by mail. The water question being up
permoSt in the public mind a majority of
mayor as TO his proper course of duty are
In reference to the water problem. One in
d1vidual yesterday wrote: Il would like TO
say a few words on typhoid fever, If the
people Of this great city would Stop eating
celery and raw fruit of all kinds and stop
drinking ice water there would be less sick
ness. If they don't stop eating celery we
will always have typhoid fever with us"
Another crank suggested that electric light
wires should be placed in the reservoirs and
in the bed of the Schuyll1ill river. and at
stated periods every day heavy alternating
currents of electricity should be run through
them. By this method, the writer argued
all fever microbes and germs would be
shocked to death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Oranges May BE Grown in the North.


An orange tree that will grow and bear
fruit far north as st. Louis and Philadel-
phia is promised by the officials of the Agr-
cultural Department. The destruction of
orange crops and groves in recent years
through frosts in northern Florida directed
the attention of Secretary william TO "A
search for some measure of relef~for the
owners who have been suffering financial
loss. He has been experimenting the cross
ing of the Florida orange and the Japanese
trifolata, hardy variety of fruit. and now
has several thousand of the hybrid plants.
which will be set out during the present
spring. The experts believe that the new
orange will survive frost and a moderate
amount of cold, and confident that the
experiment will result in producing trees in
which the excellency of the Florida orange
will be combined with the hardness of the
japanese plant. If the experiment succeeds
the department will materially assist in re-
viving the orange industry, not only in Flor
ida, but in other Southern States, and will
al the same time assure the orange-eaterS
of an unfailng supply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Result of n Marriage.
Charles Morris, in Lippincott.
York House one of tho Sunarh y.

Charles Morris, in Lippincott
York House. one of the superb residences
IN England. which had been rebuilt by the
elder buckingham was bestowed by Crom-
well on Fairfax, one of his most faithful fol-
lowers. Fairfax had q daughter Mary a lit
tie brown body, with but q small treasure
of personal attractions. But her father pos
sessed York House. The wandering duke
wanted his own again and he decided to try
TO recover ii by offering his hand-we can
say little about his heart-to Mary Fairfax.
He had every confidence in his own powers
Of attraction and the result proved that his
confidence was well founded. He sought
England in disguise. presented himself to
the girl, won her love and the favor of her
father, and was married to her on Sept. s,
1851. This marriage exasperated Cromwell
who, as some say, designed Buckingham for
one of his own daughters. He had the new
made groom arrested and committed to the
Tower, where he remained till the death of
the protector and the abdication of his son.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

c. c. Abbott, in Lippincott.

No natural object can be ugly, repulsive,
uninStructive, or unentertaining if we see
ii as 1t is, and have knowledge of its place
and purpose. 1t may lack what artists call
the elements Of grace: its colors may be
dingy: but then how soon we tire of too
pronounced brilliancy. The ugliest weed.
on the other hand, is not always ugly. Think
of the brilliant beetle or gay butterfly that
may rest upon ii. A turtle roofing in the
mud of ditch. Itself the color of the soiled
water that surrounds il, is so beautifully
adapted to its home and habits that we for
get the lack of pleasing color and are i'm
pressed with the more suggestive beauty of
adaptation. We must center thought upon
the object before us-a serious, prolonged,
truth-desiring thOught-and there and then
only will the symmetry OF natures handi-
work become apparent. Such recognition on
our part repays us as fully as floods of color
delight the minimizing eye.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
The Calamity Candidate.

Some people regard the election of Mr.
Bryan in 1900 as an impossibility, but L
am not in that number" said Mr.. +. w.
Reese of New York. IF the cholera should
kill off a good many thousands of our troops
in the Philippines; if the yellow fever should
ravage the ranks of our soldiery in Cuba
and Porto Rico, and If together with such
disasters the price of wheat should drop
to 40 cents a bushel by Aug. !, 1900. then L
agree that the election OF the Nebraskan
to the presidency might be the result of
such a grand climax of woes. But the very
maximum of national woe must be reached
in order that his triumph may be assumed.
This seems to me to constitute him the
ideal of calamity candidate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
MASSACHUSETTS KICKERS.

The Massachusetts kickers who call them
selves "anti-imperialists'' held a meeting in
Boston Tuesday night to denounce Pres
ident McKinley's Philippine policy. The
name of the President was Kissed and that
of Aguinaldo, who has been ordering peo-
pies heads cut off and their bodies ripped
open. was enthusiastically appauded. The
great Mr.. Boutwell,, who wanted to shoot
Andrew Johnson into a hole in the sky
which Boutwell, had prepared for his re-
ception, said Happily, the brevity of the
presidential term will give a chance before
very long for the people to interrupt a pol
icy they don't like At this the audience
cheered. The following resolution was
adopted
That our government shall take imme-
date steps toward a suspension of hostili-
ties In the Philippines and a conference
with the Philippine leaders, with view TO
preventing further bloodshed upon the basis
of recognition of their freedom and indie
be had OF order and protection to property.
This resolution recalls one that was
adopted by a convention of kickers held at
Chicago in August, 1864. as follows:
This convention does explicitly declare
after four years of failure to restore the
Union by the experiment of war. during
which. under the pretense of a military ne
cessity of a war power higher than the Con-
stitution, the Constitution itself has been
dlsregarded in every part, and public lib
erty and private right alike trodden down,
and the material prosperity of the country
essentially impaired, justice. humanity lib
erty and the public welfare demand that
immediate efforts be made for cessation
OF hostilities. with view to an ultimate
convention of all the States, etc.
The animus of both of these resolutions
is the same, manifestations opposition
to the government in its performance of
plain and unavoidable duty. The war for
the preservation of the Union was prose-
cuted to a successful conclusion, as that in
the Philippines will be- The kickers of 1854
have passed into oblivion. and so will those
of to-day. They do not represent the pa
triotic sentiment of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

Richard Croker and Ben T. Cable of Illinois
another Democrat who did not vote for
Bryan in 1896 The Atlanta Journal sent
dispatch. but the Constitution did not. One,
however, looks i'm vain for the congratuIa-
tons of Colonel Bryan. or Senator Jones, Of
the Democratic national committee. They
favored the election of Altgeld. as did every
ultra silverite of prominence in the country.
All Of the congratulations are from the
really anti-Bryan wing of the party, from
Croker. in New York. to Mayor Taggart.
The ultra silverites made Altgeld the repre-
sentative of 16 to l in the campaign in Chi
cago and were disasrously beaten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07

A Chicago paper publishes some OF the
kilograms which Mayor Harrison received
after his election. Several OF them are from
Indiana Democrats. Mayor Taggart wishes
that Mayor Harrison viii live long enough
10 do them many times. Even Leon Bailey.
unmindful OF the Altgeid Democracy in this
district. congratulated him for standing by
1.-The plain people" The indications are that
those whom Mr.. Bailey would call the plain
people in his speeches here voted for Alt
geld. and that Republicans whom Mr. Bailey
denouEces as aristocrats elected Harrison.
Mr.. Morss sent his congratulations. So did
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
Stranger than Fiction.

A suit at Oklahoma City has brought out
a most curious train of circumstances. A
woman secured a divorce from her husband,
together with large amount of alimony.
The divorced husband then entered into an
agreement with a good-looking young man
in the neighbOrkood whereby the young man
was To pay court to the woman. marry her,
get control of all her property and divide II
with the divorced husband. The young man
carried out his agreement TO the letter. and
then fled the country. The suit is now
brought by the woman TO recover the prop
erty of which she has been defrauded by
the conspiracy. Did ever a novelist conceive
of an improbable plot such as this one sworn
TO in a court of Justice?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-07
New York Letter.

Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew has fixed
upon his future home in Washington, hav-
ing discovered without much annoyance of
house hunting a house that he regards in
every way suitable for the entertainment
which he proposes to carry on while he is
senator. He has rented what is known as
the Corcoran mansion, a house made ia
nous by many historic traditions and by
the character of its occupants.
If Senator Depew's purposes are carried
out the tradition which will remain with
the house when he shall have done with it
will be a story of luxurious, delightful en-
tertainment, for he proposes to gather there
as occasion offers all those who have high
repute for intellectual or SOCIAL charm or
who are of distinguished relation TO public
affairs in the United States. Mr.. Depew
has taken a lease of the house for six years,
and 1t will take considerably more than the
salary of $500 which he will receive for
six years service, TO pay the rent; in fact,
il will take almost as much again.