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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In the heart of George Vanderbilt's estate
near Asheville is q plot owned by an old
negro who lives there and refuses to sell.
He says he has been bothered all his life
by bad neighbors, and now that he mas a
good one he will not move.
Nine. Patti, now Baroness Cederstrom, Is
said to have made at times as much as $780,
900 a year. Melba's income when fully en-
gagged is $3.50. GOO, and Sarah Bernhard, has
for years averaged $4,000. Rosa Bonheur
sold one years work for $3.50. 900.
DR.. Martin Luther Brooks, who died IN
Cleveland the other day, made the first
speech in favor Of abolition ever delivered
in Ohio. This was at Ober1in, which place,
through DR.. Brooks's efforts, was made the
headquarters of the underground railway:
school In the West. He was an intimate
friend Of Lincoln.
The late Duke of Beaufort was some
what formidable in repartee, If one may
judge of his power from the following
anecdotes: When Voltigeur, the French
came up to the duke who had bet heavily
on the race. and, grasping his hand en-
Enthusiastically, said: "Ah, my. dear duke.
Waterloo is at last avenged" Yes, my
dear count" was the reply, 'the French
also ran we'll at Waterloo"
Father George d. Heldmann, a Catholic
priest Of Chicago, who has been talked of
as a candidate for Congress and is being
urged by his friends to make the run, says
he sees no reason why he should not do so
if 1t seems to be the earnest wish of a ma
jority Of his people. Father Heldmann's
parishfoners are most OF them Germans.
and they hold him in high esteem. If he
should become acandidate IL will not be as
a reformer, he declares, but as a repre-
sentative of all the people to give them
what they have been asking for.
DIR. Nansen made a bold effort to reach
the north pole, and is now said to have
some hankering after the south pole. Ac-
cording to the Scotsman his intention is to
give the British and German expeditions a
fair field in maturing their plans before de-
termining on his own line of action. He be-
much more easily than the north pole, as,
assuming the existence of q continuous Ice
cap covering the land mass of the Antarctic
continent, ii would be possible TO reach the
former on ski and sledges in a comparative
ly short space of time.
An o~ctogenarian club has been organized
In Kenwood. Ill. The idea was suggested
by Mrs. De L'Armitage. There are fifteen
members Of the club. their ages ranging
from eighty to eighty-seven years. DIR.
Joseph w. Harmer is president. The men,
bers enjoy the club hugely, spending most
of the time discussing events in the first
half of the century. They meet now in the
open air. They have no written constitu-
tion and but one unwritten bylaw, which
is that no member shall be allowed to tell
one and the same story more than seven
times at as many successive meetings with
out varying the incident or shifting the
point of the joke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

While the matter has not been absolutely
settled, there seems now to be little doubt
that the city authorities will order stone
bridges for Fall creek on Meridian and IL
linois streets. This is as it should be. Such
in appearance; are. in fact. the only kind
an keeping with the other improvements of
those thoroughfares. They will add great
ly to the beauty of these two handsome
streets and do ava to some extent with
the present unkempt condition of Fall creek
itself. What is so desirable in these two
cases Is equally so of Central avenue, but.
unfortunately, the County Commissioners.
who are responsible for this bridge. talk
only Of an iron structure. Merely for the
sake of uniformity. II nothing more, this
bridge should he like the others so near 1t.
but other considerations call for an i'm
provement OF the best and most permanent
character here. Central avenue is a thor
oughfare over which there is now a great
deal Of travel. and this is sure to increase,
since the town is rapidly growing in that d.
~rection- An iron bridge is not suited to the
place; II is not only unattractive. but is less
durable and needs renewal every few
years. A stone bridge is more costly, but
its -permanency makes the expenditure true
economy in the end. Citizens especially in
terested in the Improvement of that part
OF the city should not rest content with the
poorer structure. but should agitate the
subject and persuade the commissioners. if
possible. to more liberal action. Central
avenue should have a stone bridge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
A "HOTo COLD
Some Inside History Of the amOu
"DOllar
New Orleans -Times-Democrat

@NCW ilCd llDucS-DtulOCIdI.
One Of the walters at a popular local res
taurant is a bird OF passage from the Bow
cry and was a member of the small army
mat served the famous dollar dinner in
New York last April. A good many stories
nave been told of that memorable event,
but none Of them surpass his own in point
Of picturesqueness and inside detail. 1T
was the funniest push / was ever at In me
life" he says, confdentially. The kitchen
was so small they had to cook everything
on the outside, and when it got there II was
dead cold. The second course was paddock,
and each fish come served in a linen bag,
SO Q we could put ,em IN TUBS of o hot " water ter
boys got ratified and served 'em bags ana
all, with egg sauce over the outside. Say,
you'd of died laughing seeing them fellers
est aud paddock / liver tackled In me life
says one Tammany man at the head table;
it's got a skin like a rhinocyris,' says he.
In the Kitchen there was a riot all night
long. 1t was SO small the walters couldn't
reach the dishers-up and they got to scrap
ping for front places in the line. One man
was Knocked stiff with a turkey, and when
they. picked him up l thought he was dead.
/ did, on the level. But it wasn't blood. 1t
was only cranberry sauce. Another turnkey
fell into the salad and one of the cooks put
a can of ice cream in the oven, thinking 1t
was brown gravy for the beef. That's on
the square-just as I'm tellin' you! Blu the
worst of all was when we came to the wine.
1t was 'Merican champagne IN half-pints,
without ice, and of all the kicking and hol-
lering! One fresh gent told me it was the
only thing he had had that night that was
good and warm, and he had hardly said it
when a waiter that was a little jagged ac-
~cidentally poured about a quart of boilin
coffee down the back of his neck. Say, you
ought of heard him cuss! you and
me, a good many walters got to hitting the
wine, and they found one of 'em with tf-
teen empty bottles in his pants leg. ThatS
honest. l saw it myself. 1t was the hottest
banquet / was ever at"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

Several days since the Journal printed the
following paragraph because it contains a
truth not only of unusual application but of
the greatest practical value to constituent
cies:
n county Is bigger than the district"
Is the remark of the Charlottesville Journal,
which many persons should commit to
memory and repeat daily. And il might
have added: No mans aspirations are of so
much Importance as the efficient service of
q whole district by a man of character,
brains and experience.
The Noblesville Ledger takes exceptions TO
It upon the assumption that 1t is designed
to promote the candidacy of Mr.. Lands in
the Ninth district. That the Journal has
any special interest in the candidacy Of Mr..
Lands or any disposition TO oppose a Ham,
ilton county aspirant is a pure assumption.
If, as the Ledger declares. the paragraph
weakens rather than strengthens Mr.. Lam
dis's candidacy. 1t should commend rather
than c~riticise. The districts which have
influence in Congress are those which. after
finding men who nave the ability TO make
themselves useful in the House. elect them
term after term. A statement Of this fact
should not displease any one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
Two Instances were reported in the papers

Two Instances we're reported In the papers
last week Of fortunate individuals who re-
ceived unexpected requests from strangers
whose lives they had once saved. One Of
these lucky persons is a young New Yorker
who had won the lasting gratitude of an
elderly Pittsburg woman. The other bene-
fciary was a Missouri editor. There Is
likely to be renewed activity in the life
saving business on the strength of these
stories, but 1t is hardly worth while for edi-
tors to build any hopes on this single bit of
good fortune in the profession. An editor
often saves a life by the things he doesn't
~print-hut it is seldom that he gets so much
as thank you for the service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
A REMINDER.

The wages Of the tin-plate workers will
be advanced to-day Is per cent. 1t is said
there are 5000 Of them. The employers Of
fered 10 per cent. advance and the employees
demanded % per cent. Instead of proceed
ing to beat each other by the old strike
tactics the employers did not lock out the
men and send abroad for workers to take
the places of the strikers. The employees
did not make threats or in any manner
undertake to compel employers to yield to
their demands. n representatives of both
the result is that they compromised on an
advance Of 15 per cent. How often in our
industrial history have the wages Of $1,000
people been increased Is per cent? The last
Democratic administration was attended by
the reduction of wages from 10 to Is per
cent. affecting hundreds of thousands of
men. but a Democratic administration and
never went together.
Why are these 5000 people employed in
the tin-plate industry to have an increase
of wages? Turn to the files OF Democratic
papers in 1892 and editorials, paragraphs,
interviews and caricatures will be found de-
claring. hat such an industry could not be.
Every effort was made to belittle the FL
wood tin-plate industry when it was started,
even to Democratic efforts to induce those
who had taken stock in it TO surrender 1t
to embarrass the leaders of the enterprise.
There would be no tin-plate industry in this
country If the Democratic party had its
way. Fortunately, a Republican House was
elected in 1883. and the Senate was in favor
of protection. The Mckinley law was
passed, putting a protective duty on tin
plates. which was followed by the estab-
lishment of a number of small plants. The
Wilson law would have destroyed them, but
the German law retained much of the Nc
Kinley duties. so the industry was estab-
lished and has grown until it employs 5000
men. Prices have been advanced because
the materials advanced with the rise of iron.
This marked increase of wages may mean
another rise In the price, but present prices
are lower than when the British tin-plate
combination supplied the market and made
the prices.
If the Democrats could have prevented II
I'm 1902 there would now be no tin-plate
Industry employing 1900 people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

After one has partly succeeded i'm con-
vincing himself that this is not so wicked
. world as a few OF the very good would
have US believe. some Of these excellent
people who put in their time exposing the
wicked are revealed by their transactions
as being among the transgressors. There
is the late Senator Allen. of Nebraska. Dur
ing the six years he was In the Senate he
filed several volumes OF the Congressional
Record with speeches setting forth the
wickedness of the wicked. and that the rem
nant OF the righteous was very small and
constantly diminishing with the disappear
snce OF the Popuiist party. The senator
gave the country the flavor Of his patriotism
when he would not accept q commission for
his son I'm the Spanish war. but left him TO
-. IN the ranks as did his father. After all
TINS proclaimed goodness X comes like an
unexpected anguish TO learn that the late
senator. the leader OF the Populist contin-
gent In the Senate. devoted the last hours
OF HIS senatorial life TO pushing thru Ugh a
bill which has enabled him to gather up
ten thousand acres of land upon a himsy
pretext. True. the bill was prepared by a
senator bearing the name OF Pettigrew.
whose goodness consists In assailing others.
but that tact does not excuse Judge Allen.
90 COED . man - he has declared himself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

Allen w. Clark. who, in q recent inter-
view. styled a large part Of the Democratic
one Of the recognized leaders of the 16-to-1
element. With others he will do guard duty
about the rooms in which the national COM
mittee will meet in Chicago next Thursday.
Mr.. Clark is very severe upon the "oppor-
tunists' who are seeking to relegate 16 to
60 the rear in the next platform. Mr.. Clark
remembers that the opportunists, Mayor
Taggart and what is known as the Taggart
gam defeated him in the last Democratic
convention in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

The most curious feature In the case Of
the miner recently imprisoned for nearly
seventy hours in the Gaylord coal mine at
Plymouth, Pa, was his peacefully falling
asleep in his tomb as soon as he realized
that he was likely to be rescued. 1t would
be different to imagine a more serene ner-
vous system. There were plenty of chances.
too, that the miners might not get the poor
fellow out alive. When, finally, he did
emerge he behaved just as a hero ought to
behave-quietly, with less thought of him
self than of his distracted mother, who at
the moment was at home praying for him.
An adventure like that, together with the
outbreak of one of the old Kentucky feuds,
and the exciting train robber chase in
Wyoming a few weeks ago, makes us real
lie that we still keep in this country the
elements of the dramatic and the pic
turesque. And yet our foreign visitors will
look US over superciliously and declare that
we are utterly commercialized and prosaic!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

1t IL reported that a radical revulsion of
sentiment towards Governor Pingree is go
ing on in Michigan because Of his recent al
lance with the street-railway magnates. A
few years ago he won popular favor by
fighting and defeating the Johnson COM
panies. who asked a thirty years franchise
in Detroit on the basis of six tickets for 3
cents. Now he is equally vehement in urg-
ing a scheme which will give Johnson a
forty-eight years franchise and a scent
fare under an impossible device of munic-
ipal purchase and a 3-cent fare.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

AICHlSOu GIOD6.
A sensational lawsuit will shortly be COM
menced in Atchison. Six months ago a
prominent woman appeared at a grocery
store where she traded and said that her
husband had given her the money to pay a
months bill, then due, but that she was
greatly in need of the money and requested
the grocer to receipt the bill, saying she
would pay the amount in three different in
stallmentS. The conversation took place in
the presence of three witnesses-the grocer.
an paid no further attention to the matter.
and when appealed to three months later
said she had paid the bill and had the re-
ceipt. TIL husband was drawn into the
controversy and stood by his wife. The
grocer now says he will sue for the money
and prove by his own testimony and two of
his employees that the woman is deliberate
ly trying to defraud him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
fl STATE PRESS.

The real question for Democrats TO de-
eide is whether they intend to do business
as Democrats or as Populists. That de-
cided, they can have smooth sailing.-South
Bend Times Dem.)
About the meanest form OF sneaking cop
perheadism is matter written to discourage
enlistments. Specimens can be found al
most daily In any of the Democratic pa
pers. and the Rushville J~acksonian con-
tains but little else.-Columbus Republican.
1t is pretty safe TO conclude that the
fowery address alleged TO have been pro-
mulgated by Aguinaldo did not emanate
from that individual and he in fact never
saw IL. 1t bears the ear marks of prepara-
ton by some cunning politician. III he de-
livered a speech Il has been CARRIED or re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
How Mrs. SOuthwOrth Was Paid.

DOobOh llaISNllpNs
Many of the sketches of the life of Mrs.
E. ID. E.. n. Southworth stated that for her
first serial, "Retribution," published in the
National Era, she received no compensa-
ton. DR.. Southworth. her son. corrects
this statement. In justice to the reputation
of DR.. Gamaliel Bailey, the publisher of the
Era. he says: DIR. Bailey paid mother for
every installment. / have often heard my
mother tell of the avidity with which she
seized the first money she received for her
writings. The occasion was when DR.. Bail
ely paid her SIS on account of her story. She
was very poor then. Ever since that time
she has been paid for all she has written"
Speaking of his mothers relations with the
New York Ledger, DR.. Southworth says:
One time. when engaged on the Ledger at
a salary. payable weekly, whether she
wrote much or little-and she generally had
three months vacation every year-she was
offered $4,000 for a short serial by a pub
Usher who, / think, is now living. The
offer was very tempting, but, remembering
Mr.. Bonner's liberality and prompt pay
ment, she declined the offer. Mr.. Bonner,
on hearing this, voluntarily raised her sal
airy $25 a week. She continued to write for
Mr.. Bonner for twenty-five years after
ward"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
Woman in Politics.
Washington Special.

One senator's wife in Washington u TAX
ing an active interest in having some of the
constituents of her husband appointed as
officers in the new army. There are several
young men in her State who distinguished
themselves during the late war, and who
have appealed TO her to use her influence to
get their appointments. Her husband, the
senator, is home attending to some law
business, but his wife has remained in
Washington during all the hot weather SIM
ply to try to get the appointments made.
She has visited the President several times.
and has been daily at the War Department
this week, urging the claims of her soldier
boys. 1t Is somewhat unusual to see a
woman, and especially a senator's wife,
mingling with the congressman and office
seekers in General Corbin's office, and Ii has
excited comment. But Mrs. Senator is a de-
termined woman, and having started on the
campaign, she is going to carry it to a sue
ceSsful end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

deny his charges. To his charge that they
appropriated u~ncopyrighted material they
answer that they bought such matter from
his publishers. And in reply TO the charge
that they took advantage of the public in
terest in his illness when he lay at deaths
door they say: The sets originally made
up were put in hand in the early fall, and
the later ones were started some time be-
fore Mr.. Kipling's illness, namely, in early
January. AS there was delay in securing
the sheets of certain Of the books which
the publishers were reprinting the books
were not ready for sale till the middle of
March" AS the Putnams are we'll known
as an honorable firm il seems likely that
Mr.. Kipling's suit was due TO his misunder-
standing of the f. ITS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

The second letter of Rex" on the topic,
Commercial Travellers and Trusts" is
given In this issue. because II Is the sincere
expression OF a man who speaks for a class
OF men whose employment demands for
them public respect TIL Journal. however,
did not say that corporations and trusts do
not employ the ablest lawyers In the land.
1t said that corporations and trusts cannot
by any influence they can control obtain
legislation in their special interest, because
the general drift OF legislation In most
States and IN Congress Is against such COM
binationA Except In New Jersey. the tend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

A state exchange. after asserting that
truth never suffers from honest and fear
less discussion" puts out the following alb
surd falsehood:
Fifty thousand men are said by the
dailies to be out of employment in the In
diana gas field on account of the trusts.
When such a condition can exist in a coun-
try where nature furnishes free fuel the
trust evil would seem to have reached it's
limit of iniquity.
If any one has a prize to bestow upon the
author of the stupidest lie of the season,
he need not delay in sending it to the editor
who is responsible for the foregoing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

TO be should not be led 70 destroy all faith
in human goodness by getting a bill through
Congress which has enabled him 20 gather
up a few thousand acres OF land. and
which will assist him In compelling the
cattlemen TO pay tribute to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

American.

A romance as the subject of a syndicate
is something ordinarily not to be looked for
outside of high-fown imaginative literature,
yet such a fact has developed. as a matter
of serious business. A syndicate has taken
up the famous bruce case. in London, in
which the succession to one of the duchies
of Great Britain is disputed. The whole
story, with its eccentric hero. secret mar
rage, underground passages. double life and
dramati discovery of the high-born adven-
turer's identity, reads more like a chapter
from a penny-dreadful detective story than
as an actual occurrence in real life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17

The New York Herald, in presenting the
Independence day speech of Aguinaldo as
an echo of the an-ti-expansionists of Bos-
ton. quotes paragraph after paragraph to
show how like the imperialist ~utterances
are those of Aguinaldo. The Herald also
quotes the following:
Some States Of the American Union have
arisen in our favor. Especially is the Dem
ocratic party convinced that both victors
and vanquished will lose precious lives.
Thus many of the people and many of the
statesmen censure President Mckinley as
inhuman for having ordered his military
representatives at Manila to seek means to
bring about hostilities with the Fflipinos.
When Aguinaldo refers to some States
of the American Union which nave arisen
declarations of such meetings as have been
held in Chicago and Cincinnati, but when
he declares that the Democratic party is in
effect in sympathy with him. he refers to a
much more important body than the Boston
people whom the Herald ridicules. Not
expansionists being used by 'Aguinaldo to
encourage his followers, but he puts forth
the claim that the Democratic party is OPP
posed to the establishing of American su-
premacy in the Philippines. While Agui-
naldo's assumption is far from true for
the reason that a large part of the Demo
cratic party is in favor of the prosecution
Of the war, 1t is true that the local leaders
and the editors are hostile to the prosecution
Of the war on political grounds. Captain
English's Fourth of July speech stopped all
praise of him in the Democratic organs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
Capitalists Catching On"
New York Letter.

1BW 1UfK LFIItr-
Correspondence from all parts of the
country has aroused the bankers and others
who have their pulse on affairs to an under
tandin of the depth of the resentment
which is felt by the mass of the people
against trusts So many people have been
directly affected injuriously by the great
industrial combinations organized that the
effect has been TO build up a stronger feel
ing against trusts than even demagogues
nave conceived possible. A great popular
uprising for their repression is freely pre-
dicted. Among moneyed people Of broad
views few expressions of regret are heard
that the trust question will be one of the
ISSUES of the next political campaign.