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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
WEEK OF SAFEGUARDING
PROBABLE PROGRAMME IN THE
UPPER HOUSE OF CONGRESS.
Senator Beveridge VIII Speak on the
Philippines-NoS Set Plan for the
House Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE week in the
Senate necessarily will be given up largely
to experimenting. Beginning Monday morn
ing, Senator Pettigrew's resolution ask
ing for information concerning the Philip
pine war will come up, and he, and prob
ably other senators, will speak upon it.
This will occur during the morning hour.
Senator Morgan has given notice of a
speech on Monday, in which he will dis
cuss the race question in the South. II any
time is left that day it will be devoted 10
the continuation of the discussion of the
financial BILL some of the senators in the
opposition replying to Mr.. Aldrich. Tues
day Senator Beverage will deliver his
speech on the Philippine problem. and
Wednesday will be devoted to eulogies OF
the late Vice-President Hobart.
The greater part of the remainder of the
week will be devoted to the finances. the
object of the managers of the financial bill
being to give as much time as possible 70
this measure until it is acted upon. 1t is
now understood that almost all the SEN
ators opposed to the bill Will talk upon II
before the vote is taken, but there has not
yet been any arrangement of the order In
which they will address the Senate.
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No Heuse Programme.

WASHINGTON, Jan. There is no pro-
gramme in the House for the present week.
The only certain feature is the considera-
ton of the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill. 1t will be ready Tuesday or Wednes-
day. II will contain almost $50. 900 for the
army and navy. and, while it will pass
when it reaches a vote, 1t may precipitate
a stormy debate upon the conduct of the
war in the Philippines. The answer of
Secretary Gage to the House resolution
calling for information regarding the de-
post of government funds in national
banks is expected early in the week. The
report will not constitute privileged ques-
ton which will open up debate, but If
1T is deemed unsatisfactory to anyone.
resolutions of investigation may follow.
The Roberts case will not get before the
House until the end of the week, at the
earliest, and probably not then. The hear
ings have been adjourned until Wednes-
day, and it is hardly likely that the report
can be prepared in time for presentation
this week.
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Julian Ralph. in London Mail.
To be perfectly happy anywhere between
the Cape and the Zambesi the traveller
should take a fig-leaf for a daytime cos
tune and a Laplander's suit OF furs for
the nighttime. / take of all that the law
allows every day. and then gasp In the
shade of my tent, but at night do myself
up in a lambswool blanket, two ordinary
blankets and steamer rug and lie down
to listen to the rattle OF my teeth until the
sun begins TO blaze through the canvas at
daybreak. We who are at the headquarters
at De Aar are having what the tradeEmen
would call a choice line of selected wealth
ers every known kind coming I'm each
twenty-four hours, and all served TO us in
wholesale lots. Often half a dozen sorts or
weather get mixed up. At such times we
have a blistering sunshine with Antarc-
tic breeze blowing through it. In the middle
of that comes Soudanese sandstorm
made up OF whirls That obscure the sun
and play hob with the camp, lifting up the
skirts OF the tents ane coating everything
red. In one of these whirls you can lay
a clean white handkerchief between two
overcoats, and when you take IL out IL will
look as IL it had been soaked in beef-tea-
After the dust whirl comes a tropical thun-
der shower, at the end OF which the sun
sets with a splendor no painter would dare
TO try 10 put on canvas. AS for the effect
of the climate on man. IL Is not fair TO say
IL is healthy and let IL go at that. II may
Judge from this part or Cape Colony In
November IL actually beats Colorado. In
the United States. To go TO Colorado you
must be a millionaire with only one tnng
and you must keep your lung and part with
your million. But here the rule Is TO come
penniless, with no lungs Thus established.
iionaire. All the African millioniares
started with neither money nor respiratory
organs, and are now the most energetic,
able bodied men OF business alive. Paul
Kruger is an exception. He Is having bad
luck But he began unfairly with sound
lungs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
THE CENTURY QUESTION
To he Followed by the Problem of Its
Geographical Entrance.
Washington Post.

washington fOSt
When do we enter the twentieth century?
In 1900 or 1901? The dispute is not new
one. Similar questions were raised IN 1893,
I'm 1899, and even far back as 1899. A
learned German of two centuries ago made
this the subject of learned disquisition,
which gave rise to quite literature, pro
and contra And in 1900 Paris witnessed a
comedy with the title: Mon Dieu. en- quel
steele vivons nous?'
And yet, says Camille Flammarion, the
famous French astronomer. the answer to
the question is simple enough. Ten Is the
sum of units, and the number ten is one OF
them There was no year in the Christian
era The first year of this era was the year
l. Therefore the twentieth century begins
in the year 1901 and not in 1900.
The first year after the birth OF Christ
passed without special notice. AS much
NAV be said about the second, third and
fourth. In fact, more than FIVE centuries
had flown before the people realized that
they had entered new era. For the
Christian era was established carly in So
A D.. by a Scythian monk, Dionysus
nicknamed Exiguus. because he was small
of stature. Dionysius the Small, assumed
that Christ was born on Dec. 25. 753 years
after the supposed foundation of Rome; so
the 754th anniversary OF this more or less
mythical event became the first year OF
our era.
Later on IL was found that the little
monk had made a big mistake, and that
thanks 10 him. the Christian era had been
started, not at the birth OF Christ. but
four years and seven days later. This is
why the authorized versions OF the Cos
pels place the birth OF Christ In the year
b. c.
The German scientist OF 1899 mentions
this I'm his pamphlet but the error. though
acknowledged, Is suffered to remain. But
such as IL was. the era OF Dionysius Ex-
iguus had no year 0. It's first year was
counted as a. ID. I. its tenth year as A.
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and there are Lots. Abrams who will not
sell Gods favor for gold and Lots who
say: L cannot afford 10 let such a good
chance go, even If L lose my religious ex-
perience and the favor of God
There Is always a certain element or con-
ceit In the worldly mans choices. He
lifts up his eyes and sees. He lifted up
his eyes and saw that good piece of ground
and bought it. He lifted up his eyes and
saw the coming good prices and held of.
He lfNed up his eyes and saw the decline
in prices and sold. He lifted up his eyes
and saw good blood in a pile OF bones
called horse and bought II. How seldom
do they glorify God. Yet how short-sight-
ed, after all. man who does not see be-
yond waving grain fields and full granar-
les, how little he sees! He who does not
see the effect of his actions on his children.
on his own life and character, on his soul
and its destiny is short-sighted. He who
does not see that grain goes into blood
and brain and that money and stocks go
into character and that the ultimate study
OF economics is man, is a very unsafe ex-
ample. Lot failed to see his family in all
rate men. The selfish and the unselfish
men drift apart, each to his own destiny.
1t is the greatest philosophical folly TO OPP
pose the Scripture doctrine of heaven and
hell. II there were no such places men
toned in Scripture, inductive reasoning
would demand them. Two streams of life
flow out of such sources, and the farther
one goes the more Ii demands a hell and
the more it pictures heaven and the more
1t fits for one.
Lots success was temporary. To be a
great man in Sodom Is not much honor or
advantage either, as the sequel proved.
Selfshness prepares its own disintegrating
forces to destroy its own good fortune.
1.-THE end of these two lives. One stands
at a caves mouth, near which he prob
ably died. without his wife, without his
property, the honor of living children gone.
''The other in the midst of great camp
near Hebron. Under the shadow of a great
oak in the heat of the day he could look
off toward the desert and remember God s
promisec Thy seed is the dust of the
| earth At night he could look up and re-
member: Thy seed as the stars of heaven
| for multitude
what a quiet scene of rural life, and
Abrams heart was as peaceful as the
scene. Did he regret his choice? No. He
had chosen unselfishly, for peace, provi-
dence instead of profit, spiritual instead OF
material treasures, and God had given him
both"
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life," wired back the willy Stetson- i've
got your money, and you're not going TO
take 1t away from me-
Late last season Park patrons were IA
vored with a production that had been
planned to be presented at high-price thea
tiers only. Devils Island" was a revela-
ton to them in the way of gorgeous scenic
melodrama- The embassy ball and open
sea rescue scenes were aplauded to the
echo. The same play. with the same fine
settings, will be seen again at that house
for three days of the present week, be-
ginning Thursday afternoon.
Children's parties given by adults have
come to be frequent forms of amusement
among the social -four hundreds OF the
country since Clyde Fitch's famous satire
on modern society. The Moth and the
Flame, was first produced a couple OF
seasons ago. This unique play, in the form
In which Ii was seen for 10 consecutive
nights in New York, comes TO English.s
for stay Of three days Thursday OF this
week. There will be matinee Saturday.
Robert Fulgora, owner of the American
and European Vaudeville Stars" who were
seen at the Park all of last week, was up
in the rooms of Dickson &c Talbot the
other day, talking interestingly of his ex-
ing for new features for his two companies.
'I hit on scheme last summer" said he.
"for getting ahead of those foreign spe-
cialty artists who always want such big
prices for coming TO America. / was nego-
tiating with one Of them in Paris and
said TO him, How much do you get at the
Foies Bergeres?' 'Eigteen hundred
francs said he. We'll, I will give you
twenty-five hundred to come with me to the
United States Before he stopped to call
culate how many dollars that would
amount to he accepted my offer. If he
had been up on American money, he
least he would have asked more.
Walter S. Craven. who was stage director
of the Grand stock company during the
fore part of the present season, was recent
ly awarded a verdict for over 81 80 in the
Supreme Court, sitting in New York city,
Some time ago Mrs. Craven bought a
small gas stove. costing s142 from house
furnisher establishment, and afterward
the cost of which was $3.50. When the
second stove was delivered at the Craven
apartment II was accompanied by a c..
o. ID. check for the full amount, 81 So in
stead OF S1.0S, the difference in the
prices OF the two, which was the correct
amount due. When the Cravenses pro-
tested against paying the bill, the delivery
man grew abusive and was forcibly elected
| by Mr.. Craven, for which the latter was
arrested, tried and acquitted. He then in
| stituted a damage suit against the mans
| employers, and was successful in n verdict
| for $3.50. with per cent. interest and
costs of suit.
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The Skitfish Camel.
London Leader.


A gentleman, In whose company I have
ridden more than once I'm Morocco, ex-
presses his surprise that / should have
forgotten the camel when mentioning I'm
my column last week.. the elephant az
second candidate. after the mule. for sud-
den panic. He has. he says. frequently
known baggage camels 10 bolt the sud-
den appearance OF a small donkey coming
round a bend in the road. and one oc-
casion within his memory a good saddle
camel started of I'm the neighborhood OF
Cairo, its rider its back. and nearly
found Osman Digna in its hurry 20 increase
the distance between itself and a crow
that had somewhat abruptly Mapped up
from the roadside. L gladly make my apo
logy TO the camel but as none Of these
things ever happened to myself I'm Mo-
rocco, i may fairly be excused for having
overlooked the gentle camePs claims. | do
not love the camel. He SMELLS he bites.
he lags behind-altogether. he Is almost
as bad as the famous definition given hy|
a transporting NJ. p OF the horse: "A
brute, sir, that bites you with one end.
kicks you with the other. and makes you
Internally uncomfortable with Its middle. II
But / did not know that he was. amonG|
his other virtues. a coward The fev|
camels OF which 1 have had the use haye|
generally inspired fear rather than telt3
IL. Now, however. that khartum and
Omdurman are 10 be included I'm theI
itinerary OF saturday 10 Monday-week,|
excursionists. II is just as well we shouiG|
know all about the ship and its little ps-|
culiartties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
Don't BE Mi.Ied About Photos.

We have been so busy that we have not
found IL necessary to do much advertising
lately and 1t is not our intention to do
much in the future. We wish TO say, how
ever. that we are the originators OF numer-
Gus styles advertised by other galleries as
new" galleries that initiate our effects
as far they are able, and that compari-
son of our originals with their limitations
will satisfy the public that in this matter,
as in all others, the imitation lacks in it's
essential elements the qualities of the gen.
uine-that make the genuine desirable to
copy. This applies in our original styles
from the small drawing paper miniatures to
Rembrandt Proofs and Van Dykes, all
sorts of oval effects and odd panels But
there are many styles that alone are
equipped to Wholesome that are our own
invention and are exclusively produced
here. So don't be misled: better come TO
headquarters for the best work; IL IL costs
a few pennies more there is good reason
for IL and a better equivalent Is obtained.
II Is far better investment TO get 800
cents worth for 50 than $50 cents worth for
81 IS. The Kitchell Studio Co.. 1126 North
Pennsylvania street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
COIN DIES BROKEN UP.
An Annual Proceeding at United
States Mint.
Philadelphia Telegraph.


Arrangements are now being made at the
United States mint for the destruction of
all the dies used during the year 1899 in
manufacturing the various pieces of money
gle. This is not merely an annual custom.
The breaking of the dies used during the
year is required by law. They are useless
after the expiration of the year for which
they were intended-that Is, they are USE
less for all legitimate purposes, but the
professional counterfitter would find them
particularly valuable, and 1t is largely for
the purpose of preventing private coming
enterprise that the plates are broken up.
The actual work of destruction will not
be begun until Tuesday, Jan. 2, but mean
time the dies bearing the year 1899 will be
shipped to the mint in this city from the
minis of Carson City, San Francisco and
New Orleans. Some of them have already
been received, but the greater part OF them
will not arrive until Tuesday morning next.
Every die is registered when received, a
complete record of the number destroyed
being kept. The rules governing this pro-
ceeding are rigid, and the men who are
engage in 1t are held to a strict accounta-
biity by the Treasury Department.
The work Is done under the Immediate
direction of the superintendent of the mint,
who is assisted by the assayer and chief
coiner. These officials gather In a little
room in the basement in which there are
a number of furnaces, which are used only
for the purpose or destroying dies. Each
die is thrown into a red-hot furnace, and
kept there until Ii is reduced 10 a white
heat 1t is then taken out with huge pair
of tongs and placed upon a forge, where
great sledge-hammer brushes IL into
useless mass Of steel, bearing absolutely
no resemblance to its former condition.
This process is carried forward until every
die is destroyed. 1t is believed that the
number of 1899 dies to be demolished will
greatly exceed 1000.
A force of engravers is kept constantly
employed at the mint I'm this city, and all
the dies used in the various minis through
out the country are made here. 1t Is this
department which is called on to supply
dies to take the places of those which for
various reasons may be defective. The
number made this year has not yet been
made public, but during 1897 there was used
up in the mint in this city in coming double
eagles 20 diverse and q reverse dies; half
eagles, 8 diverse and 10 reverse dies; $3.50
gold pieces, i diverse and 1 reverse die;
for silver dollars, IL diverse and II reverse
dies: for half-dollars. Is diverse and Is re-
verse dies; while "A dies were rendered use
less in coming silver coins of smaller de-
nominations, 80 in making nickel coins and
200 dies in coming pennies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
ABSTRACTER OF TITLES.
THEODORE STEIN.
'ABSTRACTER of TITLES
Corner Market and Pennsylvania streets Indian
apolis, Suite 229. First Once Floor. The
Lemcke." Telephone I76o.

d. 10, and so on. And yet the world at
large has made up IL mind that IL will en-
ter the twentieth century in January. 1900.
No one doubts that 100 includes its hun
dredth unit, but, strange TO say. accord
ing to the ideas of individuals as well as
nations, the world entered new century
on exchanging the 1899 for $500. Truly.
figures are almost as Elusive as facts.
The French astronomer is perfectly pos
tive that on Dec. 81. 1900, exactly at
midnight, our nineteenth century viii van
ish into eternity, to give place to the
next. Exactly at midnight"-these three
words suggest another puzzling problem:
What country will be the first TO enter the
twentieth century? If we reckon the hours
moving eastward we find that when the
clocks strike midnight I'm Paris IL will be
a. m. I'm Vienna, a. m. in Suez and Sc
bastopol, a.. m. in Teheran. a m. I'm To-
bolSk and Bokhara, a m in Colombo. 6 a.
m. in Calcutta. a. m. in Singapore, s a. m.
in Shanghai and Seoul, a. m. in Yeddo
and full noon of Jan. i. 1901, in the Chat
ham islands.
On the other hand, If we make the same
reckoning moving westward we End that
precisely at the same time IL will be y.
m. In New York. p. m. in Chicago, n.
m In San Francisco, p. IN. in Alaska,
p. m. in Honolulu, and, finally, exactly
noon OF Dec. 81, 1900, in the Chatham
islands.
To remedy this discrepancy Camille
| Flammarion suggests the world should
agree to lay down line Of demarkation
somewhere in the wastes OF the Pacific
| ocean east Of Kamchitka and west OF
| the Caroline islands. If this suggestion
| be accepted the Americans in the Phil
| lippines, the Russians In Kamchitka, the
English in New Zealand and the French
| in New Caledonia will all enter the twen-
| tieth century at about the same time.
Yet the savage inhabitants Of Chatham
island will be in advance OF them ALL as
| they will have lived through twelve hours
and four minutes of the new century
when Paris prepares to greet it's arrival
with raised glasses Of champagne. This.
| however, is only justice. AS for the Chat
hamites, this new century Is likely to be
| the last. Since 1880 their numbers have
dwindled from 15O0 to about fifty, chiefly
owing to the fact that their neighbors.
| the Maoris, esteemed them as table
| delicacy, making Ii the rule that the Chat
| hamite should collect wood for the fire
at which he was presently TO be roasted.
Hapless Chathamitesi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-08
No Tax Revision This session.

CHICAGO, Jan. IA special from Wash
ington says: There will be no revision
Of the war internal revenue tax law at
this session of the fifty-sixth Congress"
Said Congressman Hopkins Of the House
ways and means committee this evening:
There are several reasons for this, the
principle one and the only one worth re-
ferring to being that the war in the Phil
ippines is not over and we do not know
how long we will have to keep a large
army there. Under these circumstances
we cannot accurately judge of what the
actual needs of the army will be and the
only thing to do is to let the existing
schedule remain"
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Mr.. MOOdy's Methods.
New York Evening Post.


In the course of a service when he had
been speaking particularly about modern
churches, Mr.. Moody said: 81 believe If
business men conducted their affairs, or If
newspapers were run as our churches are
conducted they would all be bankrupt in
six months He went on to relate how
in Brooklyn he was to speak at a church
in which he had never been before. He
was not sure of the address, and was
driven to the wrong church. In the hunt
which he was obliged to make before he
found the right place he was greatly in
convenienced by the fact that most OF the
several churches to which he went had no
signs upon them except those of under
takers.
81 don't believe any man need preach to
empty pews," he said, ''if he will only use
a little common sense. Advertise. Put a
notice in the papers. Stick out a sign. Put
out bill of fare. No church can succeed
with only undertakers' signs on it. Don't
be afraid. Shock somebody. No matter;
we've got to be shocked. Somebody says
ii isn't dignified. My friends, let dignity
go to the winds. That isn't one of the
fruits of the spirit. 1 notice these report
ers don't stop for dignity. When they want
anything out OF me they don't hesitate to
follow me right into my bedroom. Use
the same enterprise in running your meet
ings that the papers do in their business"
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In the Evansville District.

j. E. Iglehart, prominent attorney Of
Evansville, was at the Denison last night
and reported that the strike in the Evans
Vile coal district was practically settled,
as most of the old miners had returned to
work up to the capacity of the mines. Mr..
Iglehart represented the interests of John
Ingle, the owner of the Bodiam mines, dur
ing the recent injunction proceedings. He
says the case has not been tried as yet,
but that peace has been restored by the
miners returning to work. Mr.. Ingle, he
says, in giving employment to the old min
ers, took only enough to fill out the COM
plement of men for the mines, refusing to
discharge the new miners who had entered
his service during the strike.
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A Man from Spencer.

w. F. Cassidy, of Spencer, is at the
Grand on business trip. Mr.. Cassidy was
formerly treasurer of Owen county and dis
trict chairman when Mayor Taggart was
made chairman of the state committee. He
reports that Chairman Parks NJ. Martin,
of the Democratic state committee, is rap
idly recovering from his recent Illness and
has been assured that he will be the choice
of the Democrats to lead the forces in 1900.
He says there is a marked tendency among
the possible Democratic candidates in his
part of the State to hold back the an
nouncement of their intention to run for
the various state offices.