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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-04

ly Los. She was born in North Carolina
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ty nearly her entire life.
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD. Ind. Dec. Mrs. MaIinda
Lowell. the oldest known woman in In
diana. died to-day near this city aged near
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CRIMINALS.

The police Of the city deserve credit for
having. with scarcely any clew whatever,
unearthed a gang Of boy burglars who have
perpetrated a number of robberies and
were fast becoming professionals. Seven
arrests have been made of boys between
sixteen and twenty years Of age, and il is
estimated that during the last few months
they have committed more than twenty
burgIaries and stolen goods amounting in
the aggregate 10 several hundred dollars.
For these boys this is the first stage of
crime, but they seem to AVE entered upon
it with a elaboration and followed it with
a persistence hat showed determination
TO continue in the business. In a few years
they would have become hardened crimi-
nails. professional burglars. expert safe
blowers and some of them probably muir
derers. Even now it is doubtful if all of
them can be rescued from the criminal ca
reer on which they have entered. The case
raises a twOfold question of great p~erpleX-
ity-frst, who is chiefly responsible for this
state of things, and what is to be done about
it? Is society chiefly responsible for the
fact hat boys become criminals almost
before they are out of knee breeches. or are
their parents responsible? The heredity ar
gument will not hold. Children are not
born criminals. Criminal tendencies are
not inherited to any appreciate extent.
Statistics show that a large proportion Of
the children of criminal parents who are
brought under proper influences n train
ing at an early age turn out we'll, while am
equally large proportion of the children Of
respectable parents whose early education
is neglected and who are allowed to grow
up as they please turn out badly. En-
vironments and education, Or the lack Of it,
have much more to do with breeding crimi-
nails than heredity has. The responsibility
must be divided between society and par
ents. The former does not do it's whole
duty in the way of compulsory education,
Furnishing truancy and restricting juvenile
delinquents, and parents fall far short Of
their duty in the discipline, control ana
management of their children. Society
should recognize the fact that many par
ents are not fit TO be parents, and that the
only way TO prevent the children of such
parents from falling victims of bad asso-
Citations and becoming criminals is for So
ciety itself TO take them in hand at an early
and impre s%siOnable period Of their lives and
bring them into good environments and
under good influences. The old adage, "As
the twig is bent the tree is Inclined" is
still true. Boys who are allowed TO play
truant, run the streets and associate with
boys older than themselves and of pro-
nounced criminal tendencies are on the
high road 70 becoming professional crimi-
mails. and if parents cannot or do not pre-
vent such practices ii is the duty of society
to do it. Laxity of home discipline and ex-
cess of liberty outside of the home are the
main causes of juvenile crime. Youthful
criminals are the joint product of a lack
of proper home influence and a lack OF
proper government supervision.
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MEIKEL G. M'CURDY GONE.
Members of a Bucket Shop Firm
Cannot BE Located.

Not a few of Indianapolis asharpest
"bucket-shop' plungers are inquiring re-
garding the whereabouts of Nickel & Nc
Curdy, a commission brokerage firm that
has been doing business in this city for
eighteen months. The last abiding place Of
Nickel & McCurdy, brokers, was a lower
room of the Commercial Club building.
Secretary Hunt, of the Commercial Club,
says the firm is on the clubs books for two
months rent.
The absence OF the brokers was not OBJ
served until market hour yesterday morn
ing. When the operator, Charles Hammer,
appeared in the office he found the room
full of men anxiously inquiring for persons
bearing the names of George w. Nickel
and w. /. McCuTdy. The mysterious alb
sence of Nickel and McCurdy remained
unexplained last night, and the spectators
interested in their accounts did not ask the
police TO locate them. Several prominent
business men were patrons of the shop.
II was thought by many of the patrons
that their money was going through the
hands of the l.. A. kinsey Company, but
Mr.. kinsey denies having any connection
with the firm further than that which
passes through the regular brokerage chan
mel. Nickel < McCurdy were probably not
connected with any local firm. In looking
over the books yesterday Operator Ham
mer found several pages OF the account
book missing. The leaves had been torn
out. How much local spectators will lose
if Nickel & McCurdy is a defunct institu-
ton is unknown and probably viii not be
known. as the men interested do not want
their names made public. Messrs. Nickel
and McCurdy could not be found at their
residences yesterday.
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FREE SCHOoLROOKs.

The Marion News-Tribune would like to
know why the present system of purchasing
schoolbooks for children is better than the
proposition TO furnish all pupils with text
books at the public expense. 1t is better
for the same reason that it is better for
parents to clothe their w children than it
would be to tax the property of the State
to clothe them. Again. when the child is
furnished books on entering school at the
in dependence upon community. He will
be ready TO assume. when he gets out of
school, that the State or those who have
property, no matter how little so long as it
is taxed, must furnish him employment or
support. 1t is the first lesson i'm that heresy
utes anything to the support of govern
ment, has a right to demand, for moth
ing, everything which taxes now buy.
While it is claimed in some small States
that it does not cost so much per capita
for the state to purchase books as for
individuals TO do so, such result would
not be realized in large States like Indiana,
where schoolbooks are furnished at a small
advance over their cost. 1t stands to rea-
son that when children know that the
books they use do not belong to them they
will not be so careful of them as If their
parents had purchased them. Then there
is the value of the experience of. teaching
children TO care for things because they
are their own. The property of the people
is taxed now to support many charities,
and the demand for the defective and I'M
fortunate classes is increasing. The ex-
penditure for public instruction is increas-
ing because of a broadening system. The
manual training school, which must become
more general, will be a new and large ex-
pense. so that the parents of children.
rather than the owners of small estates,
should at least pay for the schoolbooks
of the children. The persons who are urg-
ing the Republican convention to approve
elementary socialism, or pauper-promoting,
cannot be taxpayers in the sense that the
tens of thousands Of owners of small
farms and homes are. else they would not
press their hobby.
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The Mississippi Legislature recently
passed a resolution favorins a social, COM
mercial and political alignment between
the South and the Northeast. meaning by
the latter phrase all the manufacturing
States of the North. The proposed alliance
was not in the nature of a new party, but
simply for the promotion of common in
terests. \ Mississippian discussing it says:
A sound currency. commercial and terri
torial expansion-with incidental imperial
ism-the ~sanctity OF contracts and rights of
private property, and tariff schedules ar
ranged with a view TO revenue and TO foster
home industries. are historic American poll
cies, and the political party which opposes
them will be voted down just as certainly
as a majority OF the American people are
sane on election day.
The policies named are not only Ameri-
can policies. but they are distinctly Repub-
lican, and the sooner the South accepts
them all and singly the better it will be
for tina section.
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In their zeal to make political capital out
of the stories which can be told to the in
jury of American officers and men in the
Philippines two or three Democratic MEM
bers of the Senate Philippines committee
may be going so lar as to cause a reac-
ton of public sentiment. For instance,
Senator Rawlins has asked the committee
to summon Aguinaldo; Mabini, who was one
of Aguinaldo's advisers; Sixto Lopez, who
has been making the United States all the
trouble he could by encouraging the insur-
gents to resist this government: General
Torres and Howard W. Bray, an English
man. to come before the mmi and
accuse American officers and soldiers of
cruelty TO prisoners. The imputation which
such a request involves is that Americans
reared III the institutions and the homes
of this country cannot be trusted TO tell the
truth and are not so we'll qualified TO give
intelligent opinions regarding the condi-
tion of the country as are men who have
been plotting against this government. and
who are indirectly. if not directly, response
bic for taking the lives Of American SOL
diers. Judge Taft and his associates can
not be relied upon to tell the truth, but
Sixto Lopez. who has urged the c|ontinu-
ance of the opposition to American author
ity. can be relied upon to tell OF the du-
plicity of American civil officers and the
cruelty of American soldiers. The leaders
under Aguinaldo, who led out six American
prisoners of war early in 1899 and shot them
to intimidate American soldiers. are deemed
fit witnesses. Aguinaldo, who had his lead
ing general treacherously murdered while
obeying a summons to headquarters. is a
fit person to bear testimony against the
honor and humanity OF American soldiers.
The men who plotted to massacre every
white man. woman and child in Manila on
Feb. p, 1899. are, in the estimation of Sena-
tors Rawlins. Patterson. Tillman and Tur-
ner, proper persons to bring 10 this country
TO assail the comrades of the lamented
Lawton. Even an Englishman, filled with
prejudice and the insular venom Of a class
of Britons against anything American, is
desired by these senators TO be brought
from Manila 10 assail the reputation and to
tell of the inhumanity OF American soldiers
because American civil officers and soldiers
are not reliable witnesses. They are anxious
to discredit Generals Merritt. Otis. Ander-
son and Admiral Dewey by statements con-
tradicting the reports OF these officers that
they did not hold out independence to Agui-
naldo. Natives of the Philippines whom a
prominent Democrat in this State. who
spent nearly two years i'm the islands. de-
clared are masters Of cunning and duplic-
ity, are wanted by these senators TO bear
testimony against American soldiers be-
cause Americans cannot be believed.
II is not known what the Senate com
mittee will do with the request OF Senator
Rawlins 10 have Filipino leaders and the
enemies of this government as
witnesses 10 refute the statements Of Amer
leans. but there is a feeling among those
who yet believe that 20 be an American
is to be the best. that compliance with such
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Unparalleled Activity i'm IrOn and
steeI-The Cereals and Textiles.

Steel-Ine tcTeatS anu ltAtIteS.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Weather conditions have operated ir-
regularly, affecting prices of staples on the
exchanges and the distribution of merchan-
disc through regular channels, but not in
all cases, however, unfavorably. Contin-
ued low temperatures and dry weather
have lessened confidence in a bumper yield
Of winter wheat and ave given the crop
killers an opportunity, as shown in higher
prices for all cereals. AT the South, on the
other hand, settled warmer weather has
made farm work easier, and the old and
new cotton crop deliveries have parted
company, the former and spot cotton ad-
vancing on apparently well-founded ideas
of restricted supplies and the latter having
declined on the improved outlook for the
new crop. Prices of provisions Of all kinds,
but particularly beef, hog products and
butter, have been advanced ostensibly and
apparently because OF reduced receipts.
Cattle and hog prices at Chicago are the
highest reached in years and receipts are
the smallest. The basic features in general
industry remain favorable as heretofore.
Nothing like the present activity in
building is recalled for at least a decade
past. and lumber and kindred materials
are very active at most markets. 1t has
been a weather market loI the Cereals,
with the general tendency upward on poor
crop reports from the Southwest and light
receipts. The imposition of the export
duties by the British government had only
a momentary effect here. This country
supplies two-thirds of the United King
dom's takings of leading cereals. Corn and
oats nave advanced, partly in sympathy
with the premier cereal and partly because
of light receipts and despite the reports
that the bull syndicate has h%quidated on
the recent advance.
Production and consumption of iron and
steel are apparently at the maximum.
Current quotations of pig iron prices are
not Indicative of real conditions, as pre-
miums OF 81 10 s. a ton are readily paid
for prompt deliveries. Large buying Is
less noticeable, but there is still an eager
demand for small lots and. owing TO the
rise in foreign prices. relief from imports
in hat direction Is not looked for. Taken
as a whole, actual pig iron quotations are
81 per ton higher than a week ago. The
scarcity OF pig iron improved the demand
for scrap material, sales OF which have
been large. The carriage of lake ore this
wear is estimated at 22.000,O00 tons. the
transformation Of 70 per cent. of which has
been arranged for. Hardware is in very
active demand. builders materials espe-
cially so.
on the week-and recent advances in wages
make for strength I'm cotton goods. The
market is dull at New York for immediate
business. but a large business has beer
booked for fall delivery. The unsatisfac-
tory position OF the yarn trade lends IN
terest 10 the talk of "A combination OF
Southern producers. The strike at East
ern wooden mills imparts an appearance
Of ~irreguiarity TO that Industry and TO the
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raw material. which is quoted lower on
the week at Boston. but which receives
support from the small supplies available
and the fact that new woods are suu 1
cent a pound higher than a year ago. Ar
rivals OF foreign woods, Australian ana
South American. mostly sold IN ADVANCE,
are very heavy. The shoe and leather
markets are duh.
Wheat, including -four. exports for the
week aggregate Ans. l0S bu, against ~S,s4z0lZ
last week and 5.306.2l7 in this week last
year. Wheat exports from July / 10 date
aggregate 206. S06.O7S bu. against l66,SSS.gSo
last season. Corn exports aggregate So
2ES bu. against 15S,565 last week and Z,l5o,4Ol
last year. From july l 10 date corn eN-
ports are 25.023.9 99 bu, against Isl. 7l7,l65 last
season.
Business failures for the week In the
United States number 1913, against Is Last
week. 2I2 in this week last year ana lol
in 1890.
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The combination TO control the distribu-
ton of meat. known as the beef trust.
cannot be attributed 10 the influence of a
protective tariff, since importation of beef
has not been restricted by the tariff. On
the other hand, the United States is the
greatest exporter OF beef in the world. and
imports none. II any agency has promoted
the beef trust IT is the rebates in rates
paid by the railroads, which they are now
enioined from making.
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The attorney general of New York, who
has begun an investigation of the alleged
beef trust. says: Both the Governor and
l are interested in the question because Of
the additional cost the rise in prices of meat
will bring to the maintenance of the State
institutions, as we'll as to private families.
In this State. where the public institutions
are furnished meat by yearly contract, the
loss will fall most heavily on the contrac-
tors
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H. P. WASSON'S PLANS.
The Contract May BE Let To-day for
New Buildings.

Bids are now being considered and the
contract will likely be let to-day for the
construction Of about $4,000 worth of i'm
provements and an addition 10 H. p. Was
son * Co.'S store. The building at No. 10
West Washington street, formerly occupied
by the Arcade Clothing Company, will be
raised one story higher and a new seven
story building will be erected on the site
OF the Brosnan store. The new building
will have a frontage Of thirty-hVe feet and
will be of glass and iron. The east wall Of
the Arcade building will be torn away and
with the new building Will be converted into
one large store. connected with the building
at Nos. u. IA. l6. is and - with arch doors.
The new building will be heated with steam
and made modern in all particulars. The
contract will ask that the buildings be COM
pleted by Aug. l6.
II. p. WATSON said last night that the
new building will simply be an addition
to the store TO enlarge business facilities.
At present he said no new lines OF stock
will be added. but later other goods than
those now handled may be added 10 the
stock.
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The ST. Louis Giobe-Democrat says that
mo man can be a good citizen unless he
attends the primaries" That depends
whether or not IL is any use for a good citi-
zen u go 10 primaries. II he can go to a
primary where none but members OF one
party having the right 10 vote therein vote
once. IL is a duty 10 go. II il is a Repub-
iican primary in which Democrats vote or
organized bands from other localities vote.
II Is not a duty to give the appearance Of
deeency TO such performances.
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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
A Few of the Many Special Features
That VIII BE Found OF Interest.

A Few of the Many Special Features
That VIII BE Found of Interest.
GEORGE AIDES SATIRE
The Modern rable OF the Long-range
Lover. the Loliypaloozer and the LIN
Of Talk.
VAGARIES OF BIRD LOVERS
Courtship in birdland described by that
experienced observer, Olive 1horne Mil
Ter.
CURE OF CANCER
Scientists are at last on the verge OF
discovering a remedy for TINS dreaded
malady.
WAGE QUESTION IN FAR EAST
Various causes combine TO make a
tendency 10 higher cost Of labor, Accord
ing 10 Frederick w. Eddy
A FAMOUS VICTORY
Ian Maclaren tells how word from Lady
smith was received 10y unemouonal brit
ish, so called.
CAMERA AND MICROSCOPE
The application Of photography 20 the
discoveries OF the microscope opens a
new field TO scientists.
THE BETTER WAY
Original story. by Gerda Grass.
ART OF SAFE-BREAKING-
The agent for a safe mandatory tells
how close a race skillful burglars run
with scientific inventors.
Theatrical news. illustrated fashions, lit
erary talk, city and suburban social news.
sporting news and other local and general
features also furnish matter Of interest for
all classes OF readers.
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PASSED BY SENATE.
.Fifty-Five Private Pension Bills and
other Measures

WASHINGTON. April 1S-At to-eay's
session OF the senate consideration was be-
gun Of the bill temporarily 90 provide a
form OF government for the Philippine
islands. The measure was read and the
committee amendments were agreed TO ten
tatively. but no action on tho bill Wa
taken.
Fifty-hve private pension bills and a few
other measures were passed, among them:
To provide for a commission 20 obtain de-
signs for A monument or memorial 10 Abra-
ham Lincoln and appropriating $500 for
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be stated in a list of acts of insubordina-
ton extending back several years. Among
other things it is said that in 1894. when
he was in command at Chicago. he was
so ayerse TO carrying out the orders of the
War Department at the time of the great
railroad strike and riots there that he mar
rowly escaped a c~ourt-martial. That was
during the second Cleveland administra-
ffor
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The recent British order rega ding the
importation of dogs has given them a new
status. 1t has beer a mooted question
whether dogs are property or not, but
when a great government issues orders reg
uIating their importation n prescribes
quarantine regulations. it is evident they
are rising in dignity.
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members Of the Senate Philippines commit
tee have rejected the proposition of Mr.
Rawlins to bring Aguinaldo and other Eli
ipino leaders here as being more truthful
than such officers as Generals Merritt An
derson. Otis and Macarthur, and Admiral
Dewey and such civilians as the men COM
prising the two Philippine commissions.
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Under our tariff law which imposes an
ad valorem duty on works of art and makes
no exception in favor of those sent as gifts
TO the government the Roehambeau statue.
soon TO arrive at New York, will be sub
tect to a duty of nearly $500. The situation
Is an embarrassing one and can only be
relieved by a special act of Congress.
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ton. is doubtless a droll person. but that
quality does not warrant a man and a
Republican in declaring that the reciprocity
OF Harrison and Mckinley is not the reci-
prOcity OF the Cuban bill when it is just the
same. except that Cuba got free entrance
20 our markets for its sugar in return for
lower duties on our goods than any other
nation enjoyed.
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The beet-sugar champions are hard
pushed when General Hepburn is COM
PEELED TO declare in the House that one OBJ
lection TO the present bill is that it requires
Cuba to adopt our immigration laws at a
time when it needs cheap labor-that is.
Chinese or cOOlie labor.