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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
COST OF GROCERIES.
What a Former Generation Paid for
Flour and Potatoes.

Flour and Potatoes.
Retail Grocer's Advocate.
From statistics of prices recently fur
nished by grocer in business previous TO
the civil war ii is shown that -four retailed
for $3.50 per barrel i'm 1850. In 1856 it had
risen to $3.50 per barrel.
But during the year 1865. when the war
closed, prices had reached marvelously high
figures; for instance. -four sold for $40 per
barrel, sugar 80 cents per pound, butter 90
cents, coffee 50 to 20 cents. tea $40 to sl.6O
per pound, oil $l.05 to Sl.l5 per gallon beans
16 cents per quart, potatoes 81 per bushel,
soap 20 cents per pound, eggs 90 cents per
dozen, and other things In the same pro-
portion.
After 1866, when the extreme limit in price
was reached. they began to steadily de-
crease. AS compared with present prices,
those in 1866 were fully 220 per cent. higher.
Some OF the radical changes may be seen
in the price of flour now, at $3.50 per barrel,
and in 1862 when ii was SIS. or in 1865 at
$40 per barrel 1t is. therefore. now at its
lowest figure.
Take sugar, also; In 1862 Il was II cents
per pound, in 1866 80 cents, and now to
cents. Butter was 70 cents in 1850. but had
advanced to so cents per pound In 1865
Oil is another leading staple which has
shown wonderful fluctuations In price. Sell
ing for sl.05 to sl.l5 per gallon in 1865, Ii has
now decreased TO 10 and II cents per gallon.
a vast gain for the consumer. In $50 IL
40 cents per gallon.
Potato prices have been regulated largely
by the yield In 1850 they sold at IS cents,
in 1857 at 81, in 1880 at sl-10 and In 1892 at 50
cents per bushel. This year they have been
as high at 81 % to SIS per bushel-
II will, therefore, be seen that all the
above articles are lower now than thirty
five to forty years ago, and the same may
be said of more than one hundred other
different groceries
For the most part the grocers profits
have gradually decreased on all articles
since the close OF 1872. the panic season
nor is there any likelihood for better con-
dition of affairs for some time TO come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

The horse show which will take place in
this city during festival week. from Oct.
10 to Is inclusive, promises to be an orig
inal departure in the way of entertain
ments. Similar shows have been held in
other cities, but the managers Of the In
dianapolis show propose to surpass any
previous one. To do this they are covering
a large piece of ground with improvements,
including an arena 100 feet by 800 feet in
dimensions, a grand stand with seating
capacity for 10000 persons. with ninety pri-
vate boxes, beautiful electric illuminations
and other decorations that will be entirely
unique. But the most attractive feature
of all. from present indications, will be
the great number of valuable horses and
beautiful equipages that will compete for
prizes and be ridden or driven by their
owners. Some of the most noted horses In
the United States will be here, including
the highest jumping horse in the world
and others with records. The managers of
the show expect to give the public a sur
prise, and the Journal feels that it risks
nothing in commencing it to the patronage
of all who wish to enjoy new sensation Of
Measure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

dollar for dollar, OF the debts of the Con-
tinental Congress and Of the States, aggre-
eating 100000. they made great cutlery.
Hamilton was denounced for giving vitality
to debt which might have been repu-
dated. He, however, had carried his point
and withstood the storm with equanimity.
Jefferson, however. undertook to excuse
himself for his part of the transaction by
complaining that Hamilton had deceived
him in order to get his consent. Such a
complaint was scarcely creditable to Jeffer-
son, as it was an admission that Hamilton
was his superior in tactics, which is prob
ably true. 1t was. however. a most for
tunate piece of log-rolling. since 1t gave
the new nation credit and an honorable
standing in the financial world-a position
it has since maintained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

civil war In the Union army. and migrated
TO California in 1867 to undertake the man
agement of the vast estates of the late Col
Thomas A Scott.
The popularity of the snail as an article
Of food Is not confined to Paris, but ex-
tends throughout southern Europe and
some parts of Africa. DR.. Edrard. a
French writer. says that $1,000 pounds OF
snaiis are sent daily TO Paris from the gar
dens OF Poitou, Burgundy, Champagne and
Provence. Those reared in gardens are fed
on aromatic herbs TO improve their flavor.
Their market price is from to francs a
hundred, while those from the hedges,
woods and forests bring somewhat less.
A white cat should be cleaned exactly as
you would clean the fashionable white neck
fur. The hand of the cleaner should be
dampened, not wet, in some water in which
a few drops of ammonia have been poured
The cat should then be stroked. 1t should
then be sprinkied generously with -four
which must he rubbed well into the fur.
This must then be thoroughly brushed out,
and the coat polished with silk handker-
chief. This ceremony should be rarely in
dulged in, as healthy cat will keep itself
clean In clean surroundings.
A French journal relates an anecdote re-
garding the late James Tissot by way OF
illustrating his minute and exact realism.
A visitor asked him one day whether the
picture he was at work on was intended 10
illustrate the time of Christ. The artist
replied in the affirmative. Then" said the
visitor, permit me to call your attention
to an error. Aloes, such as you have in
your picture, did not exist in the Mediter-
ranean regions till after the conquest Of
Mexico by SPAIN" Tissot promptly TOOK
his brush and altered the picture.
eff ghosts prove anything they prove too
much" said the late Professor Chandler.
professor Of moral philosophy at Oxford,
to those who tried to found an Argument
Of the life after death on the appearance
of a dead persons ghost "For these wan
pear to mortals naked. They are always
clad In some kind Of clothes such as he
wore in life. Whenever you meet a ghost
you always find il decently dressed. There
they also prove that his clothes are also
immortal.
Minister WI Tingfang is already at work
on the first of the books he declared he
would write as soon as his diplomatic
duties afforded him the opportunity. In
this first volume Mr.. WI will give. in pop
ular style. his impressions OF America.
which will be published in England for
circulation in this country. The book Will
later be printed in Chinese for circulation
in his own land. Mr.. WI is reserving his
choicest thoughts for his book. apparently.
Recently a reporter asked him for an inter-
view on the coal strike. 81 can't talk TO
you about these matters" Mr.. WI said.
Don't you know that l am now engaged
pressions of American? 1t is naturally sus-
pected that Mr.. Wus habit of accepting
promiscuous invitations to go here and
there in the United States for receptions,
addresses, ETC., has had back of it some
thing more dignified and important than
mere curiosity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
DOES THE CLIMATE cHANGEG


John Gilmer Speed. in Brandur Magazine.
During the several very hot summers re-
Gently past there was a theory not infre-
qrently ventilated that the climate in
American cities had radically changed. and
that hereafter very hot summers would
follow each other without break. There
was no escape. The general use OF cleo
tricity was doing the business. How cleo
tricity was doing IL or why DO not recall
hearing, but that was the all-sufhcient ex-
PLANTATION. L venture the opinion that not
one in ten of the men and women who
talked this nonsense had more than the
faintest idea OF what electricity is. But
they were cock sure of the soundness or
the theory-as cock sure a yellow jour
nalist when he has tracked mares nest
10 It's hiding place. The summer or ly0z
has knocked all semblance of integrity out
of these unbaked theories and left us won
dering whether there ever was such wealth.
er before. Probably there has been. and
possibly not do not pretend to know, and
L am not old enough TO remember the rig
ors OF that famous 1916 when there was
frost in every month in the year. But I
should not be astonished TO live long
enough to experience such a summer and
to hear my good neighbors attribute IL to
everything from changed climate to the
revenge OF an angry Deity. As a matter
OF fact / suspect that the climate has not
changed, but is always changing, swinging
like pendulum back and forth: not. how
ever. with the same simple regularly, oOt
in some eccentric fashion which as yet we
do not understand. These remarks do not
mean that the climate and the weather ere
beyond the comprehension OF men. Not at
all. / believe that after these things have
been under trained observation a sufficient
ly long time the present mysteries will be
cleared away, and that We will understand
much better than now many of the things
that battle us. / believe IL quite possible
that we may not only be able TO tell what
the morrow will bring, but that, TO some
degree at least, We may be able 10 control
it. At present, however, the old wife IN
the country, the wiseacre in town, and the
government observer are pretty nearly on
a Dar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

One of the new features in several large
mills in the East where large numbers Of
women are employed, and in the McCor-
mick reaper works in Chicago, is ''the So
cial agent" who is woman selected to
study the conditions of the employees, their
physical and material needs, their environ
ment during working hours and even their
condition and well-being in their homes.
The social agent is employed by the COM
pany and reports to it's officers. If girl
is sick she is looked after by the agent,
who sees that she has proper care. Clubs
for amusement have been organized, and
other matters pertaining to the well-being
of the women are looked after.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

1t is interesting to read that Mr.. Arthur
s. Hardy, United States minister to Swift
erland. has been transferred to Spain and
will represent this country in the land Of
the Cid; but the question that arises with
this reminder from the State Department
of his existence is, why is he not offering
us new novel? Fifteen years ago or so,
when he varied the monotony of teaching
mathematics in New Hampshire college
by writing the novels, But Yet a Woman"
THE Wind of Destiny and "Passe Rose"
he gave discriminating readers a pleasure
seldom afforded by the fiction of the present
day, and caused them to look to him ex-
pectantly for even better things. These
books were, perhaps. trife too literary"
to catch the popular taste, and the philos-
ophizing was at times too prominent fea-
ture; but the author showed unusual
insight into life, and he put into the pages
a pathetic charm and. an artistic quality
that made the tales distinctive. They are
spoken of here in the past tense, for,
though they are still to be found on library
shelves, probably few persons read them.
Rare is the work of fiction in these days
that has a life of fifteen years. But,
though these first efforts did not have the
elements to make them live, it does not
follow that later productions might not
have had the elusive quality. At all events,
it seems pity that a man of such ability
and promise should cease to write. What,
indeed, do we send our literary men abroad
for except to produce more and better lit
erature? Now that Mr.. Hardy is going to
the land of tradition and romance perhaps
he will find an inspiration that he missed
in matter-of-fact Switzerland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
THE NEW YORK SUBWAY.
II Involves Many Difficult Feats OF En-
RfneerfnR.

Mr.. Frank w. Skinner, Of the Engineer
ing Record, has paper in the October
Century on the above topic, in which he
describes the running OF the subway under
the Columbus monument, and the moving
of tunnel He also gives this account OF
the relocating of a long. thin, high wall:
An ordinary derrick will handle compact
loads Of three, five. or even ten tons;
hundred-ton load is about the limit of the
capacity Of the heaviest steel-ordnance
cars drawn by powerful locomotives, or Of
the largest hydraulic jacks, which will lift
IL a few inches so slowly that the motion is
scarcely perceptible. building weighing
five hundred tons may be carefully braced
and lifted UP or moved laterally with roll
ers on smooth level tracks by the help Of
scores of powerful jacks. 1t would require
immense power to push along even fifty
ton bowlder resting on the ground, and be
yet more difficult TO move a long. thin, high
wall several feet transversely without
cracking, tipping or twisting 1t.
Generally. when such wall Is to be re-
located, IL is taken down and rebuilt; but
such was not the case on the subway above
One-hundred- and-thirty-fifth street. where.
at the entrance to tunnel section, walls
nearly two hundred feet long retain the
bank on each side of the cut. After the
structure was completed IL was decided 70
widen IL eleven feet to receive third track.
and although IL was at first intended TO
tear down the masonry and build new, IL
was finally decided to move IL bodily. and
this was successfully accomplished at a
saving of several thousand dollars.
The walls are OF concrete and brick. thir-
teen feet high at one end. three feet thick
each. The earth was dug away behind
them for width of six feet. and to a
| depth a little below their foundations. In
| the bottom OF each trench concrete Moor
was laid Just below the lAvel of the foot OF
| the wall. Small holes were tunneled under
| the wall q few feet apart, and In them
/ were laid transverse timbers reaching &c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

A Londoner, who Is evidently much dis
turbed by the extent to which fiction is be-
ing read by all classes of society. writes to
his favorite newspaper to urge that meas
ures be taken to check the evil. He recon-
mends that patrons OF libraries be allowed
the privilege OF taking out each year but
twelve novels free OF charge. each addi-
tional volume OF fiction recorded on his card
to cost him two pence. His concern Is not
entirely in behalf OF the readers, but has a
selfish element. for he objects. as taxpay-
er. to helping to purchase so much trifiing
literature. But can the food Of fiction be
stayed. even by the opposition OF taxpay-
ers? Probably not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Thomas Lewis, a twenty-five-year-o Lii
berian negro, whose father is chief Of
tribe in Africa, is studying medicine and
surgery in the Emergency Hospital, at De-
troit, Mich.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will make his home in
Norfolk. Va, in the future. His decision
is said to have been the result of his ap-
pointment as head of the jamestown Ex-
position.
A Paris journal relates that Prince Met
ternich once asked Jules Janin for his au-
tograph. Janin took a sheet Of paper and
wrote over his signature: Good for hun
dred bottles of Johannisberg, to be placed
in my cellar" The prince sent them.
Stories of Mr.. Balfour are not numerous.
but here is one of them. AT dinner party
there was talk of the importance in life OF
self-confdence. The Scotch saying was re-
peated. God gle us guild conceit of oor-
sells" Balfour said, .And that, sir. is the
only prayer the gods always answer"
United States Senator Thomas r. Bard,
who is critically i'll with typhoid fever at
his home In Los Angeles, Is one of the
largest landed proprietors in southern Cal
ifornia and one of the most popular men
in the State with all classes. He was born
in Pennsylvania IN lS4l, served through the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
A Grievance Against the King.

The Onlooker.
There is a fact concerning King Edward
which has I'm England a wide recognition.
but which is little known TO US. At a house
party OF recent date. in Surrey, discussion
came up as to the popularity. personally
speaking, OF the new King. There is
theory az large that Edward Is petted adj
mired and loved by his doting subjects.
And on this fallacy an American. present
of the aforesaid party. based a suppositiOn
that the King was the idol OF each En-
glishman there. The American was soon
set Alright and came home deep with
knowledge OF Edward. his idiosyncracies
and the attitude adopted towards him.
True. since his last illness ana the trial
which beset his coronation the King has
been better liked. He is still, however.
some distance behind the most popular ng-
ure in England. The source OF grievance
inferior. Is his preference. so plainly ex-
pressed, for the society of Jews. This.
while a bad one. is almost as good a reason
in London as I'm st. Petersburg. Where
the King Is concerned he wastes no time
upon the Gentle. but surrounds himself
with Gods chosen people. SO iagrant
is the growth of the scandal that at the
Ascot when he walked across the paddock
with a handful OF Hebrews his Majesty
was Kissed from the boxes. OF course, the
inference. natural and uncharitable, is that
Edward Is under the Jewish thumb. and
that the puzzle OF his preference could md
financial solution. Meanwhile he daily
loses ground with those OF the classes and
masses who resent these Hebrew tendcn-
cies. natural racial dlsfavor has, doubt
less, much 10 do with this English wrath
against their Jew-engtrdled monarch. yet
envy and that battered commonly felt by
the ''outs" for the ms Is the main we'll.
head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

At 3 recent meeting OF the British Asso-
citation OF Science a member. Sir Frederick
Bramwen. advocated the adoption OF Ital-
Ian as a universal language. his plan being
that an arrangement should be entered into
by Great Britain. France. Germany and the
United States for the compulsory teaching
OF Italian. His reason for recommending
Italian was In order TO avoid international
Jealousies. Sir Frederick's associates did
not think very we'll of his scheme. and ex-
pressed the belief that in the course of
time the universal language would come OF
itself. No doubt it will. and II Sir Freder-
lex viii wait long enough he will find that
the English tongue will be quite sufficient
for all practical purposes in his travels over
Europe and the rest OF the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

supported on cross-siIis Narrow. thin.
creased steel track-plates were inserted
under the walls, on top OF the timbers. and
extended across the trench floors. Small
steel Earthquakes were set on the track
plates under the front and rear edges OF the
walls. and pairs of oak wedges. driven be-
tween the cross-timbers and their si.ls,
lifted the whole wall on the steel plates.
Horizontal five-ton jack-screws were set
close together against the face OF the wall
at the base for it's whole length. and being
simultaneously operated. the wall, in few
hours was moved back 5iz feet on the floor
I'm the trench. The projecting ends OF the
track-plates were cut OF, and the spaces
between the plates under the wall We're
filed with liquid cement The work on each
wall was done by twenty men In ten days.
and the walls were not distorted the six
teenth of an inch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
military rule in the islands.

The unfortunate interruption of the Presi-
dents Western trip in this city caused not
only intense disappointment, but in some
instances real embarrassment in cities that
were preparing to receive him. The case of
Milwaukee had some amusing features.
The local committee there had made ar
rangements for an evening banquet at the
principal hotel of the city at the price of s12
per plate, and a large number Of tickets
had been sold and paid for. many of them
to persons in other parts of the State. The
local markets had been stripped of deli
cacies and the menu had been printed. The
news of the interruption Of the Presidents
trip threw the managers into consterna-
ton. Suddenly they remembered that Sec
rotary Shaw was expected to arrive from
Chicago some time during the evening. and
it was proposed to make him the guest of
honor at the banquet. BY means Of long
distance telephone the secretary was finally
located at a hotel in Chicago, but he had
heard of the canceling of the President
dates and had promised to meet Secretary
Wilson at the railroad station and start
back to Washington that evening. Then 1t
was proposed to make Senator Spooner the
guest of honor. He was due in Milwaukee
from Madison at $40 in the evening. AS
i'll luck would have it, the Madison train
was nearly three hours late and Senator
Spooner did not reach Milwaukee till about
II o'clock. Then he was invited to be the
guest of honor at a banquet which should
have been in full blast by that time, but he
told the committee he feared the absence
of the President would throw a darnper on
the occasion. The committee concluded he
was right, and about midnight the banquet
was declared off. Lots of people missed a
good time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28

The society news of British papers is
worded somewhat differently from ours.
Here we say, for example, that Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith announce the engagement OF
their daughter Jane to James Jones. In
London it would read: "A marriage has
been arranged and will shortly take place
between Jane, third daughter of John
Smith, and James Jones, son of the Hon.
Thomas Jones, resident Of" etc. The mar
riage may have been arranged" just the
same In both cases. but engaged" has less
of a commercial suggestion about it, and,
on the whole, seems preferable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-28
american Shoe stores i'm Germany.

New York Evening Sun.
The sale of American-made shoes I'm Ger
many. which was begun on a small scale
about 1896 by few enterprising retailers
and increased steadily by reason OF the
superior style and durability OF the goods,
has received during the past year a pow
full impetus through the immediate and eA-
traordinary success of a large, handsome,
typical American shoe store which was
opened in Berlin early in April. 1901. The
enterprise has proved so profitable that the
same management has opened similar
establishment In Frankfort, and Is prepar-
ing TO open another at Hamburg in Septem-
Der. This prompt and noteworthy success
has been due to the fact that, in addition
to the merits Of the shoes offered the man
ager, Mr.. Barthmann. began I'm the right
way by opening an exclusively american
shoe store, so spacious, handsome and
characteristic in its appointments as 10
form attraction on one of the most
thronged streets OF Berlin. Not only the
entire stock of shoes, but the fixtures and
the show windows, the shelving and the
whole method of conducting the business
are typically American The goods Of
fered represent the product Of two lead
ing American manufacturers, one of whom
makes mems shoes Of every kind, the other
shoes In large variety for women, and ev.
cry pair of shoes in the store is retailed
at the uniform price of Is marks equal
to AS In United States currency) AS 10
the success of the first typical American
shoe store, there can be no question The
salesrooms are generally crowded at all
times OF the day. The sales book Of the
establishment during a recent month
showed sales running from 500 TO s1,0o per
day. the lowest days sales being slightly
over 800 Judging from the thronged sales
room and the class OF customers now at
tracted, IL is apparent that the trade Is
securely established and increasing.