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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12
THE BANK NOTE.
Water Mark on Bank Of England
Notes Not Enough to Protect Them.
London Mail

Water Mark on Bank Of England
Notes Not Enough to Protect Them.
London Mail.
at is easier" said the London manager
Of Of one 9ers OF the * french banks INKS;
will readily pass among the public than
to make a facsimile of the Bank of France
note. l say that having experience of both.
The English note has a magnificent water
mark, but that is not enough for the pro-
lection of ignorant people. The Russian
l00-roube note has a water-mark In the
shape of portraits which should say is
English design. Then 1t is protected by
most complicated and delicate engraving
and colors which defy the photographer
as the front, and the portrait is produced
in water-mark on white tag at one end as
we'll as in black engraving on the face.
Bank OF France notes at present have
blue and purple coiors, water-marks on
white spaces, and very fine pictorial en-
craving. The colors and details are
changed every few years The Russian sian de- =
just the opposite policy to that of the Bank
of England.
mo one can tell good English note
from a bad one except those who are in the
habit of handling them continually-money
changers, cashiers, and bankers. Unless
you have the 'knack' of recognizing the
peculiar crispness you may easily be de-
public suffers.
French and other foreign people do not
like English notes, partly for the reason
that they cannot distinguish the good from
the bad. But there is another reason. A
banknote in France and elsewhere on the
continent is legal tender. All you require
to be sure of is that il is a genuine note.
1t does not matter from whom you get it
If you get II honestly.
But here you have to defend yourself
If you come by a stolen note, explain how
and where, and from whom ii was received
and undergo endless annoyance. Never a
week passes but / have the sergeant in
asking about stolen notes that may have
come TO us in the course of business. For
these reasons no jeweler on the Rue de la
Paix would accept Bank of England note
from a person unknown to him. He would
not know where it might lead him.
France, Russia. America, all other coun-
tries, in fact, depend on engraving and
colors; the Bank of England depends on
the water-mark and the popularity of the
paper. / have experience of notes of all
nations, and my settled opinion is that the
English note is not so safe as the best of
the others That is the opinion of my
countrymen also.
Several men who know the methods of
Lombard street declare that the public does
not hear of half the forgeries that are COM
mtted mo bank likes to have the public
know it's paper can be forged" said these
experts, and If the sum is not too large
most banks will gladly pay for forged notes
in order to hush up the matter.
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ELECTION ON THE RIO GRANDE.
Methods Of Getting Out the Full Vote
of the Quick and the Dead.

While In conversation with knight of the
road whose business interests and route of
travel frequently take him among the ia
male population of the irrepressibe and I'M
terrified Fifteenth an interesting account
of the election bale was given. Said he:
Both parties by common consent and
mutual understanding use the bale there
known as place OF confinement for Next
can voters for an American congressman
In that land of independence and freedom
1t is said that male Mexican begins to
exercise the right of suffrage before he at
tains the age of majority and never re-
linqushes IL or ceases TO exercise that
privilege until many, many years after his
immortal spirit has gone to that realm
IL is said that the climate of the Browns
Vile region produces an Unborn desire in
cares for what or for whom he is voting
provided. he gets in the 'biley' and the
'biiey' head man places the ballot between
his cigarette-stained fingers.
Two or three days before the election
these naturalzed as we'll as the unnatural
lied citizens from the sister republic across
the Rio Grande are rounded up and run
into the bale like sheep or cattle through
chute. When once penned there he re-
mains until he discharges the high and
responsible function of citizenship. for the
discharge of which duty he is prepared
through biley' training. During his con-
finement in the 'biley' for purely patriotic
purposes he is furnished with all the WINS
ky. tobacco. cigarette papers. grub and
music necessary for his comfort and enjoy
ment
ION the night previous TO the election
the women and children are admitted into
the 'biley.' and then begins a revelry and
carousal calculated to arouse and startle
Bacchus and his devotees from their SUM
bers in that torrid land where water freezes
not and snow never falls. On the morning
OF the election these copper-colored gentle.
men are taken from the 'biley.' carried in
carriages to the polls where they vote the
ballots prepared for them by the proprietor
of the 'biley.' Their voting privileges hay-
ing been exercised. they become useless
pieces of living clay and are turned loose
upon the range until the next election comes
and they become valuable for political pur-
poses again. The result of elections i'm this
free and independent territory depends
largely upon the question of 'bileys' Who
ever is most energetic and corrals the great
est number OF Mexicans wins the day. AS
this class of voters never or seldom gets
square meal until the 'biley' jubilee
comes We can readily imagine why they
are iuoculated with a burning desire for
elections TO come often. Since the adop-
ton of the poll tax amendment l am pug
zled TO know how the dead Mexicans will
get their polls paid for and continue to
vote. a privilege they have so long exer-
cised. both ~ living and dead citizens.''
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THE WOMAN WITH A SMILE
And the How and When and WHY
She Uses 1t.

Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Nothing is more beautiful than a wom-
an and the most beautiful woman is the
CHEEKY, perpetually pleased woman who
smiles constantly and who looks at you
inquiringly when she meets you on the
street
There is. perhaps. nothing more exqui-
sitely painful and cordially humiliating
to man than to be told by a member
the street two or three times lately, and
you would not speak to me-" Young men
do not mind this much and they are sell
dom chided for such a churlish DELINQUENCY
but men who are a trife grizzled and who
rush to the barber shop frequently to be
ritating than formerly, but because ii is
gray. and gray stubble is tattle-tale-
feel that their native gallantry has been
impeached by the infrmties of advancing
years. One in ten of these men can recog-
nize woman on the street. or could recog-
nize his own wife, did she Of his heart and
nome change the manner of dressing her
hair. wear a bit of unusual color or ex-
plot ribbon or rose in some unwonted
fashion. The result is that he is contin-
ually iE misery, bowling and scraping to
women whom he does not know and who do
not know him, and ignoring the salutations
of women whom he knows and who are
his friends.
1t would be a great blessing il the
woman who smiles would refrain from do
ms so at long range and adopt the old
revolutionary method of reserving her fire
until ''she can see the white of the en-
eys's eyes" Men are not as highly SEN
conf instrument and when a smile is sent
scurrying through space every son of man
reaches for Ii and tries to get a stranple
or half Nelson hold on it.
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about IL. But not theaf, so hif yer will
NETT NEE in the great squar room, with all
the moneys. at twelf mite. lie explain ori
to you, let only Their come down, and say
muffin 10 nobody" The strong room was
guarded the next night in spite of dispo-
sition to regard the letter as hoax by
police, and-nothing happened. The next
phase OF the mystery was more astonishing
than ever. heavy chest of papers and
securities taken from the strong room ar
rived at the bank with letter. complaining
that the directors had set the police upon
the writer. and that he had, therefore, not
appeared as promised, but TO prove that he
was neither a thief nor fool he sent
chest of papers he had taken from the
bank. Let q few gentlemen be alone in the
room and he would join them at midnight,
said the writer. and to cut short long and
strange chapter of bank history, a man
with dark lantern burst into the strong
room of the bank at midnight after calling
from behind the stone walls for the drec-
tors to put out the lights. He was one OF
a strange class of men who gained living
by searching the sewers at night. ana
through an opening from a sewer he had
found his way into the richest room IN tne
world
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TO CONQUER FEAR.
Simple Plan Discovered by California
Genius.


New York Evening Post
A California philosopher thinks he has
found a way to abolish cowardice. 1t is
beautifully simple Here it is:
"First-Say to yourself. I'm not afraid.
"Second-Repeat five times.
''Third-Take five full breaths very slow
ly.''
What a world of possibilities there are in
this brief formula How great the prac-
teal benefit 1t will confer on mankind
Here comes a mad bull down the street
He sees your red necktie and makes for it,
Run away? No. no. I'm not afraid. I'm
I'm not afraid. lnhale. Exhale. Inhale.
Exhale. etc. 1t puts you in an excellent
ly courageous frame of mind. doubtless. but
how about the bull? Does the new courage
which grows from your eye frighten him so
that he turns tail and retreats? Or does IL
render you immune from hurt by his horns I?
You must be a pretty brave man TO begin
with, or you would not have the nerve to
go through the incarnation while big ami
NAL rushed at you with intent TO do great
bodily harm. You mus emulate the little
Christian Science girl OF whom Mark Twain
tells. who. when she fell off the woodpile,
recited THE Scientific Statement of Being
before she struck the ground, and thus es-
capped injury. Then consider the use of
the new discovery in warfare 1t will
doubtless become part of the regular tao
tics of every arm. The enemy comes over
the hill. order arms, Parade rest! Get
courage, One, Two, Three Four, Five,
In. Out. In! OUT. etc. The army, of
course. responds to the numbers with I'm
not afraid in chorus. If nothing else ii
makes an excellent shout of defiance TO the
enemy. almost as effective as the gongs
and tonftoms beaten by the vanguard OF
the Chinese army.
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= The local grain market has shown little
more activity during the past week. but re-
ceipts are falling below expectations of the
dealers Corn and oats usually move brisk
~ in April, but. despite the improved condi-
tion OF the roads receipts compare
lively light. Saturdays call was well at
tended and the bidding spirited at the fol-
lowing prices. reported by the secretary
of the Board of Trade:
Wheat steady: No red 7214c track. nc
on milling freight; No. red, 70c May, nc
1 Track: wagon, &c.
Corn steady; No. white, 40c; No. white,
lOc; No 3 white, 40c; No. white, 36c: No. 2
white mixed, 3sc; No. white mixed, CSC;
No. white mixed. 35c: No. 2 yellow. 3Sc;
No. yellow. CSC; No. yellow, SAC; No. 2
mixed. 3Sc;s No. mixed. Csc; No. mixed,
DC: ear. CSC.
Oats weaker; No. white. 34lzc: No. 8
white, a2kc; No. mixed, 321kc; No. 8
mixed. Gle.
Hay steady; No. timothy. s14; No. 2
Timothy. 1880
Inspections-Wheat: No. 2 red, car; No.
red /: No. red. 1; sample. l. Corn: No.
white. car: No. white, %: No. white,
2; No. 3 yellow, 3; No. 2 mixed, 4; No. 3
mixed, 70; No. mixed. 3; ear corn, 4. Oats:
No. white, 1 car: No mixed. 1: rejected.
& Hay: No. i timothy. 8; No. timothy, 2;
No. I clover 1; No. ] prairie, 1. Total in
npections for two days there being no call
on Good Friday. were 81 cars.
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Sheep-Receipts. 100: shipments none. The re-
certs of sheep and lambs this week have been
of fair volume. showing decrease of only about
100 compared with the last week and an increase
of 500 the week year ago and ESQ over the
corresponding week two years ago. The receipts
thus far this year indicate decrease OF over
1880 compared with the same time last year
nearly 100 larger than the same period last
wear Practically all week there has been A
steady market for the best sheep and
yearlirg lambs. Occasionally. however such
kinds were more less inclined to weakness
such conditions usually being sympathetic with
weaker market for lower grades. Most OF
the week the receipts not much in excess
OF the requirements OF local butchers and the
steady condition of affairs principally due
To that fact. There hardly day In the
week that the best yearling lambs could not be
sold at s767. % and the best sheep usually sold
around IS. Toward the close OF the week in
cided change in the market here for medium
stock and especially the yearling lambs below top
kinds Bids in many cases were 81 per
100 lbs lower. but statesmen finally succeeded in
transferring the consigrments at a decline OF
from SOC 81 below former prices. The history
OF the spring lamb market is not unusual as il
Is generally known that prices CT this class OF
stock decline ranidly the season adj
yances. At the beginning Of this week the best
snring lambs were selling around l2c per h.
while az the close Sc was the extreme price
The receipts to-day. usual Saturday were
small and there developments in
of the supply and shev took them usually at
steady prices compared with yesterday. Quo
tations:
a.
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LOCAL WHOLESALE TRADE
BUSINESS IN GOOD VOLUME, BUT RE-
TARDED BY COOL WEATHER.
Druggists and Iron and Steel Men
Are Very Busy-Produee Continues
strong-Lighf Grain Markets.

The produce men on Saturday had busy
day, and the same was true of Commission
row, Easter demand for fresh vegetables
and fruits causing activity in the produce
market such as has not been seen for sew
eral weeks. Prices are very firm. Lettuce
IS in strong demand. and. the supply being
short. extreme figures were received on all
offerings. Parsley and rhubarb were high
er. Cabbage during the past week took a
wonderful leap forward. The fact that
supplies have been greatly reduced infiu-
enced prices upward. Strawberries are
holding steady. out Florida berries have
gone down. Some choice Louisiana berries
are now offered. Grape fruit is scarce and
higher. Spanish pineapples are on the mar
ket and selling at $3.50 to 81 crate. The
grocery market during the entire week was
without special feature, except In sugars,
which indirectly affected the coffee market.
The Arbuckles on Saturday advanced the
price Of refined sugar 10c hundred pounds
at New York. placing it on basis of 4-eoc
net per pound. Canned tomatoes are very
weak. the usual spring activity in this line
not having been realized. Canned corn Is
holding its own as a leader In this line.
Dry goods houses had a very fair week s
trade. but the weather Is not warm enough
to make their business active as 1t
otherwise would be, as stocks of retail mer-
chants are said to be low. and with the
tendency TO advance In prices they begin to
show disposition to stock up more freely.
Druggists had a busy week. Ii Is said
Improvement in linseed oil, paint, turpen-
tine and kindred articles has been as heavy
as during the last thirty days. and in the
regular drug and patent medicine line they
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fast movers at strong prices. Iron and
steel merchants are having a fine trade.
Their travelling men bring in large orders
and report the outlook promising. In fact.
IN all lines of trade only little more sum-
merlfke weather is needed to bring business
up to its maximum volume.
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THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS
CATTLE SCARCE AND WITHOUT I'M
PORTANT CHANGE In PRICES.
Hogs Dull and Ten to Fifteen Cents
Lower-Sheep Weaker-COndition
of Markets Elsewhere.

UNION STOCKYARDS, INDIANAPOLIS.
April n.-Cattle-Receipts. 100: shipments none.
The receipts of cattle this week exhibit de-
OF about 500 compared with last week.
but an increase of over 100 over the same week
a year ago and 200 over the corresponding week
two years ago. The receipts thus far this year
are over $500 smaller than the same time last
year and the receipts for the month thus far
$50 smaller than the same period last year.
The conditions in the market this week have
been almost completely reversed compared with
those prevailing for several weeks. 1t has been
decidedly sellers market and the results from
their point of view have been entirely salts
factory. The good conditions. however. to some
extent due to the good judgment of ship
pers in preventing excessive receipts. Just about
enough cattle have to accommodate the
urgent demand of buyers and they were forced
to follow a good strong upward movement in
values At the beginning of the week they fol-
lowed the advance rather freely probably with
the hope Of increasing the receipts but at the
close of the week they were protesting against
the continued upward movement and intimated
that they expected more liberal supplies in the
near future. In a general way the good to best
steers gained at least Csc in prices, but there is
doubt that occasionally there from 35c
to SOC advance. There was also good strong
market for the good 20 choice and heifers
at 1oc to 25c gain in values. The feeder market
turned out better than expected and with very
moderate receipts the demand at the extreme
close of the week was strong and sales were at
prices fully high those current at any
time heretofore this year. The market for COM
mon to medium cattle Of all kinds did not show
the improvement that other grades did, but of
course were stronger In sympathy. The highest
sales this week $40 for fat steers, $3.50 for
bulls and T.25 for calves. The receipts to-day
were small and usual Saturday all kinds
represented. The quality generally
was only fair TO medium and therefore not at
tractive to buyers. Consequently the market
quiet and il took less time to
summate sales, but finally a clearance was made
at prices about the same as those paid for equal
kinds yesterday Quotations.
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st. James Gazette

ST. James Gazette.
Some time ago the directors of the Bank
of England were startled to receive an
invitation 10 meet an unknown man In the
strong room of the bank at midnight You
think you Is all safe hand your bank is
safe. but knows better. / been hinside the
bank the last mite hand you nose nufin
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Stocks In Store,
WAGON MARKET

8 Offerings yesterday were but fifty loads
and most of the holdings were disposed of
IN the forenoon at the following range of
prices, as reported by the wagon weigh
master:
81 sCorn--43d45c per blu.
Oats-3563Sc per bu.
Sheaf Oats--$941l per ton
Yay-rimothy, s14q15; mixed clover. $40
Sfraw-s5@6 per ton.
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State Of Indiana, county of Marion. s..
/, w. +. Churchman, cashier OF the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true. &c the best of my knowledge
and belief.
w. F. CHURCHMAN. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of April. 1903.
GEORGE c. CALVERT Notary Public
My commission expires March g. 1906.
Correct-Attcst:
NJ. B. WILSON
A H. NORDYKE,
E /. FISHER,
Directors
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Poultry-Tom turkeys. 10c: hen turkeys. 12c;
chickens, hens l0c: cocks, &c; springs. 101zc;
ducks. young. &c: geese. 81. Is per dog.
Woo1-Merchantable. medium. Ice; bury and
unn1erchantable. 3@5c less: grades, 15c:
are merino. ls4l5c: trb-washed 25G2Sc.
Cheese-New York full creams, 14lzc; Swiss.
1oc. brick. 15c: iimburger. 12c.
Buftsr--Choice roll. 12c per Id.
Eggx-Firmer at l2i1c per doz.
Feathers-Prime geese. soc per ID; prime duck.
&c per h.
Beeswax-soc for yellow. CSC for dark
HIDES AND TALLOw.
oreen-salted Hides-No. ]. 71zc: No. 2. SIC:
No. calf. 10c; No. calf S1c.
Tallow-No. ]. SIC: No. 2. 4Ac.
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Common to medium sheen. 350a4,
Stockers and feeding sheep ............ 3c0d3.
Bucks, per 100 s00d4
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THE JOBBING TRADE.


frhe quotations given below the selling prices
OF the wholesale deaiers)
Candies and Nuts.
candies-Stick, si1c per lb: common mixed.
exc Erocers' mixed. &C: Banner twist mixed. Sc:
Ssnner cream mixed. iCallc old-time mixed. Sc
Nutr.-Soft-skelled almonds, i742oc Brazil nuts
nc: nIberts. lie: peanuts. roasted. 7gsc: mixed
-' Coal and Coke.
RetaiI prices)
Anthracite. IS: Blossburg. $50: Pittsburg.
SE: Kanawha, SIS; Raymond. S5.25: Jackson.
49, Jellico. $50: su:okeess. $3.50. Camel 81:
Baax1 block. SAB; Greene county. lump. 81 Is:
e;t~ene county. egg. s3.7s; jackson and Kanawha
slack SaL25; indiana slack, 81 IS. ConneIlsville
coke. $40: lump coke. i5c bu. s5.25 per 25 bu;
& ton extra ground floor or dumped in cellar: SOC
) per ton extra. second door or carried In cellar;
from wagon. &c extra by wheeibarrow. chute or
Alcohol. g 5,s,27o: asafoetida. Soc: alum. 2,.a
Ic. camphor. esn51c. cochincal. 30fD55c; chIoro-
form ssgsse; ssP2e.ass; SS ''e cream tartar
genuine s5n soc; magnesia. earb.. or. 2oG2ac
morphine. p. & W. per OF, s-,ssg2.so: OIL berga.
". FER on. sSaice: balsam eopaiba. 5sasoc: soan
Cattle Fr.. isc: soda. bicarb.. 2I.fi3c saI,s
Epsom. ixaie: sulphur -four. ska5c: saItpeter.
Sos,ae potassium. H.ssq2.so; bromide rotssss,,n
S71lCc: chlorate potash, i542Cc. borax. sGIse.
elnchonida sst4oe; carooiie acid. 27e: cocaine.
Dry Goods.
1s1>ached ACKNOWLEDGMENT l. 7c: Berk.-
ysy. No. %. s:te. Cabot sAe; Capitol. &c: Cum
{Fidth SIZE. Gilt Edge Sue: GiIced Age &C.
8ilL re: Hope &c: Linwocd. &c: Lonsdals
~ &c: AndroscosEn. "a. zoe Andros sosss
Brown ssu shsssinss-A,lantic a. sac; Argyll.
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State of Indiana. county of Marion.
I, Edward B. Porter. cashier of the above
named bank. do soemnly swear that the above
statement is true. to the best Of my knowledge
and belief.
EDWARD b. PORTER Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1lth day
Of April. 1903.
ARTHUR V. BROWN, Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. IA. 1906.
Correct-Att0st:
w. T. MALOTT,
GEORGE B. YANDES,
JOHN H. HOLIDAY,
Directors.
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ID EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
~ Indiana National Bank. at Indianapolis, IN
the State of Indiana, at the close or business
April 9. 1903:
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BANK STATEMENTS.

N>>>c~~-c<~~~c-(>>>c-c- ~-~S~.c>~>>~>~>>~-s~
ID EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
~ American National Bank. at Indianapolis,
in the State OF Indiana at the close OF business
April 9. 1903:
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BANK STATEMENTS.

u EFFORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
~ Columbia National Bank at Indiana polis
in the State OF Indiana at the close OF business
April o. 1868:
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State OF Indiana. County OF Marion, SIS.
l. II. A Schlotzhauer. cashier OF the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true, TO the best of my knowledge
and belief
H. A. SCHLOTZHAUER. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me. this 18th
day OF April, 1893.
GEORGE c. CALVERT. Notary Public.
My commission expires March a. 1906
Correct-Attest:
JOHN PERRIN,
HERMAN LIEBEE,
. +. w. LEWIS.
Directors