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tii: jituoAi, n directory. BICYCLES—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL— H. T. HU.UtSEY CYCLE CO. (Bicycle* and Supplies!, 216-218 N. Pennsylvania st. CARPET CLEANING— Howard steam carpet cleaning AND RENOVATING WORKS. Tel. SIC FLORISTS— Brute KM AN FLORAL COMPANY. New No. 241 Mass ave., 226 N. Del, st, Tel. HO. Laundries— UNION CO-OrFRATIVE LAUNDRY, Mantels and grates— P- XL PURSELL (Mantels, Furnaces), Maas. ave. and Delaware st. THE M R. HUEY CO., MFGS. (Mantels. Crates and New No. 1201 Maas, ave. patent lawyers— CHESTER BRADFORD. 1223 to 12..6 Stevenaon bldg. 15 E. Wash. at. H. p. HOOD & SON (Arthur M. Hood), 32-33 Union Trust bldg. 120 E. Market at V. H. LOCKWOOD, PLUM RING AND STEAM HEATING— J. S. FARRELL & CO. (Contractor*), . 144 N. mmols et. kale and livery stables— Horace WOOD (Carnages, Traps. Buckboards, etc.), 23 Circle. Tel. 1097. BHOW CASES—WILLIAM WIEGEL, umbrellas, parasols and canes— C. W'. GUNTHEIt (Manufacturer), 2l_ Pembroke Arcade and 56 Mass, ave. undertakers— FRANK BLANCHARD, WALL PAPERS— H. C. STEVENS. New Styles Wall Paper. Low Prices. 930 N. Senate ave. Tel. 2on 2552. ft >i:HAL untuc toi ts FLANKER A BUCHANAN—32O North Illinois street. Lady embaltner, for ladles and children. Office always open. Telephone 64L Hacks at lowest prevailing price. C. E. KREGELO. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, has resumed business at Ms old establishment, 223 North Delaware street. Everything new and complete. Office telephone. No. 250. LOANS—Money on mortgages. C. F. 6AYLE3, Tt East Market street. LOa.NS—Sums of fUK) and over. City property and farms. C. F. COFFIN A CQ,, 150 Fast Market street. SIONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE holding permanent positions with responsible concerns upon their own names without security; easy payments. TOLMAN, Room 701. Stevenson building. MonKY—To loan on Indiana farms. Lowest market rate; privilege for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. C. DAY & CO., Room 325-330, third floor Lemcke building, Indiana {tolls. FOR REST ■WANTED—To rent nicely furnished room; central, North Side location desired; references exchanged Address D, care Journal. FOR RENT—Large second floor for light manufacturing, with or without power; rent about 112; also, cellar about 24x46. Call at 143 East South street. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Ten R.I.P.A.N.S foi 6 cent* at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE—REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE—ReaI Estate—No cash needed; fine residence lot near Fifteenth street; will sell to any one who will build at once and will take mortgage security at 6 per cent, on long time or will sell cheap for cash. Address A. H., care Journgl. FOR TRADE. FOR TRADE—Fine residence lot near Fifteenth street; worth $2,200, with SSOO mortgage; will trade for cottage In any good location, not worth more than the equity. Address A. li., care Journal. WA WED—SALESMEN. WANTED—Ten salesmen at once; goods sold to business men only. Apply to GEO. W. HVOODUAN, Hotel Oneida. AV ANTED—RUAL ESTATE. WANTED—A real-estate appraiser, with certified references, for every county In United States. Address AMERICAN LAND AND TITLE REGISTER, St. Paul, Minn. WANTED—Young men, our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade in eight weeks; mailed free. MOLE It BARBER COLLEGE, Chicago. MUSICAL. MUSICAL—MUSIC BOXES. sl4 Regina Box, with 20 tunes, SIO,OO. •14 Regina Box, with 10 tunes, 8.00. STO Regina Box, With 10 tunes, 48.00. S7O Olympia Box. with 10 tunes, 48.00. $45 Olympia Box, with 10 tunes, 32.00. CARLIN <fc LENNOX, 5 to 0 E. Market st. MUSICAL—SHEET MUSIC SALE. With each purchase of music we will give one copy of Artillery March, by Burt Short. All music sold at one-half marked price. Also a •pedal lot of music at 5c and 10c a copy. CARLIN & LENNOX, 6 to 9 E. Market st. ARTILLERY MARCH GIVEN AWAY. This popular march by Burt Short we will give gway to every purchaser of sheet music this week. All music si>ld at one-haif price. Also a •pedal lot at 6c and 10c. CARLIN A LENNOX, 5 to 9 E. Market st.

STORAGE. STORAGE IN URLS WAREHOUSE CoT^^ - W. E._ Kurtz. Pres. H. A. Crossland, Mgr. (Npw) 61 i-F-Jd S. Pf-nn. Phone 1345. WE STORK. PACK AND HAI'U Oldest in the Stale. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: A dispatch sent from Valparaiso, Ind., Says Judge \Ym. C. Talcott celebrated his eighty-third birthday recently and claims him to be probably the oldest newspaper man and printer in Indiana. Mr. Wm. H. Green, now of Shelbyville-, I believe, may lay claim to that distinction. In 1837, at New Albany, Ind., tifty-two years ago, at the age of twenty-three, Mr. Green first engaged in the newspaper business, letter he arid Mr. Thomas Conins, a brother-in-law, started the lirst daily published in Indiana. Mr. Green also published in the forties a paper at Leavenworth. Ind., In the fifties ami sixties at Connersville, and at Bronkville in the seventies and early eighties. He left Brookville and went to Shelbyvllle, bought a job office and conducted its* business until the infirmities of old age necessitated ids retirement from active work in the printing business. Even now, after so long a time In the newspaper and printing business. Mr. Green enjoys making occasional contributions to the Journal. Connersville Times and News and Brookville American. It might be stated that Mr. Green can also lay claim to the patent in or outside (ready print) idea. In 1856 Oapt. James 11. McClung, now of the Muncie Times, a stepson of Mr. Green, conducted what is' now the Liberty Herald, at Liberty, Ind. The inside pages of this paper were printed by Mr. Green at Connersville and were taken to Liberty on horseback, there being no railroad In those days. The paper was first shipped to Connersville. printed and then taaen to Liberty. \Y. H. M’C. Muncie, Ind., Dec. 31. Suit I'ork for Birds. New York Special. The strange sight of a man nailing chunks of salt pork to the tops of tall trees was witnessed in Bronx Park yesterday. The scene of action was near the site of th>‘ raw Zoological Garden, and many pounds of prime pork were used In the operation. The man, who was a park attendant. was armed with a long ladder and a bag of pork. Now' and then he would place thy ladder against a tree, climb up, nail on a chunk of pork, and then wander away to another tree to repeat the performance. *Tt’s for the birds,” he explained. “There are a large number of them in the park, Snd we want to encourage them to remain ere. Just as soon as the birds learn that they can obtain food in the winter they are rot liable to go away. Birds want something to peek at, and as the ground is all frozen hard, we nail up this pork for them to exercise their 1 Ills on, and I tell you they appreciate it. They know every pork tree and have a grand time.” LIDDAUfII’G gSOnUriil and Troches fk IRRITATED THROATS. I ip* e^l

A THIRTY YEARS’ BATTLE CUBA’S LONG STRUGGLE! FOR BEL LIEF FROM TUB RULE! OF SPAIN. 1 Resume of the Many Revolts Which, with the \id of the United Mates, Have at taut Brought Freedom, New York Sun. The dissolution of the Cuban Junto, which sees its patriotic taak accomplished, and the complete evacuation of Cuba by the Spaniards, which is now close at hand, render the present moment a fit one tor recalling the vicissitudes of a struggle for independence that began thirty years ago and now’ ends in victory. From the outlet to the close of that memorable struggle the Sun has never wavered in it 9 support of the revolutionists, and it W’ould gladly join in the erection of a monument to the martyrs and the heroes who have died that Cuba might be free. In the early years of this century, when just and generous sentiments prevailed in Spain, the status of Cuba, which had remained faithful among many faithless colonies, was assimilated to that of a Spanish province, and her deputies were admitted to the Cortes. In 1525, however, autocratic powers wero conferred upon the captain general, and, in 1836, although the Cuban deputies to the Congress at Madrid had been duly elected, they were not suffered to take their seats. By the constitution of 1837 the representation of the island in the Cortes w 7 as suppressed, and it was provided that Cuba and Porto Rico should be ruled by special laws, which, how’ever, were never enacted until after the ten years’ war. That is to say, while all the former Spanish possessions on the American mainland had their independence acknowledged, Cuba, the ever-faithful isle, was treated as a foreign country. The product of its people’s labor was confiscated by iniquitous fiscal laws and by irregular but irresistible exactions, while those of its inhabitants who dared to proclaim their love of liberty by deed or word perished on the scaffold. In their despair the Cubans took up arms in 1850, 1851 and 1855, but these 111-concerted risings were quickly suppressed by massacre, Fruitless, also, were repeated appeals to the wisdom and equity of influential statesmen at Madrid. In 1867 special commissioners from Cuba and Porto Rico were sent to Spain to implore social, political and economic concessions, and Marshal Serrano, then regent, and General Dulce, who had been for some years captain general at Havana, expressed opinions in favor of granting the request. Nevertheless, the petition was rejected; taxation w r as increased, and, although the island was then peaceful, a military court-martial was substituted tor the civil tribunals. Convinced that they never could secure a voluntary concession of justice from their mother country, the Cubans had recourse onco more to arms, and a far more formidable insurrection than any which had previously occurred broke out on Oct. 10, 1868, and continued for almost ten years. In the course of that well-organized ”e----bellion, many important towns and some seaports were taken, and Spanish authority w T as subverted In about two-thirds of the island. In some respects, indeed, a more plausible case for the recognition of the insurgents as belligerents was present id in the ten years’ war than during the recent uprising, and it is no secret that, after the Virginias affair in 1873, we not only should have given such recognition, hut should have interposed on behalf of the insurgents, had not England and France notified Secretary Fish that they could not permit us to treat the Cuban question as one in which the United States and Spain were exclusively concerned. Such a notification tvas, of course, equivalent to a w r rit of prohibition.

SPANISH BARBARITY. That the acts of barbarism perpetrated by the Spaniards during the ten years’ war afforded precedents for the regime of savagery mantained by General YVeyler will be evident when we recall that, in the twentyseven months from October, 1868, to December, 1870, the Spaniards avowedly put to death 2,658 men, women and children, outside of those who died fighting or from wounds, or who were sent in irons to Ceuta. Our secretary of state protested, hut in vain, against a decree issued in April, 1860, by the Conde De Valmaceda to the effect that every Cuban from the age of fifteen years who should be found out of his house and not be able to give a good reason for it should be shot, and that every house without a w’hite flag should be reduced to ashes. The policy of the Spanish commanders was disclosed in letters, intercepted and published in 1869, from Pedro Pardon, an officer of volunteers, to Rosendo Rivals: “Not a single Cuban will remain in this isle, because we shoot all those we find in the fields, on their farms and in every hovel.” And again: “We do not leave a creature alive where we pass, be it man or animal. The island will become a desert.” This policy drew the following comments from the editor of a Barcelona paper, the Estado Catalan: “Blushing from shame, and with hearts dripping blood, we do confess, in view of what is now happening, that foreigners are right; Africa begins at the Pyrenees, and not the Africa of the Moroccans, but the Africa of the Kaffirs." In spite of her recourse to indiscriminate slaughter, and in spile of her sacrifice of 200,000 soldiers and $700,000,000, Spain proved unable to suppress the insurrection. The ten years’ war was stopped in 1878, not through the superiority of the mother country in the field, but by the treaty of Zanjon, negotiated by Marshal Martinez Campos, relying upon w hoso honor most of the Cuban insurgent. chiefs surrendered, believing that his promises of political and fiscal reforms would be honorably fulfilled. It was the fault, not of Marshal Martinez Campos, but of the Madrid executive, that Spain’s plighted word was broken. For seventeen years the most strenuous endeavors were made by leading Cubans and by some upright Spaniards to persuade the Madrid government to comply with the terms of the treaty of Zanjon. It was not until the futility of all such efforts was generally recognized that the Cuban people determined to recur once more to the fundamental right of revolution. In the ■winter of 1891-93, new insurrectionary organization w'as started, with Jose Marti as its civil head, the post of commander-in-chief being allotted to M iximo Gomoz by the principal officers who had fought in the ten years’ war. The date fixed for the uprising was Fob. 24, 1595. and the people responded in Santiago, Santa Clara and Matanzas. In the two last named provinces, however, the leaders were quickly imprisoned, and thus, for the moment, the movement there was checked. On April 1 Gen. Antonio Maceo, Jose Maceo, and other veteran chiefs of the preceding revolt, landed in the province of Santiago, and thousands arose to join them. On April 11 a detachment of Insurgents received Jose Marti and Gen. Maximo Gomez. Five days later Capt. Gen. Calleja was succeeded by Marshal Martinez Campos, who had the reputation of being Spain's greatest general, and who brought with him a reinforcement of some 10,00) soldiers. THE FAILURE OF CAMPOS. Campos's original plan of campaign w’as to confine the insurrection to the province of Santiago. He began by asserting that he would crush the rebels and return to Spain by November, Passing over many minor skirmishes, we limit ourselves to noting that, at Los Negros, General Rabi defeated the Spanish Colonels Santoseildes and Zubikoskl; that, at El Guanabano, General Masso and Colonel Estrada forced Santoseildes to retreat to Bayatno with great loss; that, at Jarahuea, General Maeoe beat Gen. Salcedo, w ho had more than 3.IXK) men under him. and that npar Guantanamo Lieutenant Colonel Bach was killed and his troops were decimated by General Maeoe and General Perez. On July 12 Marshal Martinez Campos. desiring to relieve Bayamo, started with 4,80 m men, and, at Peralejos. encountered 3.60(1 Chilians under Maceo and Rabi. The battle which followed lasted eleven hours. The Spaniards, completely routed, were forced to Rill all their mules and horses in order to form with them a barricade. They left on the field their convoy, the wounded and the dead, and fled In d.sorder to Bayamo. Their loss was *X> killed and a larger number wounded, while that of the Cubans was but 137 in all. Among the ensuing engagements those especially memorable were trie capture of Fort Taguasco by Gen. Seraflrn Sanchez; the fight at Las Vares where 2,000 Spanish troops under Colonel Rubin were defeated by Roloff and Sanchez; and the affair at Oantagrta, where Colonel Rego took many prisoners and much material of war. leaving for the moment the record of operations under the command of Antonio Maceo, we should point out that Jose Marti and Maximo Gomez, immediately after landing. determined to enter the province of Puerto Principe, or Camaguey, and began their westward march with about 300 1400.

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In trying to pass the first fine of Spanish troops it Boca de Dos Rois a severe conflict took place on May 19, in which Marti was killed. The Spaniards took for granted that the revolution then received its deathblow, but Gomez continued his advance westward, and by the beginning of June, 1895, had entered the southern p’art of Puerto Principe, where he was joined by thousands of recruits, whom he eventually organized Into a third army corps. Early in July he issued the first of his orders relating to the sugar crop, and announced his intention of marching in the winter through Santa Clara and into Matanzas. By the beginning of the dry season Gomez had perfected arrangements for a movement to the west, and having passed the troeha, or line of Spanish forts extending from the town of Jucaro to the town of Moron, he successively traversed the provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas. compelling Martinez Campos to remove his headquarters to Havana. WEYLER’S POLICY. It will be remembered that, not long afterward, Martinez Campos was superseded in the office of captain general by Weyler, and that Maximo Gomez, finding himself constrained to retire in an easterly direction for the purpose of securing supplies, detached Antonio Maceo to occupy the province of Pinar del Rio, in the extreme west, which was effectively done, until Maceo was lured into an ambuscade and killed. The policy pursued by Weyler had a twofold aim, to wit: First, to avoid engagements on a large scale in the field, but to occupy with strong garrisons all the seaports and important inland towns, and to institute so efficient a patrol of the coast as would prevent the insurgents from receiving supplies of ammunition. His second urpose was, while cutting off the revoiui .lists from their friends abroad, to deprive them also of support at home by compelling the whole rural population to renounce the cultivation of their fields and to take refuge in the garrisoned towns, where, under the name of reeoncentrados, they were virtually condemned to death by starvation. In other words, Weyler was determined that as regards the vvlioie of Cuba outside of the points occupied by Spanish soldiers he would create a solitude and call it peace. It cannot be disputed that this programme proved atrociously effective, and that, if persistence in it could have been tolerated by a civilized world, the insurrection must have been extinguished through inability to procure munitions trom. w ithout or iood supplies from within. It was not fated, however, that the rebellion started by Jose Marti was to prove abortive. The supersession of General Weyler by General Bianco and the organization of the semblance of an autonomist government at Havana, although astutely devised to avert American intervention, were not destined to have that result. At the very time when the stoutest hearts among the American friends of Cuba were sickening with hope deferred, and when it seemed but too probable that the forces under Garcia and Gomez must presently be disbanded, from sheer inability to arm. and feed them, occurred the explosion of the Maine in the harbor of Havana, a catastrophe which not only shook with horror the United States, but drove home to our national conscience the conviction that Spain’s rule in the new world must end. The execrable sentiments planted by Weyler in his officers and soldiers had borne their inevitable fruit. It was reserved for Spanish malignancy to perpetrate one of those acts of madness which are forerunners of self-destruction. As wo recall the disappointments, perfidies and calamities which have made the last thirty years the darkest pages in the history of Cuba, we can see that they w r ere all linked together, and that all had their part to play in the outworking of the island’s destiny. Had Spain been more farsighted or less cruel, had the Cubans risked less and suffered less, w 7 e might not have witnessed the great change in the attitude of Great Britain which rendered America’s intervention possible. The blood of Marti and Maceo and of scores of thousands of their brethren, betrayed, famished and butchered, cried to American onlookers from the ground; and when the outpour of our sympathy was met with the destruction of the Maine there was no longer any cause to fear that the arm of an English-speaking people w’ould be raised to stay the sword of justice. The sword fell, and Cuba has been freed. What we now behold is the ripened harvest of the seed sown by the victims of the ten years’ war and of the recent insurrection. Their children are entering into their inheritance. Withheld for a generation, it is assured to them at last: “For Freedom’s battle, once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son. Though baffled oft, is ever won.”

GEN. BROOKE BEGINS WELL. Ills Suppression of Insurgents a l’roper Step. Washington Post. It is refreshing 1o see that w r e have at least one official in Cuba—and he, fortunately, in supreme authority—who is indisposed to encourage the pretensions of the insurgent rabble, and who has the courage and the firmness to snub them as they properly deserve. Ever since war was declared and our forces began to invade Cuba, w r e have been afflicted and embarrassed by the insurgent leaders and their so-called armies. Invisible so long as the Spaniards were in evidence, they sprang up as if by magic by every American victory—sprang up open-mouthed and clamoring for spoils. They were in evidence with Shafter's army, but only as camp-followers and jackals. They have been multiplying ever since, in the ratio of Spanish retirement. And now they swarm in and about Havana, ministers of evil and disorder, thirsting for the lives of soldiers they never dared to meet in Hattie, and willing, when baffled in that foul enterprise, to loot defenseless tradesmen or foment pestifierous disturbances of the peace. These “soldiers,” most of them carrying arms which the United States government improvident!)’ gave them, and resenting nothing so much as the regime of law and order w’hich that government has pledged itself to establish in the island —these soldiers, we say, have been planning a great demonstration in Havana on the Ist of January and had arranged to use the American flag as a cover for their barbaric and vengeful violence. General Lee bad agreed to permit their participation in the parade, and General Ludlow was reported as having consented to the arrangement. The insurgent chieftain, Maximo Gomez, was to have emerged from that mysterious and recondite jungle in which, for the past three years, he has been conducting his barmecide military operations, and the occasion was to have been transformed into an insurgent apotheosis. But General Brooke, who happens to rank both Lee and Ludlow, and who is apparently gifted with more wisdom than both of them put together, has signalized his accession to supreme command by forbidding the vicious nonsense that had been projected, and by ordaining that none of the proposed insurgent demonstrations shall be permitted. Maximo Gomez is not to preside over a victory achieved by American arms, and the insurgent armies, sprung out of traps, like clowns in a Christmas pantomime, will not parade themselves as the allies apl wards of the United States government on Jan. 1. The occasion will be strictly representative of the now dispensation of law’ and order. The enemies of that dispensation will either behave themselves or be disciplined according to their deserts. The country is to be congratulated upon the debut of General Brooke as the United States officer in supreme command over Cuba. We have had quite enough of perilous folly in the island since the conclusion of the war. We are ashamed and sick of it, and the knowledge that the highest authority there has called a halt upon it will be welcomed and applauded throughout theland. What astonishes us is the fact that any United States officer in Cuba, has ever contemplated, much less assented to, the slightest recognition of the insurgent chieftains as representatives of the Cuban population, or as competent spokesmen for their interests and wishes. The President made it perfectly clear to all the world, before the war began, that he did not intend to recognize in any way the so-called Cuban republic. and that fact alone should have been enough to dissuade his subordinates from doing so, even by indirection. Thus far nothing but humiliating failure has attended any effort to employ the Insurgents as agencies of order and civilization. The Castillos and the Yallentes have realized our most unpleasant expectations, and their followers have shown that their only estimate of official authority amounted to a license for violence and rapine. General Brooke has begun w’ell. It remains only for him to convince his subordinate officers that their mission confines them to the preservation of order and the maintenance of civilized institutions. That much assured, ?he rest of the problem will be simplified. We shall have trouble with - ’tents, of course. We shall find them quite as hostile to our law as they were to Spanish law’, for their aspirations contemplate the annihilation of order and the precipitation of social chaos. But we can deal with them much more effectively as open enemies than as pretended allies, and the sooner the alignment is fixed the better for our national honor and renown. The New Wonun'i Way. The Criterion. Here is one little pointer a* to the ways of the new woman that is cheering enough to make up for some of her odious features. “I like this gown best, but it is a little tight for me. and to alter it will throw that trimming out of place;” so spoke the shopper to her friend. “Train down to it,” said the friend. "Why, yee. I can, as easy as not.” was the answer, and the gown was bought and the training down scientifically accomplished. Vose finest upright pianos at Wulschner’a

FAMOUS COLUMBIA CLUB. An Eastern Magazine’* Description of the Institution. Leslie's Weekly. It might be matter for astonishment to the East and West, the North and South, to become aware of w’hat the inland Hoosier State has done, not only for her sisters, but for all the world at large. For out of this Judea have come prophets to all people. Statesmen, poets, novelists and artists, song .and story, and men to sit in the highest place of honor, have been sent out to the world from Indiana; and nowhere in the West is there a people more athirst for knowledge and beauty than In the flourishing western capital, Indianapolis. Out of this have grown clubs and clubs for the propagation of all Interests—social, artistic, studious and political. The Columbia Club of Indianapolis is an organization w’hich has grown out of these conditions. The features and functions of this club are so unique as to call attention to it all over the country. In all its acts and Influences it fosters the principles of Republicanism, and yet is never dominated by extreme partisanship. Through the extended influence of the many strong men who are among its members, It is a potent factor in all public questions of Indiana, and often in the politics of the country. ‘ There is probably no club in this country which is more widely known on account of events whicn have taken place within its walls affecting large national political interests. Its membership is in no sense local, although it has more than 500 members in Indianapolis. Outside of Indianapolis its members are chosen by invitation, from every county, important town and community of the State. Men who are so honored must be Republicans and representative in some distinguished manner of the community In w’hich they reside. Asa business mans club, it represents eminently a large portion of the leading men of affairs in Indiana. It is the foremost social club of Indianapolis and of the State, and the only social state club in this country. The club building is situated on Monument place, occupying a central position in the State, as well as being the active business center of Indianapolis. It fronts the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument, a structure which has cost Indiana half a million of dollars, and is the greatest monument that has ever been erected to the private soldier and sailor in any part of the world. THE NEW BUILDiNG. The club’s new building will be one of the most attractive and noticeable architectural ornaments of the city. No comfort will be lacking. A principal provision to thi3 end will be living rooms luxuriously furnished. There will be spacious reception rooms with public and private dining rooms, and special rooms, most beautifully appointed, for ladies. In addition, there will be an assembly room large enough to seat several hundred. It will have a balcony and stage with eompletest accessories. A novelty is to be the roof garden. In addition to the case rooms there are to be rooms specially fitted in old English and Dutch designs for a grill and Kneipe, bowling alleys, gymnasium, Turkish bath and swimming pool. Among the members who give life and color to the club are men whose names are familiar to all Americans. First, must be mentioned ex-President Harrison. James Whitcomb Riley and Gen. Lew Wallace are names loved wherever the English language is spoken. Among the names suggesting d.stinguished service for the government and State are Gen. John C. Now’, ex-Attorney General W. H. H. Miller, Hon. E. H. Nebeker. Hon. L. M. Ransdell, Hon. R. J. TraceW’ell, Rear Admiral George Brown, Gen. George F. McGinnis, Gen. I. N. Walker, ex-commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.; Hon. Julius A. Lemeke, Hugh 11. Hanna, president of the monetary commission; Henry C. Adams, the clever raconteur and story-teller, a welcome guest in every circle; Hon. E. B. Martindale, Hon. Justus C. Adams, Hon. Charles Ij. Jewett, judge advocate general of our army in Manila; Frank W. Morrison, Capt. Harry S. New. United States Judges William A. Woods and John H. Baker, Congressman George W. Steele, now’ a leading candidate for the United States Senate; Hon. Jesse Overstreet. Congressman from Indianapolis; Judge Robert S. Taylor, of the Mississippi River Commission, also a prominent candidate for the United States Senate; and such noted jurists and lawyers as Byron K. Eiliott, R. W. Mcßride, W illiam A. Ketch - am. Attorney General William L, Taylor, Smiley N. Chafnbers, Maj. Charles L. Holstein. Addison C. Harris and Ferdinand Winter. The men w’ho have been distinguished with the presidency of the club are Chapin C. Foster, the first. A. P. Hendrickson. living S. Gordon, Hon. R. O. Hawkins, Chalmers Brown, Dr. Henry Jameson. Hon. Moses G. McLain and Dr. Thomas S. Hacker.

The president of the Columbia Club, Pr. Frankiin W. Hays, is a prominent and popular young physician, and occupies a chair in the medioal department of the University of Indianapolis. His cleverness and energy, culture and attractive personality make himi a strong force. It is not usual to find professional ability as a physician united with diplomacy and sagacity as a man of affairs. It is to Dr. Hays’s planning and persistency in executing the plans that the club owes much of its prosperity, and, in a large measure the new club building. He showed an active appreciation of the possibilities of the* club in the wider fields w'hich have been lately opened to it. Not only was he able to convince others that the apparently impossible was possible, but to prove it practically and in an incredibly short time. He brought into co-operation the advice and support of such members as were peculiarly fitted to realize the highest aims of the institution. The brilliant success of the undertaking naturally gives unusual opportunities to Dr. Hays for political preferment, but he prefers to follow out the lines of his professional work. MR. HAWKINS’S ABILITY. Whenever there is anything to do relative to the interest of the Republican party Roscoe O. Hawkins is called into the inner circle. He is no less able as a politician than as a lawyer. While for years he has had much to do with his party's affairs in the State and beyond it, he has rarely sought ollice. He is now In the state Senate and is there a leader. A great deal of the good work of the last Legislature is due to his watchfulness and advice. Mr. Hawkins is a charter member of the Columbia Club, and was one of its ablest presidents. He was a strong factor in it when the club was only a marening campaign organization of General Harrison's first presidential candidacy, when the eiub contributed so greatly to nis nomination. Mr. Hawkins is of the class ot politicians who do a lot of thinking lirst, and after measuring conditions mature plans to suit them, in carrying out these plans he does a great amount of hard work. He is the repository of ail important political secrets, and is as impenetrable as tiie Sphinx. He is difficult with his opponents, frank with his friends and devoted to them and generous with able advice. One of the most active and forceful men in Indiana is John B. Cockruin. He came to the city of Indianapolis some twelve years ago to serve in the position of deputy United females district attorney. He has great ability and force of character, and is one of the noted trial lawyers of the West. He is aggressive, skillful and resourceful. His successes are numerous, and as general attorney lor the Lake Erie & Western Railroau, as well as all corporations controlled by them, he lias achieved almost a national reputation. He has the honor of being the chief tribune of the Grand Tribunal of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana, and in lisyo was appointed grand marshal of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the world, which is the highest appointive position in tile order. Mr. Cockrum is one of the most ardent and influential Republicans in the State and is a member of the advisory committee of the Republican state committee. In InsS he was a delegate to the national convention which nominated fieri. Harrison. Within twenty-three years after Charles M. Fairbanks was admitted to the bar he became United States senator, the first Indiana Republican to secure that position since Gen. Benjamin Harrison’s term ten years before. Mr. Fairbanks was then just on the outer edges of political life, his introduction to the turmoil and responsibility of leadership coming to him as the stanch friend of Judge Gresham in his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. It is the lirst public office he has held. His law practice brought him wealth and social ambition. They in turn imposed upon him duties in connection with educational and literary institutions that received from him conscientious attention and fullillment. The senator is a delightful man to meet. He is democratic in his acquaintanceship, but never lacking the cordial dignity of the accomplished gentleman. Senator Fairbanks is very near President McKinley, and was the power in Indiana that brought the delegation in line for the eminent Ohioan at the St. Louis convention, of which he was temporary chairman. He is proving his ability in great affairs as president of the American side of the international commission dealing with questions between the United States and Canada. A United States senator will soon be elected by the Republicans of Indiana. Among the candidates is Albert J. Beveridge. He came to Indianapolis wdth his diploma from P*. College, where he had distinguished himself as a student and orator.

He had taken prize after prize, and there was a very brilliant career promised to him. He began reading law in the office of McDonald 6c Butier, one of the great firms of the State. He rapidly acquired a fine practice. His tutors, ex-Senator McDonald and his distinguished partner, John A. Butler, were the young lawyer’s devoted friends, and contributed much to his success. It would not be surprising if he followed the senior member of the old firm into the United States Senate. As an oratcr, Mr. Beveridge has almost a national reputation. Asa campaigner in Indiana, no one is more popular. His eloquence caused the people to talk about him for the Senate, his friends insisted that he should be, and he has consented. Charles S. Hernly, of New Castle, was selected as chairman of the Republican state central committee in one of its most trying emergencies, and on account of his approved ability in harmonizing disrupting factions. His intelligence, will, and judgment have marked him as a safe political manager. Party leaders through the State were never better organized than during the recent campaign. He was particularly successful in selecting representative citizens as advisers. Mr. Hernly’s work has been most successful in bringing about the brilliant Repubiican successes of this year, removing discordant elements and cementing enduring ties between the factions. Ho has great promise of further distinction in politics, and political honors are open to him if he is inclined to take them. Success in the law’ has brought him wealth and honor. Not many Indiana orators have escaped comparison with John L. Griffiths. Everybody likes to hear him. There is not r community in Indiana where John L. Griffiths has not been heard. “Send us Griffiths” is a daily request at Republican headquarters from all parts of the country during a campaign. Such popularity cannot fail to fix the future of the orator. Eleven years ago he was an Indianapolis representative in the General Assembly, and two years later was elected reporter of the Supreme Court. That has been a very lucky office. ExPresident Harrison once filled It; so did exGovernor Porter. Others have gone out of it to become senators, representatives, or Supreme judges. In 1896 Mr. Griffiths was a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in a field of thirteen. He got a vote strong enough to make him ji formidable candidate two years hence. He is a leader in literary clubs and in the Columbia’s rooms. NEWS IN SUNDAY’S JOURNAL Resume of Chief Events Printed in the Issue of Jau. 1. The highest wages received by mill hands in India is $4.50 per month. One train crashed into another at Tuscola, 111., and killed a fireman. • The coinage at the San Francisco mint for December amounts to $10,062,000. The United States has 33,914 soldiers in Cuba and is hurrying more to the island. Controller Dawes in an address at Chicago outlined his views on currency legislation. Governor General Brooke is to be given a cabinet to assist him in administering the affairs of Cuba. A ministerial crisis has been brought about ut Berlin by the Emperor’s insistency in expelling the Danes. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted of the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning and her sister, will ask for anew trial. A delegation of lowa negroes called upon President McKinley Saturday in regard to the recent troubles in the South. Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio, w'ill proceed against the American Biscuit Company as a trust to oust them from the State. The Central Savings Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., voluntarily suspended owing to withdrawals of deposits, due to Gillett episode. No losses. Henry Watterson nominates Admiral Dewey for President and Fitzhugh Bee for Vice President on the platform of "stars and stripes.” The Sultan’s chief eunuch has died suddenly, leaving an immense property, which goes into the treasury of the Sultan. Poison is hinted at. Buekwa lowered the two miles and a quarter world’s record on the Oakland, Cal., track, which has stood for twenty-five years, to 3:51 flat. Josepii Vacher, the “fiend of the century,” who is known to have murdered twentythree persons without any object save to destroy life, was put to the guillotine in France. Ambassador Cambon has left Bond on for Paris, bearing England’s terms regarding a settlement of many of the disputes between France and Britain. The terms are said to lie harsh. A noted British astronomer advances the opinion that the moon formerly was a part of the earth and that the end of the W’orld will be brought about by the sea breaking into the center of the earth and causing a volcanic eruption. One battalion of the One-hundred-and-sixtieth Indiana Volunteers will probably sail from Charleston, S. C., for Cuba about Jan. JO on the transport Saratoga. Three trips will be necessary to convey the whole regiment to the island.

Indiana poll*. State Board of Health finds the first ease of horse diphtheria on record. A plan last fall to forge state fair tickets on a large scale was revealed.' Dun & Co.’s statistics show Indianapolis had fewer failures in IS9S than even in 1592. The German House, the Maennerchor and the Elks closed the old year with festivities. State Board of Health discovers Indianapolis sausage makers using flour and water to swell the weight of their goods. (From Sunday’s Second Edition.) Ohio Cities Withont Fire. DIMA, 0., Deo. 31.—There is great suffering here and in the other towns supplied with natural gas from the Redkey, Ind., pump station, which was destroyed by an explosion this morning. Wapakonetta, St. Mary’s, Celina, Cdidwater, Port Recovery, Hume and a number of other towns are on the line and are probably worse off than this city, as their source of reserve fuel supply i3 not as great as here. The mercury is hovering near zero and the gas is out in nearly every Instance and only burning a blaze as large as a candle light and is growing smaller. Pew consumers had any preparations for a sudden shut-off, and the demand on coal and wood yards and every available team Is such that all cannot be served until to-morrow, even with the teams and wagons running all night, as will be the case. Hundreds of families have not had a warm meal since breakfast, and there Is no likelihood of being able to get better gas before Monday everting. The demand for plumbers is so great that those who have succeeded in getting fuel cannot get the full benefit of It, as they are unable to get their burners arranged, the plumbers having more than they can do. What wood and coal is being used gives poor results on top of the gas burners. The natural gas company received word from Redkey to-night that part of the pumps would be running by Monday evening. Assignment of Officers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Incident to the redistribution of the vessels of the navy and the revival of the stations abandoned just before the outbreak of the war, Seereary Long is giving attention to the assignment of commanding officers to dutv. Today he announced that he had decided to make Commodore Picking commandant of the Boston navy yard and Commodore Philip, of the Texas, commandant at the New York navy yard. Captain Kempff. late commanding the Monterey, has been selected as naval governor of the Island of Guam. It has not yet been decided just what disposition to make of Admiral Schlev and Admiral How'ell, though it is certain that the latter is to be given a squadron, and Admiral Schley expects to get the European station. The Kaiser Return* Cheek. LONDON. Jan. I.—The Berlin correspondent of the Observer states that a local paper. the name of which is not given, vouches for the truth of an amusing story, according to which Emperor William recently received a letter from a New York publisher, inclosing a check for $5,000, and requesting that his Majesty write an article giving his views upon the Spanish-Americ&n war. The check was returned though the German embassv at Washington, with the observation that his Majesty had neither the time nor the wish at present to devote himself to a journalistic career. Italian* After Indemnity. LONDON, Jan. I.—A special dispatch from Rome says an Italian squadron is now en route to Cartagena. Colombia, to enforce President Cleveland’s award of indemnity to the Cerruti creditors. Admiral De Brorhetti, who commands the squadron, has bf*en instructed to insist on satisfaction for the insults to Italy which occurred during the debates in the Colombian Chamber. Jfew Year** Gift from Hanna. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 81.—Senator Hanna to-day filled out a check for $2,000 for the Ohio building of the New American University at Washington. Deeldely Hot. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “These Transvaal Dutchmen,” began the observant boarder. “Well.” replied the cross-eyed boarder. “Are they smooth Boers?” “They are not. They are as Irritating a set as could be Imagined.”

Washington Conquered Grip Takes the City in Its Iron Grasp Government Machinery Almost at a Standstill. Enormous Percentage of Employes Stricken with the Plague. Capitol at the Mercy of the Disease.

La Grippe epidemic which is just now raging in the Capital City is more general and widespread than upon any former visitation of the disease. Fully one-third of the government employes are sick or suffering from an attack of the plague, which is no respecter of persons. At the hospitals forty per cent, of the cases are La Grippe, at the hotels many of the guests are on the sick list from the same trouble, while physicians report hundreds of patients in every part of the city. The attacks of La Grippe are made suddenly, usually beginning with violent headache, accompanied by fever and chills, with sneezing and running at the eyes and nose. These symptoms are followed by bone-racking aches and pains and a general exhaustion of the nervous system. From this stage to acute bronchitis and pneumonia is but a step. The best remedy for La Grippe is to strengthen the nerves and build up the resistive powers so as to throw off the deadly disease germs. Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine will do this better than any medicine known to science. It is a nerve builder, brain food and restorative tonic of the highest order and has brought back health to thousands of La Grippe sufferers.

A Soggester of Lawn. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In looking over the columns of the Journal I find many subjects proposed and discussed for the use and benefit of the coming Legislature and other things to be the guides and rules of faith and practice for the legislators. Among the many changes sought is a change in the divorce laws of this State. Forming my judgment from much reading and varied observations, I am ltd to believe that no change proposed up to this time is stringent enough to protect the Interests of either the home or the State. Let the grounds for divorce be reduced to one instead of six, and that one be intense inhuman treatment shown by absolute and indisputable evidence by at least three freeholders in the community where the parties may reside. Let the man who is a party to a divorce be disfranchised for life and the marriage of a man or woman to a divorced person be punished (not charged) by imprisonment during the life of the person to whom he or she may marry. In the matter of local government it seems to be tlie tendency of the proposed changes to locate the system of offices in the county seat, a thing not to be commended. As it now is, the "ring and job" politicians form themselves around the courthouse offices as a nucleus, w'hiie the mau who labors to bring forth sustenance for hirnself and his fellow-man from the earth when in the county seat on public business meets w T ith the well-trained office holder or office seeker, and, being unfamiliar with practices of those who live by the sweat of others, becomes a party to the sanction of any or all their acts. He gets back to the country district considering himseil a "good fellow well met” and thus helps perpetuate the salary grabbers. Instead of concentrating the public business let us have some plan devised whereby it will be separated into smaller lots and the compensation cut down in many cases and in others transacted by public-spirited men without compensation except such benefits as may accrue to themselves and their neighbois publicly. It will Iks lound that public spirit is still extant in the American mind and needs but fuel properly added to bring out a glorious flame of patriotic public beneficence. Alt changes proposed for the uplifting of the public schools seem to run to one thing, and that the making of more salaried offices, these offices to be placed in the reach of party and political influences. Why do not some of those who profess to spend so much time and energy on this question devise a plan whereby the schools will be less under political and more under public and practical supervision 7 Why not suggest punishment for the teacher or official who participates in politics only so far as it is commensurate with the genuine American spirit? In the matter of tenure of office generally it would seem that it is time for our law rinakers to arrive at a definite understanding as to how long the term of any office shall be. To illustrate, the term of office of the township trustee has been juggled and whipsawed until nine-tenths of the voters of tne State do not know what it is, when it commences or expires. Why not limit the executive offices to four years and only one term? The election law seems to be under consideration by most all citizens. Voting machines seem to be the ideal of many. Why not enact a law that will compel each and every legal voter in the State to go to the voting stand and in a public place and manner call the names of each man for whom he wishes to vote orally, so that the clerical force and the public can heaj and understand? In filling all appointive offices let there be a system of examinations, and the man who makes the best grade and has good moral character and proper business qualifications the appointee. W ith an arrangement of this kind no one will o-ve his position to party. In the choosing of a United States senator it would seem that there could be some way devised to get more nearly at the feelings and wishes of the people than under the present regime. At present one or two men from this county are in the lobbies of the hotels in Indianapolis with the impression going broadcast throughout the State that they voice the sentiments of all the Republicans of Montgomery county, while in this vicinity a resolution is being circulated asking our assemblyman to vote for and in the interests of a man whose name would be poison to the gentlemen who would represent the county in the prior caucuses and meetings. Only one man in this community, so far as the writer can learn, has refused to sign the resolution, giving as his reason that ne preferred to go as the “boys” wished the county to go. In reality the "boys” who voted in the same box with him in November were all signing the resolution. In ti.is instance it seems that the voice of the rank and file with us is not of so much worth as this man who is whooping things up in the capital. This is unfair to all candidates, as they do not hear of those in the rural communities who are favorable to them, it may be for good and sufficient reasons, and it is likely that our assemblyman may never know the feeling of these people, because they are not selfimportant enough to express their will by any considerate amount of "jaw.” With this state of affairs well known, it is but fair to presume that communities all over the State are being treated thus. Why not devise a means whereby the people can make known their wishes to their Legislature and receive consideration for them in so far as it is compatible with public good? On all the above questions this article mav not seem plain to the politician and wire-pulling log-roller, but investigation and inquiry among the voters of the State who are interested in the toil that makes the State and the people great, and who prefer to remain side by side with their fellowmen, will reveal many wishes, feelings and thoughts as stated herein. Let the whole people unite in asking their representative or senator to remember the tiller of the soil, the molder and the mechanic when he is considering proposed legislation, and to the professional politician let him turn a deaf ear. Then the legislator at home can turn to his constituents, his friends and his neighbors and receive the approbation ho will so Justly and rightly deserve, instead of severe criticism and denunciation so frequently heard in the immediate past- WM. **• SLAVBNS. Linden, Ind., Dec. 3L

“I was tired out from overwork when the grip attacked me, and w’hen it left me I was a broken down wreck, both mental and physical. My nervous system seemed to be completely unstrung, and although I was attended by an eminent physician I grew weaker day after day and week after week. My appetite failed, could not sleep and became so nervous and despondent that I lost all hopes of getting well. Finally, as a last resort, I began taking Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. I began to improve with the first bottle and when I had taken seven bottles I was cured. I have been strong and well ever since and I weigh more than I ever did in my life.” SAMUEL F. PILSON, Staunton, Va. All druggists are authorized to sell Dr. Miles’ Nervine on a positive guarantee first bottle will benefit or money refunded. Be sure you get Dr. Miles’ Nervine. Take nothing else. Write us about your troubles and ailments and we will give you the honest advice of a trained specialist absolutely free of charge. Book on heart aud nerves sent free. Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, Ind.

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