The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-07
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
An AstOnished EditOr---What He Saw
and What He Says.
From Greenland's Icy Mountains to Africa's
Sunny Strand.

BALTIMORE, Md.-The Daily Evening News
publishes the following, editorially:
AT the time the New York Herald, with char
acteristie generosity gave the princely sum of
one hundred thousand dollars to relief fund for
the sufferers from famine in Ireland, one of the
| most distinguished literary men of America con
| tributed to the Art Autograph, published for the
benefit of that fund the following note:
When distressed nation appeals for this or
that or the other grace or help, she hears an an
swering voice of sympathy from this or that or
the other creed or group or faction scattered
here and there and yonder in the spaces of the
earth. 1t is only when she asks for bread that
creed and party are forgotten and the whole world
rises to respond"
While recognizing the force of this sentiment,
the experience which a member eff our editorial
staff had yesterday furnishes unmistakable evil
denee of the fact that the want of bread, that
famine is not the only thing which causes the
whole world to rise and by united action to
record enthusiastic endorsement of a laudable
measure, or object This conviction was occa-
stoned by visit to a commercial enterprise, Of
which, although much has been said and written,
the writer confesses he knew. nothing from per-
sonal experience prior to his Investigations. Phe
following facts are presented chee1fully, in the
belief that they are not only of real public inter
est but are of so extraordinary a nature, so en-
couraging to our local pride, as to demonstrate
beyond all doubt that the agency in questisn is
the most remarkable of its kind known in the
history of scientific discovery.
DouDIlSSS every Inventor every IHduuldC-
turer of even an Indifferent article can, without
serious difficulty, enlist certain amount of local
and general influence in support of his products
on the principle, perhaps, that every po-
litical aspirant has some followers-but the
proofs here under consideration are so positive,
and, considering the high sources supplying the
following statements they are so extraordinary
and conclusive that no sane man can doubt that
the expressions were called forth by really
marvellous degree of excellence and power.
Here a congress of nations, composed of dis
tinguished leaders in public, mercantile, and so
cial circles of all sections of the world and in
part, of eminent professional men, whose con
| servatism in matters of this kind is well known
basing their expressions upon actual experiments
and observations, voluntarily join in public praise
so high and unqualified as to set at rest all
doubts and prejudces. to silence skeptics, and to
! carry conviction to the understanding of every
| fair-minded man.
When representative examined the oTigi-
nails of the following forcible documents, he was,
as above indicated. so struck with their extraor-
binary character that he concluded to present
them to our readers as matter of public in
terest. This, as before stated, is done cheerfully
and of our own accord