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The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29
GRAMMAR IN THE SCHOOLS.

Inc papers ana discussions at the
teachers convention held here during
the last week were practical, interest
ing, and well calculated to stimulate
study and endeavor towards improved
methods. A fair sample. though no more
practical or interesting than others, was
the discussion relative to the proper
place of grammar in the school course.
The discussion arose on a paper by
Miss Ridpath, of Greencastle, entitled
"Should Grammar be Taught in the
High-school?" The subject might, per-
haps, have been better stated as "Where
Should Grammar Be Taught" for the
point of discussion was whether it should
be taught in the lower grades or in the
high-school. There was no voice
against the teaching of grammar, but
the question was as to its proper
place in the school course. The author
of the paper above referred to was de-
cidedly in favor of teaching grammar in
the high-school, and gave good reasons
for this view. In the discussion which
followed some favored c0nfning the
study entirely to the lower grades and
reviewing or completing it in the high
school, while others thought it strictly a
high-schOol study. The weight of opin-
ion was in favor of teaching it in the
high-school, though not exclusively
there.
The Journal is clearly of the opinion
that grammar should be taught in the
high-school, whether it is taught in the
lower grades or not, and thatas between
the lower grades and the high-schOol
the latter is preferable. 1t is a mis-
take to suppose that grammar is q
simple study or one we'll suited
for immature minds. The contrary is
true. Practical grammar. that is. cor
rect speaking, is comparatively easy and
may be acquired by practice, as the child
learns to speak. 1t is as easy to speak
ones mother tongue dramatically as
ungrammatically, if proper examples be
set and proper attention observed. But
theoretic grammar is very different
thing. A young person may learn to
speak quite dramatically without
knowing anything at all of grammar,
just as one may learn to sing by ear,
without knowing anything of music. But
it is one thing to speak the language
correctly and quite another to under
stand the relations of words, the struct-
ure Of sentences and the science of lam
guage. In this larger::sense grammar is
an abstruse and difficult study, entirely
beyond the capacity of children, and cal
culated to test the quality of mature
minds. 1t bears the same relation to
correct speaking that the science of
music, thoroughbass and counter-point
does to singing by car. AS the science
of language, grammar deals with prin-
ciples, and abstract ideas, and rules
which the young cannot grasp nor un-
derstand. Therefore it belongs in the
most advanced years of study, the
higher the better. If anything at all is
learned of grammar in the lower grades
it is learned by rote, and can only be
assimilated and utilized by study in
later years. Like many other branches,
it is very specifically taught under ouI
present system.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

The suit of s. s. Hollingsworth, the
defaulting ex-treasurer of Knox county,
to recover $4,000, the residue of his
estate after his shortage had been COM
promised by his bondsmen, brings to the
surface a very peculiar transaction by
the Democratic authorities of that
county. Hollingsworth estimated his
property at $4,000, and the general
estimate of its value did not run below
100000. His shortage was $4,000 in
round figures. Yet the Democratic COM
missioners compromised for $35,OOO,
though the bondsmen were, and are
still, responsible men, and the full
amount of the shortage could have been
collected by due process of law.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

HENRY GEORGE is nothing if not er-
ratio, and he was never more SO than
when'he w-ote the article for the new
Boston magazine, The Arena, entitled,
ITO Destroy the Rum Power" in which
he takes the ground that the greater the
efforts made by law to prohibit or re-
strict the sale of intoxicating liquors the
more effective will be the organization
to maintaini the traffic. If intoxicating
liquors were IS freely sold as any other
article which is not taxed or hampered
by law, there would be no rum power
organized in politics, no attempt to con-
trollegislafion, and no more liquor would
be drunk. Indeed. he assumes that there
would be less, since people care not for
that which is cheap and plentiful.
Drunkards are rarely found where wine
is abundant, and upon this fact he bases
his argument that drinking would de-
cline If the sale. was untrammeled. In
other words, the free grogshop is the
most effective agent TO promote total
abstinence. This is good Henry George
logic, but it il the worst sort of nonsense.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

IT win certainly look little strange
if the government expends millions of
dollars in irrigating and improving the
arid lands of the West, while arabic
lands in New England are going begging
for cultiYators
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

'IT is generally agreed" says the
Washington Post, solemnly, "that the
District of Columbia needs somethiDg
besides a jail and work-house for the
rescue and reformation of those who,
through adverse conditions. or infu-
ences, are drifting in a criminal direc-
tion." 1t doesn't seem to need them
very badly while its criminals are per-
mitted to drift into Canada. Wouldn't
it be as well to first catch the Silcotts
before building a new place to stow
them?
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

A PREBYTERIAs minister of Rockport,
N. Y, has created great sensation by
going to one of the public schools in the
place and delivering lecture to the pu-
pills on Heaven and He'll" He gave q
terrible description of the fate of sim
nsrs, and illustrated his remarks with
maps and pictures. The children were
brought to . state of great nervous ex-
eitement and terror, and the parents are
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

IT certainly seems paradoxical that the
mildness Of the winter should work
hardship to the poor, yet it is directly
responsible for the fact that thousands
of fcoalminers in Pennsylvania are thrown
out of work.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

A SOUTHERN teachers association has
been discussing the question: SHOULD
Children Read the Newspapers of tho
Dayf' Yes, if they are newspapers; no,
if they are sensation and scandal mon
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

A Siay
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Grand. gloomy and peculiar Weird Mo-
Allister declares that he never sees beau
tiful girl without wishing that she might
become member of his own and only -four
hundred How sad il is that such gen.
erous old soul should be such slave TO
dutyl And what rebuke his inexorable
law must be TO 81. Peters milder rule,
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

SENATOR TELLER has announced that
he viii call up his resolution in favor of
open executive sessions of the Senate.
May he succeed this time in destroying
that relic of the star chamber.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

The Sunday Journal has double the cfrcu-
lation of any Sunday paper in Indiana
Price i've cents.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

The apologists for stock and grain
gambling often bring forth the argu-
ment that speculation in futures en-
hances the price of wheat, corn and
other agricultural products. This was
beautifully illustrated by the course of
speculation at Chicago during the past
week. Day after day the "bears," by
selling grain they did not own, ham,
mered down the prices of wheat and
corn an eighth or a quarter of a cent.
Friday night, as usual, most of the deals
were rounded up, and on Saturday
little trading was done. With the un-
natural pressure removed grain prices
bounded back to their normal figures,
and the farmers who sold on Thursday
or Friday are out nearly cent q bushel.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29
Why Idaho Nlust Wnit.

Minneapois Iribune.
OF Territories tit for statehood is 10 be re-
gretted; but the country cannot afford TO
increase the power of the Mormon monster.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29

pledge not TO drink intoxicating liquors for
year was presented and signed by $50 of
the crowd. This was all well; but il Mr..
Parker could have given each of them q
chance to earn an honest living. be woald
have put them to a practical test
The Boston Journal evidently fears the
result to New England If Florida winters
have come to that region TO stay. 1t men,
winter which that portion of the country
has been accustomed to. with it's weeks of
frozen-up thermometers, its arctic blasts,
it snow-bound roads and the like. are essen
tial elements for the development of the
distinctive New England people. and fears
that the loss of such winters will rob its
people of these distinctive features Still,
New England has never yet failed TO
harvest an ice crop whose average is 100.
THE popular epidemic. which is called the
Russian influenza in western Europe. is
called in Russia the Chinese influenza. be-
ing supposed to come from China. What il
IS called in China we do not know. but
probably it is named from some other
country still further East, where it is sup
posed to have originated And so. coming
on around the world and across the Pacific
to California. who knows hut the Russisn
influenza is simply our own old-fashioncd
American cold in the head with the foreign
irafrovments acquired by traveli
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02

Tho total number of persons employed on a
typical japanese newspaper, say The Nichi
Nichi Skimbun, is as follows: One political
dircc or, one chief editor, five assistant edi-
tors, four proof readers, one shorthand writer,
twelve reporters or news gatherers, three or
four compositors, each with several assist
ants, twelve men in the press room and minor
employees, including distributors, making a
total of $50 persons. The reporters are the
weak point, for tho editor frankly tells you
that if they cannot find news they are COM
PEELED TO bring homo fiction as they are paid
by results, and even then they do not often
earn more than $40 month.
They therefore deliberately invent a large
part of he nows During my own stay the YER
nacular papers have had fifty items of news
about my movements, Of ludiCrOuS inaccu-
racy. So Enthusiastically, indeed, is the re-
porter that all assistant editor is always sent
when anybody of Importance desires or is in
Vited to be interviewed. As regards the sup
ply of news, the best papers have their own
correspondents, almost always men employed
on a newspaper, in other chief cities, and
some of them have mail correspondents
abroad, generally young men who have gone
to Europe or America to study. Much en-
terprise is shown in collecting full accounts
of anything that occurs in Japan. but the
trail of tho uutrustworthy reporter is over it
all, ard this greatly reduces It's interest and
influence. - Henry Norman III Philadelphia
Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02

The Fete DIES LOges is very curious fair,
for it is held III the middle of the Forest of
St. German. No train runs within two or
three miles Of the spot therefore it needs
some courage to reach it, It's just this diff
Guilty that renders ii attractive and romantic
The Forest of Gcrmain is as mysterious as
central Africa to most Parisans and much
more allurlnG. You do not expect to sec
fowls and les of mutton turning on the spit
or little tables covered with white cloths, or
slices of potatoes turning brown il boiling
fat near the higher waters Of the Congo; but
you may feel confident of seeing these things
at the Fcte DIES LogoS in the Forest OF St,
German.
Add to this fascinating picture wooden
horses, turned by very Old and phiIosophic
horse not Of wood, this one, but of Zone and
Skin-who goes round and round to the
strains Of a barrel organ, every tune of which
he could sing if he had any voice, travelling
theatres, wax works, Amercaltrailways and
wild beasts, fortune tellerS, fat girls, living
skeletons, and all the Internal din of the fcte
lorraine. Earisiaus are not bold excursion
lists They think ST. Cloud on the confines of
civilization; therefore they want an object
other than the greenwood tree before they
can make up their minds to plunge into the
forest of st. German. The Fete deS LoGes
supplies this motive.-Paris Cor. Boston
1IlpSrrlDL
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
A Flood of Free Tickets.

More than one manager says that he can
trace months of bad business i'll his establish
ment to the demoraliZing effect of flood Of
free tickets issued even by another house.
Managers come to New York knowing per-
fectly well that the companies and the plays
they have in hand will fail utterly in the
city; but the loss incident to fortnight here
is expected and paid for for the sake of the
advertisement or send off it will give the
company in country towns Therefore the
only idea of the manager who takes metro
politan theatre for this purpose is to present
Tor two weeks an appearance OF success, and
to achieve this the town is flooded with free
tickets and an attempt Is made to crowd the
house every night, even though the actual
receipts may not pay for the gas. The man.
ager will be able to announce in the country
press that for two weeks people were turned
away at the doors u the New York theatre
in which his wonderful company played
So well known has this need of country
managers for large city audiences become
that there are several persons here who make
a business Of providing audiences. These
persons know where they can give away 400
or so tickets SO as to make sure of an au-
dience of people who look as if they had paid
for their seats. Several of the large dry
goods shops are always ready to receive
theatre tickets for distribution among their
clerks, and the manager who resorts tC such
wholesale ''papering" is perfectly Indifferent
as to the injurious effects this policy NAV
have upon other theatres dependent upon
actual receipts. That this effect Is injurious
cannot be doubted.-PhiIip J. Hubert in The
Epoch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
The German Hotel Porter.

In German hotels you come in contact only
with the porter and head waiter. The porter
is usually selected for his intelligence, for his
ability as a lnguist and for his size-his
height, rather You make all inquiries Of
him concerning the hotel, about the arrival
and departure of trains, the sights of the town,
etc., and you invariably get civil and intelli-
gent replies to all your questions. The SO
called porter portier), however, in no sense
corresponds with the American idea of a
porter, nor is he called upon to do the slight
est physical labor. lie receives guests, sees
them depart and makes himself very useful
in many ways, but as for lifting trunk or
carrying a sachel, this is entirely beneath lis
position and his dignity. The actual porter
perturms this labor, and both of these OFF,
Gals expect and receive a fee on the guests
departure. In paying your bill at Ger
man hotel you see neither proprietor, man.
ager nor porter; neither will receive it; you
are obliged to pay the waiter, who thus
makes sure of his fee.-"M. r" in Homs
lnurnal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
A Sensational Discovery.

W.D. Suit, Druggist, Bippus: Ind, testl-
4,s: L, can recommend Electric Bitters, as
the very best remedy. Every bottle sold has has
Civ en- relief in every case: One man took
Six bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism OF
10 years standing" Abraham Hare,
Druggist, Belyille, Ohio, atilrmS; d,od Inc ne
nv 20 years experiences, is Electric
Bitters." Thousands of others have added
their testimony, so that the verdict is
unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all
diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood.
Only half dollar bottle at all drug stores.
DreisS, Thompson u Co.'s wholesale.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02

urlze, ana noUnIng can De said, except that it
as his luck. And - = oil the phases of life,
some men are born great, some achieve
greatness and others have greatness thrust
upon them. If his ship sinks he is saved in
the long boat; if his bank breaks he has with
drawn his accounts.
But there is a luck different from this, and
it has been often noted One man goes
through life and everything he does turns to
gold. Another man, under the same crcum-
stances, apparently, goes the same way, and
everything he does turns to ashes Why is
this? No one can explain it. For want of a
better name it may be called luck, but this
does not solve the problem. 1t might seem
as if luck was a finer inner sense that enabled
its possesSor to take in certain business situa-
tions and act on them accordingly; that by
means of it men see better and clearer, and
without being able to explain why they do
this or that, go forward and achieve success
Just look at it for a moment. Here is one
man who loses his train by half q minute and
an engagement that might have made him
rich. Running for Office, he is defeated by
two votes. Applying for place, he finds it
given away the day before he applied. He
speculates in stocks, and no sooner buys but
the stock goes down. He sells the wheat
crop, and the price goes up. He has a
natural tendency to get on the wrong side,
and when prices fall he is long, and when
they rise he is short. On all sides, meta
phorically and actually, he is cheated,
robbed, snubbed and kicked.
On the other hand, the lucky man is always
on the other side, and no matter what may
be the market, or how affairs may turn out,
he falls like cat on all tours. There is no
more striking instance in respect to this mat
ter than the career of Gen. Grant. Great
general as he was, how many, many in
stances there were when he seemed to cross
the flood ION the uncertain footing Of a
spear" And, concerning advancement, who
could have presaged in 1860 that the obscure
tanner of Galena would be president of the
United States eight years later and the most
distinguished man of modern tmes2 This
may be called luck, but it is luck inherent
in certain individuals, making them equal tC
the occasion they meet. 1t is, in fact, sixth
sense born with the individual, just as the
talent for poetry or oratory is born with GER
tain men. 1t is better to be born lucky than
rich, says the old proverb, and history
abundantly gives it the proof. Chicago Her
aid.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02

Well, in our day, the military engineer
recommends, not the vitrified rockwork,
which he knows not how to make, but beton,
which is analogous to it. In historic times,
during the long period styled antiquity, forti-
fed Enclosures had profile of considerable
dimensions. The obstacle consisted of wall
which was no less than from sixty to ninety
five feet in thickness. The scarps of Nine
veh, for example, and those of Babylon,
were more than eighty five feet. Why did
ancient engineers adopt such dimensions,
which now appear to US so hugel Because
it was necessary to oppose a great resistance
to the action Of demolishing apparatus,
especially to that of the battering ram.
Well, in our day, the military engineer
who is embarrassed by the firing of shells
containing a breaking charge would have to
have recourse to- such thiCkneSses. If he
does not decide to do so, one Of the reasons is
that tho marvels of modern industry permit
him ts substitute for. masonry masses of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
Many Methods of Diyination.

Until ono makes a careful study Of this
subject, he cannot have any adequate idea of
the extent of its ramitications. An old
writcr enumerateS as many as fifty three
methods of divination, some Of which-as
sciomancy, or divination by shadows; typo
nancy, or divining by means Of tho coaGula-
ton of cheese, etc arc obsolete; whilo
others-like chiromancy, or palmistry, onci-
romancy, or dream Interpretation. and clero-
NANCY, or casting lotS-arc still in vogue
Many educated men yet attach Importance
to the predictions Of horoscope. 1t will be
remembered that in the last valunlc of the
Life of Lord Lytton" Is a curious spec men
of one the author cast Of Lord BeacOnsfield,
when only MIR. Disraeli. Tho future life of
the great statesman was most accurately pre-
dicted, but the brilliant career then fore
Swallowed appeared so unlikely that Lord
LyttOn himself seems to have somewhat
doubted the fulfllment of his own prophecies
New York Commercial Advertiser
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
AN AUTHOR WINS SUCCESS
After Being snubbed by Publishers He
Prints His Own Book.

Mr. A. c. Gunter, who wrote the novel,
"Mr Barnes of New York, ;" took it in manu-
script to nearly all the leading publishers in
New York, and every one Of them refused to
publish it. 1t was not that they found any
thing Objectionable in it They did not be-
Geve it would sell. Here comes an old moral
it has been pointed ever since Ulysses wan.
dered and Wallace starved. Mr.. Gunter,
stung by disappointment, instead of being
staggered, went to work, organized his own
publishing company, with no other purpose
than to get his book before the world,
printed and distributed it himself, and in an
incredibly short time the book attained a cir
culation exceeding anything Of the kind ever
known here in the publishing business.
was talking with Mr.. Gunter the other
night, and some of the details of his exploit
are exceedingly interesting, now that the
story has been put upon the stage and every
third woman in the land is writing novels
and on her knees to the publishers.
He said that when ne got his book
printed his first struggles to get it into
the trade were herculean and even more
discouraging than his attempts to get it pub
lished. By superhuman efforts he got the
American News company to put COO on sale.
Mr.. c. T. Dillingham; took $50 under protest,
uuu lSuLtluO ndlu IIluL MI .
personal friends would probably buy
a hundred. In about five weeks the
orders began to come in, and one day the
American News company, under the impress
sion that Mr. Gunter had not printed more
than 1000 copies, sent an order for all the
cooks he had. He replied by sending them
1000 copies, to their utter amazement. In
two weeks they wanted 10000 more.
Then was established what Mr. EuDtar
calls his publishing company, which so far
has been confined in its labors to supplying
the public with Mr.. Gunters two books, MIR.
Barnes, of New Pork" and "Mr. Potter, of
Texas" The total sales Of "Mr Barnes, of
New York" up to date have been 100000
copies. The sales of "Mr. Potter" have
reached 10000 copies. A more remarkable
instance OF the writing worm turning and
singing was never known.
mir. Barnes" has been translated into
German, French and English. There are
seven pirated editions Of it in London every
one of which have seen, and CasSell g. Co.,
who refused to take Mr. Guuter's manuscript,
published the story afterwards in serial
form in their magazine without his leave.
All this Is notable, the more SO, perhaps,
because the American newspapers have re-
peatedly called attention to the fact that the
last work of NJ. lola reached the enormous
edition Of $1,000 copies. The result Of the
publishers refusal to accept Mr. Gunter's
story is that Mr. Gunter will make something
like 500, 000-Nym Crinkle in New York
World.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-02
Hint to the Newly vaccinated.

1--WE got a good ripe vaccination sore on
my left ARM" said friend to Bilkins, land
every clumsy idiot meet jostles against that
aforesaid arm and raises the scab and my
temper, and that reminds me, Bilkins, I'll
give you a pointer. When you get vacci
mated bare your strong right arm for that
saving but sore operation, and, as you keep
to the right, clumsy pedestrians can't possibly
run against the vaccinated limb, and Bilkins
made up his mind he had got straight