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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

Gated his stool for the profession of an
actor. This lasted about two years, when
he discarded the stage in favor of jour-
nalism. After short experience as a liner"
be became a schoolmaster, and subse-
quently shorthand writer for firm of
parliamentary agents. His next move was
into a lawyers Office, TO which he bade a
final goodbye last year, and is now devot-
ing mis- whole attention to literary work.
His humorous work, Three Men in Boat,
published last year, Immediately caught
on" with the public. and in less than three
months q. 900 copies were sold and the num-
Der now exceeds 10000 copies. Most of his
work he does walking about IN the London
he jots them down, together with any terms
of expression or dialogue which strike him,
In notebook which he always carries.
His desk he simply uses for copying out
and correcting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
U. s. Judges and Railway Properties.

Simon Sterne in the September Forum.
The effort to obtain q receivershlp, which
means the temporary control of the whole
railway generally results in a violent
struggle between different interests, either
to secure or maintain the management
through the recelyership. The determine
tion of whether receivership is to be had,
and of the person or persons to be such re-
ceivers. lies in the hands of a single Judge.
This class of cases gives to the circuit
judges of the United States, by transferring
to them the management and operation of
vast railway properties, degree of respon-
sibility and patronage never originally in
tended to be placed in their power. The
opportunities thus presented to a court of
justice for the exercise of patronage. the
reward of friends, the selection of counsel
for receivers. the appointment of masters
and the manipulation and adjustment of
large pecuniary interests are in themselves
very much to be deprecated. While no
scandals of any magnitude have as vet
arisen from this power of appointment. aud
the patronage and pecuniary expenditure
incident thereto, it is, after ali said and
done. a modern. and indeed a much more
formidable form of judicial property adj
minisIration than that which corrupted
the Court of Chancery in England In the
exercise of its jurisdiction over the estates
of wards in chancery. In the Western and
Southwestern districts of our circuit conrts
of the United States properties larger in
that passed under the control of the En-
glsh Court of Chancery between 172O and
1920 in the administration of the estates of
wards, have thus passed under the control
of the individual circuit judges of the
lIniIed Staten
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
The Psychic Realm.

Richard HOdgson, LII. d., in the Arena
We have hardly crossed the threshold of
our investigation. but even in the present
stage il seems evident that A.'ghostly"
sights and "ghOstly" sounds and phantas-
NAL experiences generally. form part of a
large class of phenomena. for which there
is some testimony from all ages, and which
are now forcing an acknowledgment of
their existence from the scientific world.
We cannot hope to explain a part com
pletely until we know the whole.
Can we even dimly descry the
limits of our own mentation in
it's entirety? In quite another sense
than the poet meant. we move about in
worlds not realized. and. similarly, we who
move do not realize ourselves. In the pro-
cess of evolution, with the increase of COM
plexity between creature and environment,
we are gaining also an increase of know led GO
of their complexity. As In the macrocosm,
SO in the microcosm. the view is widening
all the way: the stars that once were inter
preted as the gold-headed nail driven into
the dome of solid armament have now
recededinto the abysmal depths of limit
less evolving heaven: and no more than the
earth is the centre of the universe, NAV the
tiny window of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES through
which we daily peep and pry, be the true
measure of the soul of man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

An Open Sewer Where Live Goals or Mate
Will Start Conflagration.

An Open Sewer Where Live Goals or . Match
Will Start Confiagration.
Chicago Inter Ocean
That portion of the South Branch for q
distance of four blocks from, Laurel to Ull-
man streets. ragged with fire for an hour last
night. 1t was a contiagration of stinks and
other infammable substances, such as the
packing houses afford in rich abundance,
and which pours through sewers into the
South Branch in an ever-increasing supply.
Last night a tugboat steamed west in the
branch, churning up the river until its
inky blackness looked blacker than ever.
The fireman raked out his furnaces. and
thinking the canal good place to heave
out his Goals, did so. No sooner did
the shovel of live Goals strike the
mass of mixtures than there was q series of
snapping sounds and flame sprung up. 1t
increased in size and continued to spread.
line of fire ran to the east and over to the
west bank, and then the blaze began a
steady march east toward Halsted street.
As it covered the greasy river the flames
mounted high in the air. People passing
saw the blaze and at once turned in an
alarm of fire, and when the department.
reached the scene the broad expanse was
one of flame. The engines coupled to the
plugs and played with the greasy water
and flame. The people lining the banks
went to the assistance OF the firemen, and
endeavored by throwing mud and stones
in the river to extinguIsh the blaze. The
combined efforts were successful, and the
fire was extinguished just as the blaze
reached Laurel-street bridge. Beyond a
fright there was no damage by the fire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

the Western Passenger Agents Association
at st. Louis tomorrow, issued invitations
to the Chicago members to unite and go in
n body over his road. They accepted the
invitation and will leave Chicago at
o'clock this morning on special Pullman
cars furnished for the occasion.
The owners of the Shades of Death and
Pine Hill lands have promised the Van
dalia people that they will erect fine build
lngs and make Other improvements, max
ing 1T desirable pleasure resort. provided
the Vandalia will build branch from it's
main line, four miles. to the grounds The
Terre Haute News suggests q good electric
motor line. which would doubtless do moro
to increase the popularity of the resort.
The higher officials of the Pennsylvania
Company are much pleased with the In
crease in business on the Indianapolis a.
Vincennes road thus far this year over the
preceding years. Not only is It's freight
business ahead of former years, but its pas
senger earnings are fully . per cent. bet
ter. There is no division of the Pennsyl-
yania lines where 1T requires so much real
hard work to increase the business as on
the l. q. ": hence the increase is the more
creditable to the present management.
A committee of the citizens of Frankfort,
Ind. on Friday went to Toledo for con-
ference with President Galloway regarding
mittee assured him that the guarantee
would soon he furnished, and urged him TO
proceed with letting the contracts for the
buildings. The citizens of Frankfort have
been somewhat dilatory in the matter and
the company did not propose to move until
the bonus was assured, as other points on
the line are anxious TO secure the shops.
The position of general passenger agent
of the Chicago IL Erie road has been offered
to Duncan Roberts. now assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, with headquarters at Cincinnati, and
it is highly probable that he will accept it,
as the position brings with it an increase
In salary of 81 500 a year. Mr.. Roberts is
thirty seven years of age. At the age of
twenty he entered the service of the Penn
sylvania Company as clerk in the general
freight offices at Pittsburg: in 1877 he was ap-
pointed fret ght and ticket agent of the Com
pany atW Washington. Pa; seven years later he
was appointed travelling passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines; In 1885 he was APP
pointed district passenger agent, with head
quarters at Columbus. o.; and in 1886 was
made assistant general passenger agent at
Cincinnati. 1t is understood that Frank
Buskirk will be the successor of Mr.. Roberts
at Cincinnati. He is now city ticket-agent
at that point for the Pennsylvania COM
pany.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
The Futility of Uniform Divorce Laws

Rev. NJ. j. Savage, In the September Forum.
The cry has been for several years for
United States interference in divorce leg
IslatiOn by means of uniform marriage
laws throughout the country, the assump-
ton being that people troop back and forth
from one State to another and get divorces
for causes which would not be sufficient in
their own States. But all this has been
effectually disposed of by the recent mas
terly report of the Hon. Carroll ID. Wright,
the United States Commissioner of Labor.
Me has shown that more than so per cent.
of all divorces are procured in the States
in which the couples were married. AS re-
CARDS the remaining 20 per cent. the par
ties, in very many instances, had immi-
grated to other States after marriage and
become bona-fide residents. with no thought
of divorce. So that the number of those
proved to have gone to other States for the
purpose of securing divorces is probably
much less than 10 per cent. of the whole.
1t is apparent, then, that uniform laws can
no longer be looked upon as panacea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

tions for Office.
Philadelphia Inquirer
George w. Peck, known throughout the
English-speaking world as rather coarse
humorlst, and more particularly p as the
which he published in his paper. entitled
Peck's Sun, has been nominated for Gov
ernor of Wisconsin. There is no Disgusting
the fact that this selection was purely on
account of Mr.. Peck's availability and not
General Bragg, after the nomination, cried
out in the convention that he would not
vote for the motion to make the nomina-
tion unanimous and that he did not want
n Governor for fun"
Although Mr.. Peck has an average
amount of brains. his best friends will not
claim that he is possessed of statesmanlike
qualities. Bill Nye might make good
Governor of New York, but it is not within
the range of probabilities that he will be-
nOminated yet it would be just as proper
as the nomination of Mr.. Peck in WiscoD-
SIM. Mr.. Peck is popular with 'the boys"
he has host of friends, and his election is
far from improbable. although we believe
that the sober sense of the people Will fin
ally bring about the reelection of Governor
Hoard
Mr.. Peck's platform is that America is
good place for foreigners to live in and re-
because they do not make good citizens.
Mr.. Peck thinks it quite unnecessary that
foreigners learn the English language. He
favors allowing immigrants to settle here
and do as they please. At least, that is his
platform, and the one on which he was
elected Mayor of Milwaukee last spring.
The Bennett law. which he attacks and
which the Republicans defend, requires
that every child between seven and four
teen shall attend school for a certain length
of time, unless excused by the local board
: of school directors. and it provides further
that no school shall be considered such
under the law unless in it are taught dur
ing twelve weeks in the year the common
branches in English. That is where, the
rub comes The foreign population object
to this as an invasion of their liberties.
If the people of Wisconsin think it 10 an
invasion of their rights that children be-
tween seven and fourteen shall have at
least twelve weeks instruction in English,
that State is good field for missionary
endeavor. We are always glad to have
honest and industrious people from other
nations settle among us, but 1t is the least
we can do 10 insist that their children be
brought up to learn enough English to read
the laws in the language IN which they are
written.
We do not think Wisconsin people want a
Governor for fun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS

Freight Traffic Very satisfactory In Its
Volume, and Cars In Active Demand.
The train records show that ESQ more
loaded cars were received and forwarded
at indianapolis in the week ending Aug.
80 than in the week preceding, no more
than In the corresponding week of 1889 I'm
which the movement was the largest OK
any week In the year. 2,22S more than In
The cor responding week of ISIS, and 2.2O0
more than in 1887. The Cleveland division
of the Big Four Is of. on account of tho
New York Central strike. GAS loaded cars as
compared with last year. East-Dound
there is heavy movement of live stock.
the shipments Of cotton are on the increase,
and there is a fair movement of grain and
Hour for export; west-bound business. ex-
cept over the Cleveland division of the Big
Four. Is heavy. Froignts on this line arc
still considerably behind. but coming for
ward the last three days more freely. The
west-bound tonnage consists largely OF dry
goods and heavy groceries, such as sugars.
molasses and syrups; there is considerable
machinery from New England shops NOV
ing westward and to the Southwest. The
anthracite coal shipments are very light.
1t is stated that Chicago roads are
shading the rates on anthracite coal and
coke to Kansas City and other Western
points. North hand south roads were never
doing better, the Big Four. the Lake Erie
& Western. the fifth division of the Penn
sylvania lines, the JeffersonvilIe Madison
IL Indianapolis, and the Louisville, New
Albany Il Chicago all doing more business
than in any August in their history. The
Monon last week handled at this point q
larger number of loaded cars than in any
week since the road was opened for bust
ness. Local business is heavy beyond
precedent, and would be even heavier
were the cars &c be had to handle the
freight offered. There is a shortage In
every kind of cars except stock cars, and
many of these are being utilized TO carry
certain classes of freight. such as lumber.
slaves and heading III the rough. The
local freight agents. without exception.
state that they have kever known local
traffic To be as heavy. week after week, as
this year. AT every city depot more plat
form men have been employed chan in any
former year, and the employees of this class
have made more overtime than usual.
Competition is SO sharp that every line
works to get goods shipped promptly, and
those consigne to indianapolis parties I'M
loaded as soon after arrival as posi- ble so
great is the demand for cars Below is
given the number of cars received and for
warded at Indianapolis in the week ending
Aug. 80 as compared with the correspond
ing weeks of 1889 and 1888:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
TRAIN RoBBING DOOMED.
A Kansas Mans Device for Protesting Train
men and Express Packages.

A Kansas Mans Device for Protesting Train
men and Express Packages.
Kansas City Star.
L. M. McLane, of Galena. Kan. declares
that train robblng 10 doomed. Its knell
was sounded, he SAYS, when he invented his
bullet-proof structure for express cars.
This structure is to be located on the plat
form of the car at the front end. next to
the engine. so as to protect the engineer
aud fireman in case of an attack. There
are also portfolios ranging back and
forward outside of the car that command
as well as the inside of the car. He says
the device will furnish abs olute protection
to the trainmen and property Entrusted TO
them.
The fort or structure consists of four
sides, forming square housing or Enclosure
and provided with door opening outward
ly or into the interior of the car: Inc
edges of the door are beveled or rabbetted
SO as to prevent its being forced inwardly,
the door frame being correspondingiy
and is provided with suitable locks or bolts
or other fastening devices. The structure
is made of sheet metal so as to be bullet
proof. and all points are protected by angle
iron secured by means of rlvets: AT the top
the base portion flares outwardly. forming
an octagonal or lei ght-sided beveled or in
olined WALL in which are ports so that rob-
beers cannot get out of range by getting too
close. To the inclined wall is secured an
upwardly projecting portion. the wall of
which is of the same material as the base,
the joints being protected by angle iron as
i'll the base portion.
The port holes are provided with hinged
doors projecting outwardly, and lack a lit
tie of coming together. leaving a small
space to see through. The doors are held
closed by means of springs secured thereto
and to the wall. The fort may be located
inside the car with the projecting portion
extending through the sides of the car, in
order to get the front and rear PORTFOLIOS
outside to command front and rear of both
sides of the train. and portfolios are pro-
vided to command the interior and plat
form of the car, so that the occupant. from
his secure location can direct fire in any
direction, and he can prevent the robbers
from getting away if once In reach, thus
saving the property, and getting the rob-
bers into the bargain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
Wooden Shoes for Girls.


1.-The fashion of wearing wooden shoes is
growing into favor in this country as we'll
as in England" said q San Francisco shoe
dealer yesterday. By the aid of machinery
q really neat. comfortable shoe can be made
so stylish that no young woman need be
ashamed to wear il for the street. The
traditional wooden ehoe which we all ha re
read about was q clumsy, hand-made i'm
plement of inconvenience and noise. But
now. when q dainty maid trips along the
street of a pretty mountain own, with her
little trotters clicking on the pavement it
makes many q foolish young heart beat
warmly. The use of wooden shoes with
fresh clean straw in them, on the stage, at
church fairs and baZar entertainments has
popularized them, and now. in many of the
sweet little villages in England. Lancashire
lassies who do not work in factories patter
along the streets in the tiniest of quaint
wooden foOtgear. and no well-bred young
lover hesitates to kiss their rosy cheeks be-
cause of it.
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FL
Toledo Blade.

1t would seem that the taxpayers of that
State Indianal, especially the farmers,
would rise in union and overthrow
the abominable Democratic gang which
has wrecked her credit and piled up
millions of debt as a lien upon the
people. 1t Is singular fact that DEM
erywhere. Reckless extravaganza and
waste always mark Bourbon ascendency.
1t was true of Ohio under Hoadley, and
will be true under Campbell. 1t is true of
Democratic State Treasurers in the Bour-
bon-ridden South attests the universally
of the fact that the Democratic party is in
competent to handle public financial bust
ness honestly and economically.
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Tourists in switzerland.

4
There are seventeen old ladies from
England at my hotel at Lucerne, and all of
them wear white caps. AS they sit all in a
row at dinner. they look like the pictures
have in memory of the assembled saints of
old village quilting bees. All the well-to-
do old ladies of England seem to revel in
doing worsted-work on the piazzas of Swiss
pensions. That young Englishman who sits
opposite to me at table has Mark Twain at
States is distinguished mainly by having
given birth to Mark Twain. There are two
young girls at the Schweitzerhof who sing.
One of them sings very we'll. and the other
those with whom her vocal pyrotechnics
disagree. The great cross of the evening at
the hotel is to have to sit for an hour and
hypocritically applaud singing that con-
tains no more melody than fatal case of
chronic bronchitis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
Not Looking for a Husband.

Detroit Free Press.
around the corridors of the City Hall yes
terday. eating banana as she went. when
one of the police officials on duty there
felt that il would be the right thing to ask
her:
Looking for your husband. maamf"
..Nozurn she promptly responded.
Excuse me, but thought you might be-"
'Oh, I'll excuse you. but you've got hold
of the wrong woman"
How, ma'amF
"Why, I've had three, and two died. and
the other ran away. Oh, mol amt looking
for no husband. You've got me mixed up
with somebody else."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
An Educational Need.
President G. stanley Hall. in the september For

President G. Stanley Hall In the September Forum
Every European government keeps ex-
pensive agencies to learn promptly the lat
est changes and Improvements in all polit-
ical and military matters in other countries,
and strives to be the first TO adjust itself to
every new condition. and to avail itself of
it. Every enterprising manufacturer or
business house studies new processes. sup
plies. fluctuations of taste or fashion and
markets in-other lands. Every respectable
man of science learns promptly of every i'm
portant new discovery or treatise in his
line throughout the world. But our pro-
fessional schools for teachers. our city and
State supervisors and even our highest ed
ucxtional institutions are conducted with
ont utilizing. or even studying. the expo
xiencss Of other landA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
Indianians Not Scared by Protection.

Indiana. perhaps, above all States in the
West, has derived most benefit of late years
from the American system of protection.
Kokomo, Anderson, Muncie, Marion,
Noblesville and Greenfield are towns which
have increased. most of them doubled their
population in the past four years by reason
of the protected manufactures which their
natural gas resources have drawn to them.
Democratic denuNciation of the system
which creates their wealth is more likely
to increase than to diminish the Repu blican
vote of these towns. The metropolitan city
of Indianapolis has increased it's population
to a remarkable degree during the past
lustrum. and it has become a great manu-
faucturing center. We do not think that
the Mckinley bill will be regarded with
disfavor by the hundreds of employers and
thousands of employed whose industries it
prOtecte.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
The Advantage of the Public school.

Edward Everett Hale. In the September Forum.
We have no place in America for dainty
people-Often called gilt-edged-who think
that the army would be a good place if it
were not for the rank and file. So it is bet
ter for boy of ours to be pitched into a
public school. to take pot-iuck with all
sorts and conditions of boys. and to learn,
In the earliest life. that some of the best
fellows in the world. not to say the bright
est, never had French nurse. and always
black their own shoes. when they are
blacked at ALL. In all such schools that
have known. the tone of honor is very
high. And in such society one early learns
the great lesson that all the people are
wiser than any one of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

ChcSSo Rost
Prince Bismarck is striking illustration
of the caprice of fortune. HIS present po-
sition in the land he so lately ruled with
an iron hand 10 a reminder that the ways of
the Tudors depicted by Shakespeare are
still in full force in some countries of
Europe. Bismarck might well take to him.
self much of the complaint which the great
English poet put into the mouth of Wolsey.