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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10

SEVERAL weeks ago Mr.. Garrison, the
son of William Lloyd, addressed letter
to President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity, through the press, in which he COM
planned of the rowdyism of many stu
dents and OF the barbarous orgies of a
few. He charged that one member of
the ''Dicky Club" a substitute for the
ID. X. E, had the initials of the club
burned into his arm at the time of his
initiation, and that others kept q saloon
on the college grounds. President Eliot
replied, confessing that such things
were done as the branding, but if few
young men chose to do such things the
faculty coald not prevent it. Having
once gotten into the papers, the whole
matter is being discussed, criticised,
ETC., but the general Judgment of the
writers is that the faculties of colleges
should break up secret societies which
indulge in orgies, and expel young men
who simply go to college to have a wild
time-that there should be such thing
as discipline, and that the decencies OF
life should be observed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10

THE annual report of the Interstate
commerce Commission recommends that
Congress increase the force of its de-
cisions by giving them cat least the
weight and finality of the report of a
master in chancery of the federal courts.
Accordingly, a mode of proceeding be-
fore the commission and in the courts
to enforce the commissions orders is
recommended, q leading feature OF
which is that the hearing in court, as to
all matters not requiring jury trials,
shall be confined to the record of pro-
ceedings had before the commission and
to such errors in the record as shall be
specifically pointed out by parties alleg-
ing error therein" This is a reques,
for more power. On the same line lie
another recommendation of the commits
sion that the law shall be so amended
that Corporations, as well as their en-
ployes and agents, shall be indictable.r
This would be very important change,
and would tend to make the control OF
railways by the commission much more
effective than it il at present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10
JOHN STUART MILL AS AN EDITOR.

Mrs. Marion (RobeTtson) Towers, of
this city, furnishes to the Atlantic
Monthly of January number of inter-
esting letters written by the late John
Stuart Mill to John Robertson, a Scotch
gentleman, at one time associated with
him in the editorial management of the
Westminster Review. Mill at that time
held an East India House appointment,
which was incompatible with an ac-
knowledged holding of an editorial po-
sition. His editorial communications
with contributors had therefore to pass
through the hands of the ostensible
editor, Robertson, and these letters re-
late mainly to the character of contri-
buttons aud the advisability of inserting
them. Incidentally some comments on
men and things give lasting interest
to the letters that warrants their publ
cation.
In spite of his liberal theories concern
ing the rights of women, Mr.. Mill seems
to have made no application of them SO
far as Harriet Martineau was concerned,
cherishing. apparently, feeling of an
tagonism to that lady that was not en-
tirely due to dissatisfaction with her
writings. He says in one place:
If / had known y0 meant to write to
Harriet Martineau. L should have wished
for consultation first. as the manner of
doing 1t is of considerable Importance to
me. She and are not upon terms. and
know her too well to make ir likely that We
ever shall be. / am. therefore, desirous
n ta. it'd r.Nk -
Review more than its interest requires;
that all communications should take place
through another medium than mea that,
nevertheless. she should not think. as she
Is exactly the person TO think. that her
connection with the Review is in spite of
me.
There is feminine touch about this
last remark that is truly delightful. He
says again of her: Il have read her
book, and like it less than expected.
like all the feeling of il. but not the
thought"-which is rather q curious
comment.
In the same letter he says: "I saw
Dickens yesterday; he reminds me of
Carlyle's picture of Camille Desmoulins,
and his face of dingy blackguardism
irradiated with genius Such a phe-
nomenon does not often appear in a
lady's drawing -r0om.n
In the following opinion the typical
Englishman's prejudice is manifest: 81
have never found" he says, "that a
Frenchman's promise to do anything
punctually could be depended upon.
They promise every thing and do moth
ing. They are not men of business"
Again, in the same line: "Hugo's opin-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10

GEN. DAN MACAULEY has been dubbed
Don" in Washington, title which fits
his Castllian bearing and fine hidalgo style
very we'll. The Washington Post has this
to say of him:
Gen. Don Macauley. the appointment clerk of
from Mexico. The General has some mining in
terests in that country and is said TO have struck
It pretty rich while down there. His friends will
be glad to see him. for there was time, q few
days ago, when they were alarmed. In some
way the story was started that the General had
been kidnapped, and was being held for ran
som. and the story was generally believed about
the Treasury. 1t was discredited however, when
one of the clerks came TO anaiyze the report
The ransom fixed was 500, and it was thought
this was entirely too small a price for a man OF
Don Macauley's physical and general appear
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the Lutherans, and they watched for an
opportunity to get even. They found it
In the discovery that the Methodist
articles of faith contained clause re-
ferring to the celebration of masses in
the Roman Catholic Church as "blas-
phem0us fables and dangerous deceits."
Forthwith they hurried to the public
prosecutor and called his attention to
this insult to the Catholic Church, the
result being that he issued peremptory
order closing the Methodist Church and
forbidding the pastor to preach any
where in Vienna. The curious feature
of the affair is that one Protestant
sect invokes the aid of the Catholic
Church, or rather the Catholic civil au-
thorities, to aid it in prosecuting another
Protestant sect.
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WHICH DID sag cHUosE7


w. j. hampton, poet, has propounded,
through the columns of the COsmopoli-
tan Magazine, conundrum that is likely
to take rank with that of "The lady or
the tigerf" A woman of the olden time
Is described-a woman, however. Every
littlewise different from the women of
these days, OF. for that matter, from the
women of the days of ten thousand
years hence" She was woman "fair
to the eyes and pleasant to the spirit"
She was sought in marriage by two men.
One of them she loved as women love;
the other loved her as faithful men wor-
ship. Naturally, her choice fell upon
the one she loved. Wiselyf "Ah, well"
says the chronicler, perhaps not, but
her heart was satisfied and she rocked
not. He was handsome and her
hero, and he was enough for
her." Time went on, five years.
and the hero had proved to be a
sorry hero. He had dissipated his
wealth and hers; he had beaten her; he
had, in his drunken frenzy, driven her
into the streets; he had starved and
frozen her, and had been recreant to
every vow. Nevertheless, woman-like,
she forgave him always. "She excused
his faults to her friends; she wept over
him; she lost not her girlhood pride in
him, for he was no less wise than wicked.
and was repentant, at times, and kissed
her and told her he loved her, and would
never do so again." Then he died, and
she wept and mourned bitterly. and
"gave all her little remaining store that
he might have decent embalmment and
burial"
The other man had continued to love
her all these years, and had yearned to
aid her, but was helpless. But he had
worked industriously and amassed
wealth. Now, when time had softened
the widows grief, he asked her again to
be his wife, and she listened, hesitated,
and then consented. $50 they were
married, and that mans cup of happi-
ness was full to the brim, and he gave
his whole life thought to making her
happy. And she was happy, for love
was hers, and riches, and there is no
greater power for good than these in
union. The years flew by on sunlit
wings, and she was the envy of all
women. and peace and plenty laid their
hands upon her" But an end comes to
all things, and this man, like the other,
died, and again the widow wept. Her
tears were not for long, for soon she fol-
lowed him, and this is what happened:
1t was so then, when she had gone from this
earthly living and had entered into the
bosom of the kingdom eternal. she came
to q great gate. beautiful and glorious in
the sun, and q god with keys in his hand
sat beside it. To him she went, and he said
to her, ENTER" She entered, and when
she had passed within the god came and
spoke again: ION earth. oh woman" he
said. you had two husbands. In this
kingdom You may have but one. BenOld.
standing by the inner gate. the gate of
everlasting light, are the two men who
were your husbands. They. must await
your decision. Choose We for eternity"
She looked, as the god directed, towards
the two men; q bright light shone from her
glad cry, she ran forward with his name
upon her lips. Now. which man will you
soy she chose for eternityf
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ONE OF THE UNsoLVED PROBLEMS.


The question whether the reduction
OF the hours of labor to eight for day
would be a reduction of the amount of
work performed or insure the accom-
plishment of an equal amount of labor
by reason of the superior condition of
the workman, is one which has been de-
bated, but which debate cannot deter
mine. Those who have given the sub
ject attention are quite generally of
opinion that the reduction in the hours
of labor from twelve or thirteen for the
day to the ten-hour system has in
creased the productive power of the
laborer. The problem to be solved is
the determination of the point where
loss of time will overbalance the gain In
vigor. Such turning point there must
be, but it will depend largely upon the
occupation. The employments which re-
quire large expenditure of muscle and
those which demand the closest mental
application call for less hours than those
in which the requirements are less ex-
acting. The person whose employment
brings exhaustion of body or mind in
eight or ten hours cannot do good work
thereafter. Very few of the advocates
of the eight-hour system maintain that
workmen can do as much in eight as ten
hours, but urge, as the best argument
for eight hours, that the difference be-
tween eight and ten hours will open en-
ployment to those who must be idle
most of the time under the present sys-
TEN.
In this connection, some statistics re-
Gently presented by Professor Munro,
of Owens College, in England, regard
ing the hours of labor in six mining
districts are interesting. In mines in
which the underground laborer aver
ages 40.S hours per week, the average
product of coal is the highest while in
mines where the hours are 51.7 per
week, the average production of coal is
decreased over 80 per cent. AS these
results are gathered from six districts,
and are declared not to be affected by
the condition of the mines, their depth
or the quality of the vein, it is fair to as
sumo that, in this exhaustive employ
ment, more is accomplished in day of
6.8 hours than in one of SO hours. In
less exhaustive labor the better results
will be achieved in more hours; but in
all employments, mental as we'll as
manual, there is limit at which the
best results will be attained. This limit
will differ in individuals, but it is prob
able that it can be obtained by expert
ment for entire employments. Nothing
can be gained in any industry from the
efforts of men who are exhausted. And
it is probable that the man who devotes
himself to exhaustive labor twelve or
fifteen hours day is in such an en-
feebled condition, compared with one
who works from eight to ten, that the
results he accomplishes viii be less in
quantity and inferior in quality to those
of the replenished man, who brings
bodily and mental vigor to his task.
This conclusion, of course, is arrived at
upon the assumption that the man with
less hours makes a reasonable use of his
greater leisure.
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ions, like most French literary mems
opinions of one another, are affairs of
coteTie and puffery." His more serious
literary work is thus referred to: GAS
for me, ] am so immersed in logic and
am getting on so triumphantly with it
that loathe the idea of leaving off to
write articles" A little lesson in style
is contained in this frank criticism of
one of Robertson's articles:
1t has struck me that there is q fault in
some of your best sentences which there
baps. is still: that of crowding too much
into them. and, In doing that. failing into
Latinism of construction, which, in our
non-intiected language. leaves 1t doubtful
what substantives some OF your adJectives
are intended for. In this article there Is
also the fault of using three or four words
which do not exactly lit instead of one
which does.
He objected to the disposition of one
writer to always treat the Queen as a
young person in need of advice. Now,
the Queen cannot be young, except in
ignorance of the world, and kings and
queens are that, even at sixty" His
greatest troubles seem to have been
with would-be female contributors.
Speaking of an article by Mrs. Hall
presumably Mrs. S. G. Hall-he says
testify: II have not yet dared to touch
it. 1t is beyond all measure bad, and
impossible to be made better.
Stories told in the tone of a London
shop-keeper's daughter" An iDjunc-
ton in regard to contributors generally
shows that he had the true editorial
instinct concerning the treatment
of those exceedingly sensitive per-
sonages: "When 1 spoke of un-
conciliatiyeness to contributors" he
says. 81 never meant that You were in
the wrong in your disputes with them,
but that you gave them unnecessary
offense by matters of mere manner, and
did not spare their vanity"
In letter written at Munich he says
of himself: 81 am coming back, not at
all cured, but cured of caring much
about cure. have no doubt shall in
time get accustomed to dyspepsia, as
Lafontaine hoped he should to the re-
gions below"
Altogether, these letters throw q new
light upon period of Mills life and on
various phases of his character. and
form half-hour's pleasant reading.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10
The Family Headache.


It's funny the different ways men and
women have headaches. A woman has q
headache and she walks around the house
with il wrapped up IN q handkerchief
dipped in bay rum, and she scolds the ser
wants, administers punishment 10 the child
that don't need II, and wonders what in
the world she ever got married for. and
wishes she were dead. and then has q cup
of tea about every three-quarters of an
hour. She says she Is letting 10 wear off,"
but it's the family who endure the wearing
process, and until a headache has become
nothing but a memory the entire estsb-
lishment endures it.
When q man gets a headache he comes
home and announces that be is going 10 die:
and then he goes TO bed. has the doctor
sent for, takes whatever he gives hlm,
groans and makes a great time generally.
gets the sympathy of the entire household.
and day after tomorrow 10 quite well ana
ready To GO down town and tell how near
he came TO dying. what close call ne had,
and how only the skill OF the doctor
and the nursing of his wife saved HIM.
Now the mans way is decidedly the
best. He gets rid of the cause OF the
headache. and as the entire household
has been moaning Poor papa he has their
sympathy. The woman Just lets the head
ache go away. lrritates and upsets every
body and &c Is certain that AZ VIII como
back another day. Why are the women
such geese! Why. when they feel III. don't
they iust have IL out by going 60 bed and
making the best of 1T IL is q much more
sensible way and much more satisfactory.
Headaches are absolutely the skeletons in
some houses. because they bring 90 much
terror with them.
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the banker. mo. sir-ee.y said the states
man In embryo. no. Stree, 1 don't put nv
name on paper unless keep the paper 4
gave you my money without taking your
receipt and want lt back on the same
terms" And IL took considerable arguing
TO persuade him that il was the customarv
thing 10 make checks for money.
PRINCE ITURBIDE. who Is charged with
being one of the abettors of the Cara re-
volt. Is q tall. broad should cred. soldierly
young man of about thirty years. with
dark-brown hair and closely-croDped red
di.h beard lie has lived in Washin gton
since last July. when no came to the capi-
al after his release from q Mexican prison
to which he had been consigned for IN
subordination against the Mexican mill
tary service.
MRS susanna MoRGENRoTH. eighty
three years old, died recently in sbject
squalor in Moisling near Lubbock. For
many years she had gathered all her fire.
wood on the highway. and had drawn
monthly upon the poormastor. Eventually
she starved 10 death. In her mattress we're
found bank-books and securities showing
that she had more than $4,000 invested,
and stockings full of gold and silver coin
were discovered in dirt-heaps and under
the floor.
DR.. LYMAN ABBOTT. whose address in
Boston the other day created such q dis
turbanee in the religious atmosphere. is
quite unlike his predecessor in the Ply
mouth Church pulpit. MI. Beecher. In
physique at least. He is tall and slender.
and ne looks as If his health were fragile.
Nevertheless he accompllshes a great deal
OF work as editor of the Christian Union
and as pastor of his famous congregation
he lives In handsome home on Willow
street in Brooklyn.
HIS LEVEL BEST.
Although he may not win the prire.
Though fortune e'er before hiIl flea
His conscience Is at rest
Who ever higher seeks 10 rise
And In the path of duty tries
To do his level best.
New York Presa
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A Winged Army with q Front OF Three Miles
and - Depth OF Twenty.

A Winged Army with Front OF Three Miles
and - Depth OF Twenty.
Cornhin Magazine.
The flight of which they originally formed
mem ers had q front of about three miles,
regulated by the width of the valley.l They
travelled fairly fast: sprintine myself along
the level path for q hundred yards in the
direction OF their passage, l must confess
20 having been outpaced by them. The
main body was nearly tive hours In passing
q given point. Almost the greater number
of them few at considerable height IN the
air. but did not perceptibly darken the
sky. That night. in the little country
auberge where L staid. two team drivers,
one Spaniard. the other Sicilian, were
comparing notes. One said that in the
midst of the swarm he could not see the sun:
the other. that he could not drive his team
against them, as the horses refused to face
them (which was probably true). and that
they were three inches deep on the road.
(which probably wasn't
AT about o'clock the locusts perched
down for the night. finding q lodging on
the hot, hot ground. In vineyards, corn
fields, and o wood or two. The frantic pro-
prietors did all in their power to prevent
such calamity; but one cannot fight q
snow-storm. nor flight of locusts either.
In the whey ards the acridians were every
where; in the corn-ields they perched, head
upward. one above the other, four or five
on each stalk; in the woods they massed
themselves upon the tree trunks, facing
the declining sun. Thus do they like 90
take an afternoon nap after the fatigues of
their days journey, summing themselves TO
the last moment as evening draws on. Espe-
cially do they love to find sandy bsnks. or
q good dry road. facing the sunset-and 80
they rest. motionless, for the night.
Next morning they ought TO have got MP,
and, after hasty toilet and breakfast. they
ought to have winged their way onward
again northward; they generally start go
soon as the sun has dried the air and their
wings. But, TO the evaporation of the pro-
prietors OF the land, they staid two days,
mating and egg laying. before moving. In
this interim many Of them died or were put
to death; and here we are arrived at few
of the graves.
Before this present year most people be-
lievec that after mating and egg laying the
l0custs would die q natural death. Itisn't
true. No doubt vast quantities do die; but
these are hardly an appreciable fraction of
the whole number.
They had eaten nothing This 10 on the
principle of the cabbage butterfly, who
leaves her eggs exactly where the young
caterpillar can find plenty of food so soon
as he 10 born. The locusts had left the
vineyards and the corn-felds for their
sons and daughters, the crickets, to make q
meal of 90 soon as they should be hatched.
For here we are arrived at the cradles The
female locusts had laid their eggs an inch
or underground. and in from ten 60
twenty-five days time. according 10 the
heat and character of the soil, the eclosion
the hatching-would occur. And what
were the exaggerated proprierors to do
mean Whilef
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MR.. HOMELESS PLANS.
The Editorship OF the Cosmopolitan . WEI
come Change.


come Change.
Letter In the Boston Transcripts
He has always taken the deepest interest
In young writer's who struck out In lines OF
expression native and sincere. and many
struggling novelists can show encourage
ing, inspiring letters from his unhesitating
hand. He enjoys keeping an eye upon the
whole field of fiction and the drama; and
this part of his editorial work will not be
any great addition to his reading. and 10
will be entirely cOngenial.
1t will be seen that the change releases him
from q great deal of work. After his present
engagements. with other publishers expire,
he considers his writing will be decreased
at least one-haIf, and he feels the need OF
this change. The past year has been one
of the most prolific of his life, and has been
year Of close application. He will pub
lish through the Cosmopolitan q series Of
short stories; and continue bis work upon
o story for Harpers and one for the Ladies'
Home Journal After that the Cosmopoli-
tan will claim the first appearance of all
his work. His story for Harper's 10 of the
rank of the Hazard of New Fortunes"
and The Quality OF Mercy"
de will not begin going down to the ONCE
for some time His forenoons will be re-
served as usual for his own writing. Tho
May issue Will be the first number OF the
magazine made mp under his charge. No
Immediate change need be looked for. as
any one familiar with magazine work
knows. An illustrated journal like the
Cosmopolitan is necessarily m sde al mon tbs
in advance. In the May Issue, however.
very considerable changes Will be intro
duced This number Mr.. Howells Will set
to work upon soon. and IL Will be n very no.
table one and will forecast the work of the
wear. Unquestionably Mr. Howells will
be greater power than ever in the radical
wing of American literature and do his
great work at less cost TO himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10

Two of the incendiaries who set fire
to the Daviess County Courthouse, in
order to destroy the records. have
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
fifteen years confinement in the peni-
Tertiary. They were mere hired tools
of the auditor and his brother, who
wished to destroy the traces of their
rascality by burning the records. The
auditor and his brother have taken a
change of venue from Daviess county.
and have not yet been tried. They de-
serve more severe punishment than the
other two