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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

q new trial. But 1 was disappointed.
With only one or W oexceptions. u was the
most perfect record ever submitted 20 me-,
THAT.was Q touching tribute paid by
Prince Bismarck 20 bis wife when he a.
sured the throng who came to congratulate
her on her birthday that his green old
age and happy family life were due 70
hsr. No doubt the Princess appreciated
tais compliment more than all the court
honors she ever received.
CHARLES FRoHMAN says that be Is IN re-
ceipt of no less than twenty-five new plays
q day the year round. II other managers
received as many the play market must be
pretty well overstocked. The crop. how
ever. Is said TO be q poor one. notwithstand.
ing the great yield. A large proportion OF
the manuscripts submitted TO managers IL
o combination of smut. rust and piracy.
Because a few rather high" plays have
succeeded the youthful playwright imag-
ines that there Is n great demand for vulgar
and suggestive comedies. lie will not suo-
coed on that line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
INpEoEKCY or THE STAGE.

1t would be quite as unjust to de-
nounce theatrical representations as a
whole because some of them are OBJ
jectionable as TO insist that the recent
Hood OF indecent novels is a proof of the
decadence of literature; nevertheless,
the people who hold that the stage is
demoraliziDg in it's influence might have
found an excellent illustration in sup
port of their position in the play of "Cle-
opatra," given in this city last week.
Unless history and tradition belle her
he original Cleopatra was not a
model of morals and manners, even
according to ancient standards, and
no person of intelligence could expect a
drama in which she was the chief figure
to be a lesson in cloister-like purity.
But, while she was n woman who en-
shared men by all feminine charms and
sorceries, she was also n queen with a
great intellect and a fa%r-reaching ambi-
ton. Romance has woven a web about
her. but even that has not concealed-the
fact that her beguilements were a part
of prearranged plans TO advance her
political fortunes. and that her lovers
were chosen because they could serve
her ambitions. Shakespeare gives her
Queenly attributes and makes her pur-
poses and aspirations plain as we'll as
her methods. But the ~Shakspearean
version. liberal as it is in that
line, does not afford the opportuni-
ty sought for by certain modern
opponents of the dramatic art for repre-
senting unhallowed passion. Sardou's
version is moro generous. Each of the
six acts is arranged with a view to n
voluptuous display that stops short only
at the EXTREMIST limit which public de-
cency yet demands. The author may
have given also some opportunity for
character ~personation and fine acting,
though if SO it was not utilized, but it is
only just to say that he could not nave
asked a more realistic portrayal of the
lascivious idea of the play. 1t Is con-
ventional to say that this is Fart" and to
object to any criticism of such exhi-
billions as mere prudery, but every
one who saw the play last week knows
the entire interest conferred, not in the
elaborate stage setting nor in the work.
ing out of the plot. but in the display by
the CLEOPATRA of her voluptuous beau.
ty in as nearly a nude condition as she
dared. Everyone knows. also. whether
willing to acknowledge it openly or not.
that 1t was q vulgar and indecent exhi-
bition, and that. being SO. it did not tend
to the betterment of the morals of any
person present, but rather the reverse.
Either this. or there is nothing In the
theory OF feminine modesty and the COM
mon instinct of decency. 1t may be
art" it may be true that the Egyptian
queen arrayed herself in a single layer
of Rauze for the ancient world to gaze
upon and postured in q single scant gar
ment as a part of her enchantment. but
such a fieshly representation is not edi-
flying nor elevating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

EVERY one must rave noticed the recent
change of fashion In regard to writing
names. Ii used to be that only the initial
of the middle name was gwen. as George
q. Tulkinghorn, or Emily Nj. Jones; now
It must be written George Grimshaw Tuik-
inghOrn and Emily Macintosh Jones. The
idea seems to be that it is somehow i'm
portant TO preserve Mr.. ~Tulkinghorn's and
Miss Jones's identity by completely differ
entiating them from other persons of the
same name or perhaps IL is attended as
notice TO the world that they are the sole
proprietors of a middle name which belongs
TO them exclusively. All authors nowadays
give their full names on tho title page of
their works. 1t is no longer John ID. Smith,
but John Diilipgworth Smith. AS much as
to say that the Smiths are connected with
the D~illingworths. PerhapsJo hn'sm mothers
maiden name was DilIingworth. or maybe
his great grandmother. If be had one, as
q Diliipgworth before she was married.
Probably the world does not care any more
about the D~illingworths than 1t does about
the Smiths, but IL looks fine 10 write
the name out in full. We venture
the assertion that of . thousand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
TOPICS OF CURRENT INTEREST.

THERE will be. all told. about one hundred
steam engines in operation in the great
machinery hall of the worlds fair. the
largest of which will be the great Allis en-
CINE. which President Cleveland will start
with an electric button. This is O quad
ruple-expans,on engine of 3. 200 horse power.
This huge engine has four cylinders. the
smallest of which 10 twenty-six inches in
diameter and the largest seventy inches.
or nearly six feet A good-sized man could
stand upright IN this cylinder. There il
more room inside it than in the average
high-priced chamber at Q worlds fair hotel.
These cylinders are set in pairs. one either
side the space for the lily wheel. The
smallest one takes the steam through q pipe
Of eight inches insid Q diameter. the others
through pipes twelve. sixteen and twenty
inches. and the steam finally gets away
through q twenty-tw0-inch exhaust pipe.
There Is q S6xl6 inch air pump beneath this
engine. Its power IL said to be noariy
doubleS shat of the Cpriiss engine for at the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

and accurate observation. This theory
is far from being correct. Undoubtedly.
many so-called novels are writer ,, i
printed whose ~personages are mere pno-
tographs of men and INT known by
the author. but these are not the novels
that are remembered, nor their char
acters those that live and have a per-
sonality as we'll defined as if they had
actually existed. Novel writing is not
photography; it is something more.
The novelist must be an observer, but
he must also have imagination and crea-
tive powers. If he have any talent for
his work he creates his own characters.
He may endow this one with traits be-
longing TO one acquaintance and that
one with some peculiarities~ belonging
to another, or he may give to
one attributes possessed by sew
eral living people, but this does
not make his characters copies.
Ii he have imagination he invests them
with characteristics of their own that
give them distinct individuality. 1t is
probable that very few of the noted
personages of fiction are or were in
tended to be representatives of actual
beings, though curious readers may
fancy that they find resemblances. Even
when some living man or woman does
serve, in part. as an unconscious model,
the genius of the delineator throws q
glamour over them that could never
have belonged to the original; or that.
at least, observers lacking the gifted
imagination could never have discov-
cred. The father of Charles Dickens is
said to have served as that novelist's
model for Mr.. Micawber and his mother
in the same capacity for Mrs. Nickleby.
but. though the eyes of mquisitive
searchers may have detected resem-
blances, it is not likely that the parental
Dickenses aver appeared to any one,
even to the son, as did the immortal
creatures of his books. 1t is also highly
probable that if any living men served
as models for the Bronte sisters heroes
no other human being ever Saw those
remarkable creatures in the same light.
1t is hard for those who are devoid of
imagination and talent to make allow
ances for their existence in Others.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

novels published during the last year 800
have the name of the author spelled ont on
the title page in full. as IL it were q matter
of real Importance for the world TO know
his or her middle name. What is the use
of middle names. anyhow George WASH
inGton did not have any. neither did
Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln.
William Shakespeare. John Milton, Ben
Jonson. Francis Bacon. Napoleon Bona
parte, or thousands of other great men.
What q lucky thing it is We do not have TO
write William Ho~llingbrook Shakespeare.
George Harrington Washington or Abra-
ham Hanks Lincoln.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

DURING the past week the CONNER
,ial Club has, by its prompt and effective
action in the stop-over ticket matter,
made answer to the few croakers who
hre constantly declaring that such or
CARNATIONS are useless. Monday morn
ing the Journal called attention to the
fact that while "stop-overs" were con-
ceded to Cincinnati, Louisville and
other cities. they were denied Indian
apolis by the managers of the Ohio river
lines connecting with Chicago. The
officers of the Commercial Club prompt
ly took the matter in hand and ap-
pointed Mr.. Lazarus its representative
70 consult the managers and urge the
importance of giving Indianapolis the
same favors in that respect which have
been accorded other cities. Mr.. Lazarus
promptly set about the duty assigned
him, and the result is that Indianapolis
is put upon the same basis as other cities
IN regard to the important concession of
''sto0-overs." The "stop-oyer" has a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THAT'S.

SOME Tennessee farmers have written to
Secretary Morton TO knOw IL he thinks it
advisable to plant potatoes On the wane Of
the moon.
THE Duponts. of powder-making fame.
have retained to a remarkable degree. after
many generations of residence in this
country. the physical characteristics of
their French ancestors. Several of the
family would infsllibly be taken for native
Frenchmen in Paris. and are sinRuIarly
foreign looking in this country.
BISHOP KEY. of the Southern Methodist
EPISCOPAL Church. who was recently mar
president of the North Texas Fem Ne Col
lege. the ceremony being perform I'd by
Bishop Galloway, is o little over fifty years
old, and Is said to be the finest looking OF
the southern Methodist bishops.
CAROLINE SHAw-BRooKER, the noted
Ohio artist. who exhibited q statue mod
eled in butter at the Centennial exhibition
Of 1876. after ward went to Italy to study
her art. and was generally thought to have
died there, has teiegraphod the worlds
fair officials at Chicago for space in which
to exhibit q bust OF General Grant. heroic
size.
IT will be remembered that there were
two rival holy coats. one at Treves and
the other at ArgentuiL The Pope ordered
q bishop to report on their g~enuineness.
He has made u decision that VIII please
the friends of both coats. The coat at
Treves. he says. Is genuine, but SO il the
one at ArRentuil. One Is u vest. such as
was worn next TO the body. the other an
outside jacket.
IT was at q late quarterly meeting of
Seventh-day Baptist churches. in Wiecon-
elm, that two clergymeh were to present
papers on the same day. and. the guess IN
of precedence having arisen, Mr.. A. sprang
to his feet and said: IL think Brother r..
gramme; be is sn older man than | am, and.
besides, is full OF his subject" When the
audience remembered that Brother Els
subject was The Devil q cheerful smile
seemed to beam around.
EVERY man who respects his stomach
will applaud the words of DR.. j. II. Sails
bury on the subject of veaetarianism. Peo-
pie who eat no meat. he says, have. as q
rule, less nervous aud muscular endurance
than meat eaters. Officers of the English
army IN India. for example,. assure Inc that
il il always necessary To start the native
troops of on a march one day In advance
of the British soldiers, that all may arrive
at q given point at the same time. IL is
useless to deny that the ruling peoples are
meat-eating."
JUDGE JOHN CLINTON GRAY. of the New
York Court OF Appeals. who wrote the
opinion in the Carlyle Harris case. run
down by work. has sailed for Europe. just
before he sailed Judge Cray said to q
friend: II took up the Harris case with
my sympatbies very greatly enlisted tor
Harris. and with the earnest hope that /
should DO able Ia lind in the record some
| thinG wha"h ~"nid i"-tifv ma in granting
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

A "PRoHIBITIoN sunflower" nine feet
In diameter will be painted on n of
the interior walls of the Kansas build
Ing at the worlds fair. In the center
will be the words prohibition in Kan
sas," and on each of the thirty-two
yellow petals will be inscribed some
statistics showing the benefits Kansas
has derived from the prohibitory amend
ment. Foreign visitors may not be i'm
pressed by American works of art, but
they will see some American curiOsities
that will make them stare, and that
mammoth sunflower will be one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

THE plan of Professor Livermore. Of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy, to secure better newspapers by
having them endowed by millionaires,
SO that they can be independent and
thereby be able to publish more socio-
logical news and less of divorces and
prize fights, will not bear scrutiny. In
all the large cities, if a paper is needed
to supply any ''long-felt want" talent
and capital are not wanting, when the
discovery is made, to establish il. 1t
more frequently turns out that the
''long-felt w~ant"is imaginary. Further
more. several millionaircs have endowed
newspapers within a 10y years. and in
every case the endowment has proved
fatal. No endowment can help the pa
per which only a handful of people will
read.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
REAL PEOPLE IN FICTION.

In new English edition of the Bronte
novels it is said ''the places and persons
of the books will be carefully verified"
This will add nothing to the interest of
the stories except in the limited local
circle where the Bronte sisters were
known, and to many readers will prove
a source of irritation. 1t is a common
theory with persons who do not write
books that every character in a novel is
drawn from some prototype in real life,
and that the more natural and lifelike
these characters are tbs better do they
demonstrate the writer's mowers of close
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

THE lives of the notorious plungers in
the Chicago wheat pit are not very long.
and do not end in success. For years
"Old Hutch was successful. year after
year piling MP millions. it was asserted,
but eventually he came to grief and left
the Exchange a broken and comparatively
poor man. And now Mr.. Partridge,
litter an extended period of brilliant
operations, has been thrown down. He
may recover, but the chances are that
his prestige ia gone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
Uncle Reuben at The Musicale.

Uncle Reuben at the Musicale.
Last night my daughter TUX me out to hear a fel-
Ter play
Upon O fancy fiddle In a highfalutin' way:
He tucked his fiddle gin his neck and sawed her
forth and back.
the track.
Says / to sue. "with all them breaks he'll never
reach the pole"
'w'y, pa" says she, ''he's givin' us the longin's
Nv q soul
A worn and weary doubtracked soul that knows
not where TO turn,
An is yearnin' fer the Infinite with a deep an
mighty yearn."
al s'pose," says !, "that's what il is. becuz you
say it Is;
1t sounds a heap to me more like a man with
roomatiz,
Who's howlin' fer the mustard and a-cussin' OF
his wife.
And a-beggin' fer the doctor fer to come and end
his life"
"w'y, paw" says Sue. II do believe you never
had to feel
That cruel fate was crushin' you beneath its iron
heel,
Ner that yernin' of the Ego Il think that was thu
word
To shout against the universe and make itself be
heard"
"No," says /. 81 nuvver did, ner likely neves
will,
Not while there's bitters to be had, er quinine. eA
pill.
I guese I'll never feel the way that feller's fiddle
squcals
As long "a I kin have my sleep and buck agin my
meals.
Besides says I. ''what IA the use of hddlin' Nike
that
OF a-yearnin' and a-moauin' and a-actin' like 9
fatl
The fddlin' at I used TO hear. long fore you larnt
to walk.
Was did by men that knowedj just how to make q
fiddle talk.
The fddles that / used to hear was not 90 full OF
pain
And looney yearns and al SIGH truck; I guess not,
Mary Jane.
The men that fddled in my day, they wa'an't no
yearnin' spoons,
And they seemed TO have q motion that they
orter give us tunes;
The like of Turkey in the Straw and Comm
thro' the Rye
And the .Dyin' Californian though that a,iers
made me cry.
But L s'pose this yearnin' business is another
fancy fad,
Jist like them impression pictures that you
sprung upon your dad;
But when | hear a fiddler. l don't want no soul
fur squawk.
Iwant a man that knows the way 10 make the
old thing talk"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

Ii Mr.. j. c. Carter, counsel for the
United States in the Behring sea case,
carries out his programme of speaking
two weeks he will carry off the palm as
the longest winded orator in the world.
1t is but fair to say that he seems to be
thoroughly posted in every branch OF
the subject and is making a great speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
See Where We're cat.


Said General Dix in "sixty-oue:"
If any traitor hound
Hauls down tina flag. put him in shape
For six feet under ground.
The times are changed; to-day it il
Our President who trails
"Oid Glory" in the dust; while we
Our courteous language fails.
The Five Forks" flag it is that man
Denies the western breeze
Perry's, Decatur's. F~srragut's;-
He'd hale it Oft the seas.
When lion-hearted men. mistaught,
Essayed that flag to shame,
He. pigeon-livered. in the Sums
At home. stuck at his game.
o muddy-mettled heart-of.hare.
Where jackson sat to sit!
Where Lincoln. what foul. devilish chanoe
Placed thee. with thy fat witt
What need to play the bastard part.
And kick away the prop
That shored the shaking edificel-
Thou bull in O China shop.
Sits Wisdom hidden in thy shapei
Then is she hid indeed;
And shall her produce be as fruit
That's grown of Folly's seed.
Thou rid'st not ASS. but Pegasus.
Whose sense thou csnst not feel;
Take heed. then. lest be. once, but once,
Get at thee with his heel.
INDIANAPOLIS, All I'll 10. %. W.. Sears
DRAWN by unseen agencies the flag sank from
signt anu o minute later the Hawiian emblem
was hoisted to its place. Tie ceremony was
complete. Not q cheer, scarce a sound, accom-
panied the transformation. - Associated Press
Dispatch.
rot a cheer was heard, not a joyous shout,
AS the flag from its height they lowered;
Like an eagle that sinks when its wings are
clipped
1t sank from where IL had scared.
Slowly and sadly they watched it come down,
Bright theme OF verse and of story,
Their hearts were SO full that they could not
speak
AS they silently hauled down "Old Glory"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

A CITIZEN who walked about the
streets yesterday came to the conclu-
sion that while the expression was not
so pronounced as it vas thirty-twO
years ago, the opposition to the pulling
down of the American flag is as general
as it was then. Truth is that hauling
down the stars and stripes viii never
become a popular performances in the
Judgment of the American people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

THE statement of the national banks
of Indiana shows that they are in a most
healthy condition. They not only hold
the amount of reserve required by law,
but much in excess of that figure. Hav-
ing had the national system more than a
quarter of a century, younger business
men cannot appreciate its advantages
compared with the State system it has
auDnlanted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16
THE SURGEON AND THE BRAIN.

DIR. Hammond has an article In the
North American Review for April on
brain surgery, which, in a most marked
manner, presents to the untaught the
wonderful progress which is being
made in medical science. Hitherto the
average person has been led to believe
that the brain is a function which ply
sicians know little about INT which can-
not be touched without running the
risk of death or something nearly as
serious. DIR. Hammond shows. in this
article, that the skillful surgeon can eff
feet more wonderful results by manipu-
lating the brain than can be performed
upon any other function of tha kuman
body. Heretofore skull fracture and
brain conclusion have been considered
as fatal, and the old practitioner has left
the unfortunate person to die. If all
that Dr.. Hammond tells us shall be re-
allied, such accidents need be no more
serious than the breaking of a.leg.s Nor
does lie stop with accidents to the brain.
He goes on to say hat the brain
specialist can cure idiocy by taking out
a strip of the skull in order that the
brain may have u chance to grow.
Not only can the skull be opened,
the membranes divided, the brain
explored with knife and probe. assesses
emptied, tumors cut away. with a mini
mum of danger. without pain, but the
specialist is at hand who will undertake
TO enlarge the mind and thus give it new
ideas by expanding and smoothing the
cerebrum, to the end that the brain may
develop. If DR.. Hammond is a real
prophet there need be- no i~nferiority OF
intellect. The brain specialist will be
able to create intellectual equality. The
dull boy who has in all the years of, the
past beer stimulated to learn by the rod
will be taken TO the brain office as he is
now taken to the oculi sits or the dent
lists. Greatness, and even genius. can
be purchased of the brain specialist.
The person who has no music in his soul
can have it put into his brain. Possibly
that large and unfortunate class of peO-
pie who have no capacity to accumulate
money can have that coveted faculty
added mt the brain factory. 1t all these
things can be done, as Dr.. Hammond in
Inmates, there can be no reason why the
brain of the crank cannot be rebuilt
upon rational plans and specifications,
thus opening the way to rid a WE'LL
meaning people of the annoyance of fat
money and like in~corrieible cranks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-16

The Clothier and Furnisher, q fashion
paper for men, advocates the adoption
by American ambassadors of a diplo-
matte court costume. Discussing the
subject, it remarks: "They THE embas-
sadors] would then do themselves and
their country credit-withOut any in
f%ringement of our principles in govern
~ment-which h~allucination has greatly
interfered In our betterment of personal
appearance, and would undoubtedly lead
to an adoption of a similar code of man
ners and attire. or. at least, something in
the decorative trend thereof that, mod
Grated in transcription. would be q
grateful revelation" If you do not
quite grasp the ideas concealed in this
at the first reading draw a long breath,
get your intellect well anchored and try
again.