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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-30
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Comparatively few Of the Chinese are in
transports at present.-New York World.
1t would be a great thing for humanity
if love were blind only in one eye.-Puck.
The woman who wears boomers pants
for MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
Some Of the Lords shepherds try the
hardest to feed the sheep that are fat.
Rams Horn.
The biggest fish rarely flutter around on
the surface with their mouths open.-Cleve-
1t is strange but true that a man is apt
Boston Transcript.
When a girl looks fresh, and blooming.
and good looking. it is a sign she is in
ove.-Atchison Globe.
Senator Hill very much resembles a man
who has been caught in his own bear trap.
Kansas City Journal.
1t might not be impertinent to ask where
those Chinese vessels got their armor
plates.-Washington Star.
Money may talk, but it is the want of
money that gets right up on its hind legs
and h~owls.-kansas City Journal.
1t looks somewhat as if China is swap
ping too many horses while crossing a
pretty deep stream.-Baltimore American.
1t must be admitted that as a whistler
in a graveyard the Hon. David B. Hill puts
up a very firm pucker.-kansas City Jour-
nal.
We have noticed that the man who al
ways speaks well of his neighbor has a
pretty good reputation at home.-American
Farmer.
When a merchant begins to purchase adj
vertising space he soon finds himself in
need of additional space in his store
Printers Ink.
man named Nogg is running for office
up in Michigan. A few eggs added to his
campaign would make things interesting.
Post.
1t is easier than usual this year to pick
out the shrewdest and most sagacious Dem
ocrats. They are to be told by their retir-
ing qualities.-New York Commercial Adj
vertiser.
President Cleveland does not catch so
many fish now as he did when Dan La
mont was his private secretary and went
along to edit the results.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Telegraph-
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When it was announced that Japan and
China would resort to war to settle a dis
pute. it was generally believed that the
contest would be a brief one because of the
greatness of the population and resources
of China and the limited population of ia
pan. Subsequent events have proved that
the conjecture was based upon ignorance.
At the present date Japan has beaten
China at every point, and the latest in
telligence is that, aside from the utter
lack of patriotism on the part of the Chi
nese. internal troubles are threatened. Thus
it appears that the most populous and old
est nation on the globe is the weakest. A
dynasty centuries old has so chung to the
past and it's traditions that it's subjects
are without the attribute of the patriotism
which is born of national progress. The
rulers have been dealing with their SUBJ
jects as they did a thousand years ago,
and dealing with them IN a manner call
culated to crush out all the sentiment
which makes really strong nations of weak
people. For generations the Chinese mass
es have been mere machines. while all gov
eminent has been exacting to a degree
that the people regard it with aversion.
Patriotic impulse in such a people is as
impossible as it would be in any other
machine. It's disciplined soldiers may fight
savagely. but not as the troops of a ma
ton whose people are inspired by national
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came in contact with other civilizations
it has sought and adopted their best mod
els. a more virile race, the japanese have
had rulers who have been able to inspire
in the hearts of the masses the spirit Of
nationalism. Even in this country. while
the Chinese are entirely apathetic regard
ing the war. every Japanese is full of the
spirit of patriotism. Taking into consid-
Grafton such facts, immense as is the diff
ference between the two nations, it would
not be surprising if Japan, in the final
settlement, should receive the award which
falls TO the victor.
The spectacle which these two nations
affords should not be lost by us. Its les
son is valuable. Millions of human beings
are not of necessity powerful nations. nor
are vast resources a sure safeguard against
national degradation. God is not on the
side Of the strongest battalions. as Ma
poleon is reported to have said, but on the
side of the best a~rmies-those which have
the moral power Of patriotism as well as
the best arms. The lesson which China and
Japan afford is of value to US. We have
been carried away with the heresy that the
larger he aggregation of human beings,
the greater the city. Some of our large
cities which are constantly putting them
selves up with their increasing thousands
have lost sight of the higher moral power
which is in quality Thousands in the
slums. without patriotic sentiment or any
sort of moral stimulus. should DE counted
as a population against national or mu-
nicioal greatness
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tendency is in that direction because city
management has proved more satisfactory
than private ownership with municipal die
tation. When. it comes to telephones. tele-
graphs and railways, while favoring gov
eminent ownership. Professor Ely insists
that we must go slow. Because government
operation Of railways in Germany has been
successful is no reason why 1t would be
SO here. since all the conditions are differ
emit. I'VE must solve these questions" says
the Professor, by considerations which
hold in America"-by the facts of life which
are found. not in one section Of the coun-
try, but in the whole Of it. The public
ownership OF the telegraphs and telephones
does not involve so serious difficulties as
the railway. Speaking of government own
ership and management Of railways and
telegraphs Professor Ely said that lit
would be folly to think of the enlargement
of the functions of the government men,
toned with our present civil service" but
he asks if We have been able to maintain
a military service of a million of men.
why cannot measures be devised to MAIN
tain a civil service of a million of men.
The wild-eyed Socialist will be Disguised
with the opinions of Professor Ely, but no
conservative person will be alarmed when
he says that one or two generations may
pass. away before the country comes to the
public ownership of railways. The party
which demands the socialization OF these
natural monopolies must offer a leadership
which has shown that it possesses the men,
tai capacity and moral qualifications ade-
quate to the task. The Professor suggests
that the party which shall undertake such a
work can have no wildly impractical ideas
in regard to money and public finance" He
warns the blatant advocates of confisca-
ton that no policy of socialization of natur-
al monopolies which shall prevail can be
payment made for all private property
taken
During the past few months professors
ard others who claim to be disciples of
II LILY aA0 "a VI Jill LAOP-
kins have paraded themselves before the
public with all sorts of theories and as
sumptions which are at war with the con-
sentative views and the deliberate investi-
cation Of the new teacher. One Of them has
attracted attention by his many vagaries;
another has rejected the carefully collected
statistics of the national and other labor
and statistical bereaus and set up his per-
sonal dictum in it's stead; a third, after be-
ing graduated from Johns Hopkins, became
the leader of a mob which sought to terror
lie the Massachusetts, Legislature last Jan
uary. 1t is unfortunate that Professor Ely
should be judged by the heresies and antics
of such persons, who always introduce
themselves as pupils Of the leader of the
new school of economics in America.
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AN EXPLANATION OF CONSERVA-
I'VE SOCIALISM.

In the current number or the Forum,
Professor Ely has an article entitled Fun
damental Beliefs in My Social Philosophy
which makes it very plain that the social
ism of the leader Of the Johns Hopkins
or ely school OF economists, or, more
fantastic socialism Of Bellamy or the CON-
munists as opposites can be. And yet, the
next paper in the Forum is an attack on
"Ely's Socialism and Social Reform" by
Professor Hadley. of Yale. in which it
seems to be assumed vaguely that Profess
sor Ely's system has for its purpose what
is properly known as socialism. This at
tack leads to the inference that the adj
herents of the British economic theories
in American colleges. who have made most
OF our textbooks on economics, have mis-
represented Professor Ely. Professor Ely
has, in his works, presented both sides of
any theory that he has investigated. and
those who have read a page here and there
may have come to the conclusion that he
- dQNOCdthA6 lhoN OOA6AiSi ~ 0LS-
tinctive feature is to place all men on the
same level by an equal sharing of the prod
ucts of human energy. like the issuing of
rations to an army.
Professor Ely's socialism is not OF that
character: in fact. he denounces the doc
trine of the essential equality OF men in
all things as ''pernicious" and 1.-The most
fruitful cause of misfortune and misdi-
rected social effort" since there is mo
more marked social fact than the essential
inequality of men," The social problems
which Professor Ely is trying to solve are
those affecting what are called public in
dustries'' and the ''so-called natural mo-
nopolies.- namely. the means of ommuni
cation and transportation. which include
railways. telegraphs. telephones. canals.
street cars. gas works. water works. cleo
trio lighting plants. The question is the
choice between private ownership and OPP
GRAFTON with government control. national
or local. and government ownership and
operation
Some OF these are already in localities
owned by the public and controlled by its
officers. Most highways and streets are
owned and controlled by the public. and in
many cities the water works are owned BY
them and managed b. their officers The
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for a long time in the endeavor to hold
them In due subsection, but now thai the
restless and progressive sisters show a dis
position to abandon the indiscrimiaate glor-
iication of the "cloth." and even to pene-
trate into the hitherto sacred confines of
the pulpit, it is natural that the alarmed
brethren should endeavor 10 provide a
place for themselves where no women will
break through and make afraid. But at the
ate woman Is advancing now it looks as
If no obstructive man could long keep her
out of heaven or any other place she sets
her business eyes upon.
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Octave Thanet, in the Forum. administers
a telling if a statistical rebuke To the Ham,
lin Garland school of writer's who are labor
ing :ndustriously to make the farmers OF
the West disconnected. She is in Iowa and
believes in il. showing the basis OF her
faith in statistics. She goes about among
the people, talks with them and knows
them. She declares that all Iowa is con-
tented and prosperous. which accounts for
its limited number of Populists. It's farmers
are intelligent, and farming has not fallen
into ~disrepute. W~orkingmen in the towns
are. as a rule. prosperous fact which the
statistics and her observations have estab-
lished. She calls upon Mr.. Howells to send
his traveller In Altruria to her Iowa city
that he may not again wander and weep
over this country There is much in what
this woman says. Much of the wretched-
ness depicted as existing in the West is OF
the imagination. and the discomfort has
been bred by a lot OF calamity-howlers
whose heresics nave not been properly COM
bated.
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Bishop Potter, of New York, in an adj
dress to a diocesan convention. took occa-
sion TO warn the clergy not TO let their
~sympathies run away with their judgments
in considering economic topics. This was
because some Of the pastors in his diocese
had been preaching Christian socialism
in a manner TO do mischief by making the
declaration that the present constitution
OF society is responsible for existing pow
erty and sufferings. Bad policies which re-
strict employment and lessen wages are
responsible for much of the existing evils;
but IL will not relieve distress or even
furnish employment to teach ignorant peo-
pie that they are the victims OF society,
and therefore are not responsible. The fg-
norant who are embittered by such mis-
chievous heresies will not put forth the
utmost effort -oward self-support, but will.
so far as they are able. throw themselves
upon society, which they are taught Is re-
sponsi5le for their poverty.
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Mr.. Rudyard Kipling has written more
jungle stories for st. Nicholas.
Current Literature states that in Portu-
gal If a married woman publishes literary
works without her husbands consent the
law frees him from her at once.
A new novel by Mrs. Mona Card. en-
titled 1.-The Daughter Of Danaus." is char
acterized as a bold and direct attack upon
the marriage system in its present FORM"
The novel 'Lourdes," by lola, has been
placed by the Vatican authorities upon the
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which is
equivalent to interdicting its perusal by all
good Catnolics.
Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead wilson, to-
gether with other stories not heretofore
published. will be issued in one volume and
sold by subscription only. Twain is no
longer his own publisher.
Richard LIE Gailienne. author of 'The Re-
ligion of a Literary Man." having recently
lost his wife. sent out a four-page circular
TO tell about il. The first page bore only
the words ''Eloi. E.oi. Lama sabachthani?''
solomon SCHNEIDER. the. well known rabbi.
of Boston. has left the ministry and re-
moved to Cambridge. where he viii devote
himself to literary work He announces
that he has completed a sequel to Look
ing
OF the two books on which Mr.. r. L.
Stevenson is now engaged. one. 'St. Ives"
is almost purely a novel OF incident and
adventure. The second. .Weir of Hermls-
ton: or. The Lord Justice Clerk is a
story OF character and tragedy. st. Ives"
will be published some time next year.
Mr. John Fiske gives in the appendix TO
his History OF the United States for
schools a list of novels. poems. songs. etc.
relating to United States history. It is in
teresting to learn from this list what liter
afy masterpieces relating TO history are
most appreciated ny a writer of history
Writing OF marginal notes in books. An
drew Lang says: collectors love a clean
book. but = book scrawled on may have
other merits. Thac1ceray's countless carica-
<.~>~ Add : de11xh< "a his ala rc&oo1 hooke-
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the comments OF Scott are always to the
purpose: but how few books once owned
by great authors come into the general
market. Where is DIR. Johnson's library.
which must bear traces OF his buttered
toast?
There is a poet in the South. says the
Critic. who is not only well known in that
section" but has a great many admirers
on the press in all parts OF the country,
as evidenced by the constant copying of his
verses whenever they appear in the col
of the Atlanta Constitution. This
poets name is Frank L. Stanton, a volume
Of whose verses. which are somewhat in
the James Whitcomb Riley style, will soon
be published by d. Appleton & Co., with
an infrod1ction by Joel Chandler Harris.
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be raised. That interesting and picturesque
young woman was not moral so far as adj
herence to one OF the fundamental rules
of human conduct is concerned. That is to
say. she had every virtue but the one
which is counted the chief ornament and
possession of her sex. The point raised
by the censors is whether or not enough
note is taken by the author of this frailty.
or whether he does; not incline to belittle
it's Nervousness and teach that the other
merits Of the girl were an Offset for her
sins against the moral and social law.
The prevailing opinion OF these critics is
that. whether intentional on the part of
the author or not, the tendency Of the
cite Hardy's Tess as another work of
the same class and deplore the recent dis
position of novelists to treat the theme of
feminine virtue in that way-as a thing
whose lapse might, under certain circum-
stances, be ignored and forgotten. Poor
Trilby and poor Tess! However those I'M
fortunates were regarded by the respective
authors of their literary being, there is not
the smallest reason to believe that they
could ever be otherwise than under deepest
by the protectors Of society.
No one who reads their history dreams for
a moment that they could. but why not let
their stories point their own morals, as
they surely do? In real life the inevitable
helP' could not have more swiftly followed
than in the case Of Tess. She murdered the
man who betrayed her and she came to the
gallows tree.
1t needs the aid of one of the dissecting
critics to make the average reader of "Tril-
book, SO deftly is it woven into the charm
ing pages and so little is it evidently con-
sidered by the author. 1t is one of the few
stories of this analytical age which can be
enjoyed from a purely aesthetic stand
point without thought of ethical purpose.
1t is this which makes its charm. But, If
morality must be considered, was not Tril-
by also sufficiently punished for her faults?
AS she sinned in ignorance she probably
also failed to understand fully the enormity
Of her offense against society, even when
she voluntarily refused to marry her lover
because of it. That this was the case is
proved by her naive confession before her
death, that the only burden she had on her
conscience was an act of unkindness to a
little brother. Perhaps it is this ignorance
that gives the censors cause for offense.
But if "Trilby' must be considered from a
moral point of view, why direct all atten-
ton to the woman? The picture it paints
of manly purity and virtue in the persons
Of the three artists, Little Billee,' 'Taffy''
and the Laird" is something unusual in
fiction. and one that contains a lesson
worth learning if one is looking for lessons
in novels. Nevertheless. it is worth while
to read .'Trilby'' without thought of ethics,
but solely for the pleasure it gives.
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There are people so constituted that they
cannot enjoy a sunset without analysing it
and reducing the blending of light and color
into primary elements. The same people
a story or poem merely for the aesthetic
pleasure the works confer. They want to
dissect. and c~riticise, and discover mo-
tives thai the painter or writer in all prob
ability never dreamed of. Just now these
uneasy mortals are engaged in discussing
the question as to the morality OF George
Du Nauriers story, 'Trilby." AS to the
moraluy-ef Trilby herself no question can
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lief that there will be no women in heaven,
and quotes Scripture to prove his position.
He says women were mad for the glori-
hcation cs man and there wiz be no use
for them IN the other world. man presum-
ably being glorihed to the top notch by
hat time. This opinion must excite no sur
prra. Preachers haye 1T" against women
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John Burroush. and Jay Gould.

ne OullOOk-
/ remember a travelling phrenologist or
mountebank came along one day, and he
fingered my head and said: This boy IS
going to be rich" j suppose ne knew that
was what the people would like TO hear:
yet ne wasn't so far out as he might have
been. for il he'd gone to the next house
he'd have found Jay Gould. Gould and |
sat near each other at school. and We were
quite cnums. He was a small. wiry fellow.
aristocratic in his feelings, and not in
clined TO mix much with other boys. He
easily stood at the head in his studies At
one time there was a boy came from an
other town and inocuiated the whole school
with a mania for "wrasthng-" Jay and I
used to .wrastie." He and I were about
Of an age. and we were very evenly
matched. We'd "wrastie'' by the hour till
we'd pant like dogs. L was a little more
muscular and had the most science. But
Jay had infinite wind and endurance. He
was like a boy made or India rubber and
steel: you'd think you had him down when
you hadn't. and then you'd find him on
top. He wasn't particular about rules The
one point with Jay was 10 get on top.
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The smaller and swifter ships of Japan
explain the notable victory Of that nation
in the Yalu river battle. The Chinese
fought with great bravery. but their i'm
mense aEmor-clad ships, whose movements
were slow because speed had been sacri-
feed to the weight of defensive armor, made
them the victims of the lighter, speedy
ships which could change position and
themselves. 1t means that the heavy
armor-clad ships of European navies are
comparatively worthless in war.
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He Got Hi. Fire.


FHlIdutIpuld hec0Tu-
A gentleman Of hat peculiar class whom
the ionic artists delight in depicting IN
the act of blowing out the gas came 10
town a few days ago and registered al a
Market-street hotel. He was given a very
comfortable ROOM. with a large old-fash-
began to prepare for bed he realized that
ii would be a triie more comfortable IL a
fire were built in the wide crate He
peeped out into the hall In search of a weed
but there was none there. neither
was there any in his room. In nosing
around. however, he noticed a little red
box attached to the wall. There was a IT.
tie crank on the box, and four arrows
pointing to the words; MESSENGER" Car
the printed instruction posted on the wall
nearby. the shivering guest pushed the 1T
tie crank around Three minutes later.
there was an uproar. in which the changing
Of IRE bells and the angry shouts OF fr<-
men took 9 prominent psrt' but fae soss'
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The treasurer of Pittsburg. who was the
treasurer of the encampment fund, believes
tnst the surplus which he finds in his hands
OF the Grand Army for the benefit of needy
comrades who are strangers. This may be
due to the fact that the treasurer himself
is a veteran and has not availed himself
of all the precedents.
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1t is announced that the late Mr.. Debs
reeds about $4,000 with which to pay his
lawyers Added to the other burdens he
has imposed upon members of the A r. T.,
supported much longer.
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General Fry. hobo, has lived his brief
day of notoriety and cannot hope to work
up any further public interest in himself
by loud and foolish talk. The Coxey sensa-
ton canno be warmed UP and served a
second time with whatever trimmings.