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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
OUR MIsCHIEvOUs PATENT LAWS.


In all the discussion which has taken
place in recent years in regard to the un-
equal distribution of wealth there is one
feature of our legislation-the patent laws
which has received but little attention. Pro-
lection has been denounced times without
number for making the rich richer and the
poor poorer by encouraging trusts and Gre
ating multi-milEonaires Laws have been
ca, parties have tried to Guido one another
in their demands for reform in this direc-
ton. But nothing is said about a system
which is responsible for more monopolies,
more trusts and more big fortunes than all
other causes combined. viz, our patent
laws.
Somewhat more than a year ago the New
York Tribune published list of 4,O47 mil
lionaires. with remarks showing how their
wealth was accumulated. careful analysis
of the list shows that only IS per cent. of
the number obtained their fortunes in pro-
tected industries, while y per cent. made
their money from monopoly privileges COW
cred by patents. 1t is estimated that five
sixths of the manufactures of the country
are based on patents. while everybody
knows that such patent monopolies the
telephone. telegraph, sewing machines. etc.,
are enormously profitable.
The object of all patent laws is to en-
courage inventive talent and reward invent
ors. Patent laws are not defensible on any
other ground, but they are entirely de-
feasible on the ground named. 1t is desir-
able to stimulate invention, and it would be
unjust not to reward inventors. But as a
matter of fact comparatively few inventors
are properly rewarded. Many exhaust them
selves trying to get their patents the
market, and die poor. Many spend their
lives and substance fighting interferences.
Comparatively few original patentees profit
much by their patents 1t is the rich capt.
talists, the corporations and monopolies that
get the cream. In this way patents tend to
make the rich richer. Every patented inn
prov in machinery, after nrSt DeneIlt-
ing the inventor, ought to inure to the
benefit of the masses by cheapening prod
acts. So It would if greedy monopolies did
not control them in their own interest A
system of patent laws that makes it diff
cult for inventors to derive much personal
advantage from their Inventions which re-
duces the popular benefits to a minimum,
and which enables grasping capitalists and
greedy corpora tons to add to their wealth
at the expense of the people. needs reform
ing. The law should be so amended that
every inventor would get at once. and in
hand, liberal compensation for his inven-
ton. which should then Immediately. or in
a very short time be open TO the world. No
inventor should be allowed to control pat
en-. for seventeen years. and still less
should any other person than the inventor.
The direct tendency of all patents under our
present system is to exact exorbltant prices
for articles cheapened in manufacture by
patented inventions. In other words, our
patent laws tend TO promote. and do pro-
mote. great money-getting monopolies. 1t
would be far better and cheaper for the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
LITERARY NOTES.

n copy of the sixpenny pamphlet edition
of Gray's "Elegy," printed by the author
in 175l. sold lately in London for S370.
The late Professor Tyndall wrote maya
zine articles in the days OF his youth and
published them over the name OF Wat
Ripton.'
y rumor has gained credence in Germany
that Prince Bismarck has sold the copy
right OF his memoirs TO firm OF publish
ers for Sl25.000
Mime. Sarah Grand, the celebrated au-
thoress, has a charming personality. Her
refined manners and low sweet voice are
peculiarly attractive. She now lives near
London and her son and two stepsons make
their home with her.
Ii is said that the fiy-leaf Of an odd vol
ume of Emerson's works accidentally
picked up by Professor Tyndall at an old
book stali-a volume which first made him
acquainted with the writings OF the New
England seer-bears this inscription, 'Pur-
chased by inspiration"
a new society has been formed in Paris
for the study Of the history OF French liter
allure. This society will publish organ
Of its own. 1t aims at the creation Of d
national school, all important books on the
literary history of France having been writ
ten hitherto by foregners-mostly Germans
Labouchere's Truth Q-ondon gives the
following recipe for making modern En-
glish literary celebrity: Half educate a
vain youth at Oxford: let his hair grow,
dip him into erotic French literature: add
idea, crop it small; log-roll the whole;
give a groteSque name; then serve up as
rival to Milton, Sheridan and Shakespeare"
The Boston Round Table Club. whose
president has always been Col. Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, has presented TO him
on the occasion OF his SEVENTEEN birthday
a superb silver loving cup, on which was
engraved this quotation from Tennyson:
Hold us for your friends; here we pledge
our troth; yea, by the honor Of the Table
Round"
An official report of the worlds congress
of representative women, held in Chicago
last May. will be issued within a month.
1t is being edited by Mrs May Wright
Sewall who was chairman of the commit
tee on organization, and Will be issued IN
one volume for $3.50, and in two volumes
for So. 1t will contain q full report or the
proceedings, besides n digest OF them and
editorial comments; and II is 10 be Illus
trated with numerous portraits.
Jonas Lies 'Niobe'' is declared the book
of the year. in the literature of northern
Europe. 1t is a story of a country doc
tors family with enough of horrible hu-
man nature in ii to satisfy a cultivated
Ibsen taste-for the three children born TO
the respectable doctor and his wife lead
unenvable lives, and are finally destroy ed
by their mother, who dies by her own hand.
Lie recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday
with a due amount of popular homage in
Norway, his native land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
COEDUCATI0N, LOVE AND MATRI-
MONY.

An interesting light is thrown on the CO.
educational problem by the order issued by
the faculty of Hillsdale College, Michigan,
that students who enter college single can
not marry during their course and remain
in school. People already married are not
contemplating matrimony are angry, and
say married pupils do better work than I'M
married ones because they are not both
cred thinking of absent sweethearts. This
argument is likely TO open discussion on sew
eral points. Sentimental and romantic per-
sons will desire to know what the angry stu
dents mean by the statement that the stu
dent lovers. once married, will not be both
cred by thinking of each other. Do mar
ried people not think of each other and fret
against separation? On the other hand, ex-
perienced husbands and wives may disagree
with the implied assumption that marriage
brings peace serenity and freedom from
anxiety. But the social scientists and the
advocates and opponents of lcoeducation will
find most important material for discus
sion in the incident During the past two
years many of the five or six hundred pu-
pills at Hillsdale have married and contin-
ued in the school, and the question as TO
the beneficial or injurious effects upon in
tellectual progress by the admlxture of love-
to say nothing of matrimony, may be stud
led in all its bearings in that institution.
Apparently, the matrimonial feature, at
least, is considered undesirable by the fac
ulty, their order had not been issued.
But If the marriage of students is not held
to be conducive to the best educational in
terests, what about the association Of the
young men and women that brings thoughts
of love and wedlock to their minds in spite
Of faculties and regardless of the rules of
the institution? 1t will not do to assert
that such propinquity does not encourage
the rapid growth and dissemination of ten
der sentiment, because the history of Hills
dale and of DePauw, and of every other CO.
educational school proves the contrary. But,
the tendency being acknowledged, it is then
for the philosophers and wiseacres to de-
eide whether it is well or i'll for young men
and maidens to study logarithms and love
in the same school. They are bound to un-
dertake the latter study sometime and
somewhere, and it is only question of en-
couraging- or delaying its pursuit. The
problem thus resolves itself into it's orig
inal elements again, but meanwhile CO.
education is a fixed fact and growing more
firmly established every year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
sarah Bernhardrs New Pets

Paris Letter In Philadelphia Telegraph.
A friend gave US a most ridiculous ac-
count OF a visit he paid 10 the great actress.
He had a letter TO her and went 20 pre-
sent it, First, he had great difficulty in
gaining admittance, for the servant Para
absolutely no attention 10 him, but busted
himself in objurgating two importunaIe
and disagreeable creditors who Were
brandishing their unpaid bills and vocifer-
ating Justify. However. finally ne was
ushered into an Observation-Disclosures room.
where the great artist was colled up among
cushions in one OF those peculiarly serpen-
tine attitudes Of which she has the secret,
but which were more effective before sne
grew so stout 3,
AS he advanced to take her outstretched
hand she said in her sweet trainante tones,
PRAY do not step my lions; they are
rather uncertain of temper. And 10 MS an-
solute horror he saw two haif-groWn non
cubs rear themselves up and stare az nm
in his mind as 10 whether he should Gimp
on a chair or make a bolt for the doorg
but on reflection sat braVely down ana palo
his call, and retired quite unmOlested by
the big cats. The snake is dead, the Two
little tigers have also departed TINS hIs.
tour she sent her tame leopard 10 the Jar
din d'Acclimation, where he may De seen
now dispcrting himself. He was irlshg
a~'-H9l. and very n1ischieNouS. his deafeSs
delight was 10 spring down the night OF
STAIRS in Sarahs hotel and light on TIE
the hall. thus frightening them 10 death-
He never hurt them at all, but 10 Is dls-
composing 10 have a thing almost as pl5
as 2 Newfoundland dog perch on you nl-
expectedly. Wicked people said she had %
trained her pet to scare away her credit
ors. but of course this Is a mistake. Inc
lions, however, are the fancy OF the hl0-
ment, ard Sarah greatly approves OF tneih-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

pennsylvania and New York streets a
month no nearer who had not been told il
would suspect that he is not a regular
Baptist, or If DR.. Taylor should change to
the new church at the corner of Delaware
and East Walnut streets he would be &C
counted one of the progressive followers
OF Campbell. Thirty years ago neither
could have preached a sermon from the pull
pit of the other without striking fire on
some difference of creed which both preach
ers and the most intelligent people in both
churches now hold to be nonessentiad. In
them have been studying the Sermon on
the Mount more and the Fathers less.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
COuricrs of Civilization.

There were three little sturdy boys sat
by their grandpa's knee,
And blithely plotted out the plans Of what
their lives should be:
The eldest, he of quiet ways and mild and
thoughtful face.
Declared that when man he'd go to every
heather race
That roamed the torrid tropic wilds in
manner idly rude,
And teach to them the wickedness of being
nearly nude.
Up spake the second. Sharp and shrewd, a
cunning kid was he,
Says he, That's just the thing. Twill
work exceeding well for me.
When Willie dear has taught those folks
hsbiliments to wear,
OF course. they'll have to buy them, and
that's when you'll find me there.
I'll sell those heathsns overcoats, and muf-
flers and skates,
And other things they do not need, and
charge them triple rates.
The youngest unused moment, with his
chin upon his hand,
Then said I'll as a soldier go to that be-
nighted land,
And when the natives rise in wrath at
Henry's awful rates
And show some signs of lapsing to their
former heather states,
Importing the foreign trade and their i'm
mortal souls.
I'll take my little rifle down and fill them
full of holes.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A fee of $3.50 day is given the physician
to the Empress of Russia when in attend
ance upon his august patient.
Ouida says the clothes worn by English
men to-day are "the most frightful, gro
tesque and disgraceful male costume which
the world ever saw.
The Mayor Of Kalama, Wash, after treat
ing the waits OF that city to big Christ
mas dinner, made them line up and every
one take dose OF quinine.
Mrs E. u. E. n. Southworth. who gained
a name for herself and the affections Of the
girls Of the last generation by writing any
number of books on love topics, was seven
ty-four years old Christmas day, and hale
and hearty at that
1t is said that the real reason why Queen
Victoria took up the study OF Hindustani.
four years ago, in order that she might
converse in their own tongue with the In
dian PrincesSes who come from time TO
time to pay their respects to her.
William A. Wheeler. once Vice President
of the United States, was once asked by a
young man, relative of his, TO help him
to procure a clerkship in one of the de-
psrtmentS at Washington. His reply was
abcat as follows: If you apply FOR such
a position, and will let me know when Won
do SO, / will do all that 1 can-to prevent
your getting it
Levi l.. Lamb Of Meadville, Pa. is said
to be the only soldier pensioned by the
State government. After the battle of the
Wilderness at Laurel Hill, Lamb lost both
arms in assault. At the session OF 1866
Senator Lowry, of Erie, was Instrumental
in securing the passage of a bill giving a
State pension of 500 a month To the dis
abled soldier. Lowry has been dead MANY
years, but Lamb stills draws the pension
Col. Albert - Pope, of Boston. will soon
issue a volume containing a list OF ALI
errors in school books, to which attention
has been called through the publicity in
vited by Colonel Pope. They number thou
sands, and il is said that some of tba
publishers who are hardest hit are fight
ing hard 10 prevent any further puhiics
ton OF the facts. The list of errors which
have been transmitted to one school-hooi-
publishing house aggregates over / 100
Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune marion Har-
land) has just embarked on a perslous on
! terprise. pilgrimage through the dese-,
! of Syria to the Bedouins and lepers of thar
region, varied by a weeks stay as an in
mate in the most noted harem in Damascus
/ and various points OF interest She is az
/ companied only by her son. a muscuIa ,
youth OF eighteen. except that she will have
| guides on entering the Holy Land She has
letters commenting her 10 all the tribes in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
Monkeying with Nature.

An agent from the city was trying to
sell the grocer a new self-winding clock.
There was a small storage battery con-
nected with 1t, and it was intended that
the battery should be kept in operation by
means of small windmill placed on the
roof of the house The agent had about
persuaded the grocer TO buy, when the
man with the ginger beard. who had been
watching the transaction with the deep
interest that comes so natural to a man
with plenty of spare time on his hands.
Clipped in.
Sometimes it pays to monkey with ma
ture and let her have the Job of doin' all
your work while you air loafin around the
county courthouse ten mild away, and
sometimes it don't" said he II knowed a
Teller out in Kansas at had one Of them
windmill contraptions that was the ruin Of
him."
There never was one of these clocks
sold in Kansas at ALL said the agent
with some wrath.
This here wasn't clock" said the
man with the ginger beard, AN i DEFY airy
man in the crowd to prove 1 said anything
about clocks. l jist said a windmill con-
traption This here was a pump You see
this here feler was a sort of market
gardener, and as it is dry in Kansas, as
fur as the weather is concerned, he lowed
to rig up a pump arrangement that would
water his garden. So he fixed UP a
wind pump. but that wasn't enough.
He next goes TO work and makes kind of
swivel arrangement that would keep the
| hose movin' back and forth and up and
around till the whole patch was sprinkled.
| Did all the work itself. you see. That left
| him free TO so down TO the grocery and
oil h.
| or all he dast to. at least Well, he goes
away one mornin'. happy as a clam, and
comes back at night to find his garden all
ruint Now, what d'you suppose had did
| it?"
Hogs got in2" ventured the clock agent
"Hawgs? You make me sick. Hawgs.
nothin'. one OF them playful breezes that
Kansas sometimes gifts up had come along
| and had worked that there windmill punap
! so dern fast that the water was made bilin'
hot by the friction. and his whole patch of
! truck had been scalded to- death"
THAT was pretty tough said the agent.
| 'Oh, l don't know" answered the man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
WINTER DIET.
A Few Hints by Which Good Health
May he Attained.
New York Ledger

New York Ledger.
Few people seem to give any thought 10
the appropriateness OF food to The season or
the year With the coming Of cold weather
many people remain great deal indoors,
occupying rooms which are often Kept at
high temperature and with, OF course, very
much less fresh air than thay are accus-
toned to during warm weather. This has =
tendency 10 create a feverish condition OK
the system that should be counteracted by
a free indulgence in fruits OF all available
sorts.
For such purposes there is nothing better
than good apples eaten raw. II children
were permitted 10 eat all the fresh apples
they craved throughout the winter there
would be fewer diseases and deaths; while
for adults, those who are Of fairly qutet
habits and who remain indoors a great deal
there is nothing in the whole range OF food
products as useful
1t is claimed that severe cases OF govt
and other rheumatic difficulties may be en-
tirey cured by free use OF apples. In
the absence of apples, raw potatoes eaten
with little salt, are most excellent cor
receive of bad hunors. An eminent lawyer
of this country claims 10 owe his eNceIient
health largely 10 the habit OF eating raw
potatoes with salt. Whenever he feels
feverish or out OF condition this Is his med
icine and for years he has taken no other.
in their season and all slightly acid fruits
are valuable for people Of sedentary hab-
its. Almost all persons might improve
their health II they would but give a little
attention TO some OF the most simple or
natural laws, and when. this boon Is so
cheaDly purchased the wonder Is that IL Is
so much neglected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

Jag" meaning a condition of inebriety,
can no longer be frowned upon as slang,
since it has won the claim of responsibility
by securing recognition in the Century Die
tionary. which defines it thus: LAS much
liquor as one can carry; as to have a jag on;
hence. drunken condition" Having got
into respectable society, a critic in the Bal
timore American contends that the Century
Dictionary's definition is inaccurate. He
contends that a man with flag on is not
drunk; that is. he has not taken more
liquor than he can safely carry. His habtual
serenity has given place to slight hilarity.
He is still on the right side of the danger
line and his legs have not become tangled.
When he has passed that line. he is drunk
and has a load on" DIR. Edward Eggle
ston has recently been giving attention TO
the word in a lecture. In a section of Eng
land which he recently visited, a jag was
the load of a pack-horse, pack-horses being
used in that locality He found the same
use Of the word in this country years ago.
In the rural portions of the Eastern States
and in Canada, jag is yet used to mean a
small load. If a man in the country should
be asked where he was going If he had one
horse hitched to a small wagon or Sled he
would reply that he was going ''for a jag
of hay" If he had two horses and wagon
fitted to carry a full burden, he would say
that he going to get "a load of hay"
The definition and the distinction between
the two words used in connection with
bibulants, is of course, only important to
the readers of the Journal when discussing
the condition of other and less fortunate
nlOrtalS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

ffve-cent restaurants are a feature Of
charity work in Boston. For 5 cents any
one applying is given good meal The poor
people themselves do not always purchase
meals. many not being provided with even
this small sum, bat tickets are sold to
business men and others. who use them
where immediate relief is needed and where
it is not advisable to give money. Five
cents does not quite cover the cost of the
meal furnished. but it nearly does, and the
food given is raid to be wholesome and sat
isfying. Where the ticket is purchased by
the hungry man himself the shame of &C
cepting public charity is in a sense re-
moved and the moral effect is better. 1t
is more desirable institution, at least.
than the free soup house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

The New York Independent recently sent
a letter to the most conspicuous Catholic
prelates in the United States. asking If it
is the policy OF the church to obtain a
division of the school fund. Thirty an
swers have been received. and they are
bewildering in their diversity. Archbishop
Ireland. the most conspicuous of the pre-
Iates sending answers, declares that there
is no movement toward obtaining d di-
vision of the school fund and no thought
of such a movement is entertained. On
the other hand, Bishop Durier, OF a Louisi-
ana diocese. declares that 1t is positively
the aim of the church to obtain division
OF the school fund The preponderance
both in numbers and influence. declare
that 1t Is not the policy OF the Catholic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

The story OF the massacre of the detach-
ment of the British troops by the Matabele
Is much like some incidents in our Indian
warfare The savages cunningly led the
British force into trap, and then, with
the advantage of superior numbers. sur
rounded and slaughtered them. In fits gen.
eral features it recalls the Custer massa-
ere. The British were outwitted, but at
best they made fight that was gallant in
the extreme and worthy of the best ira
ditions of the British army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

The New York Sun does not regard the
distance Of the Hawaiian Islands from the
mainland as a valid objection to their an
nexation On the subject Of location it
says:
Honolulu is pretty we'll to the westward
of the Penobscot river, but you can go
several hundred miles west Of that city and
still be to the eastward of parts Of the
mainland ~ of the United States. Travel
15OO miles due west from the Hawaiian
Islands, then go north along great circle,
and you will come to United States ter
ritory.
That will strike most persons an in
credible statement, but 1t is true. The
Aleutian islands, which pertain to Alaska,
and belong to the United States, stretch
about 1900 miles west OF Honolulu. The
most western of the Aleutian islands is
further west of San Francisco than the
latter city is west of Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14

The Populist Railroad Company, an organ
ization which proposes to build a railroad
from some point on the Gulf of Mexico to
IN North Dakota, designed to break the
power Of the money-lendng East. has been
Incorporated at Topeka with capital stock
OF slsOOo.Ooo. The thirteen Populist politi-
clans named as directors could possibly
raise $1,000 OF the money needed. In Kan
sas 1t costs SIS to incorporate an eighteen
million-doilar railway company.