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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
SALVATION TO SLOW MUSIC.

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People who go to theaters are accus-
toned to the performance Of all sorts Of
proceedings. tragic, humorous. domestic,
and what not, to an accompaniment of
suitable music. 1t is conceived by the pur-
veyors of public amusements that an audi
ence is better entertained when the villain
pursues his devious way with a dismal air
from the orchestra keeping harmony with
his schemes, or when the hero and heroine
end their woes and kiss and make up to a
lively tune. Even a house rented or a horse
trade made to slow music is considered a
more effective transaction when accom-
panied by orchestral strains than without.
The Rev. Mr.. Shelton, of Little Rock,
Ark, is much impressed by the beauty of
this theory. Whether he was once an
actor, or whether in his earlier and pre-
sumably less godly career he was a patron
of theaters is not known. but at all events
he is familiar with their methods and pro-
poses to utilize them in his religious work.
Last Sunday he preached a sermon which
fF1o AAbtoN go ~ ~ 1'Cohs ~ NAC vi sal
list. Before giving out his text he said:
while the organist plays let each one of
you do your praying in your own way"
The organ thereupon pealed a solemn tune
and the astonished congregation proceeded
TO think and possibly TO pray without any
keynote from their pastor. The Law OF
Vibrations was his topic. ut is a uni
versal principle he said, "and all move
ments are governed by it. In the struggle
OF our fathers in the foundation building
OF this Republic they had to contend against
Great Britain and all her mighty power OF
men and munitions OF war" at this point
Save the Queen" The speaker went on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

happened In found her looking after It
among the letter 'ps'' in a French dc
tionary
The hero OF Rider Haggard's latest novel
is the most successful dodger or horrible
deaths that has appeared In literature TOT
many n day. In the first ten chapters he
escapes fourteen varieties of hideous tate.
The Emperor William. by the way. regards
Mr.. Haggard's stories as the best published
in the English language.
Il is said Of Mr.. Gladstone's private IL
brary that 1t is particularly rich in the
classical ard theological departments; that
there is probably not n single theological
work missing which has seen the light
since the owner matTicGlated at oxford in
lS2S. Most Of these books were presented
to him by their authors.
The Lancashire dialect poet, Samuel Lay
cock, is dead. "Warblin's from an Ovid
Songster'' is the title OF his book which ap-
reared recently. He was really born in
Yorkshire, where his father was a factory
hand. Afterward the family removed TO
Stalybridge. where for sixteen years the
poet worked as a cotton weaver, getting
his education at night and at the Sunday
school.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
HYPNOTIsM IN KALAMAZOO.

In yesterdays Journal appeared an &C
count of a marriage which throws an end
of-thc-century Illumination not only upon
that particular union, but upon many other
n atrimonia ventures heretofore a mystery
to the friends of the contracting parties.
The case in question was that of a Kala-
mazoo man who was welded a day or two
ago to a ~well-known and highly respected
young woman in disregard of the fact that
all arrangements had been completed for
his marriage TO another equally well-known
and esteemed lady. The event itself is not
singular. Such things have occurred before
with no further explanation than that the
man in the case had suddenly changed his
mind. The Kalamazoo man, however, does
not propose to rest under the imputation
Of fckleness and willful disregard Of his
promise. He says he doesn't know how
the marriage came about, that he was hyp-
Noticed into it and is not responsible in the
least. Hypnotism is put forward frequently,
of late. as the cause of a variety of unto
ward occurrences, but this is probably the
first time that the practice of the Wilde
stroying art has been charged upon a
young woman by the man who, with ap-
parent elaboration. went with her to the
priest and made her his wife. 1t has hap
pened on several occasions that maidens of
immature age who have been led into
matrimony by ineligible persons have de-
clared that they were hypnotized and these
declarations have at once caused the Of
Tending husbands 10 assume to the public
eye the appearance OF bold. bad, designing
men. with nothing to be said in their favor.
To accuse a reputable and arciable. young
woman of using the hypnotic art is an
other matter, and calls for investigation
before a verdict is rendered. Hypnotisn is
defined by the Century Dictionary as IAN
abnormal mental condition, characterized
by insensibility to most impressions of
sense, with excessive sensibiiities TO some
Impressions" This. at first thought. seems
a very peculiar and unusual condition.; but
Is IL so? Is il not the condition OF every
young mar who is enamored OF an attrac-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
OFFICIAL
Our Remarkable Administration
Looking After Public Morals.

Philadelphia Record
Official modesty has scarcely recovered
from the shock prepared for it By the i'm
propriety committed by the designer OF
the worlds fair medal in neglecting 10
clothe the savage whose counterfeit pre-
sentrcent constitutes the central figure OF
the resign with a pair OF regulation
trousers. and now departmental propriety
has again received a shock because Of the
heterodoxy exhibited by two scientists.
Prof. w. G.. MCGEE, of the Geological Sur
vey, and Prof. Lester Ward, OF the Smith
sonian Institution, had each delivered a
course of lectures at the National Museum,
which were duly printed In the forthcom-
ing annual report Of the Smithsonian In
Stitution.
Just in the nick of time. and before any
copies OF the report had been distributed,
IL was discovered that the lectures con-
tanned entirely too open avowals on the part
of the lecturers OF their adherence 10 the
doctrines of evolutionary philosophy as ex-
pounded by Darwin, Wallace and Herbert
Spencer. These doctrines might be quite in
nocuouS in the lecture room Of the National
Museum, but, in the view OF the guardians
of public morality, it would never do TO
titude. Accordingly the whole edition of the
Smithsonian Annual Report has been sup
pressed, and an eXpurgated edition will be
issued instead.
Some of US may be inclined to the belief
that the public morals would be In no par
ticular danger from this slight addition TO
the VoluminOuS literature of Darwinism.
however since an official standard OF
scientific and artistic orthodoxy seems 10
nave been established in our government
ofnceS, artists and scientists who are likely
to come in conflict with il should, out OF
mere compassion, be more circumspect;
otherwise they will keep the wardens OF
orthodoxy national propriety in a perpetual
shiver of apprehension. II will be news,
nevertheless. to most OF us that we have
a national and orthodox standard of opin-
ion, and a body Of public servants with
power to regulate %houghts and exercise
censorship over expressions which do not
standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
AN EXPERIMENT IN GOOD ROADS.

The New York Evening Post gives some
facts and figures concerning road making
in Bergen county, New York, which show
how the good roads movement, once fairly
started, spreads. 1t is very difficult to
wean the average farmer from the time
honored privilege of working OUT his
road tax, an obligation which he generally
discharges by %ploughing a ditch along the
highway and throwing the dirt TO the CEN
ter, where it is worked by passing We
roads he does not want any other kind.
Whenever in any neighborhood a piece Of
dirt road Is turned into macadam the
superiority of the latter manifests itself
abouts are never again contented with the
old-fashioned t~horoughfare.
The figures published in the Post show
that from 1890 to 1893 seventeen townships
1925 persons. principally farmers nave
raised, by direct levy and bonding, $685.
for road Improvement, in addition to which
about $4,000 have been expended by private
parties on public highways in their i'm
mediate vicinity. Among the latter is a
road two and one-half miles in length,
built by Mr.. Havemeyer, the sugar refiner,
from the railroad station to his country
residence. He has converted a bad dirt
road, Astounding with hills and gullies, into
a first class macadamized road of easy
grades. To do this cost him S12,5OO a
mile. but he finds it a good investment.
MY object in building this road" says Mr..
Havemeyer, was to profit by the lessened
expense of transportation from. the depot
to my farm, and this object has been ac-
complished. Where formerly a team of
horses would have hard work to pull a ton
and a half of material, they now can move
three tons with ease. Gould every farmer
pretty sure hat good roads would be a
thing of the present instead of the future;
as 1 know that the cost of transportation
of material from the depot to my farm
since the completion of the new road has
been fully 80 per cent. less than it was
over the old road"
AS a result of liberal and systematic ex-
penditure during a few years nearly all
the roads in Bergen county were macadam-
lied and brought to such a state of i'm
provemcnt that it costs comparatively lit
tie to keep them in repair. The era Of
mud roads in that county is past, and the
people are SO well pleased with the change
that nothing could induce them to return
to the old condition. 1t is worthy of re-
mark that the entire Improvement has been
accomplished without State aid, and solely
by local organization. effort and taxation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

until he made an allusion to the civil war,
when the organ ratified off Dixie" to the
manifest pleasure of the Little Rockers.
Then he threw in a discord by declaring
that 1.-The South was defeated because
Yankee Doodle was on the other side"
Here a strain Of Yankee Doodle came in
and the preacher classed the two together,
saying. Yankee Doodle represented hui
man liberty and Dixie was the champion
of human slavery" At this point a number
gust, whereat the speaker smiled and said
that he had proved his position that men
are not governed by reason. but by feeling.
The organist closed the exercises by playing
Home, Sweet Home"
This innovation, it will at once be seen,
is capable of wide expansion. Any ingeni-
Gus and enterprising minister who wishes
to illustrate his remarks has a boundless
opportunity in this direction. Music is a
thing Of infinite variety, and, though
church facilities are somewhat limited,
much effective work can be done. 1t is not
necessary to confine the illustrative feature
to the organ. The choir can assist in a
very helpful way. It's songs will neces-
sarily not be drawn entirely from the hymn
book; the operate and the minstrel stage
may be called upon to contribute of their
riches. but this will at once be recognized
as an attraction. Let the public be in
formed that on a given date the leading
tenor or soprano will sing a topical song
to point a moral and adorn a pious tale,
and that same public will flock to hear and
the alert pastor thus secure an opportunity
to impale sinners not otherwise to be
gained. The Little Rock pastor is the pio-
neer in what may perhaps be a great revo-
lutionary movement in religious ceremonies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
LITERARY NOTES.

The Edinburgh Review suggests Rudyard
Kipling as a promising poet ON whom to
place the honors of the English laureate
ship.
Moody and Sankey's hymns are said to
have had a larger sale during the past quar-
ter of a century than any other book except
the Bible.
The book list of the great publishing
house of Tauchnitz at Berlin contains about
three thousand works in English, of which
thirty-seven by American authors have ap-
peared since 1891.
A daughter Of Fenimore Cooper still re-
sides on the old homestead at Coopers-
town. n. Y. She occasionally writes for
publication, but avoids all personal public
ity and lives the most quiet OF lives.
Mrs. Wards forthcoming novel is called
"Marcella," and will appear very soon. 1t
is a study of a woman who sums up the
modern type of her sex as David Griaye
does for the thoughtful man OF the day.
II who runs may read" Dictionaries
embracing all the words commonly used.
and small enough for the waistcoat pocket.
are now being sold in little silver cases
which may be attached TO a watch chain.
During the last year the New York His
torical Society has added ten thousand vol
umes to its library, which now numbers a
round hundred thousand, and is the best
library of American history in existence.
Tolstoi is now nearly sixty-five years old.
He regards Anna Karenina'' as 1.-THE ar
tistic mistake OF his life," because In il
he told In great detail the story OF his own
courtship, even to the wording OF his pro-
posal.
Sarah Grand. author of The Heavenly
Twins" Is singularly absent-minded. One
day she lost her pen and a visitor who
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
SIIREDS AND PATCHES.

Pneumonia was invented in Boston.-Bos
ton Journal.
We are willing to bet that the devil is a
married man.-Atchison Globe.
Never contradict a woman. 1t is her ex-
elusive right to contradict y~ou.-Philadel-
phia Call.
The American eagle has screened a good
NANNY times, but he haint newer ~squauked
yit-Jedge Waxem-
The best preparation for the future Is
the present well seen to, the last duty
well done.-Macdonald.
From the way some men offer PRAYERS
1t Is difficult to tell whether they are min
listers or Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
Mr.. Corbett's next duty will be to put a
quietus on the Uncle Toms Cabin indus
try.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
Bismarck is complimenting the press with
a vigor that suggests the possibility of his
returning to official life.-Washington Post
There may be a dispensary war In South
Carolina If it comes to pass there will he
plenty Of spirit in it-Baltimore American.
France danced the german once. bue If
was never popular with the Parisians.
They were sick after the ball.-Lowe
Courier.
The prospect for the election Of a Renub-
lican House of Representatives next fall
could not be better.-New York Mail and
Express.
Secretary Gresham. it is said, is having
trouble with an old sore on his leg. Which
leg? The one Claus Spreckels p~ulled?-Pbil-
adelphia Press.
When a baby gets TO crying it's noise IS
sometimes drowned by the disputes of the
women in the room as to what it is cry
ing about.-Atchison Globe.
There's no use in talking remarked q
man who had just lodged a broken trolley
wire; 'teven in this country q man mus,
show respect for lineal descent"
ton Star.
What a dreadful word brainy is. WHY
will people use IL, especially in relation 10
women? Its suggestion is decidedly culip-
airy and uncomfortabie.-Kate Fields
Washington
1t is a great deal better to be born with
an iron spade in ones hand than with n
golden spoon in ones mouth; and we all
know it except when our own children ara
Abbott
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

That elegant young person. Miss Lottie
Collins, author of a skirt dance that caused
much enthusiasm among the New York
four hundred, and originator of that thrill
ing song, "Ta-ra-ra," ETC., grew very angry
at a San Francisco audience the other night.
The gallery gods guyed her, and, without
stopping to reflect that the first families"
down in the boxes and parquette were not
"cat calling" Miss Lottie danced down to
the footlights, shook her fist at the crowd
and said, with a hiss: ANY bloke in the
audience that don't like my act can go to
the box Office and get his money back. he
can" Many people, astonished and shocked,
arose and left the house. Afterwards Miss
Collins became somewhat appeased, and,
in response to the question whether or not
she meant to Join Lillian Russell, Corbett,
Crane and others in condemning the peo-
pie OF the coast as lacking in culture, she
graciously said: ooh, dear, no; not for a
moment. L would not have that impression
get out for the world" San Francisco peo-
pie of culture must have been greatly re-
lieVed to hear this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

The resolution which has been introduced
in Congress providing for a formal recog-
milton of the Deity in the Constitution opens
a question which should have been allowed
to sleep. The Constitution is all right as 1t
not attempting to mix religion with politics.
1t would hardly be possible to make any
recognition Of God in the Constitution that
would not %controvert the views or preju-
dices of some class OF citizens, and, after
all, what good would it do? AS a perfume
tory act it could not be pleasing TO Cod. and
certainly 1t would not work any improve
American people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

A correspondent of the Paoli Qnd.) Re-
publican, who seems to be OF a philosophic
turn of mind, draws the following analogy
between life insurance and turkey shooting.
He says:
The policy-holders are the turkeys; the
insurance company is the man that puts
up the turkeys; and the premium payable
annually for insurance is the fee for each
unSOund constitutions or tainted with he
reditary fatal diseases are carefully eX-
cluded from the benefits 90 Of life lnSur-
ance. so all crack SnOtS and sharpsnooterS
are ruled out from the privilege of shooting
at turkeys. AS the man who puts up the
turkeys is sure TO make a good thing of it
If he has enough turkeys for targets, SO
the insurance company reaps a rich IMAM
cial harvest by taking risks upon a great
many victims. AS the gains of the turkey
owner and those of the men who win the
turkeys are made up of the losses OF those
insurance company and of the beneficiarieS
Of those policy-holders who die before the
accumulated yearly premiums equal the
amount OF their policies consist or the
losses of those who pay out more than
their beneficiaries will receive at their
clearly a cruel form of gambling, 1t is just
a little hard to see why a parallel with lie
insurance might not be justly drawn ana
maintained even here also.
Almost everybody has discovered hat life
insurance has some queer phases, but prob
ably it's similarity to turkey shooting has
never been pointed out before. Perhaps it
might be added that when it comes to
gathering in victims the life insurance
agent is something OF a gobbler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

1t depends on circumstances what con-
structfcn should be placed on Minister Will
Is's refusal to participate in the celebration
Of National Independence day in Honolulu.
There was no reason why he should par
ticirate in the celebration unless the rep
resentatives Of other countries did. For the
minister OF the United States to have done
80 alone would lave made this government
exceptional and conspicuous, just as his re-
fusal to do 50 would If other governments
participated. The invitation was extended
10 the representatives OF other governments
In Honolulu, but their action is not known.
The Minister'S action is not censurable I'M
less it was intended 10 emphasize the hos
hlity Of the United States TO the provision
nj government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

New York Tribune.

diverse are the methods adopted by the
European governments TO test the char
actsr or the wounds which would be in
Elcted by their new regulation rifles. The
perlmented upon live animals With 49,
OBJECT IN view, n the Roumanian mill
tary authorities have recently been making
use OF human co-pSes for the same nsirs
POse these We're placed in rows like So
aiers OF ne Held Of battle and then shot
at Al a distance Of six hundred mafr.s
ive bodies were placed nftv cen,i,netrot
apart and at that range bullets penetrssSe
three bodies in succession
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
The Charm of Rarity.

Mr.. Matterfack and his wife and daugh-
ter were looking at an old painting, when
the old gentleman took occasion to remark
that he thought 1t didn't amount to no
great shakes"
why pepper exclaimed his daughter,
this is one Of the rarest paintings known.
1t is the only one by this artist that has
ever been brought to America"
That's jlst like a woman said Mr.. Mat
terfack. Here you air goin' into fits over
a little 7x9 bit of paint cause there amt
no other one like it,. and yit when / wanted
to take you and ma to see the seven-legged
calf you said was a vulgar old thing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
n 1t All Came To.

He never smoked a good cigar,
He drank some beer-but never wine;
He'd wear a Goa for fifteen months,
And raise a beard to save a dime.
He always growled about the price
Whene'er the barber cut his hair;
He never rode upon a car,
But walked instead, to save the fare.
BY such denials his fortune grew
Much to his honest pride.
Until it reached the million mark
And then he up and died.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

Professor Charles S. Ashley, in the Popu-
luton in political economy as the agency
which has given the world the most it has
of value. AT the same time he leads one
to conclude that the professional economist
has been of little or no benefit to the world.
No economist, he says, invented the bank
or conceived the vast uses it has been made
to subserve. The bank. as 1t is to-day, is
the result Of evolution, practical men year
after year discovering new uses and new
fields for the institution. 1.-The great finan-
cial invention of our own day. the Pro-
fessor goes on to say, building and loan
associations, was begun in the desire of
the wage earners, who never heard Of Mill,
Spencer or Das Kapital, to get homes for
themselves and for each other, and has
been perfected In humble and unknown
hands till now, having built a million
homes, earned a high rate of interest for it's
members, they have grown to hold more
money than the savings banks" Professor
Ashley has possibly won for himself the ILL
will of those excellent people whose amiable
fad it is to ascribe all the wisdom of the
world to a few professional economists. AT
the same time he has given TO thousands
of unknown and never-to-be-known people
the credit their due as representatives Of
the great mass of humanity. To have
something useful and wise attributed to
others than the few is giving the mass a
little credit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04

them that there is no other method to en-
force decorum toward witnesses and in the
addresses TO jurors. If this is the case a.
reform in judicial proceedings is needed. IL
should be within the power of a Judge to
protect a witness and to prevent an attor-
ney from going outside the testimony to
make appeals to the jury. as was the case
in this State recently, when Grand Army
men were appealed to on the ground that
the accused, who was guilty OF mauslauSh-
ter, was the son Of a comrade.