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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

The Rev. DR.. Hyde. OF Honolulu, has
written a letter to the American Board
of Foreign Missions in Boston, in which
he says the native Hawaiians ARE utter
ly untitled for the complicated political
machinery of the nineteenth century,
Coming from such a source. the state
ment is entitled to more consideration
thar the absence of would in
dictate. Some of these natives nave en-
braced Christianity, but beyond a very
limited sphere they are unequal to the
demands Of the civilizations of the tenn
perate zones. 1t would seem that this
discovery of Rev. DIR. Hyde was worthy
of such recognition as would tend to
change the policy of the churches which
have spent millions during the last sew
enty years to bring the people of the
torrid zone to Christianity. Their zeal
their missionaries are admirable, but
church leaders themselves must confess
that the results have been most meager.
Is it not possible that their purpose can
never be attained-that the races of the
torrid zone cannot be civilized and
ohristianized because of their environ
ment? Have not the triumphs of Chris
tianity been confined almost exclusively
TO those belts of the earth's surface
where the faculties of the human race
have been sharpened and developed by
constant struggle with the soil and the
climate for e~xistence? Do not the ex-
p%erience of the missionary societies and
the statement of DR.. Hyde sustain such
q conclusion?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
RESPONSIBILITY FOR LITERARY
TRASH.

"Ouida," the novelist. who chooses to
be known to the world by a baby name.
is. as every one knows. not the simple
minded, childlike person her name would
indicate. On the contrary. she is very
wide awake, very free spoken and some
thing Of a scold. Like a good many un-
pleasantly rank people who direc. their
attention to the foibles of their fellow
beings, she tells a great deal of truth.
Her latest remarks relate to publishers,
with Incidental comment upon English
readers of books. Both of these classes
she "roasts" in a way most delightful
to the not inconsiderable number of
persons who secretly enjoy seeing other
people upon a spit. In the first place
publishers statements in regard to
their trade, having caught them so
many times In prevarications. She does
not believe, for instance. in their pow
erty-stricken pleas, considering this as
simply one of their tricks for cheating
Woodworking authors out of their just
dues. There are. she declares. too
many publishers and too few among the
many who have any intellectual judg-
ment. A great many people have won
dered where the responsibility for the
fiood of trash in the shape OF books
poured upon the public year by year
should be placed. sOuidap says upon
the publishers. what would we think
she asks. ssof q wine merchant who had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
A wANToN WASTE OF WEALTH.

A stock complaint from the South for
some years past has been the low price
of cotton. No doubt cotton has SYM
pathized to some extent with the gem
eral depression of agricultural oducts
but If recent reports are true those who
handle and market the cotton are in
large part to blame for the low prices
realized. Not long ago the British
Lloyds, the great London association of
marine insurance underwriters, made a
complaint through United States EN-
bassador Bayard to the State Depart
ment at Washington that British Ship
ping was suffering heavy losses from
cotton fires due to the bad packing of
American cotton. The matter was re-
ferred through proper channels to the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange for in
v~estigation and report. The Lloyds'
complaint called attention to thirty-four
recent fires on vessels laden with Amer
lean cotton, and pointed out that unless
steps were aiken to remedy the evil the
American cotton trade would surely
suffer. especially in increased freight
and insurance rates. After careful in
vestigation a committee of the Cotton
Exchange has reported that the fires
are believed to be due to defective
baling of the cotton and to friction of
the iron bands on the dry bagging. Sew
eral fires have been traced directly to
this cause, and the committee believe
that most of them are attributable to
1t, though they add that from the SLOW
emily manner in which cotton is baled
md lnpJlaI ~ fr IN n rnnlftfnn A. 1,f.r
fire from the smallest spark. The COM
mittee estimates the losses due to de-
fective baling from extra freight, in
creased insurance. loss in weight. etc..
at from So to IS a bale on the entire
crop. The cotton crop o. 1894 was 7.527.-
FL bales At the average rate OF 81 per
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

To dIsbelieve in advertising is like CRITICS.
ing axioms.-Chicago Record.
Patience becomes a habit with a woman
quicker than with a man.-Atcnison Globe.
A man may run into debt. but he seldom
comes out at anything faster than a walk.
Texas Siftings.
Do a great deal of praying before you I'M
dertake to tell what a great sinner you used
to Horn.
Our wife is attending the woman's suffrage
convention in Atlanta. Brethren, pray for
us.-Biilville QGa.) Banner.
The new novel, The Passing of ILL., Is
on the index expurgatorius OF the White
Observation-Disclosures Press.
A girl il q good deal like a problem in
Mathematician don't always understand
her when you get her.-Puck.
The worst Of 1t Is that as the present Con-
gress nears the end 1t shows no signs of re-
pentance--Baltimore American.
Speaking of open winters. this one seems
to be open at both ends. The wind blows
right through-Kansas City journal.
It seems difficult for q grown person to
granrle with the theory thai although It y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

no palate for zine? Yet the publisher
is generally without any literary palate
at all, and is responsible for all the lit
erary trash and twaddle that comes
from English and American printing
presses" One reason given by an En-
glish publisher for the issuing of what
she calls this '.ghastly amount Of inn
beetle and ungrammatical work is that
he is sure of being able to sell to cir
culating libraries. which are his chief
customers. enough copies of any new
book. especially any work of fiction, to
pay the expense of publication and leave
a small margin of profit. For a work
by a great author he must pay more,
and, being sold also to libraries, the de-
mand is not sufficiently increased to
make the profit proportionate. Besides,
great authors do not produce enough
books in a year to supply the constant
call of the insatiate public for some
thing new. There is, therefore, a
premium on trash. and trash. she de-
clares, is multiplying like bacilli. The
Briton. Ouida says. seldom buys books,
and she pay her respects to him further
in this fashion:
Books are the things which English peo-
pie, gentle and simple, can do without most
easily. They read. also. in a muddle-headed
tired, when they are travelling. when they
are alone after dinner, and when they want
better or more amusing they seldom read.
They have comical ideas, also, as to the
s fSem Similar G 70 t IU0k sTeadm Mrltin The sse eann oG
understand why. when a writer might be at
Asset Ascot or Hprlingham or playing ennis or
vote himself to the work he is creating.
1T must take it out of you so.' they will
remark: Literary composition seems to
them like taking a mud bath or drinking
Carlsbad waters-a thing which nobody
can be the supreme pre- mej joy, a. and CONSOLATION onaa and
interest of a writer's life they would not
believe II Tolstoi. and Daudet, and Lott,
and Mallock, and Ibsen all swore it to them.
But the conditions in England are not
the same that prevail here, and yet
trash by the ton is sent out by the pub
fishing houses. 1t is probably true
that publishers here, as there, have too
often no literary sense, but they have a
wider market for their wares. Ameri-
cans are book buyers and book readers.
The blame cannot be a1d upon Ii
b~raries; if the books they buy and read
are imbecile is it the fault of the peo-
pie who read or the people who print?
Probably the blame must be divided.
The publishers of fiction undoubtedly
cater to the railway and newsstand
trade. and the sales there, like those
to libraries in England, pay the cost of
printing, whatever the book may be.
The raveler buys what comes to his
hand, and the question is. Would he
not buy better if he could get it?" 1t
is the belief of the Journal that he
would. and that the idiocy and vulgar
ity of cheap fiction are owing less to a
demand for those characteristics than
to the fact hat publishers are but lit
tie interested in literature as such.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

The defendant In a Detroit lawsuit aston
fore he would answer any questions upon
the witness stand. The judge was breath
less for a moment after the petition was be-
gun, but when the attorney for the plain
tiff irreverently interrupted the speaker and
objected to the prayer, an effort was made
by the court to put a stop to it. The at
ternpts were all in vain, however. In spite
Of a stern order he kept his hands placidly
folded, his eyes closed, and went on asking
the Lord to save all His servants from the
snares of their enemies" Even when the
judge reached over and jerked him by the
c~oat-tail he did not desist. When he finally
reached the point where he felt that an
''amen'' was due, he uttered it soulfully
and sat down, after which he proceeded to
give in his legal testimony. When asked
afterwards why he prayed he replied: Il did
It at the command of the Lord. Last night
when l woke up in the night 1t occurred to
me that perhaps they never had prayers in
the City Hall. I thought of all the boodlers
and the general rascality going on here, and
the Lord told me that the City Hall needed
q prayer Then I was determined to pray
whether the prayer lost me the case or not.
i prayed in the interest of justice. OF course,
It would crafty me If I win my case, but IL
7 lose 1t l will know 1t was the Lords will.
1T u painful to state that in spite Of this
pious effort the case went against the old
IEentIeman. the jury being more Impressed
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tude Of all educated Indians. Mu..,-
and PaTsees, as well as HfnGus ana I.dans
Europeans. inoo-
Walter Pater never read Stevenson
kipling- He once said: IT feel. f,on
what | hear about them. that thew :
strong; they might lead me out of nv na,h
| want to go on writing In my own uav.
good or bad. I should be afraid to -a@s
kipling, lest he should come bet wee, a. ~
and my page next time l sat down ~
write" 70
A proposition has been laid before N.
clergy and embers OF the Episcona.
Church, looking to the establishment Of
Church Publishing and Printing Companv
on the lines of the Methodist Book Concarr
A careful estimate sets the sum spent yearly
by the Episcopal Chufch in this country
for its printing at 1000, 900. and it is bona5
of course, that the proposed stock comnanr,
will get the greater part of the work tbi,
represents
Mr.. Ruskin's treasures at one time in
cluded the original manuscripts of three .,
SCOTS novels. A college friend quotes hin,
as saying that Scott was the only novelis.
who told a story for the pure love of storv
an abuse. ventilating a grievance or airinS
q theory. He was enthusiastic for Scotf'.
heroines. especially. for Di Vernon. Ths
only trouble, he said, was that he wanted
to marry her himself.
A writer in Book News says: Mr.. Ion,.
H. Gibson, of Indianapolis. author of Can
venient Houses" has been making a shor,
visit in Boston. He has been abroad dur.
ing the past fifteen months, and meant,m.
he has prepared a new book on domestic
architecture. which will be entitled '.Reanti-
full Houses and will be illustrated with !
quantity of interesting engravings. Mr.
Gibson argues that the taste of the peonIa
must be educated before we have any salts
factory architecture. but he thinks that orr
colonial styles have in them a basis for a
genuine American school. But he argTaa
with considerable eloquence against the
popular notion that an expenditure of mere
money necessarily adds to the artistic value
of a house.
In an interview which appeared in tbs
ST. James Gazette under the head. mfr
Oscar Wilde on Mr.. Oscar Wilde" the
native modesty of that retiring genius ia
shown in the following lines: every plav
Of Shakespeare is dominated by Shaks-
peare. Ibsen and Dumas dominate
their works. My works are dominated by
myself" do you think critics will under
stand your new playg' asked the inter
viewer. Il hope not" replied Mr.. Wilde.
1T is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble
of fancy, and has its philosophy" Speak,
Ing of the hero of the Ideal Husband"
its author says: 81 nave placed him in
the highest ranks Of life merely because
hat is the side of social life with which 7
am best acGuainted.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, has
started a home saloon for the purpose
of inducing those who are in the habit
Of drinking intoxicants to satisfy their
appetites with soft drinks. which will
be sold for 5 cents each. will a lunch
for an extra nickel. Bishop Fallows has
engaged a German chemist. who is an
expert brewer, to compound a drink OF
malt and hops, charged with carbonic
acid gas, which will look, taste and foam
like beer, but will not i~ntoxicate. If
the Bishop has a chemist who can pro-
duce such a drink cheaper than ordi-
nary beer he has a very good thing in
more ways than one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
THE SITUATION IN HAWAII.

The latest news from Hawaii indi-
Gates that the new government is in
hanger of making a most serious mis-
take. All its proceedings heretofore
have been marked by so much dignity,
moderation and tact as to- win manv
friends and challenge the admiration of
disinterested observers everywhere. but
its f~oreshadowed treatment of the per-
sons engaged in the recent royalist up
rising will excite very different feelings.
Minister Willis reports that several
Americans have been tried by court
martial for completely in the rebellion,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
II this means that the government in
tends to carry out the sentence it will
be a terrible mistake. The mistake in
such a course would be twofold. First.
It would raise an international contro-
versy that might result disastrously to
the new government. 1t will not do to
assume Inland that citizens of the
United States may not have been guilty
OF conduct in Honolulu ju~stifying the
imposition of the death penalty. 1t must
De that the republic is an
Independent government and possesses
all the powers inhering in such a gov
eminent. Every government defines
what constitutes treason and claims the
right to punish it in its own way. IF
persons claiming to be American citi-
zens temporarily residing in Honolulu
have been guilty of overt acts Of trea-
son against the government it is diff
cult to see on ground they can
claim the protection of this government
against punishment for violating the
laws OF Hawaii 1t does not appea
that they ave made any such claim as
yet. Minister Willis in reporting the
fact of their conviction makes no refer
ence to any claim of protection having
been made. though he says he had ire
Quested copies of record for our gov
to determine it's duty before
final sentence" Secretary Gresham
telegraphed the minister as follows:
If American citizens were condemned to
death by a military tribunal, not for actual
participation in reported revolution, but for
completely only. or if condemned to death
by such a tribunal for actual participation
but not after open. fair trial, with oppor-
tunity for Defense, demand delay of execu-
ton, and N eithe- case repcr to your gov
eminent evidence relied on to support death
sentence.
The readiness of the administration to
interfere against the present govern
ment, "a indicated by the tone of this
dispatch. is in keeping with its entire
course in TIE Hawaiian business. II
the revolution against the monarchy had
failed and the late Queen had sentenced
to death :. ne of the Americans engaged
in 1T, does anybody believe the admins
tration would have been so prompt to
interfere in their behalf? There can be
no doubt that it's prompt disposition to
interfere in this case is largely due to
its hostility to the republic. However.
IL there is good ground for interference
The government should interfere. and IL
these Americans have a Just claim for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

The Century Club is doing a very gracious
act In giving SO many of it's friends the
privilege of listening to Mr.. F. Hopkinson
Smiths lecture next Tuesday evening. Lit
erary organizations are apt to acquire a
feeling of exclusiveness and manifest a sell
fish disposition to keep their Entertainments
to themselves. so that, in showing itself free
from this tendency by throwing wide it's
doors on this occasion, the Century Club de-
serves especial commentator Mr.. Smith,
who was an artist before he was an author,
is as entertaining on the platform as he is
as a writer of fiction, and will be gladly well
coined by his Indianapolis audience.
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NOTES.

The nth of "a Superfiuous Woman"
has written a new novel, now in the Lip
pincott press. 1t is entitled Transition"
Mr.. Frankfort Moore is admiringly men
toned as a novelist who can write a book
in six weeks, and do it at the rate of ten
hours 2 day
Messrs. Roberts Brothers announce a fac
smile reprint of Cromwelrs Soldiers
Bible" Only two copies of the original
are known to exist.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co., announce "out
of the East" a new book on Japan by
Lafcadio Hearn, who has become as thor
oughiy identified with that country as
formerly with the South.
A London newspaper which publishes in
chapters the new and clever work of a nov
elst of great fame has offered ESQ to anv
reader who will give a correct guess of the
denouement of the plot.
THE Manxman" has broken the record
for this year in England. The sale of
the book in one month amounted to 5000
copies. This has never been equaled by
any novel since Lothian"
Captain Charles King has written a new
novel which deals with the great Chicago
strike. 1t is to be called "a Tame Sur
render" and it win first appear in the
next number of Lippincott's Magazine.
With the assistance of the Swiss govern
ment. the literary remains of Pestalozzi
are about to be published. The first in
stallment will be a series Of nearly five
hundred letters. addressed by the great
pedagogue to his wife.
Professor Ma Muller has recently re-
ceived an Illuminated parchment address
from India. inclosed In a repousse silver
casket, which itself represents an Indian
manuscript This offering was the result
of a desire. first among the Pandits. or
native Sanskrit scholars, to join In the con-
gratuIations to the great Orientalist on the
occasion of his academical jubilee. Now,
however. the address represents the. grati-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

II it is true, as stated, that many orange
groves in Florida are killed or crippled
past hope of recovery, it may open a
field for new enterprises In that line. It
takes time, capital and patience to estab-
lish All orange orchard. The trees do not
bear under six or seven years of age and
the Continual attention involves consider
able outlay As many of the present grow
ess Who have lost heavily will not feel
like ccatin ling the business there will prob
ably b q good many eligible sites for sale
ana opportunities for new investors to try
the hands. Nobody should undertake it,
however. who has not a snug capital and
nerve sacugh to wait several years for
returns from his Investment.
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protection they should be protected.

protection they should be protected.
cost what 1t may.
Aside from the international phase of
the question, the Hawaiian government
will make a ~stupendous blunder IL it
executes the death sentence on any of
the persons engaged in the late uprising.
While they may be technically guilty
Of treason and deserving of death. the
civilized world would be shocked at the
execution of such a sentence. The
young republic should take a lesson
from h government, which. by sue
cessive steps, extended amnesty to near
ly all the participants in the great re-
bellion without executing or banishing
even n of the leaders. Perhaps the
Hawaiian government would be justified
in banishing these persons from the
islands, but, even admitting that they
are guilty, it would find it very diff
cult to justify their execution.
There is reason, however, to hope that
the government will not execute the
death sentence; that it's purpose is SIM
ply to vindicate it's authority and the
law, and, this being done. that it will
suspend or commute the sentence. The
President of the republic is of Ameri-
can parentage, was educated in this
country n has show himself a states
man of broad and patriotic views. He
can hardly fail to see that the execution
OF these persons would be regarded by
the civilized world as a vindictive act
and would cave an ineffacable stain on
the new government. The republic has
had its baptism Of blood in the recent
rebellion. which. though easily sup
pressed, was not ended without loss of
life 1t has nothing to gain and much
to lose by further bIoodshed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

The enterprising Minnesota merchant who
claims to have cornered the egg market
of the United States had better watch
out or the hens will catch him.. One or
two warm days will bring such an avalanche
of eggs that he would wish he had never
been born. The egg market may be temper
arily cornered, but the American hen, never!
Even while the would-be monopolist is
gloating over his supposed success her ex-
ultant caclle shall be heard, and, presto. the
land shall be full of eggs.