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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
BOOK CANyAssING.

Book agents have taken to fighting each
other, but how they will come out and
what the effect will be upon the public re-
mains to be seen. The men engaged in
the business in and about New York have
banded together into an independent pro-
tective association" the main purpose of
which seems to protect themselves (not the
public from female book canvassers. They
put their objection upon the general ar
gument that book canvassing is not lady
like, and upon the specific ground that the
lady agents, by reason of their beauty ele-
gance and winning ways, have an unfair
advantage over gentlemen of reduced cir
cumstances who are compelled to take up
the calling. The ladies have not yet or
gaized, but are going on with their can
wasting as before, and will proba bly, con-
tinue to do SO until the ungallant men
succeed in "queering" them with the pub
fishers.
Book nvassing is an honorable business,
but a portion of the public has IL prejudice
against it, and would not care in the least
if all the men, as we'll the women en-
gagged in it, would be crowded out. Most
persons in this Directing class recognize
their view as a SelI1Sn one uoWGbeI iioL
only as it relates to the canvassers them
selves, but to another portion of the pub
lic There are villages and large country
districts whose residents are not in the
way of buying books unless the latter are
brought to them, and it is a matter of
benefit to such communities to circulate
good literature among them 1t is also
true that many people living in towns
where book shops and libraries abound
do not visit such places and know little of
any reading matter unless it is fairy thrust
upon them. 1t is for these that book cam
vassers are made, and if they would only
have the discretion to confine themselves
to their proper field, instead of Emporium
ing the more discriminating and select peo-
pie who want to pick and choose among
authors, they would save themselves from
being made the subject of jokes and gibes
and a favorite theme of the sneering par
agrapher. But alas, the willy agents are
we'll aware that for some occult reason
they can sell more volumes to these very
people who do not want them than to the
bookless individuals who really ought to
buy and so they will doubtless go on can
wasting the entire earth as heretofore
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
DISCIPLINE AS A BASIS,

President Eliot, of Harvard College, in
a recent magazine article, speaks of the
value set by certain people upon war as
a means of discipline for character. He
disputes this benefit, and enumerates va
rious occupations followed in tir1e of peace
which develop heroism and other high
traits in a far greater measure than war
can do. Among them are locomotive en-
gineers, railroad brakemen, Geographic
linemen, firemen, policemen, trained nurses,
''scabs during a strike. etc. There is no
question but that many employments of
civil life do serve to bring out the great
est and best possibilities of the men en-
gagged in them: for that matter. the stress
of life iself, whatever the conditions and
environment, is likely to prove a means
of moral growth if the individual has the
capacity for such advancement. There is
not a day in which brave deeds and acts
of self-sacrifice are not reported in the
daily papers, the performers of which are
persons of obscure life and with no con-
seriousness that they have been trained to
the heroic. More obscure than these are
men and women of quiet, uneventful life,
who may be discovered by the discerning
on every hand. whose entire existence is
that of self-denial. These things are mat
ters for admiration; the recital of them
may even cause the appreciative listener
to thrill with pride over the nobility of
which his kind is capable and to create a
reverence for the divine element in man,
but after all it is not such events that
rouse the greatest enthusiasm. A touch of
the picturesque aids in attracting atten-
ton, but dramatic element is needed.
If there is a glamour of romance so much
the better. The deeds of the ancient heroes
Of song and story for this reason rank SO
high. They yelled with distance and
retouched by the genius of the poet and
dramatist until they loom through the
haze of time marvellous exploits une-
qualed in the commonplace present. 1t so
chancellor was it chance?-that the deeds
of the classic heroes were those done in
war or by the kings men ON land or sea
and whether or not that happening fixed
the taste of "a more peaceful age, it is GER
tain that soldiers and sailors represent to
the modern mind the greatest possibilities
OF heroism. And so IL Is that the way I'm
which the crew of the German gunboat
Iltis met death seems to Ill the require
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Justin Mccarthy has arranged to write
another volume, bringing his History of
Our own Times down to date.
Barring Gould has finished a personal life
of Napoleon Bonaparte, upon which he has
spent the leisure moments of several years
William Carleton, the Irish novelist left
among his papers a complete novel entitled
Ann Cosgrave, which is to be published
shortly.
That Bill Nye's last book, THE Comic
History of England" is about to come from
the Lippincott press is a pathetic an
nouncement which Will interest his thou
sands of mournerS.
! Kenneth Grahame who has written with
so much charm on the golden age of child
hood, is a London barrister. He was born
i'll Edinburgh, but he comes OF a Glasgow
family of old standing.
Tgnace Paderewsk has written a new
minuet for the piano, which he has dedi-
Gated to his American admirers and given
the significant name of "Menuet Moderne."
1t will be Published in the October issue of
the Ladies' Home Journal.
The latest English writer to be placed
upon the Roman Index is no other than
Mr.. Andrew Lang, This distinction has
been obtained by his work on Culture
come known at the Vatican through hay
ing been translated into French.
1t is not generally known that the high
est prices for literary matter of all kinds
are paid by the London Times. Then come
the leading magazines, and then. interyallo
longo, the other daily newspapers. The
Times. like the other London papers, buys
a great deal of matter from outside writ
erS.
Brentano's will publish in October a VOL
ume of devotional readings for every day
Of the year designed to satisfy a need that
is felt among sDiritually-n,inded Israelites.
The title of the book IS sun and Shield"
and its author DR.. Gustav Gottheii. the
afAi nf Tern IN n
avenue New York city. There are three
hundred and sixty-six readings
Peter S. Newell, whose unique illustra-
lions for "a House-boat on the Styx'' and
in the back pages OF the magazines have
marked him as artist of striking in
dividuality has made a book called "A
Shadow Show, which is something like
the Topsy eTurvy books which Mr.. Newell
issued several years ago. 1t consists Of a
number of pictures printed in color, which.
when held IN TO the light and reversed,
produce a startling effect upon the OBJ
server
Literary items of recent news by the New
York Tribune's London correspondent:
Mr. Ruskin's health has improved during
the summer to such extent that he is
now revising some of his earlier works 0
his home among the lakes. Mr.. Andrew
Iangss biography of Lockharf, on which
he has been at work a long Time Will be
published in October. Lockhart. while best
known as the biographer of Sir Walter
Scot. was intimate with famous men of
his time. and in correspondence with many
OF them He left great mass OF literary
material OF which Nh. Lang has made full
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
SCIENTIFIC.

The worlds population is said to average
10q women TO every hundred men, while
eighf-ninths of the sudden deaths are of
males.
The light OF the gloN-worm has been
found capable of penetrating blackened
paper and affecting a sensitive plate un-
derneath-
The bacterici6sal power of the blood is
found by NJ. Loudon to be reduced by want
of food but increased by doses of sodium
bicarbonate.
The great success of models in teaching
botany has inspired a Berlin firm to make
geological models Of PAPER mache and
other suitable materials Among such
models shown at the Berlin exhibition has
been one of the common house fly. which
il thirty times life size and very accurately
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
First Lesson i'm Gambling.

Last Monday a well-knovn citizen gave
his son, who is nine years old, some change
with which to purchase school supplies at
a store near one of the school buildings in
the city. At the store, which is so marked
to indicate that school supplies are sold
there, this boy was told that if he would
put one of his nickels in slot he might
get three and would certainly get five
cents worth of candy. He did as was sug-
gested. He did not get the three nlckels
he was led to expect but did get a small
package of candy. Other pupils of his age
and little older were looking on. There,
under the shadow Of a schoolhouse, in a
store to which he was sent to purchase
school supplies, this carefullyreared child
was given his first lesson in a game of
chance. In this case the boy had never
before heard of such a thing but in d
store to which respectable people go and
to which school children are sent by their
teachers to purchase such little articles as
they need, that boy was given his first les
son in games of chance.
Tt will be said that in a city, sooner or
later, the boy will learn about such things
This is probably true; but it is also true
that the most of the places where any sort
of gambling is carried are places of
questionable resort and not those to which
parents and teachers send children to pur-
chase school supplies. Such a place carries
q responsibility which makes the practice
much more mischieVous as a teacher than
those places against which parents warn
their children 1t may be said that gam
bling is taught to scores of small boys, as
in that instance, almost with the sanction
of the school authorities and of parents
who send their children there to buy school
JornI1 n Nv he fer Of
parents who give change to their children
to purchase supplies do not know there is
q gambling device at such a place Many
boys will not tell their parents of their
mishaps with the slot machine. but will
stand about seeing others try their luck,
sometimes getting three nickels for one
and always a package of candy. The re-
suit is that many will learn the first les
sons in gambling at a place so respectable
as to make the evil appear of no conse-
quence. They will acquire desire for
gambling which will lead them, in some
instances, in after life, to seek to practice
it in other places.
It is not necessary to add that any de-
vice in the way of slot machine, or any
device which may escape the penalty of the
laws against gambling Devices is vastly
more Dernicious in it's consequences if
used in places SO respectable that children
are sent to them, than if used in places
where older persons use them rather as a
diversion than in the expectation of gain.
The shops where they were used a few
months ago gave them UP when the pro-
prietors We're appraised that their use was
a violation of law Why should anything
of that sore be permitted in a store to
which children are sent to purchase school
supplies?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

use. DR.. Conan Doyle has finished at
Haslemere, where he is building his future
home. the manuscript of new historical
novel of the French Empire. 1t will have
pre- y
The following is Lillian Writings pen
sketch of lola: His hair ana beard are
dark; his eyes deeply blue, serene and star
ry. There are serenity and noble purpose
on his brow and sweetness in his lips His
dress is exquisitely neat and fitting. His
that kind of sympathy that co.nprehends
all, pardons ALL at a glance. If one We're
IN sorrow or sin, could imagine his find
Ing in NJ. lola the ideal friend, the per-
feet helper. His manner is so gentle, so
wiLniES, so irresistibly beautiful in an in
descr1bably tender and delicate regard He
inspires respect, admiration, enthus assn. !
al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

When Mr.. Watson became q PoDulist it
is said that he sold his law library; now
that Mr. SewaH has made bid for Popu-
listic support in his Boston speech, which
is a more vehement appeal to classes than
any of Watson's, he Chr. SewalD should
follow out the example of Watson to the
end He should sell his bank stock. re-
SIGN the presidency of his national bank
and retire from the corporations in which
he has been a potential figure. For a
third of a century Mr.. Sewall has been
man of corporations, banker, maniDu-
lator of railroad properties, if not a wreck
err, and the builder and owner of ships
a listed, grasping money maker. If
he has not five millions it is not because
others have made them. In his ships, as
reported by the organ of the sailors union,
in San Francisco more sailors have been
cruelty treated than in any similar number
on the ocean. If the names and the cases
were not set forth in that record this state
has made much of his wealth through cor
porations, Mr.. Sewall comes To Boston, aft
err being outvoted by four to one in the
city in which he was born and has always
lived. and makes frantic appeals TO the
crowd TO show TO the country that he is a
fit man to stand with Bryan for the votes
of Ponnlists. Boston was not a favorable
place to declare the Reputation OF silver
ism. for In that city are some Of the largest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
LITERARY IMPOsTORS.

Literary circles are interested in a
swindle which has been perpetrated
on Munsey's Magazine. Somebody calling
herself Grace Stewart Reid sent to that
publication a short story entitled Sarah
Crews Little Came 1t was accepted
published in the September issue and quick
Iy recognized by numerous readers as iden-
teal in everything except the title and
names of the characters with a tale print
ed in Harpers Magazine last year with
the name of Margaret Sutton Briscoe at
tached as author The boldness of the
fraud is what surprises most persons, and
indeed it is difficult to understand how
anyone would risk the attempt to palm off
a stolen production, especially one that APP
peared so recently; but editors, neverthe-
less, become well acquainted with the fact
that such attempts are by means un-
common. Magazines, newspapers and every
periodical of any literary standing need to
be constantly the alert for such
frauds. Probably contributors of verse are
the most numerous of these impos1tions I he
motive of the theft is not always plain, for
many publications, finding poetry drug
in the market, do not pay the authors of
original offerings, considering, probably,
that their reward is in being brought be-
fore the world. In some cases known to the
Journal there is reason to suspect that the
contributors of the stolen matter were
each moved by a wish to impress certain
individuals perhaps one particular in
dividuaI, with belief in their intellectual
abilities In other cases they seek the cash
sci inc a
matter that close watch for imposition is
necessary. The wonder is that editors are
not oftener deceived. There are no antholo-
gies covering the mass of modern verse, and
it is beyond the power of any one reader
of manuscripts to read all the stories in all
the periodicals. Editorial regret and en-
barrassment follow the discovery that
fraudulent story poem has been printed,
but the shame is upon the perpetrator, not
the publisher.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

II appears by comparison of the sta
tistics of the Grand Army and the Pension
Bureau that the deaths Of members of the
former did not Increase by nearly so large
a ratio in the year past as did those of men
on the pension rolls. During the past three
years the deaths of members of the Grand
Army have not increased very preceptibly,
while those on the pension list have. This
would indicate that the Grand Army en-
braces the veterans whose conditions for
long life are more faYora BILE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

What is the meaning of this harangue?"
asked a listener in the crowd which heard
Bryan's speech at Philadelphia. Fifty
three cents for us instead of a dollar" was
the response of a weaver who also a
listener. AS answer it could not have
been euuaIed in columns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
THE IyDIANAPoLrs JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YOItk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGo-Palmer House and P Q. News Co..
2lf Dearborn street.
CINCINNATI-J, K. Hawey & Co., l54 vine
LottSNfLLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 1856 Fourth avenue.
WAsHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbtt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and F street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

The Governor of North Carolina is in
hitting the appointment of delegate to at
tend convention at AshevilIe in October
for the purpose of selecting national flow
er. The people will settle that question in
November by selecting the goldenrod, or
flower of the same color. The Governor had
better postpone his meeting until it can rat
lily the choice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

President NJ. Z. ingalls,, of the Big Four
railway, has returned to Cincinnati from a
speaking tour in Virginia. where he reports
the sound-money sentiment growing rap
idly. OF the general situation he said to a
reporter: THE outlook for McIIinley's cleo
ton Is so encouraging that / have ordered
several thousand tons OF steel rails from
The Carnegie Company for both the Big
-Four and the c. & o. Mr.. Ingalls, spoke in
the Chicago Auditorium last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

No speech which has been delivered thus
far in Indiana will attract as much at
tention as that of Hon, Charles l.. Jewett
delivered at Columbus last evening. For
years one of the justly recognized leaders
of the Democratic party and one of it's
Rblest and most brilliant members, the
briefest speech which he should make ex-
pressing dissent from Democratic nation
al convention would be widely read in In
diana The Columbus speech is one in
which Mr.. Jewett displays his ability and
states, with great force and candor his
reasons for taking his present attitude, and
1t Will be read and discussed by thousands
In Indiana. where he is SO widely known
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Chicago has a new and from all ac-
counts valuable addition to her art treas
ures in a fine bronze statue of Hans Chris
tan Andersen, the great Danish poet, now
elist and childrens story teller. The funds
for the monument were contributed by
Danish Americans throughout the United
States, and the work was done by Gelert,
q Danish-American SCULPTOR of Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Nearly all the larger papers Of the coun-
try are against Mr.. Bryan, yet never have
the speeches of candidate been so fully
given. Yet Mr.. Bryan berates the press
because it will not support the cause of
his masters, the silver mine owners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

If Bismarck is a convert to real bimetal-
lism he may yet be able to do something in
his old age TO induce the German govern
ment to favor scheme for international
binetaIlism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Probably before Mr.. Bryan leaves New
England he will claim the Mayfiower immi-
grants the Puritan fathers, the founders
OF Massachusetts Bay and all the early
Governors of the colony as advocates of
free silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
The Revolt in the Sernglio.

PaIlid, yet firm, with the light of the New
Era shining in her eyes the fourteenth
wife of the Pasha of Boomtarara stood be-
fore her lord.
Il will be your slave no longer she said.
81 shall demand a separation,
The Pasha smiled. '.Yusef,' said he, to
the functionary with the snickersnee, will
YOU kindly separate the lady? Just above
the shoulders
And thus was the new woman movement
nuenched in its incipiency
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

1t is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
1t is said Senator Teller gives as much time
in his speeches to protection as he does to
free silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln
and Henry Ward Beecher have all been
misquoted or misrepresented as favoring
the Pcpocratic platform, but none of them
ever spoke or wrote a word to justify the
11cfr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
An Illustration.

what is this monopolistic press that Mr..
Bryan is so angry att" asked the Sweet
Young Thing.
1T is when young man hugs the same
girl all evening, said the Sophisticated
Youth, and the Sweet Young Thing said
she really could not see why Mr.. Bryan
was SO foolish
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

savings institutions In the country, or in
Massachusetts. In which State there were,
according to the last returns, f.247.o9o de-
positors in savings banks. owning deposits
aggregating s4ls,77 ,o1s. Now that Mr.. Sew
all has made his bid for the Populistic
vote, Mr.. Watson must look to his laurels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

was that of yesterday. minorities will
cheerfully submit to the majorities, par
ticularly where all are agreed upon the
principles to be sustained
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Nothing worse could be said of candidate
SewaIl than that his PopuIistic speech at
Boston shows he is a fit running mate for
candidate Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

OF the five Union veterans who are
making speeches together, General Howard
has lost one arm, General Sickles one leg
and Corporal Tanner both legs. They may
be said to be stumping the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Renarfee.

Jaw you amt so hot said the youth
with the cigarette
HUH answered the youth with the bad
cigar. IT amt seen your picture on no.
buttons, neither.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

The legislative ticket nominated by the
Republicans yesterday is one which will
prove acceptable to the voters of the coun-
~ and district Mr. r. O. Hawkins. with
his knowledge of the affairs and the needs
OF the State, will make a useful Senator
Mr. Hugg, one of the county candidates for
the Senate, is man who has commended
himself to the people by his integrity as
well as his practical ability. He is familiar
with the interests Of the county. Without
particularizing, the candidates for the
House are men whose reputation is an as
surance that they will serve the State and
the county faithfully. In all conventions
xhere are many who must be disappointed.
but In convention so fairly conducted as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
A Very Light Weight.

II was just talking with Biffs, the pugi-
list
..Biffs? Lemme see. Biffs. He is heavy
weight, isn't he?"
Heavy weight nothing. He is an extreme
light weight. Doesn't fight above whis-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

The Republican press, with great unanim-
fly, denounces the students of Yale for
interfering with Mr.. Bryans speech in New
Haven.