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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

floor" Mr.. Belasco grew very animated
in his talk to the jury. Sometimes" he
said. 'fn order TO get a real. genuine
emotion. 1 would seize her by the hair,
throw her down. slap her face. beat her
head against the f1oor-Ah.' / would
then say, there, you struck it. But,
alas, the next day she would come down
and her expressions would. be as wooden
and unnatural as ever. and I would have
to do my work all ver again" This
was very trying, no doubt. to the distin-
guished art instructor. to say nothing of
the unfortunate woman being coached.
but the hardest labor came when he es-
sayed to teach her how 70 weep. In do
ing this, and in showing the varying de-
grees Of grief and motion properly
manifested in given emergencies, such as
the death of a mother, a father, a hus-
band. it became necessary for the in
structor himself to weep. He said he
worked sometimes fifteen and seventeen
hours a day in teaching her emotional
strength left-until I was reduced to a
wet rag, as it were. trying to show her
how"
The spectacle presented to the sympa-
thetic Imagination of this gray-haired
gentleman weeping and tearing his hair
from fifteen to seventeen hours a day in
order to show the ex-society lady how to
weep in fifty different stylestfor he says
he taught her oyer fifty different roles,
most Of them tearful-is affecting in the
extreme. If Mr.. Belasco will only go on
the stage and do his all-around weeping
act. so,that all may see, he will be sure
of full houses, and will get his $65, 900 In
that way if he fails with the Chicago
angel" But hereafter the now enlight-
ened public will know that not a divorce,
nor shady morals. nor yet a society
career, one or. all, will qualify a.. woman
for theatrical success. She must be
trained. n the training involves the
beating of her head upon the floor and
the weeping to point of exhaustion of her
instructor. Verify. it is a rocky road up
the hill Of art.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07
TRAINING FOR THE STAGE.

h innocent aud unsuspecting public,
which only knows what it sees and be-
lieves what it is told, is naturally greatly
edited by the disclosures made by Mr..
David Belasco, playwright and dramatic
trainer, concerning his experience in
preparing Mrs. Carter for the stage. The
guileless and coniding people, who only
know the stage from across the foot
lights, have long noted the fact that a
woman who has figured in a sensational
divorce case or other scandal which
gives her newspaper notoriety, is apt to
bloom out as an actress very soon there
after, especially il she has also belonged
to the class known as society women"
The circumstance has also been observed
that the heralding OF such an actress by
her managers Is Of a loudness in exact
proportion to the offensiveness of the
scandal IN which she was involved and
her previous social rank. The afore-
said innocent public has wondered some
times how it happened that even the
mony have served to hide such histriohic
talent as these Divorces now suddenly
exhibit-according to their advance
agents, but in the absence of light on the
subject has been left to assume either
that the divorce court develops latent
dramatic gifts or that the accomplished
society lady is a good enough actress for
any stage. Belasco overturns this
theory at once and forever. He says he
was engaged by a capitalist Of Chicago,
who. in theatrical lingo. wa anxious to
figure as Mrs. Carriers angel" to train
hat lady for the stage, let the cost be
what it would. He figured tina it would
cost $50. ZOO, and it is the suit to collect
his sum which has brought out the In
teresting secrets OF the dramatic art. He
says the task he undertook was worth
every cent of the amount charged. He
told the jury that Mrs Carter was an
amateur, very crude, full Of mannerisms.
and, most Of all, a society II be-
gam he said, by showing her how to
enter a room. how to get out. how to sit
down and how to get up. how to read a
letter. / gave her muscular exercises. /
made her run and jump and wrestle.
Then ! had to get control Of her eyes by
seeing how long she could ook at a GER
tain spot, and how long it would take her
to get her eyes from the spot to the floor.
She had to take twenty minutes TO trans
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

The Spanish government is distributing
a pamphlet explaining Spanish rule in
Cuba and the laws governing the island.
1t is declared that the legislation Of the
island, meaning, of course, the legislation
in Spain for Cuba, has kept pace with
the most advanced nations, and the lib
critics of it's people rival those of the citi-
zens Of the most advanced democratic
nations. Cuba has thirteen senator's and
thirty representatives In the Spanish
Cortes. All citizens vote for members Of
the Spanish Cortes who either pay a tax
Of S. or hold a professional diploma or
university degree. The largest liberty is
secured to the residents Of Cuba which
includes freedom of the press, Of speech
and Of ~peaceable assembly. This may
all be true; still, the fact remains that
Cuba is Of the new era and Spain Of he
old, and tina Spain clings to Cuba, i'm
posing grievous taxes upon Cuba, by tar
if and otherwise, which go into the
treasury to support an aristocratic form
of government in Spain which is of no
use to the island. The connection between
Cuba and Spain is so unnatural that the
people of the island are FESTIVE under 1t.
That Cuba should be independent stands
to reason.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

A case has just been argued and is
now awaiting decision in the Supreme
Court of Michigan which has a close re-
this'city and the Citizens Street-railroad
Company. In the Michigan case the
controversy is between the Detroit Rail
way and the Detroit Citizens Street,
railway. The latter claims, under it's
franchise, to have the exclusive right to
cars are concerned, n that the only
way any other company can build a line
is to build it on such streets as the Citi-
zens' company declines to use. The De-
troit Railway and the city claim that
the city cannot grant an exclusive right,
this power being vested alone In the
State Legislature. In the lower court
the judges agreed with this contention
and refused to enjoin the Detroit rail-
way and the city from carrying the char
ter of the latter into effect. The real
point at issue is the validity OF the or
dinance granting the Citizens company
exclusive rights. 1t is the same old ques-
ton of a city tying its hands. and, after
many years. trying to get them united.
The charter ordinance Of the Citizens
company was passed in 1862, when De-
troit wanted street-railroad service bad
ly, and was willing to give everything
away to get it. Now she is trying to re-
cover some Of the rights recklessly sac
rificed thirty-five years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07
THE COMING SCHOOL ELECTION.

The large majority of the people Of this
city who are interested in the efficient
management of the schools and the bust
nesslike administration Of their financial
affairs should not forget that the election
of a number of members of the School
Board is near at hand. The other side,
the few who are interested in getting the
positions for improper purposes, are
wide awake. Those who make up that
element are making ~canvases. rallying
the voters who care nothing for schools,
and are otherwise scheming to secure
elections, to the end that they may make
a few dollars out of 1t or use the position
to promote political cliques. ALI these
candidates who are making saloon can
vases and a free use OF beer to interest
voters should not be elected. Any an
didate who expends money to any extent
to rally voters is necessarily suspected,
for the reason that reimbursement is i'm
possible unless he resorts to unworthy
measures and sacrifices the interests of
the schools. During the past four or five
years the management of school finances
has been s~candalous. Vicious contracts
have been made. excessive rates of inter-
est have been paid for loans, while not a
cent has been obtained for interest on
large balances. Some people nave made
considerable amounts of money out of
these transactions. hat they have done
so Is indicated by the fact that a year
ago, and this year, a certain class of can
didates have had money expended in
their interest.
There is a certain fitness which should
be looked for in candidates for the School
Board. The should be men who are in
terested in the public welfare-men of
character, intelligence and public spirit,
and to whose judgment people who know,
them would defer. No man holding q
city or county Office should be voted for.
There are not so few men qualified for
the Office of school commissioners that it
is necessary to make Poo-Bahs. No
man who processes a desire for high
grade public service can justify himself,
for instance. in voting against Mr.. Won
negut and for his opponent, who Is re-
ported to be resorfing to d~isreputable
methods. Men who nave the interests OF
the schools at heart should not permit
their votes to be frittered away upon two
| good candidates, and thereby insure the
| election of a man who will serve a clique
rather than the schools and the tax
| payers.
The issue Is between a small but grasp
ing element and the public welfare. The
few who are IN the contest from mer-
cenary considerations can rally h ig-
norant, the Idle and h vicious, but
| these are a minority unless the intelli-
| gent and decent men In the city aid them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

A portion Of he champions Of the free
coinage of silver at the present ratio
very positively claim that silver bullion,
which is now worth about SO cents an
ounce, will rise in price SO that the bull
lion in the silver dollar will be worth
as much as the gold lin a gold dollar
very soon after a free-coinage law shall
be passed. This means a rise from SO
cents to about $1.29 an ounce, the price
of silver when the metalAp the two dol
lars has the same commercial value.
This is bare assumption. and assump-
ton in defiance Of all the lessons Of his
tory. For instance. when the so-called
Sherman silver bill was passed in 1890
Senators Jones, Teller and Stewart were
confident that its operation would bring
silver to a par with. gold. There was
some reason to believe that this might
be the case, becauae Theh the govern
ment took 81. 200. 900 ounces a year it took
very near the output Of the American
mines. Was the prediction of the silver
Senators and the hope of the country
realized? The first effect of the law was
to advance the price of silver bullion to
$1.21 an ounce Aug. 10. 1890. but from that
point 1t began to fall. During 1891 the
average price was 9S -eents3an ounce. and
during 1892 it was 81 cents an ounce.
Here was a fall of 34scents an ounce be-
peal OF the Sherman purchase act. I'm
der the stimulus of this law the output
Of the silver mines in this country was
increased one-fifth in 1892 and one-third,
or so per cent, in 1893. Nor is this all:
while silver was fahipg from $1.21 an
ounce in 1890 to 81 cents IN 1892 India
was absorbing over SAG, o 900 worth of
production, however, was SO much in ex-
cess of the demand thai the price fell 80
per cent. in spite Of the $S5, 900, GOO worth
of bullion purchased by the governments
of the United States and India
In July, 1893. before the repeal OF the
Sherman act. the minis of India were
closed to silver because OF the fall of the
demand for silver by free coinage. not
only will the silver of the world now in
plate and deprecated coin come to us.
but the mines of the whole world will be
stimulated to beyond anything in the
past. and the result will be even a larger
increase of bullion han occurred be-
tween 1885 and 1898. Until 1880 the mines
of the world never turned out more tina
SOC, 900, 900 worth OF silver bullion in a
year. In 1858 the output Of the silver
mines was $40. 7os. 900; in 1892. $l96. 49,
OOO-an increase of 104 per cent. in twelve
years. which means that the output was
more than doubled.
While free coinage at the present ratio
would probably advance the price of sill
yer temporarily so hat the bullion in a
silver dollar would be worth IS cents, no
mar who considers the facts will main
tain the assumption that. independently
OF other nations. the United States can
bring the bullion value of a silver dollar
to that Of the gold one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07


through the neglect. OF eood citizens. the
disreputable win, they ARE negatively as
blameworthy as those WHO vote for bad
men from choice. The chief cause of ex-
t~ravaganca ineficiency and jobbery in
cities Is the inaction of men who are
otherwise good citizens." The chief
danger lies in the neglect of good citi-
zens' to take an active interest in the
management of local affairs. like the
election of school boards. It is time that
there should be a change, and a very
radical one. in this respect in this city.
1t is a duty which every patriotic man
owes to the community in which he lives.
to sacrifice time and ease to defeat the
schemes of that greedy and conscience
less element which seeks to control local
affairs solely that 1t may pocket public
money and bring the public service to
its own level.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07
SCIENTIFIC.

From many measurements, 1t appears that
the luminous clouds observed in central
Europe since 1885 have had a mean height OF
about hfty>one miles
A biueing soap is made by a French chem
ist for laundry use. A solution OF aniline
nary soap, the aikai Of the latter changing
the green to blue.
Calcium carbide. the remarkable new prod
uct from which so much Is expected as
a source Of acetylene. Is reported to have
been tried by a Paris physician. DR.. Guinard.
as a local application for cancer. the result
being relief and probable cure.
A process fer separating gold from sea
water at a cost OF 81 for each $4,000 OF
metal obtained. every ton Of water yield
ing 2 TO 4 cents worth of gold. is claimed
by Professor Hunicke. The calculated mass
Of the ocean being 1.32o. 00o. 00o.0 00.c 100
tons. the possibilities OF this new source or
wealth are open to computation
A new German substitute for glass paper
is called .'steel WOOL" and consists OF
threads of shredded steel having sharp cut
ting edges. Among the advantages claimed
are that it cuts more quickly and uniformly
than sandpaper. that IL does not gum or
clog, and that its Aexibil!ty adapts Ii for
smoothing elaborate carvings and other
uneven surfaces
A compound OF carbon and boron. produced
by heating boracic acid and carbon In an
electric furnace at q temperature OF 5000
degrees, has been found by NJ. Moisson to
be harder than the diamond It will even
cut the diamond readily, and Is likely TO
supers<de that substance for. boring rocks.
cutting glass and other industrial purposes.
1t can be produced In pieces OF any size.
The discovery has been made By Edward
zohrab that peat can be converted into
almost pure carbon. and that with this
moderate-priced fuel-free from phorphorus
and suiphur-better iron and steel can be
production Of arpsssr pl1t<s. = new departure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07
Editor Shanklin, in his speech at he
free-silver meeting Friday night, said:

Abraham Lincoln is the only one OF the
galaxy of Republican Presidents that any
Democrat need envy; If he were alive Today
he would be standing with the free-sllver
advocates, even IL he mad to get on a Demo-
cratic platform to do 1t.
1t is a common thing for living poll
ticians to attribute views to dead states
men and tell where they would stand if
they were alive. 1t is an easy i of
argument, if it car be called argument,
because the dead statesman is not able
to deny it, and it is not always sassy to
disprove it from his record. Mr.. Lin
coin has been claimed in this way by all
sorts of cranks, and has ven had words
put in his mouth expressing sentiments
which he never entertained. TIC say that
if he were alive to-day he would be
standing with the free-silver advocates
is 10 charge that he would ignore the
wide difference between the commercial
values of gold and silver, and would ia
vor the coming of silver dollars worth
only about one-half as much as the gold
dollar. No man ever lived who saw a
point more clearly than Mr.. Lincoln did,
or who chung more tenaciously to that
which was true, honest and right. To say
that if alive he would be standing with
the free-silver Democrats is to insult the
memory of a man who, in all his life.
never pandered to a false doctrine or
drew a dishonest breath.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

~rirations are impossible OF fulfllment
and must fade. and that the grind Of life
is destructive to the soaring hopes OF
youth, yet without them progress would
not be. They know that it is the ambi-
lions and energies of young manhood
and womanhood that make the, world
move Not ell their plans succeed, the
majority are not practical or practicable,
but, because the very hopefulness OF
youth is inspiration and incentive to
others. some OF them go on to ful1llment,
and the world is made better. Fortu-
nately these fiedgelings are SO absorbed
in their dreams of future achievement
that discouraging criticism affects them
but little, and doubtless the cynical but
really kindly critics know this, else they
would not speak. 1t is their experience.
not that Of others, that teaches them
what they can and cannot accomplish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

At Oberlin College a few weeks g
the seniors stole the class dinner Of the
freshmen. When it came the time Of the
seniors to feast the freshmen assailed
the dining hall with ~brickbats, followed
by several bottles Of carbon bisulphide.
an odor which no human being can with
stand. AS the result the seniors fed the
banquet with unappeased appetites. As
they came out one of their number was
seized by the freshmen n carried five
miles into the country and dropped. The
seniors rallied. and, seizing six freshmen.
carried them a dozen miles from town
and scattered them along the highway to
get back the best way they could. Sew
eral freshmen who followed on bicycles
to rescue their friends had their tires
punctured. Doubtless these seniors will
discourse on THE Dignity OF Life" in
their graduating orations next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. William Theodore Peters, who II
spoken of as "the w~ell-known young Ameri-
can poet" is giving readings in Paris
William Morris, the poet, ~rejoices in the
possession of a prodigious memory Given
a fair start on any sentence in Dickens,s
works he will complete that sentence with
very little deviation from textual accuracy.
Mrs. Oliphant, who spent the greater part
OF last winter in Paris. has recently re-
moved TO a pretty house near Wimbledon
common. She Is at present busily engaged
on her History OF the House OF Black
wood"
Sir Arthur Sullivan can command $500
for a song. and IL is said that from the
Lost Chord alone he realized the sum
of $50. 600. Some of Schuberfs beautiful songs
we're sold for about % cents each. and the
largest sum Handel ever received was SW-
The late Austin Corbin was tall. raw
boned. broad-chested. athletic. He was ex-
tremely active. always VI Ter a pressure OF
great nervous energy. never able 70 SIT still
He was impetuous and brusQue In manner,
but not unjust. and Re made the fortunes OF
many of those about him.
An amusing story Is told OF how the late
Shah fell asleep when he should have been
the chief guest at a reception. In Persia
they believe hat an awakened person suf.
A band was dispatched TO the Shah's resting
place. with special Instructions 10 the DIG
drum. The result was successful
II. A. Latimer. IN amateur photographer.
Of Boston. has just heard that eight OF the
ten pictures submitted by him to the Inter
Rational salon competition OF the Belgian
Photographic Society OF Brussels have been
accepted. One of the eight viii be inciuoea
In the edition Of tWenty-eixnt pictures Sc
lected from 900 submitted from AL ooun-
tries.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana. who has been q Ut
erary man as long as he has been . journal
LIST. a period OF more h nifty years. az
cribes his excellent health, his continued
mental vieor and activity, At . time when
most men have retired, mainly 70 bis never
allowing himself 10 BE- IN = hurry From ~
s atxs.,s Which d;as hes; e a 49, - s.<e9 81. "a tssn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

1t is an insult to this community for
the water works authorities to talk
about any further analysis OF the city
water. The time for analysis has
passed. The people know now HI they
have been deceived for years past. and
have been furnished water drawn direct
ly from a river which, while 1t may have
been comparatively pure at times. was
never entirely pure and often wholly un-
at to use. No analysis now can alter
the facts or furnish any guaranty for
the future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

The presence Of native troops from In
government oppose to the
Soudan for Egypt and thus get posses
sion OF the wide region to the sources OF
the Nile. This means fresh trouble for
france and Germany BY using Indian
troops. with British officers, it would
seem that the Ministry has full conf
dence that they can cope with the fierce
warriors OF the desert. who have once
driven the British out OF the Soudan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

Wheat went up a cent and a quarter
Friday in Chicago. There are those who
may attribute 1t to the slight advance in
silver bullion, but the sordid dealers de-
clare hat the bad condition Of the
wheat fields in Indiana, as reported by
the State Bureau of Statistics, caused it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

While a local Republican orator was
delivering a speech at Juneau. Alaska,
Friday evening. an avalanche occurred
In the vicinity that caused a great noise
and some confusion in the audience. The
Quick-witted orator turned the accident
60 account by saying: Just listen. Even
h majestic mountains of the north are
rejoicing. They wave their white caps
and are cheering for our illustrious
Major Mckinley" Not every man can
handle an avalanche as gracefully as
that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

It always makes a difference whose OK
is gored. When the French government
excluded American meats from France
on a trumped-up pretext 1t treated
American protests with polite indiffer-
ence. but when it finds that a retaiatory
order is being enforced for the exclusion
of Fr< h neat cattle and hides from the
United States 1t is swift to enter a for
NAL protest against such an embargo on
international trade. Their protest should
be safely ~pigeonholed until they rescind
their first offensive order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

The postal savings bank has proved a
most beneficial agency in France for the
promotion Of thrift. There are two sys-
TENS In that countryside municipal.
which is a Paris institution, and the
general postal savings banks. In both
az these there are more than a million
depositors In Paris alone. In 1893 the de-
posts in both aggregated $l5, 500. COO. Out
side Of Paris the deposits In 1898 were
>sz'ooo.ooo- Tie zane Il true Of Germany.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-07

While the Argentine Republic imports
less foreign merchandise than it did ten
years ago. its population has increased
80 per cent. The cause of this has been
h building up Of local industries and
h economy OF the people. The past
year the republics exports have exceed
ed its imports by $780, 900. 900. 1t is a
prosperous country. and 1t Is our rival in
the production of wheat.