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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
FIRST USE OF GUNPOwDER.
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People outside of military life who have
no connection with the making OF gum
powder know IL only as a coarse. black
powder like sand, which will flash off with
Kind and set on fire. 1t is very queer
mixture made up OF three simple and WELL
known substances, no one OF which VIII
explode, although two will burn. No one
knows when or how IL was discovered. for
as far back to the dark ages as records or
traditions will carry US we find that gum
powder, though not used for guns. was
known. 1t was, no doubt looked upon
with awe and fear by the ancients on ac-
count of its flame its noise and its rend-
ing force. but their limited mechanical
skill could suggest very little use for it
Possibly il was used in warfare long
before the beginning of history. but the
first man in historical times to form an
this awful, bursting, fiery substance
might produce was an English monk
named Roger Bacon. Monks in his day
the world, and this Roger Bacon travelled
and studied much and made continual ex-
periments in his laboratory TO prove for
from Others. He probably saw gunpowder
among the Moors i'm Spain and tried for
himself it's explosive effect. The he wrote
of it's composition i'm the year 1861, and in
his writing suggested that IL could be
used in engines Of war to deal death and
destruction to armies of men.
Soon after Roger Bacon,s time his sug-
EestionS were taken up and guns were con-
structed, first by binding iron bars to-
gether with hoops to form a tube. then by
casting a tube out of brass with one end
closed. Stones of suitable size were Sc
lected as shot, and the powder had to be
carried around in chests or barrels and
shoveled into the muzzles OF the guns. In
spite of these drawbacks, very large guns
were built, for there was one used by Mo-
manned II against the Greeks at the siege
of Constantinople in 1853, which threw a
stone weighing 600 pounds distance OF one
m
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

ring. of course. to Abraham Lincoln's Get
tysburg speech. General Darlington evil
IDENTIFY intends TO imply that he was the
author of the phrase used by Lincoln, who
said: This Nation. under God shall have
n new birth OF freedom, and that gov
eminent Of the people. by the people, for
the people. shall not perish from the
EARTH" One must look further back than
General Darlington for the origin. Of the
phrase. Daniel Webster. in a speech in
the Senate in 1890. spoke of 1.-The peoples
government, made for the people. made by
the people and answerable to the peo-
DIE" Disraeli makes a character in one
of his novels say: From the people and
for the people all springs and all must ex-
ist." The idea IS obvious enough, and may
have been used by others. Certainly it
did not originate with General Darlington.
Its immortality is owing to the apt phrase
ology and Incompatible framing which
Lincoln gave it. though it is not likely he
ever saw it in print before he used it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
sPAsMODIC ATTACKS ON SIN.

At the risk of displeasing estimable ladies
engaged in organized reform work the
Journal feels impelled to express it's disap-
prevail of the slum crusade INDUCED in by
the W. c. T. L. sisters in ST. Louis last
week. This organization, while holding a
convention there. celebrated the occasion
by invading the tough portion of the city
at night and preaching and praying to the
men and women found in the evil resorts
which they entered unceremoniousy. Every
disreputable house in the worst district was
visited, and the inmates exhorted to aban-
don their immoral courses and lead good
lives. While one party of the w. c. T. U.
members was engaged with the fallen wom-
en- another party secured the "Tenderlon'
district, Dope alley and other delectable
regions where saloons abound. swooped
down on these Joints in resistless fashion
and unanimously urged the men they met
to reform 1t is reported that saloon keep
ers and depraved women wept profusely
during these visitations. and it seems likely
that they might have done SO, but it is a
question with observant spectators of such
episodes whether the visitors did not lose
more than the sinners gained in the two
nights devoted to the crusade. Such spas
modic onslaughts on sin seldom have per-
manent results; it is the testimony of mis-
sionaries who have labored long and faith
fully among the degraded inmates of low
resorts that they emotional and ex-
citable as a class, eagerly seeking new sem
sations and finding temporary entertain
ment in a lively religious exhortation, she'd
ding tears readily in response, and as
quickly forgetting them and their cause. A
crusade Of the kind described is a diver
sion to them, as it is in another sense to
the women who carry it on. With no in
tention to belittle the good done by wom-
ems reform organizations, the fact never
theless remains that the excitement con-
nected with the work is one of the ele.
ments of it's fascination The w. C. T. u.
has. no doubt. done much good in the way
OF keeping alive the sentiment in favor of
temperate living, but when women who
teach temperance make midnight raids on
all sorts of dives as a elimination of
their weeks convention work they are not
living up to their teachings. 1t is not a
temperate proceeding, but is an emotional
orgy; the man who fills himself up with
bad whisky and makes night of it is not
INDUCING in more of revel so far as the
effect on his nervous system is concerned.
1t Is not reform work, it is dissipation, and
the w. c. 7. U. does not establish itself
more firmly in public confidence by en-
gaging in such undertakings. The women
who take up their abode in the slums of
great cities. and by qufet example and
tactful precept seek to bring their neigh
bors to right living. are not more earnest
in welldong than the spasmodic sisters.
perhaps, but the good results are infinitely
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

The proceedings of the University Exten-
sion Conference here during the past week,
though of general import and application,
served well as an introduction to the
sons local work. The aims and methods
of this modern educational movement were
so clearly and forcibly set forth by the
speakers at the various sessions that it's
extent and Importance must have been i'm
pressed upon the attention of many who
have heretofore shown but a languid inter-
est in the undertaking. The public has
been slow to comprehend that university
extension is simply carrying of tie college
to the people who cannot go to the college,
and that by the people is meant, not
alone young men and women of school
age," but all of whatever years who desire
to take advantage of university facilities
and to keep pace with the intellectual de-
velopment of the period. The formation
within recent years of innumerable literary
clubs, so-called. shows the prevalence of
the belief that education should be a con-
tinuous process through life, but that the
education may be undertaken in system
attic and formal way by any who will. and
that the lectures Of one year are not spo-
radio disconnected courses, but part of a
great plan, are ideas but slowly compre-
hended The conference however, must
have done much to make the truth plain
and to increase the interest in the local
programme. indianapolis is fortunate in
again securing the services of Professor
Richard G.. Moulton, who opens the term on
Tuesday evening with the first of a course
of lectures Shakspeare's tragedies. MIR.
Moulton came from England with an estab-
lished reputation as a university extension
lecturer, and since his connection with the
Chicago University professor of ltera-
ture has become so well known in the same
field of labor that he is sought for by all
who arrange an extension course. He has
recently attracted attention in literary and
religious circles by his literary interpreta-
tons Of the Bible, which. as student and
scholar of wide learning. he is well qualified
to give. But with all his learning, probably
because of it. his lectures have the peculiar
charm of not being pedantic. but of bring
ing out the beauty of masterpieces Of liter
allure in n way that gives them new value
even to those who are also students. This
is partly owing to his sympathetic insight
which gives him enthusiasm for his subject,
and partly to remarkable gift for dra-
matte expression. 1t is said of him that he
makes people think. and this is surely the
most desirable requirement teacher Of
any range can have. Under his leadership
the indianapolis extension work opens most
auspicicusly.
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There is trouble in. Glen Cove. Long ISL
and, because alta reception to introduce
the school teachers to. the public only those
were invited whe wqreI known to possess
the ordinary spiketail coat, usually known
as the dress coat Those in charge of the
affair who turned it lntSSa dancing party,
deny the charge, but Declare that only
those who were known to possess the regu-
lation uniform of the hotel waiter were
present or even invited. : If the practice
of Glen Cove, Long island should become
the law of socidty, 1T Would come about
that any person twhos coald purchase such
a suit could consider himself a member of
the best societyn jThis wStald exclude those
who rent such tIotfifng lat rather ex-
orbitant figure for an occasional appear
ance in society. Furthermore. should the
Glen Cove, Long island, distinction become
a precedent, the society blue-book should
contain a list OF the gentlemen in COM
munity who can prove proprietorship to a
Spiketail coat.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Howells's new novel, THE Ragged
Lady," is to appear in Harpers Bazaar, ana
his novelette, "A Pair Of Patient Lovers"
in Harper's Magazine.
Mr.. S. l.. Ollif, manager Of the Phoenix
Publishing Company. London, is to bring
out The Woman's Bible in England. The
second part Of the book is III preparation.
Rodney Stone is the title of Conan
Doyles new novel, to be put out by the
Appletons. George Prince of Wales and
Beau Brummel are characters in the book.
The Taller is authority for the state
ment that Miss Jeanette Glider. editor
of the Critic is about to establish a
monthly magazine similar to the Critic in
character The latter paper will not be
discontinued.
Mr.. James Bryce's Impressions of South
Africa" will soon be published by the Gen.
fury Company. Readers who have sup
posed that this work would contain only
the papers already published In the maya
zine will be glad to know that eight new
chapters have been added. =
The latest sensation in the literary world
is the appearance of daily paper, The
Taller devoted to chronicling gossip
about books and authors, notices and criti-
cisms of books, and certain original es-
saws. The making and publishing OF this
little paper which is geographically adj
mirable. show much ingenuity and energy
What promises to be one of the most in
teresting books of the present publishing
season in London is Field Marshal Lord
Roberts's "reminiscences of forty-one years
of military life in India, from Subaltern
to Commander-in-chief." The work, which
has been for many months in preparation,
will be published during the next few
weeks.
The library of the late William Morris
will be sold by his executors. Though not
large, it is very valuable. Astounding In
illuminated manuscripts. medieval missais
and psalters and the earliest printed wood
cut books. Morris bought books for their
beauty as we'll their rarity The collec-
ton really belongs in the British Museum,
but ii is not likely that IT Will be saved
from tie public auction room.
Nora Hopper is an Irish woman Of some
years of experience who has rather recent
w come into a larger popularity than was
at first her portion. Her themes are drawn
from the folk lore and fairy lore of her
native land, and whether she puts them
into verse. in her latest volume. called
Under Quicken Boughs. or Celebrates
them In such tales as appeared In her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

People who go to Italy and to southern
California are people with leisure to observe
the natural phenomena surrounding them
in those places. Hence it is that hear
SO much of the blue Italian skies and Of
California's glorious climate. In Indiana
this fail we have had weather not to be ex-
,celled by that of the Pacific coast and skies
than which none can he found the wide
world over bluer or more beautiful Yet We
hear little of the delightful days which have
fingered with US so long and are but slowly
advancing into winter The reason is not
lack of power to appreciate, but an absorp-
ton in other concerns that leaves 20 time
for the enjoyment of autumns charm.
Even the wheelmen, in the soft Indian sum-
mer just now mergedilinto rain, had no
thought, seemingly. but for the condition
of the roads and Of their. tires. Doubtless
the most careless among us have uncon-
sciously felt soma of the charm of an unu-
sually beautiful seas0natfew have profited
by 1t to the utmost. AG,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Variety is the spice of life, but it isn't
much good in a poker hand-Puck
Before Jesus told any man to love his
neighbor as himself he showed him how.
Rams Horn.
If you can make another man believe
that you know more than he does you are a
genius.-Puck.
A mother wouldn't steal her own child.
but we often see her kid napping.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Everyone complains of the badness of
his memory. but nobody of his judgment.
La Rochefoucauld.
That Christmas is approaching with hasty
foot is seen already in the stocking of the
stores.-Philadelphia Times
A woman will walk by dead dog in the
street with tears in her eyes and three
stuffed wrens on her Mathew York Press.
There's one great drawback to a fiat"
whats that?" You have no attic to put
things you don't want in.''-Chicago Record.
Just because you see man doing some
thing foolish now you can't be sure that
he is paying an election bet.-Boston Globe.
An exchange announces on the death of
a lady that 'she lived fifty years with her
husband, and died in confident hope of a
better life."-TeXas Sitter.
Somehow we never feel that we would
like 10 pursue an acquaintance with the
girl after We have heard her use tine word
''erstwhie. "-Atchison Globe.
There is a great joke on an Atchison
preacher His wife put counterfeit quar-
ter In the collection basket yesterday with
out knowing it--Atchison Globe
Il may not be very wealthy, but / can
afford my own carriage and pair" said
the fond father. as he wheeled his twins
along the sidewalk.-Yale Record.
IT is said by astronomers that the In
habitants of Mars are very much like our
own folks. This accounts for the beautiful
red with which somebody has painted the
planet.-Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

If the Kansas Legislature should do so
idiotic thing as to make Mexican silver
dollars a legal tender in, that State Con-
gress can easily nullify the act. The Con-
stitution says that mo State shall make
anything but gold and silver coin a legal
tender in payment of debts" but it also
says Congress Shall have power to regu-
late the value CT foreign COIN" Ii the
Kansas Legislative should make Mexican
silver dollars legal tender in that State.
Congress could pass ana act fixing their
value at so cents. ana that would settle it.
The Constitution of the United States is
not so easy to cifcumvent as some people
think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

an Inferior people in the land where Bud
dhism has been preached. The spread OF
the Christian religion has kept pace with
all human progress nearly two thousand
years. 1t is the religion of the potential
nations of the earth to-day. The name of
Christ is that of leader and teacher TO
more intelligent and humane people than
all other religious teachers The clearer
and more intelligent the conception of
his character and his teachings, the higher
is that people in the scale Of CIVILIZATION
not the few, but the masses Christs is the
religion which presents evidence of its vital
power Has it outlived its usefulness that
IL should no longer be preached?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

eign-born are 30.77 per cent; in Connecti-
cut. 24e0: in New York. 1913; in New Jer-
sey. 22T; in Pennsylvania, 1905; in Illinois.
22.o1: in Michigan. 1881: in Wisconsin, 30.7S;
In Minnesota, $3.50; in Iowa, 1885; in
North Dakota, Ass per cent. Thus it APP
pears that the States which gave the most
emphatic Mckinley spluralities contain by
far the largest proportion Of foreign-born
population in the country. On the other
hand. the States in which the American
stock has been least affected by immigra-
ton. like Virginia, South Carolina, Geo--
gia Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri, gave
the largest pluralities for Bryan. These
facts afford foodfor reflection which may
lead natives who have claimed superiority
not to make such claims as loudly as they
have in the past
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22
Tributes to Women.


Where women are. the better things are
There is no jewel in the world so valuable
as a chaste and virtuous woman.-Cer-
vantes.
Woman is the Sunday OF man: not his re-
pose only, but his joy-the salt OF his life.
-Michelet.
A woman has this quality in common
with the angels-that those who suffer be-
long to her.-BalZac.
emies that show. contain, and nourish all
the world.-Shakspeare.
Next to God. we are Indebted to women,
first for life itself. and then for making 1t
worth living.-Bovee.
God has placed the genius OF women in
their hearts, because the works Of this gen.
Jus are always works of love.-Lamartine.
There is in every true womans heart
spark of heavenly fire. which beams and
blaZes in the dark hours OF adversity.-W.
Irv7ng.
A good and true woman is said 10 resem-
worth and sweetens its tone.-O. w.
Holmes.
Woman was taken out of man; not out OF
his head to top him, nor out of his feet TO
be trampled underfoot: but out OF his side
TO be equal TO him, under his arm TO be
protected. and near his heart TO be loved.
M. Henry
The buckling on of the knights armor
by his lady's hand was not a mere caprice
of romantic fashion. 1t is the type of an
eternal truth that the souls armor is never
well set to the heart unless woman's
braces il loosely that the honor of man
hood fails.-John Rusk!n.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

1t has been demonstrated that Spain can
not hold Cuba, and cannot give it stable
government. even if it Shall be able to
put down the present Instruction. This
being the case, the question for the United
States to decide IS whether it will interfere
to secure to the island stable and friendly
government, orlieave Spain, already bank
rupt, to sell the island to some European
power. Even if regard for the Cubans,
for their heroics struggle FOR independence
from a rule which has always been arbi-
trary and hostile to the interests of the
island, did not lad this government to in
terfere in its Behalf self-interest should
suggest that we put an end to the conten-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

liam Simns, an English minister. who has
resided at Kingston for the past twenty
years. 1T has a pleasant and salubrious
climate. and the weather doesn't get so
intolerably hot as II does in the summer
season in the United States. The bulk OF
the population is OF the negro race. and
negroes perform nearly all OF the manual
labor of the island. Nearly all OF them
own their own homes
'All tropical fruits are raised in abund-
ance. and the revenue from their export
is considerable. The Blue Mountain cof-
fee of Jamaica is said 10 be the finest in
the world. and commands a fancy price in
Europe. After the disaster TO the orange
crop in Florida two winters ago a good
many people who were among the sufferers
there came TO Jamaica TO engage I'm grow
ing that fruit, and all OF them have fine
prospects of repairing their former losses.
The greatest improvement Of recent
times in Jamaica Is the building of a line
OF railway to the coast by an American
company, which will give the planters easy
transit for their products. Kingston which
has population OF about $1,000. has one
OF the finest harbors in the world"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

Thousands of criminals have been con-
yicted on the evidence of footprints and
some by hand marks, but Pittsburg fur
nishes the first case of one convicted by
the marks of his teeth. A horse was en-
tered in that city few nights ago and the
burglar varied his operations by taking a
bite out of piece of pu3Apkin pie. leaving
it partially consumed The police made a
measurement and the piece was carefully
preserved on ice while they hunted for the
man who bit it. He was finally found, and
on a preliminary examination his teeth
were found to fit the marks in the pie so
exactly that he was held>fo trial. Proba-
bly, he would rather have been bound over
to keep the piece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

rumor is current in Berlin that will in
teTsify the i'll feeling engendered by the
recent killing of a civilian by an officer
who imagined he had been insulted. The
rumor is that the Emperor, in conversation
with certain officers recently, said: Keep
TO your casinos while drinking and never
move among civilians in a semi-tipsy con-
dition. Avoid rows. but IL you are forced
TO use your weapons. do it thoroughly
That sounds so much like the Emperor that
many persons will believe he said it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

Those who attribute TO the foreign-born
voter most of the ills of this country can
not. If they were for sound money. find evil
dence to sustain their opinion in the late
election. The proportion Of foreign-born TO
native population by the last census was,
in round numbers, 10 TO S.. The States
which have the largest foreign-born ele-
ment gave the largest Mckinley plural-
ties New Hampshire where McKinley's
plurality was ten times the ordinary Re
publican plurality, had a population in
1890 OF which 1921 per cent. was foreign
born. In Massachusetts, where the Nc
Kinley plurality was greater than the Bry-
an vote. 1886 per cent OF the population
IS foreign born. In Rhode Island the for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

The Dairy and Food Commission in Michi-
gan, which is looking latter the purity of
the food which the people of that State
eat, has just reported that thirty-five out OF
fifty-nine articles tested were pure and free
from adulteration. or the other twenty
four articles some contained only the very
least innutritious matter and sometimes
substances injurious to health. The adul-
terated articles are confined to ground cof-
fee. cream Of tartar, molasses and mus
tard. With the exception of coffee and
molasses, no other article, properly speak
ing, which was adulterated could be used
as food, but rather in the preparation OF
food. The adulterants of molasses were
glucose and corn syrup, which are probably
harmless. This report like others which
have been made recently. would indicate
that the charges of very general food aduI-
teration are without foundation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

A dispatch from Greensboro. n. c., says
that since the election every cotton mill
in the State has resumed operations. some
OF them on double time and there are be-
tween fifteen and twenty new mills in
course of construction in the two Caro-
nnas- At the present rate of progress it
will not be many years till the principal
seat Of the cotton manufacturing industry
will be In the South.