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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13

a writer In the Forum discusses the sub
ject of Normal Good Times with "a view
OF determining what the country NAV ex-
pect i'm that direction. Those who have a
recollection will find it difficult TO name
period when the mass of people said of it
that IL was what is called good times"
There have been times which were worse
than others, but no time when all were
content with the existing conditions In
1882 the country was in an unusually pros
porous condition but the vote against con-
tinuing this condition was very emphatic.
In 1894 the country was confident that the
years 1891 and 1892 were years of the best
times the American people had seen in a
generation. In a word. the good times are
in the past tense while the present are
never satisfactory.
This country has passed through periods
of long depression and periods of general
business activity. The rapid settlement of
the newer States, the astonishing extension
of continental railways. the planting of new
industries in the older States TO supply
those in the newly opened country has ere
ated periods of unusual business and indus
trial activity even if the people have not
regarded them as flush times when they
were passing. But have no more lands
To open TO settlement and development.
There are no more continental Railways 10
build and no rapidly increasing population
I'm new countries 10 manufacture everything
for and no capital willing TO invest I'm
building lots for great cities yet in the i'm
agination of boomers or the charts of pro-
moters. Whatever good times we may have
must come from employment of the Ameri-
can people in a manner which will enable
them to purchase literally of the produces
OF industry. When employment is so fun
as TO make il possible for the employed To
consume the most OF the products of the
country we shall enjoy what can be called
normal good times" There never has
been and there never will be that sort of
good times which will insure the sort OF
employment that many will select In the
best OF times thousands cannot find tull en-
ployment because it is impossible for con-
dtions to exist that will afford that en-
ployment. There may. for instance, be
million OF men whose ability To earn wages
is confined TO the heavy and rough work OF
railroad building; at times they may be
employed, but IL is not possible that condi-
lions will exist which will call for the con-
struction of twelve or fifteen thousand
miles of railway a year. Even i'm a higher
range of employment the number of en-
| pIoyes can be much larger than good
| times i'm those departments OF effort can
absorb. The State whose schools For ths
preparation OF teachers and professional
men graduate twice as many as there are
/ places for will have large number OF I'M
employed In special lines OF effort in spite
/ OF the best times.
Normal good times is that period in which.
by the control Of the home market. en-
pIoyment Is given at fair wages I'm the pro-
duction OF all the merchandise the people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
A DISTINGUISHED INDIANIAN.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Cumback, Who Was I'm
the Thirty-FOurth Congress.
Washington Post.


Ex-Lieut. Gov. viii Cumback. of In
diana. arrived yesterday morning and is
at the Ebbitt House He is helping some
Of his Hoosier friends to secure something
from the administration He is a warm
and close friend of President Mckinley, and
did much TO swing Indiana into line for
him. He elected to Congress in 1874.
and a member of the Thirty-fourth
Congress. beating Holman. the great OBJ
jector. In 1860 he headed the electoral
ticket. canVasSed the whole State and cast
the first Republican electoral vote OF the
State for Abraham Lincoln. When the war
broke out in 1861 he enlisted in the first
call for troops as a private and went into
camp. President Lincoln. without any So
licitation sent him a commission as pay
master in the army. which position he held
until the close of the He soon
appointed in charge OF a district, and dur
ing the war he paid out S60.O00.OO0. and
when it closed he settled his accounts in
three days, thing never done either be-
fore or since. His business methods were
exact. Not a dollar of this vast sum was
lost to the government by fraud or mis-
take.
At the close of the war Secretary Stan
ton said he was the best officer in that
department. and not only had him bre-
Vetted for faithful services. but offered him
a position for life in the regular army.
This he declined. and went back TO large
law practice. lie was afterward elected 10
the State Senate. and by that body chosen
presiding officer and then elected Lieuten-
ant Governor in 1868.
In 1863 he was chosen by the Legislature
by an overwhelming majority on the first
ballot at the caucus for United States
senator. The other candidates were so in
censed at their defeat that they organized
a bolt and prevented his election by two
votes.
In 1870 President Grant offered him the
governorship of Idaho. which he declined,
and i'm 1871 the President offered him the
mission TO Portugal, which ne was COM
PEELED to decline on account of the condi-
ton of the health of his father and mother.
lie was then offered the collectorship of
the district which he accepted and col
mistake made i'm that district. President
and Judge Kincaid. to make treaty with
the Puyallup Indians, but private business
prevented his acceptance. He Is now and
has been for some years the president of
the Citizens National Bank of Greensburg,
! Ind. He has had perfect health all his
| life. abundance of energy and zeal for his
party, and has canvassed the State J,
| dozen more times, and has the conf
dence and respect Of the people of Indiana
| of all parties.
For the last few years he has been on
the platform lecturing in the best courses.
and has spoken in nearly all the States
and Territories of the United States. He
has published a volume of mis- ethical lee
| lures. which has had a large sale. He is
| a close friend of John Sherman. the secre-
| tary of state. and he called on his old
friend yesterday and very warmly re-
ceived. They were in the Thirty-fourth
Congress together. He will remain in the
city this week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13

of rope suspended over wheel In ths
roof. The opening In the wall at the head
OF the ladder Is closed at the time OF an
ladder leads and S Which e also can be raised
by pulley. In October the Spanish hope
to have calcium lights placed In the watch
throw searchnght over a quarter OF
mile or 10 the next blockhouse. and so
light the trocha by night as well as by day.
SPANISH MAN TRAPS.
AS a further protection against the in
surgents the Spaniards have distributed a
number OF bombs along the trocha. and
which they showed me with great pride
These are placed at those points in the
trocha where the jungle is less thickly
grown and where the insurgents might be-
expected TO mass
Each bomb Is fitted with an explosive
cap and five or six wires are attached 10
this and staked down on the ground. Any
stumbling over these wires eXplodes the
bomb and throws "A charge OF broken iron
10 distance OF fifty feet. How the Span
lardS are going TO prevent stray cattle ana
their own soldiers from wandering into
these man traps IL is difficult 10 fOresee.
As strictly military proposition the
trocha impressed me a weapon which
could be made TO cut both ways. What the
Spaniards think of IL is shown 10y the Carl
catures which appeared lately in Don
QuiNote. and which show the United States
represented by hog and the insurgents
trocha, while Weyler stands ready 10 turn
the Spanish lion on them and watch IL
gobble them up.
If the trocha were situated on broad
plain or prairie. with mile of clear ground
on either side of IL where the troops could
maneuver. and which would prevent the
enemy from stealing up 10 IL unseen, IL
might be a useful line of defense. But at
present along its entire length stretches
this impossible barrier OF jungle. Now. sup
pose the troops were sent at short notice
from the military camps along the line 10
protect any particular point Not less than
thousand soldiers would be sent forward
and what would be their condition If forced
To maneuver i'm space 10 yards broad.
and the half OF which is taken up with
barbed wire fence. fallen trees and ex-
plosve bombshells? Only two hundred at
the most could find shelter i'm the forts.
which would mean that eight hundred
would be left outside the breastworks and
scattered over a distance of half mile.
with an impenetrable forest on both sides
OF them. from which the enemy could fire
volley after voley into their ranks. while
they themselves would be protected from
pursuit not only by the jungle but by the
walls of fallen trees which the SpaniardS
themselves have placed there.
A trocha in an open plain. as were the
English trochas i'm the desert around Sua-
kim makes an admirable defense when a
few men are forced To stand off a great
many but fighting behind a trocha in n
Jungle is like fighting i'm an ambush. and
If the trocia at Moron is ever attacked in
force IL will prove 10 he the valley OF death
10 the Spanish forces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
MIR. sYMEs's GREAT VOICE,
And some Other Large Voices That
Have Been Heard i'm Congress.
Washington Post.


There is always some member of Con-
gress who possesses a voice far superior in
depth and volume TO that of any OF the
other members. which i'm itself serves TO
give the member possessing il a certain
reputation. In the present House this
voice is possessed by Marriott Brosius, OF
the Tenth Pennsylvania district. Mr..
Brosius has a faculty OF talking so loud at
times that the people in the galleries can
not distinguish what he says Another
Pennsylvania who possessed a similarly
powerful voice was the late w. ID. Kelley.
commonly known Pig Iron Kelley In
his day he held the voice record against
all corners until Charles III. Van Wyck, or
New York. who was afterward a senator
from Nebraska, appeared on the scene:
His voice was even greater than that or
Mr. Kelley. Back in the old days the great
est voice known to Congress was that or
the late William Allen of Ohio. whose
statue now stands i'm Statuary Hall at the
Capitol. IL is told of MIR. Allen when he
was in the House before the days OF rail-
roads that one of his colleagues left for his
Mr.. Allen lamented the fact that he had
taken his departure so soon. as he wanted
TO consult him about some MEASURE hs1 s WHEN
trouble you. Allen" said fellow-member.
He has not got across the Alleghenies
yet. Go out on the balcony and call him
back"
The greatest voice of which there is any
record tradition about Congress was that
possessed by George @. Symes, OF Colorado.
Symes who was good deal of "A character.
finally committed suicide. He was an
Ohioan by birth. but served IN the Union
army through the war in a Wisconsin reSl-
ment entering as private and coming out
as "A colonel. Most of his life after the war
was spent i'm the West in the Rocky noun
tain region. From 1874 he made his home
in Denver. Col He was a lawyer by pro-
fession and orator noted for his great
voice. Compared with 1t the below OF the
bull of Bashan' a gentle murmur. IL
was a deep. heavy bass proceeding seem
ingly from cavernous depths. Asked one
day about the reputation his voice had
him.
We'll. I'll tell you about it, and the
words rolled out i'm his deepest. heaviest
bass. You see, / out campaigning L
was addressing a Republican audience at
Silverton. over AT Orovie. twenty miles
distant the Democrats were holding a
meeting. Along about O'Clock there came
up one of the awful storms which occur in
that mountain country. The wind howled
like a million devils. 1t was especially bad
at Oroville. The people showed signs of
alarm and acted as If they wanted TO break
up the meeting and leave the hall. The
chairman. becoming anxious, arose TO re-
assure them. Ladies and gentlemen. he
said do not be alarmed. There is Re-
publican meeting over at Silvarton and
George Symes Is addressing IT. He has
Just come to that point in his speech where
he denounces the Mills tariff bill and the
noise you hear is the indistinct rumbling
| of his voice -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
CURRENT PERIODICALS,

The inside workings of a bank are we'll
described in the March Cosmopolitan by
exPostmaster General Thomas l.. James
The International Magazine (Chicago) for
March contains TRANSACTIONS from the
French German, Spanish. Italian and Nor
wegian authors. Brief biographical sketches
OF these foreign writer's whose work is re-
produced are also given.
Among the subjects discussed in English
magazines and reproduced in the March
Eclectic are The Political New Year"
Twenty Years OF Reviewing" The March
OF the Advertiser" The Individual Always
the Unit. The Blight in the Drama, -
The French in Madagascar The Molly
Maguires. Saint Edward. the Confessor'
Recent Science" and Thomas Hood.
Hypnotism has come TO "A point where
those who experiment with 1t dignity il
with the name OF science. and being a
science, il consequently needs "A literary or
gan. This is provided Ivy the Hypnotic
Magazine. issued in Chicago by the Psychic
Publishing Company. 1t discusses hyp-
possibilities. and also finds room for mat
tiers relating TO telepathy, clairvoyance and
other occult topics.
The National Magazine (Boston). which
is publishing the story OF Christ and His
Time" has as its frontispiece in the March
number reproduction OF the head of
Christ from Hofmann painting Christ
and the Rich Ruler. The article is illus
trated from paintings by Scheffer I.eonar-
do Da Vinci Murillo. Dore and others.
Considerable space is given up in this num-
Der 10 the description and illustrations of
the Tennessee centennial buildings.
among the valuable features in that ex-
cellent periodical the Inland Educator
(Terre Haute) Is a series of studies in In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
WHAT 1T COSTS TO RUN TRAIN.
Estimates and Figures on Railroad
Travel of Passengers.
London It'd Bits.

How many people who travel in trains
ever think of the cost of running them
1t will probably surprise most people who
have Travelled from London to Edinburgh
TO know that every mile of the journey
costs the railway company over half a
crown. The cost of the whole journey from
the English to the Scotch capital is $50.
The average cost of running a train in
England is shilings pence per mile. so
that, the fare being reckoned al l penny
per mile, "A train with less than thirty-one
passengers for each mile is run at a loss.
There are few trains. however. that do not
carry more than this number of passen-
gers, and many of them carry the number
doubled many times over. 1t is necessary
frequently to run trains that do not pay
usually in thinly inhabited country dis
tricts-but for every train run at a loss
probably hundred are run at an enormous
profit.
Take, for instance, the journey from
London To Edinburgh. which costs the rail
way company $50 The average number of
through" passengers i'm these trains is
probably sixty. in which case the total
fares would be nearly G10O-a clear gain of
these trains run several times a day. and
every day in the year. IL will be understood
what enormous revenue single line
yields i'm the course of twelve months. Sup
posing the average number of passengers
TO be sixty. the midnight mail from London
10 Edinburgh yields over 10000 for divi-
dend i'm a year.
The longest railway journey in the United
Kingdom would probably be from PenZance
in Cornwall TO ThursO in the north of Scot
land. distance of over thousand miles.
would exhaust an ordinary clerks salary
for a whole year. the cost being no less
than e1$S. A train from London to Map an
and the through train to- Aberdeen costs rn,
nearly Go 1t costs over G20.000 year to
run the mail between London and Aber-
deem. exclusive of taxes, rates. government
duty etc. which sum up to more than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
PROTECTING NATURALIZED
CITIZENS.

Secretary Sherman Is said to be in favor
OF adopting policy regarding naturalized
citizens that will discriminate between
those who become American citizens in
good faith and those who do il as a shield
for the prosecution of illegal revolu-
tionary schemes against other govern
ments. To the former he would extend full
and ample protection, but the latter he
thinks. are entitled to very little considera-
ton. The Journals Washington corre-
spondent says:
Mr.. Sherman sprung this idea in the
course of "a debate on the Sanguilly case
ten days or two weeks ago, and IL was
combated sharply by Senator Davis, VINO
succeeds him as chairman of the committee
on foreign relations. and by others. who
held that the moment "A man becomes a
naturdliZed citizen of the United States the
rights to which a natural~born citizen Is
entitled TO become his. ana that this gov
eminent can make distinction.
The debate on the Sanguily case oc-
CURED i'm the Senate on Feb. %. 1t sprang
up suddenly and grew very warm. The
press report i'm the Journal of the 18th
shows that Senator Sherman spoke once
during the debate with considerable
warmth and made some very pointed ref
erences TO the treatment of American citi-
zens in Cuba. Those who look for fuller
report of Senator Sherman's remarks viii
look i'm vain. The Congressional Record of
Feb. 26 contains a report of the debate on
the Sanguilly case, without any mention of
MIR. Sherman's name. He probably con-
cluded that his remarks were indiscreet in
view of the fact that he was soon to be-
come secretary of state. and kept them
out of the Record.
The view now attributed to Mr.. Sherman
has element of justice in it, but it
would be very difficult of application.
Prima facie. every naturalzed American
citizen is entitled to as full protection in
all his rights as a native-born citizen. His
papers, if they are of record, establish his
citizenship, and it would not be easy TO go
behind them. 1t is undoubtedly true that
some foreigners. notably Cubans. have
| abused their American citizenship. and
perhaps have become naturalized with that
intention, and yet it would be dangerous
TO attempt to draw a line between citi-
| zens who are entitled to protection and
those who are not. OF course, no Amer
/ lean cltlZen, native born or naturaNZed,
| may violate the laws of another country
with impunity. and If he engage in wars
| or revolutions he must take the conse-
| quences. But. on the other hand, II seems
| equally clear that naturalized citizen is
entitled to the same protection as one of
native birth without reference to his mo-
tives i'm becoming naturalized. The essen
tial fact is the naturalization and the ques-
| ton of motive is not in the record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13

diana geography. by Charles R.: Dryer. The
State Is taken by its natural divisions and
The physical features and characteristics or
each described in detail The Wabash
Erie region Is the subject of the March
installment. An accompanying map out
lines the drainage system and the moraines
and marshes OF the territory. The series
will serve as an admirable adjunct TO the
regular textbooks.
The Book Buyer (Scribner's) contains an
essay by Agnes Repplier on THE Boy in
Books, in which she laments the fact that
the real boy as everybody knows him-the
noisy, unwashed. obstreperous creature
seldom gets into literature. There are a
few boys in books who at least approach
reality however. and she enumerates four
OF these, who. II happens. are all labeled
with the name Tom Tom Tuliiver. Tom
Brown. Tom Bailey and Tom Sawyer. The
boys in that delightful tale THE Golden
Age are also noted, as exceptions TO the
literary rule. Had Miss Repplier read Kip
iins latest taie, captains courageous.
When she wrote this essay she must have
added Dan and "Harve'' to the list, for
these two lads. belonging 10 such different
stations in life. are certainly not OF the
sort Mr.. Riley speaks Of
Just too overly
Blame good for common boys like as. you
In an article on violins in the March Cos
mopolitan the assertion is made that only
time and its slow elimination of moisture
from the wood will impart the proper tone
quality and Migratory power to these
stringed instruments. Gillaume OF Paris.
is mentioned as "a manufacturer who had
tried unsuccessfully different artificial pro-
cesses for producing the desired result. The
writer of the article evidently knew moth
ing of the process invented by Mr.. Pierce,
a violin maker formerly of this city. for
"ageing" violins rapidly His method. care
fully worked out after long study and eX-
pertinent. was that OF vibrating the instru-
ments rapidly for certain length of time
by delicately adjusted machinery. He was
becoming well known among violnists of
the country, and many instruments were
sent him for treatment. but, unfortunately,
his establishment, with expensive ma
chinery. was destroyed by fire last year
and he has not yet re-esta bliShed himself.
The article i'm the Cosmopolitan closes with
the relation OF this incident: "A queer test
was made several years ago i'm one of our
Western cities during a musical festival.
while a number OF genuine old Italian
violins happened to be there in the hands
and Guarnerius fiddles were brought TO one
fine violin of modern American
manufacture. Accomplished experts
were invited TO make the tests, and
were placed that they could only hear
the playing without seeing the violins or
performers. In every case the American
instrument received the highest marks. =
The Western city was Indianapolis. and
the American instrument used was one that
had been artiicially aged by Mr.. Pierce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
David and the Psalms.


For the time being our spiritual pastors
have deserted the discussion of the ques-
ton, Where was Jonah for three DAYS and
three nights and what was the occasion of
his detention?" They are earnestly
engaged in solving the problem who
wrote the Psalms?" If anybody had asked
us that question in our boyhood and we had
failed to answer David" we should have
felt an instrument of correction more pain
full than the sling that slew Goliath This
accounts in a measure for our answering
orthodoxy. Personally, since we have the
literature of the Psalms. we do not care
whether they were written by David
Moses, BelshaZzar or Baalam's gifted lin
guist, the ass. But if the matter is really
OF great Importance to our friends. the
clergy, we suggest that they shall employ
the services of lgnatius Donnelly. who may
discover q Baconian cryptogram concealed
in the intricacies of the Hebrew text If
David. we'll as Shakespeare. has been
sailing down the ages under false pretenses
Ii may be advisable to expose him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-13
Province Of "a school SUPERVISOR.

If there is one thing which in our opinion
a supervisor needs TO be able TO do IL is to
be able to direct his teachers in the path
he would have them follow. The super
visor must be able not only TO criticise
adversely the work of the teacher. and 10
show wherein il is faulty. but in addition
TO this, he must be able TO offer something
better in its place. We believe that the
supervisor should be well informed I'm
regard 10 the work that is going on in his
schools that he can. at any time. step into
those schools and take hold of the classes
and teach them as they ought to be taught.
The teacher VIII learn more as 10 the
standard which she Is expected to attain
by seeing one lesson presented by skill
ful supervisor than she Will learn i'm six
weeks of observation and adverse criticism
by that supervisor. There are too many
supervisors who seem TO think that their
province Is TO tear down. and when asked
Tor suggestions that Will build up
found utterly barren.