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THE GRANDMOTHER OF THE
PRESENT.

One of the Journals exchanges INDUCES
in solemn lamentation over the absence
of the old-fashioned grandmother Have
we," asks the writer sin broadening our
mentality, enriching our sphere and WIDEN
ing our horizon impoverished our treasure
hoard by losing that shining light Of refine
ment and reverence-the real old LADY,"
She is nowhere visible, he says, but in her
place is dame in almost youthful guise,
who scorns the imputation that she and
inflrmity are akin. There is more to the
same effect, but it is waste of sentiment.
The old-time grandmother looked at
through a perfection of years differs some
what from the reality of those past days.
She was old, surely, but her age was not
always matter of years, for she grew old
early. She worked hard in her youthful
days, usually. and by the time her grand
children came upon the stage she was in
capacitated for active duty. She had lacked
the educational advantages women now en-
joy and had not the mental resources to
sustain her that women now possess as they
grow old. 1t was the custom of the age
and reared her children as ripe for the
grave. She was not supposeSssto be capable
of enjoying life after this work had been
accomplished, and whatever her term of
years afterward might be it was felt to be
mere lingering after a completed existence.
1t was not that she was treated with
lack of consideration; she was simply not
counted as part of the active life of the
day. Usually she accepted the situation as
a matter of course. If she were ever feeble
hands folded and faded peacefully out of
life. She was loved by her family, and her
memory became that charming picture
which now figures as the ideal grandmoth-
er. Or, on the other hand, if she refused
to die but lived on in health and strength,
she was as often as not relegated to the
position of nurse and waiting maid for
flock of grandchildren. 1t was a position
honorable enough, no doubt, but there is
room for wonder if even the old-time sanity
did not sometimes rebel against the exist
ence to which custom and circumstances
assigned them. and feel that their capacities
were equal to something else than baby
tending and that their duties in that line
had been fulfilled with their own children.
Whether they did or not. 1t Is certainly true
that the modern grandmother declines to be
shelved simply because she is a grandmoth-
ar She does not as the critics intimate
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telephone and other electric. supplies" that
we exported. during the month of July.
$S24.6OO worth and during the seven months
of 1897. ending with July. 81 043.SO2 worth.
During this period there were sent to Great
Britain exports amounting to $2s4,0s6; to
France. $17s.SS5; to Germany, $1s6S25 to
other European countries, $40 1S5. The rest
went chiefly to Mexico and South Ameri-
can countries. including. however s101, s2f
worth to Japan and $177,943 to Africa. An
American firm recently got the contract for
the Central London Underground Railway,
the most extensive electric road yet pro-
jected in Great Britain AS yet there are
only about one hundred miles of electric
road in operation in Great Britain, com
pared with nearly fourteen thousand miles
in the United States, and the plants and
service are not nearly as good there as here.
The Engineer, published in London, said,
recently: @
We have gone to the United States to get
elevators for the Central Railway of Lon
dOn and now we have to look to the same
side of the Atlantic for the electric plant
with which this traffic is to be worked. We
are unable properly to equip an electrically
turerS take the trouble to teach their hands
how to provide new machinery, the large
and increasing contracts for this industry
must be given to Americans.
1t does not follow that this condition will
continue permanently because, having en-
tered the field of electrical engineering and
railroad building England will make great
progress, but it does exist now, not only in
that country, but, measurably, throughout
the world. The United States is far in adj
vance of all other countries in the develop
ment of electrical appliances, including not
only electric motors, but mining appliances,
pumps hoists, appliances for the transmits
sion of power, dynamos, telephone and
electric light appliances. In the science of
electricity Europe, through its scientists
and savants, has contributed its share to
the march of progress, but in the field of
applied electricity and it's development on
practical and utilitarian lines this country
is far ahead of all others
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.


Fidelity is seven-tenths of business sue
cess.-Parton
Science surpasses the old miracles of
mythology.-Emerson.
One never realizes how much company a
mirror is until it gets broken.-Puck
Things don't turn up in this world until
somebody turns them up.-Garhed
The world that the bird flies over is not
the same that the snail crawls on.-Ram's
Horn.
In this cycle age it is meaningless to speak
of a mans walk in life "-Philadelphia
Record.
A man is more in danger of being enslaved
by woman at sixty than he is at twenty
hVe.-Harper' Bazaar.
The average man doesn't know much
about women; if he did he'd think he knew
more.-New York Press.
A child is said to have finished it's educa-
ton when it begins to think that its parents
haven't.-The Bachelor
A beautiful invalid exists only in the novel;
lists imagination. Health is the synonym for
beauty.-Philadelphi Times
Mrs. Smarte calls her new gown a hunting
costume. because 1t is so hard to find the
pocket in it.-Boston Transcript.
There is nothing in the world so much adj
mired a man who knows how to bear I'M
happiness with courage.-Seneca.
A man convinced against his will is OF the
same opinion still; woman convinced
against her will is myth.-Puck
When a man takes to drink it is not
strange that his affairs. out of sympathy,
go into iquidation.-Boston Transcript
If marriage is lottery. then, indeed, 1t is
a game of chance but where is the minister
who will discourage it?-Philadelphia Times.
How does your wife sleep?" asked the
doctor of the man whose better half was
under his care. Orally" said the man
Truth.
We often boast that we are never bored;
but we are so conceited that we do not per-
ceive how often we bore others.-Roche-
foucauld
Abstain from BEANS that is, keep out of
public offices, for anciently the choice of the
ofi1cers of state was made by BEANS
Plutarch.
Oar ain no wuss victim oh misplaced
confidence said Uncle Eben dan de man
who gts ter thinkin he knows ev'rything."
Washington Star
There is no greater fool than he that
says: There is no Cod unless it be the
one who says he does not know whether
there is one or not.-Bismarck.
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MISS WILLARD's ACHIEVEMENTS.

One of the characteristics which endears
Miss Frances Willard to her feminine audi
ences, and. indeed. to sympathetic public
generally, is her frank and charming man
ner of taking the world into her confidence
in personal matters. Some time ago she
told in her own earnest and impassioned
way how she had never known the sweets
of freedom until she abandoned corsets.
Some women might have contented them
selves by inveighing against the thing of
steel and whalebone and urging other
women to give it up, but she well knew
that individual illustration and example
were Of far more influence in reform work
than cold generalities; hence. in order to
lead other women to freedom, she. figur-
ativeIy. of course. dangled her own cast-off
corsets before them with one hand and
pointed to her emancipated ribs with the
other. With the same benevolent end in
view she told them how she learned to ride
a bicycle Instead OF merely assuring them
that bicycle is good thing for man,
woman or child. she consumed several coli
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the Armenians picture him. while there is
good reason to believe that the Armenians
are not the exemplars of all the Christian
virtues. Many of them who have come to
this country have not impressed themselves
upon US for their sweetness. At any rate,
the reports which the New York Heralds
representative will publish should be con-
sidered on their merits. 1t may be possible
that the Sultan, since he has become one
of the great powers desires to stand in
better light before the civilized world than
he did when he was the irresponsible sick
man of Europe, and may be changing his
policy toward the Armenians.
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1t is of little consequence whether Mr.
gruous title of general master workman of
the knights of Labor, since the organiza-
ton is no longer potential. He might have
been very mischievous person if he had
been the leader of large body of men, for
the reason that he is hostile to any coop
Grafton between the two elements of indus
try, employers and employees. He belongs
to the fast-decreasing class of labor or al
legged labor leaders who foment strikes
when there is trouble and sow the seeds
of suspicion and prejudice in the minds of
all who will listen when peace prevails. He
would have had all organized labor Joined
tn the coal miners strike last August, and
generally he would keep up q warfare be-
tween employee and employer which would
close every workshop in the land. 1t does
not help the matter to say that Mr.. Sow
ereign is sincere in what he does. 1t is
what he does, or, happily, what he at
tempts 10 do, which is vicious. The motive
Is of no account. The objection to all such
alleged leaders of labor is that they never
see the Importance of intoxicating thrift and
sobriety. In several of his lectures Mr..
Debs has done this, but 1t seems to be no
part of the duty of those who are chosen
as leaders to suggest plans for the eleva-
ton of the organizations which they direct
or to devise methods which will lead their
followers to better their condition by saving
money or trying to accumulate little
property. Their purpose is simply to direct
war upon capital. The defeat of Sovereign
may indicate that that sort of leadership is
coming TO an end
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How to Keep Warm.
PHILADELPHIA Record

Philadelphia Record.
With the approach of cold weather sug
gestions are in order from philosophers and
medical men as to the best means of keep
ing the body warm, and they are not mig
gardly in dispensing them. A man of ma
ture years whose business keeps him out
late on winter nights has a scheme for
keeping himself warm which. while not
new, has generally gone out of fashion, and
he maintains that Il is far superior TO any
patent underwear or heavy well-lined
clothing. he believes in pulse warmers,
and declaSIs he would much rather be with
out his overcoat and gloves on cold night
than to be without the comfortable wrist
let's. This man complains that mems gloves
are made too short to cover the wrists and
that the pulse, exposed to the cold, lowers
the temperature of the body in spite of any
amount of warm clothing. Since pulse
warmers are generally believed to detract
from the natty appearance of well-dressed
man, he recommends that girls employ
themselves knitting these articles in eX-
pensiye materials and attractive designs and
present them to their male friends. This
would bring pulse warmers into fashion
again, make many men comfortable and
perhaps save portion of the lives annually
sacrificed TO the cold.
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THE WOMAN WITH A MISSION.
Often One NeEIects Home and Family
for Fancied Duties.
Leslie's weekly

IDF Funcleu DUfIeS.
Leslie's Weekly
there are with a deep and burning interest
in Humanity with a big H. Individual hui
mainly as represented by those who have
direct claims upon them, does not interest
them In the least Their own husbands
their own children, do not appeal to them,
and they have but a languid interest in their
own homes. The writer was visited one day
recently by humanitarian of this type.
Her mission was the uplifting of all HUI
mainly. She had, she said, consecrated her
life to that end. During her call she re
vealed the fact that she was two thousand
miles from her husband and five children.
They could, she affirmed, get along nicely
without her." and she felt that she could
do a far greater and nobler work for HUI
mainly by working for this glorious cause
had been but a week since ] had met the
mother OF several small children who was
trying to ''uplift humanity by going about
organizing clubs for the development of
THE New Thought" After listening for
nearly an hour to an outline OF the plans
and purposes of this New Thought
that old thoughts are best particularly the
thoughts of our grandmothers regarding the
first duty of a wife and mother.
There Is much of eXaggeration and cheap
wit in the comic papers regarding the
neglect Of their homes and families by the
new women" who have branched out into
fields heretofore occupied by men alone. A
good deal of the criticism Of the new woman
is unfair and unjust but the fact remains
InaC the woman WITH mission Is III many
cases woman with painfully distorted
views regarding the duty she owes 10 her
self and to others. The writer not long ago
heard a woman addressing a large gather
ing of people say:
II have given up my home and children,
my husband and parents to go forth and
spread abroad the glorious gospel and 10
try to win men and women to Christ. My
life henceforth is to be devoted to God and
humanity" "
The question naturally arises can wife
and mother devote herself to anything
higher or better or nober than the proper
training of her own children? And does not
her duty to her children, her husband and
her home transcend any duty she may owe
to others? The enthusiast may say no to
these questions. but every true and loving
wife and mother will say yes to both ques--
lions. When a woman has a home and
children no call to duty is higher or more
imperative than the call that comes to her
from her own home. and in no sphere can
she do a greater or better work. The good
she might do elsewhere cannot be Offered as
an excuse for the neglect of those who have
the first claim on her love and care. It is
sometimes true that a love of notorlety
and an overpowering desire TO be seen and
heard is the chief motive Of the woman with
a mission
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fms so that they point forward or made
stationary by pointing the fins toward each
other.
After long experiment Mr. H. n. Warren.
principal of the Liverpool Research Labora-
tory, has announced new electrical genera
tor which promises a liberal and inexpen-
sive supply of current for many purposes
and seems TO be the nearest approach TO a
perpetual motion apparatus yet attained in
practice. The positive element is composed
OF plates of porous compressed graphite
one-quarter of each plate being made active
by immersion In platinic oxalate and sub
sequent ignition in an atmosphere OF hydro
gen. This operation gives q very hneIv-
divided platinum surface. TO construct the
cell several of these prepared carbon plates
are attached TO d circular lead beam which
surrounds porous diaphragm containing
as negative element a rod of anna gamated
zinc the carb0ns being arranged with their
platinized portion projecting above the solu-
ton of strongly acidhed ferric suphate
On completing the circuit a powerful cur
rent Is set free, which continues until the
oxidation of the zinc reduces the ferrie
sulphate to the state of ferrous suphate
The zinc Is then withdrawn when the ac-
tive platinum surface condenses atmospheric
oxygen, which reoxiGlzes the ferrous salt
and thus renews the action when required
Four ounces of ferric salt in a generator
seven by five inches in size gives a very
steady current Of two volts and eight am
pereS for tWenty-four hours.
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The mother superior of the Convent of the
Sacred Heart at Havana writes: Captain
General Weyler's plan was to starve as
many as he could, and thus do away en-
tirely with the Cuban race. He has sue
ceeded in killing thus hundreds of thou
sands, without exaggeration, by the COM
pulsory law of concentration" The posi-
ton occupied by this lady is a reasonable
guarantee that she is truthful and not vim
dictive. II = testimony will pass into his
tory to strengthen the case against the
Butcher
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About the Future.

LeSlie'S Weekly.
So wonderful has been the past that the
future detles prediction. But we must
recognize the fact that we are just on the
edge of doing things. A prominent states
man says he no longer rnarvels: he simply
expects. An old lady took a railroad trip
for the first time. She Dromenaded through
the cars and stepped our in a snow bank.
The train was stopped, and when IL was
backed to where she had landed her son
said: 'Oh, mother. why did you do this?''
And she innocently replied MY son. I
thought 1t was a part of the proceeding
And so the breaking of ocean records, the
smashing of railroad achievements and the
miracles OF building and invention all seem
parts of the proceeding. We have had a
big. crowded century but we are simply
beginning. It Is great thing to have lived
in this generation. but the big times are to
come. just as they were coming when the
Scotch inventor OF the railroad. In reply to
the question as to what would become Of
the COW II she were on the track when the
new-fangled invention came along. said. 1t
would be very bad for The COO.
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Now that winter is coming on, charity or
ganizations should ever bear in mind that
principle OF human nature which weakens
the knees Of the man who has once fallen
from independence and found the soft bed
of benevolence beneath him to break his
fall. 1t is the same principle that loosens
the grip of a man clinging for life when.
he finds that the danger has been removed.
The average man who has once accepted
public charity will weaken and give up.
thinking his resources at an end. long be-
fore the first thought of surrender on the
part of him who is fighting to maintain an
unbroken record of independence. There
are emergencies that count as exceptions,
but this principle is thereby the more
strongly established.
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An exchange discounts the reports of the
condition OF Armenia which Rev. George III.
Hepworth, the representative of the New
York Herald, will make. on The grou.id that
that paper has shown a disposition to pre-
sent the Sultan ard Turkish affairs in
more favorable light than it is the general
custom to do. If this is true it should not
count against the work of DR.. Hepworth
in advance. He is a man of character and
intelligence. He may be imposed upon by
the willy Sultan. who has promised to pro-
tect the Herald's representative and TO af-
ford him every opportunity to get at the
truth. Instead of helping. the first dip
Iomat Of Europe" may hinder by keeping
back the worst OF the case; nevertheless,
the results Of DR.. Hepworth's investigation
win be awaited with considerable interest.
z,ss tina Tuzk Is probably not as hendish as
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Windsor Hotel and Aston House.
CHIcAGo-Palmer House and p. o. News Co..
21T Dearborn street.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley Co.. 154 Vine
street
LOUISyILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. 256 Fourth avenue
ST. LouIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Eiggs House, Ebbtt
House WiIlard's Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and Il street.
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affect youthfulness; she feels young and
consequently sees no reason why she should
not enjoy life of activity in her own way
while her strength lasts If 1t is travel, or
society, or club life, or all of these, that
she fancies, who has a better right? She
is better equipped for any of these than
when she was young. and her capacity for
enjoying and profiting by them is none the
less. Her grandchildren may not remember
her as their patient, long-suffering nurse,
but they will lose nothing by the change.
The grandmother who through contact with
the world and through wide reading added
to the experience of life, has gained a rip
ened wisdom is likely to have as beneficent
an influence on her children's children as
the white-haired old lady Of the chimney
corner or the patient drudge. The true
grandmother's soul will continue to exist;
its owner has simply changed attitude.
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If those who have had no better employ
ment than to read the testimony of Mrs.
Mack in the revolving murder case which
was on trial the past week, should under
take to win a woman by choking her, as
Mrs. Mack testified she was won by Thorn,
they will probably ascertain that she is an
exception
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Speaking of high joint commissions, the
ratification of treaties, ETC., the man who
has had to do with the making of more
treaties than any secretary of state or
President Is William Gwin, colored messen-
ger to the secretary of state. He has held
that position, semi-confidential one, twen-
ty-six years, and during that time, acting
under the direction of different secretaries
of state, has affixed the seal to nearly one
thousand treaties or international agree
ments.
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Infnntfle Deduction.

81 guess paw hasn't got much money this
year." said little brother.
What makes you think SOP" asked little
sister.
'"Cause he was telling me that it wasn't
right to impose on Santa Claus just because
the old Teller was good-natured.'
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A Little Rusty.

by george, JIM said his friend; 81
never saw you as nervous before when you
were getting married.
You must remember" said the Chicago
bridegroom, that this is the first time
have been married for more than two years,
and 1 am a little out of practice"
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There is movement on foot for the divi-
sion of New York into two States, of which
sixteen counties, including Greater New
York, would contain, as now constituted, a
population of 3,9O2,22O, as compared with
1881 ,123 for the forty-four remaining coun-
ties. Politics is probably at the bottom of
the movement
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AT the fall meeting of Yale corporation,
held a few days ago. the annual report of
the treasurer showed the most prosperous
year, financially, in Yale's history. The gifts
of money to the university during the year
amounted to $445,O55, making the present
total of university funds 81, 567 495.
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The young tiger sent as a present to
Tammany is playful and harmless now. 1t
has not discovered that it has claws and
has never tasted blood. Wait till it gets
old, like Tammany, and there will be diff
ferent story to tell.
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The United States and Canada could
establish better business relations If the
latter would discard her Anticipated relation
as British colony and come out as a full
fiedged, Independent republic. Then the two
republics could negotiate on an equality.