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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
USING PREHISTORIC CANAL BEDS.
Long-Buried Irrigation System in Ar
iZOnn LncOVered.
and Scientific Press.

Mining and Scientific Press.
A Western correspondent furnishes
something doubly curious about the en-
gineering resources of the ancient past,
and the contriving abilities and researches
in the West in the present industrial era:
During my last visit to Arizona saw
in the Salt river valley q sight that would
strike a stranger as queer. A steam
dredging scow, such as is used in deepen
voyaging slowly and steadily through a
wide strip of arid desert. 1t was started
landward from Salt river, and was eXcaVa-
ting its own channel ahead, the river wa
tiers following and floating ii as it ad-
vanced. But the work done was not, In
fact. the making of a new channel. but the
digging out of an old one, the Irrlgatlng
canal made by a civilized people that lived
and flourshed and departed before record
ed American history began. That there
was a time when this wide valley, now be-
ms again redeemed TO man, was a garden
of plenty, teeming with inhabitants, IS
shown by the expensive and regular system
Of broad canals leading from the river,
through which water for irrigating was
conveyed for centuries. With drifting sand
and earth, these canals still are plainly IN
dicated on the face Of the ground ana so
skillfully were they planned and built mat
modern engineering science applied 70 irrl-
cation do no better than retrace their
course and restore them. What race lald
out the canals and built the towns whose
ruins are strung along the valley is a
question not yet settled by archaeologists.
Aztecs or Toltecs. or each in their turn,
probably tarried here in their centuries
long southwark to the valley of Mexico,
and the ruins may be of an older people
than either of them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Health Value of Late Suppers.
Canadian Lancet.


Late suppers so far from being harmful
in all cases, are in some decidedly benefi-
cial. The old tradition that to eat any
thing before going to bed was sure to cause
indigestion and render sleep impossible Is
now happily exploded 1t is not good, in
fact to go to- bed witt the stomach so
loaded that undigested food will render one
restless but something of a light, palata-
BILE nature in the stomach is one of the
best aids to quietude and rest. The process
of digestion goes on in sleep with as much
regularity as when one is taking violent
exercise to aid it, and so something in the
stomach is a very desirable condition for
nights rest. Some physicians have de
clared, indeed, that a good deal of the
prevalent insomnia is the result of an UNI
conscious craving of the stomach for food
in persons who have been unduly fright
ened by the opinion that they must not eat
before going to bed, or who have, like
many nervous women, been keeping them
selves in a state of semi-starvation. Moth
ing is more agreeable on retiring for the
night than to take a bowl of hot broth,
like oatmeal CRUEL or clam soup. 1t is a
positive aid to nervous people, and induces
case in cold winter nights, when the stom-
ach Graves warmth as much as any other
part of the body. Even glass of hot
milk is grateful to the palate on such Oc-
casions: but light, wel-crooked Cruel is
better, and in our climate, during the cold
months of winter, should be the retiring
food of every woman who feels, as many
do, the need of food at night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
a Famous War Correspondent.
-enry Childs Merwin in the Atlantic.

Henry Childs MerWin in the Atlantic,
1t is most interesting to note the impress
sion made upon the English mind by the
late j. A. MacGahan, the famous war cor
respondent, VINO was the son of an Ohio
farmer. His English friend and fellow
worker, Mr.. Archibald Forbes, writes of
him as follows: Il never saw such a fellow
for making himself at home among high
officials. In his manner there was no flavor
of impudence or presumption. l question
whether of that word indeed, he under
stood the meaning. 1t was as If he, in the
character of g man and a Republican man,
had reasoned the matter done to bare prin-
ciple L am a man., seemed to me to be
his attitude, and | am a man who honestly
and legitimately, for specific purposes of
v hich you are aware, or OF which | shall
be glad to make you aware, want some
thing. That sOmething-be 1t information,
be it a passport, be it what it may-you
can give me best; therefore, [ ask you for
it. 1t is i1nmaterial to the logic of the posi-
office messenger of the chancellor of an en-
pire, d lieutenant or the communicating
chief "
No wonder, then, that, as another friend
of his put ii. 'MacGahan could do anything
he liked with Ignatieff calmly made love
TO Madame Ignatieff and nodded affably to
the Grand Duke Nicholas"
1t is to be observed that IN writing the de-
scription which l have quoted, MI. Forbes
has no design of making a general state
ment, much less of Analysing the American
notion of equality. He was simply indicat-
ing in his acute, straightforward manner
what he conceived to be MacGahan'S atti-
tude toward all the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
The Free Silver Folly.
Phila delDhia Record DEM


The supposition that suddenly, in the
twinkling of an eye, after the adoption of
the Chicago platform, the great bulk of
changed their minds and became believers
in the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l, and mob rule, is
not reasonable superstition. The
supposition that the 6,50O,000 voters
Democrats, Republicans and Populists-
who voted for Bryan were all converts to
the propositions laid down in the Chicago
platform is equally untenable. Thousands
of Democrats unwillingly supported Bryan
solely on account of regularity. The silver
Republicans preferred Bryan solely because
of their belief in free silver coinage as a
paramount issue. The Populists supported
voted with that party and because his plat
form was a Populist deliverance. 1t would
be little short of political miracle If these
Earring and inCongruouS aggregations
should ever again be brought to act togeth-
er. The Populist leaders, who have been
invited to a barren feast so far the spoilS
are concerned, are already breakin. away.
The silver Republicans come trooping back
to the protectionist corral. There are inte-
rior evidences that 1t is folly to hope to ever
rally a united Democracy in support of a
Accent dollar The enemies of Democracy
would like to fasten upon the party the
free-slver heresy as a permanent part of
its creed; but the effort is a foredoomed
failure
The question of ratios, as Mr.. Jefferson
observed, is a mercantile problem. 1t is a
matter to be settled in the markets, and it
seems to be rapidly approaching a solution.
The politicians who fool with it will only
get their fingers burned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Peace and War.

Capt. A. T. Mahan, in Harper.
Nothing is more ominous for the future
of our race than the tendency, vOciferous
at present, which refuses to recognize in
the profession of arms, in war, that some
thing which inspired Wordsworth's Happy
Warrior" which soothed the dying hours
of Henry Lawrence, who framed the Ideals
of his career on the poets conception, and
so nobly illustrated it in his self-sacrifice
that something which has made the soldier
to all ages the type of heroism and of self
denial. When the religion of Christ, of Him
who was led as lamb to the slaughter
seeks to raise before its followers the ina ge
of self-control and of resistance to evil
it is the soldier whom it presents. He Him
self, if by office King of Peace is first OF
ALL in the essence of His Being King OF
righteousness, without which true peace
cannot be.
Conflict in the condition of all life. ma
terial and spiritual; and it is to the SOL
dier's experience that the spiritual life goes
for its most vivid metaphors and its Hottest
inspira tons. Whatever else the twentieth
century may bring US. it will not from
anything now current in the thought of the
nineteenth, receive nobler ideal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Senior CunOVas.


Robert p Porter's Letter.
I have no doubt you have had much in
regard to Senior Canovas, yet | have lust
read a sketch of his personality which has
greatly interested me, and at the risk of re-
peating what may have been cabled l will
make brief sketch OF some of his char
acterstics
Ugly, brilliant and witty" are three ad-
jectives applied to Senior Canovas whose
assassination is being universally deplOred.
Ill-featured he undoubtedly was. He was
short thick-set, awkwardly built: his dis
colored and prominent teeth, barely hidden
by a short Scrubby muStache; his features
were coarse and irregular his cheekbOnes
very assertive, and he had a bad suuint.
His wit partOok of the sarcastic and his
bon-mOtS were dreaded by his political op-
ponents equally with his mordaunt satire.
Yet he carried all before him for many
years, and has been the most powerful
statesman Spain has known during the past
half century.
The profound disdain Senior Canovas had
for rank is to be put down to the fact
q peasant and was born in 1928, becoming a
workman on a railway before studying law
and migrating into journalism. He had a
great capacity for learning and during his
early manhood w~ote poetry and one or
two rOmanceS before beginning his long
parliamentary career. self-made man, he
PAID no heed to the prejudiceS of rank,
and although q Conservative of the most
extreme type, looked with contempt on the
pride of birth of the hidalgos and grandees
with whom he came in contact. Yet these
regarded him alike as the savior of their
caste and their chief bulwark against revo-
lutOnary doctrines. They forgaVe his DOM
ineering spirit because of his strength and
ability 20 maintain the position he took up.
With the greatest belief in his own powers,
he was able to show that the belief was
well founded. For quarter of a century
he has been political Triton among the
minnows, not so much the leader of his
party as the ruler of the country carrying
the masses with him in extreme crises by
the wonderful power of his oratOry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
A MASSAGE BATH.
A Strong Undercurrent of Water Gems
crates Electricity.
Washington Times.

The strengthening and vitalzing effect Of mas
sage and electricity upon the system is, in these
The massage bath. which combines both, is a
possible luxury in the bathroom Of every house
called. is effect from direct current of water
the whole surface is immersed in water Of high
temperature The rubber tubing and nozzle for
with very little expense or trouble. A length
To the end Of this hose is attached short piece
OF iron piping about two inches long and with
der is capped with piece OF iron. perforated with
a number Of small holes In each Of these holes
tube. which admits sharp arrow-like jet OF
When the full strength OF the current is turned
on the sorGe would be SUFFICIENT to throw the Jet
current is directed under the water at dis
friction creates perceptble electrical currents
The effect is digging out and cleansing OF tha
to the very bone quite equal to co1nbination
9 rne p pa and massage combined
yigoration Up and down the spine. when the
manipulation than can be possible obtained with
the rub OF the hand. The temperature OF the
from l92 degrees up; the current IS about the
Of soda dissolved in the BATH or some Of the
pine-needle extracts TO be had at most Of the
he eec 81 Re mnera W gSes s sb ne b
famous spas. sought 50 eagerly by rheumatic and
The powerful cleansing given to the surface OF
e o2S 9 ac e 1et The IN LIS own , circle
be lurking in the system. and the frequent deep
reaching action Of the massage and the cleo
tricity combined means restoration and preserva-
ton OF health. If there is a painful joint OF the
body, catarrhal kidney trouble. a sluggish
liver, relief Will surely come by faithful per-
severance. After the bath a spray OF listerinc or
alcohol is sent all over the body. This prevents
the possibility of cold. The tonic effect OF this
bath must be felt to be appreciated. The skin
everybody should know, is OF the main
drains to free the system OF impurities Keep the
pores OF this free and unclogged and II means
half of health and activity.
Add to this the limbering OF muscle and Joint.
the knead OF tissue and abnormal deposits OF
flesh and the stimulation OF the vital organs, and
there is firm conpactne OF body with a sis-
tanning machinery within that makes life power
ard a Joy. Every simple. easily obtained help to
this end is important feature OF modern life.
he massage nozzle and the massage bath have
come eastward from a sanitarium far out in the
West. at the entrance of one OF those magnificent
gorges we'll called royal" Mine owners ana
prospectors, chilled by the damp and exposure OF
the snow heights. come down in the spring with
ache and soreness and depression. seeking a re-
lief for this. The physician in charge of the min
eral baths developed the massage nozzle" IL is
now at the service OF all who wise enough
10 adOpt and adapt IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
ChnrlOtteis Candidate.
Chicago Post


The prospects of John L. Sullivan in his
candidacy for the mayoralty of Boston
have materially frightened, thanks to the
attitude OF that industrious and indefdtiga-
bic woman, Mrs Charlotte Smith. The
jealous champion of matrimony has boldly
declared that she will work against the
regular party nominees, for the good and
sufficient reason that they are unmarried,
although the Republican candidate unscru-
pulously puts up the plea that he is en-
gagged" Mrs. Smith is president of the
Woman'S Rescue League. We are not at all
and exact scope of the, rescue league, but
we surmise that it is an organization with
the laudable purpose of rescuing women
from the dreadful state of maidenhood OF
course, Mrs. Smiths efforts will directly
contribute to the success of Mr. Sullivan $
He has been married at least twice, and
we do not doubt that, should the emergency
arise, he would be married again. Mr.. Sui
liVanS first wife was, we are told, a gentle
little woman, who was of great assistance
to him in training, as she not infrequently
took the place of the punching bag. His
second wife is built on a different order
and we learn that her arguments and her
spirit are most persuasive whenever John
Wanders beyond the limits. Hence it will
experience and tolerably we'll at home in the
understanding of complicated feminine
character. Mr.. Sullivan admires women ex-
travagantly, and is proud of his wife, of
whom he said affectionately when introduce
ing her to a gentleman in this city: "Aint
she a bute?' We can therefore understand
why Mrs. Smith should greatly prefer him
to miserable bachelor of the type pre-
sented by Mr.. Quincy and Mr.. Curtis, and
we do not doubt that the rescue league will
rally around the Sullivan standard and give
the death blow to celibacy in Massachu-
sets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
A SeIf-Made Woman.
Philadelphia Record.

L
Some peculiar scenes are witnessed dur
ing the bathing hour in Atlantic City, and
it is nothing unusual for a crowd to gather
at any point to witness an incident of a
laughable nature. 1t is seldom, though,
that such an incident is afforded as that
which given by a middle-aged woman
a few days ago. She had gone in bathing
in front of a Virginia-avenue bathhOuse,
and had only got in the water up to her
knees when she suddenly turned back
Walking up the beach to the board walk
she picked up a small tin pail, SUCH as is
used by the children in making their sand
pies, and which was evidently left there
by her for some purpose. She hung 1t up
on a projecting bolt under the walk. Then
she calmly removed a full set of false
teeth upper and lower, and placed them in
the pail. After this she took off pair of
spectacIes three or four side combs, a long
black switch and handful of hairpins, and
then placed the whole lot on top of the
teeth in the pail. She paid no attention to
the audible remarks of several bystanders,
who seemed to think it a huge joke, but
cIamly continued her toilet, preparatory to
entering the water. When, however, she
took out a glass eye and placed 1t in the
melange some one remarked: well, there
is a self-made woman for YOU" whereat
she gave a scornful toss of her head, and
telling a little boy to watch the pail, she
made her way down to the surf and re-
entered the water, albeit q much different
looking woman from the one who had gone
up the beach but a few moments before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Grand Army Reunion.


People who know of Grand Army reunions
only through the printed reports have a
very inadequate conception of their sig
nifcance to the men who take part in
them. We hear of the professions and of
the politics, but almost nothing of the in
ner life of these great and most affecting
gatherings. Yet it is in the little groups
rather than in the mass that they are i'm
pressive. Walk in upon a meeting of the
survivors of a regiment who have been
called together from the four parts of the
land, and it will be revelation to you.
Instead of politics you will hear anec-
dote, humorous. pathetic and wonderfully
effective upon that cOmradeship Whichit car
rieS back to q Soul-thrilling era in our coun-
trys existence. Jest and pathos may both
be old; it is probable that they have been
oft repeated. but the common hardships,
common defeats and common triumphs of
the terrific struggle for the preservation of
nation writ into them and make Them
in their different ways, the expression of a
sentiment that can never grow old SO long
as these men live. The spectacle is one
that must touch even the most phlegma tic
person, for 1t is one from which all the
dross of the human heart is eliminated to
make room for the purest, kindest and most
patriotic emotions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
The Day LabOrer and His Employer

w after "A. w NChOlI, III oCTlDner.
You tell us that our interests are identical
with those of our employer. That NAV be
true on some ground unknown to us but
we live from hand to mouth and we think
from day to day. and we have no power "a
reach a hand through time, to catch the
far-off interest of tears" From work like
ours there seems to us to have been elm
mated every element which constitutes the
nobility Of labor. We feel no personal pride
in its progress and no community Of in
terest with our employer. He plainly snares
this lack of unity of interest. for he takes
for granted that we are dishonest mer
and that we will cheat him if we can. and
so he watches us through every moment
hour would he intrust his interests TO orr
hands. There is for us in our work none
of the joy of responsibility. none Of the
sense of achievement; only the dull monot.
ony of grinding toll with the longing for
the signal to quit work and for our wages
at the end of the week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
influence of the Hired Girl.

The papers have made strenuous efforts
to do Justice TO the mighty influence of the
servant girl, but nothing which Puck or
Judge ever charged against her equals the
cold, bare truth as it developed in Kansas
City Yesterday
Away out at Fifteenth street and Cypress
avenue is n saloon that has borne an unen-
viable reputation for a long time. 1t is run
by a man named Joe Stevens, and only
few weeks ago thirty-eight crap-shOoters
We're captured in a raid on the place. Siren
uous opposition was made TO the renewal
of the license but the servant girl of John
Dobbins who lives near the saloon, cast
her influence on the side of rum. 1t wasn't
the deciding vote, but her masters sigma
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

continued to hold in one hand a great slab
of cherry pie. \ few blocks down an impish
child danced across the track suddenly so
near the car that the gripman put on the
brakes and the woman with the inquiring
mind rose to her feet in alarm The danger
passed, she sat down again heavily. The
stern-faced gripman has ceased to eat his
pie.
You don't have much time for meals, do
you?" asked the woman with the inquiring
mind.
Nom" replied the gripman, sadly
Where's your pie?" went on the woman
with the inquiring mind.
The gripman looked at her wistfuily
You're sitting on it, he said, sadly.
And she was.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
Why Man Is Weary.


A good many hundreds and even II ou-
sands of long suffering husbands can bear
sorroWful testimony to the fact th2t this IS
the sort of catechism the wives of their
bosOms subject them TO every time they put
on their hats TO go out in the evening;
''Where are you going?'
"Oh, l am going out for Few minutes.
"Where?"
"Oh. nowhere in particular"
''What for?"
"Oh, nothing"
"Why do you 60 them"
"Well. l want to go; that's why.
do you have TO go?
Il don't know that L do
why do you go them"
Because"
Because what?
well. simply because"
Going to be gone long?'
'No."
"How longY
II don't know"
Anybody going with you?"
NO"
''WeH. it's strange that you can't be con-
tent TO stay at home a few minutes. Don t
be gone long. will your
No"
See that you don t.
This is one reason that so many mar
riages are a dead fiat fizzle and failure.
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ture helped to outweigh the opposition of
the W. G. T. U. and other organizations
that work again inebriety.
This servant girl likes her beSr, and she
told MIR. Dobbins that she wouldn't stay if
She couldn't get her daily rations of that in
sidious. beverage. Now, Mr.. Dobbins is a
voted for St John in 1884 and every other
nominee of the national Prohibition party
since. But the alternative between the loss
OF his servant girl-she is an AL girl--and
the surrender of his temperance principles
was quickly decided by his signing the APP
plication for a saloon license. The county
court granted the license yesterday. Mr.
Dobbins's servant girl will keep her place.
] ikaMise she win get her beer REGULARLY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

owing to the fact that the rules of hygiene We're
misunderstood that Bombay has been invaded
by the plague from China.
AS for cholera, although it has recently been
imported, in its most serious forms into three
districts. nowhere has it spread, because nova
days every proper precaution is taken by the
local authorities to preserve the drinking water
from contamination by the cholera bacillus. 1t
is thus evident, from study either of the gen.
eral death rate of the mortality from certain
specific diseases that there is a noteworthy de-
crease. Much still remains to be DONE but the
results so far obtained encouragement to
persevere in the path of progress upon which
science has set a resolute foot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

Washington Post.

She was a woman OF a naturally inquir-
ing mind. and by years of perseverance
she had improved on nature's original plan
She climbed upon the grip car at the Mt
Pleasant end of the line and asked ques-
lions OF the gripman The gripman was a
stern married looking man, and whenever
the woman gave him a chance he snatched
random bites Of the contents of his lunch
basket. Presently he started the car, but
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

fail to be deeply impressed with their helpless.
hopeless and awful fate. No cost is too great
to prevent IL possible the entailment of similar
curse the children of the future. The argu-
ment which rests upon the money cost to ths
community which has to eventually support such
offspring constitutes but a small part OF the
adequate reasons for effectual prevention.