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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

1t is difficult to associate Charles
Lamb from his essays and to picture him
as other than the sweet refined and ever
gentle spirit who it would seem, must have
inspired those pages with their lasting
charm Nevertheless, it appears that to
his contemporaries he was not always Iowa
ble The New York Independent has been
publishing some recently discovered Shelley
correspondence, and in a letter written to
Shelley by Horace Smith, one of the au-
thors of Rejected Addresses this para
graph occurs:
l had never seen much Of Lamb be-
1 found him a low coarse, drunken, snutty
fellow, with nothing redeeming in his con-
versation, although l deem his writings in
imitable. He damned me and called me an
ass before company for not admiring Chris
tobel, and told my wife tnat If his
sister were to die he shouldn't care
if she went to hell in five minutes-an of
which | was told no notice ought to be
taken. because he was drunk the whole
time he was in France. i am sorry he
didn't stay in England was my reply.
1t is highly probable that Lamb was
drunk on this occasion-or was suffering
from touch of the malady that affected
his sister-but if ever man had excuse for
seeking forgetfulness through drink he had
it. He had. 1t seems, started with his sis
ter for a visit to Paris. At Amiens, on the
way, one of her fits of insanity came on
and he, being unable to speak French. was
unable to explain their situation, and
could not obtain admittance to any hotel
He brought her to Paris, and there had the
same experience, but was providential-
ly found by an English lady who knew
him and rescued him from his predica-
ment. If he had been himself he would not
have spoken brutally of this sister to whom
his life was devoted-but who at this
late day shall say that he was so greatly
astray when he called Smith an ass?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
SIGNS OF MENTAL WEAKNESS.

A Washington correspondent cites as
proof of Secretary Sherman's falling men
tai faculties his frequent inability to re-
member the names Of persons well known
to him. Innumerable people will be ready
to rise in indignation to deny that this
popularity indicates the weakness of any
other faculty than that of memory; they
know for they have defective memories
themselves, especially when proper names
are concerned, and they have every reason
to think that their reasoning and reflective
powers are as strong ever. 1t is to be
regretted, they say, that ones memory de-
velops this weakness, but memory is not a
high intellectual power at best and its
lapses, though inconvenent, are as likely
as not to accompany the strongest of logi-
cal faculties. They are right in a sense.
To say that Secretary Sherman forgets
names means nothing out of the common
it is the exceptional person nowadays who
does not forget names. 1t is popularity
that in some families seems to be inherited
so noticeable is it even from childhood.
but it is pretty sure to develop in a ma
jority of the busy people Of the world, un-
less the exigencies of society, or politics, or
business make a retentive recollection al
most a necessity. Proper names are arbi-
trary things, and for that reason the most
difficult of all words to remember, but it
has been repeatedly demonstrated that by
careful attention to the matter wonderful
accuracy of memory in relation to them
may be cultivated Now and then indi-
vidual appears who has natural facility
in that direction, but as a rule the politi-
clans and the social leaders who are noted
for "never forgetting a name" have made
a study of the art 1t is an art that is
worth while to one seeking popularity, but
much charity should be extended to the one
who does not possess it, So many things
press upon the attention from childhood to
old age in these modern days that the
wonder is that so much, and not so little, is
remembered. By a natural instinct the
mind comes to reject the nonessentials and
seeks to retain only the important facts,
but even with such effort much that is de-
stable must be forgotten. The memory is
simply overtaxed, and the result is shown
oftenest in failure to recall names, because
that failure is most noticeable; but that
similar deficiency, though one more easily
concealed, exists in regard to other matters
than mere names would doubtless be shown
in most cases on investigation. 1t is
fault of the times rather than OF the ind-
vidual-a result of high-pressure existence
hut il is a real intellectual weakness and
one to be deplored in spite of reservations
TO the contrary by those who dislike to &C
thar ouvY1 Investigations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

A telegram from New York says that
Wall street is worth many Klondikes as
place for money making, $115O0O,OOO having
been made there during the past thirteen
weeks. This means that 900 have
practically been transferred from the peck
cts of large number of people to those of
limited number. without adding a dollar
TO the actual wealth of the world. Men
who had many thousands when the advance
I'm prices began will have many more thou
sands when the books are balanced On the
other hand those who had a few thousands
will have fewer or none. This is the meth
cd Of Wall-street mining. When a gold
mine turns out a dollar it is dollar added
60 the permanent wealth of the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

special cablegram announces the arrival
IN Thessaly of an agent of the Sultan with
thirty-five boxes containing medals and
eight boxes filled with swords of honor to
be distributed among the men and officers
OF the victorious Turkish army in the con-
Quered province. The jeweled sword to be
presented to Edhem Pasha, the commander
mischief of the Turkish army occupying
Thessaly, is reported to be valued at $40 oOo
The Sultan has hard work to meet his other
obligations, but he evidently intends to
keep himself solid with the soldiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The activity of the Bureau of American
Republics in developing trade between the
United States and South America has in
duced the British Board of Trade to APP
point special committee on the develop
ment of foreign trade In South America.
European nations are selling annually to
Mexico, Central and South America and
the West Indies from $10o, 100000 to $15O,OO0,
900 worth of goods, the great bulk of which
ought to be sold to those countries by the
United States. That market naturally be-
longs to the United States, but it has been
grossly neglected. In undertaking to de-
velop trade between the United States and
South American states, the Bureau of
American Republics has entered an inviting
field and should receive every possible en-
couragement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
campaign

Several hundred cars loaded with Kansas
and Oklahoma wheat are sidetracked in the
railroad yards at Kansas City, awaiting
transportation to tidewater at Galveston,
New Orleans and other gulf ports, and
scores of tramp steamers are lying there
awaiting the arrival of cargoes of grain
for Europe. While this state of things ex-
lists in the West and South, fleets of British
vessels are crossing the Atlantic in ballast
to load with grain for Europe. This year.
at least, the United States is the granary
of the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The Republican municipal convention yes
terday afternoon was a spirited affair and
among it's delegates were many well-known
citizens who have won the regard of the
party by honorable service. The address of
Mr. Taylor will repay careful reading
by men of both parties because it is a fair
statement of the real results of Mayor Tag
CARTS administration. Fortunately, the con-
stitutional limit Of Indebtedness bars the
much further progress of involving the city
in a burdensome debt, for which no ade-
quate return has yet been received. In Mr..
Harding the Republicans have a candidate
who is we'll known In the city and is IA
miliar with it's affairs. He has the capacity
and the disposition to give indianapolis
a first-class administration. He is not en-
barrassed with pledges beyond those con-
tanned in the excellent platform adopted
by the convention. A city government
which shall carry out the pledges of the
Republican platform is what the people
want 1t indicates that the Republicans pro-
pose to make the canvass upon local is
sues and that it's candidates are not in a
position where they must direct attention
from themselves by dragging in irrelevant
matters which are not issues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The report that General Weyler has sent
his resignation to Madrid will probably
prove TO be true. If so it will go to sus-
tain his recent assertion that he and the
late premier, Senior Canovas, were in full
sympathy in their Cuban policy The as
sassination Of Canovas is notice to Weyler
he will no longer be wanted in Cuba, and so
he will probably step down and out before
he is recalled His resignation will be an
inglorious ending to a costly and fruitless
Campaign
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

Hereafter young Mr. Fisk, of Toledo will
probably be careful how he makes him
self either agreeable or useful to a chance
acquaintance in travelling, especially if that
acquaintance be young woman. On a
journey to Detroit by boat the other day
he met the young and pretty Miss Epple
and proceeded to devote himself to her
entertainment His attentions were well
received, and all proceeded happily until
Miss Epple found herself suffering from
severe headache Mr. Fisk, with an ap-
pearance of great sOlicitude for her COM
fort, gave her powder which he assured
her would relieve the pain, but which,
on the contrary made her so violently i'll
that she lost confidence in the honorable
character of her new friend and made
such complaints that on arrival at De-
troit the officers of the boat had him ar
rested and put in jail The morning pa
pers had what the newsboys call a fully
count" of the affair and represented him
as a depraved wretch with evil designs
upon an innocent girl-the blacklist of viii
lains for whom hanging was too good. His
denials and explanations awaited nothing,
and matters were looking dark when for
tunately for him, q rescuer in the person
of a woman who read the morning papers
made her appearance. She explained that
she was the woman who was responsible
for the headache powder, that it was
simple preparation without which she
never travelled, and that she had handed it
to the young man with the benevolent in
tent to relieve his companions evident dis
tress. The lady being we'll known and the
young woman having, in the meantime,
entirely recovered, the explanation was
sufficient, and Mr.. Fisk was turned loose
with apologies for OBTAINING him; but
apologies will hardly soften his injuries.
and next time he will permit travelling ac-
quaintances to call in their own physi-
clans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Sixteen Pages

BY request of the Nancy Hanks Lin
coin Memorial Association donations
of $I each, for fund to be used in
keeping I'm order the grave of Abra-
ham LincOIn's mother, will be re-
ceived by the Journal and acIxnowI-
edged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
No Need of LAW.

Briggs-This idea of a curfew law is all
nonsense.
Braggs-Don't you think it would save a
good many boys?
1T might but what is the need of it, when
it would be so easy to get an injunction re-
straining them from the use of the
straatS2n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

Cheap cigarettes and cheap cigarette
smokers are recognized in every we'll regu-
lated community an unmitigated evil.
Nothing is said here as to cigarettes and
their smokers in general, but only as to
the cheap class. They are the greatest null
sance because they are cheap and therefore
omnipresent, vile smelling and injurious.
Therefore, it Is gratifying to know that
they are to be attacked in an effective way.
The reputable tobacconists of Chicago, in
Guiding the principal wholesale and retail
dealers of the city, have formed asso-
citation for the purpose of driving cheap
cigarettes out of the market. The object
of the organization is briefly stated by the
president, who says: Cheap cigarettes and
the people who smoke them are nusances,
and we propose to get rid of them if pos
sible" 1t is proposed to get all the reput-
able tobacco dealers in the city into the as
ISOLATION and then boycott the sale of Gig
arettes at less than 10 cents a package
There is no profit in handling cheap Gig
arettes," said the president of the assocfa-
ton. and the trade is highly Objectionable
to all reputable tobacconists. With the dis
appearance of the cheap cigarettes boys
and 'fends,' the very people who are now
the most seriously affected by the practice,
VIII be forced in a great degree to aban-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

Those who a year ago were predicting
that better times would surely follow the
defeat of the silver delusion can claim seats
among the minor prophets at least after
showing that SO per cent. more of business
ran through the bank meters of the country
of 1896
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

1t is absurd to remark that there are no
laws barring Anarchists from landing in
this country, when, a matter of fact
the law is very explicit in its provisions
against criminals. If a man who declares a
purpose to assassinate and applauds those
who murder officials is not a criminal, then
the few men in prison for derailing railway
trains should be given their liberty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

gressional Record continues to be issued
daily in order to publish long speeches, for
which members obtained leave to print
That leave to print is a great institution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

One can scarcely pick up a newspaper
nowadays that does not contain notices of
the revival of local industries in addition to
the general news of returning prosperity 1t
IS the same everywhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The incident of ex-President Andrews
should have been closed long ago. He put
himself in line with regulators by taking
part in a convention which declared the
right of the debtor to pay his obligation in
a less valuable money than that which he
received. The trustees of Brown University
intim'.ted that it was not the proper thing
for him to do and expressed the wish thai
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The story of the cause of the diplomatic
rupture between Austria and Bulgaria is
interesting. An aid-de-camp of Prince Fer
dinand of Bulgaria, aided by the project of
police and another official, murdered his
paramour, an opera singer. The participa-
ton of the police in the murder was not
even denied but the officials justified them
selves on the ground that because of the
aid-de-camp's intimate relations with Prince
Ferdinand the murder was demanded by
reasons of state. The aid-de-camp was con-
victed of murder and pardoned. Here Aus
tria stepped in and demanded an adequate
punishment on the ground that the muir
dered woman was an Austrian subject. The
Bulgarian premier followed with an inter-
view in which ne intimated that the Aus
trian court had better begin its house
cleaning at home by dispelling the mystery
which shrouds the death of the late Crown
Prince Rudolph. Upon this subject the En-
peror of Austria is very sensitive, and
when the taunt of the Bulgarian was re-
ported to him he recalled his representa-
tiveS in Bulgaria, protesting that murder
in official circles in Bulgaria is protected.
The incident will close with apologies by
the Bulgarian government and a disavowal
of the obnoxious newspaper interview by
the Bulgarian premier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The unspeakable Turk-has any one heard
that he has left Thessaly? What has be-
come of the uitimatum? The Sultan seems
to be ruling Europe more than any other
one man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
StrnDDed.

Wickwire-That time I had the fever
walked up and found myself strapped in
bed. They told me L had been delirious.
Mudge-Only this morning I walked up
and found myself in bed, strapped
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

he refrain from advocating system of re-
pudiation should he continue with the col
lege. After a time he concluded that he
would rather advocate independent free
coinage than hold his place in the univer-
sity and resigned. That is all there is of
It, yet papers which should have recognized
the nature of President Andrews's offense
have kept up a series of editorials designed
to make it appear that he has in some man.
ner been wronged. The advocacy of the pol
icy of paying debts in a less valuable money
than that received is a moral offense equiv
alent to amending the Decalogue by strik-
ing out the word mot in the prohibition
thou shalt not steal" A martyr cannot
be made out of such material
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

son of such all round short crops for the
calamityite and croaker as the present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

Stranger-Are you the religious editor?
The Editor-I cannot tell lie. am only
the editor of the religious department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

The Chicago College of Physicians and
Dungeons has always firmly and sternly re-
fused admission to women who bombarded
its doors for admission as students but
now 1t has to admit them whether or no.
Not long since the college became a depart
ment of the University of illinois. The
university is. of course, open TO women as
well as to men. and one young woman. am
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Watts-Which is really the best bicycle?
Potts-How can 1 tell, when prices are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15


Mr. Marks, who claims to be the orig
inal of Lywyer Marks in Uncle Toms
Cabin is now in Chicago, and has been
talking volubly to newspaper reporters. He
says the manner in which his name came to
figure in the book came about through Mrs
Stowe wishing to localize her story, and,
hearing his name mentioned as that of the
only lawyer in the vicinity adopted it for
that of her lawyer, whose character she
had already drawn and which had no like
ness to his. This story may be true, but
1t is not the habit of novelists to "localize''
stories by using real names, and mex
perienced as Mrs. Stowe was in such mat
ters she would have been likely to hesitate
before applying the name of an actual liv-
ing person to so Objectionable character
as the one depicted. In these days it would
mean the bringing of a libel suit by the
individual so brought into notoriety. Mr.
Marks volunteers further information of
even more doubtful accuracy to the Chi
cago paper. He says: when saw Henry
ward Beecher on one occasion he told me
cont1dentially that if l were to see the
original manuscript it would be seen that
he had written a large part of the book"
Mr.. Beecher probably never said anything
of the kind; it is the first time the claim
has been made that any one save Mrs
Stowe even saw the manuscript before il
went to the printers The story has been
told over and over of her writing the IN
stallments in the intervals of her house
work as fast as they were needed by the
publisher of the National Era, in which
they appeared, and of her reading them to
her children. 1t is not related that she
even submitted them to her brother, and
as they lived far apart at the time
1t is improbable that she had
any aid from him. Moreover, there
is other evidence that Mr.. Beecher had no
hand in the work. He wrote novel him.
self, and those who from curiosity or a
sense of literary duty struggled through its
pages will be ready enough to testify that
its author could have had no part in Uncle
Tom" 1t is too late to deprive Mrs. Stowe
of her exclusive right to her famous book.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

PERSONS sending the Journal through the mails
IN the U1lted states should put eight-page
paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp on twelve
u slNteen-p paper a TWO-CENT postage
rates.
=, fl communications intended for publication in
onIs paper must, in order to receive attention, be
accompanied by the name and address OF the
MIlter If 1t is desired that rejected manuscripts
be returned. hostage must in ali cases be inclosed
Tor that purpose.
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don it. Buying of scent packages of ciga-
rettes is mostly done by boys and young
men who can get nickel, but who would
find it difficult to raise 10 cents" This might
be called reform from within, and every
body will wish 1t success-at least, every
body except cheap cigarette smokers.
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The Republican Remedy.

L is reported, aud all indications
90 toward establishing its verify
that Speaker Reed will use bis infiu'
ence against all attempts to secure
financial legislation in the extra ses-
sion which mag be made will please
The people. What tile country wants
Immediately is the new tariff, so
that abundant revenue may he oD-
tanned and adequate protection for
nished wherever needed.
So it seems to the Republicans
that the Currency We have is all
right, and that ell our troubles are
due to the fact that since 1894 we
have not been taxed enough.
The theory ia the old theory OF
plllebotomy. The bleeding patient
must be bled again. He must not
be disturbed in order to stop o
hemorrhage. Lacking atrength, his
strength must be still further deple-
ted, and to prevent a rush Of blood
to the head the patient muss~be de-
priyed Of blood altogether.
The taxeaters are ia the saddle
and the kind Of prosperity every
mothers son of them is laboFing for
is the kind that will profit and pro-
tect the manufacturing m%onopolies.