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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-05-08
AMERICAN TOURISTS in EGYPT

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Why They Went to the Stats 1au Given
by the Khedive
Official circles in Cairo have been
chuckling over an incident connected
with the state ball given at Abdin pal
ace by his highness the khedive, the
facts of which leaked out of the bureau
OF the grand master of ceremonies and
found their way into the native news
papers, says the Cairo Sphinx. Three
weeks ago the grand master sent word
to each diplomatic representative in
the capital that the invitations this
year would be limited to members Of
the diplomatic corps, officials of the
Egyptian government, foreign princes,
dukes, marQuises, counts, senators, etc.,
ana that tourists could not be asked.
Inc grand master probably had never
thought how this message would sound
10 the representatives of republic
like the United States of America. But
the message was Official and for a
tlme It looked as if that important sec
tlon OF winter visitors, the Americans,
would be entirely overlooked. But the
american diplomatic agent and con-
sul-general, Frederic G. Penfield,
thought differently. In consequence,
a polite note was addressed by him to
the palace, stating that his country had
no titles of nobility, but as his COM
patriots We're all sovereigns-ranking
with kings and queens-he would like
10 nave as many as possible asked. It
is said that there was conference of
the authorities at the palace, at which
the status of Mr.. Penfeld's country
people was discussed, the result being
that twice as many as ever before were
commanded" to attend the ball, and
each was heartily received by the
Knedlve, whose princely eyes twinkled
as ne greeted each well-dressed sove-
reign from the states. 1t was a decided
coup for Mr.. Penfeld, and proved his
ability always to do the right thing at
the right time. The presence OF forty
americans al state ball, even in the
land OF the pyramids, was a novelty.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-05-08
A Bicycle School,

The Atlanthia Bicycle School has been
opened in the hall at 81 Jackson street
where competent instructors may be
found: Wheels to rent by the day or
hour. Hall open evenings. Instruction
Is cents per lesson.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-05-08
Mrs. Randolph Ranlies.

Mr.. EJitor:-I wish 70 correctsome of
the ga ements made by B. H. Watts,
concerning his late wife, my daughter,
Pearl Watts. Yes. I learned that he
had carried her down in what is called
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that beats upon them as it does upon a
throne this could not be If the cause for
scandal existed 10 one-tenth the degree the
irresponsible slaEderers declare. The aver
age ability of the present Congress may be
rated as respectable and satisfactory, to say
the least The body contains many men of
statesmanlike qualities, and the freaks, :"
of which such a representative body must
have its proportion, are not numerous
enough to be harmful If the emergency
were to arise it is probable that even these
freaks would develop into loyal and faith
full public servants, while the more able
members, who at present have little oppor-
tunity to show their best qualities, would
rise to the level of their responsibilities as
our public men have done in critical situa-
lions since the beginning of the Nations
history As a body the House and Senate
have done their duty this session according
to their light, and there is every prospect
that the country as a whole will be salts
fed with and benefited by their work. 1t
is not we'll for any hasty and thoughtless
critic to aver that other men might have
done the work better
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ably purer quality than that common to
native Britons Negroisms are in use.
but it is seldom that any one negro uses
all the queer words and phrases invari-
ably attributed by every dialect writer
to each of his characters. For the
most part members of the race speak
language that everybody understands, be-
cause. with the exceptions growing out of
illiteracy, it is the speech of the educated
people about them. Hoosier dialect may be
heard by travellers through the West and
South, but where one man uses the phrases
found in magazines five hundred speak
English that ought not to shock even a
British critic. The truth is that there is a
great uniformity of speech throughout the
United States. Certain words and phrases
are peculiar to different localities, but even
these are understood by all who hear, and
for the rest the language is the same every
where. Even the foreign element seems to
leave but little impress, owing, doubtless.
to the public schools, which have no place
for other than English undefled AS for
actual American slang, it is probable that
Miss Ingelow knew but little about it, since
with a curious inconsistency, the editors
who are so eager for dialect frown upon
literature which is sprinkled with slang.
There is, it must be acknowledged. a vast
deal of slang current and some of it be-
comes incorporated into the permanent
vernacular and is finally dignified by "a
place in the dictionaries; but in such case
there is a need for the new words, and the
process is part of the growth of the lam
guage. The most of the words and phrases
serve a little term of life and are heard
no more. But it is doubtful if Americans
are more addicted to such irregularities
than are the English. In British literature
slang is common enough, though through
familiarity it may not always be recognized
as such by British readers. No one uses
more of it than Rudyard Kipling and no
writer's productions have more force than
his. 1t is well to take care of the mother
tongue, but a language has a life o. it's
own and will have a growth that no mar
and no nation can hinder.
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advice has been unwise. and as hundreds
OF men know, his leadership has resulted
in the injury of thousands of well-meaning
men. He is organizing social democracy
to establish an industrial colony in a Pa
cific State. yet he tells the coal miners
that THE longer a man works the poorer
ne is" and that "the only way to get out
of debt is to quit work" 1t is a reflection
upon the millions of laborers in the country
to tell them that IF you want an honest
man seek him in the jail" If intelligent
men in every walk of life did not know
that Debs is a vicious and often irrespon-
sible agtator they would demand his ar
rest and punishment for seditous utter
ance. There would have been no i'll temper
and vindictveness in the present strike if
he had not appeared in the contest. If
there should be bloodshed now it should be
charged to the Incorporate language he has
used in his addresses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
A REMINDER.

The dedication of the Logan monument
should remind the people of Indiana that
they have a long-neglected duty in that di-
rection to perform. For years statue of
Oliver P. Morton has been talked of and
one two feeble efforts have been made to
secure it. There are few men in Indiana to-
day who will not say that the people of the
State should cause a figure of that historic
character to be placed upon the grounds
of the Capitol. Every year since the close
of the war has vindicated the wisdom and
the justice Of the Union cause and the part
which Indiana performed in it's defense
To-day there is not a man of average
sense in Indiana who would have it known
that he would protest against the part In
diana as State took in that struggle.
Indiana had many illustrious men in the
war. and her sons were on every bloody
field, but none of the distinguished actors
who are yet living would raise objection to
the selecting of Governor Morton as the
fitting character to represent this State as
the Indiana man of the war period. In
deed the most distinguished officers in both
branches of the service representing Indi-
ana are Jealous advocates of the Morton
statue.
1t is not necessary to recall the high and
courageous service of Oliver P. Morton dur
ing the years 1S61-65. 1t is known and rec
ognized by the people of Indiana. He was
the typical war Governor. Judged by the
quality of his service, his zeal, his ability,
his dauntless courage, he was the greatest
war Governor, yet Massachusetts and other
States have placed upon their public
grounds the statues of Governors who rem
dered conspicuous service during the war
In this connection it should be said that
the matter of a statue of Governor Morton
was considered by the late encampment of
the Grand Army in Richmond. Much en-
thusiasm was manifested in the project and
the first proposition was to proceed at once
to raise funds and secure models. After
discussion, it was decided that it would be
wiser to appoint & committee to take the
whole matter into consideration and to re-
port plans for raising the money, and to
secure designs or general outlines regard
ing the statue. The committee selected
for the task is composed of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Haggard, of Lafayette; Winfield T.
Durbin, of Anderson; Archibald c. Voris,
of Bedford; James H. Cisney, of Warsaw;
Will Cumback, of Greensburg. This COM
mittee will report to the next encampment,
which will be held in May. The names of
the committee insure faithful discharge
of the important duty imposed upon it.
This movement should end in success,
and it will if organized effort is made to
raise the money. 1t is not too much to
say that it must succeed. since it's fail
ure would cast an aspersion upon the people
of Indiana.
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OUR PUBLIC MEN.

Leslie's Weekly, under it's present man
agement, is in the MAN. a well-conducted
paper, temperate in expression and far re-
moved from the mugwumpery whose dis
tinctive characteristic is the belittling of
American institutions. Nevertheless this
usually sensible paper after commenting on
the high character and freedom from cor
ruption of the men who do the work of
the British government, puts forward the
stereotyped mugwump opinion of the per-
sonnet of our own government. I'VE frank
ly admit" it says that in the public life
of this country we do not always get the
best. The present Congress, with many
able members does not afford a gratifying
average of greatness; and the Senate
which we are fond OF calling the ablest
legislative body in the world, is not measur-
ing up to the boast For several years now
we find mediocre politicians getting into
senatorial places that should be filled by
able men," 1t is not necessary to go into
the matter of British honesty and ability or
to make comparisons of any sort to question
the correctness of this frank admission.
1t is enough to say that the British have
their own troubles. No one will deny that
public men are sometimes disappoint-
ing; not all of them are men of high abil-
ity, and some of them afford cause for re-
greet that the people gave them political
responsibilities. But when ii is said that
the congressional average of greatness is
litical life an assertion is made that cannot
be proved and is at least open to dispute
1t is common thing to say that we do not
get our best men; but who are our best
men? They must be members of profess
sional or business circles, and our congress
men and other public officers are taken
from these circles. How does any one know
that among those not chosen are any who
would serve better? 1t is only by trial that
this can be shown and why assert that the
untried are superior until they have been
given chance to prove it? Because one
man stands high as a lawyer or a merchant
it does not necessarily follow that he will
retain that superiority in a new and I'M
tried field. A lofty personal character does
not of itself qualify man for public serv-
ice Ministers of the gospel. men of the
highest moral repute, who have now and
then been drawn into political service, are
VIGOROUSLY inefficient as legislators and
executive officers. Superior scholarship is
not enough of itself to nc man for public
duties, the college professor and the man
of books ranking with tie preacher as hav-
ing much TO learn before they can become
statesmen. 1t has become too much the
fashion to cast slurs upon the honesty of
congressman as a class. but it would be we'll
to reflect that such siurs are based almost
entirely upon the vaguest of rumors-idle
gossip emanating from outsiders who thus
betray their own secret leaning to corrupt
practices-and not upon known facts.
Scandals growing out of the dishonesty of
congressman are rare. and with the light
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
PASSAGE OF THE TARIFF BILL.

The tariff bill, in all its essential features
the Dingley bill passed by the House in
March, has become a law. If 1t had been
enacted as early as the middle of April, as
it could just as well have been, the treasury
would have received several million dollars
more of revenue, and warehouses would not
have been filled with foreign merchandise
which could just as we'll have been manu-
featured at home. The greatest gamers
by this delay will be the Sugar Trust, which
has filled its warehouses with raw sugars
under the 40 per cent ad valorem provision
of the German act. The uncertainty re-
garding the passage of the bill until the
early votes in the Senate indicated that its
enactment might be expected sooner or
later, delayed the quickening of business
which is now observable on every hand.
The new law, like all revenue laws, is a
measure of compromises. There are pro-
visions in it which every man who is con-
nected with the industries of the country
would change. Nevertheless, the feature of
the law which will be most unpopular is the
duty on sugars, which is in no sense pro-
tective, but is provision to raise revenue.
But for the fact that sufficient revenue
could not be raised without the sugar duty,
Republicans would have put raw sugar
upon the free list. The sugar duty is a
tariff for revenue
One other general change from the Cor
man tariff is that the Dingley law is based
upon specific duties instead of ad valorem.
AS far as possible the duties are a given
amount upon the article instead of a per
cent upon the value or cost as estimated
mainly by the importer. This change in
sures a much more reliable volume of rev.
enue upon the merchandise imported.
In passing the bill the Republicans have
kept their pledges to the country, and the
country expected it because, after the ex-
perience of the past four years, the mass
of the people, who are not importers, pro-
desire return to the policy of protection
So bitter has been this experience that it is
safe to predict that no effective assault can
be made upon a tariff in the name of free
trade for twenty years. Schedules will be
changed, duties modified and the free list
extended. but the protective idea will be re-
tanned
On every hand there are unmistakable
signs of industrial and business improve
ment due to the confidence inspired by faith
in a tariff which will protect and which will
be permanent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
SCIENTIFIC.

DR.. Weinek's great Photographic atlas Of
the moon is to be made on scales of ten to
thirteen feet fer the moons diameter.
The AraXes river, in Transcaucasia has
shifted to it's ancient bed, and now flows
directly into the Caspian sea instead of
into the Kura at a point sixty miles from
the latter's mouth.
A fiocculent precipitate resulting when
gaseous fiuorine is passed into liquid
oxygen has been shown by Moissan and
Dewar to have the curious property of de-
hagrating violently when the temperature
rises.
The penny-in-the-slot principle has been
applied in France to a machine for pro-
ducing X rays. The apparatus contains the
stored electricity and a Crookes tube in a
small box separated from which by a
little space is the huoreScent screen. A
suitable coin enables any person to view
his bones and other marvels for certain
time.
Since the beginning of May, new sys-
tenn Of reckoning the hours has been in
force in Belgium, noon being represented
by y, and midnight by "a or 0. according
to circumstances. A train starting exactly
at midnight is said to leave at hours,
and one arriving at that time is considered
due at "a o'clock. The dialS of existing
clocks at railway stations have been
adapted TO the new system by placing the
numbers Ii to "a under the l to II.
Painful wounds frequently result from
pricking the fingers with a pen. An ex-
animation of sixty-seven samples Of school
inks has been made by DIR. Markham. of
Leipzig, who finds most of the inks 70 be
made of gall nuts, and TO contain sapro-
phytes, bacteria and micrococci. In two in
stances a bacillus that proved fatal 10
mice in four days was cultivated from
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25

The Fresh Air Mission is a charity that
should appeal to every one. There may be
reasonable doubts as to the actual good
done by certain forms of charitable outlay,
but as to benefits of this there is no room
for question. Sick and delicate children are
taken from crowded and ill-vertilated
homes where their busy and overworked
mothers are unable to give them proper
care, and are given pure air, good food
and nursing and careful medical attend
ance, and so tided over the heated term
in which children under the most favorable
surroundings are subject to much suffer
ing. The little ones are not ''pauperized'
by this bestowal of care and kindness; they
are made happy, at least, and possibly we'll
by short stay at the little summer hos
pital, and every one who contributes to
their comfort and relief should increase
his own peace of mind. 1t is not a large
sum Of money that the Flower Mission
needs to carry on this work through the
season. and enough voluntary contributions
should go in at once to enable it to do all
the service possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25

The Atlanta Daily Commercial has an ed
itorial under the heading of Let God be
Praised" approving the recent lynchings
in Georgia. The article opens by saying:
1.-The good work seems to grow upon the
cowardly crest of press denunciation. An
other lynching in Georgia to-day. making
two affairs of this kind within a week.
1t concludes as follows:
Georgians, continue to do your duty by
the home. Ignore what a hypocritical Dem
Ocratic press says of you. DEFY the spirit
that expects protection from Republican
administration. Laugh at the imbecile
Sternness of your courts Shout defiance at
the glitter of bayonetS that would stab you
in the hands Of towards. Pop your fingers
at the puerile proclamation that put de-
tectiveS at your heels. DO your work in
the broad sunlight of Gods glorious day
time and hang, yes, burn, every brute who
destroys your home. And each time you do
it, get on your knees and pray that God
NAV give YOU renewed strength and cOur-
age Remember that home is dearer than
law, and that one innocent child or woman
is worth more than all the Governors and
judges in Christendom.
This is infamous and dangerous teaching.
OF course, everybody wants the perpetra-
tors of crime punished, and that is what
laws are made and courts organized for.
This is a civilized country and the people
of Georgia or any other State can, if they
will, create moral sentiment and pressure
that will insure the prompt and severe pun
ishment of every criminal. Lynch law in
a land of courts is a reversion from civil
ization to barbarism~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25

In one of the current magazines a dis
ills of mankind, he thinks, is the meat-eat-
ing propensity. ANY more than three or
four ounces a day he is sure is bad for the
eater. Next to too much meat is the ex-
tensive use of sweet and starchy foods.
Not long ago a local physician of high
standing advised a patient who was some
what debilitated to eat beefsteak, the
oftener the better. When the doctors dis
agree regarding so important a matter as
diet, they ought not to be very, Jealous in
announcing healers who are not of their
class
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25


Some time ago the principal of a school
at Bath, Pa, had some correspondence
with Jean Ingelow in regard to language,
and one of her letters, intended for the use
of his pupils, is printed in a Philadelphia
paper. In it she urges that care be taken
of the English language by protecting it
from corruption of slang. She declares
that among all those who use this lam
guage, either by inheritance, as they do in
Australia, Canada, the Cape of Good Hope
New Zealand, etc, or by learning it from
policy, as in our great possessions in Asia
or as you do in the United States, there is
not one nation so reckless with it as your
selves" She finds that if better care is
not taken to preserve the mother tongue in
its purity the English-speaking nations, in
less than a hundred years, will not under
stand one another. Modern English people,
she goes on to say, cannot understand the
poet Chaucer, but it was hundreds of years
before that came about. At the present
rate that change is progressing it seems
likely to her that in a much shorter time
people will be unable to read Shakespeare
or Milton or other great books that make
our classics. 81 have no time to argue on
this point" she continues, but if you
doubt my word, take up any old-fashioned
book such as Robinson Crusoe The
Pilgrims Progress or Hamlet and COM
pare it with any common American maya
zine or fiction which claims to represent
the talk of the day. Mark the new words
and slang words in it, especially if it is
written for the young, and perhaps you
may come round to my opinion" Miss In
gelow, of course, knew "Americanisms'
only from books and not from general ac-
quaintance with the people, since she never
visited this country, and it is plainly to be
seen that she was misled by the dialect
literature of recent years. American read
ers know how much, or. rather, how little,
value to place upon this as representing
the prevailing vernacular. There is the
New England dialect, the negro dialect, the
Hoosier dialect, the cowboy dialect, the
Hamlin Garland dialect and the various
other irregular forms of speech that maya
zine editors have found so enticing of late.
Now. the popularity of these quaint forms
of speech is that they are actually in use
in different parts of the country, but by no
means to the degree indicated by dialect
tales. The native New Engiander, even
the one of culture and careful speech, uses
certain provincialisms of which he is en-
tirely unconscious, and which, to the end of
his days. betray his origin to the close OBJ
server; but for all this the prevailing New
England vernacular is not that OF the
"Biglow Papers" but ENGLISH Of a prob
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25

Some people living near a founding hos
pital in Washington made complaint
against the institution as an intolerable
nuisance because the crying Of the babies
disturbed the peace and quiet of the neigh
borhood. The grand jury declined to inter-
fere, saying it knew of no remedy for the
crying of babies, and did not think the
grievance serious enough to warrant severe
measures in abatement. Those jurymen
some of whom were doubtless married men
with babies of their own, knew that it
would be a very dangerous precedent to de-
clare the wailing of infants a nuisance.
Any family might be declared against by
grumbling neighbors and be compelled to
move on.