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

conduct. But. the danger being passed, our
people. little by little have fallen back into
the old ways of doing and thinking. Citi-
zens in common life encourage assertions
from the army. They decry the regular
service itself as If it were an enslavement;
forgetting that, with us, all enlisted men
are bona fde volunteers. In peace it is not
always the most patriotic and faithful OFF,
cer-one who clings to his regiment or
corps-that obtains most recognition and
honor The habit of seeking preferment
through outside influences is indeed quite
general, and is too often successful. If those
who most frequently shirk duty obtain the
rewards the effect is douby injurious to
the military arm; it demoralizes and weak
among the people. 1t is this evil, and the
false notion that the army on a peace foot
ipg is idle, which give rise TO the constant
opposition TO its increase, and in some
quarters, to its existence
Without the slightest disposition to raise
the military above the civil functionary, 1t
does appear to me that an average OF about
one thousand trained men for each State
and Territory would not be too many for
the purposes l have Indicated and this
number would scarcely suffice unless we
should continue to develop and cherish
more and more the State National Guard,
as well as to encourage military education
in our larger Institutions of learning. In
view of the fact that our relations with
Spain have been and still are strained, 1t
is from sheer necessity that such measures
are advocated.
In my humble judgment we cannot do
better for the country than to honor and
improve our regular army. and to make
it what il ought to be-in form model,
and in size not too large, but large enough
to meet the requirements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

probably, his business 20 do nothing but
write figures and fill up forms. 1t nearly
always happens that his state Of feeling
IS betrayed in the more symmetrical figures
Of his forgery. The next thing to notice
is the difference in the color of the ink. 1t
is never of the same shade a. that in the
original Should ii be darker or lighter,
the suspected debenture is taken to a dark
room and placed under a strong reflector.
Differences that did not appear are now
seen. The unaitered figures are shiny, be-
of a duller black. In some angles of the
light one does not see the original figures
at ell, but the added ones plainly. They
are then 1amped with alcohol to make the
paper transparent, The difference of char
acter between what was first written and
what was added is thus brought out more
distinctly. A magnifying glass is next
used TremorS of the hand sklllful
scratchings and alterations of figures are
made manifest. On the wrong side of the
numbers being lightly brushed with plom-
bagine, the new figures stand out in
stronger relief than the old The final OPP
eratiCn is "the wash of the debenture.
1t is first washed with camers-hair brush
oil to six parts of alcohol, at q heat of 50
degrees The primitive figures now appear
more distinctly than the added ones. The
second wash is Of soda and water in the
proportion of 2 to 100. The added ink. II at
all fresh, disappears, and the original num-
Der stands out clearly. If notice has been
given of the loss of a bond with the orig
inal number it will go hard with the per-
son who has presented the cooked one,
unless he can show that 1t was thus when
his broker conveyed it to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
QUEER HUMAN NATURE.
Sparrow Fight Almost Caused a Run
on a Bank.

New York Neil and Express.
1.-THE recent expose Of the swindllng spec
ulative concerns in Wall street has shown
how remarkably unsuspecting and gullible
the average man and woman with small
savings is" a prominent New England
savings bank official said. ut is just as
funny, when yours is not the bank involved.
to see how suspicious and fearful these
same people become when there is the
slightest sign of something wrong in the
case of such ordinary reputable financial
institutions as savings banks. People never
stop to think about the most impossible adj
VertiSementS of wheat Syndicates,' etc.
until after it is all over. They usually do
all their thinking about solid savings banks
before, and not after, something has hap
pened.
lone day last week a most amusing thing
occurred in connection with one of our
smaller savings banks. 1t was during the
noon luncheon hour. Two sparrows had
been having a fierce battle in the street in
front Of the bank in question. The traffic
particularly while clerks, merchants and
others are on their way to and from the
midday meal. The sparrows made a con-
siderable noise and their movements finally
landed them on the roof of the bank build
ing. First one pedestrian stopped to watch
the night, then another, and so on until a
fair sized crowd stood on the opposite side
of the street and looked up intently toward
the low bank building.
That was enough. Late arrivals guessed
at once something was the matter, and
soon there was rush from the outskirts
of the crowd. A few were on their way to
get their bank books and others to warn
their friends. In the afternoon thirty-eight
depositors had appeared inside of half an
hour, many Of them humble, foreign born
Workmen, and ii took the best efforts of
the entire bank force to quiet them down
and induce them not to withdraw their de-
posits. AS a matter of fact, four were paid
off in gold to prove that they could have
their money if necessary. Then they didn't
want it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
SALVATION ARMY COLONIES.
They May at Least Help TO Lessen the
Cost of Caring for Paupers.

Commander Booth-Tucker in the Forum.
Are we too optimistic2 Have we not q
right to be so? Would not the very stones
cry out against us If we were anything
else? Stretching before us lies the vast
panorama of six brief years accomplish
ment. Wealth, learning, infiuence--those
great factors in modern achievement-are
conspicuous by their absence from our
ranks. The magic wand Of the millionaire
No halls of science have adorned our hori-
zon; no political stars have illumined our
ornament ana yet, springing of the
therefore. supported by the people," there
has flashed forth from the apparent moth
ingness of a creative Providence, meteor
which has lightened the intense darkness
of modern poverty by the benign rays OF
nascent hope, love, peace and prosperity.
Within the brief space of six years there
have sprung into existence, musAroomlike,
some four hundred institutions, dotted like
lighthouses along the dreary wreck-be-
streWR shores of pauperdom, each supplied
with such life-saving apparatus as enables
them collectively to drag daily from the,
alas! my1ads Of sinking souls, no fewer
than ten thousand at a time.
In places where the work has been long
est established the proportion is still greater.
sheltered last year a daily average Of mors
than 5000 people at cost of $4,000.
The minimum cost of supporting criminals
and paupers In public institutions is about
81 a week for food alone, besides all the ex-
penses of buildings and supervision. In
some jails the contract rate for feeding
other expenses Now, in the Salvation
Army we able to reduce the entire ex-
penses to an average of about rs cents a
day for food, clothing, rental and super
vision, including the least self-supporting
of our institutions-such chiiCren's
homes, and homes for fallen women and
ex-criminals.
Time was when a man was thought TO be-
worth more than a sheep; now he is valued
at less than a Californian ground squirrel:
inasmuch we can neither poison him,
eat him, nor sell his skin! This cannot be-
good economy, philosophy Craftsmanship,
or christianity. Something must be wrong
somewhere.
The statesman or phianthropist who will
write his name on the grateful memories or
posterity will be the one who proves, thar
even for this world-to say nothing of the
next--it is more profitable to plant human
being in the soil than to grow a potato or
a beet; that q f1esh-and- blood dollar in
worth more than either a gold or silver one;
that the machinery of willing hands and
thinking brains and tender hearts is WORTH
more than the most wonderful discoveries
of science; that the measure OF a nations
prosperity is the happiness OF its poor; ana
that the removal of pauperism is the true
measure of the success of its Christian
craftsmanship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
Growth of Religious Tolerance.

Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in the Forum.
The tendency has been toward sectarian
organization in Christian work But with
this tendency has been another to make the
work itself more Christian and less Sec
tartan. Methodists Baptists. Congregations
alists. Presbyterans do their work by de-
UNCONVENTIONAL. No longer do Arminians
and C&lvnists lombard each other from
their respective puipits. sectarian SER
a High Church Episcopal pulpit; and a SER
mon leveled against another sect is still
more rare. The churches are separated, but
the doctrine is one. The reader can easily
satisfy himself of the truth of this obseFva-
ton. Let him take up a Monday morning s
paper and read the reports of the previous
Sundays sermons and then endeayor with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

country went South as the cold wealth.
err came on. Their way now is blocked,
since they cannot pass through North Car
ohnsy and a larger portion of these summer
country tramps are obliged to come into
the cities in the winter.
To Danish tramps and create good
roads by one and the same act is a great
achievement The Legislature OF Penn
sylvania might in this cheap and easy way
confer an inestimable blessing upon the
people of this State by turning the able
bodied minor criminals over to the work OF
road-makng and treating every able
bodied tramp as an idle vagrant, subject on
arrest and conviction of Vagrancy 10 six
months labor at public road-making.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
WOMEN AS A RACE.
They Are Disposed to Ignore the In
huence of Man.
London Spectato

London Spectator.
All women have fathers, as we'll as moth
ers. That is a fact of natural history which
we do not suppose the most advanced Of
the crowds who are now writing about
women and their progress are prepared
definitely to deny but they would certainly
like to deny it if they could. The assump-
ton which underlieS all their views is that
women are not only different from men
physically and morally, but that they be-
long to different race, which may, as time
advances, have destiny of its own. They
write as If the great Hindu legists, who
hold that female property should descend
only to females had perceived part of a
great truth which is that women are con-
tinuously separate from men, inherit moth
ing from them and are forever advancing
upon line of their own which will in the
end, or, at all events, may in the end, after
What Mrs. Green calls an anarchic period,
develop in them something probably supe-
rior to anything in man. or, at the worst
something radically different.
The human race, with these writer's is
male, but women are female, and therefore
something quite other than human. Their
strength and their weakness their virtues
and their failings, belong to themselves, and
no more belong 10 a common humanity than
the qualities of cattle and the qualities of
the felidae belong to a common animal ma
ture They have different line, as well as
a different law of progress. and will in the
end develop into beings entirely separate
from men, probably much higher but at ali
events so different that TO reason from the
progress of one sex to the progress of the
other is as futile as to reason that because
wolves have in their course of unnumbered
ages developed into dogs, therefore cats
must, in the course of countless aeons. de-
Velop into dogs. also In the violence Of
their recoil from the Tennysonian idea that
woman is but lesser man, the more frantic
writer's attribute to her qualities. faculties
and above all. a future fate which would
if the assumption were true, prove her to
belong TO an essentially different species
which resembles man only for a moment
when, as it were accidentally, she is level
with him in a race which she is destined to
be far the first. The fact that, as all
men are the sons of women, they must
share in any inherited excellence, or even
change which their mothers may develop
is not so much denied as ignored and the
whole question treated as if men were the
descendants of Adam and all women of Eve
not by a license of poetic speech. but in
prOSaic fact
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
THE ATTRACTION OF FICTION.
Writers Whose Talents Lie Elsewhere
Ave Drawn Into 1t.

Edmund Goss, in North American Review.
Fashion grows with what it feeds on, and
inquest ionably the extreme vogue of this
particular kind of book, the prose story,
has drawn into its vortex many talents
which had no original tendency in that di-
rection. For example, stevenson, manifest
ly born to be an essaylst and perhaps a
philosopher, was dragged, as magnet
draws a needle, to the irresistible rock of
STORYTELLING and Treasure Island begun as
a joke for a boys newspaper. was made
the pioneer of a series of tales to which
the authors exquisite style gave the per-
sstence of literature. In Mrs. Humphrey
Ward a most accomplished literary critic
has been lost to us; in Mr.. George Moore
a candid student of sociology; in Mr. Stan
ley Weyman a historian of the school Of
Robertson Among the departments of liter
airy energy which are now the most neg
lected is scientific philosophy of the sort
so brilliantly illustrated by two of the great
men who have disappeared since 1888, by
Tyndall and Huxley. The class of writer
which they represented, the pioneer in
physical discovery, who is also a splendid
popular exponent, combining accurate re-
search with the exercise OF imagination and
style, has ceased to exist in England. Mr.
Wells might have risen in 1t to the highest
consideration, but he prefers to tell little
horrible stories about monsters. On all
sides we may see and we ought not to see
without acute alarm. the finer talents be-
ing drawn from the arduous exercises to
which nature intended to devote them to
the facle fields of fiction.
The result of all this is that, to ex-
tent which ought to occasion all serious
observers no little alarm, the great read
ing public is rapidly becoming unable to
assimilate any ideas at ali, and to arpre-
ciate impressions 1t requires to have them
presented to it in the form of story. The
multitude of readers grows every hour,
but with these masses those individuals be-
come fewer and fewer who are able to
follow the pathways of thought without the
help of knowing what Edwin did and what
Angelina wore. Specialists push the sub
division of observations about fact to an
even more extreme nicely. but they only
address other specialists. The rest Of the
world prefers to take it's information and
it's excitement from two sources of enter
tainment. the newspaper and the novel. 1t
is almost certain that IL Modern Painters
or The Grammar of Assent or even The
History of Civilization had been published
within the last ten years 1t would have
scarcely attracted any attention at all,
outside a narrow circle. 1t is more than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
DETECTION OF CoUNTERFEITS.
Scientific Methods Which Help Wom-
ems Unerring Instinct and Touch.
London Truth.

The governor of the Bank of France has
found that his lady clerks are the best de-
tectives of forged banknotes and of de-
bentures with altered numbers. He has
now entirely intrusted the work of detec-
delicate Tact of their fingers helps them,
and he fanciee that many of them really
scent bad note. They feel, in lingering
the forged notes the difference, however
slight between them and the real He
never knew q note that haG been laid aside
as doubtful. after being thus felt 70 be
anything but Il forged one. The means for
bringing to light falSiflcd numbers on de-
bentures are worth being brought under
the notice OF stock brokers and bankers.
The fair detective first spreads the sus-
pected debenture on a well-lighted table
with number of others. and sets them one
by one beside il. The genuine numbers are
always written with clerkly regularity.
The man or woman who wrote them did SO
mechanically; but a forgers hand is al
ways influenced by hope or fear. 1t is not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

Certificates have been issued to the fol-
lowing named Indianians:
Observation-Disclosures Boyd. Anderson; Mel
vim II. Stone, National Military Home; spe-
cial, Robert b. Neel, Evans's Landing
Restora don and Additional-Thomas s..
Sims dead. Elwood.
Increase-Jacob Shepard, Kokomo
Reissue and Increase-John Cole, Angola.
Original Widows, etc.-Harriet SIMPSON.
Russellville; Fredericka Jennerich, Jener-
sonville.,
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out any acquaintance with the preachers
to determine to what denominations they
quaihtance with the preachers, let him
analyze the sermons and endeavor to
sermon which are enthusiastically Pres
byterian, or Congregational, of Baptist, or
Unitarian. Except in the utterances of a
he Will find it difficult so to do. Ministers
preach in UNCONVENTIONAL pulpits. but they
proclaim one and the same Christian mes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
A Plea for the ARMY.

Forum
There are some potent evils to be cor
recteo. During our great struggle In the
civil war the soldiers uniform was an
honor. and reward was given for gallant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

Judge

Mae-Mr Smoothe called on me last
night. He's a perfectly lovely CONVERSE
ZIONIST.
Marie-What did he say?
Mae-Just proposed; that's all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

Libby cut glass has the sparkle -
that marks superlative quality. To Exf
bs sure that you are getting thetS\S0eY
genuine, look for this on every 49,
piece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

probable that Buckle and Newman if not
Mr.. Ruskin, would have resigned them
selves to the inevitable, and have tried to
present their views and convictions in the
form of tales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
MEMS WEAR
BICYCLE SIINDRIES.

Mems solid leather Belts, nickel
buckle and rings, worth Csc, at, 10c
each $500. .......:,............. AOS
Mons Bicycle Stockings, with
feet, the balance OF stock, AZ
worth 50c and 75c, at, a pair...... (
Mems heavy Cotton Sweaters,
with striped sailor collar; colors,
navy. black or maroon: We're IN,
soc, for Observation-Disclosures. I'm
100 dozen more of those Mems
unlaundered patch bosom Shirts %,
at, each ...................... 49,
Look at them; you know what they
are worth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08

OShl!iu' 1HlS CoHullOn gave way 1mper-
ceptibly to an idea that l was looking at a
SOFT gray mass of mist which L knew was a
was the place to which l was going At
last this was the only, thing knew or
dim and his voice sounded very far off,
when he, or another doctor, or a nurse dis
turbed me.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-23
hirs. Gordon's Reception mt the Nasl,.
VILE Exposition

The Nashville American Of Sunday
morning contained the following account
or Mrs. Gordon's reception at the Nash
vile Exhibition to Governor O'Ferrall
ana staff. OF the Fourth Regiment:
AIRS Ida j. Gordon, who Is one of the
most popular and prominent women in
virginia, rendered a reception in the
spacious Seaboard Air Line car to Gov
ernor Oterrall and staff and ladies OF
the party and the officers Of the Fourth
virginia Regiment last Thursday even
ing. 1t was one Of the most brilliant re-
ceptions given since the opening Of the
Centennial, the charm of the hostess. the
number of beautiful women present and
the handsome officers making 1t notably
ENJOYABLE. The decorations were entire
~ or palms and trailing green vines.
and a delicious frappe was served dur
Ing the evening. The Fourth Regiment
sand furnished the most Inspiring
music Besides the charming assistance
OF the hostess daughter, Miss Ida Cor
DON and her attractive guest, Miss Lucy
Macdonald. Of New York, Mrs. Mcguire.
Mrs. kirkham. Mrs. Wills, Mrs. Henry
G. Ward, Mrs. G. w. Fall, Mrs NJ. NJ
Gardner and Mrs. Edward Buford as
sisted in receiving.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-23
IT WILL BE. REPEATED.
The Big Chorus Entertainment to be
Given at Soldiers Home.

At the meeting Of the assistant con-
ductors of the Coward Chorus, held yes
terday afternoon, it was decided to re-
peat the concert In the form OF a grand
outdoor affair, using patriotic tunes, to-
Eether with church hymns and South
ern melodies, accompanied by the Sol
diers' Home Band.
The plans as laid exceed by great
length those Of the original idea, as Prof
Coward. who was present, insisted that
there IS no such Il thing rs standing still
He Will endcavor to secure an artillery
md Will sing the patriotic airs to the
booming Of the cannon.
Arrangements will at once be closed
with the owners OF the Pocahontas and
it Will probably be necessary to arrange
for another boat
The charmen OF the committees ap-
pointed at the meeting were Mr.. John
White. master of ceremonies: Mr.. Sid
ney Anderson, chairman excursion com
mittee. and MIR. George Toms, trca surer
The meeting decided to call the mem
bers together for first rehearsal on next
Monday night and secured the promise
Of Prof. Coward to return on Sunday
evening and direct this rehearsal.
The exact date Of the excursion and
concert will be announced in Il few days
The board will devise a way of taking
the chorus free If possible.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-23

REfLGY~fn> this city. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. al the rcsido1c3c,
or parents, No. IT'S Wood street, Tuesday.
June END. 1897 Mt S:45 o'clock p. NJ, MA r.
GARET MARY, daughter of Patrick ana
days.
The funeral will take place from above
residence THIS wednesday, AFTER
NOON at o'clock. Friends Of the family
are invited to attend.
WlLSON-Tuesday morning, MARY
ARCHER, wife Of Robert Wilson, and
daughter of the late Robert Archer. Of Ell
lott City. Md
Funeral from residence THIS (Wednes-
day) MORNING ut - O'Clock
HOFINLlIR-At the residence of his par
ems. GLASGOW street extended, Scots
vile, Norfolk county. Va. June %. 1897.
at p; m, CECIL r.. infant son Of Willis
j. and Anna May IIonlcr aged / year. 8
months ana 81 days
Funeral services from the residence
THIS wednesday, AFTERNOON at $50
o'clock Friends and acquaintance are