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The Douglas miner., 1897-02-03

done strenuously; other work to do for our delight and that to be done hearti- ly; neither is it to be done by halves or shifts, but with will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.'
 The citizens of Douglas and Juneau are brought face to face with a state of things which they cannot afford to ig- nore. It is one of vast importance to the merchants particularly, and to all others engaged in business incidentally. THE MINER sounds the note of warning in ample time, and if it is disregarded, we shall know where to place the blame.
 A great deal of enterprise has been manifested ill advertising the fact that Juneau and Douglas are the proper, the best the cheapest and the logical points at which to outfit for the Yukon. Many reasons are adduced to prove this and we know it to le true.
 The question now arises, how are these Yukoners to get from here to Dyea! SAA pended upon by intending immigrants?
 A correspondence is in progress be- tween MT. Trowbridge, superintendent of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, at Seattle, and MT. F. A. Brooks, super intendent of said company for Alaska. at Juneau. MT. Trow bridge takes straight forward, honorable and bus 'ness-like ground on this question. He says that If the people here will undertake to do the carrying trade between Juneau and Dyea and do 1t sat sfactorily both as 10 service and cost, his company will keep their hands off. But that if arrange ments are not make to do this the conl- pany's boats must run to Dyea as f il- ing to do so would encourage competi- tlon, and that i'll the interests of his com- pany he cannot see business going by him.
 Should we neglect to provide for the carrying trade between here and Dvea The Pacific Coast company will take Yu- koners direct from the Sound to the head of Lynn canal, and we shall be de- prived of a large amount of outfftting trade and also of residence amongst us of These visitors for some days when en route to the Yukon
 IL seems us as if Mr. Trowbridge's position is tenable and fair. He argues that if we don't want this trade his con- into other hands, but if we do, they will not ill erfere.
 We must follow the advice of John Ruskin in this matter. We have work to do for our needs. It therefore behooves us to do it renuou Is or leave it alone.
The Douglas miner., 1897-02-03

Ruskin says: I've have certain work 10 do for our needs. and that is to be
The Douglas miner., 1897-02-03

All interested in the school are cor dially invited to visit it at any time.
 ANNA HUNN.cUTr, Teacher. Cook stoves, heating stoves, hardware, tinware and in fact anything you want in the hardware line.
 D. w. WALKER.
The Douglas miner., 1897-02-03

Report of Douglas School No. I for the month of January:
 Days Deport-
 present. ment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
FOREIGN VS.. HOME MUSICAL
TALENT.

The New York Musical Courier keeps up
it's fight against foreign musicians who
come to this country and demand exorbi-
tant remuneration when in their own coun-
tries they willingly accept much lower
rates. Just now it is Directing to the en-
gagement of Ysaye, the violinist, at his
terms of $500 a night, will hotel and trav-
cling expenses in addition. I'VE protest."
says the Courier, against any such prices
to a violinist who is glad to get $50 a
night in Europe. Let him remain at home.
The people here have managed to get along
four hundred years without hearing Ysaye
and they can stand it a little while longer.
There is no hurry this time. Mr.. Ysaye will
come for less than $500 and for less than
$500 if the managers do not make fools of
themselves, and If he does not come at all,
why-then we need not publish his picture
in this paper, which gives another Ameri-
can boy or girl a show" The Courier is
making this fight for the sake of Americans
who are disseminated against by man.
ayers, and answers the question, Suppose
we wanted to give opera with native Amer
lean artists, where are they?" by the as
sertion that they will develop rapidly
enough when they are put on equal foot
ing with foreigners. So long as the for
eigner controls the opera here and all OPP
cratic destiny no Americans, it thinks, can
ever secure sufficient encourag ement to Gull
tiyate that branch of music with prospects
of fnai equalization. Mr.. Damrosch could
nave scraped America with a fine tooth
comb" it says, land could not have sue
ceeded in collecting a worse aggregation
of singers than those he imported from
Germany, but they were foreigners, and a
bad foreigner singer is always better than
a good American singer with such a
ayers as Damrosch, Ellis, Grau and Jean
Reszke. These men absolutely refuse to
c~ountenance American singers unless they
agree to sing for nothing, and that is the
result of the high salary crime" 1t may be
doubted whether the public has yet taken
up the cause of American singers sufficient
ly to influence the attendance at grand
opera, but the high prices once paid without
question are proving to be indirectly an
element in favor of home talent, as the
small houses in Chicago and st. Louis this
season plainly show. When this refusal to
pay extravaganza prices, even to hear the
most widely advertised and loudly praised
Of the foreign artists, is fully understood,
the result will be the same as if the stand
had been made purposely in favor of home
singers. The latter will begin to receive due
recognition. Zone season of opera" says
the Courier, with a fair field for Ameri-
cans, and we could prove to the world hat
our artistic, musical and dramatic resources
are equal at least to those of Poland, or
Sicily, or Bohemia, or Navarro. But when
our young people are driven into obscurity
by prejudice and intrigue. how are they to
exploit their talents ?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

about equal losses, the enemy could not
be induced to leave his works. So, instead
of assaulting them day after day, General
Grant made another movement by the left
flank, to the North Anna, but the enemy.
having much the shorter line, got there
first. There was some fighting, but no
works were assailed. General Butler having
failed to capture Petersburg or Richmond
from the James, and General Lee having
been forced back much nearer Richmond,
General Grant resolved on a third left flank
confronted with Lee again. Another f1ank
movement could not be made north of
Richmond. If anything was TO be accom-
plished it must be done by an assault upon
the enemy. The chances of success were
thought to be favorable. Doubtless they
were If all the plans had been carried out;
they were not. and the assault was a fail
ude and the loss very heavy.
At this point General Dodge criticises
General Grant because he did not send a
flag of truce to obtain the privilege of re-
lieving the wounded and of burying the
dead. This, General Dodge admits. would
have been Il confession of defeat. Exactly;
and that was what General Grant did not
propose to confess. If he had Lee would
have watched him more closely instead of
staying within his works awaiting another
assault.
Unable to induce Lee to leave his works,
and there being no area upon which to
make another left flank movement north
of Richmond, General Grant conceived the
plan of transferring his army to the south
bank of the James below City Point. Some
of the best military authorities have given
the opinion that this change of base was
one of the most remarkable military move
ments in modern times. In a country brok-
en- by unfordable and bridgeless rivers,
lacking in roads, an army of nearly 1905 900
men was withdrawn from the presence of
the enemy and marched from twenty-five to
fifty miles to Wilcox Landing, on the
James, between dark the evening of
June II and the afternoon of the 14th. 1t
was not until the morning of the 18th that
Lee was aware that General Grant had left
his front. He was diverted from Grants
purpose by the demonstration of Warren's
Corps toward Richmond Lees kilograms
show that from the 18th until late on the
18th he had no definite idea of what had be-
come of Grant and his large army. During
that period General Grant had made forced
marches, bridged the James, two-fifths of
a mile wide, and transferred his army and
trains to the south side of the James. 1t
trains to the south side of the river. 1t
captured June 16 or II, but of laundering
subordinates. When General Grant had put
his army on the south side of the James;
President Lincoln t~elegraphed him: Il be-
gin to see it. You will succeed. God bless
you ALL"
Doubtless several editions of General
Dodges excellent book will be published,
but he owes it to himself as we'll as to Gen.
Grant to modify the few pages alluded to
so that it shall be accurate history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
A BLEMIsH TO A USEFUL ROCK.

General Theodore A. Dodge's "Bird's-Eye
View of Our Civil War" recently published
by Houghton & Miff1in, is, as a whole, one
of the clearest and fairest of the many
books which have been written regarding
the late war. AS the book was written for
the information OF the generation which
knows of the war as an historical fact, and
which from its general excellence will be
read by thousands, it is cause for deep re-
greet that General Dodge not only criticised
the attack at Cold Harbor. June 3, 1864, but
gives an entirely erroneous impression of
the methods of the lieutenant general dur
ing the entire campaign previous to cross
ing of the James below City Point.
The assertion of General Dodge, in effect,
is that General Grants policy throughout
that entire campaign was to assault the
enemy behind strong intrenchments. He as
serts that it should have been General
Grants policy to compel General Lee to
come out of his works and fight in an open
field. If this was not what General Grant
tried to do. one is at a loss TO know why
he made his successive movements by the
left flank which forced Lee back, step by
step, to Richmon If it had been General
Grants policy to assault the enemy's forti-
fed lines day after day, he would nave
got no nearer Richmond than the Wilder
ness. Tha General Grant did not do this,
and the reason why he did not do it, APP
pears in his report of the campaign of
1864, from which the following is quoted:
On the morning of the seventh May re-
connoissances showed that the enemy had
fallen behind his ~intrenched lines. From
this il was evident to my mind that the
two days fighting had satisfied him of his
inability to further maintain the contest in
the open field and that he would wait an
attack behind his works.
Now, if General Dodge is correct, General
Grant would have assailed the enemy be-
hind his works. Did he do this? Let General
Grants report give the answer; continuing
from the foregoing quotation:
/, therefore, determined to push on and
put my whole force between him and Rich
mond; and orders were issued for a move
ment by his right flank. On the night of
Spottsylvania Courthouse, but the enemy
having become apprised of our movement
was there first because of the much short
er distance ne had TO march.
Tho heater of battle was changed TO the
country about spottsylvania, the enemy
GENERALLY acting on the defensive. After
day3 of maneuvering and lighting with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

Truth and peace are inextricably inter-
woven with MISUNDERSTANDING.
Juliet-Did you ever study the stars?
Romeo-I've understudied them.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Our main objection to doing many things
is because some one else wants us to do
them.-Puck.
ITO know how to lose," said a diplo-
matist. lis the first lesson of success"
e. S. O'Connor.
We don't care so much how far a man is
from the cradle. as how far he is from the
croWn.-Ram'S Horn.
A new woman is one who wants to man
age all the other men the way she does her
own huSband.-The Bachelor.
Somehow mothers are always fatter than
you think their daughters will be at the
same age.-New York Press.
No matter how handsome your furniture
may be it always looks ordinary when
loaded on a van.-Philadelphia Times.
The telephone is an arrangement by
which two people can lie to each other
without becoming confused.-Tammany
Times.
THAT bicycle rider is a t%heosophist, isn't
hep Yes, he says he used to walk a
treadmill in the time of Sesostris. ''-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
If you want to hold your position, get
married; a married man is in better posi-
ton to trade out his employers bad ac-
counts.-Atchison Globe.
The woman who carries a volume of EN-
erson in the street car is generally the one
who reads herself to sleep with one of
Oudia's novels.-The Bachelor.
Maria said the great hypnotist, IF
you don't put that baby to sleep I'll be
unable TO give my great mesmeric show
this evening. philadelphia North Amer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

painting of David and Goliath. Jacques
fixed his gaze admiringiy on CO.
Hath. "Ah." said he, what a fine man.
Yes" said the cure; ut is a fine man.
Magnificent said Jacques; then paused.
II suppose he was a French Canadian
ing to disappoint the patriot. 20, yes,
Goliath was a French Canadian"
Prof. Max Muller occupies a peculiar posi-
ton in England. When he arrived at Ok
ford in the forties he knew little English,
and it took him many years to overcome
the prejudice which existed against him
at that seat of learning on account of his
.Germanism.' In the recent Life of
gathering of the Oxford M. As" came up
to vote against the appointment OF Muller
to the chair of Sanscrit. This was fifteen
years after his first appearance in Eng
OF his race, the famous Orientalist has
fought his way until to-day his IS one of
the most honored names in English letters.
The editor of the Critic says that DR..
Hale dropped in to see him on his way
back from Pinehurst. and adds: l had the
satisfaction of showing him the prize list
Of which has just been sent to the printer.
his own Man Without a Country" stood
at the head of it. The author did not seem
dlspleased. As his eye ran down the list
ne said: i have read that one, and that
one, and that one" and so on, till he had
enumerated eleven of the twelve. Which
or the dozen he had not read, | will not
say 1t might have been The Man." but
it was not. l asked him. by the way,
whether there was any historical founda-
ton Tor the story, as has often been sur
mlsed' he assured me there was none what
ever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
A Labor Problem Solved.
Philadelphia Press.

EflldueIpilldt GItSS.
Colonel Waring it seemskhas not only kept
the streets of New York clean, but has sue
cessfully solved the problem of friendly re-
latfons between employer and employed.
This was done by means of a subcommit-
tee of five employees and a committee of five
under officials, the employees representing
a fun committee of forty-one department
workers. This council of ten conferred
about the work and grievances, and a year
of friendly conferences has proved of the
greatest advantage to the men and the de-
partment. The walking delegate who
thrives on disagreementssand whose value
is only in evidence when he has brought
things 20 a standstill has been eliminated,
and with no loss to either side.
The results in the way of actual reforms
and in the Improvement of the esprit de
corps can well be imagined. Colonel War;
ing, for instance, approved of tWenty-four
suggestions made by the paen for their own
comfort and convenience and for the bet
terment of the department. Instead of de-
veloping contention it aliayed it, and, far
from causing any exaggeration in grfev-
ances. out of 35 cases of all kinds the COM
mittee of forty-Une settled 221 themselves
and only passed l24 10 the council of ten.
The success OF this mutual beneficial or
ganization is worthy of imitation elsewhere.
Anything that makes for betterment OF
work and contentment Herewith is not TO
be passed over lightly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02

"A good deal OF fault is found in one way
and another with Indianapolis municipal
housekeeping, and doubtless some of the
criticism has a reasonable basis, but there
is little excuse for the constant complaints
made by certain fretful newspapers. Their
TRADES, like those of a s~coloins housewife,
cease to have influence. even in cases where
need for reform really exists. Especially
are they unjust in their on the
care of our city streets. The condition of
Indianapolis streets is a matter of which
the residents may properly be proud. 1t is
doubtful if there aisda2 city in the country
whose t-horoughfares are kept as clean. Go
where ne will the Indianapolis traveller finds
none of such attractive appearance. In New
York city, where, under the present re-
gime, ~cleanness prevails, the character of
the pavements is for the most part so diff
ferent that the effect is less noticeable. In
Washington, which our city resembles in
some respects, and whose streets were long
the model for other municipalities, a COM
parison in point of neatness favors our
own. The absence of coal smoke and SCOT,
which make Chicago and Cincinnati so I'M
pleasant, has. something to do with the
superior ~cleanness here, but it is mainly
owing to the method of sweeping. In Wash
ington the old-fashioned revolving brushes,
which scatter more dust than they take up,
are in use. Here the hand sweeping, in
addition to the use of the pneumatic clean
err, keeps the asphalt like a floor and
makes our streets a joy to the pedestrian
and the wheelmen and a qualification to
the eye. Their condition attracts the atten-
ton of strangers and their fame goes
abroad. A correspondent of the Hartford
Post sounds their praises and the praise
of the machine that keeps,them so immacu-
late and advises his home authorities to
adopt the same system. OF course, the
streets are the best advertisement the
sweeper can have, but 1t is g. matter for
local pride that the timely invention of an
Indianapolis man adds not only to the COM
fort and convenience of the residents, but
enhances the reputation of the capital city
for beauty and good housekeeping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
Fifty Books of 1896.
Buffalo Courier.

ohlLcllc 4
In order to obtain an expression of opin-
ion as to the best fifty books of 1896. TO be
added to a village library. Mr.. Dewey, of
the Regents office lately submitted to IL
brarians in the State a list of 4S9 books pub
lished in that year. Selected lists were re-
turned by two hundred of those consulted.
Ten books received more than one hundred
votes each, five of these being fiction. Bar
rie's Sentimental Tommy" was chosen by
1872, Mrs. Wards Sir George Tressady" by
126, Gilbert Parker's Seats of the Mighty
by ITO, Mrs. Virgins Marin Lisa" by 101.
The five other books selected by more than
half of the two hundred were Morse's Life
and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes" c.
M. SINNERS Myths and Legends of Our
Own Land. ] NJ Barrie,s "Maggaret
and HI. f.. Krehbiers How to Listen to
Music" OF the remaining forty books pre-
ferred, eleven were stories, four of them for
ems eugene Fields), four We're history.
three were biography, one was a reference
dictionary three We're works on religious
subjects, four on social science, two on
natural science, four were books of travel
and description, four miscellaneous litera-
ture, one treated of American highways,
and one of outdoor games.
Mr.. Dewey gives a list of those which re-
c,eived too few votes to be placed among
one is inclined to agree that the fifty were
wisely chosen. No fifty books of all that
come from the press in a year will enjoy
immortality. If at the end of a generation
one of them is remembered it must be a
book of rare merit. Possibly the simplest
definition of an immortal piece of literature
is a book which three generations after is
publication is familiar to people of culture
whose mother tongue is that of the author.
There are certain masterpieces which owe
most of their excellence to the language in
which they are written-Keats's ode to a
Grecian Urn" and Tennyson's "Bugle
Song for example. A cultivated German
or Russian might not know them at all az
he would know the work of Shakespeare or
Byron. OF the fifty best books in Mr.. Dew
ey's list, Kipling's Seven Seas" seems at
present to stand the best chance of immor-
tally. Yet the Seven Seas" may be as
dead as a herring in ten years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
NOTES.

The dean of Canterbury is going to pub
lish a volume which he has long had in
preparation on THE Bible: It's Meaning
and Supremacy He discards the theory
of verbal inspiration, and points out shat
the Bible is not a homogeneous book, but a
canon gradually formed.
The Boston Literary World publishes a
paragraph out of a private letter from r.
d. Blackmore, in which the author of
Lorna Doone'' says that to Americans the
English language owes nearly all of it's new
EXPRESSIONS: There does not seem to be
left in us the power to lit out a new spark
of language. we are like a lot of boys with
their hands in their pockets, looking on at
the blacksmith, and racing for his red
chips"
The Saturday Review announces that
John Bright's political diary is at last in a
fair way to be published-at least in large
part. He was in the habit of making a
daily record of his conversations with pub
lie men and others about political matters;
which he bequeathed. with his other papers,
to his eldest son, Mr.. j. A. Bright. The
latter has hitherto found the difficulties in
the way of publishing even large extracts
from these diaries in"surmountable, but now
thinks that much of the matter may soon
be given to the light as a sort of new biog-
raphy of his father. 1t could scarcely fail
to be a work of the Creates interest.
A Louisville paper has this concerning
the Kentucky poet: Mr.. Madison Cawein
has just returned from a visit to New
York, Boston and Niagara. While in the
Fast Mr.. Cawein was the recipient of many
honors from literary men and a few days
ago he was the honored guest at an in
formal dinner given by the famous nov
elist, VIM. Dean Howells. Mr.. HoweIls adj
vised Mr.. Cawein to make a collection Of
his best poems and to publish them in d
new volume. He agreed TO write an intro
duction for the volume. and if Mr.. Cawein
decides to bring it out il will be published
not only in this country, but IN England"
The complacency of race is a universal
quality, of which Lady Jephson gives the
following illustration in her Canadian
Scrap-Book:" A poor habitant (the story
goes) went TO Quebec and was taken by
a friendly priest to see the sights of the
city. In q convent church he saw a large