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Ina new short play by Robert HIllIard. de-
but in continuous vaudeville was made by
Joseph Wheolock yesterday at Proctors. En-
titled "For tho Defendant" and labelled in
brackets as a true incident. :ho tiny play began
with an after-dinner chat over coffee and
cigars by Judge and a physician. An episode
In the life Of the f0rmer, In which his life was
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same man, perhaps through his perfdy,
though that is neither here nor there The
point to be noted is that neither their
pecuniary OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES cause adj
vanced for feminine celibacy-nor their
culture affected their matrimonial tenden-
cies; in one of them, at least, these tenden-
cies were quite as powerful as in the primi-
tive days before feminine independence and
education were thought of. Nothing is
sought to be proved by these instances and
others that might be cited, except the fu-
tility of theories accounting for supposed
notifications of human instincts. The in
fiuences of civilization are strong educa-
ton is an element in modern life whose full
effect is yet to be measured, but culture is
but shallow where the primal impulses of
the human creature are concerned and has
but little restraining force. After the So
biologists have explained why it is that men
and women do not marry, the fact remains
that they do marry with as little regard
for conventional fitness and the prejudices
of the community as in an earlier period of
the world. The little god supposed to
govern such events is apparently as blind
Iafo
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VACATION SCHOOLS.

When public school dismisses for day
or half day the children burst out into the
street like water from reservoir, and flow
off, or rather run, jump and gallop off in
all directions, as If rejoicing in their free
dom. Their actions seem to indicate that
they find confinement very irksome and are
glad to get out where they kick up
their heels, let their voices out and en-
gage in the thousand trickeries of child
hood. No doubt they are glad to get out,
for confinement is as irksome to the aver
age child as work or study, and yet chill
dren re-enter school with as much zest as
they leave it. few hours idleness and
separation from companions makes them
ready to return. In vacation time this is
still more apparent. If children are happy
on the first day of long vacation they
seem equally happy on the first day of the
new school term, when, rested and reju-
venated, If child can properly be said to be
rejuvenated they return to see the old ia
miliar faces and the young familiar faces
and resume the companionships and occu-
pation5 of school.
The latest new departure in school life
is vacation schools. The vacation school
is quite different from the regular thing, be-
ing sort of cross between vacation and
school The object is not so much to put
children through a regular course of study
under rigid discipline as it is to keep chill
dren for whom idleness means mischief and
bad associations away from those things
for two or three hours each day, amusing
them and incidentally giving them chances
to learn things that are not taught in the
regular schools. The plan has been tried in
several cities with much success. 1t is bet
ter suited to large cities than to smaller
towns, because in the former there is a
greater number of children who cannot
find healthful occupation or innocent
amusement out of school,, and to whom
idleness means decentralization. The vaca-
ton school is intended to interest as well
as instruct, and this end is attained by
teaching new things by new methods. AS
teaching much is left to the ingenuity of
teachers, but wherever the experiment has
been made it has been successful. The va
cation school has demonstrated that in the
large cities at least, there are a great
many children who find recreation in go
ing to school even in vacation Perhaps
the fact that there is nothing compulsory
about it has something to do with the at
tendance. Children enjoy most doing what
they are not obliged to do, being, in this re-
Snecf very Y11uch like adults
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MATRIMONIAL ECCENTRICIrIEs.

recent writer on sociological topics
takes up the marriage question and ex-
plains why it is that so many men and
women of the present day do not marry.
With men the consideration of expense
figures largely at first, the cost of living
according to modern standards being so
high that the man with due amount of eau
ton waits until his income seems to justi-
fy the matrimonial venture. BY that time
his habits are fixed he finds himself com
Portable in bachelor quarters, and hesitates
to risk the possible friction OF home ar
rangements Education, too, is rated as a
deterrent of marriage, both in men and
women, by giving them something to think
about beyond the individual horizon. These
and many more causes advanced by the
writer are sound and convincing, and seem
to solve the problem. until the observer
notes that the exceptions to the rules and
theories laid down are many that such
rules can hardly be said to exist. In every
little circle is the so-called Confirmed
bachelor" who suddenly surprises every
body by giving up the supposed comforts
of club life and all his established ways and
taking TO himself wife; in every circle is
the mature woman who abandons single
life when her friends had believed her to
have no thought Of marriage, as likely as
not wedding a veally youth with whom the
dull outside world would have assumed that
she could have nothing in common. The
educated man marries the uncultivated
girl, and the woman whose tastes had been
bookish finds apparent joy in the society
of a husband whose reading is limited to
the market reports and the baseball coll
umn of his morning paper. 1t is obviously
impossible to give local illustrations of
these matrimonial eccentricities, although
they are sufficiently numerous, nor is it
necessary, for examples are easily found
in the printed news of any day. Yester-
days dispatches, for instance. record the
marriage of a wealthy and distinguished
citizen of Philadelphia to his Irish servant
girl He was a bachelor of the somewhat
advanced age of fifty-seven, and his habits
may therefore have been considered set
tied and all the arguments against matri-
mony we'll fortified in his case, yet they
availed not against his vagrant fancy.
From Kansas comes the story Of a school
teacher who moved by love and jealousy
went over into Oklahoma and adminis-
tered a dose of poison to her rival. another
school teacher. Here, too, the theories fail.
School teuchers must. of course, be classed
as educated and cultured. yet the intel
lectual tastes of these two did not prevent
thana from THINKING of man and tnatria Oa
Unfortunately, their choice fell upon the
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DEFEAT OF THE SUGAR TRUST.

The agreement of the conference COM
mittee on the tariff bill upon the sugar
schedule of the House is a gratifying vic
tory of the representatives of the people
over the demands of the Sugar Trust. AS
Senator Aldrich presented the matter to
the Senate, his proposition was less favor
able to the refners than the House sched-
ule but his statements were not accepted
by the Senate caucus, which SO reduced the
rates as to close half the apparent gap
between the committees report and the
House bill That was believed to be the,
compromise to which the House conferees
would agree, but backed by the intense
hostility Of the Republicans of the House,
led by Speaker Reed, the House conferees
would accept no compromise. Rather than
yield to an apparent demand Of the Sugar
Trust the House leaders let it be under
stood that it would adjourn without the
passage Of a tariff bill. The difference in
the two schedules was slight-the shade of
a fraction of a cent a pound. AS an adj
ditional tax it would not have amounted
to a cent on twenty pounds of sugar. The
tax. however, was not the point, for while
on the immense amount Of sugar the diff
ference would have been several millions
to the refiners it was not tax upon the
individual which would be felt. The prin-
ciple involved was what has given interest
to the contest. When the Gorman-Wilson
bill was passed by the Senate the agents
of the trust were very much in evidence.
AS it's domination by the Sugar Trust had
made it offensive, there was a very gen.
eral desire on the part Of the people that
the demands of that organization should
be ignored The House schedule was con-
structed. on that theory. Consequently the
final conflict was between the influences
favoring the trust and the foes of that
organization in the House. To have yielded
in the least, even to have saved the tariff
BILL would have been regarded as sur
render to one of the most powerful and
tyrannical corporations in the country. The
most powerful trust in the country has
been beaten in legislation because the Re-
publican ma jority in the House fought it as
a foe TO which no terms could be offered.
The moral effect of such victory is worth
vastly more than the amount of money in
volved in the difference in the sugar
schedules
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four armored cruisers of the japanese navy
are so Anticipated that they cannot be put
into the fighting line Japan has one bat
tie ship captured from China, which is real
ly the only one she has, unless the two
now building for her in England should be
counted. The Chen-Yuen. captured from
China, is outclassed by all of our ships
built since 1882. The two Japanese ships
which are building are one thousand tons
larger than the Iowa and two knots fast
er. Japan has six ships of the same class
projected, but we have eleven afioat or
building. OF frst-class cruisers we have
five a1oat and Japan has five buildings of
second-class cruisers we have thirteen and
Japan has ten; of smaller cruisers and
gunboats we have twenty-six afoat and
more building, while Japan has seventeen
afioat and four building. These facts show
that our navy is greatly superior to that
Of Japan, but that governments advantage
in the event of war is that its ships are on
the Pacific
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Eat and drink with a friend, but do not
trade with him.-Turkish Proverb.
When Jealousy grows in Loves garden 1t
kills all other bloom.-E. S. O'Connor.
A woman's favorite novel is one in which
the heroine is nearest her own age.-Atchi-
son Globe.
He who does not learn how to serve will
also not know how to act as master-Turk-
ish ProVerb.
If you want to know exactly how you
look ask a small boys opinion on the sub
ject.-Philadelphia Times.
You can tell lot owned by a non-resi-
dent same as you can a widow-by the
weeds.-Ottawa Republican.
How many women dare declare that they
dislike Wagnerian compositions and adore
peanuts ?-PhiladeIph Times.
1t isn't what a man knows that takes
with the women, but what he knows
enough not to Knoxville Bachelor.
1t is not until man reaches thirty that
he begins to wrap the small bills on the
outside of the roll.-Augusta journal
Youth is the only money we women have
with which TO buy ourselves share in tne
happiness of the world.-Swift's Stella
Once a year every woman expects her
husband to say she is very smart TO have
put up so much fruit.-New York Press.
There is nothing more universally CONF
mended than a fine day: the reason IL
that people can commend 1t without envy.
-Shenstone.
People who are always running them
selves down" soon lose respect for you
you don't vigorously contradict them-
Cleveland Leader.
Men are certainly more charitable than
women men don't think nearly SO hard
of a woman who wears a mans hat as
women would THINKS Of q man with flowers
twined in his hsir.-ppcS.
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health. He never felt better, he as Aures his
correspondent, and to Judge I'm the
vivacity OF his letter he must certainly be
IN me condition in his seventy-second year.
Rudyard Kipling persists in adhering to
his opinion of Canada as Our Lady of the
SHOWS Lady Marjorie Gordon, daughter
OF Lady Aberdeen, is the editor of Wee
wine Winkle juvenile magazine, and has
Just received from Mr.. Kipling the follow
ing sklt for her publication:
There was once a small boy of Quebec
" no was buried in snow to the neck.
w men asked Are you friz?
He replied: Yes. l is
But we don't call this cold in Quebec"
Mrs ELEPHANTS last book, The Ways of
Life which reached us, says the Pail Mall
Gazette, just before the hand that wrote il
was stilled in death, consists of two stories
Mr.. Sanford" and THE Wonderful His
tory of Mr.. Robert Dalyel:" also, by way
OF preface, a charming little ESSAY entitled
ION the Ebb Tide" which viii be found
fully as interesting as the stories to which
It serves as introduction. In this preface
Mrs. Oliphant complains of the everlasting
treatment of the primary problem of youth"
in novels, and prepares the reader to find
that in this volume at least she does not in
tend to crafty that monotonous demand
for love story which brushes out of court
all the rest of life."
The literary editor of the London Mail
says: 1T has always seemed to me that
there is something lacking in the success
or an author whose books are not widely
and Familiarity known by name. It is prac-
tically certain that in any casually assem-
bled company there Will hardly be two per-
sons who can tell you off-hand the names
of half a dozen of Mrs. ELEPHANTS thirty or
forty novels. Refined and cultured and
possessed of rare literary ability, Mrs. Oil
plant must after all be described--in so
far at least, as her fiction is concerned
as a brilliant unitarian writer, rather than
as a novelist of genius. She has written
no single novel that stands out from the
crowd of its fellows; but at the same time
she has written no novel that is not char
acterzed by merits far above the ordi-
nary.
Mr.. Blackmore, the novelist, rs forcible
on the subject of fiction. Mine people out
of ten" he declares, speak with happy
contempt of novel as trumpery con-
coction. Some man. the other day-a lead
ing interviewer-Said to me: oh, l never
care to read a novel, A work of history
has some interest. Facts, facts are the
things to deal with, l asked him If there
was any occurrence, or any character in
so-called history, about which opinions dia-
metrically opposite were not held by in
quirers of equal intelligence; and l told
him that / had been an eyewitness of
two Incidents reported the very next day
in the papers, and that l could hardly
of what I had seen. What, then, of mar
ratives centuries after the events and gem
orally from pens made to fit into some
pocket? But for generations yet to come
fiction will be looked upon as a dolly for
an infant"
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Hall Caine's 1.-The Christian" is to be
published at once, and the first edition is
of $4,000.
Mr.. Grant Allen has new novel; but Mr.
Aliens popularity writer of romances
is not remarkable in the United States.
though his scientific papers are much es-
teemed.
Mark Twain's forthcoming book, due
about Christmas, is to be called THE Sur
viying Innocent Abroad" It is true, he
says, that other members of the party who
left -Amerca in the Quaker City twenty
eight years ago are still living, but he is
the only one who has remained innocent.
A recent criticism of Andrew Lang
praises his scholarship, his wide acquaint-
ance with the literature of all times and
his remarkable versatility, but declares that
he has hardly a scrap of human interest in
real life, while he is scornfully intolerant
of those outside the domain Of intellectual
culture.
Mr.. Nathaniel Haskell Dole, the editor of
the fine variorum edition of Omar which
was published short time ago, writes
arropos of a recent paragraph In the New
York Tribune on Mr.. lie Galiennes tr1hinss
with the poet, to say that Persian IS not
q difficult language. The alphabet is its
chief obstacle The grammar is almost as
bald as English.
German libraries and editors have recent
ly taken a census of books read and the
result shows that 1.-The classics" not in a
narrow, scholastic sense, but meaning all
great authors, are still the favorite reading
Of the German nation. Goethe Schiller
Shakespeare, Scott ard Dickens head the list
of the books the German people read. 1t
has often been said that Shakespeare is far
more generally read in Germany than in
England
Writing to an American friend, who has
published the letter in the Boston Literary
World, Mr.. Blackmore alludes to his new
novel Darrell" and observes that he is
sorry the publishers intend to illustrate it.
Never vet saw l any Illustrations" he
says that helped 10 tell my stories" Mr.
Blackmore denies the reports of his Ill
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notable feature of the situation is the
large reduction in mortgage Indebtedness.
careful estimate places the amount paid
in Nebraska during the past six months at
s2S,0O00OO. These large payments are at
tributed by loan agents to the economy
that hard times have brought the agricul-
tural classes and to the fact that they
are now realizing the income on the large
crops of the past two years. Much the
same conditions exist in Iowa, where the
farmers insist on paying off debts instead
Of renewing them, and there is a regular
scramble among money lenders and loan
agents to pick up good loans. In all the
other States named the farmers are pay
ing off their debts and getting ready for
better times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

Reports from Ohio indicate that Mr.. Nc
Lean, of Washington, may be forced to
abandon his candidacy for United States
senator, the protest against him is so gen.
eral and vigorous. His enemies, composed
of men whom he has betrayed in one way
and another, are arraying themselves
against him and declaring that his candi-
dacy will lead to the defeat of the party.
During the past few days influential Dem
ocratic papers have given warning that his
candidacy for the Senate will prove fatal.
There has been no political infamy that
Mr.. Mclean is not charged with participa-
ton in. Some of Mr.. McLean's friends as
sert that he will not be a candidate, but
one or two very rich Democrats have cap
tured the Legislature after it was believed
to have been elected to select another man
for senator.
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Professor Small, of the University of
Chicago, who frequently breaches and lee
lures in Indiana, appears to have been
misrepresented when he was declared to be
in favor of corporal punishment in schools.
What he did advocate was the exercise of
positive authority-such authority as will
enforce obedience to the constituted au-
thority in the schoolroom. Such obedience
he favors because it is necessary to teach
these who go forth from the schools to re-
spect authority and law. Professor Small
is right; an education which does not in
clude a regard for lawful authority is the
education of the Anarchisi.
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showed little resistance About $50 were
captured and the rest dispersed. This prac-
tically ended the rebellion. Several of the
leaders We're tried and sentenced to death,
but were not executed. because the mass of
the people sympathized with them. Event
ually they were all pardoned. Shays re-
moved to New York State and in his old
age was allowed a pension for his services
during the Revolution. The rebellion which
he headed was the result of conditions very
which underlie the present populstic move
ment-discontent, debt, heavy taxes, hos
tility to capital and money lenders, and
dissatisfaction with government methods
But the populism of 1855 was more violent
than that of to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

Indications point to continued rise in
the price of wheat. Advices from Australia
say that the visible supply of wheat in that
country is almost nothing, and there will
be no harvest there till January. Several
cargoes of wheat have gone from San
Francisco to Australia, and orders are in
creasing. Still more remarkable is the
news that the Argentine Republic, one of
the great wheat-growing countries Of the
world will this year become a buyer of
our wheat, owing to the lightness of its
own crop. The crop in Russia is short, and
Brazil, which usually buys largely of the
Argentine Republic. is now buying Ameri-
can wheat. Under these conditions there
will probably be a considerable further ad-
vance in price.
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The mass Of papyri found in the ruins of
the Roman city of Behnesa, about one hun
dred miles south of Cairo. WILL it is said,
throw a flood of light upon the habits of
people evidently IN high state of civiliza-
ton, who occupied lower Egypt centuries
before Abraham and almost as far back as
the date assigned by some students to the
creation of the world. Thus is another
stumbling block provided for those excel
lent people who accept the Bible as an in
spired book historically and otherwise
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A Plain Case.

II want to git a man arrested for pro-
yoke" said the long, lean man with the
faded clothes.
well, why don't your" asked the loafer
in the 'squire's shop.
"Oh, amt you the squire? Well, I'll tell
you about it, anyway. 1 had three aces
and a pair O. kings"
''Poker?'
'Yass And then 1 bet. an he bet, an
bet, ah'-wen, you know how it would be-
And then when 1 says what you got. two
pair says he, and when 1 went to take
down the pot it was two pair of jacks. And
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

The Populist textbook commission of
Kansas has adopted new school history
of the United States. 1t pays but little at
tention to the civil war, but will contain a
detailed account of the Bryan silver cam
paign. The new school arithmetic of that
State is said to contain advertisements of
various business firms, the problems pre-
scented for solution containing the names of
those firms. The Kansas Pops are an in
teresting aggregation of freaks.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK--Windsor Hotel and Aston House.
2l7 Dearborn street
CINCINNATT-J. r. Hawley & Co. 154 Vine
street
LOUIsVILLE-C. r Deering northwest corner
of Third and Jefferson streets, ard Louisville
Book Co., 255 Fourth avenue.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn avenue and F street
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The coal miners did not need the services
of Debs or Sovereign to insure success in
their strike, but If they shall infuse into
the contest the vicious. spirit which has
characterized their past, it will be very UNI
fortunate for all concerned.
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Since General Woodford's appointment as
minister to Spain he has devoted his time
to mastering the Cuban and Spanish ques-
tions in every phase. He will arrive In
Madrid early in August and then there will
begin Immediately new American policy
towards Snain.