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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The Enoch Pratt libraries of Baltimore
have excluded Mrs. Southworth's novels on
the ground that their moral influence is
bad. Most readers of fiction, even those of
cultured taste, have at some time or other
read more of Mrs. Southworth's
stories, and though they may be utterly I'M
able to recall the tales. they will probably
testify that the impression retained is that
of having been pleasantly entertained Ger
tainIy there is no recollection of any sug-
geston of queerness, no sex problems
no "yelowness" such as tinges two
thirds of the later output of fiction and
which has not been cast out of libraries.
The probable truth is that the librarian
is judging the books from a purely literary
standpoint and they do not meet his idea
to what cultured people should read
but this is not the sole point of view to
be taken by one in charge of a public Ii
brary. In speaking of the enormous circu-
lation of a certain periodical published in
Maine the Phiistine says i. is read by
the submerged nineteen-tWentieths-t
people who want it, which is why we
(meaning the cultivated twentieth never
see it," Mrs. Southworths novels are not
a high order of literature, being improbable
tales of mildly sensational and overly
sentimental order, but a large proportion of
reading people-is nineteen-twentieths too
great?-enjoy just that grade of literature
and do want the librarians selections
crammed down their throats. This conSid-
cradle proportion of the public ought to
have some rights in a public library; if
they want Mrs. Southworth's tales they
should have them, and the cultured Ii
brarian, though he may groan in spirit,
should hold his peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The Washington Times, Democratic and
free silver. says there has not been any per-
ceptible Improvement of business in that
city since the passage of the Dingley bill.
$50 far in Washington" it says, there
has been not the slightest advance in wages
in any class of business, and no more people
are employed than before the tariff went
into effect" In proof of this it publishes
interviews with few shopkeepers haber-
dashers and retail druggists. The idea of
drawing any conclusions from the condition
of business in Washington is laughable.
The main business there is holding govern
ment office, and about the only industries
are renting rooms and keeping boarders.
There are towns in Indiana Of 1900 popula-
ton that do more manufacturing than is
done in the whole District of Columbia. The
| place to study the effect of the tariff is
where business is done
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The New York Financier has a well-con-
sdered article on the Importance Of elas-
ITCHY in bank-note circulation. The phrase
is used to denote the ability of banks by
natural and automatic action to supply an
increase of circulation when it is demanded
by business to be followed by a natural
contraction when conditions justify it. 1t
finds this quality conspicuously present in
the Canadian banks and conspicuously alb
sent in our national banking system. 1t
says:
We are not advocating the Canadian cur
rency system for the United States. We de-
sire merely to call attention TO facts which
explain themselves and allow the reader TO
form his own conclusions. If our currency
could expand in the autumn, or during the
period of any unusual demand, and contract
as the requirements which brought 1t into
being pass away; IL, instead of being ham
pered by laws which VIGOROUSLY apply to
conditions long since passed. 1t was encour-
aged by a more liberal spirit, but restricted
within proper bounds. the recurrence or
money famines and mercantile stagnation
would be in great part eliminated Perhaps
an elastic currency would not maintain
prosperity, but it certainly would not retard
it, either through reluctance to carry on
present contracts or to provide for future
ones.
The lack of elasticity in our national bank
circulation has been demonstrated in more
than one monetary crisis, and is one of the
things that should receive attention in any
plan of currency reform that may be
adopted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
Review of Reviews.

review OIL REVIEWS.
A number of years ago a condition of
the worlds markets that in the nature of
things could not be permanent gave Amer
lean farmers high prices through a series
of seasons for all the wheat they could
produce The wheat growing districts of
the West and the money-lenders of the
East counted altogether too much upon the
continuance of those high prices, and the
West was doomed on a basis of fictitious
values. The reaction has been very seri-
Gus. The present recovery of prices should
rot be made the occasion for a new period
of speculation. but it should be taken adj
vantage of for the purpose of liquidating in
prices as the normal condition. Meanwhile
we should be thankful for the present re-
lief to the agricultural community, even
though it should last for only season or
tt4~n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

1t is said that the forthcoming volume of
war records will contain confidential let
ter from General Halleck to General Nc
Clellan, written in December. 1861 stating
that he considered General Sherman men,
tally unfit for military duty. If such a let
ter was written it would seem to be the
irony of fate that it should come to light
after history has stamped Halleck as one
of the marplots of the war and Sherman
as one of its greatest generals
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The silverite nominee for clerk OF the
Kentucky Court of Appeals having declined
to meet the sound-money candidate in joint
debate, the latter announces that he will
debate with any representative free-silver
man whom the party management may Sc
1ect. His offer will not be accepted because
free-silver men do net debate. They do
quite a number of other things. but not
that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

New York and Philadelphia have always
sneered at each other, but now that both
are hustling for business by advertising
and arranging excursions for meeting mer-
chants from the West and South they do
not so much recognize each others COM
mercial existence. To read the New York
papers the uniformed person would never
guess that there was another commercial
center within a thousand miles, while the
Philadelphia papers invite buyers to visit
that city with the bland air of representing
the only Eastern metropolis. They are pref
ty big towns to be playing the childish
game first engaged in by St. Louis ana
Minneapolis and later by Seattle and Ia
coma. These two last named places are
making the most of the advertising given
them through being the embarking points
for the Klondike region. The papers of
ca CHI town get out special Klondike editions
in which all possible information is given
concerning the gold region and the way OF
getting there, with incidental statements as
to the advantages of residence in Seattle
or Tacoma, as the case may be- but with
never a mention in any one paper of the
other town. Human nature appears to be
much the same whether on Long island or
on Puget sound, and it is also very anus
ing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The advance announcement that Hon
Thomas c. Plat would be a prime factor
in the conference of Republican leaders ana
representatives of independent organiza.
tons to decide upon d candidate for the
mayoralty of Greater New York is quite
superfuous. Your Uncle Plat las formed
a habit of being prime factor In political
proceedings in that State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The Dominion Land Surveyor says the
next official map issued by the Canadian
government will change the name Klondike
TO "Troandike. This is probably an at
tempt to make the spelling conform to the
native pronunciation, but it viii take some
time to overtake KIondike. ~ "-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

mo" said Mrs. Hashcroft, II do not at
tempt to make my boarding house a home
for my young men. They said they would
rather feel that they were at their own
club, so 1 run it on that principle. And
when / adopted the plan Mr.. Nudge left"
Didn't it suit hm?Ya7
He was we'll enough suited with every
thing except the customI adopted of post
ing the names Of delinquents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

The opinion is practically unanimous
of the situation at the new centers of popu-
lation in Alaska that the coming winter will
bring great suffering and probably loss of
life. Any person who goes there now in the
face of these warnings without good sup
ply of provisions and money takes his life
in his hand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

A large and profitable crop of broom corn
has been raised this year for the first time
in Wabash county, this State. Heretofore
most of the broom corn raised in the
United States has been produced in a sim
gle county of Illinois. There is no reason
why it should not be cultivated with equal
success in this State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

Returned Klondikers say the Canadian
government has a mail service which puts
Uncle Sam in disgrace, it being a fact that
the mails the coming winter to Alaska
points will be carried on the overland trails
by Canadian couriers. The Canadian au-
thorities have an advantage in being first
on the ground, but the United States should
make haste to organize mail service up
fhara
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
Bryan's Descending Scale.

KANSAS ClLy JOuIHaI'
1t is reported that w. ]. Bryan has agreed
to speak at the Wichita fair for a consid-
GRAFTON of $150 and the Topeka fall festival
people are expecting to secure his presence
for 500. BY and by Bryan will be making
one night stands, like Mrs. Lease for $l2
and his hotel expenses. and then he, will
have to drop down TO the country school
house route, as Jerry Botkin did, and trust
to an old farmer who passes the bat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

A telegram from Havana says General
Weyler is inundated by the threatening
letters he receives. He seldom goes out, as
he did formerly, never let's it be known
when he is going and when abroad wears
a very plain suit. He will be in great luck
If he gets out Of Cuba alive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
Another use for 1t.

eff business" said the senior partner
doesn't pick up in our line pretty soon
we will have to shut up the shop"
'I'll tell you" said the junior partner. Il
will go out of town and you advertise a
sale at below cost
THE people will not bite at that old bait"
and then L will come back and get out
an injunction against you on the ground
that you are running u.s.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
For Her Sake.

do you think" asked the young man
who is currently reported to be engaged
that man ought to tell lies to his WifeE
"Of course he ought said the man who
has been married so long that he doesn'
remember the anniversaries of his wedding
day ''of course he ought 1t makes her
happy to think that he thinks her of
enough Importance to tell lies to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

Aggrieved people who didn't like what
was said about them in print tried the
other day to tar and feather a woman
editor In Arizona? Oh. dear no, in Con-
necticut; they don't do such things out
West
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

Mr.. Eugene V. Debs, unofficial Friend of
Labor, says he will give his advice at the
St. Louis conference if he is called upon
The assurance is hardly necessary. Betting
people who know Debsy can safely wager
good round sums that he will hear call
if it is as soft as the sigh of "a summer
zephyr, and will never leave st. Louis un-
til he has unloaded several volumes of ad-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found the following places:
NEW 1otN-NindsCr hotel and Aston House.
CHICAGo-Palmer House and z. 0. News Co..
zll Dearborn street
1lMtANNAII--J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine
AOllSNILLE-C. r. Deering, northwest corner
~ 4hlfd and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rirgs House, Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel ana the Washington
News Exchange Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and Il street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

A grand free-silver jubilee is advertised
to take place in a Missouri town, at which
Representative Blard will be the oratorical
attraction. 1t would puzzle a sane man to
tell what there is to jubilate over in free
silver at present Drices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
Accounting for II.
New York Evening Sun.


II is an old pToblem-why do foreigners
learn the swear words of a country first of
all? A London magistrate suggests that
the first expressions acquired are those
which it is necessary to use in getting
through the custom house. His honor must
be of a very dark and secretive disposition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
The Cornfed philosopher.

"They say" said the Cornfed Philoso-
pher, that a man is known by the COM
pany he keeps. but there are lot of tel-
lows who, if they were really known by
the company they keep, couldn't keep it, /
trust have made my meaning clear|'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

Nobody should confound the Social De-
mocracy of the United States with the gold
and silver factions of the old Democratic
party. They are not at all social.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
The situation in Kansas.

Kansas City Journal.
The Pops are great pretenders about the
advantage of keeping a good man in ONCE,
but if anywhere in the State there was a
Republican who getting 81 a month
for occupying a grave in the cemetery,
some Pop would be sure to commit suicide
in order to beat him out of the job.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

"Commonweal" Coxey says he will be
Governor of Ohio or know the reason why.
After the election he can easily ascertain
the reason WHY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

II the purity of the English language is
TO be preserved at least the United States
branch Of 1t. the geographical nomenclature
OF Alaska viii have to be revised. At
present 1t is a strange mixture of native
Indian and Russian. with a sprinkling of
kBritsh. When we purchased Alaska we
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

and to issue the license to Sang as soon as
possible. But with the precedent estab-
lished by the willy Celestial for getting his
own way other doctors on the list ex-
purgatorius may come up with injunctions
and demand also to be let alone The resi-
dent Chinaman may not become a citizen
of this country, but he is not slow TO
Americanize himself in other respects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

From all accounts Alaska is an excellent
place for horsetrading, provided one has a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
IN DIANAIOLIS JOIR I'm AL,
INDIANAPOLIS, lad.

q, Setrsons sending the Journal through the mails
- the United states should put on an eight-pag
paper oNE-CENT postage stamp; on twelve
=. slAteen-lage paper a TWO-GENT postage
rates.
=. Al communications intended for publication in
a s paper must, in order to receive attention, be
a.Ss,Sse9lfIpdnleu Dy the and address of the
mlAtef III II is desired that rejected manuscripts
&c istuIned, postage must in all be inclosed
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
LESSONS FROM THE OYSTER.
Many a Pearl of Wisdom to BE Cleaned
From His Life.

The oyster is prominently creature
of leisure, and he consequently has much
time at his disposal for thinking and re-
Election, and in the absence of proof to the
contrary we are obliged to accept the de-
duction that he employs that time profit
ably, though he may keep his wisdom to
himself and employ it for his own uses.
He certainly has reduced light housekeep-
ing TO fine art. He lives right in the
water; hence the question of water supply
and drainage is one that he never has to
concern himself about.
He manages also that the water shall
bring him his food; consequently matters
of commerce, of supply and demand the
prices of commodities and other questions
which worry other members of the animal
creation, whether they are quadrupeds or
bipeds, or whether they walk on the earth,
fly through the air or swim in the water
do not concern him. AS for his house, as
soon rs he settles down, after very brief
period of wandering and sowing his wild
oats, he builds it himself right out of the
material brought to him by the accommo-
dating water, and thereafter he lives life
of ease.
He knows perfectly well that things
will come his way He doesn't even bother
with having legs and eyes, for he has no
need of transportation; he does not need
to see in order that he may gather his food
and he finds no necessity for idly gaping
about and thus uselessly exciting his nerv-
Gus organization. He sits down under
his roof, if not under his own vine and fig
tree, and enjoys life of quiet and dignity.
He has enemies, but he does nothing to
stir them up, since he eschews all religious
and political controversies, and he thus
manages to retain the good will of all the
denizens of the land and sea. There are
many lessons indeed to be CLEANED from
the life of the oyster that we might learn
and follow with profit. -Pittsburg Dis
patch
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Children of the Sun.

We have been called children of the
sun, and there is truth as well as poetry
in the designation. Year by year the man
of science drags himself little closer to
the great central engine. When Faraday
in his minds eye saw lines of force trav-
ersing space, and when his great disciple
Maxwell bequeathed to us the electro mag
netic theory of light, men of science felt
that path had been staked out across the
maze of solar mysteries. The sun no lon
ger shone as a giver of heat and light only,
for in the ether were neryelike waves Of
every description. Children of the sun,
we respond not only to the great periodic
changes, but to every passing spasm and
disturbance. Auroras are associated with
solar change. In studying them we may
fathom the secrets of the sun.-"What Is
an Aurora?" by Alexander McAdie, in
Century
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
A TALK WITH ANOREE.
ssrhe Aeronaut Recognized the Danger of
His Undertaking.

Jonas Stadling, who accompanied An
Free to Dane island and witnessed his de
2gsrture toward the north pole contributes
% the November Century an article
untitled "Andree's Flight Into the I'm
known. This is accompanied by mum
Der of interesting photographs, including
several of the balloon after it had been
cut loose and had begun its flight Mr..
SSadling says
The aeronauts were impatient 70 start
7&zis year They had decided TO wait for
really favorable winds until the 18th of
July After that date they were prepared
&C start with a less favorable wind
In my talks with them about the risks
and dangers Of their undertaking they
'SA2o at vaespus times
We have taken all into account We
are prepared TO face whatever may hap
pen.
Suppose the balloon should burst, "
asked, what them"
''We shall be drowned or crushed.
Suppose you alight on the pack ice far
away in the desolate polar regions, what
will you doP"
We shall do our best and work our way
buck as far as possible. Having during
these last years thought, worked and cal
cUlated in preparing for this expedition,
we have, so to speak, mentally lived
through all possibilities. Now we only de-
sire TO start and have the thing finished
some way or other -
While talking about home and the loved
ones their faces would assume more seri-
Gus expression and faint CULVER of the
voice might be noticed, but there was no
Wavering of purpose
When may we begin to hope to hear
rom you?' | asked.
At least not before three months, and
one year, perhaps two years, may elapse
before you hear from us, and you may one
day he surprised by news of our arrival
somewhere. And if Motif you never hear
trom us--others will follow in our wake
until the unknown regions of the north
have been surveyed.
Those who think the expedition a feat
Of foolhardincss should remember that,
humanity speaking, all possible precau-
tions were taken toward securing safe
voyage. a new and larger balloon might
have been made during the previous win
ter, but Andree preferred TO enlarge the
old one, Besides, larger balloon would
have been still more difficult 10 handle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Music In a Tomb,

When in Greece, / twice heard concerts
in strange places. On the first occasion a
musical society of Patras gave an enter
tainment on the very summit of Mount
Parnassus, several hundred feet above the
ancient town of Arachova. The number
OF instrumentalsts was about 40, and the
audience amounted to 80 or thereabouts.
Another entertainment of this nature in
Greece was at musical performance
which took place in the tomb of Agamem-
non Mt Mycena, on the occasion of the
visit of philharmonic society of Nauplia
to the ancient residence of the liking of
kings.
The tomb bears some resemblance to a
pyramid, and the interior is divided into
n vast hall and smaller chamber for the
sarcophagus So dark was it inside that
the band had to play by torchlight. The
performance may have been somewhat
CHASTITY, but it was decidedly original
Parsons Weekly.