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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
A PLAGUE OF HEAT.

The heated term through which the coun-
try has just passed has been as destructive
Of life as visitation of the cholera or yell
low fever might have been The features
which have made it exceptional are the
large extent of country affected, its long
continuance without interruption and the
fact that the nights have been almost as
hot as the days. Almost every summer
the temperature gets up into the nineties in
some localities, and may remain there for
two or three days, with partial relief at
night. In the present case the whole Mis-
sssippi valley has been affected and the
high temperature continued without inter-
ruption for more than a week, and with
very little relief at night. These conditions
combined to increase the number of fatal
tiles. OF these there have been several
hundred reported in the news columns of
the Journal. Cincinnati alone reports sixty
deaths from sunstroke during the last
seven days. But probably not more than
10 per cent. of the cases get into the news
papers. The reports come only from the
cities and towns where there is telegraph
communication and news reporter. There
are hundreds of small towns and villages
which have made no reports, and the rural
districts have not been heard from at all.
Throughout large extent of country har-
vesting has been going on, and while farm
ers, a class, are not as liable to be pros
trated by heat as jewellers in cities, many
of them must have succumbed to the tor
rid heat of the last week. The population
of the farming districts greatly outnum-
bers, in the aggregate, that of the cities
and towns, and must have furnished its
proportion of fatalities. To all these must
be added the deaths of very aged persons
and of infants, which, though reported I'M
der other causes, were due as directly to
the heat as if they had occurred from sun
stroke. So it is evident the total number
of deaths attributable directly to the heat
must have amounted to many thousands.
1t was a veritable plague of heat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Reports indicate that the stocks of coal
all over the country are low, and that a
prolonged strike will result in a famine
which will cause many industries to be
closed. Such conditions seem favorable to
an early termination of the strike if the
mine operators could make an agreement
advancing wages and fixing a price for coal
which would warrant it. The difficulty is
that the miners can produce more coal
than there is demand for certainly more
than there has been a. call for during the
past five years of depressed manufacture
ing, but it seems that this difficulty might
be obviated by fixing the amount which
any considerable mine could put upon the
market. If mine operators have made
nothing under the system of indiscriminate
price-cutting and low wages, it seems that
they ought to be willing to consider some
scheme which will limit production to the
demand. Such a plan would probably fail
to furnish full employment for all those
who have found scanty employment about
the mines, but worse result could come
from the payment of fair wages to the
number of men really needed than would
follow from paying a considerably larger
number very low wages only a part of the
wear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

The city of Logansport furnishes an OBJ
ject lesson in municipal ownership and
management of electric light and water
plants which might well be initiated by
other cities. Starting with a special tax to
build electric light works, it has in four
years established a plant and lines TO every
part of the city for lighting streets, bust
ness buildings and residences at a cost
greatly less than under private ownership.
The entire plant representing an invest
nent of about $4,000, is paid for except
81. Joe. and there is money on hand TO pay
that. The cost of maintaining the plant
last year was sl1.5oO and the gross receipts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

complaints. These are largely devoted to
assaults upon 1.-The tornado crackers and
other noise-producing inventions to which
nitroglycerin in limited quantities has
added more terrific noise. The ordinary
fire cracker is no longer able to express the
hilarious patriotism of the American boy,
so we have the giant fire cracker. the ex-
plosion of which near a person is sure to
mutilate 1t is within the province of city
councils to prohibit the use of any fire
cracker as dangerous to property; the use
Of the cracker containing nitroglycerin
should be prohibited before another Fourth
as destructive of life and limb.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
sHREDs AND PATCHES.


Common sense in an uncommon degree is
what the world calls MISUNDERSTANDING
The drowning man is not the only fellow
who catches at a straw these days.-Galves-
ton News.
No. 1.-The second time I saw him 1 was
engaged to him. No 2-What caused the
delay?-Life
Il can study the face of sorrow" said
Introspeetion, but JOY dazzles my eyes
e. s. OConnor.
A New Model-Johnny. what do you mean
by the bird is mouIting?" "Gittin' its 81
feathers, mum. Truth.
Many persons summering in the back Of
the house hear the door bell ring but do not
answer it.--Philadelphia Times
Nel-That's a nice pair Of shoes you nave
on. Believes seven and a half Nell
didn't ask you what size they were.
Few things make us more unreasonable
and more unpleasant than a uniform at
tempt to be Observation-Disclosures Bazaar.
You are the dearest little wife that ever
lived" remarked Newlywed to his bride as
the bills began coming in.-Philadeiphia
Record
He who learns the rules of wisdom with
out conforming to them in his life is like
a man who plows his field but does not
sOw.-Saadt.
yes" said the goat. cheerfully. as he
butted his victim for the sixth and last
time: Il always had penchant for head
work. Puck.
What is dolce far niente?' "Well-in
its finest phase it is sitting perfectly still
and watching somebody else work. De
troit Free Press.
1t is useless for politician TO place him.
self in the hands of his friends unless his
friends have a good grip on the voters.
Boston Transcript.
The man who wrote verses at twenty and
can read them at forty without feeling
ashamed of himself is either an ass or
Philadelphia Record
Grgson-What clergyman was II that
solemnized your marriage? Flippard-It
wasn't clergyman at all. 1t was Mrs. F.s
mother-Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
A NEGLECTED. ART.

The summer season always brings many
deaths by drowning. Thousands of persons
go to the ocean resorts for bathing and
other thousands near lakes and rivers and
smaller streams go into the water for re-
freshment. Among this great number there
will always be many deaths by drowning
either of those who cannot swim at all or
of those who become exhausted, confused
or otherwise disabled from taking care of
themselves. Quite a number of such cases
have been reported during the last few
weeks from various localites-sonle in this
immediate vicinity. In some instances it
has been stated that friends or strangers
witnessed the drowning but could not rem
der assistance because they were unable to
swim. Such incidents emphasize the value
of that art and the Importance Of systemat-
as a feature of physical culture and devel-
opment and a means of protection against
drowning is much better understood in
some other countries thar it is with US
In Germany every soldier is expected to be
a good swimmer. Instruction and practice
in swimming forms part of the curriculum,
and it is considered as important a part
of the education of young woman as of
young man. Twenty odd years ago, dur
ing a high freshet in Pleasant run, near
this city, a German who had learned the
science and art of swimming in the old
country saved the lives of three boys. They
were atloat on a small section of a bridge,
which swung in midstream where it was
nearly hundred yards wide and very
deep. A crowd stood on the bank, doing
nothing but getting excited and making
useless suggestions, w4len the swimmer
threw off his clothes and plunged in. The
current was so swift that he had to start
in some distance above the place he wished
to reach. 1t took nine trips to rescue the
three boys the swimmer failing three times
to reach the desired spot sometimes div
ing to avoid floating logs, and then being
carried past the bridge. Each time that he
reached it he brought off boy, instruct
ing him to get on his back, put his legs
under the swimmers arms, and hold fast
with both hands in his hair The boys
obeyed instructions, and, as the swimmer
did not wear wig, they had a good hold.
Shortly after they were rescued a man
appeared with a skiff which he had
rowed some distance, but. the bridge had
already gone to pieces, and if they had de-
pended on this manner of rescue they boys
would have been drowned Their rescuer
did not seem to think he had done anything
heroic or unusual. Among hundreds he was
AI,o
home in the water is more than a valuable
art; it is fine accomplishment, and all
who do not possess it must envy one who
does. There are many things taught in our
public schools that are, not nearly as val
liable or important as swimming. 1t is an
art too much neglected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Special cablegrams from Madrid state
that the Spanish government has suddenly
begun to pay marked courtesies to the Jap
anese minister and members of the Legal
ton. The Queen has given the Japanese
prince a state banquet, and she and the
minister of foreign affairs have showered
attentions on the Japanese mission, Gull
minating in a military review, naval sa
lutes and a liberal distribution of Spanish
decorations. Such things always have
some international significance, and this
probably means that in the event of trouble
between the United States and Japan over
Hawaii Spain would expect to find an ally
in the Oriental nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

always written for the public on the prin-
clple that that is the best which will do thel
most good, create the best ideals and make
the most people happy and this work it
mas given me pleasure to do, as / have
hoped that such effort, like our old New
england guideposts. might lead some young
traveller on TO the larger ways of life
Anthony 'Ope 'Awkins is to follow in the
ilustrious footprints of DR.. Conan Doyle
and Rev. DR.. Ian Maclaren" Watson as
an American lecturer or reader. says the
Philadelphia Record. These adventures are
far from profitable, at least in the true
sense. and James Barrie did wisely in rec
ognizlng this fact and declining a large Of
fer TO take the platform while here. If DR..
Doyle could have recited his Corporal
Brewster" monologue with the realistic i'm
preSsiveness of a Henry Irving he would
not have had such poor audiences. On the
other hand. DR.. Watson's large audiences
were treated TO rather milk-and-watery
discourseS on piOus servant maids and
church contributions and the most mawf-
ishly sentimental portions of his otherwise
admirable stories.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
Naming the Rahv.

One of the vagaries that made Mr., Rouse
OF Kansas City, so Objectionable to Mrs.
Rouse that she has applied for a divorce
was his determination to bestow the name
of NiXcOm upon the baby. Most mothers
will agree that this offense alone was
enough to justify her in taking her child
away from association with such an unnat-
ural father. man capable of saddling his
son with such a name is unfit 10 be a par
ent, and deserves to be cast into outer dark
ness by the divorce court. But it is not al
ways the father who makes trouble in the
family over the baby's name Mr. Ole Hal
version, who lives in New York State,
wanted his infant son to be named Oscar,
and so informed Mrs. Halverson. He also
told the clergyman so when he went with
his wife to have the baby christened. The
clergyman, however, had previously been
interviewed by the mother of the infant,
who did not like her husbands choice of
names, and had selected one more to her
taste. The reverend gentleman assumed
that the wife was the best authority on the
subject, and christened the youngster ac-
cording to her Instructions. Thereupon Mr..
Halverson, feeling greatly injured in his
feelings, and suffering from the loss of his
rights, brought suit against the offending
has not yet come to trial, but, inasmuch as
1t involves the question of authority as be-
tween husband and wife, the decision will
no doubt be looked for with much interest
by married couples whose lives have been
embittered by being forced to accept dis
pleasing names for their children. The
court ought to consider the rights of the
children while he is about it, as we'll as of
the parents. 1t will hardly be SAFE from
their standpoint, for him to rule that the
mother possesses the sole privilege of Sc
Letting names for her offspring, for many
Clarence and Algernon and Herbert have
had cause to bewail the sentimental fancy
of their mothers. The desire of the aver
age father to perpetuate himself by be-
slowing his own uneuphonious Peter or
Patrick" or "Ebenezer' is likewise dan
gerous. If. an arbitration system could be
established it might solve the problem or
if christening could be made temporary in
its effects, good for a given period and sub
ject to renewals the child might make his
own selection of names when he arrived at
years of discretion. AT all events, some
safe method should be devised in order that
families need no longer be broken up by the
difficulty of settling the matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Captain William Fowler, of New York.
who died few days ago, devoted himself
to demonstrating that thirteen is as lucky
a number any other. He organized the
Thirteen Club in New York, which was
long one of the most prosperous of the
smaller social organizations. With him
thirteen was a mascot rather than
hoodoo He left for Washington to fight
for the flag in 1861, on April 10; he was in
thirteen great battles, in one of which he
was wounded. He resigned from the army
Aug. 13, and went into business Sept. l3.
He belonged to thirteen secret societies.
and was thirteen on the membership roll
of the Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine When
his Thirteen Club had its first dinner one
Of the members was tardy. Fearing that
the man was deserving him, Captain Fow-
Ter was putting a colored waiter into the
thirteenth chair when the tardy member
appeared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

In the school history which General Lee
of Mississippi, would have it will be
denied that slavery was the cause of the
war. The great issue of the conflict, in
his opinion, was whether this was a nation
or a league of sovereign states. 1t is feared
that the historical facts of that period will
not sustain the assumption of General Lee
II he will turn to the proceedings of the
Democratic national convention, where the
first act of secession occurred. he VIII find
that the issue was whether slavery was
national or not. There was much discus
sion, but there was not a speech in which
the right of secession was advocated on the
ground alleged by General Lee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

writer in the Christian Economist es-
Inmates that $1,000 600 will be expended this
season by the conventions of young Chris
ton workers The Endeavorers will ex-
pend S2,S75.00O in going to San Francisco,
the Baptist young people will spend $1,4O0.-
600 in their visit to Chattanooga, and the
Epworth League s1,7OO,O0O to attend the
Toronto meeting. No church in the land
could raise one-fourth of either OF these
amounts for a special fund for foreign
missions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

1t is altogether likely that the govern
ment experiment of recruiting sailors for
the navy in the Western cities located on
These cities and the country adjacent
thereto contain great many able bodied
enterprsing young men, who will gladly
embrace an opportunity to see something
OF the world by enlisting in the navy for
a term of years at fairly good wages and
free transportation TO the seaboard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

The high school was discussed at the
meeting of the educators in Milwaukee
but unfortunately nothing was said of its
great cost, question which is exciting dis
cussion by those who are in position where
the cost affects them. The cost of the pub
lie school has increased rapidly in cities
during the past twenty years, and the same
may be said of other local expenditures
Ere long it is not improbable that there
will be an organization of taxpayers the
object of which win be to devise plans to
check municipal expenditure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Philadelphia Inquirer.
The New York Evening Post Is surprised
that the Governor of Indiana is trying TO
put in practice the promises he made as
candidate. There is no occasion for sur
prise. Governor Mount is not profess
sional refOrmer He is just plain Hoosier
farmer Republican. What promises he
made before election he made because he
meant them, not simply to get votes. as Is
the case with your professional reforner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

A dispatch from Vincennes in yesterdays
Journal stated that upwards of fifty horses
had died in Knox county from the effects
of the neat, most of them dropping in the
harness. Similar reports come from other
parts of the State. Although it Is not
likely that the average of knox county has
been maintained in ALL it is safe to say
that in the entire State from 200 to SO
horses have died. In such weather as we
have been having a merciful man should
remember to be merciful to his beast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

1t is scarcely possible that the reports to
the effect that the Christian Endeavorers
in San Francisco will so far forget ordinary
decencies as to go Summing in China
town is true. 1t presents evils which the
visitors have no time to attempt to cure,
consequently such an inspection is inspired
by desire to witness indecency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Manufacturers and others whose coal is
confiscated by the railroads for their own
use should assert their rights and sue the
companies for damage. Railroads have. no
more right than private individuals to take
for their own use coal belonging to other
people. In the eye of the law it is plain
stealing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW 1ORK-Windsor Hotel and Aston House.
CAiCAGO-Palmer House and p. O. News Co.,
III Dearborn street.
NlEClNNATI-J. l.. Hawley & Co., 1H Vine
street.
LoUIsVILLE-C. +. Desr!ng. northwest corner
q Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co.. 30 Fourth
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON. D. c.-Riggs House Ebbitt
House WIZARDS Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and r street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

The announcement comes from London
that owing TO drought in New South Wales
and South Australia, it will be necessary
To import thousands of tons of California
wheat. This WIFI open a market for Ameri-
can grain in an unexpected quarter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

II appears that the accidents incident to
che celebration of the Fourth of July this
year We're unusually numerous and painful.
The boys who were lacerated and who were
manned would make q regiment. Some of
them have lost hands. few have been de-
prived of sight, so that during the rest of
their lives they will be a burden upon so
eiety or upon their families. The papers
contain more than the usual number Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

While the assembled wisdom Of the
teachers of the land decided in favor of
moral suasion, the European powers do not
seem to be making a great success of it
in dealing with the Turk. Having had so
little to do with morals of any kind, those
who opposed force can maintain that the
Turk is an exception for whom nothing but
force. and great deal of it, will suffice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Among the addresses at the great meet
ing of the NATIONAL Educational Associa-
ton, just concluded at Milwaukee, was one
by Miss Estelle Reel, state superintendent
of schools in Wyoming. Her subject was
What Not to Do" and her address dealt
with faulty methods in teaching to be
avoided. In closing she said:
Do not think that the days of heroism
are over and that the calling of teacher
requires no sacrifice. l remember visiting
a country school, after a hard DAYS trip
IN which | had driven SiXty-fiVe miles ford
ing the Platte river twice l came to a
cabin, half dug-out, consisting of one room
divided by a curtained partition. There the
the floor, rolled up in blankets. The NEXT
morning l started with her to visit her
school, and such a pitful school buildng
A rough-Doard room, with dirt floor, and a
sliding board for a window, an old stove
on three legs, and for pupils, two forIorn
little children. This teacher rode eight
miles day, carrying a child on the horse
behind her, fording the Platte morning and
evening. Often cold and wet, she had her
own wood to cut and her fire to make and
yet she hoped to retain her school another
year, as she had a helpless father de-
pendent upon her, and she was SO pleased
that the directors had promised to put glass
in the window and lay a floor and the
children were doing so nicely she told me
If this was not heroism, L know not
what is.
1t was heroism, and most persons will
conclude that Miss Reel had something of
the same quality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

Chicago man who is applying for a
consulship thinks he made a favorable i'm
preston on the President by his unique
presentation of his case. Calling in person
on the President, he told him frankly that
he was not in poor health and looking for
a consulate in some mild and salubrious
cline. He was not ambitious to go abroad
to study international law. He had no de-
sire to take his family to France or Ger
many for education in music for any
other purpose. His wife had no ambition
to enter court society in Europe. He had
no great mission to take him anywhere in
particular In fact, he had none of the ex-
cuses or apologies urged by the great ma
jority of candidates for appointment in the
foreign service. He was simply a Repub-
lican who had worked hard for McKinley's
election, and he had no apologies to make
for seeking an appointment under this adj
ministration. But if all the Republicans
who worked hard for McKinley's election
should go to him with the same story he
would feel like going much farther than
to Lake Champlain for a summer vacation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

The question of corporal punishment
came up in the meeting of teachers in Mil
warkee. 1t had a stalwart defender in Prof
Small, of the University of Chicago, who
believes in the upholding of the teachers
authority by the sscepter of the rod, the
lesson which will make the man submissive
to the laws. The majority of the teachers,
however, did not agree with the university
professor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

There seems tolhe 10 doubt that Captain
General Weyler has been recalled, though
tie indications are that he will be let down
easy by being permitted to resign and re-
main in office until his successor shall ar
rive in Cuba