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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
STRIKING AT MEDICAL SCIENCE.

To say that those who read the account
of the remarkable surgical operation de-
scribed in yesterdays Journal were filled
with what novelists call mingled emotions
is to speak very mildly indeed. Briefly
stated the operation consisted of the re-
moval of woman's stomach from its nat
ural mornings in the interior of her person
and the attaching of the aesophagus to the
small intestine, viii IN was drawn up to the
proper position for the purpose. The wound
healed the woman ate and digested her
food without any trouble, and is now in bet
ter health than when she had her stomach
with her. Now, the actual extraction of
this organ is not of itself cause for won
der. Surgery is very exact science, ard
skilled practitioners have long been in the
habit of removing various parts of the hui
man body with much success 1t is true
that the patient often dies after the most
successful and beautiful of operations, but
this does not alter the professional satisfac-
ton and triumph over the achievements
with the knife No intelligent person could
doubt that the stomach might be removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

A well-known real-estate and loan agent
of this city says there is very perceptible
increase in the last year or two of inquiries
for farm lands and of offers to trade city
property for farms. He CONSTITUTES this as an
indication that the movement of population
from the country to cities, which has been
so noticeable for number of years past,
has reached its maximum, and has begun to
decline. In the long run such movements
regulate themselves. and when the pendu-
lum swings too far in one direction it swings
back again with corresponding force For
many years past there has been altogether
too much migration from the country to
cities, and its subsistence is healthy sign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
NOBoDY,s ALLY.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, who seems to be
trying to be a citizen of the United States
and a subject of her Britannia Majesty at
the same time, has written an article en-
titled Does America Hate England?" The
Carnegie answer is that the people of the
United States do not hate England in the
full meaning of the word. He is right. AS
a people we have no time to hate anybody
and, besides, it is not good policy. That
there is a dislike of England on the part of
Americans is true, but it is not positive;
it comes into expression only when the
bumptious occupant of the tight little island
it. The fear expressed that the American
boy is taught to hate England by the study
of the school history is not well founded
since the boy will ascertain that his side
got the best of the conflict and consequently
will not hate the defeated party.
The real purpose of Prof. Goodwin Smith
and Mr.. Carnegie in raising and answering
this question of hatred is to base upon
their negative an argument for a union of
the two so-called Anglo-Saxon peoples by
some sort of alliance that will be stronger
and other nations. These gentlemen seem to
have desire to be members of race rather
than citizen or subject. They seem to be
possessed with a purpose to so blend the two
nations that an inhabitant of either will
scarcely care or know to which he belongs.
Mr. Carnegie says that "a treaty of peace
between the two branches of the race is GER
tain to come" But why not treaty of
peace between the United States and Ger
many? The American branch of German
blood is a large element of this Nation, and
why is not such a treaty on the ground of
race just as desirable as with Great Britain ?
Why not such a treaty with Japan, since
war is war and has the same consequences,
no matter what nations are parties to it?
What Mr.. Carnegie probably desires is not
so much a treaty of peace, but treaty Of
fensive and defensive which would make US
the ally of Great Britain in the event of a
prospect of war. 1t would be of immense
advantage to Great Britain if she could as
sure other nations of the support of the
United States when playing the game of
bluff. At the present time, when Great Brit
ain seems to be left out of the syndicate of
governments intent on the partition of
China, such an ally would be most impor-
tant. An Observation-Disclosures alliance
would now be of immense advantage to
Great Britain, but of immense injury to the
United States, which has everything to lose
and nothing to gain by making foes of Euro
pean powers by interference in behalf of
any one of them The wonder is that any
intelligent person who understands the ira
dtional policy of the United States not to
become entangled with national disputes be-
yond this hemisphere should have thought of
such an alliance. Treaties of peace the
United States should seek with every ma
ton, but not such a treaty as would make
us the ally of any one of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

fairs. But the Armenian revolutionary Lead
ers did not see the difference, and burned
Turks after drenching them with petroleum,
attacked mosques, seized bank in Constan-
tinople and directed the assassination of in
dividual Turks. These acts were pretexts
for the butchering of hundreds Of innocent
Armenians by Infatuated Turkish mobs. The
single assassination of a Turk was revenged
by the butchering of dozens of Armenians
and the confiscation of their property.
Whole villages were destroyed. The details.
sometimes exaggerated, but repulsive in
their true proportions, excited general hor-
ror. Mr.. Gladstone demanded immediate
war upon the Turks. Public feeling was SO
stirred that money poured into the Armen-
ian treasury in London, which so encouraged
the revolutionary leaders that fresh provoca-
tons were given the Turks, who retaliated
by fresh atrocities throughout Armenia.
But while Great Britain was SO deeply
moved that interference was urged, the
other powers-Russia, Germany, France and
Austria-displayed no interest, because, it
is said they understood the plans of the Ar
menian leaders. Moreover, to interfere in
volved the destruction of the Turkish en-
pre and a division of its assets, for which
Europe is not yet prepared, because the di-
vision would, in all probability, cause a
general European war, which every power
fears.
Public indignation was so general and so
deep in Great Britain that that government,
so representative, was led to suggest armed
interference to Russia in behalf of free Ar
menia- The suggestion was repealed by Rus
STA with positiveness, and it was backed by
the other powers. The powers said, in effect.
that they would not be involved in a war
which would cost many thousands of lives
and vast treasure for the sake of few
thousand dead Armenans Probably the
more potential reason for nonintervention
was not given-the danger to all of them of
a precedent Of an interference in behalf of
the independence of a revolving province.
So the matter was dropped, first by Lord
Rosebery, which did not excite Mr.. Glad
stone, and then by Lord Salisbury, which
called forth Gladstone's protest, which was
generally applauded. particularly by class
of emotional people who cannot take time
to Investigate. Mr.. Gladstone's apparent in
consistency is explained by the fact that
Rosebery is of his party and Salisbury is his
political foe. Lord Salsburys only reply
was that England could not fight all Europe
to help the Armenians.
The account of DR.. Hepworth does not
much lessen the atrocities as they have
been reported from year to year, but there is
holt
of them, because the revolutionary leaders
have ceased to incite the Turks or give
them a pretext for butchery. One very i'm
portant point he makes clear, and that is
that the atrocities do not grow out of re-
ligious contentious. The Armenian leaders
admit that much
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
LITERARY NOTES.

Oscar Wilde's new poem, "a Ballad OF
Reading Jail, by c.. 3d. is to appear stimuli
taneously in England and this country.
It is rumored that the Life of the Prince
of Wales" which Mr.. Grant Richards an
nounces as in preparation by "a writer well
known in literary circles" is to come from
the pen of DR.. Trail, the editor of Litera-
ture.
narrative poem in dialect by James
Whitcomb Riley, entitled Christmas
Times" was given the place of honor in
the Christmas number of the Chicago Trl-
bune issued Dec. 10.
Austin Dobson has a large and clever
family. His eldest son is teaching in China,
his eldest daughter, who is bachelor of
music has been working among the Bonn
bay Parsees under the Missionary Settle
ment for University Women, and another
daughter is studying medicine.
The New York Tribune says: Mrs. Eva
leen STEMS book. One Way to the Woods
is we'll named. She is qualified to show the
reader che way to the woods. She is
clear-eyed cicerone, the poems are full or
sympathetic observation and the sentiment
in the work is always appropriate and
sometimes peculiarly happy"
The X ray has been applied to a picture
of Ecce Homo, in Munich, which was at
tributeo to Albert Durer, but long consid-
cred to be of doubtful authenticity. >Durers
monogram, the date 1920, and two lines OF
ting an end to all doubts as to the author
of the work.
A good story on the subject of names for
books is told by the Private Diarist" of
Cornhill A friend was praisng the title,
"Peveril of the Peak" Now 1 call that"
said he :" a perfect name for a romantic
novel; no one could hear it without being
bitten with an instant wish to know all
about Peveril:'' and he rhapsodized for sew
to him-hair- breadth escapes conspirators
in gloomy caverns, etc. Tell me the story,
relied the Diarist, for l am ashamed to
say i have never read it, Nor have l."
said the friend.
whats in a name?" is a question which
no well-instructed author ever asks. A book
by any other name would smell as sweet,
but might not sell as well, which is far more
important. The cash value of a good title
has lately been remarked upon by the man
aging director of London publishing firm.
Frequently" he says, chose in the trade
will hear the following remarks made by
customers selecting books: That sounds m
teresting, or 1 like the title of that book
showing how good list of bad titles-that
is, titles which do not whet curiosity, or
which actually repel; and then a selection
of the appetiZing. alluring titles.
A literary personal from the London
Mail reads thus: Brighton is just now ia
voTed with the presence of Miss Corelli and
Mr.. Joseph Hatton, the latter of whom
finds it advisable to live good deal out
of London for his health's sake. Mr.. Rud-
yard Kipling is leaving Brighton for a tour
in South Africa, and Mr. Gilbert Parker
who has also been at London by-the-Sea'
Among other familiar literary folk who are
just now out of England are Mr.. George
Gissing who roams in Italy, and DR.. ROD
Rnrqdihara'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

but that the owner could get along COM
fortably without it~is the thought that be-
wilders and amazes. The very proposition
is disturbing. 1t shakes ones faith in the
usefulness of an organ hitherto highly re-
spected and supposed to be indispensable,
and creates curious doubts as to the real
value OF other organs believed until now to
be vital. Doubtless many sufferers from
the pangs of dyspepsia have wished that
Sthey might dispense with the stomach, but
the wish mas been momentary, and they
would never have permitted it to be tam
pered with. The late George c. Harding
was wont to lament that ones liver
could not be taken out and hung upon the
fence, and had he lived till now he might
hope to see his wish fulfilled. For if the
stomach, why not the liver? Or why not
the lights? And with the stomach proved
to be not absolutely essential. who say
that the heart is all that it was thought to
be? The effect of the achievement of the
Swiss surgeon is, indeed to cast discredit
upon all that the doctors have taught us
and upon the doctors themselves, and to
arouse a distrust that may be fatal. Have
they not, by both precept and practice, en-
couraged the belief that the stomach, if not
the root of all evil, is the source of nearly
all the diseases mankind is heir to? Have
they not INDUCED in profound dissertations
upon digestion and assured us that the gas
trio juice secreted by the stomach is the
one thing needed to make digestion perfect?
Have they not dieted us whatever our all
ment? When we have gone to them with
a lame leg a cold in the head have they
not asked us what we liked best to eat or
drink, and then forbidden us to have it?
In short, have they not catered to the stom-
ach and made fetch of it, and in conse-
quence of this behavior on the part of the
doctors have not we been slaves to it? For
the stomachs sake we have taken into our
systems many unpleasant drugs have de-
prived ourselves of many toothsome viands
and soothing beverages and have been
made perpetually conscious of the exist
ence of tho organ-all because of the doc
tors And now it appears that the stomach
is not at all essential to our well-being,
and that, in fact, our comfort may be in
creased by it's removal! What becomes of
the doctors with the stomach knocked out
or rather, cut out, Of their cal
culations? 1t is acknowledged by
the physicians themselves that the more
faith a patient has in them the sooner he
is cured, but with this proof of their fah-
bility on a vital point on what shall such
faith be founded henceforth? In removing
that stomach and letting the owner live
on the indiscreet surgeon has dealt a blow
to the so-called science of medicine from
which it will not soon recover. The doc
tors can get together and denounce him as
a fraud, but while that woman walks the
earth with her stomach on the mantelpiece
in a glass bottle public confidence in them
cannot be what it was before. The outlook
is dark for the medical men, but with fear
of the gastric tyrant removed what a joy
full prospect opens up before the people!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

Rev. DR.. Rainsford, of st. Georges Epis-
CCpal Church, New York, says that in his
opinion his parish must each year grow
poorer because of the residence district
moving north, leaving only the people of the
tenement houses and blocks within conven-
lent distance. He is opposed, however, to a
suggestion that the church be moved "In
fifteen years. he says, II have seen nine
teen Protestant churches move out of the
part of town below Fourteenth street 1t
is un-Christian, fatal retreat of the
churches from the poor the leaving of the
poor to follow the well-to-do. 1t is a danger
and folly as well a weakness, and the
women of st. Georges will band together to
keep this parish from following the rest"
Well-to-do classes need the services of the
church as well as do the poor, but a di-
vision is only fair. The action of Mr.. Rains
ford, however, and the recent giving up of a
Observation-Disclosures salary by Brooklyn
minister in order to devote himself to evan
gelical work in the slums are indications
showing that no class is likely to be neg
lected by the spiritual pastors and masters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

Not content with eulogizing General Lee
as the greatest general of the age, President
Andrews, of Brown University, is reported
saying in his recent lecture in Chicago:
General Lee had the faith of the crusader;
his letters would make guide to holiness.
He was always a soldier-never impure in
thought or act, never profane or obscene.
He did not touch the cup. as did Grant,
Hooker or Phil Sheridan, and when he lost
a fight it was never said of him that the
defeat was due to a habit which makes
mems heads into muddles.
AS it is not stated on any sort of authority
that either of the Union generals above
named lost a battle through drink, why
does this talkative person SANDER the dead?
1t seems that since this exceedingly loqua-
cious man declared that it is entirely right
for a person to discharge debt with
money which costs less than the money he
hired. he has lost his balance and goes about
chattering wildly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

Two more persons have solved the flying
machine problem almost simultaneously, one
at Cincinnati and another at Berlin. Both
are modest and admit that their machines
are not quite perfect, but they are sure
they have got the right idea, and are on
the point of solving the problem of. aerial
travel. So was Prof. Langley some time
ago. so was Inventor Maxim, and so have
been scores of others. The procession of
flying machine inventors is almost as con-
tinuous as that of perpetual motion in
ventors, and about as unproductive 1t is
POSSIBLE that the problem of air travel may
yet be solved, but very little real progress
has been made in that direction yet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

Colonel Waring taught New Workers what
it meant to have clean streets, and having
once known the luxury it is not likely that
the citizens will ever submit to neglect OF
the thoroughfares whatever admnistra-
ton may be in power. What New YORK
has learned other cities have learned, and
the term ''clean streets" means much more
even in villages than it did a few years ago.
1t means in the villages that people are not
free to use the roadway in front OF their
residences as a receptacle for all sorts of
rubbish. that it is not seemly for pigs and
COWS to run at large or for weeds to be
allowed in the CUTTERS in the cities it means
that streets must be swept and sprinkled
daily, and all garbage and refuse removed
from Sight Where this is not done the fact
is quickly noticed and complained OF, show
ing that public taste is being educated in
the right direction. In one respect, how
ever public opinion does not yet seem
strong enough to bring about one desirable
Improvement in street cleanliness, namely,
the doing away with the scattering of
waste paper. Indianapolis has for the most
part very clean streets, but let strong
wind come, and scraps of paper, even en-
tire newspapers, blow out of alleys and
off of sidewalks, and are scattered far and
wide, giving the Undergraduates an uHtluy
look that detracts greatly from their APP
pearance A man would be arrested who
should throw a basket ofsdecayed fruit, q
WORKOUT piece Of furniture or other house.
hold waste into the middle of the street,
and his neighbors would think him well
served, but every one thinks himself priv
LEGGED to cast aside the wrapping of pack
age or the pieces of a torn letter wherever
he may be-rather, such waste is thrown
away without thought wherever convenient.
Public taste must be trained in this direc-
ton also. Whether it shall be by ordi-
nance compelling attention to neatness, or
by the placing of receptacles here and there
for receiving paper scraps. whether by pre-
cept, or all combined, is a matter TO be
determined but it is certainly true that our
streets cannot be what they should be I'M
til every citizen learns not to scatter pa
OpF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

The increase in the money in circulation
in the United States since Mr.. Bryan's nom
ination in 1896, and covering the period in
which the free coinage proposition was dis
cussed and rejected, amounts to more than
double the amount of the entire sum of
money existing in Mexico. OF this increase
nearly $lOO GOO has been in gold, the
amount of gold coin in circulation on July 1,
1896, having been $I54 ,9O5,Os4 while on the
first of the present month it was $544 494, 74S.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

tach to the memory of Puritanism were ex-
hibited in far greater measure by the
later settlement on the other shore of Mas
sachusetts bay"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

The result of the Boring sea award will
be a moral victory for the United States,
and justify its position in regard to inter-
national arbitration, provided the award is
promptly paid, as it should be. The first
decision by the Paris tribunal that the
United States was liable in damages was
the result of arbitration, and when it was
proposed that the government should pay
a lump sum Congress insisted that the
amount of damages also should be left to
arbitration. This was done, with the re-
suit that the arbitrator award more dam
ages than was asked for in the lump sum.
The fact that this result has been reached
by arbitration, the principle for which the
United States contends, makes it the more
incumbent that the amount should be
promptly paid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

Baltimore is the principal clearance port
for the export of refined petroleum from
the United States. Statistics show that dur
ing the year 1897 thirty-three steamers
cleared from there for foreign ports. carry
ing 45.15s659 gallons Of petroleum all of
which was refined in Baltimore having been
brought there by pipe lines. 1t is one of the
big items in keeping the balance of trade
in our favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

Mrs Grant denies recently published
statement that she was engaged "a Alf~ad
SandfOrd of 81. Louis before her 1,arria ~
to General Grant. i'ese
The bishop took for his text one Sunday
The fool hath said in his heart there & no
Cod Asking the parish clerk at the close
of the service how he liked the sermon .s1,,
my lord; said he. 1T Was very fine md
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

From present indications the same thing
is 1.-THE matter with Kansas" A large in
surance company that does business sue
cessfully and peaceably in the other States
has been compelled 10 withdraw from Kan
sas because the expensive litigation cost
more than the business in the State
amounted to. Eugene F. Ware, or Iron
quill the Kansas poet and president of the
Western Association of Writers, is the at
tcrney for the company that makes the
announcement of its enforced withdrawal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

of New York less than $4,000 are taxpayers.
and OF the $751; 900 of taxes collected this
year more than 60 per cent. is paid by LOCO
taxpayers. This shows. first, that the
largest part of the wealth of the city is in
the hands Of a comparatively small num-
Der Of persons, and second. that the num-
Der of persons who do not pay any taxes
is out of all proportion to the number of
vnferS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

The forcing of the Herring Hall Marvin
of a receiver upon the petition of appar-
emily disgruntled shareholders, presented
an hour before midnight, causes fear that
frequently courts are too hasty in such
roattars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26

The holiday period has furnished some
unmistakable signs of better times. To be-
gin with, that unerring sign of business ac-
tivity, the postoffice. has shown decided
increase over any former year in the trans
mission OF mail and gifts. The postal clerks
and letter carriers can bear testimony to
this. Railroad travel and traffic also have
been heavy--some managers say more than
SO per cent. heavier than last year. This
means the expenditure of money and, OF
course, better times. r. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly trade review reports "a remarkably
large holiday trade, at many points the lar
gest for five years" They apply this re-
mark to the wholesale as well as the retail
trade. Our local merchants all report
very heavy trade, and the papers III other
cities make the same report. There Is no
mistaking the significance of these signs.