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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
THE NAVY MIGHT HAVE DONE 1T.
Possibilities shown by Skaters Re-
port.
Detroit Free Press.


General Skaters report of the Santiago
campaign-the vast amount of work in
VOlved the obstacles and disadvantages en-
countered and the losses sustained-makes
1t nice question whether the commander
or the American squadron should have sent
for the army to come and take the city or
gone into the harbor with his ships Dewey
fashion, destroyed the Spanish squadron
self self O'eO ING o'p'''ia'io'i u the Guy MINI
This would have obviated' the necessity of
sending large expedition to contend with
the burdens of debarkatOn on an unfamiliar
shore and with the peris and privations
of investment in the unhealthieSt season of
the year. This would have made it unneces-
Sary TO send away the troops in confusing
haste and state of unpreparedness This
would have saved hundreds of lives laid low
by pestilence, exposure and disease This
would hardly have involved as many casual
ties as marked the fierce fighting before
Santiago. The naval force was at the
scene ready to act. The troops were at
rampa, hundreds of miles away, and hardly
in shape for embargatlOn Did the navy
pass hazardous job over to the army?
1t will be argued that no commander
would nave been justified in taking the risks
of dashing into a mined and defended har-
Dor; yet Dewey did it. 1t turns out that
the defenses of the entrance of Santiago
harbor were not anywhere near as formid-
able as supposed. Certainly 10 have braved
greater dangers than were dauntlessy faced
by the regiments that stormed San Juan
hill and FL Caney. The meffiCiency of the
Spanish gunnerS and the inferioritv of the
counter far less sacrifcial to the Americans
and the surrender of Santiago would have
been achieved without the terrible after
math OF sickness and suffering. The Span
ISL squadron captured or destroyed the city
would have been at the mercy of the Amer
lean ships.
navy exercised at the expense of the much
criticised army?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
Publishers, Notes.

Way & Williams, of Chicago, announce
the transfer of their publishing business
to H. S. Stone & Co., who will hereafter
assume all contracts made with authors and
pay royalties earned.
THE House of Hidden Treasure Max
well Gray's forthcoming novel, is regarded
by the author as her most important and
Maitland" This book will be issued imme-
diately by d. Appleton & Co.
A fine library edition of the "Cathedrals
of England" in two volumes. octave. will
be published shortly by Mr.. Thomas Whit
taker. The descriptive text of each chapter
is written by the dean or canon of the
cathedral described, while the illustrate tons,
of which there are 1913 in all, are chiefly by
Herbert Railton, whose style in sketching
is very we'll known. The set will be richly
bound in half vellum, purple and white.
with Florentine wrapper for each volume.
G. p. Putnam's Sons add to their previous
announcements IN the Heroes OF the
Nations Series" Bismarck and the New
German Empire. How 1t Arose and what II
Displaced" by j. w. Headlam, of King S
College. Cambridge. Mr.. Headlam has had
this volume in preparation for four years,
and had just completed it for the press at
cellor In the STORY of the Nations Series
is added 1.-The Story of the West Indies, -
by Amos K. Fiske.
Among the fall announcements of the
Funk and Wagnalls Company is volume
entitled In Christ Jesus by Rev. Arthur
4. Pierson; also, Studies in Texts for
Family, Church and School,, by Joseph
Parker, ID. ID. DIR. ParAer commentaries
his hftieth consecutive year of preaching by
this jubilee work, which is to consist of six
volumes, issued in installments of two
volumes per year. The work embraces new
sermons, outlines and a great variety of
suggestions. etc. The same firm also an
nounces complete edition of the poems of
Richard Realf.
Among the fall announcements of the
Bowen-Merrill Company, indianapolis. are
Edwin Caskoden's' historical novel, When
knighthood Was in Flower" Johnnie, the
Story OF Real Boy" by +. O. Laughlin;
Temple Talks by Myron w. Reed; AN
Idyl of the Wabash" volume OF short
stories by Anna Nicholas; Comes One with
Song, volume of poems by Frank STAN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
ATRAGEDY OF THE WAR.
Physician Driven to Death by Over
work and Malicious Accusations.

New York Letter in PHILADELPHIA Press
One OF the saddest of all the tragedies
of the war is the death of DR.. George w.
Lindheim, which occurred this morning at
his home in this city. A few days ago a
savage attack was made on DIR. Lindheim
by certain newspapers. among Others one
in this city, based upon charges of cruelty
and incOmpetency in the treatment of the
sick of the Eighth Regiment of New York
Volunteers, who were brought from Chick
amauga to this city under DIR. Lindheim' S
charge.
He was accused of heartlessness and pro-
family while in Cleveland, heartlessnesS be-
cause he refused to allow Cleveland sur
geonS to take any of the sick from the train
and profanity because he was angry with
the Cleveland physicians for making this
request.
but subsequent experience shows that he
was far from heartless. He brought the
2o6 sick men to this city, delivered them
to the hospitals or to their friends and ev-
cry one of them is either we'll or conva-
lescing; he, alone, is dead.
The charges of cruelty and heartlessness
combined with the exhaustion occasioned
by his incessant care of these men devel-
oped acute typhoid, and in his delirium.
which lasted five days. he spoke only of
the men under his charge and of the at
tacks which have been made upon him.
HE told his friends that the charges were
due to the enmity of a Cleveland news
paper man who threatened ito roast him.
II ne did not permit some of the soldiers
TO be left in Cleveland He did not permit
tnls to be done, and he was, as he said,
cruelty roasted" He seems to have been
roasted to death to crafty personal spite
of this kind.
Physicians here say that DR.. Lindheim' S
management of the sick was brilliantly sue
cessful, and in every case where soldiers
were committed to the care either of hos
pital authorities or of family physicians the
report was that under DIR. Lindheim' S
charge everything possible for the men had
been done. Certainly the recovery of all
of them justifes that opinion.
moe rIA~A Ill Il
was not a martyr to the alleged incom-
petence or to the red tapeism of any one
connected with the War Department but
was brought to his deathbed by his own
fidelity to duty and by the wicked accusa-
tions made against him by irresponsible
persons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

Admiral Dewey's great naval victory at
Manila was as cheap from money point of
view it was in casualties to his men or
ships. So much has beer said about the inn
mense cost of ammunition for the big guns
of battle ships that it might have been sup
posed his destruction of the Spanish feet
was a costly affair, but his official report
of the number of shots fired has enabled
the naval authorities to ascertain that only
$47, 600 worth of powder and shell were used.
The United States could have afforded to
pay for several naval victories at that rate
but the work at Manila was so thoroughly
done that one sCfficed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Reflector is a paper edited and pub
lished weekly by the inmates of the Indi-
ana Reformatory at Jacksonville. The
last issue, that of Sept. II, contains the fol-
lowing editorial paragraph:
If religion amounts to anything 10 men it
surely ought to make them better and
nobler bangs. We do not for a moment
doubt the virtue or reality of the Christian
religion Every high and noble purpose, ev-
cry virtuous impulse in the human SOUL
owes its origin to the rays of warmth and
sunshine that for nineteen centuries has
streamed from Calvary into the hearts of
men. But we do despair when we try TO
think that religion possesses the balm that
will heal our own Infirmities and then see
some one making a profession of religion
before the world who, every day, ooes
things we would despise ourselves for do
ing. Men judge from the practical side of
things, and one only arrive at one of
two onclusions-reision has not made
such persons better morally or they are
making a false claim AT any rate they
are responsible for much of the doubt and
disbelief.
Aside from the touch of pathos in this.
there is a thought that might serve as the
text of a sermon to so-called Christians Of
the worldly type.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
The Cuban Jcnta.
Washington Special

demand has suddenly sprung up for the
repatriation of the members of the Cuban
Junta; They are on continuous parade in
the contributions from the cigar makers
and servant girls have ceased, they are still
about in low-necked hacks. How they are
able to do this strikes many people as being
strange. The theory is that they are being
maintained by a syndicate of the holders
Of the bonds of the paper Cuban republic
which lingo element in Congress and out
of it tried to have recognized in the declar-
alton of war last spring. There is no direct
proof in support of this generally held be-
lief but they are certainly not without
funds and their old source of supply has
been cut off.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

1t may be Jacob S. Coxey is not such a
great fool after ALL He may have. been
long-sighted enough, at the time of his
famous army scheme, to foresee the adj
vantages such madcap performance would
have in the future when he should develop
into d second Phineas T. Barnum. 1t must
be admitted, however. that though there is
some doubt as to there being a method in
his madness there is none anywhere with
regard to the madness in his method.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The statement that the Spanish armored
cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa will be fioated
by to-day or tomorrow will be gratifying to
the public as well as no doubt. to the Navy
Department. The vessel is one of the Cadiz
fleet that kept the country mystited during
the early part of the war and finally sailed
for Cuban waters. She has a displacement
Of 1000 tons, carried twenty-eight guns and
had a speed of twenty knots an hour The
addition of such a vessel to our navy will
be substantial gain. besides being an inter-
esting souvenir of the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

in battle and seventy-two by disease. In
the Ninth Massachusetts seventy died of
disease The Sixth Massachusetts, sent to
Porto Rico, lost one man in action and ten
from disease. The Santiago campaign was
responsible for ISL of the deaths. If the cry
of the yellow and copperhead newspapers
''On to Havana" had been needed and a
large army sent to that disease-laden locali-
ty to face a large intrenched army, the loss
would have been 5000 by this time instead
of 1900. The President and General Miles
stood out against this howl, and the con-
quest of Cuba was made by the small force,
with comparatively small loss, at Santiago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Journal hopes that Assistant Post
master General Heath's scheme to have a
rostoffice pay its own orders and thus be-
come a banking establishment will work
well, but it fears otherwise should a large
number of people use it as bank of de-
Iosit and payment of accounts. The post
office now has all the business to which it
can attend. To compel them to become
banks of deposit and exchange will require
q larger force and open the way for loss
IN the handling of large amounts of money.
a work which requires experience and
skill. Most postoffices have no space to de-
vote to banking. The function of the post
Cfiice is to receive and distribute matter
through the mails. The issuing of money
orders to be paid in the Office of issue is not
q part of the mail service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The statement concerning the defective
mail service to Porto Rico and the effect on
the soldiers there should receive immediate
attention from the postal authorities. The
dispiriting and demoralizing influence of
inconsistencies upon soldiers in a foreign
country is so well established by compe-
tent testimony that the government should
use every means to counterfeit it, and
among the best of these are regular mail
deliveries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The latest volume in the biographical
edition of w. M. Thackeray's works now
being published by Harper & Brothers,
contains the Paris Sketch Book of Mr..
NJ A. Titmarsh,' Irish Sketch Book" etc.
The value of this edition of the great novel
lists works consists in its completeness, its
typographical beauty and the introductions
and biographical sketches by Thackeray S
daughter, which accompany each volume.
1t is a very desirable edition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
kansas City JoiIrnal.


The most ingenious piece of advertising
that has appeared for some years Is the
use by a firm iof shoe manufacturers of
controversy with famous woman's club
over the name! in which the club claims
an exclusive right There may be ques-
ton in law I not yet settled. whether
society can copyright it's name and thus
prevent the ufe of that name by any other
society or business. But the Sorosis Club
did not attempt TO copyright the name.
neither did they invent IL. SO there can be
no question d,f the right of the shoe dealers
to use the Name. Meantime. what those
want 10 knbw who have read the interest
ing advertisement is whether this is bona
fde CONTROVERSY or whether the whole thing
was got u b. with or without collision, for
the sake Of the advertisement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

If the furloughed Rough Riders enjoyed
a new sensation in taking in the sights of
New York, the metropolis seems to have
had an equally novel experience. The op-
portunity to judge of the difference between
stage cowboys and the genuine article
seems to have been highly appreciated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The lamented Sunset Cox, when in Con-
gress had an applicant for a pension who
was thoroughly wounded in every respect"
Metaphorically speaking, that seems to be
the condition of several noncombatants who
have returned from the field. They are
equipped with boomerang tongues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
cHICAGO-Palmer House, p. o. News Co.. PIT
Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street.
LOUISvILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

One Way Round the World" by Delight
by William Dudley Foulke; the Life and
Work of Susan B. Anthony" by Ida II.
Harper, and two Riley books. one collec-
ton of child rhymes, profusely illustrated
by William Vawter; the other brief selec-
tons from his works for each day in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Chicago family that announces a
theater party in commemoration of the
suicide of the worthless husband and father
that had made life a constant burden to
them for years may not be conscious of the
fact that they have taken a long stride in
advance of the age in the matter of funeral
reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

"Unpatriotic and disgusting" were the
words of Admiral Brown regarding the eff
forts of a class of journals to make the
country believe that the armies have been
criminally neglected, but the authors of the
miserable business will gain nothing by it.
That is the general comment of all men who
are not constituencies demagogues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The public may reasonably be somewhat
suspicious of ordinary identifcations of
corpses when a girl. identified as dead by
her own father, comes home alive and well
in time to witness the final preparations
for her funeral.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

1t is said that certain adroit friends of
Mr.. Leon Bailey are telling about quietly
that he is not much of free silver man,
but belongs to that wing of the party which
is quietly laboring to get clear of the 16-to-1
ratio. That will not do. Mr.. Bailey has
declared for himself that he is a champion
of 16 TO l. If in Congress he would vote for
a 16-to-1 bill Is there Democrat who will
say openly that he would not?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, which
is not Republican, wants the civil-service
local organizations to advertise that they
will take testimony to show the inefficiency
of the War Department. This would be
well if there could be any means of sitting
out romancers and liars who would be sure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
The People Exnect It.
Baltimore American.

The proposition to c:zate the grade of
Dewey will, it is said, meet with general
appreciation. This is putting the case a
little mildly 1t will be a distinct general
disappointment If something of the kind is
Lot done The people expect a suitable re-
ward to be given to the hero of Manila, in
keeping with his splendid record
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Rockport Journal prints extracts
from the recc rds of Spencer county show
ing that the present Democratic nominee
for the Legislature has not paid cent of
taxes in ten years, though his annual as
sessments, with penalties and delinquency,
have ranged from IS to $97 a year. Perhaps
he wants to come to the Legislature in or
der to secure the passage of law exempt
ing him from taxation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The President does not propose to give up
his scheme for an investigation of the con-
duct of the war, even if many wise men
have declared that it cannot accomplish
that which he desires. He has received the
acceptances of General Dodge, President
Gilman ex-Minister DENLY, Colonel Sexton
and Mr.. Howell, the editor of the Atlanta
Constitution. Mr.. Howell in an interview
says he has. accepted the position because he
is convinced that the President desires
thorough investigation. Among other
things. the Georgia editor said:
The President told me he would use all
his authority to enable us to get at the
facts. All the re cords Of the War Depart
ment will be at our service. and the Presi-
dent promises to use his power as COM
army and officials of the War Department
to testify. He wants to know the truth and
| the whole truth, in order to take steps to
prevent repetition of any evil that can be
averted. If there is censure to be distrib-
uted he says he wants il to fall where it
belongs, without reference to whom it may
strike. think 1t is his idea that an inveSti-
cation by men who are not actively in poll
tics promises to be free from political
bias and will be surer to command the con-
ndence OF the country. II is possible most
of the work will be done in Washington.
The man who made the foregoing state
ment is a Democratic editor in Georgia He
was Confederate, but now as citizen of
the United States believes that he should
assist the President in making the thor
cugh investigation which he desires. In
that respect he is different from the Demo-
Gratis who manage papers in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

This earth, l am informed" said the
anarchistic boarder, lis but a mere crust
surrounding a molten mass"
And still you maintain" said the Cheer
full Idiot, that the upper crust is useless
institution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
In q Hurry.
Wa shinrtnn 6.

Washington Star.
You Americans are always in a hurry"
said the European, disapprovingly
We'll" answered Miss Cayenne. when
we think 1t over and realize that we started
war in April and got clean through with
plead guilty."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The sick soldier issue is on it's last legs
here. The returning sodiery has killed IT.;
but the Sentinel and Chaplain Christensen
have unwittingly assisted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

us it true that you had Barker arrested
for threa tening you?''
Yes. l found that he had it in for me-
and so l had him in for it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

Posthumous write-ups of Germany's great
statesman. the late Prince Bismarck, speak
OF the princes love of animals but neglect
to give the exception to that rule, notably
the American hog
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

Whose statement is worth most regarding
medical supplies, Chief Surgeon Heyssel. of
the First Corps at Chickamauga, who was a
surgeon in the Union army. or that of a
chanlaino
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The American officers in Porto Rico have
shown tact as well as generosity in dealing
with the Spanish. When General Brooke
Ponce to San Juan, one Of thu most inter-
esting and picturesque on record he pur-
posely avoided every demonstration Of tri-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The Boston Journal has published the in
dividual names of the New England volun-
teers and regulars who were killed in the
war or have died of disease. A total of
eleven New England soldiers were killed in
action, while disease caused 244 deaths. All
of the dead but sixty -nine were from Mass
achusetts Nearly three-fifths of the NOR
taIity among New England troops was in
the two Massachusetts, regiments at San
tlago. The Second Massachusetts, lost nine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

Those who begin to howl about a surplus
should remember that it is easier to man
age than a deficit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
A Confession.

Kansas City Journal.
"Ill tell you why we free silver men
don't attend the political meetings." said
an old Pop yesterday. when we get in a
bunch and look at each other we all feel
silly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

Washington Post.
We trust the W. c. T. U. will not go so
he chrstened with cake of Chicago river
water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The reaction against the yellow and cop
perhead newspapers has already set in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
BUBBLES in HE AIR.
Both HanUy.

Yes, my wife and have separated"
Indeed? What is the trouble?"
There isn't any, now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
Information w,

Information Wanted.
Paw, doesn't post mean after?'
yes"
Then does postoffice mean after Of
fice?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
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