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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

1t would have been an unfortunate omis-
sion if collection had not been made of
patriotic poems inspired or, if they fall
short of inspiration, suggested by the recent
war. A great many such poems have APP
peared in the magazines and newspapers
which are worth preserving in a more per-
manent form. This is done in Poems of
American Patriotism selected by r. l..
Paget, with the added feature of including
many poems of that class written before
the recent war. In fact, the selections run
back to the revolutionary period, and, COM
ing on down, include poems by Holmes.
Longfellow, Bryant, Pierpont and others of
less note. The civil war period is well rep
resented, and two hundred pages of the
volume are given to poems relating to the
recent war. The selections are made with
good taste and judgment, and the up-to-
dateness of the volume is indicated by the
fact that it is dedicated TO Admiral Dewey.
Boston: L. G. Page g. Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
Will Present Sir Thomas LiptOn's
the New York Yacht Club.
CAREER OF THE CHALLENGER
Upton ONCE A DOCK LABORER,
BUT NOW WORTH S5O,OOO,OOO.
Owner of 1O2 Stores and Engaged In
Many Enterprises, and Desires to
Get Some Free Advertising.

QUEBEC, Aug. H.-Hon. Charles Russell,
the son of Lord Russell of Killowen, is here,
the bearer of challenge from Ireland to
all yachtsmen in America for the Amer
ica's cup. Mr.. Russell arrived in Quebec
Friday and is the guest of Solicitor General
Charles Fitzpatrick. He will leave to-mor-
row for New York, where he will be the
guest of Bourke Cochran
The challenger is very confident that the
details of the race will be speedily arranged.
To reporter he said to-day: 1.-The desire
to challenge for the cup is not new idea
with Sir Thomas Upton. Twelve years ago
he made the proposition to the Cork Yacht
Clui. 10 challenge with an Irish yacht, but
at tina; time there were difficulties in the
way and the contest was not brought
about
Does Sir Thomas propose to put his own
yacht into the proposed contest?" Mr.. Rus
sell was asked.
NO he said, sir Thomas does not own
racing yacht at the present time, but ne
has always taken lively interest in yacht
racing and is a member of several yacht
clubs. In fact, he has always been inter
ested in all forms of sport"
What is his motive for issuing the chal-
lenge at this timer
Sir Thomas's view is this: England and
Scotland have had repeated opportunities to
compete for the trophy and failed. but Ire
land has had no chance. He thinks Ireland
should no longer remain the Cinderella of
the family and in yachting, at any rate,
should take her proper place among the ma
tions of the earth The yacht will be built
in Ireland and she is to be called the Sham
rock Her crew will be Irish and she is to
be built in the yards of Harlan & Wolf.
Belfast. Right Hon. w. j. Pirrie, the chief
partner, is taking the very keenest per-
sonal interest in the matter His firm are
the builders of the White Star liners"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Stories of Indian and frontier army life
and scouting in old times have an attraction
of their own which many readers recognize
without caring to acknowledge 1t. The at
traction is enhanced when the stories are
related by an actor in or an eyewitness of
them, as are TALES of the Trail" by Col.
Henry Inman, late assistant quartermaster
United States army. The stories are based
on actual facts which came under the per-
sonal observation of the author, and there
fore constitute an Interesting part of the
early history of the great West, which, ike
the mirage of the plains, is now shrouded
in the breeze and glamour of the distant
past Besides the stirring incidents which
are we'll described in the stories the author
as Custer Sheridan, Forsythe, Buffalo Bill,
Kit Carson and others. more or less identi-
fled with frontier history The book is pub
lished by Crane & Co., of Topeka, Kan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
THE VACATION SCHOOLS.

Vacation schools have been in operation
in many places this summer, and the uni
formly favorable reports concerning them
show that their utility can no longer be
doubted. They have passed the stage of ex-
pertinent and wherever they have been
tried the plan of their promoters is to ar
! range for an extension of the work next
year. In this city the one school in opera
ton was an entire success. Many more
children sought admission than could be ac-
commodated, and all who entered thorough
ly enjoyed their experience through the six
weeks of the session and undoubtedly profit
ed by it. With all that has been said about
these schools a good many people still cher
ish the mistaken notion that they are mere
ly a continuation of the regular public
schools and that the pupils are not getting
the vacation they need. They need to be
told over and again that they are planned
to give a pleasant occupation, half play,
half industrial training, to a class of chill
dren who would otherwise be on the street
unprovided with suitable employment or
recreation. That the children are enter
taiLed as well instructed is shown by
their eagerness to enter and their regret at
the close of such schools. If the regular
schools of the other nine months could be
made as attractive no compulsory education
law and no truant officers would be needed.
In the course of time the benefit derived
from this form of teaching will be so well
understood that the vacation schools will
probably be made part of the public
school system. Meanwhile, they must be
maintained by private enterprise, and al
ready the women through whose efforts this
years session was held laying plans for
carrying on the work next year. Their eff
forts deserve encouragement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The last novel of the late Dr. Georg Ebers
was entitled "Arachne, and was recently
published by D. Appleton q Co., the pub
fishers of the complete edition of DR.. Eber S
works.
Dr. s. Weir Mitchel's novel of the French
Revolution The Adventures of Francois,
which has been a leading feature or the
Century Magazine during the past year,
will shortly be issued in book form. 1t will
be published by the Century Company.
Little Brown & Co. announce new vol
ume from Sienkiewicz 1t is made up Of
short stories and plays translated by the
Hon jeremiah Curtin, who is spending the
summer in Bristol. VT. Mr.. Curtin has gath
cred into a volume about score of In
dian myths especially relating 10 the Gre
alton. The same publishers bring out pop
ular edition of Professor Grosvenor's Con
stantinople" with Gen. Lew Wallace's in
PRODUCTION and about go illustrations.
Houghton Mffiin & Co. have issued their
fall announcements. The list contains four
illustrated holiday books of interest-Lew
Wallace's THE Fair God" Hawthorne s
House of Seven Gables, Fiskes Begin
nings of New England and Dicken' 5
Childs History of England" Other note
worthy features are Cambridge editions Of
Tennyson and Milton. several new volumes
of fiction by Gilbert Parker. Mrs. Burn
ham. Arlo Bates. and q new book OF short
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The murder of Private Andrews, of the
One-h undred-and-sixteth Indiana, by a
lawless and drunken negro is a lamentabe
affair, but all right-minded Indianians and
all friends of the regiment will be glad that
excited and reckless members of it were
prevented from carrying out their purpose
of mobbing the murderer. Soldiers who
have enlisted in a war for humanity and
to uphold law and order cannot afford to
bring odium on themselves and their State
by participating i'll lynchings The punish
ment of the negro can safely be left to the
courts of Virginia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

text of the equalization shows that the sur
render covered 1.-The city and defenses of
Manila and its suburbs and the Spanish
forces stationed therein" A Washington
dispatch suggests that 1.-The word suburbs
is an elastic expression" 1t is no more
elastic than other words. Its meaning is
well enough established, and it certainly
cannot be stretched to include the whole of
the island on which Manila is situated,
much less a whole group of islands.
The whole question of the extent of our
future possessions in the Philippines should
where the protocol nlaced 1t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

yesterdays in the Philippines" is time
ly book Just issued by the Scribners 1t is
written by Joseph Earle Stevens, a young
man from Boston, who spent the years 1894
and 1895 in Manila as the representative of
a mercantile establishment, and his work
gives evidence that he saw and enjoyed the
best things that were there. The style is
colloqual. interesting and humorous, but
the book is full of information and one lays
it down with new ideas of the .'sidetracked''
city of Manila and the islands that make
up the Philippine archipelago. From what
the author saw he concludes that we ought
not to attempt to take and keep the islands
as an American colony, the difhculties OF
governing the mixed population being too
great: but he thinks temporary protec-
torate by us and the end of Spanish rule
are necessities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22


1t has not yet been made clear why some
of the transports came to New York with
out medicines and, In one or TWO cases.
without surgeons. Surely the commander
in-chief did not leave the surgeons side
tracked at Tampa along with the quinine
pills This sending of sick troops on sea
voyage without surgeons. medical supplies
or even digestible food is too serious mat
ter to be dismissed with a mere statement
that such was not the case and that all
the newspapers misrepresented the actual
condition of affairs Those at the front
who had the matter in charge should throw
some light on the why's and wherefores of
such lamentable results. The surgeon gen.
eral still owes it to the public, to the pro-
eetic members of his corps TO urge the full
est investigation into all the facts, and TO
answer still more effectually than he mas
thus far done the widespread criticism or
the mana gement of his particular depart
ment. We have some facts, put many
more have still to be presented before the
real blame can be made to rest where 1t
should properly belong.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
Their Only Chance.

1t is easy to understand why volunteers
who have been kept in camp during HOSTILE
ties with Spain should object to being mus
tered out before seeing active service, and
in it's way this spirit is laudable. But. or
course military operations cannot be con-
tinued in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines to suit the convenience and desires OF
these troops. There are various obstacles
in the way, one of which is that at pres
ent there is no enemy in the field to fight:
The only means now by which the thirst or
volunteers for taste of real army life can
be gratified is enlistment In the regular
army. Somehow this is an alternative that
does not seem to appeal, or at least TO
occur to volunteers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
BOOKS OF THE TIME.
A Literary MeIanSe.

Among the recent publications of the g.
w. Dillingham; Company, New York. which
are calculated to strike the popular taste
from different directions are MY Friend
the Captain, or Two Yankees in Europe,
by W. l.. Terhune, an interesting narrative
of travel and sightseeing by one of two
successful American business men who went
abroad together and travelled with their
eyes open; Making of Millionaire by
himself, the autobiography of millionaire
who tells in a snappy, chatty way the MT
merous adventures he had in his varied
career from printers devil to rich Brit
ish nobleman "A New Sensation" novel
by Albert Ross, in which that widely read
author takes his readers to the West Indies
and relates the adventures of young New
Yorker and q pretty typewriter; THE
CHEEKY Book" volume OF amusing, pa
thetic. and ridiculous poems, With some
thoughtful ones, by Joe Kerr; Where the
Smile Comes In" by Barnes Magotnn,
collection of short stories and sketches
typical of current American. life; The
Twentieth Century Cook Book. a large
collection of practical recipes and direc-
tions for good cooking by Mrs. c. F.. MoritZ
and Miss Adele Kahn; Regret of Spring,
love episode, by Pitts H. Burt; True De-
tective Stories,' six in number, drawn from
the archives of the Pinkertons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The reports of outrages by Spanish guer-
rilas in Porto Rico and of reprisals by the
natives are calculated TO cause anxiety at
Washington. but they are not surprising.
1t was inevitable in a change OF ownership
and sovereignty in the island as the result
OF war. that there should be an interval of
turbulence bordering on anarchy. The best
the United States can do is TO make the
reign of disorder as short as possible by
Fastening the Spanish evacuation of the
island and establishing its own authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

1t is to be hoped the United States will
not try to take any unfair advantage of the
capture of Manila after the signing of the
protocol We have a right to insist upon
what is nominated in the bond. but not
more. The contention that the capture of
Manila after the protocol gives us new
rights or larger ones than we could have
claimed under that agreement Is of doubtful
fairness and morality. TO say the least. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Article / of the protocol agreed to by the
United States and Spain reads as follows:
Spain VIII renounce all claim to all SOW
ereignty over and all her rights over the
island Of Cuba" This is comprehensive
and explicit as to everything except time.
1t does not say when Spain shall do the re-
nouncing act. and it may take considerable
pressure to bring her to the point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Under the present regime in San Juan,
Porto Rico, gambling or betting on cock
fights is prohibited except on saints days,
but as there are nearly three hundred Of
these each year the deprivation is not very
great. Some time it will be different.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

An official report from the sanitary in
spector of the United States Marine Hospi-
tai Service at Santiago states that in spite
of difficulties satisfactory progress is being
made in improving sanitary conditions, and
Il believe" he says, that within month
Santiago will be a cleaner and healthier
city than she has been since her foundation
hv Xelasaue1"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

A tabulated report of the losses of the
troops engaged at the capture of Santiago
shows a remarkable fatality among officers.
OF seven regiments of regulars, four lost
more than thirty per cent. of their officers
and three more than twenty per cent. The
Ninth Regiment lost So per cent The per-
centage of losses among the men was large.
but not nearly as great that of officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

If the spirits of the departed ever do re-
turn to earth to look upon the affairs of
mortals the wrath of Ulysses s..
Grant, the grim fighter, who said
laconically Let US have peace"
must have mingled with the shout
ing tens of thousands who surrounded his
tomb as the victorious war vessels doomed
their salute. One would hardly believe that
General Grants spirit could content itself
in glory with a harp when military bands
played 1.-THE Star-spangled Banner" in a
triumphal parade on earth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The mild protest of the Saratoga confer
ence against policy of national expansion
comes too late. The Nation has already
expanded, as witness the annexation of
Hawaii and the Immediately prospective
acquisition of Porto Rico and other posses
sions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Millions of people in the United States re-
GREETED that circumstances prevented them
from being in New York on Saturday. If
that projected ship canal connecting the
Atlantic with the great lakes were now in
existence nothing less would satisfy the
multitude than the passage through it of
those battle ships that all might see them.
1t would be a triumphal tour
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
willing to Divide.
philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record
There was glory enough to go around st
Manila on Aug. Il. and the commander OF
tie squadron which shelled the land de-
lenses was quite willing, as shown by his
dispatch TO the Navy Department, that
some one else should share in the honors
Of victory 1.-The fleet under my command
didn't do it all, and there was no claim TO
that effect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Boston Herald.

BOSLOn 1tTdIu.
The report from Madrid that the Spanish
government has resolved to insist that the
peace protocol shall have no effect in the
peace negotiations may involve weignty
considerations and it may not. All TINS
grief might have been averted had not
Spain chosen to stand on its dignity when
asked to allow the cable between Manila
and Hong-Kong to be used under neutrality
laws. Manila would then have heard the
news Of the signing of the protocol in time
to save it's humiliation. 1t is rather late to
nrOteSf now. 4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

1t required several issues of bonds to en-
able the last Democratic administration to
pull through the era of hard times caused
by the election of Grover Cleveland. but 1t
took only one issue to enable the present
administration to prosecute a foreign war
10 a. successful conclusion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The value of the Nicaraguan canal to the
United States would be greatly enhanced
and the question of its control greatly SIM
plified if it were built through United States
territory. This could be accomplished by
acquiring Nicaragua, and those who are
familiar with the situation say that would
not be difficult.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
Chautauqua Circle Home Reading.

The publishers of Chautauqua literature
have issued the following: Twenty Centu-
ries of English History" by James X.
Joy, describing English national life from
the Roman conquest to Victoria; Europe
in the Nineteenth Century," by Prof Il.
+. Judson, giving world view of the nine
teenth century at the dawn of the twenti-
eth; From Chaucer to Tennyson.' by
Prof. Henry A. Beers. a sketch by periods
Of the development of English poetry; Men
and Manners of the Eighteenth Century"
by Miss Susan Hale, comprehensive
sketch of eighteenth century life; Walks
and Talks in the Geological Field" by Prof
Alexander Winchell a book to interest gen.
eral readers as well as students. THESE
five books, together with the Chautauquan,
published monthly. comprise the required
reading of the Chautauqua Literary Circle
for the English year 1888. and they are
Of character to interest readers outside
Of the circle. They are published by Flood
q Vincent. Meadville, Pa, who also publish
the Chautaucuan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Lord Dufferin, now over seventy years of
age, is said to be industriously engaged in
the study of Persian. If he will only give
some assurance that he does not mean to
add another to the transations of Omar
Khayyam the literary public will permit
him to study ON in neace
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Saturday was great day in New York
harbor The naval heroes had never known
before what great men they were and,
remembering Hobsons fate, were no doubt
glad to be out Of osculatory reach of the
maidens on shore and on the river craft.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Those who watch closely the development
of local government in Hawaii can probably
form a pretty correct idea of what will be
done in Porto Rico. The President and
Congress will doubtless adopt a uniform
policy for both islands
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The army at Santiago is SO well provided
for now that the cargoes brought on a num-
Der of transports have not been unloaded,
but have been ordered returned to New
York. In two or three eases this order has
caused Miss Clara Barton much inconven-
fence, as Red Cross supplies were under the
government goods and were carried back
also Miss Barton has. without doubt, had
d great many difficulties to contend with
since she went to Cuba, but she has not
sought to remedy them by making public
complaints, and the government stands by
her, though individuals in temporary au-
thority have put obstacles in her way. She
is now engaged in the work of feeding hum
cry Cubans wherever they may be found,
and will soon leave Santiago for other dis
tricts. Transportation is furnished her by
the government, and all other aid that she
asks. The Red Cross Society has, indeed.
been a valuable ally in this war. Without
it it is difficult to see how the American
promise of relief to hungry, Cubans. could
be carried out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
The CheerfuT Idiot,

Mr. Hooley." said the staid boarder. ''has
been leading the British peerage a merrs
dance
sort of Hooley-Hooley dance. in fact, ,
said the Cheerful idiot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
Brilliant Idea.

watts-If our soldiers to continue the
habit of throwing their clothes away when
they go into battle. how can the officers be
distinguished?
Potts-Pve been thinking of that; / be-
lieve 1t would be a good idea to have the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

1t is a singular coincidence that just as
Spain should be considering the propriety
of doing away with her colonial Office the
United States should be thinking of estab-
fishing one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

L. Cope Cornford, author of Captain
Jacobus," offers a new novel, Sons of Ad-
versity'' 1t is a romance of Queen Eliza
beths time, tale of adventure on sea and
land at the time when Protestant England
and Catholic Spain were struggling Tor ma
val supremacy. The story is replete with
stirring action and incident and is well
told. Boston: L. {. Page & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

The suggestion that the grade of admiral
be revived and Rear Admiral Dewey APP
pointed to the place will probably strike
Congress favorably There has been no adj
mral of the United States navy since 1870.
when Porter held the rank, and it could
only be revived by act of Congress. AS the
foremost naval hero of the war the people
would approve of reviving the rank fer
nau,av
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Chicago Post.
1t speaks we'll for Helen Gould that she
is providing the soldiers with comforts that
should be provided by the government but
it doesn't speak well for the government
that She should have occasion to do 1t. In
deed there is little connected with the care
of the troops that speaks we'll for the gov
eminent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

Hon. John Sherman, in his recent protest
against territorial expansion, seems to have
forgotten that as secretary of state a year
ago he made strong argument in favor of
the right and policy of annexing Hawaii