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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
WHEN ENLIsTING Is A DUTY.

An item was published a few days ago to
the effect that a man left his wife and
young child in one Of the towns raising
companies, telling the sick wife that he was
going to see the boys off, when in fact, he
had enlisted and left with the company,
thus deserving a dependent wife and help
less child. The story has not been verified,
should know if there is such a case, and
il there is the mans name should be strick-
en- from the rolls. The best soldiers are men
who are Influenced by a sense of honor and
manliness, and the man who would desert
a wife and child in such a manner is not
controlled by such a motive. 1t may be
added that the officers of the regular army
will not enlist a man who deserts his fam
lily.
This incident leads up to a topic which is
much discussed at present, namely, the duty
of enlisting. 1t is well to look at the con-
ditions. At the present time, five, and
probably ten men are anxious to enlist
where there is a place for but one. So long
as this is the case, e~nlisting is not a test
VI pat ONAoAh "a q AANOAAO u PSAoOAaA
courage. AS a matter of fact, it is a higher
duty for many men to deny themselves the
qualification of going into the service than
is enlisting. No man who has a wife and
young children depending upon him should
think of e~nlisting now, for the reason that
his pay will not support them, and the time
has not come and will not come in this war,
Uhen in order 70 Det Tnen the State YnJISt
assume the support of families as it and
local governments did during the civil war.
No young man who has aged parents de-
pending upon him should enlist now be-
cause, in honor, he is bound TO protect them
from becoming the objects of charity. The
everyday patriotism which makes States
strong and people happy begins at the home
and in caring for it.
When the governments call for troops
brings less recruits than are needed. then it
is the duty of every intelligent young man
to consider seriously the matter Of enlist
ing. Then families should arrange, as a
matter of duty, to be represented in the
army. If the pressure should continue 9TH
ers should go, while those remaining at
home should assume the double duty of car
ing for the dependent. During the late war,
in many thousands of cases, one member
went at the outset, then another, until three
or four brothers were in the service and
none at home. The first of the family to
go was no more patriotic than the last.
Probably few of these men desired to go,
but they went from a sense Of duty and at
a sacrifice which made the going the high
est type Of patriotism. We should learn
to discriminate between spasmodic impulse
and intelligent patriotism sustained by a
high sense of duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The rest of the wits is sleep, the rest of
the will is death.-Boston Transcript.
Many a mans reputation depends on what
isn't found out about him.-Chicago News.
The moral training Of the little child is
the future hope of the Nation.--Ram's
Horn.
There is no limit to the age at which a
man can make a fool of himself.-Chicago
News.
1t is a sign of age in a woman when she
begins to get out of a buggy backward.
-Atchison Globe.
Probably Delilah had an idea she could
save money by cutting Samson's hair her
self.-New York Press.
The most exasperating thing is to have it
clear off when you have dressed for a rainy
day.-Feminine Observer.
Men are made equals by self-conceit; no
one would willingly change personality with
another.-Boston Transcript.
A Topeka girl who wanted to post up on
the navy bought a copy Of "Shirs That
Pass in the Night."-Atchison Globe.
When a man begins with, "What I am
about to say will he said in Kindness" he
means to max himself disagreeable.-Life.
Nearly every man believes that if some
other career had opened for him at the
right time he would a become famous.
Puck.
she's the sort Of woman said one
matron to another, who the poorer she
gets the handsomer are the Christmas pres
ents she gives."-New York Evening Sun.
No man knows what the wife of his bosom
is-no man knows what a ministering angel
the fiery trials of this world.-Washington
Irving.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

cent exhibit of arts and crafts. might give
the matter an impetus. The trouble Is.
however, that it is almost impossible to
bring parents into touch with the schools.
Considering the interest taken by the chill
dren in that exhibit ar astonishIngly small
proportion of adult visitors attended that
admirable display. The projecs is on foot
however. and though accomplishment may
be slow it is at least certain that the school
room of the future will be a place in which
the finest aesthetic tastes may find pleasure.
1t was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said that
a child's education must begin a hundred
years before he is born. Just now the edu-
cation of the child of the twentieth century
is going on, for the pupils of to-day will
see to it that their own children have what
they are denied because their parents do not
see it's Importance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

hurrying. restless days. We have al the in
for the moment only. To-day's accumula-
ton crowds yesterdays into the back
ground. Next week both will be a vague
tumble and we must refer to files or ask
friends who turn out to know no more than
We, or write to the editor and request that
long-suffering person to look the missing
fact Vi.
Few people know anything accurately
nowadays, and most people recognize their
weakness. Ask them a direct question out
side of personal matters, and they hesitate;
they think it is so-or so"-but would
not like to be quoted as authority" for,
perhaps, 1t is something else. The truth is,
there is too much for the most assiduous
student to master. Even a Macaulay would
find his limitations now. 1t is the age Of
specialists, and outside Of his speciality the
average mans memory is a whirlpool. He
recalls the names of his friends with an eff
fort and is thankful that, for most things
outside his domestic and business affairs,
he can find relief In the dictionaries n
encyclopedias that multiply to meet the
modern want. His greatest comfort is in
the thought that, after all, memory is not
the highest manifestation of intellect, and
that 1t is more profitable to reflect, to phi
Josephine, ever to dream, than to make the
mind a storage house for unclassiied and
useless facts. In short, he does not want
to know the names Of women hanged in
England, nor even the names of the arch
bishops, who were not hanged. But, after
rejecting thus, he remembers the theory
that the knowledge gained here is part Of
the equipment with which he goes into the
next world, and he wonders, with a sudden
trepidation, what may be his unhappy ex-
p~erience in a land where are no libraries of
reference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Prof. Henry C. Adams, in April Atlantic
The merchant, the manufactured and the
farmer, working under conditions of indus
trial liberty, do not seem to require any
peculiar supervision on the part of the
state. for competition is adequate 10 insure
well as the sale of goods at a fair price. But
in the railway industry competition does not
work SO beneficent a result. On the con-
trary, such is its nature that it imposes
upon railway managers the necessity OF
dfsregarding equity between customers, and
Of fixing rates without considering their
fairness, whether judged from the point OF
view of cost or of social results. Were this
not true there would be no railway problem.
But what, it will be asked, is there pecul-
lar about the business of transportation
which renders 1t superior to the satisfactory
control of competition? . The railway
industry is an extensive and not an inten-
increasing" returns rather than 10 the Ia"
of constant, or of diminishing returns.
This being the case, ability 20 perform a
unit of service CLEARLY depends more upon
the quantity of business transacted than
upon attention to minute details. Another
way OF saying the same thing is that tne
expenses incident 10 the operations of a rail-
increase in the volume of traffic. AS an in
dustrial fact this does not pertain to the
business of the manufacturer. the merchant
or the farmer. but is peculiar to the busl-
ness of transportation; and it is adequate,
when properly understood, TO explain why
all advanced peoples, without regard TO the
form of government they may have adopted
or the social theories they may entertain,
have surrounded the administration OF rail-
way with peculiar legal restrictions. The
necessity of some sort of government con-
troll lies in the nature of the business Itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Archdeacon Farrar is reported as saying
that Macaulay's memory made him the
most wonderfully informed man that ever
con relates that on one occasion he heard
him name every woman who had ever been
executed in England. On being asked if he
could name all Of the archbishops he re-
piled: 'Oh, yes; any schoolboy could do
that" Now, of what possible benefit was it
to Macaulay to be able to name all those
infamous women? Even to have the names
of all the archbishops at his tongues end
does not seem an especially useful or desir-
able accomplishment. OF course, If the re-
nowned EngIishman ~emember everything
he had once heard or read. and without
especial effort, the acquisition OF knowledge
was a very different thing to him from what
it is to the ordinary mortal, and a few I'M
profitable facts, more or less, did not mat
ter. But even love nodded, and the great
Macaulay, being but human, must some
times have found his memory fallible and
the piece Of information he desired to use
in emergency not at his command, while a
mass of irrelevant matter pressed upon his
attention. On such occasions he must have
wished that he had been less omnivorous
and more discriminating in his acquisition
Of knowledge. Let it be hoped so, at least,
for, as a man who could forget, the English
historian will be a less irritating figure to
contemplate. 1t is particularly exasperating
in these days Of t~reacherous memories TO
have a fellow-being with phenomenal
powers in the way of retaining facts
held UP for admiration. To have
information assorted and stored away
in the brains pigeon holes ready
to be drawn out when needed is an
extremely desirable condition of affairs, but
it is one that seems more and more difficult
Of attainment with each year Of the world.
The range of facts is wider; science con-
stantly offers new disclosures: history is
being made rapidly, and all the fresh stores
OF knowledge are added to the old and
thrust at us from day to day from pulpit
and platform, through books and maya
zines, above all. through the daily papers.
we must have these facts as they come;
we must know at least something Of current
events slss LIE u NOT worth living n these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

VIII be an extraordinary difference in N.
pictures OF the present war. Instantaneous
photography, the kodak. and process illus
tratine nave altered conditions marvelously.
The photographer is not. however, able 10
suppiant the trained artist.
When the Chinese pay compliments thew
are not niggardIy in the use Of commenda-
tory expressions. Upon the retirement Of Sir
william Robinson from the governorship ot
Hong-Kong the residents of that city pre-
sented him an address in which he was re-
ferred to Us a representative of a noble
race, born To be a ruler of men, possessed
of Incompatible understanding and wisdom.
and with a nature as refined as pure gold.'
In the course of a lecture delivered before
a New York audience on Tuesday evening
last Lieut.. c. a. l.. Totten prophesied that
when the twentieth century opens New
York will be submerged. Cuba will break
in two and the west half and the city OF
Havana will sink below the waves" The
fulfillment Of the latter part of this predlc-
ton would, under present conditions, leave
the insurgents high and dry and drown out
the Spaniards.
The naming of the new battery on Sulll-
vans island, Charleston harbor, after Ser
geant William Jasper, is said to be The only
instance on record in this country of a fort
being named in honor of a soldier other
than a commissioned officer. Sergeant Jas
per was shot and killed at Savannah. Ga,
on Oct. 8, 1879, while planting the flag Of
the Second South Carolina Regiment on the
British ramparts. He had previously dis
tinguished himself during the attack on
Fort Moultrie, June 2S. 1I16.
Said he, as he made his adieux,
''Since my hand you've seen mt to refieux,
BY the aid of my knife
/ shall finish my klife
And furnish an item of nieux."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Tell me not, sweet. / am unkind,
That from the nunnery
OF thy chaste breast and quiet mind,
To war and arms l flee.
True, a new mistress now / chase
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
Yet, this Inconsistency is such.
AS you, too, shall adore;
: / could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved / not honor more.
Richard Lovelaca
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Under orders from the postmaster general
all letters and packages mailed in the
United States and addressed to persons in
Spain are to be sent to the dead letter office
in Washington. Already some letters thus
forwarded have been found to be Of suffi-
cient Importance to justify placing them in
the hands of government detectives. 1t is
said this is the first time this has been done
since the war of 1912, although during the
civil wal letters were frequently intercepted
by order of the Treasury. or Justice De-
partments when it was suspected that they
contained official Information 1t is a high
p~rerogative Of government to interfere with
it's own mails in time of war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

While Mark Twain was in Vienna, a few
weeks ago, a young American woman there
was to give a reading from his works, and
Invited the humorist to be present. On his
arrival he asked to be alloYed to do the
reading himself, and everybody, with the
possible exception of the young woman,
considered it an extremely gracious act.
Every writer who has CHANGED to hear his
own productions rendered by an amateur
reader or "elo~cutionist," will understand
that Twain's purpose was to save his OWE
feelings, as well as to entertain the crowd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Mothers and fathers know that their sons
of eighteen, nineteen and twenty, and even
of tw~enty-one, are in many respects moth
ing but boys, with many of the tastes and
the ways of. childhood clinging to them.
1t is with difficulty that the parents adjust
themselves TO the sudden development of
their sons into soldiers ready to go to
battle. While they still look upon them
defenders and places upon them the re-
sponsibilities Of men. War natures men
rapidly, and however youthful these soldiers
may be when they go out, they will not
return as boys. though their service be but
brief. They say farewell to boyhood when
they march to the front, and it is a part
true. The parents of 1893 were the boys
and girls of 1851, and as they see the scene
re-enacted in which they took so different
a part over thirty years ago, they can
enter into sympathy with their own parents,
whose feelings they but dimly comprehended
then. The pangs of parting, the dread Of
the future are for them this time; the am
bition, the confidence, the hope of distin-
gushing themselves and the irrepressible
gayety belong to the soldier sons. 1t is
history repeating itself, and whether 1t is
a bright or a sad page depends upon the
point of view.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

It seems necessary once in a while to cor
rect some of the misinformation which gets
into newspapers. 1t has gone the rounds,
for instance, that an officer with the rank Of
colonel will be attached to the Indiana
troops as paymaster. For troops which will
be mustered into the United States service
all the payments will be made by the United
States paymasters, who have the rank of
major. The paymasters are assigned to
pay certain regiments or brigades from time
to time, but are never permanently attached
thereto to keep the accounts between the
United States and the government, as has
been stated. The pay rolls are made by
company commanders, and upon them pay
ment is made From time to time it is stated
that such and such men will be on the
staff Of General Mckee with this or that
rank. This may be the case so long as he
and they are of the National Guard and in
the service of the State, The new law pro-
vides that 1.-The staff of the commander Of a
brigade shall consist of one assistant adj
jutant general, one assistant qu-artermaster,
one commissary of subsistence, each with
the rank of captain; one surgeon and the
aids-de-camp authorized by law" The aids
are usually detailed from officers already
in the service, usually at the request of the
commander. When General Mckee sha be
commissioned brigadier general by the
United States his staff will be made up as
above stated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Red Cross nurses are called sisters"
and the head doctors are trained women.
one of whom is called "sister-in-chief."
German shorthand writer's do not COM
pare favorably with those of other nations.
They rarely take down more than fifty
words a minute.
An observant Philadelphia says he can
already pick out people with the bulletin
face. They nave staring eyes, an upturned
chin and a look of intense interest.
An Atchison girl who had changed her
name from Mary to Marie changed it back
last week when she found tina Marie was
always the Spanish form of the word.
Liberia is the only civilized country where
clocks are almost entirely dispensed with.
The sun rises exactly at 6 a. m. and sets at
6 p. m. throughout the year, ana is verTI-
cally overhead at noon.
Prof. Franklin II. Giddings, of Columbia
University, defines six causes of poverty.
They are refusal to work. lack of employ
ment, struggle to rise, unequal distribution
of accident. wrong public policy and senti-
mental charity"
A professional beggar of Hong-Kong has
just built a fine three-story teahouse out
side the south gate of the city. AS the only
three-story building in or about Hong-Kong,
it is an object of great pride to the natives,
whose charity helped SO largely its erec-
ton.
If Captain Sigsbee's new boat should be
blown up there would be a great scatter
ment of tides. doilies. sachet bags and or
namental whiskbrooms. His cabin is lined
with b7ic-a-brac OF that description. pre-
scented by lady admirers from all over the
country.
In Sedgwick county. Kansas. g woman
got a divorce from her husband on the
ground of incompatibility of temper. After
the trial was over the pair met on the
courthouse steps and kissed each other
goodbye.
h files Of Harper's Weekly from 1851 to
1865 are stu Of absorbing interest for the
contemporary. Illustrations OF war scenes,
10 "a tha mere mechanical perfecllon there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Tomorrow at IL o'clock a. m. bids will be
received at the United States quartermas-
ter's office in Philadelphia for the following
Seventy-ive thousand wooden blankets.
$1,000 forage caps, 1M,0 600 pairs of drilling
drawers, 10000 pairs buckskin %gauntlets. 10
$1,000 ponchos, 100. 900 pairs of shoes. 100000
cotton undershirts, 10000 crossed rifles, So
600 crossed sabers, 1900 crossed cannon, 2O0,-
600 cap letters, 200 1900 cap numbers. 5000 cap
bug1es, LOCO axes, 2,0oO axhelves, 500 sets
company books, Is sets regimental books,
goo drums, 400 drum sings, 1000 camp ket-
2,OOO pick axhelves, 1900 shovels, long and
short handles; 500 trumpets.
The variety and extent of this list would
seem to indicate that the government au-
thorities do not expect the war to end in a
few DAYS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

leaves nothing to be desired as a part OF
what may be regarded as a framework for
the great monument in the front. The pro-
jected building of the Columbia Club will
be five stories high and will doubtless ada
greatly to the attractiveness of that seq
ment of the Circle. What will be built on
the south side of the monument is not yet
known, but doubtless improvements will be
made there within a few years, n it is
most desirable that their relation to the
monument should be considered. That
structure is too high to be dwarfed even
by a sky-scraper, but its surroundings are
nevertheless a matter of Importance, and
steps should be taken to keep them in har-
mony.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

The manner in which the older members
of the National Guard and the new recruits
inspect the soldiers monument as they pass
around the Circle leads to the sus-
picion that it has suddenly as
sumed a new interest in their eyes.
1t is also noticeable that ill-natured filings
at old soldiers have suddenly ceased in all
quarters. Nothing serious vas meant by
these filings in most instances, but it was a
bad habit not a few young men were falling
into, and 1t is well that a wholesome check
to such speech has come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

An effort is being made in Boston to limit
the height of buildings which shall hereafter
be erected on Copley square. The Art
Museum. the Library and Phillips Brooks's
Church front upon this space, and 1t IS the
fear that high buildings may dwarf and
o~vershadow these notable structures that
leads to the agitation on the subject. 1t
is a move in the interest Of municipal
aesthetics and one which might be taken
up in this city to advantage. 1t Will. for
instance, be q calamity from an aesthetic
point of view IL any structure more than
five stories in height is ever erected to face
Monument place. The extremely pleasing
effect of the new English block. which is
but four stories high. proves the beauty
Of what In these days may be called a
low building, It could have borne another
story without damage. pezhaDas bat ~ = =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

The race line runs through the present
situation very distinctly. In Madrid the
British minister and in Havana the British
consul are looking after American inter
ests, while in Washington the French and
Austrian ministers and in all American
ports their consuls are in charge of Spanish
interests. The cleavage is on Latin and
Anglo-Saxon lines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

The rule Of International law is that in a
state of warfare all citizens and subjects of
the warning countries, respectively, are, in
contemplation Of law, enemies to each other.
Business and commercial intercourse be-
tween them must cease, and it is unlawful
for them to perform existing contracts or
engagements or to make new ones. Under
this rule all commercial transactions be-
tween Americans and Spaniards or Cubans
are at an end. while the war lasts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Lamar's sword.


The family of the late Associate JusticS
of the United States Supreme Court l. @.
C.. Lamar is making efforts to recover the
sword which he surrendered when captured
at the battle of Gettysburg. They have
opened a correspondence with a number OF
former Union officers who were supposed TO
have knowledge of the matter, and with
various old soldier organizations. Edward
Mays. a son-in-law of the dead jurist, was
informed some time ago. upon what he con-
in the possession of the Union League Club,
Of Philadelphia. He accordingly wrote the
board of directors OF that organization OF
weapon could be returned. The house CONF
mittee was Instructed to ascertain II the
club had the sword and reported that x
League.