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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30

A new terror is in store for the people
who do not belong to the inner circles of
art worshipers-the plain people who look at
works of art for the visible and not the
invisible. This is nothing more than impress
sionism in sculpture. Impressionism on
canvas has gone far to drive the average
man and woman from art galleries in
despair, and the same element in marble
will be likely to complete the exodus. Ro-
din, called the greatest of modern French
scuptors, has for eight years been at work
on statue of Balzac, and has lately put
it on exhibition in the Salon. A writer in
a London paper thus describes the produce
ton: Imagine, on a fairly high pedestal,
lump of chalky stucco slapped together as
by a trowelf and from the summit Of this
amorphouS mass something resembling a
human head appearing with thick coil Of
plaster stuck on the forehead. There are
no eyes, but there are hollow sockets under
the beetling brows.' There is a difference
of opinion as to the artistic merits of the
creation. The vulgar laugh abundantly and
call it a monster and practical joke, while
some critics speak of it respectfully as a
sublime achievement and gaze at it in rapt
admiration. Rodin calls it Balzac in his
dressing gown. He has original theories Of
art, anu one OIL lu6Ill Is lIldI d statue SuOulO
not resemble the person. but should typify
his work. So, as this London writer ex-
plains, Rodin in order to "sculp" Balzac.
spent a good part of his eight years in
reading his novels and visiting his native
country. Consequently. when he figures the
poor man with neck about thirty-three
inches in circumference, that is, of course.
to signify strength. And by taking twenty
steps backward and looking a little to the
right the hollow sockets. it is said, have the
piercing gaze of Balzacs psychology. The
dressing gown signifies that the great nov
elst has arisen hastily in the night to seize
and precipitate a haunting thought on pa
per-" Now that French fashions in other
lines are little out of favor in this coun-
try this new variety of art work may not be
Immediately initiated. but 1t will probably
not be long before "Rodin school, is es-
tablished and the master initiated.
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KEYNOTE OF MEMORIAL DAY.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new ma
ton, conceived in liberty and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created
equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated can long en-
dure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war. We have come to dedicate por
ton of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. 1t is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate.
we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have consecrated
it far above our power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remem-
Der what we say here, but it can never for
get what they did here. 1t is for US, the
living rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. 1t is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before US; that from
these honored dead we take increased de-
votion to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion; that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain; that this Nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of free
DOM and that government of the people,
by the people and for the people,. shall not
perish from the earth.-Abraham Lincoln,
at the dedication of the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg 1863.
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Under the pension law now in force if a

Under the pension law now in force If
wounds or from Sickness and leaves
widow she is entitled to pension of $12
month, and if there are any children under
sixteen years old she can draw an additional
81 month for each one of them. The adj
ditional amounts stop when the children
reach sixteen years or age as does the
widows pension dates from the death of
her husband and the soldiers invalid pen
sion from the date of his discharge for dis
ability. If a soldier is killed or dies, and
leaves no widow there is no pension unless
his parents were dependent upon him for
support. In that case the mother is allowed
$12 month. If the mother is dead and the
father was dependent upon the son, the
pension goes to him. Sisters and brothers,
if they are under sixteen years of age, and
have no father or mother living, are en-
titled to draw 81 month each until they
are sixteen years old. If a soldier is killed
or dies, leaving no wife, but children under
sixteen years old, family pension of $12
a month can be drawn, with an additional
pension of 81 a month for each child, the
same as if the widow were living. These
provisic apply to all soldiers of the regu-
lar or -unteer army from the date of
their mastering in.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A report recently made to the Borough
Board Of Manhattan estimates that $50 new
teachers will be required annually for the
Greater New York, number fair in ex-
cess OF the annual supply of local normal
school graduates.
Lone Wolf and Buffalo Meat. two recent
ly converted Indian chiefs of the Kiowas
and Cheyennes. respectively, about to
make tour OF the large cities ana speak
in the Baptist churches. They will be ac-
companied by an interpreter.
When Don Carlos starts in to win his
throne in Spain he will carry with him one
of the most beautiful swords in the world
"a present from his wife. 1t is an old To-
ledo blade, richly damascened, and its hilt
is fairly incruSted with diamonds, rubieS
and sapphires.
Public attention is being called in Eng
land to the growing bad temper of Lord
Chief Justice Russell He is charged with
treating juries roughly and with impotence
and with fiinging such fierce looks and
trenchant words when angered which is
often, that nervous witnesses are terrified.
A Buda-Pesth paper prints letter to
local lawyer in which Herbert Spencer de-
clares that, Notwithstanding his seventy
eight years he still finds his sole pleasure in
brain work. He hopes to compIet,e5, the hrst
volume of his new edition of The Prin-
ciples of Biology" but he doubts whether
he will live 10 complete the second
ment in the army was announced money
to buy a United States flag for each mem
Der of the House of Representatives was
collected, the intention being to have
patriotic demonstration on General Wheel
er's next appearance. but he mas not been
in the Capitol since the appointment, and
all the plans have fallen through
John Davis. the sailor who was wounded
In the attempt to cut the cable at Glen
fuegos. and who is now helpless on his
pallet at Key West, has family OF six
brothers and sisters in New York city, all
under thirteen years: his father is dying
of consumption and the mother mas hard
time trying to keep the rest awe. Assist
ance Is asked by Mrs. Richard buuer, dotel
Renaissance, New York city.
OF the class of 1897 of the Navay Acad-
envy. known as the B class because the
names Of SO many of It's members began
with that letter, Bagley was killed on the
Winslow. Boyd disabled on the torpedo boat
Gushing and had to come home, Breekin-
ridge was swept overheard from the Gush-
ing and was drowned, Bostwick nad ms
chest csved in while on the ERICSSON and
u now IN . hospital Baldwin WA knocked
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The American volunteer is a letter writer,
and when he is not writing to his sweet
heart or the home folk he is apt to drop a
few lines to the local paper, giving bits of
company news that interest local readers.
Quie a number of the state papers are pub
fishing volunteer letters of this kind from
Camp Thomas and Camp Alger, which show
that "the boys are fast becoming soldiers.
Others give extracts from letters to home
folk which are more personal One young
man, evidently brought up on a farm, and
who perhaps never heard bugle before he
enlisted, writes:
The call for taps is the prettiest of any.
1t tells us to put out our lights and go to
sleep. 1t reminded me last night of early
morning at home, when the roosterS begin
to crow, you hear one near and then an
the ROSTERS and the same way. with the
bugles, when one called all did. l could
hear fifteen last night
1t would be pity if that boy should get
hurt while Furnishing the i0ons. Let us hope
he may come back safe to the homestead
and hear the ROSTERS again instead of the
bugles Another writing to his mother from
Chickamauga just after visit to Lookout
AAAOuAlellLs says 4
The great battle was fought hero; the
rebels on the hill and the Northern men be-
low. Tell Uncle John that / am glad to be
able to take his place and to be on the
same ground he has Travelled over. Ask him
where grandpa died. 1t may be that / can
view the place and recognize his grave.
That young Nan is all right, and will
make a good soldier. An officer who is in
position to know says: There is not a
single lad in the entire Indiana brigade of
over four thousand men but what can read
and write" The sweethearts and home folk
will get the benefit of this, as the young
men will not need to call on the chaplain
or any other person to write for them.
Apropos of letter writing, here is what
Major L. E. Harter writes to the Warsaw
Times:
Allow me to advise the people at home
who have friends here to write often, but
do not whine; do not tell them how bad you
want them to come home, they cannot
come; do not tell them your troubles, they
have troubles of their own; do not tell them
of the good things you have to eat, it does
not assist them in digesting the army ra-
tons, 50 do not enlarge on the parties, din
ners or picnics you may attend they cam
not attend. Write them cheerful letters.
Tell them how proud you are of them; tell
them how you love them for being brave
men-do not pity them, but be brave your
selves and do everything in your power to
dispel inconsistencies and your boys will
make such soldiers as you may be proud of.
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A Memorial Verse.

In between breaths of the terrible guns,
In between groans of the perishng ones,
Sing us a song of peace.
Sing of the orchard grass dewy and sweet,
OF the silvery light on the waves of the wheat,
OF the thrush in the corn
And the skylark at morn,
OF the vineyard perfume
And the white clover bloom. .
oh. sing song of peace.
Sing song of peace.
1t is we'll that the heroes have answered the
drum
Proclaiming Jehovah's dread reckoning come;
Sing us song of peace.
It is we'll that the battle bolts speedy and true
Deal to tyrants and minions of tyrants their due:
1t is we'll that we stand
Forth stretching hand
To our sister who cried
At gates, ere she died
But sing a song of peace,
Sing us song of peace.
we have seen the wan mother too weary to weep
Since her soldier boy left her too anxious to sleep
Sing song of peace.
To-day as of old we have given youth
And our treasure and might to the cause of the
truth.
The price hath been paid
And the sacrifice made,
Let deaths deed be done
And loves mission begun.
Oh. sing song of peace,
Sing song of peace
Let the legions of triumph their conquerlng tread
Stay while we remember our long ago dead
Oh. sing song of peace.
Let wars mighty measures one little hour merge
In the sobbing refrains of the sweet tender dirge
That trembes away
Into prayer we lay
Our tribute of bloom
Round the ranks in the tomb.
And sing them song OF peace.
Sing them a song OF peace.
Rensselaer,. Grace n. Leatherock.
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tempt to thwart them. To say that Con-
gress should do SO and so and then adjourn,
and that "annexations will then take care
of themselves" simply leaves the matter
hanging in the air. The annexation ques-
ton has assumed new Importance. The in
telligent sentiment of the country is in
favor of it, the administration favors it,,
and from all accounts, a majority of the
House fayors it. This being the case,
Speaker Reed should cease his opposition
either to annexation itself or the proposed
method of it, and if he will not do so the
Republican caucus should take the matter
into its own hands. The question should
be decided at once and not left to take care
of itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30
Hassan: A FeIlah.

This is a romance of Palestine. The au-
thor of the story lived in Palestine several
years and during his residence there had
peculiar advantages for seeing and knowing
the people and the country, enabling him
to enrich his story with local color char
acteristics and information not found in
any other work of the kind on the Holy
Land. He has selected the present time for
the story, but has drawn freely from the
past for setting and ornament The pen
portraits of the people are as natural and
real as if they were studies made on the
spot, as perhaps they were, and the descrip-
tons Of Jerusalem and the surrounding
country represent the land as it is to-day.
Aside from these features the story has
genuine interest. and while some of its in
cidents are sensational and extraordinary
they are vouched for as in the main real oc-
currences. The book is dedicated to Mr..
Gladstone, by his special permission. Bos-
ton: Little. Brown & Co.
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silver will Immediately urge consideration
OF their claims, and the battle Of 1896 will
be repeated in 1898. In my Judgment such
has been the development of business since
1886, demonstrating the fallacies of the Bry-
antics that the battle of 1898, while 1t may
be waged with apparent earnestness on the
part of the free silverites, will not be as
dangerous as it was in 1896. Appearances
strongly indicate decided Republican gains
throughout the central West, and such
States as Kansas and Nebraska are rapidly
swinging away from their Populistic prin-
cipes and arranging TO return to the Re-
publican fold. / firmly believe that the Re-
publicans will be able TO hold their majority
in Congress and win make some decided
gains in the central Western States.
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She sits alone in the window seat,
Watching the soldiers who throng I'll
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
Preparations for the National Con-
ventiOn at Omaha In July.

OMAHA, Neb., May 29.-President L. ].
Crawford, secretary; D. H. Stino, of New
port, KY; F. R.. Conway, of Des Moines,
and retiring Secretary M. ]. Bowling,
committee on arrangements of the National
League of Republican Clubs, met in Omaha
to conclude preliminaries for the national
convention here in July. Boyd's Opera
House was selected as the meeting place.
1t was decided that the afternoon should
be occupied by visits to the exposition,
while the business sessions should be held
in the morning. The convention will meet
at 10 o'clock each afternoon On the first
day the programme will consist of adj
dresses of welcome in behalf of the state,
the city and the state league and the APP
propriate responses, with the annual adj
dress of President Crawford and the APP
pointments of committees. In the evening
there will be a reception at the hotel. The
session on the second day will be one of the
most important of the convention. This will
be occupied by reports of committees and
consequent action.
First interest will be the report on reso-
lutions AS this will be the only national
gathering of Republicans this year it is
understood that the convention will outline
platform on which Republican battles shall
be waged during the fall campaign. This
makes the platform of more than ordinary
significance and it will receive the close
attention of delegates. The selection of the
location of the next convention will also
come up at this session, and this promises
to develop into the liveliest controversy of
the convention. In the evening a mass
meeting will be held at the opera house, at
which a number of speakers of national rep
utation will discuss Republican principles
and express the spirit of the party in the
fall campaign. The speakers have been de-
cided on, but no announcement will be made
until they have accepted. The third day of
the convention will be devoted to the cleo
ton of officers and routine business.
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BENJAMIN franklin.

Benjamin Franklin has been the subject
of many biographies, some of them by such
master hands Sparks. Bigelow. Parton,
McMaster and Morse, all of whom have
paid noble tributes to his many-sided ge-
MUS. Yet Franklin's life was so full of
action and variety. so rich in interesting de-
tail and so important in their general re-
suits that the presentation of them from a
new point of view is still an interesting
theme. Benjamin Franklin. Printer. States
man. Philosopher and Practical Citizen"
by Edward Robins, is not so full as some
of the biographies of him, but it gives a
composite picture of the man, shows his
character and activities and touches upon
the national conditions which shaped his
career. 1t is the first of a series of bio
graphical studies to be issued by G. +. Put
MANS Sons, and called the The American
Men of Energy series
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of the Spanish legation while it remained in
Washington, and Senior Du Bose, the chief
secretarySof the legation. are still in Mont
real attending to the spy business estab-
lished by Senior Polo before he left. This
spy business is very repulsive to us, but it is
a part of every European military system,
and much money is expended on it. 1t is
legitimate weapon in war, and there is rea-
son to believe the Spaniards are using it
against US with some effect.
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The Cruel side of war.

There are two sides to war. One shows
the pomp and circumstance. the glittering
uniforms. waving banners and spectacular
parades and the other wounds. sickness and
death as seen in hospitals. The latter is the
side revealed in The Cruel Side of War"
1t is a collection of letters from the head
quarters of the United States sanitary COM
mission during the Peninsular campaign in
Virginia in 1862, written by Katharine Pres
colt Wormeley. The letters are written in
a familiar yet graphic style and present
scenes so intimately related 10 the army
that they seem an essential part of a SOL
dier's experience. Boston: Roberts Broth
erS.
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Southern papers are asking Mr.. Letter to
do with cotton what he has done with
wheat. In other words, they assume that
Mr.. Letter is superior to the conditions. Mr..
Letter led the upward movement of wheat
because he was confident that the supply
was below the demand. and 1t so proved.
II he had been misled and wheat had been
equal 10 the demand, he would have been a
yuined man The price of cotton will be
better when the crop shall be reduced two
million bales.
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Senator Germans amendment to the war
revenue bill is designed to make the Can
adam Pacific Railway contribute to the
treasury in return for the special privileges
which it enjoys at the hands of the United
Gxo@as
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The Governor of Iowa will apportion the
troops called for by the last order among
the counties of the State according to pop
ulation, and give each county credit for the
men it has already furnished. That is the
sort of credit that a third of the counties
in Indiana do not want.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30

Germany's thistle-eating Emperor pro-
rounces Dewey's method Of fighting naval
battle 'amateurish" Certainly it was
Therefore, with the results of this amateur S
work fresh in his mind, let William of Ber-
lin fight shy of our r1rnfessionals
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30

The lineal descendants of the papers which
devoted themselves for years to abuse
Of General U. S. Grant have turned upon
his son, whose offense seems to be that he
accepted colonelcy and has been made
brigadler general
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Indiana seems to he the one State which
paid its volunteers before they left home
for the national rendezvous. Ohio papers
are calling upon the authorities to pay the
States men in the field, while it is not
known when the volunteers of Illinois will
be paid for the time they were in the service
OF the State
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The LondOnerS.

When Mr.. Robert Hichens wrote THE
Green Carnation' he showed considerable
power of imagination and promise that
led those who watch for new things in lit
erature to predict notable future for him.
Several books followed the first in quick
succession, none of them, except Flames"
attracting much attention. Flames was a
weird and very unpleasant psychological
study that, in spite of its unpleasantness,
showed rather forceful style. In THE
Londoners," the authors latest story, he
has taken a theme of different sort and at
the same time has apparently taken leave OF
whatever imagination and literary talent
he may have had. 1t is a tale of London
society in which two American women fig
ure, one of them in her proper person as
the widow of a wealthy man, the other in
the guise. of man. The latter, who is
young and pretty and a friend of the first is
represented as successfully carrying out
this disguise for month, appearing at
social gatherings, in the itimacy of house
parties, making acceptable love to the
bellies and causing jealousy among their
male admirers Anything more improbable
than the incidents related or more inane
than the story whole could hardly be
conceived, and the wonder is that man
of presumed intelligence could have written
1t. Mr.. Hichens has fallen far short of
his first promise. Published by II. S. Stone
& Co., Chicago.
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There has been no day during the last six
months that has not demonstrated the wis
dom Of preparing for war in time of peace
Hereafter, let us not call ourselves mill
3ary power until we have made at least a
little preliminary preparation.
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Whenever the Spaniards do not know
what else to do they sit down and con-
graduate each other. The exact foundation
for their gratitude is supposed to be that
they have any ships at all left after so
much of the war
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The American people, confident of their
powers, will sustain the President and the
army officers in policy of preparation
which will save thousands Of lives which
would be sacrificed if the clamor of few
persons like those who conduct the New
York World were needed