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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
Something New i'm women's Clubs.

Chicago women are preparing 10 nave
club. This seems like a superduous state
ment when it is remembered that Chicago
already has womens clubs without num-
Der, including the department" variety
that undertakes everything from the inn
provement of the female mind to the inn
provement of the universe. and the Brown
ing and Ibsen clubs. But this is different.
Ostensibly it is an athletic club. but this
name is merely an excuse for carrying other
than athletic projects. Under the guise of
an athletic club an organization OF enter
prising women is erecting a building which,
while providing for all necessary athletic
sports. will also serve fer other purposes.
1t will have swimming bath, Turkish
baths. baths of all kinds. in fact; mani
cure and hairdressing parlor, tea room
where the light lunch that women so love
can be procured, and a dining room where
a good dinner will be served and where men
can be invited. There will be easy chairs.
cozy corners. and every comfort and lux
ury that the club treasury will permit IL
WILL in short. have all the attractions OF
mans club, saving and excepting the bar,
and none of the features of the regulation
womans club 1t win be place where
women may meet other women, where tney
escape from the monotony OF home, where
they may bring out-of-town guests. and
where they may have elaborate dinner par
ties when household accommodations are
not equal to the occasion 1t viii be a place
Of rest and recreation, and not for intel
lectual Improvement or for the Matching OF
reforms.
It il only large city. Of course. that can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
SCIENTIFIC.

Electrical refrigeration has proven sue
cessful during one summers trial. An elec-
trio motor was used for driving two COM
pressor pumps, the gas to be compressed
being sulphurous acid instead Of ammonia
Inc average horse power OF current was
3O8, producing an equivalent of two tons of
ice in twenty-four hours.
A new fruit, whose flavor reminds one
of the pineapple, has been described by a
French horticulturist. 1t is one and a half
TO two and q half inches long, and it grows
on a shrub named feijoa sellowiana which
is indigenous in La Plata but thrives in
southern France. The meat of the fruit is
firm. of white color and sweet taste. very
juicy and gives off an extremely penetrat-
ing and agreeable odor.
The bacillus of whooping cough, lately
captured by DR.. Henry Koplik, of New
York, is extremely minute, the influenza
germ being the only other bacillus as small.
The whooping cough bacillus usually re-
SembleS a club. After searching for it for
five years, and finding il In the sputIim of
whooping cough patients, the discoverer at
last succeeded in making a culture of il by
planting the sputum on human blood serum.
The construction Of pneumatic tube line
from London to Bombay distance of 400
miles. is the striking engineering scheme
brought forward in India, with the predic-
ton that sooner or later the line will be
accomplished fact. When completed, mails
Will be transported between the two cities
in twenty-fOur hours. The height of some
mountains to be crossed in Asia Minor and
the maintaining of power houses in remote
places are thefchief difficulties foreseen.
Very much bf mystery still are the X
rays. which Mr.. G. J. Stoney. the British
physicist. explains by an enlargement of the
theory first advanced by Sir George Stokes.
He supposes the cathode rays to consist
Of negatively charged missiles, shot in
showers like hedge-firing from the mega
ceives and suddenly arrests them; and the
Roentgen rays to be due to the independent
pulses propagated through the ether when
these streams are suddenly stopped or al
tered. The radiation from the target reaches
the object under examination as an undula-
ton made up Of irregular pulses. The un-
wave os diiLerant lenEthA end 4 = The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
AUTHORS, MANUSCRIPTS.
Not Necessary for Editors to Read
Them from beginning to End.
New York Indanandanf


Once more the tale goes round of the au-
had it returned by every one without hav-
ing been read he knew it, because he had
pasted two of the leaves together. Very
likely. We do not think of reading through
a half or quarter of the articles that are
sent to us. 1t often does not take half
minute to discard what one knows ne
doesn't want. 1t is an old saying that one
does not need to eat whole joint to learn
whether 1t is tainted. 1t would be a revela-
fast an experienced and conscientious editor
can, at times, go through a big pile of es-
says, stories or poems. The title is often
enough, and he would say, I'VE don't want
an article on that subject" The next aru-
Gle begins with a page or two of common
place Introduction, and that is thrown aside
in half a minutes inspection, without turn
ing more than the first page The next be-
gins with platitude-"We can't print that
stuff" The first verse of this next poem
has false meter, and is tossed aside. The
next begins in schoolgirl style, with dove
and love" it is not read through. OF the
next the editor reads ten lines it is simply
q dull description of a stream in a forest
not wanted. The next poem begins in a
ing to the rules. is pretty good; it is put
one side to see If other better poems will
crowd it out. The next is q story the first
page is promising, but the second shows
coarse strain, and the reading stops there
Ten articles are decided upon, and " IN sur
ficient good judgment, in ten minutes, for
q minute to manuscript is often twice as
long for a dealer to stick iron skewer
in a smoked ham, draw ii out and smell or
it. Not one article in a dozen, perhaps,
needs to be read through.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

wearing an old hat when every ona -,
has on new millinery.-Atchison Globe 9o
The less tenderness man has in HE -
ture the more ne requires OF others.-Raho,
If there Is no other way in which a worOs~
can be complimented, tell her that She =
great Dr0blem.-Atchison Globe.
If a man owned the earth his life uo.,s
be made miserable by people asking for re-
Dairs.-Puck. -
mans idea of chivalry is to protac,
woman against every man except himself
Chicago News. -
cheap coat doesn't necessarily mako
cheap man. but it makes him feel that va,
at times.-C Chicago News.
IT'S shame that your family is an honor
to youl You ought TO be an honor To von-
family.-Benjamin Franklin.
In all matters except those of fault-ana
ing woman in business wants to be treat
ed as man.-F'eminine Observer.
The attempt to make the Bible suit all
our notions is like twisting a sign post 70
suit a cross-eyed man.-Ram's Horn.
Ii you are Gods child you have no right
to libel the family by calling yourself =
vile worm of the dust."-Rams Horn
When the COW kicks the milk over inst
take your coffee straight and thank the
Lord for the sweet min ATLANTA Constitu-
ton.
A true man never frets about his place
in the world, but just slides into it by the
gravitation of his nature and swings then
as easily as star.-E. Ii. Chaplin.
Our wives have their own troubles. Pink,
how they must feel when they bring in for
our inspection a new hat, for which thew
have planned for weeks, and we exclaim.
rs that a new hat?"-Puck.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
BURDENS OF acknowledgements.

A great deal is being said in these days
about the education of teachers-that is,
about the continuance of their education
after they have become teachers. The
standard is advancing so rapidly and so
much is required of them. even in the be-
ginning, that the labor of preliminary
preparation for their work is heavy, but it
is not enough that they are once prepared
to teach; they must continue to study and
add to their requirements To insure this
being done examinations are held at stated
This regulation is doubtless wise, but the
extent to which it is applied in different
cities has aroused some discussion and pro-
test. The tendency is to demand more of
teachers than their strength and leisure
justify. If they must pass examination in
certain branches considerable time must be
spent regularly IN close study. In addition
there are lectures in the evenings of the
week and on Saturdays, and meetings of
various kinds to which they are hidden,
sometimes imperatively; if not, then with
the ultimatum that the opportunity for Sc
curing useful instruction is not lightly to
be passed by. But attendance at all these
classes and lectures and the hours devoted
to private study. in addition to the time
spent in teaching, will inevitably take a
good deal of strength and energy. and no
matter how great the ambition of the
teacher or how interested she may be in her
occupation, she will lose something of the
enthusiasm that should enter into her
school work Men and women engaged dur
ing the day in purely manual occupations
may study or read or listen to lectures in
their hours of leisure without injury. but
these things added to the strain of teaching
are apt to cause a WEAKNESS of mind and
body that is not only bad for the individual
concerned, but must react upon the school
to it's disadvantage. The more strength
and vitality with which teacher can enter
upon her duties each morning the better it
will be for her pupils. President Harper,
of Chicago University. has a plan for es-
tablishing a teachers college. but his insti-
students at the summer sessions being
nearly all teachers, who give up their vaca-
tons TO work instead Of recreation. The
editor of the Dial questions whether the
work done by teachers in evenings and on
Saturdays and in vacations viii not result
in gradual pulling down of the standards
of academic work. but this is less important
than whether the undertaking of college
course in this way will not pull them down.
Superintendent Maxwell. of the public
schools Of New York city. has given his at
tention to the subject and speaks strongly
in favor of putting the lowest limit upon
this extra work. Two hours a week during
thirty weeks of the school year and two
hours a day five days in the week during
six of the ten weeks Of the summer vaca-
ton he regards as the maximum amount
OF time that should be spent In this work
Tha amount Of time spent e matter, how.
eyer, that can hardly be regulated BY thu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

The reports of mutiny in three regiments
because but two passes day. with sun
set limit, are granted to each company, and
of the officers abandoning the dress parade
because informed that it would take place
at that time, are not calculated to inspire
confidence in volunteer organizations when
held for garrison duty. 1t may be the fault
of officers in part, but it is probably due
more to the impression which has gained
ground that it is an Injustice to hold regi-
ments when there is not much prospect Of
war, even If the men are under oath to
serve the United States faithfully for two
years If the reported mutiny turns out to
be anything serious. the government would
be justified in dishonorably discharging all
those men who refuse promptly to obey
orders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
KipIing's Prices.
Philadelphia Press.


Not long ago an American publisher
agreed to pay Rudyard Kipling $500 per
thousand words for his whole literary out
put. Judging by an article in the BRUSH
Weekly. which is presumably authoritative.
the young lion Of modern English literature
is carrying his eggs to another market Inc
article says:
Perhaps no one receives such large prices
for his work as Mr.. Rudyard Kipling- lie
has contracted to write eight stories TOR one
or the magazines next year for each OF
which he will receive about ESQ THIS u
simply for the English serial rights OF the
stories. In addition, Mr.. Kiping receives
payment from America, India and the colo
MES. This will probably bring up the price
of the stories to about 8500 each. making
$4,000 for the year. In addition to this. Mr..
Kfpling receives the royalties for book pub
LEGATION in England and America. This will
not amount to less than about $4,000. so
that for each story the author ultimately
receives not less than 81, 000 Whether thsse
high prices viii be Kept up is very doubt
ful, If the cheap nagazinism succeeds IN IN
Jur1ng the older periodicals they cannon pe
maintained. 1t remains 70 be seen whether
the public cares much for names, and u
must be remembered that the papers win
the largest circulation In this country 90
not depend upon names at all. remember
some years ago Mr.. Kipling contributed one
Of hts best pieces of work, better work pyf
a great deal than he has been doing latelyl'
to monthly review. The editor informed
me that net one extra copy of the periodl-
cal was sold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
GLAD OF THE EXPERIENCE.
Waller A. Wyckoff Reaches the End
of His Journey a Day LabOrer.
Scribner's Magazine.

Scr1Dner Magazine.
As 1 neared my journeys end 1 found
possessing me strange indifference to the
idea of return. l do not attempt to analyze
the feelinG-I simply note ii as a fact; bur
in some degree / recognize In il vague nm
willingness to have done with a phase OF
experience which for me has opened ave-
nueS of useful knowledge. Among them all
there rises clearest at this moment the way
of added knowledge of my country. | may
have travelled 1t. to little purpose but l am
conscious at least of a newborn sense of
things which comes of actual contact with
the soil and with the primal struggle for
existence among men. One stands awe
struck before the vaStneSS of our great do
main and its quick redemption from tho
Wilderness But most of all it is contact
with the people which breeds in one the
strongest patriotic feeling. Local conditions
and the presence of large numbers of yet
unaSsimlated foreign elements and rapid
changes in economic relations and native
weaknesses and vagaries are responsible for
awful sores upon the body polite, while
the power of aggregated wealth grows
apace, and fierce antagonlsmS and sectional
differences arise. Yet beneath the troubled
surface of events one comes to know of the
great body of a nation whose unity has
been purchased and made sure by such d
cost of blood and treasure as was never
poured out upon the altar Of a nations life
before. and one sees people intelligent, re-
learn and surely learning much, asSimilat-
ing foreign elements with miraculous swift
ness and growing stronger thereby living
labOr1ouS days wherein the rewards are 10
thrift and energy and Gnterprising skill,
knowing no defeat and unacQuainted with
the sense OF fear, and awakening year by
year to a fuller consciousness of national
life and OF the glorious mission of high
destiny. And with increasing knowledge the
love of country grows until all thought Of
worth in her is merged and lost in revef-
to live worthy Of the name and calling Of
an American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

A student in Trinity College. the theologi-
cal department of Yale, died the other day
of starvation. He prepared his meals in his
own room and as he made no complaint no
one suspected that he lacked sufficient food
His condition only became known when he
consulted doctor after an attack of
cerebral congestion, but it was then too late
to save him. He was of athletic build and
of originally strong physique, and it is sup
posed that he thought he could endure al
most any degree of privation. A thousand
men within stones throw would probably
have been glad to aid him, but, as in relief
of the needy everywhere, the wants Of the
most deserving are apt to be overlooked. 1t
is a false pride that prevents sufferer from
telling his need, but 1t is pride with which
the self-respecting can sympathize. The
case of this student however, is none the
less pitiful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

Governor Tanner and the two parties in
the coal controversy in Illinois are getting
affairs in dangerous tangle. The Gov
ernor has declared that foreigners" mean
ing those who come from other States, shall
not be permitted to enter Illinois. The mine
operators are threatening to appeal to the
federal government to interfere to suppress
the Governor. Meanwhile, no coal is being
mined and several hundred men are idle.
One extensive dealer in coal in Chicago has
urged the one natural Observation-Disclosures
and Cancellation. Having rejected this
method at the outset, the mine operators
now seem disposed to make war upon the
Governor. He has violated both federal and
state constitutions. If he had acted wisely
at the outset by using the influence of his
official position to adjust difficulties 1t is
probable there would have been no out
break
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

support a club Of this sort. and 1t remains
to be seen whether the old-time prejudice
against women going out of their own
homes for social pleasures Is sufficiently
done away with, even in Chicago to allow
such an institution to flourish The idea of
it, however. is to be commended. The lit
erary club has its uses and serves a good
purpose; innumerable things need TO be re-
formed, and women will always be found
to look after them; if missions and kinder
gartens and other moral and educational
movements are to be supported it must be
by women, but women also have duty to
themselves. They need to take themselves
and the world less seriously; to throw off,
at intervals at least, the sense of awful
responsibility that Expresses them and to
get acquainted with themselves and their
fellow-creatures. They need, occasionally,
to live the life that now is instead of pro-
jecting themselves into the future where
alarming possibilities lie. They need rest
and variety, and they do not always find
these in their own or their friends homes.
IN the course of time the sort of club de-
scribed will be found in every city and
town, either as a separate institution or in
connection with a mans club, and will be
held of as much Importance as the literary
or philanthropic organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

In New Jersey wife who was a mem
Der of progressive club, whose annual
meeting lasted until the small hours, came
home to find that her latchkey would not
open the door. She rang the bel. time after
time; finally the husband opened the win
dow and remarked that wives were not adj
mitted after o'clock in the morning. She
called the assistance of a policeman, who
broke in the door, arrested the husband and
took him to the station house for the night.
In the morning the justice fined him 50
upon the broad principle that a wife is
obliged to let her husband in at 2o'clock
in the morning, and the same privilege be-
longs to the wife. This is called Jersey
Justice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

the war is ended. We are justified in hop
ing that il is, but we cannot be certain.
Hostilities are suspended. but not neces-
sarily closed. The Spanish commissioners
are fencing for time and for position. They
hope for an anu-administration election.
which they and the nations of continental
Europe would interpret as a vote of CEN
sure against the administration in the mat
ter of the war. Patriotic Americans should
govern themselves accordingly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

Next to the questions growing out of the
war the money question is the most inn
portant one involved in the present cam
paign. Business men, people of property,
laboring men who want their wages paid in
the best money should reflect seriously be-
fore they allow party prejudices or party
affiliations to trap them into voting to place
he House of Representatives in control of
an irresponsible combination of free-silver-
ites, PopuIists and Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

The report of the General Land Office
shows that the public domain is more than
579.O0OOOO acres. or 100000 square miles,
which is equal in size to Germany. France.
the British isles and Austro-HUngary COM
bined. 1t would make six million one-hun-
dred-acre farms. The only drawback is
that much OF it cannot be cultivated, and
most of the remainder is valueless without
the expenditure of large sums for irriga-
ZION
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

Major Stewart, who was sent to Porto
Rico as special agent of the Postoffice
Department TO introduce the service in that
island. says: -Four hours after town
was captured we would have postoffice
opened and running like clockwork, with
money-order and registered-letter depart
ment included" The difference between
that and the Spanish way typifies the diff
ference between the Anglo-Saxon and the
Latin races.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

So long as there are thousands of people
IN this country who need a fair quality of
religion to make them law-abiding and re-
spectacle it is not worth while to capture
the Philippines for the sole purpose of hav-
ing better chance to convert their in
habitants
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

It looks now as if the French government
would have the courage to attempt to do
Justice to Dreyfus but any other frst-class
government would lave attended to it as
soon as the revelation of the outrages per-
Detrated upon him had been made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

spread convulsion. AS for Italy. it is one
OF the worst governed peoples in the world.
The populace is half-starved. taxation is
excessive, the debt is increasing. and the
government is extravaganza and corrupt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

70 pay TO each discharged Spanish soldier
remaining in Cuba the sum of s24 shows a
desire on the part of Spain to avoid the
expense Of transportation. BY the way,
there is a marked contrast between the ac-
ton Of the Spanish government in offering
Its soldiers bonus to remain out of the
country and that Of the United States.
which not only brings home all it's living
soldiers. but allows $50 each for bringing
home the bodies OF those who have died.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

II looks now as if the war investigation
would have good results in establishing the
fact that most of the sickness among the
soldiers was due to neglect and violation of
sanitary laws by officers and men, thereby
insuriKg better observance of them in
the future. Perhaps that was the patriotic
object of the yellow papers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

OF late the Paris papers have not been
printing editorials for the edification Of the
American peace commissioners. Possibly
they have found out that their attempt to
NEEDLE is of no consequence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

The gold Democrats in Missouri have is
sued an address advising those who believe
with them to vote for Republican candi-
dates for Congress in order to put an end
to silver agitation and to perform the
patriotic duty of not embarrassing the ma
tional administration in this crisis of our
country's history"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
sHHEDs AND PATCHES.

1t is the wise head that makes the stin
J. Lucas.
There is no index OF character so sure
as the voice. ancred
The violet, for modesty ana shy .uaoh-
trusiyenesz. liant In It with 4 girl Who 4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

The fact that the stocks of some of the
northwestern railroads have advanced
since the anti-pooling decision leads to the
inference that The Supreme Court has not
ruined railroad property.