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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

The material diminution in the size Of the
bakers loaf of bread has brought home
to every family the fact that wheat is very
high, and probably most persons attribute
it to the war. This is a mistake. 1t is due
mainly to the operation of the law of sup
ply and demand. The fact that the worlds
last wheat crop was short something like
400,O00,000 bushels would in large measure
account for the present high price. AL
though the United States produced in 1897
1OO 600 bushels more of wheat than in 1896,
the foreign demand has been so great that
our surplus has gone to European countries
and that which remains at home commands
a high price. Spectators have had some
thing to do with forcing the price up, but
they could not have done anything without
the worlds short crop. The war has not
lasted long enough to have had any effect
on prices. 1t is true about 125 900 soldiers
have to be fed, but SO they did before they
enlisted, and there are no more mouths to
feed now than there were before. There has
been some decrease in the number of pro-
ducers, but that has not made itself felt yet,
and probably will not. Everything points to
a good wheat crop this year, and as soon
as it begins to come in the price will prob
ably begin TO decline, unless the crop in
other wheat-growing countries should be
short again.
The fact that the price of meat has in
creased of late and still shows an upward
tendency is also attributed by some to the
war, but as in the case of wheat this also
is mistake. The truth is that meat that
is, beef, has gradually been getting scarcer.
The price of beef regulates the price of all
other meats, and if that goes up the rest
syrhpathize. 1t is fact not generally
known that during the last few years there
has been very material decrease in the
number of cattle in the United States to the
hundred persons. The great Western ranges
and large ranches have been steadily cur
tailed by the growth of population, the
building of railroads, ETC., causing a CORE
spending diminution in the proportion of
cattle to population. Moreover, people eat
more beef in prosperous times than they do
in hard times, and the last year or two have
been great meat-eating years This in
creased consumption, in connection with the
diminishing supply, has caused an advance
in price which is already perceptible and
likely to become more pronounced. 1t may
be that we shall never again see meats
as cheap in this country as they have been.
If the war should last two or three years,
requiring the withdrawal of large number
of men from productive pursuits, including
agriculture, and their feeding in the field,
it might and probably would affect the price
of farm products but it has not had any
such effect as yet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

ton and probably forerunner of important
and cheering news very soon. 1t shows that
Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley,
in whom the country has implicit conf
dence. have a free hand in the execution
OF general orders and that they are not
hampered by instructions for frequent re-
ports. They know what they are about
and can be depended upon to do their duty.
They know that the eyes of the country
are on them, and they are not going to
throw away any chance of achieving an i'm
portant victory for the Nation and renown
for themselves. Under these circumstances
the public can afford to wait for news in the
confident assurance that when it comes it
will be good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

The higher education of women in Ger
many has received a setback. The mu-
nicipal council of Bresau recently asked
permission of the government to establish
a municipal college, or gymnasium for
girls, the pupils to receive the same privi-
leges as boys in similar schools, including
the right to enter the regular universities.
The permission was CURLY refused, and
reason being asked the minister of public
culture, DR.. Borse, replied at great length.
He admitted that the government had
granted permission to a number of German
and foreign women\ to attend university
lectures, but these cases, he said, were ex-
ceptions and were intended to remain so.
He then set forth the stock objections to
the education of women that the people in
this country were familiar with fifty years
ago, and which sound very Anticipated now.
He said the great majority of German girls
their salvation; that the government was
bound by the needs of this vast majority;
that logical thinking was not strong fea-
ture of women, otherwise they must draw
the logical consequences of their demand
to be admitted to full, equal rights with
men in the matter of education, and of
choosing professions, viz, that they must
then assume the. same burdens and duties,
among these the duty of bearing arms. and
of serving in the reserves, and in the land
wehr; but that, inasmuch as they were un-
willing and unable to do that, conditions
were not equal, and men would be at a seri-
Gus disadvantage. The striving of women
to equal men and enter the same profess
sons was an unhealthy one, and against
the best interests of the state. To pack the
brains of growing girls full of Latin and
other difficult subjects meant running their
health. In the schools that girls now at
tended they were taught to become in
telligent helpmates to men, which was their
proper function A debate in the Diet fol-
lowing his speech. showed but little more
liberality of sentiment Several speakers
declared the whole movement for higher
female education was an unmtigated evil.
Woman's sphere. they said, was the kitchen
and the hearth. and too much education
made them unwilling to do any manual
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

labor, even the lightest, such as their moth
ers and grandmothers had done, and it also
destroyed domestic happiness. and intro
duced all kinds Of disturbing elements into
the family
These sentiments were those of the ma
jority. but several delegates belonging to
the liberal parties warned the government
that it was trifiing with a movement that
was well on its way in nearly every civilized
country, and that it would be impossible
to turn it back. Moreover, it pointed
out that there were in Germany many more
women than men. and that it was therefore
impossible to firld husbands for all of them,
even if they knew but little and were will
ing to do manual labor. In the upper class
es it was said As per cent. of the daughters
did not marry because the young men of
the same classes did not want marriage on
account OF the expense. These arguments
did not alter the ruling, however and girls
in Germany will have no opportunity for the
present to pack their heads with Latina
study which the statesmen seem to regard
as especially deleterious to the female
brain. That the discussion could take place
civilized country marks the progress made
in this country in the matter of women's
education and her freedom in general. The
Germans probably hold the narrowest views
on this subject of any nation, but the very
fact that request for school of the same
standing a boys school was asked for
shows that the educational leaven> is work
ing. In time, probably, the women who
have uncomplainingly allowed themselves to
be hitched to plows will rebel and the Ger
man, man will be compelled to do the man
ual labor that properly belongs to him. For
the woman's movement is simply feature
of the development Of civilization and can
not be stayed by any government for very
long. Progress is slow. however, in En-
peror Williams land, and American women
may well be thankful that they live under
a more liberal dispensation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
SHREDs AND PATCHES.

have always been a quarter Of an hour
before my time and it has made a man of
NICHOLSON.
There is awfully good material in a young
girl who is fond of bad brother.-Atchi-
son Globe.
Economy is half the battle of life; it is
not so hard to earn money as to spend it
Well-Spurgeon.
No married man ever lived who was not
at heart just little bit afraid of his wife.
Philadelphia Times.
A Kansas literary society is to debate the
question, rs it cold hot where Andree
is?"-West Union Gazette.
1t frequently puzzles a policeman to dis
tingush between drunken wheelman and
a beginner.-Chicago News.
Scientists have never explained why it
always rains harder on prayer meeting
night than at other times.-Ram's Horn.
When a widow begins to leave off mourn
ing, the person whose opinion she fears
worst is her Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
If you abuse the town in which you make
your living it proves to listeners that you
deserve to starve somewhere else.-Chicago
News.
The man who lays his sins to the bad
food his wife lays before him ought to think
up something new> Adam wore out that ex
cuSe.-Puck.
"A AAAc1AA AAeSAA1Oo n iONOlS OACdeuIC III White
satin and then lives with a woman who
wears Mother Hubbards and dressing sacks.
-Atchison Globe.
The first baby gets It's photograph taken
every three months; the other babies are
lucky to get theirs taken once in three
years.-The Bachelor.
1t is the vain endeavor to make ourselves
what we are not that has strewn history
with so many broken purposes and lives left
in the rough.-Lowell.
One day you hear that woman is Sc
riously i'll and may never recover, and the
next day you see her down town fussing
with the dry goods clerks.-Atchison Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

strong emotions. powerfully portrayed; but
unlike the audience. they must express the
sentiments so aroused in words
Not all the writer's who receive inspiration
from this war will necessarily write of war.
The elements of poetry and romance and
tragedy exist everywhere and under all con-
ditions. If the sudden change from national
peace to conflict shall force them out of
the conventional rut and bring them into diff
ferent relations with humankind, literature
of all sorts is likely to be the better for it.
A writer in the current Atlantic Monthly
says the recent wall over defective English
composition in colleges is really wall over
deficient thought. War is an event to make
men think If it shall arouse manly senti-
ments, spur the imagination and lead to the
destruction of the effeminate and decadent
tendency in literature it will do a service
hardly less important than the freeing of
C11ha
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
A SIGNIFICANT MEMORIAL DAY.

Memorial day this year will have a pc
cuar significance. For the first time since
the day was set apart by the officers of the
national organization of the Grand Army in
1868, the country is committed to war. 1t
has not yet come very near the people, and
there is reason to believe that it will not
in the awful sense that the war for the
Union did. With the lapse of years since
the war ended in 1861 more and more the
events which Memorial day recalled have
become either matters of childhood recolec-
tions or of history to those who have wit
messed or participated in the exercises.
Thirty-three years from the close of the war
but small part of those who will partici-
pate in to-morrow's exercises can recall the
four years struggle for the Union as a
positive experience. Nevertheless, Memo
rial day as a Northern observance has
grown upon the people with the passing
years. During all these years the OBJ
servance of Memorial day has been under
the auspices of the Grand Army as it will
be tomorrow; and it may be added that
among the silent agencies which have
taught the lessons of patriotism the in
sistent observance of Memorial day by the
Grand Army has been the most effective. =,
This year the day has new significance,
due to the war. Men are in the field to de-
fend the honor of the Nation. They are
the successors of those who fought for it's
preservation. They are entitled to equal
honors, and because they are, the graves
of those who will fall in this war will be
honored in all the Memorial days of the
future as those have been upon which the
sod has been green for thirty such days
Thus will another generation be allied to
those of the past by it's martyrs to the cause
of nationality.
The day also has new significance in
the fact that the war has demonstrated
that the Republic is one and indivisible be-
cause we are one people. For years the
sectional line caused by the issues which
led to the war for the Union and that terri
BILE struggle has been fading out 1t is
cause for thankfulness to God to-day that
the Ohio river and Mason and Dixon's
line no longer separate the American
people. During the past few weeks the
people of both sections, in no spirit
country, have rallied under a COM
mon flag to maintain the national honor.
If for no other reason than that 1t has
FASTENED the unif1cation of the American
people, the war, deplorable on general
grounds war must be- cannot be re-
GREETED. 1t is fresh vndication of the wis
dom of those who fought for the Union and
fresh cause for affectionate remembrance of
those whose graves will be adorned with
flags and flowers tomorrow that their sac
rifice has given to us that more perfect
union" which the trainers of the Constitu-
ton declared to be the highest purpose of
that instrument which made us a nation.
Whatever may have been permissible in the
past. that man is not an intelligent patriot
who shall bring into the exercises of this
Memorial day the dissensions of the past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
SCIENTIFIC.

The so-called singing shells are marvel
of Batticaloa lake, in Ceylon, and on quiet
evening the weird phenomenon produces an
effect that is decidedly pleasing.
An electric plant for calcium carbide is
proposed as a means of utilizing the peat
bogs of northern Germany A peat bed ten
feet thick is estimated to contain one thou
sand tons of dried peat per acre, and ten
thousand horse power station would con-
sumo 10000 tons yearly.
medical authority condemns slow eating
as we'll as hurried eating, for both beget
imperfect mastication. But rapid and ener-
getic chewing, with freedom from mental
anxiety, insures the most thorough masu-
cation while stimulating the secretion of
saliva in the most favorable manner.
An improved method of preserving milk
for transportation is stated TO have de-
vesoped an important new industry in Swe-
den and Denmark. The milk is collected at
a central station from neighboring farms
and is there pasteurized at about ITO degrees
F., after which part Of ii is frozen
at about Is degrees. The blocks of frozen
milk are placed IN stout wooden casks.
which they half I'LL. sterilized milk being
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
GOLD GLORY"
The Title Originated iH 1881 With an
Old Salem Skipper.
Boston Globe

DOSCOu NIlOu6.
The flag (the stars and stripes, of course)
(MaSS) skipper, named William Driver He
was at that time captain of the brig Charles
Doggett. Captain Driver was a successful
deep-sea sailor, and was preparing the brig
for voyage to the Southern Pacific The
story is told by the compiler of the genoa
logical memoir of the Driver family, Har-
riet Ruth (Waters) Cooke.
Just before the brig left Salem a young
man at the head of party of friends
luted Captain Driver on the deck of the
Doggett and presented him with a large
done up in stops, and when sent aloft and
broke out to the air Captain Driver chris
tened tened It %old Glory" He took it to the
age forced him to relinquish the sea, he
treasured the flag.
Captain Driver removed to Nashville,
Tenn, in 1887, and he died there in 1886.
Previous to the outbreak of hostlities be-
tween the North and the South, "Old Glory
was flung to the breeze every day from the
window of Captain Drivers Nashville
house, but when the bullets began to zip
and the odor of gunpowder to faint the air
the old flag had to be secreted.
1t was kept out of sight inside q great bed
comfortable until Feb n, 1852 when Briga-
der General Nelson's wing Of the Union
army appeared in Nashville and Captain
Driver presented 1t to the general to be
Captain Drive himself did the hosting He
watched II through the night, and, a heavy
wind coming up, he took it down and sent
a new flag in its place.
The original "Old Glory was beginning 10
ribbon. The second flag owned by Captain
Driver was given to the Ohio Sixth, when
that regiment left Nashville for home. 1t
was placed in the rear of a baggage wagon,
where mule nosed it out and deVoured it.
The original "Old Glory was preserved,
and. after the death of Captain Driver. in
Driver memoir TO the Essex Institute at
Salem, where 1T may now be seen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

A pleasing feature about the achievement
of the government in mobilizing an army
of about $4,000 men is that the subsistence
and equipment for them have been pur-
the many millions spent in food, clothing
and the numerous other things that were
purchased in large quantities, it is said that
not cent went out of the country. The
effect has been to put a large amount of
money into new channels of circulation, the
benefit of which will be felt in all depart
ments of trade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

The Astor battery, which has been &C
copied by the government and which is to
be raised and equipped entirely at the ex-
pense of John Jacob Aston, now lieutenant
colonel, will be the first of the kind ever
equipped in this country. 1t will be on the
order of what is called in England noun
tain battery, such as are used in mountain
Gus regions or jungles. where a field bat
terry would be of little service. The gun
carriages and guns are detachable, and are
packed on the backs of mules from place
to place. The battery consists of six twelve
pound rapid-tire guns, with four mules to a
gun, and for the purpose of transportation
the carriage is strapped on one mule, the
gun on another and the ammunition and
equipment on the others. That method of
moving battery will make old artilerymen
open their eyes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
AMERICA IN WAR.
It's Method May he Criticised, but Not
Its Motive.
London Daily Mail.

LONDON Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail observes, with some disap-
pointment, tendency in certain journals
that are not without very honorable records
for perspicacity to attack the United States
in unmeasured terms for their aggressive
attitude on the Cuban question. These pa
perS forget that the sudden precipitation Of
a crisis and the methods that have brought
1t about are very secondary matters COM
pared to the permanent causes of American
hostility to the continuation of Spanish rule
In Cuba. 1t is not difficult to be critical over
the steps in Mr.. McKinleys diplomacy, nor
witty, If one makes conscientious study Of
the congressional debates.
But when the critics and the wits have
had their say, broadmindsd men who know
the history of their times will remember
that the conflict that is so near has been
inevitable for years past. The Spanish SOW
ereignty over Cuba has meant incessant re-
bellfon, misery and cruelty in that island.
American sympathies have been continuous
ly on the side of TIE oppressed; the desire
OF America has been unswervingly on the
side of liberation Meantime this nation,
whose whole heart was on the side of the
In policing its coastline in the interests Of
the oppressors.
General Weyler's brutal savagery in starv-
ing the noncombatants made the continue
ton OF passive watching exceedingly irk-
some. The destruction of the Maine changed
impatience into fury. Neither was, perhaps,
IN itself q sufficient cause for war. But a
nation whose mind is made up to a certain
course is seldom IN a mood to be pedantic
In It's choice Of an occasion for action. And
America has long been determined and
Justly determined, to end the heather and
futile anarchy that Spanish government
has meant for Cuba.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

the various regiments Of the Spanish FORE.
These are placed In formations by two - -
three veteran officers, detailed to irnnreooss
the delights Of warfare upon the yonns
monarch, and often they are presenfed -
fighting troops and practice various fnane e
vefs and perform sham battles against an
other crowd of toy soldiers supposed IN IL
Americans, and which, of course. have ~ -
suffer severe defeat at the hands Of the
baby King. He has also models of differsnt
war ships floating In one of the paisnee
lakes, and, in fact. every possible means =
being taken to instill into the mind Of the
royal child that his mission is to deferS
and some day, il possible. avenge his coun.
try.
When the little King becomes fractions
and even royal boys can be naughty no =
punished by being forced to witness The
American dummy soldiers inflict thrasbinS
on the Spanish, carefully arranged ~
course, by the aforementioned veterans in
attendance. The little King also likes -
trot at the head of a company of bow soiI
diers sent from time TO time TO play with
him in the palace grounds, and he is happi.
est when permitted, as a special concessi6r
to beat drum as they march past
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

The crusade against the use of birds as
millinery material is having its effect on
current fiction. In a story in New York
paper a man on the eve of second mar
riage is visited by the ghost of his first wife
arrayed in up-to-date worldly style. In the
course of the conversation he compliments
her on her good looks, adding: Il should
never have fancied you to be an angel
though really, your appearance is very
chic She replied: THAT is because
am a member of the Audubon Bird Society,
and SO refused on principle to wear wings"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

It is evident that it will take some time
to fill the regiments now in the field
to the maximum. This is because hundreds
Of companies have been recruited in cities
and neighborhoods by men of their ac-
quaintance who would be officers in new
regiments, thus making companies social
organizations 1t will take some time to
persuade men to yield these preferences, yet
1t would undoubtedly be better and easier
for the men TO go into organizations in the
field which have passed through severe ex-
periences which large bodies of men cannot
escape at the outset, for the reason that
they will escape the disagreeable things
which the new regiments passed through on
their arrival at Chickamauga.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

Senior Castelar,, the great Republican lead
er and most eloquent orator in Spain, an
tnveterate foe of dynasties and kings, says:
'.After all, the Yankees may blockade our
islands, but they cannot blockade our hon
or" That is very pretty epigram, but
what does it mean? Does the honor of
Spain consist in the right to rob and plum
der a helpless colony and to make ravish-
ment, corruption and starvation the rules of
government? Poor old CASTELAR, is using his
eloduence for a lost cause.