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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

and declares that it is Insulting. indecent,
an affront TO intelligence and Americanisrn,
vulgar and, above ali. deadly dull" 1t was
the first production of the play from which
Senator Stewart and others expect SO
much. The plot OF the play is simple, II
impossible. The hero begins operations as
the treasurer of an iron company in Kill
man, Ill" He resigns that comfortable posi-
ton to lead in a strike of the company's
employees. Gratitude leads them to elect
him to Congress, where he secures the pas
sage of free-silver bill and is soon the
chief occupant of the White House The
actor who played the hero's part was made
up as once famous Nebraskan, Mr..
Bryan, while the heavy villain is Senator
Hanna and another villain is an associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The President is spared, but he is
made the subject of a gross insult in one
of the harangues which largely take the
place of dramatic dialogue. People who can
get their politics free of cost during cam
paigns will not pay an admission fee un-
less Mr.. Bryan is the star. AS he cannot
be, this new undertaking will be a failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian novelist, is
known to American readers by TRANSACTIONS
of some of his novels, including BLACK
Diamonds" and others. new one by him
is entitled 1.-THE Lion of Janina or the Last
Days of the Janissaries." (Harper &
Brothers.) 1t is Turkish story, the scenes
varying between Janina. in Epirus, and
Stamboul. The period is 1919. The story
involves picture of the rottenness of the
Turkish empire and the fatal power exct-
cised by pashas in the distant parts and
by the JanissarieS in the capital Itself. In
cidents of the Greek war of independence
are introduced, and the Greek is painted
the equal of the Turk for cruelty and
treachery as no doubt he is. The stcry is
curious blending of light and shadow. at
least of such light as emanates from the
harem. with scenes of brutal butcnery. The
lion of Janina is a Turkish pasha who be-
comes so rich and powerful that it takes
the utmost efforts of the Sultan to crush
him and the Janissaries. The story is an
interesting contribution to the question of
Turkish misrule and to the better appret ia
ton of the good and bad qualities of the
Turk as q fighter.
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THE EDISON PLANT.
Edison and His Associates Have
Closed the Deal for the Ortiz Grant.

Santa Fe New Mexican.
The New Mexican, after weeks of patient
investigation, has finally possessed itself of
definite and authentic information concern
ing the immense and sensational deal
whereby the world renowned inventor
Thomas A. Edison, of Orange, N. j., in as
ISOLATION with an English syndicate that
commands unlimited capital, has secured a
two years option on the famous Ortiz mine
grant of about $1,000 acres of gold land in
South Santa Fe county, and at the end of
that time will unQueStionably pay over to
the owners of the grant the modest sum of
$1,5O0.0O0 named in the bond as the price of
the property.
Preliminary to securing this option Mr.
Edison had his confidential expert, Mr. W.
b. Burns, with nine assistants, constantly
employed for nearly year carefully test
ing the gold values of the grant, giving
particular attention TO the placer grounds
and since then other experts have been sent
out to check up the exhaustive work of Mr.
Burns and verify the almost incredible re-
port he submitted
The reports were all unexpectedly satis-
factory. or course, the first result thereof
was the immediate closing of the pending
deal for the grant with the owners. hnme-
diately thereafter Mr.. Edison decided to be-
gin the construction of a colossal plant for
reScuiEg the gold from the large areas Of
rich placer ground on the grant by means
of a new method of his own invention, and
with him a decision to do a thing Means
forthwith action. The construction Of his
plant is already well under way, and it will
undoubtedly, be completed and in actual OPP
before snow flies next %all.
Of course no one here knows what man
ner of a plant is being constructed. as it is
the coinage of Mr.. Edisons own fertile and
resourceful brain, but an idea of its mann
moth proportions can be formed from the
fact that it will be built large enough TO
handle 5000 tons of placer lirt every
twenty-four hours. These figures seem
fabulous, but tlsEy come direct from the
famous "wizayG himself, and can be re-
lied upon as giving a correct idea of the
plant he has planned and is forcing to COM
pletion as fast as skilled mechanics and
unlimited money can do the work.
After the plant is completed Mr.. Edison
will come at once to this city with his
family, and thereafter his headquarters will
be here for an indefinite period. This
change of residence from Orange, n. J., to
Santa Fe will occur some time during the
early part of the coming autumn. Mr.. Edi-
sons idea in coming to Santa Fe is that he
may have desirable place of residence
convenient to the Ortiz grant, that he may
personally supervise the setting up and cp-
GRAFTON of his wonderful gold-saver. Evil
IDENTIFY he regards it as his greatest inven-
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FEDERAL REGULATION OF LABOR.

An exchange in the East has turned its
sarcasm upon President Gompers, of the
Federation of Labor. and Secretary Ross,
of the National Mule Spinners' Association,
because they have appeared before the
House committee on judiciary to induce 1t
to bring forward the proposed amendment
comforting upon Congress the power to leg
islate in regard to the hours Of labor and
other matters designed to secure uniformity
OF labor regulations throughout the coun-
try. The attempt to ridicule the proposition
by suggesting that it should be made to
give Congress authority to prohibit the
wearing of high hats in theaters shows that
the writer has taken time which might have
been profitably devoted to the considera-
ton of grave problems for the cultivation
of fiippancy in commenting upon them.
The Journal has noticed with approval
this proposition to enlarge the scope of Con-
gress in regard to legislation affecting in
dustry and labor. The Gripping of cotton
manufacturing in New England, where
stringent laws have been enacted regarding
the hours OF labor and the employment Of
women and children. by a competition in
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The seats of the Mighty.

OOlllGE fNtChAy.
The Czarina is down with the smallpox.
Many another has been to. The SaracenS
found the disease in Africa and introduced
years ago. Until Jenner came 1t was FASH
ion1ble among all classes. Said the four
teenth Louis Of France, II nave the SMALL
pox'' A courtier answered. Sire, so has
every one" He was not sympathetic mere
iy he was exact. 1t heightened Queen
Elizabeth's absence Of beauty. William III
gave 1t to one of his pages, and, that the
honor might be beconingly remembered,
gave him the duchy of Portland also.
Maria Theresa had it. So did Queen Mary.
1t was the epidemic in palaces But 1t was
not confined to thrones. When 1t reached
this part of the world it singuiarly aided
the civilizirg influence OF Spain. Out or
Mexico alone 1t took nearly four million
people. In South America its helpfulness
was relatively as great; Then. returning 70
Europe, it depopulated the northland
century ago Jenner got to work at IT.
Thereafter it's efficiency waned. The
Czarina IS the first modern sovereign whom
it has attacked. One may regret that It
should have done so. This lady is one or
the prettiest women in Europe. AS young
girl she was regarded as the fairest of the
princesses. AS empress she is uneXceeded
AS CZarina she sits on n seat so high that
she overlooks two continents. In her dia-
dem the dominion of all the Russias CLEANS
In her scepter is the fate of kingdoms
Nature made her fair. destiny great. One
might fancy her blessed beyond all other
women. Yet neither beauty nor power
served to protect her. Her husband has in
terested himself elsewhere. In his place
smallpox has come. Who Is happy? Mira
beau was asked. 'Some miserable wretch"
he answered. No plain woman need envy
the CZarina
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lola in Prison.
Golfers Weeklv


lola was recently asked in what fashion
he proposed to amuSe himself during the
term of Imprisonment to which the Liberty,
Equality and Fraternity of france has con-
demned him. How do you SUPPOSE" he re-
piled. In growing roses" As a matter OF
fact lie is free to do as he likes. He may
raise hexameters. raise the Old Nick. He
will have but his own conceptions Of de-
corum to consider. The political detenu at
Sainte-Pelagie is deprived of his freedom
and OF nothing else. The jailers constitute
a retinue of servants. The cells elongate
into suites The table is served by Paillard
providing. Of course, that there be coin.
Sainte-Pelage is quite as comfortable and
just as expensive, as the Grand Hotel. A
bylaw enacted in 1867 nhibits any ARTICLE
de luxe" from penetrating the gates. But
what is q luxurious object? The wardens
have tried to determine and they have
failed To a starving Cuban a rotten banana
would come under the designation. TO an
habitue of Cubat truffies cooked in cham
payne would not Murger noted that Mimi
Pinson was so luxurious that she took an
omnibus whenever she went out. The Rev.
DIR. Rainsford declared that New York was
plunging into luxury because Mrs. Bradley
Martin gave fancy ball. Luxury is like
truth there is no criterion of it, At Sainte-
Pelagie, in consequence, everything goes.
Zoa may If it pieases him. squander his
substance there in riotous living. He may
lead an existence of Sardanapalian volup-
tuousnesS and grow fat Or he may prac-
tice asceticiSm and write book. Presume
bly, he will. Sainte-Pelagie is just the place
to do 1t.
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Governor Leedy, of Kansas, who is
Populist because he is something of an An
archist, is assailing the Supreme Court of
the United States, declaring among other
things that its decisions are in favor of
corporations. This charge is false; on the
other hand, the trend of the decisions of the
court has been against corporations and in
favor of the States. The Supreme Court
has held that the State, through it's Leg
islature, has power to fix the maximum
rates of transportation. On this point there
was no dissent. The late decision is a re-
affirmation of the same judgment, with
limitation to the effect that the rates of
transportation which the State fixes must
be sufficient to pay operating expenses and
a fair return upon the money invested.
The decision is so careful in that regard
that it defines what property in railroads
is and what it is not. What Governor
Leedy desires is that investments in rail-
roads shall be destroyed to the end that
railroads may be owned and operated by
the State. A railroad operated by Leedy
politicians would mean the bankruptcy of
the State,
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Chicago Post.


Mr.. Curtis, of the able staff Of washington
correspondents, is much chagTined by the
general Ignorance of that stirring and pa
trlotic song, The Star-spangled Banner"
He relates that at a banquet of the Loyal
Legion very few of the company could re-
member tho words of the second verse, ana
that nearly everybody fell down on the last
verse. To us this is a very pardonable of
tense. The truth of the matter is that all
national airs are burdened with q superfluity
OF words. For patriotic purpose only one
verse is necessary, and it is enough that the
first eight liEes of THE Star-spangled Ban
nef." After that the performance becomes
monotonous and wearisome; the patriotism
IS not sustained, and cannot be sustained
through three long stanzas. What is true of
of America" the virtues of which are
summed up in the opening stanza. Eight
lines of song are enough for anybody not
q professional singer to remember, and aft
er man has thrown all his enthusiasm and
love Of country into these eight lines it is
a good time to stop. We are proud of the
fact that we know the opening lines of Tile
Star-spanged Banner and of America
as well, and we are not at all ashamed to
confess that we could not repeat the follow
ing stanzaS for money, love or salvation. AS
for THE Star-spangled Banner" it is set to
stirring music, but we admit we do not
think much of the literary quality of any
song that begins 20 say" However, it IL
our national song and We'll swear by it. but
We are not going to try 10 learn it. Wen do
our best on those eight lines, but there we
stop,
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Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Boston. will soon
issue history of the Lowell Institute writ
ten by Harriette Knight Smith.
A new book by Albion W. Tourgee, author
of "A Fools Errand, by One of the Fools
will be published Immediately, by Fords
Howard. & Hubert. This new issue is
THE Man Who Outlived Himself
Eastern Journeys" is the title of a book
by the late Charles A. Dana. which is to
be published Immediately by D. Appleton
with Mr.. Dana's art of Newspaper Max
ing" describes travels in Russia and the
Caucasus and to Jerusalem.
Benz. R. Tucker, "a Gold street. New
'''The Trial of Emil lola a full report.
from original sources, of the fifteen days
proceedings in that celebrated case. includ-
ing NJ Zalo's letters, testimony of wit
nesses. and speeches of counsel-ma6ing
pamphlet of about 300 pages.
Volume of the new Dictionary of the
Bible is TO be issued early in March. 1t will
be the rlost extensive reference work of the
kind ever published, and the absence of
anything covering the same ground which
embodies the results of modern work,
makes it particularly noteworthy. Messrs.
Charles Scrbners Sons are the publishers
in the United States and Canada.
Mr.. r. N, Stephens, the author and dram
atist. has placed in the hands of his pub
fishers, Messrs. l.. G. Page a. Company, of
Boston, the manuscript of romance of the
Revolutionary days to be entitled The
Continental Dragon The scene Is laid
around the old Philipse manor house near
Yonkers. n. Y. which in the year 1777 was
the central point of that debatable ground
known to both armies as the neutral ter
ritory"
The Scribners have just Issued the second
volume to be published in the sores Of
twelve called Periods of European Liter
ature," edited by Prof. George SaiusSbury.
This notable enterprise is TO cover the
whole history of European literature from
THE Dark Ages to '-rhe Later Nineteenth
Century" and the present volume, by Da-
vid Hannay IS devoted to THE Later
Renaissance" This covers In Spain the
golden age OF letters, including the school
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

The wide dissemination of blood by de-
scent often commented on, has an illustra-
ton in the fact that there is a family in
Indiana which traces its descent directly
from Oliver Cromwell. In prosecuting an
inquiry for another purpose it came to the
knowledge of the Journal that Mr.. Linville
Ferguson, an aged and honored citizen or
Milton, Wayne county, is a direct descend
ant from the great Lord Protector. Mr..
Ferguson has documentary proof of the
fact, and prides himself on his descent from
one who outranks most of England's anoint-
ed Kings. A son of his perpetuates the
name of Oliver, and other members of the
family. all highly esteemed. live in the same
neighhOrhood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

Something like an apology seems due from
a writer who ventures to add work on the
wages question to the already enormous
number of essays and treatises on that
well-worn subject. Prof John Davidson
gives as his reason for writing 1.-THE Bar
gain Theory of Wages the fact that there
is no treatise presenting in a fairly COM
pact form the problems of wages as they
should be brought before advanced students
of political economy The work is a critical
development from the historic theories on
the wages question, together with an ex-
animation of certain wages factors. the no.
bility of labor trades unioniSm and the
methods of industrial remuneration. New
York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

In spite of the flood of new novels every
year the old ones remain favorites and are
returned to again and again by readers
who tire of the purpose novel, the deca-
dent and the symbolical novel and all the
rest, and wish only for a story whose writ
err meant to tell story and nothing more.
Dumas was one of these authors, and
though his tales differ in merit and inter
est they fill a place in fiction that no
others supply. "Sylvandire," THE Brigand"
and blanche De Beauleau' are the latest
to appear in the very beautiful new edi-
ton being issued by Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston. The merit or demerit as the case
may be, of an historical romance is that,
whether true to historical facts or not, it
is accepted as such by its readers. In spite
of themselves and of historical lore gath
cred from other sources, the peculiar inter
est given to the times and the perSonageS
by romance dealing with them colors the
impressions of the readers and gives them
their lasting ideas. Probably more people
know Louis XIV as Dumas pictured him
than as he is portrayed by any historian:
"Sylvandire" is tale of that time OF
LOuiS'S reign when Madame De MalntenOn
was the power behind the throne 1t was
the period, as the introductory note says,
of 1.-The government of the saints" when
Madame De MaintenOn who affected rellg-
ious zeal and gave her favor to the ultra
religious faction, was the cause of repres-
sion and gloom in court circles and OF the
cultivation of variety of SanctimoniouS
deceit to which even courtiers are not often
accustomed The other two stories named,
both of which are in one volume, relate to
different periods. THE Brigand'' is of the
time of the Emperor Charles V, before he
attained his greatness. Pope Leo x and
Ferdinand and Isabella are figures in the
story. Blanche De Beauleau'' is a short
story of the time of the reign of terror,
RobeSpierre, Danton, DesmoulinS and other
celebrities being among the characters.
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In this little book by Maxwell Gray
(NIiss Tuttiett) the author of 1.-THE Silence
of Dean Maitland appears in another light.
'Ribstone Pippins" QIarper & Brothers) is
not much of a story so far as plot and ac-
ton are concerned, but it is a very artistic
and skillful picture of country life ard
character among the lowly poor in "A aouth
of England locality. The characters are IN
teresting by reason of their naturainess,
and sincerity, and the pictures of
country life are very realistic. There is a
glimpse, for contrast, of the town life, with
its more snowy growth, and a hint Of the
country product transpIanted.
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Spanish spies at work.
Leslie's weekly.


A lieutenant of the Spanish navy, who
recently visited Mexico, made bold as soon
as he had crossed the border to declare
for war with the United States. He made
the surprising statement that the Spanish
bereau of naval intelligence has complete
plans and drawings of the Notifications of
the principal American ports. In this con-
nection it will be recalled that Lieutenant
Commander Sobral, who, until his recent
recall for his indiscreet utterances regard
ing the Maine explosion, was the naval at
tache Of the Spanish legation at Washing
ton, was charged last summer with MAX
ing sketches of Notifications in the vicinity
of Charleston harbor. 1t now leaks out that
Sobral, during the past two years. has
been quietly visiting every important for
LITIGATION on our Atlantic coast; that he has
been inspecting the ships of our navy, while
in course of construction and after their
completion. and that he and the retired
Spanish minister, De Lone, have possession
of many valuable charts and plans from the.
Navy Department. We cannot learn who IS
responsible for this condition of affairs, hut
it is a condition without precedent in any
other land
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the South, where there are no labor laws,
proves the necessity of federal regulation
as a matter of justice to all the States In
Massachusetts and other New England
States the hours of labor are practically
fixed. Children under a certain age cannot
be employed in factories, and those over
that age can be employed but part of the
time. A system of factory inspection gives
practical force TO these laws. The full en-
ployment of these children and of women
twelve hours day al lower wages has
created a competition which New England
cannot stand and pay the wages which pre-
vailed last year. What is taking place in
the cotton manufacturing industry can ex
tend to other industries. In Indiana, for in
stance, a law might be enacted which
would limit the hours of labor in coal mines
or in some exhausting occupations like
glass making, while in an adjoining State
there would be no limit to the hours of
work in day With the sharp competition
in these and ether industries the States in
which the days work might be eleven in
stead of ten hours would draw the business
from those States in which the hours are
limited by law. Plants would be aban-
doned employees would be forced to leave,
and towns prosperous would rail- into decay.
There is another consideration. The intro
duction Of labor-saying machinery has so
multiplied production that a general reduc-
ton in the hours of labor seems to be an
economic necessity. There is scarcely a
branch of manufacturing in which the ca
pacity to produce is not in excess of the
demand for consumption. 1t is this condi-
ton which has led manufacturers in GER
tain lines to organize to limit production
and to attempt to check ruinous compeu-
ton. The agitation for an eight-hour law,
even if it is not always reasonable, has an
economic basis which affects the industry of
the country as well as the welfare of en-
ployes. But no organization of labor can
enforce an eight-hour day throughout the
country, and to compel a legal eight-hour
day in States where such organizations
have power would ruin both capital and
labor If Congress had power it could leg
islate regarding such matters in a manner
the rights of all.
If the representatives of organized labor
are urging the proposition of Massachusetts
to give Congress power to legislate in re-
gard to the hours of labor they have set
about the work of lettering the condition
of labor and capital in the most direct and
effective manner.
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school Hooks.

The American Book Company, of New
York, Cincinnati and Chicago has issued
the following: STORY of Aeneas," by M.
Clark, a companion volume to the STORY of
Troy" by the same author; Laboratory
Manual in Botany" by Prof Charles H.
Clark, an outline course of practical study
in botany; "A New Astronomy by Prof.
David p. Todd, a practical and scientific
textbook of this interesting study; "Ap-
piled Physiology" by DR.. Frank Overton,
treatise including the best established
%or n 1f b1 P4o BaTd
a series of four volumes for the four inter-
mediate grade years. All of the foregoing
works are intended for use in SCHOOLS and
represent the latest and best methods of
teaching. They are all illustrated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-14

In a speech delivered at Rome, Ca, a
Jew days ago. Mr.. William Jennings Bryan
said he did not take any stock in the con-
tention that there is plenty of money in
the country" and that I'VE bimetallists in
Eist that there must be more money in cir
culation and that system embracing the
use OF both metals should be used" The
man is incurably dishonest. He knows as
well as anybody that there is an abundance
Of money In the country and that gold and
silver both circulate under the present sys-
sem. while under free-silver coinage we
should have only silver.