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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
THE CLIMATE OF CUBA.

A leading German military authority is
quoted as predicting that the United States
forces will encounter a deadly foe in the
climate of Cuba and that the war may be
prolonged indefinitely by that cause. This
authority says:
To turn man into a soldier in a temper-
ate climate and then make him a tropical
soldier is very difficult matter, the most
dltlcult matter conceivable; for this prom
lSeS to become the greatest tropical war
to employ technical term, which the world
has ever seen. Supposing the Americans
had 100000 men in Cuba in the autumn-be-
Tore that is not to be thought Oft may
be taken as a certainty that out of three
men one will be unfit for service in four
weeks, another in eight weeks, and the
third may pull through. Thus this war
promises to be interminable. / see no rea-
son why it should not last three or four
years.
This seems to assume that the Americans
will die off very rapidly or become inca
pacitated for service, while the Spaniards
will hold their own. Now a glance at a
map of the world will show that the climate
of Cuba is no more tropical for Americans
than it is for Spaniards. Spain lies in lati-
tude 80 to 43 degrees north. This covers a
strip through the northern part of the
United States. The northern line of Indiana
is in latitude Al degrees. The city of Mil
waukee is 43 degrees north, the same as the
northern limit of Spain. The city of Louis
vile is in latitude 80 degrees, which is
farther south than the southern limit of
Spain. All of our Southern States are
farther south than Spain. Evidently, there
fore, the German authority is wrong in as
Stunning that Spaniards can stand the Cuban
climate much better than Americans.
He is also wrong in assuming that the
Cuban climate is so deadly. The Agri-
cultural Department at Washington has re-
Gently issued a pamphlet on the climatic
conditions in Cuba, giving some exact in
illogical observations taken in Havana from
1853 to the present time. These observa-
lions show that the average temperature at
Havana the year round is n degrees. Dur
ing the ten years from 1883 to 1897, inclusive.
the highest annual temperature was 772 de-
grees and the lowest was Tel degrees. The
warmest month at Havana is July, and dur
ing the decade named the warmest July had
an average temperature of S34 degrees and
the coolest one ST. degrees. The warmest
single month in the decennial period was
August. 1858, when the average temperature
was &2 degrees. The highest temperature
recorded was 1906 in July. 1891, and the
lowest was 49, in February. 1896. This is
warm. but there is nothing alarming in It
for citizens OF Indiana, where the Their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

mometer often climbs into the nineties. OBJ
servations at Santiago, on the extreme
southern coast of Cuba, show that IT is
somewhat warmer there than at Havana,
the average annual temperature being about
so degrees while occasional observations at
points in the interior show it to be decidedly
cooler there than on the coast.
This information, based official data,
should go far to reassure the friends of SOL
diers going to Cuba who imagine that the
climate is deadly. There is never a summer
that we do not have many days in Indiana
hotter than the average annual temperature
in Havana. The filth of that city, and es-
pecially of the harbor, makes it unhealthy,
but even these conditions be guarded
against. The rainy season, which lasts
from May to October is bad feature, but
competent health authorities declare that
the interior of the island is never visited by
the yellow fever, and wherever our troops
go they will be under the best OF sanitary
regulations. Our campaign in Mexico was
farther south than Cuba, yet our losses by
disease were not extraordinary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

and Mary Davis, of the same town, had
pair which were cut off four times, each
time growing again. The horns are said TO
have been much admired. Travellers have
told of numerous horned men and women
IN western Africa, one or the specimens
seen in 1887 by NJ. Lamprey being a majes-
tic looking negro with horn springing
from each side OF his nose. A seventeen
horn with three prongs Is said to have
ornamented one side OF the head of a Mex
lean named Rodriguez The phenomenon
sometimes appears in other creatures than
man, cases of horns on dogs, horses and
mares and in one case on a cat being we'll
authenticated One authority considers the
abnormal horns a nervous prolongation Of
the skin, while another declares they are
due to morbid secretion. Human horns,
at any rate, resemble those OF animals in
substance, and they appear to have no eff
feet on health.
The tracing in the brain of the "intel-
lectual centers," or "centers of associa-
tion," has been announced bys Professor
Flechsig, a Leipsic specialist in mental dis
ease. These appear within the surface as
four connected completes, resembling one
another but differing from other parts Of
the cerebrum in structure, and are located
in the fore part of the frontal cerebrum, in
the temporal lobe, in the hinder parietal
lobe and in the lobule. Innumerable nerve
fibers connect them with the centers of sem
satioh. They convert into thought the per-
CepUOnS received from without Dy the CEN
tiers of sight hearing, smell, touch, ETC.,
and they bear all that we call experience,
knowledge, cogniZance principles and high
er feelings, as well as language. Their ex-
traordinary development distinguishes the
human brain from that of the lower ami
mails. They do not exist in newborn chill
dren, but in infant brains may be followed
the development of the centers Of sense,
which is completed after the third month
and then the gradual formation of the intel
lectual centers, more and more nerve fbers
shooting forth into those new regions Only
about third of the brain cortex is directly
connected with the nerve fbers, in which
consciousness of sense impressions depends,
two-thirds serving the higher purpose of the
intellectual centers. Mental diseases are
caused by the destruction of the intellectual
BRAIN and one of the four centers may be
others, so that, for instance, language may
become confused while conception remains
clear-the two depending on different CEN
tiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Emperor of Germany has issued a
royal command that henceforth no sermon
preached by a court chaplain shall exceed
in time of delivery fifteen minutes.
Negro parents in British Guiana choose
queer names for their children A mission
airy was recently asked to baptize an in
FAINT "Seriatim ad Valorem." Whisky EN-
manuel was the name chosen by another
parent.
Not far from the final resting place of Mr.
Gladstone, in Westminster Abbey, is the
tomb of Gen. John Burgoyne, who was de-
feated by Gates at the battle of Saltwater
and who surrendered to the Americans at
Saratoga in 1777.
The eighteen-year-old lad who is heir to
the throne of Japan seems to hold the
worlds record in the matter of pedigree.
He is the last p1ale descendant in the order
of primogeniture of a dynasty which has
reigned $500 years.
That venerable veteran, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, has been reelected president of the
New England Woman's Club. This was at
the clubs thirtieth annual meeting, and six
of the original members, Mrs. Howe among
them, received the guests.
Mr.. Gladstone was once five feet eleven
in height. but with the weight of years his
frame had shrunk, and when he was prime
minister the last time he was only five feet
nine. The smallnesS Of the coffin at West
minister Hall struck everybody.
Piper Ffndlater, of Darghai fame, was
getting $125 night for playing in London
music hall, but the engagement has been
Cancelled at the request of the Queen, who
thinks it a degradation to the Victoria
cross with which the piper has been deco
rated.
The Paris Steele publishes a letter from
Captain Dreyfus to his wife, dated the goth
of March of this year. Captain Dreyfus
says that his sufferings are nothing less
than terrible, and states that he has APP
pealed to the President of the republic TO
grant revision of his trial.
Rear Admiral Dewey will not be the only
hero Of the battle of Manila bay to wear a
handsome presentation sword. The COM
mon Council of Baltimore has appropriated
500 toward getting a sword for Capt. NJ. n.
Dwyer, or the cruiser Baltimore and pub
lie SUBSCRIPTION will raise this sum to 81 600.
An Arab Napoleon" has arisen in Africa.
His name is Rabah. and he recently in
vaded the Foulah empire of Sokoto. At
first he suffered a serious reverse but
nnaly emerged victorious from the struggle
ana captured kano, the great metropolis OF
the western Soudan, where he now reigns
supreme.
Miss Helen Gould is not the only person
who has given Uncle Sam a lift in the way
OF cold cash. A thousand dollars each have
peen sent 70 tha treasury By man and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

Justin Mccarthy. in the Independent.
/ came the other day, by chance, on a
passage in the "Grevile Memoirs" which
had somehow escaped my attention in for
mer readings. and which has an odd sort
of interest. 1 was always under the i'm
preston that the lift" as we call it in
England, or the elevator" as 1 believe
you call it-or, at all events, as you used
to call ft-in America, was entirely an in
vention of our own time But here Is Gre
vile, who. in the year 1890. is describing
one Of the palaces of the King Of Sardinia,
and who tells us that the King has had a
machine made, like q car which is drawn
up by a chain from the bottom to the top
of the house. 1t holds about six people.
who can be at pleasure elevated to any
story and at each landing place there is a
contrivance to let them in and out" And
l had always supposed that il was an in
genious Yankee notion" and here you get
the thiag itself in Italy in 1880. the invention
of a king, and the word elevated" ready to
hand for the purpose.
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w HOSJ.
Hon. Perry NJ De Leon United States
consul general at Guyaquil, Ecuador, is at
the Riggs. Mr.. De Leon comes home for
the purpose of going to the front and par
ticipating in the war. He was an officer
in the Confederate navy, and served on the
ram Albemarle from the time she was
launched until she was destroyed by Cush-
ing The thought of there being a war in
which he did not have a chance of fighting
for his country was more than he could
stand down there in South America, so he
came on as soon as he could get here.
Mr.. De Leon has many interesting things
to say of the sentiment manifested in South
American countries toward this war. so
far as the people are concerned the masses
of the people" he SAID. in talking on the
subject last night, they are strong friends
of the United States They believe that
America is for Americans, and they lose no
opportunities or showing their friendship.
But the clerical party is unit against us,
as ere about two out of three of the aris-
tocracy. They talk of the mother coun-
try and seem to love Spain still, despite
her long record of butchery in this hem
isphere Then the foreign element Is all
against u.s. The Europeans are against us
because of the Monroe doctrine, which they
resent on the ground that we will not per-
NIT the European nations to come in and
give the Central and South American coun-
tries stable governments, and will not take
them ourselves. The government of Ecua-
dor is friendly to the United States, and the
most progressive public men are all that
WaVp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

The Journal is probably the only paper in
the country which has not succumbed TO
the temptation presented by the recent ex-
plot at Santiago harbor to make a facetious
remark about ''Hobson's choice" but the
frequency with which the phrase is used in
this connection has brought inquiries as to
its origin, and these are the excuse for any
mention of it. There is no mystery what
ever about the origin of the expression, as
there is about so many time-honored say
ings. The original Hobson-Thomas or
Tobias, accounts differing as to his first
name-was born in the year 1914 and died in
1881. and was a historic character, being
the first man in England to keep horses for
hire. When man came for a horse he was
led into the stable, where there was large
number of animals, but he was obliged,
however, to take the horse which stood in
the stall nearest to the stable door, so that
every customer was alike we'll served, ac-
cording to his chance, whence 1t became a
proverb, when what ought to be ones own
election was forced upon him, to say Hob
sons choice" Besides his livery business,
Hobson was for sixty years a carrier be-
tween London and Cambridge. conveying to
and from the university letters and pack
ages as well as passengers. His death
called forth many tributes from officers and
students of the university. Among the lat
ter was Milton, who contributed two cpl
taphs, which are spoken of as curious be-
cause of being the only extant specimens of
Millions humor. The humor, however, is of
an elephantine character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
Bracing the Young Men Up.
Washington Post.


1t is strange what a difference a little
a young private in the Eighth Pennsyl-
vania out at Camp Alger, for example.
He was in Washington for several weeks
last winter and he stayed at a big hotel,
but nothing pleased him. He said the
bed in his room was 1.-The worst ever
and that the food was 1.-The limit" He
bullied the waiter and intimidated the bell
boy. The water was never quite hot
enough, the wine never just the right de-
gree of chill. He wanted only decent COM
fort, he said, and the hotel didn't af-
ford it. / saw him out at Camp Alger
a week ago. His bed was the bare ground.
He hadn't even lukewarm water to shave
with. He had nobody to wait on him,
rands for everybody. He showed me his
He was perfectly happy, he has gained six
pounds in two weeks and he says that camp
life is simply great" Really, the ways OF
men past finding out.
l met another young man | know out at
Camp Alger, and seeing basket in my
hand he Immediately wanted to know what
was in It,
Because" said he. 'ff it's dainties you
needn't mind. 1 know so many people
in washington, you know, and I've re-
ceived testimonials of the affection Of all
of them. I've had chocolate cake, and
cocoanut cake, and walnut cake, and
sponge cake. and cup cake, and pound
cake, and jelly cake, and marble cake,
and fruit cake, and angel food, and WASH
ington pie. If you've got any Frankfurters
ham sandwiches you're as welcome as
pay day. but if it's cake you'll oblige me
by aVaunting."
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by mamma or other staid and d1sconcerting
elderly person. 1t is Ruth's theory that
young persons Of opposite sex, when IN
each others company, need IAN eye kept
upon them, and that if the eye is not
mammals it should belong to some one
in entire sympathy with her. Had she
recovered from the shock Of the dis
covery that not only is the chape-
ron an unknown quantity in circles
whose intelligence and responsibility are
proved by the fact that their members
are readers of the Journal and come
to it for advice, she might, in her
excitement and haste, have responded in
terms so severe that the susceptibilities of
the young inquirer would have been deeply
wounded. 1t is for the reasons indicated,
then, that the Journal refrains from turn
ing the ingenious seeker for light over to
Miss Ashmore's well-meant but inelastic
mercies. 1t can itself at least deal gently
with him, if it can offer no encouragement
to him to prolong his stay at the girls
home after accompanying her from the
party. For, dear A. +. K, there are rea-
sons why it is inadvisable to remain at all
after seeing the girl home. In fact, it is
better not to go in even II she asks you,
for she probably does not mean what she
says. Even If she loves you dearly and
never gets tired of your society she has
probably learned that a young man who
will accept an invitation to come in at a
late hour never knows when to go home,
and, fond as she may be of him, other men,
bers of the family are prone to make dis
agreeable remarks next morning. Natur-
ally, a girl dislil1es to be, asked by unsym-
pathetic parents and rude brothers, HAS
A T. K. no home of his own?'' or, why
didn't the chump stay for breakfast" But
the chances are that by the time the party
is over she is tired of you and all the rest
of creation, and is longing for but one thing,
namely, the opportunity to remove her
party shoes and other restraining apparel
and to forage in the kitchen pantry or the
refrigerator after cold beef or bread and
butter and onions, or other refreshment for
the sinking SOUL And whatever you do.
A. T. K, don't hang over the front gate,
or sit out on the front steps If you value
the opinion of the "old man" In the one
him dislike you; in the other your talk, be
the tones ever soft or the words either,
is apt to disturb his rest and make him say
harsh things of you. If, on the other hand,
she belongs in the rear of the house and
you escort her to the back door. 1t Is hardly
safe to linger for fear of being mistaken
by the head of the household for sus-
picious character. No, A. T. K, don't go
in after you see the girl home. Say good
night at the door, and don't be all night
about it. Call the next evening, take her
box of candy and make your call so short
that neither she nor the family will show
symptoms Of needing the rest cure. BY this
means you are likely to become such IA
vorite that the girl will eventually say yes,
and the girls parents be willing to take
you as steady boarder. Try it. A. T. K,
and report progress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

The Baltimore American, one of the best
edited and most enterprising papers of the
country, and one of the most highly valued
Of the Journals exchanges, will celebrate
its 125th anniversary in August next. Apart
from mere age the American has reasons for
celebration and for pride in its record which
no other paper in the country possesses.
The Declaration of independence was off,
cially printed in it's Office and the Star
spangled Banner" reached the public in it's
pages. OF all the papers of the revolution
airy period the American is the only one
now published daily, and it may be called
the only paper of the last century which
has kept position in the front ranks of
American Journalism. AS souvenir Of Its
coming birthday it sends out q fac-simile
copy of its first issue, published in 1773. 1t
is small four-page paper, with three col
umns to the page. The publisher announces
that it will be published every Thursday
0nless another Day shall prove more agree
able TO the Customers), and shall contain
not only the Public News, which I shall
collect and compile with the greatest care,
but on Failure Of Anecdotes Of that Sort
1 will supply the Room with such moral
Pieces, from the best Writers, as will con-
duce most TO inculcate good Principles and
humane Behavior, and now and then with
Pieces of Wit and Humor that tend both to
amuse and instruct" The paper shows
signs of prosperity at the very start. five
out of its twelve columns being given over
to advertisers the chief Of whom is George
washington, who offers for sale 2O,0oo acres
of land on the Ohio and Great Kanhawa
rivers. Gen. Felix Agnus has been in con-
trol OF the paper for the last nfteen or
twenty yeara, and under his management
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
sHREps AND PATCHES.

The blind despise a man who cannot read
with his fingers.-Life.
Every woman is species by herself: she
cannot be generalized.-Life.
Charity asks, rs he worthy?" Christ,
art thou weary?"-Ram's Horn
Youth is the opportunity to do something
and to become somebody Munger.
Well mated. She was tall and willowy,
and he looked very spruce.-Boston Trans
cript.
There is nothing so apt to make a man
economize as the lack of money.-Chicago
News.
AS unkindness has no remedy at law, let
it's avoidance be with you point Of honor.
-Ballou.
There are times when the almighty dollar
will not go as far as a little politeness-Chi-
cago News.
Our greatest glory consists not in never
falling, but. in rising every time we may fall.
Goldsmith.
Almost any friend will stand by you to
the last cent, but it must be your cent.
Louisville Post.
The friendliness that has for its primary
principle brutal franknass is not desirable.
philadelphia Times.
About all a girl does for her little brother
is to jerk his Clothes and say: Behave
yourself. '-Atchison Globe.
Dewey's ancestors have resided in Yer
mont for over one hundred years 1t is a.
brave family.-Washington Post.
Il suppose the boys will be glad to cross
to Cuba?' "Gad?" They'll be in trans
ports. cleveland Plain Dealer.
A man likes to have it said that his baby
looks like him, but he gets mad if told he
resembles the baby.-Philadelph Times.
1t is to be presumed that a raw recruit is
not done until he is properly seasoned; that
Is TO say, peppered and mustered out.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
There is woman who declares that she
likes to go to her husbands place of BUSH
ness because his office manners are so
charming. 1t is different at home-Kansas
City Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
AFTER SEEING THE GIRL HOME.

An anxious correspondent A. T. K, asks
the Journal the following question: SIN see
ing young lady home after a party what
is the proper length of time for the young
man to remain at her home?" The first i'm
pulse on receiving this inquiry was to refer
A. T. *. to Miss Ruth Ashmore, the justly
celebrated authority on manners, and the
moral guide to unsophisticated youth, but,
on reflection, motives of humanity inter
vened to prevent this disposal of it. The
result of submitting such a question to Miss
Ashmore might have been unpleasant to one
or both the persons concerned, and it is far
from the Journals wish to cause a dis
agreeable moment to the esteemed lady,
while, as a matter of course it desires to
crafty its confiding correspondents by fur
nishing them all necessary information. and
also to protect them from harsh criticism.
Had the foregoing question been pumped
at Miss Ashmore without warning the con-
sequent shock to her tender sensibilties
might have ended forever her heart-to-heart
talks with girls that young men find such
delightful reading. She could hardly have
survived the thought of the situation pre-
scented by the question-that of young
man seeing a girl home from a party"
presumably late at night, when most parties
end, and without a chaperon, for there is,
obviously, no chaperon in the questioner's
mind. In Ruth's social code, on the con-
trary, that functionary is always at the
front; in Ruth's vocabulary. the word
chaperon leads all the rest. Nothing could
I'LL her with greater horror than the picture
of young nan and woman vending their
way home from festivity unaccompanied
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12

The Fourth of July will soon be at hand,
and it should be celebrated with a spirit
such as the day has not lately known. Many
things have happened since the last Fourth
to renew our love of country and our pride
in Its institutions, and there can be no better
an expression of these sentiments. There
should be other ways to manifest the gem
eral enthusiasm than the customary display
Of freworks-Philadelphia is to have a floral
parade--but at all events there should be
public demonstration whose echoes will go
to the absent soldiers and cheer the: Il
their weary way