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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
THE WAR VALUE OF SANTIAGO.

Local strategy boards have condemned the
move upon Santiago. 1t is not an important
point as base, they assert and there are
no troops there to be fought and captured
This judgment is at variance with that of
the naval and military authorities directing
affairs. 1t is claimed by these men that San
tiago is needed for the chief outlying base
of supplies for subsequent military and
naval operations in the West Indies The
naval and military authorities may not be
so well informed as the local strategy
boards, but if they are, the Spaniards have
from twelve thousand to fifteen thousand
men in and about Santiago. General Pando
is Fastening to Santiago, it is reported with
the best ten thousand men in the Spanish
army. If twenty-five thousand men can be
disposed of it will be good beginning.
Much more important is he fact that the
only naval squadron belonging to Spain
which is of any real consequence is that
bottled up in Santiago harbor. Admiral
Sampson could probably force the narrow
neck to the harbor and destroy those ships,
but the odds would be greatly against him
for the reason that the narrow channel is
literally filled with mines as powerful as
that which sunk the Maine. Even if he
should escape the mines the neck of the
harbor is so narrow that only one ship can
pass at time, that fleet passing in,
one ship behind another, would be at the
mercy of several ships and batteries inside
the harbor, as much as the Spanish squad
ron would be at the mercy of the American
ships in attempt to pass out. With the
cooperation of the army, the only Spanish
war ships which could help the Spanish at
Havana or elsewhere will be more speedily
captured. 1t has been stated that next
month when the hurricanes prevail and our
ships will be forced to leave their shore sta
tons, Cervera hopes to be able to escape.
There may not be anything in this but it is
far better to have the Spanish ships out of
the way because it will relieve our ships
and leave them to do more effective service
elsewhere.
At any rate, the capture of Santiago will
give us a base and reduce the coast line
which must be blockaded. Besides, there is
reason to believe that the men of expert
ence, who have the advantage of the fullest
information, really know more about man
aging the campaign than do the local STRAIT
egg boards, whose knowledge of ships is
confined to pictures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

Some DAYS ago the Journal ventured the
opinion that the federated women now gath
cred in Denver would have perfectly love-
Nv time 1t acknowledged that it did not
know what they were federated for, but
expressed the hope that this secret might be
disclosed to it in due course. Owing to the
unfortunate existence Of war the telegraphlc
reports have been less voluminous than
might have been the case otherwise, and the
general public has been deprived Of numer-
Gus interesting details of their proceedings.
Denver papers, however, rose to the occa-
sion. and. making the war a secondary
matter to this great local event, gave the
visiting ladies the freedom of their pages.
A careful perusal of these leaves no doubt
that the Journal was right in it's prediction
The ladies have certainly been having just
the loveliest time that ever was. They have
had no end of papers on, no end OF topics;
they have had receptions, teas, dinners and
other social festivities tapping over each
other every hour of their stay; they had
free trolley rides, free concerts, and the
Rocky mountains to look at; they have had
opportunity to shine in their best gowns,
and have had-no, they have not had UNI
limited chance to talk. resolution was
passed early in the week limiting each
speaker to three minutes, thus endangering
at the very outset the harmony and success
OF the gathering. However, as no trouble
is reported as growing out of this offensive
rule it is the Journals belief that no at
tempt was made to enforce it. few de-
termined women could make a dead letter of
that regulation in short order. The feder-
ated ladies also had politics galore. Whether
the visitors taught the Colorado ladies some
thing in this line or whether they learned
from their hostesses is not, at this writing,
quite clear but that they will tell inter-
es;ing tales of the devious ways of club poll
tics on their return can hardly be doubted.
They have had lesson in finance, too.
Henceforth club women OF the country
must pay for their federated privileges. 1t
will cost each one of them 10 cents year.
Even yet after close reading of the con-
vention's reports. the Journal does not quite
know what these privileges are, except to
those who go as delegates, but it has no
hesitation in saying that if they are worth
anything they are worth 10 cents. And In
this connection it must be remembered that
attendance at these gatherings is not lin
tied to delegates. ANY federated woman in
the country can go If she has some new
gowns and enough money Why she should
90. let the hundred thousand men who flock
to g presidential convention. where they
have no official business. make answer Il
il their party convention. and they have q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

When a novelist does not know what
else to do with troublesome character he
has one unfaiing resource-that of killing
him off. 1t is not realistic to do this, how
ever for while death is, of course, a grim
feature of real life it seldom occurs with
what. to the finite mind, seems poetic and
harmonious fitness. In actual life the man
who could be conveniently dispensed with,
the man whose presence and existence make
other people uncomfortable, even though he
be truly good person; the man who is
himself a triHe weary of life, the hero whose
deeds overshadow those of the rank and file
such men do not die and so get out of
the way. They continue to live, and other
folk must accommodate their ways to them.
Nor is it artistic to dispose of a character
in fiction by killing him if any possible ex-
cuse can be devised for permitting him to
live. Especially is this true If he is an ad-
mirable parsonage In the latter case read
ers come to have an affectionate regard for
him and feel sense of personal grief and
injury at his untimely taking off-a feeling
that is always unwise for an author to
arouse Moreover. if the popular character
is allowed to live he remains a source of
satisfaction to his admirers after the other
personages with whom he was associated
in the book are forgotten. Something is
left to the Imagination. There is always
before such character the possibility OF
continued career of heroic adventure, ca
reer varying according to the fancy OF the
Individual Such possibilities were before
Mr.. Rassendyll when the last chapter of
.sThe Prisoner OF Zenda'' was closed. 1t
was inevitable that man so brave and gall
liant and high-minded should go on doing
daring deeds somewhere even II the Prin-
cess Fiayia were not present to inspire him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
THE CLOSING OF THE CORTES.

Confusion, CONSERVATION and dismay are
the prevailing conditions at Madrid. In the
nature of things cable dispatches cannot go
they disclose many of the symptoms CT a
tottering dynasty, if not a crumbling EN-
pire. The closing session of the Cortes be-
fore the reading of the royal decree adj
journing it was marked by many exciting
incidents, much elimination and recrimina-
ton among ministers and members, and a
general washing of dirty clothes before the
world. The lie was passed, published inter-
views were repudiated, indignant reporters
left the Chamber in a body, the Ministry
was denounced collectively, and Individually
Weyler was denounced, the monarchy itself
was denounced and the general uproar
ended by the Cortes going into secret ses-
sion.
Amid all this confusion one member spoke
the words of bitter truth. This was Senior
Gonzales, who said he did not speak as
partisan, but as Spaniard We quote from
the press dispatch:
The chastisement falling on nations or on
collective bodies, he added, had never been
undeserved as it had been attempted to
make the Spaniards believe Continuing, he
said: For everything happening now the
whole country, the people the parties and
the government are responsible" In spite
of the interruptions Senior Gonzales con-
tinued: 81 have many deadlier truths to
tell. Spain has never known what a real
colonial policy is
The speaker condemned both the Conserv
atives and the Liberals for having tried to
rule Cuba by troops when what it had
needed all along was drastic reorganiZa-
ton of the administration of the island"
These were indeed deadly truths" to be
hammered into Spains ears by Spaniard
Senior Gonzales seems to have discovered
what every reader of history has learned
and what every intelligent person outside of
Spain knows, namely, that she has been
dying for hundred years, and that her
present desperate condition is the penalty
for national crimes she has been commit
ting ever since the discovery of America.
But his declaration that Spain has never
known what real colonial policy is is not
quite accurate. Spain has had colonial
policies but never a wise or honest one.
Her policy has always been to Cypress, tax,
rob and plumber her colonies, and to en-
courage the growth of ignorance and super
stition as other governments do the growth
Of education and intelligence. Nevertheless,
there was enough deadly truth in what the
speaker said to give his auditors a glimpse
of SPANS judgment day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
SCIENTIFIC.

An epidemic In an ant colony has been
noticed by a Bombay bacterologist, who
suspects the disease may be the bubonic
plague, and is experimenting to settle the
question.
The readiness with which bacteria may be
conveyed to wells in subsurface water has
been shown in some experiments made on
the Rhine, near Strasburg, by Prof. e.
Pfuhl. Two kinds of bacteria, neither oc-
curing in the Rhine were placed in q
shallow pit nearly full Of water, and in one
twenty-four feet of gravel to a second pit.
the other species appearing in the second pit
within two hours.
From recent calculations it appears that a
point on Jupiter's equator may have three
total eclipses of the sun in one day. the
middle one lasting forty-one minutes and
each of the others twenty-one minutes.
Near latitude 10 degrees the three eclipses
meet without overlapping, those of morning
and afternoon lasting forty-three minutes.
For certain period the dweller on Jupiter,
whose rotation occupies less than ten hours.
may find his view of the sun almost wholly
cut off by night and eclipseS
A bare iron wire and an insulated copper
wire wound helically on an iron core. con-
stitutes the novel primary battery of MI.
N B. Stubblefield, of Murray. Ky. and the
electrolyte may be simply water or mois-
ture 1t is claimed the form increases the
output of current. while yielding inductive
effect that may De utilized IN secondary
coil The cell may serve as a self-generating
eIectromagnet. and is said to be adapted for
telephone, telegraph and electric bell pur-
poses and especially valuable in electro
therapeutics.
The production of any desired variety of
cheese by the introduction of the appro-
pirate microbes is gradually becoming I'M
derstood The microbes tAavoring the va
rious cheeses have been isolated and culti-
waited by DR.. Olav Johan Olsen, of Nor
way, and by adding these cultures to cheese
in a storeroom carefully guarded against
foreign microbes he has been able to pro-
duce the varieties from which he started
There are but few kinds of the microbes,
but they may be combined in different pro-
portions. The art has been sufficiently de-
veloped to be carried on commercially.
The list of double and multiple stars, now
exceeding one thousand is increasing with
such rapidity as to suggest that single stars
like our sun, which has no larger satellite
or companion. are exceptions to the rule.
The double stars are of two kinds. The
telescope binar!es are systems whose two
components are both seen revolving around
a common center, while in the spectroscopic
binary the existence of the second sun is
known only by the evidence OF the
by man. The well-established periods
of the former range from many
centuries down to twenty-five years
while spectroscopic binaries may have
new discoveries are those of a telescope
binary whose revolution is completed in Ave
and one-Ealf years, and spectroscopic
binary which has the astonishingly short
about the large star Castor In one thousand
years. Sirius, estimated 70 be four times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

thoroughly upset than If his wife were 10
be seriously i'll for six weeks.-beminns
Observer
Words are like leaves. ard where they
most abound much fruit Of sense beneath
is rarely found-Pope.
The tune which our gunners have been
playing on Santiago is the march of civiliza.
Philadelphia Record.
Somebody is predicting the end of the
world Please hold off until we have licked
the enetny.-Syracuse Herald
Lives of great men all remind us how i'm
portant it is to use good Judgment in the
lection OF biographer.-Puck.
When a man becomes great, his friends
remember many things about him that new
er happened.-Philadelphi Ledger.
Among the friends We fondly admire wa
have a few whom we don't like 10 meet
when we are in a hurry.-Emma Carleton.
Only convince yourself that you don't have
to do everything which everybody wants
you to do, and your life is saved.-Chicago
Post
Vacation is that time of year when the
small boy quits worrying his teacher and
stays at home TO worry his parents.-Chi"
cago Record.
People should occasionally have company
at their house. to find out how amiable and
agreeable the other members of the family
can be.-Atchison Globe.
Never build after you are ive-and-forty:
have five years income in hand before you
lay brick, and always calculate the eX-
pense st double the estimate.-Kett
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

of Steam Engineering. who submitted de-
signs to give speed of eighteen knots an
hour. The reason given by the board for
asking bids for the sixteen-knot ships is
that it will require the drawing of new
plans by the bureau which would delay the
work of construction. This pretext would
have some weight if it were possible TO have
the ships completed in season to take some
part in the Spanish war. AZ it is not pos
sible to. have the ships built in less than
two years. the reason of the board has no
force. The people in the interior do not
know mach about war ships, but they want
the United States to have the best and the
fastest. So long as European governments
are building ships with speed of eighteen
or nineteen knots, the people in the interior
would prefer that its ships shall have
greater rather than less speed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
THE TERRIBLE KNOUT.
Now Used Only as Punishment for
the Crime of Murder.
Bulletin of the American Geographical So

the crime Oh Muruer.
Bulletin of the American Geographical So
ciety.
Flogging by the knout has been prohib-
tied in Siberia. 1t is allowed only on tae
island of Saghalien. and for murder No
Russian civilian is allowed to witness an
execution of that sort: certainly no trav-
eler You can look over any book you
like even any romance you like, and
think you will find that no author ven
lures to say that he himself saw case
Although the Governor and were SO
intimate, 1 noticed for the first time one
day little cons55rai Mt in him; | met met
Terv %d and S he said DO H am v 9qx
unhappy. There is case which has come
into int. court ,o, !. for fiogging for murder and
1t was not a thing that 1 would like to
see, but / thought that somebody who
was competent should know what this
painful it might be to myself | had bet
ter see it for the purpose of truth. l saw
very we'll that the Governor was keeping
something from me- Here comes the adj
vantage of being a doctor. The prison
doctor went to the Governor and said
that the prisoners case was so critical
that he could not take the responsibility
of deciding whether he was fitted for the
punishment at the examination which
he asked that / might come in consulta-
ton with him. The Governor could not
refuse and de did it. teG pac vent mt
the great yard of the prison, in the pres
ence of the Governor, the surgeon and
myself The criminal was stretched out
on table in the middle of the yard and
behind him stood the executioner. To the
right of the table and at good distance
was the man who kept the tally and count
ed aloud each blow as ii fell-one, two,
three and so to the end.
1 have never seen anything which was
so painful to witness The knout has a
large thick handle, the strands of the
whip are divided into three by knots and
with a hard end. and the scourge descends
like bird of prey and picks out the piece.
The only pleasant thing about it is the
end. AS soon as it was over and the man
was not dead, he was taken to the hos
best of men cared for him just as much
as if he had been a sick woman in New
York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

sirable that she and other authors who
change their Lames should devise some
means of avoiding the confusion likely to
follow. The public is not infrequently
asked to remember that certain writer
whose name it has learned to know has
married, and instead of Jane Jones will
henceforth be known as Mrs. Jane Jones
Robinson, Mrs. John Thomas Robinson,
as she may elect. 1t is too much to ask
that it shall also keep pace with he- should
the time come when she resumes the name
of Jones or takes another husband and an
other name. In view of the confusion likely
to arise from these possible changes it
might be we'll for the female author at the
beginning of her career to follow the Gus
tom OF her sisters of the stage and adopt
a namo for professional purposes that shall
remain on the bills whatever her matri-
monial vicissitudes. Something is due to the
public in this matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

When Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett re-
Gently secured a divorce from her husband
she also gained permission to use her
maiden name, Hodgson, 1t is remarkable
enough that a woman who is sufficiently
dissatisfied with her husband to get di-
vorce from him should also wish to get rid
of his name. and If she were the only one
interested the proceeding would not be
proper subject for comment. But Mrs. Bur-
nett, now Hodgson, is a public character.
The reading world has known her as
Frances Hodgson Burnett, and must now
become acquainted with her as Frances
Hodgson. In spite of the wide circulation
of newspapers and the attention given to
gossip about literary celebrities in the So
called literary weeklies it is not unlikely
that many intelligent people will fail TO see
the announcement of this divorce. and will
remain in ignorance Of the change of name.
Naturally, they viii be, bewildered when
THEY encounter the name of Frances Hodg-
son., or else will simply regard it with in
difference as that of new and untried
writer. Possibly she viii lose as much as
they by this lack Of recognition, and be-
cause OF this possibility 1t would seem de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26

1t is a well-established principle Of war
that the victor has the right to exact in
demnity from the conquered foe and to pre-
scribe the manner in which the indemnity
shall be paid. Russia beat Turkey and took
slice of Armenia; Germany beat France
and took rAlsace-Lorraine and huge sum of
money; Turkey, beat Greece and the powers
consented to the formers taking strip of
Greece. The United States beat Mexico and
took California and New Mexico. 1t may be
harsh rule, but it is the recognized law Of
nations. With such precedents no power
will interfere to say what the United States
shall do with the territory it may acquire
from Spain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The well-bred man may be selfish, but
never in little things.-Life
Truth is always stranger than fiction. but
not as numerous.-Denver Times
We are too lazy to love and to hate so we
slide into ndifference-Boston transcript
There are few wild beasts more tn h
dreaded than talking man having nothing
to say.-Swift. .
To please a man. find out what he wants
what he needs is of minor Importance
Rams Horn. =
Creeds are evaporated graces. Catechisms
are the dried theological fruit of salvation
Rams Horn. ioii'
man usually thinks that the lord az the
household is about the only lord there is
Denver Times a.
Having TO work very hard every rn,r,,.a
Is as good for a mans soul as rol,gso,,
--Atchison Globe. Ao"sion.
Let man come home with a slight ssc,.
headache and the whole house win ID more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-26
Railroad Gazette.

Railroad GaZe1te.
Our an1icable Partisan contemporary, lie
Journal des Transports, takes seriously the
story that American women have decided TO
buy no more French dresses. or bonnets and
casts about to see how the great French
people can revenge itself upon the husbands
of these obstreperouS female Yankees. and
1t appeals especially to the great transpor-
tatlon companies (which make an enormous
use of American machines and apparatus
1t Is pointed out that these companies can
without trouble to themselves diminish
their importations and gradually come to
the point Of suppressing them entirely.
These reprlsals would have been much
more formidable fifteen years ago ut the
time when the powerful Westinghouse Air
brake Company installed itself among us.
ana. thanks to its peculiar methods.
ceeded in carrying off the orders for equip
ping our railroad trains. Since then taking
only the great railroad systems, the West
lnghouse Company hats equipped more than
2o.OlO vehicles at price which has brought
10 iteovcr l2l2 million francs Counting loco
motives and the income from repair parts.
the company has undoubtedly received more
than 10 million francs net profit from
France In the last fifteen years Hence as
II Is proved that there exist In France other
brakes quite rs good, We ask What interest
is there in maintaining the revenues OF the
american company so long as the Ameri-
cans persist in treating us as enemies" We
did not know that it had been proved that
tnere exists in France or out of France any
other brake as good as the WESTINGHOUSE.
Further, new brakes must work with old
ones and we fear that our contemporary
must iind something else to give up.