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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
AN UNwIsE PROPOSITION.

1t has been stated that at the approaching
meeting of the various state militia, or Ma
tional Guard, organizations in Chicago steps
will be taken ito defeat in Congress any
army reorganization bill which may be con-
sidered as likely to cripple the National
Guard as national defense" This threat,
it is said, is aimed at the. bill which Chair
man Hull is now preparing with a view to
making the regular army adequate to the
Natior1s needs. Last spring, when the Hull
bill was first considered, its provisions were
framed with the intention Of putting the
regular army on a high plane of efficiency.
Because of the opposition of the officers of
the National Guard and those whom they
could influence, the bill was modified so
that the state troops might take part in
active service. The bill was so changed as
to make such service possible. AS to what
might have been the result If the volunteer
troops commanded by National Guard Off
GERS had, been put into the field to meet an
enemy on American soil there can be no
doubt. They would have acquitted them
selves as did the volunteers in the war for
the Union. But, as it turned out, it is not
lOO IuuCA 10 say LndI troops NOulu
have been better than volunteers,
1t is not necessary now to state the causes
of the partial failure of the volunteers for
an army of occupation. AS soon as it was
apparent that the war would end at an early
day the War Department was deluged with
applications of volunteers to be mustered
out. Governors of States and congressman
IoJ 10 fIoa
of war; enlisted men signed petitions, and
the desire to go home and to be mustered
out became an absorbing passion. If the
regiments could have had their way, not
dozen of them would have remained in the
service. The discipline which was estab-
lished when the volunteers expected to go
to war declined and carelessness and dis
ease followed. Many of the regiments which
have been retained are disconnected and a
few have been guilty of conduct which is
anything but soldierly. The behavior of
some regiments has been such that the war
authorities may we'll doubt the advisability
of sending them abroad to maintain order
in Cuba and other possessions. For such
duty a regular army composed of men who
enlisted to be soldiers is needed, chiefly be-
cause the volunteers are averse to garrison
life.
For these and many other reasons those
representing the National Guard will be
very unwise. not to say unpatriotic. If they
attempt to oppose legislation which will give
the country a regular army adequate to the
present demands. 1t may be added that the
officers of the guard who oppose LEGISLATION
to increase the regular army will not have
the backing they had when they opposed the
original Hull bill. Most people entertain
different ideas from those which they held
six months ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
Good Pay for Poor Literature.
Chicago Post.


The gallant Lieutenant Hobson has paid
the mortgage on his home in Alabama. The
amount was 5000 and the hero of the Mer-
since the little episode in Santiago harbOr
last June. While literary men of all grades
earn vast sums in that most profitable field
of human endeavor, literature, we must
admit that Sc, geo for four months of desu
tory work is fair pay, and we are not sur
prised that so many men desert the tented
field, the camp, the blacksmth'S forge and
the cobbler's bench for the easy ways and
the lucrative results of literary diversion.
absurd impression that the exquisite efforts
of our representative warriors and poll
ticians and inventors and mechanics and
labor agitatOrS and patent medicine proprie-
tors are not necessarily literature and that
literature constitutes something more than
an ability to write q good round hand and
in the main differentiate an adjective from
an adVerb but this erroneous idea is fast
dying out. The comparatively late Mr.. Haw-
when the opportunities for making really
first-class literature were limited; conse-
quently he scratched what money he could
for the sort of stuff he turned out, and died
in the fear of the Lord and in tOerable
fear of bankruptcy If Mr.. Hawthorne, in
stead of wasting his time over The Scarlet
Letter" had shown Lieutenant HobSon 8
literary instincts or had cultivated inc
graceful style of Admiral George Dewey. we
might not have had ''The Scarlet Letter or
the Moses or The Marble Faun, put
Mr.. Hawthorne would have had pie to dis
tribute all over Concord and money where
with, as the plebeians have 1t, to ignite
wet dog The poor man lived too soon or
was a very bad judge of literature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

The parsimonious economists are getting
ready 20 oppose an increase of the regular
army by declaring that every soldier added
TO the army costs the government thou
sand dollars. This is based upon the as
sumption that it has cost $25,OOO,0OO a year
to maintain an army of 5000. Such OBJ
jectors ignore the fact that a large part
of the $25,OOOcOO is absorbed by the purely
administrative expenditures of the War De-
partment, which would not be much in
creased by a considerable increase of the
army The pay of the army has been about
100000 a year, but this amount includes
the high-salaried officers, whose number
will not be greatly increased Against the
assertion that regiment of eight hundred
men costs $4,000 year is the statement
of General Hawley, who has long been the
chairman of the Senate military committee,
in his report creating the two new artillery
regiments. in which he said that "a careful
estimate of the annual expenditure required
to maintain the two new regiments is
$3.50, asa" If these two regiments contained
but 16OO men it will be seen that soldier
costs less than one-third of thousand doll
lars yearly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
THE RoTHsCHILD SIGN.
How 1t Appears in the Venerable
Free Town of Frankfort.

free TOWN or frankfort
Baron De Malortie, in Cornhill Magazine.
Staying on a visit with Herr and Frau
Won Bismarck In 1852, at the time he had
succeeded General Won Rochow as Prus-
sian envoy in Frankfort, / was walking one
morning with my host, who had kindly
undertaken to show me the Romer, as well
as some of the other sights of the Vener-
able free town, when suddenly we found
ourselves In the precincts of the old Ghetto.
Pointing at a small. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
house, with red shield (Roth Schild)
over the narrow entrance, Herr Won Bis
marck said That's the cradle of millions,
the house and shop of old Rothschild, the
famous father of the not less famous Baron
JameS-the paron, as PariSianS liked to
call him, on account of his pronounced
German accent.
Well the widow of the founder of the
Rothschild dynasty-she was pointed out TO
me one day. reclining in splendid
barouche, with a pair of thoroughbred
Steppers. which Lord Lyons might have en-
WED her-a shriveled-up old lady, wearing
the traditional wig of the old Jewess, with
clever eyes and firmly-set lips denOting no
want of character and determination-well,
the old lady, though inhabiting one of their
grand mansions in the new part of town,
said Herr Won Bismarck, will not sleep
every evening she returns to the modest
little house in which her husband lived and
toiled and died; she says 1t will bring luck
to her children and grandchildren, and
teach them not to forget the humble begin
nings Of the world-famed firm, and the
time when its founder sold old clothes in
the Ghetto
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

recent dispatch from St Louis stated
that, after a stubborn trial. one William
Shaw had been convicted in the United
States Court of coin sweating. The crime
is an ancient one and seldom heard of in
this country. It consists Of shaking num-
Der of gold coins in bag so as to wear on
small particles of the metal by friction in
such a way that the diminution of the val
ne is not readily perceived For centuries
past the offense has been severely punished
by English law. A section of the coinage
law of the United States says:
Every person who fraudulently, by any
art, way or means, defaceS, mut1IateS, I'M
pairs diminishes falsifes, scales or nght-
ems the gold and silver coins when nave
been or which may hereafter be, coined at
the minis of the United States, snail pc Inn
prisoned not more than two years ana fned
not more than two thousand dollars.
For obvious reasons the only coins that
could be successfull.s used for the sweating
process would be comparatively new ones
of full weight Those which have been in
circulation some years would not yield
readily to the process. Besides, the law
says that "any gold coins, when reduced in
weight by natural abrasion more than one
half OF ore percentum below the standard
weight prescribed by law, shall be re-
coined" Under thia provisicn a very slight
diminution In the weight Of 3 gold coin
would make Il unourrsnt Sweating coin =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

hours and more sleep. It was Philadelphia
doctor, we believe, who discovered the best
remedy for insomnia. His prescription was,
sleep it off.' That might apply in cases of
mere wakefplness, but the present move
ment aims at obtaining more hours for re-
pose, and assumes that those who are MAX
ing the demand can sleep if they can only
get tiTne. This they propose to get by short
enIrg the hours Of social functions, espe-
cially of balls. which. under the new
regime will begin at early candle-lighting,
and close at a reasonable bedtime hour. If
the movement succeeds in Philadelphia it
may spread to other localities where the
people feel that they need more sleep.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
ImpersonaI writing.

The newspaper is complete in itself, It's SIS Is.
sue of to-day is of value only until us isSuuo
of tomorrow appears It follows that the
newspaper man is valuable only Tor VIZ VIZ
he can do to-day for tomorrow paper;
With every sunrise there is a great g uis
fixed between him and his past work. ~ ~
means that by no exertion, by no years ~
faithful service, can he acquire posltlo,l
for himself; he must each day enter a To-
in which there is the keenest competllii'Or
known and on the morrow this race WIZ , ~
gin again. Now it is physical law lras
as a man gets along in life he loses eneT ~
as he gains experience and knowledge. IN IN
American newspaper is the development -
its news-gathering lines OF the Intense fii-
ergy of youth But there is side OF ie6lu
mate newspaper publication when the un
personality OF the writer's in this counuy
has dwarfed yet which is one OF the i ln5o
interesting to the reader, and. tnere1,Vi ~
one of the most profitable to publish II -
that of comment and criticism on the pstto,
rama OF life. In order to write this. 49, 80
of experience and a vast fund OF knoWleaso
of men are needed Even with these tlo
column so written is not as interesting. a it
therefore. will not pay as well, unless thS
writer be known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

ceeded to explain things to Mr.. Gould. Now
Jay Gould was a man VINO did NOT fsnc,,
Interruptions to business. so when the pant
ing employee entered and asked. .'Shan 7
give him the baggage?'' the financier re-
piled: Give him the baggage? Can't Won
see who he is2 I have work to do Give
him the depot If he wants it,
'"The melancholy days have come"
So sings the poet sad:
But If he wouldn't sing so much
They wouldn't be so bad.
Puck
Deep in each artists soul some picture lieg
That he VIII never paint for mortal eyes;
And every author in his heart doth hold
Some sad, sweet tale that he will leave I'M
told
Carrie Blake Morgan, in luminous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

One of the features of the American de-
partment of the Paris exposition will be a
corn kitchen, in which will be shown the
dietetic virtues OF corn. After many efforts
to induce Europeans to use corn as foods,
1t is evident that we are meeting with sue
cess. 10, OS6,O 900 bushels having been exported
during the ten months of the calendar year
which ended with October, against 100000
during the corresponding period of 1897.
Even at home the possibilities of corn as
food were not realized until within a few
wears
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
A Common scOid Puni.heG.
Washington speclal

At Fair Play. little town across the lins
in Maryland Mrs. Jennie Mickey was on
Saturday committed 10 Jail for ten days as
IL common scold under an antique statute OF
colonial times that has never been repeated
The prosecution was brought BY her hus-
band Charles Mickey. q respectable me-
chanic Industrious and sober. who brought
his neighbors as witnesses TO testify 20 her
had temper and unruly tongue. Mrs MEX
ley is said 10 be good-looking woman.
thirty years old. and has two children, aged
iiine and five years. who have suffered mucn
from her ungovernable passions.
This il the first case OF the kind known
ia that part Of Maryland since the war
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
Failed to Conciliate.

AS the conventional young man sat talk
ing with the conventional young woman,
the conventional stern father came in.
The young man would fain be sociabe
and at ease.
THE open door" began he.
THE front door is open at this minute"
said the father
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Cuba needs industrial freedom even more
than she does political freedom. The es-
Establishments of prosperity and trade, the re-
building of burned sugar works and the gen.
eral rehabilitation of the island are far more
important than the form of government that
may be adopted. Politics should be kept in
allowance till prosperity is established.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

1t is said that the audience applauded the
declaration of Lord Chancellor Halsbury
at the Thanksgiving dinner in London, to
the effect that 1.-The United States and Great
Britain can defy the world" Perhaps it is
true, but the United States prefers to en-
nations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

United Kingdom alone should yield 100000
tons OF this fertilizer, and even the present
imperfect methods of recovery should save
100000 tons if all the coal were reduced to
coke When to this is added the possible
supply from continental Europe and other
countries it would seem that the nitrogen
of coal alone should insure an ample wheat
crop for a long time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Rev. DR.. Parkhurst declares that he chad
rather be Malay subject to Spain than
an American Indian subject to the Indian
bureau Yet the American Indians who
live on reservations are the only people in
this country for whom the United States
furnishes food and clothing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

The usefulness of the submarine cable
IN diplomatic negotiations has never been as
clearly demonstrated as in the one now go
ing on at Paris. If the negotiations could
have been carried on at all without the
cable it would have taken several months
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

The wise Spaniard must feel that the best
thing which can happen to his government
is to lose all it's colonial possessions and
far-away islands. Without the care of
them Spain can become a peaceful nation
like its neighbor Portugal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Southern Pacific, is nearly 200 feet lower
than the French station. In discussing high
and low things the United States must
never be overlooked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

General Wood, who has shown great
deal OF wisdom and tact at Santiago, is evil
IDENTIFY disposed to give Cuban control a fair
trial. This will put the Cubans on their
metal and is the only way to test their ca
pacity for self-government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

If any one had predicted in 1880 that the
receipts of the Postoffice Department, then
$SS, 5,479, would exceed $sS,OOOOOO before
1900, he would have been regarded a wild
enthusiast rather than a prophet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Mr.. Wickwire-I see the Maria Teresa's
plates are uninjured, after all the pounding
she went through.
Mrs. Wickwire-I wish we could get some
plates like that for Mary Jane to wrestle
with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
Pressing Need.

what is a pressing need?' asked the
sporting reporter.
''It is the need Of having ones trousers
creased" said the court reporter, fixing him
with an icy glare.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

In regard to the Philippines a large ma
jority of the American people prefer the
opinions of Admiral Dewey and General
Merritt to those of Carl Schurz and Mr..
Carnonio
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Mr. "Coin'' Harvey is announced to lee
ture on the causes of the decline and fall of
republics. Like the price of wheat, repub-
lies rise and fall with the fluctuations of
silver bullion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

The trade reviews for the week just
past show that the year 1898 will record the
largest volume of business ever known Yet
there are people who continue to ask:
''Where is your prosperity?'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Another big crop" says silver editor
in Utah. will ruin the prospects of silver"
With remarkable candor he declares against
the prosperity of good crops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

The Cuban leaders now in this country
seem 20 be laboring under the delusion that
the special mission of the United States is
to furnish them food and money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

A recent newspaper article TO the effect
that the lowest railway station on earth is
on q railway in the south Of France. being
forty feet below the level Of the Mediter-
ranean. leads correspondent OF the New
York Sun to say that salton. Cal. on the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

one OF the most contemplate crimes that
can be committed and deserves severe pun
ishment. Morally, however. it is no worse
than enacting that fifty cents worth of sill
yer shall be equal to a gold dollar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

IT is declared by the arti-expansionists in
Washington that they have enough votes
to defeat the Philippine treaty. But after
defeat what?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGo-PaImer House. p o. News Co., 217
Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel.
cINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

Treated as a Hero.
my herol" said she.
"Well?" said he.
And then she did.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

an be found at the following places;
wv YORK-Astor House
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1898-10-10
Telegrarny.

PARYz, 10 Pazdziernika. -
Rad wyslal depesze do ko.
mendant6w zal6g W miastach
W poblizu Paryza, azeby przy.
slali do stolicy po piecset
wojska, zaopatrzonego W ~
wnost ma diva dni. Kazdy
zolnierz mial mice PREY sobie
po 50 naboj6w. Za}oga parry
ska zostaie W ten spos6b po.
wiekszona 0 10000 wojska.
Rad ohawia sig rozruch6w,
jakkolwiek gazety zapewniaja,
ze ma rozruchy ME zanosi sic.
Prezydent Faure ME uczestni-
czy} we wyscigach konnych W
Long Champ obawy pred
nieprzyjazns demonstracys.
Komisarze ameryka6scy swie'
Gill takze ma Wysclgach sWa
nieobecnoscia.
EPINAL, 10 Pazdziernika. -
Byly przezes ministr6w Meline
przemawiai ma bankiecie urze.
dnikow kolei aelaznych W tym
duchu, ae nieprzyjaciele Fran.
cyl podtrzymujs we Francu.
zach nienawise jednei klasy
ludnosci wzgledem drugiei, a.
aeby zgnsbie narod bez potrze.
by wypowiadania mu wojny.
Meline potepial strajki.
PARYz, 10 Pazdziernika. =
Rad zamierza wykreslic ma
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1898-10-10
Rome WiadOmOSCi
telegraficzne.

Parowiec "Belgenland"
przyby1 z New Yorku do
Southampton re zepsuts srubs
okretowa.
- We Wilhelmshaveu "a
ciagnieto do sluzby nowy o.
kret wojenny "Kaiser Fried.
rich llI". Jestto pancernik
pierwszei klasy o sile 10000
koni. Ma 11,OSl ton pojem-
nosci.
Do zamku W Berlinie
zakradl sig zlodziej, kt6ry
chcial przyw1aszczyc sobie ka.
SO dworska. Pomimo re by1
pijany, gdy 60 zdybano, Edo
3a4 uciec.
- We Wyrtembergii dalo
sic uczuc slime trzesienie ziemi.
o. Car przybyl do Kopen-
hagi ma yachcie "Gwiazda
polarna''.
- Zamoznieisi chrzescianie,
mahometanie i zydzi uciekajs
z Krety.
w zeszlym tygodniu
zwiedzi1o wystawe W Omaha
100000 os6b. Podziwiano po-
zorne bitwy Indyan.
J6zef Streurbach re Ste.
vens Poit, o kt6rym donosili.
sny, re skradziono mu z pu.
ski zakopanej W stajni S15,.
900, odzyskal zgube. Detek.
tyw otrzymal $4,000 nagrody,
lecz chce wymienic nazwiska
zlodzieja.
w Omaha zderzy} sic po.
ciag osobowy z towarowym.
Wiele os6b zosta1o ranionych,
Harry Jones z Chicago poni6s1
smierc ma miejscu.
Wiekszs ilosc posiik6w
wyslano pod J.eech Lake, ma
plac boju z Indyanami.
- Rezerwa zlota W skarbie
zwiszkowym doszla do wyso-
ko6ci S245, ,068,795.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1898-10-10
R0ZRUCHY W PARYZU.
Garnizon W stolicy Francyi powiekszony.
Prezydent bal sic wyjechac ma wyscigi konne.
oda kOscia niezgody miedzy Francya a Anglia.


otworem, kt6ry zajsc MONA
bylo W kilka dni bez oporu: W
Fashodzie.
Jen. Kitchener, odeslaf
wszystkich korespondent6w,
kt6rzy opiewali bohaterskie
jego czyny i bez niedyskret'
nych tych swiadkow pusci1 sic
ku Fashodzie. Angielskie pi.
pisma twierdza, ze ma on zu.
pelne pelnomocnictwo do dzia.
alnia wedle wlasnego uznania;
be ma Marchanda naklonic, by
oddal sic swym studyom W
innym jakim zakstku, ze od-
wiezt 60 ma do Kairu, a W
razie oporu uzyc SHY. Naste'
pstwa takiego obrotu sprawy
bylyby oczywiscie nieobliczal-
ne.
w prasie francuzkiej pre-
waza zdanie, ze do zaognienia
sic sporu o Faszods ME przyj.
die, ze Anglia cofnie sic ra.
czej, nizby naraziG sic miaia
ma wojns z Francya; wszak
cofnela sic juz parokrotnie.
Przewidywac zbrojns starcie
rzeczs byloby przedwczesna:
znajdzie sic zapewne spos6b
polubownego zalatwienia spo.
ru; ale przewidywa6 ustapie.
MIA Anglii, wyrzeczenia sic
plan6w, mad ktorych urzeczy.
wistnieniem z tax zelazna wy.
trwaloscis pracowaia, jest je.
szcze rzeczs ryzykowniejsza.
Cisglosci posiadlosci angiel-
skich cd Cap'u po Egypt, mi.
mo prob ks. Orlea6skiego ip.
Leontjewa rozszerzenia granlc
abisy6skich, stoi juz tylko Fa.
shoda ma zawadzie. Takiego
punktu okupic ME MONA dose
drogo. Czy obecny, podmino.
wany dreyfusjads cabinet
francuzki bsd1ie sic czu} dose
silnym, by postspic, iak mu
rozssdek nakazuje9 Czy ME
bedzie sig obawiai zarzutu po-
pularnego, ze cofnss sic pred
pionnemi pogr6zkami angiel.
skiemi2 Odpowiedzi ma to
pytanie nalezy tymczasem szu.
kac we fakcie, ze Rad francu.
Xxi mianowa4 kapitana Mar.
chand majorem, wynagradza'
jsc 60 przez nadanie mu wyz-
szej rangi "a fgla, splstanego
Anglikom.