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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Georg Ebers, the distinguished German
roveist, is seriously i'll at his home at Tut
zig, on the Starnberger sea- and it is doubt
full whether he will be able to do any more
literary work. He is sixty-one years old,
and has been writing pretty constantly for
the past thirty years
The Canary Club, of Vienna, has opened
a canary exhibition in that city. The club
is trying to foster canary raising among
working people as an easy method of in
creasing the incomes of the poor. The ex-
hibition numbers about 15OO native canaries
and more than 500 of the Dutch variety.
There will be few free scholarships
given at Luray College, Virginia, this
year to worthy young ladies who are en-
deavoring to get an education and who have
to provide for themselves. Preference Is
given to orphans, other things being equal.
For further information address Rev. H. M.
Wharton, d. D., Baltimore, Nd.
DR.. William H. Whittsitt has resigned the
presidency of the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary in the hope of putting an
end to the controversy between his friends
and his opponents, growing out of certain
publications in which he expressed views on
a point of church history in which many
members of his church did not agree with
him.
Mother Bickerdykes eighty-first birthday
has just been celebrated by many veterans
of the civil war; The famous old nurse is
living with her children at Bunker HILL
Kan. One of the many stories told of her
is of her leaving the army on furlough
Cnce when the sick boys were much IN need
of milk, going to Iowa and returning driv-
ing twenty cows.
Col. ]. l.. Torrey, of the Second United
States Volunteer Cavalry, ''Torrey's Rough
Riders" is wealthy ranchman and lawyer
of Wyoming He also publishes a maya
zine He is a commander whom his men
reverence and love, and he calls them his
children" He knows almost every man in
his regiment personally, and ne saw to 1t
To raise his 1860 men he had the pick Of
more than 5000.
The Bank of England has recently re-
voked the rule whereby it formerly refused
to accept silver coins with holes in them.
AS such coins are merely token money,
good as legal tender to only a trif1ing
amount, and making no pretense to having
their face value in the metal composing
them, little more or less silver therein Is
a matter of small consequence. With gold
coins the case is different, for their value
depends on the metal in them.
The Independent quotes from letter
written by a Hartford young woman who
was entertained the other day by Captain
Goodrich on the st. Louis and who there
met Admiral Cervera. HE reminds me, :"
she said, "of an old Yankee farmer. and
that's the best compliment / can pay him.
He does not look like Spaniard, his gray
hair and beard, his blue eyes and ruddy
and men. who are dark-haired and sailow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

States, and is therefore against public
policy. The company in question is Span
ish corporation, and it is alleged that under
recent law of Spain one-half of the re-
ceipts of every corporation doing business
under the Spanish government must be
turned over to the government to help de-
fray the expenses of the war. If there is
such law it places the United States in
novel position, but it does not follow that
the contract with the Spanish company is
invalid or against public policy. The fallacy
of the suit is in claiming that a citizen may
dictate to the government what its public
policy shall be. A citizen may he restrained
from doing acts against public policy. but
the government is above such restraint and
is law unto itself in matters of public
policy. In this case the whole question is
within the discretionary power and authori-
ty of the government, and its decision cam
not properly be questioned 1t is not likely
that any court would take jurisdiction of
such suit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
THE BuMpTlous AGuINALDo.

The latest advices from Manila justify
the fear that the United States will have
more trouble in that quarter than was at
first expected. In fact. the general impress
sion prevailed few weeks ago that the
subsection of the Philippines would be
light task Consequently, when General
Merritt insisted upon having 10000 of the
best troops in the country sent thither, 1t
was intimated that that officer was magni-
flying his mission The present indications
are that he will need more than 10000 men
to establish the authority of this govern
ment there. The insurgent Aguinaldo is
capable of giving us much more trouble
than is the Spanish authority He has been
successful as a military leader. and doubt
less believes he can conquer the ''paniards
He has displayed great energy a. a fighter.
There is every reason to believe that visions
of Oriental grandeur of the barbaric order
float about in his mind. He has ordained
that as dictator he shall wear gold collar
and that his subordinates shall wear lesser
adornments OF that metal. He is a man Of
considerable intelligence. of great cunning
and possesses the qualities Of leadership.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

On the other hand, full justice will be done
to the nobility of character and to the dis
tinctive contribution to human progress
made by each one of the great Protestant
leaders of the Reformation period. 1t is ex-
pected that the literary skill and the stand
ing as scholars of the writers who have
agreed to prepare the several biographies
will insure for them a wide acceptance on
the part not only of special students of
the period but of the general reader. The
opening volume of the series. Martin
Luther" is the work of Prof. Henry Z.
Jacobs. who is exceptionally competent to
deal with the subject. In addition to being
an a. excellent personal biography of Luther
1t portrayS very clearly the mental pro-
cesses and stages by which he became the
open leader of the opposition to the abuses
in the Catholic Church and of the great
Protestant reform movement. 1t is a work
that will interest general readers as well as
theological students. This volume will be
followed by others treating of Melancthon,
Knox, Calvin and other leaders in the Ref
ormation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
OUR DUTY IN CUBA.

The war is developing unexpected phases
in Cuba, and it looks now as if the United
States would soon have Cuban problem
of its own on it's hands. If our task con-
sisted simply in the expulsion OF the Span
iards from the island 1t would he compare
lively simple and the end would be already
in sight. But we are pledged to something
more than this. The joint. resolution
adopted by both houses of Congress which
formulated our cause of war declared as
follows:
The abhorrent conditions which have ex-
listed for more than three years in the
Island of Cuba, SO near our own borders,
have shocked the moral sense of the people
of the United States, have been. disgrace
to civilization, and cannot longer be en-
dured.
AS remedy for this state of, things the
resolutions declared THAT the people of the
Island of Cuba not the insurgents alone,
but the people of the Island of Cuba, ARE
and ought to be free and Independent"
They demanded that the government of
Spain at once relinquish its authority and
government in the Island of Cubs; and with
draw its land and naval forces from Cuba
and Cuban waters" The President was di-
olutions concluded:
That the United States hereby disclaims
any disposition or intention to exercise SOW
ereignty, jurisdiction or control over said
island, except for the paciication thereof.
and asserts its determination, wnen that is
accomplished to leave the government and
control of the island to its people.
From this it is evident that we began the
war as last resort to put an end to alb
,to1,
were shock to the moral sense of our
people and disgrace to civilization. In
the accomplishment of this work We
pledged ourselves, first, to expel the Span
iards from Cuba, and, second, to pacify the
island, that u.s. to establish stable govern
ment. We claimed the right to exercise any
degree of sovereignty, jurisdiction or con-
troll necessary to this end, and when 1T was
accomplished to leave the government and
control of the island to its people. Our first
duty then, is to continue the war until the
island is completely liberated from Spanish
rule, and after that our second duty is to
exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction and con-
troll until the island is pacified and stable
government established. We are under no
obligation whatever to turn over any city
or province we may capture to the control
of the Cuban insurgents. Our pledge is TO
1.-THE people of Cuba not to the insurgents
alone 1t is to pacify the island, not to in
augurate a new era of factional strife. 1t is
to establish law and order, not government
by machetes. This is not going to be an
easy task, but it is one to the accomplish
ment of which we are pledged and which
the civilized world will expect US to finish.
Meanwhile, the first duty is the exp Ilsion
of the Spanish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

1t seems strange that man should study
everything in heaven and earth and large
~ neglect the study of himself, yet this is
what has virtually happened. Anthropology
the study OF man, is the youngest of the
sciences, but by no means the least i'm
portant. OF specialists in some branches Of
the science there have been plenty but sys-
tematic study of the whole field has been
strangely lacking. Anthropology in it's broad
sense embraces everything relating to the
development of man as an animal, as an
Individual and as a member of a commu-
nifty or society. This comprises not only the
comparative study of the structural differ
ences between members of different races
or mankind. but also the comparison of
man with the higher apes, together with the
study OF ethnography, ethnology and sociol-
ogy The subject in all it's phases is dis
cussed in The Study of Man." by Prof
aired c. Haddon, of Cambridge, England
Inc development of individual and racial
peculiarities and of social customs games
religions, etc, is treated in a learned and
philosophical manner. New York: G. P.
Putnam'S Sons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
Martin Luther.

Under the general title of Heroes Of the
Reformation" G.. p. Putnam's Sons have
commenced the publication of series Of
biographies of the leaders in the Protestant
Reformation. The series is to be edited by
Samuel n. Jackson, professor of church his
tory in New York University. and 1t begins
most appropriately with Martin Luther. 1t
is intended that the narratives shall be not
mere eulogies, but critical biographies, and
the defects of Judgment or sins of omis-
sion or commission on the parf of the sub
iects win not be passed by or extenuated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

book which has the possibilities of doing
much mischief is THE Game in Wall Street,
and How to Play 1t Successfully" 1t pur-
ports to be complete expose of the specu-
iative methods practiced in Wall street, and
TO give outsiders inside information and
pointers by which they can win in the peril
GUS game in which so many thousands have
DOCK is published anonymously, the authors
name being given as "Hoyle" but it shows
L. familiarity with the specializing methods of
the street, and while it deprecates the whole
business and warns inexperienced persons
against engaging in it, it undertakes to in
form them how to avoid losing. The book
New York: j. S. Ogilvie Publishing Com
pany
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

Philadelphia Times.

As great a journalist as any the present
war has called into the field was during
the civil war ordered for execution by Gen.
Grant He lived to write the history OF
the Army of the Potomac, book that
justifies the stay of proceeding which saved
his life. But John Swinton's offense was,
as charged standing behind tree to over
hear the conversation of Generals Grant and
Meade He pleaded accident Of position and
temptation of opportunity. Mr.. Scovel has
stand so nearly face 70 face with death as
John Swinton did, for this war is baby
yet-in Swinton's time the war was man
hardened by the blood of three years shed
freely. The war correspondents in Europe
learned the lesson years ago. when DR.. Rus
SELL in Crimea. was denied admission TO the
lines before Sebastopol while Lord Raglan
lived and Drew Gay, of the Daily Tele-
graph in Egypt, was sent out Of the army
for a misstatement Of fact, and IN general
order by the commander-in-chief pefma-
nently forbidden to accompany the English
army in any future campaign. - a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

The admirers of the late Richard Harding
Davis are anxious for the army to encamp
soon near Porto Rico, so that that gen.
tleman's lonesome cry for more mules may
again ascend. Richard has before himself
a serious problem. He must make the con-
dition of the troops at Porto Rico worse
than that OF the troops at Santiago. or he
win not be noticed. Not being noticed
means literary death. And now. as Rich
ard set q hard pace in his grumbling at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

When the Car made preparations to build
several war ships and sent for the con-
structor of the Oregon, the British Ministry
responded with proposition to put $40, OOO, 900
more into war ships. Now it is announced
that the Car has modified his plans and
will not embark in extensive shipbuilding
This announcement is followed by declara-
ton from London that the British PROPOSE
ton was simply bluff" and that it had
its effect. Nevertheless, if Russia had gone
to building Oregons, Great Britain would
have done the same thing. With it's i'm
mense advantage in war ships, no nation
can hope to overtake England if it shall see
fit to maintain its naval strength
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

Kansas city Journal.


E. S. Martin makes the shrewd but cruel
suggestion that q war tax of 10 cents be
laid upon war poems. He says that such a
tax payable on publication, would add a
considerable sum to- the revenues cf the
government hut If the tax were in the form
of a stamp/which must be attached 10 every
poem submitted for publication the income
would gladden. Mr. Cages heart. But we
note that Mr. Martini cid not come out with
this suggestion until after the adjournment
Of Congress. Harper's weekly and Mr.. Mar
by such a tax. The revenue from such an
jmpost ought to be devoted to some espe-
c.ally lofty and noble purpose, such as fur
nishing the officers Of volunteer companies
with comics Of the manual of arms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

A talented young woman who has
achieved some success as an artist, talent
ed young man who has achieved some sue
cess in literature, and. two or three other
young persons of both sexes who do not
achieve any particular success in anything
except falling in love- form the dramatis
personae in las Having Nothing" by He's
ter z. Oakley The scene of the story is
while 1t is not a strong story it is bright
and wholesome and has the redeenling fea-
ture for some readers, of two engagements
G. p. Putnams Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

When the first brief dispatch came an
nouncing the destruction of the Spanish
fleet in Manila harbor without the loss of a
man on our side, a high naval official ex-
pressed decided disbelief of the latter state
ment. dewey may have achieved great
victory" he said "but it is incredible that
he could have burned or sunk the whole
Spanish fleet without a single casualty"
Yet so it was, and so it has been in each
of the brilliant naval victories we have
gained since, except that in the destruction
of Cervera's fleet we lost one man. Not
single casualty in the engagement at Man
zanillo, nor one at Nipe, in which, together,
our ships destroyed twelve Spanish trans
ports and gunboats with considerable loss
of life to the enemy. This will make bril-
liant page in the next history of our navy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
Publishers, Nntes.

Wellby, d book which has been making a
great stir in England, has just been brought
out in this country by j. b. Lippincott Com
pany. They also publish another volume
of w. S. Bakers Washingtoniana-"Wa
lngton after the Revolution 17S4-1799"-and
The Nations Navy" by Charles Morris.
G. p. Putnam's Sons announce among
their recent publications Socialism and the
Social Movement in the Nineteenth Cen
tury, by, Werner Sornbat; Methods and
Principle of Literary Criticism by Lorenzo
Sears; The Chase of an HeireSs," by Chris
tian Reid THE Groundwork of Science
by st. George Mivart and Studies of a
Biographer," by Leslie Stephen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

During the first fifteen business days of
July the revenue from the war tax aver
aged s1,s5OO0O a day. If this rate of col
lection should be kept up, the annual reve-
nue. would be $3.50 100000 a year. AS the
trainers of the bill estimated that 1t would
yield $15o,OOO,OOO, the result is general sur
prise Instead of falling off it is believed
the revenue derived from the bill win con-
tinue to increase. While the tax may be
inconvenient it Is not burden.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

The relatives and friends of the soldiers
who have gone or are about to go to Porto
Rico need have no fears of yellow fever,
which in some portions Of Cuba is more to
be feared than Spanish bullets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

Tho Year Book and Almanac for 1885,"
issued by the American Agriculturist con-
tains large amount of statistical and mis-
celianeous information not embraced in any
other publication of the kind that has fallen
under the Journals notice. 1t is a handy
reference book and cyclopedia OF facts
published by the Orange Judd Company
New York and Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
The philosophy of Government.

The object of this work. by George w.
Walthew, is to discover and formulate the
true principles of government in the light
of philosophy as well as experience. The
author regards the Investigations and dis
coveries which have been made in the sep
arate domains Of philosophy and civil gov
eminent as very closely related. and thinks
the time has arrived, in the fullness of the
nineteenth century when the two depart
ments of thought and experience can be ex-
amined each by the light of the other. He
holds that in the development of the art of
government the experience of mankind has
demonstrated that there are but two sys-
TENS which in any sense can be said to be
flnalities, or to accomplish successfully the
purpose for which governments are de-
signed. These are the federal system of
the United States OF America and the re-
sponsible system of Great Britain. Each
OF the two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon race in Its own way" says the
author in the course of the nineteenth
century, has brought to something like per-
lection one-haif of the art of government.
The federal and the responsible systems go
hand in hand. Together they are applicable
to all parts of the earth. There is no area
too large for them there is none too small.
There can be no race of men too enight-
ened not to be the better for their gentle
restraints, and one must go far down the
scale before people is reached which is too
ignorant 10 I'VE successfully uDueT lIcH
sway" The work is devoted to analysing
and comparing these two systems of gov
eminent, the federal and the responsible,
and showing how philosophically speaking,
they DO and in practice ought to fit and
work together THE federal and the re-
sponsible systems are not antagonistic.
They do not refer to the same aspect of
government. They are the two halves of
whole. Separate these systems from the
rubbish that encumbers them, and they will
be seen to be not two but one a man
and his wife one-each the necessary
complement of the other. The federal sys-
tenn relates to territory alone; the response
BILE system deals only with men. AS both
men and territory are necessary to make
proper nation, so the federal and the respon-
sible systems need to be united to constitute
a proper government" The philosophical
. and practical aspects of these two systems
are considered under the chapter headings
of The Law Of the Double. Aspect Of the
People, THE Law of Political Selection"
'"Irhe Law Of the Attenuation of Political
Forces" The Law of Political Subordina-
ton" 1.-THE Government of Cities" These
somewhat metaphysical titles should not
deter any student of the science of govern
ment from reading the work. for it is
very able, practical and instructive treatise
on the true theory and practice of govern
ment. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican re-
Dukes Senator Hoar for his sharp criticism
of Professor Norton's unpatriotic express
eions regarding the war. on the ground that
the professor is entitled to his opinions. So
IS the senator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

That is strange suit which has been
brought In New York by some of the I'M
successful bidders for the transportation Of
the Spanish prisoners. and 1t raises a novel
question. The suit is brought against the
Spanish Transatlantic Company and seeks
to set aside the contract made with that
company by the quartermasters department
on the ground that the contract gives aid
ard comfort to an enemy Of the United
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

A special dispatch from the signal officer
. on hoard the Topeka describing the battle
of Port Nipe says that when the Juan re-
ceived its death blow and settled on the
bottom of the harbor three cheers and
cries OF Remember the Maine rang out
from our ships" The highly moral people
who told our sailors that it was naughty
to adopt that motto do not seem to have
nrnduced much effect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
For the Defense.

African witchcraft, mysterious strangers
and barbaric women seem to be out of place
when set in the sober framework of an
English provincial town, but Fergus Hume
author of For the Defense" makes just
TINS JuXtaposition 1t is an unnatural and
impossible story, and yet possesses the in
tereSt that attaches to that sort of MARIA
tive. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

A statement just issued by the consular
bureau of the State Department shows that
the value of the exports from the United
States to Canada in the first ten months
of the fiscal year 1898 was nearly Se.2OoOOO
greater than those in the corresponding
periodsof the year 1897. A trade that is
growlng at that rate is worth looking after.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

The Cubans apparently have no hesitancy
In letting mongrel and jungle-born form
OF Spanish honor prevent their fighting
with us as our allies and assistants, but
nothing. so far as has been reported, has
turned them against the food we are fur
nishlng some thousands of them daily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25

1t is the expectation of military authorities
in Washington that the attack on San Juan
will be mainly an artillery fight, in which
The city will be simultaneously bombarded
by siege guns from the surrounding heights
and by the ships off shore. If that is done
effectively the work of the infantry will be
comparatively easy.