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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Simeon Mays ex-mayor of st. Louis,
started George NJ Pullman on his business
career and got position in the bank for
Lyman j. Gage.
The will of the late William E. Hale, of
Chicago, provides for the setting aside of
5000, 600 as a fund for the assistance of
numerous charitable institutions. The selec-
ton of the institutions is left to the discre-
ton of the trustees, and only the income of
the fund is to be used.
Speaking of the crinoline or hoopskirt,
it is generally supposed that it has been
a thing only of recollection for twenty
years at least, but that is not so. There
is a wealthy, stylish, pretty woman living
at one OF the big New York residence hO-
tells who has worn a hoop almost ever since
she can remember. She has it made for her
now, small ones, and no one would imagine
she wore them, but they are there lust the
same. She Is plump woman, and her idea
is that she is a little more satisfactorily and
modestly dressed with the crinoline
Captain Sigsbee has a watch that has
been submerged in salt water three times.
1t went down in Japanese waters years ago.
At Bahia Honda, in 1873 when a Spanish
pilot grounded his vessel, the Blake, it had
another saltwater bath, the vessel being
Hooded TO prevent her pounding to pieces
on the rocks. AT Havana it went down
with the Maine, but was recovered by
DIVER: When the war broke out and Cap
tam Sigsbee took command of the st. Paul
he wisely left his watch at home. think
ing it indiscreet to risk it again in Cuban
waters.
If there be any at this late day who
still doubt that Dewey is a name to conjure
with. here is the latest fact they must ex-
plain away. In the rooms of the Hard
ware Club, on the top floor of the Postal
Telegraph building, in New York, hangs
a picture of the redoubtable Vermont adj
miral 1T is the only article in the room
that was not destroyed or damaged by the
nre last week. The window frames, the
furniture the hangiLgs and the other pic
lures all suffered severely but Admiral
Dewey,s picture is still as clean and fresh
as on the day it was hung
Rev DR.. Withrow of Boston's Park-street
Church. referred in his Thanksgiving SER
mon TO the 1000 votes cast for the So
ciaiist tickets as ominous OF a growing nm
rest, but he welcomed the indication. re-
BAIclng II a hopeful symptom of social and
poHlIcsu movements, as showing that the
eleuleEts OF progress are still at work He
SnoeIgnt 4 no less them absurd to be fright
eheel AZ the name socialism," and observed
tnas 70 our forefathers the penny post ana
ia59 DFauseS and fuinpikes and free high
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Mr.. Russell Sage is amply able to give
wedding presents of the most costly kind,
but he doesn't give expensive ones or any
other sort. He doesn't believe in them He
says one of the evils of this age is the
giving of expensive presents to young people
just beginning life. The young man in most
cases has but small income, but he and
his bride are apt to have wealthy friends
who shower on them a lot of things, mostly
useless, which they cannot live UP to- 1t
breeds extravaganza and improvidence says
Mr.. Sage. He adds:
! believe in useful inexpensive
things. In my time when young people got
married we gave them rolling-pins, dish
bowls, oil lamps and wooden chairs; things
that were within their range, good economi-
cal stuff that a poor young couple might
use and when that man got rich he could
point with pride to his first armchair or his
first table and look back to the beginning.
All that sort of thing is over. People in
these days are all for show and glitter-more'S
the pity.
Mr.. Sage is represented as "near," and
newspaper wits get off smart paragraphs
at his expense, but in this case it
must be admitted that he has facts for a
basis He knows that if he and his wife
had begun on basis of show and glitter
he would not now be millionaire How
ever, it does not appear that Mr.. Sage ever
gives rolling-pins to brides, even though
these implements are not glittering nor like
ly to breed extravaganza, and may serve
variety OF useful purposes in the domestic
circle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

The soldiers monument commissioners re-
port that $S4, 500 will be needed to complete
the structure by adding the bronze groups
and candelabra that area part of the plan,
and putting on various finishing touches.
The commissioners seem to have exercised
great care and discretion in their manage
ment of the work and their expenditures up
to this time, and it is certain that there has
been no unnecessary outlay. The monu-
ment as it stands now is the most notable
structure of its kind in the world and one
that reflects honor and distinction on the
State. 1t must be finished in accordance
with designs that will make it harmonious
in every particular, and whatever is needed
for this purpose should be given by the Leg
isature without hesitation. When once
completed it will be a memorial of which
every citizen of the State will be proud. 1t
is interesting to note that the income from
entrance and elevator fees is likely to pay
the running expenses after the completion
of the work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18
POLAR BEAR HUNTERS.
They Go Cunning for WaIrus with
ley Weapons.
London Telegram

London Telegraph.
In his native home the polar bear does not
often meet with small boys anxious to treat
quence is that Bruin has to devise many
curious ways of securing his food, and none
are more strange and interesting than that
related by two trustworthy travellers in
Finland, that country of strange sights.
They have known the polar bear to take
stone or a huge lump OF ice in his torepaWS
and from favorable height, as cliff or
precipitous ice hill, to hur the missile down
upon the head OF the walrus, an enormous
so stun him that Bruin could rush in and
complete the destruction at his leisure, thus
securing a months rationS
The most useful food of the ice bear, as
the Germans very appropriately call this
beast, is the common seal of the arctic re-
giOns. The latter is the wariest animal OF
the north, and both Eskimo and polar bear
need their best strategy to catch it.
In the summer time, when the snow is on
the ice of the ocean shore and inlets, the
seals be plainly seen as black dots on
the ice, probably asleep. but always near
their holes, which lead down through the
thick ice to the water below, and into which
they can throw themselves by the least
as near as he deems safe and then begins
crawling on his wary prey.
The SEAL If the weather be sunny and
pleasant, takes short maps, reliVed by shorter
moments when it is scanning the vicinity
for signs of an enemys approach. During
these times the bear Is very quiet and as
still as death itself, with eyes apparently
closed, though really a corner OF each II
kept open, and in this way he hopes the seal
will take him for heap of snow, an APP
pearance which his coat readily helps him to
assume.
During the maps he creeps forward with
greater or less rapidity, according TO his
nearness to the seal and consequent fear OF
being heard or seen. When but ten or
twelve yards away, and the seal is in the
depths of a good nap, the bear rushes upon
him and with single blow of his powerful
paw knocks the smaller brute senseiess and
so far away from the hole that he cannot
the blow
ceived is not Immediately fatal.
In winter time the ice is covered with
snow, and this is followed out by the seal
into a snowhouse, covering the hole in the
ice and connecting at the top of the dome
with an aperture about the size of shil-
ling, called the blow hole, for 1t is through
this that the seal breathes when he is in
want of fresh air.
Here the bear watches for many long
hour, if necessary, and when the snorts or
the seal are heard he brushes in the fragila
dome of the snowhouse with his paw I'M
paling the seal on his curved claws. ana pro-
ceeds to practically demonstrate how polar
bears can subsist in an arctic winter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18
LITERARY NOTES.

The real name of Jules Verne is Olche-
WITT He is a native of Warsaw, and lives
at Amiens France.
Miss Rhoda Broughton, who writes Meth
err so much nor so well as she once. did, has
finished story with a suggestive tltle'
'"The Game and the Candle.
Col W. r. Holloway, consul general at st.
Petersburg, is occupying his leisure time
while abroad in writing volume of remi-
niscences. He will also write DOCK on
Russia.
This is what Rostand wrote on the fly
leaf of Cyrano de Bergerac: '"Tfs to the
soul of Cyrano that meant to dedicate my
poem, but since that soul has passed into
you, Coquelin, to you ! lnscribe ii"
Richard Henry Stoddard, in a recent
criticism of Rileys eulogy to "Old Glory"
said that it was the finest poem ever writ
ten by an American, and Henry Watterson
said that 1T was the best poem that he had
read in twenty years.
A new novel by Charles Lever is novel in
deed, yet such a work is announced. It is
Gerald Fitzgerald. the Chevaler," pub
lished in the sixties as serial in the Dublin
University Magazine and strangely over
looked by Levers literary executors.
The following is taken from the current
number of Literature: From well-known
author to a welI-known critic, whose names
we are not at liberty to disclose:
Critic rail on-I will not say
Your little sting is not sting;
That pleasure I'll not grudge to pay,
You are so small and sad Thing.
"Critic. when you and I are dead,
Shaping in clay his first design,
see a sculptor mold head
Yours is the clay; the image mine"
A writer in the London Mail says: "Sir
Walter Besant is gradually ceasing to be a
novelist and is becoming instead a bur-
rover. Not that burrowing is inferior as
an occupation to novel building. But the
two are simply incompatible, and their in
compatibility is attested by the fact that
Sir Walters antiquarian books get better
as his novels get worse. For example, his
last piece of fiction, 1.-THE Changeling," was
the worst novel he has ever written, while
his new book, South London" is the best
bit of antiquarian work he has yet done"
Mr. Swinburne seldom does any critical
writing nowadays, except in the way Of
rending some Philistine, but he has fur
nished preface to a new edition of "Au-
rora Leigh" in which he lets himself go in
a fine frenzy Of appreciation. OF Mrs.
Browning'S work as a whole he writes: mo
English contemporary poet by profession
has left us work so full of living fire. Fire
is the element in which her genius lives
and breathes; it has less hold on earth than
Tennysons or Browning's or Miss Inge-
lows, and less aerial impulse, less fantaS-
setti's" OF aurora" itself Mr.. Swnburne
says that, at any rate, there is mot dead
line in it, though one of the longest of
DOemS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

The annual report Of. the State Board of
Transportation in Nebraska denounces the
state officers and other officeholders. The
report says:
Some passes are granted for the same rea-
son that an unarmed citizen surrenders his
purse in the night--for peace and safety.
There are highwaymen who. bold up corpora
tions, candidates for Office and evildoers
who pay to avoid exposure Such men some
times become members of Legislatures in
the newer States. Passes are granted these
men not for the good they may do, but to
keep them from doing harm.
The practice is vicious one, but as long
as the law permits it and the railroads and
the public officials practice it, what can the
people do?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

ssnools, and a public ferry and subway
would have been rank socialism,.
When Jeny Lind first sang in Lepsic she
appeared at the Gewandhaus concert, under
Mendeissohn's direction. Naturally there
was great demand for tickets despite the
fact that the prices were raised. 1t was
therefore decided that the students of the
Conservatorium must waive their usual
right TO free admission to these concerts
But the students objected with vigor They
swedish Nightingale" A protest was
made, and young Otto Goldschmidt aged
sixteen, was the student deputed by the
othefS to interview the authorities In the
eLu ne won the day. He little thought then
that IN half a dozen years he would be
herself.
dear, dim nursery: a tiny crib;
A great, wide feeling OF night:
The criekets chirruping far away
outs.ueI ~ mere 1t once was light:
doting old nurse. with cracked old voice
no sang 70 me, shrill and low
Going to bel by candle light,
Hundreds OF years agol
Twas true my rocking-horse did not move
I'd watched him long through the door;
could get no salt on the robins tails
And the eoachman-my idol-swore!
Yet all these miseries passed away
Away in drowsy glow,
Going to bed by candle light,
Hundreds of years ago!
If grown-up sorrows would die at dusk
And 20 down with the sun
If hearts surrendered to sleepy heads.
And thought with the day, were dOnel
If only If only l knew once more
The bliss / used TO know.
Going to bed by candle light,
Hundreds Of years ago.
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women who work.
New York Times.

The inroads that women are making on
those professions and industries that few
years ago were filed more or less eXclu-
sively by men offer an interesting problem
to the sociologist. The puzzling question Is,
What did the elder sisters of these women
do? Girls are now employed as saleswomen
in many stores that few years ago were
served entirely by men, and women have
even intruded the editorial sanctum and
read their illusions in other parts of the
paper than on the ''Woman's Page" The
law, medicine and even architecture offer
new avenues for woman's endeavor. lie
Figaro of Paris, is astounded at this state
of affairs in the United States, and says
that the day is not far off when all posi-
tions save those of the most arduous toll
will be filed by women. Possibly the most
astonishing part of some statistics recently
published on the subject has reference 70
women accountants and secretaries OF
firms and companies. There were none ~
is said, in 1870; there are now 430L OF
doctors and surgeons there are 6,sSZ, com
pared to 527 ten years ago. and OF women
writers 3, 1853. compared to 159. As for Wq qd,
en- stenographers and compositorS, NY
numbered seven in 1870. The NUMBER To-
day is 81, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18
Trend OF German sociaIisnl.

GunlOn ) AdBd1lue Iot OeCeAANSA'
Another of the Socialist leaders tio,,
stein, sent in to the Stuttgart COW ohNel'1 -,
his views of the future policy OF TIC p"-'
20 the following effect: ,.,. r,nst
soon break down is fallacy ana ~ i a #
less to deny this The number OF all l.s;.,.
people is not decreasing, but increasing
The middle classes are changing tneir 81 ep has
acter but they are not Nanlsh.ns, a. - Il1s.
been predicted In some branches OF lt taass
try the monopolists prevail, bat IN m. o'he IN
small establishments hold thelI ow .l,,errx,
agriculture the concentration Oh p IotssasS
progresses very slowly. Since tnsa o 49,
the chances of violent upneaVaI are , ~
small, the Social Democratic party s nVuiu
actively take part in legislation anu op 49,
what advantages they can Tor tleH Oo"
stituents.' .,,,ab4
TO the extent that this change OF thousl ~ ~
and purpose goes on the Socialist pares "a "a
Germany will become practlcal any
genuinely helpful constructive force "a
progress towards democratic political lnS IN
buttons and important social reforms ~
stead Of 4 merely negative body OF crlu-
cism, opposition and disruption.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

We have had two weeks of weather of
disagreeable sort not usual here at this
time of year, but made far more disagree
able than necessary because of the neglect
of citizens to remove the snow from their
sidewalks. No effort whatever is made by
police authorities to enforce the ordinance
requiring the clearing of the walks and pc
destrians have been subjected to great dis
comfort and even danger in consequence.
Many people have had falls more or less
severe, and there is a probability at any
time of damage suits being brought both
against the city and the negligent prop
erty owners for injuries received. For sew
eral seasons so little snow has fallen in In
dianapolis that there has been some excuse
for forgetting that pedestrians have any
rights in the matter, but with winter setting
in so early this year it seems probable that
it may be long and severe, with heavy
SHOWS. 1t is the duty of the authorities to
see that the snow is removed from the
walks promptly. if not by the owners or oc-
cupants of the abutting premises, then at
their expense. The fame of the city streets
for cleanliness is likely to suffer greatly if
this is not done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

prolonged labor. They did great work
as great in its way as Dewey's victory at
Manila or SIMPSONS at Santiago. They de-
serve to be remembered by their country
men. They are Judge Day. ex-secretary
Of state; Senator'S Davis, of Minnesota;
Frye, of Maine, and Gray of Delaware and
Hon. Whitelaw Reid. Their names will be
inseparably connected in history with one
of the most important treaties the United
States has ever made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

The cordiality existing between the Off
GERS Of the regular army on duty in this
city and the officers of the National Guard
who were in the service is creditable to
both. The experience of the past few
months seems to have broken down what
ever barriers may have existed in the past.
When the guard is reorganized this feeling
of esteem will tend to bring the state vol
unteers and the regulars into better and
more helpful relations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Transportation companies East and West
are rushing preparations to handle the large
Cuban trade which is expected to open soon
after Jan. 1. New York capitalists are pre-
pairing to establish new lines of steamers
between Tampa and Havana, and the
Southern Pacific and Illinois Central people
wiz put on an entirely new feet of steam
ers between New Orleans and Havana. This
means competition between the East and the
Central West for the control Of a trade that
must benefit the whole country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

A Pennsylvania woman recently recovered
$3.50 in a breaeh-of-promise suit, but this
amount does not seem excessive when the
fact is taken into consideration that she
was engaged for twenty-three years to the
man who finally proved false Still, there
are, doubtless. persons so unsympathetic as
to argue that if she couldn't bring the man
to time in twenty-three years she didn't
deserve q cent when she lost him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Representative Overstreet has made
strong case for an appropriation for public
buildings in Indianapolis, but he has not and
cannot make it too strong. There is not a
city in the country of the population of In
dianapolis and having as important relations
TO the mail service which has so inadequate
postoffice accommodations. The pension
is impossible to give the valuable records the
protection against fire which they should
have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

An exchange says that the President, hav-
ing had his ear to the ground for weeks to
ascertain the opinion of the country regard
ing expansion, has found that the people are
In favor of it and consequently made the re-
mark he did in Atlanta about hauling down
the flag. Abraham Lincoln, when he was
President, furnished precedent of ascer-
tanning popular opinion before he acted. He
is a good man to follow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Admiral SIMPSONS dispatch announcing
the destruction of Cervera's fleet came as
a Fourth of July offering to the Nation,
and now it looks as if the commissioners
bearing the treaty with Spain might arrive
in time to offer it to the President as a
Christmas gift.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Senior Rios. president of the Spanish peace
commission. talks about the United States
being IAN implacable conqueror'' without
regard for international law, and says the
treaty IS mot a case Of might against right,
but of might without right" This comes
with poor grace from the representative of a
power which from the discovery of America
and the conquest of the Netherlands to the
present time has never shown particle Of
mercy or magnanimity to conquered foe
and whose traditional policy has been to
punish. devastate, murder and destroy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

The announcement that the Russian gov
srnment has contracted loan of $50 OOO,0 600
IN France, to be used in replacing its artil-
ery with rapid-firing, small caliber guns
would seem to Indicate that the Cars dis
armament proposition was intended rather
as friendly advice to other nations than in
nicative of Russia's policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18
Not a. Serenade.

The pallid moon looked down on the city.
This is descriptive.
my lady sleeps"
But enough, dear reader. He was not
singing the foregoing. He whispered them
softly to himself, and, removing his boots,
slipped softly upstairs, prepared to say
next morning that he got home long before
the midnight hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

At Atlanta. when the band played and an
audience of nearly eight thousand persons
was asked to sing America" President
Mckinley led the singing in person. He
may have formed that habit in Methodist
meetings
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

for the reason that sensible people are able
to see the absurdity Of such predictions. The
assumption of the control Of the Philippines
is regarded more and more a duty which
must be undertaken with an appreciation of
the responsibility of great nation rather
than of its mower
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

They have female suffrage in Utah, and at
the late congressional election a larger vote
was cast by women than ever before in that
State. The result was the election of Mr..
Roberts, polygamist. What we want woman
suffrage for, you know, is to purify politics
and reform things generally
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Lieutenant Hobson, hero of the Merri-
mac, spent yesterday in Chicago, where
he received much attention, and after a
lecture in the evening, left for San Fran
cisco, whence he will sail on Thursday for
Manila to supervise the raising of Spanish
ships. For a young man Mr.. Hobson is in
great demand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

Senator Vest should not be as troubled as
his speeches make him appear in regard to
the downfall of the Republic. His expert
ence and failure in laboring for its down.
fall should cheer him with the assurance
that the Republic is not fragile.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-18

The pastor of a church in Pennsylvania,
having left his church because ne fears that
some of the angry brethren will take his
life, other ministers suggest the holding of
revival meetings in the hope of bringing
about better conditions. 1t seems as if this
were a field for missionary effort.