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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-04

trollers, short circuits and how to locate
them, incandescent light circuits, etc.
The formation of Don't Worry Clubs
mas LED Jeanne G. Pennington TO compile. for
lneir Denef1t and for that of individuals,
from the writings of Epictetus, En-
erson, George blot and Robert Browning
series OF thoughts which she calls Don
worry Nuggets" They are issued in a
DAINTY volume by Fords, Howard & Hull
bert, New York
Many people can write very good English
punctuate what thew have written, Kate
NELL, of the Richmond. Va, High School.
mas prepared a little manual on the subject
given by grammarians. The proper use of
each point is fully illustrated by numerous
examples in sentences so constructed as TO
rules. A. Lowell & Co.. publishers, 20 Fifth
avenue, New York
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The Journal has received a copy of Sen
ator Stewards Analysis of the Functions
of Money! from the author, with re-
quest for a notice. AS is well known, Mr..
Stewart is an extensive owner of silver
mines in this country and Mexico, and for
that reason he is not the person to make
his advocacy of free coinage worth con-
sideration. He tells us that "silver is the
money of those who create wealth in time
of peace and fights its battles in time of
war;" That is not only nonsense. but the
nonsense of senility. In Mexico silver is
the money of those who create wealth be-
cause that country is on a silver basis, but
the wealth created is for the men who en-
ploy labor at less than 80 cents a day in
country paying the lowest wages. The sill
yer of this country which is in circulation
Is as good as gold because the country is
on the gold basis. Mr.. Stewart would have
free coinage of silver and thus put the
country on silver basis, reducing the pur-
value of his millions in silver mines may
be doubled.
Another false assumption of the senator
is that gold is such a confirmed traitor
that every civilized nation in the world has
been compelled to Danish it in times of
great emergency" During the late war the
United States. on a free coinage basis, sus-
pended specie payments, but silver dollars
had fled the country long before because
worth more than gold. Great Britain has
carried on all her wars for fifty years on
gold basis, and since our war with Spain
began we have increased our stock of gold
faster than ever before. Spain, on the other
hand, having lost its credit, has got rid of
the yellow traitor and is now on a silver
basis. A few days ago coal beavers in
Spanish town struck for higher wages be-
cause they were being paid in silver upon
a silver basis. Their complaint was that it
would not purchase half as much as when
the country was a gold basis. The coal
beavers did not get double wages in silver
to make their pay equal to gold, but an adj
vance of 50 per cent. which makes their
wages 70 per cent. less than when paid on
a gold basis. Mr. Stewards book is out of
place just now. partly because the public
understands 1.-The game of this silver-mine
millionaire in the Senate, and partly be-
cause it has more important matters to
think Of
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SENATE in SESSION TO-DAY.
Unusual Fourth of July Experience
for COngressmen.

WASHINGTON, July 3.-The Senate will
be in session on the Fourth of July, an I'M
usual sitting, but deemed necessary by the
friends of the Hawaiian annexation resolu-
ton. 1t is probable that the week will be
consumed in the discussion of the resolu-
ton unless a vote is reached near the mid
die of the week, which some of the senators
hope No other business will be considered
that leads to any extended debate until
there is vote on the Hawaiian resolutions.
OF course, any war legislation which might
be necessary would be considered, but there
is no expectation of any emergency de-
mands.
The House will not be in session to-mor-
row, adjournment having been taken until
Tuesday. There is no definite programme
determined on for the week. The confer
ence report on the deficiency bill will be
considered Tuesday and it may provoke
considerable debate. The naval affairs com
mittee has a number of bills which 1t. de-
sires to bring up and a day may be given
to it. The naval personnel measure is the
most important. If it can be reached under
call of committees an effort will be made to
take up the anti-scalping bill. The bill to
incorporate the International American
Bank will follow the deficiency bill with a
conference report and continue before the
House until disposed of.
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STATE PRESS OPINION.

Foreigners may feel surprised at displays
OF American bravery, but no American
does. The American is brave because he is
born that way.-Goshen Times.
If the Spaniards believe all the stories
that are circulated in Madrid concerning the
sinking of American battleships and cruis-
ers they must think we had an enormous
navy at the start.-Marion News
The people OF the United States are now
all enlisted in the war with Spain. If they
cannot go to the front and fight in person,
they can go down in their pockets and help
pay the blIls.-South Bend Tribune.
We have spent S6O.0C0OOO in cash to the
present time in prosecuting the war, with
much more to add. Will some of the op-
ponents of imperialism" kinoiy I--int out
the process by which we are TO be recon-
sed?-Lafayette Courier.
Mckinley has issued orders to abolish the
wooden boss in the United States army.
We are only sorry that he could not have
puI Colonel Barnett astriue the cruel instru-
ment of torture awhile before il was taken
down.-Vincennes Commercial.
General Lawton enlisted in the war Of the
Rebellion from Allen county, and he has
shown himself a vigorous and masterful
soldier. Ii has Injured to his opportunity
and credit that he was not appointed to the
volunteer service In this State. whose troons
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ADVICE TO CORPORATIONS.

The common remark that corporations
have no souls might be extended in some
cases to include the statement that they
have no sense. Certainly ii is the height of
folly on their part to invite popular censure
and furnish additional ground for the pop
ular odium which naturally attaches to
them, by trying to evade the law or shift
burdens from their own shoulders to those
of the people. case in pont is the position
which some corporations have taken in re-
gard to the stamp taxes imposed by the new
revenue law That Congress intended to tax
these corporations is too plain for argu-
ment. Why should 1t not do so when 1t was
taxing all the people? The title Of the new
law is "An act to provide ways and means
to meet war expenditures, and for other
purposes" It would be strange. indeed, IL
in the enactment OF such law Congress
should have failed to impose a just share of
the burden of general taxation on corpora
tons which enjoy valuable franchises and
which have grown rich In the exercise Of
monopoles. It would have been monstrous
II. while every consumer and private citizen
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FOR THE ENDEAVORERS.
Nashville Decorated and Waiting for
the Annual Y. r. s. C. e. Convention.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July S.-All prepara-
lions for the opening of the Christian En-
deavor convention in this city next Wednes-
day are practically completed. Committees
have performed their work we'll and the
handling of the thousands expected will be
we'll and expeditiously conducted, as accom-
modations for $4,000 visitors have been Sc
cured and the incoming delegates will suffer
no delays after arrival. Already decora-
tions adorn many principal buildings, cleo
trio arches have been built along some Of
the principal streets, flags fly from resi-
dences and business houses and the
churches selected for headquarters for the
delegations from the several States are
deliberately decked AT Centennial Park,
where the principal meetings will be held,
three immense buildings, planted in the
midst of flower beds and Shrubbery, with
shade trees abundant, have been placed in
perfect order and their interiors are as
beautiful as flags, bunting, plants and fiow-
ers can make them. An emergency hos
pital has been prepared at the park, with a
corps of able physicians and nurses to at
tend.
This afternoon the convention virtually
opened with an immensely attended concert
at the tabernacle. Yesterday the delegation
from Chicago passed through en- route to
Chattanooga and will return Tuesday.
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CRIME OF THE CAROLINES.
Missionaries Want Spanish Policy
Changed on the Islands.

NEW YORK, July 3.-The board OF COM
missioners for foreign missions, whose op-
erations have been carried on in the ISLANDS
of the Pacific for nearly half a century. has
issued the following concerning the alleged
attitude on the question of the status OF
some of these islands, which will result
from the war with Spain:
1T ought to be understood that the Ameri-
can board does not NEEDLE In political mat
ters, and that at the present time 1t takes
no part in discussions relating to territorial
acquisitions by the United States in any
part of the world. When our missionaries
in foreign land are denied the rights which
other Americans enjoy, the intervention of
our government is sometimes sought, but on
principle, our board avoids seeking aid of
the State in the prosecution of the mission
airy work.
I'm view of the forcible intervention of
Spain in the Caroline islands, ten years ago,
putting a stop to Christian efforts of our
missionaries, who were there years before
the Spanards arrived, we deem it right to
ask that whenever the status of those ISL
ands is determined, ample guarantee shall
be required of whatever power shall hold
sovereignty, that perfect religious liberation
shall be enjoyed by the islanders. AS to
what nation shall hold that sovereignty we
have nothing to say"
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have not yet reached the front. His friends
here are greatly pleased to know OF his sue
cess and applaud his course. He comes up
from the ranks-Fort Wayne Gazette.
Nobody is bothering Dewey at Manila.
The man who made such a clean and COM
plete job of the Spanish fleet isn't likely
to be worried by a few warships from any
other nation, no matter what their inten-
tons may be.-knightstown Sun.
Some of the corporations are making a big
kick on the war revenue tax. while the
great mass of the people are paying the
same both willingly and cheerfully. The
grasping corporations have tested the
American temper to its utmost limit and
they will get IL hard one of these DAYS
where the chicken got the ax.-Gart1eld
Republican.
What even the educated Sraniards do not
know about our country and its resources
would fill libraries A few shells from
American cruisers dropped skillfully in
some Spanish coast town might start a
stream of inquiry in regard to things Ameri-
can which should quickly bring the Span
ish government md people to recognize the
futility OF prolonging war the result stin CT
Portland Commercial.
That discipline must be maintained, and
that reasonable punishment is sometimes
necessary, no sensible person will dispute;
but such punishment should not be of an
inhuman and atrocious character, nor of a
KIND Lnat Is nkely, nor even lldDiS, 10 Sc
riously impair the health of the cuprt.
Some men delight in making a grand
stand display of a little brief authority,
and it looks as though Colonel Barnett may
be one of them.-Angola Magnet.
Viewed simply as a military necessity the
taking of Porto Rico and Hawaii is of SUI
preme Importance This present difficulty is
not the last war that will be waged. There
will be others, when and where. no one
can tell, but the same influences that have
caused all the wars of the past are still
operative, and this present conflict should
be made to add TO the common defense, and
the terms or peace should be arranged with
a view to strengthening the military and
naval power of the United States.-Shelby-
VILE ReDuhlican.
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AMONG THE NEW BOOKS
study of Parliamentary Law, with
SPECIAL Relation to Congress.

Parliamentary law is the law Of law
making. The curtain of our legislation rises
with an affirmative clashing of spears in
the folkmoot of a Teuton forest; it falls,
thus far, with the counting of quorum in
marble palace by the Potomac. Not to
speak of other races, ancient and modern,
progress of Germanic civilization can be
satisfactorily traced in the law of public
meetings and assemblies" So says Dr. L.
G. McConachie in summing up the develop
ment or evolution of parliamentary pro-
cedure in work entitled Congressional
Committees" Theework is a study of the
origin and development of our national and
local legislative methods, especially IN the
growth OF parliamentary law and commit
tee work. History shows that legislative bod
les are living, more or less rapidly chang
Ing, political organisms. Each has it's own
external and internal conditions. In many
respects the laws of their being are like
tnose or human society in general They
must have governments. They must adapt
themselves to their own peculiar external
environments within, justice is to he
maintained between member and member.
between the ruler and the ruled; positive
and energetic administration is to have it's
efficient organs; rules and customs are to
be established by the rightful voice of all
concerned. and everything ought to be ad-
Justed to the complexity or simplicity of
the bodies as regards the number of mem
bers, variety or sameness OF individual ca
pacities and amount and character of the
work to he performed. In this spirit=the
author has traced the development Of par
hamentary committees from their first be-
ginning to the present time, especially in the
Congress OF the United States. With our
LEGISLATIVE assemblies, modelled on the Eng
llsh Parliament, II was natural to go back
TO British beginnings, and thence TO trace
the Idea OF subdivision down to modern
times, especially to the period succeeding
the civil war, when the sudden and vast
augmentation of legislative burdens brought
about complete breakdown of parliament
tary machinery on the floor of Congress.
The work covers both branches of Con-
gress, and is filled with an interesting array
of facts. criticisms and arguments
1t should be In the hands of every mem
Der or prospective or possible member of
Congress and can be studied with profit by
every one who wishes to understand the or
ganization of the House. the secret of the
power OF the Speaker and the evolutionary
growth or our legislative methods The work
Is published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.,
New York. in the Library of Economics and
Politics series
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-04

This is the second book by Mrs Kate
Douglas Wiggin bearing the same title, but
the chronicles on this occasion are such
as relate TO the experiences of Penelope
Hamilton in Scotland, whereas the first
record was that of a tour in England. The
story, or series of sketches, is very clever
account of the impressions of three Amer
lean women in Scotland. Clever" is a word
that well describes Mrs. Wiggins's literary
style; she is sprightly and witty, and has a
keen appreciation of national peculiaritieS
and characteriStics-both American and for
eign. There is at times a suggestion of
forced sprightliness and wit-humor always
on the surface becomes tiresome, but, on
the whole, the history of the adventures
of Penelope and her friend in and about
Edinburgh is a highly interesting volume
and one to be selected in choosing summer
reading. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publish
erS.
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The author of this story, which purports
to have been written by the woman in the
case, says at the beginning: Il am what l
have called myself, an obsolete woman-a
woman who does not believe that woman
was created as a whole, sufficient unto her.
self, but as the other half of man. and that
she does not know the meaning of the word
life until she has lived in close. constant,
unrestricted communion with her other
half; and that each half is necessary for
the full, perfect development of the other -
This idea IS carried out in the story, which
tells how an actress who had reached the
age of twenty-seven without being in love
encountered her affinity in manager who.
though married man, also fell in love with
her at first sight, leading to an illicit mar
rage Such incidents may be common
enough, but such stories are not wholesome.
New York: r. +. Fenno & Co.
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Determination of Sex.

Recent dispatches have referred to an al
legged discovery by DIR. Leopold Schenck a
German physician who has won wide rep
utation by his extensive researches in the
province of embryology. He is professor OF
the Imperial and Royal University and d.
rector of the Embryological Institute at vi
emma. The subject of his alleged discovery
is discussed and the results of his investi.
cations given in work entitled ''Schenck'
Theory of the Determination of Sex II
is a book for the physicians and the spe-
cialist's library. The subject is treated in q
dignified and scientific manner, the conclu.
sion being that the sex of an unborn crea-
cal conditions of the mother. The work is
published in an authorized translation from
the German by the Werner Company, Ak.
ron. O.
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seem, even to her own people How olse
pire have so fallen into decay? The cause
of this decadence is not in any desolating
tiles of the Spanish people. In ''The Span
lard in History" by James C. Fernald, an
attempt is made briefly to portray through
leading incidents of Spanish history, some
leading traits of Spanish character which
have profoundly influenced the destiny of
that people. The work IS in no sense MS MS,
record of events. 1t is rather an intelligent
attempt to form an estimate of the nation
of its history, and to show how, through
centuries of evolution. the Spanish people
have become what they are to-day. AS
study of Spanish character in the light of
Spanish history the work is interesting and
Instructive. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
COMPANY
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Those men who are sending petitions to
Governor Mount asking that the commits
sion OF Colonel Barnett be revoked" ought
TO know that the Governor has no more au-
thority over colonel of an Indiana regi-
ment mustered into the United States serv-
ice than he has over Colonel Bryan COM
manding a Nebraska segment. Governor
Mount might make representations to the
war Department which might lead TO inves-
tigaA =. or court-martial, but II the officers
Of trat department should not see fit to
Taxa act, N the Governor can do nothing
II the -aptain of the company to which the
nan who is alleged to have been cruelty
treated cared to do so. he could prefer
charges. which would lead to court-mar-
kial.
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DR.. Goodwin is not inclined to abandon
his contention that all appropriations to the
so-called State University are prohibited by
the Constitution, and he includes the State
Normal School in the same category. His
latest contribution to the literature on this
question is booklet of sixteen pages, just
from the press of Smith e. Tiff. 26 North
Pennsylvania street, entitled, How the In
diana University strictly private corpora
ton, became state school after having
been abolished by the constitutional con-
vention of 1851; what has already come of
it; what is sure to come of it if let alone,
and what ought to be done about it at
once" Those who have an inklng to DR..
Goodwin's views on this question as indi-
Gated in frequent discussions of it in the
Journal in the last few years, will read
this pamphlet with much Interest 1t has
at least this merit: No one con mistake the
writer's views. 1t can be had free, for a
few days, at the Office of the publishers, or
it will be sent free by mail to any address
IN quantities not exceeding twenty-five to
one order, on the receipt by the author,
1920 College avenue, of cents a copy for
postage.
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This little work by Prof. William ]. Mic
oils is intended for the large number of in
telligent readers who have no technical
training and yet who prefer to seek knowl-
edge by reading special subjects rather
than fiction. A large proportion of these
have neither the time nor inclination to
peruse the voluminous geological and Stats
teal reports of the coal industry in the
United States, or to study the ponderous
experts. In Goal Catechism'' all the in
formation on the subject, scientific and
practical, is clearly set forth in a series of
questions and answers, which in a con-
densed and progressive form embrace the
whole subject of coal lore. Philadelphia:
]. b. Lippincott Company.
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Publishers, Notes.

Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, have alb
sorbed the old publishing house OF Roberts
Brothers, of that city Lee Shepard have
also gone out of business.
The next book by Mr.. Robert w. Cham
berS following THE Haunts of Men is to
be ashes Of Empire" 1t is a tale of two
American newspaper men who were within
the walls of Paris during the entire siege
by the Prussians ''Texla," Robert Barr 8
forthcoming novel; is likely. ii is said, to
prove by far the most important literary
work that Mr.. Barr has yet accomplished.
within the walls of an old castle on the
Moselle and is stirring tale of adventure,
tirely new to him. Both books will be pub
lished by the Frederick A. Stokes Com
many
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A collection of verses by George NJ. Wick
ers is styled Ballads of the Occident," be-
cause the author is an American and sew
eral of the poems are of a distinct Ameri-
can cast. Otherwise they embrace va
riety of topics and sentiments common to
humanity. The poems show good feeling
and some of them would sing well if set to
music, but the author evidently has a ia
cility in rhyming that is apt to lead its
possessor to write too much. He says in a
preface that this collection does not contain
all the verses he has written, but it might
still have been severely pruned with adj
vantage. Philadelphia: The Parkview Pub
fishing Company.
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An important international agreement has
been contaminated at Albany. N. Y, by
which fifty official representatives of the
, Five Indian Nations ratified the selection
of the State University wampum
keeper OF the Five Nations. There were
originally about thirty wampum belts, but
now only dozen survive. and hereafter
these will lie as a special deposit in the
museum of the State university. 1t is to
be hoped the present inhabitants of New
York will not betray the confidence thus
shown in their honor by the original pro-
prfetors Of the soil.
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annexation and other issues will eclipse the
silver question. Mr. Pettigrew should be
permitted to print the argument of the sill
ton. Otherwise. the pamphlet should not
be permitted to burden the already over
burdened columns OF the Congressional
Record, to the end that the plea of the
silver mine owner may be circulated as a
campaign document at the expense Of the
government