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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-25
Pittsburg Has Science, but No Luck.

PITTSBURG, Aug, 24.-Brooklyn won
from Pittsburg in a game that was very
tame and had no distinguishing feature
Attendance, 400. Score:
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Die. NIoKEN NIE.

RECTOR OF HOWE SCHOOL,
Will be at the Bates House from Saturday. Aug.
a. 10 Thursday Sept. /, inclusive, from 10 10 3
o'clock each day. and will be glad 10 confer with
those who have wards to educate.
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Howe Military School.

Gives special attention TO preparation for coll
Iege. Candidates have passed without conditions
for our best American colleges. College scholar
ship offered. For catalogue address REV. j. II.
M'kENZIE. Rector, Lima Ind
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Pittsburg 49,. l O. 90 0 0 O OIL 8
Brooklyn 49,. / 0 2 0-5 s 0

Batteries-Rhines and Bowerman; Yeager
and Grim Three-base hit-Donovan. Sat
play-Padden. Ely and Clark First base on
balls-Off Rhnes, 3; off Yeager, 1. Struck
out-By Rhines, 3; by Yeager g Passed
ball-Grim. Time-1:45 UmpireS-Lynch
and Andrews
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noticeable that at the sound of the missionary's deep bass voice singing Loving Kindness" a respectful silence settles down upon all within hearing and continues, with few and quickly drowned Interruptions, until the in formal talk" which constitutes the rest of the service. and contains much friendly advice and warning. and is on the whole helpful and hopeful, is over.
 Then comes the distribution of the papers, and I learn as we make the rounds of the cells what in the esti- nation of the inmates of City Prison No. 2, are, outside of mental pabulum, the two greatest needs of imprisoned humanity. They are stamped envel- opes and spectacles. From nearly every cell comes a plea for the first, and dozens of men beg for those aids to vision with which in a cheap but apparently highly satisfactory form, find that the experienced missionary's s pockets fairly bristle.
 T want to write to my mother''-
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a number of them-expecting us seated on three or four benches, in one of the large cell-bordered rooms, before stand and two chairs deferentially awaiting our arrival. They are mostly middle aged and old women who have elected to praise God in our company this afternoon, at least they look so, though there be not a few who have neither gray hair nor many wrinkles. There is one small person in red wrapper, and a cream-complexioned little body weighted down with an ag- gressive black eye in the greenery- yallery stage, who might pass for young in other surroundings, but here they look almost as old as sin itself, poor thingsi
 Queer, isn't it? but nearly every in- dividual one of these daughters of Eve, secluded though they are from the admiring gaze of man, are either in the bud or the fulf bloom of frizzes, and one of them has her locks twisted in that abomination of abominatlons, a teapot handle," on the very top of
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the effort to impress on us the melan- choly fact that they are our spiritual poor relations and thus have a genuine claim upon our good offices.
 SomeWay l shrink from that line of waving, claw-like digits, and retreating proceed, after the manner of my klnd to ask questions of a deferential trusty concerning matters which are really none of my affairs. He tells me briefly perhaps truly-of himself, then blazes into a sudden and fierce indignation when I we'll -meaningly suggest that he be circumspect in future and after the laws present grasp on him is released that he behave so uprightly as never again to tenant a prison cell.
 What chance has a man got?" he demands. He gets run in here and then when he gets out the police have their eyes on him and if he don't get work right away he gets run in again as 'vag, or else gets something worse blamed on to him. The police drive us to the jumping off place and that's the gallOwS, ma 'am!"
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holes" through which the guards, un- seen themselves, can at any time com mand full view of the interior of each cell, and l am told that this despicable arrangement is necessary to good pris- on discipline. Perhaps it is, am only an outsider and cannot be expected to understand such matters, therefore I do not argue the question; but I know in my heart that it would not make me better either in act or disposition to look at or be looked at by my fellow creatures in this way
 Later I see the prisoners form in line and march down in Indian file to their dinners and the sight reminds me of the dreadful procession of Lourdes, only these are all men or youths and their deformities and diseases are of the mind and not of the body. Each car ries a tin cup and spoon, and finds awaiting him on the desk-like tables which make the long dining hall look grotesquely like a school-room an ob- long tin pan of stew, three or four potatoes as yet unjacketed and a small
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the college. The environment of the undergraduate at Princeton is natur- ally of that nature. Religious duties are not forced upon them and nothing is done to make the truths of that na- ture disagreeable. The students all gather in one chapel and attend the one service, and l am free to say that they form a very appreciable congre- gation. They are young men of intel ligence and they give evidence of it. I think 1 have never seen the time in college life when the undergraduate was of so high a standard morally and physically IS at present"
 Is the physical development inter- fering with mentaI?''
 Tt should be borne in mind at all times that the physical man should develop at an equal pace with the mental. Therefore I say I see noth- ing harmful in college athletics. As a matter of fact, l believe athletics to be of material benefit to the college as bring the institution more closely to the attention of the rising generation of boyS-young men of from IS to g are really boys, after all.
 What I mean to say is that the boy of F. 13 and 14, interested as all boys are in football. baseball, rowing etc, takes a deep interest in the college sport and as he grows older a desire to be a participant in those sports strengthens within him. The result of this is that, in addition to the desire to secure the mental advantages result ing from collegiate training, the boy gets a further bent in the direction of college, through his interest in ath- letics In consequence the number of students is materially increased, and I attribute very large increase in men, tai development to a primal interest in college sports.
 GEnpnE C3 NrrIIA pArns
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her imprisoned but still naughty head. Indeed, "art for arts sake" fiourishes here, or is it only an outward and visi- ble sign of woman's inborn desire to outshine her sisters, that makes them worry their locks when they might be giving them the rejuvenating rest which our Judges have decreed they shall themselves experience?
 There are twenty-five out of the sixty inmates who have chosen the better part to-day, and they listen with real interest to the Bible reading and the short discourse, and assist with more or less tuneful voices in the singing of the hymns. Brother Tubb may talk, perhaps, little above their heads, but it is plain that they like him heartily and that his words and his manner give back to them little of the self-respect, the loss of which brought them here.
 Just before the close of the meeting a woman brings in an enormous bou- Quet and lays it with a courtesy on the table before the missionary, and the en- tire congregation straightens up in it's seats as one woman and smilingly unites with it's representative in the be-
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he will find. AS to the man who said that he has found his Latin and Greek Of less value that the modern lan- guages, l am sure if he were seeking the Romance languages French, Spanish and Italian-he would find his Latin of great bene- fit, because these languages are de- rived from the Latin directly. But any of the modern languages he could pick up in comparatively short time, and with the expenditure of little effort, if he chose.
 The question of substituting the study of the modern for the dead lan- guages is still in controversy, but I be- lieve that the movement is losing in- stead of gaining strength
 Speaking of the amount of matter studied which the mind stored up, Dr. Patton said that mans mind was like ly to retain what was interesting to it of what it studied or read.
 In reading Tennyson," he said, T may put by in my memory the lines that I think are worth remembering soon as I have read them"
 Speaking of Tennyson,' l said, ''iS it not remarkable that this generation has not one great poet?"
 'fIt is a fact" said pr. Patton. We are left to choose between William Watson. who poetiZes on poetry, and Rudyard Kipling. Not that I would be- little MT. Kipling, for I think that if he ever becomes serious, he may still do something worthy. In fact. he has done something recently which seems to bear the mark of inspiration. His recessional was the literary feature of the Queens Jubilee. Thousands were striving for something worthy of the occasion. and MT. Kipling seemed to do without effort what all the others had failed to accomplish.
 ..Rut it is not altogether surprising
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that is the cry all up and down the lines. "She doesn't know that I am in here and she'll worry about me-
 One, of mere original turn of mind than his companions in detention, de- clares that it is his grandmother whom he desires to apprise of his whereabouts, but not a prisoner states that he wishes to communicate with his father or any male relative, or a wife. I notice, however, that while printed matter is distributed with inn partial generosity, stamps and specta- cles are bestowed with nice discrimina- tion.
 "A stamp will buy cigarette" ex- plains the missionary, and spectacles are sound currency also. I have to be careful" But knowing his work and his men, l doubt if he leaves unsup- piled single prisoner who really needs either.
 The "hypo ward" is nearly full and the row of wretched tremulous, chalk faced creatures stretch out eager, in- sistent hands to us as we pass, and ad- dress us as brother" and sister in
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I am glad that Brother Tubb beckons me to rejoin him at this moment. Some way, in the subdued light that filters in through the barred windows the mans face looked to me like that of hunted, wounded, helpless, but still fe- rocious animal, and such an animal, however much one may pity it, is neither pleasing nor desirable company. l trot along obediently after my clergy man thenceforth-I must needs trot in order to make even a pretense of keep ing up with his energetic footsteps and l see many things.
 1 am shown the regulation points of interest exhibited to all visitors, I suppose, but nothing of it all has in it anything of brightness or beauty or up- liftingness, save and except that which 1 see unbidden-the sturdy friendliness of the man who comes each week to cheer and help, as far as in him lies these ''shut-ins" of the law and the grateful spirit in which, with few ex- captions, his good offices of speech and deed are received.
 1 traverse the dark central corridors and behold on either hand the peep
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who have gathered about my chair
 Look at them beg" she says, hold ing her still handsome snow crowned head loftily high as she gives it a com prehensive wave toward those of whom she disapproves. "I'd rather steal than beg, and I'd rather go without than do either
 Two minutes later she corners the good brother herself and makes a re- quisition for dress waist, declaring that because of certain acts of the ju- dietary she has been unjustly deprived of two of these necessary adjuncts to the feminine costume.
 T had two fine ones at the laundry when I left town,' she states, but they are lost to me, and the one I brought with me is gone to nothing. When I leave off this thing" plucking at the blue and white wrapper scorn- fully, T have nothing but my skirt to go back in, and I'll go back in it, too," this threateningly, unless something is done to make up my loss to me-
 1 express a wish that some of my garments would fit her, and she folds her arms majestically across her deep
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training helped a boy to find himself" more quickly than he possibly could while he remained under the restric- tions of home life.
 Undoubtedly" he answered. I've can observe that in the contrast be- tween the home students-those who live in Princeton and come here to school-and the boys who come a thou sand miles to live here during the term"
 I asked Dr. Patton what degree of liberty should be allowed to a student at college.
 "The investment of the student with the franchise of his manhood is a slow process" he said. Here at Princeton we stand toward the student in the po- sition of the parents or guardians. at least we feel that to be our duty. Therefore we keep careful watch and ward over the young men who come to us. and if we find them becoming ad- dicted to any vice we at once notify those who have sent them here. w, want to know where the student spends his time and how he spends 1t. And 1t is in the possession of this knowledge that we find ourselves able to main tail. the morale of the college itself.
 .'In his home the boy is surrounded by walls of paternalism. When he reaches college he finds he is compar- atively independent. The freshman finds in his new independence an op- portunity sometimes to take a big loaf and often he finds too late that he has lost his year. Perhaps this teaches him a lesson and in the end is a benefit, but we constantly strive this in the first year, because that is in a measure the crucial period, the one in which the undergraduate gains unhampered his first lesson in the life of the world.
 .T think it is not the province of the college to do aught which would not
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encourage the broadening of the mind. the ability to grasp the affairs of life in a large way, to consider the world on a basis of wide scope l think the modern tendency is in the direction of promoting all these things, and it seems to me there is no agent so pow erful in this regard as the training which one receives in college. It Is folly to say that college life is not ben eficial to any one. This must be borne in mind: It is not so much what we learn in college as the training of the mind that is received, the ability to concentrate thought that is imparted. It seems to me that nothing is more impossible than that the mind of man who has picked up his knowledge in a desultory way shall be as valuable, as resourceful, as the mind of the man who has received the benefit of college training.
 This is the liberalism of student life. In this way college equips a man for whatever his life may be when he goes into the world. Too many people fail to distinguish between liberality and uprightnesS and narrow minded ness. Broadminded liberality is an evidence of enlightened progress. We believe that in Princeton. We try to impress it upon the minds of the un- dergraduates."
 "Is the religious spirit among the students strong?"s
 Despite the assertions that are some times made, my observation inn presses me with the fact that the un- dergraduate is no less religious than he was. On the contrary I am inclined to believe that the thoughts inspired. by a religious feeling and a tendency toward the things that are of religion and exist in every day life are more pronounced I should say that this is largely because of the atmosphere of
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stowal of the offering. I am as noth- ing in comparison with Brother Tubb and not the smallest blossom falls to my share, but there is one tenderly sympathetic heart beating behind the regulation blue and white calico, and it is owned by pleasant-faced woman whom I have observed, out of the cor ner Of my eye, surreptitiOusly eating peppermint lozenges behind her hymn book at intervals during the service To me she comes as soon as she can decorously leave her seat and presses two of those aromatic confections into my grateful hand.
 You are more than welcome" she says, beamingly, as l strive to express my thanks.
 Soon Kate Gallagher-"Kate, the Window Smasher," Kate, whom long suffering policemen freely call Kate the Cursed"-separates herself from the eager group who are besieging their generous visitor for the much-desired gifts of paper, stamps and glasses, ' and adds herself to the two or three
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undertaking to read as a duty the full list of the best 100 books prepared by any one"
 Recently Chauncey M. Depew said in an interview which 1 had with him that he believed the college trained man had an advantage in business over the man who was self educated asked pr. Patton what his personal observation on this subject taught him.
 ''The self-educated business man who has been successful, not alone as money-maker, but as a leader of men," he said. IS man gifted with an ab- normally large brain. It is not always the good fortune of the sons of rich men to inherit that advantage of their fathers-in fact it is the exception Therefore the ass imption of some sue cessful men that their sons will be as well prepared for business life without a college training is based on wrong premises. There is no doubt that col lege training prepares man for the big things of life better than any home training or plain business experience all other things being equal. It gives him broader view and enables him to see the interrelation of things-to un- derStand that nothing stands by itself
 T can see only one drawback can fancy the university man may object to doing the ordinary duties which be- long to the apprenticeship of business life. 1 can imagine him being a little 'cocky about beginning at the bottom of the ladder. One of the humorous papers expressed the idea better by a cartoon than 1 can give it in words perhaps. It pictured two old gentlemen in conversation, one saying to the other that he had just taken his grandson into the business; and in reply to a query as to how the arrangement worked, he said: I seem to please him
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that we lack great poet. This is an age of second-class men. When Bis marck and Gladstone have passed away, what really great man will be left? The periods of greatness in lit erature or statesmanship are recurrent The Elizabethan age was a marked pc riod; the early Victorian era gave us many men great in statecraft and lit erature. We have fallen on a barren time now. Augustine Birrell phrased it very well when he said that the only men who had anything to say were sci entists, and they did not know how to say it; and the only men who knew how to say anything were the literary men, and they had nothing to say"
 I asked Dr. Patton if he believed there was decadence in literary taste caused by the enormous output of trashy, commonplace books.
 "There is no doubt of it." he said, though the taste for more serious reading has been fostered in a great many ways. notably through the uni versity extension movement. That the ratio of readers of good literature has changed for the worse I am not pre- pared to admit. Of course the char acter of serious literature has changed. We have a more instructive literature covering the range of philosophy, of political economy, of the sciences. The serious literature of to-day is much more serious than that of the last gen. eration."
 "Is it possible to lay out course of reading for any class of men, or for men in general"
 ''No Every man must choose his own mental diet The library of man is the outward expression of himself. I can imagine nothing more trying than to set before a man even the most per feet anthology eyer compiled. Think of
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loaf of bread.
 "We can have more if we wish." I am told confidently, and since this seems to be considered a cause for con- graduation l openly and decidedly ap- prove.
 Upstairs, as we go out, we meet a rather handsome young man with a slight limp, who flushes at sight of me and hushes more deeply still at the missionary's rough but kindly meant words.
 All of the prisoners here" he says, sententiously, are not criminals; some of them are only fools. This is one of the fools"
 l make inquiries of the fool concern ing the particular piece of folly which made him an unwilling boarder at the city's expense, and shamed him with the fashion of his lower garments, and I learn that he is one of the exam ples" which gallant Judge Campbell made for the benefit of men addicted to the reprehensible practice of sass ing feminine bicycle riders.
 It is but step across to the female prison and we find the females-quite
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1.-the beginning of our converse
 ton. I quoted to Dr. Francis l..
 Patton, president of Princeton
 University, what noted French
 writer said recently-that he re- gretted wasting so much time on the dead languages when he might have been perfecting himself in German and English, so that he could appreciate now the literature of those languages. Dr. Patton said that the study Of Greek and Latin was not alone valua- ble for the knowledge it gave us of a dead tongue but for the mental train ing that it gave
 What we remember of our studies is not alone what has been of use to Us, he said. The study of Greek and Latin sharpens the faculties and trains the mind. Every time a boy grasps the meaning of a complicated Latin sentence he has brought into activity his highest intellectual powers. When ever he racks his brain to find the equivalent for a Greek word ke re- wives and freshens his English vocab- ulary. J believe that Latin and Creek are not always taught in the most at tractive way. l am not surprised that a boy who studies Greek or Latin with a dictionary in his hands finds it dry and uninteresting. If he were per mitted to go ahead and read the classic works which he is studying his knowl edge of grammar would be acquired gradually.
 It can be said in favor of the study or Greek, too, that if one is seeking a Knowledge of grammar the Greek grammar is as perfect an examnla as
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RINCETON. April 22, 1S9S.-In the beginning of our converse ton. I quoted to Dr. Francis L. Patton, president of Princeton University, what noted French
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-10
prCRUJTING THE 2OIST REGIMENT.

The frs. detachment OF the 20lst Regiment which
IA now being recruited al the armory OF the iE'n
Regiment at Columbus-ave. and Slxty-second-st.'
did not leave .his city for Camp Black yesterday as
he'd been expected. Lieutenant Wiesel the com
mssary az the camp, scnt word to the ad)utant OF
the mlst Yesterday that the arrangements for re-
ceiving and providing for the recruits would not be
finished before next Wednesday.
Until Wednesday therefore. the men who have
been accepted viii continue 10 sleep on the floor OF
.he drill shed @. the armory. and will obtain their
meals at q restaurant In West Fifty ninth-st 1t liz
expected by tia recruiting officers that the first de-
tachment for camp will consist OF at least four com
nanIes OF the full strength. Already Company has
Soen recruited. ard the non-commissioned officers
named while Companies A and are each recruited
nm TO about half their strength Most OF the mem
hers accepted 80 far for the last company were
members OF the provisional Hist Regiment. Such
Applicants Cor membership Of the Ylst as have al,
nther regiments are accepted for the new regiment
xvithout ret xam!ne ton