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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
s.DoN,T WORRY CLuBs.v

The latest development in the way of or
CARNATIONS is don't worry societies." the
theory of the promoters being that the
pressure of modern life tends to break
down the nervous systems of men and wo-
men. 1t is undoubtedly true that the peo-
pie of this generation live more rapidly
than their fathers and mothers did, but
whether the overpressure, if it exists, is to
trouble is really one of worry, are matters
which are at least open to question. One
cause of the alleged evil sought to be cured
is assigned to be the numerous clubs and
societies already existing and to which
women in particular are addicted. 1t is
presumably the theory that like cures like
which has led to the formation of one So
ciety to undo the bad influence of the rest.
The details of the method by which it is
TO effect the desired result have not been
made known, and meanwhile it may be
worth while to ask if people nowadays are
really given to worry, as the word is COM
monty understood, or even to overwork.
1t is common for parents to ascribe the dis
abilities of their children to oyerwork in
school, but the shrewd teacher smiles wise
Nv at such diagnosis and remembers that
these children go to evening entertainments.
take part in frequent festivities. sit up late
reading story books and otherwise dissipate
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.


Occupation is the scythe of time-Napo-
leon.
Reprove thy friend privately; commend
him publicly.-Solon.
Everyone can master a grief but he that
hath it.-Shakspeare.
What do we live for, If 1t is not to make
life less difficult to each other?-George
Eliot.
A philosopher is a man who never feels
badly after he has made an ass of him
self.-Puck.
Woman is illogical; she always takes ths
cork out of bottle by pushing it in.-Chi-
cago Record
Wives, be good to your husbands. There
is an epidemic of missing men.-Arkansaw
Thomas Cat.
A man who really enjoys church social
will raise chin whiskers If given chance.
-Atchison Globe.
The joys we expect are not so bright. nor
the troubles so dark as we fancy they will
be.-CharleS zeade.
No man, however noble, can look the part
If his necktie is climbing up over his collar
in the Observation-Disclosures Times.
We are cock-sure of our virtues. but the
tempter snaps his fingers at them; very
justly, as the sequel shows.-Boston Tran
script.
Every man is his own ancestor. and every
man is his own heir He devises his own
future, and he inherits his own past.-H.
f. Hedge.
1t is a wise man who waits patiently when
his hat is blown off, until some other per-
son gets out or breath securing II Tor him.
Philadelphia Times.
A wet, cold. foggy, depressed mind can
not enjoy rain, snow and thunder; these
are the delight Of a gay, merry making per-
sonality.-Mary Dean.
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1t is said that many nassadz experts he
lieve that the monitor, all things consid-
cred, is preferable to the battle ship. One of
them has expressed the opinion that the
new monitor Puritan would be able to dis
pose of our three battle ships, the Indiana,
Oregon and Massachusetts, single handed.
She may not sail as fast as the war Ship,
but she can live in as rough water. The
Puritan is floating fortress, armed with
powerful guns, with not more than thirty
inches of her heavily armored hull exposed.
Instead of looming up like the cruiser and
battle ship, target far as they can be
seen, the monitor is safe below water,
while nothing can stand against her twelve
inch breech-loading rifles. The Puritan. it is
said, cannot be struck successfully, and it
is well nigh impossible to sink her. Three
Purtans can be built with the money
which battle ship costs. During the war
We tried the old monitor successfully but
no one has tried the modern battle ship in
a fight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

Some knowing person writing for the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrat announces an i'm
portant discovery that President Mckinley
reads number of leading newspapers ev-
cry day, and his private secretary, being a
newspaper man, has adopted a new and
improved way of handling the newspaper
mail that comes to the office, going through
a good deal of it with the lightning speed
that only practical newspaper men acquire.
This information would be interesting and
important but for the fact that Presidents
Cleveland and Harrison were both newspa-
per readers, that Mr.. Lamont, Cleveland s
private secretary during his first term was
newspaper man, and that Mr. Halford,
Mr.. Harrison's secretary, had had an edi-
torial experience of many years. There is
reason to believe that the newspapers at
the White House received due attention for
some years before Secretary Porter ar
rived.
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Current events are calling attention to
the strategic Importance of the Dry Tor
tugas. in the event of foreign war. Their
neglect fer so long period is in keeping
with our general policy If England had
owned them they would nave been strongly
fortified long ago. The Dry Tortugas.
which, by the way are a part of Monroe
county. Florida. are a group of barren
islets at the entrance of the Gulf of Next
co, about 120 miles from the southern ex-
trsnity Of the mainland of Florida, and
about half as far from Key West. They are
only valuable for military purposes. Old
Fort Jefferson, built long time ago. is OBJ
solete as a defense, and about ten years
ago It was abandoned by the War Depart
nent and turned over to the Treasury De-
pa-tment for quarantine station. with the
understanding that il it should at any time
be needed for mii:tary purposes the War
Department might reclaim 1t. This has re-
Gently been done. General Wilson. chief of
engineers Of the United States army, hav-
ling notified the secretary of the treasury
that, under existing conditions. 1t is desir-
alba that the reservation be transferred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The curious outsider, study though he
may has never been able to discover the
plans and specifications to which magazine
poetry is required to conform before it can
get itself printed in the exclusive pages of
those interesting collections of literature.
1t is generally understood, however-indeed,
it has been fatty given out by editors of
the periodicals-that in technical form they
must be perfect; whether a poem contains
an idea or not its lines must be classic in
construction. With this principle in mind
the reader of the coronation poem in
Scribner must necessarily become slightly
bewildered in trying to reconcile the rule
to the result Says the writer
go Upon the fringng edge
OF that vast crowd the King discerned
One, fast who held the broken pledge" etc.
Now, classic simplicity calls for direct ex-
preston and avoids inverted phrases. The
plain, ordinary writer of verse, seeking to
please himself and his possible readers,
would have said "One who fast held" or,
better still, "One who held fast the broken
pledge" But "One fast who held'' goes
in the magazine. And. can any one tell
why? T. sh9Ibuud ad+
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will promise to be lenient these law-break-
ers will insure his election, which may be
possible in close counties. Men called to
serve on juries are given to- understand
that if they find any of the gang guilty
they will be visited with vengeance. Thus.
in time, through lawless methods, an or
ganized band of lawless men may plumber
entire community with impunity- The
laws are silent, and justice is paralyzed
because a few men with apparently the
best of motives took the law into their own
hands and gave out that they would resist
officers having warrants.
The only safety to communities is to obey
the laws. The laws may be defective, but
that can be remedied. But lawlessness
once on foot renders life and property in
secure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

In looking up the history of the annexa-
zion of Texas and the war that followed,
the New York Sun finds that Hon. Caleb B.
Smith, of this State, in a speech against
the war policy. warned Congress and the
country that one of the consequences of
that struggle would be the addition of Cali
fornia to our national territory. He called
a halt for that reason, namely, that the
Nation was plunging along in blind folly
upon road which must inevitably lead to
the acquisition of California. II ask gem
tlemen to mark the result" he said, land
see il it does not justify the prediction
make" In view of present conditions. this
seems very amusing. Those who oppose
the annexation of Hawaii predict similar
dire results, though In this case there would
be no war
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

Prof. Charles Eliot Norton has resigned
ment at Harvard, and will retire at the
close of the current college year. He will,
however, retain the chair of Italian litera-
ture giving, as heretofore, especial atten-
Harvard Professor Norton has really been
the man of greatest cultivation there, and
a good deal in Lowells own way, he has
stood for conservative scholarship. 1t is to
be regretted that Professor Norton's devo-
ton to the university has made it impossi-
BILE for him to be, in any large degree, a
writer of books His translation of the
Divine Comedy" which engaged his leis-
ure through a great many years, is, how
ever, an acceptable substitute for creative
work. While Professor Norton is one of the
foremost of American classical scholars,
and easily our principal student and teach
er of Italian literature, he has been able to
appreciate the performances of the younger
men of letters of to-day. His fine review Of
K:pling's work, printed in the Atlantic
Monthly last year, is far and away the
most appreciative and analytical discussion
of the writer that has yet appeared any
where. 1t is to be hoped that in his new
freedom from college duties he will be able
to write more frequently on the literary, ar
tistic and political subjects which he is so
competent to discuss.
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energies that might better be applied to
their studies. Many men and women work
hard, but those who accomplish most direct
their labors to but few things 1t is not
often they who break down; it is the men
who devote themselves to business during
the day and to society or other dissipa-
ton at night, week in and week out; it is
the women who have the care of homes,
who belong to numerous clubs, assist in
various charities and must meet their So
cial obligation" the women who attempt
too many things andsdo none of them we'll
who affect the fashionable disease called
nervous prostration. AS for the anxious
thought for the morrow usually called wor-
ry, that is largely a matter of temperament,
habit and physical well being. One who is
busily and healthily occupied is not apt
to worry. Neither for that matter, is the
one whose time and attention are taken
up with frivoities and the worlds attrac-
tons. The old-fashoned people with COM
paratively few things to think about are
the ones given to dark anticipations and to
taking unnecessary thought for the future.
To organize against worry may be well for
them, since it will give them something else
than themselves to think of. Their society
will operate on the same principle as rainy
day clubs, whose members meet ostensibly
to advocate the wearing of short skirts, but
really to inspect each others fashionable
long-tailed gowns. But for the rest, they
who have enough to fill their minds, the
best they can do is, as individuals, to keep
on thinking about everything but them
selves also to remember that if they have
good health-largely a thing in their con-
trol-they are fairly sure to be happy.
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moment.

The Journal has received a bulletin of
the Indiana State Board of Health, with the
following blue pencil marked
The following from an editorial in a daily
paper of this State is certainly inane: "A
good many men and women have passed
safely through school and its microbes and
have associated with other men and women
In sometimes very crowded quarters with
out i'll results" This was offered as an ar
gument against efforts put forth by mi
crobe cranks'' to save health and life among
the school children. To plainly show in
anity paraphrase will suffice. A good many
men and women have p2ssed safely through
hotel fires and their dangers, and have as
ISOLATED with other men and women in
sometimes very crowded quarters without
i'll results. Ergo, it is not wise to either
control the disease and death which mi
crobes continually produce in schools, nor
is it wise 10 take precautions against hotel
fires. When men write against space, with
illogical minds. upon subjects of which they
are densely ignorant strange results are
produced.
The daily paper alluded to is the Journal,
and the quotation is from an editorial OPP
posing the silly proposition to equip public
schoolhouses with ovens to bake the chill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

There is said to be a good prospect that
the Vicksburg military park bill will now be
passed by the House. Only ss5. 1000 is asked,
$4,000 Of which is needed to purchase the
land. If the locations OF the greatest VIC
tories of the late war are to be marked
with parks, Vicl<sburg should stand with
Gettysburg. It's name is connected with one
of ene greatest surrenders of troops in the
history of wars. The tract of land which
can be purchased is small and the expendi-
easTe for making it park cannot cost much
because Of the limited space.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

back to the War Department for military
purposes without delay. 1t should be strong
ly fortified During the civil war Fort JEFF
ferson was used as a penal station for Con-
federate prisoners, and in 1865 Spangler,
Arnold and Mudd. who were found guilty
by military commission of participation
in the conspiracy to assassinate President
Lincoln, were sent there to serve out their
terms of imprisonment, but were subse-
quently pardoned by President Johnson.
The Dry Tortugas does not produce any
thing except sea shells, fish and green tur-
ties. but it is fine locality for some heavy
guns manned by United States soldiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The wise thing for Congress to do is to
purchase armor of the existing companies,
to the end that the new battle ships may
be made ready for war. 1t is no time for
Congress to trifie about the price, since it
would take four or five years to construct
works for manufacture by the government,
and the armor would cost twice as much as
the present companies will furnish it for.
This dallying between an offer of $500 a
ton and $425 is unworthy of Congress in the
present crisis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The Florida Times-Unio and Citizen,
published at Jacksonville, Fla, has issued a
special edition which, in point of variety
and interest, is far ahead of most special
newspaper issues. 1t is devoted to the
trade, resources, products, attractions, seem
cry and traditions Of Florida and is a mine
of information on these and other topics of
State and local interest. No cyclopedia ex-
tant contains as much fresh and practical
information regarding the resources of the
State as does this issue of the Times Union
and Citizen
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Trade Secret.

"Oh,' said the successful author, lit is
the easiest thing in the world to sell golf
stories. There isn't one editor in a thou
sand knows anything about the game; So if
he takes any interest in the story at ALL the
editor sends it to some golfer. When it
gets into the hands of golfer 1t is sure
go. Anything with golf in it the golfer will
guarantee to be a success"
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Q happy, happy that am!
If thou cans't be, o Faith!
The treasure that thou art in life
What wilt thou be in death?


There is Newman's kindly Light" so
soothing to many hearts. There is Top
lady's Rock of Ages" and Wesley
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul dear for their
song and words. and, without which no col
lection of hymns is complete. There is
Mrs. Browning's "De Profundis'
hymn, though not in the hymnals-that
expression of faith triumphant over loss
and grief and doubt:
I praise Thee while my days go on;
love Thee while my days go on;
Through dark and dearth, through fire and
frost,
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
thank Thee while my days go on.
There are songs of Quarles, and French,
and Keble, and Herbert, and the Wesleys,
and Watts. and OF writer's whose names
have died though their words live--a host of
songs that have up1ifted and sustained
weak and suffering men and women in
times OF spiritual need, and will continue
to carry their message while the language
lasts and humanity sorrows. That one of
these hymns is for the time supreme which
meets the human need most nearly at the
moment.
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o fair and stately maid. whose eyes
Were kinGled IN the upper skies
AT the same torch that lighted mine:
For so l must interpret still
Thy sweat dominion o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
"A
All let me blameless gaze upon
Features that seem at heart my own
Nor fear those watchful sentinels
Who charm the more their glance forhids.
Chaste glowing. underneath their lids.
With tire that draws while II repels
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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SCIENTIFIC.

Wooden pavements in Paris have been
condemned as they serve as a breeding
place for all kinds of dangerous germs.
BY experimenting on rabbits Professor
Fischl has demonstrated that getting
chilled has a most important effect in pre-
disposing TO disease.
The European hornet is shown by Dr. l..
o. Howard to have existed near New York
city for at least fifty years, yet it has
spread less than $50 miles. In Europe the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The Terre Haute Express, which has for
years been recognized as one of the most
prominent Republican newspapers in Indi-
ana, has passed into the possession of men
of business energy who propose to adapt
it to the field and to spare no effort to ex-
tend its circulation and influence. There is
no reason why, with careful management,
1t should not be made good property and
increase its usefulness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

If the Spanish grandees could behold the
statesman from the State of Washington,
Ahe Honorable James Hamilton Lewis on
those days when he wears his pale pearl
pantaioons, his douole-breasted, ruby-col-
ored vest and his invisible green frock coat,
they would be jealous instead of indignant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

If at the outset of a war we should get
possession of Havana, or even blockade it
so that coal cannot be landed, Spain's newly
purchased cruisers could be of little use.
The war ship which cannot be supplied with
coal is worse then useless, and cruisers
without coaling stations near the area of
action can do little harm. In that respect
we have Spain at serious disadvantage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The organ of the State Board of Health,
which rebukes the Journal for LEFTY re-
garding it's devotion to microbes, should
know that the Journals observations are
1nournful compared with the comments
which the people up and down the State
make regarding pencil roasters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

Ever had any experience as a press
agent?" asked the theatrical manager.
Sir said the applicant for position ST
have never had to write for actors yet,
but for years have been getting up stories
of the bright sayings of statesmen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

The Senate has shown a disposition dur
ing the past two weeks to give it's atten-
ton to actual affairs. True. Mr.. Stewart
made two days speech against the House
bankruptcy bill that was entirely unneces-
sary, but he could not be more wearisom e
than he is in repeating his worn-out free
silver speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY
Indianapolis, Ind.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House. p o. News Co., 217
Dearborn street. and Great Northern Hotel.
cTNcINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co., 1A Vine
street.
LOOIsVILLE-c. T. Deerins northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson Streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and WilIards Hotel.
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When the second year of an administra-
ton whose party has changed laws affect
ing the production of the country begins
with nearly 20 per cent more traffic pass
ing through the channels of trade than
when it began the first, none can fairly de-
nounce it unless he is an ordained calam-
ifvite
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Sixteen Pages

There is yet something. about the at
mosphere of Key West which makes it very
difficult for even clear-headed correspond
ents to pick up reliable information.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06

Cuba since the war began has been a
greater failure than any of his predeces-
sors, and General Blanco is likely to main
tain the record.
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Would Like to Meet Him.

Its twins again. said the nurse.
This was the third time he had been
greeted with remark of that sort
I'D just like to lay my hands," he said,
ION the smart idiot that once defined mar
riage as limited liability company
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dren's slate pencils in order to disinfect
stitutes inanity, but in this case the Journal
is quite content with its position When
men become so far the victims of a hobby
that they see microbes in books, bacilli in
the running brooks and disease in every
thing. they need a hypodermic injection of
common sense
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

Transport and transportation.
The Klondiker-I love you.
The Klondikess-I guess you love me be-
cause you love my dogs.