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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

naturally and very properly inquire into the
situation, and. finding that he was to be
removed for purely personal reasons, would
ask themselves what assurance they had
that the same fate would not be theirs in
year or so. 1t would not be enough that
they proved their professional ability and
did their duty by the schools if they could
not "conciliate" the commissioners on per-
sonal grounds. Few men would care to take
the risk. Having reelected Mr.. Goss and
so acknowledged his efficiency, the board
should go still further and see that he is
allowed the proper authority to give that
efficiency full play. If he does not make
good use of his liberty it will then be time
to find a SUCCESSOR.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
ONE OF LIES MIsFoRTuNEs.
How EngIand's Postmaster General
Lost His Eyes.

success.
Never mind father. blindness shall not
interfere with my success in hfe,' said the
young law student Henry Fawcett, when
his father reproached himself for careless
ly destroying all his sons prospects OF adj
vancement.
Zone pleasant day in 1858 the two had
gune hunting together. A flock of partridges
flew over a fence where the father had no
right TO shoot, but as he was moving for
ward they flew back toward his son: The
father, so eager to bring down bird that
he did not think of his sons danger, fired:
Several shots entered Henry's breast and
one went through each glass of pair or
spectacles he wore. In an instant he was
stone blind for life.
But within ten minutes from the time
of the accident which deprived him of eye
sight forever this boy of iron nerve had de-
termined that even blindness should not
swerve him from his purpose.
Will you read tho newspaper to meT
were his first words to his sister when they
carried him home
He was obliged to abandon law, but he
began the study of political economy with
a zeal rarely equaled, meanwhile having
friends read TO him in his moments of leis-
ure the works of Milton, Burke, Words
worth, all of George Eliot's novels and
wide course of general literature, for he
was determined that his blindness should
not limit the breadth of his culture"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

county or by mass meeting could have no
binding effect, and it is mistake to at
tempt as some have done. to detract from
the originality or Importance of the general
Declaration of Independence adopted by the
Continental Congress more than a year
later by claiming priority for the Meck1en-
berg declaration. Nevertheless, the declara-
ton was an interesting event and is worthy
CT commemoration as showing that the
citizens of Mecklenberg county were among
the foremost in advocating colonial indie
nendence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

The city and its people are to be con-
graduated on the fact that the May music
festival will be continued. Those of past
yeays have done so much to advertise the
city in desirable way and have contributed
so materially to the advancement of musical
culture that the abandonment of the enter
prise would have been greatly to be re-
GREETED. Happily it is not to be done. The
managers and guarantors have shown a
most commendable spirit in the matter, and
II the people win 90 their share the festival
VIII become a permanent feature of the
city's social and artistic life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

ability be kept from the press for the pres
ent. 1t is now the consensus of opinion that
the depression of trade which followed the
declaration OF war was nothing but a scare.
And while books on army and navy life
and on tactics and on Cuba, continue to be
sold in large quantities, there is a revival in
the call for the usual literature of the sea-
son, and the booksellers, gaining confidence
for increasing demands of readers have
augmented their discreet war orders of
few weeks ago.
There is nothing backward about Mr..
Robert Barr, the novelist mfr. Barr" the
author was recently asked. whom do you
consider to be the coming literary genius
of London?" There was a smile. and then
came the answer: MY brother, James
Barr. He is now writing for the Pail Mall
Gazette A while ago he produced a work
entitled The Gods Give My Donkey Wings
under his pen name of Angus Van Abbott.
Inc title Killed the book over there and here
as We'll, because people seemed loath to be
taken for lunatics by asking for it at the
bookstores. Stin there is no question that
II was work of genius. Some of James
Barrs poetry is magnificent. / am sincere
IN my belief that he is soon to be heard
from, for IN thought in style and in origin
alty ne is FAR and away in advance of the
majority of US. Mark what | am telling
you and watch for him."
~ London literary letter saws: "You ask
how Harold Frederic works to produce such
stories as The Damnation of Theron Ware
and the others, all equally good. He works
easily, but he takes infinite pains He writes
with pen, corrects carefully, then has the
manuscript typewriter. Next an assistant
goes, over the work and underlines in red
all the adJecuves, the more easily to detect
repetitions. Often words are dotted with a
pIue PENCIL, which means that there is pos
slbly a better word than the one used, for
e s particular place. Then, before the
whole novel read aloud to him AS for
stephen Crane, he doesn't appear to do
so slowly and so carefully that when he
has finished a page of folscap it might as
well be turned over to the printer then and
there as far as any revising is concerned.
as print" S
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

Several papers have suggested that the
present is fitting season to return to the
States Of the South the battle flags cap
tured during the war for the Union. Sen
ator Foraker. who few years ago opposed
the return Of the flags, now says it would
be good thing to return them. 1t is
said that such proposition will be made
at the National Encampment of the Grand
Army. which meets in Cincinnati in Sep
TENDER. 1t would be well to make the Of
fer. and there will never be more appro-
PIRATE time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
TRAINING OUR GUNNERs.
Why Uncle Sans Blue Jackets Are
Good MarkSmen.

New York Herald
That Uncle Sans gunners are hrst-rate
marksmen is due to constant practice and
thorough discipline.
1t is no inexpensive thing, this drilling of
gunners. 1t is luxury which Spain can
not afford. Hence her poor showing in the
recent encounters which she has had with
our ships. This fact may be easily under
stood when you realize that during the
bombardment of Matanzas Uncle Sam
paid $500 every time the Puritan discharged
one of her big guns
OF course, in practice this would be ex-
tremely expensive. Consequently our navy
has adopted other means of insuring pro-
ficiency on the part of her gunners Our
ships are obliged to have target practice
with big guns at least once every three
months when the number OF shots to be
fired Is prescribed by regulations, which
vary as the men grow in proficiency. The
great expense necessarily reduces the num-
Der OF shots fired by each gun.
But IN order that practice may be Kept
up. daily drills are substituted either In
the form OF sub-caliber or aiming drills;
the great gun practice takes place under
conditlons as near as possible TO those
which would arise in actual warfare. me
target is anchored, and the guns are
trained on 1t. both while the ship is moving
and while she is stationary
The target is placed upon platform sno-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

1t was rather hard on the candidates for
the office of school superintendent that the
Board of Commissioners did not know their
own minds any better last month and it
was particularly hard on Mr.. Cooper, of
Iowa, who was brought here on almost the
positive assurance that he would be elected.
He made a good impression on those who
met him here, and if he had had little
wider experience he might have won. But
Indianapolis cannot take it's superintendent
from West Des Moines. Mr.. Cooper's day
NAV cOnoe later
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

President ingalls,, of the c., c., C. & St.
Railway Company, asserted in a recent
ddress that one-fifth of the people of the
nited States are directly employed in rail-
padding or indirectly in manufacturing sup
plies for railroads. When he follows with
the statement that it is not good policy to
attempt to break down business in which
so many are interested he makes point
which should be remembered when dem
agogues urge a hostile policy toward rail-
yvavs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
SCIENTIFIC.

A simple method Of cleaning iron from
rust, suggested by Mr.. Carl Herring. is to
immense it with a rod of zinc in an acid
bath, the two metals being electrically
coupled.
A bridge fifty feet under water is the
latest English channel scheme A raised
platform car capable Of carrying four rail-
way trains would be propelled across by
electricity.
Medium weight pneumatic tires inflated
to a pressure of thirty pounds per square
inch have been shown by late tests to be
just able to keep the felloes off the road
with weight of $50 pounds in the saddle
The efficiency of the machine under these
circumstances was about 81 per cent. With
pressure of forty pounds the efficiency
rose to "A per cent, and at seventy pounds
1t was about 81 per cent.
The wonderful gun of Mr.. James Judge
expected to discharge thirty thousand bull
lets per minute, is a development of the
ancient sling. The bullets are fed from a
hopper into the rim of a three-foot disc.
which is rotated in a case at fifteen thou
sand revolutions per minute, the centrifugal
force causing the missiles to be discharged
through a sleeVe-which can be sighted and
elevated or depressed like the muZZle of a
rifie-at a tremendous muzZle velocity
A little known group Of fungi is the la
boulbeniaceae, which grow only on insects
and almost exclusively on beetles and flies
Though first described in 1883 according to
DR. Roland Thaxter, hardly more than a
dozen species had been distinguished in 1884
While not less than $50 species belonging to
thirty genera are now known. The study
OF these fungi, which appear like minute
hairs seldom more than fifteth of an inch
long, seems TO have been confined almost
wholly to American botanists, only nine
teen European species having yet been
found. OF 250 species Of insects infected 24l
are beetles.
A novel treatment of affections of the
hair has been adopted by DIR. Deichler, a
French physician. He has sought to keep up
the hairs supply of glue-like substance by
administering colIoids, in different FORMS
and he gives in addition to a tonic regimen,
bouillons made by long boiling OF meat and
bones, frequently replacing the bones by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22


No higher compliment could be paid the
United States navy than the absolute con-
fdence the people are now showing in the
outcome of events in West Indian waters
Although several days have elapsed since
any word was received of SIMPSONS or
Schley's feet, and although the public does
not know where they are or what they are
doing, everybody feels certain they are in
the right place and doing the right thing.
This confidence in the navy is deserved and
is due to it's uninterrupted record of gallant
service. Our civil life is more or less tainted
by partisanship and our army organization
in time of war always has an element of
politics, but the navy is a branch of the
public service in which there has never been
any element of politics, nor any other mo-
tive but the performance Of duty. This is
why the people always expect great things
Of the navy and are never disappointed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

Cleveland Leader
Mrs. Bimley-I just can't bear TO think OF
my husband going To war. l get almost dis
tracted every time the thought of 1t comes
to me.
Mrs. Oakum-You should look at 1t more
cheerfuly. OF course, / don't want my bus-
band 10 so. but if his country needs him
shall consider 1t Is my duty TO rellnquish
him without complaining.
enough in your case. You have q rich
father to go home to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

A writer in an Eastern paper is sur
prised that any official of the United States
should have permitted the manufacturer OF
army bread to place the inscription of RE
member the Maine on the face of the
cracker. The objection is well taken. In.
discriminate vengeance or the spirit of ven
geance should not be an incentive or an in.
spiration- The purpose of the United States
government is to establish a stable govern.
ment in Cuba, based upon the consent OF
the people. The men who blew up the
Maine should be punished If they fall into
ou9 possession, but there is neither justice
nor manliness in killing other Spaniards be.
cause one remembers the Maine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

An appropriate monument to the signers
Of the Meckienberg declaration of INDIE
pendence has just been dedicated at Char
lotte, n. c. Charlotte is the county seat of
Mecllenberg county. and it was in the
courthouse Of that town that mass meet
Ing OF the citizens of the county, on the
nst OF May. 1775. adopted resolutions de-
claring the independence of the American
colonies and providing for the government
Of affairs in Mecklenberg county. OF
course. such q declaration by single
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

In the excitement of the war it is feared
that the Transmississippi Exposition,
which will open at Omaha June 1, will suffer
for patronage. large amount of money
has been expended and an exhibit of great
merit prepared for the patronage of the
people. Perhaps later on the people will
find recreation in attending the exposition
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

N-Jlen a member of the Spanish Ministry
states that nothing has been decided upon
with respect to the expedition to the Philip
pines,' it may be accepted as certain that
something definite has been decided. Prob
ably that decision is to make a supreme
effort to attack Admiral Dewey with
fresh fleet before reinforcements reach him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
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How 1t Happened.

NO said she. 81 cannot be your wife,
He reeled and almost fell as he turned
away.
In fact, between I and you, he would
never have proposed in the first place if he
hadn't been in that condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

Now that most of the regiments are in the
larger camps. large number of persons,
with the after knowledge which comes of
the experience of others. are telling how
much better they could have done it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
The Cheerful IDIOT.

my brother in the Klondike." said the
medical student boarder, writes me that
he had to pay 81 for piece of apple pie
HE must be-" said the Cheerful Idiot
zone of those piece at any price persons"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

to the measure Of strict necessity" In
other words. Sunday should be observed in
the army and navy as day of rest when
circumstances will permit but when occa-
sion requires it should be day of action
and fighting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

The Senate seems Obvious of the fact
that the government will soon be in need Of
money to carry on war which it was anx-
ious to hasten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

1t is not surprising that the men encamped
at Chickamauga should yearn for a good
swim or plunge in water, but if they go to
Cuba they should exercise discretion in
bathing. 1t is the experience of European
soldiers that frequent abiutions in warm
baths are frequently, followed by malarial
fever. The native Zulus in Africa grease
the whole body when travelling in malarial
districts, their theory being that this ex-
cludes disease. Medical scientists will hard
ly accept this theory, but they will all adj
nit that reckless bathing by unacclimated
persons in hot countries is dangerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

A foreign minister at Washington has re-
ceived report from the consul general Of
his government at San Juan, Porto Rico,
concerning the recent cannonading of the
works there. After describing the forma-
ton in which Admiral Simpsons ships APP
preached the harbor, he says:
At the first shot from a big gun on the
advanced armor clad Qowa) the entire
brick and stone front Of the MORO was
simply wrecked. / was watching the works
with a glass, about 1900 yards from the
fort. 1 wanted to observe the effect of
heavy caliber in the high-powered gunnery
upon brick and stone masonry, Well, l saw
the shot strike before l heard the roar of
the thirteen-inch gun that fired it, give
you my word, twenty-five feet of the brick
and stone front lifted into the air and fell
back, just mass of broken brick and
stone. The gunnery of the Americans was
superb in its deadly accuracy
The one thing that has attracted attention
thus far is the splendid gunnery and marks
manship of the Americans and it is likely
to prove determining factor in the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

If talk could be utilized as sinews of war,
what an unfailing supply the country would
have in the United States Senate!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
RICHLY Named.

The Philistine Friend-Say, old man, tina
picture is hot stuff.
The Artist-Yes. 1t is a pot-boiler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


1.-THE best side to be in times"
said the Cornfed Philosopher, lis the in
side
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

A comparison of one author to another is
seldom just to either, but the writings of
Maria Louise Pool probably bring the
stories of Miss Wilkins TO the minds of most
readers. The likeness, however is not one
of style but of characters, both writer's
dealing with the same class of people
hard-headed, prejudiced, cranky" New
Englanders of narrow lines and often mar
rover souls. Because of this element of
hardness in the personages described the
stories of both sometimes leave an unpleas-
ant impression, but Miss Pool has an ad-
vantage over Miss Wilkins in possessing a
keener sense of humor; she also finds more
people who lack the finty characteristics
that Miss Wilkins delights in. But it is no
longer proper to speak of Miss Pool in the
present tense. The announcement of her
death will cause regret to the many who
have found pleasure in her books There
was a constant improvement in the literary
quality of her work, and it seemed that she
had hardly reached her best Her books
were distinctively American, and that was
probably cause of their charm to a
large class of readers. Her death is a real
loss to the literature of the SOIL"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

It will be found in the long run that naval
strategy is question of coal.
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DISCHARGE aripht

Discharge Alright
The simple duties with which day is rife,
Yea, with thy might,
Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise
Will life be fed
While he who ever acts as conscience erie
Shall live, tho dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-05
READY TO SAIL
Second of Grants Transports Waiting
ut Newport News.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NORFOLK. Va, August 5.-The Mani
toba. the second of the transports to take
part of Grants brigade from Newport News
to Porto Rico. is ready to sail. She has
aboard two batteries of Pennsylvania ar
tillery and Troops and C of Pennsylvania
cavalry numbering as men and 354 horses
Acting Major Jones. the captain of the
Sheridan Troop. is in command None Of
the other transports has yet arrived. The
9TH Illinois Regiment of Volunteer Infantry
arrived this morning from Chickamauga.
This is the regiment ordered to Porto Rico
and then recalled. The regiment is now
side-tracked, but will go into camp. There
is very little sickness among the men.
The transport OLDHAM arrived in Hampton
Roads this forenoon from Porto Rico and
was ordered into quarantine. 1t is stated
that. besides sick soldiers, she brings many
residents from Ponce, who came away
shortly after the surrender.
The first marine hospital surgeon to be or
dered away is Dr. Lavender who Is on the
Manitoba. He goes TO Porto Rico as SAM
tary inspector, and in the event of peace it
is very likely that marine hospitals will be
established throughout Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-05
RtOTiNG AT OSHKOSH
Non-Union Men Clubbed and Stoned by
Striking Wood Workers
Police Were Also Assaulted and Many
Broken Heads Were Made
in the Melee.

OSHKOSH. Wis. August 5.-Rioting has
been resumed by the striking wood workers
here on account of the sash and door man
ufacturers trying to operate with non-union
labor At the Morgan plant last night a
crowd of 1000 strikers and sympathizers
gathered to abuse and maltreat non-union
workman as they left the mill. Chief Weis-
brod, with a force of police, succeeded in
preserving a semblance of order until dark
ress set in, when a serious onslaught on
the police was made. in which several Off
GERS received bruises and cuts, and Chief
Weisbrod was brought to his knees by a
stone striking him above the heart. Several
shots were fired in the air, and the police
finally withdrew.
Today the strikers again congregatad and
dubbed AMI stoned non-union workmen try
ing to reach the Morgan mill, Thirty po-
licemen were dispatched to reinforce the
small squad on DUTY there.
When the police arrived the crowd set on
them with sticks and stones in vicious
manner. The police used their clubs freely,
and the street was finally cleared at the ex-
pense of many broken heads and score or
arrests, including nine women.
The non-union crew finally reached the
mill under police protection, and the fac
tory was started up, with strong force of
police to keep the streets clear around the
plant The strikers are far from subdued,
however and more trouble is promised.
A mob also congregated at the Paine
plant today, but no violence was reported.