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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Five Is the sacred number of the Chinese,
who have five planets, five cardinal points,
five virtues, five tastes. five musical tones,
five ranks of nobility and five colors.
Bigamy is punished in a peculiar manner
in Hungary. The man who has been foolish
enough to marry two wives is compelled by
law TO live with both of them in the same
house.
Women in france have just secured a
slight addition to their legal rights They
may henceforth be valid witnesses to regis
trationS OF births, marriages and deaths
and to the signatures i'm legal documents.
Miss Ellen Terry can never sleep during
the day unless she is read aloud to; and her
girl friends take turns at this every after
noon during her long engagement in oruer
that her health may not suffer from the
nerve fatigue occasioned by the work
The Prince of Wales, when annoyed,
winks his left eye rapidly; the Emperor of
Austria puffs out his checks; the Car lays
his hand flat on the top of his head Mr..
Gladstone turns swiftly on his heels, ana
the Sultan. OF Turkey grasps his throat
tightly with his hand.
The Rev DIR. Edward Everett Hale sug-
gests that the city authorities of Boston
issue proclamation for coasting holiday
in commemorative Of the first victory of
the American revolution. when the school
boys compelled General Haldema1 to pour
water in School street every cold night IN
order to make the eoasting good.
Mrs. Tyndall, the widow of Professor
Tyndall, has sent to fhe British Royal In
stitution q sum OF 21.OO0. which she states
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
THE HEBRON BEG [ EST.

1t seems reasonably certain now that the
Indianapolis Art Association will soon come
into possession of the Heron bequest
amounting, probably, to s225,0O0 AS the be-
quest is not hampereds by any specific d.
rections the association will be at liberty
to make such disposition Of il as. in the
opinion of the managers, will best promote
the interests of are. That being the case,
they should exercise great caution in decid-
ing upon any line of action. The bequest is
handsome one, yet larger requests have
often been frittered away in few years.
or their usefulness destroyed by wrong
direction at the beginning. 1t seems to the
Journal that the first effort of the associa-
ton should be to husband the bequest and
keep it together as a nucleus for still fur
Their endowment. Whatever is done should
look to the distant future 1t will be enough
for the present if a good beginning is made
towards the establishment of an art gallery
on lines which will insure its gradual and
steady enlargement in the future. To this
end it would seem that the principal of the
bequest should be kept intact for a long
time to come and only it's interest, or, per-
haps, even part of the interest, invested
from year TO year in works of art of per-
manent value. 1t would be a fatal mistake
to invest any considerable part of the be-
quest at once in real estate, either land or
building. One single. splendid work of art
in rented room is a much better begin
ming for an art collection than big, snowy
building without anything in it, and per-
haps with a mortgage on 1t. The purchase
of one really fine painting or piece of statu-
airy annually for a few years would lay a
foundation for an art gallery that would at
tract attention and invite other requests
while the possession Of valuable real estate,
without any works of art, might bring the
association into ridicule. In short, it is far
more important that the management of the
Heron bequest should be such as to devel-
op large results twenty-five or fifty years
hence than to thunder in the index and fail
later on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

The Baptist Outlook published in this
city, remarks that the publication of the
pension lists by a New York daily has
proved that pensions continue to be paid
to fictitious persons and to persons having
no just title to a pension" If the Outlook
knows this it has exclusive information on
the subject, and should make the facts
known The New York Sun published 4
list, numbering four thousand names,
of all the civil war pensioners receiving
$50 a month and over. An indianapolis pa
per reprinted the names of all on the list
who are paid at the agency here The
Journal has yet to learn that either pub
LEGATION has resulted in the discovery of a
single fictitious name or the name of one
not justly and legally entitled to what he
is receiving. The cry of fraud was not
raised for the purpose of detecting and cor
recting possible errors i'll the pension lists,
but for casting discredit on the pension sys-
tenn and on pensions in general, and the
persons who thoughtlessly join in the cho-
rus are simply aiding these enemies of the
veterans by unfortunately CHASING the
latter as swindlers until they have proved
otherwise i'll public caucus AS if it were
not enough that they had once proved their
claims on the battlefield, and again to the
agents of the government whose business
it is to pass upon them! The people who
show themselves SO eager and 1ociferous
in charging wholesale dishonesty upon their
fellow-citizens in reality demonstrate one
of two things namely, a secret conscious
ness of what might be possible in their
own cases or u deep ignorance of the
amount and character Of the evidence re-
quired by the Pension Bureau before a
claim is allowed. Let them once under
take 10 get just claim proved and passed
upon and they will be convinced that it is
no easy matter for dishonest one TO go
through. There have doubtless been some
frauds perpetrated upon the Pension Of
flee. but il is extremely improbable that
these cases are numerous. There is abso-
lutely no proof that many, or even any
now exist, and where individual pension
ers are suspected of dishonesty every ia
cility is afforded by the department for
investigation. In any event, it is not the
part of fair-minded men to cast Slurs upon
another class who have right 10 be con-
sidered honest unless the critics have facts
10 support their assertions. And paper
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

party can remarry, but this rlle is some
times modified under special circumstances.
The Baptist Church has no law or rule on
the subject, each church acting for itself
according to the circumstances of each case.
The Baptist Church goes further in the di-
rection of recognizing marriage as a civil
contract, dissoluble for statutory causes,
than any other Protestant denomination
This does not argue any Iaxness of views
on the subject, but simply disposition to
recognize the authority of the state as su-
preme in civil affairs. Judaism recognizes
the law of the land wherever it may be-
A Jew in America is an American and in
England an Englishman, and the church
recognizes a civil divorce as fully as it does
a civil marriage
From this brief outline of the position of
the churches on the subject of divorce it
appears that there is much less diversity
in their views than there is in the divorce
laws Of the different States, and that they
all hold strict and conservative views. 1t is
to be hoped they will never abate anything
of their strctness on the subject So far
from making any concessions to the pre-
vailing laxity of opinion and practice re-
garding divorces, the churches should sta nd
firmly for the higher view until such time
as enlightened public opinion will bring
about higher standard of social ethics
and of legislation on the subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
Free TraveIing LibrarIes.


For many years Mr.. Melvil Dewey. direc-
tor of the New York State Library, has adj
vocated a scheme of State distribution of
to groups of taxpayers on payment of a
nominal fee. His plan includes system OF
central control and supervision under which
small collections of popular books are to be
sent from point to point, kept in charge or
responsible persons, and circulated freely
among the residents of each locality. The
State of New York made an appropriation
for such a system of library loaning in 1892
and has appropriated annually since. In
the first year As Libraries We're sent out; In
the second, .139; in the third, III; in The
fourth, 81, and in the fifth year. Az. Books
have been purchased to supply the CONSTANT
ly increasing demand until now there are
nearly &C. 600 volumes owned by the state
and available for this purpose.
These libraries are all carefully chosen.
by expert librarians, and are made up OF
the choicest and freshest publications. A
large proportion of the books must neceS-
sarily be works of fiction If the interest OF
the average borrower is to be sustained.
Care is taken TO provide only the very best
and most wholesome stories, and to adapt
them to the age and requirements OF those
to whom they are sent. In this respect the
influence of the travelling libraries, If not
distinctly educational, is at least uplifting
and invigoratng. A growing interest In
biography. history, economies. science, ana
art has been noted and fostered by the man
agement, and many books in these depart
ments are continually being purchased and
sent out Some entire libraries are made
I'D of these subjects, to the exclusion or
fiction altogether. and the special collec-
tons sent TO study clubs throughout the
State are doing a real educational work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Every man is a quotation from all his
ancestors.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A woman never uses her husbands meer-
schaum pipe for a hammer more than once
The Rival.
AS long as asman's wife picks him up on
his grammar she is interested in him.-Chi-
cago Record. r.
I'm not denyin that women are foolish
God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot.
A man never realizes how little he knows
until a child begins TO ask him questions
Chicago News
A truly intellectual woman is one who
can sharpen a carving knife on STEEL
Emma Carleton.
Fortune may knock at mans door, now
adays only to find that he has started for
the Klondike.-Puck.
There never was any heart truly great
and generous that was not also tender and
Observation-Disclosures
Congeniality is what we discover in peo-
pie who keep still and let us talk about our
selves-Detroit Free Press
Hall Game no doubt named his book ''The
Christian so that clergymen would have
novel to read on Sunday.-Ishmaelte.
Among the few great joys Of life is stay
ing in bed fifteen minutes after we have
been told to get up.-Detroit Free Press.
What's tn use of 'busin' the dudes?
When ! wear a new necktie / can't hardly
think what my name is.-Little Plato
Smith.
What is there in mans nature that
prompts him to get into his shirt sleeves
when he has any mental struggle on hand?
Philadelphia Times.
With the near approach of Lent, we Won
der what can give up to satisfy our con-
sciences that won't be too great trial 10
our feelings.-Feminine Observer.
Such is man. No use in having their
hearts il you don't have their stomachs.
Mind me and mark me: Don't neglect your
cookery. Kissing don't last; cookery does.
George Meredith.
l think it is pretty mean for people TO
give you something you don't like, and then
expect you to pretend that you'd rather
have it than something you really did want.
Miss Belladonna.
Try to make ut least one person happy
every day and then in ten years you may
have made 1850 persons happy. or brighten
q small town by your contribution to the
fund Of general MISUNDERSTANDING Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
omn Nndis. Once Moro.

TO the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Member gives US u graceful translation
of the words quo vadis. Then, too, the way
in which he easily and airily goes back to
historic sources shows an acquaintance
with church antiquities that augurs wen for
the intelligent comprehension of the whole
subject on tho part Of his club This is
right, brethren. This is the sort of euchre
club II Il indianapolis ought to have. We
are trying to elevate" the stage by en-
couraging plays into which are introduced
incidents borrowed from sacred history.
Even so let it be with our euchre club. Let
us call ourselves by holy name, and in
our quiet little game, whether we pass
or whether we order it up let us think
OF Peter and Paul. And the lazy members,
instead of botheriug their heads about
what's trumps." let them discourse sweetly
on Matthew. Mark, Luke and John.
la order that the club may have material
for further pious discourse at its next meet
ing the undersigned would respectfully refer
its members to the passage that must be re-
garded as giving meaning 10 the words quo
Vadis'' in any later application that may be
made of them. AS applied TO a card club
they certainly do make a designation that
Is, as Member remarks a little out OF
the ordinary" For the passage referred TO
sec st. John xiii, Sc, the Vusate version Of
which Is as follows: DIGIT q Simon Petrus,
Domino. quo vadis? Respondit Jesus, quo
ego vad0 non potes me modo seoul !;
sequeris autem postea.
PETRONITS IRNINGTONENSIS
IrVingtOn. Ind, Feb. ..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
LAND OF NAPHTHA.
InfIammnbIe NATURE of Everything mt
the BaISu Wells.

chicago POST.
Probably there is no spot on earth where
more highly infiammabIe matter lies ex-
posed TO such terrible CONGREGATIONS as that
just reported from Baku than in the district
lying just beyond that town on the shores
OF the Caspian. Everything seems saurated
with petroleum.; the air one breathes IS
laden with greasy odor, and the waters or
the bay are covered with an iridescent
sheen which at night may be set on fire
with most weird effect. Not only is black
naphtha to be be seen in monster fountains
naphtha flows of itself in places, and a
short way off are the natural gas vents
over which the natives do their cooking
without coal, and which once fed the sacred
Zoroastrian fires. No wonder that the an
cient Persians looked on this as holy
ground, where the eternal heaven-led
flames of life burst forth in sacred build
ings, the remains of which are still extant
and the modern Persian or ParSee OF Bom-
bay and Gujerat kndles the oil shipped to
him from Batoum without sigh Tor q
vanished belief. When the late Shah or
Persia visited Baku Is was necessary 10 I'M
port a number of priests Tor the occasion,
that he might witness in the portion or the
Persian empire that had been wrested from
it by Peter the Great a specimen of The
worship that his predecessors had all but
stamped out III the portion they had con-
quered and retained For less distinguished
from the top of which flare naturaiJetss
through iron gaspipes, and numner OF
cells with affairs for the once sacred Hre'
ana some ancient inscriptions.
Everything round is saturated, and have
stood in those sheds, the only dry object.
with a naphtha spout playing above and
falling deateningly upon the roof. No ono
objects to naphtha there, and the men even
wash in it, using sand Herewith, while all
employed have a fixed allowance for fuel
and light. No dwellings more dismal than
theirs can be imagined. Dante should have
visited the spot.
All around between the wells lie lakes OF
seething naphtha, which, when clear or
sand and stones, will be pumped into iron
reservoirs. The roads have naphtha streams
by the sides, and naphtha pipes of all sizes
cross and interlace in all directions until
they are hardly passabie. One rashly
thrown match would set miles in blaze,
and the most stringent regulations are wise
ly enforced. But for them disasters would
be terribly frequent.
A very different appearance IS presented
by the palpitating Black Town, where, In
gigantic furnaces, the naphtha is distilled
and churned, and distilled again as benzine.
kerosene and vaseline, and many valuable
chemicals are one by one removed, till only
the thick, black residue, of use for fuel, is
left, and much of this is used to feed the
furnaces themselves. Boilers so heated
closely resemble those intended for coal and
wood, except that on the inside of the fire
doors are stout jets, through which 1t is
pumped the length of the tirebox, forming
bright tongues of heat-giving flames. Rail
ways and steamers alike are so heated in
Russia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Lonoke is an Arkansas town of two thou
sand inhabitants, 7tsven E-two miles from
Little Rock. 1t is a county town, and its
population is about equally divided between
the two races. A colored normal school is
located in Lonoke or was until last sum
mer when it was rroken up and one of the
teachers mul dered, bat no effort was made
to discover the murderers About Christmas
a negro storekeeper was terribly logged by
masked men. Governor, Jones. offered small
rewards for the discovery Of the offenders
but no arrests were made According to the
Memphis papers, notices We're posted in the
night a few days ago warning all the coli
ored people TO leave the place to escape
being hanged. Many negroes have left the
town, but the more courageous men have
banded together to defend home and life.
This is in Arkansas; if the same thing
should be done in Armenia we should be
holding indignation meetings and resolving
that the Sultan is a monster, and that the
Christian world should combine to wipe the
Turk from the face of the earth. At home
such an outrage is not deemed of sufficient
Importance for an apology.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
Psychology No Ala to Teachers.
professor Hugo Munaterberg. in February

Professor Hugo Munsterberg, in February
Atlantic
] look on psychology as whole, and say
with the fullest conviction to all teachers,
this rush towards experimental psychology
is an absurdity Our laboratory work can-
not teach you anything wh'c.i is OF direct
use to you in your work as teachers, and
if you are not good teachers ii may
do even damage to you, as 1t may con-
fuse you and inhibit your normal teachers
instincts. If you are interested in the sub
tie studies of modern laboratory psychology
devote your free time TO it. Certainly, there
are few sciences so attractive. Study II as
you would study geology or astronomy or
Greek history or German literature, but
do not expect that it will help you as teach
erS in your teaching work more than as
tronomy on geology would help you. You
may heap thousands of experimental re-
suits with the chronoscopes and The kymo-
graphs YOU do not find anything in our
laboratories which you could translate d.
rectly into pedagogical prescription. Those
ment of psychcal facts. and therefore no
psychology which Is antagonistic or in any
contrast with the psychology Of introspec-
ton. The methods are more developed but
the general aim is the samoa purely quail
tatVe analysis of the inner life; no quaint
tatiVe calculations | do hope for
high and great and brilliant development or
experimental psychology. ana do hone stili
more for wonderful development OF the
educational systems in this country: but
feel sure that the development Of both VIII
be the stronger and sounder and greater
the longer both education and experimental
psychology go sharply separated ways. with
sympathy but without blind adoration Tor
each nthpT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Secretary Cages request for an increase
in the appropriation for the suppression OF
counterfeiting indicates that the govern
ment detectives have not vet discovered the
origin of the counterfeit 500 certificates re-
Gently discovered. Thus far about $1,000. 0OC
of the $26,oC0,O00 of certificates originally
outstanding have been turned into the
treasury for redemption. and among these
there have been found nineteen counter
feits This is a very small proportion, and
yet enough to faint the whole issue and
justify every possible effort to run them
down
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Discussion as TO the status of the jap
anese in Hawaii. in the event of its annex
alton to the United States. has raised a
question as TO whether they can become
naturalized American citizens. A dispatch
from Washington published few days ago
seemed to imply that all Japanese in the
United States could do so under the treaty
Of 1885. which goes into effect in July next
year. This is a commercial treaty. and
contains provision that IN matters of trade
each nation shall accord to the citizens of
the other all the privileges extended to the
most favored nation. If this includes nat
uraiization it gives the japanese an adj
vantage over Chinese. Our legislation on
the subject has been unique. Prior to 1870
any alien of an nationality could become
a naturalized American citizen In 1870 an
amendment TO the naturalization law was
adopted making It applicable only Ito aliens
being free white persons, and to aliens OF
African nativity or of African descent"
This admitted alien negroes to naturaliza-
ton, aAd excluded Chinese on account Of
color. Since 1870 Cinnamon have been ex-
cluded from naturalization on the ground
that they are not white. There are a few
Cinnamon IN the United states who We're
naturaiized before 1SsO-at least one In this
city. who voted FOR Mckinley. The jap
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

We must not get too excited over the
action of Germany regarding american
apples If it is true as stated that some
Of them have been found infested with the
San jose scale the German authorities
would be justified in taking any measure to
exclude them. This pest is the most dam
gerous enemy to fruit interests in the
world. SO much so that several States of
the Union have guaranteed against its in
PRODUCTION from other States. The point to
he ascertained is whether this is the true
reason for GermaHl's action and whether
there is ground for il. The suspicious
feature in the case is that the German
authorities profess to have found sanitary
reasons for excluding SO many American
products-our hogs cattle, apples. and now
horses The matter seems to call for care
ful inquiry by this government as to the
bottom facts before deciding upon any
definite line Of action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

New York Evening Post.

New \ Ork Evening EUSi.
The interesting statement is made that
cooking classes for young men are being
formed at the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation rooms in Chicago. This is done not
SO much 10 turn out more cooks as % rem
der the young men independent of the cheap
and often poor boarding places into which
they are forced from motives of economy
With an oil or gas stove, or even chatng
dish these association members after their
course in cookery, can be more or less in-
dependent of their boarding houses The
idea has proved popular in the several
branches in which 1t has been tried. ard
is likely3to be copied elsewhere. While on
this subject. it may be added that in this
city n most enthusiastic class in cookery
composed entirely OF men has existed this
season. and strange 10 say. they We're not
for the most part, bachelors who wanted 70
get up little suppers in their apartments.
hut heads of families and men living at
home who had taste for the accomplish
ment. If some of the men who are walking
the streets. idle and respondent. would be
content 10 learn this work and take the
places now filed by too often incompetent
women. there is a strong possibility that
two classes would be benedted-the unem-
ployed as well as the average family now
dependent upon the average woman cook.